Rand Royball

Experience

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  The Coca-Cola Company

  Dec 1996 - Mar 2010

  Database Specialist II

  Completed installation and configuration of an Oracle RAC environment on a Linux cluster using ASM disk groups. Supported the Oracle SAP databases including performance issues, space issues, and configuration and upgrade issues. Utilized the SAP front end to examine t-code screens. Supported 64 databases as the primary DBA, and 75 databases in backup. AIX, Windows and Linux platforms. Supported our Oracle Express servers as replaced with SAP BW. Created and maintained infrastructure Perl scripts for monitor, backup, and report and page on all 400 Oracle databases in the environment. Developed and maintained many DBA standards and server staging documents to maintain consistency throughout the environment. Show less

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  IHealth Technologies

  Mar 2010 - Dec 2012

  Senior Database/Storage Administrator

  Managed and maintained multiple production and non-production databases of significant and strategic impact across the enterprise. Optimized database access and allocated or re-allocated database resources for optimum configuration, database performance and cost. Storage administrator for the Hitachi USPV and AMS disk arrays allocating disk, assigned to the VIO servers, and maintained the HUR and shadow image database backups. Net backup administrator responsible for configuration, installation and maintenance of the Netbackup domain. Show less

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  Fujitsu Americas

  Dec 2012 - May 2015

  Senior Technical Consultant

  Providing support for both production and Development SAP databases to minimize operational impact and frictional costs while meeting SLAs. Set standards and direction of the DBA group to make support of the overall consistent environment easier. Interface with clients to provide time estimates for DBA work, define scope of work for new projects. Optimize database resources to minimize downtime and improve database performance. Installation of Oracle ASM and led migration of databases from file systems to ASM using Data Guard. Show less

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  AccountabilIT, LLC

  May 2015 - Jan 2019

  Senior Database Administrator

  Managed multiple client accounts supporting databases ranging from 8i to 18c. Installed and configured a 12c RAC environment on new hardware and migrated the 3TB database to the new server over a weekend. Created and supported Oracle Cloud database with periodic refreshes of data from client servers. Migrated a clients non-prod database to the AWS cloud. Installed and configured OEM 13c running on an 18c database. Supported EBS environments of numerous versions. Created a 12c physical standby database for DR. Show less

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  Jewelry Television

  May 2019 - Oct 2023

  Senior Database Engineer

  Responsible for support the RAC 16TB OLTP database collecting and processing orders and addressing performance issues when they arise on the Cloud@Customer Exadata platform. Maintain a data warehouse database and dataguard standby logical and physical databases. Perform database upgrades and database refreshes to the QA and Development environments. Ensuring PCI compliance. Establishing standardization policies and procedures.