Michael L. Brown
I am not currently looking for employment.
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Experience
Role: Technical Manager and Senior Oracle DBA
Company: Colibri LC
Activity: August 2005-present
Responsibilities:
Maintain internal Linux, Oracle VM and Oracle EBS systems
Oversee Remote DBA and Hosting services
Work with multiple clients on E-Business Suite and Database projects
EBS 11.5.8 on Windows to EBS 11.5.10.2 on Linux
EBS 11.5.9 to EBS 11.5.10.2 on Solaris
Install and Maintain EBS 11.5.10.2 on Linux
Convert EBS clients from JInitiator to Sun JRE
Install and Maintain EBS Release 12 (12.0 and 12.1) on Linux
Database upgrades to 9.2, 10.2 and 11.1
Oversee SAN purchases and implementation
Performance Tuning
Emergency Production Assistance
Role: Senior Oracle DBA
Company: Glen Raven Inc.
Project: N/A
Activity: June 1997-August 2005
Responsibilities:
Senior DBA involved with installation and maintenance of all Oracle database environments including Oracle Applications. Responsibilities include planning technical requirements for installation and upgrade, performance tuning, planning requirements for SAN, Oracle Applications system administration, HP-UX system administration, Linux Administration, upgrades of Oracle database and Oracle Applications, supervising one other Oracle DBA.
Role: Consultant
Company: Inova, Inc.
Project: N/A
Activity: June 1993 – June 1997
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities included technical lead on multi-million dollar project developing MRP system for hazardous waste incinerator, Oracle DBA, SQR3 instructor, supervising all junior consultants, supervising AIX system administrators, USoft development, G2 development, developing interface for use with RF handheld terminals.
Role: Unix System Administrator
Company: Broadband Technologies ( contracted by The Underwood Group)
Project: N/A
Activity: January 1993 – May 1993
Responsibilities:
Responsible for system administration on network of Sun workstations and servers running SunOS and Solaris.
Role: Adjunct Faculty
Company: Danville Community College
Project: N/A
Activity: August 1992 – December 1992
Responsibilities:
Taught courses in calculus, discrete mathematics and algebra.
Role: Instructor Department of Mathematics
Company: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Project: N/A
Activity: August 1999 – August 1992
Responsibilities:
Taught courses in computer science from the introductory to senior/graduate level. System administrator for DEC Ultrix workstation. Responsible for developing the software engineering course. Awarded National Science Foundation grant jointly with Jack Briner to establish Sun workstation lab.
Role: Principal Teaching Assistant
Company: Clemson University
Project: N/A
Activity: August 1985 – August 1989
Responsibilities:
Taught courses in computer science including having full responsibility for one of the required sophomore level courses in production system environments covering COBOL, TSO, C and Unix. Spent one year as one of the computer science department’s Unix system administrators. Awarded National Research Scholar grant from NASA Langley Research Center from August 1986-August 1989.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science, Reliability Estimation of Life Critical Computing Systems with Time Varying Failure Processes, Clemson University, Clemson SC, August 1988.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, Appalachian State University, Boone NC, May 1985.
Technical Summary
Oracle Certified Database Administrator Oracle 7.3, Oracle 8 and Oracle 8i.
Tom Kyte Training Day, Hotsos Symposium 2005.
Steve Adams Training Day, Hotsos Symposium 2004.
Leadership Dynamics University, Leadership Dynamics, Inc., October 2000.
Hotsos Clinic (renamed to PD-101), Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd., July 2000, March 2000.
Oracle 8i: New Features for Administrators, Oracle Corporation, February 2000.
Installing and Maintaining Oracle Applications 11.0, Oracle Corporation, December 1999.
Oracle Applications Server Administration, Oracle Corporation, November 1999.
Oracle Applications User Group
OAUG Database SIG—Chairman 2002-present,Board Member 2001-2002
OAUG Education Committee—Chairman 2007, 2008, Member 2006, 2009
International Oracle Users Group
North Carolina Oracle Users Group
Eastern States Oracle Applications User Group—Co-Chair 1999-2000
Using Oracle VM to Support and Oracle E-Business Suite Environment, Collaborate 2009, Oracle Openworld 2009
Secrets of Successful Oracle Database 11g Upgrades in an Oracle E-Business Suite Environment, Collaborate 2009, Oracle Openworld 2009, Virginia Oracle Users Group 2009
Cloning the E-Business Suite, APPSPERF 2009
Replacing JInitiator with Sun JRE in 11i, Collaborate 2008
Moderator or Member, Applications Database Tuning Panel, OAUG Fall Conference 2001, OAUG Conference 2003, OAUG Connection Point 2004, OAUG Connection Point 2005. Collaborate 2006, Collaborate 2007, Collaborate 2008, Collaborate 2009
Panel Moderator or Member, Applications Database Tuning Panel, Oracle Openworld 2006, Oracle Openworld 2007, Oracle Openworld 2008, Oracle Openworld 2009
Panel Member, E-Business Suite Cloning Panel, Collaborate 2006, Collaborate 2007, Collaborate 2008
Panel Member, Migrations to Linux Panel, Collaborate 2006, Collaborate 2007, Collaborate 2008
Panel Member, 11i Upgrade Panel, OAUG Connection Point 2005.
Panel Member, Linux Panel, OAUG Database SIG mini-conference at Connection Point 2005.
Copying Production Data to Development: a SAN Based Solution, Raleigh Computer and Technology Showcase, 2002.
Using Stored Outlines to Optimize SQL, Southeast Oracle Users Conference, 2002.
Ultrahigh Reliability Estimates for Systems Exhibiting Globally Time-Dependent Failure Processes, co-authored with Robert Geist and Mark Smotherman, Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computing, 1989.
The Effects of Time Varying Failure Processes on Reliability Estimation of Life Critical Computing Systems, IEEE Southeast Regional Conference, 1988.