SUMMARY:

• Astute, solutions - focused database administrator , offering 20+ years of demonstrated experience in the IT services industry.
• Deep, broad-based background in designing and implementing ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) stack solutions; and developing code with quality, scalability, and extensibility.
• Able to effectively coordinate across enterprise architecture, application development, and infrastructure teams to deliver complete and optimal designs.
• Well versed in collaborating with all sides of business and IT to support enterprise software development and data governance best practices.
• Unique blend of technical and business acumen .
• Skilled in developing and troubleshooting Confidential products and supporting technologies.
• Proven ability to interact effectively with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders to evaluate complex data ecosystems and deliver streamlined execution of key architectures and solutions.
• Exceptional analytical skills and keen attention to detail.
• Reputation for solving problems with creativity and out-of-the-box solutions. Bilingual: Fluent in Spanish.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Business Data Processing Needs ( Confidential ) Enterprise Process Reengineering Technical Documentation & Design
• Cloud Technologies & Solutions SDLC Methodologies (Agile, Waterfall) SQL Architecture Dashboard / KPI's Creation
• Confidential Databases Database Management Systems Solutions Architecture/Design Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Disaster Recovery Data Warehouse & Modeling Business Intelligence Tools QA/QC Stakeholder Communications

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Elasticsearch (+ Kibana and Logstash), Niagarafiles, Confidential Application Server 10g, Confidential Identity Management, Confidential JDeveloper, Confidential SQLDeveloper, Confidential Developer, Confidential Identity Manager, and Confidential Financials on Solaris/Linux; Shell Scripting, MySQL, Java Enterprise Edition, SQL, PLSQL, Java, Korn/Bash Shell, Python and Perl; Cobol74, Pascal, C, C++, JavaScript; Amazon Web Services (AWS); Operating Systems (UNIX, Linux, and Windows NT to 7)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Elasticsearch/ Oracle DBA & Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Played instrumental role in supporting Confidential and Elasticsearch clusters (multi-terabyte) data storage system installed on Linux platforms.
• Performed installations, upgrade patching, tuning, and troubleshooting of Confidential 10g/11g databases, automatic storage management data file installations, and a 90+ node Elasticsearch clusters.
• Collaborated with a four member technical teams and performed installations, upgrade patching, tuning and troubleshooting of Niagarafiles to support data transfer, transformation, and ingestion into Elasticsearch. Wrote python scripts to support data transfer, transformation, and ingestion into Elasticsearch.
• Interfaced with developers to administer, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot database issues; and wrote additional (CGI) python scripts to support Elasticsearch queries. Wrote web forms using HTML and JavaScript that made calls to the CGI scripts to provide a more user-friendly experience.
• Established, developed, and deployed Kibana Dashboards. Wrote additional python and bash scripts to support the automation of additional data flows as well as scripts to support data retention and archiving on our Linux Systems.
• Implemented ReadOnlyREST plugin to support a seamless authentication/authorization system into Kibana and Elasticsearch. This implementation allowed us to leverage existing corporate mechanisms so additional accounts / credentials were not needed to access Confidential web services.

Confidential, Columbia, MD

DBA /Database Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Charged with supporting Confidential clustered (multi-terabyte) databases installed on Linux platforms
• Performed installations, upgrades patching, tuning and troubleshooting of 10g and 11g databases.
• Managed NFS and Automatic Storage Management data file installations.
• Developed SQL and PLSQL object to support code and database deployments and database health and status.
• Determined platform configuration requirements in support of Confidential component (Cluster, ASM, Database) installation.
• Analyzed overall process performance with efforts resulting in the elimination of custom indexes which hurt performance.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Served as lead architect for design and deployment of custom Information Assurance components X.509 Certificate Authentication Single Sign On (SSO) Plug-in that includes Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) validation.
• Oversaw Java-based LDAPS Client component. Leveraged Confidential Internet Directory (OID) enhancements to support use of custom attributes, an SSL listener using certificates and extending password complexity to support validation for non-use of dictionary words and in the minimum type, number and length of characters.
• Provided production support and developed java-based application to support OID User Account Self Services.
• Developed several re-usable JAR files to support design customizations. Built PLSQL packages, tables, grants and database triggers to support design customizations.
• Confidential Identity Management Expert: Supported design and deployment of enterprise-level, high-availability, multi-tier Confidential Identity Management infrastructure. The expert go to guy for resolving problems with this technology.

Confidential, Laurel, MD

Senior Professional Staff and Application Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Lead administrator for deployment and migration to Confidential 10g R2 Application Server.
• Application Coordinator ( Confidential ) for COTS products: Confidential ECM Solution, Living Disaster Recovery Planning System and Security Information Management System.
• Applications Coordinator for Custom Confidential Applications: APL Space Management, Office Furnishings Management, Telephone Support System, Maintenance Contract Administration, Image Access. Backup DBA for Confidential Financials databases. Database backup administrator for all Confidential databases assigned to the ISS Group.
• Developed web-based backup status reporting pages covering all the Confidential databases managed by the ISS Group.

Confidential, Laurel, MD

Senior Professional Staff and Application Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Lead Administrator for Confidential 9i Application Server and Application Coordinator for Custom Confidential Applications: APL Space Management, Telephone Support System, Maintenance Contract Administration, and Image Access.
• Served as DBA for Confidential Designer database and Backup DBA for Confidential Financials. Designed and managed cold backup strategy for over 30 Confidential databases managed by the Confidential Group.