Steven Balaz
About Steven Balaz
Steven Balaz is a Senior Oracle Database Administrator at Maximus with extensive experience in database architecture and troubleshooting.
Title
Steven Balaz holds the position of Senior Oracle Database Administrator. He has been serving in this capacity at Maximus since 2014.
Company
Currently, Steven Balaz is working at Maximus, based in Reston, Virginia, United States. He has been with the company as a Senior Oracle Database Administrator since 2014.
Previous Positions
Before joining Maximus, Steven Balaz worked at CSC as a Senior Oracle DBA from 2003 to 2014 in Falls Church, Virginia. Prior to that, he was a Software Engineer at Working Systems Inc. in Washington, DC from 2001 to 2003. He also served as an Engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation from 1994 to 2001 in Falls Church, Virginia, and before that, he held an engineering position at Westinghouse from 1982 to 1994.
Education and Expertise
Steven Balaz earned a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from Villa Julie College, where he studied from 1996 to 2001. His expertise includes architecting complete RAC implementations, troubleshooting and tuning database issues, and working with multiple database engines such as Greenplum, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
Professional Skills
Steven has extensive experience as a data architect, particularly in migrating older systems to new technology platforms. He has designed BI data structures using star-schema patterns for multi-terabyte reporting tools and has written transaction processing systems and ETL systems.