Oracle DBA Management

WESLEY J. GILLIARD

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DIRECTOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER VISIONARY

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Twenty years of experience as an Information Thought Leader who has provided leadership and guidance to coach, motivate, and manage database team members on multiple projects simultaneously across distributed teams on and offshore. In addition to being an Oracle Certified Professional, experienced managing database development and production support across multiple database environments such as SQL Server, Postgres and MySql. Proven database acumen and architecture experience building and managing highly available, critical and transactional data environments, systems architectures and technologies.

TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE

Key Capabilities

Project Management, Cost Reductions, Contract Negotiation, Process Improvements

Certifications

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), Six Sigma Green Belt, Certified Managerial Coach (CMC)

Database Versions

Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Hadoop, Cassandra, NoSql

Applications

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle R12, PeopleSoft, Oracle ERP systems, Rackspace

Operating Systems

AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows, Apple MAC, HP-UX, OpenVMS, VMWare

Languages

Korn Shell, C shell, PL/SQL, Perl

Tools

BMC Patrol

BMC SQL Backtrack

Dimensions PVCS

EMC Powerpath

EMC Replication Manager

Erwin

Exceed

MS Project

Netapps

OEM 12c

Oracle Golden Gate

Quest

Quest SQL Navigator/Lab

RedShift

Remedy AR,

RMAN

Seibels

SolarWinds

Spotlight

SQL Diagnostic Manager

SQL Loader

SQL Server Management Studio,

TOAD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Global Database Systems Manager, Mblox Atlanta, GA 1/2014- Present

Hands on database technical manager with strong project management, time management and problem solving skills.

Manage and oversee multiple development resources in the design, build, implementation of highly available database environments

General production support of production databases, including security, monitoring, space management, database migrations, database and system tuning, database refreshes, backups and restores, and user resource management.

Plan, coordinate and implement security measures to safeguard information against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure.

Built an highly available Oracle RAC environment including Oracle DataGuard and Goldengate

Lead Oracle/Sql Server DBA, LexisNexis 6/2013-1/204

Lead DBA in a production support environment that encompasses several types of databases such as Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server

Manage, deploy, install and support of four node RAC cluster with two node Data Guard active standby databases

Manage, deploy and install Oracle GoldenGate in uni-directional and bi-directional modes

Monitored backup and recovery process via RMAN and 12c OEM (Grid Control)

Developed pl/sql scripts, shell scripting, for performance monitoring and ad-hoc jobs

Experienced in code migration, database change management through various stages of development life cycle

Experienced designing, building, implementing database environments on al OS platforms including VMWare systems

Lead Oracle DBA, TMX Finance 09/2012-6/2013

Provide technical leadership to the DBA team by assisting junior team members and sharing knowledge and research of tools/techniques

Serve as team liaison to project managers for database administration and system administration services

Provide work coordination and management for teams of DBAs, including project lead, project management, task assignment and coordination, and status reporting

Coordinate and drive cross functional project teams, schedule, install, test and deliver contracted products within scheduled timeline and with a high degree of quality and customer satisfaction

Provide support for all Oracle and SQL Server database environments to include problem identification, reporting, tracking, analysis, and resolution

Sr Oracle Database Administrator, AT&T 02/2010-09/2012

Responsible for providing operational database support for databases on many different software levels and versions, utilizing a wide variety of DBMS features, on many different operating system (such as Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP_UX)

Production support DBA for mission critical 24/7 environment which main job function consisted of running daily batch jobs, creating health check scripts, and ensuring accurate and reliable database backups.

Configured one way and bi-directional replication using Oracle Golden Gate

Experienced in performing database backups and recoveries, database disaster recovery, database growth and disk space utilization, database problem analysis and resolution

Installed/maintained multiple node RAC databases using ASM

Sr Oracle Database Administrator, Georgia Technology Authority 02/2009– 12/2009

Responsible for the installation, configuration, tuning and maintenance of RAC database of different releases across several State agencies

Great relationship with developer team and tuned, corrected and promoted their code to development and production environments

Established and ensured compliance with methodologies and standards, including security policies and standardized procedures and controls

Makes data changes/conversion using PL/SQL procedures and shell scripts as well as writing backup and recovery scripts for disaster recovery initiatives

Principal Oracle Database Administrator, Manhattan Associates 05/2007 –1/2009

Experience in code migration, database change management and data management through the various stages of the development life cycle

Developed, tested, and implemented software that are related to databases and/or application

Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures

Database performance optimization and benchmarking

Define and document installation process and scripts for database for product implementations

Support Oracle Applications (Oracle E-business) on multiple platforms

Lead Principal Oracle Consultant, Oracle Corporation 7/2005-5/2007

100% traveling consultant who implemented Oracle Highly Available environments at multiple customer sites around the world

Oracle Consultant who taught mid-level to senior level dbas Oracle technologies such as 10g RAC, DataGuard and Oracle Streams

Often supported customers with database performance issues, RAC issues or DataGuard problems.

Installed, configured, tuned, and implemented 10g RAC solutions on multiple client sites

Installed, implemented physical and logical standby database solutions on multiple client sites

Sr. Database Administrator, Ahold Information Services 11/1999-7/2005

Supported over 2500 (Oracle, Sql Server, MySQL) databases across multiple platforms, size ranging from 500MB to 2TB

Develop RMAN scripts for backup and recovery of databases

Write monitoring/health check scripts to alert team of database uptime/downtime status, sizing issues, which ensured availability 99.98% of the time.

Provide development and production support including on call requirements

Database design/architecture experience using both logical and physical modeling using Erwin Tools

Education:

Masters of Business Administration (MBA) May 2010

Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA

BS Professional Mathematics /Computer Science. May 1996

South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC

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