RESUME OF EXPERIENCE, TRAINING, AND PUBLICATIONS

(ORACLE & SQL SERVER

DBA)06/14/2010

KENNETH C. HUGHES
Home: (253)859-7771 Cell: (206)310-8547
E-Mail: kh62492e@westpost.net
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/hugheskc
EXPERIENCE:
18+ Years
ORACLE VERSIONS: 7,8,9,10G,11G
VISA STATUS:
U.S. Citizen
TRAVEL: Moderately
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
a A professional who assumes accountability for the perception of
quality by clients he serves, and demonstrates
a commitment to ensuring client success and satisfaction.
a A database practitioner managing production and development
database environments.
a Clear concise planning, excellent analytical abilities, proven
ability to manage and motivate other team members.
a Extensive experience modeling and designing VLDB, OLTP, & Real
Time databases.
a Oracle Certified Professional instructor for all OCP classes at
Bellevue Community College.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
a Oracle production & Development DBA, Data pump, cloning, data
Guard, RMAN, SQL & database cache tuning.
a Linux Shell scripting and Windows batch file development.
a PL/SQL & SQL.
a Database replication, Data Guard, Materialized Views, ETL.
a Database design (Logical/Physical), Data modeling, Data
Governance, Erwin, Designer.
a Database quality assurance, best practices, Health checks, code
review facilitator, database mentor and student.
EDUCATION
a Oracle 9i Certified Professional.
a Oracle7 Certified "Master of Database Administration".
a Information Systems Programmer/Analyst, Honors Graduate. Computer
Learning Center, Washington D.C.
(Associate degree equivalent over 32 credits).
PUBLICATIONS
a Writing a book on Oracle backup/Recovery, and Data Guard.
a Wrote book on International Finance published in 32 countries.
a Investment author for "Dollars and $ence" & "Investors Exchange"
news letters published internationally.
AWARDS
Concert, Inc. Senior Database Administrator of Concert's Financial
Data Warehouse. This database won the "Best Practices in the United
States" award from the Data Warehousing Institute as a direct result
of my database architecture Quality Assurance work.
http://www.dw-institute.com
EXPERIENCE
Mar 2009 Present -- Team Lead of a team of 6 IT professionals.
Installed Oracle 11G Enterprise GRID with Oracle Application server,
Oracle Management Server, Data Guard, RMAN repository, and a
"production database" on 6 virtual Oracle Linux servers running on a
Centos physical server. We also have Oracle 11G installed on three
Windows XP 64 bit servers.
The team works at my home office 5 days a week 10AM until 4PM. We
have just begun the task installing a 3 node RAC cluster and we plan
on adding an additional data Guarded RAC cluster. We are also
preparing to teach a database backup and recovery class for the
Western Washington Oracle Users Group WWOUG.
JUL 2007 MAR 2009 -- DBA TEAM SUPERVISOR SEATTLE CITY LIGHT. Managed
a new team of 6 DBA's in a business environment recently converted
from vertical silos to a matrix organization. Hired, Performance
evaluated, and managed the work load of 6 team members.
Implemented policies for:
a DBA's working from home
a DBA backup support responsibilities
a DBA roles and responsibilities
a Vendor/Contractor management
Implemented Plans and Procedures for:
a Emergency response
a Backup and recovery
a DBA on call and support DBA rotation responsibilities
a DBA cross training skill assessment and training plans
Performed database cloning and migration, used data pump, RMAN, and
Data Guard.
JAN 2004 MAY 2007 -- DATABASE ADMINISTRATION TEAM LEAD for Kent
School District Supported a suite of applications used by over 3,000
staff members and 27,000 students. Average concurrent sessions were
between 500 and 700 Concurrent users on HP True 64 UNIX and windows
2003 servers.
Managed a team of 2 DBAs and 1 contractor. Also Recruited and managed
2 DBA apprentices.
responsible for:
a Database Real Time performance monitoring
a DBA roles and responsibilities
a Vendor/Contractor management
a Emergency response/Disaster Recovery (DR)
a DBA on call and support DBA rotation responsibilities
Wrote a database reporting tool that collects database information
every day and performs trend analysis and change analysis on current
data compared to past data with over 50 reports.
Wrote a database backup application that Versions Hot and Cold
backups, automatically deletes old backups in accordance with a
retention policy, and records backup information in a database.
Performed data migration (ETL) to a replacement application/database
using Erwin, SQL and PL/SQL, Data Pump, and Materialized Views.
JUNE 2001 JAN 2004 -- DATABASE GROUP MANAGER FOR STRATEGIC IT, INC.
Analyzed, planned, managed, and evaluated processes that determine
application and database quality, design, and functionality. Worked
collaboratively to establish Oracle development and production
standards. Motivated development and production teams to work
efficiently and effectively. Manage Database Backup and Recovery, and
Performance Tuning projects (8 Oracle Certified DBAs on staff)
implementing, and documenting Oracle backup and recovery, tuning
database memory caches, user session performance, and SQL statements.
DEC 2000 JUN 2001 -- SENIOR DATABASE ARCHITECT AT VOICESTREAM.
Responsible for database quality across all Oracle databases in
Customer Operations and Systems (COS). Performed in-depth database
structural analysis on vendor supplied databases and home grown
databases for several divisions of VoiceStream, savings estimated to
be "10s of millions of dollars per year" by my manager Mr. Duane
Peterson. Also Senior author of database standards agreed upon by six
different DBA groups in Voice Stream.
Oct 2000 Dec 2000 -- Production DBA and Senior Database Architect at
AVOLO.COM.
Team lead in charge of 2 other database architects and one PL/SQL
programmer. Performed user requirements/database design analysis in
partnership with end users, customer support and development staff.
May 2000 Dec 2004 -- Oracle instructor at Bellevue Community College.
Oracle Certified Professional course curriculum. Database Tuning,
Database Administration I & II, Backup/Recovery, SQL Plus, PL/SQL,
and Database Architecture/Data Modeling.
MAR 1999 OCT 2000 -- DATABASE ARCHITECT, PRODUCTION DBA, PL/SQL
PROGRAMMER, ORACLE TRAINER, AND CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS TECHNICIAN FOR
2WAY INC. Supported an application that enabled dynamically changing
surveys on the Internet.
NOTE: There is additional Oracle work history dating back to 1988,
with IT history dating back to 1983 Including several projects for
the embassy of Peru and 2 Oracle related White House special
projects.
Ken Hughes E-Mail: kh62492e@westpost.net -- Home: (253) 859-7771 Cell:
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