Power Plant Engineer
Resume:
Tom Sayers
New Fairfield, Connecticut 06812
Cell - 203-***-****
Email: ******.******@*********.***
Summary
Extensive experience administering database management systems.
Full software development life cycle experience deploying enterprise class solutions for
transportation management, messaging, power station control, inventory/purchasing, and
maintenance management.
Successful experience as a manager, team lead, project manager, and individual
contributor.
Technical Skills
Oracle 10g, Oracle Financials 11i, PL/SQL, Oracle Application Server 10g, C, PL/SQL, SQL,
shell scripting, Solaris 9/10 Administration, Embedded SQL, Perl, Oracle 8i, Subversion (SVN),
Toad, Tortoise, VMS, Linux, Oracle RDB, Oracle Parallel Server, Oracle Replication, Apache,
HTML, Unix, Informix, Oracle Developer Forms and Reports 6i, VMS System Administration,
ETL, data modeling, Pthreads, TCPWare, DECnet, Smartstar, SMTP, Sendmail, PMDF,
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)
Certifications
Oracle Certified Associate for Oracle 10g Database Administration
Professional Experience
CitationShares, Greenwich, CT
Oracle DBA – 3/2008 to Present
Perform Oracle DBA activities including backup, development/qa refreshes, and DDL
execution in production.
Perform Solaris 9/10 system administration duties on systems supporting Oracle
products.
Perform system administration duties for Oracle Financials 11i.
Developed shell scripts to monitor disk health, disk usage, backup completions,
tablespace usage and other routine log checking. Scripts utilize email to distribute alerts.
Reduced manual log checking from 2 hours per day to 5 minutes per day.
Implemented a “poor man's” database standby utilizing a cronjob script that acquires
applies archivelogs to a database instance that is permanently in recovery mode.
Designed Oracle Object code management system that utilizes shell scripts, email, and
Subversion (SVN) to automatically apply Oracle objects (packages, procedures,
functions, etc.) directly from source code library to development and test instances.
Attended Oracle Enterprise Applications 12i System Administration course at Oracle
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University in anticipation of pending 11i to 12i upgrade
MCI/Verizon Business, Rye Brook, NY
Principal Engineer – 12/2004 to 03/2008
Performed Oracle 8i and Oracle RDB DataBase Administration (DBA) duties for
customer registration, traffic reporting, and billing databases. Database system handles
approximately 300k insertions, 300k deletions, and a million plus transactions per day.
Proposed and project managed effort to consolidate midrange server environments
including consolidation of development and test environments.
Participated in system audits by customers from the banking, health care (HIPPA) and
pharmaceutical (FDA CFR Part 11) industries
Managed effort to consolidate 2 revenue producing messaging systems to a single
messaging system. Differences between systems were minimized through software
development. Corporate customer base migration to the remaining system was managed
with minimal customer attrition. Successful completion of effort reduced deployed
application software footprint and streamlined support of messaging business.
Performed third level engineering support for enterprise messaging application.
Designed, developed, and deployed a reporting system for customer service using
Apache, Perl, mod_perl2, DBI::Oracle, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and SSL.
MCI/Worldcom, Rye Brook, NY
Manager – 5/2000 to 11/2004
Managed group of 6 senior software engineers who maintained a messaging system that
generated $20 million of revenue per year on a 24x7 basis. The messaging system
provided FAX and Telex services for banks, and other multinational corporations.
Led $1 million effort to upgrade production and testbed messaging systems from VAX to
Alpha with a resultant 500% increase in message handling capacity and an annual
maintenance expense savings of $200k per year.
Acted as primary interface with external software/hardware vendors to acquire equipment
and arrange for software and hardware maintenance services. Annual expenditures on
software and hardware maintenance exceeded $1 million per year.
MCI, Rye Brook, NY
Senior Software Engineer - 1/96 to 4/2000
Led effort to web enable a messaging product using Oracle Forms, Oracle Application
Server and Oracle 8 database.
Monitored system capacity and provisioned systems to meet increasing loads.
Responsible for Y2K remediation effort of messaging host application (285,000 lines of
C and SQL code).
Implemented alternative method of providing short term message storage which greatly
increased system capacity without additional hardware costs. Participated in design,
coding, and implementation.
Led 8 member team in the development of an Object Storage Server in a Solaris Sparc
environment using Informix database, C language, and the multi-threading capabilities
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of Solaris (pthreads).
Reconciled billing issues with Billing department for major customer accounts.
Implemented Oracle RDB journal fast commit optimization and Oracle RDB database
upgrade. Optimization led to 40% improvement in database row insertions allowing for
increased traffic without increased cost.
MCI, Rye Brook, NY
Software Engineer - 8/93 to 12/95
Led team that ported messaging host code from VAX C to DEC C.
Provided guidance on SMTP project for link to legacy MCI-mail using SENDMAIL
Message Transfer Agent (MTA).
Completed conversion of Messages database to multi-process updates. Project included
use of database table partitioning which greatly reduced lock contention between multiple
processes. Realized 900% increase in database row insertions verses old methodology
thereby increasing system capacity.
Implemented a network authorization system for MCI-mail link from messaging host
application using TCP/IP socket services.
Provided a message traffic simulation program which was used to benchmark database
performance improvements.
New York Power Authority, White Plains, NY
Senior Systems Engineer 1/88-8/93
Responsible for software improvements and system manager support of the Niagara Power
Project Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system. System provided real-time control
of $1 billion plus of power plant equipment and billions of dollars of electrical power
generation.
Designed and implemented control software modifications at a power plant which resulted in
an increase in generation efficiency of Niagara Power Plant pump-generator units. Increased
efficiency yielded higher electrical output and reduced equipment wear.
New York Power Authority, White Plains, NY
Systems Engineer 3/85-1/88
Design, developed and implementation a computerized maintenance management system for
two power generation plants.
Implemented inventory and purchasing computer systems at three power generation plants.
Responsible for post-installation software modifications of these systems.
New York Power Authority, White Plains, NY
Intern 7/84-3/85
Provided FORTRAN coding for Nuclear Power Plant modeling programs.
Education
M.S., Computer Science, Iona College
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B.S., Physics, Iona College
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