Rand Royball

Rand Royball

Database Specialist II

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  • About me

    Senior Database Engineer | Database Support, Performance Optimization

  • Education

    • University of Arizona

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      Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems, General
  • Experience

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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.

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