About Me
Seasoned IT leader with over 10 years of experience in database engineering, 1 cybersecurity, and 3 years in AWS cloud architecture building secure, scalable, and resilient database infrastructure solutions in the cloud, including hands-on leadership in MSSQL, Cloud Technologies, and higher education support.
Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams, mentor adult learners, high-impact CEO and management leadership training. I am seeking a leadership or management role in higher education or the tech industry where I can leverage my background in cloud computing, database management and academic advising to drive innovation, organizational efficiency, and student or stakeholder success.
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
South College
Concentration in Organizational Leadership
Expected: April 2026
Master of Cybersecurity (MS)
Western Governors University
Concentration in Information Assurance
May 2025
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Florida Institute of Technology
Minor in IT Management • Melbourne, Florida
2017 • GPA: 3.12
Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice (BS)
Strayer University
Minor in Computer Security and Forensics • Atlanta, GA
2015 • GPA: 3.7
Associate of Science in Education (AS)
Georgia Piedmont College
Minor in Early Childhood Education • Clarkston, GA
2009 • GPA: 3.6
Cloud Platforms
Database Technologies
DevOps & Security
Aurora Serverless Migration
Database Modernization
Led the migration of legacy RDS instances to Aurora Serverless, achieving 40% cost reduction while dramatically improving scalability and performance.
Disaster Recovery Automation
Business Continuity
Implemented comprehensive automated backup and recovery solutions for critical database systems with RTO/RPO targets under 15 minutes.
Multi-Region Database Sync
Global Infrastructure
Designed and implemented cross-region database replication and synchronization for global application deployment.
AWS Static Website Deployment
S3 + Route 53 + CloudFront + HTTPS
This project demonstrates a secure and scalable static website and backend API deployment on AWS. The static site is hosted on Amazon S3, delivered globally via CloudFront, and protected with HTTPS using AWS Certificate Manager.
Cybersecurity-Data Analytics Program Mentor
Western Governors University | April 2019 – Current
Provides information about the different data analytics programs or tracks offered by the institution. Monitors students' progress and provides feedback on their academic performance. Offered detailed information and guidance about the various cybersecurity programs and tracks available at the university.
Diligently tracked students' academic performance and progress throughout their program. Provided constructive feedback and actionable insights to help students overcome challenges and achieve their academic goals. Utilized data analytics to identify trends and areas for improvement.
Founder & Principal Consultant
Pinnacle Cloud Solutions LLC | January 2024 – Current
Deliver high-impact CEO and management leadership training programs, improving decision-making, communication, and performance in corporate settings. Provide motivational speaking engagements that drive organizational transformation and empower leaders and teams to achieve peak performance.
Design and facilitate cloud computing training programs, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, tailored to enterprise IT teams and leadership. Lead technical training and implementation projects, guiding clients through software rollouts, cloud migrations, and IT modernization efforts.
Database Reliability Engineer
GeoComm | May 2023 – Current
Business Impact: Responsible for managing, maintaining, and optimizing AWS databases while ensuring the availability, performance, and security.
Proficiently manages and maintains AWS database environments, including Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability. Continuously monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations to enhance query execution and overall system efficiency.
SQL DBA
Anthem, Inc | August 2017 – August 2020
Business Impact: Responsible for managing, maintaining, and optimizing SQL-based relational databases while ensuring availability, performance, and security.
Provided user management and DBMS security support. Provided 24x7 production and non-production DBA on-call support. Determined Database requirements for projects. Reviews SQL code and provides tuning suggestions. Performed database testing, tracked and corrected defects and performed re-tests.
SQL DBA Data Solutions
Rollins, Inc | October 2015 – May 2017
Business Impact: Responsible for managing, maintaining, and optimizing SQL-based relational databases while ensuring availability, performance, and security.
Set up and maintain transactional replication, mirroring, log shipping for lower environments, DDBoost backup solution for production servers. Troubleshoot SQL Server Service outages, high CPU utilization and memory consumption. Performance tuning, script tuning, index maintenance.
SQL DBA
Jinny Corp | October 2012 – October 2015
Business Impact: Responsible for managing, maintaining, and optimizing SQL-based relational databases while ensuring availability, performance, and security.
Evaluated the current infrastructure and proposed revisions. Revised and improved current monitoring strategies for the entire database enterprise. Standardized processes within the data ops department. Revised current DR and HA strategies, reducing downtime in the event of any failure.
Certified Information Security Manager
ISACA
AWS Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Azure Database Administrator Associate
Microsoft
AWS Security Specialist
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Technology Associate
Microsoft
CompTIA Security X (CASP+)
CompTIA
CompTIA Security Analytics Expert
CompTIA
Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
Microsoft
CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+
CompTIA
CompTIA Security Analytics Professional
CompTIA
CompTIA A+
CompTIA
CompTIA Security+
CompTIA
ITIL Foundations
Axelos