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Chantice Cotten
Senior Oracle Database Administrator, Oracle Corporation RIF
Location: Upper Marlboro, MD United States
Joined: Oct 13th, 2020
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Government Technology Sr. Oracle Database Administrator
OCI AI & ITIL/ITSM v4 Certified Oracle Database Administrator with 25+ years of experience designing, implementing, securing, and maintaining enterprise data platforms across government and regulated environments. Deep expertise in Oracle database administration (23ai,21c,19c,18c,12c,11g) including RAC, Data Guard, High Availability architecture, and performance tuning in Linux environments. Proven ability to manage production databases supporting scheduled application releases, database development, and large-scale data repositories. Experienced in data engineering, database modeling, SQL development, encryption, and security implementations ensuring data availability, integrity, and system performance.
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Education   (request update)
Spelman College class of 1992
Undergrad Major: Computer and Information Science
Clark Atlanta University class of 1994
Grad Major: Computer and Information Science
Experience
I currently work with Oracle Corporation RIF as Senior Oracle Database Administrator
I have 34 years of experience working in the Computers, Software industry.
Senior Database Administrator | Oracle Corporation
From January 2021 to January 2025 • 4 year(s)
 Administered Oracle 19c/21c databases in Linux environments ensuring high availability and reliability. Implemented monitoring and alerting solutions and maintained Oracle RAC and Data Guard configurations.
Senior Database Administrator | Koaniag/Eagle Harbor Solutions
From January 2020 to January 2021 • 1 year(s)
 Supported federal application data platforms across production, test, training, and development environments. Led database patching, upgrades, and rolling maintenance with minimal service disruption.
Senior GovCloud Database Administrator | Salesforce Corporation
From January 2019 to January 2020 • 1 year(s)
 Managed production database reliability and high availability across GovCloud environments. Implemented data security and encryption solutions in compliance with government security standards.
Senior Oracle Database Administrator | Sevatec Corporation
From January 2017 to January 2019 • 2 year(s)
 Maintained Oracle 11g/12c databases ensuring system uptime and availability. Built ETL/ELT pipelines to successfully transfer & integrate data.
Senior Oracle & SQL Server Database Administrator | Technatomy Corporation
From January 2016 to January 2017 • 1 year(s)
 Sr. DBA providing operational maintenance & application support of Oracle 12c & 11g databases across Production, Test & Development in both Windows & Linux environments to DLA.
Senior Oracle Database Administrator | Xerox - Ciber
From January 2016 to December 2016 • 0 year(s)
 Oracle DBA providing operational maintenance & application support of 12.1.0.2, 11.2.0.2, 11.2.0.3 & 10.2.0.4 databases across Production, Test and Development both Windows & Solaris Unix environments to Maryland Department of Transportation.
Senior Oracle Database Administrator | Diadem IT Solutions
From January 2014 to January 2016 • 2 year(s)
 Oracle DBA providing operational maintenance & application support of 11.2.0.2, 11.2.0.3 & 10.2.0.4 databases across Production and Development Solaris Unix environments for Professional Computer Services.
Senior Oracle Database Administrator | CACI International - Professional Computer Services
From January 2010 to January 2013 • 3 year(s)
 Oracle DBA providing operational maintenance & application support of 11.2.0.2, 11.2.0.3 & 10.2.0.4 databases across Production and Development Solaris Unix environments with RMAN Backup & Recovery, Oracle Label Security, & Tomcat.
Senior Oracle Database Administrator | Lockheed Martin
From January 2005 to January 2010 • 5 year(s)
 Oracle DBA providing operational maintenance & application support of 10.2.0.3 & 10.1.0.4 Oracle RAC databases across Production, Training, Testing and Development Solaris 10 Unix environments including Oracle 8i & 9i versions using Veritas Cluster Server.
NCTC Oracle9i Production Database Administrator Lead | BAE Systems, IT
From January 2004 to December 2004 • 0 year(s)
 Manager of DBA Team which provides maintenance and development of JWICS Databases across Production, Testing and Development environments in support of TOL.
CIFA Oracle8i Database Administrator Lead | Lockheed Martin, M&DS
From January 1997 to January 2004 • 7 year(s)
 Serve as Database Manager across the FBI-1, J2Ci, and DARPA TIC projects to design, develop, maintain, revise, backup and recover databases with Oracle8i, UNIX and Sun Solaris server environments.
Software Engineer, Information Technology, Database Division | SRA International
From January 1994 to January 1997 • 3 year(s)
 Maintained, updated, and revised design of databases for Configuration Management & Engineering using MS Access and Oracle within a server environment.
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