Resume of Sr. Oracle Apps DBA

Title
Sr. Oracle Apps DBA

Primary Skills
Oracle DBA

Location
US-TX-Dallas

Posted
Jan-29-08

Oracle Certified Database Administrator (since 1997)


OBJECTIVE:

Provide clients efficient, budget-conscious, and long-term solutions for everyday business challenges in project management, system architecture, backend infrastructure, performance tuning and optimization, and data warehousing.

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

• Over 13 years of experience with Oracle products in production and development environments spanning several industries: oil and gas, transportation, health care, insurance, financials, and high tech.
• 9 years as a lead technical consultant with Oracle e-Business suite.
• 4 years of 9i and 10g RAC: Ameripath, LaneLogic.com, Agistix, datareturn, albridge, Bright House Networks, and DISD. Installation, Implementation and troubleshooting.
• Oracle 11i subject matter expert and DOUG presenter in the area of 11i upgrades/maintenance, troubleshooting oracle database issues, and standby databases. Presented 8 times in the last 4 years.
• Hands on system design and architecture of client systems included installation of Oracle Server (6,7,8i, and 9i, 10g) and Apps (10.7 and 11i); creation of databases (OLAP/DSS/OLTP); tuning; backup and recovery; migration and upgrades; security auditing; replication, and hot standby databases.


EXPERIENCE

Resmed -- San Diego April 2007 -- August 2007

• Architected, Installed and administered 11.5.10.2 in a multi-tier architecture (Red Hat AS 3.0 and 4.0 - HP and Itanium/Dell hardware)
• Migration of HP UX and True 64 to Linux Red Hat 4.0 (HP hardware)
• Mentoring of client dba's


Hitachi Consulting at Ameripath, HealthMarkets and Lanelogic April 2005 -- February 2007

• At Ameripath and HealthMarkets: Architected, Installed and administered 11.5.10.2 in a multi-tier architecture (Red Hat AS 3.0 and 4.0 - HP and Itanium/Dell hardware)
• Supported financials and hr/payroll implementation efforts
• Upgraded apps database (9i) to RAC 10g Rel 1 and migrated apps database to RAC
• At Ameripath, performed RAC installation (10g Rel 1 ) on a two node cluster (Itanium) for the Lab Information system database
• At Ameripath, performed RAC installation (10g Rel 2) on a two node Sun Fire hardware (Solaris 10)
• At Lanelogic.com, Performed RAC installation (10g Rel2) on a 3 node cluster running Oracle standard edition on Red Hat Linux 3.0
• Worked with Developers to tune plsql code
• Comprehensive application and backend tuning

Raytheon, Dallas, Texas Feb 2005 -- March 2005

• Upgraded Oracle applications from 11.0.3 to 11.5.10; Sun OS 2.6
• Database upgrade to 10g
• System migration to Linux from Sun
• Mentor dba staff

Texas Insturment, Dallas, Texas October 2004 - January 2005

• Upgraded financial systems from 11.0.3 to 11.5.19; Sun OS 2.6
• Database upgrade to 9i
• Automated patching procedures
• Troubleshot Performance issues and Worked with Developers to improve coding standards


Esorterix, Inc. - Austin, Texas March 2004 -- May 2004

• Upgraded client financial systems from 11.5.1 to 11.5.9; Sun OS 2.6
• Database upgrade to 9i
• Mentor dba staff
• Automate patching procedures
• Troubleshot all priority 1 issues

Dallas Independent School District - Dallas , Tx April 2003 -- Ongoing

• Provided DBA support for an implementation of 11i public sector financials, Human resources, payroll, and public sector grants, i-Procurement, and i-Expense
• Performed system upgrade from 11.5.6 to 11.5.9; Compaq tru64
• Installation of 9iAS for an implementation of LDAP/OID/SSO and discoverer
• Installation, configuration and testing of a 2 node 9i RAC cluster running on tru64
• Comprehensive performance tuning of HR and Payroll modules
• Documented in a “How To” manual the information needed by Jr. DBA's to administer the database and the middle tier
• Troubleshot application issues and communicated with Oracle support
• Process automation

CNL Financial Group - Orlando, Fl July 2002 - March 2003

• Lead a team of 2 DBA's and 3 developers to accomplish financial applications upgrade 11.0.3 to 11.5.7 Customization included host programs, forms, reports, work flow, and discoverer reports.

• Conducted first test upgrade to 11i and documented the entire process; Sun OS 2.6 and 8.0
• Physical standby architecture and implementation
• Worked with developers on testing customizations.
• Worked with the functional staff to test the newly created environment
• Backend and application tuning
• Mentor DBA staff

Visa Dinning privileges - San Francisco, Ca July 2001 - Ongoing

? Ongoing support of a 9i database running on linux
? 9i upgrade from 8i
? Physical standby creation and support
? Provided an affordable solution for backups
? Comprehensive application and database tuning
? Staff mentoring
Oracle Consulting at CommerzBank New York, NY July 2001 - July 2002

• Lead a team of 2 DBA's, 2 system administrators, and 3 developers to accomplish a financials implementation
• System design and architecture; Compaq Tru64
• Conducted the first 11.5.3 install and documented the process
• Worked with the Unix team to architect a standby database
• Application upgrade: 11.5.3 to 11.5.5
• Backup and recovery process automation
• Capacity planning
• Conducted training sessions on 11i administration and security auditing
• Worked with functional staff to test the newly created environment
• Troubleshot all priority 1 issues

Servicelane.com -- Dallas , Tx Dec. 1999 - July 2001

• Infrastructure design and architecture
• Installation, configuration, and administration of 8i databases and 11.5.3 E-Business suite. Sun OS 2.6
• Application upgrade: 11.5.3 to 11.5.7
• Oracle Application Server installation, configuration and administration.
• Vignette installation, configuration and administration
• Kana installation, configuration and administration
• Integration of WAP/WML infrastructure with the database
• Worked with developers on change control process and tuning
• Worked with functional staff to test and configure the financial environment.
• Troubleshot all priority 1 issues

Database Consultants, inc. - Dallas, Texas July 97 -- Nov 99

• Provided DBA support in mission critical production environments in the fields of health care, oil and gas, financials, and manufacturing.
• Database and apps installation, configuration, migration and upgrading
• Database logical and physical design
• Pl/sql, C, and C ++ development
• Unix /Oracle process automation
• Implementation of backup and recovery solutions
• Database monitoring and administration
• Mentoring client employees

Technical Analyst / DBA - Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, California July 95 -- July 97

• Installation, configuration, and administration of Oracle 7 and 8 databases
• Troubleshot all applications and database problems
• Worked with developers on change control process and tuning
• Developer 2000 testing
• Documentation
• Provided support for a remote sales force
System Integration Engineer - Kodak Health Imaging Systems, Dallas, Texas Jan 94 -- July 95

• Installation, configuration and administration of Sybase database
• Installation and configuration and administration of sun hardware and OS
• LAN configuration and testing
• Writing test plans
• Process automation

SKILLS SUMMARY

Programming Languages -- C, PRO*C, SQL, PL/SQL,4-Test (QA Partner), HTML, WAP/WML, Perl
Case tools -- Erwin and Designer 2000
Development tools -- Oracle Enterprise Manager, sql*plus, Toad/Navigator, Developer 2000
DBA admin tools -- DBArtisan , OEM, sql navigator, and bmc patrol
Operating Systems -- UNIX, LINUX, Macintosh, NT
Database -- Oracle (7,8,8i,9i); Sybase; Fox Pro; 4th dimension
Patching tools: Ring Master
Applications -- Vignette StoryServer 5.0; Kana email management system; Phone.com up.sdk
Application Servers -- Oracle Application Server 4.0.8, 8iAS, and 9iAS; Netscape iplanet; Apache
Oracle Applications -- 10.7, 11, 11i


TRAINING & EDUCATION

Oracle Technical Training
QA partner; UNIX system administration; Developing Web Server applications; InterOffice technical/sales training; AutoInstall 10.6; SQL, PL/SQL, and Developer 2000 technical training.

Education
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, 1993. University of Texas at Arlington.

Certifications
Oracle Certified dba


You must be logged in and have a current resume access subscription. Login or Register »

View all resumes in US-TX-Dallas »
View all resumes in US-TX »

View other Sr. Oracle Apps DBA resumes, Database Administrator resumes