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BARAKA MAATU

BARAKA MAATU

Database Administrator
Dar Es Salaam,Tanzania

Summary

To find a challenging position to meet my competencies, capabilities, skills, education, and experience so I can learn, develop new skills and grow professionally.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Specialist, Database Administration

NMB Tanzania Plc
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
07.2023 - Current
  • Supporting database design, creation, and testing activities.
  • Managing the database availability and performance, including incident and problem management.
  • Performing database housekeeping, such as tuning, indexing, etc. Implementing security measures and frameworks, while ensuring compliance.
  • Defining and implementing event triggers that will alert on potential database performance or integrity issues.
  • Identifying, reporting, and managing database security issues, audit trails
  • Designing database backup, archiving, and storage strategy.
  • Installing upgrades and patches
  • Creating and maintaining database standards and policies.

MFS PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST

YAS TANZANIA(previous TIGO TANZANIA)
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
10.2020 - 06.2023

• Creating a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities, and solutions for a business, and preparing documentations of the products

• Defining business requirements and reporting them back to stakeholders.

• Managing and creating all testing procedures for

the products.

• Planning and monitoring of the products on development and live products.

SENIOR DBA AND MFS SUPPORT

ZANZIBAR TELECOM COMPANY LIMITED (ZANTEL TANZANIA
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
12.2018 - 10.2020

• Operational Tasks on Database, Mobile Financial Services (MFS) and Biometric Registration (BKYC).

Oracle database administrator

4C GROUP OF COMPANIES
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
08.2016 - 12.2018
  • Maintaining Vodacom Tanzania Databases and all activities related to database.

IT SUPPORT ENGINEER

TIGO TANZANIA (now YAS TANZANIA)
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
07.2015 - 08.2016
  • L1 & L2 support for Tigo Applications.

Education

Bachelor of Science -

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, WARANGAL
INDIA
07.2011 - 05.2015

Skills

ORACLE, Oracle Solaris, Microsoft

SQL Server, LINUX, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL & MariaDB, Dell’s PowerProtect Data Manager

Certification

• Oracle Certified Database 11g Administrator Certified Associate (OCA) –(1Z0-052)

• Oracle Certified Associate, Oracle Solaris 10 Operating System(1Z0-876)

• Oracle Database Associate 11g: SQL

Fundamentals 1(1Z0-051)


Other Trainings:

• Oracle Database Multitenant Architecture

• Dell’s PowerProtect Data Manager(PPDM)

• PostgreSQL Database Administration

• Oracle Database Exadata Administration

• Oracle Backups & Recovery

Oracle Enterprise Manager(OEM)

• Certified Ethical Hacking(CEH)


REFERENCES:

Mr. GILBERT ENGEBERT RURONONA

SENIOR SPECIALIST, ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT - NMB PLC, 

Email Address: gilbertbyr@gmail.com

Phone: +255 713 123 940


Mr. JOSHUA MSIGWA,

ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR - CRDB BANK PLC, 

Email Address: jem0712@gmail.com

Phone no: +255 712 503 106


Mr. MWITA KISUKA,

SPECIALIST, DC SERVERS INFRASTRUCTURE- NMB PLC, 

Email Address: mwitaibrahim@gmail.com

Phone no: +255 754 710 664

Timeline

Specialist, Database Administration

NMB Tanzania Plc
07.2023 - Current

MFS PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST

YAS TANZANIA(previous TIGO TANZANIA)
10.2020 - 06.2023

SENIOR DBA AND MFS SUPPORT

ZANZIBAR TELECOM COMPANY LIMITED (ZANTEL TANZANIA
12.2018 - 10.2020

Oracle database administrator

4C GROUP OF COMPANIES
08.2016 - 12.2018

IT SUPPORT ENGINEER

TIGO TANZANIA (now YAS TANZANIA)
07.2015 - 08.2016

Bachelor of Science -

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, WARANGAL
07.2011 - 05.2015
BARAKA MAATUDatabase Administrator