Oracle Retail Technical Consultant & DBA & WebLogic/FMW Admin

Technical Architecture Consultant with a focus on the following areas:

• Oracle Retail technical architecture: Extensive project experience since 1998 on Oracle Retail implementation projects at major retailers doing on-premise and cloud implementations. Have worked in areas such as technical architecture, infrastructure design, database and middleware administration, environment builds, configuration, batch/scheduler configuration, integration, data migration, performance tuning and general application support on the MOM (Merchandise Operations Management) suite, RIB (Integration Bus), ReSA, SIM (Store Inventory Management) and related modules like RPM, Allocations and Invoice Matching. Also hold the Retail Merchandising Cloud Service 2020 Technical Implementation Specialist certification.
• Oracle ‘Red stack’ technical infrastructure architecture in the following areas:
  • Oracle database versions from 6 through to 19c: Applications DBA type work installing databases for Oracle Retail environment builds. Have completed the Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud 2019 Certified Specialist certification.
  • Oracle Fusion Middleware including WebLogic, Identity Management (OID/OAM) & OBIEE and others: Installing FMW environments for Oracle Retail environment builds.
  • Unix/Linux/AIX system administrator: Installing Unix/Linux environments for Oracle Retail environment builds. Proficient in shell scripting as well.
• IaaS/Saas Cloud: Cross-skilling on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and general cloud architecture including other platforms like AWS and Azure. This includes building cloud infrastructure and completing some vendor training. Have obtained the following cloud related certifications:
  • Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud 2019 Certified Specialist
  • Retail Merchandising Cloud Service 2020 Technical Implementation Specialist

For most of my IT working life I have been an Oracle product evangelist, as a technical consultant/manager for Oracle in their Oracle Retail Consulting group for 8 years and as a contractor on Oracle Retail/Retek implementation projects at large retailers. This has been on versions from 7 through to 19. I have a reasonable functional understanding of the systems as well. Clients include large retailers in the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia and the Middle East.
I have also been working on setting up services in the Cloud and cross-skilling into this area, particularly IaaS. I have worked on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), have completed Amazon (AWS) and Google basic cloud training so I believe I have a good grasp of these technologies and the benefits they bring.
I am mostly self-taught, very hands-on and like to have a comprehensive ‘big picture’ architecture view of the project scope and how it fits into the enterprise and am constantly trying to improve and optimise the architecture. I enjoy environments where I can make a positive contribution to a team and deliver working systems that fulfil their business purpose. I enjoy people and becoming part of a great team environment is very important to me. Even at my age I do not know everything and enjoy researching and learning new skills.