Ralf Garcia

Proactive leader and productive asset of the organization with noteworthy influence on driving teams’ initiatives from planning to execution. Communicative when managing client expectations.  Committed to deliver quality services.  Motivational when mentoring people. Adaptable to technology and environment changes. 

Oracle-certified Database Administrator with experience in high availability, disaster recovery, database upgrades, migration, patching, capacity planning, performance and SQL tuning and production support.

ERP Application Manager that is handling developers and Oracle database administrators in a 24x7 support structure. Escalation point for all operation issues and concerns.

Working with IFS 8 Operations, replication configuration and offshore environment build. Focusing on infrastructure enhancements and upgrades.

Currently working as the IFS10 Infrastructure Specialist for Maersk Drilling IFS10 Upgrade project wherein assigned to design, deploy and maintain the whole infrastructure system landscape. 

Company: Accenture

Project: Washington Gas Light

Assigned Role: Oracle Database Administrator / Team Lead 

Accomplishment: Annual Agila Gantimpala Awardee (Best Business Operator Award)

Project and Assignment Description:

• Implemented and maintained database security (create and maintain users and roles, assign privileges)
• Performed general technical troubleshooting and give consultation to application and development teams 
• Worked as part of operations team and provide 24x7 support when required
• Took care of the database design and implementation
• Created and maintained all databases required for development, testing, UAT and production usage
• Took care of the installation, configuration and upgrading of Oracle server products
• Established and maintained sound backup and recovery policies and procedures
• Designed disaster recovery solution
• Participated in Disaster Recovery Exercise
• Performed performance and SQL tuning
• Handled the capacity planning for database growth
• Implemented data archiving solution on big tables to enhance database performance
• Performed database restoration using RMAN and Datapump
• Took care of Patch and Vulnerability Management 
• Managed a team composed of five Oracle database administrators
• Set up and maintained documentation and standards 

Company: Pro V Intl.

Project: Maersk Drilling

Assigned Role: IFS Technical Application Manager/Oracle Database Administrator/IFS Infrastructure Specialist 

Accomplishments: Maersk Drilling 2018 Employee of the year

Project and Assignment Description:

• Managing both IFS Production and development environments (database and application)
• Redesign the infrastructure to have 2 (two) application servers with load balancer and have a separate server for integration and replication
• Configured Oracle DataGuard for the production environment performance enhancement
• Configured Active Oracle DataGuard for reporting purposes
• Work with functional integration with different applications connecting to IFS
• Upgraded infrastructure to have the best possible setup with Network, server and database.
• Part of Maersk Drilling offshore core team as SME for IFS offshore environments
• Configured IFS10 Demo Version as an initial step to perform the upgrade
• IFS Document Management 
• Single sign-on configuration as login option to IFS
• Deployment manager for quarterly patch deployments
• Managing IT Operations Team (server, storage, windows, network and database) when related to IFS
• IFS Technical Lead/Infrastructure specialist on the IFS10 upgrade project
• Designed and configure ERP infrastructure in Azure
• Configured Azure application server, database server and application gateways
• Configured IFS Replication to all offshore environments
• Upgraded to Oracle 19c with Active Dataguard of the upgraded ERP system in Azure
• Designed IFS10 Weblogic Cluster 
• Designing proof of concept for infrastructure deployment for the project

Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering

Lourdes School of Mandaluyong, Mandaluyong City 2007

Mapua Institute of Technology, Intramuros Manila 2013