My CV

 

Specialties

OCI – Dedicated Region (DRCC) – DBaaS – Oracle Exadata Machine – Linux – Virtualization – Oracle RAC – Grid Infrastructure – ASM – Data Guard – Tuning

Skills & Expertise

  • Operating Systems: Linux, AiX, Solaris.
  • Virtualization: VMware; Oracle VM; KVM
  • Storage Area Networks: IBM Shark, IBM DS8800, Hitachi, EMC2 Symmetric, NetApp, HP 3PAR.
  • Programming: Shell Script, SQL, PL/SQL, RMAN.
  • Data modeling tools: Erwin, ORACLE Designer.
  • Certifications: OCI Certified Architect Associate; Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c; Exadata Database Machine X3 & X4 Administrator; CompTIA Cloud Essentials.

Oracle RDBMS

  • Oracle versions: 7.3, 8, 8i, 9i/RAC, 10g/RAC, 11g/RAC, 12c/RAC, 19c/RAC
  • Backup/Recovery: RMAN, User Managed Backup/Recovery.
  • High Availability: RAC, Grid Infrastructure, Data Guard, Automatic Storage Management (ASM).
  • Tuning: operating system, network, database parameters, SQL and PL/SQL.
  • Tools: Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM), DBVerify, LogMiner, Tkprof, SQL*Loader, import/export, Data Pump, Automatic Workload Repository (AWR).

Database Architect

  • Architecture Design: I’m skilled in the design of complex Oracle database architecture based on standalone, clustered and virtualized implementations.
  • Capacity Planning: performance analysis of database servers and storages in standalone and clustered environment.
  • Capacity Management: competences and proven experiences developing capacity management plans for standalone and clustered configurations.

Experience

 

EMEA OCI Dedicated Region Specialist Director at Oracle

Mid-June 2021 – Present

I’m member of the Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer (DRCC) EMEA team, which assists the customers implementing the Oracle portfolio of public cloud services into their own data center.

Senior Principal Consultant / Data Architect at Trivadis AG

October 2020 – mid-June 2021

I supported Trivadis’s customers on the Conception (design and architecture), Construction (engineering, development), Automation and Life-cycle Management of data platforms on-premises, public cloud or hybrid.

Principal Consultant / Data Architect at Trivadis AG

April 2013 – October 2020

I worked as RAC DBA/Data Architect on customer projects, engineering and evolving complex architectures and Database Cloud solutions based on: commodity hardware, UNIX SMP servers and Oracle engineered systems (Exadata and ODA). When needed I supported the sales force as technical pre-sales. In addition to the consulting activities, I’m active member of Trivadis Training Center, and a Public Speaker.

Senior Consultant / Oracle RAC DBA at Trivadis AG

June 2011 – April 2013

I worked as RAC DBA/Data Architect on different projects and customers; among the major achievements:

  • I built a Database Private Cloud for one of our international customers.
  • I have been a key player of a small team that successfully completed a DWH PoC on Oracle Exadata Machine X3-2.

 

Senior Oracle RAC DBA at Credit Suisse

September 2007 – May 2011

I started working on Data Warehouse team where I faced several challenging activities, after 15 months I had the opportunity to move in a new group created for engineering RAC platforms based on Oracle 11g.

Oracle RAC DBA/Data Architect at IBM Global Services

April 2003 – August 2007

I worked at the same time in engineering and operation, acquiring maturity and experience about transactional databases (OLTP) active 24/7 with high availability configuration (RAC and Data Guard).

 

DBA Oracle at Alpha Sistemi

March 2002 – March 2004

I was in charge of new installations, database recovery, tuning operations and auditing activities on different IBM’s customers.

 

DBA Oracle at Help Company

March 2000 – February 2002

Management and development of Oracle databases, focusing on the following activities: backup/recovery, monitoring, PL/SQL procedures, tuning.