Sr Database Administrator
Current• Primary DBA responsible for administration and monitoring of EMC Networker nightly backups of 17 production, 67 non-production and 14 test databases as well as 8 infrastructure databases used for Grid Control and OID. • Successfully reduced the Archive Log backup cycle from 10+hrs to under an hour. • Designed, implemented and documented the disk backup procedures to accommodate hosts without Legato media manager.• Designed, implemented and documented the disk backup procedures for 4 databases using ASM.• Disaster Recovery; Responsible for keeping scripts and documentation current for annual DR test or a DR event• Created and documented the process for creating Oracle Data Guard databases, including backup and patching policy.• Primary DBA responsible for Oracle patching of databases, Grid Control app server, Grid agents and the OID app server.• Authored numerous scripts to automate and parallelize the patching process. • Restructured the database patching model to meet business needs. • Supervised the migration of the patch procedures to Oracle Grid Control.• Provided DBA support for various vendor and home grown applications; capacity planning, space monitoring, installs and upgrade coordination, schema security setups, performance tuning as well as scripting needed to facilitate the schema refreshes across databases.