SUMMARY:

• Twenty nine years of experience as a senior Oracle consultant, senior Oracle DBA, Oracle DBA team lead, and Oracle DBA manager.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Management: Oracle DBA Manager, Oracle DBA Team Lead, Senior Oracle Consultant, Senior Oracle DB
• Database: Oracle 10g R2, Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters R2, Oracle 11g R2, Oracle 11g R2 Real Application Clusters
• Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux, Oracle Linux, IBM AIX
• Software: Oracle Management Server/GIRD 11g

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Oracle Consultant

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Software :Linux and Oracle 11g R2/RAC

Responsibilities:

• Provided Oracle support to developers during project life cycle
• Monitored database health, backups, exports and other daily jobs for 100+ databases and 80+ servers
• Implemented Oracle 11g GRID/OMS for database monitoring, jobs and reporting
• Built new database environments as needed
• Recommended performance improvements for the database.

Senior Oracle Consultant

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Software: AIX 6.1 and Oracle 11g R2

Responsibilities:

• Worked on multiple oracle projects
• Provided production support for oracle databases during project life cycle
• Recommended performance improvements for the database. Oracle patches, SQL*Profiles and other recommendations

Senior Oracle Consultant

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Software: AIX 6.1 and Oracle 11g R2

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with D.0 implementation for Prescription Benefits System
• Audited production database environment and documented suggestions for improvements
• Audited test database environment and documented suggestions for improvements

Senior Oracle DBA

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Software: AIX 5.3 and 6.1, Oracle 10g R2, Oracle 10g R2 RAC and Oracle 11g R2 RAC

Responsibilities:

• Day to day support of Oracle database running in house developed Enterprise Application in the development, test, q/a and Sit environments
• Provided off hours support of Oracle Database environments
• Insured backups are running on a daily basis
• Monitored health of databases and correct issues as needed
• Implemented database change control tickets
• Worked with staff on issues and off - hours support as needed
• Implemented Oracle Critical Patch Updates application each quarter

Senior Oracle Consultant

Confidential, Marietta, GA

Software: Red-Hat Lynx, Oracle 10g R2, Oracle 10g R2 RAC

Responsibilities:

• Day to day support of Oracle database running in house developed applications in the production, test and development environments
• Insured backups are running on a daily basis
• Planned disaster recovery panning and testing
• Monitored health of databases and correct issues as needed
• Implemented database change control policies
• Worked with staff on issues and off-hours support as needed
• Reviewed SQL with developers to insure optimum code

Senior Oracle Consultant

Confidential

Software: SUN Solaris 9, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g R2, Oracle 10g R2 RAC

Responsibilities:

• Day to day support of Oracle database running third party applications in the production and development environments
• Insured backups are running on a daily basis
• Participated in disaster recovery panning and testing
• Monitored health of databases and correct issues as needed
• Worked with 3 rd party software vendor on issues

Senior Oracle Consultant

Confidential

Software: SUN Solaris 9 and 10, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g R2

Responsibilities:

• Planned and implemented Oracle 9i and 10g database migrations from older Sun servers to E25K Sun Server
• Worked directly with SUN system engineers in creating sparse zones in the domains on the SUN E25K server
• Allocated lunds from EMC disk subsystems for the database file structures using the ZFS file system
• Assisted the customer in testing, backup and recovery and problem resolution of the new environment
• Assisted SUN engineers as needed

Senior Oracle Consultant

Confidential

Software: SUN Solaris 10, Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g R2, Oracle 10g R2 RAC, Oracle Financials 11.5.10, 11.5.9

Responsibilities:

• Planned and implemented the upgrade of Oracle Financials 11.5.9 from 9.2.0.3 32 Bit to 9.2.0.8 64 Bit on new Sun Servers
• Participated in the initial planning for the implementation of Oracle HRMS
• Participated in the planning and implementation of the upgrade of Oracle Financials from 11.5.9 to 11.5.10.2
• Planned, tested and implemented RMAN backups to disk of the current Oracle Financials environment
• Mentored the junior JTV DBA in best practices
• Tuned applications and databases with the JTV DBA staff
• Performed code reviews and migrations from development to Q/A to production.

Senior Oracle Consultant

Confidential

Software: HP-UX 11.10, SUN Solaris 10, Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g R2

Responsibilities:

• Planned the migration of the current CIS Banner 3.0 system from HP-UX servers and Oracle 8i to SUN Solaris servers and Oracle 9i R2
• Planned the separation of the application from the database to application servers
• Reviewed and recommended upgrades to the current backup strategy for the database
• Reviewed and recommended improvements to the current disaster recovery hardware, software and processes for the CIS Banner system
• Trained JPS DBA staff in current technologies and best DBA practice’s
• Performed tuning of application and database with JPS staff
• Installed and setup of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g for monitoring
• Resolved application, database and hardware issues with the JPS IT department and JPS users