SUMMARY

I'm a former Oracle DBA looking to make a career change to help desk

receptionist. I'm looking for an employer to give me long term employment,

so I can gain the experience/ knowledge to excel in this career:

. Skilled Oracle Database Administrator and Architect with over 2 years

of in-depth technical knowledge and strong management skills.

. Involved in creation, installation, maintenance and administration of

Databases in UNIX, LINUX, AIX, Sun Solaris and WINDOWS Platforms

. Good experience in EXPDP-IMPDP backup -recovery & restore, and in-

depth understanding of security strategies to ensure database

integrity

. Experience in management tools like Oracle Enterprise Manager, TOAD

and SQL Developer.

. Creating, Updating, Altering Tablespace, Indexes, Tables, Views,

Synonyms, Profile, Role, Privileges

. Creating/Managing users profiles and analyzing their privileges and

Tablespace quotas

. Knowledge of Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC), Data Guard and ASM

. Detailed oriented, able to work on own initiative as well as following

Sr. DBA's procedures and guidelines, Energetic self-starter with

excellent analytical and organizational skills.

RELATED CERTIFICATIONS:

V Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle 10g & 11g

V Oracle Certified Associate, Oracle 10g & 11g

TECHNICAL SKILLS

RDBMS: Oracle 10g/11g, Data Guard, Oracle 11g Real

Application Cluster (RAC) and ASM, SQL Server,

MS Access

Operating Systems: UNIX, SUN, Linux, Windows NT/2000

Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Script

Database Tools: RMAN, OEM, Data Pump (expdp, impdp), SQL

Developer, TOAD, DBA Studio, Grid Control,

Putty, SQL Loader, Erwin

Tuning Tools: TKPROF, EXPLAIN PLAN, ADDM, AWR

Methodologies/Technologie Distributed Computing, Data Modeling and

s: Relational Database Design, Database Analysis,

System Architecture, Capacity Management

Planning, Infrastructure Planning, ITIL (IT

Infrastructure Library), LEAN Process Design

and Development Methodology and BMC Remedy

WORK HISTORY

Oracle DBA,

Feb 2010 - July 2014

FS Engineering, Inc - Waterloo, ON

. Experience in a very fast paced environment administrating, supporting

and maintaining multiple production and development Oracle databases.

. Performed numerous Oracle 10g to 11g software installs, upgrades,

patching and database builds.

. Responsible for addressing security vulnerability fixes by applying

CPU and PSU patches in all development and production databases

environments. Created a shell script that reports to DBA group Oracle

databases that are missing patches, both one-offs, CPUs, and/or PSUs

(based on a list of deemed necessary patches).

. Proficient and very comfortable in command line interface usage (i.e.

SQLPlus, UNIX etc.)

. Monitored and maintained databases using tools like TOAD, SQL

Developer, OEM and SQL Navigator.

. Promoted and implemented on a weekly basis database changes received

from the development organization to pre-production and production

environments. Typical changes involved the creation and updates of

tables, columns, indexes, views, synonyms, function and procedures.

Also, I ensured that changes were authorized by management; changes

followed the standard development/pre-production/production life

cycle; were scheduled, implemented and completed within standard

maintenance windows with the exception of emergencies.

. Established and maintained sound backup and recovery policies and

procedures for hundreds of non-production and production databases.

Ensured the nightly RMAN and DataPump backups ran successfully;

refreshed and cloned schemas and databases in development at

application owners' request.

. Experienced in administrating 3-node RAC (Real Application Cluster)

database and Physical Standby database according to established

procedures and guidelines put in place by Sr. DBA members.

. Implemented and maintained Tablespace quotas, users and roles;

assigned system and object privileges that are fully compliant with

the business rules of the company.

. Performed database tuning and performance monitoring using AWR and

ADDM.

. Used OEM to Monitor and Plan for growth (capacity planning), created

new Tablespaces, added datafiles to existing Tablespaces, monitored

Tablespace size and resized Tablespaces.

. Performed general technical troubleshooting of errors in alert.log

(e.g. ORA-600, ORA-7445, etc). Opened SR's as necessary with Oracle

Support to address recurring issues or to obtain bug fixes.

. Attended DBA team meetings fostering strong cohesiveness regarding all

major databases issues, plus departmental direction, annual plans,

licensing, policy changes, etc.

. Experienced in scheduling jobs through Oracle Job Scheduler, Cron and

BMC control-M.

. Provided 24/7 on-Call support (rotation).

Skills Utilized:

V Oracle 11g, 10g, HP, SUN, Windows NT, Data Pump, Toad, OEM, RMAN,

Putty, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell, Scheduler, Cron and Resource Manager

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Diploma in Computer Information System, George Brown College, Toronto, ON

Oracle Database 11g: Real Application Clusters

Oracle Database 10g: SQL Tuning Workshop

Oracle 11g New Features for Administrators

Oracle 11g Database Performance Tuning

Advanced Backup and Recovery for Oracle 11g

Oracle 11g Architecture and Administration

Data Modeling and Relational Database Design

Data Warehousing Fundamentals

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