MOSES OKOTH

P. O BOX NAIROBI, KENYA

PHONE: +254710476245
[email protected]

SUMMARY
I am a Systems Engineer with extensive experience in Software Design and
Development, Database Administration, Systems administration, Storage
Administration, System Virtualization, System Automation, System support,
Presale’s specialist and developing next-generationsoftware solutions in Linux,
Windows and UNIX environments.

OBJECTIVES
To work in tandem with a team in an environment where I can act as valuable
asset, improve my skills, and put them to use for achieving the organizations’
objective while gaining competitive skills in line with the changing world of IT.

EDUCATION
2010 – 2014: Chuka University Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Second
class honors upper division.
2015- 2019 Oracle University (OCP Oracle Database Certified
professional)
2019-2020 Oracle University (Solaris System implementation Specialist)

EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer Dec 2020- todate

Huawei Technologies LTD

❖ Support convergent billing solution for real time billing of calls, SMS, and gprs usage.
❖ Coordination with RnD team from different GTAC (global technical Assistance Centers)
like China, Romania, Germany to offer O&M support to customer
❖ Data Center Administration and Support (replacing and repairing of Blade Servers and
ATAE servers)
❖ Automating monitoring of systems using Perl, Python and bash scripts.
❖ Support Mediation system that extracts data from over 100 live system and transform the
data and upload to other system some on Cloud.
❖ Database Administration.
❖ Support task scheduling and extract transform and load (etl) system
❖ Debugging the Linux Servers and Realtime fixing of Kernel bugs with help of RnD.
❖ Managing business rule written in C++ to ensure and correcting the business logic as new
requirement of bug come up.
❖ Supporting NMS (Network Management system) that integrates with over 1000 live
system for real time error tracking.
❖ Patching and upgrading of System
❖ Integrating the NMS to real time SMS notification
❖ Support reporting and Business Intelligence system.
Software Engineer MAR 2019- Dec-2020
Atlancis Technologies ltd

❖ Integration of application using C#.net and xml

❖ Lead optimization engineer for the development team
❖ Data Center Administration and Support.
❖ Database Administration.
❖ Exadata administration and support
❖ ASM Administration and support
❖ RAC Administration and support
❖ Application and data migration
❖ Database patching and upgrade
❖ Storage and backup administration
❖ Automation and Scripting
❖ Application optimization and correcting errors
❖ Source code compilation and automation.
❖ High Availability implementation and administration.
❖ Hyper-converged infrastructure Configuration, Administration and Support.
❖ Solaris System Administration
❖ SPARC System Administration.
❖ Application integration and programming.
❖ Oracle Engineered Systems Administration and support (T-Series, M-Series,).
❖ SUN StorageTek Administration (SL48 Tape Library, StorageTek 6100).
❖ Netapp installation and administration (FAS2020, FAS2050).
❖ HP ProLiant DL380 series Administration and configuration.
❖ Oracle Linux Enterprise Server Configuration, Administration and Support
❖ Web logic server installation and Administration.
❖ ZFS Storage Appliance Configuration, Administration and support
 ❖ IBM Servers Administration and configuration (v7000, x3650, x3400)
❖ EMC VNX 5100 Storage Administration
❖ Powerpath installation and configuration
❖ Unisphere Service Manager installation and configuration
❖ Troubleshoot customer faults to achieve fault resolution for incidents escalated.
❖ Undergo continuous technical skills update through certifications and training in the
engineer’s career roadmap within set timelines.
❖ Updating and managing SLAs

Software Engineer JUN 2016- FEB-2019

Indra Systema
❖ Lead Engineer in recovering the production Database for Electricity Company of Ghana
(ECG) for Commercial system management.
❖ Creation of database disaster Recovery site for Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
Upgrading commercial System management for ZETDC (Zimbabwe Electricity
Transmission, Distribution and Company) from Oracle Linux 5 to Linux 6.9.
❖ Installation of Ingrid System a Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission, Distribution and
Company (Zimbabwe) a system that control all component of Electricity generation to
transmission.
❖ Installation, configuration and deployment of version control system using Subversion and
SVK to synchronize the software repositories in STL’s Nairobi (Kenya) office and Madrid
(Spain) office. This involved shell scripting, Perl scripting, configuring and Installing SVN,
SVK, Samba, NFS, HTTPS, LDAP and FTP servers on Linux. Documenting the configuration
and installation processes. In this project, I extensively used SSH, Linux and virtual
machines. Documenting the installation and configuration processes.
❖ Integrating flat files and relational databases using Microsoft SSIS
❖ Administration insight of Business intelligence system.
❖ Installation and Configuring of Netapp Storage. Installation and configuring HP storage
❖ Installing and configuring NetBackup agents on windows, Linux and UNIX environments.
❖ Performing regular system backups for Oracle, MSSQL, HP-UX, Linux and windows systems
using Symantec NetBackup and setting up Disaster recovery site.
❖ Configuring MSSQL high availability on database systems by configuring log shipping and
database mirroring.
❖ Performance tuning for both Oracle and MSSQL databases.
❖ Creating RMAN catalogue and using RMAN scripts for backups and restores
❖ Installing and provisioning of Netapp storage.
❖ Hyper-V server administration tasks such as creation of Virtual machines, provisioning
resources to already existing VMs, Hyper-V cluster backup and restoration using Symantec
NetBackup.
❖ Integrating business intelligence system with Core banking, Human resource, card,
customer relations and credit management systems with real time data synchronization.
❖ Installation, configuration and administration of Redhat Linux, Oracle Linux, Centos and
Windows Server operating systems.
❖ Using LVM for logical volume management on Linux servers.
❖ Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, using Performance Monitor, SQL Profiler and
other related monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
❖ Troubleshooting and resolving database issues such as database integrity, performance,
blocking and deadlocking, replication amongst others.
❖ Management of indexes, partitions, statistics, tablespaces, datafiles and archive logs.
❖ Troubleshooting TSQL and designing (stored procedures, functions, tables, views, triggers,
indexes, constraints).
 ❖ Installation and configuration of IIS, Apache and Tomcat. Administration of Mail and Web
proxy servers.
❖ System Security administration.
❖ Maintenance of windows Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange 2010 and DNS.
❖ Writing shell scripts to automate system administration processes.

Software Developer SEP 2013-JUN 2016

Operating System Laboratories (Oslabs)

❖ Part of the team that is developing the Software Technologies ERP (Human Resource
Management System). My duties involve programming and database development using
Oracle.
❖ Web Administration, database administration and providing technical support for usability
issues and critical site problems, as needed for the Oslabs client’s websites.
❖ Monitoring, communicating and troubleshooting issues with data integrity during
importation into the data warehouse.
❖ Database Support to First Assurance Company on their Core Banking System
❖ Installation, configuration and deployment of distributed memory object caching control
system (Memcached). This project involved Installation and configuration of Memcached
and API clients on Linux machines. In this project, I extensively used SSH, Linux and virtual
machines.
❖ Documenting the installation and configuration processes.
❖ Worked on the team that developed the Project Management System (Secretariat) for the
Oslabs Campaign management system. This involved programming, database development
using Oracle and documenting the user manual.
❖ Lead designer and developer Web apps, Website, Content Management System. The site
development included use of CSS, Ajax, JavaScript and PHP.
❖ Database development.
❖ API integration by using Google maps and Google bookmaking.
❖ Lead designer and developer for the Software Technologies Limited (STL) website. This
involved web designing, programming and database development. API integration by using
Google Ajax search, Google maps and Snapshot API.
❖ Development of Machine Technologies Ltd (MTL) website. This involved web designing
and programming using CSS, Ajax, JavaScript and PHP. Database development. API
integration by using Google maps.

Part-time Web developer APR 2010- JAN 2012

TRAVELON KENYA
❖ As a web developer, I designed and developed the website and content
management system for Travelon Kenya. This involved web designing
and programming using CSS and PHP. Database development using
MySQL.
PROJECTS WORKED ON
Company Relevant technical and management experience

Co-operative Bank of • Technical Support for Oracle Supercluster M7 engineered system

• Database Troubleshooting
Kenya • Configuration of Enterprise manager for monitoring hardware and
Software.
• Technical support for Oracle M8
• Support for Oracle ZFS storage systems
• Support of VNX
• Support of Vxrail
• Support intel based servers
• Support Backup solution - Oracle Secure Backup for the engineered
systems
• Onsite and offsite support for all the engineered systems base install

GT BANK • Installation of Red Hat operating system

• Configuration of Application Clusters
• Provision of Shared Storage for database and application server.
• Configuration of OVS virtualization.

SBM BANK • Oracle Audit Vault Installation and Configuration.

• Implementation of Audit Vault security policies
• Implementation of database firewall
Kenya Airport • MySQL Server database support and maintenance.
Authority (KAA) • Preventative maintenance and curative maintenance of the of the
MySQL databases.
• Onsite and remote site support.
Kenya Trade Network • RAC database administration.
(KenTrade) • Configuring of database replication
• Managing ASM disk instances.
• Managing Disks and upgrading database instances.
• Application upgrade between different database versions.
• Creation of pre-production instances and replicating them.
• Patching of the Databases.
• Upgrading the operating system.
• Support Solaris Servers

Kenya Port Authority • RAC database administration.

(KPA) • Managing ASM Disks
• Application migration
• Application upgrade from database 11g to 12C.
• Database high availability implementation and support.
• Disaster recovery administering.
• Patching of the Database
• Application Server Administration on Jboss and Apache.
• Creation of pre-production database.

Kenya Power Limited • RAC database administration.

(KPLC) • Application upgrade from database 10g to 12C RAC.
• Database high availability implementation and support.
• Enterprise manger implementation for monitoring database instances.
• Disaster recovery administering.
• Creation of pre-production database.
 • Upgrade of the databases
• Regular patching and bug correction.
• Support the Linux Servers.
• Support in Solaris System Administration.
Unaitas Sacco • Data Center Support
• Unix systems consultancy Support
• Oracle OVM support
• Zfs Storage administration support.
• Database Support
• Patching of the Database and upgrading of grid and oracle homes.

Teachers Service • Data Center Support

Commission(TSC) • Configuration of Vxrail
• Support of VMware virtualization.
• Migration of servers from bare metal to virtualization.
• Servers Upgrade.
• Upgrade Storage to EMC Unity.
• Configuration of Avamar backup solution
• Configuration of Data domain
• Provision of Storage to different server via NFS and CIFs.
• Upgrade of the HCI datacenter.
Electricity company of • Tuning Collection, Billing and reporting batches.
• Upgrading the application Server to Dell Servers.
Ethiopia(EEP) • Database Support
• Data migration from CMS to SAP

Energy of • Troubleshooting the ODA database appliance.

• Performance tuning of the 12c Billing and core database.
Cameroon • Optimization of the core billing and collection batches.
(ENEO) • Migration of application server from Oracle Database to 12c

Electricity • Creation of Disaster recovery.

• Infrastructure support for entire Data Center
Company of • Restoration of production database after total disaster in both DR and
Ghana (EGC) PROD.
• Configuring of HP storage for both primary site and disaster recovery
site.
• Migration Disaster recovery site from Accra to Legon region.
• Performance tuning for the production database to correct batch
errors and for query optimization.
Zimbabwe • Creation of Disaster recovery site.
• Migration of billing application from oracle 10g to Oracle 11g.
Electricity • Performance tuning of the Billing and collection Database.
Company • Restoration of Production database.
• Migration of application from apache tomcat to Jboss.
(ZETDC)
Nairobi Water and • Database recovery for billing data.
• Partition of table data.
Sewage Company • Performance tuning of the database.

IBER Africa • Configuration of Netapp Storage.

• Database Support.
• Configuration of Palo Alto Firewall.
• Apps Dba
 Harambee Sacco • Installation of Solaris server and oracle Database.
• Upgrading Database from 10g to 11g.
• Implementing Oracle Business intelligence.
• Implementation of Tape backup.
• Installation and configuring of Sparc T4 Server the core Banking System.
• Offering the infrastructure support (OS and Storage) for their Solaris
Sparc Servers.
Phoenix • Database support and Preventative maintenance.
• Database Administration for the Insurance core application.
Insurance • Disaster recovery implementation.
Tanzania • Database optimization and performance tuning.

Phoenix • Database Administration for the Insurance core application.

• Database support and Preventative maintenance.
Insurance • Disaster recovery implementation.
Uganda • Database optimization and performance tuning.

Phoenix • Database support and Preventative maintenance.

• Database Administration for the Insurance core application.
Insurance • Disaster recovery implementation.
Kenya • Database optimization and performance tuning.

Sameer Agriculture • Database support and maintenance

• Preventative Maintenance.
• Implementation of disaster recovery Site.
• Maintaining daily replication between the main site and Disaster
recovery site.
• Database Performance Tuning for their core billing system.
First Assurance • Performance tuning.
• Upgrade of database from 10g to 11g.
• Implementation of standby database.
• Implementation of tape backup.
• Disaster recovery and High Availability implementation.
• Infrastructure support for Unix Servers (operating system and storage
support)
Sameer Africa • Database support and maintenance
• Preventative Maintenance.
• Implementation of disaster recovery Site.
• Maintaining daily replication between the main site and Disaster
recovery site.
• Database Performance Tuning for their core billing system.
Nagasaki University • Designed and developed a Software Called Verbal Autopsy.
in Kenya • Translating the Smart Software into HDSS Software using Java and
Ms Access database.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Databases
❖ Hands on experience in administration of Oracle, Postgre Sybase, MSSQL and MySQL
databases.
❖ Experience in using oracle Enterprise manager, SQLPlus, Toad, SQL server management
studio, Sybase interactive SQL, PHPmyadmin, MySQL console.
❖ Experience in Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster), Exadata, & Dataguard
Administration.
❖ Experience in using RMAN
❖ ASM Administration.
❖ Experience in using Casandra and Hadoop.
System Administration
❖ Conversant with Linux, HP-UX, Solaris and Windows operating systems.
❖ Good understanding of HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, LDAP and WAP protocols.
❖ Conversant in Microsoft IIS, Tomcat and Apache Web Servers, Jboss, WebLogic.
❖ Good understanding of Security Enhanced Linux.
❖ Hands on experience in configuring Samba, NFS, LDAP, HTTPS, FTP servers.
❖ Familiar with hardware virtualization in using Hyper-V, VMware and Virtual Box, Xen,
OVS.
❖ Storage Administration (SUN, HP, Netapp, Hitachi, Unity, ZFS, DellEMC).

Software Development and Integration

❖ Microsoft SSIS and SAP Data services for integration.
❖ SQL server reporting services, SAP Crystal reports and SAP Business intelligence tools
Conversant in programming in Java, PHP, PL/SQL, SQL, JavaScript, AJAX and Shell Scripting,
C++, C#, PHP,Python, HTML, DHTML, CSS and XML.
❖ Android development and programing
❖ Hands on experience with frameworks such as spring, Hibernate, Vaadin, ZEND, and JQuery.
❖ Conversant in relational database design and development Oracle, MYSQL and MS SQL.
❖ Familiar with Eclipse IDE, Visual Studio, Spring STS and Maven build tools.
Professional qualifications and Certificates:
❖ Solaris 11 Advanced System Administration
❖ Oracle Linux Certified Administration
❖ Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional
❖ Oracle Supercluster Administration and Maintenance
❖ Servers and Oracle Hardware Support Principles
❖ Huawei HCS presales specialist.
❖ Huawei Datacenter Implementation Associate.
❖ Veritas Sales Expert Awards
❖ Veritas Backup Exec 16
❖ Veritas NetBackup 8.0 and 360 Data Management
❖ Veritas NetBackup Appliance 3.1 Universal Share (03-2018)
❖ Veritas NetBackup 5340 Appliance (03-2018)
❖ Veritas NetBackup 8.1 (03-2018)
❖ Veritas Information Map (03-2018)
❖ Veritas Sales Expert Plus Awards
❖ Veritas Access 7.3
❖ Veritas Backup Exec 16
❖ Veritas Enterprise Vault 12
❖ Veritas Information Map (January 2018)
❖ Veritas NetBackup 7.7
❖ Veritas NetBackup Appliances 3.1
❖ M-Series Support Readiness
❖ Sun Storage Support Readiness
❖ Converged Systems Administration
❖ Help Desk Support
❖ C document support Specialist
❖ Enterprise Communications Support Specialist
❖ Enterprise Taxation Management Support Specialist
❖ General Support Oracle Specialist
❖ Instantis Enterprise Track 8 Support Specialist
❖ iStore Support Specialist
❖ Network Session Delivery and Control Infrastructure Support Specialist
❖ Oracle Argus Safety 7 Enterprise Edition Support Specialist
❖ Oracle Database OCA
❖ Oracle EBS Support version 3
 ❖ Oracle EBS support specialist
❖ Oracle Exadata Database Machine 2014 Support Specialist
❖ Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud 2014 Support Specialist
❖ Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System Help Desk Support Consultant
❖ Oracle General product support V.4 specialist
❖ oracle Linux 6 support Specialist
❖ Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Support Specialist
❖ Oracle Policy Automation Support Specialist.pdf
❖ Oracle Solaris 10 Support Specialist.pdf
❖ Oracle Taleo Enterprise Cloud Service 2013 Support Specialist
❖ Oracle Virtual Networking Support Specialist
❖ Oracle X4 Series Server Differences
❖ Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3 and OS8 Differences
❖ Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Support Specialist
❖ Solaris 10 Support Specialist
❖ Solaris 11 implementation specialist
❖ Solaris 11 presales
❖ Solaris 11 sales Specialist
❖ SPARC T5 Installation and Maintenance
❖ SPARC T7 Servers Installation and Maintenance Consultant
❖ SPARC T8 Assessment Specialist
❖ Sun Systems Fault Analysis Workshop
❖ Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Support Specialist

REFFEREES
Name: Dickson Andati
Position: Application Developers Team lead
Organization: OSLABS
Email: Phone: +25419603060

Name: Benard Onyach

Position: ICT Officer
Organization: Sameer Agriculture
Email: Phone:+25416824022

Name: Gabriel Ngeno

Position: Head of Database Administration
Organization: Indra Systema
Email: Phone: +254725332682