Griffin Willard
Senior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) / Senior Oracle DMA (Exadata)
About
Senior Oracle Database Administrator and Oracle Database Machine Administrator (DMA) with over 20 years of experience, including 21 years of specialized focus on Oracle Exadata (V1, V2, X2–X9) and Oracle RAC (9i through 20c). Proven track record as Senior Lead DBA on global implementations spanning database, Internet Application Server (iAS), RAC, and Exadata platforms. Core expertise includes performance tuning, high-availability architecture design, disaster recovery planning, database upgrades (9i through 20c), and technical leadership of Exadata pre-production and post-production installation and configuration across 300+ engineered system installs.
Experience
Principal Exadata DBA/DMA — DC Project Delivery Specialist - Deloitte Consulting
(2024-10 - 2025-04)
Served as Principal Exadata DBA/DMA supporting relational database environments, working largely independently within defined policies and procedures. Provided depth of focus in Oracle and related tools, with emphasis on optimizing performance of large enterprise databases.
- Database Administration, server installation, upgrades, and migrations
- Logical and physical database design
- Backup and recovery strategy across Oracle 7, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c, and 18c
- Exadata Engineered Systems administration
Sr. Principal Exadata DBA/DMA - Carelon Behavioral Health
(2023-01 - 2024-12)
Served as Senior Principal Exadata DBA/DMA supporting relational database environments, working largely independently within defined policies and procedures. Provided depth of focus in Oracle and related tools, with emphasis on optimizing performance of large enterprise databases.
- Database Administration, server installation, upgrades, and migrations
- Logical and physical database design
- Backup and recovery strategy across Oracle 7, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c, and 18c
- Exadata Engineered Systems administration
Sr. Principal Exadata DBA/DMA - Cognizant
(2023-09 - 2024-05)
Served as Senior Principal Exadata DBA/DMA supporting relational database environments, working largely independently within defined policies and procedures. Provided depth of focus in Oracle and related tools, with emphasis on optimizing performance of large enterprise databases.
- Database Administration, server installation, upgrades, and migrations
- Logical and physical database design
- Backup and recovery strategy across Oracle 7, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c, and 18c
- Exadata Engineered Systems administration
Sr. Principal DBA - SC Inlet Ports
(2023-08 - 2023-09)
Served as Senior Principal DBA supporting relational database environments, working largely independently within defined policies and procedures. Provided depth of focus in Oracle and related tools, with emphasis on optimizing performance of large enterprise databases.
- Database Administration, server installation, upgrades, and migrations
- Logical and physical database design
- Backup and recovery strategy across Oracle 7, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c, and 18c
Sr. Principal Exadata DBA/DMA - Oracle Corporation
(2003-03 - 2023-04)
Provided 24x7 Tier 3 production support and served as Senior Lead on Oracle Exadata Engineered Systems, including training of other Oracle engineers. Acted as technical onsite/account manager, managing escalations across multiple lines of business and owning resolution of customer technical issues.
- Senior Lead DBA on Exadata Engineered Systems and training of other Oracle engineers
- Technical onsite/account management role
- TAR (Technical Assistance Request) management for clients
- Identified and removed roadblocks to problem resolution
- Managed escalations across multiple lines of business within Oracle
- Prepared business justifications for escalations and one-off patches
- Coordinated TAR management conference calls
- Prepared TAR/MOS reports, including research, annotation, and distribution
- Created annual support plans
- Facilitated customer prioritization of issues
- Conducted problem research and troubleshooting of functional and technical issues
- Performed business-critical and technical assessments
- Owned and resolved technical issues for customers
- Oracle Database installation and upgrades
- Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) administration
- Database performance and tuning
- Database backup and recovery, including RMAN
Education
B.S. - Computer Information Science - SUNY Institute of Technology — Utica/Rome, NY (1994-05)
