Below are the 8 Database Administrators with in-depth technical skills & multiple systems expertise.  The Thor Group® provides database administrators with your industry and systems experience on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

Can the future of your company be impacted by employing a database administrator from the professional services, IT and financial services industries? This information sciences management graduate has technical knowledge in Sage 500, SQL Server, Oracle, Tableau, SQL Server Reporting Services, Crystal Reports, Cognos and other tools. Assets includes a thorough understanding of computer hardware and software, including installation, configuration, management, troubleshooting, and support. The individual is a Certified Data Vault Practitioner (CDVP), Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP-DAMA) and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP).

In an insurance firm, this database administrator managed the data team, as well as hired and developed new team members. The team was made to evaluate and select enterprise storage solutions. Agility was provided by installing and configuring a NetApp storage system by taking advantage of advanced features. One contribution was reducing datacenter costs by leveraging VMware virtualization technology. A database solution was implemented for applications, data warehouses, and reporting systems. Review was done for technical specifications of proposals then evaluation was performed on solutions for business needs.

Other functions included providing leadership by being involved in the hiring, training, and mentoring of staff. Solutions were developed using Visual Studio 2005/ 2008/ 2010, SQL Server 2005/ 2008 and Crystal Reports. The individual eliminated data entry costs by automating the integration of data from different sources utilizing SSIS. Additional tasks were installing and supporting Sage MAS 500 solution for the finance team.

How can a DBA with work experience in pharmaceutical, software and financial services industries help your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Masters in Computer Science. DBA tools consist of JD Edwards, Oracle 12c/11g Grid Control, BMC PATROL Erwin/ERX 3.5/4.1, Data Modeling, Quest Central Software, Informatics PowerCenter, DB Artisan 4.02, Prism CDC for Oracle 3.0, BMC SqlBacktrack 3.2,3.3,3.4, Recovery Manager RMAN, Veritas Netbackup 5, Oracle Statspack, and Quest Live Reorg.

Working with challenging issues such as creating and configuring databases according OFA for production, testing and development for application like Documentum 4i, JD Edwards, Maximo MRO , Salesforce CRM, BMG Projx, Drug discovery, Remedy Picasso, SAP R/3, Oracle 11i Financial Applications and other Pharmaceutical applications have vetted this specialist’s work experience. As an Oracle DBA, set up, configured and supported production, development, and quality test database instances for JD Edwards OneWorld and JD Edwards APS for JDE Supply chain application. Part of the job was to implement benchmark solutions to test the performance tuning of the JD Edwards and CRM applications.

With a “can do approach” in the area of setting up Oracle Replication and replicating data using Prism CDC to a pharma company’s master sites have been career objectives. While working as an Oracle DBA, installed Oracle Software Release 2 (8.1.6) on HP_UX B.11.0, as well as created databases for production and development according to OFA.

What contributions could a database administrator with senior hands-on experience in PeopleSoft Admin, Middleware Admin, Oracle DBA and E-Business Suite bring to your organization? Technological background comprises of Oracle Apps, Unix/Linux, Shell, Perl, Python, SQL scripting, Java, J2EE, JSP, Java Beans, HTML and PL/SQL.

Being a senior lead PeopleSoft admin/Oracle DBA for a state university, primary responsibilities consisted of upgrading PeopleSoft HR and Campus Solution from 8.9 to HCM 9.2 and CS 9.0. Some of the functions involved supporting, troubleshooting and performance tuning of PeopleSoft Financial and Supply Chain Management FSCM 8.8. Additional tasks were composed of performance tuning PeopleSoft applications with Oracle Database, with global settings like Linux HugePage, default block size, SGA/PGA sizing, as well as initial parameters like cursor_sharing.

While working for the government sector as a senior lead PeopleSoft admin/Oracle DBA, key duties were creating customized SQL Profiles with hints manually and achieving super performance with table and index partitions for large PeopleSoft and OBIEE tables. Other tasks comprised of configuring refresh scripts of PeopleSoft environments with RMAN and retaining PeopleSoft security, Oracle security, Report Repository and Integration Broker Configurations.

What contributions could a database manager/administrator with experience working in banking, IT services and consulting industries bring to your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Masters in Science (Computer Applications)  MCA. Professional certifications involve Oracle Certified Professional in Performance Tuning, Oracle Certified Professional in Backup & Recovery, Oracle Certified Professional in Architecture and Administration as well as Oracle Certified Professional in PL/SQL. Technical skills consist of Deltek, Siebel, Cognos, Sage and Microfocus Cobol.

Challenges like administering and managing Rac1 / RAC enterprise- level Oracle 11g database systems for Production environment were welcomed and successfully completed on a regular basis. Serving in a bank as an Oracle database manager, implemented Dataguard setup in physical mode for Rac 1 and RAC databases. Some of the tasks were migrating from Enterprise standalone databases to RAC 1 database environments using Golden Gate for Oracle from Sun Solaris to IBm AIX. Also, implemented Rman setup for backups (including Tivoli backups) and Control M for auto jobs scheduling. Additionally, was involved in developing Metadata Compare Application for Database multiple schemas across environment and E/R Studio models.

Shared expertise by managing and administrating database and database applications 24×7 that included Oracle 10g/11g/9i Databases, Siebel and Cognos application databases, Deltek , e-business integration suite, RAC (real application cluster) clustering server, OEM Grid, High Availability, Data Guard, ETL Ascential, Web service applications (WebSphere and WebLogic) , IBM Rational products, and SeeBeyond. As a database manager in an IT services company, administered and engineered the upgrade of Deltek products (Costpoint and Timesheet) and Sage FLS (payroll) supporting Oracle DB. Furthermore, administered the business intelligence and analytical application Siebel 7.0 Oracle database for customer relationship management (CRM) work flow process and the contact center interactive voice response (CCIVR) .

Is impacting your organization with a DBA with experience working in technology, insurance and financial services industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering. Professional Certifications involve Microsoft Certified Professional-ASP.NET (C#), Microsoft Certified Database Administrator-SQL Server 2000, MCITP Database Administrator – SQL Server 2005, MCITP Database Developer – SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Windows NT 4.0 and ITIL Framework V3 Foundation Certification. Software knowledge consists of Microsoft Great Plains ERP, T-SQL, ASP.NET, Crystal Reports, MS SQL Server, DTS, SSIS, SSRS, VBScript, Perl and JavaScript.

While employed as a DBA, selected contributions were tuning and optimizing Sybase and SQL server Database instances, as well as streamlining Security by removing Built in\Admins and reducing the SysAdmin rights. Some of the tasks were generating Capacity Reports for server utilization, as well as identifying performance bottlenecks and providing recommendations to the upper management. Additionally, approved and assigned Work Orders to other team members as well as helped other team members to resolve issues and help them in becoming independent.

Part of the job as a DBA in a technology company was to use utilities like PSSDIAG, SQLDIAG, and Performance Monitor to analyze performance issues. Additionally, used DBCC commands and utilities like WINDBG to analyze data corruption issues. Moreover, mentored Junior SQL DBAs on performance and replication through classroom training, as well as worked with the customer to identify or resolve query blocking and deadlocking.

What can a database administrator with specializations in Microsoft CRM, Great Plains Dynamics and Salesforce, as well as work background in energy, IT services and retail industries bring to your organization? Technical specializations involve Microsoft CRM, Great Plains Dynamics, Salesforce, SharePoint, VMWare, ASP.NET and JSON. In addition to having experience working with SQL Server for more than 20 years and its associated toolset, the professional has been in many lead positions, managing both development teams and projects alike.

Working with areas such as consolidating databases and designing much more manageable and sustainable ETL processes while improving performance were some of the responsibilities of this database administrator. The SQL code was integrated into the Team Foundation Services (TFS).

An additional function involved working as part of a web developer’s team and within an Agile process. Developing QA stored procedures, ensuring database integrity/ design, backup, restore/ refresh dev, test and staging areas were some of the tasks. The job covered serving as data architect, data workflow developer, business intelligence architect & developer, .NET developer (C#, VB.NET) and DevOps development team manager. Improvements were carried out to SDLC, process improvement proposals, data science practices, application lean processes (i.e. parallel, disconnected metric and reporting), data migration to Azure, data security, data encryption, reporting/analytics team lead and training. Production support, performance tuning, backup restore, disaster recovery, fail-over and sync strategies were efficiently handled. Skills brought to the table consisted of Azure migration, integration and management, .NET development C#, VB.Net (Web/Windows Forms), SQL development and administration. SSAS Tabular Development/MDX Cubes, ETL (SSIS) development, SQL ETL and Data Warehouse/Data Mart Development, SQL Data Lake and Data Factory were efficiently handled.

Would a database administrator with skills in Lawson ERP and who worked in the telecommunications, banking and aerospace industries match the needs of your organization? Technical skills cover Lawson ERP, Lawson Financials, and Hyperion, in addition to Oracle environment, UNIX and more.

Main functions encompassed installing, supporting and upgrading the Lawson Software. The job involved working in a Lawson, Hyperion and Oracle environment, as well as administering Lawson ERP, Lawson Financial and Human Resources Applications on both UNIX and Windows NT servers. Other duties covered performing upgrades to the Lawson environment and applications, along with performing cyclical and critical patches.

Notable contributions included maintaining data integrity and improving system performance. Responsibilities consisted of creating, modifying, installing, upgrading and documenting over 40 programs for several customers who were migrating data from Lawson or from Legacy systems to Lawson by using Lawson CASE tools and 4GL programming. This database administrator worked on technical upgrades of over 4 customers from a Lawson 7.x to an 8.0.3 environment and made modifications to customize the interface.

Is impacting your organization with an Oracle database administrator who worked in retail, banking and IT industries, with knowledge in Oracle E-Business Suite a current business consideration? Technical skills cover Oracle Human Resources, PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel, Salesforce, Solaris and AIX.

Main functions encompassed implementing the Oracle database, as well as redesigning and reconfiguring various critical modules in the system to meet SIAs. Job involved installing, configuring and maintaining Oracle, in addition to migrating Oracle database releases from development to regression and production, as well as upgrading the development and production databases.

Notable tasks included sharing expertise in managing the platform migration project from Sun to AIX, along with improving Oracle databases and Oracle Applications. Responsibilities consisted of creating and managing project plans. This database administrator worked on risk mitigation plans and performed requirements gathering, design, development test and deployment.