Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB
Resume:
Damian Bowens
Overall * years of experience as an IT Engineer with a strong background in database administration and application design. Excellent team player, lead and mentor, involved in client interactions for scoping, effort estimates, status reporting, and continual support. Work Experience
05/2012 - Present Houston, TX
IT Engineer
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
Key Responsibilities
• Maintain thousands of Oracle databases by working shifts and ensuring 99.999% of availability along with proactive monitoring and steady engagement with customers on HP-UX and Linux.
• Managed user accounts and their profiles to ensure SOX and compliance standards are met.
• Participate in monthly health checks (using tools we developed) and frequently fix production and non-production dashboard issues on OEM.
• Performed binary installations and DB builds for RAC, standalone DBs, and Standbys.
• Performance tuning and deploying bug fixes and patches for Oracle 11gr2, 12c and SAP systems.
• Performed Quality Assurance Tests to ensure DBs were ready to be used for production purposes.
• Developed physical layouts and ensured appropriate builds for Oracle and SQL databases.
• Carry out Business Unit Lead responsibilities such as coordinating project tasks and coordinating RFCs and MTPs with application teams for systems of all criticality.
• University recruiting/new hire talent acquisition. Provided significant contribution to the career event at Texas A&M - reached out to professors and contacts to promote recruitment events.
• Lead Oracle training sessions and mentored for new hires and interns as part of their onboarding process.
Key Achievements
• Participated in the database build war room shifts and collaborated across ITIO teams to progress DB builds, working out of the Houston DC for an extended period to help complete the largest company split in IT history (HPE and HPI).
• Migrated and refreshed data for numerous database environments using the Data Pump Utility (table level, schema level, tablespace level, or entire DB) and RMAN in efforts for TSA Exits within HPE.
• Identified, verified, and performed restores using RMAN on 30+ backups for various Oracle 11g databases (ranging in size from 500GB to 23TB) related to a Tax Data Retention initiative.
• Upgraded various Oracle databases from 11gr2 to 12c (Stand-alone, RAC, and ADG).
• Successfully debugged in-house bash and shell scripts involved with automation, agent installation, database upgrades, and other Oracle functions.
• Completed basic backup/restore and implemented security functions for various applications using MariaDB (MySQL).
• Decommissioned unused DBs and planned capacity changes ahead of time to maintain high availability and help reduce maintenance cost.
• Raised numerous Service Requests with Oracle Support and experienced in using Metalink to resolve bottlenecks in database environments, RMAN issues, and various other incidents. Environment: Oracle 11g RAC, Oracle 12c RAC, Grid Control (OEM), ASM, Data Pump, RMAN, SAP, MySQL, SQL Server 2012 – 2014, SSMS, Visual Studio, TOAD, SQL Developer Oracle, LINUX, UNIX, Active Data Guard (ADG), VMWARE, Oracle Goldengate, Oracle Streams
Summer 2011 Houston, TX
IT-Business Solutions Intern
El Paso Corporation
Key Responsibilities
• Created a cross-reference application for the Gas Use department using ASP.NET, HTML, and SQL
• Conducted data reconciliation for assets of various equipment which would later be ported to Maximo
• Served as a management level logistical team member to acquire a deeper knowledge of the corporations engineering processes and procedures
Environment: SQL Server, SSMS, Visual Studio
*********@*****.***
Houston, TX
Skills & Competences
Oracle 9i – 12c
Performance Tuning
Shell Scripting
Backup & Recovery
Application Design
(asp.net/c#/Java)
RAC Configuration
Technical Expertise
• C#, Java, Python, HTML/XML/CSS, UNIX/Linux,
Qlikview, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10, Oracle 11g, Oracle 12c, Oracle RAC, SQL, SAP, MySQL, MongoDB,
MariaDB, NoSQL
• Experience troubleshooting and re-architecting
mission critical applications in production
• Experience working with a variety of database
technologies including RDBMS and NoSQL
• Experience designing and deploying web
applications using ASP.NET MVC framework
Education
B.S Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University College Station
Professional Affiliations
• Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Black Employee
Network (BEN)
• Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Young Employee
Network (YEN)
• National Society of Black Engineers, Texas A&M
Chapter (NSBE)
• Maximizing Educational Development through
Academic and Leadership Skills (MEDALS)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE)
Interests
Religion Music Production Health & Fitness Fashion Mobile Technology/App Design Sports Travel
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