
Oracle DBA at Totsys, Inc
Greater New York City Area

Oracle DBA at Totsys, Inc
Greater New York City Area
Founder and Senior Consultant at Heavyweight Internet Group
(shull at iheavy dot com), author, speaker, and small business owner with ten years independent consulting experience. Database Administrator, with Application Tuning and Troubleshooting specialty, in a wide variety of businesses. Always interested in Oracle projects integrating with open-source technologies, as well as MySQL administration, and tuning. In addition to regular whitepapers, journal articles, and speaking engagements, work closely with database vendors, and am on the board of directors of the NY Oracle User Group.
o author of "Oracle and Open Source" - O'Reilly, April 2001
o also published in Oracle Technology Network, NY Oracle User Group, International Oracle User Group SELECT, EFY India and DBA Zine
o TWELVE years experience as an independent consultant in all aspects of Oracle Administration
o experience with small startups, and fortune 500 companies
o diverse technology background, and exposure
o very strong writing, and people skills
o experience running small business (accounting, sales, marketing, hiring, management, strategic decision making, managing budget, contract negotiation, project scoping etc)
Oracle 9i, 10g 11g, plsql, dataguard, logical + physical standby, high availability, RAC, real application clusters, cbo, bitmap index, b-tree index, rman, partitioned tables, data warehouse, oltp, Unix, query Tuning
advanced mysql, master-master replication, transaction, query log, index tuning, large database, clustering, innodb, myisam, query cache, merge, optimize, security, join optimization, fulltext indexes
shell scripts, csh, perl, php, LAMP, drupal, apache
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GE; Entertainment industry)
October 2008 — Present (3 months)
dba, innodb, myisam, memcache, normalization, sql tuning, joins, indexes, stored procedures, triggers, cursors, LAMP, apache, scalable architecture, master slave replication, high availability, slow query log, backup, recovery, optimization, troubleshooting, high performance, data architect, PHP, security, linux, unix, cluster, security, patching
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)
September 2008 — Present (4 months)
Troubleshooting, tuning, and optimizing hardware, servers, and MySQL database systems. Apache webserver + application SQL tuning, reconfiguring, and optimizing overall systems.
dba, innodb, myisam, memcache, normalization, sql tuning, joins, indexes, stored procedures, triggers, cursors, LAMP, apache, scalable architecture, master slave replication, high availability, slow query log, backup, recovery, optimization, troubleshooting, high performance, data architect, drupal, PHP
(Financial Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year)
oracle 9i, oracle 10g, oracle 11g, oracle internet directory, ldap, migration, oltp, sql performance tuning, plsql, shell scripts, linux, windows, microsoft ISA server, remote desktop, shared schemas, java, javabeans,
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Migrating to Oracle 10gR2, patching, setup of Dataguard technology (standby database), testing, working with developers, ironing out application issues.
high availability, physical standby, logical standby, plsql, oltp, vldb, data warehouse, rman, sql performance, linux
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)
June 2006 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Oracle Database Performance Tuning, Perl + SQL Tuning, understanding site architecture, streamlining systems, plsql programming and solutions.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2005 — Present (3 years 7 months)
Coordinate Vendor Relations for the group. Networking to find potential sponsors, identifying venues, and speakers for events. Working closely with Oracle leaders in the New York area, and nationally. Also working with luminaries in the field of Oracle technology.
(Investment Management industry)
January 1999 — Present (10 years)
Company disseminates news and information about the Hedge Fund Industry. Manage, respond to, and fulfill all outsourced technology needs including Unix Administration, MySQL Administration, Apache Administration, backup and recovery, and hosting service interfacing. In addition manage software patching of software stack including Linux, Apache, and MySQL. Managing security needs and issues. Monitoring systems 24x7x365. help steer companies technology needs, manage development effort in PHP and Perl, with various subcontracted designers, & programmers. Coordinate closely with client, and help explain and illucidate internet technologies, & possiblities.
dba, innodb, myisam, memcache, normalization, sql tuning, joins, indexes, stored procedures, triggers, cursors, LAMP, apache, scalable architecture, master slave replication, high availability, slow query log, backup, recovery, optimization, troubleshooting, high performance, data architect, PHP, security, linux, unix, cluster
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 1996 — Present (12 years 2 months)
As founder of Heavyweight Internet Group, I handle all aspects of the business from lead generation & networking, to sales process, project scope & definition, and implementation. Our focus in Oracle Professional Services brings with it many challenges, from security of corporate data, to performance tuning and optimization of world-class terabyte size databases.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
August 2007 — May 2008 (10 months)
Setup administration and tuning of MySQL database systems and related applications. Setup of master/slave and master/master redundant systems. Diagnosing difficult performance issues, and tuning applications for growth.
dba, innodb, myisam, memcache, normalization, sql tuning, joins, indexes, stored procedures, triggers, cursors, LAMP, apache, scalable architecture, master slave replication, high availability, slow query log, backup, recovery, optimization, troubleshooting, high performance, data architect, PHP, security, linux, unix, cluster
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2006 — July 2007 (9 months)
Tuning MySQL database issues, and connectivity issues between webserver and database. Ongoing monitoring and maintenance of systems.
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
November 2006 — June 2007 (8 months)
Oracle systems architecting, and evaluation. Working with technology team on directions, and planning.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
May 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 6 months)
All server administration including Oracle, Linux, Apache, and Tomcat. Installation, upgrades, security patches, backups. 24x7x365 monitoring, and proactive support. Coordination with hosting provider. Close coordination with company management on technology needs and direction. System provisioning, and server migration as needed.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 5 months)
As Senior DBA at Active Reasoning, I frame the technology direction and focus of database and Oracle infrastructure. From tuning the application, to migrating the application and database to newer versions. I work closely with developers to help them better understand the Oracle architecture, and work with professional services to provide world class service to customers.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
July 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 7 months)
Managed ten enterprise Oracle databases
o Peoplesoft DBA
o Oracle BI
o various Oracle backed applications
o migration of 7 to 8.44 of Peoplesoft
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
January 2003 — May 2003 (5 months)
Worked with management + database team to devise plan of migrating from 8i to 9i of the Oracle database. Coordinated testing of application, setup development environment, then performed migration of all data in Oracle. Also configured backups, and high availability environment with standby database/dataguard.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 2002 — April 2003 (7 months)
Setup administration, tuning and backup/recovery of Oracle databases. Migrating to partitioned objects, tuning SQL, optimizing application interaction with Oracle. (Java/Tomcat) Worked closely with management, administrators and programmers, providing direction, and room for growth.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
January 1998 — June 1999 (1 year 6 months)
As lead Oracle DBA, I was responsible for all aspects of the database infrastructure including backups, HA & maintenance. Ongoing monitoring and tuning of the database hardware, application, and various components of the software stack. Working with management and various departments during launches of new products, and helping developers write the best SQL to take advantage of all of Oracle's features.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 1 month)
Oracle Database administration, application tuning, resolving latency and network problems, working closely with application team, management, and helping with future direction, and scaling.
BS, Computer Science, September 1987 — January 1992
AP Computer Science (5)
new technology, travel, culture, art, food, music.
New York Oracle User Group, International Oracle User Group, New York Linux User Group, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Advanced Placement CS (5)