Oracle Engineer
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*rd Brandon Smith
Oracle DBA at SAIC
Location
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Overview
Current
Oracle DBA at SAIC
Past
Oracle DBA at CRGT, Inc.
Oracle DBA / Security Specialist at General Dynamics IT
Oracle DBA at Unisys
Oracle Developer / DBA at US Marine Corps
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Education
Park University
Oracle University
Strayer University
Recommendations
1 person has recommended Brandon
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Summary
I have 12+ Years experience in Oracle Database Administration. My primary focus is
expanding my knowledge base in Oracle technologies. I am currently focusing on High
Availability and Grid Control in RAC environments.
Specialties
RAC Administration
Grid Control Administration
Oracle Database Administration
Certifications
Certified Ethical Hacker
EC-Council
License ECC954995
October 2011
Oracle 10g Certified Professional Database Administrator
Oracle CorporationLicense PR1047827
February 2012
NetApp Certified Data Administrator
NetApp
License W2Z9ZTC2CJQQ1T17
February 2012
Security+
CompTIA
License COMP001020162749
September 2008Experience
Oracle DBASAIC
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; SAI; Information Technology and Services industry
March 2011 Present (1 year 3 months)
Oracle DBA supporting the Marine Corps Network Operations and Security Center.
Primary duties include backup and recovery administration, ArcSight administration,
security implementation, upgrades and critical patch installations, and general database
administration duties.
Oracle DBACRGT, Inc.
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
March 2007 March 2011 (4 years 1 month)
Oracle DBA supporting the Army Knowledge Online Portal.
Responsible for administering 30+ databases, single instance and RAC instances.
Oracle DBA / Security SpecialistGeneral Dynamics ITDecember 2005March 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Database Security and Administration supporting Army Civilian Headquarters.
Responsible for implementation of two high-availability RAC environments, one on-site and
the other off-site for fail-over purposes. These two eight-node RAC clusters were managed
by 10g Grid Control.
Installed EM agents on Oracle and non-Oracle based hosts for EM management.
Provided customized and canned reports from EM Grid Control.
As part of the security team, was tasked with scanning, reporting, and regular reviews of
security findings within the database environment.
Updated and maintained security documentation for Army Civilian Headquarters.
Oracle DBA
Unisys
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; UIS; Information Technology and Services industry
October 2004 November 2005 (1 year 2 months) Executive Office of the President -
Washington DC
Oracle Database Administration for databases version 8.1.7.4 - 10.2.0.1
Worked with other RDBMS DBA's to support Executive Office applications.
Established Backup and Recovery plans for Presidential and Vice-Presidential databases.
Tuned poorly performing databases using 9i Statspack and Enterprise Manager.
Oracle Developer / DBA
US Marine Corps
Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Military industry
July 1997April 2004 (6 years 10 months)
Oracle Development and junior level Administration for the Marine Corps Institute. Oracle
versions 8.0.4 - 8.1.6 were used.
Designed and administered Retirement Application using Powerbuilder 6, and built
accompanying Oracle 8.0.4 database for the back-end.
Migrated old mainframe and Informix data to Oracle 8.0.4 in support of application re-
writes.
Supported Marine Corps Institute Database activities by creating stored procedures,
functions, triggers, etc. on the 8.1.6 DB.
Brandon has 1 recommendation (1 manager) including:
2nd Aaron Newcomb, Senior Storage Engineer, Strategic Technologies
Education
Park University
19982001
Oracle University
Strayer University
Bachelors Degree, Computer Science; Database Administration
Recommendations For Brandon
Oracle Developer / DBA
US Marine Corps
Brandon has a deep and broad knowledge of Oracle and other technologies, outstanding
customer service skills, and very strong customer presentation. He was a key contributor
to the Headquarters Marine Corps, Manpower Management Support Branch. January 9, 2007
2nd Aaron Newcomb, Senior Storage Engineer, Strategic Technologies
managed Brandon at US Marine Corps
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Birthday:
April 22
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