EMEA Lead Oracle Database Administrator supporting Oracle 19c RAC Clusters for 24/7 International User Base. During the last 5 years I have carried out two major data centre migrations one of which was completed from home during the lockdowns of the 2020 Pandemic. Major upgrades from 11g to 12c and on to 19c RDBMS and Grid Infrastructure. Full technical lead for the team and direction of the Oracle Estate Infrastructure. Lead Oracle DBA and Architect for Hardware refresh in place in the current Data Center coupling the project with Oracle Enterprise Linux upgrade to OEL9. Architect and Technician implementing Quarterly Zero Downtime Rolling patches across the entire Oracle Estate Resource lead for Contingent workers to carry out day to day monitoring, backup failure resolution and on-request clone activities in conjunction with other Oracle Partners within the company. SME for Clone Requests, Performance Tuning and Service Improvement to our International Partners in the USA, India and Australia.Exceeded requirement for 5 9's on availability with having no unplanned outages for the last 4 years. On-Call for Oracle DBA issues with zero call outs to date over a 4 year period.

• General Production Oracle DBA Support• Development and QA Support of Oracle Database’s for new ERP Implementation• Implementation and Administration of Cloud Control 12c and Oracle Grid Control 10G• Patching of Oracle RDBMS, Grid Infrastructure,Grid/Cloud Control Agents, Agent plugins• Design, Build and Implementation of Production and QA 12c RAC Environments.• Implementation Of Oracle Database Vault And Transparent Data Encryption Utilising Vormetric Key Management in an Oracle 12c RAC Environment.• Migration from Site based Standalone Server Room to Data Centre based RAC Environment• Migration of multiple Databases up to 500Gb in size as feed systems to new ERP systems.• Build and Administration of ASM File System for RAC and ACFS.• RMAN Backup and Recovery, Database Cloning• Data migrations utilising Export/Import and DataPump• VCS Cluster Administration and failovers during regular maintenance tasks

• General Oracle DBA Support• Building of new Data Centre’s Oracle 11Gr2 site with full DataGuard failover solution• Migration of UK and Germany Database’s into newly commissioned data centres.• Documentation of fail over and support procedures

• General DBA support for customer databases providing key support in RMAN Backups, Space Management, Memory Management, DataGuard management.• Development DBA and Deployment Engineer for Client Site Oracle Systems• Oracle 11G DataGuard Technical Authority in DBA Team• Database Service CAB Representative• On-site Implementation engineer for Oracle 8i to Oracle 10G projects utilising RMAN database cloning and Oracle Upgrade Assistant.• On-Call Support for Oracle RMAN recovery and fault resolution in a 24x7 environment• Construction of automated builds for mobile database deployment• Document Build Procedures and Data Maintenance Tasks.

• Oracle DBA support for Major Oracle Data warehouse and Multi-National customers, including space management, day to day support during development and production phases, enhancement design and development.• Implement and Maintain Disaster Recovery Programs for customers including full NDR solution.