Ryan J. Jones

Welcome to my world.

Ryan J. Jones

Resume 6/26/07

rj@ryanjjones.com
www.ryanjjones.com
Newport Beach, CA  USA

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My Skills

Ryan J. Jones

Objective

Build the world's finest software, one satisfied customer at a time.

(12/2006 - Present) Microsoft Inc. Senior Field Engineer
(3/2005 - 12/2006) go2 Directory Services Senior Database Engineer
(11/2002 - 3/2005) Webmerge Inc. Senior Database Architect
(6/2000 - 9/2002) go2 Systems Inc. Senior Database Engineer
(6/1999 - 6/2000) Odetics Inc. Network Administrator
(6/1997 - 6/1999) HCI Inc. Network Administrator

Experience

12/2006 - Present  Senior Field Engineer, Microsoft Inc.
Irvine, CA

  • Support Microsoft’s largest clients by traveling to their site and solving business critical issues involving their SQL Server database platform.
  • Deliver SQL Server workshops for customers ranging from feature introduction to deep technical performance tuning.
  • Proactive SQL Health checks featuring urgent, monitor and best practice feedback.

3/2005 - 12/2006   Senior Database Engineer, go2 Directory Services
Irvine, CA

  • Architected and maintained geo-spatial database for location based wireless client applications.
  • Architected database for use in targeted location based advertising.
  • Engineered and maintained database for wireless advertising and mobile surveys.
  • Using Microsoft .NET framework, created web applications for to build dynamic wireless web sites.
  • Provided day to day maintenance and backups of the database servers in all enviroments.

11/2002 - 3/2005   Senior Database Architect, Webmerge Inc.
Newport Beach, CA

  • Technical Sales.
  • Creation and implementation of processes used to manage software development from contract stage to product delivery with both in-house and overseas developers.
  • Chief architect of all software ranging from property management to surf board manufacturing.
  • Architecture and Implementation of major and minor network infrastructure i.e. DNS, E-Mail, Web Server, etc.

6/2000 - 9/2002   Senior Database Engineer, go2 Systems Inc.
Irvine, CA

  • Architected and maintained geo-spatial database for location based wireless client applications.
  • Architected database for use in targeted location based advertising.
  • Engineered and maintained database for wireless advertising and mobile surveys.
  • Engineered search engine algorithm for finding business locations given various types of input within the users search radius.
  • Using Microsoft .NET framework, created web applications for Account Managements various client implementation tasks.
  • Provided day to day maintenance and backups of the database servers in all environments.

6/1999 - 6/2000   Network Administrator, Odetics Inc.
Anaheim, CA

  • Desktop support of 500+ employees.
  • Managed multi-platform environment (Novell,Unix, and NT)
  • Created in-house web solutions for various incubator divisions (ASP and SQL Server)

6/1997 - 6/1999   Network Administrator, HCI Inc.
Anaheim, CA

  • Conversion of Novell network to NT network.
  • Configuration, implementation, and administration of Microsoft Exchange Server (5.5), Microsoft DNS Server, SQL Server 7.0, WINS Server, and IIS.
  • Configuration and implementation of business automation software (Primavera Expedition and Suretrack).

Education

1996 - 1998  Utah State University
Logan, UT

References available upon request