RESUME: Senior DBA with 10+ years experience

Mark Gerald Hoover
3729 Betterton Lane
Charlotte, North Carolina 28269
704-598-2388 (home) 704-330-5132 (work) HOOVERMG_at_AOL.COM Career Summary
Senior level consultant with 10+ years experience in information systems management focusing on ORACLE database administration. Looking for project leader position.

Educational Background
M. B. A. Wheeling Jesuit College, Wheeling, WV, December 1993. B. A. Mathematics with Computer Science Concentration, Saint Francis College, Loretto PA, December 1987.  

Hardware Platforms
SUN, DEC, HP, PC compatibles.

Operating Systems
HP-UNIX,SOLARIS, SUN-OS, DEC-ULTRIX, DEC-VMS, MS-WINDOWS NT, MS-WINDOWS 95, MS-DOS. Database Systems
ORACLE 6.0 - 7.3, INGRES, BRS, SAS, FOXPRO, CLIPPER, PARADOX, DBASE, S1032. Programming Languages
PL/SQL, PRO*C, C, C++, INGRES 4GL, FORTRAN, PASCAL, ASSEMBLER, BASIC. Experience Highlights
Senior Oracle DBA/Manager Database Administration TRANSAMERICA, Charlotte NC
June 1997 - Present

*ORACLE 7.3 database administrator for production, test and development servers
operating on HP 9000 running HP-UNIX.
*Perform database creation, tuning, backup/recovery of all servers.
*Maintaining a 60 gigabytes insurance warehouse.
*Create and maintain standards for ORACLE database administration.
*Leader of team that developed strategic plan for systems division.
*Manage all ORACLE licensing agreements.
*Manage budget, recruitment, administration and project management of Database
Administration department.

Oracle DBA
COLT Telecommunications, Limited, London England February 1997 - May 31, 1997 (contract)

*ORACLE 7.2.3 database administrator for development, test and production
servers operating on SUN SPARC-20s running SUN-SOLARIS.
*Performed database creation, tuning, backup/recovery of all servers.
*Migrated test and development servers from ORACLE version 7.1.4 to 7.2.3.
*Trained various coworkers in PL/SQL, data modeling and ORACLE architecture.
*Documented the logical, physical and memory structures of each database.
*Installed, configured and executed a third party software package to
de-fragment database objects on production server.
*Configured database to help minimize fragmentation.
*Established procedures and standards for ORACLE backup/recovery, user accounts
and table/index sizing.

Oracle DBA
First Union, Charlotte NC
May 1996 - November 1997 (contract)

*ORACLE 7.2.3 database administrator of production, test and development
servers operating on HP-9000s running HP-UNIX.
*Performed database creation, tuning, backup/recovery, and data modeling.
*Completed a full technical and functional specification document for an
on-line transaction processing (OLTP) system model to maintain product, line item and corporate management data. Assisted programmers in creating a two-tierred application for the on-line transaction processing (OLTP) system using MS-Visual Basic and ODBC calls to the Oracle server.
*Created a relational database model of the system using the ERWIN software
package.
*Guaranteed that the needs and specifications of the project were being met
through discussions with programmers, business analysts and clients.
*Loaded legacy data from TSO, MS-ACCESS, MS-EXCEL and flat files from the
general ledger into ORACLE using SQL*LOADER and PL/SQL scripts.
*Tuned development, test and production databases to enhance performance.
*Integrated data with datawarehouse and other groups within the financial
re-engineering project.
*Created and populated a risk assessment database for the Financial Operational
Risk Evaluation *Assessment Team. This information was used to report exposure based on user-defined business rules.

Oracle DBA
Agdata, Charlotte NC
November 1995 - May 1996

*ORACLE 7.3 database administrator of production server operating on an SMP PC
running Windows NT 3.5.
*Maintained a forty-five million record agricultural marketing database.
*Automated a real-time manual transaction processing system. This prevented
server contention and data discontinuity by utilizing nightly batch processing.
*Performed various tuning and performance tests to increase server efficiency.
*Performed needs analysis and requirements for the migration of PC database
server to RISC based architecture.

Oracle DBA
IndustryNet, Pittsburgh, PA
May 1994 - November 1995

*ORACLE 7.1.4 / 7.2.3 database administrator of production and development
servers operating on SUN SPARC-20s running SUN-OS/SUN-SOLARIS
*Maintained a 10 gigabyte Industrial information warehouse.
*Engineered and created an on-line searching, viewing and ordering system for
industrial products over the INTERNET using ORACLE 7.2, PRO*C and HTML.
*Utilized Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) methods in database
configuration.
*Created system to migrate all in-house database operations from CLIPPER 5.2 to
ORACLE 7.1.4.
*Designed and implemented a multi-user project management system in CLIPPER 5.2
for the Continuing Education Department. The system allowed for seminar scheduling, attendee registration, and selection of prospective attendees based on user defined search criteria.
*Installed and maintained all ORACLE client/server software.

Ingres DBA/Technology Agent
NASA National Technology Transfer Center, Wheeling, WV October 1990 - December 1993

*INGRES database administrator of a production server operating on a DEC
5000/200cx running DEC-ULTRIX.
*Maintained a 50 gigabyte warehouse containing federal and government sponsored
technology.
*Engineered and developed an on-line transaction processing (OLTP) system using
INGRES 4GL to track technology transfer performed by the center’s Technology Gateway department. Various statistical reports were generated from this system and presented at Capital Hill to demonstrate the centers success.
*Developed a multi-user INGRES 4GL system that maintained and produced the
Directory of Federal Research and Development Laboratories publication for the Department of Commerce.
*Facilitated the transfer of federally developed technology to American
businesses as an agent of the Technology Gateway.

Oracle DBA/Senior Programmer Analyst
NASA Industrial Application Center, Pittsburgh, PA. May 1988 - October 1990

*ORACLE 6.0 database administrator of a production server operating on a
DEC-8800 running DEC-ULTRIX.
*Maintained the University of Pittsburgh research database.
*Initiated and implemented re-engineering of all electronic publishing system
software. The result was a 30 percent savings in processing time and a 20 percent savings in overall costs.
*Customized and enhanced the management information system in DBASE to provide
detailed reports of sales, income, invoice generation, and personnel data.
*Project manager for the Administration and Compensation Survey, the United
States Political Science Documents and Law Books in Print electronic publishing projects.
*Managed 14 data-entry personnel and one senior programmer/analyst

Instructor
Electronic Institute of Technology, Virginia Beach VA March 1988 - May 1988

*Lectured in computer science, mathematics and computer literacy.

Professional References

Geoff Nash, Manager, Technology Services TRANSAMERICA
401 North Tryon Street, Suite 800
Charlotte, NC 28202
704-344-2906

Jim Mozley, Manager, Business Systems
Lattis, Ltd
Europe House
St. Katherine Docks
London, England E1 9AA
044 - 171 -

Randy Fowler, Executive Vice President
Hyperion Telecommunications Inc.
Boyce Plaza 3
2570 Boyce Plaza Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15241
412 - 221 - 1888

Peter Murphy, Systems Consultant
Osprey Systems
9401 ArrowPoint Boulevard, Suite 300
Charlotte, NC 28273-8166
704-554-3403 Received on Wed Jun 10 1998 - 20:15:24 CDT