dba designer consulting needed

[Mike Dewhirst]

I'm looking for a DBA designer in Melbourne for some paid consulting.

I have a Django 1.6 prototype system working nicely with Postgres 9.1.

But it was designed as a proof-of-concept rather than a production
system. I figured the project wouldn't actually get off the ground
without funding and then I'd be able to hire someone to get serious
about design perfection. In particular, distributed database versus
monolithic and optional integration of external systems by some users
plus parts which are shared among all users.

Well, it didn't work out the way I planned. Funding is still a way off
and now I have people who want to use the prototype.

The consulting task is to determine if the design can be tweaked so it
can be put into production. And if so, to so tweak it.

If I can't find someone in Melbourne I'll consider a remote consultant
but I think the conversation bandwidth required would make remote less
than ideal.

Thanks for any sympathy

Cheers

Mike

[Robin]

Mike

Firstly, I must say how nice it is to see somebody being concerned to
get the data model correct, it happens less and less frequently, these days.

Whilst it is important to have a DBA onboard, I must point out that i
have met few DBAs who have the necessary abstraction skills do do the
design job single handed. Somebody who is used to switching between
logical and physical design, with a view to creating the most efficient
and cost effective design rarely spends much time working as a DBA.

If you were to consider a consultant from outside Melbourne, I would be
interested in offering my services. I have extensive experience in
various industries including Healthcare, Telecoms, Banking, Primary
Industries and Transportation. Several of the projects I have undertaken
involved database tuning and optimisation. One that springs to mind
involved a process that provisioned only 7 customers' mobile phones a
second when the work orders were arriving at the rate of 76 per second.
Fortunately, six weeks later we had eliminated the backlog and the
system could comfortably handle all foreseeable demand, which was
considerable.

I have attached my CV, in case you are interested.

Presently I am based in Britain. Communications should not be a problem,
I have a fibre broadband connection as I work from home on the South
Coast, about an hour from Heathrow. Skype works pretty well for me and I
have VoIP available, so phoning and video conferencing should work from
my end.

i would be most interested to learn further about your project.

Kind Regards

Robin St.Clair

[Mike Dewhirst]

Robin

Thanks for responding ... I have a couple of local people to see and I
expect to engage one of them. If that doesn't work out may I get back in
touch with you?

Thanks

Mike

[Robin]

Mike

I hope you find a local person who can do the job. If you need to get in
touch, please do.
Kind Regards

Robin St.Clair
PS I wouldn't mind an excuse to be in Melbourne first week in November