Kevin Riibe

Experience

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  Coca-Cola Foods

  May 1988 - Jun 1996

  Senior Database Analyst

  Senior Database Analyst (1995 – 1996)Senior Systems Analyst (1994 – 1995)Senior Database Analyst (1991 – 1994)Database Analyst II (1990 – 1991)Database Analyst (1988 – 1990)

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  Compaq Computer Corporation

  Jun 1996 - Jan 2001

  Primary responsibility was managing the Oracle and SQL Server DBA teams for Compaq’s Houston-based database systems. The team was responsible for the providing 7x24 support for database, database standards, disaster recovery solutions and database migration procedures into new Houston data center. Lead team in the planning and implementation of Compaq’s North American SAP environment on Tru64 UNIX. Worked with leadership to provide executive briefings to external companies to showcase the success of IT's global SAP/Oracle implementation. Show less Responsible for the definition of support policies and procedures, database standards, recovery solutions, database and application performance tuning for Compaq’s global database environments. Role included working with team members to develop and document standardized methods and procedures for DBA support team. Lead DBA team to test Y2K compliance for all Enterprise systems that led to the reduction and elimination of 99% of non- compliant versions of databases and servers. Developed database benchmark tests to provide realistic performance data on how the new hardware compares to current technology deployments. Show less

  • Database Administrator Manager

    Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  • Senior Oracle Database Administrator

    Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

  • Database Administrator

    Jun 1996 - Jan 1999
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  HP

  Jan 2001 - Nov 2012

  Technical lead on design and development archiving solutions for critical business applications. Developed the standard database archiving architecture, deployment processes and operational support guidelines for HPIT using HP’s Application Information Optimizer software. By 2012, completed data archiving for over 128 production databases resulting in a 30% average increase in application database performance. This also represented a potential cost avoidance and reuse opportunity of $700k – $1,500k in infrastructure investment and over 1,100 labor hours implementing storage increases. Published “Database Archiving for the Enterprise” describing the HP-IT journey in deploying a shared database archive solution. Was promoted to Master Level Engineer by the Technical Career Path Board for overall contributions to HP-IT. Show less Managed team of senior DBAs responsible for engineering the database standards for HP-IT's global database administration organization. Responsible for standards and operational procedures for Oracle and SQL Server databases migrated to the ‘next generation’ data centers. Over a 4-year period, the Engineering team maintained “cookie-cutter” configurations that allowed rapid creation of database platforms for mass application migrations which streamlined over 3,000 application migrations into these new data centers. This included configuration and database creation, developing common guides and processes for managing Oracle and SQL Server database environments. Technologies implemented as part of global standards were Oracle 11g, Real Application Clusters (RAC), Data Guard, Oracle Enterprise Manager, SQL Server 2005/2008 and Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). Partnering with Oracle, the team deployed one of the largest Oracle Enterprise Manager repositories outside of Oracle with over 3,000 target instances. Maintained the HP-IT database technology roadmap ensure consistent delivery and communication of all database technologies. Acted as primary point of HP IT contact for Oracle licensing and support including participation in the negotiation of the HP/Oracle Enterprise License Agreement. Show less

  • Senior Database Engineer

    Jan 2010 - Nov 2012

  • Database Administration Manager

    Jan 2006 - Jan 2010

  • Database Architect

    Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  • Database Administration Manager

    Jan 2001 - Jan 2005
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  Direct Energy

  Nov 2012 - Aug 2013

  Database Administration Manager

  Managed DBA team to provide cross-functional database solutions, support of application development lifecycle with respect to databases, with chief focus on development databases. This position was accountable for the planning, organization, and control of all activities related to database administration including their definition, organization, protection, efficiency, documentation, procurement, database vendor management, long-term requirements, and operational guidelines. This position required significant contribution to the on-going efforts of IT to maintain optimum performance, and data integrity of databases at a cost-efficient level through engagement with business partners, architects, development managers, and third-party production support teams. Show less

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  CGI

  Dec 2013 - Dec 2016

  Database Administration Team Lead

  North American Database Administration Team Lead supporting databases for Shell’s US Products and Domestic Crude next generation trading software. The team included resources in Houston and offshore resources in Bangalore. Oracle technologies implemented included Oracle 11g, 12c, Active Data Guard, Golden Gate, Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Responsible for developing capacity planning reporting for database growth planning. Role also included ensuring DBA team was providing database consulting and support to the project team through all major and minor application releases. Successfully completed the transition of DBA support to Shell Operational team post-implementation. Show less

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  HP

  Jan 2018 - now

  Continued to lead the global database administration team, providing operational support for over 1,000 application databases. Took on new responsibilities to lead the operational team for HP IT shared platform applications, including Informatica, HP Service Bus, TIBCO, Seeburger EDI infrastructure, Security API Gateway, and the Hadoop-based Enterprise Data Lake. Highlights:* Managed major incident communications and escalations with our infrastructure team to resolve systemic platform and storage issues.* Led database recovery efforts during the Austin DC outage, improving performance and restoring services.* Transitioned Database Cloud services to the our team, ensuring the vendor fully absorbed these assets into normal operations.* Worked with our DBA vendor to Introduce operational lead role to improve communication and issue resolution, piloted with the Database team and expanded to the Shared Platform team.* DBA team developed a database migration tracking process for database tasks, aligning with project team's schedule to support more timely migrations effectively eliminating cancelled applications migrations due to missed database actions. By optimizing the database migration tasks, this created a simple and easy to execute application migration plan to cloud services. Show less Managing database operations across all HP Inc. IT applications. His team oversees the service and solution delivery of all database components including operations and business solutions. His organization provides key advisory role to senior management on the development of overall road map for database services, Solutions and technology. Plans, manages and monitors high-end operational/tactical activities of SMEs and recruits and supports development of staff members. Notable actions:* Participated in discussions to review future database server models and adapted HP operational model to new HA DR architecture.* Established central point of contact to manage the database migrations for project Beyond datacenter to migration - included planning, tasks, and communication, and development of tracker tool to coordinate.* Reviewed and ensured compliance of CI asset capture and DB CI design for migration to ServiceNow, addressing missing data feeds. Show less

  • Senior IT Manager, Global Database and Collaboration Services

    May 2021 - now

  • IT Manager, Database Administration and Shared Platform Services

    Jun 2019 - May 2021

  • IT Manager, Global Database Administration

    Jan 2018 - Jun 2019