Mohammed E. Ali has over 18 years of experience in information technology with an emphasis on database and data infrastructure design and administration. He has worked extensively with Oracle technologies such as Exadata, Exalogic, Oracle RAC, Data Guard, GoldenGate, and Oracle databases. His experience includes database installations, upgrades, performance tuning, and recovery. He also has experience assessing and implementing maximum availability architectures.

1. Mohammed E. Ali
Phone (972) 266-5644
Cell (214) 289 3863
mealiusa@yahoo.com
Mohammed has over 18 Years extensive experience in information technology with emphasis on
Database and Data Infrastructure design and administration. He has experience within Oracle Support in
multiple phases of design, development, and implementation Oracle Engineer Systems like Exadata,
Exalogics, Super Cluster, Oracle RAC, Data Guard, Streams, RMAN, Golden Gate, Data warehouse
design and implementations. He has worked for clients within the manufacturing, healthcare, insurance,
banking, and services industries. His recent areas of expertise include database and application server
assessments, installation, migration, upgrades, performance tuning and recovery. He has technical
application development experience in the past but has been focused on Support roles while at Oracle.
The past 8 years he has been dedicated to short-term immediate response support assignments. Other
strengths include technical leadership, good inter-personnel, communication, analytical, problem solving
and administrative skills.
Professional Experience
Principal
Engine
er
Oracle
2009-
2016
• Exadata Installation: Led and successfully implemented Oracle Exadata
installation and configuration for a Full Rack, Half Rack or Quarter Rack.
• Exadata Mentoring tools: Implemented Grid control and DB controls for
Exadata connections. And also implemented ASR (Automatic Service
Request) configurations on Exadata.IORM Implementation and monitoring.
• Exadata patching Assessment: Provided an Exadata specific patching
assessment on all Exadata components (DB Nodes, Cell Nodes, KVM,
Infiniband, PDU, Cisco) for implementation on Production environments.
• Exadata Patching: Implemented both Cell nodes and DB nodes patching
on Exadata V2, all the Xn-2 model machines.
• Exadata Upscaling: Performed an upscale of a Quarter Rack to a full rack
while maintaining a minimal down time on a customer production
environment.
• Exadata Restores: Perform a Bare Metal restore and recovery of a
production Node. Without a down time.
• Oracle Gateway implementation: Installed OEM software and setup
monitoring with a level of appropriate metrics.
• Oracle Exadata Installations, Patching, Restore, Upgrades, up scaling
and Configurations on Linux and Sun Solaris. A Private Sector Retail,
Banking, Government Agencies, Services HealthCare projects
MAA Architecture Projects: Led Implementation of various Maximum
Availability Architecture designs, Promoting Oracle MAA.
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2. Principal
Engine
er
Oracle
2008-
2009
- Physical and logical standby DataGauard Implementation: Led
and successfully implemented Oracle RAC Physical standby
dataguard configuration for a 4-node RAC Primary database cluster
using 12c EM Grid Control.
- Implemented a Fast Fail Over and Transparent Failover procedure for
an Oracle 2-node and 4-node RAC Physical Standby dataguard on
Oracle 11gR2 and Oracle 12c Cloud Database databases
Principal
Engine
er
Oracle
2008-
2009
.
• Data Migrations Projects Using Oracle GoldenGate: Led Multiple
project to Migrate/Consolidate Databases from Legacy System to
Exadata using various Migration techniques and tools like Oracle
GoldenGate, Oracle DataGuard processes.
• Downstream and Upstream implementation: Led and successfully
implemented Oracle streams in various platforms using all Oracle best
practices in the implementations. Designed Streams Architecture for both
Downstream and upstream implementation depending on the customer
data requirement on oracle 9i, Oracle 10gR2 and Oracle 11gR2
databases.
• Streams Assessments: Provided numerous Oracle customers with
high-level Streams assessments of their streams performance profile on
Oracle 9i, Oracle 10gR2 and Oracle 11gR2 respectively. Collected and
analyzed snapshots of customers’ Streams environment to identify any
existing performance issues. This information was used to create a
standardized Report of Findings that is based on Oracle recommended
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3. best practices and recommendations. The Oracle Software Performance
Assessment is meant to be a proactive service for Oracle customers, but
has also been used for reactive assignments.
• Streams Tuning: Successfully tuned streams environment by tuning the
network throughputs, Load balancing and implementing Stream parallel
capture and apply processing while using Oracle Streams best practices
and oracle performance monitoring tools like Streams Health checks,
STRMMON, AWR and OS commands to diagnose some of the tuning
issues on various Oracle Versions like oracle 9i, Oracle 10gR2 and
Oracle 11gR2 databases.
• Bi-Directional Streams implementation: Successfully configured and
implemented Oracle Streams on oracle 9i, Oracle 10gR2 and Oracle
11gR2 databases.
Snr. Data
Archite
ct/
Consultant
Epsilo
n Inc.
Jan. 2007-
Dec. 2007
• Oracle RAC Implementation: Installed and configured 9i/10g RAC on
multiple node clusters on various platforms and hardware (Linux, AIX,
Solaris, and Windows). Implement Oracle Best Practices. Support for
install/configuration of Oracle CRS, OCFS, ASM well as third party
Clusterware and file systems (Veritas, IBM JPFS, and Sun).
Implemented backup and recovery using RMAN and various Media
managers. I.e Tivoli and Netbackup software’s.
• Oracle RAC Implementation 11gR2: Installed and configured 11gR2
RAC on multiple node clusters on various platforms and hardware (Linux,
AIX, Solaris, and Windows). Implement Oracle Best Practices. Support
for install/configuration of Oracle
• Oracle Database Installation and Performance Tuning Assessments
provided numerous Oracle customers with high-level assessments of their
system’s database performance profile (9i, 10g). Collected and analyzed
snapshots of customers’ systems to identify any existing performance
issues. This information was used to create a standardized Report of
Findings that is based on Oracle recommended best practices and
recommendations.
Snr. Consultant
Cenda
nt Inc.
Jan.
• Oracle RAC Implementation: Installed and configured and migrate 9i/10g
to Oracle 11gR2 RAC on multiple node clusters on various platforms and
hardware (Linux, AIX, Solaris, and Windows). Implement Oracle Best
Practices. Support for install/configuration of Oracle CRS, OCFS, ASM well
as third party Clusterware and file systems (Veritas, IBM JPFS, and Sun).
Implemented methodology for Oracle CPU patch upgrades with minimal
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4. 2006-
Dec. 2006
database outage. (Rolling Upgrade methodology)
• RMAN Backup/Recovery Implementation: Implemented RMAN/Veritas
Net backup backups for Power Industry. Tested backup and recovery
procedure. Created Step-by-Step Document for customer.
Snr. Consultant
Dell
Inc.
Oct. 2005-
Dec. 2005
Snr. Consultant
Lafarg
e
Aggre
gates
Inc.
Leicest
er, UK.
Jun. 2005-
Sep. 2005
• Oracle Architecture & Administration: Oracle database administration
for various RDBMS version from 7.x to 10.2.0.2. Backup/Recovery and
Performance tuning for databases sizing from 10GB to 32TB.
• Provide Golden Gate Scripts: Led and successfully designed scripts
that will be used to Configure and implemented Oracle Golden Gate in
customer’s database platforms using all Oracle best practices in the
implementations. Provide Golden Gate Environment assessments and
produce recommendation on what needed to implement on the database
before Golden Gate configuration on oracle 9i, Oracle 10gR2 and Oracle
11gR2 databases.
• Golden Gate Assessments: Provided numerous Oracle customers
with high-level Golden Gate assessments on Oracle 9i, Oracle 10gR2
and Oracle 11gR2 respectively.
Stock Project (Data warehouse Design): I was a lead data
Architect/ Database admin for the project. My task was to gather the
requirement for migrating DB2 data warehouse database to oracle
database, and then translate the requirement into Oracle database objects.
I was responsible for logical/ physical database design using the business
requirement. I was also responsible for the database layout and design
strategy for performance and implementation on Oracle 10G database.
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5. Snr. Consultant
Royal
& Sun
Allianc
e Inc.
Liverp
ool,
UK.
Mar. 2005-
Jun. 2005
Snr. DBA
Blockb
uster
Inc.,
Mar. 1999-
Jun. 2005
Monaco Data warehouse Project: I was a lead data Architect/ Database
admin for the project. My tasked is to gather the requirement and translate
that requirement into database objects. I was responsible for Logical
database design using the business requirement. I was responsible for the
database layout and design strategy for performance and implementation
on Oracle 10G database. Other responsibilities are:
• Installation and configuration upgrade and patching Oracle RDBMS
software.
• Logical and Physical Database design using data modeling tools like Erwin
Or ER studio.
Snr. Data Base Administration/Data Architect. 2003 - 2005
Senior Database Administrator responsible for designing, implementing and
maintaining a variety of production databases with sizes ranging from 400
Megabyte to 3 Tara byte. Primarily, I have worked on Oracle ranging from
oracle 6 to oracle 9i and MS SQL Server on UNIX and MS Windows (XP, NT)
Environments. Other duties include database:
Snr. Data Warehouse Data Base Administration/Data Architect. 2002
- 2003
I was responsible for the implementation and management of the Enterprise
data warehouse database environment that included Ascential Data Stage
ETL Tool and Oracle database.
Projects:
The Warehouse Management System (WMS) Project - Led
the Database team in the design and implementation of the both
Logical and Physical database, working with the product vendor
(Provia). The database was in Oracle 9i and a size of 500Giga byte.
I was also in charge of all the level 2 supports to the database.
Product Allocation Project (Controlling the Store
Allocations) - Was responsible for the Logical and physical design
using data modeling tool (Visual Studio) and Implementation of the
database on Oracle 8i. This is an OLAP database with 700 Gig in
size. Data stage ETL was used for data transfer between this
database and a reporting data mart database.
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6. System Analyst
United
Bank
for
Africa
Ltd.,
Oct. 1997-
Dec 1998
CRM - Customer Relation Management Project
(Data Warehouse) Participate with the Database team in the
design and implementation of the both Logical and Physical
database. The database was in Oracle 8i and a size of 2.5Tara byte.
I was also in charge of all the level 2 supports to the database,
which later grew to 3.5 Tara bytes. Data stage ETL and cross
database replications ware used to feed data to data warehouse.
Data Base Administration/Data Analyst
Check Clearing System - I defined, designed, developed, tested, and
implemented the check clearing system for the United Bank of Africa. The
completed system extracted check information from the bank’s two hundred
branches, uploaded it to the central bank, and stored it in an Oracle 7
database. The data contained a listing by external bank of all checks
deposited in United Bank of Africa accounts. I also performed all logical
relational database design, and created the tables on raw UNIX devices.
Fixed Assets System - I was responsible for the development,
implementation, and maintenance of the bank’s fixed asset tracking system.
This included creating data entry screens with Oracle SQL*FORMS graphical
design interface. These screens contained various application specific event
triggers to provide data validation. This system provided the ability to add,
modify, and query bank assets as well as the vendors who provided them.
The software monitored assets valued at or above $250, generated
depreciation schedules, and maintained warranty information. And also
created various reports with SQL*Report Writer, and stored procedures with
PL/SQL.
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7. Skills Summary
Oracle
Applicati
ons
•
CRM, Oracle EBS
•
Order Entry
Databases •
Oracle 7.x, 8.x, 9.x and 10gR2, 11gR2
12cR2
•
SQL Server 2000
Hardware &
Operatin
g
Systems
•
Windows NT
•
Windows 2000
•
Suse Linux
•
HP-UX 11.11
•
Red Hat Linux
•
Sun Solaris 10
•
AIX 5.4 L
Programming
Languages
•
C, SQL*PLUS
•
PL/SQL
•
Shell Scripting
•
UNIX
•
HTML
Engagement
Experience
•
Performance Tuning
•
RAC Implementation
•
Troubleshooting
•
DataGuard Implementation
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8. Other Accomplishments
Education •
Diploma in Computer Software Techniques - Computer Science, Kwara Nigeria.
•
Bachelor of Science –Computer Science, Bauchi University, Nigeria
Training •
Oracle 12c Cloud Database Workshop
•
Oracle 11gR3 RAC admin.
•
Oracle Streams Administration
•
Oracle 11gR2 Data Guard new Features
•
Oracle Streams 11gR2 New Features
•
Oracle Golden gate Foundation.
•
Oracle Golden gate Administration.
•
Dataguard Level II Training
•
Oracle 10g RAC on Linux Workshop
•
SQL Server 2000 Administration
Certifications &
Associations
•
Certified Oracle Certified Professional, ITIL
.
Presentations &
Publications
Recognition &
Awards
Languages • English, read, write, speak – High proficiency
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