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Green Sky Innovations

Business Owner

Leading Internet and media company that operates multiple customer engagement brands with 100M users worldwide. Develop, optimize and oversee database solutions to store and retrieve company information and logical data systems. Analyzing structural requirements for new software and applications.

PRODEGE, LLC

Senior Database Architect

Inspiring merchants with a data informed strategy for growth & operations on a pre IPO media company, built and managed an enterprise data warehouse team to support corporate BI team on daily basis.

VICE Media

Data Architect

Stem build something new to make it easy for everyone involved in the creative process to receive their fair share of earnings and information in a clear and timely manner.

Stem Disintermedia Inc.

Red Bull Media House creates compelling, entertaining and authentic content across film, television, print and digital. Red Bull Media House is a key driver in the highly coveted young male demographic across all platforms and is widely recognized as an authority by its target audience, industry media and influencers. Red Bull Media House tells one cohesive story that lets all of its parts work together in concert, allowing consumers to see and connect the dots, no matter what screen or medium.  Developing a musical social network (redbullsoundselect.com) to support live events and consumer monetization.

Red Bull

Software Developer

Architecting a Massive Parallel Recognition Platform for image recognition to the Cloud computing and Mobile devices.  Enabling high scalability and probability of failure on demand.

NantMobile™

Backend architect

Designed and implemented an OLAP for over 4 million video players and 308 million videos streamed per month.
-Implemented a Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture on the ETL layer by using sixteen(16) JAVA VM with an embedded database(H2 database engine), read from variety data sources, transformed on 16 federated JAVA virtual machine in parallel manner and merged into Data warehouse on MS-SQL 2008 and SSRS.
-24x7 supported Data warehouse on MS-SQL 2008.

Hulu

Data Warehouse architect

Successfully launched AA3 on-line game for over 11M on-line players worldwide, the game operates under U.S. Military (Americasarmy.com). The Decision Support System (DSS) and Data Warehouse are also implemented for the gaming activities.
- Architected/Developed new generation of Enterprise Gaming Engine for AA3 Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) on Oracle 11g RAC and EMC/SAN.
- Designed/Developed a data warehouse for OLAP analysis using massive distributed processing architecture (Distributed Agents) with Oracle 11g, MySQL v.5 and C on EC2.
- Completed both Logical and Physical data modeling using ERWIN. - Completed setup/install Oracle 11g RAC DB and other related components such as EMS/SAN, Oracle Linux, Ethernet of the RAC interconnect and Oracle nodes.
- Supported the development teams to create and modify existing PL/SQL Stored Procedures, Functions, Packages and necessary Triggers at the Database level.
- Responsible for monitoring database transactions, backup strategies, scheduling the backups and daily load tasks.
-24x7 proactive production supported and maintenance on Oracle RACs using Oracle Enterprise Manger Grid Control.

Pragmatic Solutions, Inc.

Sr. Database consultant

Designed and implemented analytics report and strategic solutions for Performance Marketing and Sales analysts of Myspace using MircoStrategy BI tools and Greenplum data warehouse.
-Administrated Oracle databases for Self-service Application Platform, Self-service Finance and Self-service Customer Service of Myspace.com, provided support and implementation on JAVA development with Hibernate and Spring Application Framework, QA and production database environments with Oracle 10g. Using Oracle Enterprise Manger 10g Grid Control, RMAN and Data Guard for system/database monitoring, database backup and failover.
- Architected a database system for text mining of Myspace.com user targeting group using PostgreSQL. There are approximately 230 million (9TB) user profiles in total, average 10 million user profiles update/day and 2,000 user profiles peak read/second.
- Designed and developed a set of high concurrency and distribution ETL programs using JAVA to load 1.2TB Ad serving log files and parsing 10 million user profiles(400GB) per day for
enterprise data warehouse (EDW) with Greenplum database on forty(40) Sun Fire X4500 Servers.
- Architected and implemented daily traffic reports for pricing strategy services (rapt.com); extracting and analyzing 7% data from daily Ad. Serving data (1.2TB approximately) using Greenplum database on EDW.
- Designed and implemented a data mart for performance marketing of Myspace.com to strategize based on analyses of past trends and experiences using MS-SQL 2005/SSIS. Consolidated million of creative information from different Ad. serving networks such as dart.com and SDC.
- A member of evaluation team for an enterprise data warehouse of Fox Interactive Media, the fourth largest data warehouse in U.S. Created a massive parallel processing (MPP) database vendor-evaluation criteria documentation. Selected IBM, Teradata and Greenplum database vendors for the proof of concept.

Fox Interactive Media/News Corp

Sr. DBA

Enabling my client applications to the Cloud computing as my first priority to improve performance and scalability. Using predictive analytics and business intelligence to discover and leading business decision.

Thomas Ku