Natik Ameen is one of the VST's Internal Oracle Experts, and Project Manager for the Free Oracle 12c Course of VST. He is an Oracle Production DBA, Certified RAC Expert (OCE), and a DBA track Certification trainer for over 15 years. He is an Oracle Evangelist and has presented at IOUG & UTOUG conferences on topics such as RAC, DataGuard and GoldenGate 12c. He is also an active blogger and published over 150 articles on Oracle Database 12c and Oracle GoldenGate.

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Worked as Oracle Production DBA and Oracle Instructor for over 15 years. Oracle Evangelist, Presenter and an active Community Blogger, having published over 150 articles at VitalSoftTech.com/articles. I am an Oracle Certified RAC Expert (OCE) and Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) for 8, 8i, 9i,10g & 11g Databases.

Highlights of my career:
• Primary for 11g OLTP RAC clusters, supporting Sony PlayStation Network
• Administered 3 Exadata X2/V2 Clusters with 100+ TB WHS databases for Sony America
• Migrated 60+ TB WHS to Exadata X2 Database Machine
• Setup complex Bi-directional Golden Gate Replication
• Achieved Oracle RAC Expert Certification
• Migrated HA Ecommerce application using GoldenGate
• Successfully upgraded 10g RAC to 11g RAC Clusters
• Presented Oracle RAC Tuning and Best Practices at IOUG 2009
• Managed 50 RAC clusters with 4 nodes, running 9i, 10g & 11g Databases for Sony Online
• Oracle 10g DBA Certification track Instructor for University of Southern California, San Diego
• Oracle 9i DBA Certification track Instructor for George Washington University, Virginia

Expert Skills : Oracle RAC, Exadata, GoldenGate, RMAN and Performance Tuning