1. Christy Barron
christy@skyblue.com
SUMMARY:
Skilled in database management issues, including design, implementation, and maintenance. Proficient in system analysis
functions associated with operation support issues. Established record of growth and promotion. Consistently exceed
performance expectations evidenced by exceptional reviews. Ability to analyze and solve complex problems and implement
solutions. Excellent professional and interpersonal skills, both written and oral, able to adjust, operate, and communicate at all
levels of an organization. Capacity to react to changing situations and work with minimum supervision.
Databases: Oracle 7/8i/9i/10g/11g/12c, RAC, Dataguard
Operating Systems: Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1/3.0/4.0/5.0/6.0, HPUX, DG/UX (Unix), Windows XP/2000/ NT/95
Applications: 12c Cloud Control, Commvault, Nimsoft Nimbus,Veritas Netbackup, Oracle Applications 11i/11.0, Oracle
Designer (Forms/Reports) 2000/6i, Toad, Clear Orbit, SQL Developer, EMC Navisphere, Applimations (Access, Integra, Apps,
Forms, Codebase), Microsoft Office, SQL Loader, Apache
Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, shell scripting
Certifications: 10g Oracle Certified Professional, 12c Oracle Certified Associate, SQL Expert, RHCE
Gallup Top 5 Strengths: Strategic, Ideation, Responsibility, Input, Learner
ACHIEVEMENTS
Demonstrated Leadership: Managed a team of 13 DBAs of various RDBMs. Participated in team interviews, hiring and
termination processes. Mentored and coached new hires and less experienced DBAs to increase knowledge and skill level,
helped establish personnel goals. Guided a team of Oracle DBAs that engineered and built an Oracle environment from zero
databases to over 30 Oracle RAC clusters combined with 20 single servers supporting over 70 database instances and
managing over 70TB of data with a growth rate of 2+ TB a month in 7 data centers, worldwide.
Communicator/ Mentor: Advisor to junior DBAs, providing assistance to increase skill set and experience. Created a system
to enhance inter-team communication and project oversight. History of bringing an understanding of databases and relational
theory to the customer, developers, and junior DBAs utilizing strong interpersonal skills and communication ability (both verbal
and written).
Process Improvement/Efficiency: Managed procurement project saving company over $13 Million by reducing development
environment refreshes from 5 days to less than 1 hour wait time. Reducing storage from 60TB to 6TB.
Customer Oriented: Consistently show a commitment to quality, results, and focus on customer. Results are met by listening
to the customer and using skilled analysis to discover the sources of problems quickly and determining appropriate solutions
by developing/comparing alternatives, selecting the best course of action and evaluating the outcome to verify customer needs
are met.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Rackspace Hosting: Oracle Database Administrator IV
March 2007 – Current
Primarily provided Oracle DBA support in various capacities, including customer facing DBA services as well as providing
support to the Rackspace internal DBA team. Provided Disaster Recovery Professional Services/consulting for customer
facing projects as well as the overall portfolio of all Disaster Recovery projects including design, implementation, and support
of DR solutions. Developed and maintained standards and procedures for SOX control regulations; maintained 0% SOX
failure rate across 4 years for 54 DBA related SOX controls.
DBA Responsibilities:
• Installed, configured, and maintained Oracle 11g and 12c RAC and single node databases on RHEL 5 and RHEL 6,
and upgraded grid infrastructure and database from 11g to 12c.
• Installed, configured, and maintained Oracle 12c multitenant databases.
• Applied security patches, critical and patchset updates via runInstaller and perl based utility opatch.
• Performance tuning of the database using explain plan, AWR, ADDM, tuning of SGA.
• ASM implementation, and maintenance via sqlplus as well as asmcmd.
• Excellent knowledge of srvctl, crsctl, ocrdump, ocrcheck, and ocrconfig utilities.

2. • Review DevOps release related code prior to Production implementation; recommend changes to code based on
performance impact/execution plan.
• Refreshing non-Production instances via export/import.
• Shell scripting and PL/SQL programming to address business/monitoring issues as needed.
• Rebuilding of indexes; maintenance and review of statistics.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills to identify root causes, resolve problems, and design/implement preventative
solutions related to application and systems functionality.
• Implemented 12c Cloud Control RAC environment for HA and improved monitoring and administration processes.
Finely tuned out of the box monitoring to decrease volume of alerts. Utilized new Cloud Control functionality to
improve ease of management. Utilized emcli for administrative and reporting purposes.
• Implemented custom monitoring via Cloud Control metric extensions.
• Created a job in the Cloud Control job library that could programmatically determine OS environment specifics (grid
home, oracle home, oracle sid, log file location, etc). This was used to push out various administrative activities in an
automated fashion to a large number of targets without manual intervention.
• Implemented out of band monitoring for 12c Cloud Control environment (monitoring the monitor functionality).
• Troubleshooting and resolving replication issues (Dataguard, Golden Gate); included use of dgmgrl and ggci.
Triton: Oracle Database Administrator
November 1998 - March 2007
Installation, configuration, and maintenance of Oracle Apps, RDBMS, and Linux. Provide 24/7 on-call support.
Monitor/optimize database and system performance. Design logical and physical RAID filesystems on EMC Clariion (CX200,
CX300). Oracle Apps DBA functions. Design, document, and implement appropriate backup and recovery strategies. Apps
Development including setup required for integration with Oracle Applications. Shell scripting to automate DBA/System
Administration procedures and provide automated system monitoring and notifications. Provide hardware and software
purchasing recommendations to management. Implement hardware and software upgrades. Develop and maintain
standards, procedures, and strategies, including compliance with SOX regulations. Published in April 2005 START magazine
for involvement in web-based ordering project. Received "Certificate of Outstanding Performance" as recognition for
participation in Hurricane Katrina recovery effort.
DPA, Stennis Space Center: Oracle Database Administrator
November 1998 – November 2000
Install, configure and upgrade Oracle server software and related products. Database design and implementation. Perform
database and application tuning and performance monitoring to plan for database growth and changes. Implement and
maintain documentation and standards. Provide technical support to development team. Plan and coordinate systems testing,
parallel testing, and UAT. Implement configuration management plan for client/server environment. Coordinate and conduct
status meetings with upper management and customer.
Louisiana Supreme Court: Oracle Database Administrator/Programmer Analyst
March 1997 – November 1998
Developed applications to interface with statewide databases using Designer 2000 and Developer 2000. Performed
specification analysis and database design for statewide integrated databases (criminal, protective order, juvenile, traffic).
Established testing standards and performed systems testing/UAT prior to production implementation. Acted as secondary
DBA handling security maintenance, database maintenance, backup and recovery planning. Assessed hardware and software
needs and analyzed existing or proposed systems. Recommended purchases and implemented computer and information
processing systems in the courts.