Deborah Dawicki

Deborah Dawicki

Database Consulting SB DB Works, SageTrail Poetry Operations Mgr, President Santa Ynez Valley Tech Club / Group Leader

Santa Barbara, California Area

Current
  • Database Consultant at Santa Barbara Database Works
Past

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Education
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Santa Barbara City College
  • California State University-Dominguez Hills
  • El Camino College

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Deborah Dawicki’s Summary

24 years in the Database field (10+ years with Oracle), most of these years as a Database Administrator most recently Oracle Senior Database Administrator / Project Manager. Additionally I have 1-2 years as a DBA manager. I have worked on integration of ERP systems like Peoplesoft, Oracle and JD Edwards, and SAP. I offer a wealth of experience and have taken the appropriate technical SQL education throughout a period of 10-15 years. Additionally I have worked heavily with Microsoft Access, maintenance, development, queries, reports etc.

President/Founder of the Santa Ynez Valley Tech Club (www.syvtechclub.org), highlighted in the News Press April, 9, 2007, previous Regional Director of Women in Technology in Santa Barbara, and presently member of local the local Steering Commitee of Santa Barbara Project Mgmt Institute of Goleta (SBPMIG).

Deborah Dawicki’s Specialties:

database administration, software support, server administration, proj mgmt, system administration

Deborah Dawicki’s Experience

  • Database Consultant

    Santa Barbara Database Works

    (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    June 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)

    Non profit organization mgmt, networking and database consulting in the Santa Barbara area.

  • Database System Administrator/DBA

    Sansum Clinic

    (Non-Profit; Medical Practice industry)

    January 2008 — March 2009 (1 year 3 months)

    System Administration in their IDX (GE Healthcare), AIX environment. Database Administration on multi-SQL Server database environment.

  • Sr. Database Administrator/Proj Mgr

    Medtronic Neurosurgery

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MDT; Medical Devices industry)

    December 2002 — October 2007 (4 years 11 months)

    Lead Oracle database administrator and supplementary project mgmt on various Goleta Medtronic neurosurgery I/T projects. These projects include:
    • -Lean Sigma efficiencies and support of Engineering s/w tools development.
    • -Managing sourcing for multiple projects from varied and complex cross-country environments.
    • -Reconciliation/migration of Enterprise Data Warehouse SAP data points for planning/forecasting queries and reports.
    • -Server Admin on Agile multi-tiered s/w servers.
    • -Primary Oracle 9i, 10g Database Administrator on multiple database (up to 178 gb) environments.
    • -Data Warehousing Oracle education (Oracle Discoverer, Warehouse Builder, OLAP).
    • -Team leader on multiple ongoing software development, enhancements efforts, reporting for Sales Admin.
    • -Powerbuilder complex pipeline development, nightly scheduling and maintenance
    Large company-wide Oracle migration and access from SQL-Server and other distributed databases.

  • Database Developer

    ABC-CLIO

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

    April 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 9 months)

    Logical Database Design, migration from legacy and database platform evaluation for Academic Systems Serials Department. Logical Database Entity Relationship Diagramming using Visio 2000 EE and Advanced Revelation analyzing current multi-valued database converting to a relational structure. Working very closely daily in various meetings with other ABC-CLIO legacy experts and management. Installation of SQL Server 2000 on Windows NT platform and exporting of data from Advanced Revelation to target SQL Server 2000 evaluation database. Detailed evaluation of current versions of SQL Server 2000, Oracle 8i and DB2 which spans a wide range of criteria

  • Database Admin Consultant

    Ants Software

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    October 1999 — April 2001 (1 year 7 months)

    Ants.com and Bigredwire.com are both Internet startups. Ants.com is (was) a project management Internet website where placement of applicants with projects is the goal. Ants.com is building a new product called Diogenes where contact information is integrated with Outlook or other Mail applications. Bigredwire.com is a long distance company building a database for their customer account information. Metaheuristics is not in existence now but was an internet startup.
    Senior Database Administrator/Developer
    • Ants.com - Installation of Oracle 8.1.6 on Sun Solaris 5.6, troubleshooting of materialized views, cleanup of current environment and documentation of environment. Installation and implementation of Designer 6i. Installation of Oracle 8.1.6 on Sun Solaris 2.6, advanced replication (multi-master replication) and installation of db on NFS mounted drives, and further implementation of advanced replication and disaster recovery.

  • Database Admin/Retek Manager

    Wet Seal

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Retail industry)

    August 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 2 months)

    Oracle Database Administrator/Retek Database Manager
    Oracle 8 DBA, including installation of Oracle 8.0.5 on HP/UX 11.0, Linux and PeopleSoft 7.5 Procurement on Windows NT 4.0 Server. Established many Oracle instances for project. Supported the cold (Legato), hot and export database backup and recovery scenarios on the servers.

    Supporting the implementation of RETEK (OLTP) and DSS AGENT (Warehouse) including preparing the testing environments, and warehouse. Installation of all the client tools associated on individual workstations. Installation of PVCS and Hummingbird Maestro for UNIX code. Preparation of UNIX code for interface code testing.

  • Database Administrator

    Princeton University

    (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Education Management industry)

    May 1996 — June 1998 (2 years 2 months)

    Oracle Database Administrator
    One of two Oracle Database Administrators for Princeton University Campus and off-campus support of Oracle
    Systems. This included assisting in implementing the data mall warehouse project using Oracle 7, Oracle Web Server (OAS), Oracle Webview (WEBDB), Sun Solaris ES6000, Windows NT 4.0, and Oracle 7 under NT Server .
    • Assisted in installing new and managing PeopleSoft 7.0 environments which included establishing on a new Unix machine 5 new instances and all support components associated with PeopleSoft. Performance and tuning, Oracle install and setup of 3 new Unix machines, support of Datamall on the web, upgrading Oracle to Oracle 7.3.4 for more than 1 instances under UNIX, scheduling nightly exports and other maintenance via UNIX crontab.
    • Assisted in testing new Oracle backup tools (ADSM & SQL Backtrack). Overall Oracle support of BSR Advance C/S, including installing and maintaining the system

  • Database Administrator

    McGraw Hill and Companies

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 1995 — May 1996 (1 year 2 months)

    • Full Oracle Database Administration for McGraw-Hill Human Resources Service Center which included implementing the data depot warehouse project using Oracle 7, Micro Strategies DSS Agent/Server/Architect, HP-UX 10.10, Windows NT 4.0, Oracle 7 under NT Server, Oracle for Workgroups.

    • Design and implementation of indexes, performance and tuning, assistance of implementation of RAID disk array, upgrading Oracle to Oracle 7.3.2.2 for 3 instances under UNIX, installing new Oracle 7 Server on NT 4.0 Compaq RAID machine, and scheduling nightly maintenance via UNIX crontab, etc.

  • DB2 Database Administrator

    Johnson & Johnson Ortho McNeil

    (Public Company; JNJ; Pharmaceuticals industry)

    December 1990 — April 1995 (4 years 5 months)

    • Large DB2 database administration TSO, CICS mainframe environment.
    • Extensive customization and testing during MVS/ESA upgrade. Client Server environment with ORACLE 7/UNIX, SQL-Server for Windows NT, Microsoft Access, WINDOWS, and OS2/2.0.
    • Technical Database Management lead on largest sector-wide application SAP an Managed Care warehouse/cost/sales system for company in which over 10 million rows of data was migrated from source to target subsystems.
    • Support and training of approximately 70 clients and application development staff. Heavy SAS programming and development in support of clinical applications.

  • Database Administration Mgr

    State of New Jersey Dept of Higher Ed

    (Government Administration industry)

    June 1986 — December 1990 (4 years 7 months)

    • Architecture and design of their major student loan processing and management system. Development of NJDHE logical and physical database design standards. Mainframe Software AG Natural database development and DB2/Natural interface. DB2 2.1/2.2 full installation and configuration. Supervision of Database Administrator and Data Administrator.

  • Database Mgmt Analyst

    TRW

    (Public Company; TRW; Automotive industry)

    December 1983 — June 1986 (2 years 7 months)

    Senior Systems Analyst/Database Management Analyst
    Designed, implemented, and administered System Authorities, Capacity Planning, Database Maintenance

Deborah Dawicki’s Education

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

    Certificate , Project Management , 2007 — 2007

  • Santa Barbara City College

    Web development 2001 — 2002

  • California State University-Dominguez Hills

    BSCS , Computer Science , 1985 — 1988

  • El Camino College

    AA , General Studies , 1983 — 1984

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Deborah Dawicki’s Interests:

biking, walking, mixers, consulting

Deborah Dawicki’s Groups:

SYV Tech Club, SBPMIG, Linkedin

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  •    Oracle Independent Professionals

Deborah Dawicki’s Honors:

Certification in Project Management

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