Hi, your project is right up my alley! I offer data cleansing, massaging, conversion, reconciliation and verification services undertaken with a high degree of automation.
As the project requirements and scope need further detailing, my bid amount and hours projected are tentative, and will be revised once we agree on the details.
To answer your questions:
1) I am proficient in and use a number of software tools to automatically process textual data. I have approximately 28 years of IT / programming experience and have a particular passion and affinity for text processing. One type of task I've previously undertaken included processing company information which was extremely dirty (typos, inconsistent formatting, etc). The task included cleaning the data (automated search-and-replace included) and then typesetting it into a 400-page directory meant for print.
2) Yes, I am available for a trial.
3) My specific MySQL experience is rather limited. I have previously set up and used MySQL and MSSQL databases together with PHP and ASP.NET applications, but would not call myself a guru. However, I am extremely comfortable with SQL queries, so depending on the kind of work you need done, I could get it done.
I have some further points to elaborate on which I've sent using a private message.