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David Knight

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Last update: 05.03.2025

AWS Specialist, Product Owner, Project Manager, Migrations Specialist

Company: Self
Graduation: Bacherlors in Mathematics
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Full Professional) | English (Native or Bilingual)

Skills

Overview

I am currently open to part time projects using AWS or Azure as a Solutions Architect, Product Owner, or Project Manager.    Since 2021, I have retooled, and in the process, completed 10 AWS certifications and 1 Azure certification.   I am only interested in working on cloud projects.

Product Owner Experience

Product Owner for an AWS RDS Database PaaS product.
Planning, negotiation, architectural reviews, product design, backlog management, scheduling.

SAFe Agile Experience

Scrum, PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Jira

Project Management, Project Lead

8+ years in a hybrid technical/organizational role scheduling work for teams between 5-15 Oracle DBAs.

Migration Experience

Migration from Oracle to Oracle and PostgreSQL on AWS RDS using AWS DMS and AWS SCT.
Migration from Oracle to Oracle on MS Azure IaaS.
Migration of databases across data centers and platforms.

Database Administration, Design, and Development

20+ years in a variety of roles, mostly with Oracle.

AWS Certifications
  • Cloud Practitioner
  • Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Database Specialty
  • Developer - Associate
  • SysOps Administrator - Associate
  • Security Specialty
  • Solutions Architect - Professional
  • Data Engineer - Associate
  • DevOps Engineer - Professional
  • AI Practitioner Early Adopter
Microsoft Azure Certification
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate - AZ-104
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert - AZ-305

Project history

02/2024 - Present
Product Owner - AWS RDS PaaS
(Banks and financial services, 1000-5000 employees)

Product story creation and management.
Refinement and prioritization of the product backlog.
Planning and scheduling development deliverables.
Planning and negotiating deliverables from adjacent teams.
Analysis and design of the product and product integrations.
Presentation of product overviews and demonstrations.
Communication with customers.

03/2022 - 02/2024
Database Administrator/Project Manager/Migration Specialist
(Insurance, 1000-5000 employees)

Migration of Oracle instances from on-prem data centers to Oracle and PostgreSQL AWS RDS instances using AWS DMS.
Conversion of Oracle instances to PostgreSQL using AWS SCT and AWS DMS.
Migration of Oracle instances from an on-prem data center to MS-Azure IaaS based Oracle instances.
Project Management of migration from on-prem to MS-Azure.

03/2000 - 02/2022
Oracle Datenbank Administrator/Project Lead/Data Architect/Project Manager

Freelance Oracle DBA in Germany since 2002 with multiple customers.

In addition to standard DBA tasks, my experience has involved a lot of migration activity.

Between 2012 - 2022, I worked in a hybrid role at multiple companies, executing DBA tasks while negotiating, planning, and scheduling project work for 5-15 DBAs on global teams.


Local Availability

Only available in these countries: Germany

Other

Interessiert an Nebenprojekten mit AWS und Migrationen.
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