Over 18 years of experience working as an Oracle DBA and Unix System Administrator. Designed, implemented and supported Data Guard and Oracle RAC technologies for 9i, 10g, 11g and 12c while administering Linux, Solaris, AIX and Windows platforms. Experienced in performance tuning at all levels, to include hardware, system tuning, parameter tuning and query tuning. Expert level experience in planning and implementing backup and restore operations resulting in a zero database data loss record over a 18 year career (RMAN, hot backups, import/export utilities, Oracle 10g/11g Flashback technology, NetApp Snapshot Manager for Oracle, Oracle dNFS cloning, Oracle ZFS appliances (ZS3, Sun ZFS Storage 7x20). Supported 24/7 OLTP and OLAP production databases across multiple platforms. Managed up to 20 databases and up to 45TB of data, including multiple RAC, Data Guard and various development/QA instances. Managed Solaris 10 and 11 zones, LDOMs, ZFS appliances and ZFS file systems as senior system administrator. Scaled small databases less than 300GB to over 15TB over short periods while maintaining uptime and performance requirements. Project planner for projects to include production database upgrades and migrations to different platforms and new data centers with minimal downtime and zero data loss. Managed IT teams of up to 16 personnel and lead up to 42 Army National Guard members as a Platoon leader and Division Helpdesk officer in command.
Listed skills include Oracle Rac, Oracle 10G And 11G, Oracle Super Cluster, Exadata, and 44 others.