SUMMARY

• Driven, resourceful, highly skilled Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) with more than 10 years of extensive experience in designing, coding, testing and supporting large database solutions in Oracle enterprise environments.
• Adept at using knowledge and expertise in database administration and implementation to champion organizational change and enhance delivery of reliable, scalable, and cost effective solutions.
• Team leader experienced in mentoring and training junior staff on best practices and providing proactive support to address and resolve business problems.
• Leading edge experience with database design and disaster recovery solutions. Proficient in an assortment of technologies, including Oracle E - Business Suite R12, Fusion Middleware, Unix/Linux administration, and Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Grid Control.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Oracle RDBMS8i-11gr2
• Oracle RAC,ASM
• Pega,Peoplesoft DBA
• Backup & Recovery(RMAN)
• Performance Tuning(ADDM,AWR)
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Capacity Monitoring (OEM)
• Disaster Recovery Implementation
• OID,OAM,SSO,Weblogic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Database Administrator Lead

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

• Served as Oracle Applications DBA lead in the completion of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 upgrade.
• Integrated Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 with Oracle Access Manager 11g Release 2 Patchset 2 using Oracle E-Business Suite AccessGate in order to prevent security breach and meet federal guidelines.
• Led the successful SUN JRE Implementation Lifecycle effort involving six teams to replace Jinitiator with Jre 1.7.0 60, completed two weeks ahead of schedule and resulting in the elimination of the Zscaler/ jinitiator problems at all branches of the organization including consistent Internet Explorer crashes.
• Increased performance by 90% and led successful disaster recovery of Oracle financials database in 2011, resolving a history of problematic disaster recover failures through troubleshooting and issue resolution.
• Developed, tested, and delivered a storage strategy and disaster-recovery plan for company’s ERP financials application and database system, resulting in guaranteed recovery and high performance.
• Enhanced end users’ understanding of Oracle financial systems by conducting pre-implementation workshops, delivering group and individual training sessions, and creating user-friendly training materials and eliminated workload and outside contractor costs to management.

Oracle DBA (Contractor)

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Recognized as the primary contact person for Oracle 10g database issues, supporting the new application.
• Developed and implemented the database design including data analysis and table design, and simple stored procedures, sequences, and triggers, etc., resulting in successful completion of client’s application two weeks ahead of schedule.
• Recommended and implemented tuning opportunities to improve system response and run times by reducing application run times from 5 minutes to 1.5 second.

Oracle Applications DBA (Contractor)

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Identified, recommended and implemented improvements to processes and procedures to increase team productivity, reduce cycle, and improve quality delivery authoring 3 SOPs in auditing and backup and recovery procedures.
• Researched various hardware and software products; recommended best practice solutions and implemented approved products such as oracle financials receivable and payment, resulting in the smooth implementation of these modules and avoidance of costly mistakes.
• Identified opportunities for reuse and sharing of data to enhance data value and information integrity while reducing the cost of data ownership by recommending data quality training to staff to address poor data entry habits which resulted in 30% reduction in costs.
• Installed, configured, troubleshot, and maintained 25 database systems including RAC.

Oracle Applications DBA (Contractor)

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Performed all aspects of Oracle System Administration for development, test, and production environments.
• Participated in the design, creation, and maintenance of relational databases.
• Implemented, configured, and troubleshot database instances, backup and recovery, and storage systems.
• Provided leadership and training to 7 less experienced personnel on a portfolio of databases, including installations and upgrades of DBMS software, backup/recovery strategies, cloning techniques, etc.
• Monitored databases and performed tuning enhancements to optimize their performance.

Oracle Applications DBA

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Provided Tier 3 Operations Support for Oracle E-Business suite R12. Implemented maximum availability, data safety and performance increasing system uptime by almost 100%.
• Acted as expert source of technology and application knowledge by helping users and colleagues troubleshoot and resolve issues related to patching, cloning and disaster recovery with what resulting in increased customer satisfaction for the DBA team.
• Researched, analyzed and recommended new patches to the EBS environment to reduce impact on the code and avoid downtime on the system.
• Provided 24/7 DBA support for global production systems spanning multiple time zones and regions.

Oracle Applications DBA

Confidential, Nashua, NH

Responsibilities:

• Served as Shift Lead, implementing improved process, automated database monthly password reset and methodology and documenting support processes this reduced security breach by 75%.
• Suggested data archiving process, backup & recovery process using RMAN/DDBoost, and data storage using ASM improvements to management and developed and implemented new standards and procedures to improve team efficiency and accuracy Organizing weekly team meetings resulting in 45% increase in productivity.
• Analyzed and suggested innovative Oracle’s maximum availability solution for complex problems involving availability and/or performance at the system level. Collaborated with vendors to resolve problems resulting in 99.999% availability improvement.
• Interacted with customers and assisted leadership in developing and recommending innovative solutions to business problems of high complexity, including preparation of economic models, cost-benefit analysis and project budgets for technology acquisition.

Oracle Applications DBA

Confidential, Knoxville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Mentored and trained 5 junior level developers and DBAs both on functional and technical domains and procedures, and development best practices, including performance tuning.
• Identified areas of process improvement and implemented new policies and procedures including improved resource loading, knowledge transfer, and removal of single points of failure.
• Discovered areas of cost savings by means of effective landscape management via consolidations, decommissions, replacements, etc., saving the department about 10% cost of its annual budget.
• Monitored and optimized system performance using index tuning, disk optimization, and other methods resulting in 35% increase in overall system performance.