James Attard

Current

Information Security Officer at APS Bank Ltd

Past

Senior Database/UNIX Administrator at APS Bank Ltd
Senior Systems Engineer / DBA at Malta Innovation Software Ltd.
Systems Engineer / DBA at Vodafone Malta

Systems Administrator at Techinvest Limited

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Education

L-Università ta' Malta

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Industry

Banking

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James Attard’s Summary

Research and Development Engineer on various IT related systems such as:
Database clustering, Unix and Windows system development, Encryption products, Virtualization products, and miscellaneous solutions.

Database Administrator with 5+ years professional experience in:
Oracle 8i/9i/10g (enterprise, partitioning, clusters, rman techniques), SQL 2000/2005 (mirroring, log shipping, clustering), MySQL 5 (InnoDB, MyISAM, cluster). Proficient in SQL, T-SQL and PL/SQL.

Systems Engineer with 7+ years professional experience in:
Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX environments

Pursuing Information Security management studies, including but not limited to:
Security+
CISM
CISSP

James Attard’s Specialties:

UNIX system development
Oracle/MySQL/SQL Server 2000/5
Information Security Management

James Attard’s Experience

Information Security Officer

APS Bank Ltd

(Privately Held; Banking industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Senior Database/UNIX Administrator

APS Bank Ltd

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Banking industry)

January 2008 — June 2008 (6 months)

Supervising a team of 4 junior officers at IT operations , I am responsible for all the bank's databases, storage area network and backups - the core IT infrastructure. My DBA responsibilities range from maintaining various production Oracle 8i environments, including backups with RMAN integrated with HP Data Protector, hot standby databases, in an HPUX cluster and MS SQL 2000/2005 database engines with mirroring and transaction log shipping technologies.

My other responsibility is applying my UNIX skills to ensure that our core UNIX servers operate smoothly by predicting failures through scripts and various methods of anticipation, and engineer the system in a smart way.

I am responsible of the data integrity, optimization and resilience of the bank's IT infrastructure.
Senior Systems Engineer / DBA

Malta Innovation Software Ltd.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 3 months)
Systems Engineer / DBA

Vodafone Malta

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

February 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 10 months)

System Administration on various Linux and Solaris 8/9 systems - including backup and restore procedures.
Database Administration of production and test databases including Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL Server 2000, MySQL. Migration of most Oracle 8i databases to Oracle 10g. Backup and restore of databases, database tuning, consultation with developers who developed Oracle applications.
Building of Storage Area Network and migrated most of the machines from SCSI to Fibre Channel infrastructure.
Systems Administrator

Techinvest Limited

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2003 — February 2004 (9 months)

Systems administrator at this ISP / VoIP company with exposure to mail servers, web servers, and Linux networking.

James Attard’s Education

L-Università ta' Malta

Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) , Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Telecommunications , 1999 — 2003

Activities and Societies:

Chamber of Engineers