Marta G. Dry
Database Administrator, Health insurance
Kansas City, MO · (816) 555 0112 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/martagdry
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Nine years administering Microsoft SQL Server in health care
INDUSTRIES
Health insurance, claims processing, provider networks
SPECIALTIES
High availability, backup and recovery, query tuning, capacity planning
SYSTEMS
Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Azure, PowerShell, ServiceNow, Redgate
CREDENTIALS
Microsoft Certified Azure Database Administrator Associate
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in information technology, University of Missouri Kansas City
Executive Summary
Database administrator for a regional health plan, nine years on Microsoft SQL Server estates that carry claims and member data. Owns backup, recovery and performance for forty production instances. Treats a restore test as the only proof a backup works, and runs one every month.
Signature Achievements
- Cut nightly claims batch runtime from five hours to ninety minutes through index and query rework.
- Moved forty instances onto availability groups and held unplanned downtime under twenty minutes for two years.
- Reduced the recovery point objective for member systems from four hours to fifteen minutes.
- Recovered a corrupted claims table inside ninety minutes with no data loss during a storage failure.
- Removed eleven terabytes of unused history through an archive policy agreed with the claims team.
- Documented access controls that satisfied the annual audit of protected health information with no findings.
Professional Experience
Database Administrator
Heartland Benefit Plans, Kansas City, MO 2020 to present
Two person database team supporting forty production instances for a health plan of six hundred thousand members.
- Own backup, restore testing and disaster recovery exercises for all claims and enrollment databases.
- Tune slow queries reported by application teams and review execution plans before releases ship.
- Manage patching and version upgrades on a quarterly schedule with tested rollback steps.
- Share an on call rotation covering nights and weekends for database incidents.
Database Analyst
Missouri Valley Claims Services, Overland Park, KS 2017 to 2020
Database support for a claims processor handling nine million transactions a year.
- Built and monitored replication between the transaction system and the reporting copy.
- Wrote stored procedures for the daily reconciliation the finance team relied on.
- Investigated blocking incidents and reported causes to the application vendor.
Licensure and Certification
Microsoft Certified Azure Database Administrator Associate
Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate
Education
Bachelor of Science in information technology, University of Missouri Kansas City, 2016
Core Skills
Microsoft SQL Server · Availability groups · Backup and recovery · Query tuning · Index design · PowerShell scripting · Capacity planning · Patching · Incident response · Access control