Richard Patlan, M.A.

Richard Patlan has worked in the IT industry for the past 30 years. Richard currently works for Chedraui USA, a leading grocery retailer with 375 stores across Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas and over 7 billion dollars in annual sales. They own and operate all Smart & Final stores as well as the El Super and Fiesta Marts.  He serves as the Senior DBA/SQL Programmer and is responsible for all aspects of the company's Enterprise Database Platforms. He is responsible for administration, maintenance and performance of over 200 production database servers. This includes SQL Servers and DB2 instances on-premise and on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In addition, he manages all security for internal and external users, develops and implements database disaster recovery plans and provides SQL programming.

Prior to this position, he worked for the Capital Programs department at UCLA as a DBA and SQL programmer. He was responsible for designing, developing, testing and deploying back-end Relational Database Management System using Microsoft SQL Server and Db2. Richard also managed and coordinated the design and development of production websites using ASP.Net MVC in C#.

Since 2005, Richard has been lead instructor of several courses at UCLA and UCSD Extension. He has taught:

  • Introduction to Structured Query Language;
  • Advanced Structured Query Language;
  • Relational Database Management;
  • Introduction to Distributed and Object-Oriented Databases;
  • Introduction Geographic Information Systems (GIS) courses.

He also taught at the Anderson School of Management, UCLA:

  • Introduction to Data Management and Analytics: Big Data and Small Data course

In addition, Richard has provide Database design and development, SQL consulting and SQL training in the private sector over the years.

Industry-recognized Instrcutor, Consultant and Trainer:

  • CoffeeBean
  • BlackLineSystems
  • Jafra Cometics
  • Bloomberg Ribner and Associates
  • UCLA Extension
  • UCSD Extenstion
  • UCLA Anderson School of Management

Education

B.A. California State University of Fresno
M.A. University of California at Los Angeles

Award

Distinquished Instructor, UCLA Extension

Communcations

Cell: 626-221-8435
Email: rpatlan@sqlwithrichard.com