Kenneth L. Roberts

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Aurora, CO 80014

Objective

A position as an Oracle database administrator. 15 years of Oracle DBA experience. US citizen. No security clearance currently. Willing to relocate. Not a veteran. Not disabled.

Employment History

Oracle Database Administrator Years Employed: 10/2020 - Present

Independent, Remote Contractor, Denver, CO

Oracle 19c database administration in a RHEL environment. Patching, installation, backup and recovery, security, performance tuning, and some scripting.

Also: currently working with Oracle 21c in my home lab, and am working on an AWS Certified Database Specialty (DBS-C01).

Database Administrator Years Employed: 3/2013 – 10/2020

Metropolitan State University of Denver, CO

Hired to fill total gap in database administration for the university, and quickly turned around a chaotic situation. Database administration of multiple, development, test, and production database instances, utilizing RMAN, OEM, and Toad. Bash shell scripting and maintenance. In addition, supported upgrades of the suite of Ellucian products, primarily Banner, and provided Help Desk support for those systems. Supported developers by compiling and helping to debug PL/SQL programs, and provided some GIT administration. Oracle 11g through 19c. Redhat Enterprise Linux environment.

Database Administrator Years Employed: 5/2008 – 10/2012

Cricket Communications, Aurora, CO

Sole DBA for the Cricket telecommunications National Operations Center. Database administration of a clustered, 15TB database instance utilized by Cricket's back-end billing system. Wrote customer retention analysis programs against the DB in PHP. Helped troubleshoot billing issues. Redhat Linux/Oracle 11g.

Database Administrator Years Employed: 3/2007 – 4/2008

Colorado Community College System, Denver, CO

Oracle database administration, primarily in support of the Ellucian suite of products, especially Banner.

Website Developer Years Employed: 11/2006 – 3/2007

America's Job Network, DTC, CO

Website development for this high net-worth job-placement company using the Adobe suite of products.

Database Administrator Years Employed: 10/2005 – 8/2006

Ciber, DTC, CO

Oracle database administration, primarily in support of SAP.

Database Administrator Years Employed: 7/2004 – 4/2005

Department of Revenue, State of Colorado, Denver, CO

Oracle database administration of Microsoft-based instances as well as a CICS/MVS mainframe DB utilizing JCL. Also responsible for report administration and generation.

Database Administrator Years Employed: 2/2004 – 7/2004

Sun Microsystems, Broomfield, CO

As part of the NetConnect team provided typical Oracle database administration services for servers located around the globe.

Database Administrator Years Employed: 10/2005 – 8/2006

Ciber, DTC, CO

Oracle database administration, primarily in support of SAP.

Database Administrator Years Employed: 2/2004 – 7/2004

Sun Microsystems, Broomfield, CO

As part of the NetConnect team provided typical Oracle database administration services for servers located around the globe.

Database Administrator Years Employed: 9/1998 – 10/2000

ING Reinsurance Denver, CO

Database and system administration of both development and production instances in Unix and NT environments. Created and maintained OFA-compliant instances, including backup, recovery, upgrades, and all storage utilization. Provided analysis of corporate mainframe data, and was part of the team that redesigned/modeled the data architecture to a relational model, some in Designer 2000. Worked out details of data transformation and cleansing. Provided technical support to developers and users of the databases. Managed all security and access to the databases. Provided desktop support for all Oracle development tools such as Developer, Designer, SQL*Plus, etc. Utilized SQL*Loader to import mainframe data and wrote the DDL in support of this. Troubleshooting of Network connectivity via Net8. Monitored database usage via Oracle Enterprise Manager. Established all database related standards. Served as both backup and primary Unix system administrator. Purchased and configured Unix systems and related backup hardware.

Education

Degree Earned: BA Years Attended: 1973 - 1976

University of Florida,Gainesville, FL

Technical Certificate (Data Processing) Years Attended: 1983 – 1985

Mid-Florida Technical Institute, Orlando, FL

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