Patricio E. Colombo

54 Lockyer House

The Platt

Waterman St.

London, SW15 1EE

Pecolombo@yahoo.com

Day Mobile: 07958 540 878

 

Summary

Oracle Developer and DBA with 8 years hands on experience in Oracle database Design & Development, performance tuning, using Designer, PL/SQL, Discoverer, Team Leading, DBA on Oracle 7, 8i & 9i; UNIX Sun Solaris, Linux, Shell Scripting, SCO Unix, Java and XML.

 

Technical Skills Summary

Skill Level Used Experience

Perl Advanced Current 1 year

Linux Expert Current 2 years

Shell Scripting Expert Current 3 years

Oracle DBA Rel. 7.2; 7.3; 8i & 9i Expert Current 5 years

Oracle Performance Tuning Expert Current 8 years

PL/SQL Expert Current 8 years

Developer/2000 Forms Rel. 4.5, 5 & 6i Expert Current 8 years

Developer/2000 Reports Rel. 2.5, 3 & 6i Expert Current 8 years

Designer/2000 Rel. 1.3.2 & 6i Expert Current 8 years

Discoverer Rel. 3 Administration Expert 4 years 3 years

Discoverer Rel. 3 Data Design Expert 5 years 3 years

UNIX Sun Solaris 2.6 Administration Advanced 4 years 2 years

Java Advanced Current 1 year

Java Servlets Advanced Current 1 year

Visual Basic 6.0 Intermediate 3 years 1 year

 

Work Experience

08/2002 - Today Hello Magazine Ltd

London, United Kingdom

Developer: Development, Implementation, Migration, Tuning of an Accounts system, integrating it with the Sales application, which will be replaced in the near future with an in-house development.

DBA: Successfully migrated four Oracle 8i databases running under SCO UNIX to Oracle 9i under SuSE Linux, also implementing the backup & recovery strategy.

 

11/2000 - 02/2002 Independent Consultant

Buenos Aires, Argentina

CLIENT: I-Solution

·         PROJECT: GEVENUE

DESCRIPTION:

Team Leader & Developer: Design, Development & Team Lead of an Internet Direct Marketing system for CRM applications, or to run as a stand alone operation.

Based on HTML clients, using Oracle Designer 6i and PL/SQL for the business logic.

Leading of a team of Java Programmers to design the Database-Internet browsers interface.


 

·         PROJECT: GANEARE

DESCRIPTION: Data Model Design of a system for account receivable tracking and collection, using Oracle Designer 6i.

·         Oracle DBA: Planning, Installation, Maintenance, Backup & Recovery for the company’s Oracle database.

 

CLIENT: Repsol-YPF

·         PROJECT: Boxes

DESCRIPTION:

·   Development of Multimedia CD-ROM’s (Macromedia Director)

·  Rental of PC’s for events

CLIENT: Chroma System

·         PROJECT: Budgeting

DESCRIPTION: Development & Implementation of a system for project budgeting, and administration of clients & mailings using Visual Basic 6.0 and MS Access.

CLIENT: Trén de la Costa

·         PROJECT: Help Desk

DESCRIPTION: Development & Implementation of a Help Desk System, using Oracle Designer 6i. I was also the Oracle 8i DBA for this project.

 

09/1998 - 11-2000 SDA Consultores Asociados S.A.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Team Leader

CLIENT: Municipality of Esteban Echeverría

PROJECT: Integral Tax Collection and Administration.

DESCRIPTION: Team Leader of 3 people (including myself) for the Implementation of a Tax Collection Software using Oracle Forms 4.5; Reports 2.5 and PL/SQL.

This was my first contact with the database as a DBA for an Oracle 7.3.4 installed under UNIX SUN Solaris 2.6, which lead me into taking a course on this OS administration.

CLIENT: Price Waterhouse Coopers/Grant Thornton.

PROJECT: Integral Tax Collection and Administration.

DESCRIPTION: Implementation of the same Tax Collection software mentioned above, for the Province of Entre Rios, Argentina, Using Oracle Forms 5.0; Reports 3.0 and PL/SQL.

I was appointed Interim Team Leader for this project, in charge of 9 people (including myself), a position that extended for near 6 months, to later become the Support Manager for The Tax Collection project for 5 Argentina provinces. This includes both projects I mentioned.

PROJECT: City of Buenos Aires Traffic Control.

CLIENT: Siemens-Itron

DESCRIPTION: Design, Development & Implementation of a Traffic control system (photo speeding tickets) using Oracle Forms 4.5, Reports 2.5 and PL/SQL.

I was Team Leader for this project, with a force of 4 (including myself).

Project Support Manager

After the projects I mention above, I was promoted to Support Manager for all 6 teams that worked for both the Tax Collection System & Traffic, to a total of 17 people.


 

09/1996 - 09/1998 Television Federal S.A.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Team Leader

Design, Development, Implementation & Maintenance of Administrative and Operations Systems, including Analysis & Follow-up of Investments, Stocks, Accounting, Sales & Security for the Database Applications of the Company. (Forms 4.5; Reports 2.5; Designer/2000 1.3.2; Discoverer/2000 3.0; PL/SQL).

End-User Training: Organization & Coordination of the migration of an Integral News Operations & Air system, Including Negotiation with vendor for software, Organization of Implementation, and courses, technical and user end.

Technical Training: Oracle Products within the Systems Department.

Translator: Simultaneous Translation English-Spanish of the abovementioned News course.

 

Other Work Experience

Dates Company

02/1996 - 04/1996 Industria Química Alimentaria

12/1994 - 08/1995 Ruarte's Reports

12/1992 - 12/1994 United States Embassy in Buenos Aires

12/1991 - 12/1992 Delta Airlines

03/1991 - 12/1991 Pan American World Airways

 

Languages

Language Level

Spanish Native

English Excellent

Portuguese Basic

Italian Basic

 

Education

Title Institution Year Type

Licensure in Computer Sciences Univ. Argentina de la Empresa 1997 University

(UK Equivalent: MSc) Degree

Oracle Certified Professional R1. IT College – Argentina 05/2001 Tech. Cert.

Strategic Negotiation & Planning University of Buenos Aires 2000 Grad. Studies

Team Leadership University of Buenos Aires 10/2000 Grad. Studies

Oracle Open World Oracle USA 10/2000 Tech.Training

UNIX SUN Solaris 2.6 Administration SUN Argentina 03/1999 Tech.Training

Web Server Rel. 3 Development; Administration Oracle Argentina 1998 Tech.Training

Discoverer Rel. 3 Administration; End Users Oracle Argentina 1998 Tech.Training

Designer/2000 Oracle Argentina 1997 Tech.Training

Developer/2000 Forms 4.5; Reports 2.5. Oracle Argentina 1996 Tech.Training

 

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