TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Oracle Database Versions 10g, 11g R2, 12c (APEX)
• Oracle XE 10g, 11g (APEX)
• Application Express (APEX) Versions 2.0 - 5.1.x (current version)
• Oracle Development and Administration using tool such as Toad, SQL Developer and PL/SQL Developer
• Oracle BI Publisher
• Oracle Database Administration with Enterprise Manager
• CSS (APEX)
• JSON (APEX)
• JavaScript (APEX)
• XML, XSL ((APEX and IBM InfoSphere Data Explorer)
• Oracle SQL Developer
• Oracle SQL Data Modeler
• Oracle SQL Loader
• Quest Toad
• Quest Data Modeler
• Allround Automations PLSQL Developer
• Unix and Linux: (Sun Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux {Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Suse} system configuration and administration)
• UNIX BASH Shell Scripting
• DOS Batch Scripting
• Power Shell Scripting
• Mac OS X (all versions)
• Microsoft Windows - All Desktop Versions (Windows 2000 thru Windows 10)
• Microsoft Windows Server - Versions 2000, 2003, 2008
• Microsoft DOS
• SunOS/Solaris
• UNIX
• FreeBSD
• Linux (Oracle Linux, Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, SUSE, etc)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Oracle Application Express (APEX) Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Compose application to serve as a HUB for common documents and links to various artifacts to assist the business users in gathering and distributing resources needed in quoting Oracle clients.
• The GBU management would upload documents and provide links to collaterals that GBU team members could pick from to either download these documents or provide links used as a common source of information.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Business Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• APEX - PL/SQL development and integration. Systems integrated include Web Logic, Bi-Publisher. Build system that utilize web services and Oracle JET charts for database monitoring and reporting purposes.

Confidential, Redwood City, CA

Oracle Application Express (APEX) Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Re-designed and implemented an APEX version of the internal Kermit UI application (Kermit version 2) to be used to assist in the reporting and management of Oracle’s cloud-based services. This conversion required extensive use of the APEX JSON package as well as a custom package used for generation and parsing of related JSON documents. I also trained team members to use APEX in the Oracle Head Quarters office (Redwood City, CA) as well as team members in Mexico and India to provide on-going support for the new Kermit v2 application.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Oracle Application Express (APEX) Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Short-term project to create/develop a prototype application portal for the Oracle Global Business Unit (UBGU) team members. UGBU team are directed to member training and learning objectives. Integration between the portal application, Oracle University and other training vendors throughout their tenure at Oracle is the desired outcome of the prototype.
• Create/develop application code as needed by business owners. This involved usage of JavaScript, JSON and web-services to accomplish business requirements.
• Assist in the updates of the Oracle Partner Store user interface templates bringing them inline with modern responsive browsing standards. Assist in the further integration the partner store to allow for optimized ordering of Cloud services as well as hardware/software products for Oracle Partner customers. Many changes involved extensive CSS, JavaScript and JSON for processing data sources to allow for proper layout of page items and page regions.

Confidential, KS

Senior Oracle Application Express (APEX) Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for migration of APEX 3.1 applications to APEX 4.2 in preparation for eventual migration to APEX 5.0.
• Made use of Oracle Virtual Box virtual machine (VM) images for testing and training prior to official stand up of APEX 5.0 instance.
• Provided introductory training on the use of the APEX 5.0 application workbench.
• Advised on possible migration of database infrastructure to the Oracle Database Cloud and Amazon RDS Services.

Confidential, OH

Senior Oracle Application Express (APEX) Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assist with configuration and installation of Oracle APEX instances (DEV, TEST, QA, PROD).
• Training of development team and creation of an application framework.
• Creation of 2 major applications.
• Began testing of applications on the APEX 5.0 Early (EA) to validate that the application created on the 4.2 instances could be migrated to 5.0 with minimal effort.
• Integrated Single Sign-On into applications created.
• Integrated Oracle EBS with APEX to allow already developed data sources from EBS to be accessed within the new APEX applications developed.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior Oracle Application Express (APEX) Developer

Responsibilities:

• Made use of web-services, JSON and JavaScript for processing data and formatting the data presented in the application pages (UI) with the bootstrap CSS framework.
• Created and maintained code passed from APEX to various web services as well as integrating APEX with BI Publisher for report generation.
• Development of a roles based application security framework for The Federal Election Commission (FEC) APEX Enterprise Data Warehouse user interface.
• Creation of user interface (UI) screens using APEX and Data Explorer to expose data retrieved from FEC Enterprise Data Warehouse.
• Worked to develop and implement an enterprise search engine to allow both public users and internal (FEC staff members) to search FEC content from the internal file stores (file systems) as well as from the Oracle database warehouse.
• Setup and configuration of development servers (UNIX/Linux/CentOS) based Oracle 11g database and Velocity (InfoSphere Data Explorer) servers at the TFS Group offices and FEC offices for application development, testing and production environments.
• Creation and update maintenance of Data Explorer pages using the Data Explorer Administrative Console.
• Creation of searchable indexes based on data sources ranging from network file systems, external websites (federated sources) to Oracle database sources based data generated by SQL queries and raw column data.
• Created high availability cluster consisting of 3 DE servers to balance both the crawling processing as well as the processing search requests to end users.
• Made use of the Data Explorer API to expose data through web services to allow for standardization of address and name cleansing of large sets of data. Our implementation was driven by PL/SQL code that called upon indexes created on the Data Explorer environment to assist in the cleansing process.
• Configured Oracle Virtual Box virtual machines (VM) for deployment testing, “off-line” search collection testing and for maintenance.
• Shell scripting for automation of various Linux administrative tasks related to the maintenance of Data Explorer instances.