SUMMARY:

• Diversified professional with exceptional project management and leadership expertise. Worked within the DOD for over 30 years with a total of 35 years of experience in the IT field. Currently working on USAF Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System ( DEAMS ) .
• Demonstrated talent encompasses, Oracle Enterprise Manager (Grid Control) to managing cloned environments, RMAN to manage database backups and recoveries, storage management, application/database, network troubleshooting, RAC and Non RAC support. Possess solid experience utilizing SQL statements, databases, database configuration, and applications development and installation and upgrades and patching, performance analysis and tuning in a UNIX Solaris, Linux and Windows environment which supports Oracle E - business Suite Rel 12 (ERP), Oracle 11i E-business Suite (Financials/HR) and OBIEE 11.1.1.9 and Oracle Golden Gate and Oracle Enterprise Database Edition Release 10.2.0.4, 11.2.0.4 and 12c databases.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Montgomery, Al

SENIOR ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Lead Oracle Database Administrator supporting large, enterprise deployments of multiple instances of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), SOA and OBIEE environments.
• Experience installing, applying CPU’s and one-off apps and database patches, perform database and application upgrades, tuning, and maintaining Oracle EBS release 12 and other Oracle Technology Stack 10g, 11gR2 and 12c databases and 10gAS, and Weblogic 10.3.6. Experienced with installing and maintaining Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), GRID (CRS), high-availability (HA) Oracle environments, and load balancing.
• Skilled in troubleshooting and tuning Oracle database and EBS, SOA and OBIEE environments, Clones of database and application for development and test instances.
• Experienced in designing and creating comprehensive application deployment design, generating documentation and creating operations documentation (e.g., standard operations processes, preventative maintenance procedures).
• Responsible for running Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVA) and OS and Database Scripts to find vulnerabilities, and using Oracle Security Design and Hardening practices to perform a comprehensive database analysis and configuration
• Apply Oracle best practices and implementing Oracle Database security product sets, processes and procedures.
• Tighten database with security practices and standards.
• Identify and fix critical security patches and upgrades that place system at risk.
• Ensure proper logging and auditing techniques are in place.
• Conduct technical research, testing, evaluation and documentation of complex hosting/configuration tools and methodologies to ensure that various tools are current and functional.
• Provide end user support related to database access and software installation and maintenance. Documents and provides support; resolves issues to ensure that the system is functioning according to specifications.

Confidential, Dayton, OH

SENIOR ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Lead Oracle Database Administrator supporting large, enterprise deployments of multiple instances of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) and OBIEE environments.
• Experience installing, applying CPU’s and one-off apps and database patches, perform database and application upgrades, tuning, and maintaining Oracle EBS release 12 and other Oracle Technology Stack 10g & 11gR2 databases and 10gAS, and Weblogic 10.3.3. Experienced with installing and maintaining Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), GRID (CRS), high-availability (HA) Oracle environments, and load balancing.
• Skilled in troubleshooting and tuning Oracle database and EBS and OBIEE environments, Clones of database and application for development and test instances.
• Experienced in designing and creating comprehensive application deployment design, generating documentation and creating operations documentation (e.g., standard operations processes, preventative maintenance procedures).
• Responsible for running Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVA) and OS and Database Scripts to find vulnerabilities, and using Oracle Security Design and Hardening practices to perform a comprehensive database analysis and configuration
• Apply Oracle best practices and implementing Oracle Database security product sets, processes and procedures.
• Tighten database with security practices and standards.
• Identify and fix critical security patches and upgrades that place system at risk.
• Ensure proper logging and auditing techniques are in place.
• Conduct technical research, testing, evaluation and documentation of complex hosting/configuration tools and methodologies to ensure that various tools are current and functional.
• Provide end user support related to database access and software installation and maintenance. Documents and provides support; resolves issues to ensure that the system is functioning according to specifications.

Confidential, Washington, DC

SENIOR ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Identify, in collaboration with the project team, all business/technical elements necessary to ensure timely deliverables.
• Analyze the current methodology for refreshing non production databases and then modify Confidential ’s methodology to include best practices. To develop and implement a methodology for refreshing test data and testing applications over the pilot set of masked data.
• Implement Oracle Database Vault to prevent privileged users from directly accessing privileged information
• Implement channel security in the production and COOP environments.
• Implement field level database encryption for Personal Identifiable Information data.
• Enable database backup encryption where possible.
• Create security best practices documentation for Oracle database server configuration.
• Change the password of every generic application account in production and ensure that the applications that use these accounts functions properly after changing the passwords.
• Ensure that no oracle software or database files are accessible by any user that is not a member of the DBA group.
• Perform other duties as required to support the Client project

Confidential, Montgomery, Al

SENIOR ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Lead Oracle Database Administrator supporting large, enterprise deployments of multiple instances of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS).
• Provide work direction and guidance to other personnel ensuring accuracy of their work and meeting critical enterprise deadlines.
• Experience installing, applying CPU’s and one-off apps and database patches, perform database and application upgrades, tuning, and maintaining Oracle EBS release 12 and other Oracle Technology Stack 10g & 11g databases and 10gAS. Experienced with installing and maintaining Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), GRID computing, high-availability (HA) Oracle environments, and load balancing.
• Skilled in troubleshooting and tuning Oracle database and EBS environments, troubleshoot problems with concurrent managers, Apache, Jserv processes, forms, reports, and Workflow, applicable standards and experienced working with SQL and Oracle PL/SQL languages to accomplish database tasks, Clones of database and application for development and test instances.
• Experienced in designing and creating comprehensive application deployment design, generating documentation and creating operations documentation (e.g., standard operations processes, preventative maintenance procedures).
• Responsible for running Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVA) and OS and Database Scripts to find vulnerabilities, and using Oracle Security Design and Hardening practices to perform a comprehensive database analysis and configuration
• Apply Oracle best practices and implementing Oracle Database security product sets, processes and procedures.
• Tighten database with security practices and standards.
• Identify and fix critical security patches and upgrades that place system at risk.
• Ensure proper logging and auditing techniques are in place.
• Conduct technical research, testing, evaluation and documentation of complex hosting/configuration tools and methodologies to ensure that various tools are current and functional.
• Provide end user support related to database access and software installation and maintenance. Documents and provides support; resolves issues to ensure that the system is functioning according to specifications.
• Analyze and study complex application/database requirements to proactively design, plan, and deploy needed capabilities.

Confidential, Germantown, MD

INDEPENDENT LEAD SENIOR ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Run Security Readiness Review Scripts (SRR) to ensure STIG compliance and patch databases in order to conform to Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVA).
• Provide 24x7 emergency Oracle support for all databases, including Oracle database crashes, recoveries, and data block corruptions
• Monitor Oracle table growth and institute effective technological solutions.
• Use production schema and statistics to develop and test changes to production systems.
• Complete database changes to server environment, including files and directories owned by Oracle users.
• Review initial configurations and identify problems, maintain Oracle databases in multiple environments, and monitor Oracle databases and alerts on an hourly basis to quickly contain pending problems.
• Install, configure, and deploy Oracle 11i Financials Applications, including upgrading Oracle applications from 11.02 to 11.03 to 11.5.7. Customize Forms and Reports to enhance MSC’s Oracle Financials.
• Upgrade Oracle HR applications infrastructure from Oracle 10.7 to 11i.
• Responsible for installation, upgrades, Oracle patches, Apps patches, IAVA/STIG patches, TAR support, database tuning, concurrent manager administration, cloning instances, refreshing instances and keeping cloned databases in-sync with Appl TOP’s and Oracle Apps SYSADMIN functions for those instances.
• Create databases, tune SQL statements, database reorganization, perform backup/recovery, develop UNIX scripts, and document technical data.
• Manage database activities involving user access, granting privileges and roles, rebuilding indexes, Data Pump importing and exporting data.
• Provide Oracle DBA support for Developer/Integrator and Trainers. I also educated our development staff on best practice/approaches for utilizing new structured data and/or new database features based on MSC and DISA security policies.