Kyle Hailey

1039 Portola Dr

San Francisco, Ca 94127

kyle_hailey@perfvision.com

(415)341-3430

 

Profile

Recognized worldwide as a performance and tuning expert 
Nearly 20 years experience 
Passionate and knowledgeable
Independent and self-motivated 
Excellent Communication Skills and great with people

Education

B.A., Physics with minor in Computer Science and Mathematics, Cornell University

1988

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA

Program Manager SewSweSS7/08 – present

  • Manage the design and development teams on 4 products covering enterprise monitoring, performance tuning, change management and SQL development.
  • Set the product backlogs content and priorities in relation to customer demands, market opportunities and industry trends.
  • Responsible for specifications on  UI, data collection, aggregation, analysis and automation solutions.

 

Independent Consultant Portland, OR (and San Francisco, CA)

 (Consulting) 4/06 – 7/08

  • Wrote specifications and designs for performance monitoring tools (http://ashmasters.com/)
  • Developed a set of Oracle performance tuning classes delivered around the world for Oracle Corporation.
  • Consulted on strategic performance issues for clients.

 

Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA (and Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA

Director of Performance Products 4/05 – 4/06

  • Product Manager for Embarcadero's performance products managing 2 development teams.
  • Designed graphical screens, algorithms and data collection methods for Embarcadero’s performance monitoring tools.
  • Researched customer needs and sales requirements to produce product specifications for development, set timelines and determine resources allocation.

 

Oracle, San Francisco, CA

 

Oracle Corporation, San Francisco, CA

Director (Principle Member of Consulting Staff) 7/02 – 4/05

  • Designed graphical screens, algorithms and data collection methods for an Oracle Enterprise Manager.
  • Made contributions in the way performance analysis and data collection is thought of in the database industry through the design in Oracle Enterprise Monitor 10g.
  • Advised other development groups on products related to Oracle such as SQL statement tuning and real-time monitoring.

 

 

Quest Software, Irvine, CA

Oracle Domain Expert 7/01 – 7/02

  • Responsible for reviewing, testing, implementing, and designing rules for an Oracle expert system to provide DBA's with advice on improving the performance and usability of their databases base on statistics collected from the database.
  • Advised other development groups on products related to Oracle such as SQL statement tuning and real-time monitoring.
  • Recommend new algorithms for collecting and analyzing data and provided graphical screen design and usability specifications.

 

Commerceflow, San Francisco, CA

 

Commerceflow, San Francisco, CA

Senior DBA 3/00 – 7/01

  • Managed the DBA team.
  • Responsible for installation, design, backup, tuning, monitoring, replication, data extraction and reporting on all databases at company, consisting of the live ASP web site database as well as internal development, testing and reporting databases.
  • Coded in Python a daemon that interfaced between the application code and the Oracle database to managed and allocate database connections from a pool of permanently connected database sessions.

 

 

Envision, Santa Fe, NM

Independent Consultant 12/99 – 3/00

  • Resolved performance problems and monitored production databases on UNIX (LINUX, Solaris), NT and VMS and provided mentoring and training.

 

Oracle, San Francisco, CA

 

Oracle, San Francisco, CA

Senior Technical Analyst 9/98 – 9/99

  • Member of Server Technology’s kernel development group.
  • Responsible for performance improvement of the Oracle kernel code.
  • Configuration architect for Oracle's performance test databases, at VIP client sites and for strategic benchmarks.

 

 

Oracle, Paris, France

Gold Support DBA 5/95 – 9/98

  • Worked as a member of a technical swat team on crises management, performance tuning and recovery of corrupt databases for  Oracle’s largest European customers such as France Telecom, Air France, Renault, Total Gaz, Bougues, Coface, Society General, SNCF, CNAM, Aerospacial, etc.
  • Ran strategic performance benchmarks at Digital Europe ranging from terabyte data warehouse, thousand user online transactions, multiple gigabytes pure memory cached databases for client such as the European Community, Telcom Italia, Swiss PTT, PTT Denmark etc.

 

 

Oracle, Paris, France

Oracle Support 3/93 – 5/95

  • Provided onsite DBA support to Perot/Europe car on Oracle OPS database with a 3000 concurrent user load (largest Oracle Unix application at the time)
  • Began working on technical support calls in French 6 weeks after arriving in France without knowing French when arriving.

 

 

Oracle, Redwood Shores, CA

System Administrator Consultant 08/92 – 01/93

  • Managed and configured the new Alpha OSF Machines.

 

 

Oracle, Redwood Shores, CA

Technical Analyst 1/92 – 8/92

  • Ported with make, cc, and dbx the full C code source of v6 and v7 database code sets including the oracle server as well tools such as reports and forms onto Ultrix, debugging platform specific problems.

 

 

Oracle, Redwood Shores, CA

Oracle Support 8/90 – 1/92

  • Handled Oracle support issues on UNIX platforms.

 

 

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

DBA 1/89 – 1/90

  • DBA and architect for Computational Computing Group database.

 



professional achievements

·         Written and freely distributed own Oracle monitoring tool with context sensitive documentation on Oracle statistics.  The monitor and documentation is available on http://ASHMASTERS.com web site.

·         Redesigned Enterprise Manager 10g performance screens and methodology (Patent: 20060059205) 

·         Contributing author on Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table  having written a chapter on how to access Oracle performance data without SQL using C code to attach and read the live database memory structures.

·         Technical editor for Oracle Wait Interface

·         Speaker at NOCOUG, NYOUG, RMOUG, HOTSOS, Oracle Open World, Miracle Forum in Denmark