Richard Abongnelah

About Richard Abongnelah

Established Certified Senior Database Administrator and IT security expert with over 10 years of experience with extensive knowledge and proficiency in database design, monitoring & tuning, Migration, Upgrades, Backup & Recovery, Cloning, Replication, and Security Implementations. I am proficient in Oracle 10g, 11g and 12c, MySQL and MS SQL Server, Oracle Primavera P6. I am a good communicator with good written, verbal, analytical and organizational abilities. Proven team player with motivational management style acquired over the years of working for various companies and projects both national in international. I have worked my way up from what I refer to as an “end-user” as an oracle account manager to my current role as a senior database administrator. I hold a proven track record for successfully managing multiple priorities and performing well under pressure

Experience

1. Senior Oracle Database Administrator

   Halliburton

   Nov 2016 — Present

   Installed, and Continue the Administration and Maintenance SQL Server Instances 2012Championed database migration from 10g to 11g and database upgrade from 11g to 12c using the Oracle Data Pump and DBUA utilities respectively. Re-wrote and implemented a backup & recovery strategy following company SLA; execution of backup schedule for both physical and logical backups using RMAN and DATA PUMP utilities respectively. I also used block change tracking (BCT) which reduced backup time from 8hrs down to 45mins. Support daily administration, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting on single instance on UNIX/Linux, Windows server 2008 and 2012 (Database sizes range 100GB to 39TB)

Education

• Rostov State Conctruction University

  MSc Degree, Civil Engineering

  1987 — 1992