Daniel Besong

Oracle Database Administrator

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 240-278-1163

Professional Summary

Comprehensive 9+ experience as Oracle DBA, strongly in Oracle Database Appliances (ODA),

EXADATA and Oracle Golden gate proficient in Oracle 10g, 11g, 12c, 18c ASM including 19c. 13c
software installations for OEM, migrations, database capacity planning, automated backup
implementation, Performance tuning on Linux/Unix and minor experience in My Sql platform
using my sql workbench. Involved with the architect group in designing, projects and planning the
logical and physical model of the enterprise level databases.

Have experiences in Linux administration, bash shell scripting. Have impeccable communication
and interpersonal skills and an exceptional team player.

Professional Experience
SABRE
DALLAS, TEXAS AUGUST 2020 – SEPTEMBER 2021
ORACLE DBA AWS/GCP ENGINEER

 Automation, Build/Release Engineering and Software development involving

cloud computing platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure and Google
Cloud (GCP).
 Extensively worked on AWS Cloud services like EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, ELB, EMR, ECS,
Auto - Scaling, S3, Cloud Front, Glacier, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, Elastic Cache,
Route53, Ops Works, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, RedShift, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS,
SES, Kinesis Firehose, Lambda, Cognito IAM.
  Implement database backup and restore including housekeeping script to improve
database performance.
 Build a database service script, to stop SRV/CRS database services, stop any GOLDEN
GATE services, DATAGAURD services and relocate the services as well.
 Provisioning AWS EC2 instances with Auto scaling groups, Load Balancers in a
newly defined VPC and used Lambda Functions to trigger events in accordance to the
requests for Dynamo Db.
 Experience in changing over existing AWS infrastructure to Server
less architecture (AWS Lambda, Kinesis) through the creation of
a Serverless Architecture using Lambda, API gateway, Route53, S3 buckets.
 Experience in Migrating production infrastructure into Amazon Web Services cloud
utilizing AWS Server Migration Service (SMS), AWS DataBase Migration Service, Elastic
Bean Stalk , Cloud Formation, Code Deploy, Code Commit, EBS and OpsWorks.
 Expertise in implementing Inspector security service to infrastructure for running
scheduled tests and used WAF for stopping SQL injections and cross-site scripting and
certificate manager to manage SSL certificates.
 Experience in designing a Terraform and deploying it in cloud deployment manager
to spin up resources like cloud virtual networks, Compute Engines in public and
private subnets along with AutoScaler in Google Cloud Platform.
 Experience in Designing, Architecting and implementing scalable cloud-based web
applications using AWS and GCP.
 Set up a GCP Firewall rules in order to allow or deny traffic to and from
the VM's instances based on specified configuration and
used GCP cloud CDN (content delivery network) to deliver content from GCP cache
locations drastically improving user experience and latency.
 Upgrade OEM oracle management service (OMS).
 Upgrade the central agent of 13c release (13.2.0.3 – 13.3.0.3
 Upgrade OEM O/S level from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7 platform.
 Implement Always on monitoring-to-monitoring OEM system once down for
maintenance or upgrade OEM servers or databases.

MACYS
LMTD, ATLANTA AUGUST 2019 – JULY 2020
ORACLE DBA/AWS ENGINEER

Role Responsibilities:

 Installed, configured, and maintained Oracle 10g, 11g,12c,18 and 19c Real Application
Cluster RAC / ASM on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.x/Solaris and windows.

 Work with Application DBA leader for many tuning projects, debugging codes and working
with third party developers on SQL code review and quality control. Monitor Performance
testing and tuning application and database instance by using a wide range of technologies
including ADDM, AWR, ASH, and OEM Performance Manager.
 Decommission all the non-production databases on Exadata server according to the
enterprise team development project's requirement.

 Configure and setup backup for databases, using cron jobs and dba schedulers and OEM.

 Primary technical resources in SQL tuning and Performance Testing environments by using
statistics, AWR, SQL tuning set etc. sql advisors.

 Software and firmware maintenance of the Exadata storage servers in the Database
machine including routine health check, patch plan and upgrades according to the
suggestions from Oracle support department.

 Performance Tuning of Oracle Database Objects using tools like EXPLAIN PLAN, SQL*TRACE,
BASELINE LINE OR SQL PROFILES
 Configuration and implementation of Oracle) for high availability.
 Performed Schema as well as Table level Replication using Oracle Streams.
 Implemented downstream capture at the destination database using Oracle Streams.
 Installed and Configured Oracle OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager) Grid Control.
 Extensive Experience with RMAN Backups, Hot Backups and Logical Backups.
 Extensively implemented Data pump, conventional Export/Import (Oracle 11g and 12c for
migration and logical backup of database.
 Strong skills in applying Release Patching, Security patches (Patch set, Critical Patch
Updates (CPU) / Patch Set Updates (PSU), One-off Patch) using “run Installer” and Perl
based utility “Opatch”.
 Configure ELK stack in conjunction with AWS and using Logstash to output data to AWS S3
 Involved in AWS EC2/VPC/S3/SQS/SNS based automation through Terraform, Ansible
playbooks, Python, Bash Scripts. Adopted new features as they were released by Amazon,
including ELB&EBS.
 DevOps role converting existing AWS infrastructure to Server-less architecture (AWS
Lambda, Kinesis) deployed via terraform.
 Worked on container-based technologies like Jenkins.
 Developed automated scripts using Python, Shell Scripting for data collection and transfer
to databases.
 Extensive experience developing SaaS applications with full multitenancy.
 Experience in Virtualization technologies like VMWare and worked with containerizing
applications.
 Configuring, automation and maintaining build and deployment CI/CD tools git/ git-Lab,
Jenkins, Maven, Docker-registry/daemon for Multi-Environment (NON-PROD/PROD) with
high degrees of standardization for both infrastructure and application stack automation in
AWS cloud platform.
 SaaS Solution implementation, customization, and support.
 Automated the cloud deployment using Python and AWS Cloud Formation Templates in
AWS.
  Installed and Implemented Ansible configuration management system. Used Ansible to
manage Web applications, Environment’s configuration Files, Users, Mount points and
Packages.
 Maintained high availability clustered and standalone server environments and refined
automation components with scripting and configuration management (Ansible) and
experienced in writing Ansible scripts.

SQL SERVER DBA

Responsibilities
 Responsible for MS SQL Server 2008 R2/2012 Configuration, Tuning and provide 24 X 7
dedicated support to all Production, development, and clustered servers.
 Installation, configuration, upgrading, maintenance, and administration
of SQL server 2014/2012/2008R2/2008/2005 in standalone and cluster environments.
 Performed in using tools like SQL Profiler, Windows Perfmon and Performance Counters
for Monitoring and Tuning MS SQL Server Performance.
 Developed, implemented and periodically tested database backup and recovery plans,
scheduled automated jobs, and created alerts and operators.
 Involved in Automating SSIS Packages using SQL Server Agent Jobs, Windows Scheduler.
 Deployed the SSRS Reports to the report server and maintained them.
 Configured, monitored and troubleshoot Always On Availability Group and replication
(Transactional and Snapshot).
 Performed database consistency checks using DBCC commands • Migrating SQL Server
2008 R2 databases into SQL Server 2012.
 Performed SQL Server service pack and Windows Service pack upgrades.
 Hands on experience in creating Maintenance plans, scheduling SQL Server Jobs,
Automatic administrative task and Configuring Database Mail.

EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO SPRINGS JUNE 2018 – JULY 2019

Exadata DBA / Oracle Database Appliances.

Role Responsibilities:

• Deep understanding about Exadata specified features such as Smart Scan, HCC Hybrid
Columnar Compression, Flash Cache, etc.

• First hands-on experiences in software and firmware maintenance of both the Database
and Storage servers in the Exadata database machine including upgrades and patching.

• Provide and implement performance tuning recommendations of all components in

Exadata database machine.
• Advice provide guidance and develop Disaster Recovery strategies for the Exadata
Database machine.

• Analyze and determine the feasibility of leverage the Oracle Enterprise Manager
solution to report on performance, provide metrics, and become the centralized proactive
maintenance solution for Exadata distributions.

• Develop and record certified processes/procedures for all potential IT downstream

support groups to maintain and upgrade the Exadata database machine.

• Integration of Exadata monitoring and escalation into existing IT monitoring and

actionable events solutions.

• Create test database for ODA/Exadata environment for TDE implementation projects.

• Performance Tuning ODA in extremely high data environments. Resolving TNS time out
issues on environments from Oracle Exadata.

• Monitor and fully analyze performance issues in production Oracle databases by using
AWR/ADDM/OEM 13c.

• Daily routine checks / testing environment baseline backup and restore, develop, and
maintain administration scripts by using bash shell.

• Installed, configured, and maintained Oracle 11g ,12c, 18c and 19c Real Application
Cluster RAC / ASM on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.x boxes.

• Work with Application DBA leader for a large number of tuning projects. Working with
third party developers on SQL code review and quality control. Performance load testing
and tuning application, SQL code, and database instance by using a wide range of
technologies including ADDM, AWR, ASH, and OEM Performance Manager.

• Decommission all the non-production databases on Exadata server according the

enterprise team development project's requirement.

• Primary technical resources in SQL tuning on ODA and Performance Testing

environments by using statistics, AWR, SQL tuning set etc.

• Software and firmware maintenance of the Exadata storage servers in the Database
machine including routine health check, patch plan and upgrades according to the
suggestions from Oracle support department.

• Integration of Exadata/ODA database monitoring into our existing IT monitoring system.

Provide and implement performance and tuning recommendations of all components in
the machines.
 • Develop and record certified processes/procedures for all potential IT downstream
support group to maintain and upgrade the Exadata servers and run exachk.

• Create test database on my sql using command line interface and my sql work bench.

AT&T, PENDLETON, OR August 2012 – APRIL 2018

Oracle DBA

Environment: RHEL 5.X, 7.X; Oracle 10g, 11g, 12c

Responsibilities:

• Primary DBA for 10+ databases of Oracle 10g/11gR2 and GOLDEN GATE, RAC
administration on Linux REHL, HP-UX. Worked as per ITSM/Remedy Incident ticket/Critical
Response Time (CRT) call.

• RAC- Administration/Troubleshooting of 3 Node cluster on Oracle 10g/11G R2.

Configuring Grid Infrastructure SCAN Listeners on 11gR2. Migrate OCR files to ASM.
Trouble-shoot Resource related issues. Cluster-wide Resource management such as create
resource plan, Service configuration, parallel instance group, Application Isolation. Stress
testing, benchmarking of clustered database.

• Managed ASM storage. ASM cloning. Prepare/Add/remove ASM disks. Tuning of I/O on
ASM based databases. Troubleshoot ASM crashes & memory problem.

• Data guard - configure primary -standby using duplicate from active database command
of 11g. Apply SCN-based Incremental backup to sync standby after loss of Archive logs on
primary. Measure data loss based on latency/lag. Cross-platform migration using Data
guard.

Managed Container and pluggable databases

• Cloned 12c database

• Performed incremental backups using Recovery Manager (RMAN). Created recovery

catalog, performed complete and incomplete recovery using RMAN.

• Installation of 3 nodes 10g RAC on Linux & Solaris with veritas cluster. Configured ASM,
OCFS and RAW devices. Troubleshooting & tracing of RAC processes & CRS components.
Relocate service. Tuning of RAC environment. Managing fail-over of instances. Resource
utilization on each node. Monitor top objects in cache fusion and traffic.

• Designed daily, weekly Backup and Recovery procedures for production, non-
production databases using RMAN backups taking periodic Complete, cumulative, and
differential Incremental Backups.

• Migrated VLDB multi-terabyte databases around 10TB and redesigned the RMAN backup
Strategy.

• Oracle GOLDEN GATE for data sharing using EXTRACT, REPLICAT, DATAPUMP, MANAGER
PREOCESS for Bidirectional, unidirectional, Broadcasting and consolidation topologies

• Data Refresh/Cloning from Production environment to setup QA/ DEV using RMAN
Duplicate.

• Intensively used latest 10g/11g Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) & Automatic
Database Diagnostic Monitoring (ADDM) reports for the health check of the databases
and used the notification tool to send the alerts in OEM Grid Control.

• Scheduled UNIX scripts in crontab jobs to automate daily tasks like backups, monitoring
the alert logs, backup logs, cleaning the old archive logs, old log files, table space
monitoring to send notification emails.

• Tuning performance using Advisors, AWR, ADDM, SQL tuning etc.

• Performed Online and Offline backups with RMAN, export/import and expdp/impdp.

• Implemented Point in time recovery using RMAN.

• Experience using like - Real Application Testing, Table and partition recovery using
RMAN, Invisible columns, DDL Logging

• Performance Tuning of Oracle Database Objects using tools like EXPLAIN PLAN,
SQL*TRACE, TKPROF, STATSPACK for optimized results

• Configuration and implementation of Oracle) for high availability.

•Performed Schema as well as Table level Replication using Oracle Streams.

• Implemented downstream capture at the destination database using Oracle Streams.

• Installed and Configured Oracle OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager) Grid Control.

• Extensive Experience with RMAN Backups, Hot Backups and Logical Backups.
 • Extensively implemented Data pump, conventional Export/Import (Oracle 11g, 10g) for
migration and logical backup of database.

• Strong skills in applying security patches (Patch set, Critical Patch Updates (CPU) / Patch
Set Updates (PSU), One-off Patch) using “runInstaller” and perl based utility “opatch”.

• Performance tuning of the database – SQL Tuning, Used Tuning utilities like EXPLAIN
PLAN, AWR, ADDM and Tuning of SGA, distribution of disk I/O.

• Experienced in configuration of ASM for RAC and NON- RAC environments.

• Configured Repository and clients for GRID Control and implemented DB Control for some
databases.

• Supported & maintained the Production/Development databases on various servers

• Extensively worked on setting up auditing in many databases we supported

• Managing Database Structure, Storage Allocation, Table/Index segments, Rollback

Segments, Undo Segments, and Constraints.

• Installed ASM environment and migrated databases from NON-ASM to ASM.

• Monitored different databases and application servers using Oracle Enterprise Manager
(OEM) 12c Grid Control.

Technical Environment

OPERATING SYSTEMS:

Hardware / Server

Oracle / Redhat Linux, MS Sql.

Oracle X4 full rack Exadata machine.

RDBMS:

Oracle 11g/10g/12c, 13c OEM, 19c.

LANGUAGES:

SQL, PL/SQL,UNIX Shell Scripting, bash Scripting.

SOFTWARE/ APPLICATIONS/ TOOLS:

DBCA, DBUA, Recovery Manager (RMAN), Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), OEM Grid Control,
Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Management Service (OMS), Real Application Clusters (RAC), ASM,
TOAD, Data Pump (expdp,impdp),SRVCTL,SQL*Plus

TUNING TOOLS:

SQL TRACE, ASH, EXPLAIN PLAN, STATSPACK, AWR, and ADDM

WEB TOOLS:

HTML, XML, YMAL, JSON

Operating Systems Windows Server 2008,2012,2016 MS Office Access

Programming HTML, XML SQL Server Management studio (SSMS), SQL Profiler.

Education

• Bsc. Science and Information Technology University of Yaoundé.

•Certificate in Engineering, Regional Maritime University, Accra-Ghana

• SQL certificate

• Oracle certified Associate (O.C.A)

• Oracle certified Professional – Pending

• Security +

• Aws certified Solution Architect – Associate