30+ years of experience in Information Technology in application development, software analysis and design, database administration, system administration, and supporting complex systems in a 24x7 environment. Certified and highly accomplished Oracle Database Administrator & Linux Administrator with significant hands on experience with Unix and Linux systems. An accomplished leader with the military discipline to stick to the task, but also understands the need to be flexible.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Infrastructure Team Lead / Sr. IT Advisor
Baptist Memorial Health Care
Memphis, TN
01.2018 - Current
Provide leadership and direction to the team directly involved in implementing and supporting the various technologies for the Epic EMR product, providing database administration for the Epic MUMPS (Iris/Cache) database, and also administering the various clinical and financial Oracle databases that are used at BMHCC.
Team Lead (Oracle/MySQL) – Database Services
International Paper
Memphis, TN
07.2017 - 01.2018
Provide leadership and guidance to the database team responsible for the administration and support of hundreds of MySQL databases and scores of Oracle databases critical to the business needs.
Sr. Oracle DBA Consultant – International Paper (IP)
1Link Technology
Memphis, TN
07.2016 - 07.2017
Perform relevant database administration tasks in support of hundreds of MySQL databases and scores of Oracle databases critical to the business needs
Create a program to fully automate the process of upgrading the MySQL databases to higher versions.
Technical Infrastructure Team Lead / Sr. Database Administrator
Baptist Memorial Health Care
Memphis, TN
01.2012 - 07.2016
This is a triple role position – which involve providing leadership and direction to the team directly involved in implementing and supporting the various technologies for the Epic EMR product, providing database administration for the Epic MUMPS (Cache) database, and also administering the various clinical and financial Oracle databases that are used at BMHCC.
Sr Business Analyst/Database Administrator
Baptist Memorial Health Care
Memphis, TN
04.2001 - 01.2012
This role involved providing database and support related activities for a variety of production and development Oracle and MUMPS databases, and also involved the migration of several oracle databases from regular file system storage to the more robust Oracle ASM technology.
Developed a prototype Java application, which was demonstrated to Senior IT management as the first step in moving a physician billing process from the older VAX platform, to the more user friendly Windows OS.
Used the Microsoft .NET framework and C# to create a Windows service which was used to automatically filter billing data, prior to sending to the appropriate 3rd party billing company.
Medical Representative/System Administrator
Military Entrance Processing Station
Knoxville, TN
09.1997 - 03.2001
Assisted the residents of Knoxville and surrounding areas with their physical examinations to ensure proper screening for entry into the Armed forces.
As the medical department’s assistant supervisor, provided hands-on training, leadership and supervision to junior personnel. Increased moral, productivity and employee effectiveness via strong leadership, team effort philosophy and recognition policies.
Designed and developed a software program which greatly increased the efficiency and flow of the perspective applicants through the medical department. This software program was used to calculate the body fat composition of applicants whose weight falls outside the military weight standards. The software was developed for the Windows operating system using the C++ programming language.
Designed and developed a software application that provided automatic tracking capability for all HIV and urine drug samples sent to reference laboratories for testing. This application was also developed using C++
System Administrator
Naval Hospital Millington
Millington, TN
01.1995 - 09.1997
Was a member of the Information Systems staff that supported the hospital’s clinical system running on SCO Unix.
Responsibilities included daily system administration, adding and deleting users, applying necessary patches, troubleshooting system issues, performing system backups, creating needed Unix scripts and monitoring disk space.
Troubleshooting network related issues
Clinical Laboratory System Manager
Naval Hospital Millington
Millington, TN
05.1993 - 01.1995
Lead a team that was tasked with the transformation of the laboratory from a paper based manual mode of operation, to computerized mode – using CHCS (Composite Health Care System) – the military’s entirely MUMPS based Unix application.
Used the MUMPS programming language to continually enhance the laboratory system.
Ensured that automated lab instruments were functional and properly interfaced to the LIS system.
Education
M.S. - Computer Information Systems
University of Phoenix
01-2004
B.S. - Computer Science
American Sentinel University
01-2000
A.S. - Information Technology/Medical Technology
Southwest Community College
01-1997
Skills
C/C/Java/C#
Dataguard
Standby Database
Import/Export Data Extract tools
PL/SQL
Intersystems ECP
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Ubuntu
IBM AIX
SCO
HPUX
Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g/12c/19c
RAC
Cache/Iris
MUMPS
CHCS FileMan
Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
AWS EC2/S3/
Linux/UNIX Shell Scripting
PERL
MySQL
NoSQL
Epic ODBA
Epic BCA/Printing/WebBlob/Hyperspace
Certification
AWS Cloud Practitioner
AWS Machine Learning (in progress)
AWS Solutions Architect (in progress)
Oracle Database Administrator Certified Professional (OCP)
Epic Certified Iris/Cache DBA
RHCE (Red Hat Linux) Certified System Engineer
Epic Iris/Cache DBA
Epic ECSA – BCA, Printing, WebBlob, Hyperspace
Timeline
Technical Infrastructure Team Lead / Sr. IT Advisor
Baptist Memorial Health Care
01.2018 - Current
Team Lead (Oracle/MySQL) – Database Services
International Paper
07.2017 - 01.2018
Sr. Oracle DBA Consultant – International Paper (IP)
1Link Technology
07.2016 - 07.2017
Technical Infrastructure Team Lead / Sr. Database Administrator
Baptist Memorial Health Care
01.2012 - 07.2016
Sr Business Analyst/Database Administrator
Baptist Memorial Health Care
04.2001 - 01.2012
Medical Representative/System Administrator
Military Entrance Processing Station
09.1997 - 03.2001
System Administrator
Naval Hospital Millington
01.1995 - 09.1997
Clinical Laboratory System Manager
Naval Hospital Millington
05.1993 - 01.1995
M.S. - Computer Information Systems
University of Phoenix
B.S. - Computer Science
American Sentinel University
A.S. - Information Technology/Medical Technology
Southwest Community College
AWS Cloud Practitioner
AWS Machine Learning (in progress)
AWS Solutions Architect (in progress)
Oracle Database Administrator Certified Professional (OCP)
Epic Certified Iris/Cache DBA
RHCE (Red Hat Linux) Certified System Engineer
Epic Iris/Cache DBA
Epic ECSA – BCA, Printing, WebBlob, Hyperspace
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