Danny Higgins

Experience

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  Electronic Data Systems

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1999

  Database Administrator

  Informix and Oracle DBA

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  Standard Chartered Bank

  Jan 1999 - Jul 2014

  Oracle Database Architect/Senior Engineer Specialist in Infrastructure Design focusing on Database Cloud Platforms for High Performance, Availability and Consolidation use cases.Specialist in Oracle Enterprise Management 12c/11g Cloud Control and Oracle Fusion Middleware.Designed and implemented a wide range of Financial Services Database Infrastructure solutions including:-Shared Database/Schema as a Service Infrastructure based around Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture.Load Balanced HA Cloud Control and Fusion Middleware Deployment providing best in class monitoring, security compliance, identity and access management solutions.Worked on wide variety of banking systems requiring various core skills including :- High Availability with 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure (ASM, Clusterware) and 11gR2 RAC.Disaster Recovery Solutions using Data Guard and VCS.Fusion Middleware Identity and Access Management (OID/OVD/EUS/OIM/OAM/SOA)Backup and Recovery solutions - integrating RMAN with various Media managers including Networker, NetBackup and ArcServe.VLDB management using partitioning/ILM, Performance TuningDatabase Design, Engineering and Standard Builds.High Performance Infrastructure Design featuring Flash Storage and Low Latency Networks. Automated Database Provisioning.Excellent understanding of Networks and Storage Solutions in relation to Database Infrastructure.OEM 11g Grid Control and 12c Cloud Control (greenfield install and configuration experience using multiple OMS behind a hardware load balancer) automated provisioning, compliance & monitoring.Database standards and security.Information lifecycle management.Single Sign On using EUS, OID and OIM. Show less

  • Database Architect

    Jan 2008 - Jul 2014

  • Senior Database Administrator

    Jan 1999 - Jan 2008
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  Pure Storage

  Aug 2014 - May 2024

  Consultant to largest global database accounts and strategic prospects advising on transformation, integration, cost optimisation and delivering value from Pures portfolio of products. Providing a feedback loop into engineering for product/feature enhancements.Internal global strategy and solutions, leveraging sales data and external datasets to build analytics pipelines and ML models to enable data driven strategy for a variety of use cases including white space account qualification, ranking and targeting, pipeline generation and SE hiring.Internal SE enablement, high impact speaking engagements (CIO round-tables, DBTA) and running EBC’s.Oversight and budget control for a world wide network of on-prem & cloud based demo labs.Oversaw a 24% YOY revenue increase into the database market.Winner of the 2024 MVP award Show less Recruit, lead and retain a multi-disciplinary team of SME field solution architects to support theatre wide sales teams in their campaigns. Collaboratively consult with clients to garner credibility and become trusted advisors. Up-skill the wider SE community.Provide expert level skills, knowledge and experience across mainstream technologies (RDBMS, VMware, VDI, Data Protection) as well as emerging technologies (Container based workloads & Kubernetes, Streaming Analytics and AI/ML)Design, procure, build and manage the APJ on-prem/cloud demo labs (2 x full on-prem racks) and develop compelling high value demos of real world use cases across the various technology domains along with supporting sales collateral (technical sales decks, reference architectures, white-papers, best practices and blogs) Support on-site POC’s, professional services and speak at industry events (Oracle Cloudworld) and customer EBC’s Show less

  • Global Practice Leader - Oracle & Open Source Databases

    Mar 2023 - May 2024

  • Head, Solution Architects, APJ

    Mar 2018 - Mar 2023

  • Database Architect - APJ

    Jun 2016 - Feb 2023

  • Global Accounts SE

    Aug 2014 - Jun 2016
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  OceanBase

  Jan 2025 - now

  Product Solution Architect