Harvey Flinn

817.366.7209 (mobile)
Harvey Flinn@gmail.com
Technical Specialist
Over 20 years consulting with BEA/Oracle products includes customer profiles in banking, healthcare,
financial, telecom and numerous other industries as well as the U.S. Federal Government. Areas of
expertise include Tuxedo, WebLogic Server and Oracle (AquaLogic) Service Bus. This includes Tuxedo
architecture, design, development, configuration, testing and performance tuning; WebLogic Server
(WLS) configuration, JMS, JDBC, LDAP, WTC, clustering, tuning and troubleshooting; Oracle Service
Bus (OSB) installation and configurations; WebLogic Server Scripting Tool (WLST) configurations for both
WLS and OSB domains. Operating systems have been Unix (HP, AIX, Solaris), Linux, Windows, etc.

Recent certifications include:

Oracle Certified Implementation Specialist in WebLogic 12c
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud 2014 Certified Implementation Specialist.

Work Experience
SITA, Global Services / Data Center Operations, Technical Specialist (Contractor), 03/2016 - 03/2017
SITA, Global Services / Data Center Operations, Technical Specialist (Contractor), 10/2014 - 01/2016
Oracle Corporation, Advanced Technology Services, Senior Principal Consultant, 10/2011 - 10/2014
Oracle Corporation, National Security Group, Senior Principal Consultant, 6/2008 10/2011
BEA Systems, Federal Region Consulting, Principal Consultant, 8/1997 - 6/2008
Dynasty Technologies, Software Engineer and Contractor, 11/1994 - 8/1997

Recent Skills Highlight

BEA/Oracle Products:

Tuxedo 4.x - 12c on Unix, Linux, Windows, etc

Tuxedo SALT on Unix, Linux
Tuxedo TSAM on Unix, Linux
Tuxedo eLink Adapter for Mainframe SNA, TCP, OSITP on Unix
WebLogic Server 8.x - 12c ( plus WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) ) on Unix, Linux, Windows
AquaLogic Service 2.6 on Unix
Oracle Service Bus 10.x - 12c on Unix, Linux, Windows

Project Experience
SITA 03/2016 - 03/2017
Technical Specialist (Contractor)

Provided support with the Tuxedo migration on Sun Solaris from one data center to a second data center
and from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10. The first data center was being shutdown. This was for Tuxedo 10.0 in
the DEV/QA/PROD environments and with zero down time.

Provided support with the Tuxedo upgrade from 10.0 to 11g in the new data center for the
DEV/QA/PROD environments and with zero down time.

Provided support for Tuxedo upgrade 11g rolling patch #120 to rolling patch #159 in 5 domains in
DEV/QA/PROD.
SITA 10/2014 - 01/2016
Technical Specialist (Contractor)

Provided support with the Tuxedo migration on Sun Solaris from one data center to a second data center
and from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10. The first data center was being shutdown. This was for Tuxedo 10.0 in
the DEV/QA/PROD environments and with zero down time.

Provided support with the Tuxedo upgrade from 10.0 to 11g in the new data center for the
DEV/QA/PROD environments and with zero down time.

Provided WebLogic WLST support for installing/upgrading the WebLogic 10.x domains to WebLogic 12c
in a Linux environment. This included installing/creating domains for OSB and FMW/SOA.

Oracle America 6/2008 - 10/2014

Senior Principal Consultant

As part of Oracle National Security Group (6/2008 - 10/2011) delivered WebLogic consulting services to
both government and non-government agencies/companies. This included WebLogic and Oracle Service
Bus products. The OS environments were primarily Unix, Linux and Windows with an Oracle database
backend. All consulting activities were performed at the customer site.

As part of Oracle Advanced Technology Services (10/2011 - 10/2014) delivered both Tuxedo and
WebLogic consulting services to a variety of different customers in both the United States and Canada.
This was primarily on Unix (HPUX, Solaris, AIX) and Linux environments.

The Tuxedo consulting engagements have included:

providing Tuxedo performance tuning and load/volume testing as needed
providing troubleshooting assistance as needed
providing Tuxedo/SALT review and assisted with volume testing

The WebLogic consulting engagements have included:

installation and creation of the WebLogic Server (WLS) domains using scripts for the "silent
install" and supplied programs for the GUI install
creating WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) scripts for WLS domain creation and configuration
configuration of the domains for JDBC/JMS/LDAP/WTC services using WLST
providing troubleshooting assistance as needed

The Oracle Service Bus consulting engagements have included:

installation and creation of the Oracle Service Bus (OSB) domain
providing troubleshooting assistance as needed

BEA Systems, Inc. 8/1997 - 6/2008

Principal Consultant

As part of BEA Professional Services Consulting, South region, delivered Tuxedo consulting services to
over 80 different customers in both North and South America. Customer industries included government
agencies, telecommunications, financial, banking, health care and numerous other industries.

As part of BEA Professional Services Consulting, Federal region, delivered Tuxedo and WebLogic
consulting services to both government and non-government agencies/companies. This included BEA
WebLogic and AquaLogic Service Bus products. The OS environments were primarily Unix (HPUX,
Solaris, AIX, Tandem) and Linux with an Oracle database backend. All consulting activities were
performed at the customer site.
The Tuxedo consulting engagements have included:
configuring the eLink adapters for SNA and for OSITP
providing Tuxedo service code review and architecture review/assessment
providing Tuxedo performance tuning and load/volume testing as needed
migrating a Top End application to a Tuxedo application
providing troubleshooting assistance as needed
providing Tuxedo/SALT review and assisted with volume testing

The WebLogic consulting engagements have included:

installation and creation of the WebLogic Server (WLS) domains
configuration of the domains for JDBC/JMS/LDAP/WTC services
creating WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) scripts for WLS domain creation and configuration
providing troubleshooting assistance as needed

The AquaLogic Service Bus consulting engagements have included:

installation and creation of the AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB) domain
configuration of the domain for a foreign (WebMethods) JMS service
configuration of the ALSB "pipe line" to achieve the desired output
providing troubleshooting assistance as needed

Dynasty Technologies 11/1994 - 8/1997

Principal Consultant

Designed, developed, tested and maintained software in support of the Dynasty development
environment. The Dynasty program is an object-oriented software development environment for creating
and maintaining business applications. Dynasty generates C source code that runs on various
platforms. Work was done primarily in the communications area; maintaining the TCP/IP code and
integrating BEA Tuxedo into the Dynasty environment. The generated code was tested in the various
environments.

The generated source from Dynasty can be targeted for Solaris, AIX, HPUX, Tandem NONSTOP
KERNEL (Posix), SGI, Windows 3.5, Windows NT, OS/2, and the MAC computer. Supported databases
include Oracle, Sybase CTLIB and DBLIB, DB2 and ODBC.

Other Accomplishments
Education:

Bachelor of Science, Physics, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA

Master of Science, Physics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Certifications:

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud 2014 Certified Implementation Specialist

Oracle WLS 12c Certified Implementation Specialist

BEA WLS 8.1 Certified Developer

BEA WLS 8.1 Certified Administrator
Sun Java 2 Certified Programmer

Recognition / Awards:

BEA 1999 President's Award

BEA Federal Outstanding Performance FY '05