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Jim Franco is a senior Oracle
DBA with over 10 years of experience working with the Oracle
RDBMS (from version 8i to version 11g). He has worked with
medium to large businesses including Fortune 100 companies
in the E-Commerce, Finance, Health Care, Retail, Telecommunications
and many other industries on their business critical databases.
He has extensive, hands-on experience with several advanced features of Oracle. This includes Data Warehousing for Very Large Databases (VLDBs), Oracle GRID, Oracle Advanced Security for HIPAA compliant databases, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Data Guard (DG), Enterprise Manager Grid Control (EMGC) and Oracle XML DB. His experience with these features covers the spectrum from planning, design and implementation to post deployment support. Some examples of these applications are: VLDBs used for feeding usage-based billing systems at Telecommunications companies; secured XML based claims processing of Protected Health Information (PHI) data for pharmaceutical companies and High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) infrastructures for high volume websites and other business critical systems.
As a Senior Database Support Specialist and Team Lead of Consulting Services for Distributed Technology Associates, Inc. (http://www.dtainc.us), Jim is part of a dedicated team of other highly seasoned Oracle database professionals. In addition to combining his talents with others to bring experience and value to clients through a multitude of consulting engagements, he also participates in routine enterprise class production DBA services providing 24x7x365 support to a global client base.
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