SUMMARY:

• Problem Resolution, Design, Migration, & Installation / Implementation
• Keeping Organizations up to Date with the Latest and the Greatest in IT Capabilities.
• SME in SAP infrastructure with emphasis on SAP Basis, SAP HANA Admin, Oracle DBA, security, change management, SAP integration technologies, Development Workbench, memory management, and workload management; adhere to best practices.
• Proficient in SAP - to-AWS Cloud migrations using HANA, Oracle, EDL, Data Bricks, GitHub, Informatica ETL, and Agile methodologies.
• Think strategically and partner with organization directors regarding budgeting, migration involvement of technologies, scalability of meeting timelines, coordination of team to complete projects, and recruiting talent.
• For inclusive list of technical proficiencies—software, hardware, database (s), operating systems—refer to LinkedIn profile.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Addison, TX

Database TEAM Lead - SAP S4 HANA Administration, Oracle DBA, Sybase and SQL Server

Responsibilities:

• Providing hands-on technical leadership to the release teams for the entire release management lifecycle across multiple databases as well as recommend release process improvement alternatives in SAP HANA, Oracle, Sybase databases in Linux environment on Cloud computing.
• Release tasks may be inclusive of databases updates for the development, test, and production environments.
• Working collaboratively with SAP HANA, Oracle and Sybase database administrators, as they set up their builds for dev/test/prod environments, assist in preparing release details, maintaining the release schedule for all core database services and ensures alignment across all stakeholders.
• Working with IT management in tracking and monitoring the progress to ensure databases releases are delivered on time and provide leadership to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuous build and deploy of databases changes, and ensure proper environment functionality, availability, and scalability of the databases.

Confidential, Moline, IL

Sr. Oracle DBA and Architect / SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Lead 14-member team accountable for technical design, development, and support of organization data and reporting applications.
• As technical team lead / architect for SAP S4 HANA and Oracle database team, impact organization through innovation, and consistent design, development, implementation, and support of organization data, and reporting applications and support.
• Leadership: Hire and coach geographically distributed teams, implementing agile coaching and providing input toward technical decisions.
• Collaborate with each team member to define goals and conduct performance appraisals. Maintain collaborative relationships between divisions, suppliers, dealers, branches, factories, product engineering, customers, and team members.
• Collaborate effectively as Scrum Master with SAP Architecture team, IT, and business colleagues to best understand business requirements, develop solution blueprints aligned with standards and usage guidelines, and deliver solutions that perform to specifications in an Agile Environment.
• Accomplish financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective action when necessary; always act with integrity.
• Assure all IT activities are consistent and meet parameters of applicable laws, codes, regulations, and internal-use policies.
• Contribute to strategic roadmap for SAP applications and infrastructure in an enterprise IT environment; develop service definitions, requirements, principles, and governance models to guide technology decisions using SAP MDG and Agile.
• Review, propose, and deploy technical and application solutions, comparing multiple options where appropriate; offer objective, data-driven recommendations regarding best fit for a particular environment.
• Technical Administration: Guide and execute technical components of work, encouraging up-to-date technology and systems are implemented (or considered) to save time and money, while also improving customer experience. Install support packs, conduct systems upgrades, perform system refreshes and troubleshooting, administer Oracle database, conduct failover of production systems, and monitor and perform tuning of SAP and Oracle RDBMS systems, achieving technical consistency for organization.
• Adapt to new technologies and innovation—led SAP on Oracle On-Premises databases migration to AWS Cloud.
• Completed HANA modeling code, performance improvement, and system design review; designed high-level solution, layered architecture and produced design artifacts.
• Performed administration of SAP HANA system integration within an SAP Landscape, included HANA Security, HANA SLT Configuration, Suite on HANA, BW on HANA and HANA System Monitoring, HANA Installation & Configuration, Health Checks, and Monitoring. Installed support packs, conducting upgrades, executing backups/recovery, system refresh and troubleshooting as well as database administration, conducted failover of production systems, and monitored and performance tuning of SAP systems.
• Involved in development of key SAP and Oracle source systems upgrade and migration support modules and POCs using Agile
• Set up web application in AWS public cloud, monitoring both on application and AWS Services, Oracle Databases on AWS public cloud using RDS, and monitoring at database and AWS service-level.
• Administrated SAP S4 HANA system integration within an SAP Landscape, including Oracle RDBMS, HANA Security and more; performed SAP S4 HANA modeling and technical configuration.
• Worked with AWS systems and cloud monitoring techniques and technologies.
• Developed innovative network troubleshooting methods that diagnose issues, reduce downtime, and lower costs.
• Maintained IT strategic plan for replacement, investment, risk avoidance needs, and software/hardware upgrades.

Confidential, Rock Island Arsenal, IL

Sr. Oracle Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed capacity planning, evaluated databases servers hardware, and managed all aspects of Oracle databases including installation, upgrades, configuration, design, and data migration.
• Additional responsibilities included performance monitoring, security, backups, troubleshooting, and data recovery in both UNIX and MS SQL Server environments.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Team Lead - Oracle Systems Database Administrator/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed Oracle database administration, including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, migration, capacity planning, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Led team of 8 on-site/remote technical administrators.
• Oversaw day-to-day management while providing guidance, innovation, and consistency to team and organization.
• Communicated directly with senior management on a regular basis; advised IT director regarding IT project/personnel status, reporting all issues in a timely manner.
• Provided day-to-day management and technical leadership to IT operations team. Managed resolution of database incidents and problems, and acted as escalation point for urgent and complicated support issues.
• Identified opportunities for continuous process improvement.
• Oversaw and determined timeframes for major IT projects, including system updates, upgrades, migrations, and outages; managed and reported on allocation of IT budget, and provided technical direction for IT database team members.
• Acted as primary conduit to and representative of infrastructure team.
• Analyzed data related to manufacturing information, adjusted database objects and structures for integrity of data, and performed/maintained design changes to database as per requirement analysis provided by business analysts.
• Performed crisis management during high-severity operational incidents; scheduled and managed all performance tuning and troubleshooting efforts.
• Reviewed, recommended, and monitored source code / versioning management function adhering to best practices.
• Developed written project plans, operational procedures, task schedules, test and evaluation plans, and documentation of database design, system configuration, and network configuration. Installed, administered, and troubleshot Oracle database servers, and system-related components while ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Managed projects, including analysis, design, development, monitoring, documentation, and product delivery to client.

SR. Oracle Systems Database AdminISTRATOR/ARCHITECT

Confidential, Troy, MI

Responsibilities:

• Conducted initial problem resolution and supported Confidential GSSM B2C Oracle application 9i databases; developed work flow processes, performance and tuning, backup and restore management, and data load and purge processes.