Anya A

Senior Database Administrator and DBA Team Lead with 20+ years of experience turning large-scale, regulated SQL Server environments into reliable sources of business insight. Six years leading a DBA team while partnering directly with application, business, security, and vendor stakeholders, taking initiatives from intake through exploration, consultation, development, and delivery. Skilled at mining production and monitoring data (Quest Foglight, SSRS, T-SQL) to identify root causes, quantify risk, and drive data-informed decisions, then communicating findings clearly to audiences ranging from engineers to senior leadership.

Deep background in financial-services data governance and security in a highly regulated environment, with strong attention to detail and a consultative, delivery-focused approach.

Senior Operations Analyst / Database Administrator / DBA Team Lead - T. Rowe Price - Owings Mills, MD

(2012-06 - 2026-08)

• Act as a consultative partner to business, application, security, and vendor stakeholders, taking requests from intake through exploration, consultation, development, and delivery, and leading a DBA team of peers through that lifecycle.
• Mine production and monitoring data across 100+ SQL Server instances (Development, UAT, Production) to identify performance risk, capacity trends, and root causes, translating findings into business outcomes and prioritized action plans.
• Serve as administrator for enterprise cross-platform database monitoring (Quest Foglight), building dashboards, alerts, and trend reports used by both technical teams and business stakeholders for operational visibility.
• Communicate risk, status, and resolution plans for critical incidents and projects to audiences ranging from engineers to senior business leadership, tailoring the level of detail to the audience.
• Lead database installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, cloud migrations, and operational readiness reviews across hybrid on-premises/AWS environments, working within a highly regulated financial-services data environment.
• Perform advanced performance tuning through T-SQL optimization, indexing strategy, and workload/trend analysis to reduce recurring issues and improve stability.
• Design and support HA/DR solutions, including Always On Availability Groups, backup/recovery strategy, and business continuity planning.
• Enforce database security and access controls supporting least-privilege access, audit readiness, and compliance in a regulated data environment; manage SQL Server SSL certificate lifecycle via Venafi.
• Develop runbooks, standards, and knowledge-sharing documentation, and coordinate with vendors (e.g., Quest) on licensing, renewals, and support.

Database Administrator (Contractor) - Vision Technology - Owings Mills, MD

(2010 - 2012)

• Supported enterprise SQL Server and PostgreSQL environments, including migrations, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and operational documentation used to inform reliability decisions.

Database Administrator - Dell Perot Systems - Bethesda, MD

(2004 - 2010)

• Managed database systems supporting government operations, including security, clustering, maintenance, performance improvements, and structured documentation.

Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems - University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2003-05)