Project Management Secret Clearance

CHRISTINA FERGERSON TAPIA Phone: 240-***-**** Email: ***************@*****.***

Ms. Fergerson has over 20 years of experience in the development, testing, administration, and deployment of web-based applications and product releases performed in virtualized environments. 15 years of her experience has been performing and managing Sybase, MySQL and Oracle databases and three tier mission critical projects. Ten years of Ms. Fergerson’s experience has involved serving as a lead for enterprise-wide configuration management and application development related projects.

CLEARANCES

Active Top Secret clearance, DoD issued.

Active SCI clearance, NSA issued.

EDUCATION

M.S., Management Information Systems, Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland

B.S., Business Management, Decisions Information Sciences and Statistics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

CERTIFICATIONS

PMP (Project Management Professional), 9/2006 to Present

*Scheduled to test for CISSP in May 2025

Project Management Training

Business Essentials for IT Professionals PMP Exam Preparation Boot Camp

Project Management Skills PMBOK 4 and 5

Agile Management

Database and System Management Training

Apache Spark Programming Apache Spark Advanced Programing

CISSP Bootcamp NoSQL Data Stores: MongoDB, Redis and Cassandra

Sun Solaris System Administration Sybase Database and System Administration

Oracle Performance and Tuning Sybase Advanced Administration

VERITAS Volume Manager Sybase Understanding Indexes

Oracle Server: Database Administration Sybase Troubleshooting

Data Structures Sybase Replication Server

Performance Tuning: Configuring ASE 15 Sybase Replication Masters

Sybase Powering Up to ASE 15 Sybase Powering Up to Replication 15

Hardware Experience: Iaas, Paas Unix IBM AIX, HP-UNIX, Sunfire E15000, V240, V880 and V890, SUN Storage Edge A5200 and 3510, Sun Server 4270, Sun 7140, Isilon, Storage Appliance and Backup Accelerator, StorageTek SL500, and Quantum Tape Library

Software Experience: Saas, MongoDB, VmWare, Weblogic, MS Project, MySQL 5.5, MySQL Workbench, Oracle Oracle Enterprise Manager, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Sybase Central, Sybase Advantage, Sybase Replication, Sybase Openswitch Sybase EA Server, Power Designer, PCVS for Unix Razor, Cognos Powerplay, Erwin, DbArtisan, VERITAS Netbackup, VERITAS Volume Manager, VMWare, Eclipse, Jenkins,PHPAdmin, Apache Tomcat, Pentaho, Coldfusion, Tableau, AWS RDS, AWS DB Dynamo, AWS EC2, AWS S3, Github, Git, Linux, Unix, PL/SQL, T-SQL., SQL, Serena, Redmine, Subversion, Ansible

EXPERIENCE

November 2014 to Present Contemplate Solutions, LLC

Lead Database Engineer/DBA, As a Lead Database Engineer, I developed mission critical information systems and surveyed product selections in preparation for consolidating national database facilities to regional data centers, these projects were managed following Project Management Life Cycle principles and within the PMI framework. All projects required project initiation, planning, execution, and control and closing processes, analysis of complex business requirements, risk and resource management, development of project schedules, identification and mitigation of project risks and quality assurance of project deliverables. The following tasks performed include:

• designing and implementing a disaster recovery infrastructure via Sybase Replication for COOP and disaster recovery and provided guidance in authoring procedures for failover and standby/test procedures

• leading deployments to incorporate change management, directives, schema changes, security requirements and performance enhancements to production systems, bug and issue detection and versioning via Redline, Github, Git and Anisble

• improving production performance by employing resource limits, multiple temporary databases, additional CPUs and RAID requirements and versioned controlled releases via Serena and Git bases on DOD and DODAF policies and enforced SOX standards.

• authoring weekly reports to management and external clients on system availability and contractual uptime commitments, reconciled findings for security anomalies for external clients

• resolving issues and maintained applications on data, application and web tiers including active to active High Availability (HA) cluster, Tomcat, and Cognos, performed vulnerability assessments through monitoring auditing and systems logs, installed patches STIGS, OSDRP startup and shutdown procedures for for critical database systems.

• monitoring System Monitor and MDA tables, identified deadlocks and errors through automated alerts and error logs, repaired fragmentation, data corruption, page linkage errors using various DBCC commands and data reallocation methods

• performing quality control of technical documents through technical reviews and Work Product Reviews

• architecting the disaster recovery/fail-over strategy for all database application servers including planning disaster recovery and COOP fail-over for all IT systems. Configured database resources like JDBC Providers, Data sources, and security resources providing connectivity to Oracle 12, MySQL and SQL Server databases.

• leading unit and system integration testing, pre-production staging and production three tier system deployments to include web, application and database tiers.

• analyzing user requirements in order to determine scope, develop implementation strategies and manage user expectations and capacity planning.

• establishing and maintained the backups and AWS/RDS snapshots, log archival, auditing and load balancing coding shell scripts and cron for system schedule management

• designing, testing and developing database products as required by upper management clients in a Linux environment for mission critical projects; ensuring database, web and application systems are unit and integrated tested, deployed and delivered in a timely manner; performing snapshots and monitoring space capacity and data growth via AWS RDS; created data lakes and integrated/incorporated ETL via R/Shiny; utilized AWS EC2 and S3 to establish and monitor availability zone load balancing of database server clusters migrate relational (SQL and T-SQL) and NoSQL databases AWS cloud computing environment (RDS, DB Dynamo and EC2)

• using multiple database products including MySQL and SQL Server to develop and code ingestion systems and data transfers to mission critical production databases; used multiple database products to design, develop and integrate management rollup metric widgets and application in a test, development and production environment for upper echelon management

• engineering and integrating software with various PHP tools and and database-centric solutions via events, triggers and routine for data analytics and metrics rollups using MySQL and PHPAdmin; planning and developing trigger and routine logic and performing unit testing for timely deliverable of code for integrated testing and production; established uses access controls, updated data extracts and created, tested and integrated dashboards for data visualizations using Tableau

• architecting data flows from ingestion to live systems; data modeling to convey database logical design, documenting database physical design and maintaining ER diagrams and data dictionaries to reflect changes to schemas

• establishing and enforcing security measures and access controls for database servers and database schemas through use of user accounts, views, groups, aliases and role creation, MFA authentication methods along with authorizing and revoking database privileges as required

• providing assistance with MySQL database and system monitoring and performance tuning assessment through identifying proper index usage and optimization, view creation and database and system configuration; managing version control and code tracking utilizing Subversion as a part of the IDE Eclipse tool; utilized Kubernetes version control, change management and managing deployments

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April 2014 to November 2014 SITEC, Inc.

Senior Database Engineer, As a Senior Database Engineer, I am the lead for all database and web development projects. I am responsible for providing overall direction, guidance and scheduling to database mission critical agile application development and deployment to production systems. Reporting to client to provide project's progress and anomalies. The following tasks performed include:

• gathered and implemented project requirement for database design, development and implement timely and quality products as directed by the client; provided cost analysis for software and hardware to sustain project data growth and evolving needs

• designed, tested and developed database products as required by upper management clients in a Redhat Linux environment for mission critical projects; ensuring database, web and application systems are unit and integrated tested, implemented and delivered in a timely manner vi CI/CD

• Utilized database products including Oracle, MySQL and Sybase ASE, IQ and Replication to develop and code ingestion systems and data transfers to OLTP mission critical production databases; used multiple database products to design, develop and integrate management rollup metric widgets and application in a test, development and production environment for upper echelon management.

• provided assistance with MySQL database and system monitoring, auditing and performance tuning assessment through identifying proper index usage, view creation and database and system configuration; managing version control and code tracking utilizing Subversion as a part of the IDE Eclipse tool

• coded and integrated software with various tools PHP and database-centric solutions via events, triggers and routine for data analytics and metrics rollups using MySQL and PHPAdmin. Planned and developed trigger and routine logic and performing unit testing for timely deliverable of code for integrated testing and production

• architected data flows from ingestion to live systems; modeled and documented database design and maintaining ER diagrams and data dictionaries to reflect changes to schemas

• established and enforced security measures and access controls for database servers and database schemas through use of user accounts, views, groups, aliases and role creation along with authorizing and revoking database privileges as required

• established and authored guidelines and policies for database administration and maintenance, unit testing and deployment from test to production platforms

February 2013 to March 2014 ICS-NETT, Inc.

Lead Database Engineer As a database engineer, I am the lead for all database projects. I am responsible

for the design of the overall database architecture which interfaces with Tomcat and Apache, JAVA applications, SQL embedded web services and JavaScript user interfaces. The following tasks performed include:

• established security measures, installation and configuration of Pentaho ETL software, ETL development via Pentaho Data Integration software, function, procedure, cursor and trigger development for metrics configuration of Pentaho ETL software, ETL development via Pentaho Data Integration software, function, procedure, cursor and trigger development for metrics and rollup statistics using MySQL, MySQL Workbench and Hibernate, database maintenance activities such overall disaster and recovery strategy, data integrity, performance and space monitoring

• managed system integration testing and responsible for building the system integration test environment and installing MySQL and Apache using Linux (RedHat Centos OS) RPMs. Managed version control and code tracking utilizing Subversion as a part of the IDE Eclipse tool. I have added improvement and value by providing the framework for integrating and automating software deployments among the database, application and web tiers

• drafted and authored policies, design documents, data dictionaries, system and database backup and recovery strategy, and SOPs for mission critical applications and databases

• established expectations and level of effort to management working in a virtualized (VMWare) environment using development, staging, test and production LINUX platforms

• researched and surveyed options NO SQL, non-relational, big data databases including MongoDB and MARKLOGIC for warehousing and querying; created MongoDB databases, collections and indexes, performing CRUD operations to collections and developing role based security.

• led the coordination and the installation of program fixes debug packages, interim fixes and security related patches for compliance of IAVA findings.

• installed and configured IBM Websphere Application Server, JDBC Drivers and Servlet Engines along with troubleshooting and recovery on AIX, Solaris and Windows.

January 2012 to February 2013 Novetta Inc.

Sr. Database Engineer As a senior database engineer, I installed and configured mission critical databases and managed deployments of software releases on Sybase ASE databases and IQ data warehouses in an agile management environment in a virtualized (VMWare) environment

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• installed SQL Sever/Sybase 15 ASE and IQ, Postgres and Oracle 11/12 databases servers and Oracle Application Servers (OAS) in preparation for migrating and certifying database servers along with OEM, OAS and Weblogic application tiers to a secondary failover location.

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• developed procedures using SQL and Unix shell scripting to improve performance and remove defects from existing software releasing

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• led deployments of software releases to test and production servers for application, database and web tier in two week spin cycles

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• authored design documents procedures, deployment plans and SOPs which provide instruction on installing defect modules using agile project management guidelines.

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• initiated preparation of data migration to cloud architecture was also considered through code and module building.

• configured WebSphere, Web Message Broker, Weblogic and EA resources such as JDBC providers, data sources, connection pooling for integration of services and systems.

September 2010 to December 2012 Northrup and Grumman

Sr. Cyber Software Engineer. As a senior cyber software engineer, developed mission critical information systems and surveyed product selections in preparation for consolidating national database facilities to regional data centers, these projects were managed following Project Management Life Cycle principles and within the PMI framework. All projects required project initiation, planning, execution, and control and closing processes, analysis of complex business requirements, resource management, development of project schedules, identification and mitigation of project risks and quality assurance of project deliverables. The following tasks performed include:

• researched and surveyed hardware products included servers, NAS and storage appliances (SUN and Isilon) for cloud environments, database and replication software (Sybase ASE, Replication, IQ, Oracle 11G and Streams) virtualization software (VMware), files systems and protocols (NFS, ZFS, OneFS,) and tape library devices (StorageTek and Quantum).

• authored product delivery documents to outline offerings for Sybase IQ and virtualization capabilities using Sybase Replication to replicate in an Oracle environment.

• gathered existing SQL Server/Sybase database statistics to measure daily transaction rate and i/o and network loads via system monitoring to establish baseline for the data centers transaction and network management requirements

• resolved Sybase Replication issues involving replication agent errors, missing replication definitions and subscriptions and batch size management

• implemented data center environment through ISLON, structured RAID (mirroring + striping) via the setup of SUN servers, VMware and Oracle 12 database and replication installation

• established and performed test scenarios to support survey findings as it applies to installation and configuration, ease of use, administration and maintenance, response and recovery time along with MTU, WRT, RTO an RPO metrics, cost, ROI and network bandwidth considerations

• led deployments to incorporate change management, CCB directives,,schema changes, security requirements and performance enhancements to production systems, improved production performance by employing resource limits, multiple temporary databases, additional CPUs and RAID requirements iv versioned controlled releases using configuration management methodologies via Confluence and Subversion

October 2007 to September 2010 Force 3, Inc.

Senior Database Administrator. As a senior database administrator, I led deployments and standby to test operations for failover operations. These projects were managed following Project Management Life Cycle principles and within the PMI framework. The following tasks performed include:

• designed and implemented a disaster recovery infrastructure via Sybase Replication for COOP and disaster recovery and provided guidance in authoring procedures for failover and standby/test procedures

• authored weekly reports to management and external clients on system availability and contractual uptime commitments, reconciled findings for security anomalies for external clients

• resolved issues and maintained applications on data, application and web tiers including Sybase EA Server and High Availability (HA) cluster, Tomcat, Cognos, Interwoven and Sun WebServer, performed vulnerability assessments through monitoring auditing and systems logs, installed patches STIGS, OS patches on Sunfire 480 and 890s, authored startup and shutdown procedures for Sunfire 480 and 890s.

• monitored System Monitor and MDA tables, identified deadlocks and errors through automated alerts and error logs, repaired fragmentation, data corruption, page linkage errors using various DBCC commands and data reallocation methods

• performed quality control of technical documents through technical reviews and Work Product Reviews

• architected the disaster recovery/fail-over strategy for all database application servers including planning disaster recovery and COOP fail-over for all IT systems. Configured database resources like JDBC Providers, Data sources, and security resources providing connectivity to Oracle, MySQL and Sybase databases.

• led unit and system integration testing, pre-production staging and production three tier system deployments to include web, application and database tiers.

• analyzed user requirements in order to determine scope, develop implementation strategies and manage user expectations.

• established and maintained the backups, log archival, and other tasks coding shell scripts and cron for system schedule management

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