The document provides a summary of Mark C. Clayton's qualifications and experience as an Oracle Database Administrator with over 20 years of experience. It outlines his technical skills and certifications in Oracle databases, along with his professional experience in various Oracle DBA roles. It also lists his education and interests outside of work.

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.