GABRIEL MBEGA - KARL

– Handling/Solving database incidents – Handling 24x7 on-call coverage – Building infrastructure as Code for several projects related to Database, using terraform using several repositories (GitHub, Bitbucket, AWS Code Commit) – Build automations with Ansible o Migration of on-prem oracle databases to: Amazon Web Services (on multiple RDS engines such Oracle/Postgres/MariaDB) Oracle Cloud Infrastructure o Building pipelines using Jenkins(such as Database provisioning, import/export, client/agent deployment etc) – Integration and set-up for Datadog Monitoring – Leverage Azure pipelines to create and adjust VM's – Perform maintenance activities for the OS of Azure Oracle VM's – Setup of GRID and Oracle 12/19c databases in Azure VM's – Perform maintenance activities (patching, backup, recovery etc) – Setup of Data Guard functionality and execute DR exercises – Write shell scripts in relation to Oracle databases – Interact with the involved stakeholders and advise on the best usage of Oracle software – Write documentation and perform KT sessions with operations teams in terms Oracle on Azure solutions

– Provide full-round solutions for product data services; – Provide stable and efficient data services for other components; – Investigate the technologies and design ideas of various data services in order to manage various kinds of data and achieve the high availability of data service ultimately; – Provide ongoing support for problem records, identify problem situations, review the problems, engage associates to plan for investigation, work on Root Cause Analysis and provide solution in coordination with various infrastructure application teams; – Own the resolution of problems in hand, demonstrate analytical and problem management skills to drive the resolution and prevent re-occurrence; – Ensuring deliverables as per standards and quality in agreed schedule, review documentation of processes, tasks as applicable. Follow the best practices ensure strict adherence to guidelines; – Provide required reports on timely basis on team's behalf to senior management team; – Be able to communicate with the stakeholders and escalate in timely manner; – Drive and track service improvement initiatives; – Identify manage operational risks and contribute to mitigate the same; – Understand the set objectives and work collaboratively with the team to achieve organizational goals; Master data management knowledge

– Technical Cloud Customer Success Specialist covering the EMEA; – Focused on Oracle Cloud adoption across EMEA, guiding clients towards a long-term and sustainable utilization of their Database Cloud credits; – Maximize and accelerate IaaS & PaaS usage across EMEA; – Drive customer's Database Cloud Service adoption through permanent use cases implementation; – Ensuring a successful, smooth and secure cloud services usage from On-Prem or other non-Oracle Clouds; – Monetize the Cloud Adoption developing a significant adoption driven repeat business pipe. Tasks: – Provide guidance to Clients in implementing/using various Oracle Database Cloud services including the Autonomous Database; – Prepare and run various Oracle Cloud Infrastructure workshops and POCs to clients and partners; – Work and provide Database Architectures to clients in order to best benefit of the existing Cloud Infrastructure; – Provision and configure various Oracle database services from VM to ExaCS using OCI console or other automation tools like: Ansible, Terraform

– Installation, configuration and upgrading of Oracle database Single instance and RAC; – Install & configure the in-house developed database monitoring tool – DBWatch, DBConf; – Basic administration of AWS Cloud based Oracle databases; – Administration of Oracle Linux OS (virtual machine) based databases; – Evaluate Oracle features and Oracle related products; – Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures; – Take care of the Database design and implementation; – Implement and maintain database security; – Perform database tuning and performance monitoring; – Setup and maintain documentation and standards; – Plan growth and changes (capacity planning); – Perform general technical troubleshooting and helped application/development teams; – Interface with Oracle Corporation for technical support; – Patch Management and Version Control; – Weblogic basic administration Projects/Clients: – Siemens Germany/US My role in these projects is to manage the entire database infrastructure. Tasks: – Create database infrastructure (install/create/configure RAC/standalone databases); – Monitor the databases using DBWatch monitoring tool and Oracle Grid Control 12c/13c (Enterprise Manager); – Solve/tune any performance issue: instance tuning and SQL tuning; – RMAN Backup/recovery of the databases using tape or disk devices; – Oracle Data Guard implementation/administration for reporting and Disaster Recovery; – Create operating system scripts (shell scripts - bash) for different database tasks; – Patching and upgrading different database systems; – Solve different tasks sent by the business team (queries, different DML and DDL on the database); – Implement database security: create roles, privileges, consumer groups; – Handled customer request received via JIRA Service Desk

– Correct database errors caused by technical bugs, user's mistakes or DBA issues – Under supervision implement logical data model at physical level; – Help maintaining DEV, TEST, Acceptance, Maintenance and Production databases; – Help support team to solve problems where improving data access performance is needed; – Help developers and analysts for checking data migrations; – Participate in technical testings; Projects/Clients: – European Commission – DIGIT B2

– Installation, configuration and upgrading of Oracle database Single instance and RAC; – Oracle Golden Gate Administration (installation, configuration, upgrade and tuning); – Install & configure the in-house developed database monitoring tool – AVAIL; – Evaluate Oracle features and Oracle related products; – Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures; – Take care of the Database design and implementation; – Implement and maintain database security (create and maintain users and roles, assign privileges); – Perform database tuning and performance monitoring; – Setup and maintain documentation and standards; – Plan growth and changes (capacity planning); – Perform general technical troubleshooting and helped development teams; – Interface with Oracle Corporation for technical support; – Patch Management and Version Control; – Install/configure the databases (Primary and Standby), set up Disaster Recovery Scenarios. Projects/Clients: – Western Union, University of Pennsylvania, American Apparel, Medianet, Travel Click My role in these projects is to manage the entire database infrastructure. Tasks: – Create database infrastructure (install/create/configure RAC/standalone databases); – Monitor the databases using AVAIL monitoring tool and Oracle Grid Control 10g/11g (Enterprise Manager); – Manage Oracle Golden Gate software for the Western Union six nodes bi-directional database replication solution. – Solve/tune any performance issue: instance tuning and SQL tuning; – RMAN Backup/recovery of the databases using tape or disk devices; – Oracle Data Guard implementation/administration for reporting and Disaster Recovery; – Create operating system scripts (shell scripts - bash) for different database tasks; – Patching and upgrading different database systems; – Solve different tasks sent by the business team (queries, different DML and DDL on the database); – Implement database security: create roles, privileges, consumer groups.

– Installation, configuration and upgrading of Oracle database Single instance and RAC; – Evaluate Oracle features and Oracle related products; – Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures; – Take care of the Database design and implementation; – Implement and maintain database security (create and maintain users and roles, assign privileges); – Perform database and application tuning and performance monitoring; – Setup and maintain documentation and standards; – Plan growth and changes (capacity planning); – Perform general technical troubleshooting and give consultation to development teams; – Interface with Oracle Corporation for technical support; – Patch Management and Version Control; – Install/configure the databases (Primary and Standby), set up Disaster Recovery Scenarios; – Application development and administration. Projects: – Global PAYplus Services Platform (GPP), SWIFT, Investigation, Fisa, AML; My role in these projects was to manage the entire database infrastructure used for banking applications. Tasks: – Create database infrastructure (install/create/configure RAC/standalone databases); – Monitor the databases using Oracle Grid Control 10g/11g (Enterprise Manager) and Nagios alerts; – Solve/tune any performance issue: Instance and SQL tuning; – RMAN Backup/recovery of the databases using tape or disk devices; – Oracle Data Guard implementation/administration for reporting and Disaster Recovery; – Oracle Streams implementation and administration at schema level for Reporting purposes; – Create operating system scripts (shell scripts - bash) for different database tasks; – Patching and upgrading different database systems; – Database cloning; – Solve different tasks sent by the business team (queries, different DML and DDL on the database); – Payments processing using XML data sources; – Implement database security: create roles, privileges, consumer groups.

Projects: – SOCIETE GENERALE BULGARIA - Varna My role in this project was to implement a Disaster Recovery solution for the production Core Banking System database (11g). – Project time span: January 2011 – March 2011; – Project stages in which I was involved: Deployment; – Responsibilities during the project: – Create infrastructure for this project (install/create/configure RAC Primary and Standby databases); – Monitor the databases using Oracle Grid Control 11g (Enterprise Manager); – Solve/tune any performance issue; – Create and configure RAC (Real Application Cluster) Standby databases using RMAN cloning and Oracle Data Guard; – Secure the system; – Create operating system scripts (shell scripts - bash) for different database tasks; – Technologies used: Oracle Database 11g, Recovery Manager, Data Guard, PL/SQL, IBM AIX (operating and shell), IBM HACMP.

– Core DBA activities (Oracle 10g): database server installation (binaries), database creation, configure services and instances, troubleshooting, manage objects, solve database related errors, performance issues, backup & recovery etc; – Monitor databases; – Install/configure the databases (Primary and Standby), set up Disaster Recovery Scenarios; – Assuring database security; – Solve different tasks sent by the development team (queries, different DML and DDL on the database etc). Projects: – DRIVE (SIEMENS United Kingdom): My role in this project was to manage and administer Oracle RAC/Standalone production databases (10g, 9i, 8i) for the BRITISH BROADCAST CORPORATION (BBC) in London, United Kingdom. – Project time span: September 2010 – January 2011; – Project stages in which I was involved: Support; – Responsibilities during the project: – Create infrastructure for this project (install/create/configure RAC Primary and Standby databases); – Monitor the databases using Oracle Grid Control 10g and 9i (Enterprise Manager); – Solve/tune any performance issue; – RMAN Backup/recovery of the databases using tape or disk devices; – Create and configure RAC standby databases using RMAN cloning and Oracle Data Guard; – Secure the system; – Create operating system scripts (shell scripts - bash) for different database tasks; – Technologies used: Oracle Database 10g/9i/8i, Recovery Manager, Data Guard, PL/SQL, Unix (operating and shell), Solaris etc.

– Database server installation and database creation; – Database services configurations; – Troubleshoot & solve database related errors; – Monitor databases, especially blocking sessions; – RMAN backup & recovery; – Fix performance issues; – Assuring database security; – Solve different tasks sent by the development team (queries, different DML and DDL on the database etc); – Install MS SQL software/database. Projects: – CNPAS (Casa Nationala de Pensii si Alte Drepturi de Asigurari Sociale) My role in this project was to manage and administer 43 production databases (Oracle Database 9i) and Application Servers (iAS 9i). – APIA (AGENTIA DE PLATI SI INTERVENTIE PENTRU AGRICULTURA) My role in this project was to manage and administer 6 production databases and 2 databases for testing purposes (all of them were Oracle 10g).

Responsibilities: I worked for Oracle - North America Consulting - Global Service Delivery organization - for approximately two years and was involved in the iMPACT Project and other similar projects like NASC support, TEO_TEMA project, Kaki. The iMPACT project was an internal Business Intelligence project, a complex data warehouse system used as the primary reporting source for the upper management board within the Oracle Corporation, including the company's CEO Lawrence Ellison. My role for these projects was to manage the entire software infrastructure. Tasks: – Core DBA activities (Oracle 10g): database server installation (binaries), database creation, configure services and instances, troubleshooting, manage objects, solve database related errors, performance issues, backup & recovery etc; – Monitor databases; – Install/upgrade/patch of the databases, application servers and BI applications; – Database security; – Take care of any task from development team; – OWB installation and configuration.

My responsibilities were to organize, manage a department consisting of 20 persons. I was also the person responsible for analyzing and setting strategies for my department and the database administrator of the company.