Oracle Database Administrator

1. MARK C. CLAYTON
(513) 403-5247 (Cell) - mccclayton@aol.com
SUMMARY
 Enhance your I.T/ I.S department and or company, as an ORACLE Database Administrator
 Bringing over 20 years of I.T experience, 15 years as a Oracle Database Administrator
 Systems Level DBA (Instance and Database creation, configuration, monitoring, object creation,
performance tuning, backup and recovery, troubleshooting, etc.)
 Eager to apply my years of experience as an Oracle Database Administrator to my newly and
continually gaining knowledge of Oracle 12c Database Administration
 Experienced enough to apply the proper business procedures for any new technology that your
may have
 Work well in a team environment or as a primary staff
 Strong Leadership and teaching skills
TECHNICAL SKILLS
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
 ORACLE PL/SQL (Intermediate)
 UNIX Shell Scripting
DATABASES
 ORACLE 12c (Working Knowledge - See: Training/Certificates in Specific Software Applications)
 ORACLE 11g, 10g, 9i for UNIX and Windows
DATABASE TOOLS
 OEM
 QUEST CENTRAL
 QUEST SPOTLIGHT ON ORACLE
 QUEST TOAD
 SQL-NAVIGATOR
 RMAN (Working knowledge)
 RAC (Working Knowledge - See: Training/Certificates in Specific Software Applications)
OPERATING SYSTEMS
 UNIX OS 5.6 / 5.8
 SUN SOLARIS 2.4 / 2.6 / 2.8 / 2.9
 Windows NT/ Windows 2003, 2008
 HP-UNIX v11
 AIX (UNIX) 5.3 to 6.1
 LINUX (Light Knowledge)
HARDWARE
 HP RP8400/ HP 9000
 IBM RISC-6000, Blade Center S (JS-12, JS-22)
 SUN Ultra Enterprise 3500 / 5500/ SUNFIRE V440
 SUN SPARC 5/ 10/ 20

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
JJR Solutions October 2015 – Present
Dayton, OH
Senior Database Administrator
(The Berry Company – Consultant, Oracle Database Administrator)
 Emergency filled in as an Oracle DBA to assist The Berry Company in a major Application and
Database migration to a new system and software called Berry Force
 Supported legacy databases of Oracle from 8i to 10g
 Monitored Oracle databases using OEM and TOAD
 Database backups and cloning, using RMAN and various UNIX scripts
 Executed PL/SQL scripts on Production databases, created by various Data Analyst Teams
 Setup Oracle Standby Databases using Production archive logs and Activated Oracle Standby
Databases to Read-Write Databases
 Establish and execute decommissioning process for legacy Oracle databases.
Givaudan Flavor August 2007 – July 2015
Cincinnati, OH
Sr. Technology Engineer
 Maintained existing Oracle databases that ran on UNIX and Windows servers
 Created new Oracle databases when needed, to address the business needs
 Performed Database upgrades, Backup and Recovery, Operating Systems upgrades and patches
 Application Support of 3rd
party Apps that interfaces with Oracle Databases
 Performed Database and Operating Systems monitoring
 Setup UNIX shell scripts to email system status and activities
 Setup UNIX shell scripts to perform server maintenance tasks and Oracle tasks
 Provided a strong liaison between Givaudan Users and Vendors
 Installed and configured Oracle Database software and Client on Windows, UNIX and Linux
environments
 Performed light Middle Tier Configurations as it pertains to Vendor applications and applied the
needed specifications for the application to communicate with Oracle Database
 Troubleshooting errors from the Application, UNIX/Windows Servers and Oracle Databases
 Performed Desktop Support using Active Directory to Unlock users Windows and SAP accounts
 IT Security Coordinator for Givaudan North America
 Worked with Corporate Givaudan to establish documented procedures as it pertains to Policy
Compliance and Hardware Life Cycle for North America
Unison Industries (contract) November 2005 – August 2007
Dayton, OH
Oracle Database Administrator
 Oracle Database Administrator/ Production Support for the company’s ERP system (Oracle Apps
11i) and other third party applications (Autotime)
 Installation and configuration of the various third party applications
 Installations and configurations of Oracle databases and Oracle clients
 Executed patches, upgrades to the applications and databases when needed
 Troubleshooting the application, database monitoring, backup and recovery
 Managed and Mentored Junior DBA

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JP Morgan Chase (contract) July 2005 – October 2005
Columbus, OH
Database Analyst for the IT Risk Management Department
 Analyze the manually generated “Daily Production Service Status” report, which was extracted to
an Excel spreadsheet, from an Oracle Database, containing the Enterprise Change Management
data
 Documented the business logic of the manually generated report
 Provided the necessary information and recommendations for the creation of the automated
process of the “Daily Production Service Status” report
The Hamilton County Job and Family Services (contract) December 2004 – January 2005
Cincinnati, OH
Oracle DBA
 Support to assist Senior DBA, in the support of the development, test and production environments
 Performed daily status checks of all Oracle databases instances
 Daily updates to the Database Checklist Spreadsheet and provided a Word document on any
database issues with recommendations for Management and the Senior DBA
Cincom Systems Inc. (contract) July 2004 – December 2004
Cincinnati, OH
Oracle DBA
 Stabilized production environment at the OS Level
 Performance tuning of their Oracle database
 Created PERL scripts for Database archive log housekeeping and for hot backups
 Created disaster recovery procedures & Oracle Databases monitoring and health analysis
Convergys Inc. February 2001 – August 2003
Cincinnati, OH
Oracle DBA
 Senior Database Administrator, managing the “Work Management System” databases
 Maintained the production database, which included Oracle Advanced Replication methodology,
that serviced nearly 10000 plus users and day
 Worked closely with the application team in the development of all database PL/SQL scripts for the
purpose of creating or modifying Oracle database objects and or structures
 Performed upgrades, patches, backup & recovery, database tuning and UNIX shell scripting
 Used Erwin to execute the Reverse Engineering process of the production database, to capture all
of the entities and object relationships
EDUCATION
Southern Ohio College Cincinnati, Ohio
 Associate Degree in Computer Programming,
 President’s List 3.70 GPA, Dean’s List 3.60 GPA, and Graduated with a 3.36 GPA
TRAINING/ CERTIFICATES in Specific Software Applications
 Oracle 12c: New Features for Administrators (provided by Robert Half Technologies)
- Oracle Database 12c RAC Administration: Intro to Oracle RAC (Completed Mar 7, 2016)
- Tuning SQL and using ADDM (Completed Sept 27, 2015)
- High Availability and Database Management (Completed Sept 10, 2015)
- Managing Security (Completed Sept 3, 2015)
- Using Automatic Data Optimization, Storage, and Archiving (Completed Aug 9, 2015)
- Managing CDB and PDB, and Data Optimization (Completed Aug 4, 2015)
- Enterprise Manager Cloud Control and Creating CDB and PDB (Completed July 29, 2015)
 AFIS (NEC Technologies)
 Oracle Backup & Recovery (Oracle Corp.)
 ORACLE8i Advanced Replication (Oracle Corp.)

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INTERESTS
I am a Martial Arts instructor with 40+ years of experience; also, a current member and on the Board of
Directors of the American Bando Association (ABA). Other interest includes power-lifting, racquetball,
cycling, jazz, involved in community service as it pertains to Self-Defense programs and a very strong
love for science/ technological fields.