IBM Db2 Experts in Munich

Topics:

• Further development of the CRM system NKAM and technical separation of “direct” and “indirect” sales
• Redesign of the discount management area and outsourcing to another system.
• Designing numerous improvements on the wholesale side to reduce manual effort down to the level of user stories.

Oracle Project Management and Automation

As part of the project, the operation of an Oracle infrastructure was automated by developing and enhancing Puppet modules and migrating existing Bash scripts to a standardized configuration management solution.

The aim of the project was to standardize and automate administrative processes, improve the maintainability of the Oracle platform, and increase the efficiency and traceability of infrastructure management through the use of Infrastructure as Code.

• Analysis and migration of existing Bash shell scripts to a Puppet-based automation solution
• Development and enhancement of Puppet modules for Oracle environments
• Automation of installation, configuration and operational processes using Infrastructure as Code
• Standardization and optimization of configuration management for Oracle systems
• Creation and maintenance of technical and operational documentation
• Planning, coordination and professional support during project implementation
• Operation and automation of Oracle systems on x86-based Linux server platforms
• Testing and quality assurance of the developed Puppet modules
• Analysis and resolution of technical errors as part of the automation and migration
• Close coordination with specialist departments and infrastructure teams to implement automation requirements

Technologies used: Puppet 7/8, SLES 15, Oracle 19, Oracle Grid, SVN, Windows Server, Confluence, VS Code, Ruby, Bash, Pass

• Building, implementing and selling automated Data Science solutions such as Scorecard Factory and Forecast Factory
• Implementation of automated end-to-end cloud processes
• Development of LLM and NLP models
• Creation of interactive reports
• Support for national and international large corporations as well as medium-sized companies in implementing ML projects

• Designing the audit logging framework
• Implementing APIs for developers to integrate in their codebase
• Implementing ingestion pipeline, database query layer and UI for browsing the audit events
• Improving stability and reliability of the backend system

PROFILE Senior Oracle specialist, consultant and DBA with many years of experience in planning, architecture, installation, migration, operations, performance tuning and troubleshooting of large Oracle database environments. Focus on Oracle Database 19c and enterprise architectures with RAC, Active Data Guard, Golden Gate, Exadata, RMAN and CDB/PDB. Experience in heterogeneous enterprise environments on Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and Windows, as well as in cloud and migration projects. Over many years, worked as a technical consultant, DBA, architect and project manager for banks, insurers, energy providers, public institutions, industry, automotive and aviation. Combining technical Oracle expertise with operations concepts, migration, project planning, documentation and customer consulting.

ORACLE FOCUS AREAS

• Oracle Database 19c – installation, upgrade, patch/RU management, operations and troubleshooting
• Oracle Database 21c / 23ai / 26ai – knowledge of current Oracle release lines
• Oracle RAC, Active Data Guard, Data Guard, Oracle GoldenGate
• CDB / PDB, multitenant architectures and enterprise database operations
• Oracle Exadata and highly available database environments
• RMAN – backup, restore, recovery, migration and disaster recovery scenarios
• Data Pump (EXPDP / IMPDP), Transportable Tablespaces (TTS) and database-based migrations
• Performance analysis, SQL / PL/SQL, tuning, troubleshooting and capacity planning
• Oracle Enterprise Manager / monitoring and technical operational support
• Oracle Security: Wallet, TDE, Database Vault, VPD / RLS
• Oracle DWH / BI: OBIEE, ODI, OWB and Discoverer
• Oracle Applications / E-Business Suite and Oracle-based application environments

CURRENT PROJECTS

Scope Solutions AG, Basel / CH | 08/2023 – ongoing Oracle Project Management and DBA

• Installation, maintenance and regular upgrades of Oracle database systems with a focus on Oracle 19c.
• Patch and release management including OPatch and Release Updates; operations on RHEL 8.x, SLES 15.x and Windows.
• DBA support for customers in DACH and Europe and support of production, load test and other CDB/PDB environments.
• Technical operating processes and documentation via Confluence; support and service requests via My Oracle Support / Metalink.

Federal Employment Agency, Nuremberg | 04/2022 – 10/2023 Oracle Operations Support / DBA

• Operations and regular upgrades of Oracle-19c database systems on SLES 15.x.
• DBA for around 2,100 PDBs on RAC and Exadata in production, integration, load test and other environments.
• Configuration management via ARS Remedy; workflows and technical documentation via Jira and Confluence.
• Operations support and processing of service requests via My Oracle Support / Metalink.

Federal Statistical Office, Wiesbaden | 09/2021 – 03/2022 Oracle Operations and Architecture – 2022 Survey

• Merging data into a central Oracle-19c database system.
• Design of import/export procedures for the central data structure.
• KPI and performance architecture for analyses.
• Training employees in Oracle performance and DBA topics.

E.ON Digital Technology, Landshut / KKI | 03/2019 – 12/2021 Oracle Operations, Architecture and DBA

• Patch concepts, technical documentation, installation, database administration and operations of Oracle 12c/19c.
• AIX 7.x, LPAR administration including VIO server and software distribution with NIM.
• Performance monitoring and monitoring.
• Backup and restore with TSM / IBM Spectrum Protect and Oracle RMAN.
• Installation of Enterprise Manager 13c with WebLogic Server 12.1x; employee training.

KaPe Munich – various end customers in DACH / Europe | ongoing / various projects Oracle DBA, architecture, migration, DWH consulting and project management

• Many years of consulting and operational DBA work in various Oracle architectures.
• DWH/CRM platforms: planning, analysis, performance and tuning, as well as business analysis.
• RAC, Data Guard, Transportable Tablespaces, RMAN and Oracle 11g/12c in enterprise environments.
• Customer projects including Burda, Deka, E.ON, Otto Group and Augsburger Allgemeine.

AXA, Germany / Europe | 09/2018 – 02/2019 Oracle DB Operations and Migration – Cloud Architectures

• Planning, methodology and execution of Oracle database migrations to IBM Private Cloud / Spectrum and AWS Public Cloud.
• Creation of Oracle databases in the cloud with SLES and Terraform templates.
• Technical architecture work and cloud KPIs.

RWE / SÜWAG / Syna, Germany | 07/2016 – 09/2018 Oracle DB Migrations 11g/12c and Project Management

• Design, planning and execution of Oracle database migrations 11g → 12c with platform and architecture changes.
• Windows Server 2012/2016 and setup and migration of Enterprise Manager/WebLogic-based monitoring environments.
• Use of Data Guard, TTS, EXPDP/IMPDP and RMAN based on analysis of application requirements.
• Performance and tuning for Oracle 11g/12c.

MTU Aero Engines, Munich | 01/2016 – 03/2017 Oracle DBA / Requirements Engineer

• Operations and development of Oracle 11g/12c databases and application workflows.
• Interfaces to SAP via BAPI.
• Design and management of APPS modules with Visual Basic / Visual Studio and PL/SQL; version control with SVN.

UBIS (HVB), Munich | 04/2012 – 08/2015 Oracle Operations, Architecture, DBA and Project Management

• Oracle-based operations and migration of MUREX and Sophis trading platforms.
• Oracle Security, Wallet, Tablespaces, RAC, Data Guard, Database Vault, GoldenGate and DWH.
• Project management for Oracle DWH migrations and release changes from 10g to 11gR2.
• Migration OWB 11gR2 → ODI 12c and introduction of Oracle Database 12c.
• Platforms: Red Hat, AIX and Solaris.

WWK Deutschland a.G., Munich | 09/2010 – 03/2012 Oracle DB and HP-UX → Linux Migration

• Architecture, planning, operations concept and migration of 104 databases from an HP-UX cluster to Red Hat Linux.
• Single Instance with Veritas Cluster and 2-node RAC 11.2.0.2; four Data Guard databases.
• Project management for OWB/DWH migrations (>1 TB), including tuning, PL/SQL, mappings and metadata.

Allianz Deutschland, ACAS Stuttgart | 03/2010 – 09/2010 Technical DWH Project Manager

• DWH project for processing European ETL data sources.
• Business analysis and requirements management for automated loading processes.
• OWB, PL/SQL, SQL*Loader, Oracle Advanced Security / TDE, Oracle BI and Database Vault.

NETMA, Munich-Taufkirchen | 08/2007 – 02/2010 Oracle Specialist and DBA for Oracle Applications 11i

• Operations of Oracle 9i/10g and Oracle Applications 11.5.10.
• Design and development of APPS modules with PL/SQL and SVN.
• Oracle RAC, Enterprise Manager, Oracle Application Server and migration tests.
• Platforms: AIX, SLES, Windows and HP-UX.

BT Germany, Munich | 11/2007 – 04/2008 Oracle DB Migration

• Migration from Oracle 8i to 10gR2 in a Solaris cluster environment.
• Preparing offers, project planning and process planning.

Itellium (KQ), Nuremberg | 02/2007 – 08/2007 Oracle DWH Specialist

• Design and analysis of a DWH focusing on master data and logistics.
• Oracle Designer, OWB, Oracle Database, ETL, PL/SQL and External Tables; data volumes up to approx. 5 TB.

Oracle Deutschland GmbH, Munich | 10/2006 – 02/2007 and further assignments Oracle Specialist / Consultant – Data Migration and DWH

• Consulting for customers such as Volkswagen, GE Money Bank, WeKa, KSB, Swisscom and British Telecom.
• Migration Discoverer EUL4 → EUL5i, database optimization, Data Guard and web/database analysis.
• Performance and tuning on Solaris and Linux.

HaSpa, Hamburg | 07/2006 – 10/2006 Oracle Specialist / Consultant – Data Migration and DWH

• Setup of an Oracle-10gR2 environment for banking applications.
• Data transfer from DB2 / OS390, architecture, sizing, tuning and performance.
• Data preparation and integration with OWB.

AUDI, Ingolstadt | 02/2005 – 06/2006 Oracle Consultant and DBA

• Operations, installation and maintenance of Oracle 9i/10g and IAS 10g.
• RMAN, Oracle RLS, Oracle HTMLDB, Veritas Cluster, Solaris and AIX / HACMP.
• Database cloning and migration 9i → 10g; approx. 200 systems up to 4.5 TB.

Photocolor, Kreuzlingen / CH | 11/2003 – 01/2005 Project Manager / Oracle

• Implementation, configuration, technical support and acceptance of an Oracle ERP/CRM solution.
• Oracle Applications, Oracle 9i, Solaris, HP-UX, OWB and Mercury TestDirector.
• Project scope approx. 2 TB; reporting to management.

ZPD NRW, Duisburg | 05/2003 – 10/2003 Oracle Consultant

• Consulting, PL/SQL training and project planning for a nationwide Oracle Forms integration.
• Oracle on HP Superdome / HP-UX; data volume 1.2 → 2.5 TB, sizing up to 5 TB.

Messe München GmbH | 11/2002 – 05/2003 Project Manager / Oracle

• MIS/DWH solution with OWB, Discoverer, Oracle 11i / 9i and RAC.
• Architecture, design, integration, troubleshooting and consulting for data volumes of 1.5–2 TB.

Aria SA Integration, Geneva / CH | 09/2002 – 11/2002 Oracle DBA and Consultant

• Oracle 8.1.7.4 / 9i; merging the Stuttgart and Geneva databases via replication.

• It is like a startup within REWE, where we have to build a new forecasting system on Google Cloud Platform from the scratch. Although, officially my role is called MLOps, my actual tasks also include development of data processing pipelines (data engineering) and data scientists tasks such as feature engineering and model trainings.
• GCP: Terraform (tofu), Vertex AI (Kubeflow), Cloud Run, IAM, Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Artifact Registry
• Data engineering: Snowflake as the main data warehouse, Terraform, DBT for data model implementations
• CI/CD: GitLab. We have built a CI/CD pipeline that automates deployments of new releases up to production environment
• Development of feature store and data synchronization between environments
• Data science: evaluation of different forecasting models, including CatBoost, Contextual Gamma and Random Forest; implementation of training pipelines using Kubeflow on Vertex AI; scaling and development of an event-driven interface using Kafka as a forecasting service; evaluation of MLFlow for model tracking and model registry
• Implementation of REST API using KeyCloak OAuth2 and OpenID (JWT)
• Monitoring: implementation of dashboards with Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Streamlit and Loki to monitor prediction metrics, GCP and Snowflake costs for pipelines, and system metrics
• Development of Copilot Agent Skills

End Customer: Openry GmbH

E-commerce platform to globally commercialize high-quality Italian artistic productions. Several European shops are already operational and Asian markets soon coming up. My role as Agile Project Manager is to lead the complete team on both the customer and technical side (offshore) including strong strategic consulting, in a continuous delivery approach. As project in a small enterprise, the budget management aspects are particularly challenging, in a quest to deliver the maximum business value with minimal overheads. Technologies: Magento 2, M2E Pro, Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP (LAMP), Stripe

• Conducted manual testing for claims creation, forwarding, repair cost calculation, parts selection and logging on the Gold.dat.de platform
• Automated key processes using ASKUI, including login, claim creation, calculations and parts selection
• Simulated user interactions (e.g., drag-and-drop) with ASKUI
• Integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for early error detection
• Executed over 50 test scenarios and identified critical defects
• Reduced test time by 50% through automation
• Improved platform quality and user experience

• Overall responsibility for the project lifecycle from scope definition to completion
• Close collaboration with platform teams, IT leaders, and external service providers
• Application of SAFe principles and structured sprint work
• Creation of a migration roadmap with clear milestones
• Monitoring of the lifecycle: onboarding, repository migration, replication of permissions, and system tests
• Visualization of the architecture with PlantUML and Gliffy as well as documentation in Confluence
• Regular status reports and running knowledge transfer sessions

REPSEM/REPKON-Energetic (Mechanical Engineering) – General Manager. Start-up company. Setting up the company and its structure. Creating processes, preparing document templates, planning workflows, hiring employees to meet company goals. Training employees and introducing them to the first company project. Project acquisition, meetings about projects with companies. Expanding company goals and strategy. Visiting companies for partnerships. Leading the first company project together with the PM.

• Enhancement of the web app for regulatory content (PRIIPs) in the insurance sector
• Process adjustments and automation for report creation and text and cost changes
• Display and review of current performance and risk figures
• Functional and regression testing with Microfocus ALM
• UAT

• Project: Sensor fusion application for traffic participant detection
• Software frameworks: C++ (11,14), Python, Visual Studio, MTS, Qt, GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Conan, CAN, RTOS, DOORS, CMake
• Refactored and adapted sensor fusion algorithms by processing sensor data (camera and radar) for ACC and EBA as per requirements
• Handled system test issue reports in JIRA
• Tuned Kalman filters and introduced new features to enhance tracking
• Adapted architecture, detailed design (UML) and simulation tool (Qt)
• Conducted unit testing, code reviews and static code analysis in compliance with MISRA standards
• Conducted regression testing to validate software, involved in software releases (CI/CD), KPI evaluation by testing NCAP scenarios
• Flashed ADAS software to target vehicles, used UDS protocol and OBD-II tools for diagnostics and verification

• Test concept creation
• Creation of test processes
• Coordination of TC development: stress tests, functional tests, performance tests, high data rate tests, integration tests, etc.
• HW testing: FPGA, RF
• Test automation and regression tests
• Ensuring 24/7 operation of the test system
• Analysis & reporting
• Regular coordination of the test team, meetings with other stakeholders
• Communication and coordination with stakeholders and the project manager

• Head of overall technical integration NSC (National Secure Cloud, project with approx. 60 employees).

• Technical integration of all subprojects into one product, definition of interfaces and basic components of a cloud including hardware, technical architecture of the IABG platform.

• Development of a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) capable of creating private/mixed clouds of any complexity based on a textual description with one click or interactively.

• CMP also includes the complete hardware management lifecycle.

• Kubernetes, OpenStack and Hadoop are used as the foundation.

• The management layer includes Harbor, Gitea, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher and Jenkins, which are configured automatically.

• Private cloud can run any customer workloads, including a full Hadoop layer with HDFS, Spark, MapReduce, Mesos, HBase and around 20 additional ML/DL technologies.

• Hadoop worker clusters can also be installed automatically without Kubernetes on bare metal or commodity hardware.

• OpenStack with Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Swift, Cinder, Ceph.

• Development of a Java application Rudi: SOAP, REST, containers, DB.

• Technologies: Kubernetes (K3s, Rke2, Minikube, Harbor, Gitea, Jenkins, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher), OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Swift, Ceph, Cinder, Sahara, Magnum, Kayobe, Kolla, Bigrost, Ironic), Hadoop (HDFS, Ambari, Solr, Livy, Ranger, YARN, Tez, HBase, Kafka, Hive, Zookeeper, MapReduce, Spark, Oozie, Flink), virtualization (Kubernetes (K3S), VMware, Oracle), scripting (Ansible, Puppet, Juju, Shell, Groovy, Gradle, Maven).