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KEVINE CHOUAKO

Killeen,Texas

Summary

An accomplished Database Administrator with many years of IT experience and 6+ years of extensive knowledge and proficiency in database design, monitoring & tuning, migration, upgrades, backup & recovery, cloning, replication, security implementations, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions. Also proficient in an assortment of technologies including Oracle 10g, 11g, 12c, 18c and 19c. Skilled in problem solving, troubleshooting of database issues on the Severity SEV1, SEV2, SEV4 bridges. Designed, Planned, tested, and perform backup/recovery on Production databases. Setup high availability, high performance and storage management solution for Disaster Recovery and Real Time Replication of Schema Objects. Administered Dataguard, Goldengate and Oracle RAC with ASM on Linux platforms. Experience working with Oracle, Postgres, SQL-Server database engines. Worked with Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 5, 6, 7 and 8. Supported and coordinated with technical team members in monitoring of systems and in performance tuning and optimization of system. Develop and enhance scripts in Cron and SQL, PL/SQL to automate and execute various DBA tasks, queried execution plans, performance optimization and performed installation, upgrades, and patches. Maintained detailed technical documentation of database architecture and database design and modeling as per business requirements. Monitoring of the database using SQL-clients, Oracle Enterprise Manager, EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager, PGAdmin. Multiple years of experience in software development life cycle and project management. Engineered/designed/developed/deployed additional technologies and automation for managed services on AWS infrastructure and services such as EC2, RDS, IAM, S3 and monitoring with CloudWatch within a managed service environment-VPC.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

IT Specialist GS12 (Data Manager)

NAVSUP
05.2022 - Current
  • Installation, Configuration and Administration of Oracle 11g, 12c, 18 and 19c Databases
  • Migrated standalone databases to 4-node RAC Cluster
  • Worked as an administrator on PostgreSQL where I had extensive performance tuning at all levels
  • Performed backup and recovery on PostgreSQL and done critical restore from backups
  • Migration single Instance Databases to 4 Node RAC environments
  • administers MySQL Server data systems and structures.
  • Provision MySQL instances, both in clustered and non-clustered configurations
  • Ensure performance, security, and availability of databases
  • Managed databases via TOAD, SQL Developer and 13c
  • Cloud control
  • Implementation of High Availability solutions with
  • Oracle 12c,18c and 19c on RAC and Data Guard
  • Implemented ASM on RAC and stand-alone databases
  • Managing disks and disk groups with ASM
  • Applied PSU and one-off patches
  • Refresh databases using RMAN, Export Import and Data
  • Pump utilities
  • Creating and dropping of users, granting, and revoking permissions to users/roles as and when required
  • Involved in installation and configuration of Golden Gate for real time data replication
  • 24/7 Production database administration support
  • Worked on Data center migration
  • Performed Explain Plan analysis for Query Optimization and SQL tuning
  • Analyze and tuned long running jobs by working closely with the application teams to analyze objects, rebuilt indexes, query tuning using SQL TRACE, AWR, TKPROF and Explain Plan
  • Clone databases using RMAN Duplicated
  • Troubleshoot performance related issues
  • Restore and recovered databases
  • Resolved gaps in Oracle Data Guard
  • Automating the daily routine activities and schedule maintenance jobs by creating / developing UNIX shell scripts and Oracle scheduler jobs
  • Worked with storage admins to get disk space for Oracle
  • ASM Disk groups
  • Worked with Oracle support in resolving issues
  • Working on upgrading database from 12c to 18c to 19c
  • Used Data Pump to refreshed database objects
  • Written scripts to automate repeating tasks
  • Worked on snapshot standby databases
  • Setup threshold in 13c cloud control for alerts
  • Generated ASH, AWR, ADDM reports and worked with app teams on performance
  • Partition tables.
  • Employed vast knowledge of relational database concepts and PL/SQL coding to produce highly efficient data systems.
  • Debugged systems and fixed program malfunctions quickly.
  • Scheduled and tested system-wide upgrades to keep databases evolving with company needs.
  • Used Unix and Windows operating systems to complete assigned tasks and create unique data solutions.
  • Developed applications and designed processes for transformation and data management from company-wide databases.
  • Generated reports, maintaining dimensional as well as relational data structures and managing operational data store and data warehouse.

ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

T-Mobile
03.2016 - 04.2022
  • Responsible for administration and supporting oracle 12c,11g databases
  • Configured Alerts using 12c/13c Cloud Control
  • Installing ASM environment and migrating database from
  • NON-ASM to ASM
  • Configure and manage tablespaces, tables, and users for custom applications
  • Developed views, materialized views, functions, procedures, triggers, packages using DDL DML, PL/SQL, and SQL to transform data between source staging area to target staging area
  • Creating and dropping of users, granting, and revoking permissions to users/roles as and when required
  • Experience in supporting databases under all flavors of
  • UNIX (Sun Solaris, HP UX Red Hat)
  • Created users, roles and granted privileges per the business requirements
  • Skilled with statspack, AWR, ADDM, SAR to check performance of database & hardware
  • Restored and Recovered SQL Server Databases
  • Performed database cloning to setup test and development database
  • Migrated databases to different data datacenter
  • Handled RAC Node hangs and node eviction issues
  • Maintaining schemas and partitioning tables
  • Worked on DB Monitoring scripts
  • Index management for better performance, maintenance of Oracle Database
  • Developed RMAN scripts for database backup and recovery including hot and cold backup options for both
  • RAC and standalone instances
  • Created, upgraded, and cloned Oracle databases for
  • Development and testing databases
  • Performing day-to-day database administration tasks like Tablespace usage, checking alert log, trace files, monitoring disk usage, Table/index analyze jobs, database backup logs etc
  • Worked in Tuning OS, Shared Pool, Buffer Cache, and
  • Performed large batch jobs and tuning of SQL queries and database systems
  • Created indexes to facilitate easy user interface implementation and tuning
  • Automatic Database Diagnostic monitor
  • Data Modeling, Database Design and creation using Erwin
  • Operating systems on clustered / shared HP-UX UNIX,
  • Linux, and Windows servers
  • Database performance monitoring, Application performance monitoring, tuning database, and application with efficient database parameters
  • Automated the replication process using materialized views for reporting databases
  • Plan and acquire the new technologies and implementation, suitable for the applications regarding the specific future requirements of the company's business projections and growth.
  • Established working relationships across various departments to understand existing and emerging IT requirements.

• Good knowledge on all incident, change, problem management process & compliance process

• Assist with database management development, documentation, and maintenance of all software, to include data communications, networking, system administration, and Web products.

• Design or implement Oracle projects such as packages, tables, procedures, views, and triggers.

Education

Associate of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

University of Yaounde
Cameroon

Skills

  • MYSQL
  • RAC
  • GOLDEN GATE
  • DATA GUARD
  • UPGRADE AND PATCHING
  • MIGRATION
  • ASM
  • DATA PUMP
  • TRANSPARENT DATA
  • ENCRIPTION (TDS)
  • MS SQL SERVER
  • SQL LOADER
  • EC2
  • RDS
  • PERFORMANCE TUNING
  • BACKUP AND RECOVERY
  • OEM
  • TOAD
  • RMAN
  • AWS
  • POSTGRESQL
  • PGADMIN
  • PEOPLESOFT
  • ERWIN
  • PL/SQL, Sun Solaris,
  • UNIX Shell Scripting

Certification

CompTIA Security+ Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)

Timeline

IT Specialist GS12 (Data Manager)

NAVSUP
05.2022 - Current

ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

T-Mobile
03.2016 - 04.2022

Associate of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

University of Yaounde
KEVINE CHOUAKO