Ben l. Weaver

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

I do have flexibility to travel and have done so in my most recent role and am able to relocate as the opportunity dictates.

 I am an IT professional with progressively responsible experience.  I continue to take on new challenges and responsibilities I have more than 12 years’ experience in Systems and Enterprise Architecture, site Disaster Recovery planning, design, development and execution.  I have delivered many Oracle stack deployments as well.  While serving as an Oracle Engineered Systems SME (Exadata and Exalogic) and Senior Engineer/full-scope Senior DBA, I successfully coordinated the implementation fully functional and tested DR sites, data center migrations with hardened encryption methodologies.  As IT Infrastructure Interim Manager I coordinated with OAKS SOCC (State of Ohio Computing Center) and IBM, the managed services provider, to ensure maximum reliability, upgrades, and roll-outs involving more than 1400 virtual systems, many Exadata and Exalogic machines with site redundant ZFSSA storage pools.

I have served as an Oracle Principal Architect and SME on more than one hundred projects with Mythics, including State, City and Federal Government engagements, Department of Veterans Affairs, US Department of State, Department of Justice, Department of Defense, USAMRID Bacteriological Warfare research, NIH, the National Biometric Cancer Research Facility, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as well as other agencies. Projects have also included the United States Federal Bank, USFS, USGS, National Science Foundation, Johns Hopkins, the National Center for Bio-Technology Information, JPEO-CBD, NPR several large universities. 

SPECIFIC IT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

TARMACHAN DE` ENTERPRISES, llc, Columbus, oh                                  AUGUST 2017 – PRESENT

Infrastructure Technical Support

I provide Infrastructure Technical Contractual Support and  AWS  Architectural Solutions to Tarmachan De` Enterprises for clients that are critical to central administrative business services.  Most tasks are Cloud based I have completed migration from on-premises data centers to the Cloud for several customers which involve analyzing legacy applications, mission-critical workloads and sensitive data; estimating hardware resources, architecting Best Solutions, staffing recommendations, assessing ongoing expenses and planning adequate governance and security.

OAKS, State of Ohio, Columbus                                                                    March 2017 – July 2017

Infrastructure Technical Manager

I provided Infrastructure Technical Management with the Ohio Administrative Knowledge System (OAKS) until the end of the fiscal year. OAKS is the State’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system central administrative business services: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Content Management, Enterprise Learning Management and Customer Relationship Management through PeopleSoft suite. Experienced with MongoDB · AWS, DynamoDB – AWS NOSQL database solutions as well as Oracle Solutions, Azure, and Google clouds. 

A&T Systems                                                                                              August 2016 – October 2016

AWS Migration Project Manager

Managed the successful migration of the clone Affordable Care Act database from an on-premises data center in Maryland to the AWS Gov’t Clouds.  Porting all schemas and data via Direct Connect an RDS environment per customer request, E2E performance tuning and testing was successfully completed. 

Common Securitization – Capitis Solutions, Bethesda, MD   September 2015 – April 2016

DEVOPS AWS Data Lead

Common Securitization Solutions (CSS)—a joint venture between Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, established to build a universal platform for the issuance, management and compliance of common securitizations (derivative trading) for the mortgage industry.  Tasks included AWS Cloud Systems Architecture, performance balance and enhancement, performing hundreds of data migrations, capacity planning, analysis and recommendations as well as deployments, SCRUM and Agiile management and design of highly available, scalable and self-healing systems on AWS.

Samsung, Herndon, VA                                                                              August 2013 - September 2015

Oracle Exadata Architect

Samsung STA Data Center Operations Exadata SME / Amazon Cloud Architect.   ETL(extract-transform-load) development and optimization to meet the operational performance requirements for integrated reporting solutions of all cell towers in the United States and Puerto Rico. Load balancing, comparative performance testing MongoDB and DynamoDB cloud operations to Data Center Exadata with respect to live stream monitoring and reporting Wifi and cell network   North America transactions. Efficiently identify and resolve critical issues with utmost priority. Excellent knowledge of cell disks grid disks and ASM Intelligent data placement. Ability to read and interpret telecommunications architecture, schematics and documentation.  Apache – Hadoop classes edx.org.

Mythics, Inc. - USA                                                                                          March 2008 – August 2013

Senior Principal Lead Oracle Engineer

Senior Solutions Oracle Architect  and Principal Engineer supporting hundreds of customers as well as the Dept. of Veterans Affairs as part of the Oracle ULA (Unlimited License Agreement). I was an active trusted technical advisor delivering technical presentations, architect solutions and  for high availability and robust disaster recovery,, .responding to technical questions relating to design, configuration, and planning of projects and enterprise-level solutions in several departments including Office of Veterans Benefits, National Health Administration, National Cemetery Administration, Office of Human Resources and Administration, Office of Management, Office of Information and Technology and the Technology Acquisition Center.  Mythics trained, Oracle Certified with many products, I am experienced in large, complex Oracle Stack implementations including Fusion Middleware (OFM) integration, API lifecycle management, development, business intelligence and analytics, collaborations, migrations and content management.  I have valuable Exadata, Exalogic and other Engineered Systems experience

 I designed, deployed and tested several Disaster Recovery Solutions during my career. A partial list of satisfied customers includes:

·         State of California - Employees Health and Retirement System, Sacramento, CA (CalHeeRs) OEM12c and Oracle Ops Center installation and configuration

·         Guilford County Government - Greensboro, North Carolina Systems Health Check and Action Plan

·         Nielsen Corporation International - ZFS, Exalogic Installation and patching

·         Ritter Communications, Oracle Data Appliance 911 recovery, ODA upgrade and patching

·         Reata Pharmaceuticals – Oracle 12c RAC Architecture & installations

·         Assured Guaranty – NYC Re-architecture and Oracle Data Integration and Migration to archive reporting servers

·         Drexel University – Architecture, Oracle Fusion Middleware, EM12c Cloud Control 

·         State University of New York (SUNY) - Buffalo and Albany, NY – Architecture, EM12c Cloud Control, High Availability RAD / Data Guard, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Cross Campus imaging.

·         Austal  Ship Builders - US Navy Joint High Speed Vessels (JHSV) and Littoral Combat Ships LCS-4 Project, Mobile, AL -- 10gR2 Rac install

·         Truth Technologies - Intel  Architecture, 11gR2 installation and tuning.

·         United States Department of State – Narcotics Enforcement Air Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, FL. - 11gR2 Rac installation, GRC/ACCG

·         National Federal Credit Union - Oracle upgrade 11gR2, HPUX Intanium upgrade

·         FinishLine Shoes -  Corporate 11gR2 RAC installation

·         National Catholic Health Initiatives - Englewood, CO. GoldenGate Installation Active-Passive Installation

·         Washington County Maryland Public Schools - Oracle 11gR2 Data Warehouse

·         L3 Military Optics - Manchester, New Hampshire, Database Health Checks

·         City of Brooklyn, NY - DOITT (Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Solutions Architect consultant, Tech Stack Refresh, DR Recovery, Performance Tuning

·         US Army LOGSA – DOD Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL - Oracle RAC Disaster Recovery

·         Kaplan Learning Centers - Oracle upgrade 11.2 RAC, Grid Control, Data Guard on EMC SANS.

·         Johns Hopkins University and Hospitals - Baltimore, MD. Senior Solutions Architect consultant, DR design and Planning.

·         Geisinger Health Corporation - Oracle upgrade 11.2 RAC, Grid Control, Data Guard on EMC SANS deployment, DR design

·         National Department of Veterans Affairs -  Washington D.C. Advising Solutions Architect and Trusted Advisor, Design, Solutions and Oracle Fusion Middleware SME.

·         USDA Geospatial - Imaging and Aerial Photography Services, Salt Lake City, Utah. Upgrades and Oracle product stack deployment from Oracle 9.2 to 11.2, RMAN, OBIEE 11g, Forms and Reports from 6 to 11i. JRE/JDK, WebLogic 10.3.2, iAS, Portal,Forms, Reports, Discoverer 11.1.1.2.0. SSO and Identity Manager 10gR3 on NetApps.

·         DoD, Pentagon, DSA, DTRA, Intel – Analytic skills, architectural review, CCAR, DR design and targeted implementations

·         US Naval Commander of Naval Operations - Installations Pentagon, (Naval Support Activity) – CNIC – Millington, TN. Oracle Data Appliance Installations

·         US Navy Safety Center -  Norfolk, VA. Oracle DB Cloning, DR planning centralized datacenter migration

·         City of Glendale, CA – Architect, Oracle RAC, Grid Control, Data Guard on EMC SANS deployment, DR design

·         State of New York – Health and Human Servicess , Oracle 11.2 RAC, Grid Control, Data Guard.

·         Brooklyn Emergency Services - Police, Fire and Emergency Response IT department - , Oracle 11.2 RAC, Grid Control, Data Guard, Tech Stack Refresh.

·         Universities - UCLA, FSU, UK, BYU, UNC – Oracle 11g RAC, Fusion Middleware, Data Guard

·         US Federal Home Loan Bank – Architect, Oracle 10g RAC, Grid Control, Data Guard implementation

·         Merchant Link Financial Clearing House – Oracle Streams bidirectional Fla and N.H., Oracle 11g RAC, Grid Control.

·         National Cancer Institute - Advanced Biometric Research Computing  Facility, Ft. Detrick, MD – Oracle migrations, DR

·         National Public Radio  - Headquarters Washington D.C. Oracle RAC on NetApps SANS, data migration, DR design

·         Anne Arundel County, Maryland – Oracle database upgrade, DR design

·         State of Florida, Dept of Highways – Requirements analysis, architectural review, SOW and design

·         United States Attorneys Headquarters - Requirements analysis, architectural review, SOW and design

·         Bravo Health – Requirements analysis, architectural review, SOW and design

·         Colonial Concrete – Requirements analysis, architectural review, SOW and design

·         State of Delaware – Requirements analysis, architectural review, SOW and DR design

·         James River Insurance – Requirements analysis, architectural review, SOW and DR design

·         National Port Authority – Newark, Houston, San Diego- Architectural review, SOW and DR design

·         US Coast Guard NESSS – Requirements analysis, architectural review, SOW

·         US Orbital Sciences – Requirements analysis, architectural review, SOW

·         ThyssenKrupp Steel (North America) Manufacturing - RAC, DR, DUL Data Disaster Recovery (911)

·         State of New York Health System - RAC, upgrades and DR design, Disaster Recovery  (911 call)

·         Federal Employees Retirement Commission - (ICMA-RC ) RAC, ASM, Clusterware upgrade, DR design

·         National Science Foundation -IT Headquarters Data Warehousing and OBIEE performance issues.

SRI-FEDERAL SERVICES, Washington D.C                                                     Oct. 2007 -- March 2008

Lead Infrastructure Analyst & Enterprise Architect

·         United States Federal Courts Data Center Enterprise Architect integrating Peoplesoft modules and new technologies while assisting the development and implementation to modify the US Federal Court HR IT PeopleSoft tools.

·         Requirements analysis, architectural reviews, design phase and collaboration with developers. I supported Oracle, MySQL, and SyBase Databases, Federal Court department leads, corporate leads and approved vendors.

INTEGRATED DATA SYSTEMS, Ft. Belvoir,  Pentagon, VA                   Sept. 2006 -- Oct. 2007

DBA Team Lead

·         Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Pentagon, ALTESS CCAR Data Services supervising production and development support DBA for DTRA, Pentagon, Chem-Bio, WMD, IED, DOD Special Services, Headquarters Air Force, Army, Navy, High Energy Magnetic Pulsing, Aegis Ballistic Missle System, Hellfire Rocket, Predator drone and others. Employee. 

·         Comprehensive Cost and Requirements System (CCAR) financial applications support providing real-time enterprise-wide end-to-end financial management including data warehouses, ETLs, customized business rules and managed data flow that extracts from CAFRMS, the Department of Defense Mainframe Centralized Accounting and Finance Management System. Applications Access Control Governance, Governance Risk Compliance in Fusion Middleware.

FORD MOTOR WORLD HEADQUARTERS, Dearborn, MI                                  Dec. 2002 -- July 2006

TIVOLI Project DBA Team Lead

Tivoli Global Initiatives Project DBA Lead. As a Ford employee I was embedded with the IBM Global Services ‘A’ Team and tasked to support their development efforts in customization, integration and deployment of all Tivoli Suite products through global production launches in 5 data centers (Gottenburg, Sweden, Warley, England, Niels, Germany, Hong Kong, China, Dearborn, Michigan). with 12 DBAs in 4 countries on Tivoli suite deployment. Role included performance reviews, team evaluation and reports, project management, knowledge transfer, Oracle and IBM products deployments, implementation, testing and ‘go live’.

FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT, Juno Beach, FL                                                                              Prior to Dec 2002

Oracle DBA

·         FPL Hurricane Response database and FPL Nuclear Power Plant databases architecture, PeopleSoft DBA support and backup production support. 

·         Oracle High Availability configuration and support on Sun Unix and Windows 2000 Servers.

·         Data warehouse support, Oracle, IBM DB2-UDB and SQL Server 2000 experience. Contract.

MCI-WORLDCOM, Colorado Springs, CO

SENIOR ORACLE DBA/DEVELOPER

·         PeopleSoft DBA support, development and production support.

·         Applied patches, upgrades, work-arounds and performance enhancements. 

·         Production and Development Support Oracle DBAduties and responsibilities. Contract.

XCARE.NET, Denver, CO

Senior Oracle DBA/Developer

·         HIPPA DBA support for Medunite Healthcare System and XCARE to enable HIPPA compliant system portals for subscribed healthcare professionals.  PeopleSoft production and development support included portal and capacity planning accommodate large numbers of concurrent users.

CONVERGENT COMMUNICATIONS, Denver, CO

Senior Oracle DBA/Developer

·         Oracle Financials Developer.  development and database support for a midrange telecom solution provider targeting 200-700 employee size companies with total communications, network security and web presence solutions.

·         Supported connectivity and throughput with various applications including Oracle Financials, Tuxedo middleware, Web Sphere, Oracle 8i.  Environments included Sun E10k Unix, Windows NT, 2000 Servers, monitoring gateways, routers, firewalls, switches. Employee

EDUCATION

·         BA – Psychology, Journalism Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK

·         Teaching Certification in Mathematics & Computer Science, UW, Laramie, WY.

·         Graduate School – Applied Mathematics & Statistics – Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

·         Master’s program – Educational Administration – University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

·         MA – Administration ans Leadership,  University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO .

·         Faculty Computer Science & Networking, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, CO.

·         Graduate School Faculty – Stratford University, Falls Church, VA

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS