PRESENT GOAL:

Seeking a position as a Senior Oracle Apps DBA supporting Oracle Applications (E - business Suite 11i, 12.x) on a Unix environment in The Washington DC area or working remotely.

SUMMARY:

• Nineteen years experience as an Oracle Applications DBA EBS 11i/R12.1.3,12.2.x, and Oracle DBA supporting 10g/11g databases, 10G Application Server 10.1.3, WebLogic Server administrator, on Unix/Linux environments.
• Oracle Applications DBA R11i, R12.x - Installed/Upgraded/Cloned/Maintained Oracle Applications on AIX/HP-UX/Oracle Solaris/Suse/Linux environments.
• 11i/12.1/12.2 Apps implementations: CRM/Teleservice/iPortal/Balanced Scorecard/U.S. Federal Financials(AR,AP,GL,HR,PO)
• Middle Tier Applications: Oracle E-Business Suite 11i/12.x, OAM 11.1.2.3/Webgate/AccessGate/Oracle Collaboration Suite Implementation/Administration, Oracle Express Server(Apex)/Oracle Financial Analyzer(OFA), Discoverer 4.1.44, Business Objects 6.1b, 9iAS, 10G Application Server Implementation/Administration, 11g Application Server Installation/, * WebLogic 11g Server Configuration/Administration 10.3.5.0 Configured Oracle Advanced Security and Single Sign-on to pass session cookies to Oracle Advanced Security.
• High Availability experience- 15 plus years supporting Oracle RAC 11g/10G/9i,12c, DataGuard, Oracle Parallel Fail Safe (8.1.6)
• Applications Administration - Database sizing, capacity planning, diagnosing forms/application errors, concurrent manager/Apache tuning, database tuning, performance tuning for Oracle Applications R11i and Release 12.x environments.
• Solaris/HP-UNIX/Linux System Administration - installed OS, configured mount points, manual disk mirroring, addressed security considerations, (OS Hardening using JASS, JEDI, & Solaris Basic Security Module) Bourne shell, Korn Shell, Perl maintenance scripting, Perl CGI scripts, kernel parameters, tuning, Jumpstart server configuration.
• Multiple Database DBA expertise: Oracle Databases 8/ 9.2.0.4/10/11 g-11.2.0.3, 12c MS SQL Server 6.5/7.0, Informix 7.x, and Centura SQLBase 6.12/7.51
• OS experience: All LINUX, Solaris, HP, AIX, and Windows environments.

EXPERIENCE:

Oracle Senior Apps DBA

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Supported production Oracle E-Business Suite environment 11i, R12.1.3 for Office of Naval Research.
• Planned, and executed upgrade paths for E-business Suite from 11.10.5.2 to 12.1.3 and 12.2.5 on Linux 5 VM/Linux 6 VM.
• Completed the Sub Ledger Accounting migration as part of the EBS 12.1.3 upgrade process.
• Executed Quarterly PSU patches/OJVM PATCH SET/maintenance updates as prescribed by Oracle.
• Completed custom forms migration, and custom Apex application integration with EBS 11i to EBS 12.1.3.
• Performed FMW Weblogic 12 server upgrades and adpatch/online patching on both tiers as part of the 12.1.3 and 12.2.5 E-Business Suite upgrades.
• Performed annual DISA database STIG and CCORI mitigation support for EBS database and Apache/Fusion Midleware environments.
• Upgraded and redeployed E-business Suite OAM/AccessGate configurations as needed.

Oracle Senior Apps DBA

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

Responsibilities:

• Supported Apps environments deployed on 40+ Solaris servers with configurations of Oracle E-business Suite, WebLogic 11g, Oracle Single Sign-On 11g. Participated in Product Releases, upgrades and implementations, Oracle CPU patching, documented and deployed security mitigations with Confidential standards for 11i/R12 EBS, iAS, Fusion Middleware, and 11g database environments.
• Served as Oracle Discoverer subject matter expert on 10gAS to Fusion Middleware11g migration, Performed Discoverer and Fusion Middleware installations on 8 servers, optimized performance and garbage collection, documented deployment and cloning of Fusion Middleware servers in a clustered environment.
• Used RMAN for routine backups, and point in time recovery for cloning.
• Provided 24x7 environment monitoring using Oracle Fusion Middleware Control and troubleshooting and resolution of issues using Oracle Best Practices.

Senior Oracle Apps DBA

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Continue Production support for Oracle CRM EBS project R12 and support of maintenance release 4.4.3. Address issues in production as they occur following incident management and problem management procedures.
• Provided support to developers deploying code, providing troubleshooting and performance analysis as needed during testing cycles in four development and integration and environments on Oracle RAC/Unix environments.

Senior Oracle RAC DBA

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Installed three 11.2.0.3 databases on Solaris 10. Deployed and configured Oracle Application Express 4.1 and Oracle Enterprise Data Quality 9.0 environments deployed on Oracle Weblogic 10.3.5 on RHEL 5 Linux as web application instance for Confidential .
• Configured APEX to authenticate with LDAP. Configured Single Sign-on to pass session cookies to Weblogic, utilized Oracle Advanced Security Advanced Auditing, Transparent Data Encryption, Oracle Wallet, supported Oracle Workspace Manager, provided performance tuning, table partitioning recommendations, used Sql*Loader to load 160GB database.
• Supported the development team throughout development lifecycle from Development to Testing.

Oracle DBA

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Planned and implemented an Oracle Forms 10.1.2.1 installation, upgrade to 10.1.2.3, and migration from Solaris 10 to Redhat Enterprise Linux.

Oracle DBA

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Deployed and supported three Oracle 9.2.0.1 database installations on Redhat Enterprise Linux and three 10g AS web application instances for department of labor.
• Configured Postfix mail relay, weekly RMAN backups, migrated databases to SUN servers then upgraded them to 9.2.0.7.
• Discussed options for near live reporting environment by extracting and transforming data using Oracle Streams versus SQL*Loader and external tables.

Senior Oracle Apps DBA

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Planned and documented and executed upgrade process from Oracle e-business Suite R12.0.4 to R12.1.1 and then to R12.1.2.
• Upgraded two development 10.1.3 IAS Oracle homes to 10.1.3.5 and databases from 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.4.
• Addressed Oracle Inventory corruption, Performed interoperability patch upgrades.
• Provided support for four development and test environments.

Oracle DBA

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Performed eleven Solaris 10 upgrades in production, test, and development environments and four migrations to Sun M8000 servers.
• Evaluated all databases and applications for dependencies, created and documented deployment plan, Utilized Oracle’s RDA script (Remote Diagnostic Assistant) AWR Reports, and ADDM Reports to analyze and realize performance gains during the upgrade.
• Provided troubleshooting and quick resolution of any relinking or application errors encountered.
• Resolved issues with third-party application Orca and assisted in reinstallation and documentation to provide continued OS level reporting as previously configured.

Oracle DBA

Confidential, Lenexa, KS

Responsibilities:

• Performed eighteen plus new installations of Oracle 10.2.0.1 databases on nine HP-UX nodes, upgraded them to 10.2.0.3 and created new databases as part of a database split process for Sprint.
• Applied approved Opatch security patches, configured hot backups per Sprint deployment process on HP PA-RISC and Itanium servers.
• Provided support for eight production environments.

Oracle Apps DBA

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Cloned and maintained CRM AppsRelease 12.1.0.4 environment on Redhat Enterprise Linux.
• Provided support for four development and test environments.
• Completed Development and Test upgrades of Oracle E-Business Suite from 11.5.10.2 to Release 12.1.0.4 on Redhat EL 4.6.
• Provided documentation to prepare the client to replicate the process for client environments.

Oracle 10g RAC DBA

Confidential, Tallahassee, FL

Responsibilities:

• Configured and supported Oracle 10G RAC on Redhat EL 4.5 using Oracle Automatic Storage Management, ASM, for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
• Configured two node RAC environment with physical standby database.
• Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Configured OEM Grid Control 10g, to manage backups and notify administrators of system availability for all systems.

Oracle Applications DBA

Confidential, Reston, Va

Responsibilities:

• Planned an upgrade to an existing 11.5.10 E-Business Suite Training instance to Release 12 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0 with pre-requisite database upgrade from 9.2.0.3 to 10.2.0.3. Linux Administration, installed Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0 supported Redhat EL 5.0.
• Configured three servers for Oracle 11.5.10, Oracle 11g database, and Release 12 E-Business Suite.

Oracle Applications DBA

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Oracle Applications DBA supporting one of the largest Oracle Federal Financials implementations in the world.
• Maintained and supported Production and development Oracle Applications 11.5.9 instances on Solaris 9 with, Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters, (RAC), Discoverer 4i, and Appworx 6.
• Performed weekly cloning of Apps environments for testing and development, troubleshooting issues for fourteen instances.
• Applied patches, upgraded database from 9.2.0.4 to 10.2.0.3.
• Performed change management role utilizing Mercury ITG.
• I made a recommendation to partition the tables and the primary index utilized for AR to GL transactions by the Organization ID to address a critical performance issue.

Lead Oracle DBA

Confidential, Falls Church, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Installed and supported seven Oracle 9iAS instances and corresponding Oracle 9i database instances on Solaris 9, Informix 7.x and HP-UX.
• Installed, upgraded and supported Business Objects 6.1b.
• Migrated a Terabyte Data Warehousing database from Informix 7.x to Oracle 9i using Oracle Migration Workbench, Erwin, SQL*Loader, korn shell scripting, sed, & awk.

Lead Oracle Applications DBA/Unix Administrator

Confidential, Arlington, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Lead Oracle Applications DBA and Unix System Administrator for Confidential .
• Installed and supported multi-node Oracle Applications 11.5.9 CRM/Teleservice on Solaris 9.
• Provide both Functional and technical support for Oracle CRM/Teleservice environment.
• Unix System Administration for Solaris 9,8. Installed and configured Solaris 8 and 9 on Sun hardware (Sun Fire 280R, Sun Fire V440, Sun Fire V880 servers), Veritas Netbackup 5.0 for Oracle on Solaris.
• Implemented OS and application security on Unclassified network, JEDI 3.1, JASS Solaris Security Toolkit.
• Configured and implemented Jumpstart server for rapid implementation of environments.
• Primary system architect for all Oracle products deployed.

Oracle DBA for Global Oracle Practice/Senior Consultant

Confidential, Chantilly, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Oracle Collaboration Suite Implementation, 9iAs Administration
• Performed single node installation of Oracle Collaboration Suite release 2, 9.0.4.1.on AIX 5L (IBM RS/6000).
• Implemented Opentext Livelink as a servlet on Oracle 9i Application Server R2 (9.0.3) on Solaris9.
• Supported Development environment, automated backup and recovery scripts for two Oracle 9i (9.2.0.3) instances.
• Administered Change Management with CVS.
• Made security recommendations for hardening the OS (AIX 5L, Solaris9) and patching known bugs in 9iAS and 9i database environments in preparation for deployment on NIPRNET and SIPRNET.