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The Cluster and Parallel Storage Technology Development Group at Oracle is responsible for the architecture, design, development, and delivery of Software Infrastructure for the GRID, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Clusterware, and Automatic Storage Management (ASM) products.As a member of the software engineering division, I am responsible for taking an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Responsible for defining specifications for significant new projectsand specify, design and develop software according to thosespecifications. Responsible for performing professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systemsProvide leadership and expertise in the development of newproducts/services/processes, frequently operating at the leadingedge of technology. Recommend and justify major changes toexisting products/services/processes.

Consultant Software Engineer.Senior level software architect and designer responsible for system software applications that provide proven multi-site disaster recovery solutions to maintain data integrity and to minimize/eliminate data loss across disasters and planned outages.
Provided ongoing technical support to the marketing organization for competitive engagements.

Invented, designed, developed and tested highly complex software / hardware solutions (e.g., clustered systems, client/server offerings, 31 and 64-bit addressing, asymmetric processing, parallel processing, etc.) that translated urgent and strategic customer and corporate requirements into new software and hardware deliverables that met and surpassed expectations, was of high quality and drove corporate revenue. Superior solutions resulted in significantly reducing scheduled and unscheduled system downtime, improving system performance and throughput, scalability, recoverability, resiliency and total cost of ownership (TCO).Key contact for middleware providers (DB2, CICS, IMS, Messaging and Queuing) to transform their strategic requirements into core operating system deliverables. Results included homogeneous clustering (parallel sysplex), local and global resource serialization and recovery and new cluster-specific hardware technologies such as the Coupling Facility which is composed of multi-system shared list, lock and cache structures). 
Customer-facing Enterprise Software Architect and customer-centric consultant responsible for understanding a stakeholder’s technology infrastructure and strategic requirements. Lead designer responsible for translating customer requirements into enterprise software solutions that addressed strategic stakeholder business requirements.
Led and coordinated cross-functional and cross-divisional teams that identified emerging software, hardware and microcode requirements enabling the teams to deliver and deploy solutions that addressed urgent stakeholder requirements. , multi-processing, 31 and 64-bit processing and clustered systems).
Managed first line software design and development groups composed of technical professionals.