Dave Kinchen

Denver CO

C: 720-648-3896 E: davelkinchen@gmail.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Summary

Skilled Senior DBA / Developer / Database Modeler with 20 years of experience Oracle, MySQL MSSQL, NoSQL, Redshift and others. Designed and implemented many solutions / applications for many companies in various industries. Over 8 years experience directly managing project teams with 5-20 members as President and Technical Manager of my own company. Participated on projects with roles such as Sr. Data Architect, Data Modeler, Sr. Developer, Sr. DBA. 

·      Very experienced Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL data architect / developer

·      Very experienced in data modeling, relational and DW design using Erwin, Embarcadero, Oracle Designer and Power Designer and a few others

·      Well versed using Oracle development tools including Designer, Discoverer, Forms, Reports, Jdeveloper, etc.

·      Very experienced in tuning COTS applications, SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL and database components and hardware using Explain, TKProf, trace, AWR, ADDM, Toad, etc. 

·      Experienced using Oracle utilities such as SQLPlus, PL/SQL, Import/Export, SQL Loader Enterprise Manager, Grid Control, RMAN, Oracle VM, GoldenGate, etc.

·      Experienced using SQL Server utilities such as SSIS, SSRS, SSMS, T-SQL, SSAS, etc.

·      Published in "Oracle Unleashed", Sams Publishing Co. and other sources

TECHNICAL SKILLS

·      SOFTWARE PROFILE: 

Oracle through 12 with RAC, ASM, Oracle utilities UNIX and Linux shells & utilities, NoSQL/MongoDB and MySQL on Linux and Windows

SQL Server 2000/2005/2008,2012 T-SQL, SSIS, SSRS, .NET, C#, Java, Visual Basic

·      OPERATING SYSTEMS: Various versions of UNIX, Linux, AIX, Windows Server, Amazon AWS

·      HARDWARE PROFILE: SUN, HP, IBM, Intel – X86-64, Itanium etc. , virtualized servers

 

Zeta Interactive – Aug 2014 – Dec 2014

Sr. Developer / DBA

Performed DBA and development on SQL Server, MySQL and Redshift databases on local computers and on AWS.  Created extraction and transformations between systems. Modified user applications and created performance and financial reports and did performance tuning.   The applications that I designed were market leading email campaign management systems that provided breakthrough market segmentations and financial information so the client could manage their own budget and needs.

 

Outsourced IT Specialist - Mar 2012 – Aug 2014

Sr. Development DBA/ Data Warehouse Developer

Clients in this project included City of Brighton, Waterpic, USGS and individual companies and the work for them included small projects of two months or less. Designed, developed and loaded a data warehouse to act as a central repository for payment and Inventory for Brighton.  Worked with local and remote small businesses providing various DBA services such as training, Linux and Oracle upgrades, database tuning and optimization services.  Client had a DBA onsite and my role was to assist and educate him on the important aspects of configuring databases properly, daily PM procedures, creating database instances/objects, tuning SQL and PL/SQL/T-SQL Etc.  Created database programs such as procedures, functions, triggers in T-SQL and PL/SQL for data loading, cleansing, maintenance. Other projects included comparing databases for job suitability such as MongoDB, NoSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server etc. Configuring and testing programs to automate and simplify IT workload using RMAN, LINUX, scripting languages testing various approaches for hardware like disk arrays, memory, CPUs and installing applications on the hardware like Oracle with ASM among many others allowing the staff to focus on the future and education helping the staff to be much more valuable.  In one case we tested MongoDB against Oracle for performance, features and data migration documenting the results for selection. Also tuned the database and SQL and PL/SQL for top performance and scalability.  Created PL/SQL procedures for data loading and cleansing and used Goldengate to populate reporting databases. Other projects included testing databases such as MongoDB, NoSQL, MySQL etc. Configuring and testing RMAN, LINUX, configuring disk arrays and installing ASM and Oracle.  Tested MongoDB against Oracle for performance, features and migration.

 

Sports Authority - Sep 2011 – Mar 2012 - Contractor

Sr. Development DBA/ Data Warehouse Architect

Designed and developed a data warehouse to act as a central repository for payment and inventory and billing systems. Combined disparate data sources into a central operational data store for reporting and decision making.  Erwin was the primary tool for modeling and DDL Source code generation and database object management. It was a relatively small and complex system that utilized partitioning and parallel design.  Informatica provided the ETL with custom tools for reporting.   Extensive PL/SQL packages are used to load data, validate data and automate various data management functions.  This is the 1st system that Sports Authority has used to provide a common, uniform view of their sales information resulting in much better decision making for store manager for product placement.

 

Veteran Affairs  - Apr 2010 – May 2011 - Contractor

Data Architect / Modeler / Development DBA

Responsible for all design and development for the Veterans Affairs payment disbursement and billing system. The system handles over 7 billion dollars a year in Veteran’s healthcare needs nation wide.  The heart of the system is a multi-node Oracle RAC Data Warehouse modeled with Erwin and the database utilizes partitioning and parallel query heavily to improve performance for querying Dimensions and Fact tables. Talend and extensive complex PL/SQL packages are used as the ETL components for legacy system data loading and data validation processing while SSIS and Taland are the ETL components on the remote SQL Server systems.  Billing and payment information is distributed from the data warehouse to hundreds of SQL Server data marts at V.A. hospitals throughout the country. 3rd party .NET applications allow hospital staff to update patient records and billing info. 

 

NetQuote - Feb 2009 – Mar 2010

Development DBA/Architect

Created all new development including table design, primary keys, foreign keys, indexing, stored procedures, database triggers in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 platforms.  Maintained many Erwin data models representing all backend processing, decision support and data marts.  Was the knowledge expert for the entire business.  Created many SSIS packages, developed backup and restore procedures, created T-SQL stored procedures and functions to support new business initiatives.

Also stood in as the backup production DBA and routinely tuned production applications and databases as well as contributed to automating maintenance tasks for increased reliability and reduced labor.

 

Intrado - May 2008 – Feb 2009 - Contractor

Data Modeler / Architect, Database Developer

This project involved custom applications for 911 call routing.  While working side by side with the scrum team, created all schema design including tables, primary keys, foreign keys, indexing, tuning and optimization using Oracle Designer and Erwin as the data modeling tools.  Responsible for creating the DAO/DTO interface layer for the project which consisted of using various custom tools to create all of various Java scripts needed to support SPRING/IBATIS injection.

Created test modules for automated testing and regression testing using custom PL/SQL framework and created performance testing modules using various open source tools to prove end to end performance metrics automatically.

 

Colorado Community College Systems - Dec 2006 – May 2008

Sr. Oracle DBA / Manager of Systems Group

Manager and technical contributor of a team of 5 DBAs/SAs,  Brought in to define and implement operational strategies and implement monitoring and administration tools.  Devised, planned and implemented production support and application enhancement/upgrades, backup/restore strategies using RMAN, performance tuning for the largest install in the world of SunGard’s Banner Student Information System.  Justified and planned the Install of Oracle Grid computing and Enterprise Manager for the corporate enterprise incorporating many computers and processes. Implemented physical/logical standby databases and automated cloning of production databases utilizing RMAN for refreshing testing and development databases.  Implemented Dataguard for the logical standby and automated the recreation of the logical standby when required.  Created stress testing plans and setup and configured hardware and software to utilize those plans allowing CCCS to become SunGard’s Banner Student Information System performance test environment. Hardware and software profile consists of very large HP Linux Itainum servers for Database, Forms/Reports server, SSB Server and internet facing servers.

 

ICG Communications - July 2004 – Dec 2006 - Contractor

Sr Programmer and Architect

Provided logical and physical data modeling for all new development at ICG.  Directed load balancing initiatives, capacity planning, and tuning efforts for all database servers.  Migrated data from several legacy systems to Oracle 9i and 10g.  Responsible for production support for over 40 Oracle Instances and many SQL Server and Sybase databases in many varied configurations and sizes from single to multi processors with storage requirements of greater than 5 Terabytes.  Devised and Implemented many time saving/effort reduction strategies and automation solutions.  Created data warehouse and data marts using Discoverer for reporting customer metrics and built ETL processes using PL/SQL and PRO*C that polled network routers and other devices to accommodate customer requests for detail about bandwidth and billing info,  Upgraded Oracle 8i and 9i to 10g. Hardware and software profile for ICG consisted of a broad spectrum of Sun, HP and Intel servers running UNIX, Linux and Windows OS.

 

 

United States Geological Survey - Jan 1998 – Feb 2009 – Contractor

Data Architect / Database Developer / Production DBA

Contracted to USGS as the Single Source Provider of Specialized Oracle Solutions for the storage and retrieval of earthquake and seismic information for the entire United States and world.  Hardware and software profile for USGS Earthworm project centered around Oracle 9i/10g on NT and MySQL. USGS used very complicated PRO*C and PRO*Cobol applications for data acquisition and mapping of seismic events.  The system was triple redundant with another entire system as spare. 

Designed and created the monitoring system for the USGS and was then awarded the responsibility for remote database monitoring and administration for the Earthworm project systems.  Contributed heavily to the architecture and hardware design of this critical government resource.  Also provided onsite and remote monitoring, maintenance, tuning, upgrades and disaster recovery service on any monitored system at USGS within the country.

 

KB Toys, Denver, CO - Mar 2003 – Jun 2004

Sr. Programmer/Developer/Analyst

Completely responsible for requirements gathering, design and implementation of a point of sale data warehouse allowing KBToys to do shopping cart analysis and learn about customer behaviors.  The data warehouse grew by about 1Gb daily during the off season and 3-4 Gig daily before Christmas.  Data was extracted from legacy systems and registers and transformed using complex PL/SQL. Various Oracle techniques were used to maximize performance allowing data loads to complete in minutes dwarfing the performance of other systems in use.  The total data warehouse size was approaching 500G within the 1st month in production.  Evaluated Oracle Discoverer and Business Objects as the query tool.  Hardware  and software profile for KBToys was Sun 6500 Servers using a Hitachi disk array and a Network appliance disk array utilizing Oracle 9i Database Products with parallel query and partitioning options. 

United Agri Products, Greeley, CO (UAP) - Oct 2002 – Mar 2003 – Contractor

·  Senior Programmer/Analyst for Warehouse Mgmt System

Responsible for Database Administration of a distributed warehouse management system

(Red Prairie).  The system consisted of 7 Oracle instances, RF interfaces,

Oracle Forms running on a Citrix Farm.  Responsibilities included Configuring

IBM’s High Availability product HA/CMP, upgrading and patching Oracle,

Monitor, tune and configure databases implementing Oracle Enterprise Manager

and devising the database administration and security strategy with a prerequisite towards one point of contact and ease of use.

Designed and implemented database backup and recovery strategies using Oracle RMAN and Legato managed from OEM again with one point of contact for management.  Worked with Red Prairie and the UAP users to solve issues, log bugs etc. Hardware  and software profile for UAP was IBM AIX 6000 Servers with UNIX Operating Systems utilizing Oracle 8i and 9i Database Products.

·  Senior Database Architect – Rebate Tracking and Product Segmentation

Responsible for requirements gathering, logical and physical database design, database creation, hardware and software selection, application design, development of the ETL using complex PL/SQL stored procedures and creation of Forms and Reports using Oracle 9iDS and 9iAS.  The application is a data mart that received transactional data from a mainframe daily.  Some application specific data was maintained and inputted via Oracle Forms.  The application allows UAP to calculate rebates of product sold resulting in recovering millions of additional dollars each year. The hardware profile was Microsoft 2000 Servers utilizing Oracle 9i Database.

 

 

 

Seurat / XOR Inc. - Nov 1999 – Oct 2002

Data Management Lead & Sr. Database Architect

Responsible for setting up the Data Management practice and directing an eleven-member team across multiple projects.  Successfully added and blended a Data Management practice that had large application design expertise to the existing creative work environment of XOR providing XOR clients an entirely new offering.  The resulting practice was so popular at XOR other offerings were modeled after the data management practice.  Acting as the technical lead during client engagements tasked to always provide architecture and software engineering guidance during client meetings, design sessions, feasibility studies etc.  Responsible for implementing design standards across all of XOR ranging from naming conventions to database monitoring techniques. 

Mentored developers and DBAs in proper application design relating to relational database design.

Designed and created and maintaned database designs for most of the XOR projects.   Worked directly with the client, Sr. Software Engineers and Project Managers during design stages to create data models that satisfy use case requirements, object model design were flexible and satisfied performance needs. 

Responsible for approving or coding the database stored code such as database triggers, stored procedures, etc.

Responsible for all data migration/manipulation from existing applications to new applications.

Modeled databases for use with ATG Dynamo, Oracle 9iAS, BEA WebLogic, PERL applications and more.

Some of the Applications/Sites directly contributed to:

·         HealthCentral.com			·         Remax.com/Remax.net
·         The Sporting news		·         CyberCrop.com
·         Churchill Downs	·         Agbridge.com
·         1to1.com	·         Vitamins.com

 

President of Relational Solutions Inc. (RSI) - Oct 1997- Nov 1999

Started, managed and was directly responsible for all aspects of a professional services firm located in Northern Colorado.  RSI specialized in building Oracle based solutions for local and national clients.  RSI grew at revenue rate of 100% or greater per year with a client base of about 250 until finally merging with XOR Inc, a professional services / Application Development company in Boulder Colorado.  While at RSI, completely responsible for the livelihood of 15 employees.

·  Design Data Systems

Design and Development Consultant

Designed and developed various enhancements and customizations for the Oracle-based financial application “SQL*TIME” while also providing expert level DBA support for many of DDS’s clients on many Oracle platforms. 

Highlights include:

Reverse Engineered the entire application schema providing incredible value for DDS’s clients through printed ERDs and documentation.  Documented over 1000 tables including primary and foreign keys, constraints etc.

Produced high quality ERDs for distribution to DDS’s customers.  

Provided DBA consulting including data migration / implementation as well as transformations and data conversions from the client Legacy systems to the SQL*TIME application.

Providing parallel data validation services, backup, disaster recovery, database and application tuning. 

Designed and implemented Oracle role-based security for SQL*TIME including creating forms to allow easy Oracle user management. Migrated many Design Data Systems clients to current versions of SQL*TIME. 

Upgraded or migrated Design Data Systems clients to current Oracle database versions as required.

Provided many application concepts comprising of custom forms, reports, and database improvements now incorporated within the base SQL*TIME product.

Created many custom application extensions and custom interfaces for Design Data Systems clients.

Provided guidance and project management for many teams on diverse initiatives for many clients for Design Data Systems.    

·  Teledyne Waterpik

Design and Development Consultant

Designed and developed a Corrective Actions System for tracking manufacturing defects using Designer 2000 and Developer 2000.  Highlights include schema design in Designer 2000, 80% automated Forms/Reports generation using Designer 2000, interfacing to Oracle Financials and Manufacturing, migrating legacy data. 

Trained staff on Client / Server development techniques and Forms 4.5 / Reports 2.5 basics.

·  Avert Inc.

Project Technical Lead

The project involved complete replacement of business critical applications for Avert including migrating legacy COBOL ISAM flat files to Oracle relational tables. This resulted in Avert being able to add new products very easily allowing Avert to take advantage of new business opportunities quickly and inexpensively. Designed and created replacement client interfaces and legacy applications, data interfaces to many government agencies, internal order fulfillment and WEB applications.  Responsible for most technical aspects of the project including application design, application development, data modeling, hardware / software configuration, application / database tuning and backup and disaster recovery strategies.  This project allowed Avert to streamline its background and reference checking services and position itself for sale to ADT at a tremendous profit.

 

 Education

Oracle Corporation Education Services

Oracle Masters Program Developer	Develop complex SQL queries
Oracle Masters Program DBA	Tune Oracle Applications
Oracle Certification Program DBA	Develop Complex Data Models DB Designs
Oracle Developer / Designer	Administer the Oracle Database
Introduction to Forms, SQLPlus, SQLReports	Project management, KT training

 Front Range Community College 

BASIC programming C programming,various math