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 with Oracle databases like Exadata, Exalogic, SuperCluster, Oracle RAC, and Data Guard. His areas of expertise include database assessments, installations, migrations, upgrades, performance tuning, and recovery. He is proficient in technologies like Oracle, SQL Server, Linux, and Solaris and has experience across various industries.

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.
Other strengths include technical leadership, good inter-personnel, communication, analytical, problem
solving and administrative skills.
Professional Experience
Oracle USA, San Francisco, CA Nov. '07 – Present
Snr. Principal Engineer:
Database consolidation and Migration to Exadata Platforms Project:
• 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 X2-
2, X3-2, X4-2 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.
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2. • 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
Environment: Oracle 12c, Oracle 11gR2 RAC, Oracle Exadata Hardware,
OEL Linux, Oracle Java JVM, ZFS Appliance, Super Cluster Hardware
Snr. Principal Engineer:
Oracle MAA Architecture Implementation, Data Integration & High Availability
Project:
• MAA Architecture Projects: Led Implementation of various Maximum Availability Architecture
designs and implementing Oracle MAA.
• Physical and logical standby DataGauard Implementation: Led and successfully implemented
Oracle RAC Physical standby dataguard configuration for 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 data guard on Oracle 11gR2 and Oracle 12c Cloud Database databases
Principal Engineer:
Oracle Data Integration and Database Consolidation/ Migration Project
• Data Migrations Projects Using Oracle Golden Gate: Led Multiple project to Migrate/Consolidate
Databases from Legacy System to Exadata using various Migration techniques and tools like Oracle Golden
Gate, Oracle Data Guard 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.
• 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 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.
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3. Environment: Oracle 12c RAC, Oracle 11gR2 RAC, Oracle 10G RAC, Oracle
9i RAC, Oracle Exadata Hardware, Shell Scripts, Oracle OEL Linux, Sun
Unix, Oracle Java JVM
Epsilon Inc. Dallas Texas, Jan. '07 – Nov. ‘07
Snr. Data Architect/Consultant:
• 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.
Environment: RAC, Oracle 11r2 RAC, Oracle 10G RAC, Oracle 9i RAC,
PL/SLQ, Shell Scripts, Oracle OEL Linux, Sun Unix, Oracle Java JVM
Cendant Inc. Dallas Texas, Jan. '06 – Dec. ‘06
Snr. Data Architect/Consultant:
• 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 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.
Environment: Oracle 11r2 RAC, Oracle 10G RAC, Oracle 9i RAC, PL/SLQ,
Shell Scripts, Sun Unix, Veritas cluster DB Edition, Sun Unix, Oracle Java
JVM
Dell Inc. Dallas Texas, Jan. '05 – Dec. ‘05
Snr. Data Architect/Consultant:
• 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.
• Oracle Architecture & Administration: Oracle database administration for various RDBMS version
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4. 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.
Environment: Oracle 10G RAC, Oracle 9i RAC, PL/SLQ, Shell Scripts, Sun
Unix, Veritas cluster DB Edition, Sun Unix, Oracle Java JVM
Lafarge Aggregates Inc. Leicester, UK. June '05 – Sept. ‘05
Snr. Data Architect/Consultant:
• 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.
Environment: Sun Solaris, Oracle 9I,PL/SLQ, Informix 7.5, Informix GL,
Shell Scripts, Data Stage ETL, DB2/UDB JD Edward Database on
OS/400,Oracle Java JVM
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5. Royal & Sun Alliance Inc. Liverpool, UK. March '05 – June. ‘05
Snr. Data Architect/Consultant:
• 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.
Environment: Sun Solaris, Oracle 10G,PL/SLQ, Shell Scripts, Data Stage
ETL, JD Edward Database on OS/400,Oracle Java JVM
Blockbuster Inc. Dallas, Texas. March '99 – June. ‘05
Snr. Data Architect/Consultant:
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.
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
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6. 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.
Environment: Sun Solaris, Oracle 10G RAC, Oracle 9i , PL/SLQ, Shell
Scripts, Data Stage ETL, JD Edward Database on OS/400,Oracle Java JVM
Skills Summary
Oracle
Applicati
ons
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CRM, Oracle EBS
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Order Entry
Databases •
Oracle 7.x, 8.x, 9.x and 10gR2, 11gR2
12cR2
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SQL Server 2000
Hardware &
Operatin
g
Systems
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Windows NT
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Windows 2000
•
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HP-UX 11.11
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Red Hat Linux
•
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7. Suse Linux Sun Solaris 10
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AIX 5.4 L
Programming
Languages
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C, SQL*PLUS
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PL/SQL
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Shell Scripting
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UNIX
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HTML
Engagement
Experience
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Performance Tuning
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RAC Implementation
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Troubleshooting
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DataGuard Implementation
Other Accomplishments
Education •
Diploma in Computer Software Techniques - Computer Science, Kwara Nigeria.
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Bachelor of Science –Computer Science, Bauchi University, Nigeria
Training •
Oracle 12c Cloud Database Workshop
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Oracle 11gR3 RAC admin.
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Oracle Streams Administration
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Oracle 11gR2 Data Guard new Features
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Oracle Streams 11gR2 New Features
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Oracle Golden gate Foundation.
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Oracle Golden gate Administration.
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8. •
Dataguard Level II Training
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Oracle 10g RAC on Linux Workshop
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SQL Server 2000 Administration
Certifications &
Associations
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Certified Oracle Certified Professional, ITIL
.
Presentations &
Publications
Recognition &
Awards
Languages • English, read, write, speak – High proficiency
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