SUMMARY:

• Highly skilled Cloud Solutions Architect and Database Administrator with 9 years of experience designing and implementing value add business solutions.
• An initiative - taking, experienced leader with an insatiable hunger for knowledge, attention to detail, and innovation.
• An analytical thinker, excellent written and interpersonal communication skills, with a passion for building highly-available, scalable applications.
• Experience supporting a variety of Production environments - the largest of which includes over 300+ terabytes of storage, multiple Oracle Database Appliances, Exadata machines running Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.x, Oracle Superclusters running Solaris 11, and heterogeneous database replication using GoldenGate. supporting several live lab environments including hybrid-cloud configurations, on-premise to cloud Goldengate replication, and in-house applications.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

• Linux Systems Administration
• AWS Administration
• Postgres Adminstation
• Devops and automation
• Container and microservices

EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Responsibilities:

• Built infrastructure from the ground up to suit application needs.
• Utilized CloudFormation to create templates of infrastructure for versioning, change control, and easy re-deployment of entire environments.
• Managed cloud infrastructure security using IAM roles for AWS, least privilege security practices, password policies, groups, individual users, and configuring multi-factor authentication for privileged users.
• Built AWS Storage Gateway (NFS File Gateway) for offsite backups of on-premise Oracle databases.
• Implemented lifecycle, versioning policies in S3 for all S3 objects.
• Created EFS (Elastic File System) for shared storage between EC2 instances over NFS protocol.
• Built and configured Application ELB (Elastic Load Balancers) to reduce costs and enable efficient content distribution based on application requests.
• Networking and security configuration and troubleshooting (managing security groups, network access control lists, subnets, etc.)
• Used Auto Scaling in conjunction with appropriate CloudWatch metrics and health checks to create true elasticity.
• Configured Route53 to register public domain names and route traffic to CloudFront distributions and ELBs.
• Configured Goldengate replication in the cloud from on-premise database server, to EC2 instance GoldenGate hub, to RDS instance.
• Built and refined a curriculum geared towards teaching Oracle Database administration and select core AWS services (EC2, S3, VPC, SNS, RDS, Route 53).
• One-to-many training of customers on topics such as Oracle database software architecture, Linux / Unix system navigation and administration skills, database backup and recovery, logical vs physical backups, proactive and reactive performance tuning, capacity planning, SQL Language.
• Provided customers guidance on Amazon EC2 creation, hybrid-cloud architecture, networking, database migration into the cloud.
• Perform standard database administrator duties such as software installation, patching, upgrades and upgrades.
• Planning and implementation of backup and recovery strategy.
• Performed capacity planning of on-premise and EC2 instance-based databases.
• Kubernetes production and pre-production support. (AWS EKS)
• ECS Production and pre-production support
• Installation, support and administration of Prometheus for monitoring cluster.
• Newrelic installation, upgrade and monitoring for infrastructure monitoring.
• Configuration management with Ansible.
• Infrastructure cost optimization using cloudability and Aws trusted advisor.
• Runbooks creation and maintenance for troubleshooting.
• Installation, upgrade and administration of sumologic for logging.
• Aws Cloud watch for logging and monitoring
• Service mesh administration with Istio and envoy.
• Continuous integration with Jenkins and Concourse (Installation and support).
• Infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Cloud Formation.
• Version control management with git and github.
• Light Golang development.
• Secret management with Confidential corp Vault and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.
• Aws developer tools like AWS Codecommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Codepipeline, and AWS CodeStar.
• General troubleshooting - AWS.

Confidential, Bowie, MD

Oracle Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided Oracle database administrative support to various user groups (application developers, data managers etc); created and maintained Oracle database objects (schemas, tables, indexes etc)
• Analyzed and tuned voluminous SQL code
• Created, implemented and managed custom Oracle databases on Linux and windows platforms
• Designed, developed and implemented technology-based systems for a wide range of applications for different user groups
• Performed capacity planning in terms of memory and disk usage, establishing benchmarks for business and technical performance
• Performed backup and recovery tasks on Oracle database using RMAN and cold back -ups using shell scripts
• Using RMAN to restore and recover control and data files respectively
• Performed a flashback and point in time recovery
• Creating a database recovery catalog and registering databases to the recovery catalog database
• Scheduling backups using the crontab utility
• Supported system administration groups with maintaining oracle database servers and in pre-production, test, training, and development environments
• Tuned database objects to run smoothly by analyzing query paths (creating explain path tables) and using efficient indexing
• Control and monitor user access to the database using roles, and profile
• 24 hr on call rotation
• Performed data migration from a database in one server to a database housed on another server using database link
• Migrated data using the data pump export (expdp) and import (impdp)
• Created non-default listeners for databases.
• Registering databases and listeners to OEM Cloud Control 12C.

Confidential, Largo, Maryland

IT support clerk

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot and resolve hardware, software, and connectivity problems.
• Helped with setting up appointments for clients
• Responsible for answering questions asked by customers on the phone.