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MenuAndrew McGrath Founder at Checkout 51
Andrew is an Australian, serial entrepreneur, and currently the CTO of Checkout51.com
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Andrew is very smart, an excellent communicator, is enthusiastic and consistently displays both a positive attitude and a lot of common sense.
During his tenure leading Syncapse’s Operations group, his team quickly transformed the SaaS infrastructure resulting in dramatic improvements to the reliability, security and maintainability of the Syncapse Platform. Andrew also initiated a highly successful continuous improvement program based on the collection and analysis of detailed operational metrics.
Working with Andrew was a pleasure and I sincerely hope that he and I have the opportunity to work together again in the future.
Source: LinkedIn Larry Philps Dec 24, 2012Smart, talented, and energetic, you just know Andrew is going to be successful—either with his own business or wherever life's road may take him. It's clear that he will do whatever it takes, learn whatever skill is required, and continue to work hard until he's forged that path to success. He proved this with the leadership of his team at Syncapse. With him at the helm, it seemed as though there was nothing his team couldn't do.
I loved working with Andrew and I look forward to the day our paths cross again.
Source: LinkedIn Jonathan Suter Dec 24, 2012I worked with Andrew extensively during several major projects at Hostopia. He was an exceptional peer. Highly technical and very personable. I believe this is the perfect mix for someone working in the technology sector. His communication skills were excellent and he had no problems bridging the gap between the hackers in the back room and the customers on the frontlines. I highly recommend him and look forward to working with him in the future.
Source: LinkedIn Kristian Kostecky Dec 24, 2012Andrew is extremely professional and at the same time very personable. He is completely reliable and motivated. His project management and technical skills are by far the best in the industry. It was a pleasure to work with Andrew and hope to do so again! If this world had 1000 Andrew's it would be a better place!
Source: LinkedIn Owen Scicluna Dec 24, 2012Andrew manages to wield his brilliant project management skills in the form of fun social interaction. We were always kept on task and on time without feeling like we were being ridden or micromanaged. Andrew is a pleasure to work for and i hope to work with him again in the future.
Source: LinkedIn Bill Kroon Dec 24, 2012I worked with Andrew at Hostopia through various significant projects. Andrew is an extremely proficient manager of technology projects with capabilities greatly exceeding his years. A pleasure to work with, innovative, technically curious and possessing dogged determination to ensure teams and solutions are executed properly. I am sure of Andrew's future success as a technology leader. I would highly recommend Andrew to any company seeking a leader of complex technology projects.
Source: LinkedIn Peter LaMantia Dec 24, 2012Andrew is one of the best, most technically adept project managers I've had the pleasure of working with. His knowledge of programming combined with his use of modern project management methods have proven to be invaluable on every project he's managed.
Source: LinkedIn Joey Proulx Dec 24, 2012Andrew and I worked together for several years at Hostopia. It was my job to build the infrastructure and Andrew's to migrate the customer bases to said new infrastructure. Andrew is a strong leader. He has been able to walk into complex IT situations provide structure, innovative solutions and a positive work environment for peers. Andrew has a go-getter attitude, I welcome working with him again in the future.
Source: LinkedIn Joe Andrzejewski Dec 24, 2012Andrew's "open door" approach is something any and all managers should adopt. You can reach out to him any time with any request and be sure he is responsive no matter what time is it and where is he located. Andrew is sharp to details at the same time retaining broad business insight on the projects. This allows him to communicate effectively with both technical individuals and top executives. Excellent professional!
Source: LinkedIn Dmytro Dolyna Dec 24, 2012Andrew's an incredibly talented individual. Whether it's regarding programming, creative or the business requirements of a project, Andrew has displayed a fantastic ability to understand and manage all deliverables of a project and coordinate those deliverables between the various local and remote departments of our company.
Source: LinkedIn Bryan Cesar Dec 24, 2012Can you describe the data in the table? I can think of a few solutions, most if which are based on the data you are storing.
For example, chances are when you have large tables you are probably not doing any summarization of your data. If possible pre-compute the result and spit out the answer from a shorter table or cache (a cache which is generate at the time of the summary being generated, only useful if you often request this data shortly after it being created - doesn't sound like you needed to do this though)
Another alternative would to be consider archiving of data. Is all the data required all the time? If not then consider a means of removing data you don't need (after x period of time) or switching to a new shard / table periodically.
The other, more obvious, I would mention are to reconsider your existing indexes or partitioning your tables, if you have not done this already.
You can start manually sharding tables across servers based on a hash of some kind but your Db is still relatively small (assuming you can summarize some of your data) and should not need this yet.
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