Self-starter with desire to apply organizational, analytical and innovative technical skills to manage high availability services and operations. Motivated and enthusiastic team player with a positive work ethic. Continually seeking challenging technical development to strengthen skills and knowledge. Technical Skills • Microsoft Certified IT Professional Database Administrator specialized in Multi-Datacenter Enterprise Database Architecture, High Availability Systems and Recovery Strategies in SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 and 2012 using Windows Server 2003/2008. Experienced in SAN and Network Configurations. • World Class Enterprise Architecture & Process models for change, incident and problem management following TOGAF, SOA, MOF, & ITIL principles, focus on reliability, risk, cost and customer satisfaction. • Successful 360 Degree Leader accomplished in three year plans, team building, budgets, executive analysis reporting, presentations, strong project and release management skills. • Veteran expert in troubleshooting, performance tuning, high volume replication, and mirroring. Transact SQL including stored procedures, indexing, joins, and partitioning. • Talented in TSQL, automation scripting, Visual Basic for Applications, C# and .NET technologies. • Experienced in technical writing including technical and feature specifications, training documents and operational user guides for software development projects.

Senior SQL Engineer (Developer) @ • Working in Presence & Commerce, collaboratively developed & launched GoDaddy's newest, most intuitive Website Builder 7.0, including PayPal, Yelp and Locu Widgets. • Providing leadership for one of Website Builders highest performing feature crews, driving SDLC, engineering/architectural and development best practices. • Led engineering requirements and developed impressions system to create more meaningful usage analysis reports. • Developed MSSQL One Click Build Provisioning Platform driving standards and best practices in collaboration with multiple disciplines for CIO Corporate Project, reduced provisioning time from weeks to less than 4 hours. Feature article in CIO Magazine (August 2011) for top innovations. From July 2010 to Present (5 years 6 months) Phoenix, Arizona AreaSenior Database Manager @ Xbox LIVE (2007-2010) • Managed enterprise operations team of database administrators for SQL Servers supporting 11 billion dollars revenue for Entertainment and Devices LIVE experience. Lead for multi-datacenter planning on the New Xbox Experience (NXE), Geneva and Zune Services releases, including datacenter platform upgrades to Windows Server 2008 with SQL 2008 supporting entire datacenter failover with no customer impact. • Designed high availability recovery and maintenance plans to support 5-9s availability strategy. • Reduced SQL after-hours support 90% by driving best practices, training and documentation. • Member of the Management Excellence Community (MEC) within Microsoft people management. • Honored with Microsoft’s prestigious Gold Star Award for Operational Excellence in 2008. Microsoft.com, MSIT (2005-2007) • Managed performance and system health among several complex system properties and sub-systems in SQL 2005, Data Warehousing, and Analysis Services, as well as providing complete system guides. • Implemented and influenced project success through team collaboration in working with program manager, developer and debugger peers, identifying customer impact, effective negotiating, providing recommended solutions, development opportunities, meeting deadlines for hot issues, and developing proficient release plans. From October 2005 to July 2010 (4 years 10 months) Systems Engineer @ Worked 3 Months as a SQL DBA Systems Engineer Contractor before being considered for full-time FTE at Microsoft working in Microsoft.com From July 2005 to October 2005 (4 months) Telecommunications Analyst @ • Wired and Wireless Telephony and IT system administration/automation/repair/troubleshooting, purchasing, inventory, with strong focus in vendor business relations. Advanced telephony concepts including vectoring, hunt groups, VOIP and call-center networks. • Spearheaded project as innovator, developer and administrator for three major database systems which efficiently streamlined administration, billing, and corporate move add change activity, as well as Outlook integration processes for Corporate Real Estate and Telecommunications; this allowed our organization to save thousands of dollars and achieve success under a significantly reduced workforce. • Analysis reports including cost-savings, move/add/change statistics, telephony budgeting, and corporate quarterly diversity demographic reports; these are submitted to various department heads, including Safeco’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Independently developed Diversity intranet pages for Safeco’s Corporate Diversity leader. From December 2000 to July 2005 (4 years 8 months) Greater Seattle Area

Angela Simpson is skilled in: Microsoft SQL Server, Databases, ITIL, SDLC, Software Development, T-SQL, Agile Methodologies, Integration, Windows Server, Data Center, Enterprise Software, Management, DevOps, SaaS, SOA