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warrenimhof @y ahoo.com
Austin, TX
Warren Imhof
Objective
Technical
Summary
Professional
Summary
Short to medium term contract in the Austin TX area to enhance a
company’s Oracle assets in order to maximize performance, uptime and
maintainability, including new implementations, upgrades and
conversions. Available for Oracle Database planning and architecture,
training, project and vacation coverage.
Architected Systems: Oracle Database Appliance ODA X4-2, ODA
Virtual Machine
Hardware: ODA, Sun, HP, IBM, Prime, Pyramid, SGI, VAX, VAX cluster
Software: Oracle Databases V6-V12, Enterprise Manager Cloud
Control 10-12C, Linux, RMAN, RAC, Dataguard, ASM, ACFS, oakcli,
srvctl, UNIX, Informix database, Ingres database, Enterprise Manager
Grid Control, SQL, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, C, Data Dictionary Tools,
Remedy, ESCAPE, ESQL, FORTRAN, GKS Graphics, Info Basic,
Ingres 4GL, PICK Basic, Primos, RBF, VMS
 25+ years experience in relational database technology
 Oracle ODA Specialist – installation, configuration, database health
checks for 11.2, 12.1
 Manage and implement large scale Oracle conversions and upgrades
 Backup strategies and implementation
 Track record of successfully managing and training employees
 Extensive track record of successful project management
 Worked closely with database administrators, internal and external
customers, software developers, and company management. Excellent
communication skills.
 Results oriented. Complete projects on time and on budget.
Experience 2005-2015 Lacks Valley Stores Austin, TX
Database Administrator
 ODA x4-2, VM, Oracle Architected System
 Large scale conversion from HPUX to ODA x4-2
 Large scale conversion from HPUX 11.11 to HPUX Itanium 11.31
 RAC
 Dataguard
 RMAN
 Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
 Oracle 9, 10, 11, 12
 Enterprise Manager Grid Control

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 Developed and automated database cloning program
 Developed automated backup procedures
 Oracle Portal maintenance
 Development database support
 Database and Application Tuning Analysis
 Performance analysis
 Database maintenance
 Database Recovery
2005 Inviva Louisville, KY
Contract Database Administrator
 Oracle database maintenance, application tuning, performance analysis
2004 Findlaw Sunnyvale,CA
Contract Database Administrator
 Database and Application Tuning Analysis, Performance analysis,
Database maintenance
2003 Worldwide Matching, Inc. Austin, TX
Contract Database Administrator
 Database and Application Tuning Analysis, Memory use evaluation,
Backup and Recovery, Database maintenance
1999–2001 Telleo Corporation San Jose, CA
Database Architect
 Architect database requirements for innovative national portal
 Work closely with founders, VC's, and high level management on strategic
database architecture
 Managed projects and staff
 Installed, upgraded and maintained Oracle databases for corporate and
engineering. Configured and tuned databases.
 Wrote proposals for hardware and software requirements
1997–1999 GRIC Communications Milpitas, CA
Database Administrator
 Managed projects and staff
 Installed, upgraded and maintained Oracle databases for corporate and
engineering. Configured and tuned databases.
 Architect future corporate system requirements and software
requirements, and advised strategic direction for corporate Information
Systems
 Wrote proposals for hardware and software requirements
 Administrate systems, wrote shell scripts, managed site backups, license
management, Database conversion, Database Archiving, Task
automation

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1995–1997 Parcplace Digitalk Sunnyvale, CA
Database Administrator
 Installed, upgraded and maintained Oracle and Informix systems for
corporate and engineering. Configured and tuned corporate databases
 Determined hardware requirements, worked with system administrators,
and improved the performance of database servers
1994–1995 Krames Communications San Bruno, CA
Database Administrator
 Managed database conversions, installed and tuned databases,
investigated performance and reliability issues. Determined client/server
back-up strategies, hardware requirements, and trained staff
1994 Intel Corporation Santa Clara, CA
Database Administrator / Performance Consultant
 Installed and tuned Ingres servers. Developed recovery and back-up
strategies, investigated performance, solved problems, evaluated site
code, and wrote procedures. Worked with application programmers to
determine system requirements and improve performance.
1993-1994 Ingres – The ASK Group Alameda, CA
Database Administrator / Technical Consultant
 Managed the development and production databases, wrote work
proposals, defined hardware and operating system requirements,
consulted for Frontline Support Team, interfaced with a development
team on database performance and integrity issues, trained the
development team on the Ingres RDBMS product
1993 Axis Consultancy (Australia) San Francisco, CA
Database Administrator
 Trained Axis consultants in RDBMS
1990-1993 BHP Steel, Sheet & Coil Division Melbourne Aus
Database Administrator
 Development / Backup and Disaster Recovery strategies / Server tuning
1987-1990 Government of Australia Melbourne Aus
Analyst, Ministry of Housing
 Development / Ingres / Project Management
Education 1987 Chisholm Institute of Technology Caulfield, Aus
 B.S., Computing