Robert T Clista
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Oracle DBA/Oracle App Server Admin
Technical Strengths and Experience:
Performance tuning using TCP/IP and firewall Enterprise
ADDM, AWR and statspack troubleshooting experience Manager/Grid
Oracle 9i,10g,11gR2 App/Web Integration & Control
Bash/Korn/C shell scripting Testing Backup/Restore
UNIX Solaris 10 - 11, IBM using RMAN
Oracle ASM and RAC AIX Hitachi/Nimble
experience Physical/Logical Data Solutions SAN
Modelling using Erwin
Certifications
Security +, Linux +, Secret Clearance renewed on 10/2011
Professional Experience
PowerNet, Cincinnati, OH 2012 - Present
Oracle Database Engineer - DBA (2012-Present)
Established key role as the database engineer who organized and reviewed
current environment that was improperly maintained for over 2 years. Lead
critical meetings to recommend and establish new environment for migration
effort. All this while ensuring database availability, performance
monitoring, backup/recovery strategies, and security/patch updates to
current Oracle 10g database.
Key Projects and Achievements:
Spearheaded major data migration from 10gR2 to 11gR2 database including
changing hardware from AIX to Solaris 11. Consolidation effort of PROD,
TEST, and DEV environments using Oracle Virtual Manager proposed and
implemented.
Steered disaster recovery and backup strategies by implementing Qwest's
Litespeed Engine for Oracle (LEO) backup compression software with RMAN
Maintained and updated current physical/logical data models for development
team
Lockheed Martin Corporation, WPAFB, OH
2010-2011
Senior UNIX Administrator
Temporary contract hire with the objective of updating
and understanding the latest Linux and Unix administration techniques to
augment my Oracle experience. Oracle database studies continued during this
assignment.
Key Projects and Achievements:
Installed and updated new technology insertion of latest generation of
Linux Redhat workstations ahead of schedule
Advised primary DBA on best configuration strategies to implement when
designing Oracle RAC environment and configuring RMAN backup schedules
TYBRIN Corporation, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH 2005 - 2009
Lead Oracle DBA (2005-2009)
Guided database and system engineering to sustain the U.S. Air Force's Job
Cost Accounting System (JOCAS) application to ensure database availability,
performance monitoring, backup/recovery strategies, and security/patch
updates to both Oracle 10g database and Oracle Forms application.
Identified and fixed a major application problem within weeks that had gone
unnoticed and unresolved for over 8 years by prior administrators. Tuned
memory and I/O to boost application performance by 200% when others simply
wanted to buy more hardware.
Key Projects and Achievements:
Led major database and application consolidation effort for JOCAS ahead of
schedule. Resolved web authentication timeout problems, and debugged/fixed
application issues that had gone unresolved for years. .
Authored all UNIX scripts to stop/start the software modules for Oracle's
application server tiers in the correct order needed.
Performed all major Oracle upgrades, patches, and layered software to meet
Air Force security requirements including Solaris UNIX patches
Northrup Grumman Corporation, Wright Patterson AFB, OH 1998 - 2005
Oracle DBA
Fulfilled multiple roles to support production and test databases for four
distinct applications for the U.S. Air Force's Wright Site Financial group
functioning first as a system administrator and later as Oracle DBA
.
Key Projects and Achievements:
Excelled as system administrator for Solaris and Oracle. Conducted a
migration of a VAX application with no prior experience of the VMS
operating system. Revamped system administrator processes and procedures
not fully documented by prior administrator.
Influenced selection of new enterprise system and RAID array hardware to
modernize the environment. Promoted to Lead DBA after successful
migration.
Education and Credentials
Bachelor of Science Degree ? Major in Electrical Engineering
Penn state University, State College, PA
Technical Proficiencies
Platforms Windows 2000-Win7, UNIX, Solaris 7-11, HP-UX, AIX,
: Apache/Tomcat/Jakarta and Oracle 9i/10g app servers, JAVA JRE
5-7, JBOSS, Linux using RedHat/Centos
Software SQL, PL/SQL,HTML,JavaScript, MS Word, Excel, Access, Outlook,
Bash/C/Korn shell scripting, Perl, Oracle 9i thru 11g RDBMS,
Oracle RAC and ASM
Tools Oracle Enterprise Manager, Toad, Oracle 9i thru 11G install
tools, Oracle Grid