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