Provided technical strategy and direction for database managed services practice. Implemented and supported internal company technology needs. Fulfilled HR duties related to company staffing and development. Collaborated with company president on marketing and business development efforts.• Developed NightOwl Monitoring & Messaging architecture to provide automated email and text alerting for proactive database monitoring of managed services customer environments• Designed and deployed NightOwl database health check software using PL/SQL to quickly compare JD Edwards database configuration to best practices• Created automated monthly database dashboards and AWR & Statspack reports to provide data for periodic customer status updates• Supported company’s internal technology systems including software evaluation & purchasing decisions, employee laptop setup, phone system support, and lab server build out for Oracle testing• Collaborated on creation of marketing material including branding for NightOwl product suite and website design• Organized all conference planning activities for Oracle OpenWorld 2012 conference booth and promotional material• Conducted new employee candidate searches and interviews, established employee policies, and trained junior DBA staff

Provided remote Oracle DBA support for over 30 customers and more than 250 databases across a wide range of industries. Responsibilities include performing database health check assessments and remediating issues, as well as supporting customer databases remotely as part of DBA managed services practice. Customer systems were primarily running JD Edwards Enterprise One as well as related Oracle databases for reporting, including both Enterprise and Standard Edition and ranged from 100 GB to 5 TBs in size.• Delivered full lifecycle of DBA tasks including installations, patching & upgrades, RMAN backups & restores, performance tuning, security configuration, proactive monitoring, DR & HA setup, data refreshes, troubleshooting issues, and completing customer requests• Stabilized RAC 10g environment to resolve frequent outages and issues on Solaris cluster and completed 11g and 12c database upgrade projects for nationwide home builder• Coordinated database migration & consolidation project to move 50 databases from 15 existing servers to Oracle Database Appliance, upgrade from version 10g to 11g, and implement Transparent Data Encryption for county government• Implemented Oracle 10g RAC cluster on Windows platform, upgraded to 11g RAC, and implemented Grid Control for privately owned plumbing supply business• Led remediation project to resolve stability and performance issues with complex 10g RAC cluster on Solaris and provided 11g upgrade migration plan for international produce distributor

Provided remote and onsite DBA support of Oracle databases on Solaris, Linux, and Windows platforms including Oracle RAC and ASM environments for manufacturing, financial, telecommunications, utility, and university customers• Installed Oracle 10g RAC cluster on Linux platform and migrated 10g databases to new environment for financial education institution• Installed Oracle 11g RAC cluster on Windows platform and migrated critical 24x7 system to new database from existing 10g RAC database for railroad transportation company• Performed emergency RMAN database recovery to restore client databases from backups• Upgraded Oracle databases from 9i to 10g and tuned SQL queries to resolve performance issues• Automated data refresh solution for customer using RMAN transportable tablespaces functionality• Participated in meetings with potential new clients and provided project estimates to sales team• Collaborated with internal DBA staff on documentation and team goals and mentored junior DBA staff

Provided 24x7 support for over 25 Oracle 8i, 9i, and 10g databases on the Solaris platform utilizing Veritas Cluster Server for high availability • Migrated Oracle environment from version 9i to 10g and implemented Data Guard replication • Converted existing DSS SQL Server 2000 database from using SAS code to an Oracle database using PL/SQL and partitioning• Optimized custom developed reports and vendor applications running against databases ranging from 20 GB to over 3 TB• Implemented Grid Control and Unix shell scripts to proactively monitor all Oracle databases• Developed PL/SQL code to automate data feeds and extracts

Delivered 24x7 DBA support for over 25 Oracle 8i and 9i databases on HPUX and Windows 2000 platforms in development, test, and production environments • Migrated 15 Oracle databases from version 7.3.4 to a standardized, OFA compliant 8i environment• Developed a large suite of Unix shell scripts to automate administration tasks and proactively monitor the Oracle environment including email and text page notifications• Created automated utilities to eliminate application security risks in JD Edwards databases and perform complex data refreshes of JDE environments• Tuned data warehouse environments by optimizing Cognos Impromptu reports, custom data load processes, and data feeds from an AS400 system