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Engineering Manager of Oracle Technical Service and leading my team to manage T&M business unit's database assets.

Engineering manager of an amazing global team who is responsible for maintaining database (Oracle and MS SQL) and ERP (Oracle EBS) platforms.Responsibilities and key initiatives:• Leading a global team of DevOps engineers to provide 24/7 support service for a wide range of Oracle and MS SQL platforms, including Exadata, RAC, DR and Oracle E-Business Suite instances. • Executing Cloud transformation roadmap for all Oracle platforms as part of modernization program, preparing decision making materials like cost/benefit analyses for senior leadership.• Implementing ITIL-based team interaction and incident management by introducing ServiceNow ITSM.• Enhancing security of existing Oracle platforms by changing existing Oracle patching cadence to meet with high standards of system security.• Stabilizing Oracle E-Business Suite patching process and developing patching best practice guide to mitigate the risk of having non-standard customized developments.• Executing and sponsoring all phases of Oracle 19c upgrade project.• Standardizing MS SQL support and governance globally.• Driving the execution of automation effort of my team by encouraging idea generation, technical learning and implementation of self-service opportunities.• Facilitating global knowledge transfer to cover knowledge gaps in different time zones.• Building a global team at four different sites, enhancing employee work-life balance and work output, keeping engagement of my team constantly high.

Responsibilities and key initiatives:• Leading my team in EMEA and APAC time zones to provide 24/7 support service for a wide range of Oracle platforms.• Expanding our service offerings in APAC time zone by establishing a DBA team in Malaysia.• Leading my team in a 1+ year long project, combining two Oracle EBS environments into a single R12 installation, while upgrading the database to 12c.• Introducing Oracle RAC with Oracle version 10g, executing all phases of Oracle 12c upgrade project later.• Being an expert advisor on issues, such as solving performance problems, system downtime issues, and Oracle patching.• Introducing a new operational model by implementing a new ticketing system (Jira) and redesigning related processes.• Introducing Agile methodology to organize work assigned to my team.• Teaching comprehensive Oracle performance tuning classes for admins and developers, and developing training materials.• Hiring and developing talents, leading university courses to build recruiting pipeline.• Facilitating the creation of training materials to build highly skilled database administrators from those who joined us as fresh graduates.• Leading local team members of various functional teams in matrix management, like ASMT (Application System Management), WebSys (Web Admins), Data Warehouse.• Leading an IT internal service provider team (IT4IT), driving roadmap execution, facilitating prioritization.• Mentoring individual contributors and coaching managers, expert in development plan definition for individuals.

Responsibilities and key initiatives:• Senior DBA team member, providing 24/7 Oracle support service in oncall rotation (Oracle 8i, Oracle E-Business Suite 11i)• Playing a lead role to expand the team outside of the AMER time zone.• Training local developers on various Oracle developer tools like Oracle Forms, Reports and PL/SQL.• Migrating local Windows-based Oracle environments into standardized Oracle servers resided in the Austin data center.• Being a local DBA of major Oracle maintenance events and projects.• Supporting the transformation of local IT Helpdesk into an SLA-driven organization.

Responsibilities and key initiatives:• Oracle developer to work on custom-built applications for various customers (food industry, manufacturing industry).• Performance tuning and recovery expert to solve ad hoc issues as consultant.• Building Linux servers for projects and installing initial Oracle database environments, then providing training on operations for staff.• Participating in various projects as Oracle DBA (9i migration, replacing Oracle developer tools).• Administering local environments for 20+ developers, including OS (Unix), development databases, backups and repositories.

Responsibilities and key initiatives:• Developer at an international consultant company and being part of various projects (application development for Ministry of Fair Trading).• Learning object oriented development platforms.• Improving my command of English.

Responsibilities and key initiatives:• Learning a wide variety of Oracle developer tools like Forms, Reports, Designer, Discoverer.• Being a developer on various projects.• Contractor consultant through Oracle Hungary for clients.

Responsibilities and key initiatives:• Teaching IT classes for students.• Building and maintaining local hardware environments including server and network configurations.• Being a part-time university lecturer.