Jack Dectis
Bryan, Texas 77807
ad3qgn@r.postjobfree.com
USA citizen
Looking to bring value with my extensive Oracle Database Administration and UNIX LINUX Systems Administration skills
Experience:
-Over three decades of Unix Linux Solaris Systems Administration and Oracle Database Administration and ancillary development, support, sysadmin, etc
-Extremely good bash scripter. SQL and PLSQL as needed.
-Oracle Data Pump, Oracle Active Data Guard
-Focused on taking ownership of performance and robustness. Very good at sorting performance.
-Also: Solaris sysadmin, Zlinux, HPUX, AIX, UNIX, SCO, porting systems to new hardware architectures.
-Excellent native English, great communicator, great writer
-Frequently asked for help and prioritize those requests.
-Even some AN/UYK!
Experience Highlights:
Current position, Oracle DBA at Blinn College since 2017
Sole responsibility for entire College Oracle Environment, including install, configuration, upgrades, patches and performance.
Propelled Iteration and iterated Oracle databases from 11.2.0.2 to 19.21 ( 19C ). Sorted performance.
Implemented Rman, Dataguard, ASM, performance tuning, general problem solver.
Upgraded Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.10 servers, running under VMWARE, to Linux 7.9. Currently upgrading 7.9 servers to Redhat 8.8 via Leapp.
Installed and upgraded Enterprise Manager to 13.5, running on Oracle Linux server running Oracle Grid Clusterware/Database 19.21
Support variety of ancillary systems including UC4 Automic ( I just upgraded to 9.4.3 ), Financial Aid Interface ( which I completely reimplemented to delete all maintenance effors ), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Banner Operational Data Store (ODS) at version 12.2.1.4 and 9.2.
Small contracts and training 2014 - 2017
Oracle Applications Support, Coast Guard Finance Center, Chesapeake, Va, 2010 – 2013
Implemented Oracle Streams replication to remote site. Streams was the precursor to Goldengate.
Small contracts and training 2007 - 2010
Solaris Administrator at Unisys Corp – 2004 to 2007
Provided support for Sun Solaris / Oracle systems in support of Army Radio Frequency In-Transit Visibility program web and database servers running Apache and Tomcat.
Installed, configured, maintained, corrected problems and analyzed server issues on Solaris 10. Upgraded many development and production servers from Solaris 8 to Solaris 10. Implemented mirroring and Raid 5 with Sun Volume Manager.
Implemented site wide backups using Apple Xraid, ZFS, NFS and a generic script that utilized ufsdump.
Wrote fast server clone/rebuild script. Installed Legato Networker 7.1 and 7.3 for backups to SUN StorEdge L25 tape library.
Installed and tuned Oracle 9i.
Implemented test implementation of Streams Replication in Oracle 9i.
Supported miscellaneous Red Hat Linux servers.
Installed and configured LSI fiber cards into Solaris Servers. Implemented IP over fiber. Administered Qlogic fiber switch. General resource for developers and users with Unix questions.
Education:
Moravian University: BA Business Management with Computer Science Minor
Harvard Business School “Leading with Finance” Certificate Program
Read most anything tech that comes along, as well as most anything else.