Engineer Oracle

MICHAEL A. NESMITH

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Personal E-mail: ac2pn4@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 703-***-****

JOB OBJECTIVE: SENIOR UNIX ENGINEER

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

* Over 25 years experience in UNIX system administration and networking.

* Experience with both AT&T V and BSD versions of UNIX, including Oracle/Sun Solaris, SCO UNIX,

DYNIX, XENIX, Redhat/CentOS/SUSE Linux, IBM AIX, Compaq Tru64 UNIX, HP-UX., Ubuntu.

* Experience with virtual cloud environments including Red Hat Virtualization Manager (RHEVM),

Amazon, Virtual Private Cloud, VMware, Quest Cloud Automation Platform, and Oracle VM VirtualBox.

* Experience in the full range of UNIX activities including installing, configuring, applying

upgrades/patches, performance tuning, recompiling kernels, installing database management systems and

web servers, installing application software, implementing security, setting up users and printers, writing

backup/restore scripts, TCP/IP networking, troubleshooting, documenting, and training other

administrators, operators, and end users.

* Experience with Veritas Netbackup and BackupExec, Veritas Volume Manager, and RMAN Oracle hot

backups, as well as the traditional UNIX cpio, dd, tar, volcopy, and dump utilities.

* Worked on nationwide UNIX networks supporting 30,000 plus users, multiple gigabytes of memory and

petabyte size storage systems. Used telnet, ftp, NFS, Hummingbird Exceed, PCAnywhere, Timbuktu,

Terminal Services, BMC Patrol, and Quest Central Office/Foglight.

* Experience integrating UNIX, Windows 2008/2003/NT 4 Server, Novell NetWare, Cisco routers,

CiscoWorks, Cisco switches, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Junos Pulse, and DB2

CONNECT interfaces between UNIX servers and MVS mainframes.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

* Over 15 years experience as a Computer Instructor for multiple organizations.

* Designed/taught courses in UNIX administration and networking, Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g/12c, Windows NT Certification (MCSE courses), Novell NetWare (CNE courses), Communications, Cisco Router Certification (CCNA/CCNP), Java Programming Certification, TCL/TK, SQL Server Administration, Lotus Notes administration, and C programming.

* Designed/taught UNIX scripting classes and web server classes using UNIX shell, Perl, and TCL/TK.

* Taught courses in Computer Architecture, Programming Languages, and Systems Analysis.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

* Worked as a Database Administrator installing, configuring, tuning, and troubleshooting major database

management systems on UNIX/Windows 2003 (Oracle 4-12c, RAC, Sybase, Informix, SQL Server).

* Installed and configured clustered databases via SANs and Netapp Filers with Oracle RAC, MySQL

Clustered databases, and Marklogic XML databases.

* Network Administrator on Windows 2003/NT & Novell NetWare (Token Ring & Ethernet).

* Programming languages used include UNIX shell, C, C++, Perl, Java, HTML, Oracle PL/SQL, COBOL,

FORTRAN, Pascal, BASIC, TCL/TK, & Ada.

* Provided middleware support to Websphere, Weblogic, Apache, Tomcat. IIS, and Oracle web server.

* Held technical, supervisory, and staff positions, to include contract administration.

* Experience in risk analysis and network security issues in LAN/WAN environments.

EDUCATION

* UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, B.A. in Math, Minor in Scientific Computing.

Charlottesville, Virginia, May 1982. Completed over $100,000 worth of training at various vendors on

topics such as Oracle, Databases, UNIX, VMS, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Novell NetWare,

Communications, Networking, Cisco Routers & Switches, and other topics.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Senior Linux Administrator, Engility Corp., 4803 Stonecroft Blvd, Chantilly, VA 20151. Client site: Food & Drug Administration (FDA), 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD 20708, 11/2016 – present.

*Performed duties as a Senior Linux Administrator for the FDA physical, virtual, and cloud systems.

*Supported High Performance Computing (HPC) supercomputer with a 40 node CentOS production cluster and a 128 node CentOS development cluster using HP Clusterstor (Lustre) and about 3 PB of data.

*Supported Redhat/CentOS/Suse/Ubuntu Linux on scientific workstations within FDA.

*Created and supported VMware based virtual servers and workstations using Redhat/CentOS Linux.

*Supported CentOS Linux virtual machines in the external Amazon AWS cloud.

*Wrote scripts and automated installs as required.

*Provided support as needed for Oracle 12c, Mysql, and SQL Server database management systems.

*Assisted with TCP/IP networking, troubleshooting NFS, and administering DNS/Apache/Samba servers.

*Installed and configured Nagios and Ganglia network monitoring tools.

*Configured Linux to Windows Active Directory authentication via Centrify and LDAP.

*Patched Linux servers with Spacewalk, yum, and rpm.

Lead Systems Engineer, INDUS Corporation, 1951 Kidwell Drive, Eighth Floor, Vienna, VA 22182. Client site: Library of Congress, 9050 Wellington Road, Room 01AA31, Manassas, VA 20109, 11/2015–9/2016.

*Performed duties as a Lead Systems Engineer for Library of Congress UNIX systems at the Alternate Computer Facility for Redhat Enterprise Linux, Fedora Linux, Oracle Solaris, and IBM AIX systems.

*Supported work for system failover from primary to disaster recovery sites.

*Supported data migration for large data sets (Petabytes) from disk with General Parallel File System (GPFS) V4.1 to the IBM Linear Tape File System Enterprise Edition (LTFSEE) V1.1.1.2.

*Supported various data migrations using rsync and other utilities.

*Supported UNIX clusters using GPFS clustered file system with Active File Management (AFM) and the IBM Clustered Network File System (CNFS).

*Monitored scheduled jobs for data migrations with Signiant monitoring software.

*Provided online documentation via Confluence web software and Footprints Service Desk software.

*Provided support as required for TCP/IP networking and Cisco products.

*Provided support as required for various databases such as Oracle 12c, mysql, and SQL Server.

*Provided support as required for backups with Netbackup and SAN snapshots.

*Provided scripting support as required with BASH and Python.

*Provided hardware support with cabling, swapping out disk/tape drives, and maintaining workstations.

Senior Database Engineer, Scalable Systems, Inc., 15 Corporate Place South, Suite 222, Piscataway, NJ 08854. Client: McGraw-Hill, 148 Princeton-Hightstown Rd., Hightstown, NJ 08520, 10/2011 – 10/2015.

*Performed duties as a Senior Database Engineer supporting McGraw-Hill database servers and networks.

*Provided support as required with Redhat Linux4/5/6 and Solaris 10 administration and networking.

*Provided technical support to MarkLogic databases in two virtual clouds, an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud and an in-house virtual cloud called the Cloud Innovation Platform (CIP) that used VMware and Quest Cloud Automation Platform. Set up Oracle, Apache, and Weblogic virtual servers as well.

*Served as primary database administration support installing, patching, configuring, tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting database products such as MarkLogic XML databases, MarkLogic clusters, Oracle 10g/11g databases and Oracle 10g/11g RAC clusters on Veritas Cluster System SAN.

*Installed/configured Apache, Tomcat, and MLSQL to allow MarkLogic databases to retrieve Oracle data.

*Provided disaster recovery support to include setting up MarkLogic Flexible Replication from the production cluster to the disaster recovery cluster and setting up forest-level failovers.

*Configured/tested backups and recovery of databases.

*Developed monitoring scripts and HP Openview monitoring criteria for databases.

*Provided technical support to development, test, disaster recovery, and production environments.

*Provided support as required for MySQL and SQL Server database servers.

*Wrote documentation for database operations, backup, recovery, and replication.

*Used Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Junos Pulse for VPN connectivity.

Senior UNIX Engineer, WJG Marketing Services, LLC, 5712-H Industry Lane,Frederick, MD 21704, 4/2009 to 8/2011

*Performed duties as a Senior UNIX Engineer supporting National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Electronic Records Archives (ERA) and Executive Office of the President (EOP) systems.

*Installed, patched, configured, tuned, monitored, and provided troubleshooting for Sun Solaris 9/10 and Redhat Enterprise Linux 4/5 servers both manually and via automated Kickstart scripts.

* Assisted in the installation and troubleshooting of virtual servers using Red Hat Virtualization Manager (RHEVM). This was a prototype system intended to test applications in virtual cloud computing.

*Served as primary database administration support installing, patching, configuring, tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting database products such as Oracle, Oracle RAC, MySQL, MySQL Clustered database, Documentum, and MarkLogic XML databases.

*Provided technical support to development, test, and production environments.

*Wrote scripts to automate the installation of Oracle and to monitor both operating systems and databases.

*Assisted in the development and testing of backups and recovery for both hot (Veritas Netbackup/Snapmanager for Oracle) and cold (tar) backups on a NetApp file server.

*Assisted in the resolution of security audits from GAO and other agencies and implemented a variety of security fixes for database hardening.

*Assisted developers/testers with data migration issues.

*Assisted in the support and troubleshooting for integration of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products such as Weblogic, Websphere, Webmethods, Remedy, CiscoWorks, Tripwire, Netcool, Opsware, and a variety of other COTS products, along with custom application code.

*Documented baseline scripts and system documentation in Borland StarTeam and CaliberRM.

*Assisted writing a variety of design documents for the architecture team.

Senior UNIX Engineer, Technical Solutions Group, 4350 Brownsboro Road # 110, Louisville, KY 40252, 3/2008 – 4/2009

*This is the same job as above. I was hired initially via a headhunter agency and then transitioned to a parent company after successfully completing my one year probationary period.

Computer Instructor, Fairfax County Public Schools, Adult Education, Plum Center, 6815 Edsall Rd., Springfield, VA 22151, 5/2001 - present. (Part time work, nights and weekends.)

* Designed and taught night/weekend computer courses.

* UNIX courses used Redhat/CentOS/Fedora/Ubuntu Linux and SUN Solaris. Courses include Introduction to UNIX, UNIX Shell Programming, UNIX Administration, UNIX Security, UNIX Networking, and UNIX Internals.

* Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g/12c courses used Windows Server 2003/2008/2012. Courses include An Introduction to Oracle Database Administration, Oracle Database Administration I/II, Data Warehousing, Oracle Tuning, and Oracle RAC I/II.

* Designed/taught UNIX scripting classes and web server classes using UNIX shell, Apache, Perl, and TCL/TK.

* Taught a variety of other courses including TCP/IP and Networking.

* Set up virtual environments for testing in VMware VSphere 6 and Oracle VM VirtualBox.

* Taught classes in Advanced Linux for Redhat Certification study.

* Taught Introduction to Cloud Computing and Virtual Machines.

Oracle Database Engineer, ARUStek Consulting, Inc, Herndon, VA, 6/2007 – 11/2007

*Installed Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) and Oracle 10g databases in two 2-node clusters for development and test environments, and a 3-node cluster for production in Denver.

*Supported Oracle on a development virtual server environment under Redhat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEVM).

*Provided installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting support to internal Neosynapse databases which included a two node RAC system with Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and various single instance databases.

*Wrote shell scripts to assist in maintenance, monitoring, and tuning of Oracle databases.

*Monitored Oracle databases with Oracle Enterprise Manager and scripts.

*Documented install procedures and a variety of DBA related issues.

*Opened Oracle Service Requests as required to resolve various Oracle issues.

*Assisted developers with SQL Loader, external tables, and Oracle scheduler issues.

*Assisted the UNIX administrator with Redhat Linux 4.5 and 5 operating system issues.

*Developed a semi-automated install process for deploying Oracle clients to nine production servers.

*Coordinated with Comcast Engineers regarding Oracle backups and SAN issues on an HP 12000 SAN.

*Coordinated with System Architects and staff regarding design issues for a 2 TB data warehouse.

Systems Engineer, Acumen Solutions, 8614 Westwood Center Drive, Suite 700, Vienna, VA 22182, 5/2007 – 6/2007. Client site was Verisign, 22340 Dresden Street, Suite 100, Dulles, VA 20166.

* Performed systems analysis for a data center move from Sunnyvale, CA, to Delaware.

* Used Visio to write UML network diagrams.

* Traveled to client site in Sunnyvale, CA, to gather data.

Senior Oracle DBA/Linux Engineer, Summit Technologies, Inc., 45 South Main Street Suite 040, W. Hartford, CT, 2/2007 – 5/2007. Client site was in Washington, DC.

* Performed primary duties as the Senior Oracle Database Administrator and Linux Engineer for Oracle database servers supporting the PRISM project for the Department of Homeland Security in Ashburn, VA.

* Responsible for installation of Oracle clustering with Real Application Cluster (RAC), Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM), and Oracle 10g database software on Redhat Linux.

* Performed UNIX system administration & networking duties on Redhat Linux Enterprise Servers and SUN Solaris.

* Performed DBA/architect duties for a variety of SQL Server 2000/2005 databases running on Windows 2000/2003 servers.

* Installed test copies of SQL Server 2005 and wrote best practices documentation for the SQL Server environment.

* Assisted with the move of a DHS computer center from Stafford, VA, to Mt. Weather, VA.

* Provided Linux and Oracle support for an Egenera Blade Server hosting 13 virtual servers on an EMC storage array.

Senior Oracle Database Administrator, Compusearch Software Systems, 21251 Ridgetop Circle Suite 100, Dulles, VA 20166, 7/2006 – 1/2007

* Performed primary duties as a Senior Oracle Database Administrator for Oracle database servers supporting FEDCONNECT applications.

* Monitored production servers daily to resolve potential problems and improve performance using Oracle Enterprise Manager and various scripts.

* Opened various Technical Assistance Requests (TARs) and worked with Oracle Technical Support to resolve various Oracle errors and problems.

* Assisted with the installation, configuration, patching, tuning, and testing of various versions of Oracle (8i, 9i, and 10g), to include RAC clustering and standby database creation on Redhat Linux and Windows servers.

* Installed, configured, and documented hot backups using Oracle RMAN to create full system, daily incremental, and archive backups.

* Installed and documented Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) on a test Redhat Linux server as a tutorial for other DBAs.

* Worked with developers and Quality Assurance testers to tune SQL statements and resolve performance bottlenecks.

* Installed and configured Internet Information Server (IIS) web servers and PRISM applications.

* Provided DBA support and database training to junior DBAs for multiple clients both onsite and remotely including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), CFSC, and Postal Service for the PRISM applications.

* Provided operating system and networking support as required to other DBAs and operating system staff for Sun Solaris 2.9, Windows Server 2000/2003, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.

* Took the lead working with security personnel to resolve security issues with Oracle, particularly with DHS servers, and responding to security audits and researching fixes to security problems.

* Researched and documented the current Oracle architecture and licenses for Compusearch.

Senior Oracle Database Administrator, TestPros, Reston, VA 20164, 8/2003 – 7/2006

* Performed team leader duties as Senior Oracle DBA for the Oracle Database Administration Team.

* Performed Oracle 8i/9i /10g database administration duties and UNIX/networking consulting.

* Provided Oracle/Solaris administration support on two SUN Enterprise 10000 servers, one SUN 6500, and multiple smaller Solaris SunFire servers in development and test networks.

* Worked as the UNIX administrator, Windows Administrator, and Oracle DBA for the Sandbox network.

* Provided consulting on a terabyte size data warehouse, to include upgrading it to Oracle 10g.

* Performed tuning and optimization for UNIX and Oracle, including parallel processing and RAC.

* Performed database design work as well as database updates/patches on high availability

clustered SUN servers on both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Oracle.

* Monitored production servers with Oracle Enterprise Manager and performed imports/exports.

* Created automated Oracle and DB2 CONNECT deployments using Tivoli.

* Supported developers as required in troubleshooting and tuning SQL statements and Oracle design.

Computer Instructor, TestPros, Sterling, VA 20164, 11/10/2003 to 01/24/2004.

Client site was Telogy Networks (Texas Instruments), 20450 Century Boulevard, Germantown, MD 20874.

*Taught hands-on TCL/TK script programming to 24 Telogy engineers and staff.

*Work was performed two nights a week for 11 weeks on both XP and Linux platforms.

*Designed class lectures, handouts, homework, tests, and programming exercises.

Senior Systems Engineer, CLMS, Arlington, VA. 6/2001 - 7/2003

* Provide SUN Solaris administration support to various SUN 4500, SUN 450, and SUN Ultra

Enterprise servers, including installing Solaris 2.7/2.8.

* Provide Redhat and SUSE Linux administration support to various Intel servers.

* Install/configure UNIX, apply upgrades/patches, do performance tuning, recompile kernels, install application software, implement security, set up users and printers, set up TCP/IP networking, do troubleshooting, document installations, and train other staff members.

* Wrote shell scripts for backups/restores and customized the UNIX startup/shutdown scripts.

* Installed and customized Veritas Netbackup to automate UNIX backups.

* Installed and configured Veritas Database Edition for Oracle (RAID) software on a SUN 450 and used Veritas Volume Manager on a SUN 4500 0+1 RAID configuration.

* Wrote UNIX shell scripts to regularly monitor UNIX/Oracle performance and security.

* Work with firewall administrators in setting up firewall access rules and troubleshooting.

* Provide remote UNIX administration with telnet, ssh, putty, Hummingbird Exceed, and ftp.

* Installed, configured, and tested various Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4 servers.

* Installed a test network consisting of NT 4 workstations/servers, Linux servers, and various other Windows 2000 servers to test Oracle products such as Oracle 9i database, Oracle 9i web server, Oracle Collaboration Suite and Oracle Applications 11i (Oracle Financials).

* Installed Veritas Backup Exec 8 to backup servers running NT 4/Windows 2000.

* Remote Windows administration with PCAnywhere, Timbuktu, and Terminal Services.

* Served as the Senior Oracle Database Administrator for 15 months; now work as backup.

* Install/configure Oracle 8i/9i databases/web servers on various UNIX/Windows 2000 servers.

Senior Systems Engineer, Vistech Systems, Inc., Chantilly, VA. 12/2000 - 6/2001

* My original position with Vistech was a contract-to-permanent position. After 6 months with Vistech, I went full-time with CLMS. See the above for a description of duties.

Senior Client Server Engineer, Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD, 3/2000 - 12/2000.

* Provided UNIX administration support for 4 DEC Alpha minicomputers running Compaq Tru64 UNIX (Digital UNIX), several SUN Solaris UNIX servers up to the size of a SUN 6500, an IBM AIX UNIX server, and five Redhat Linux servers.

* Provided technical support to the Oracle database administrators, Lawson Administrators, Novell NetWare, and CISCO network specialists as required.

* Proposed and set up an internal test network consisting of a Digital UNIX server, a SUN server, a Redhat Linux server, both NT 4 and NT 2000 servers with Oracle 7 and 8, a CISCO router, CISCO switch, and Baye switch.

* Assisted in the selection, configuration, and installation of a SUN 6500 to support the Lawson Financial Software for payroll and inventory.

* Coordinated Lawson issues on HP-UX.

* Assisted the Data Warehouse project as required, including the selection of appropriate UNIX servers and the selection of contractors to implement the initial Data Warehouse prototype.

Computer Instructor, Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA, 5/1999-12/1999.

* Developed a full daytime curriculum which then did not exist.

* Designed/taught courses in UNIX administration, Oracle administration, Windows NT Certification (MCSE courses), Novell NetWare (CNE courses), Cisco Router Certification (CCNA/CCNP), and Java Programming Certification.

* Designed/taught UNIX scripting classes and web server classes using UNIX shell, Perl, and TCL/TK.

Senior Systems Security Specialist, Network Resources, Inc., Charlotte, NC, 11/1998 - 5/1999.

* Performed network/database risk assessments and prepared certification documentation.

* Audited a client system consisting of Oracle, six versions of UNIX (AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris 2.6, Sequent DYNIX, Pyramid UNIX, and SCO UNIXWARE), Windows NT Server 4, Novell NetWare versions 3 and 4, and IBM System 390 MVS.

NT Administrator, Computing Analysis Corporation, Arlington, VA, 6/1998 - 11/1998.

* Worked as the NT/UNIX systems administrator for various SUN Solaris and NT servers.

* Performed Sybase database administration and IIS/SQL Server administration.

* Helped develop an agency wide disaster plan and security checklist for NT and UNIX servers.

Senior Management Engineer, Panacea Consulting Inc., Arlington, VA, 2/1998-5/1998.

* Monitored and provided second-level technical support to a nation-wide TCP/IP-based network of 15 production Sequent minicomputers running DYNIX and Informix databases for about 4000 users.

Computer Systems Analyst, National Defense University, Ft. McNair, D.C. 5/1992-1/1998.

* Worked as the Oracle Database Administrator and VAX VMS system administrator.

* Provided UNIX administration support for Sequent DYNIX and SUN Solaris computers.

* Did the initial development in HTML programming for the NDU Intranet.

* For 10 months supervised the NDU Help Desk and administered the HEAT database.

Novell Network Administrator, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA, 6/1995 - 12/1995.

* Worked as a Novell NetWare administrator part-time until they could hire someone full-time.

* Installed various software such as Windows NT and Lotus Notes.

Supervisory Computer Specialist, 25th Data Processing Unit, Schwetzingen, Germany, 8/1989-5/1992.

* Chief, Development Branch:

-- Managed a staff of 18 programmers for development projects on MVS DATACOM DB/CICS and VM/CMS/REXX for major projects during the Gulf War.

-- Set up 4 Sperry 5000 UNIX/Oracle minicomputers, with an Ethernet LAN/dialup.

* Chief, Executive Software Section:

-- Developed a project management plan to overhaul the VM and MVS operating systems, reducing downtime by about 80% on the IBM 4381.

-- Developed and tested a disaster recovery plan for the IBM 4381 mainframe, which was later successfully used.

* Chief, Systems Division:

-- Worked as second line supervisor managing the Development and Maintenance Branches.

Computer Programmer Analyst, Development Center Lee, Ft. Lee, VA 8/1987-8/1989.

* Worked as the UNIX System Administrator/Oracle Database Administrator.

* Set up five Sperry 5000 UNIX minicomputers for several Oracle projects.

* Assisted in Oracle database design and Ada applications programming.

* Developed a Pascal-based source code control system for in house use.

* Set up a PC to Sperry 5000 communications link using PCU and Procomm software, helped set up a TACCS to IBM 4381 communications link using Blast software, and was the primary technician for setting up a PC to IBM 4381 communications link using IBM’s SNA 3270.

Computer Systems Programmer, Operating Systems Branch, Development Center Lee, Ft. Lee, VA, 5/1985-8/1987.

* Worked as a Systems Programmer supporting BTOS, Xenix, and MS DOS.

* Participated in the planning/installation of a distributed database in Korea.

* Assisted developers with development of an Informix database.

Computer Programmer, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA, 3/1984-5/1985.

* Worked as an applications programmer on PCs, PDP-11, VAX-11/780, and IBM 3081.

* Designed, tested, documented, and implemented two distributed database systems using dBase III, SPSS, SAS, and FORTRAN.

* Helped test an early UNIX release for the VAX-11/780.

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