SUMMARY:

• IT professional, with over 30 years of technical experience who seeks to use hands - on technical expertise as well as leadership and people skills to help organizations transition to the cloud.
• A breadth and depth of knowledge related to legacy applications and infrastructures make me an ideal candidate to help companies plan and implement their cloud strategy.
• Implementations have included Microsoft Azure, ORACLE cloud, AWS and others.
• My roles throughout my career have always involved hands-on engineering support.
• A thorough understanding of existing data center operations and production support experience has allowed me to easily transition into cloud related technologies and strategies.
• A core competency is the ability to understand data and how it fits into the big picture and the ability to debug complex problems.
• I also strive to get along with others in a team setting .
• An ideal position would be on a cloud transition project where my skills can be used in either an individual or team management role and to mentor those less experienced.
• Currently my focus is transitioning organizations to the cloud by working with management to plan and implement their cloud strategy, leveraging my experience in legacy systems.
• Experienced DBA, and fluent in multiple programming and scripting languages.
• A primary focus in many jobs has been process automation and mitigating risk.
• Experienced technical project manager used to tight timelines and high visibility projects.
• Have worked in Federal, State, Regulatory and private sectors, including fortune 500 companies.
• Experience includes government, medical, financial, regulatory and product development environments.
• A key skill is my ability to look at the big picture and propose alternate solutions, while keeping many factors in scope including budget, current technology in use, ease of integration, and time to deliver.
• Experienced as a database and infrastructure integration/migration specialist installing, upgrading, maintaining and migrating applications and data on various operating systems including Linux, Solaris, OS/390, Z/OS, AIX, Windows and cloud infrastructures.
• Cloud -related work includes working with Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon AWS and other cloud platforms.
• Significant experience migrating between databases, technology stacks and cloud platforms, which includes the ability to propose alternative architectures and implementations.
• In my role as a production support engineer, I was often called in to triage complex performance and functional issues spanning multiple tiers, technologies and programming languages due to my experience in theses disciplines.
• Significant release management and AGILE development experience.
• Experience includes serving as a dba in both ORACLE and Microsoft database technologies.
• Experienced in creating Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and in the use of LDAP servers including ORACLE OID and Active directory and open source LDAP servers to implement single sign on solutions.
• Experienced with identity management including Microsoft and ORACLE Identity Management products.
• Experienced with SOA and service bus architectures including Oracle Fusion Middleware technology stack.
• Often asked to research and report on new technologies and how they may be introduced into the infrastructure and to train staff on how to administer and implement them.
• Responsibilities have included automating the migration process to the cloud using various techniques to migrate the data and applications.
• Have created standards and procedures documents and worked with senior management to implement and maintain them to ensure consistency and standardization of application infrastructures.
• Experienced in the development of data and process models which included teaching classes on data modeling.
• Experience working with Very Large Databases and the posses the skills to administer, maintain and troubleshoot issues related to large volumes and high transaction rates.

EXPERIENCE:

Cloud Transition Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• In this role, I am responsible for all provisioning of Azure infrastructure, including application gateways, networks, docker container manager, virtual machines, SQL databases, firewalls and DNS entries.
• Responsible for supporting data and application infrastructures on-premise and in the cloud.
• Responsibilities also include transitioning existing on-premise applications to the cloud.
• As part of the medical records integration project we stood up the application and data in AWS, Microsoft Azure and Oracle cloud during the POC phase and eventually selected Azure to host our application and data
• We have also integrated existing Electronic health record systems to manage medical data and medicaidMedicaid eligibility information between disparate systems using a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• The application is currently hosted in Azure Government and is regulated by HIPPA rules
• We integrated to Azure Active directory as our LDAP server
• Successfully integrated Azure AD to Sharefile to facilitate disseminating information between platforms.
• Reengineered the database to ensure referential integrity and performance.
• Create services to facilitate the SOA architecture using Visual studio and PilotFish technology.
• Wrote and stood up in Azure a data harvesting program to analyze public records from the Maryland court system to provide analysts with an independent view of crime statistics and bail reform.

Infrastructure Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include planning, implementing and supporting the upgrades of the ORACLE Database to the latest stable versions and have completed the upgrade to ORACLE database version 12C.
• I am tasked with maintaining and optimizing Java applications in the portfolio which include working with other team members in the integration and deployment of application code including coding and testing existing and new components.
• I was responsible for implementing and administering the initial Fusion Middleware/Identity Management and WebLogic infrastructure at the Maryland JIS Data center.
• A significant was the implementation of the High availability architecture of the ORACLE Identity Management Suite which includes OIM, OIM, OIF, OID, OAAM, apache, WebLogic and node manager.
• I am responsible for creating the RBAC for the entire application portfolio at Maryland Judiciary using ORACLE IDAM and was responsible for the java development team in how to integrate RBAC into their applications using the authorization and authentication policies defined in OAM.
• Responsible for installing, configuring, administering and using Oracle BI and BI publisher. This includes using the report writer to create custom reports for various organizations within JIS
• Part of my responsibilities involve administering Oracle Single Sign on, Identity Management, SSL offloading, and load balancer redirection at the URL and port level.
• Responsible for providing production DBA and infrastructure support
• I have written numerous PL/SQL packages and functions and I am usually called in to handle the SQL queries when others are having trouble getting them working and optimized. I am proficient at using AWR and ADDM reports and I work with developers to help speed up the performance of their queries using various techniques.

Software Development Infrastructure - Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• A significant was the virtualization initiative which reduced the time to provision infrastructure from months to less than a day using VM technology which led to increased development velocity.
• Lead team in proof -of -concept project that validated, tested and implemented a cloud-based solution using existing legacy applications and porting them to the Cloud.
• Database Administrator and Application Server Administrator for various projects. This involves designing implementing and maintaining applications and their infrastructure including WebLogic, Tomcat, JBoss Application Servers and ORACLE databases.
• Responsible for reviewing and commenting on ORACLE\WebLogic and SQL server Standards and Procedures
• Responsibilities included troubleshooting various issues related to the performance and scalability of databases and application servers.
• Responsible for setting up and administering the custom SSO solution using RCS and Weblogic.
• Worked in an agile development environment.
• Installed, configured and upgraded SQL Server.
• Responsible for troubleshooting issues including working with Very Large Databases that had high transaction volume and terabytes of data from the WebLogic application servers through to the database back ends.
• Installed and configured WebLogic application servers including installing the Enterprise Service Bus.
• ResponsibilitesResponsibilities included serving as an Oracle DBA.
• Automated the DB and application code drops using shell and Perl scripts to automate the many steps needed to deploy the application.
• Implemented ORACLE Virtual Private Database to allow fine grained access control to the data.
• Wrote numerous packages, stored procedures, triggers and functions including the application level locking mechanism controlling access to logical groupings of data across multiple tables. Created a generic error routine to be used by all PL/SQL objects.
• Implemented data encryption using ORACLE's encryption package to protect the test questions and answers
• Created logical and physical models using ERWIN which included forward engineering the DDL from the MODEL.
• Responsible for the Development tools group which supports Quality Center, LoadRunner, Starteam, Erwin/ModelMart, DOORS, TOAD and other development tools.
• Responsible for the Voltage data encryption/obfuscation rollout which involved setting up the client software and instructing application teams in its use and tracking the progress.

Technical Project Leader/DBA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Team leader at the Energy Information Administration. This included installing ORACLE and SQL Server and directing a staff of DBA’s in addition to being responsible for the Application server infrastructure consisting of ORACLE 9ias OC4J application servers, WebLogic, JBoss and tomcat application servers and the team of administrators that supported them
• Taught classes in logical and physical data modeling using IDEF standards and tools such as Erwin modelmart, ORACLE Designer, Visio data modeling plugin and Rational ROSE.
• Set up the EIA’s first internet facing application which involved working with the network security group to secure all network hops using ORACLE’s advance security options and SSL encryption from the web browser. This effort required an in depth knowledge of security issues and solutions.
• Responsible for the backup -and -restore strategy including designing, implementing and maintaining it.
• Set up ORACLE Enterprise Manager Infrastructure including the Management server.
• Responsible for teaching junior DBA’s the ins and outs of day to day ORACLE system DBA functions
• Created standards and procedures in regards to ORACLE to allow for consistency across applications
• Set up a monitoring infrastructure to proactively alert before issues became a problem.
• Was responsible for the original Sunflower (asset management) Implementation at DOE including installing, configuring and deploying the application on the DOE and Confidential infrastructure using ORACLE 10g database and application server.
• Responsible for Securing the DOE/EIA intranet/internet infrastructure including meeting all DOE security reviews and standards.
• Created an Internet/Intranet application for the Department of Energy to support their collection, processing and dissemination of survey data. The system was designed for using an Oracle database, PL/SQL and Java servlets for data access and Java applets for the user interface. Worked on the entire project lifecycle: gathering of requirements, process modeling, data modeling, database generation, data conversion, application design and infrastructure, PL/SQL coding, Java coding and implementation. Implemented the web application into Production.
• Experienced in coding PL/SQL functions, procedures, and packages.
• Extensive experience in implementing automated solutions to survey processing forms and developing data models to support them.
• Analyzed, recommended and built applications using ERWin, BPWin, PowerBuilder and ORACLE.
• Served as an advisor to DOE/EIA on how to migrate their Mainframe legacy systems to the Internet/intranet environment.