Darin R. Brown

11300 Ironwood Ct.

Cincinnati, Ohio 45249

Email: Darin@DarinRBrown.com

 

Darin is a highly motivated Oracle Certified Professional with over 10 years of demonstrated leadership in design, development, and administration of databases.  He has successfully designed and deployed high availability solutions such as Veritas clustering and RAC, consistently achieving 99.9% availability.  Darin created both customized and out-of-the-box database monitoring solutions, in one case creating a custom solution from the ground up.  He has many years of experience designing and implementing backup & recovery solutions, including the implementation of disaster recovery plans using Oracle Data Guard.  His strong development history in several languages includes Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle Forms, Perl and UNIX.  He is an innovative problem solver with in-depth understanding of highly complex systems.  Darin is a proven and respected leader that is consistently recognized as a top performer.

 

Sample accomplishments include:

·         Successfully lead the effort to architect and build a database solution for a new client deployment supporting 10 million subscribers on enterprise class Sun hardware.  Mentored client data center team on best practices with clustering and high availability UNIX solutions using Veritas.

·         Designed and implemented a Data Guard disaster recovery solution for a 4 terabyte OLTP database supporting one of our largest clients.

·         Lead the effort to implement hardware based replication for reporting and backups of 2 terabyte production database using EMC Business Continuance Volumes (BCVs).

·         Designed and implemented monitoring and alerting utilities to proactively manage several multi-terabyte OLTP database systems supporting our largest clients.

·         Created and executed backup and recovery strategies, including Disaster Recovery Plans.

·         Worked closely with development on improving application performance and scalability using languages such as C++, C, Java, PL/SQL, SQL, Perl and UNIX Shell.

·         Designed and developed database management infrastructure with PL/SQL and Oracle Application Express.

·         Presented to the C-level of multiple clients and management at all levels internally.

·         Completed 6 month technical evaluation of Oracle RAC as a solution for one client.

·         Authored a white paper on Database High Availability.  Presented this topic to the technical and executive leaders at the Convergys Technology Conference.

 
Technology Skills
 
Application & Database

·         Oracle Enterprise Edition 10g, 9i, 8i including Real Application Clusters (RAC), Advanced Replication, RMAN and Dataguard

·         Advanced SQL and PL/SQL development and tuning (packages, procedures and triggers)

·         Oracle SQLNET, ODBC, JDBC and Transparent Application Failover (TAF)

·         Oracle Designer (CASE) and Developer (Forms and Reports)

·         Oracle ERP and Financial Applications deployment and customization

·         MySQL 5.0 development and benchmarking against Oracle

·         Advanced UNIX tools including Korn Shell, Bourne Shell, Perl, and AWK

·         Advanced ‘C’ programming including system-level programming

·         Visual Basic and Visual C++ programming on Windows

·         Web services including SOA, Oracle Application Express, CGI, JavaScript

 

System Technologies

·         Sun Sparc Solaris; HP/UX; IBM AIX; Redhat Linux; MS Windows XP, NT, 2003

·         Desktop to enterprise class hardware up to 128 CPUs

·         Disk subsystems including RAID and SAN configurations

·         Veritas Cluster Server, Database Edition Advanced Cluster, Storage Foundation for Oracle 4 (SFOR) including Snapshots, Quick/IO and Oracle Disk Manager (ODM)

·         EMC SRDF and BCV solutions; EMC Powerpath; Engenuity Consistency Assist (ECA)

 

Education. Awards & Certification

·         Oracle 9i Certified Professional

·         Oracle University

o        Oracle 10g New Features for Administrators

o        Oracle 10g Java Programming

o        Oracle 9i New Features for Administrators

o        Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters

·         Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University of Cincinnati

·         Recipient of awards from multiple companies and job assignments

 

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