1. Recent Projects
 Completed 9-month project with Ericsson USA working as an Oracle Goldengate and High
Availability consultant to provide an Active-Active bi-directional GolenGate replication solution
for a 1.3 Petabyte database 3 Node RAC database with Active Data Guard. This involved
predominantly remote consultancy along with onsite visits.
 Currently working on configuring high availability and replication (GoldenGate 12.2, Clusterware,
Active Data Guard) between MS SQL Server 2012 and Oracle on Exadata X5-2 for a large
Insurance client based in Perth, Australia.
 Recently completed an Oracle 12c GoldenGate implementation for Vancouver Island Health
Authority in Canada and Rosmiman in Spain by providing remote consultancy and support.
 Provided 5-day Oracle Exadata hands-on training course for a large insurance client on an X5-
2 server
 As Technical Data Architect role at BHP Billiton responsible for:
 Minimal downtime database upgrades and migrations from Oracle 9i, 10g and
11g to Oracle 12c including migration to 12c Multitenant Container database as well
as In-Memory Database
 Migration of over 100 databases from non-Exadata to Exadata X-4 using Oracle
MAA minimal downtime methods like GoldenGate, Data Guard and RMAN Cross
Platform Incremental Backups
 Responsible for the consolidation and virtualisation of databases currently hosted
on mixed platforms and Operating Systems (Windows, Solaris, Red Hat Linux) and
number of Oracle database versions (9i, 10g, 11gR1, 11gR2) to an Exadata X-4
hosted Oracle 12c Multitenant database environment
 Configured a Private Database Cloud and DBaaS (Database as a Service)
environment using Oracle 12c Cloud Control to test resource pooling, consumer-
based provisioning of databases and on-demand self -service mechanisms
 Configure Oracle GoldenGate 12c real-time replication from Oracle Active Standby database to
MS SQL Server 2012 for RAC Insurance
 Instructor for Oracle University - conducted 5-day Oracle 12c New Features and Oracle 12c
Administration Workshop training courses.
Also conducted workshops at client sites in Data Masking and 12c Enterprise Management
Cloud Control implementation as well as hands-on Performance Tuning workshops for clients
which include Bunnings and Australian Bureau of Statistics.