Terry Overby
**** ******** **** *****, *******, Texas 75043
214-***-**** ***********@*******.***
www.linkedin.com/in/tloverby
Profile
Versatile Oracle Database Administrator with extensive experience in a variety of Oracle 12c/11g/10g/9i/8i database configurations. Provided 24x7 production and development support including backup & recovery and high availability solutions. Identified problems and developed solutions for 24x7 database operations of critical environments.
Experience Summary:
Oracle 11gR1/R2 DBA with 10+ years of RAC (CRS and ASM), non-RAC experience.
Oracle 10gR1/R2 DBA with 13 years of RAC (CRS and ASM), non-RAC experience.
Oracle 11g/12c OEM GRID experience with 6 years 11g and less than a year 12c.
Over 25 years of IT experience with 18 years of Oracle DBA support and 5 years of Oracle development support.
Strong in large database administration, installation, configuration, patching, database performance tuning and security management.
Proficient in Backup & Recovery (RMAN), export/import and data pump.
Proficient in UNIX shell and cron scripts and Oracle Scheduler.
Proficient in database upgrades/migrations/hardening and conversions.
Proficient in SQL, PL/SQL (DBMS_*, UTL_*), Oracle utilities, other DBA tools (Quest TOAD, etc.).
Experience with Data Guard (Physical & Logical Standby DBs).
Experience with Oracle Streams (10g, 11g) and Advanced Replication (8i, 9i)
Experience with DBMS_JOB, DBMS_SCHEDULER packages and cron jobs
Limited experience with SQL tuning.
Some experience with Golden Gate replication and version upgrades.
Some experience installing Oracle E-Business Suite 11i and R12.
Technical
Databases: Oracle 12c, 11g, 10g, 9i, 8i and 8 mostly OLTP.
Other Oracle Products: Oracle 11g/10g Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Clusterware (CRS), Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Enterprise Manager GRID Control 12c/11g/10g, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Web Center, APEX and E-Business Suite 11i and R12.
Oracle GoldenGate 11g: No on-the-job experience. GG 11g was downloaded/configured on VMWare Workstation. One-Way and Two-Way replication was configured and run between Oracle 11g-Oracle 11g and Oracle 11g-Oracle 10g databases. Setup scenarios to test disaster recoveries and migration replication.
Other Applications / Utilities: Microsoft Office Suite, PuTTY (Secure telnet client), Quest TOAD,
Microsoft Remote Desktop / Terminal Services and ESRI ArcSDE (9.x) / VMware Workstation
Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX, Windows NT, Windows 2003/2005/2008 and OpenVMS
Programming Languages: Oracle SQL*Plus and PL/SQL, Unix Shell scripting, Tcl/TK, HTML and JavaScript
Security Clearance: TS eligibility, adjudicated for SCI access based on SSBI dated 12/08/06 (Exp: 11/1/2011)
Professional Experience
One Network Enterprises March 24, 2015 – February 28, 2017
Oracle DBA Dallas, TX
Oracle Database Administrator
Created/Maintained 40+ production and 70+ development databases (11gR2 (11.2.0.4), some 10gR2 (10.2.0.4)) on CentOS Linux and VMWare in Dallas and North Carolina Data Centers.
oAll databases used ASM storage and pure snapshots were used for backups.
oAll production databases had physical standby and some logical standby databases.
oDatabase refreshes of development database were done with pure refreshes.
oPerformance tuned the databases; applied quarterly CPU patches.
oWorked with users and their applications during the acquisition and after in production.
oWorked with developers for special projects and other modifications.
GRID Control
oInstalled 12c GRID Control and worked with other DBAs to configure/monitor.
Cisco Systems April 16, 2012 – March 13, 2013
IT Department (12 month contract with Insight-Global) Richardson, TX
Oracle Database Administrator
Created 2-node 11gR2 RAC cluster
oConfigured database backups for both RMAN and Data Pump
oVerified all daily database backups
oConfigured database control
oAssisted in installation of BMC CLM
oFully documented complete process
Created Virtual 11gR2 databases on Oracle Enterprise Linux for off-site deployment.
oConfigured database backups for both RMAN and Data Pump.
oVerified all daily database backups.
oPerformance tuned the databases.
oConfigured database control.
oWorked with users and their applications during the acquisition and after in production.
oWorked with developers for special projects and other modifications.
oFully documented configuration/cloning process.
GENBAND November 19, 2010 – January 20, 2012
IT Department (14 month contract with Nacent) Plano, TX
Oracle Database Administrator
Created 50+ databases (11gR2, 10gR2 and 8i) on Linux and Solaris to assist in moving the data operations of recently acquired business to the Plano data center.
oConfigured the database backups both RMAN and logical.
oVerified all daily database backups.
oConfigured/Monitored Oracle 11g Streams for many of the databases.
oPerformance tuned the databases.
oWorked with users and their applications during the acquisition and after in production.
oWorked with developers for special projects and other modifications.
GRID Control
oRe-installed 11g GRID Control and configured to monitor not only my support databases but the 11 application databases for E-Business Suite 11i and R12.
oCompleted 12c GRID Control installation/configuration.
Assisted application DBA with R12 installation, 11i to R12 upgrade, some patching and cloning 11i and back-filled for application DBA when required.
Leon County June 2010 – June 2010
MIS Department (40-hour contract) Tallahassee, FL
Oracle Application Database Administrator
40-hour contract to upgrade/configure AIX 10g GRID Control software to 11g.
Raytheon December 1996 – April 2010
Defense Contractor Garland, TX
Senior Software Engineer II (Senior Database Administrator)
Provided database support on multiple programs and customers from proposal to delivery. Provided after-delivery 24x7 support on site and remotely. Provided expertise in Linux, Solaris and OpenVMS Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g Deployments, Data and Application Migrations and Upgrades. Responsible for database administration, application workload testing, integration and data migration and general problem solving. Conducted planning and architecture assessments on backup and disaster recovery solutions including RMAN and Data guard. Extensive expertise in the implementation of Oracle 11g and 10g RAC solutions on Linux and some on Solaris.
Successfully performed more than 60 Oracle 11g/10g RAC / ASM / CRS / RMAN / GRID implementations.
Also created/administered 9i, 8i, 8 and 7 databases on Solaris, Red Hat Linux and Digital VAX-VMS platforms..
Provided concurrent support to several 24x7 and IR&D database systems.
Trained system and software engineers in Oracle database basics. Mentored junior database administrators in current and new Oracle technologies.
Converted several legacy Oracle Forms/Reports applications to a web-based solution and instrumental in developing and deploying a web-based discrepancy reporting system in CONUS and OCONUS.
Education
Master of Arts - Actuarial Science, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) - Database Administrator
Oracle 10g DBA
Oracle 9i DBA
Oracle 8i DBA
Oracle 8 DBA
Six Sigma Specialist (2008)
Professional Affiliations
DOUG (Dallas Oracle Users Group)
DFW DAMA (The Data Management Association)