Vincent M. Silvia
PRESENT POSITION:
Database Administrator, TRI-COR
Industries, Inc. (May 2009 – Present). Mr. Silvia is the Database
Administrator for the US Transportation Command under the Table Reference Data
Management contract. He is responsible for the daily administration of multiple
instances of the TRDM Database, including the development, test, and production
databases, as well as other databases related to the project, all of which are
Oracle 10g databases. Mr. Silvia is responsible for application testing, user
account privileges, daily backups, database patching, and writing queries and
scripts to accomplish regular or special tasks.
Systems Engineer III, TRI-COR Industries, Inc., (Jul 2009 – Oct 2009),
Mr. Silvia works in
a Data Mining team of eight data miners for US Transportation Command under the
Consolidated Data Office (CDO). He was responsible for multiple mining projects,
and various tasks within each project, from analyzing Interface Design
Documentation to extract meaningful data and metadata, to constructing Data
Dictionaries, and mining the documentation into CDO’s Database front-end, the
Corporate Resource Information Source (CRIS), as well as peer reviewing the
mining efforts of other team members. He proposed changes to the CRIS user
interface to allow for more efficient entry into the database and more complete
peer review efforts.
Data Analyst, TRI-COR Industries, Inc., (Jan 2008 – Jul 2009, Oct 2009 – May
2010),
working on data quality for Air Mobility Command (AMC), Mr. Silvia was
responsible for compiling message trails from multiple AMC systems, including
the Global Air Transportation and Execution System (GATES), the Global
Transportation Network (GTN), the Consolidated Air Mobility Planning System
(CAMPS), and the Global Decision Support System 2 (GDSS2). In his role as data
analyst, he created custom SQL queries to extract relevant data from the
database solution to analyze the efficiency of the various systems according to
specific metrics, and submitted trouble tickets to the respective systems to
solve issues that he detected. He was responsible for compiling daily, monthly,
and yearly deliverables and metrics for dissemination to other segments of AMC.
In addition, he also served as a backup Functional Server Administrator (FSA),
ensuring that the servers in his purview were kept up to date and free of
vulnerabilities according to the directives of the 375th
Communications Squadron.
As a Network and Administration Specialist with
TRI-COR Industries, Inc., (Sep 2006 –
Dec 2007), Mr. Silvia was responsible for several aspects of the day-to-day
operations of the TRI-COR branch office. He administered and maintained a
12-workstation network, was responsible for on-site inventory control, and was
responsible for upgrading and maintaining user PCs. He was also often in
communication with TRI-COR Corporate to ensure seamless upgrades to
corporate-wide infrastructure. He also served as the point of contact for
building maintenance issues, and was responsible for maintaining a 100+ user
phone system and database.
EDUCATION:
M.S., Computer Management and Information Sciences, Southern Illinois University
– Edwardsville, including graduate-level SQL/PL-SQL and Oracle Database
Administration. Currently in progress.
B.S., Computer Management and Information Sciences, Southern Illinois University
– Edwardsville, 2004
Training Courses and Certificates Received:
Security + Certification, Sep 2008.
Security Clearance:
Secret