Practice Director
Resume:
ROBERT S. BLACKBURN
Southwick, MA
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Mr. Blackburn has over 20 years of progressive experience solving business problems and enabling technology to be an asset through business and architectural planning, administration and support. He has experience in solution selling, infrastructure architectural planning, implementations and consulting. Mr. Blackburn specializes in strategic architectural infrastructure planning to solve business problems and enable businesses to maximize their technology investment. He is a Solution Architect and has managed a consulting practice specializing in solution architecture, replication, high availability, cloud computing, performance tuning, and administration. He was a pioneer in the Oracle Insight program. This was a strategic, new business development leader role to assist customers via a complimentary, business oriented, non-branded service on how they can initiate and implement technology innovations for performance optimization, profitability improvement, and organizational efficiency. The service provided competitive differentiation while managing risk, streamlining operations, increasing customer satisfaction and improving performance. Prior to joining Oracle Mr. Blackburn worked on delivering custom solutions using Oracle technology in architectural, implementation and administration capabilities. Mr. Blackburn quickly establishes himself as a trusted advisor with clients by understanding business needs and translating them into technology solutions.
Experience
Oracle USA (2004 – present)
Consulting Practice Director (2010 – present), North America
oManage a $9mm per year consulting practice specializing in high availability
oUp to 50% of time spent as a Solution Architect or Executive Project Sponsor
oMet or exceeded forecasts in 10 of last 12 quarters.
oConsists of Oracle GoldenGate, Exadata, System, Performance and Architecture (SPA) Solution Architects, Architects and Engineers.
Consulting Solution Architect, Technical Director (2007-2010), North America
oDesigned a $7mm centralized, shared platform infrastructure to consolidate hundreds of databases in a statewide, multi-agency consolidation that saved $30mm in the first year.
oDesigned the highly available, high performance infrastructure and lead the migration of a 25,000 officer booking and arrest system to that infrastructure that yielded only planned downtime and a 42% performance increase in the first year.
Director, Insight Program (Solution Architecture) (2005-2007), North American Strategic Accounts (NASA)
oWas the first client (Purdue Parma) and then a director (Oracle) in the program.
oLead several Insights that all yielded 30-50% higher sales by understanding customer’s business and offering non-branded solutions.
oLead to higher utilization of all Oracle products and fostered better customer relationships.
oSupported sales professionals met or exceed their quotas.
Enterprise Solution Architect (2004-2005), North America Strategic Accounts (NASA)
oDesigned the platform architecture and led the migration for a statewide Child Support Enforcement System that enabled timely processing of state-issued financing, legal proceedings and federal reporting.
oSupported sales transactions for a digital media company that included moving a key database infrastructure to Oracle from a competitor. From this $1.5mm sale, future sales totaled $8mm in the two following years while reducing costs by 30%.
Purdue Pharma, LP (4/00 – 7/04)
Stamford, Connecticut
Assistant Director, Database Architecture (1/03 to 7/04)
oManaged evaluation of 10g (GRID) and Oracle Internet Directory (OID) for implementation utilizing the Oracle Insight program.
oStarted new group – Data Architecture. Justified the human resource and monetary costs, and grew the group to 5 in less than two years.
oLead infrastructure design and implementation for new manufacturing facility
oSupported all clinical trial projects as business to IT liaison and architect
oApprover for all infrastructure-related FDA validation procedures and documents
oData architect for new adverse event system due to new FDA regulations
Bristol-Myers Squibb (6/97 to 4/00)
Stamford, Connecticut
Principal DBA
oLead DBA responsible for implementing new interface standards for a single data warehouse supporting sales and marketing based on new SAP system. Standards implemented for master data management (MDM), ETL processes and tools and star schema configuration.
oLead architecture design and implementation for largest SAP implementation on Oracle in NA at the time (25,000 users)
oIT liaison for large Enfamil recall with Mead-Johnson
oInterfaced with clinical trial sites and hospitals for study data transmission and replication
Training and Publications:
Exadata Level II Certification (2012)
Project Management Level II (2010)
Value Selling For Oracle Masters (2010)
Mastering The Consulting Deal 101 and 102 (2009)
Solution Architect Master Class (2008)
White Papers
oCapacity Planning and Heterogenous CPU Comparisons (2009)
oFive Year Strategy for Database Platforms including 32-bit or 64-bit / OS choices (2005)
Oracle Master - 1997
Adjunct Instructor, Norwalk Community College (2001-2003)
oTaught three accredited courses, with labs, named Relational Database Design I, II and III
Skills
Solution Architecture, Strategic Planning, Capacity Planning, Business Continuance, Cloud Computing, Discovery, Solution Selling, Consulting Management, Project Management, Oracle Unified Method, Enterprise Architecture, Data Architecture, Performance Tuning including SQL, Database Security, Managed Services, ETL, Data Warehousing, Portal, CRM, Storage, Master Data Management
Technologies
Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Database as a Service (DBaas), Database Replication, Zero-downtime Migrations, Backup/recovery, Exadata, Virtualization, Big Data, SAN, NAS
Software
Oracle Database 10g, 11g and 12c, Active Data Guard, Real Application Clusters (RAC), ASM, AWR, Grid/Cloud Control, GoldenGate, Linux, VMWare, Oracle VM, OBIEE, Application Express, Oracle Clinical, PeopleSoft HCM, Siebel, ODI, EMC Symmetrix/DMX
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