Gary Jacques

Gary Jacques

Senior Oracle and Sybase DBA in Tokyo

Japan

Current
  • Oracle and Sybase Database Administrator at BNP Paribas
Past
Education
  • Tecnológico de Monterrey
Connections
70 connections
Industry
Investment Banking
Websites

Gary Jacques’s Summary

Database Administrator, with more than 10 years of experience in Sybase and 9 in Oracle.Broad experience in maintenance, tuning, troubleshooting and high availability architectures, including team management, information analysis and system design responsibilities. Extensive experience with High Availability Tecnologies (Oracle / Sybase). Strong communication and self-management skills. Will survive in complex and challenging environments.
Proven experience managing large-scale databases in a mission critical environments
Professional certifications on the highest version currently available for Oracle 11g
and Sybase 15

Gary Jacques’s Specialties:

Oracle Certified Professional Database Administrator 11g (OCP)
Oracle Certified Professional Database Administration 10g (OCP)
Oracle Certified Professional Database Administrator for 9i (OCP)
Sybase Certified Database Administrator ASE 15
Sybase Certified Database Professional Administrator ASE 12.5
Sybase Certified Professional Database Administrator for ASE 12
Sybase Certified Associated Database Administrator for ASE 12


Gary Jacques’s Experience

  • Oracle and Sybase Database Administrator

    BNP Paribas

    (Public Company; BNP; Banking industry)

    September 2006Present (3 years 4 months)

    Operates in over 85 countries, and has 138,000 employees* including 51,600 in Europe - among whom 20,400 in Italy, 56,100 in France and in the Overseas Departments, 15,100 in US and 5,200 in Asia

    Role: Oracle DBA & Sybase DBA
    - Administrator of Oracle HA Solutions:
    -DataGuard
    -Architect /Administrator of Oracle Streams replication bidirectional between Tokyo,Hongkong and Australia ,using RACS between them to increase the resilence
    -RACs, ASM
    -Oracle Streams and Oracle Adv Replication
    -Strong knowledge of Oracle RMAN,GRID control
    -Sybase Database Administrator
    - Replication Administrator 15,12.6,12.5
    -Production Support for Sybase IQ Servers
    -Production Support for Sybase ASE located in UK and NY

    Role: Oracle Web Administrator (OAS 10g)
    -Perform system management and operation, configuration , troubleshooting,
    -Technical expertise in the installation, testing, implementation, and operation phases for the OAS in High Availability (Webcache, oracle workflow,HTTP)

  • Sybase Database Administrator

    Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (Singapore)

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DRK; Investment Banking industry)

    May 2006September 2006 (5 months)

    DrKW is the investment bank of Dresdner Bank AG and a member of the Allianz Group. Headquartered in London and Frankfurt, with offices in leading international financial centers such as New York and Tokyo, it employs approximately 6,000 people around the world

    --Production Support for UK and Tokyo Databases
    -Performance tuning, maintenance and troubleshooting
    -HP UX, Sun Solaris environments
    -Database Administrator of all Sybase Databases from Asia Pacific

  • Oracle and Sybase Production DBA

    Barclay's Capital (Singapore)

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Investment Banking industry)

    September 2005May 2006 (9 months)

    Barclays Capital has the support of an AA rated parent bank with a balance sheet of over £560 billion.
    -Supporting all Production databases located in London, New York, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo more than (5000 Unix boxes)
    -Problem solution for replication environments and clusters environments for Oracle and Sybase
    -Performance tuning, maintenance and troubleshooting
    -Given support related to Databases to all Barclay’s coworkers around the world (Offices in 25 countries)

  • Database Manager

    Televisa Corporation (Mexico city)

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

    May 2000September 2005 (5 years 5 months)

    -Installation, configuration, design, and support of multiple Sybase & Oracle databases for high availability environment utilizing clustering
    -Manage data repositories and build automation
    -Maintain testing and production environments
    -Data migration, and environment creation.
    -Performance tuning, maintenance and troubleshooting
    Oracle Web Administrator (OAS 10g)

    Update systems integration and implementation documentation as designs, architectures, and plans evolve.
    -Leadership in briefings and discussions for High Availability issues regarding to the Portal and web applications with inter-discipline technical staff members to discuss major issues in plans and strategies.
    -Participate in development and implementation of disaster recovery processes.
    -Upgrades, changes, configurations, or as a means of clearing an operating environment problem.
    -Oracle Portal Administrator and Oracle Portal Designer

  • Database Consultant

    Sybase Mexico

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SYB; Computer Software industry)

    May 1998May 2000 (2 years 1 month)

    - Cluster HA environments implementation and replication environments (Replication Server 11.5 & 12)
    - Troubleshooting Sybase-based applications and -environments;
    - Identifying and resolving Sybase-related performance problems;
    - Advising implementation projects on database-specific aspects;
    - Planning and implementation of Sybase migrations (version 11.5 => 12);
    - Emergency DBA jobs (e.g. resolving corruption problems, etc.);
    - Data recovery
    - Definition, setup and auditing of DBA environments;
    - Team-leadership responsibilities in Sybase-related implementation and maintenance environments
    - Advisor to IT-management on Sybase-related issues


Gary Jacques’s Education

  • Tecnológico de Monterrey

    BS , Computer Systems for Management , 19982005

    Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) CEM

    Activities and Societies:
    I used to work as weight trainer at gym (I had a scholarship)

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Gary Jacques’s Interests:

Sybase and Oracle High Availability architectures,Cyber punk novels,Japanese life.


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