MONICA P.JURS
**C Rockland St.
Canton, MA *****
PROFILE
An database administrator with over 10 years of experience delivering business and financial results by proposing,
creating and deploying pragmatic cost effective solutions.
Core Competencies:
Operating Systems: UNIX (12 years); Linux (10 years);
Oracle: Oracle 10g/9i RAC, RMAN, ASM, Datapump (import/export); Oracle Enterprise Manager /Grid Control(2 years);
MySQL: MySQL InnoDB, ndb, myISAM (5 years);
Scripting: BASH, KORN, csh (10 years);
Backup Software: EMC Networker (3 years);
Storage Systems: CLARiiON - CX3-40 and CX500 (3 years); Promise (2 years); DotHill (2 years);
Major Accomplishments:
Received a dedication award for exemplary performance: Received an employee dedication award for exemplary performance
for work done on a data restoration project- Soundbite Communications, October 2008
Architected and Implemented Backup Infrastructure: Architected a backup infrastructure for three corporate locations totaling
10TB of storage: Designing the system; Purchasing, installing and zoning of tape libraries; Purchasing and managing software and
hardware support licenses; Purchasing backup servers, Cisco SAN switches and other hardware; Writing scripts for backups, installing
and maintaining backup software; managing offsite backups to Iron Mountain; - Soundbite Communications
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SENIOR DBA
Soundbite Communications Bedford, MA 1/2008-Present
-Managed four production Oracle RAC clusters (2 node), largest of which is 8TB, on Red Hat Linux AS4
-MySQL database installation, implementation- including ndb cluster installation, implementation and tuning
-Experience installing and configuring CRS
-Experience installing, configuring and managing ASM (raw devices and ASMlib)
-Experience installing, configuring, upgrading Oracle 10g databases
-Tiered storage implementation using Image Copy backups
-Implemented RMAN database backups to disk and EMC Networker backups to tape
-Configured and utilized Enterprise Manager for managing and scheduling backups, monitoring performance
-Patch application using OPatch for rolling upgrades
-Database restores from disk and tape using RMAN and Networker
-Bash scripting to automate backup jobs, database monitoring
-Vendor Management- purchase new equipment, manage budgets, manage license renewals
-Partition Management of Large tablespaces (creating future partitions)
-Provided 24x7 on call support on a rotational basis
ORACLE DATABASE AND BACKUP ADMINISTRATOR
Ibasis Inc Burlington, MA 8/2006-1/2008
-Managed Oracle 9i and 10g production and development databases on Sun Solaris OS and hardware
-Performed installations, database upgrades, patch applications and schema refreshes (from production to dev) of Oracle databases
-Managed backups including: full exports, RMAN full and incremental, as well as backups to tape using EMC Networker
-Provided 24x7 on call support on a rotational basi
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ORACLE DATABASE AND BACKUP ADMINISTRATOR
Quorum Business Solutions, Houston, TX 12/2005-8/2006
-Managed Oracle 9i and 10g on Windows and Red Hat Linux
-Managed schemas, instances, users, permissions
-Performed installations, database upgrades, patch applications and schema refreshes
-Managed backups including: full exports, RMAN full and incremental
-Performed monthly restores to verify RMAN backup validity
-Optimization packages including: DBMS stats, STATSPACK
-Client database support
ORACLE AND SYBASE PRODUCTION DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
Houston Chronicle, Houston, TX 12/2002-8/2005
-Managed 2GB Oracle database schema using OEM on Solaris 8 64-bit platform with ASP front end on IIS web server
-Performed database upgrade from Oracle 8.1.7 to 9i, installed patches per Metalink specifications
-Created and maintained a full backup and recovery solution using RMAN for hot backups and archive logs for point in time
recovery, import/export for full database dumps
-Conducted database performance tuning
-Provided 24x7 oncall support on a rotation basis
ORACLE DEVELOPMENT DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
Lexicon Genetics, Inc., The Woodlands, Texas 1/2000-5/2002
-Created/maintained overall database schema for test and production Oracle data marts, used for downloading,
updating and accessing as many as 100 mouse and human sequence databases
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER
IDD Information Services, Waltham, Massachusetts 4/1998-1/2000
-Designed and developed software systems for financial data storage and retrieval.
-Built and maintained financial data loading software.
EDUCATION
MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE – Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts 1998
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE – Chemical Engineering
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 1994