Tom Watson

Tom Watson

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    CDM Smith

  • Education

    • Florida Institute of Technology

      2008 - 2013
      Masters of Science Management Information Technology

      Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Omega Received my Masters Degree in MIS

  • Experience

    • Northrop Grumman Corporation

      Jan 2005 - Jun 2014
      Database Administrator

      Perform database administration for Northrop Grumman. Support REMIS and MSIA projects for the USAF. Obtained Top Secret security clearance. Create databases. Install Oracle software on Sun, Linux and Windows. Apply Quarterly Critical Patches from Oracle for databases and Weblogic. Back up and recover databases using RMAN and exports. Clone databases, Support Oracle Application Server. Compare databases objects using Erwin and created scripts to correct differences. Create scripts to make schema changes. Create tables, views and triggers in Sybase. Support Oracle Cluster running on a two node Linux system. Create and support database links from Oracle to a NCR Teradata system. Setup Oracle Streams. Installed and configured Oracle Gateways to NCR Teradata and Sybase. Show less

    • Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation

      Jun 2014 - Jan 2016
      Lead Database Analyst

      Responsibility for providing 24x7 Oracle database administration support for hundreds of development and production databases running on Windows and Linux Red Hat 6/7 operating systems. Migrated Oracle databases from Windows to Linux Red Hat 7. Manage the application of quarterly Oracle security patches for Oracle Databases. Spearhead the upgrade of databases from 11.1.0.7 to 12.1.0.2. Proactively monitor databases using Precise and DBArtisan. Actively attend to service calls and provide root cause analysis for them. Researched moving Oracle databases to the cloud. Amazon and Oracle were both considered. Documented Oracle 12c features for the DBA team. Show less

    • Nityo Infotech

      Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
      Sr. Oracle DBA

      Provide support to development teams. Create and refresh materialized views, set up partitioning for large tables. Deploy PL/SQL packages and procedures to production. Monitor Development databases for space and tuning issues using Toad. Tune SQL queries. Provide second level support for Production DBA staff.

    • Fujitsu America

      Aug 2016 - Mar 2018
      Oracle Database Administrator

      I provide support for 160 Oracle databases running 11g and 12c. I also support several logical and physical standby databases. I am part of the disaster recovery team. I am upgrading databases to 12c. I provide on call support for production. I am the lead DBA on a project moving an Oracle 12c database with a Physical standby from HP to Linux.

    • Ingles Markets, Inc.

      Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
      Lead Database Administrator

      I lead a team of three DBAs that provided 24x7 support for 20 Oracle databases, 30 SQLServer databases and 4 MySQL databases. I led a project to upgrade SAP databases to 12c. I designedand tested the disaster recover plan using Rubrik and RMAN, Oracle Critical patch sets were applied to the databases. Installed a plan to update the wiki with new information and to update existing documentation. I organize projects and scheduling of DBA resources

    • Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina

      Jul 2019 - Nov 2024
      Infrastructure Design Engineer
    • Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota

      Jul 2019 - Nov 2024
      Infrastructure Design Engineer
    • CDM Smith

      Nov 2024 - now
      Lead Database Administrator
  • Licenses & Certifications