Jacek Sapiński

Management external providers (Oracle database administration and Oracle Engineered Systems – Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance),optimization of operational processes (both internal and external), development and implementation of Database Cloud Infrastructure, Technical Project Management

- Creation, development and management of the new Managed Services Operations Center consisting of three teams spread across Poland and Germany (20+ FTE), Strategy Development
- Member of OC Polska Management Team – Bussines Development, creation of Company Strategy
- Line Manager for a distributed Oracle DBA/MW Team (15+ FTE) located in Cracow and Warsaw, recruitment of new employees, plan and ensure optimal development of all team members in accordance with team and company objectives
- Technical Project Management of the most important projects (database/system/cluster upgrade and migration - Oracle 10g/11g in RAC configuration, introduction of Oracle Engineered Systems – Exadata X2-2, Oracle Database Appliance X2-3 footprints)
- Supervise activities performed by team members (administration of almost 1000 critical production and test databases and application servers running on customer’s premises mostly in Oracle RAC configuration)
- Service Management (full Service Life Cycle) for key customers (in Germany and in Poland), including contract negotiations with mid-level Management
- Presales Support

My most noticeable activities:
•Take an active part in system design and architecture of current and future high-availability (HA) solutions using Oracle 9i and log, RAC, CRS. Data Guard, ASM, VCS and other technologies.
• Ensure that production Oracle databases deliver highly available services according to Amadeus SLA's, including on-call support.
• Actively participate in application design supervising and advising development teams.
• Lead automation efforts in the area of monitoring using Patrol. Oracle Enterprise Manager and home grown solutions.
• Handle migration to Oracle 10 including research, design, planning and implementation.
• Evaluate and introduce Linux platform for Oracle databases.
• Introduce new as well as document and refine existing DBA procedures.
• Manage test system environments and put in place effective reliable automated procedures.

Support of customers running Informix databases: software installation and configuration, performance tuning, data migration from legacy systems, software upgrades, design and implementation of backup and restore strategies, problems resolutions,