Freelance Writer, Professional Blogger, Database Technologist
Greater Denver Area
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- Tech Writer at Guardium, Inc.
- Contributing Analyst at DCIG Inc.
- Owner, Freelance Writer, Professional Blogger at Pine Horse, Inc.
- Past
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- Tech Writer at PointSource Communications, Inc.
- Database Solution Architect at LSI
- DBA / DBA Manager at NetRegulus
- Director of Technical Consulting at Confio Software
- Independent Consultant at MicroMedex
- Independent Consultant at CreekPath Systems
- co-Founder/Chief Architect/DBA/Manager at dbDoctor, Inc.
- Oracle Lead DBA at INFOBEAT
- Consultant at TUSC
- DBA/DA/Lead Oracle DBA at Tandy Corporation
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James Koopmann (james@jameskoopmann.com)’s Summary
I am completly and fully dedicated to providing technical advantage and guidance to companies within information technology.
Over the years, I have worked with a variety of database-centric software and tools vendors as strategist, architect, DBA, and performance expert.
I am an accomplished author appearing regularly within printed publications and across the Web, and speaking at local area User Groups as well as industry conferences.
James Koopmann (james@jameskoopmann.com)’s Specialties:
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James Koopmann (james@jameskoopmann.com)’s Experience
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Tech Writer
Guardium, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
2008 — Present (1 year)
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Contributing Analyst
DCIG Inc.
(Market Research industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
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Owner, Freelance Writer, Professional Blogger
Pine Horse, Inc.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2003 — Present (5 years 10 months)
Pine Horse, Inc. www.pinehorse.com is dedicated and focused on providing guidence in the field of database technology.
Please just visit the web site and learn what we do. -
Tech Writer
PointSource Communications, Inc.
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 5 months)
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Database Solution Architect
LSI
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LSI; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2006 — July 2007 (1 year)
Responsible for providing technical leadership of Oracle Database Storage Solutions for the Engenio Storage Group. Lead and help support technical solution design and development efforts for complex Oracle Database solutions. Create technical White Papers, Best Practices White Papers, Installation and Configuration Guides, and help advocate the Engenio storage platform as the platform of choice for Oracle Database solutions via various communication channels.
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DBA / DBA Manager
NetRegulus
(Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2004 — July 2006 (1 year 8 months)
Provide guidance and build database administration group from the ground up. Assist in daily operations of database administrative tasks such as backup / recovery, data modeling, and support scripts for daily operation. Develop internal procedures and code to deploy DDL & DML baselines against customer install base for software upgrades. Duties included both Oracle and SQL Server.
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Director of Technical Consulting
Confio Software
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2004 — November 2004 (6 months)
Provide all aspects of technical support to customers that use the Confio Software performance products during both the pre-sales and post-sales activities. Use the Confio product to consult back to client base showing where Oracle database performance is lacking and present viable solutions to the performance problems. Responsible for developing and presenting training for resellers and end-users of the Confio product line. Spokesperson and industry facing technical expert on database issues such that Confio becomes seen as a viable solution provider in the database performance space.
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Independent Consultant
MicroMedex
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2004 — May 2004 (3 months)
Implement Oracle Data Guard and fail over scripts between primary database and three standby databases. After developing fail over techniques for their environment I was responsible for the transferring of techniques and procedures to DBA staff on Data Guard and their particular implementation. It was also my responsibility to provide guidance to the DBA staff on a daily basis for any situation of database maintenance and performance that might arise.
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Independent Consultant
CreekPath Systems
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2003 — April 2004 (9 months)
Designed database models used in OLTP, and OLAP databases to support CreekPath’s new product offering for file crawling of networked storage devices. Oversaw this product from design through development & test, and into production. For the proper rollout of this product, I was responsible for interacting with C-level corporate employees to validate corporate direction and maintain constant interaction with offshore developers so that all deadlines would be met. It was also my responsibility to evaluate the database usage patterns for CreekPath’s current application offerings and provide guidance in all areas of database performance and application design so as to determine how they could maintain appropriate SLAs to customer base. Redesigned multiple database structures and provided alternative application techniques that augmented the current design to provide transaction rates of 500,000 inserts per 15 minutes with a three month retention cycle.
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co-Founder/Chief Architect/DBA/Manager
dbDoctor, Inc.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1999 — January 2003 (4 years 1 month)
Chief Architect. Responsible for overseeing all aspects of the technical design and implementation for dbDoctor products. Provide technical area expertise in database usage and performance monitoring. Define approaches to collect, summarize, query, and present information to customer base. Validate architecture, design decisions, and the presentation layer.
Managed a team of 2 DBAs where I provided direction, mentoring, and training on daily database administration and operational issues. Devised a system to automate the performance indicators associated with detecting performance bottlenecks. Was responsible for keeping abreast of new technology and to position myself as mentor to our internal and the external technical community. Work with executive management team in determining high-level direction of product and determine relative market. -
Oracle Lead DBA
INFOBEAT
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — January 1999 (2 years 1 month)
Oracle Lead DBA with 3 subordinate. Responsible for all aspects of maintainging and supporting database systems. Major responsibility was to provide leadership, direction, and training to DBA staff so that they could become productive and self-sufficient. Modified BudTool’s backup routines to supply more reliability in recovery. Pinpoint and solve performance problems with respect to hardware, applications, and physical layout of database. Took lead in tightening security for databases. Involved in the design and implementation of both test and production networks. Handle the migration from Oracle V7.3.2.1 to V8.0.5.
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Consultant
TUSC
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1996 — January 1997 (1 year 1 month)
various DBA duties including First Data Corp, Rocky Mountain Health, and Corporate Express
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DBA/DA/Lead Oracle DBA
Tandy Corporation
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1987 — January 1996 (9 years 1 month)
Oracle Lead DBA with 2 subordinates. Was responsible for providing a structured approach to database administration practices for the Oracle platform which had already been implemented in Tandy’s DB2 mainframe platform. Responsible for Oracle administration of multiple test and production database instances across multiple platforms. Install, upgrade, and configure the Oracle server and application tools across all of Tandy’s systems. Create and maintain production databases, including usage monitoring, volumetrics, and reorganization. Create backup and recovery plans. Perform database tuning and SQL and application reviews. Install and upgrade databases. Configure SQL*Net and a multi-threaded server. Present ideas and solutions to top-level management. Work with data analysts in the logical and physical design of the database. Serve as a database analyst on a production DB2 system. Create, maintain, monitor, and tune databases and applications.
