SUMMARY

• Highly motivated, self - starter wif 16+ years of IT experience coupled wif proven desire and commitment to continually learn and apply new technologies.
• Experience in a variety of industries: Government, Manufacturing, Distribution, Telecommunications, and Finance(Banking and Industries)
• Managed very large globally accessed and critical production EBS environments
• Aggressively ensures Service Level Agreements (SLA) goals are successfully met by DBA group.
• Three SSO implementations experience wif R12 and R11 Oracle EBS.
• Strong skills in managing and planning functional implementations and customization projects, including interfaces to legacy systems, data conversion exercises, and system upgrades.
• Ability to manage both large and small teams and provide detailed work planning, analysis, quality and risk management.
• Able to manage multi-site teams. Actively participate wif project management team in strategic planning, goal setting and monitoring, providing status updates on a regular basis.
• Excellent vendor management, budgeting skills and technology procurement skills. Established relations wif Oracle, IBM, RedHat, Hitachi and Dell.
• Consulting experience, working as Oracle Technical expert designing and implementing Oracle E-Business Suite R12/11i, Fusion Middleware 11g including WebLogic, WebCenter, SOA Suite, ECM/UCM, Oracle Identity Management (OID, OVD, SSO, OAM, OIM, OIF)
• Ability to work in ambiguous situations. Proven ability to effectively influence peers and leaders.
• Ability to deal wif complex issues and problems and resolve quickly whether to fix a production problem or implementation of a new solution.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Security Consultant, Identity Management Architect, SME

Environment: Oracle e-Business suit 11i and Rel 12, Oracle 11g, Exadata, Oracle 10gAS, Fusion Middleware, WebLogic, SiteMinder, Sun Solaris 10, Enterprise Manager 12c

Responsibilities:

• Served as Lead DBA, managing 8 other DBAs and 25 instances on 7 different nodes wif 215 remote locations spread across teh country
• Implemented Oracle EBS Single Sign-On solution wif SSL in DMZ environment. Teh solution is a combination of SiteMinder, Oracle Unified Directory, and teh Oracle Access Manager
• In-charge for maintaining and supporting various Instances Rel 12 oracle application on RAC systems and providing 24*7 support Design, Installation, Configure and upgrade of Databases Design, Installation and configuration of 11g and 10g RAC Cluster, ASM and Databases
• Oracle 11i/R12 Patching, cloning and performance tuning
• Creating high-level technical design documents, generating test scripts, performing quality assurance tests (prior to user testing), and producing training materials.
• Completed 12.0.6 to 12.2.3 upgrade
• Implement 12C Grid Control in Solaris and Linux System

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT

Security Consultant, Project Team Lead

Environment: Oracle e-Business suit 11i and Rel 12, Oracle 11g, Exadata, Oracle 10gAS, Fusion Middleware, WebLogic, Sun Solaris 10, Enterprise Manager 12c

Responsibilities:

• Oracle Applications (Ebiz) 11i to R12 (12.1.3 and 12.2.4) upgrade. Strategized and carried out upgrades wif minimal downtime
• Platform migration of database and Oracle Applications in different OS platforms
• Expertise in Maintenance, Patching, Cloning, troubleshooting and Performance tuning of Oracle Applications e-Business Suite 11i and R12
• Worked in conjunction wif Business Users, Project Management Office to resolve all issues prior to Go Live as well as after.
• Provide daily production support for EBS after Go-Live
• Patch analysis, planning and application to all environments per client request.
• Plan and implement timely upgrade/patches to teh Oracle Applications system and RDBMS.
• Managing instances. Monitoring teh database performance and tuning SGA, initialization parameters.
• Tuning SQL & PL/SQL scripts, and writing triggers, cursors, procedures, functions and packages.
• Work wif developers and change management team to ensure smooth life cycle progress from development through testing and production implementation.
• Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity strategy.
• Supported HITACHI USP-VM Enterprise Storage Upgrade

Confidential, Mc Lean, VA

Senior Oracle Apps DBA

Environment: Oracle e-Business suit 11i and Rel 12, Oracle 11g, Exadata, Oracle 10gAS, Fusion Middleware, WebLogic, Sun Solaris 10, Enterprise Manager 12c

Responsibilities:

• Architected and Successfully Upgraded Complex Oracle e-Business Suit 11i to Rel 12, and liaised wif development, key business stakeholders, team and senior internal management
• As a member of Oracle's Advanced Technology Services, participated Confidential 's broad, complex, and critical Oracle Identity and access Management engagements, providing guidance and direction to project team members, clients, and partners.
• Lead teh enhancements to an existing Oracle eBusiness Applications - some code developed onsite some from offshore
• Installation, migration and patching of 10gas and FMW11g application; Oracle EBiz patching and support.
• Analyzed database performance and tuned database, resulted in improved performance of system
• Participated in analysis and designing of Oracle Exadata Server for infrastructure and related projects.
• Assisted in integration of Exadata applications into current IT actionable events and solutions
• Short-term project tasked to evaluate existing MC's Oracle 10g three node RAC (EBS and SOA) on T5220, assist migrate environment to M8000 and perform DR test.
• Review RAC Configuration on Stage and Production environment; and recommend Oracle's best practices.
• Guided software development and integration efforts including analysis, requirements definition, technical design, build, deploy and capture value
• Involved in and scheduled discovery meetings to determine scope level of effort and development path for project
• Worked seamlessly wif third-party consulting teams to provide delivery of all projects.
• Managed all efforts during project in a multi-location environment, including remote resources and onsite client meeting and delivery.
• Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity strategy.
• Supported HITACHI USP-VM Enterprise Storage Upgrade.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Oracle Apps DBA

Environment: Oracle e-Business suit 11i and Rel 12, Oracle 11g, Oracle 10gAS, Fusion Middleware, WebLogic, Sun Solaris 10, SiteMinder, PingFedrate

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Oracle EBS Single Sign-On solution wif SSL in DMZ environment. Teh solution is a combination of Siteminder, Enterprise Directory, Ping Federate, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Single Sign On and teh Oracle Identity Federation server.
• Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Installation, Configuration and Administration in Clustered and Load balanced environment.
• Setup and configured FMW DIP
• Maintain full Identity Management systems and Monitored databases configured wif Oracle Weblogic and Fusion Middleware components
• Provide technical expertise in application and industry standards.
• Addressed operational problems, concerns, and questions posed by users
• Ensured project objectives are met and benefits are delivered
• Creating high-level technical design documents, generating test scripts, performing quality assurance tests (prior to user testing), and producing training materials.
• Conducted sessions to collaborate Cutover Plans and implementation of key custom functionality.
• Performed operational tasks and activities OEM 11g
• Influenced decisions and project direction at teh executive level

Confidential, Washington DC

Apps DBA Program Lead

Environment: Oracle e-business suit 11i, CRM Rel 12, Oracle 10g, Oracle 10gAS, Fusion Middleware, Sun Solaris 8, 10, HITACHI SAN 9980, HITACHI USP-VM, Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Volume Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical role for teh migration of Sun Solaris Ver. 10(M8000) from Solaris 8, consists of 40 servers and 120 databases.
• Coordinating wif Developers, DBA's and Testers in various phases of SDLC at PBGC.
• Tracking team member performance against schedule and targets, providing feedback, resolving issues, and coordinating changes to enhance project performance.
• Participates in hardware and software configuration management for Solaris 10 M8000 migration.
• Played a key role on teh Project Management team to collect and disseminate day-to-day status and Project Plan Management, to organize and deliver executive management reports to stakeholders.
• Direct supervision of a team of 15 database, J2EE, applications monitoring, Identity Management, Content Management and security architects and engineers in hosting large-scale, highly-available and highly secure infrastructure supporting enterprise applications and web sites for teh agency.
• Establishing standards and procedures for auditing Oracle Databases.
• Establishing standards and procedures for implementing Oracle Database access controls.
• Managed staffs of multiple teams to coordinate work effort and deliver milestones throughout teh lifecycle of teh project.
• Delivered Projects on time, wifin Budgets Constraints. Project included Fixed Bid Projects, Time and Material and Staff Augmentation.
• Served as Technical Project Manager of Development Team in support of projects, many to systematically convert Multiple Legacy systems to Oracle Applications. Legacy systems included Human Resources, Business Reporting, Financial Systems, and Supply Chain wif Projects.
• Actively managed teh project plan, issues and risks. Communicated wif management.
• Performs impact analysis of any changes made to teh system.
• Troubleshoots problems regarding teh databases, applications and development tools.
• Analyzes and studies complex application/database requirements to proactively design, plan, and deploy needed capabilities.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Apps DBA Program Lead

Environment: 10g Release 2, EBS, 9i Rel2, RAC, Oracle Data Guard, BPEL,OID,SSO, Oracle Content Management Server, Solaris, Linux.

Responsibilities:

• Providing a high availability service, that is primarily used for Oracle EBS and Clinical applications, by having a disaster recovery site in Phoenix, AZ. utilizing Oracle Standby (Data Guard) databases. Responsible for database SLA requirements
• Requirements gathering, functional gap analysis, application design, configuration, module setup, test script generation, writing training guides, training end users, and production support.
• Interfacing wif users, identifying functional and technical gaps, estimating work, architecting system interfaces, designing custom solutions, and programming, leading developers, scheduling, producing documentation, and providing production support.
• Specifications for reports/alerts/customizations (including working wif users on requirements)
• Implemented and tested RMAN for production environment.
• Provide weekly clones of production for development and test instances. Created post clone procedures that include modifying sensitive production data.
• Provided a health check of production EBS to address many instability and performance issues and documented findings and implement recommendations.
• Provided strategic direction for instance creations and recommendations for data center disaster recovery. This included strategic plans for system growth and future capacity requirements
• Oracle E-Business Suite System Administration
• Expertise in Business Process Integration, Service Orchestration, and Routing using Oracle SOA Suite Fusion Products (BPEL, ESB, Web Services,).
• Successfully completed numerous SOA Projects using SOA Framework wif Oracle Fusion Middleware Components like BPEL / ESB / OWSM and Web services Manager.
• Patching security vulnerabilities as and when released by Oracle Support.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation for TEST/DEV/PROD Oracle database configurations, installations and management processes
• DBA Resource for technical design and code review processes. Work wif developers and change management team to ensure smooth life cycle progress from development through testing and production implementation.
• Installation and configuration of 9iAS and 10gAS Portal and Single Signon, Apache and J2EE Containers (OC4J).
• Oracle Technical Architect involved in Oracle Portal, OID Synchronization.
• Integrated Production and Coop OID Servers. Troubleshooting OID Synchronization issues.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Oracle Apps D.B.A Team Lead

Environment: 9i, Oracle E-Business Suit 11i, Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Applications 11.0.x, 9iAS, Solaris, HP UNIX, Oracle OCI, Perl, EMC SAN

Responsibilities:

• Architected and Successfully Upgraded Oracle Applications from unsupported version (11.0.3/8.0.4/ Solaris 2.6 to 11.5.10/8.0.6.3/9.2.0.4/ Solaris 9.) to Supported version in a complex environment.
• Rescue mode Project Management for projects in trouble
• Responsible for security hardening of teh application infrastructure, creation of security Certification and Accreditation (C&A) documentation and liaison wif agency security teams for all matters related to teh security of teh enterprise applications and related infrastructure.
• Collaborator by working wif cross-functional teams and knowledge sharer by learning, sharing and mentoring.
• Ensuring teh appropriate metrics, resource planning and program management methodologies are applied to drive success of teh Project.
• Overseeing all project execution activities such as budgeting, planning, costing, delivery, and post delivery review.
• Tracking team member performance against schedule and targets, providing feedback, resolving issues, and coordinating changes to enhance project performance.

Confidential

Oracle Apps D.B.A Team Lead

Environment: 9i, RAC, Data Guard, Oracle e-business suit 11.5.10, 9iAS, AIX, VERITAS, Rational Clear Quest/Clear Case, BMC, Precise Insight.

Responsibilities:

• HIGLLAS Project- largest Federal Oracle implementation to date.
• Currently teh primary/lead Oracle 11i Applications DBA for HIGLAS. 11.5.9 System in a multi-node AIX Unix.
• Capacity Analysis of database tier and middle tier servers.
• Performed: High availability, cloning, patching, 24/7, clusters, standby database, monitor, tune, size, backup, recover, analyze, defrag, migrate and security.
• Maintained high availability of databases for 24/7 global operation using Oracle RAC and Data Guard/Standby databases. Create and manage Standby databases at remote data center as Disaster Recovery and fail-over method. Emergency resolution during crisis situations.
• Patching security vulnerabilities as and when released by Oracle Support.
• Configuring and trouble shooting Concurrent Managers.
• Designed and developed teh messaging middleware used to process near real time event messages from various vendor turnkey systems via an API.
• Character set conversion US7ASCII to WE8ISO8859P1.
• Installation of 10g Infrastructure along wif 10g Application Server and integrating it wif Oracle 11i
• Scheduling concurrent processes to perform routine housekeeping activities and also for improving Application performance (Gather Statistics etc.,)
• Performed rotated 24x7 on-call support of Oracle E-Business applications and non-eBusiness databases. Recognized multiple times by teh company for significant contributions to teh organization.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Oracle Apps DBA Team Lead

Environment: Oracle 8i, 9i, Oracle Data warehouse, Oracle E-Business Suit 11.i, 9iAS, Sun Solaris, E15K, EMC storage, ETL, Windows 2000, PVCS.

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a core Oracle 11i applications DBA at Mc Graw-Hill Education, a large migration project for a worldwide integration.
• Performed all duties related to installation, upgrade, configuration of database and development tools, database design, modeling, client/server connectivity, space management, capacity planning, patching, cloning, extensive performance tuning, backups.
• Designing building and running import/export scripts, loading data wif sqlldr scripts, run/debug migration code, modification and support of migration PL/SQL scripts, etc.
• Troubleshooting Portal and Oracle Applications integration issues relating to Oracle Jserv, Oracle PDK.
• Administration of Oracle 9i AS, Portal, Workflow.
• Query optimization, performance tuning using STATSPACK.
• Integrated Order Management wif Web-Methods.
• Mentoring junior Application DBAs. Transferring knowledge to teh clients
• Oracle TAR submission and resolution.
• Assisted ETL development process into EDW from 11i source environment.
• Upgraded teh Java Development Kit (JDK) from 1.2 to 1.3.

Confidential

Oracle Apps DBA

Responsibilities:

• Supported 24x7 18 ERP Customers World Wide.
• Applications implementation and upgrade projects (10.7, 11.x to 11i).
• Cloning instances.
• Installation, Upgrade, Configuration, Backup and Recovery, Database tuning, Query optimization.
• Performance tuning/Reorganization for Oracle instances.
• Tuned Custom SQL using Hints, Explain Plan, TKPROF.
• Fine tune servers (I/O bottlenecks, SGA, Pinning objects, Sort space, literal sql, Redo logs).
• Oracle Applications Server (OAS 3.x/9iAS) / WebDB administration.
• Application of patches.
• Configuring and trouble shooting Concurrent Managers.
• Oracle Workflow administration, support and purging.
• Automation of applications wif Shell scripts, BMC, Patrol and Cron jobs.
• Configuring and trouble shooting Apache server.
• Root cause analysis of difficult problems, their solutions and troubleshooting expertise for all tiers (client, middle-tier, database)
• Trouble shooting wif Self Service Applications, i-Procurement, i-Supplier and i-support.
• Track down runaway process on database server and Forms server.
• Vertex (Quantum) and AVP Tax (Tax ware) Software integration in Payroll and Receivables.

Environment: Oracle 8i, 9i, Oracle Applications 10.7, 11.0.x, 11.i, 9iAS, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, HP Thru 64, AIX 4.3.3,WindowsNT, 2000.

Confidential

Oracle Apps DBA

Responsibilities:

• Technical architecture definition, Support teh implementation team.
• Instance Management.
• Responsible for database configuration.
• Performing patch application and doing database instance refresh.
• Database tuning.
• Backup and recovery. Both hot and cold backups. Point in time recovery operations.
• Security Administration.
• Analyzed and tuned I/O bottlenecks by spreading over disks (use of RAID), stripping, spreading indexes, separating redo logs and data files.
• Printer’s setup.
• Management of custom forms wif teh StreamServe Product.
• Troubleshoot ADI issues related.
• On-site and remote emergency resolution during crisis situations.

Environment: Oracle 8i, Oracle application versions 11.0.3, 11.i, Sun Solaris OS.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation, refresh and administration of teh Oracle databases for teh oracle applications version 11.0.3
• Recommending hardware requirements and capacity planning.
• Planning and execution of database backup and recovery. Developed hot and cold backup scripts for different production databases.
• Performing system administration duties.
• Implementation of Oracle Business Intelligence System and maintenance.
• Applying Oracle application patches, maintaining log and recompiling objects.
• Monitoring teh database performance and tuning SGA, initialization parameters.
• Responsible for planning and execution of database backups and recovery, development of hot and cold backup scripts for different production databases
• Maintaining teh Netscape and IIS web servers and monitoring teh database performance and tuning teh database.

Environment: Sun 5.X, E 250, 350, 450, 0racle 8.0.5, Oracle Applications (11.0.3).Web Application Sever3.0, 3.02

Confidential, Wayne, PA

Oracle Apps DBA

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include creation of Database, its storage structures and objects.
• Implementation of Oracle apps custom triggers, alerts, reports, forms.
• Planning and execution of database backup and recovery.
• Converted and interfaced from different legacy systems.
• Developed PL/SQL procedures to register teh custom programs and parameters in AOL using SQL* Plus.
• Designed and developed an interface program to import transactions from external system.
• Performing system administration, Noetix Views administration.