MICHAEL E. BLANFORD, MBA

*** ******* *****, **. *******, MO 63304

314-***-**** ac5w8b@r.postjobfree.com

SENIOR-LEVEL Oracle DBA

Senior-Level Oracle database and leadership professional with expertise in maximizing resource utilization by optimizing organizational process and infrastructure through motivational management, team building, resource analysis and process improvement.

Innovative strategist with a strong technical background who creates and implements workable solutions for strategic plans to meet key operational targets/goals.

Operational Process Analysis

Customer Satisfaction

Security Compliance

Project Planning/Execution

Strategic Planning and Leadership

Training and Leadership Development

Productivity and Efficiency Improvement

Change Management

Multi-Site Operations

Operational Asset Planning and Management

Problem Solving

Decision Making

Unix/Linux Platform Delivery Leader, Enterprise Holdings, Inc., Clayton, MO

2014 to 2018

Responsible for researching, engineering, automation and deployment of AIX O/S service packs and Oracle PSUs for Oracle 12c, 11g, and 10g databases on AIX across multiple datacenter sites.

Worked with application teams to determine platform capacity needs which included server compute capacity and storage needs to meet necessary database and application performance expectations.

Planned and coordinated server and database migrations and upgrades

Performed database maintenance, resource management and decommission of platform compute resources.

Assisted in defining security roles and standards and implementing security strategy changes.

Planned, strategized, and led projects, group strategy, training, morale, growth, and cost management.

Developed delivery/resourcing strategies to ensure customer deadlines were met or exceeded

Planned, budgeted, and delivered fiscal year forecast of Oracle database licensing and capacity needs across the Enterprise Holdings datacenter environment.

Directed multi-datacenter project to assess, provide roadmaps and implement solutions for clients to maximize usage of datacenter operations resulting in a reduction in need of datacenter hardware and support contracts

Assisted in interviewing and onboarding new engineer and management resources.

Assisted executive level leadership with business transformation initiatives reducing the need for contractual engineering resources by 60%.

Sr. Oracle Database Administrator, Enterprise Holdings, Inc., Clayton, MO

2013 to 2014

Recruited to join an existing team of DBAs in design, implementation and maintenance of production databases and data dictionaries in support and compliance with application specifications. Monitor and implement adjustments to account for database growth, performance, security, and recoverability on a daily basis.

Assembled and led a group of DBAs to create the DDL/DML Lifecycle Process document which provides a standard flow for deploying application development database changes through the multiple database environments.

Led a group, consisting of members of Application Development, Oracle DBAs, Unix Engineers, and Storage Engineers, in migrating the RFS Production Support database to a new server. This effort required proper coordination between the teams in the ordering of storage and memory and modification of existing scripts and scheduled jobs. This migration was the first step in deployment of a larger plan of implementation of a new clone strategy for RFS Databases.

Planned and coordinated the migration of all production and support Rental Financial Systems (RFS) Oracle Databases to ASM storage and upgrade of the Oracle database software during the migration.

Planned and timed the SUR and COR recoveries for ATS and RFS databases. Worked with the overall COR recovery team to ensure the correct timing

Planned and scripted Cross System Refresh of both RFS Databases. Performed refresh of RFSAINT databases while delegating the responsibility of refreshing the RFSQAT database to other members of the DBA team.

Technical Services Oracle DBA, Aclara Technologies, Inc., Hazelwood, MO

2005 to 2013

Hired as Software Support Engineer to act as the application development liaison to the Technical Support group and rapidly progressed to the position of Technical Services DBA providing architecture, support, and performance management for over 300 Oracle databases. Held responsibility for upgrading Oracle software and troubleshooting any Oracle database related errors encountered on customer systems.

Performed investigation of any errors caused by the design of the software and communicated the details of what caused the error, and a potential fix, to the software group.

Conceptualized, wrote, and led the deployment of a database and server monitoring program marketed as an add-on service. The sales of the service reduced the number of support calls due to database and/or software outages and the monitoring service contracts increased Aclara’s annual revenue.

Created and led a group of Technical Support Engineers in performing all server builds, software deployments and upgrades, and database upgrades. I trained all of the group members on how to install and/or upgrade both the Aclara and Oracle software and scheduled and delegated human resources for each project according to customer-required completion date, availability, and workload.

Conducted training sessions for both external customers as well as internal employees to increase knowledge on common database maintenance needs.

Reduced the technical support department travel expenses for system installations and upgrades by 95%.

Bios Tester, Computer Task Group, Raleigh, NC

2004 to 2005

Worked contractually for IBM installing, updating, or uninstalling BIOS onto IBM Blade servers for Functional Verification Tests of different server operating systems including Linux, Unix, MS Windows Server 2000 and 2003

Installed different NIC cards and tested compatibility with the currently installed BIOS

Maintained a documented history of what tests were performed and what ran successfully and what failed during the testing procedures.

Programmer/Analyst, WmsVision, Inc., Morrisville, NC

1997 to 2002

Hired to do C/C++ software development on a warehouse management inventory control program used to perform various warehouse management tasks such as ordering, receiving, inventory movement, shipment and inventory tracking

Began as a six-month contractual employee but hired permanently after 3 months on the job.

Discovered and resolved a long-standing bug in the inventory software which removed the limit on how much data could be stored for an item.

Prime Development and support resource for Toolroom instances of WMSVision software in United States and Canada.

Lead Systems Administrator, Medquist/Transcriptions, Ltd., Durham, NC

1994 to 1997

Hired as part-time evening clerk to monitor and assign transcription work to in-office and at home employees. Quickly transitioned into a member of the systems administration team which performed workstation builds, Novell Network server builds and installations, and local network administration. Ultimately promoted to Lead Systems Administrator which entailed planning implementation, and scheduling installation, of new customer network servers and allocation of human resources based on schedule and availability

Wrote several small software packages to automate several office procedures.

Became the corporate expert on administration of hospital Radiology transcription systems

Reduced the company expenditures on travel by modifying support responsibilities to be based on region.

Education:

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Fontbonne University, St. Louis, MO

BS Computer Science, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC

Certifications:

Oracle 11G Certified Professional Database Administrator (OCP), January 2013

Oracle 10G Certified Professional Database Administrator (OCP), August 2011

Microsoft Windows Certified Professional (MCP), March 2004

Technical Skills:

AIX, IBM Power, IBM DataPower, ServiceNow,Request-IT, Oracle Database Administration, SQL/SQL Plus, Oracle PL/SQL, HP-UX, Toad, Vi Editor, C/C++, HTML, Pascal, IBM Assembler, Basic, MS Windows, MS Word, MS Excel, Visio, MS Powerpoint, MS SQL Server, Dos, some Java and Visual Basic

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