Glenn Freeman
DBA / Exadata Engineer
214-***-**** / ad318t@r.postjobfree.com
Glenn has over thirty-five years of experience in all phases of design, development, testing, integration and implementation of complex systems and applications. He has worked for multiple major corporations directly provided public and private sector system solutions for telecommunications products and services and a variety of government applications including processing and warehousing satellite ground station data. His areas of expertise include database design, development, integration and deployment utilizing Oracle engineered Exadata and Super Cluster systems. Glenn is adept at working within, facilitating, or managing team environments implementing database solutions including post-delivery operational support and performance tuning of database systems. He has database team management and technical application development experience.
Security Clearance
Top Secret SCI with Polygraph.
Education & Certifications
2022 OCI Foundations Associate Oracle
2018/2021 Security Plus CompTIA
2000 University Of Texas At Arlington (UTA) Arlington, TX Masters of Computer Science
1989 Rollins College Winter Park, FL
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
1985 Community College of the Air Force Tinker AFB, OK
Associates Degree Data Processing
1975 Penn High School Mishawaka, IN
Professional Experience
Oracle 11g, 12c and 19c RAC
EXADATA
Federal Government
05/2013 – Pres
Exadata Engineered systems installation and configuration. Member of a team installing and maintaining Exadata, Exalogic, Supercluster systems and Oracle Database Appliance. Providing services to include data migration, systems installation, and database upgrade and patching activities. Providing post implementation performance and tuning, backup and recovery strategies along with implementing tiered storage solutions employing ZFS storage appliances for systems expected to grow to several petabytes in size. Worked on several Exadata Systems to achieve security hardening, vulnerability scanning, reporting and mitigation using DISA / Nessus STIG Security Scanning products and procedures. Worked projects to implement database solution in AWS VMs building databases in EC2 or RDS environments.
Oracle 10-12c RAC
EXADATA
Federal Government
05/2008 - 05/2013
Satellite Ground Station Data: Team leader and senior technical Database engineer for a large company for 5 years providing services to the federal government during development, integration and deployment efforts for VLDB databases. These databases supported the warehousing of satellite data. Upgraded databases from 10g to 11g and the implementation of data conversion to Exadata platforms for development, testing and productions environment. System employed ASM, Spatial, Oracle Text and partitioning with OLS and OID in a RAC HA environment with databases consuming 30-40 Terabytes of storage. Engineers and lead the effort to upgrade one Full Rack Exadata X2-2 machine from High Performance disks to High Capacity disk drive expanding the ASM capacity of the machine.
Database Development Oracle and Non-Oracle
Telecom Industry
05/1989 – 05/2008
PeopleSoft HR and Financials: Worked 19 years as a Database Administrator and Engineer for a major telecommunications company utilizing ADABAS, Versant ODB and Oracle. Twelve years using Oracle products between 1996-2008. Providing direct support for PeopleSoft databases across the enterprise while working with other corporate proprietary databases supporting Sales, Customer Service and Billing applications. Worked through Oracle version 8i, 9i and 10g employing RAC, ASM and OLS feature sets.
Application Devel and Deploy
USAF
08/1980 – 05/1989
Application design, development, testing and deployment: Glenn served 15 years active duty Air Force of which 9 years where directly related to applications development of communications systems using a variety of languages including ADA.
Skills Summary
Oracle Platform and Architecture
Oracle 19c,12c,11g and 10g
Real Application Clustering (RAC)
ASM
Exalogic
ZFS Storage Appliance
Oracle Database Appliance
High Availability
OID and OLS
EXADATA
Super Cluster
StorageTek Tape Systems
Non-Oracle Databases
DB2 OS390
ADABAS
SQL Server 2003, 2008
Versant Object Database
Hardware & Operating Systems
Windows NT, 2000
Solaris and AIX
HP-UX
OEL and Red Hat Linux
Programming Languages
SQL
Java
Unix scripting
C and C++
COBOL
ADA
Engagement Experience
Applications Development
Data Conversion
DB user Authentication and Authorization with OID
Testing
Database Performance and Tuning
Production Support Team Training
Database Security with OLS
Database Compression and Encryption
Configuration
Project Management
Other Accomplishments
Military Service
38 years of military service (Retired AF in 2013).
15 Years Active Duty USAF
23 Years of Service In Air National Guard