
Founder and Executive Chairman at The Pythian Group, Inc.
Ottawa, Canada Area

Founder and Executive Chairman at The Pythian Group, Inc.
Ottawa, Canada Area
Management of database administration for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL. Management of enterprise resource planning applications administration for SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, Peoplesoft.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1997 — Present (12 years 4 months)
Pythian provides turnkey global database infrastructure and architecture teams to over 100 clients all over the world on a linear cost-to-effort basis. The service is designed to be seamlessly blended in to in-house DBA and sysadmin teams to great benefits both from a cost and a quality-of-service standpoint.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year )
Worked as a consultant in this management and technology consulting operation based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Performed Oracle DBA work, oracle application design and back-end architecture, and some pretty fancy distributed application work using advanced replication that was written up in Oracle Magazine at the time.
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Government Administration industry)
January 1994 — September 1996 (2 years 9 months)
Senior analyst working on interface systems, both cross-platform and ERP-bespoke. Also working as the senior designer for the company's budget and commitments financial system.
Also a member of the company's architecture committee, responsible for quality sign-off on designs under development and deliveries to production.
Hon. B.Com , Management Information Systems , 1989 — 1993
1985 — 1989
MISA, President's Club, MySQL Professionals