Hermela Zelalem
About Hermela Zelalem
Hermela Zelalem is an Oracle Database Administrator at Teleflex Incorporated in Maple Grove, MN, with over 7 years of IT experience and expertise in Oracle database design, administration, and systems analysis.
Title and Current Position
Hermela Zelalem is currently serving as an Oracle Database Administrator at Teleflex Incorporated in Maple Grove, MN. In this capacity, she is responsible for overseeing and managing the company's Oracle databases, ensuring their performance, stability, and security.
Previous Work Experience
Hermela Zelalem has an extensive professional background in IT and database management. Before her current role at Teleflex Incorporated, she worked at Jelani Consulting, LLC as an Oracle Database Administrator in Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area. Prior to that, she served as an Application Support Specialist at St. Jude Medical (now Abbott) in Plymouth, MN. Her career started at the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, where she worked as an IT Business Specialist for four years in Ethiopia.
Education and Expertise
Hermela Zelalem studied at Jimma University. She possesses over seven years of experience in IT and related fields, with a specialization of five years in Oracle database design, administration, and systems analysis. Her expertise includes proficiency in various Oracle database versions (10g, 11g, and 12c), as well as skills in database creation, user management, data encryption, backup and recovery, and high availability solutions.
Technical Skills and Specializations
Hermela Zelalem is skilled in working with various operating systems, including Linux, UNIX, SOLARIS, IBM, and Windows. She is proficient in database creation using DBCA, and has extensive experience with migration using Export/Import Data pump utilities. Her expertise extends to backup and recovery processes using Recovery Manager (RMAN), performance tuning, and monitoring with AWR, ADDM, ASH, Tuning Advisors, and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) 12c.
Responsibilities and Contributions
In her role as an Oracle Database Administrator, Hermela Zelalem performs a wide range of day-to-day DBA tasks. These responsibilities include performance tuning, system security, database installation, configuration, patching, and ensuring overall system performance and stability. She is responsible for quarterly patches, daily incremental backups, and weekly full backups using RMAN. Additionally, she provides AWR, ADDM, and database health check reports to information owners and recommends solutions to improve database performance.