The Craft
A skills list is easy to type. Each one below links to the page that shows where it was earned and how you can check it.
Implementation & go-live
Discovery → configuration → data migration → testing → training → go-live → support. Run personally, hundreds of times, as the person accountable for the outcome.
requirementsdata importsUATtrainingcutoverProduction support
Triage, log analysis, SQL investigation, root cause, fix, and the honest customer conversation while it's broken. Systems where downtime stopped someone's business.
diagnosisescalationon-callroot causeSQL & data work
Schema design, query optimization, migration, deduplication, reconciliation, and data-quality exception handling on multi-million-row databases (MySQL/MariaDB, MS SQL Server).
MySQLMS SQLmigrationdata qualityDevelopment
Plain-PHP (5 → 8.2, current code in 8.2), Delphi/RAD Studio, JavaScript, REST APIs, and a decade of living in the same codebases — read before changing, never break production.
PHP 8.2DelphiRESTjQuery/AJAXDocumentation & training
User guides, SOPs, training materials, and plain-language explanation for non-technical people — 1,000+ users trained from receptionists to executives.
SOPsuser guidestrainingAI-assisted work
Daily use of AI assistants for data analysis and technical research — used with judgment, because I studied the underlying machine learning formally.
applied AIML fundamentals