Blaise G. Basse

179-28 90th Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432

(347) 445-9449 ∙ bgougla@hotmail.com

Permanent Work Authorization ∙ No Visa Sponsorship Required

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior Database Administrator / Oracle RAC 11g and Grid Infra, Performance Tuning Certified Expert with 14

years of work experience in Information Technology in financial and banking industries.

Certifications

  ü OCE: Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Certified Expert

  ü OCE: Oracle Certified Expert, Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g and Grid Infrastructure Administrator

  ü OCP: Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional

  ü OCP: Oracle Database 10g Administrator Certified Professional

  ü ITIL: Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

Operating Systems

  ü Windows: Windows NT 4, Windows server 2000/2003/2008/2012

  ü Linux : Mandrake, Debian, Suse 7/9, RedHat Advanced Server 3/4/5

  ü Unix : Sco, Digital, Solaris 9/10, IBM AIX 5.3

Storage Systems

  ü SAN(EMC Clariion CX700/500), VNX Unified Storage (VNX5700), Data Domain

Virtualization

  ü VMware vSphere 5

SGBDs

  ü Oracle (8i/9i/10g/11gR2/12c), RAC with Grid Infrastructure, ASM, Performance Tuning, Oracle Advanced

Security, Active Data Guard, RMAN, OEM Grid Control 11g, OEM Cloud Control 12c, Data Pump, E-Business

Suite, Upgrades and Migrations, Golden Gate

  ü SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008) Backup/Recovery, Replication, Performance Tuning with DMV, Profiler, DTA,

Management Studio Report and wait events

  ü MySQL (4.1, 5.1, 5.5) Backup/Recovery, Performance Tuning, Replication

Languages

  ü PL/SQL, Bash and Korn Shell scripting, Perl(beginner)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BCEAO-PARIS, Paris, France

West African central bank serving Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo

Senior Database Administrator and Team Manager

• Provided support for very large databases (VLDB) in 24x7 production environment for existing 12c/11gR2 and

10gR2 databases (RAC and non-RAC), SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 and MySQL 4/5

5/2004 - 06/2014

11/2012 – 06/2014

• Conducted Performance Tuning using most commonly RAC-Specific Tuning tips, Reactive Tuning (Wait

events, System and Enqueue statistics, EM Performance Pages, Statspack and AWR reports) and Proactive

Tuning (AWR snapshots and ADDM reports) to reduce related applications response time and increase data

warehouse throughput

• Conducted Performance Tuning using activity monitor, SQL Server profiler and dynamic management views

to reduce related applications response time.Performed Backup/Recovery, resolving blocking and

deadlocking issues in SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 environment to assure Recoverability and data availability

• Audited database users, privileges and objects and implemented Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA) to protect data

Integrity

• Implemented strong user authentication using the wallet for external password store to control data access.

• Implemented Enterprise manager Cloud Control 12c using default Plug-Ins installed with the console to raise

service requests and create patch plans and templates for patching monitored targets from one location.

• Provided direction to production team with 3 DBAs, 2 Systems Administrators and 2 developers

• Designed and virtualized business-critical applications and databases from existing data center with EMC

Clariion CX700 storage system to VMware vSphere 5 environment with EMC VNX5700 storage system

resulting in more Flexibility, Scalability and Elasticity(Cloud Computing approach)

Senior Database Administrator

• Provided support for very large databases (VLDB) in a 24x7 production environment for existing 11gR2 and

10gR2 databases (RAC and non-RAC) to assure applications availability for Business use

5/2004 - 10/2012

• Provided 24x7 service encompassing High Availability (RAC), Backup and Recovery and Disaster Recovery

(Physical data Guard, Active Data Guard, Snapshot Data Guard and Data Guard Broker) to offload production

environment

• Monitored information security and data integrity for improper access, SQL injection and suspicious activities

• Designed backup and recovery strategy by enforcing the institution’s Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and

Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) resulting in minimum downtime and data loss

• Implemented Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC 11gR2) with Grid Infrastructure and offloading reports

and backups to Physical standby with Real time Apply

• Protected data against Disaster and Corruption by implemented and administered Active Data Guard and

Snapshot Data Guard

• Implemented Fast Start Failover with Data Guard Broker for RAC 11gR2 databases to reduce down time

• Migrated data files across platforms from file system to ASM to improve data protection and applications

performance

• Moved tablespaces between databases using original export/import utility or dataPump to relocate

applications and services

Administered and managed databases in development, quality assurance, pre-prod & production

environments with Oracle 11.x / 10.x, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MySQL 4/5

• Checked Linux/Unix system for CPU usage, bottlenecks, waiting processes, I/O problems and run queue and

swap queue lengths (vmstat, mpstat, sar, iostat, top) to improve systems performance.

• Implemented Grid Infrastructure with RAC 11gR2, Database Console and Grid Control 11g to monitor and

manage targets into groups in large, complex and critical environments.

•• Implemented Fast Incremental Backup with Block Change Tracking through RMAN for efficient backups.

•• Provided technical subject matter expertise on all database design and development projects.

Conducted Performance Tuning by identifying the top resource intensive SQL statements and the way to

improve inefficient statements with development team

• Performed data integration with GoldenGate and Talend Open source solution

• Made software deployments/changes in real time production environment to control application evolution.

• Provided technical assistance to vendors in development and implementation of applications

Oracle DBA Consultant

Banque Nationale D’Investissement (BNI), Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Investment bank focusing on economic development of the Ivory Coast for the past 50 years

6/2003 - 4/2004

• Performed upgrade and cross-platform migrations from Solaris Operating System x86 32-bits to RedHat

Enterprise Linux 5 platform to standardize environment with Business requirement

• Assisted development staff with issues related to performance tuning and SQL tuning resulting in efficient

SQL statements

• Wrote professional level technical documentation and presentations for guidelines

Oracle Database Administrator

Societe Nationale De Developpement Informatique (SNDI), Abidjan, Ivory Coast

• Performed Oracle DBA consulting including configuration, performance training, troubleshooting and support

for development team

8/2000 - 5/2003

Information Technology company that services financial service companies

• Performed Oracle DBA activities including backup, capacity management, and implementation of Automatic

Storage Management (ASM)

• Implemented database security standards by enforcing Oracle Advanced Security with Single Sign On to

control systems and data access

EDUCATION

Engineer Degree, Computer Science

Institut National Polytechnique Felix Houphouet Boigny (INP-HB), Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire

• Equivalent of Master Degree in the United States

Associates Degree

Institut National Polytechnique Felix Houphouet Boigny (INP-HB), Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire

LANGUAGES

Fluent in English, French

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

LinkedIn community: Oracle Certified Associates, Professionals and Experts, member since 12/2008

ITIL: IT Service Management Professionals Association, member since 10/2008

10/1995 - 06/1997

• Influenced development team to comply with database systems and best practices to company standards

10/1997 - 07/2000