SUMMARY:

• Dedicated 15+ year career designing, building, optimizing, and ensuring optimal performance of large - scale Oracle environments for. Recognized for analyzing the needs, defining the strategy, and delivering results.
• Skilled in, mentoring, and leading teams in achieving established goals. Recognized for strengthening overall capability of globally dispersed teams managing critical projects, environments, and systems.
• Extensive qualifications in partnering with business, leadership, and teams to define, plan, and guide the on-time and within budget delivery of implementation, upgrade, and tuning projects across enterprise environments.
• Strong innovation, automation, and problem solving skills recognized by introducing new processes, standards, and technologies that have ensuring the optimal performance and availability of critical data. Proven ability to adapt quickly to challenges and changing business environments.
• Team Development & Leadership / Project Life Cycle Planning & Management / Design & Delivery
• Database Design, Build Out & Administration / Data Management Best Practices / Data Migration & Extraction
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity / Performance Monitoring & Tuning / Risk, Issue & Change Management
• Service Level Procedures Design & Implementation / Client, Team & Business Relationship Management
• “Darron is one of the smartest and most personable DBA’s that I have ever worked with. He is technically very good at what he does, is trustworthy, reliable, and while he worked with us, represented himself and the company extremely well. Once of the most remarkable things about him is his ability to network, and he truly wants to help others. He will continue to touch and help the organization even after he’s gone.” Site Manager Computer Task Group
• Microsoft Project® 2013

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Infrastructure Project Manager and Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Design Oracle 12c new features, while creating and facilitating project management courses, such as Project Management Fundamentals, Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile, ITIL Foundation, and Lean Six Sigma.
• Expertly provide client with the best services to reduce overproduction and over-processing; while minimizing idle time and duplication, as well as creating defect-free application, infrastructure, and database environments.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Vice President - Senior Oracle DBA/ Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed to completion: AIX to Linux Oracle R11.2 database migration, gathering requirements and determine all stakeholders. Also planning with system architects, system administrators, and DBAs, how we were going to perform the migration, how long it would take and what resources would be needed.
• Expertise in managing multiple Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g and 12c databases on medium to large systems, Data Guard environments, migration, cloning, Linux, Solaris, and Oracle networking.
• Completed DEV, UAT and PROD Oracle database migrations as Project Coordinator
• Completed Linux migration of application environments as Project Manager
• This project benefited the Confidential GCBC and RAMP departments with the latest maintenance, security, backup and performance features of Linux, Oracle and application software.
• In the initiating phase, my team determine all the stakeholders that would be affected by this new project to automate a data replication environment to be faster.
• Assisted the Project Management team in the day to day responsibilities of a project's direction critical to the overall success of our projects.
• Lead strategic activities supporting initiatives on behalf of the Technical services department.
• Manage multiple priorities while adhering to tight deadlines, bringing together resource activities to ensure activities and timelines are maintained.
• Ensure acceptable documentation is maintained and delivered to adhere to reporting deadlines.
• Overseeing project schedules to ensure deliverables are completed on schedule. Report on progress, resource tracking, earned value reporting and forecasting. Work with Project Manager in maintenance of the risk register, tracking risks, handling issues, etc.
• Provided administration of Project Planning & Execution (Scoping, requirements, managing client expectations, providing estimates & project plans) in conjunction with the project manager, Task-based scheduling (resource management, timelines & budgets), Tracking metrics and project performance reporting.
• Furthermore, I managed incidents, changes, issues, conflicts and Project closure.
• Governed the creation and maintenance of environments to meet risk management applications and delivered 24x7 support to existing modeling sandboxes by utilizing Marketplace Request and Service Now applications.

Sr ORACLE DBA

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Tuning, backup / recovery, security, and storage best practices; Oracle networking and Data Guard methodology / tool; and communications, crisis management, and conflict resolution strategies.
• Quickly diagnosing and resolving system outages and severe performance problems across multi-platform Oracle 9, 10gR2, and 11gR2 systems environments. Analyze and resolve all escalated issues. Prepare crisis documentation.
• Member team environment credited with leading and participating in key initiatives to improve service offerings. Providing Oncall and weekend support.
• Create and communicate service delivery procedures and run-books. Develop and manage Oracle Support Requests.
• Excellent understanding in OS (Linux/Solaris/Client-UX) level commands and applying those in Performance Troubleshooting (NETSTAT / VMSTAT / TRUSS / OS Level CRS failure messages )

Sr Peoplesoft ORACLE DBA

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Tuning, backup / recovery, security, and storage best practices; Oracle networking and Data Guard methodology / tool; and communications, crisis management, and conflict resolution strategies.
• Quickly diagnosing and resolving system outages and severe performance problems across multi-platform Oracle 9, 10gR2, and 11gR2 systems environments. Analyze and resolve all escalated issues. Prepare crisis documentation.
• Member team environment credited with leading and participating in key initiatives to improve service offerings. Providing Oncall and weekend support.
• Create and communicate service delivery procedures and run-books. Develop and manage Oracle Support Requests.
• Develop automated programs with unix shell and Oracle SQL scripts.
• Knowledge of Oracle 11g Goldengate
• Excellent understanding in OS (Linux/Solaris/Client-UX) level commands and applying those in Performance Troubleshooting (NETSTAT / VMSTAT / TRUSS / OS Level CRS failure messages )

LEAD ORACLE DBA / TEAM LEAD / MENTOR

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Pivotal role in expanding Oracle DBA team from 8 to 12. Assisted in interviewing and hiring new technical resources to ensure optimal support of thousands of database instances.
• Designed and delivered to team members on tuning, backup / recovery, security, and storage best practices; Oracle networking and Data Guard methodology / tool; and communications, crisis management, and conflict resolution strategies.
• Hold complete responsibility for leading and guiding Oracle DBA teams in quickly diagnosing and resolving system outages and severe performance problems across multi-platform Oracle 9, 10gR2, and 11gR2 systems environments. Analyze and resolve all escalated issues. Prepare crisis documentation.
• Member of leadership team credited with leading and participating in key initiatives to improve service offerings. Create and communicate service delivery procedures and run-books. Develop and manage Oracle Support Requests.

LEAD ORACLE DBA / TEAM LEAD

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Guided Oracle database administrators in installing, maintaining, and upgrading databases. Gathered requirements for GRID infrastructure and Oracle 11gR2R2 RAC deployment on AIX 6.1.
• Designed detailed implementation plans for Oracle 11gR2. Wrote project management roadmap and database cloning techniques. Identified and mitigated project risks and issues. Tracked issues and developed lessons learned.
• Collaborated with project manager, project lead, Oracle DBA leads, and UNIX systems lead to define plan to achieve quality, business, and delivery goals.
• Strong experience with Oracle ASM storage management.
• Strong experience with Oracle RAC implementations and administrations
• Strong experience with SQL and tuning.
• Strong experience with Data Guard, Standby databases and replication management

LEAD ORACLE DBA ARCHITECT / PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Garden City, NY

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical guidance to offshore team in India in administering, enhancing, and upgrading the Oracle environment from 10.2.0.3 to 10.2.0.4 that enabled application to utilize latest features of Oracle software.
• Recommended and implemented best practices for Oracle 10gR2 RAC, ASM, Oracle Performance, RMAN backup, and Data Guard FSFO solutions on AIX systems. Developed 200-page Handbook on strategies to support systems.
• Documented current systems architecture leveraging Visio that improved issue identification and resolution.
• Led all aspects of multiple, simultaneous upgrade, installation, conversion, failover, and tuning projects across large-scale Oracle 10gR2 RAC, IBM AIX 5.3, gigabyte Ethernet multiplexed, OCRS, ASM, and EMC DMX SAN environment.
• Designed disaster recovery solution leveraging Oracle Data Guard and Fast Start Failover to ensure optimal recovery of critical data in case of disaster. Created crisis management procedures and best practices.
• Excellent understanding in OS (Linux/Solaris/Client-UX) level commands and applying those in Performance Troubleshooting (NETSTAT / VMSTAT / TRUSS / OS Level CRS failure messages )

SENIOR DATABASE ANALYST

Confidential, Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Charged with identifying root causes of performance issues affecting application and database. Initiated plan to leverage Oracle tools to gather information on the application and database. Monitored performance, identified opportunities, and tuned PeopleSoft HRMS / Payroll, Supply Chain, and Financials applications in Oracle 10gR2 that improved performance by 100%.
• Designed, configured, and implemented 10gR2 RAC system on Linux systems and ASM storage environments.
• Registered over 200 databases to RMAN repository for Linux and Windows 2003 servers. Installed Oracle databases to enable developers to test applications. Cloned and managed data warehouse database environments, and PeopleSoft database environments.
• Monitored databases, executed scripts, performed database refresh, and resolved issues.
• Strong experience with Oracle ASM storage management.
• Strong experience with Oracle RAC implementations and administrations
• Strong experience with Peoplesoft Administration and SQL tuning.
• Strong experience with Data Guard, Standby databases and replication management.
• Excellent understanding in OS (Linux/Solaris/Client-UX) level commands and applying those in Performance Troubleshooting (NETSTAT / VMSTAT / TRUSS / OS Level CRS failure messages )

ORACLE DBA

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Held full accountability for installing base software, upgrading software to latest version, and building new Oracle 10gR2 RAC Linux 64-bit environment.Chosen as Database Lead to create a standby database to improve disaster recovery efforts of critical data. Gathered requirements, designed strategy, and implemented project ahead of time and below budget.
• Led the design of backup strategies for Oracle environments leveraging AWR, ASM, Grid Control, Statspack, and SQL.
• Developed a 24-page paper on best practices for implementing Oracle 10gR2R2 Data Guard.
• Excellent understanding in OS (Linux/Solaris/Client-UX) level commands and applying those in Performance Troubleshooting (NETSTAT / VMSTAT / TRUSS / OS Level CRS failure messages )

PRINCIPAL

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Brought in by Citibank to oversee the installation of Oracle 10gR2 PeopleSoft database, on-time and within budget.
• Chosen by Amerigroup to upgrade 12 Oracle systems in parallel and resolve all performance issues.
• Lead Oracle DBA that led the successful upgrade of Oracle RAC from 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.4 on HP-UX system.
• Selected to conduct OTM capacity planning and deliver EBS 11.5.0 upgrade project.
• Recognized as the go-to-person by clients for providing solutions and resolving issues with Oracle systems.
• Strong experience with Oracle ASM storage management.
• Strong experience with Oracle RAC implementations and administrations
• Strong experience with SQL and tuning.
• Strong experience with Data Guard, Standby databases and replication management

SENIOR INSTRUCTOR

Confidential, Iselin, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Led the development of the Real Application Clusters (RAC) seminar. Recommended, planned, wrote course curriculum, and developed the tools to monitor progress of students.
• Chosen to deliver Oracle RAC seminars at NYOUG / Saint John’s University and at DBAOnline.org; and Oracle software solutions seminar at Avtech Institute of Technology headquarters.