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An experienced and well organised Oracle/Informix Consultor.Oracle OCA DBA 10g with extensive and proven expertise in both Production and Development Database Administration. Broad vision and an eye for detail to tackle any technical situation with confidence and decisiveness. Total Oracle DBA work experience of 18+ years.

Excellent hands on all aspects of DBA tasks including :
Daily DBA jobs. Use of specialized scripts, 10g EM Database Control, 9i OEM & Toad.
Installing, Upgrading, Downgrading, Patching of production, QA and development databases.
Designing Backup & Recovery (DR) strategies to ensure maximum availability and minimum downtime, using High Availability Solutions in a Storage Area Network (SAN)
Use of RMAN with Veritas Netbackup, administering Physical and Logical Standby databases.
Periodic tests of Backup and Recovery scenarios.
Assisting Development Teams in Effective Schema Design, Efficient Coding Techniques and Code Review Meetings, SQL and PL/SQL tuning. Training development team in best practices
Good knowledge of Java, JSP, Weblogic, Shell Scripting, Perl and C language
Comprehensive database Performance Tuning - Instance Tuning, SGA Tuning, AWR and ADDM reports analysis, STATSPACK and Statistics Management.
Resource Management, resolving Contention and locking issues.
Oracle administration on Linux using iostat, vmstat, top, shell scripting, cron scheduling etc.
Experienced on production 24x7 systems
Oracle RAC clusters and ASM concepts knowledge – set-up and administration.
Interacting effectively with Oracle Metalink Support/IBM Support for priority service requests.

My experience is based on Solaris.