Svilen Valkov M.Sc.

, MCDBA, MCSE
23 HillBank Tr., Brampton ON, L6S 1P6 ● 905-791-8239 ● svilen.valkov@gmail.com ● www.linkedin.com/in/svilenvalkov [1]

OBJECTIVE
Providing excellent professional services as Senior Database Developer.

PROFILE
Confident, motivated and energetic excellent performer and high-end professional with accomplishments in both
technology and management. Resourceful and supportive leader, positive communicator, benefiting clients and
management. Always learning, developing perfect and automated self-sustaining database centric solutions.

HIGHLIGHT OF QUALIFICATIONS
International expertise in large projects as a part of distributed European and American teams for over 8 years
Problem solver with large outstanding history in dozens of projects and counseled management and clients
Leader and positive communicator, responsible for defining timeframes, tasks, system architecture and design
Multi-lingual in : English (fluent), French (basic), German (good), Russian (fluent) and Bulgarian (fluent)

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Databases ● 8+ MS SQL Server 7/2000/2005 ● 5+ Oracle 9/10 ● 9+ Access ● 1+ Sybase ● 1+
PostgreSQL
OS ● 9+ Windows NT/2000/2003 ● 7+ Linux Red Hat (CentOS), Debian/Ubuntu ● 1+ Unix Solaris
Servers ● 7+ MS Exchange 5.5/2000 ● 7+ IIS 5/6 ● 5+ Apache ● 2+ Postfix ● 5+ SourceSafe ● 2+ SVN
Platforms ● 3+ SugarCRM ● 2+ WordPress ● 2+ MediaWiki ● 2+ Project-Open ● 2+ Trac ● 2+ Gallery 2
Virtualization ● 5+ VMware ● 4+ Xen ● 5+ Virtual PC/Server ● 1+ KVM ● QEMU ● Chroot ● 3+ Linux-
Vserver
Tools ● 6+ Visio ● 3+ Jdeveloper ● 4+ SQL Developer ● 5+ SQL*Plus ● 5+ Visual Studio ● 5+ Dia
Languages ● 8+ T-SQL ● 6+ PL/SQL ● 7+ VBS/Cmd ● 5+ Bash ● 4+ ASP ● 10 + HTML/JS ● 7+ C/CGI

EXPERIENCE
Database Developer - Warehousing, ETL, BI, Credit/Risk Scoring
§ Conceptualized Data Architecture for enterprise systems and databases
•Created standards, diagrams and infrastructure of the data schemes and configurations
•Defined and enforced standards and conventions for data management and support in the
organization
•Developed system policies - multi-language, security, IOT nomenclatures and object templates
§ Developed ETL transformations for Oracle and SQL Server Bank Warehouses with up to 2 billion records
•Transfered up to 300.000 rows per minute via Oracle dynamic external template tables
•Normalized materialized view, tables and vertical/horizontal partitions of 200 million rows
•Coordinated access for heterogeneous sources via database linked servers and database links
§ Defined Business Intelligence (BI) engine for events, trends, financial analysis aggregates and risk limits
•Developed hierarchies and OLAP objects as materialized views and specific triggers for change
pools
•Designed rule based engine interfaces for duplication searches of related entities
•Formulated government report for the organization's financial and operative activities
§ Organized databases for 5 Credit Scoring systems running Experian (Transact/ PPI)
•Designed unattended scheduled multistage transformations (more than 1600 rows T-SQL code)
•Formulated metadata version control for overlapping information (marketing, financial and
aggregations)
§ Modeled in-house database for negative accidents and documents for unwanted clients (Black List)
•Managed information for corporate and individual clients, debts and lawsuits with trust percentage
•Arranged document management with history of packaging, senders (recipients), blobs and
conversions
•Established metadata and label system for configurations, security and multi-language information
§ Advised database architecture for Phone Banking IVR (Alcatel PBX) system
•Designed login and client information system for linked users, session logging, prompts and actions
•Integrated import and ETL transformation for clients, accounts and transactions
§ Designed Sybase databases for Quadruple Play system with VOD, PPV and VoIP features
§ Created and supported MS Access databases and interfaces for small businesses

Database Administrator (DBA) - Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase

§ Administered 12 Oracle 9/10 instances for software development and testing
•Designed security architecture for fine grain and database audit, metadata triggers and table history
•Managed and tuned database storage, database access and indexing for performance tweaking
Svilen Valkov M.Sc., MCDBA, MCSE
23 HillBank Tr., Brampton ON, L6S 1P6 ● 905-791-8239 ● svilen.valkov@gmail.com ● www.linkedin.com/in/svilenvalkov [2]

•Patching, auto-generation of metadata templates (scheme mapping), automated backup

•Monitored database log and trace files for exception trace mining and connection troubleshooting
§ Managed 10 MS SQL Server databases as setup, upgrades, optimizations, backups, etc.
•Devised materialized views and stored procedures for performance tuning of asp front applications
•Developed extended procedures for file modifications and T-SQL wrappers of shell programs
•Prevented SQL injection, auditing, schema validation, row level permissions, portable authentication
§ Supported VOIP billing Sybase platform databases for VoiceMaster VOIP billing software
•Designed flexible template forms with database generated elements for survey system
•Customized logging of deadlocks/locks, system monitoring, full security audit, access and statements

System Administrator - Linux, Windows

§ Maintained 15 Windows 2000/2003, 2 MS Exchange 5.5/2000 and domain architecture
•Operated multi-node application level failover cluster (MS Windows Server and MS SQL Server)
•Developed custom VBS and CMD scripts for unattended tape backup operations
•Harvested Windows domain information (ADSI) in database - about users, groups and rights
§ Managed Linux CentOS 4 (Red Hat EL) with VMware environment for database and application platform
•Maintained setup, configurations and tuning for Oracle related installations
•Coordinated backup and administrative scripting for disaster recovery and tuning
§ Organized and maintained Linux clusters for virtual machines – Xen, VMware, Ubuntu, Red Hat (CentOS)
§ Experienced in Windows NT/2003, CentOS 4 (Red Hat), Ubuntu Linux, Solaris 10 and AIX, Oracle 9/10,
MS SQL Server 7/2000/2005, Sybase ASE 11.0.3, PostgreSQL, Exchange, VMware, Virtual PC/Server

Leadership, Communications & Customer Relations

§ Designed, planed and assessed business requirements for programming tasks assignments
§ Leaded database development in a team of system architect, database developer and 4 Java/Jsf developers
§ Cooperative database support of Risk Framework with 2 DBAs, 2 system architects and VB6, .NET
developers.
§ Negotiated requirements with BAWAG P.S.K. one of the largest European financial networks for Central Data
Warehouse (VLDB, DSS, OLAP) system with 7-10 million customers in 7 countries, 2 to 5 thousand concurrent
users and average of 2 billion rows of financial data loaded for less than 15 minutes.
§ Supervised main Bank Data Warehouse for the 20th largest in the world bank groups(www.socgen.com).
§ Coordinated a database team of 3 DBAs, 5 system administrators and 20 VB6, .NET, Delphi developers
§ Centralized more than 5 million transactions per day and business data for millions of dollar of turnover
operations from more than 200 thousand customers in more than 20 branches and one hundred locations.
§ Validated purchases of equipment for more than 200 hundred thousand dollars.
§ Coordinated VoIP Sybase databases with database architect, database developer and C/C++ programmers.

WORK HISTORY
System and Security Architect, Self-employed (Canada) (August 2008 – Present)
Senior Database Architect, EuroRisk Systems(Bulgaria/Austria) (February 2006 – April 2008)
Senior Database Programmer, SysMaster (Bulgaria/USA) (August 2005 – November 2005)
Senior DBA(2002), Société Générale Expressbank (Bulgaria/France) (November 2001 - August
2005)
Database Designer, Self-employed (Bulgaria) (December 2000 - November
2001)
Technical Support, ISP-Digital Systems (Bulgaria) (August 2000 – October 2000)
More work experience details available upon request

EDUCATION
§ University of Economics, City of Varna - Bulgaria / Ikonomièeski Universitet (Varna, Bulgaria)
(University of Toronto Comparative Education Results Expected October 2008)
• Master's degree, Computer Science 2004-2006
• Associate degree, Computer Science 2000-2002
• Bachelor's degree, International Business 1997-2001

CERTIFICATES & TRAINING

§ Brain Bench IT exams, tinyurl.com/brainb 2006-2008
§ Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP ID: 1920999), tinyurl.com/mcptra (661535 / WelcomeHOME)
• Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) 2000-2003
• Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) 2000-2001
More education, certification and training details available upon request
Svilen Valkov M.Sc., MCDBA, MCSE
23 HillBank Tr., Brampton ON, L6S 1P6 ● 905-791-8239 ● svilen.valkov@gmail.com ● www.linkedin.com/in/svilenvalkov [3]

PUBLICATIONS
CompSysTech'08. Bulgaria – Article “Innovative Concept of Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
System”, ecet.ecs.ru.acad.bg/cst08/docs/cp/SII/II.6.pdf June 2008

AWARDS
Free Ideas. Sirma, Salesforge.com. Bulgaria - 1 prize “SugarCRM module for repository access” June 2007

REFERENCES
Available upon request