Frank Gill
Senior Consultant at Fortified Data
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Gill is a Senior Consultant specializing in designing, migrating, and optimizing large-scale, highly available SQL Server environments with 22 years in IT and 14 years focused on SQL Server. He has led high-profile work for a Fortune 100 company and technical leadership across enterprise environments—managing hundreds of instances and thousands of databases—while guiding clients through complex upgrades like SQL Server 2016 to 2022 using Distributed Availability Groups. Practical and hands-on, he builds repeatable processes such as extracting and restoring 400+ Azure SQL databases to VM-hosted SQL Server to solve cloud-to-IaaS migration challenges. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he blends deep operational troubleshooting skills with architecture design and a track record of implementing best-practice, high-availability solutions for both on-prem and cloud platforms. Notably, his background spans from legacy mainframe document production to modern cloud migrations, giving him a rare perspective on long-lived enterprise systems.
4 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Career Program Certification, Computer Science, Computer Career Program Certification, Computer Science at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History at University of Illinois at Chicago
Github Skills (16)
azure9
microsoft8
microsoft-azure8
migration7
backup7
powershell6
database6
sql-server5
sql4
database-administration4
mssql4
mysql4
postgresql3
automation3
oracle3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
skreebydba/HadrWithDBATools
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:11 commits in 4 months
MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs
Mar 2023 - Nov 2023
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 8 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoftskilling
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