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Database and System Administrator
and tech-savvy troubleshooter
Brian Ryberg
Lyngevej 43 • 2640 Hedehusene • Mobile +45 2520 7499 • brian.ryberg@gmail.com
Summary
DBA, database- and system administrator with 18 years’ experience in the IT industry is looking for
a new playground.
Having worked with outsourcing since the practice was introduced at HP Denmark in 1996, I have
my share of experience with eg. SLAs , ITIL, Problem Management, High Availability and
coordination with physical and virtual teams located all over the world – with the ultimate goal of
ensuring the best possible performance of the promised environment or to figure out what’s wrong.
I am an experienced, meticulous, likeable person who is eager to learn - with a healthy track record
in outsourcing and operations for a wide array of Danish and global customers, while being
employed by Digital Equipment Corp., Compaq and most recently, Hewlett-Packard.
Throughout the years, I have maintained a tech-savvy curiosity, playing around with virtualizations,
Linux, hardware and gizmos just for fun.
Applied competencies:
Delivery/Implementation:
Participate in projects
Implementing designs
Changing/Ammending/Upgrading env.
Dialogue/Communicate with architects/Support/Globally virtual teams/Customers
Operating business critical environments
Suggesting/Improving environments
Documentation
Helpdesk:
Customer contact
Ensuring best customer satisfaction
Troubleshooting Level 1+2+3
Support:
Troubleshooting
Proactive monitoring, fixing issues
Reactive, fixing issues
Suggest improvements

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Oncall duty
Dialogue with vendors
Troubleshooting software
Troubleshooting hardware
Brief summary of major employments, reverse order:
My primary tasks have been on the operational side of managing systems and databases, especially Oracle and
Microsoft SQL Server, from design to ramp down.
 Responsible for the database/middleware part of an internal QA project to assess customer service with the aim
of identifying and prioritizing fixes for possible threats to service level offered to customers
 DBA team member, responsible for operations, development and support of global environment for major
telecommunications company. (Nokia Networks, remote from Danish office)
 Operation of Oracle incl. RAC, migration of several Oracle RAC databases to PostgreSQL on a Linux cluster.
 Implementation of PostgreSQL as well as assessment of monitoring options for the same telecom company.
(Sony Mobile, Lund, Sweden)
 Implementation of UC (Microsoft Communications Server) at large Danish bank (Danske Bank).
 Migration/transition of new Microsoft Active Directory in large Danish pharmaceutical company (AD/HPCA)
(Nycomed).
 Operation of PKI platform for global encryption service provider (Eurogiro).
 ITIL certification and practical application.
 Team leader for database team.
 Operation of Oracle/MSSQL environment for major Danish petrol company (OK Benzin).
 Operation of Oracle environment and later migration to MSSQL environment for Danish SaaS company
(Servicehosting/Axapta).
 Operation of Oracle databases, clusters and storage for large Danish postal company (Post Danmark).
 Definition of requirements, monitoring tools and implementation for the new Danish HP Outsourcing
department.
 Operations and daily management of helpdesk as well as system management of the environment on
OpenVMS/RDB with customer contact in Danish, English, Swedish and some German.
 Start-up and implementation of ferry booking system for a large Scandinavian shipping company, Scandlines
STRENGTHS
 Operations Management
 Project Participation
 Customer Service/Interaction
 Implementation
 Migration
 Transition
 Troubleshooting (Software/Hardware)
 Project work
KEY SKILLS
 Database administration (Oracle/SQLserver/PostgreSQL)

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 Database back-up/restore/recovery/troubleshooting
 Windows Servers/Active Directory
 Linux/Unix
 Monitoring SW
 MS Office
 Virtualization (VMware(ESXi/vSphere)/Oracle/Virtualbox)
 PostgreSQL
 MySQL
 PKI infrastructure (Entrust/Eurogiro - Encryption Key interchange)
 Network technologies
 OpenVMS
LANGUAGES
 Danish (fluent)
 English (fluent)
 German (spoken & written)
 Swedish/Norwegian (spoken)
While off work:
 Every even weeks, being a dad for my two kids.
 Some book-reading. Motorcycle riding. Digging into gadgets and techinques, keeping self, kids, girlfriend and
friends happy. Trying to keep the old house happy and working, too. Concerts and social gatherings.
Trainings
A brief overview of the trainings I can proof having taken, or which I remember having done through my 18 years with
DEC/Compaq/HP
 Read up on the exam for Oracle OCA, without taking the exam. (2014/2015)
 Taking various HP-inhouse webbased skill upgrades for
MSSQL2008/MSSQL2012/Oracle 10g/11g/12g/RAC/Cloud Computing (2007++)
 PostgreSQL course via EnterpriseDB, Lund, Sweden (2011)
 Upgrade database administrator skills to MSSQL2005 (2006)
 Open View Network Node Manager (April 2005)
 ITIL Foundations (IT Service Management) (2003)
 Administering HP Open View Operations (2003)
 Oracle 9i, New Features for administrators (ORACLE)
 Administering MSSQL 2000 (2001)
 BMC Patrol NT administrators (2 days , 2001)
 Oracle 8i, New Features for administrators 5days (ORACLE, 2000)
 BMC Patrol NT administrators (3 days , 2000)
 Oracle DBA caurse (DBA + Backup/Recovery) apx 2 weeks (ORACLE, 1998)
 OpenVMS system administration apx 2 weeks (DIGITAL, 1996-1997)