SUMMARY:

Over 23 years of experience in Oracle architecture design, administration and support large Oracle production environments. Broad and comprehensive knowledge of the Oracle Product includes Application Server Technology, Oracle ERP suite, Oracle iProcurement, Oracle Advance Supply Chain, Oracle SOA under 12c RAC. Experienced in both technical and managerial capacities leading technical teams focusing on design, performance tuning, and operations management

SKILLS:

Oracle 12c, Oracle R12 ERP suite, PL/SQL, JAVA, HTML, XML. LINUX

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Oracle Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Oracle Applications Architect technical lead responsible for the design and managing both production and non - production implementations.
• These environments where spread across two Oracle Cloud Services Data Centers under a 48 server plus (3) full Exadata racks tenancy count.
• Our production topology included (6) private and (2) DMZ applications tiers serviced by a 4TB EBS R12.2.6/12C two node Oracle Cluster single instance configuration. No-production support environments including DR totaled (3) production mirror copies, Database plus two application tier and, Database single application tier environments.
• The system was architected to support (3100) production concurrent user count and at least (3) full on-going implementations per year.
• This architecture was accomplished through (4) EBS upgrades 12.0.5-12.2.6 , hardware server upgrades including Linux OS, and several SOA API’s on premise to hosting custom implementations.
• The ultimate result achieved was (49) Manufacturing plant production roll-outs in both US and International locations housing EBS Financials, iProcurement and Advance Supply Chain. In addition to EBS R12.2.6 we have also implemented Oracle Demantra (Forecasting), NOETIX EBS suite, SYNCHRO (Brazil accounting software), VERTEX and Virtual Trader Financials. Our production environment is currently operating in (11) languages including U.S English, French, Norwegian, Dutch, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Chinese and Arabic

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Applications DBA/Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Senior Lead in the design, implementation and deployment of Oracle Financial E-Business Suite 11.5.10 on Real Application Cluster with ASM. Main responsibilities include Support financial system through Life Cycle Management of the project environments
• Provide expertise in troubleshooting and root cause analysis for application performance, (3) Ongoing training and mentoring to Confidential staff applications DBAs on Oracle 11i pre/post installations duties, database storage management, RAC configuration, backup/recovery policies and procedures, and enterprise monitoring for the entire ERP footprint.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Applications DBA/Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Oracle Applications DBA within an 11.5.10 / 9i Linux HR/Advance Benefits RAC environment.
• Applications patching, cloning and instance management, (2) Overall system performance, Oracle SR resolution and troubleshooting and Backup and recovery procedures implementation and documentation.

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Applications DBA/Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Conduct a system wide analysis focusing on performance tuning and Oracle best practices.
• The existing environment consisted of an 11.5.9 Oracle Financials Application System running (AR, GL, INV, ONT, PO, and AP & CE).
• The deliverable also included (1) Standard Change Control policy and procedures, (2) Application Administration best practices (monitoring, patches and cloning), and (3) Recommended production operation levels for CPU, I/O, Memory and Network.

Confidential, Salt Lake City, Utah

Applications DBA/Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Oracle Applications DBA responsible for the installation, configuration and administration within Overstock CRM iSupport, Email Center and Teleservices Oracle 11.5.10 modules. Other duties include patching, upgrade and ERP integration capacity planning.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Oracle OnDemand Service Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assume leadership role in Technical Assistance Request (TAR) management
• Perform situation management, implement root cause analysis for any escalations, and interface with Bug, Diagnosis and Escalation (BDE), Development and upper management as necessary
• Manage customer expectations of Oracle Products and Services; Identify and seek solutions with customer management and executives for operational deficiencies in the customer organization
• Maintain relationships with other parts of Oracle, such as Consulting, Education and the Support Sales Team
• Provide leads and assists with selling additional products and services
• Acts as a liaison to Development for major Quality Assurance activities.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Applications DBA/Performance Architect

Responsibilities:

• Applications DBA assigned to upgrade a clone production Applications instance from release 11.5.7 to 11.5.9.
• Duties include full step-by-step upgrade documentation.
• Detailed timing intervals and any other know preconditions that would assist their upgrade efforts in the near future.

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Applications DBA/Performance Architect

Responsibilities:

• Participated as an Applications DBA team member in Activant’s Oracle Financials production upgrade (release 11.5.8 to 11.5.9).
• Responsibilities range from design/planning through testing, implementation and go-live support.
• Confidential is a full Linux Oracle 9iRAC environment serving over 500 concurrent users.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Applications DBA/Performance Architect Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Applications DBA/Performance Architect responsible for the continued success of Hanover’s Oracle financials, HR, manufacturing and CRM implementation.
• Provided oracle applications resident expertise for Hanover IT and worked closely with Hanover’s Oracle Applications hosting company to ensure proper communication between production support and the hosting environment.
• Monitored daily performance activities and manage root cause analysis for production downtime events.
• Prepared recommendations to Senior Management regarding new tools, techniques and training that could be utilized to improve the performance of the applications environment.
• Interact with all levels of internal customers and business users to understand deliverables and modifications.
• Performed DBA duties including TAR resolution, patch evaluation, query performance and non-production instance patching.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Contract Applications DBA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead Oracle Applications DBA for EGL’s domestic Oracle Financial/HR applications system project.
• Oracle financial modules AP, GL, FA, AR, PO, Web ADI, Oracle Advance Benefits, and iRecruitment were implemented.
• Performed a wide range of Apps DBA duties including 11i applications upgrade from release 5.7 to 5.8, cloning and managing refreshes for up to 15 instances, patching, application troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Oracle applications SUN architecture is comprised of 2 application servers and a database server.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Senior Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• DBA/Performance Architect responsible for improving response time for both Oracle Advance Pricing and Oracle Configurator Applications modules in a state-of-the-art application environment for a leading manufacturer. Performed various diagnostics analysis (i.e. Query Explain Plans, patch level compliance) along with other health check activities regarding instance and hardware configuration. The engagement yielded a 30 percent improvement in Oracle’s Configurator launched response time and helped diminish the client’s complexity in its pricing rules/qualifiers directives.
• Participated as a team member in a Global Oracle Applications (Multi org, Multi currency, Euro) upgrade effort from Oracle 10.7 to 11i (11.5.5) for a major medical manufacturing company. Duties included maintenance, patching and troubleshooting for both the Test and R&D application environments. Instrumental in engineering and implementing interim migration scripts necessary for the conversion of customer data due to client customization complexities and considerable object architectural modifications between Oracle 10.7 and 11.5.5 versions. Performed root cause analysis and TAR resolution for major issues.
• Architectural Technical Lead responsible for design specifications, software layer recommendation and customization of an (EAI) Enterprise Integration Application effort. A message oriented hub & spoke framework was designed to integrate both Non-Oracle and Oracle applications ranging in release from 7.3.4 to 8.1.7. Implementation for the Proof-Of-Concept required the installation, configuration and implementation of Oracle Financials 11.5.4, Oracle 8.1.7 Release 3, Oracle 9iAS 1.0.2.1, Oracle Application Interconnect 4.1, Oracle OID and Oracle Workflow 2.6.
• Project Lead in a Materials, Repair and Operations (MRO) project responsible for demonstrating available Oracle tools that could improve data communication efforts between the newly design Oracle ERP/MRO system and Continental’s IBM mainframe IMS repository. The Proof-Of-Concept was a joint effort between Oracle, Continental and EDS resources. Performed data gap analysis, requirement gathering and design specifications for the Proof-Of-Concept within the Oracle ERP/MRO space, namely, Oracle Purchasing and Inventory Modules. Lead a team of consultants in the installation, development and implementation of a messaging framework solution comprised of Oracle’s (AQ) Advance Queuing, (OMB) Oracle’s Message Broker and IBM’s MQSERIES. The hardware environment consisted of an IBM mainframe and a Compaq Proliant running MS Windows NT4.0.
• Fully proficient in the duties of an Oracle Applications DBA from Rapid Install, Autoupgrade and data conversion through patching, cloning and performance tuning. Various other duties include installation, configuration and implementation of Oracle’s iStore, Portal, Enterprise Manager and Recovery Manager to name a few.
• Lead DBA responsible for the installation, configuration and patching of the following Oracle products: Oracle Applications 11.0.3, Oracle Self Service Purchasing (SSP5)/iProcurement and Oracle Application Interconnect adapter for SAP. The work was performed to enable a major chemical company the ability to control maverick spending through a web-enabled system.