SUMMARY:

Information Technology professional with 20 years of full software development life cycle experience. Involved in many Project Planning / Scoping, Analysis, Design, Architecture, Specifications, Development, Team Coordination, Documentation, Implementation, Maintenance, User Training, Quality Assurance and end user interaction. Experience in various roles such as Applications DBA, Manager Applications/Infrastructure, Oracle DBA, Programmer Analyst in Linux/Unix, Windows environments. I have very strong analytical and problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills and easy to work with.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Oracle 11.2/ 10g / 9i / 8.1.7/ 8.1.6
• Oracle 9i RAC (Rel - 2), Cloud Control, Grid Control, OEM
• PL/SQL,SQL, Oracle 10g Developer/ 6.0, RMAN
• MS SQL*Server 2012 / 2008 /2008 (R2) /2005 / 2000, MOM,SCOM
• Oracle 9i/10g Application Server
• Webcenter 11, Weblogic Server 10.3/ 9.1 / 8.1 / 7.2 /6.1
• RedHat Linux AS 3.0, 4.5,5.0 SUN Solaris 10,8/7
• DELL PowerEdge 6650, 2650,1850,1750, HP A,N,L class
• UNIX Shell scripts, Veritas Net Backup, Omniback 4

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT:

HARDWARE: DELL PowerEdge 6650, PE 1850, PE 1650, HP A,L,N class, SUN FIRE 280R, SUN SPARC Station, IBM AS400, SYSTEM /38, PC's, Netscaler, Dec Alpha, HP DL385, HP 585

OPERATING: RHEL Linux AS/ES 3,4.0, HPUX 11.i, 11.0, SUN Solaris 8/9, Win NT 4.0, WIN XP/ 2003 /2000/98/ NT/SYSTEM, HITACHI SAN Cluster, EMC Clarion CX700, EMC Symmetric, Tru64, Suse Linux,AIX

SOFTWARE: EBS 11.5.10.2, ORACLE 9i RAC (Rel-2), Oracle 11G Grid OEM, Oracle 10g Developer Suite, Oracle 6i,9i/10g Application Servers, Oracle 11g,10g,9i, 8.1.7.4 / 8.1.6 , Webcenter 11, UCM,WeLogic 10.3/9.2/8.1/7.2/6.1 , Oracle Developer 10g/2000/6.0, Oracle Forms 10g/6i/4.5,Reports 10g/6i/3.5, Designer 2000, ERWIN 4.0, PL/SQL, SQL Loader, TKPROF, SQL Server 2012/2008/2005/2000 , 2008 Windows Failover Cluster Services, MS-Office, MS Access, Apache, IIS, Documentum 5.2, Tomcat, PVCS, CVS, DBCA, Reflections, OCFS,SAPDBA, SAP 4.6, Quest Spotlight,Foglight, SQL*Plus,PL/SQL and TSQL

TOOLS: Oracle 11/10 Grid, 9i OEM, Toad, Oracle Enterprise Manager 2.2, RMAN, Secured Shell, Veritas Netbackup, HP OmniBack II, Tivoli, NetWorker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Middleware Admin

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Responsibilities:

• I was included as member of cross-func project team owning responsibilities for 8 core applications providing payment soulition services to internal/external customers.
• Mandated end-state, no Synchrony applications rely on or use Confidential infras.
• Working under PMO methologies covering, requirements, design, planning, construction and QA/UAT providing/gathering necessary artificats.
• Weekly/Daily meetings with shared services teams and outsourced infrastructure teams to verify proper delivery, acceptiable state of deliveries.

Sr. Oracle DBA

Confidential, UT

Responsibilities:

• development team break-fix/build initiatives and day to day operational support for application databases in production/non-production environments.
• Member of Architecture Review Board “ARB” and backup member for Change Advisory Board “CAB” representing database team/technologies.
• Duties included DBA on-call rotation, Backup/Recovery, DR testing post failover, environment refreshes, performance tuning, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, capacity planning, software installation, configuration, working with in house teams /external vendors on packaged application upgrades of Tivoli SmartCloud, Maximo, ReConnect, ImageNow, TaxSolver in addition to custom Oracle and SQL database deployments.
• ARB, project planning phase review of architecture for standards and/or bringing awareness to any company/vendor standards, policies or industry best practices applicable.
• CAB duties review approve/reject production changes where risk of unscheduled outages or unexpected results are not mitigated through lifecycle process or reasonable testing completed with expected results..
• Provided guidance and assistance to less experienced team members in Oracle Linux/Unix environments.
• Responsible for SSIS packages supporting interfaces to/from Lawson.
• Responsible for SSIS packages supporting interfaces to/from Lawson.

Sr Oracle/SQL DBA/Middleware

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Provided guidance and assistance to less experienced team members.
• Using SQL Developer/Toad assisted development teams with troubleshooting/tuning PL/SQL packages.
• I consolidated stored procedures into PL/SQL packages by application functional areas.
• Coordination of efforts with off-shore resources
• Documented application deployments and start/stop procedures.
• Successful remediation of security and vulnerability scan deficiencies.
• Successful move of production clustered SQLServer databases to new datacenter.
• Resolved technical issues associated with implementing Netbackup for SQLServer.
• Wrote many bash shell scripts for automating repetitive tasks / processes.
• Wrote bash shell script to move all log files off root file system associated with
• Apache, Siteminder WebAgent, wls plugin and apache rewrite logs.
• Installed and assisted with Six-Sigma implementation.

Tech: Oracle UCM 10.3, Webcenter 11, Siteminder, Apache, Apache rewrite, IBR, OBIEE, Linux,Windows 2008 R2, SQLServer 2005, SQLServer 2008 Webcenter 11, Alkami, Gomez, Http Watch, NetMon, Oracle 11.2, Oracle RAC 11.2, ASM, SCAN ., Linux, Windows 2008 R2, OVM, PL/SQL

Sr Oracle/SQL DBA

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Responsibilities:

• Hand, successfully demonstrated performance gains in OLTP environment using SAME which was adopted as standard for OLTP deployments.
• Changed physical DB file layout taking advantage of SSD, replaced HBA’s and updated packages and firmware to supported levels.
• I resolved lingering DR test recovery failures for Oracle DB’s.
• Diagnosed performance impact of recycling bin being enabled on dictionary views disabled recycling bin removed backup images. updated analyze jobs to include system objects. Removed parallel processing all together improving stability for mixed OLAP/OLTP usage improving month-end close processing.
• Performance tuning Cost Point application, assisted development team in re-writing custom PL/SQL modules post upgrade of financial applications.
• Utilized Solaris 10 SPARC, Windows 2008 R2, Oracle RDBMS 11.2, 10.2, Grid 11.2

Sr. Systems Engineer/ Oracle & SQLServer

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Responsibilities:

• As Sr Systems Engineer supporting corporate applications my responsibilities encompassed hardware, web server tiers, application server tiers and Oracle and SQLServer database tiers. Duties included operating system patching, backup and recovery, patch analysis and application, capacity planning, performance tuning, DR documentation and acting as liaison between infrastructure and applications.
• I successfully planned, documented and executed the application of an Oracle CPU and upgraded two of the four databases across dev, qa and production environments from version 9.2 to 10.2 that support the IMANY software stack supporting pricing and contract compliance. Utilizing Oracle on AIX, SQLServer 2005, Weblogic 8, IIS, Power builder, AIX, Control-M, MQ, vmware
• I successfully deployed Strohls software for disaster recovery / business continuity project which was a requirement of the hosting provider for pre production change validation. (SQLServer,IIS,Tivoli)
• Nominated and accepted to Alcon’s Oracle center of Excellence team.
• I successfully sized and procured hardware to support Essbase upgrade and installed all vendor software in development and production. Utilized Essbase 11, SQLServer 2005, AD, Cisco ACE,VMWare.
• Technical lead on project implementing global application adding workflow to AP purchase orders and invoices for JDE One World. I Worked with vendor, applications team and various infrastructure resources to successfully deploy solution. Utilized SQLServer, IIS, Citrix, Vmware, Cisco ACE load balancer, Control-M,Tivoli, Quest Spotlight).
• Technical lead for the production upgrade of the Certus application used for SOX compliance.
• By taking ownership of the project I was able to resolve many technical issues in-house allowing the project to be delivered on time and under budget.
• Utilized Weblogic, SQLServer, Vmware,Tivoli

Oracle Applications DBA/Sys admin

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Duties include operating system patching, backup and recovery, patch analysis and application, capacity planning, performance tuning, metric gathering and reporting, DR documentation and providing input to Business Analysts and development teams. o address capacity, performance issues and HA requirements researched architected and implemented a shared APPL TOP, shared application tier file system, moved DB storage to SAN and implemented load balancing at both the HTTP and Jserv layers additionally implemented SSL offloading.
• The changes made addressed performance issues, reduced downtime associated with patching and alleviated capacity issues for an improved end user experience.
• Required coordination and troubleshooting with infrastructure resources.
• Replaced Cold backups with RMAN hot backups increasing application availability.
• Successfully recovered Oracle EBS during 24 hour recovery window.
• Maintain Oracle Grid control environment, including Discoverer for reporting.
• Responsible for production implementations from both internal and contracted developers and maintaining version control across promotion model.
• I have successfully upgraded EBS database tier in development, patch and QA to 10.2.0.3 from 9.2.0.7, planning Prod in fourth quarter 2008.
• Provided user community and technical staff current patching levels across all environments, researched and applied patches and module upgrades as required.
• In addition to the above I was the Linux system administrator for all EBS servers.

Manager Applications/Infrastructure

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• I recently upgraded our 10g Grid Control from 10.1.0.2 to 10.1.0.5. Replaced Cisco content switches used for application load balancing with Netscaler HA pair for Oracle and J2EE environments.
• As Confidential Applications Technical lead working with Dell Professional Services on installation and configuration of Dell/Oracle Deployment, primary contact for Confidential project team upgrading J2EE and Oracle applications from WLS 6.1 to 8.1 and 9ias to 10gas for Server Consolidation project.
• Team successfully planned upgraded and migrated entire Americas Confidential applications databases from expensive and aged hardware to Linux based hardware architecture using Red-Hat Linux AS 3.0, Oracle 9i RAC, 9i/10g Application servers and 10G Grid OEM. Around 15 different Enterprise applications were migrated to new hardware and software platform as part of this server consolidation project. Assumed support and maintenance responsibilities for I2 applications hosted by EDS for a sister company.
• Setup, Upgraded, Migrated and managing 4 critical OLTP application databases to Oracle 9i RAC (Rel.2) HA environment Installed, configured Oracle 10G Grid Control for managing and monitoring Oracle databases and Application servers Installed, configured, troubleshoot and administer application server software,Weblogic, Tomcat, Oracle 10G application server.
• Deploying J2EE applications, Managing, Troubleshooting and Monitoring WebLogic 8.1/7.2 application and servers running on Sun, Linux and W2K.
• Managing various production oracle databases and 10g Application servers with 24x7 support along with several active projects. Documented procedures for building and configuring webservers, set up sudo and permissions and Samba for W2k common shared server. Database partition management, Archiving, Online Tuning, SQL Tuning, Perfstat and Periodic maintenance.
• Performed various Backup/Recovery using RMAN hot backups, RMAN Cloning, Regular Hot/Cold backups using shell scripts
• Performed various Export/Import techniques and Database refresh methods.
• Automated and setup various custom monitor Shell scripts for managing database environments and Web Logic processes.
• Maintenance and change process are followed by strict change management procedures and version management.
• Experience working cases with software vendors opening problem ticketsOracle/BEA/Documentum/Cognos.
• Planning to setup development, testing and QA environments for Oracle 10g database migration for our critical applications.
• Engage and support developers during the SDLC and Working with programming teams developing Internet applications Installation, Maintenance of Apache web server configurations, procuring and installing SSL certificates.
• Responsible for maintaining and administrating PVCS/CVS version control software and building build scripts.
• Responsible for documentation, knowledge transition and training of DBA support role to Confidential DBA's. Worked with BEA on implementation of Weblogic Portal/Integration.
• Change Control Manager responsible for QA for any infrastructure/Application changes to production.
• Installed ESSBASE analytics/application server in development environment for ESSBASE development team.
• The applications include Kronos Time and Attendance application, Lawson HR/Payroll, CODA Finance, LINK Airline Catering application, Concur Expense, ARIS payment process application, I2 Procurement applications, Global Financial applications and various Global applications for our parent company Lufthansa, Germany.

Environment: Oracle 10g/ 9i RAC Rel 2 / 8.1.7.4/8.1.6 , Oracle 10G OEM Grid, Oracle 9i/10g Application Servers, RMAN, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Loader, Unix Shell scripts,WebLogic 8.1/6.1/7.2,Redhar Linux AS/ES 3.0 DELL PowerEdge 6650,2650,1850,1750, HP A,L,N class, Sun Solaris 5.8, EMC Storage device (SAN),VERITAS NetBackup, Toad 8.6 for Oracle, I-planet, Netscaler, Oracle Portal