Database Administrator
Vt Systems, Inc
* Supported Forex Trading system (250 servers x 2 locations). Functioned as DBA and Linux Administrator. Oracle database on RH 5 servers (16 instances), MySQL 5.1 (3 DBs) * Configured and Installed Oracle 11g on Red Hat servers (16 instances).* Regular database backup activity* Monitoring network and servers using Nagios,* Responsibility for DNS Servers with writing a security script, which allows programmers and production make they own zones for testing and using zones.* Supported MySQL Databases* Provide 24/7 support for multiple production instances * Performance tuning in Oracle Applications instances and other production DBs* Shell scripting for cron jobs & some customization in already created scripts.* Installed, configured and maintained over 500 GNU/Linux servers (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora) across three different datacenters; managed installation, patching, monitoring, backups, disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, troubleshooting and resolution, application enhancements, and modifications. * Conducted configuration and maintenance of all data center systems and servers. HP G5 360, HP Blades c7000, Cisco MDS 9509.* Provided administration and support for Unix, Linux, and virtualization technologies, including Xen 5.5 and VMware 4.0 ESX* Configured and administered company websites, including general LAMP stack, Perl/Python/PHP/Java, Apache, Linux, and MySQL.* Performed troubleshooting, networking, security, services, reporting, monitoring, database-backed management, capacity planning, and strategic planning