Peter McLarty

Current

Consultant - Oracle Technical Assurance at Queensland Health
Senior Consultant at Pacific DBMS Pty Ltd

Past

Consultant DBA at Central Queensland University
Technical Consultant at Technology One Pty Ltd
Technical Consultant at Mincom Ltd

System Administrator/DBA at Astracon
IT Coordinator at DayDawn Pty Ltd

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Education

Central Queensland University
Central Queensland University

Connections

117 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Peter McLarty’s Summary

Worked with Oracle, SQL Server and before that with Progress databases. I have extensive experience working on Unix and Linux based systems and was an administrator of those systems for 4 years
Designed and built LANS and WANs and have some experience with Cisco equipment.
Great troubleshooter and very good at performance tuning as I have a good understanding of the technology stack from SANs to the database to the application server.
Worked in large scale projects implementing software.
Experience with Ellipse and Peoplesoft
Architected applications

Peter McLarty’s Specialties:

Oracle DBA, Linux and Unix Admin, SQL Server DBA, Progress DBA, Project management. Equipment purchasing, Budget administration

Peter McLarty’s Experience

Consultant - Oracle Technical Assurance

Queensland Health

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )
Senior Consultant

Pacific DBMS Pty Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Oracle Database consulting is the primary business, we also do peripheral work around the products such as Peoplesoft.
We do a lot of work with Oracle Application or E-Business Suite
Diverse group of skills required and good consulting roles.
I work across all Oracle Technologies doing architecture, design, and technical assurance as part of ITIL services
Consultant DBA

Central Queensland University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

February 2007 — November 2007 (10 months)

Oracle DBA on Oracle 10G RAC Extended cluster with Oracle Application Server and Peoplesoft Student Admin.

Wrote Perl script to allow refresh of databases across environments using RMAN to clone databases. This code was distributed initiated from a central server as a script scheduled from Grid Control. The processes would then shutdown the tuxedo on the application server along with the database to be cloned into. It then refreshed the database along with the COBOL code.

Developed a technical testing plan to load test the system when built using primarily open source tools. This was to test the entire infrastructure so was web testing the application.
Assisted to develop a DR strategy for the new servers
Assisted with failure testing of ASM across the extended cluster
Technical Consultant

Technology One Pty Ltd

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 5 months)

Implementing Technology One software along with SQL Server and Oracle troubleshooting. Providing Technical Help Desk services for Technology One clients.
Not all that challenging at times, not much growth scope in this role
Good company, great people
Technical Consultant

Mincom Ltd

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2001 — 2005 (4 years )
System Administrator/DBA

Astracon

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2000 — June 2001 (8 months)

This was a great job in a start-up, sadly it got trashed in the dotcom crash when the Telco's were hammered.
Did a lot of Unix and Linux System administration, Here is where I got my start in Oracle Databases.

Sadly the company is no more
IT Coordinator

DayDawn Pty Ltd

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years )

Peter McLarty’s Education

Central Queensland University

2007 — 2010 (expected)
Central Queensland University

Bachelor , Information Technology , 1993 — 2002

External Study is a bitch !!!

Additional Information

Peter McLarty’s Websites:

Peter McLarty’s Interests:

Football, Rugby Union, Camping, Travelling, Management Consulting, Oracle Consulting, Asian culture and business

Peter McLarty’s Groups:

ACS, ACM, IEEE, AUSOUG

Mincom Alumni
The Official IEEE Group
Security Crew
IEEE GOLD
AUSOUG
MIMS/Ellipse Community
ISACA
Australian Computer Society Inc
Australian IT Industry
PRINCE2 Project Management & MSP Programme Management + Subgroups
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Oracle Contractors [9,000+]
Tweeple
Ozzie Oracle
Australian Computer Society - Queensland Members Forum
CompTIA Certified Professionals Group
IEEE Queensland Section
PROJECT in a box Users Group
CQUniversity Alumni (graduates)
WOT (Web Of Trust)
Oracle Technology Network
Oracle Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC)
Africa Oracle Professionals Network
Oracle Partner Network ANZ