Rachel Cardona Brown
Summary
Highly accomplished, deeply-driven, professional Oracle Database Administrator with over 25 years of experience. Excels in collaboration with system owners, Information System Security Officers, and Cybersecurity Information System Security Manager (ISSM) to ensure successful adherence to assessments and audits of primary business systems. Ensures compliance and successful vulnerability management via reporting and proactive adherence to industry and regulatory standards. Thorough knowledge in database security and user management, backup and recovery, database design, performance monitoring and tuning, migration, upgrades, cloning, and the execution of audit management. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure a cyber security position with opportunities to build, think out-of-the-box and collaborate in a team environment. Ready to help and lead to achieve company goals.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Database Administrator for Software Services
Battelle Energy Alliance
11.2010 - Current
- Leading DBA team to set standards to confirm consistency and effectiveness of Laboratory's systems. Ensuring ease of backup DBA support, management and implementation.
- Continue as Primary Oracle Applications DBA for 11i and R12 Oracle E-Business Suite running Oracle 11g and 12c databases. Application and database patching (opatch/datapatch/adpatch/adop), cloning via Rapid Clone, RMAN backup and restores and assisting functional users with incidents and resolution.
- Primary support for 20+ other Business Systems running Oracle 11g and 12c by incident response, root cause analysis and mitigation, configuration/monitoring, database backups, restores and cloning, application of quarterly PSU's, database upgrades, database auditing, account hardening and vulnerability scanning.
- Completed E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2 to 12.2.4 application upgrade successfully for INL spring 2016. This included a move from physical servers running RedHat Enterprise x86-64 to Oracle Linux x86-64 VMWare virtual servers. Performed technical application tier and database tier migration and upgrade exclusively.
- Interface and Configure Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control for monitoring, notifications and management of Oracle RDBMS's , Linux Hosts and Oracle Applications E-Business Suite instances.
- Known as Subject Matter Expert for Oracle database by peers, customers and management at INL.
- Implemented and worked with Oracle DB Vault/Oracle Vault to help guarantee a security plan and policy for monitoring, alerting and reporting.
- Provide direction and working with technical staff to acquire requirements for database projects as well as assist in mentoring, training and directing of more junior personnel.
Sr Database Administrator for Business Automation
Battelle Energy Alliance
11.2007 - 10.2010
- Senior database administrator supporting Department of Energy and National Homeland Security at Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
- Currently hold a “Q” clearance issued by Department of Energy.
- Support 9i, 10g and 11g Oracle databases through backup, recovery, performance tuning, installation, migration, upgrading, patching and design on Sun and Linux servers.
- Manage and maintain Oracle E-business suite 11.5.10.2 via adpatch, adadmin and Oracle E-business application.
- Current tools utilized to support databases: Quest Toad, OEM, Symantec NetBackup, Embarcadero ER Studio and DBArtisian
Database Administrator for Information Services
Compa Industries
11.2002 - 10.2007
- Senior database administrator contracted to Sandia National Laboratory supporting Department of Energy and Department of Defense.
- Held a “Q” clearance issued by Department of Energy.
- Oracle database administrator focused on support of Oracle Applications 11.5.10 on Oracle 9i and 10gR2 which resided on HP-UX.
- Performed secondary support for 120+ other Oracle databases including: rotation of on-call support, backup and recovery, database tuning, migration and patching, design and implementation of database objects.
- Lead on functional role team where we designed procedures to improve processes, documentation and mentoring of key database services.
- Tools utilized to support databases: OEM, Embarcadero DBArtisian, ER Studio, Quest Space Manager, BMC's SQLBacktrack, RMAN,Control-M Enterprise Manager and Symantec Savant Monitoring tool.
Database Administrator for Business Applications
Volvo IT North America
02.1999 - 10.2002
- Oracle database administrator for 40+ databases which reside on NT, AIX and Sun Solaris platforms
- Implemented backup and recovery strategies, database tuning and performance monitoring in Oracle 7, 8 & 8i environments.
- Maintained multiple SAP databases via SAP's database tools.
- Participated in Y2K readiness and verification for new and existing databases.
- Performed database administration tasks including: installation, migration, design and implementation of database objects such as SMU'S, tablespaces and tuning queries.
- Supported Solaris HA environments.
- Responsible for monitoring and conducting performance-tuning measures utilizing IBM Tivoli and BMC Patrol tools.
- Provided technical support to end-users and dealers on web based applications.
- Consulted on migrating application to Oracle web architecture for enterprise use. Included: physical design, capacity requirements and alignment with businesses long range plans.
Associate Program Manager
RTC Industries, Inc
10.1997 - 01.1999
- Serviced Fortune 5 client via program management.
- Managed communication, prioritization, and problem resolution of all applicable activities in design, engineering, estimating, model shop, project management, production and distribution.
- Prepared presentation materials, budgets, quotes and timelines for all phases of assigned programs, projects and orders.
- Demonstrated ability to establish and close sales.
- Established, reviewed and monitored budgets and timelines to ensure they are in alignment with meeting defined objectives.
System Administrator
RTC Industries, Inc
06.1994 - 09.1997
- Installed HP-UX 9.04 server, migrated HP-UX from 9.0 to 9.4.
- Maintained and administered HP-UX systems.
- Assisted in migration of Novell 3.12 network to Novell 4.1 and performed daily administration.
- Managed Manman/X (MK) a fully integrated manufacturing application.
- Performed customization and development of manufacturing application (MK).
- Performed daily trouble-shooting and problem solving for reporting, hardware, and software, etc..
- Developed company wide software training and taught training classes.
- Administered and maintained multiple mail servers and gateway to the internet.
- Researched and coordinated hardware, software and disaster recovery contracts.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Computer Information Systems (BCIS)
St. Cloud State University
St.Cloud, MNSkills
- Implementing Security Measures
- Continuous Process Improvement
- Customer Needs Assessment
- Database Administration
- Data Audits
- Database Development
- Disaster Recovery
- Information Protection
- Linux Operating System
- Tenable - Nessus / Splunk / OEM / Invicti / WebInspect / SonarQube
Timeline
Sr Database Administrator for Software Services
Battelle Energy Alliance
11.2010 - Current
Sr Database Administrator for Business Automation
Battelle Energy Alliance
11.2007 - 10.2010
Database Administrator for Information Services
Compa Industries
11.2002 - 10.2007
Database Administrator for Business Applications
Volvo IT North America
02.1999 - 10.2002
Associate Program Manager
RTC Industries, Inc
10.1997 - 01.1999
System Administrator
RTC Industries, Inc
06.1994 - 09.1997
Bachelor of Science - Business Computer Information Systems (BCIS)
St. Cloud State University
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