Haytham Suliman

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Ellicott City MD 21043 adea7h@r.postjobfree.com 650-***-****

Sr. Oracle / Linux / AWS Administrator

Current Active Top Secret / CI Polygraph

SUMMARY:

●Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) 8i/9i/11g in database administration, design and development.

●More than seventeen years of experience in database administration, design (Physical & logical), development of Oracle 12c/11g/10g/9i/8i/8.0 with focus on Migration, RAC, DATAGUARD, Golden Gate, Exadata, RMAN with EMC Avamar 6.1, VERITAS, TSM in AWS Cloud, VMware and under Linux, AIX, HP-UX 11.0, Solaris 2.7 environment handling both production and development databases.

●Expert in handling both production and development database environment of various databases on multiple platforms

●Experience in UNIX (AIX, Solaris, Linux and Tru64) Windows, VMware. Oracle 12c/ 11g/10g/9i/8i/8.x – Installation and configuration of Oracle and large databases on VMware and UNIX (AIX/ SUN/HP) and Admin. Functions,security Planning, Creation of Database, Physical Database Configuration and Disk Space Layout Planning using NAS (Netapp F820, EMC Symmetrix 8000 series) & SAN (IBM & SUN Blades), NetApp storage.

Education Qualification & Certifications:

CASP 2018

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) 2018

Oracle Certified Professional 11g 2012

VMware Sales Professional (VSP 4) 2010

VMware Technical Sales Professional (VTSP 4) 2010

IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL v3) 2010

NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA) 2010

Masters in Computer Information Systems, UOP, San Jose CA, USA 2005

Oracle Certified Professional 9i - 2003

Oracle Certified Professional 8i – 2002

Sun Java 2 Certified Developer – 2001

Sun Java 2 Certified programmer – 2001

AA Integrated Avionic Technology – 1997

Bachelors in Computer Science, AAST, Egypt 1996

Awards & Achievements:

●US Air Force Achievement Medal

●US Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal

●Southwest Asia Service Medal

●US Armed Forces Service Medal

Professional Experience:

Dan Sources / RightStone / InfoParaTech Inc.

Linux Administrator 09/2019 to 03/2020

Responsibilities

●Administer and manage systems (RDS, Linux instances, Oracle RDB) in Amazon AWS cloud

●Completed tickets that involved troubleshooting equipment hardware issues, routing, creating users and create of new VMs. Used commands like realm and adcli to manage Linux servers in AD.

●Upgraded VMware Tools for Linux servers in VMware

●Deploy new release applications to Oracle RDB

●Managed PKI and SSL certificates for Linux authentication, firewall rules using firewalld

●Assisted in maintaining systems in lab environments at various sites in virtual (VMware) and physical servers

●Supported and upgraded applications in Red Hat Linux (JIRA, PHP, Apache, OWL RFTS, Tanium)

●Installed and implemented SALTSTACK in Linux RHEL7. Tested simple SALT

●scripts to query minion servers and create Linux accounts.

●Troubleshot Apache application servers.

●Created checklists and collected audit data for compliance with SOX and PCI certifications.

●Created shell scripts and cron jobs that monitored and reported security issues

NES/CSRA/General Dynamics

Linux / VMware / NetApp Administrator 11/2014 – 07/2019

Responsibilities:

●Install RedHat 7, configure Linux for network, install and configure utilities (salt, Tanium), update antivirus clams).

●Test building Linux containers for developers.

●Managed NetApp storage using tools like onCommand.

●Managed and build VM using VCenter and ESXi CLI

●Managed and administered NetApp storage.

●Managed Active directory and DNS servers.

●Configured VPN in Palo Alto and CISCO switches and configured VLANs in switches.

●Documentation

InScopeInternational / PRISM / LSi Washington D.C

Sr. Oracle DBA / VMware / NetApp Administrator 04/2010 – 09/2014

Resposibilities:

●Coached and sponsored junior to mid-level DBAs for the HR Department of State team. This includes developing step by step work documents, training, day to day guidance.in troubleshooting.

●Assisted in architecting and developing high level HR projects including upgrade of all the backend systems from 9i to 11g, setup central monitoring 11g Grid Control for mid- tier and backend systems,

●Business continuity and disastrous recovery using EMC VPLEX and SRDF, develop a program to refresh DEV, TST databases from production databases on daily basis.

●Developed and architected backup programs for all productions databases using OSS in ASM

●11g RAC installation on ASM

●Implemented Oracle Wallet for TDE (Transparent Data encryption).

●Provided proposals and developed new methods and work processes to streamline periodical release and scheduled maintenance resulting in cut of costs. This includes automation of routine work, study and analyzes of legacy systems and provided alternative solutions that cut costs in terms of time and efforts.

●Design VI solutions for DoS data center

●Install/configure/ tune VMware products.

●Install, configure and tune ESX hosts

●Upgrade ESX software

●Apply patches and firmware

●Assemble, rack and install HP c7000 BladeSystems enclosures, blades and hardware.

●Configure HP blades Onboard Administrator, Virtual Connect, FlexNet NICs and FC modules.

●Troubleshoot HP blades, remove and replace parts

●Perform on-call duties

●Update passwords

●Create, customize, deploy and manage VMs

●Install, configure and test 11g Oracle RAC in virtual environment for bench mark.

●Work with developers to tune virtual Oracle environments

●Work with Architects to plan and develop transition plans to migrate Oracle databases to virtual environments.

●Respond to customer real world issues and provide suggestions to technical concepts

●Monitor HP blades, VMs and respond to alerts.

●Assist with storage team (Netapp SAN) with applying PKI certificates to Netapp Filers, audit DFS (file shares), monitor scheduled snapmirrors and rack filers

●Watch and Complete tasks submitted in Remedy system, Internal Service Request and requests thru emails.

Qinetic North America / 3HT Technology

Sr. Oracle DBA 5/2009 – 4/2010

Responsibilities:

●Provide database/middle tier systems and application support for Oracle based technologies.

●Researched new 11g Snapshot standby database features.

●Tested migration of 10g to 11g.

●Worked with 10g Grid Control configurations and agent install and deployment.

●Install and configure Oracle 10g databases, Oracle application server 10g.

●Responsible of automating daily DBA tasks using UNIX BASH scripting.

●Maintained and resolved 10g Dataguard issues.

●Assisted with installing and configuring Cognos 8

●Apply database patches.

●Worked and modified PL/SQL code.

●Assisted in maintaining Oracle Forms code in CVS

Environment: Red Hat AS 4.0, IBM blades, SUN Blades, ColdFusion, J2EE, Oracle 11g, Oracle 10g, Oracle Forms 9i, Oracle iAS 10g, Cognos 8

ProQual I.T Rosslyn, VA

Sr. Database Engineer 6/2008 – 4/2009

Responsibilities:

●Supported and managed the US-VISIT (Department of Homeland Security) Enterprise Reporting System Oracle 10g database

●schema release using CVS and Version Manager.

●Worked and troubleshot issues with Advanced Queue (AQ) and automated a Metalink internal note to resolve known AQ orphan objects using PL/SQL.

●Developed scripts in PL/SQL, UNIX shell scripts to facilitate database management.

●Analyzed data, performed code reviews and identified architectural issues by enforcing integrity relationships in the source tables instead of Materialized Views.

●Performed SQL tuning using Explain Plan and suggested query rewrite, using hints and create of indexes to eliminate Full Table Scans.

●Worked with Oracle schedulers

●Worked with release documentation.

●Responded to ad-hoc database requests and resolved various database issues.

Reardencommerce Foster City, CA

Sr. Oracle DBA 6/2007 – 6/2008 Responsibilities:

●Performed senior database administrator duties.

●Planned and developed database management projects

●Setup Dataguard for disastrous recovery plans

●Installed and setup Grid Control monitoring.

●Installed and configured ASM for storage management in LINUX platform for analysis and testing purposes.

●Troubleshot performance issues and developed solutions

●Worked with application and QA team to resolve design problems.

●Analyzed and presented PPT featuring 11g new features.

Yahoo Inc. Sunnyvale CA Sr. Oracle DBA 6/2006 – 6/2007

Responsibilities:

●Worked as the primary Database engineer for Oracle 10g environment for the Yahoo mobile systems (Y! Go) application for mobile devices.

●Setup, installed and configured 10g in RAC environment using NetApp.

●Developed cold/hot backup & recovery scripts using NetApp snapshots.

●Worked closely with system engineer to configure Netapp storage using Netapp System Manager tool

●Developed monitoring scripts to alert, capture debugging oracle data and to automate some of the

●DBA daily routine tasks.

●Setup and worked with AWR reports

●Performed duties of database upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2.

●Managed and worked with 10g Enterprise Manager (Grid Control)

●Performs on-call duty.

●Worked close to developers to tune SQL statements and Applications support

Environment: Red Hat AS 4.0, NetApp, JBOSS, JMS, JDBC, EJB, PL/SQL, Oracle 10g, RAC, 10g EM.

Delphi / MobileAria Inc. Mountain View CA Oracle Database / Application Admin 1/2006 – 6/2006

Responsibilities:

●Worked as the primary DBA for Oracle 10g environment.

●Setup, installed and configured 10g Data Guard.

●Plan, develop and implement disastrous recovery strategy using 10g RMAN scripts for different backup & recovery plans.

●Setup & installed Oracle 10gR2 RAC using Clusterware on Netapp

●Installed, configured and tested ASM for storage management in LINUX platform using raw devices.

●Developed Oracle monitoring scripts for Big Brother Alerts using BASH & Korn shell.

●Setup and worked with AWR reports for tuning

●Performed duties of database upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2

●Installed and configured 10g Warehouse using (OWB)warehouse builder

●Managed and worked with 10g Enterprise Manager.

●Performs on-call duty 24/7 support

●Worked with SonicMQ 6.0 (Java Based messaging system)

●Applications support

●Assisted in Setup Kerberos servers.

Environment: Red Hat Linux AS 3.0, Red Hat AS 4.0, NetApp, JSP, JDBC, PL/SQL, Oracle 9i/ 10g, Windows 2000 Server, SonicMQ 6.0, RMAN, RAC, Oracle 10g Data Warehouse, Unix, Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB), SUN Storage 1000A.

Genentech South SanFrancisco California Oracle Database/ BASH Script 8/2005 - 11/2005

Responsibilities:

●Setup Oracle 8i/9i/10G databases environments.

●Participated in database and application schema architect for the Research environment.

●Worked with Materialized Views and implemented snapshot replications.

●Developed processes to facilitate data loading using transportable tablespace.

●Installed, configured and tested Oracle 9i on RAC (Real Application Cluster).

●Performed database tuning for distributed applications via dblinks using Statspack and SQLTrace.

●Developed and automated applications management using UNIX shell scripts (korn89/ Bash)

●Performed DBA support for Oracle Datawarehouse 9i.

●Troubleshot and worked with Oracle Java classes.

Cisco Systems San Jose CA

Oracle Database / Applications Admin. 4/2004 – 8/2005

Responsibilities:

●Setup, implement, and deploy Oracle Advanced Queuing (AQ).

●Developed and automated processes using PL/SQL for recovering Oracle databases from Advanced Queuing object corruption.

●Troubleshot and debug AQ propagation problems.

●Worked with Oracle support to debug and implement solutions for Oracle bugs and Oracle internal problems

●Setup Oracle 8i/9i/10G databases environments.

●Installed, configured and tested Oracle 9i/10G on RAC (Real Application Cluster).

●Performed database tuning using Statspack and SQLTrace.

●Setup testing environment simulating Production environment to troubleshoot complex enterprise

●Load performance. This involves installation of Perl modules, JDBC connection pooling and setting up and installation of Bea Weblogic 6.2

IBM Burlingame California

Oracle DBA / Unix Admin 10/2004 – 12/2004 Responsibilities:

●Design, setup, networked and configured UNIX servers for a newly built data

●center for WebSphere Integration Team (WBI) (AIX 5.2, Solaris 8, Linux RH 2.4, Linux Suse 9.1)

●Installed and configured HMC for managing AIX servers

●Design, Install & Configure Oracle (9i, 10g) & DB2 8.1 test databases

New United Motors Inc Fremont, California

Oracle Database Administrator / PeopleSoft Admin 08/2004 – 10/2004

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for monitoring and achieving maximum database performance.

●Plan and perform all database configuration, management, monitoring, tuning, capacity planning, data extraction, backup and recovery using RMAN.

●Performed migrations to all PeopleSoft8 backend repositories from Oracle 8.1.7.4 to Oracle 9.2.0.0

●Configured, administered Oracle databases for PeopleSoft8

●Worked with EMC Symmetrix 8000 Series (Control Center v5.1.18.3)

●Migrate Oracle parallel Server (OPS) (Oracle 8.1.7.4/HP-UX) to Real Application Cluster (RAC) (9.2.0.4/HP-UX)

●Apply Oracle patches to upgrade to 9.2.0.4

Charles Schwab San Francisco, California Oracle DBA / Application Admin 04/2004 – 08/2004

Responsibilities:

●Installed, configured and administered oracle (8i, 9i, 10g) and UDB v7.1 and v8.1 databases.

●Worked with Oracle 9i Data warehouse & (Power Center) Informatica 6.2)

●Installed and configured Weblogic and Websphere Application Server

●Installed Veritas Volume manager and Set it up for taking regular backups and recovery.

●Responsible for all aspects of Oracle 9i & 10g Database Administration in a production phase to facilitate 24/7 operations.

●These responsibilities include database configuration, backup and recovery, capacity planning, improving database performance, data extraction, troubleshooting, security, schema maintenance, applying patches and performance tuning.

●Used Encryption wizard to configure & enable data encryption

●Used Parallel query server processing, Tuning tools like EXPLAIN PLAN, SQL Trace, TKPROF, scripts like STATSPACK, monitoring SQL tuning through use of optimizer hints within SQL statements. Reorganized the database to reduce fragmentation, which includes table, index, Synonym etc

●Architected and planned a 3-tier module for the rollout of BMC monitoring and administering tools to more than 240 production and development UDB and Oracle databases.

●Developed Java program and stored procedures to automate the installation and configuration of BMC software. Administered BMC middle tier application server. Used the BMC tools to perform DB troubleshooting, SQL trace and databases tuning.

●Worked with oracle failover and RAC. Used shell scripting to create tarballs as part of the rollout plan for BMC software.

IBM / Trigo Technologies Brisbane – California Sr. Oracle / Unix Administrator 9/2003 – 3/2004

Responsibilities:

●Performed the roles of UNIX administrator and Oracle DBA.

●Installed, configured and tested Oracle 9i on RAC (Real Application Cluster).

●Assisted with the daily maintenance and administration of Oracle 9i on different platforms like Linux, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris.

●Performed Unix Administration activities like creating and managing users accounts, Disk

●Management, Disaster recovery, handling UNIX kernel parameters, file system permissions, startup and shutdown daemons, Automation of data loading process using UNIX crons and extensive usage of UNIX awk, sed scripts and Perl.

●Involved with adding, modifying and promoting database objects through the development environments.

●Performed Oracle 9i/10g and SQL tuning with the development teams.

●Responsible for all aspects of Oracle 9i Database Administration in a production phase to facilitate 24/7 operations.

●These responsibilities include database configuration, backup and recovery, capacity planning, improving database performance, troubleshooting, security, schema maintenance,

●Assisted in installing and configuring PERFORCE and perform control management tasks.

●Installed and configured Weblogic and Websphere Application Server

●Installed Veritas Volume manager and Set it up for taking regular backups and recovery.

●Installed and maintain Oracle security server and setup server side security.

●Worked with ANT and generated configured builds.

●Configured the Standby Database for high availability of the database and Cloning.

●Responsible for building, configuring HP OpenView/Performance Insight

●Extensively used Unix Shell Scripting (Korn shell/Bourne shell/C Shell), CGI-Perl and JSP scripts to automate maintenance and configuration of tech stack components, Cron jobs to automate the backups, monitoring crons, usage of ufsdump, ufsrestore, cpio, and tar. Alerts

●Performed Space management, Defragmentation of the database.

●Implement RMAN backup script for taking Full, Incremental backups.

●Racked, setup and configured Netapp F820 for Oracle storage

ADP Pleasanton, California

Oracle Database Engineer and Administrator 5/2003 – 8/2003

Responsibilities:

●Installed, managed and configured Oracle databases and responsible for 24x7 production support

●Configured and managed Oracle Advanced Security features

●Handled online application downtime problems and worked with IIS 5.0, DNS and Load balancer (BGP).

●Configured RMAN, with TSM for backup, recovery

●Installed, configured and worked with OEM.

●Involved with upgrades, migrations, cloning and performance tuning

●Worked with documentation and change control management.

●Applied online application upgrades.

●Worked with SQL Server management in clustered environment. Platforms used were Solaris, windows 2000 and Windows NT.

●Worked with ETL & Data Mart for Finance Dept.

●The logical data modeling was done after going through the existing system and plans were suggested.

●Created and modified Oracle Schema objects like Tables, Indexes.

●Created Programs in PL/SQL to implement business Logic.

●Installed HP OpenView Performance Insight Manager.

●Extensively used the Entity relationship, Data Flow diagrammer, Repository, Repository reports, Database Transformer etc.

ITRON Spokane - Washington, Software Engineer / QA 3/2002 -12/2002

Responsibilities:

●Performed duties of quality assurance and software testing for power & energy applications.

●Worked with SILK TEST software to develop scripts and harnesses to debug .NET enterprise applications

●Installed, managed SQL Server 2000 for the QA environment

●Experience with identifying and submitting software defects/bugs and categorizing priorities using RATIONAL TEST SUITES.

MEDICALERT Modesto California

JAVA Client / Server Developer 5/2001 to 7/2001

Responsibilities:

●Modeled, planned, developed and implemented a Java client / server solution to maintain medical records.

●Application developed using Enterprise JBuilder 6.0 tools to develop Java SWING GUI components.

●Developed JDBC to interact with PL/SQL code using SQL*PLUS and TOAD.

●Developed web reports using JSP, JServlet and HTML on BEA Weblogic servers for the company Intranet.

United States of America Air Force Fairchild Washington Communication / Navigation Technician 03/1997 – 03/2001

●Military Basic Training.

●OSHA responsibilities for the flight, training, documentation and follow up.

●Performed duties of an avionics technician in KC-135 refueling aircrafts and H1 helicopters.

●Expert in full aircraft maintenance in hangers.

●Honorably discharged

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