Profile:

• Team Leader / Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified Master OCM / Project Management Professional PMP Previous Senior Instructor Oracle University
• Dedicated 20 year career designing, building, optimizing, and ensuring optimal performance of large-scale Oracle environments for JP Morgan, Citicorp, DirectBrands, Corning, Comcast, Emerson, AmeriGroup, SUN Systems, General Dynamics, and Raytheon. Recognized for analyzing the needs, defining the strategy, and delivering results.
• Skilled in training, mentoring, and leading teams in achieving established goals. Recognized for strengthening overall capability of globally dispersed teams managing critical projects, environments, and systems.
• Extensive qualifications in partnering with business, leadership, and teams to define, plan, and guide the on-time and within budget delivery of implementation, upgrade, and tuning projects across enterprise environments.
• Strong innovation, automation, and problem solving skills recognized by introducing new processes, standards, and technologies that have ensuring the optimal performance and availability of critical data. Proven ability to adapt quickly to challenges and changing business environments.
• Team Development Leadership / Project Life Cycle Planning Management / Training Design Delivery
• Database Design, Build Out Administration / Data Management Best Practices / Data Migration Extraction
• Disaster Recovery Business Continuity / Performance Monitoring Tuning / Risk, Issue Change Management
• Service Level Procedures Design Implementation / Client, Team Business Relationship Management
• Darron is one of the smartest and most personable DBA's that I have ever worked with. He is technically very good at what he does, is trustworthy, reliable, and while he worked with us, represented himself and the company extremely well. Once of the most remarkable things about him is his ability to network, and he truly wants to help others. He will continue to touch and help the organization even after he's gone. Site Manager Computer Task Group

Professional Experience

INDEPENDENT CONSULTING SERVICES

Built an impressive record of achievements deploying and enhancing Oracle environments, training and mentoring teams on Oracle technologies and administration best practices, leading the delivery of strategic projects, and resolving critical issues for clients within the financial services, entertainment, manufacturing, and telecommunications industries.

Sr Peoplesoft ORACLE DBA/ Confidential

• Retained to provide technical expertise to large-scale Oracle environments to ensuring optimal availability and reliability of Oracle Peoplesoft Real Application Clusters RACs , Data Guard, and Oracle Enterprise Manager OEM systems. Adapting to company practices and procedures in Linux and Solaris environments.
• Tuning, backup / recovery, security, and storage best practices Oracle networking and Data Guard methodology / tool and communications, crisis management, and conflict resolution strategies.
• Quickly diagnosing and resolving system outages and severe performance problems across multi-platform Oracle 9, 10gR2, and 11gR2 systems environments. Analyze and resolve all escalated issues. Prepare crisis documentation.
• Member team environment credited with leading and participating in key initiatives to improve service offerings. Providing Oncall and weekend support.
• Create and communicate service delivery procedures and run-books. Develop and manage Oracle Support Requests.
• Develop automated programs with unix shell and Oracle SQL scripts.

LEAD ORACLE DBA / TEAM LEAD / MENTOR Confidential

• Retained to provide technical expertise to large-scale Oracle environments and junior DBAs within newly established Global Shared Services Systems Organization. Train, mentor, and lead teams in ensuring optimal availability and reliability of Oracle Real Application Clusters RACs , Data Guard, and Oracle Enterprise Manager OEM systems.
• Pivotal role in expanding Oracle DBA team from 8 to 12. Assisted in interviewing and hiring new technical resources to ensure optimal support of thousands of database instances.
• Designed and delivered training to team members on tuning, backup / recovery, security, and storage best practices Oracle networking and Data Guard methodology / tool and communications, crisis management, and conflict resolution strategies.
• Hold complete responsibility for leading and guiding Oracle DBA teams in quickly diagnosing and resolving system outages and severe performance problems across multi-platform Oracle 9, 10gR2, and 11gR2 systems environments. Analyze and resolve all escalated issues. Prepare crisis documentation.
• Member of leadership team credited with leading and participating in key initiatives to improve service offerings. Create and communicate service delivery procedures and run-books. Develop and manage Oracle Support Requests.
• Darron's Oracle knowledge is encyclopedic. He can answer not only any question about RAC, but also about any other aspect of Oracle, both in new technology areas and the fundamentals. Having just passed his Oracle 10gR2 Certified Master OCM class, I can state that his class was better than any other IT class that I have taken, and that is because of his superior knowledge of the subject. Database Administrator, TIAA-CREF

LEAD ORACLE DBA / TEAM LEAD Confidential

• Brought to provide subject matter expertise for strategic initiative to upgrade Oracle environments form 10gR2 to 11gR2.
• Guided Oracle database administrators in installing, maintaining, and upgrading databases. Gathered requirements for GRID infrastructure and Oracle 11gR2R2 RAC deployment on AIX 6.1.
• Designed detailed implementation plans for Oracle 11gR2. Wrote project management roadmap and database cloning techniques. Identified and mitigated project risks and issues. Tracked issues and developed lessons learned.
• Collaborated with project manager, project lead, Oracle DBA leads, and UNIX systems lead to define plan to achieve quality, business, and delivery goals.
• Strong experience with Oracle ASM storage management.
• Strong experience with Oracle RAC implementations and administrations
• Strong experience with SQL and tuning.
• Strong experience with Data Guard, Standby databases and replication management

LEAD ORACLE DBA ARCHITECT / PROJECT MANAGER Confidential

• Chosen to introduce and oversee the adoption of best practices, and manage the delivery of critical projects to improve overall performance, availability, and reliability of Oracle platforms.
• Provided technical guidance to offshore team in India in administering, enhancing, and upgrading the Oracle environment from 10.2.0.3 to 10.2.0.4 that enabled application to utilize latest features of Oracle software.
• Recommended and implemented best practices for Oracle 10gR2 RAC, ASM, Oracle Performance, RMAN backup, and Data Guard FSFO solutions on AIX systems. Developed 200-page Handbook on strategies to support systems.
• Documented current systems architecture leveraging Visio that improved issue identification and resolution.
• Led all aspects of multiple, simultaneous upgrade, installation, conversion, failover, and tuning projects across large-scale Oracle 10gR2 RAC, IBM AIX 5.3, gigabyte Ethernet multiplexed, OCRS, ASM, and EMC DMX SAN environment.
• Designed disaster recovery solution leveraging Oracle Data Guard and Fast Start Failover to ensure optimal recovery of critical data in case of disaster. Created crisis management procedures and best practices.

SENIOR DATABASE ANALYST Confidential

• Core member of DBA team accountable for administering, optimizing, and ensuring optimal uptime of Oracle environment.
• Charged with identifying root causes of performance issues affecting application and database. Initiated plan to leverage Oracle tools to gather information on the application and database. Monitored performance, identified opportunities, and tuned PeopleSoft HRMS / Payroll, Supply Chain, and Financials applications in Oracle 10gR2 that improved performance by 100 .
• Designed, configured, and implemented 10gR2 RAC system on Linux systems and ASM storage environments.
• Registered over 200 databases to RMAN repository for Linux and Windows 2003 servers. Installed Oracle databases to enable developers to test applications. Cloned and managed data warehouse database environments, and PeopleSoft database environments.
• Monitored databases, executed scripts, performed database refresh, and resolved issues.
• Strong experience with Oracle ASM storage management.
• Strong experience with Oracle RAC implementations and administrations
• Strong experience with Peoplesoft Administration and SQL tuning.
• Strong experience with Data Guard, Standby databases and replication management.

ORACLE DBA Confidential

• Selected to plan, define, and implement a 3-node Oracle RAC environment to support the rollout of new applications.
• Held full accountability for installing base software, upgrading software to latest version, and building new Oracle 10gR2 RAC Linux 64-bit environment.
• Chosen as Database Lead to create a standby database to improve disaster recovery efforts of critical data. Gathered requirements, designed strategy, and implemented project ahead of time and below budget.
• Led the design of backup strategies for Oracle environments leveraging AWR, ASM, Grid Control, Statspack, and SQL.
• Developed a 24-page paper on best practices for implementing Oracle 10gR2R2 Data Guard.
• Darron taught me the Oracle RAC Class in 2007 and I still remember him as an excellent and enthusiastic lecturer. He's very organized and keeps moving along the teaching material in pace. He has an in-depth knowledge of Oracle products and demonstrated the ability to tackle real work issues in class. Senior ERP Systems Administrator, New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Companies

ORACLE CORPORATION

PRINCIPAL ORACLE PERFORMANCE CONSULTANT Confidential

• Retained by Amerigroup, Emerson, SUN Systems, Citibank, Citibank Direct, General Dynamics, and Raytheon clients to design, implement, upgrade, and optimize performance of critical Oracle environments.
• Brought in by Citibank to oversee the installation of Oracle 10gR2 PeopleSoft database, on-time and within budget.
• Chosen by Amerigroup to upgrade 12 Oracle systems in parallel and resolve all performance issues.
• Lead Oracle DBA that led the successful upgrade of Oracle RAC from 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.4 on HP-UX system.
• Selected to conduct OTM capacity planning and deliver EBS 11.5.0 upgrade project.
• Recognized as the go-to-person by clients for providing solutions and resolving issues with Oracle systems.
• Strong experience with Oracle ASM storage management.
• Strong experience with Oracle RAC implementations and administrations
• Strong experience with SQL and tuning.
• Strong experience with Data Guard, Standby databases and replication management

SENIOR INSTRUCTOR Confidential

• Designed and delivered Oracle 9i Fundamentals I and II, Oracle 9i / 10gR2 Performance Tuning, Oracle 9i / 10gR2 RAC, 10gR2 Data Guard, and Oracle 10gR2 workshops.
• Led the development of the Real Application Clusters RAC seminar. Recommended, planned, wrote course curriculum, and developed the tools to monitor progress of students.
• Chosen to deliver Oracle RAC seminars at NYOUG / Saint John's University and at DBAOnline.org and Oracle software solutions seminar at Avtech Institute of Technology headquarters.
• Previous experience as Oracle Instructor for North Carolina State University 2004-2005 Oracle Database Consultant for North Carolina Postal Service 2003-2004 Oracle Database Instructor for Silicon Valley Training Center 2001-2003 Technical Consultant for ThinkSpark, Strategic Query, PSW Technologies, and Oracle Corporation 1994-2001 and Production Oracle Database Administrator for Outreach Health Services 1990-1994