# Database Administrator résumé example

A database administrator sample that leads with uptime, recovery time and batch windows rather than a list of versions.

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- Field: Data & Analytics
- Career stage: Mid level
- Written for: United States
- Design: Console (https://cvaurum.com/templates/console)
- Open it: https://cvaurum.com/examples/database-administrator

Every name, employer, address, phone number and figure below is invented.

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## Dionne Baptiste — Database Administrator

Database administrator with eight years keeping transactional systems fast and recoverable, now across 60 instances at an insurer. Cut a nightly claims batch from nearly six hours to under one, and rebuilt disaster recovery around a 15-minute recovery point that is tested every quarter.

### Experience

**Database Administrator**, Stonecreek Mutual Insurance · September 2022 – present

Runs 60 SQL Server and PostgreSQL instances behind claims, policy and billing.

- Holds 99.98% availability across two years and 60 production instances, with no unplanned data loss and no failed quarterly restore test.
- Cut the nightly claims batch from 5 hours 40 minutes to 51 minutes by rewriting four cursor-driven procedures as set-based operations and re-indexing the claim-line table.
- Rebuilt disaster recovery around log shipping with a tested 15-minute recovery point; the failover drill now takes 22 minutes and is run by the on-call rota.
- Replaced shared service accounts with per-application credentials and row-level security, closing all 14 database findings from the 2023 audit.

**Database Administrator**, Crestwater Software · January 2020 – August 2022

- Led an eight-month migration of a 4 TB Oracle estate to PostgreSQL, cutting licensing by $260,000 a year with 40 minutes of customer downtime.
- Introduced automated restore testing; its first run found three of eleven nightly backups had been failing silently for five weeks.
- Tuned the 20 slowest product queries, taking the reporting page from a 14-second median to 900 milliseconds.

**Systems Administrator**, Calloway Technical Services · June 2018 – December 2019

- Supported 400 users and 90 servers, cutting the ticket backlog from 230 to under 30 by scripting the 12 most common requests.
- Moved patching from a manual weekend routine to a scheduled pipeline, taking average time to patch from 38 days to six.

### Education

- B.S. Computer Information Systems · Georgia State University · August 2014 – May 2018

### Skills

- **Databases**: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Availability groups, Replication
- **Performance**: Execution plans, Indexing, Partitioning, Query rewriting, Wait statistics
- **Operations**: Backup and restore, Log shipping, Patching pipelines, PowerShell, Terraform
- **Security**: Row-level security, Transparent data encryption, Least privilege, Audit remediation