I am a Database Deployment specialist, adept at building and deploying database solutions rapidly from Operating system installation through SAN configuration to Clustering and database application connectivity. I am both an experienced Manager and Individual Contributor in the technical consulting field. I have led a global Database Professional Services team supporting systems in the Financial, Retail and Services sectors. I have also been an Individual contributor in a large IT group supporting all Oracle databases and related systems both from an Applications and Operations DBA viewpoint.With a solid background in Unix and Linux, and a primary focus on Oracle technologies, I specifically focus on design and implementation of Highly Available database solutions using best-of-breed Enterprise products.I have typically been involved in all areas of software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and analysis, to data modeling and database design; development and testing, operations and support.Specialties: Oracle RDBMS version 6 through 19c Enterprise Edition, Postgres 14, IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) Version 7.2 thru 11Oracle 11g,12c & 19c Real Application Clusters (RAC)on Sun Solaris & Red Hat/Oracle Enterprise LinuxLightspeed Cloud POS, Oracle Cloud Control 19c, Oracle CRS/Grid Infrastructure, Oracle Automated Storage Management (ASM), Postgres 14