SUMMARY:

• 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
• Confidential 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:

Confidential, Reston, VA

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• I directed and supervised all client, stakeholders, implementers, and support resources for the performance of project assignments and activities.
• Manage stakeholders, requirements, risks, quality, people, changes and scope to drive project from initial to close.
• 100% customer satisfaction on projects
• Managed project lifecycle with multiple tiers such as Firewalls, Load-balancing, Apache, Oracle/SqlServer, Linux, Windows, database and storage (NFS, SAN)
• I managed the technical direction of a project through the design, implementation and testing in accordance with project objectives, customer satisfaction, Fanniemae, governance, policy, and procedures.
• HES Fulfillment Project Manager responsible for creating change ticket to delivery VM, and physical resources such as Web servers, application servers, database servers, memory, cpu and storage resources, etc.
• As a contractor, I supported infrastructure fulfillment and intake processes.
• Also as PM, I supported pricing intake items and completing the fulfillment of requests in the environment.
• As PM, I was primary in tracking and delivery of projects in the HES portfolio.
• I managed Projects range from small to mid-sized, and 1 month to 6 months in duration.

Confidential

Infrastructure Project Manager and Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Design Oracle 12c new features, while creating and facilitating project management training courses, such as Project Management Fundamentals, Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile, ITIL Foundation, and Lean Six Sigma.
• Expertly provide client with the best services to reduce overproduction and over-processing; while minimizing idle time and duplication, as well as creating defect-free application, infrastructure, and database environments.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Vice President - Infrastructure Project Manager/Senior Oracle DBA

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the Project Management team in the day to day responsibilities of a project's direction critical to the overall success of our projects.
• Lead strategic activities supporting initiatives on behalf of the Technical services department.
• Manage multiple priorities while adhering to tight deadlines, bringing together resource activities to ensure activities and timelines are maintained.
• Ensure acceptable documentation is maintained and delivered to adhere to reporting deadlines.
• Overseeing project schedules to ensure deliverables are completed on schedule. Report on progress, resource tracking, earned value reporting and forecasting. Work with Project Manager in maintenance of the risk register, tracking risks, handling issues, etc.
• Provided administration of Project Planning & Execution (Scoping, requirements, managing client expectations, providing estimates & project plans) in conjunction with the project manager, Task-based scheduling (resource management, timelines & budgets), Tracking metrics and project performance reporting.
• Furthermore, I managed incidents, changes, issues, conflicts, and Project closure
• Governed the creation and maintenance of environments to meet risk management applications and delivered 24x7 support to existing modeling sandboxes by utilizing Marketplace Request and Service Now applications.

Sr ORACLE DBA

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• 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 On call and weekend support.
• Create and communicate service delivery procedures and run-books. Develop and manage Oracle Support Requests.
• Excellent understanding in OS (Linux/Solaris/Client-UX) level commands and applying those in Performance Troubleshooting (NETSTAT / VMSTAT / TRUSS / OS Level CRS failure messages)

Sr Peoplesoft ORACLE DBA

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• 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 On call 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.
• Knowledge of Oracle 11g Goldengate
• Excellent understanding in OS (Linux/Solaris/Client-UX) level commands and applying those in Performance Troubleshooting (NETSTAT / VMSTAT / TRUSS / OS Level CRS failure messages)

LEAD ORACLE DBA / TEAM LEAD / MENTOR

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• 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.