{"id":120,"date":"2007-02-25T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2007-02-25T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T18:32:00","slug":"independent-oracle-applications-dba-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/25\/independent-oracle-applications-dba-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Oracle Applications DBA Consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking of this for quite some time &#038; I have finally decided to work as an Independent Oracle consultant. I am Oracle Applications DBA (E-Business Suite\/ Financials\/ HRMS, Fusion Middleware \/Application Server \/Collaboration Suite \/Application Express) <strong>certified on Oracle Applications<\/strong> and have been awarded with prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technology\/community\/oracle_ace\/ace1.html#kumar\" target=\"'_blank\"><strong>Oracle ACE designation<\/strong><\/a>. A former Oracle Employee, I have proven track record in big implementations with Advanced configuration including <strong>HA Clusters &amp;<\/strong> <strong>DR<\/strong>, Installation, Upgrades, Migration &#038; Support.<\/p>\n<p>I accept work related to Oracle Applications varying from <strong>1 day to few months<\/strong> (daily\/hourly rate) or <strong>entire project<\/strong> (Mail\/Phone Me for Quotations) . For more information contact me via <a href=\"mailto:atul_iiit@yahoo.com?subject=Oracle_Apps_DBA_Consultant\"><strong>Mail <\/strong><\/a>or Phone at +44 (0) 7701 030035<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color:#cc0000;\">Broad Category of Work related to Oracle Apps DBA<\/span><\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong>&#8212; New Implementations \/ Installations <\/strong><br \/><strong>&#8212; Migrations &amp; Upgrades<br \/>&#8212; Onsite \/ Remote Applications Support<\/strong> including patching, cloning, maintenance<br \/><strong>&#8212; Heath Checks\/Performance Tuning <\/strong><br \/><strong>&#8212; Oracle Trainings <\/strong><br \/><em>on Database, E-Business Suite, Fusion Middleware, Application Server, Collaboration Suite<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is an overview of some of my skills &#038; work which I have done recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oracle Applications\/E-Business Suite<\/strong> (Financials \/ HRMS &#8211; AP, AR, GL, FA, INV, Grants, CRM, Web ADI, iProcurement, iRecruitment, Workflow, XML, Student System )<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Upgrade Oracle Apps 11.5.9 to 11.5.10.2 and database upgrade to 10g R2<br \/>&#8211; Implementing &amp; configuring self service middle tier with SSL in DMZ setup , Multiple domain URL&#8217;s for Internal &#038; External Apps Users<br \/>&#8211; Installing Oracle Applications Instance 11.5.7-10 &amp; R12 version<br \/>&#8211; Installing &#038; configuring Discoverer 10g with Apps 11i<br \/>&#8211; Configuring middle tier cluster with shared APPL_TOP for High Availability<br \/>&#8211; Configuring RAC database with Apps with Parallel Concurrent Processing<br \/>&#8211; Implementing Disaster Recovery solution for apps using Data-Guard &amp; Maximum Availability Architecture<br \/>&#8211; <strong>Patching , Cloning,<\/strong> Performance Tuning various Apps components including database<br \/>&#8211; Backup &#038; Recovery using RMAN<br \/>&#8211; Monitoring Oracle Applications database including Forms, Web, Reports, CM, Jserv via OEM-OAM plug-in with email &amp; mobile alerts<br \/>&#8211; Configuring 10g Application Server with Apps 11i<br \/>&#8211; Configuring &#038; Supporting Apps with two Node RAC and multiple middle tier for High Availability<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oracle Application Server 9i\/10g or Fusion Middleware (HTTP Server, OC4J, Portal, Webcache, OID, SSO, AS Guard)<br \/><\/strong><br \/>&#8211; Install Fusion Middleware products (AS, BPA, BI, SOA, IM) with Single Node \/ Multi Node<br \/>&#8211; Seamless Disaster Recovery solution for 10g Application Server including Middle Tier using AS Guard (Application Server Guard) &amp; Data Guard<br \/>&#8211; Upgrading Portal for 9.0.4 to 10.1.4 on multi-node installation<br \/>&#8211; Migrating Portal from Solaris to Linux with integration of Portal OID with Microsoft Active Directory<br \/>&#8211; Configuring Virtual Host &#038; SSL implementation on Single Sign-On Server including Server Hardening for Security<br \/>&#8211; Configuring Multiple Node Middle Tier cluster for High Availability with Virtual Host Implementation<br \/>&#8211; Configuring Webcache clusters &amp; tuning webcache for better response<br \/>&#8211; Implementing Fusion Middleware in High Availability Model with two Node RAC database, two Node OID cluster &#038; multiple middle tier cluster<br \/>&#8211; Migrating OID users &amp; groups across various OID Instances<br \/>&#8211; Monitoring &#038; system usages of Portal web site using freeware web access monitoring tool like AWSTAT<br \/>&#8211; Patching &amp; cloning of Fusion Middleware products<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oracle Collaboration Suite (Real Time Collaboration, Content, Workspace)<br \/><\/strong><br \/>&#8211; Installation of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g with Multi Node architecture<br \/>&#8211; Upgrading OCS to 10.1.2.3 &#038; databases to 10g R2<br \/>&#8211; Implementing SSL for Single Sign-On Server for secure authentication<br \/>&#8211; Oracle Drive &amp; MS Web folder configuration<br \/>&#8211; Integrating collaboration Suite OID for automatic user &#038; group synchronization with Portal OID<br \/>&#8211; Backup &amp; Recovery implementation using RMAN tools<br \/>&#8211; Disaster Recovery implementation with Failover &#038; Switchover configuration during planned &amp; un-planned outages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applications Express \/ HTMLDB <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact me via <a href=\"mailto:atul_iiit@yahoo.com?subject=Oracle\">Mail <\/a>or call me at +44 (0) 7701 030035<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">For any Issues\/Doubts in Apps use Forum at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/teachmeoracle.com\/forum\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><strong>http:\/\/teachMeOracle.com\/forum<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">http:\/\/teachMeOracle.com\/forum<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking of this for quite some time &#038; I have finally decided to work as an Independent Oracle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Independent Oracle Applications DBA Consultant -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/25\/independent-oracle-applications-dba-consultant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Independent Oracle Applications DBA Consultant -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I was thinking of this for quite some time &#038; 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