Howard Jackson Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Works with customers to migrate and modernize technology stacks on AWS cloud-based services.Develops innovative solutions for complex cloud migration and modernization projects , through collaboration with customer technical resources, AWS Professional Services, AWS support and solutions architecture teams.

Orlando, Fl, Us

✔️ Led on-site team of developers, testers, and administrators responsible for migrating on-premise Oracle E-Business Suite application and multi-terabyte databases to Oracle Cloud.✔️ Spearheaded migration from on premise Oracle database to SQL Server for multi-Terabyte sales order database supporting an active salesforce of 20K+ active users.✔️ Orchestrated the migration of e-commerce website with $10M+ per year in sales from a hosted, MYSQL platform to AWS RDS. ✔️ Design, document, and implement procedures and processes to ensure enterprise applications and databases are in compliance with corporate and regulatory standards including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements.📌 Annual testing of password complexity enforcement rules for enterprise applications and databases. 📌 Evaluation and remediation of incidents arising from security scans performed on company software installations. 📌 Implementation of best-practice Code Deployment procedures using Bitbucket, a Git-based SAAS application.📌 Performance of annual Disaster Recovery testing for critical applications ✔️ Provide strategic insight, expertise, GAP Analysis, and tactical execution for infrastructure planning to ensure effective management of technical and operational components to ensure business effectiveness.✔️ Championed and served as President for ANAAA (Associate Network About African Ancestry), a corporate diversity group whose mission is to help foster an inclusive work environment¬—membership of 10-15 employees.✔️ Served as Vice-President, Membership for Tip Top Toasters, the company-based Toastmasters club which provides training and mentorship in public speaking, leadership, and team building

Orlando, Fl, Us

✔️ Oversaw software architecture solutions for mission-critical applications, databases, and middleware technology stacks including Oracle RAC, ASM, APEX, Oracle WebLogic, and Oracle Fusion Middleware—backup/recovery, business continuity procedures, AWR and ADDR, web/application server architecture, database cluster configuration, database performance tuning using Explain Plan, and middleware performance tuning using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c (OEM). ✔️ Served as the project lead for 2 major and 15 smaller projects:📌 Positioned as technical lead and subject matter expert on project to upgrade Oracle E-Business Suite application from Release 11.5.10 to Release 12.✔️ Drove analysis on the upgrade customizations, executed functional and performance testing of the upgrade, conducted migration downtime project management, and headed team providing 24-hour post-upgrade monitoring and hotfixes to ensure minimal business interruptions.📌 Facilitated project to migrate a 2 TB Oracle database with 20K+ active salesforce users from an Oracle 9i, 12 node cluster to an Oracle 11gR2 4 node-cluster running ASM, and served as Lead DBA.📌 Designed and executed complex, 2-step database migration from unsupported legacy servers that did not support a direct upgrade to new servers.  Migrated database from poorly performing cluster file system to Oracle Automatic Storage Manager, resulting in performance improvements of 40%+ for most critical database jobs.

Orlando, Fl, Us

✔️ Provided after-hours support and scheduled maintenance for Oracle Financials, Oracle Supply Chain, Peoplesoft HR, and various custom applications—supported 200-250 employees. ✔️ Developed, debugged, and tested backup and recovery processes for 15+ development, test, and production databases—written using Unix Shell scripts.