Donavon K.

Experience

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  Sierra Academy of Aeronautics

  Nov 2006 - Jun 2007

  Certified Flight Instructor

  -Performed flight instructor duties authorized by the Federal Aviation Regulations in accordance with the approved Training Course Outline of a FAA part 141 approved flight school.-Measures to accomplish a positive and efficient learning experience -Analyze student's personality, thinking, ability, background, interests and temperament to individualize instruction.-Establishing standards of performance-Providing student pilot evaluation and supervision-Preparing practical test recommendations and endorsements-Preformed aircraft checkouts/transitions-Following course syllabus and creating lesson plans. Show less

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  Mesa Airlines, Inc.

  Jun 2007 - Aug 2010

  Airline Pilot

  Second officer on following equipment building 3500 flight hours:-Raytheon Beechcraft 1900D-Canadair Regional Jet CRJ200, 700, and 900 models.Daily responsibilities include:-Conducting pre and post flight aircraft inspection.-Weight and ballance performance calculations.-Assisting and ensuring safety of passengers.-Communicating and coordinating with all flight, ground, and maintenance crew. -Operating with complete compliance of all FAA regulations.-Ensuring aircraft documentation is correct and in airworthy FAA compliance with emphasis on aircraft maintenance logs. -Excellent knowledge of all aircraft systems and how they impact one another under emergency failures.-Exercised absolute situational awareness relating to all factors of flight including aircraft system status, navigation, weather factors, FAA crew rest requirements, air traffic control, human factors of flight Show less

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  U.S. Department of State

  Aug 2010 - May 2017

  Oracle Database Administrator

  • Installing Oracle software • Creating Oracle databases utilizing systems design life cycle process.• Performing upgrades of the database and software to new release levels including patches.• Starting up and shutting down the database.• Managing the database's storage structures.• Managing users and security.• Managing schema objects, such as tables, indexes, and views.• Making database backups and performing recovery when necessary.• Proactively monitoring the database's health and taking preventive or corrective action as required by monitoring and tuning performance.• Plan and implement Oracle software installations, upgrades, and patches.• Plan and build database instances and objects.• Plan and validate Oracle backup and recovery.• Troubleshoot Oracle infrastructure problems.• Provide technical assistance and guidance to application support staff and project teams.• Develop, document, and implement operational support procedures for the Oracle infrastructure components.• Develop, document, and implement security configuration for Oracle software and database instances to comply with existing standards.• Knowledgeable of Oracle High Availability features such as RAC, Data Guard and ASM • Generating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ease operational support.• Developing, documenting, and testing disaster recovery procedures and plans.• Proficient in creating and maintaining documentation for internal and external communication Show less

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  Bana Solutions, LLC

  May 2017 - Oct 2024

  Senior Oracle Database Administrator

  Currently supporting the FBI with their Oracle Identity Manager application and its database requirements using Oracle Database version 12C 1.0.2 in a Red Hat Linux environment as a certified Oracle Database Administrator.