Sr Developer/DBA

Nicholas Fominyam

**** ***** ****** ***** - ***********, VA 20120

Tel: 703-***-**** (Cell). E-mail: ************@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

To work in a challenging position that compliments and expands my competencies, skills, education and experience in managing and solving problems.

PERSONAL PROFILE

• A proactive individual with a logical approach to challenges

• Motivated forward- thinking, performance driven professional

• Strong ability to manage projects from conception to successful completion

• Quick to grasp new ideas and develop innovative and creative solutions to problems

• Strongly understands and can manage the role of information technology within the organization.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills highly motivated with strong commitment to quality customer service.

SUMMARY

• 2 years of experience as an Oracle Database Administrator and over 1 and a half years experience with UNIX.

• Experience with Oracle 10g/11g Installation, Administration, Monitoring, Performance Tuning, Database Backup and Recovery (Oracle Server).

• Excellent communication and highly motivated with strong commitment to quality and customer service.

Skills

• Database & Tools: Oracle 10g/11g, OEM, Oracle Diagnostics & Performance Pack, Oracle RAC, DATA Guard, DataPump, SQL*Loader, OUI, DBCA, RMAN, FLASHBACK, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, LISTENER.

• Operating system: UNIX, Linux, HP, & Windows 2000/2003 Environment.

Education/ Certification/ Training

• Currently pursuing a Degree program in Information Technology-Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale , VA ( NOVA) and the 11g Certification

• Oracle Certified 10g professional

• Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Geography –Minor in Marketing Management-University of Buea, Cameroon

• High School Diploma-Bishop Rogan College, Buea, Cameroon

Work Experience

March 2011 – till date

National Association of child care resource and referral agencies (NACCRRA) – Military Subsidy Program

• Provides supervision and technical support for the DoD/Military and AmeriCorps/Vista Child Care programs

• Work as a liaison officer between the Military Families and Child care providers.

• Assist Coordinators with clarification of policies and procedures and handling the day-to-day application process. Reviews applications to ensure applicants are contacted, and processing is completed within established timelines.

• Monitor call center log-ins and activity and ensures that Coordinators follow up on calls from their voice mail and general voice mail. Monitors Coordinators' caseloads and backlogged cases.

• Ensure that Coordinators follow up on forwarded emails, ensures faxes are logged and distributed in a timely manner.

• Assist Coordinators with answering calls from call center and where necessary and when necessary, assists Coordinators with resolving problem cases.

• Ensure that incoming supporting documents are assigned in a timely manner and ensures that files, documents, and attendance records are filed correctly and in a timely manner.

• Establish and monitor alerts for actions that are time sensitive and past due and assists Coordinators with processing backlogged applications.

• Monitors projects/tasks assigned to specific Coordinators to ensure they are completed within given timeline. When necessary, serves as backup for importing OAP applications.

• Trains new employees and review their work for quality assessment

• Coordinates and supervises overtime projects

• Documents Coordinators' job performance and monitors staff schedule

Oracle DBA/ Consultant. Systems Information Services Corporation. December 2009 to January 2011.

• Installation and configuration of Oracle 10g/11g server and creation of Instance and databases.

• Created new databases and users, Export-Import and other monitoring scripts.

• Provided 24x7 on call production support.

• Identified, resolved, or provided recommendations to other different kinds of the performance problems ranging from Database performance problems to I/O hardware performance problems.

• Installed, upgraded and patched Oracle software on new machines using both 9i and 10g. Monitored production database using automatic workload repository (AWR) and automatic database diagnostic monitor (ADDM).

• Modified some Oracle backup and recovery scripts. Used Oracle backup utility RMAN to implement Oracle Hot backup and performed a number of times of disaster recovery.

• Locally managed tablespaces were used which track all extent information in the tablespace itself. This results in improved performance as it eliminates recursive operations and reliance on data dictionary.

• Performed SQL tuning by using SQL tunning advisor on Top sessions.

• Creating tablespaces and planning the location of data, index and rollback tablespaces, redo log files and control files in adherence to the Optimal Flexible Architecture.

• Managing database security, creating and assigning appropriate roles and privileges to users depending on the user activity.

• Sizing database objects for effective space management and optimal performance.

• Database server tuning using Oracle Enterprise Manager. Proactively monitored hit ratios on different components of the SGA. This included tuning of the shared pool, databases buffers and redo buffers.

• Analyzing tables on a regular basis for the Oracle optimizer.

• Monitoring rollback segments. Adopting proactive maintenance strategies to curb extensive shrinking and wrapping of rollback segments.

• Data loading using SQL*Loader and Impdp &Expdp, External table to assist Data loads with developers.

• Used JDBC Connectivity to interact with the database and Created Stored procedures triggers.

• Utilized Oracle 10g Flashback Features to ensure 5 day retention time for any object that is removed from the production database.

• Performed recovery from missing or corrupted data files, redo log group, control files and recovery from block corruption (dbverify).

April 2009-November 2009 ( Six Months internship)

JR. ORACLE DBA: GLOBAL WIRELESS SOLUTIONS.

• Installed and configure Database as of Oracle’s Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA).

• Performed successful & periodical Backup, Restoration & Tuning.

• Upgrading of Database from lower version to higher version.

• Work with System Administrators (Unix & NT) to ensure Oracle related matters are handled properly.

• Diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve any DB related problems. Work with Oracle Support if necessary to bring problems to a successful resolution.

• Part of a team responsible for a 7 x 24 Oracle database operation involving wireless market data collection.

• Monitored server performance, database and transaction log growth and error logs.

• Managing database security. Creating and assigning appropriate roles and privileges to users depending on the user activity

References-: Furnished upon request.

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