OBJECTIVES

As a software professional in this ever-changing world full of human ingenuity, I aspire to serve an industry where I can utilize my abilities, skills and knowledge to be associated with an organization which offers professional growth while being resourceful and innovative. As a very fast learner with the ability to work as a team or on my own with little or no supervision, I always want to associate with a company that will maximize my abilities and help me grow with them.

PROFESSIONAL / WORK EXPERIENCE

Oracle Database Administrator - DataSecure Consultancy

From October 2016-May 2018 (Contractor)

24X7 production database and application support

Coordinating with team members

Installed, configured and maintained Oracle 11g and 12c

Restoration and recovery of database at the time of occurrence of critical failures.

Configured and updated Oracle 11g to 12c

Experience in performing point in time recovery

Designed, implementation and monitoring of Backup and Recovery activities using RMAN and Export/Import data Pump utilities and manual methods

Creates scheduling jobs with crontab

Responsible for installing, upgrading, patching and configuring the Oracle environment

Automated hot backups using a combination of incremental, differential and full RMAN backups

Written scripts for the automation of backups and cloning

Performance tuning

Involved with installation and maintenance of Oracle 11g RAC and 12c RAC

Installation of RAC Database supported by ASM and Data Guard.

Oracle Database Administrator- Westmoreland Sales

From June 2013 - July 2016

Works 24 7 Production Database environment and provide on call and day to day support.

Installed and configured Oracle 10g and 11g on Linux

Upgrade several databases from 10.2.01 to 10.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.4 to 12.1.0.2

Works with the production support team to maintain consistency and efficiency

Apply Oracle Critical Patch Upgrade(CPU) patches on our database quarterly

Use RMAN duplication command to clone/refresh development database from production.

Restoration and recovery of database at the times of occurrence of critical failure

Implementing Oracle Database backup and Recovery solution using RMAN and manual methods.

Knowledge of RAC setup and Experience in RAC environment mostly Oracle 11g.

Create and managing the ASM databases.

Create database and documents procedure to migrate and refresh databases between the development and production environment.

Use Oracle Transparent Data Encryption to encrypt tables and tablespaces that contains PII data.

Use RMAN to perform migration and database recoveries when necessary.

Use flashback technology to restore database and tables as needed.

Perform various DBA Maintenance task such as rebuilding indexes, validating constraints, reorganizing tables using the move command.

Switchover and switchback between primary and standby database during disaster

Performance tuning of the Database

Seaboard Foods Inc.

From March 2008 -September 2011

Internship

EDUCATION

University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Bachelor of Science

Agricultural Technology

Mechanization and Irrigation Technology Option

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Extensive experience in Oracle Database Administration

Experience in Oracle 10g,11g and 12c

Good understanding of oracle 12c new features

Experience in Oracle Data Guard, Oracle real Application Clusters(RAC) ASM and CRS

Expert in Oracle Enterprise Manage 12c and 13c

Hands on installation of Oracle 10g,11g and 12c on Red Hat Linux and windows.

Highly experience in oracle database running on windows and Linux

Database Installations

Oracle architecture

SQL Plus

User Security

Good experience Oracle RAC administration, configuration and patching.

Experience in Database backup, cloning using RMAN

Expertise in Logical backup using oracle utility Data Pump Export& Import

Networking

Disaster Recovery

Red Hat Linux

Backup & Recovery

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Oracle ASM

Cloud Computing

Expansive experience in Dataguard configuration, implementing and maintaining standby database

Experience in Performance Tuning

LANGUAGE

English

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