Wellington, L. Susan
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Ms Wellington has 22 years of experience as a Senior Oracle DBA (Senior Principal Consultant), with the most recent years as a Enterprise Cloud Engineer, and a Senior Cloud Engineer in both team environments and on projects where she is the only Oracle DBA. Her experience includes all aspects of database administration and maintenance, installation, upgrades, patching, user management, storage management, RAC implementation, backup and recovery, performance tuning, troubleshooting issues, datapump export and import, storage management on both ASM and file system storage, on Linux, Solaris and Windows platforms. She also has experience working with MySQL and MariaDB. Ms Wellington has proven successful at adjusting to the specific needs of each individual project, and implementing appropriate solutions accordingly. Her most recent experience has been as a member of the North America Cloud Engineering Group (NACE) focused on collaborating with stakeholders to guide them through the migration process from planning, and assessment to migration, optimizing and implementation from onprem and other cloud platforms to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Education
University of Phoenix
June 2004 Master of Science in Management Computer Information Systems
Experience
Enterprise Cloud Architect June 2023 - Present
Member of NACIE Technology Engineering: As an Enterprise Cloud Architect Ms Wellington is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing complex cloud solutions on the Oracle Cloud platform for enterprise clients, leveraging Oracle's suite of cloud services to meet specific business needs, including database, compute, storage, networking, and application services while adhering to best practices and security standards; she collaborates closely with stakeholders to understand requirements, architect solutions, and ensure successful deployment and ongoing optimization within the Oracle Cloud environment. She is tasked with designing and developing cloud architecture blueprints based on client requirements, considering scalability, performance, cost optimization, and security on the Oracle Cloud platform. She is responsible for guiding clients through migration planning, assessment, and execution of existing on-premise applications and data to the Oracle Cloud. In order to effectively carry out these tasks she must possess a high level of in-depth knowledge of Oracle Cloud services like Compute, Storage, Database, Networking, Container Engine, Functions, and more. She often assists with analyzing cloud usage patterns and recommending cost-effective solutions to optimize cloud spend. She assists with implementing robust security measures within the cloud infrastructure, including access control, encryption, and compliance with industry regulations. She oversees the implementation of cloud solutions, including configuration, provisioning, and deployment of cloud resources, monitoring cloud performance and identifying areas for improvement, optimizing system efficiency and reliability. She also regularly collaborates with project teams, business stakeholders, and technical leads to ensure alignment with business objectives.
Senior Cloud Engineer March 2020 – May 2023
Member of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Migration Team: As a member of the North American Cloud Engineering Group (NACE) Cloud database migration team she has led the design and implementation of cutting-edge, enterprise-level technology solutions to promote a loose coupling between software components based on microservices, driven architectural discussions with stakeholders in support of business requirements gathering, analysis, and design, architected highly scalable, available, and secure solutions within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure based on industry best practices and practical experience, collaborated with Developers, Infrastructure Team, Systems Operations, and other subject matter experts to solve integration and cloud migration challenges and develop robust automated scripts and supporting documentation. Her primary responsibility has been assessing current architecture and existing applications to assess “cloud readiness;” work with DBAs, Developers, Security teams, and Systems Operations to create migration paths and interim solutions for a large and diverse portfolio of custom applications. She has worked within and across migration teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full stack of development tools and technologies, coordinated with Systems Operations and Developers to address concerns, train on new tools, technologies, and processes, and prevent negative impacts to service
Senior Principal Consultant May 2006 – March 2020
Oracle Corp 306 Sentinel Dr # 400, Annapolis Junction, MD 20701
Senior level database administrator with responsibilities including information processing, database installation and upgrades, database patching, database management and administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, troubleshooting, and diagnostics, data management, analytics and intelligence, documentation, training, configuration management, user management, reloading and extracting data from a database using datapump import and export, across government and corporate environments. I have been successful on some high profile and complex projects involving numerous technologies. I’ve installed, reverse-engineered, administered and maintained, backed up and restored, exported and imported and tuned databases of all sizes on a variety of hardware platforms and operating systems. I’ve worked as the sole Oracle database administrator for multiple projects as well as an integral member of many database engineering teams. I understand the intricate workings of technology and I’m capable of integrating disparate components into a cohesive implementation. My primary tasks included installation, and upgrades of Oracle database software, applying patchset updates to keep the software up to date with the latest enhancements, daily maintenance and administration of multiple Oracle databases, troubleshooting, performance tuning, backup and recovery, datapump export / import, RAC administration, as well as implementing and supporting high availability solutions such as streams, and dataguard, and the full gamet of daily tasks associated with the upkeep and maintenance of multiple databases on different platforms. I have extensive experience working with Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g and 12c. I am very familiar with Oracle Enterprise Manager grid control as well as cloud control. I have installed and configured both to manage my Oracle databases as well as performing several tasks at the command line and sqlplus, sqldeveloper as well.
Certifications
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Associate
Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Certified Specialist
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Professional
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Enterprise Workloads Certified Associate
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure HPC and Big Data Solutions Certified Associate
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer Certified Associate
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Operations Certified Associate
Skills
·Managing Oracle databases versions 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c (release 1 and 2), 18c, 19c, 21c, 23ai RMAN, RAC, Dataguard, Streams, Sqlplus, Sqldeveloper
·Autonomous Database Cloud
·Cloud Database Migrations
·Familiarity with UNIX, Linux, Windows operating systems
·Managing MySQL and Mariadb databases
·Familiarity with Oracle Enterprise Manager (grid control as well as cloud control)
·Familiarity with MySQL PHP MyAdmin
·Ansible database cloud migration tools
·Shell scripting