Jason Wicks Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

As the Sybase Operations Consultant, I worked with multiple ANZ technology teams to ensure database compliance with ANZ security standards which included the following:* Ensuring documented SAP/Sybase deployment patterns met customer requirements around high availability, security, performance and supportability.* Implemented Imperva SecureSphere application to ensure the database teams met audit requirements around security vulnerabilities and compliance with change management… Show more As the Sybase Operations Consultant, I worked with multiple ANZ technology teams to ensure database compliance with ANZ security standards which included the following:* Ensuring documented SAP/Sybase deployment patterns met customer requirements around high availability, security, performance and supportability.* Implemented Imperva SecureSphere application to ensure the database teams met audit requirements around security vulnerabilities and compliance with change management processes.* Lifecycle Management of SAP/Sybase & Oracle fleet.* Assisted project to operationalise the Teradata Environment for use in ANZ.* Assisted the implementation of BMC Bladelogic and designed/created the scripts to automate patching for Sybase. Show less

Melbourne, Australia

This role included supporting 24*7 production Sybase environments and assisting with Projects deploying new applications with a Sybase backend.I developed an automated way of installing and monitoring Sybase databases via perl/ksh scripts that reduced the time taken to deploy new Sybase servers from 1 day to 30 mins - also reducing the amount of rework required due to manual errors. I was involved with a major project to upgrade a core financial application that included a… Show more This role included supporting 24*7 production Sybase environments and assisting with Projects deploying new applications with a Sybase backend.I developed an automated way of installing and monitoring Sybase databases via perl/ksh scripts that reduced the time taken to deploy new Sybase servers from 1 day to 30 mins - also reducing the amount of rework required due to manual errors. I was involved with a major project to upgrade a core financial application that included a Sybase DBMS. I implemented a new Sybase Product - Sybase Mirror Activator - as part of a new method for ensuring DR readiness for the Sybase platform. I presented a paper at the Sybase International Conference - Techwave - in Las Vegas related to this implementation. Show less

Responsibilities/Achievements: *Implemented ASE 11.5.1 and Replication Server 11.5 forFinancial and Order Management System (Solaris 2.6) * Set up Production & DevelopementEnvironments * Developed and set up standalone training environment on NT * EvaluatedSybase IQ 12.0

Melbourne, Australia

Working as part of the ANZ Infrastructure Engineering team to investigate & implement new technologies that can improve and automate current database processes. I work closely with Enterprise Architects, Security & Audit teams, Database Operations & Delivery teams. To date I have done the following:* Designed and implemented Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) in a Highly Available pattern. I was also responsible for the upgrading/patching/supporting for this tool* Designed and… Show more Working as part of the ANZ Infrastructure Engineering team to investigate & implement new technologies that can improve and automate current database processes. I work closely with Enterprise Architects, Security & Audit teams, Database Operations & Delivery teams. To date I have done the following:* Designed and implemented Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) in a Highly Available pattern. I was also responsible for the upgrading/patching/supporting for this tool* Designed and implemented a new Linux pattern for SAP/Sybase DBMS that was integrated into a fully automated DR solution. This greatly reduced resource requirements for DR and allowed application support teams to do a complete infrastructure/application failover from production to DR data centres.* Designed and implemented SAP/Sybase DBMS self service environment that was integrated into the ANZ Engineering portal to create databases on demand in an automated way.* Responsible for updating new patterns for SAP/Sybase and ensuring the latest vendor patches were certified for use in ANZ. Show less

Responsibilities/Achievements: * Centralise DBA tasks * Implemented automatedmaintainence tasks via multi-threaded perl scripts * Project to automate bulk reporting * Performance and tuning MSSQLqueries for bulk reporting * Improved current process to calculate CGT from 10-15 days to2 hours.

Responsibilities/Achievements: * Monitoring / tuning Sybase Databases to findbottlenecks. * Merging Databases. * Upgrading servers (11.5.1 to 12.0 to 12.5) *Identifying performance problems. * Acting Account Manager for Armaguard. * DBA for pilotof DSS systems * Production DBA for Visy industries * Implement Sybase HA System for Visyacross HP-UX 11 cluster

Responsibilities/Achievements: * Monitoring / tuning Sybase Databases to findbottlenecks. * Merging Databases. * Upgrading servers (11.5.1 to 12.0 to 12.5) *Identifying performance problems. * Acting Account Manager for Armaguard. * DBA for pilotof DSS systems * Production DBA for Visy industries * Implement Sybase HA System for Visyacross HP-UX 11 cluster

Responsibilities/Achievements: * Production DBA at Eastern Energy * Augment existingmaintenance perl scripts * Capacity planning

Responsibilities/Achievements: * Data Managment * Administration of Metering Systems *Basic monitoring of unix servers * Basic monitoring of Sybase Database * Capacity planning