Department Of Veterans Affairs Work Values

Daily Duties at Department Of Veterans Affairs:

Senior Oracle Database Administrator Veterans Benefits Administration Managed and supervised the start up of a seven (7) person Oracle database administration staff in support of an initiative to modernize multiple multi-million dollar per month benefit payment systems for veterans pension, veterans compensation, veterans education and adjudication workflow for the Veterans Benefits Administration Department. Devised and conducted classes on relational data modeling, Oracle relational database objects and constructs, SQL writing and tuning, PL/SQL programming techniques, and, database monitoring and performance tuning saving 230,000 dollars in training costs. Created and implemented a physical data model using Oracle Designer containing over 400 entities in support of the department’s open system moderation initiative for compensation, pension and education claims processing and payment. Designed and administered a production eleven (11) node distributed Oracle database and a non-distributed 450 Gigabyte, 24 by 7 database within a three tiered, client/server X/Open architecture using the transaction processor Tuxedo involving software installation and upgrades, performance monitoring and tuning, backup and recovery, problem resolution, schema installation and upgrades, capacity planning and database security. Devised and implemented database naming standards, backup and recovery strategies, data replication strategies, high availability strategies using RAID and Oracle’s Stand-by database technologies, a database security methodology, and an object version control methodology. Wrote and implemented database monitoring utility programs. Wrote, implemented and maintained application based PL/SQL procedures, functions, and triggers. Developed, implemented and maintained Tuxedo services in the C programming language. Senior Oracle DBA/UNIX System Administrator - National Cemetery System Designed and administered production, development and test Oracle databases for a start-up data center involving database configuration and creation, software installation and upgrades, backup and recovery, performance monitoring and tuning, problem resolution, schema installation and upgrades, capacity planning and database security. Administered Digital Corporation DEC Ultrix (UNIX) system for a start-up data center performing backup and recovery activities, product installation and upgrades, performance monitoring, problem resolution, and capacity planning. Wrote and implemented database and UNIX monitoring and maintenance programs. Devised database and programming standards and guidelines. Developed and maintained logical and physical data models using Oracle CASE involving over 170 entities for the department’s modernization initiative. Oracle Database Administrator/UNIX System Administrator - Washington Automation Center Administered five (5) Oracle databases of multiple instances on a three node VAX cluster involving backup and recovery, problem resolution, software installation and upgrades, performance monitoring and tuning, schema implementation and maintenance, SQL statement tuning, and database security. Administered three (3) Oracle databases on DEC Ultrix (UNIX) workstations for start-up UNIX based application division involving software installation and upgrades, schema object creation and modification, performance monitoring and tuning, backup and recovery, capacity planning, and, database security. Administered three (3) Digital Corporation DEC Ultrix (UNIX) workstations for a start-up UNIX based application division performing backup and recovery activities, software installation and upgrades, performance monitoring, problem resolution and capacity planning. Developed logical and physical data models using Oracle CASE*Method CASE tool.

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