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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateCalabash NC 07838 Email:EMAIL AVAILABLE Cell PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEPROFILEDatabase Project Manager with significant information technology experience in complex system environments. Consistently demonstrate excellence and commitment to project management, deliverables, internal and external relationships. Proven track record of full life cycle project development for Mainframe, UNIX, and Intel technologies. Highly accomplished manager with hands on experience managing all aspects of very large Cloud, database, data warehouse, application development/support, infrastructure, divestiture projects. Background in pharmaceutical, manufacturing, retail, insurance, communication, electric utility and military industries with a concentration on the implementation of Cloud Architecture and database related projects in both corporate, vendor, and consultant environments.MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL SKILLSPMP Certified 250-567Service Now, MS Project/SDLC/ClarityData ManagementProject Management and EstimatingBusiness IntelligenceData Analysis and Data WarehousingRisk and Resource ManagementHardware and Software ProvisioningAzure, AWSITIL Certified V3Data Center/InfrastructureArchitectural design/ImplementationCloud ArchitectureOracleCloud ServicesGlobal Vendor ManagementAgilePROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCERandstad Consulting Centen 9/2021 -PresentSenior Project Programmer Analyst Busines Technology SolutinsManaged Oracle, SQL server, and PostGress database related projects including data migration form older to new hardware, applied vendor supplied scheduled and emergency patches.Cordinated with Oracles support team to remediate hardware issues on Exadata servers, tracking issues via Oracle Service Requests.Postgress - Managed a project to migrate a Post gress database to the cloud along with the application migrations.Leaveraged Service Now for all incident tracking, project management reporting using SN status reports and Change records submitted to a Change board for review prior to implementation.Infrastructure Cordinated the installation of Exadaa hardware in several data Centers working with DC operations, Networking, Oracle and DBA teams.TLS 1.2 Windows and oracle- Managed project to enable TLS 1.2 for Oracle DB and SQL Server servers.HII USPS Wilkes-Barre PA 2/2017 -9/2021Programmer Analyst 4 (003736)Oracle DBA/Oracle-RAC-DataGuard Managing a very large Oracle DB - Product Tracking System.Responsible for Scheduling and Coordination of Oracle patching in a large Oracle 4 node RAC/Data Guard cluster with a very large database of 400 Terabytes with over 1 million database calls per minute.Coordinated the restacking of CAT and Prod domains into full HP SDXs resolving many issues in the Prod environment.Managing several projects in the area of databases technologies, Oracle upgrades and patching, UNIX QTRY patching, SUSE 12 sp3 upgrades and CRS12.2.Coordinating and implementing the UNIX, Oracle pre-requisites for performing and testing an Oracle upgrade to 12.2.Maintains matrix of Database changes for all PTR databases keeping all parameters equivalent across all database serversConducts meeting with USPS and Oracle technical staffs to resolve critical incidents and resolve performance issues. Hold a daily meeting to discuss PTR System Health with USPS technical staff and Oracle Support.Participating on developing a Disaster recovery plan Play book, testing DR procedures for failover of RAC clusters in a DataGuard environment coordinating all teams in mock failovers to include Application, Oracle, Unix, Backup and user testing teams.Assembled RunBooks for off hours database work, coordinating several technical teams.Monitor and evaluate storage needs for PTR and RDS and plan storage for Peak Processing.Working with Oracle to provide solutions for database issues and failures, coordinating the implementation of parameter changes and Oracle patches for improved up time and performance.Worked closely with Oracle to resolve DataGuard apply issues ultimately resolved by Oracle patches.Coordinated support services and Oracle/UNIX upgrades with Accenture as an outside vendor.Make recommendation for improvements for PTR DEV/QA, and Production DB servers.Managing the testing of In-Memory database feature of OraclePerformed a POC on EXADATA over HP FLEX serversImplemented Multi Instance Redo Apply on version Oracle 12.2 and MIRA on 18cCoordinating the upgrade from 12.1 to 18c including CRS 18.Coordinating the upgrade from 18c including CRS 19 and DB 19c.Project milestones complete on schedule project ended.HPE Western Union Montvale, NJ 7/2016- 11/2016Senior Project Manager Consultant Managing a large mainframe upgrade for Western Union.Responsible for maintaining project plans, interfacing with all teams and coordinating work in a multi-vendor environment.Managing all aspects of the upgrade project, removing and consolidation hardware and networks from datacenters reducing the number of DCs, re-stablishing network connectivity.Resource management for HPE, UNISYS, and Western Union teams ion executing a phased migration. HPE as the hosting DC for Western Unions operations.Migrating Western Union data from and UNISYS DMS to UNISYSs RDMS databases.Coordinated with all hardware vendors, IBM, EMC VMAXs, UNISYS, AT&T, LEVEL 3, CISCO, and Cabling preparing for cutover. To new hardware.Performed project tracking and major milestones for all vendors participating in the phased project approach.Cognizant Technology Solutions, Morris Plains, NJ 9/2015- 6/2016Senior Project Manager Managed a consolidation project for Oracle and SQL Server databases and associated architecture into an OPC in multiple regions, NA, EMEA, and ASPAC Enterprise Datacenters. Managing several teams to provision servers, scheduling of migrations, Coordinating testing, performing the migration to standard consolidated OPC environments and problems resolution.Responsible for Scheduling and coordination of migration waves scheduled for DEV, QA and PROD environments of over 7000 databases.Managed a team of 38 DBAs both SQL server and Oracle responsible for executing pre and post migration processes based on pre-scheduled migrating waves.Managed AS400 datacenter moves from Morris Plains to Raritan DCs, Planning and Executing the physical move of hardware and data migration.Enforcing a pre-defined standard for RDBMS and operating systems for Windows 2008, 2012 and REDHAT LINUX version 6.3from HP-UX.Coordinated migration resources with Accenture leveraging eMPHIR, Accentures tracking system.Conducted Application meetings to gather details of their architecture and provide guidance on standards of the OPC target environment.Implemented Oracle Data Guard for systems requiring Disaster Recovery with Sun Guard or Data Centers. Managed a team responsible for developing migration scripts for Oracle and SQL migrations involving multiple Schemas or Databases on a single server, adhering to OPC standards of one DB/Schema per VM.Developed road maps for future cloud and database architecture for OPC. Om premise cloudDocumented project scope for review and submission to upper management.Sanofi, Bridge Water, NJ 4/2015- 8/2015Project Manager/Senior Consultant - Specializing in project management with a focus on Single Sign on for a large global Pharmaceutical company.Provided Identity and Access Management (IAM) as security discipline building upon common processes to ensure at a global level that the right people (identity management) have access to the right systems and resources at the right time (access management).Integration and retirement of legacy IAM tools.Unified global requirements and architecture for extranet user management paving the way for the retirement of legacy systemsAggregated user information for multiple authoritative sources: HR, Active Directory.Automated standard processes meeting global business requirements for core account provisioning/deprovisioning.Provided self-service password reset for all users for both Bitlocker and windows password.Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ 3/2010- 12/2015Project Manager/Senior Oracle Architect Database Administration - Specializing in project management with a focus on Server Consolidation in a cloud Azure environment. Additionally performed architectural design for Oracle and SQL server environments migrating to a cloud solution.Performing contract negotiating with Vendor and BD legal department to secure cloud processing both in house and Cloud service providers.Managed software upgrades for Oracle requiring Sun Solaris O/S upgrades in support of higher Oracle versions. Additionally architected a Virtual environment migrating from Solaris and Windows to SUSE LINUX in a cloud environment (Azure).Windows 2003 upgrade As a Project manager upgraded Window 2003 to 2008r2 and 2012.Project manager and Architect for a SQL Server consolidation whereby 4000 SQL databases were migrated to a SQL Farm. Many SQL DBs existed with versions 2000 and 2005 required several migrations in-route to version 2008r2 and 2012 of SQL server.Optimized SQL Server licensing by virtualizing Hardware in local and off datacenter clouds attaining greater percentage of CPU and memory utilization.Performed as the teams database architect for Oracle and SQL server databases for both upgrades and new database installations.Microsoft Azure worked with the Azure team to establish process for requesting Cloud resources for applications and Databases (SQL Server and Oracle) in Window and Linux Operating systems.JOHNSON and JOHNSON, Morris Plains, NJ 11/2006- 3/2010Project Manager - Managed multiple concurrent projects within Johnson and Johnsons Global Project Management Office (GPMO) in areas of Infrastructure, Database, Data Warehousing, application areas and virtualization.Successfully moved an entire Data Center from Pfizer to Johnson & Johnsons data center consisting of 400 servers, 130 applications and 70 Tera-byte sized databases.Migrated IBM Mainframe hardware, applications and databases from Pfizer DC to JNJ DC.Prepared RFPs for small to large projects ranging from $100k to $8MM.Planned and architected the move of several larger Data Warehouses from Sun Solaris 9 to HP hardware, incorporating Disaster Recovery both in house and purchased.Designed and implemented Business Continuity practices for migrated application and associated Databases.Consolidated Oracle Database servers and the virtualization of Intel servers to reduce cost, air conditioning and power requirements. Reduced Oracle licensing costs by consolidating older/smaller UNIX servers to dual processors servers lowering the total CPUs used for identical processing loads.Facilitated application and hardware moves across two separate networks, coordinating efforts between two separate companies adhering to each companies security requirements.Designed and implement data migration scheme to transport EMC stored data to HP SAN. Developed Migration strategies, acquiring hardware to move databases with minimum impact to the customer.Successfully implemented SOX compliance processes, responsible for ongoing quarterly compliance reporting.Completed the divestiture of Pfizers consumer products over to JNJ datacenter.PFIZER, Morris Plains, NJ 10/2000- 11/2006Project Manager - Specialized in Database related projects leveraging prior technical DBA management experience to coordinate very complex database and operating system version upgrades. Also lead infrastructure and Data Warehouse projects providing costs savings and Business intelligence solutions. Provided project metrics, milestones and performance reports project portfolio to management and design teams. Planning and implementation of infrastructure projects including Datacenter consolidations and virtualization.Developed project plans for the implementation of computer related projects both hardware and software in a test, development and production environments.Identified and secured project resources from within the local information technology team, consultants and offshore resource pools to staff projects. Managed various technology departments (UNIX, Intel, Oracle, Storage, DBA, Data protection) leveraging technical expertise in project planning and team building.Negotiated schedules, project due dates, and the coordination of priorities between various departments during project implementation and production delivery.Identify and document what objectives of the project are and what goals must be met to achieve success.Successfully managed Disaster Recovery turnover from Warner Lambert to Pfizer working with several vendors in providing data restoration processes and testing plans. Complete on time within an $8mm annual budget.Migrated Oracle databases from HP hardware to Sun Solaris with a cost saving of $1mm.Successfully completed the divestiture of companies spun off due to acquisitions and best business practices. tsManaged the disaster recovery processes leveraging Sun Guard as the offsite provider. Planned and scheduled on site fail over testing incorporating the appropriate technical teams to conduct fire drill tests.Developed plans and managed staffing for new projects while balancing the production and emergency workloads.Implemented Oracles Clinical software from a Oracle database prospectiveImplemented cost saving solution to reduce database back up time using EMCs Business continues volumes.Established and fostered relationship building with application development teams, UNIX administration, and DBAs within my team.Oracle Corporation, Parsippany, NJ 2/1999-10/2000Senior Consultant - Provided Project management consulting services for Sprint PCS, Adelphi communications, Bell South, Nextel and, AT&T. Managed the implementation of very large databases from detail call-tracking to cell tower signal strength using Oracle spatial database feature.Built a design/implementation team from a pool of Oracle consultants to construct Data warehouses for Sprint PCS detail call data. Designed data archiving processes to reduce the overall size of the DB which increased data retrieval performance.Worked closely with Oracle presales/sales to determine which Oracle products that may benefit the clients process needs and to provide technical assistance to the client on Oracle products. Communicated additional client needs top Oracle sales as identified.Provided project planning/schedules and reporting to client, Oracle management and Oracle sales manager.Educated the client on Oracle features relating to Disaster Recovery and how an organization can leverage data recovery features.Provided project scoping for several clients in the area of application and database project objectives.Supported the client in evaluating Oracle tools relative to design and data transformation. Managed the conversion of 30 DB2 data warehouses to Oracle providing a path to eliminate mainframe costs of $2MM and eventually removing mainframe processing.Kean Consulting, Newark, NJ 6/1997-2/1999Senior Principal Consultant Manager DBA Group PSEG NEWARKActing as an out souring vendor/partner for PSEG managed a team of 14 DBAs responsible for test, development, and Production environments supporting over 1350 databases running on IMS, DB2, and Oracle database platforms. Built a team with the appropriate skill set providing ongoing day-to-day and 7x24 support for all DBMS environments. Mentored, coached, and cross trained DBAs to support more than one DBMS, reducing number of consultants by 2 DBAs. Designed, implemented and migrated data from legacy IMS and DB2 systems into Oracle Data databases and Warehouses.Performed DC consolidation of Mainframe and UNIX systems to include IMS, DB2 and Oracle running on IBM mainframes and UNIX platforms.Provided resources to support multiple operating systems and platforms: HP, SUN, SCO, IBM main frame, and Intel platforms.Achieved high levels of Database performance, 99.5% database up time using proactive approach to capacity planning and DB tuning.Managed version control for database software and operating systems, planning upgrades and providing recommendations for applications enhancements and hardware upgrades when appropriate.Transformed IMS and DB2 Legacy databases into Oracle Data Warehouses using Oracle transparent gateways.Mentored in areas of Performance and Tuning of all DBMSs, implementing tuning practices guidelines for all DBs. Implemented version control processes for all database and operating systems environments.Enforced standards to current vendor supported software versions eliminating unsupported environments and reducing maintenance support costs.Oracle Corporation, Parsippany, NJ 7/1995-6/1997Consultant On-Site Technical Support for large utility Company.Managed TARs, prioritizing issues, using internal Oracle contacts to expedite solutions.Assisted Oracle Sales delivering technical presentations and providing technical information on Oracle database products. Oracle Sales team closed a $5mm contract.Designed processes to capture decentralized servers running Oracle database software on SCO O/S, centralizing into a corporate data center. Eliminated licensing cost and reduced application outages due to unsupported servers and software.Organized project teams to select and defined a migration path to a single UNIX vendor for Oracle Database servers achieving reduced UNIX support and licensing fees. Reduced DBA support efforts across a single Operating system.Additional ExperienceBASF, Parsippany, NJ 11/1991-7/1997DBA ManagerLead a team in support of IMS, DB2 and Oracle database technologies for global chemical company.Consultant AT&T, Parsippany, NJ 3/1988-11/1990DBA LEADDesigned a database supporting AT&Ts in house billing processes for all long distance calls with over 80mm customers. Integrated hardware to support the RCAM/IMS billing system into 5 regional data centers throughout the US. This project achieved and annual savings of over $1B in bill processing annually.Crum and Forster, Morristown, NJ 5/1985-3/1988DBA ManagerManaged a team of 5 DBAs in an IBM mainframe environment supporting both IMS and IDMS/R database design and implementations.Warner-Lambert, Morris Plains, NJ-DBA 2/1981-5/1985Designed and developed highly integrated manufacturing databases on IBM mainframe hardware for a pharmaceutical company.USMC, Washington, DC Active Duty 12/1976- 2/1981Programmer AnalystAs a United States Marine functioned as a programmer/DBA for the payroll and separation/retirement department processing payroll active duty and retired Marines.EducationAAS in Computer Science, County College of Morris Randolph, NJ Completed 1984 |
