SUMMARY:

• Organizational Development and Transformation: Committed and excels at furthering the professional development of team to support business strategies.
• Strategy and Architecture Expert: Passionate, Quality - driven, results-driven IT Management professional with a stellar record of success in Project Management, Resource Management and Cross-Team Leadership. Cross-industry management experience includes Financial Services, Education, Media and IT Service Provider industries.
• Significant Engineering / Delivery / Support experience: Led the transformation of legacy applications environments migrate to new technology systems. Delivered solutions for IT projects for better performance and meeting economies of scale.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Oracle Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Plan strategic roadmap for build/automation projects.
• Lead team of DBAs and provide mentorship as needed.
• Collaborate with Vendors, Development teams, Storage engineers, Network engineers, Data Protection engineers to design roadmap for enterprise solutions and to deliver new software/hardware /migrations /infrastructure upgrades and security solutions.
• Collaborate with Operations and Delivery teams to understand platform infrastructure needs and provide architecture solutions.
• Leverage Agile /scrum techniques for project management and whilst implementing new technology solutions.
• Implement flash storage solutions.
• Build and delivery lead from ODA V1 to ODA X5-2 servers in secured DMZ.
• Lead SAP DB build and migration to T5-8 /T7 servers. Streamline DR designs and reduce MTTR.
• Design and implement OEM13c High availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.
• Implement private DBaaS, PaaS, PDBaaS with OEM13c as enterprise level solution.
• Build and Delivery Lead for security project implementation for oracle native auditing, Oracle Audit Vault software appliance and Controlminder.
• Lead for implementing Protegrity Tokenization and encryption solution.
• Consistently recognized for “GEM” award during tenure with NBCU.
• Self-starter, creative, embrace challenges and highly collaborative with work ethic.
• Demonstrate professionalism and established rapport, credibility in a highly cross functional environment.

Confidential, NY

AVP/Senior DBA Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead, direct and manage DB Team for engineering solutions, innovations and to provide 24 x 7 operational support for any real-time production issues in trading environment.
• Manage onsite/offshore DBA team for Oracle, MSSQL, and MYSQL ; and provide mentorship as needed.
• Collaborate with Compute and Storage engineers for build automations and patch rollouts.
• Coordinate with Oracle account managers and support team for any technology propositions, support contracts.
• Saved 2M+ in Capex and Opex during this tenure. Devised, developed and created new process flows for DB infrastructure for day-to-day operations, code deployment and new releases deployment. Aligned monitoring tools and RDBMS choices with business requirements.
• Utilize ITIL methodology, use Scrum/Agile technologies to transform user feedback and requirements into new projects, allocate budgets and get project approvals. Implement Jira for routine tasks, build/release management.
• Implement secured infrastructure with auditing techniques for trading environments. Collaborate with vendors (Imperva, Firescope, and Oracle) to implement security products in non-DMZ and DMZ environments.
• Act as interface between multiple stakeholders - Application teams, database/storage/network/data protection admins and Corporate Technology teams for assessing and laying out strategic direction on key initiatives.

Confidential, NY, NY

Senior Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Delivered architecture and technology consulting services for new projects and support related issues. Setup High Availability environment using Oracle 11g RAC at VERITAS Storage.
• Design HA layout, DR Failover strategy. Processes assurance achieved via FMEA, test and document techniques using Veritas CFS/CVM, Veritas storage foundation and HA of Private-interconnects.
• Educate and coach DB team on DR techniques to reduce MTTR and improve existing Database implementations.

Confidential, NY, NY

Senior Principal Consultant (Solutions Engineer)

Responsibilities:

• Provide onsite (involved travel) support for implementations, performance troubleshooting.
• Enhance operations by delivering architecture and technology consulting services at client locations.
• Enrich client relationships for procuring consulting gigs, prepare technology analysis proposals, engagement reports.
• Mentor and motivate other principal consultants in leveraging technology trends.
• Manage RAC implementation including troubleshooting performance issues related to 10g and 11g RAC, storage (ZFS, NFS, and Netapp).

Confidential, NJ

Senior Oracle DBA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Subject Matter Expert in charge of strategic and tactical planning for Oracle core RDBMS issues for banking treasury applications.
• Implement Security Audit solutions for Sox Compliance,
• Manage and delegate work assignments with Offshore DBA teams.
• Lead database upgrade, capacity planning, monitor and troubleshoot DB/Cluster issues and performance issues.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Senior Oracle DBA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Engineer Disaster Recovery solution using Physical Standby (at +ASM on windows) using real time apply + Active Dataguard. Setup Backup/Recovery procedures using RMAN, automated and prepared DR policies for switchover/failover for physical standby.
• Strategically collaborated with DBA/Developers and Managers for demonstrating DR architecture/failover drill, benchmark performance for network latency.

Confidential, NJ

Senior Oracle DBA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared budgets estimate for upgrade and migrations projects. Enhanced automation, monitoring using shell scripts and OEM12c.
• Design security model, groups, user profiles and roles. Setup SSO based OS / DB authentication access.
• Engineer standalone/RAC databases design standards, resolved performance issues, setup Performance monitoring, provide backup and recovery solutions, implement DG broker automated failover design in DR setup. Provide 24 x 7 support.

Confidential, NJ

Senior Oracle DBA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of 3 DBA’s offshore for build and patching activities, providing 24 x 7 support.
• Lead for Security Project. Implement auditing for access control and Data Masking for data protection.
• Contribute to process improvement, re-engineering, procedure and technical documentation, and preparing run books.
• Recognized as “Star” performer with PHH for developing automation solution and consolidation via shell scripts.
• Saved over $ 1.5M with innovative and well-developed automation process. Recognized for excellent coordination with application teams and bringing issues to closure.

Confidential, NJ

Oracle DBA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Served as a Primary DBA for US credit card databases and provide 24 x 7 support.
• Designed physical/logical standby DB environment and coached DBA team on handling performance issues.
• Support offshore/onshore model for optimal efficiency.
• Design and implement auditing and other advanced security features for SOX compliance.