Sean M.

O'Keefe
11705 Herrick Lane Glen Allen, VA 23059
804 828-8415 [email protected]
Summary
I wish to obtain employment that will challenge my technical skills in a senior
level systems position that also allows me to continue to learn new technologie
s and will exploit my administrative and technical experience. I bring over thir
ty two years of progressive IT experience with an extensive skill set. A technic
al management role is preferred.
Work Experience
Director, University Computer Center, Technology Services
4/2008 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
* Manage and direct all operational and tactical issues for the VCU Computer Cen
ter overseeing a staff of four managers and twenty-five technicians and engineer
s.
* Oversee the deployment of a new Network Operations Center.
* Create joint Computer Center and Network workgroup to document and streamline
the server and IP address provisioning cycle.
* Work with VCU Office of Technology Services (OTS) senior management on personn
el issues with key Computer Center staff, including UCC managers.
* Attend OTS Director's Meetings as the UCC representative; attend numerous meet
ings with VCU departments representing the UCC.
* Provide oversight for the UCC budgetary processes.
* Oversee the deployment and build-out of a Business Continuity site (hot site).
* Provide consultation to a broad audience on disaster recovery, high availabili
ty, database, and directory issues.
Database Manager
5/2004 - 3/2008 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
* Manage a staff of seven technicians responsible for all Database, Enterprise D
irectory (eDIR), Tivoli Storage Manager, and Transaction Server operations.
* Process Team Lead for the Banner implementation project for Banner Security an
d Luminis Portal. Technical Lead for Oracle RDBMS and Oracle Application Server
for Banner implementation.
* Working Team Lead for Performance Monitoring software selection and implementa
tion.
* Develop and implement RMAN strategies for recovery, standby (fail-over) and d
atabase cloning.
* Established SAN cloning for fast ERP recovery.
* Implemented Oracle failover using Oracle standby.
* Implemented OEM/Grid control for all VCU Oracle databases.
Operating Systems Analyst Competency Level III
3/1996 - 5/2004 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
* Data Base Administrator for University Administrative RDBMS.
* Data Base Administrator for Administrative Systems Data Warehouse.
* Installed and configured RMAN and TDP, created recovery strategy and recovery
tests for large V8.1.7.4 instance, Aleph library catalog system from Ex Libris.
* Installed BMC Patrol Suite for Oracle, SQL-BackTrack for Oracle, Space Expert.
* Installed BMC DB2 for OS/390 tools and applications.
* Installed SCT/IA MVS/DB2 SIS & FRS systems.
* Team member on initial Off-site Disaster Recovery project for DB2 on z/OS.
Teams / Committees
Office of Technology Services Director's meetings
Computing & Communications Management Group
Technical Advisory Committee
Server Provisioning Team workgroup
Team Lead for Banner Performance Monitoring Selection and Implementation
Banner Process Team Lead for Security and Luminis Banner Technical Lead for Orac
le RDBMS & Oracle Application Server
SIS+ Technical Team
Pinnacle (Oracle) Re-architect Team
ISIS Development Team
VCUCARD system replacement teams
TRG Implementation Team (C/S) Coordinator of ISIS Modeling Project DASD Space St
andards Committee OS/JCL Standards Committee Legacy Systems Web Integration RICD
UG, VOUG
Change Management Team
DB2 for z/OS Disaster Recovery Technical Team
Guest Lecturer, Information Systems Department, School Business, VCU, 2003 (Unde
rgraduate database class)
USMC 1973 -1975 Honorable Discharge
Skills
IBM Mainframes, IBM RS-6000/SP, Dell Servers, SUN SPARC 5/SPARC 4, Sun Solaris s
ervers, AIX servers, Microcomputers, Periphonics 9500 IVR system;
DB2/MVS(V4.1, V5.1, V6.1, V7.2), DB2/CS, DB2/UDB(V5.2, V7.2.3), Oracle (AIX, Lin
ux, Solaris) V7.3 & V8.1, V9i, 10g, Oracle 9i for Windows, Oracle RMAN and Tivol
i Data Protection for Oracle, Oracle Enterprise Manager/Grid Control; TOTAL, VSA
M; OS/390, UNIX(AIX, Linux, Solaris); COBOL, SAS, MANTIS, ASSEMBLY/370, PL/SQL,
SQL, shell scripting, FOCUS/MVS, JCL, TSO, SPF/ISPF, ACF2, TCP/IP, FTP, Focus6
& 7, Focus/EDA, IBI Copy Manager, IBI Catalog Administrator; BMC MVS/DB2 Tools (
Copy Plus, Reorg Plus, Load Plus, Unload Plus), BMC Web DBA and Space Expert for
Oracle, SQL-BackTrack for Oracle and OBSI for Tivoli, PeriProducer, ClientSoft
Client Builder WebPack2000 WEB-enabling software, NT Server, Windows 2000 Server
, CA/Wily Introscope

Education / Certifications
* BS (Cum Laude) in Information Systems
Virginia Commonwealth University
August 26, 1995, GPA/Major 4.0, GPA/Cumulative 3.55
Member University Honors Program
* 15 hours of graduate courses in the MS in Information Systems program,
VCU School of Business
* VCU Office of Training & Development - Managerial Certificate Program
* Commonwealth (of Virginia) Management Institute - April 2009

Professional Education
CA/Wily Introscope Administration - CA (2008)
Luminis Administration training - SunGardHE (2005)
Banner technical training - SunGardHE (2005, 2006)
Oracle - Oracle 9i DBA II - Oracle U (2004)
Oracle - Oracle 9i DBA I - Advanced Concepts Training (2003)
Oracle - Enterprise DBA Part 1B - Oracle U. (2001)
Oracle - Enterprise DBA Part 1A - Oracle U. (2001)
ClientSoft ClientBuilder WebPack2000 Intermediate, ClientSoft (2000)
Periphonics (IVR) Introduction to PeriVeiw and Periphonics OS,
Periphonics, Long Island NY (2000)
Periphonics (IVR) Introduction to PeriProducer (IVR programming),
Periphonics, Long Island, NY (2000)
DB2/MVS Application Disaster Recovery Workshop - IBM (1999)
DB2/AIX UDB Database Administration - IBM (1998)
DB2/MVS Database Design & Administration - TechKnowledge (1997)
IQ-Object - Advanced Query & Knowledge Base Administrator - IQ (1996)
SilverRun CASE Data Modeling - CSA (1996)
AIX/6000 Advanced System Administration - IBM (1996)
AIX/6000 Basic System Administration - IBM (1996)
SYBASE - Hands on Introduction (#220) - Learning Tree (1996)
Uniface 6 Application Development I - Compuware (1995)
Novell 520 & 525 - NetWare 4.X Administration - ACE (1994/95)
Novell 200 - Network Technologies - ACE (1994)
Focus 101 - Basic Report Writing for DP Professionals - IBI (1993)
Relational Database Design - Data Directions (1991)