Nuance Communications Inc. Work Values

Daily Duties at Nuance Communications Inc.:

I held three management positions at Nuance: Manager, Mobile Cloud Services (MCS) Database Services; Manager, Global Hosting Operations (GHO) Database Services; and Manager Database Development and Production Oracle DBA. I was a working DBA manager of 5 to 12 DBAs for production, development and test databases in Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Informix, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and Hadoop. I was responsible for the day to day task assignments, training, and employee development for the direct DBAs and contract negotiation and approval for contracted employees. I was responsible for incident management and root cause analysis/investigation for the database and database application environments as well was investigating or assigning a DBA/SA/NA/AA to diagnose performance issues and troubleshooting system environment issues. Depending on the environment we had to maintain SOX, PCI, and PII documentation and reports which I was responsible for monitoring, correcting audit exceptions, and approving audit reports. As a Development Manager and DBA, I was responsible for 3 to 5 database development engineers to design, develop, and maintain database application software to support Tweddle automotive software products Entune, Enform and Uconnect. I developed a number of different modules for securing 3rd party username/password information and implementing the replication strategy within Shareplex for both 1-way and 2-way replication.

What they like about Nuance Communications Inc.:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

Tags

Operations, Oracle, Manager, DBA, Database, Microsoft, Change Management, Change Control, SDLC Audit, RAC, RMAN, AWR, ASH, ADDM, Partitioning, Diagnostics & Tuning Packages, PostgreSQL, pg/PLSQL, MS SQL Server v4.2 to 2016, TSQL, Datastax Cassandra, Open Source Cassandra v2.1 and 3.0, SQL*Forms, Veritas Cluster File System, Oracle GRID control, SANs - HP/Hitachi/EMC/Dell, UNIX/Linux, bash - ksh - csh - sh - perl, Data replication 1-way and multi-way, Replication conflict analysis and resolution, Quest/Dell Shareplex, Oracle Golden Gate, Oracle Streams, tcpdump, Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle SQL*Net, Oracle Utilities - imp/exp/datapump/scheduler, Cost Management, Budget Management, Big Brother, Nagios, Quest Foglight, Quest Spotlight, MS SQL Server Management Studio, MySQL Workbench, Nodetool, Toad, Jaspersoft, Crystal Reports, MS Project - local based and enterprise, Oracle MySQL, Percona MySQL, MariaDB, Vendor Contract Negotiation, Vendor contract management, Employee Performance Analysis & Evaluation, Structured Goal Setting, Software Development, SOX Audit/Compliance, PCI/PII Audit/Compliance, ISO-9001/ISO-27001 Audit/Compliance, Kepner-Tregoe Problem Solving & Decision Making, Ombudsman training, Oracle ASM, Operations Triage Management, Cloud Services, Data Center Management, Data Center Site Security, Disaster Recovery, Off-site Backup storage management, UNIX/Liinux optimization and tuning, SDU/TDU Network Tuning for DB transaction optimization

Skills

Database, IT Operations, Oracle 5 to 11gR2 Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition, RMAN/exp/imp/expdp/impdp/sqlldr, RAC/Parallel Server, svrctl, DataGuard, Oracle SQL*Net, Oracle GRID, Oracle ASM, Operations Triage Management, Operations Trouble Shooting, asmcmd, Cost Control, Budget Analysis and Cost Savings, Creative Hardware & Software Purchasing, Open Source replacement of retail software, Oracle Obfuscation Toolkit/ dbms_crypto package, Oracle Wrapped PL/SQL dbms_ddl.create_wrapped and wrap, Oracle trace/monitor/tkproff, Oracle Scheduler, Oracle Advanced Queues, Oracle Statspack with Oracle Standard Edition, Oracle AWR (Automatic Workload Repository), Oracle ADDM (Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor), Oracle ASH (Active Session History), Oracle SQL Advisor, Oracle Diagnostics Pack, Oracle Tuning Pack, Oracle Partitioning Pack, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Real Application Testing (RAT), Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack for Oracle and Non-Oracle DBs, Oracle Secure Backup, Safe Harbor Privacy Essentials, Information Security, Data Privacy & Security, Preventing Discrimination & Harassment for Managers, Protecting Personal Information

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