CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Creativity is the most important skill to ensure survival in today's diverse technological terrain. It opens the doors for exemplary problem solving and delivering technical solutions that are robust.
• Organizational Agility allows adaptation to different functional and organizational structures quickly and smoothly. My experience in different sized companies, as well as a variety of team structures, has cultivated skills needed to transition easily.
• Business and Financial Acumen is the thorough understanding of a company's corporate mission and financial vision. As a team member or team leader, it is essential to keep project and team goals in line with corporate objectives.
• Technical Professional Growth is the expansion of technical and professional knowledge at a pace that is congruous with a specific industry. Staying abreast of new advancements and breakthroughs within a subject matter not only promotes the growth of the employee, but also lowers total cost of ownership and facilitates ingenuity.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Database Administrator

Enterprise Data Delivery and Replication

• Performed administration duties on Oracle 10g-11g including RAC and SQL Server 2005-2008 ensuring optimum development up time and tuning on Windows, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and AIX.
• Initiated the proposal for a SQL Server consolidation effort centering around moving the instances to a three node production environment providing both high availability and high performance.
• Implemented GoldenGate against the Deltek Costpoint ERP system to provide an operational data store environment for reporting to the Federal Services Division.
• Maintained team Sharepoint site which housed task list, calendar, documentation of several varieties, etc.
• Provided 24/7 on call support for approximately 120 SQL Server and 65 Oracle databases housed locally in Austin.

Confidential

Senior Data Architect

• Performed administration duties on Oracle 10g-11g including RAC , Oracle E-Business Suite 11ii - R12 and SQL Server 2000-2008, DB2 9.x, MySQL 5.x and HANA 1.0 SP1-5 ensuring optimum development uptime and tuning on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.
• Lead architect for the conversion of the CranSoft development platform from a Microsoft Sql Server based product to a database independent product, supporting Oracle, DB2 and MySQL.
• Provided 24/7 support to the development teams in Austin, Atlanta and Boston, as well as approximately 300 field consultants spread all over the world.
• Directly supported customers experiencing Oracle issues including client installation and configuration, Oracle E-Business Suite integration methods, SQL query performance tuning and other Oracle related troubleshooting.
• Implemented Scum while serving as ad hoc project manager, organizing the work and schedules for 9 developers working on 2 - 3 concurrent projects.
• Installed, configured, tuned and administered SAP HANA on SLES 11 for development and demonstration purposes.

Confidential

Senior Database Administrator

• Performed administration duties on Oracle 8.0 10g and SQL Server 2000-2005 databases ensuring optimum production uptime.
• Provides 24/7 escalation support with a vigorous on-call rotation. On-call rotation included system administration of AIX 5L, NIX, Solaris and Windows systems.
• Provides escalation support to development team ensuring query performance, best practices and ISO/PCI/SBOX compliance.
• Technical lead for the implementation of Oracle Audit Vault and Database Vault for system auditing and authorization schematic allowing detailed system audit logs as well as duty delegation.
• Experience installing, troubleshooting and managing instances on AIX 5L and various flavors of Linux in single server configurations.

Confidential

Problem Management - Oracle

• Serves as the highest level of technical support for Oracle 8.0 10g with duties ranging from configuration management, advanced administration, backup and recovery monitoring and configuration, capacity management, installation, migration, and consulting.
• Provides 24/7 escalation support Data Return's entire customer base with a vigorous on-call rotation. Provides escalation support to over 200 Incident Managers, Technical Account Managers and Assigned System Engineers in the form of in-class training, knowledgebase articles, training videos and 24/7 accessibility.
• Identification of system, customer and environment wide issues, coordination of resources to achieve resolution, and documentation and implementation of the resolution management of internal and external customer communications, as well as vendor communications
• Experience installing, troubleshooting and managing instances on RHEL 3.0-4.0, Solaris, Sun OS and Windows 2003 in single server configurations, active passive clusters Failsafe and manual and multi-node/multi-instance RAC clusters.

Confidential

Database Administrator

• Performed administration duties on databases in the following versions: Oracle 7.3.4 10g, SQL Server 7.0 2005, IBM DB2 7.0 8.0. Administration includes daily monitoring, proactive issue resolution, capacity management, installation, tuning, configuration, backup and recovery.
• Management of Oracle Enterprise Manager and installation of Oracle Intelligence Agent on Windows NT 4.0 - 2003, HP-UX 11.x, and Red Hat Linux AS/ES.
• Project planning for database installation and implementation using Niku and Microsoft Project.

Confidential

Technical Lead

• Created, honed and enforced quality assurance standards filling the role of Quality Assurance Manager for projects from Promotions and beyond that included exit criteria, test case creation and organization, thick and thin client performance thresholds, and SDLC enforcement throughout the development organization.
• Presented quality methods and metrics, both tool generated and custom aggregates, to the executive leadership team of HDFS and Harley Davidson Inc. Also initiated, proposed, beta tested and recommended HDFS's first automated testing tool suite.
• Oversaw the testing of a 5 million Promotions project allowing HDFS to compete with larger financial institutions. Testing included month end simulations, user acceptance functionality and testing of a Websphere Process Server ESB infrastructure supporting SOA.
• Provided detailed technical analysis of existing Oracle database and form infrastructure, as well as faxing, XML A2A integration and external dealer point of sale systems.
• Played a key role in the architecture and technology choice for HDFS's SOA architecture and the manner in which systems interact with the architecture using web services, service data objects, Java programming and XML.

Confidential

Senior Performance Analyst

• Performed database and architecture tuning for Oracle and SQL Server backed applications as well as SCSI and Fibre based storage.
• Provided upgrade and migrations plans for databases transitioning to and from WinTel and Linux systems. Activities included installs, upgrades, backup and recovery strategies, and capacity planning.
• Assessed work needed, project plans, statements of work, and timelines for projects across the United States. Position included 90 travel.
• Comprehensive consulting on application migration strategies, outage planning, requirements composition and execution.
• Consulted with clients on configuration management techniques including version control, deployment and rollback strategies, and naming conventions.
• Provided documentation on how configuration management relates to the SDLC process and how to manage versioning between multiple development, QA and production readiness groups.
• This position required 90 travel all over the United States to companies such as Union Pacific, T-Mobile, Mortgage Bot, and other clients contracted through Dell Professional Services.

Confidential

Senior Performance Analyst

• Lead Oracle Application Server Certification engineer in charge of the certification of the Business Integrator and Integration SDK on Oracle App Server 9.x and 10.x. Duties include architecture, installation, administration and tuning of multiple operating systems, Oracle databases and Oracle Application Server Instances.
• Liaison between Oracle and Pervasive responsible for publishing all test results to Oracle and providing third party vendor documentation.
• Serve as Websphere engineer consulting on its configuration, installation, and performance for end user issues and high priority technical problems.
• Performed extensive enterprise application migrations to and from various J2EE application servers including Oracle Applications Server, Websphere, and Weblogic. Duties included operating system upgrade planning, infrastructure migration planning and execution, and database migrations.
• Created and maintained the configuration files for Oracle Application Server, Websphere, Weblogic and JBoss for the certification of the Pervasive Business Integrator on the noted platforms.
• Documented a solid deployment process for Oracle Application Server using ClearCase, CVS and CCCHarvest to provide to the Pervasive customer base as best practices.

Confidential

J2EE Application Architect

• J2EE external interface architect utilizing EJB 2.0, JBoss 3x, MySQL 4.0, Javascript 1.2, JRE 1.4.2 06, Velocity, and XML.
• Programmed and designed data integration A2A modules that gathered data from a variety of student information systems to provide real time testing, evaluation, disciplinary and graduation information for students.
• Created and documented a new process for deployment management that resulted in 40 less release related downtime.
• Customer point of contact for all technical issue and training for WEST Web Enabled Student Transcript . Duties included 50-75 travel, training, reverse engineering of Student Information Systems, database modeling.
• Maintained the configuration file repository and performed deployments for J2EE applications on JBoss, Tomcat and Apache.

Confidential

Project/Production DBA

• Supported approximately 800 Oracle and SQL Server instances including clustered databases active-active and active-passive and RAC implementations for both OTLP and OLAP/DSS database types. Duties included backup and recovery, daily tuning and maintenance of operating systems and database software, configuration, cluster management, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Maintained the Oracle Enterprise Management Server for the world wide architecture and created a consolidated website for the overall management and monitoring of all Oracle, SQL Server and Teradata databases.
• Served as Lead Database Architect. Duties include database administration, reverse engineering applications to allow integration into the Dell environment, development and testing of database architecture and programmatic enhancements to third party Product. Also included extensive data modeling, UML functional specification modeling and training/support documentation.
• Maintained configuration repository for all Oracle, SQL Server and Teradata databases in the company's architecture.
• Created several custom automated services to ease the deployment of code and patches that included starting and stopping services, deploying SQL, PL/SQL and Java code, and initiating patches provided by Oracle. Created and administered real time Operational Data Stores, as well as provide training and user information to business partners for reporting purposes.
• Created and maintained BMC Patrol modules for the production database environment and worked collectively with BMC on product beta testing, improvements, and documentation.
• Installation, configuration and enterprise implementation of Oracle Applications 11i 11.5.7-9 in development and test environments. Assisted in the migration of J2EE modules, custom schema alterations. Specifically focused on security and customization.

Database Developer/Development DBA

• Served as advanced database developer for World Wide Operations and Services I/T Implemented database related PL/SQL projects, ASP.NET web projects and multiple database monitoring and management tools used in the daily operations of the Dell manufacturing facilities.
• Team lead in charge of the management of all development and system integration testing database environments for World Wide Operations I/T including data refresh strategies, load and performance testing, SQL tuning and adhering to corporate installation and settings standards.
• Team lead for the World Wide Operations Deployment Services group Created a deployment services web site that assisted development groups in staying within the bounds of the CMM/MSF development processes, initiated communication for approvals for each project at the VP level, and packaged code, configuration files, and instructions into an Install Shield executable.
• Automated the Software Quality Assurance process in WWOps I/T according to the principles of CMMI via a .NET web site that tracked documentation, approvals, project schedules and monitored data within Project Office to produce the Quality Assurance scorecard.
• Performed a wide variety of migration services including database migrations and upgrades, application architecture planning and application upgrade execution.
• Expert knowledge of Oracle's implementation of XML and Java, as well as performance tuning, deployment, and manageability.
• Experience programming UI, web and backend components in Java and .NET languages.
• Developed J2EE and PL/SQL modules for Oracle Applications 11i centered around security and integration into Dell's Services architecture.

Team/Project Management

• Competence in all phases and documentation the Agile project management methodology Highly competent in Carnegie Melon's CMM process as well as ITIL.
• Combination of 13 years people management experience serving groups from 5-50 members in number responsibilities included scheduling, commendation and reprimand duties, hiring, and training.

TECHNICAL SKILLS: