About: Sean Hull
Sean Hull is a business and technology consultant, author and speaker. He is the founder and senior consultant at Heavyweight Internet Group in New York and has worked as a database consultant and expert for ten years. He is the author of “Oracle and Open Source” on O’Reilly & Associates and his articles appear on Oracle Technology Network, Database Journal, DBA Zine, ChangeThis.com, and many others.
Using techniques, technologies, and perspectives discussed in his book, articles, and seminars, he has taken his career into exciting areas. He has served as Technology Consultant, Project Manager, CEO, and mentor with a background in programming, systems integration & administration, project development and management.
Sean Hull
Oracle 10g, Dataguard, plsql, RAC, MySQL Consultant, Author and Speaker - New York Area
Greater New York City Area
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- MySQL Database Administrator at Investor Relations Group
- Database Consultant, High Availability at Solbright
- Oracle Consultant at Kaplan, Inc.
- Board Member - Vendor Relations at New York Oracle User Group
- Database Consultant at Infovest21, LLC
- Founder, Senior Consultant at Heavyweight Internet Group
- Past
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- Database Consultant at Money Media, Inc
- Database Consultant at Cyber Logics, Inc.
- Dotomi, Inc at Oracle Consultant
- Database & Unix Consultant at Missing Pixel, LLC
- Senior Database Administrator at Active Reasoning
- Peoplesoft/Oracle Upgrade Consultant at ALM Media, Inc.
- Oracle DBA, Migration Consultant at Workspeed, LLC
- Oracle Consultant at Marketing Technology Solutions
- Oracle DBA Consultant at StarMedia Network Inc.
- Senior Oracle Consultant at Starmedia Communications
- Oracle DBA Consultant at Community Connect, Inc.
- Education
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- University at Buffalo
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Summary
Founder and Senior Consultant at Heavyweight Internet Group
(shull at iheavy dot com), author, speaker, and small business owner with ten years independent consulting experience. Database Administrator, with Application Tuning and Troubleshooting specialty, in a wide variety of businesses. Always interested in Oracle projects integrating with open-source technologies, as well as MySQL administration, and tuning. In addition to regular whitepapers, journal articles, and speaking engagements, work closely with database vendors, and am on the board of directors of the NY Oracle User Group.
o author of "Oracle and Open Source" - O'Reilly, April 2001
o also published in Oracle Technology Network, NY Oracle User Group, International Oracle User Group SELECT, EFY India and DBA Zine
o TWELVE years experience as an independent consultant in all aspects of Oracle Administration
o experience with small startups, and fortune 500 companies
o diverse technology background, and exposure
o very strong writing, and people skills
o experience running small business (accounting, sales, marketing, hiring, management, strategic decision making, managing budget, contract negotiation, project scoping etc)
Specialties:
Oracle 10g, plsql, dataguard, high availability, RAC, Database Tuning, Unix Systems Integration, SQL Application Tuning, Troubleshooting Internet Applications,Ten Years Running a Small Business
Experience
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MySQL Database Administrator
Investor Relations Group
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)
September 2008 — Present (2 months)
Troubleshooting, tuning, and optimizing hardware, servers, and MySQL database systems. Apache webserver + application SQL tuning, reconfiguring, and optimizing overall systems.
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Database Consultant, High Availability
Solbright
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Migrating to Oracle 10gR2, patching, setup of Dataguard technology (standby database), testing, working with developers, ironing out application issues.
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Oracle Consultant
Kaplan, Inc.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)
June 2006 — Present (2 years 5 months)
Oracle Database Performance Tuning, Perl + SQL Tuning, understanding site architecture, streamlining systems, plsql programming and solutions.
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Board Member - Vendor Relations
New York Oracle User Group
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2005 — Present (3 years 5 months)
Coordinate Vendor Relations for the group. Networking to find potential sponsors, identifying venues, and speakers for events. Working closely with Oracle leaders in the New York area, and nationally. Also working with luminaries in the field of Oracle technology.
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Database Consultant
Infovest21, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Investment Management industry)
January 1999 — Present (9 years 10 months)
Company disseminates news and information about the Hedge Fund Industry. Manage, respond to, and fulfill all outsourced technology needs including Unix Administration, MySQL Administration, Apache Administration, backup and recovery, and hosting service interfacing. In addition manage software patching of software stack including Linux, Apache, and MySQL. Managing security needs and issues. Monitoring systems 24x7x365. Also help steer companies technology needs, manage development effort in PHP and Perl, with various subcontracted designers, and programmers. Coordinate closely with client, and help explain and illucidate internet technologies, and possiblities.
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Founder, Senior Consultant
Heavyweight Internet Group
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 1996 — Present (12 years)
As founder of Heavyweight Internet Group, I handle all aspects of the business from lead generation & networking, to sales process, project scope & definition, and implementation. Our focus in Oracle Professional Services brings with it many challenges, from security of corporate data, to performance tuning and optimization of world-class terabyte size databases.
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Database Consultant
Money Media, Inc
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
August 2007 — May 2008 (10 months)
Setup administration and tuning of MySQL database systems and related applications. Setup of master/slave and master/master redunda 2000 nt systems. Diagnosing difficult performance issues, and tuning applications for growth.
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Database Consultant
Cyber Logics, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2006 — July 2007 (9 months)
Tuning MySQL database issues, and connectivity issues between webserver and database. Ongoing monitoring and maintenance of systems.
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Dotomi, Inc
Oracle Consultant
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
November 2006 — June 2007 (8 months)
Oracle systems architecting, and evaluation. Working with technology team on directions, and planning.
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Database & Unix Consultant
Missing Pixel, LLC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
May 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 6 months)
All server administration including Oracle, Linux, Apache, and Tomcat. Installation, upgrades, security patches, backups. 24x7x365 monitoring, and proactive support. Coordination with hosting provider. Close coordination with company management on technology needs and direction. System provisioning, and server migration as needed.
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Senior Database Administrator
Active Reasoning
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 5 months)
As Senior DBA at Active Reasoning, I frame the technology direction and focus of database and Oracle infrastructure. From tuning the application, to migrating the application and database to newer versions. I work closely with developers to help them better understand the Oracle architecture, and work with professional services to provide world class service to customers.
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Peoplesoft/Oracle Upgrade Consultant
ALM Media, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
July 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 7 months)
Managed ten enterprise Oracle databases
o Peoplesoft DBA
o Oracle BI
o various Oracle backed applications
o migration of 7 to 8.44 of Peoplesoft -
Oracle DBA, Migration Consultant
Workspeed, LLC
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
January 2003 — May 2003 (5 months)
Worked with management + database team to devise plan of migrating from 8i to 9i of the Oracle database. Coordinated testing of application, setup development environment, then performed migration of all data in Oracle. Also configured backups, and high availability environment with standby database/dataguard.
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Oracle Consultant
Marketing Technology Solutions
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 2002 — April 2003 (7 months)
Setup administration, tuning and backup/recovery of Oracle databases. Migrating to partitioned objects, tuning SQL, optimizing application interaction with Oracle. (Java/Tomcat) Worked closely with management, administrators and programmers, providing direction, and room for growth.
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Oracle DBA Consultant
StarMedia Network Inc.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
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Senior Oracle Consultant
Starmedia Communications
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
January 1998 — June 1999 (1 year 6 months)
As lead Oracle DBA, I was responsible for all aspects of the database infrastructure including backups, HA & maintenance. Ongoing monitoring and tuning of the database hardware, application, and various components of the software stack. Working with management and various departments during launches of new products, and helping developers write the best SQL to take advantage of all of Oracle's features.
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Oracle DBA Consultant
Community Connect, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 1 month)
Oracle Database administration, application tuning, resolving latency and network problems, working closely with application team, management, and helping with future direction, and scaling.
Education
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University at Buffalo
BS, Computer Science, September 1987 — January 1992
AP Computer Science (5)
- Activities and Societies:
- Association of Computer Machinery, New York Oracle User Group, International Oracle User Group
Additional Information
Websites:
Interests:
new technology, travel, culture, art, food, music.
Groups:
New York Oracle User Group, International Oracle User Group, New York Linux User Group, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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ORACLE PRO -
Database Developers and Architects Group
Honors:
Advanced Placement CS (5)
