Curriculum Vitae:
Name: Niels Schjøtt Eliasen
Born: 24. September 1957 in Munke-Bjergby, Denmark
Citizenship: Danish
Languages: English, German and French (Scandinavian languages goes without saying).
High School: Sorø Akademi´s School 1974-1977
Military Service: Royal Danish Airforce 1977-1978
Education: Master of Science(Economics)
Copenhagen Business School: 1978-1984
Website: http://www.delfi-konsult.com
Mail: mailto:nse@delfi-konsult.com
Experience:
2009:
Customer
in Hamburg: WebCache installation, setup for Loadbalancing
and Failover.
Customer in Oslo: Transition to new multiple server setup,
and preparation for Fault-tolerant environment.
Customer in Stockholm: Setup of Field Service.
2008:
Customer
In Hamburg: overall configuration plan for
“unification” for all installations(Hamburg,
Antwerpen, Houston, Singapore Dubai and Manila), installed
WebServices, Linux overview/unification
Customer in Oslo, moving from one outsourcing partner to
another, moving installation from a one-tier solution to a
three tier solution.
Moved from Jinitiator to pure Java, setup of all printers
Much interaction with end-users due to the impact of change
from Jinitiator to pure Java.
2007:
Customer
In the Netherlands: Installation of R12, upgrade from
11.5.10.2, moving from one outsourcing-partner to another,
tuning of 11.5.10.2 and R12 on Linux. OEM upgrade, and
Linux tuning.
Copenhagen: Performance analysis, troubleshooting, and
growth estimate calculations for their Oracle Apps
customers, on HP-UX and Solaris
Customer in Norway: Java tuning and optimization, and move
to another outsourcing-partner.
Customer in Sweden: Service Contracts and Projects
implementation
Customer in the Netherlands: Move from internal systems to
outsourcingpartner.
2006:
CSC,
Copenhagen: Support on a ongoing basis for their Oracle
Apps customers, on HP-UX and Solaris
ISS Norway: Upgraded from 11.5.7 to 11.5.10.2
ISS Sweden: Upgraded from 11.5.9 to 11.5.10.2
Installed new modules: Projects and Enterprise Planning and
Budgeting, and Enterprise Performance Foundation.
KJV: Upgraded Tru64 from 4.0f to 5.1b, and upgraded Oracle
RDBMS from 7.3.4 to 9.2.0.6
Interaccess BV: Upgraded ATG, start/stop scripts for
various customers,
2005:
CSC,
Copenhagen: Helped their Oracle Apps customers, on HP-UX
and Solaris, with particular emphasis on performance and
optimization
ISS, Sweden: Upgraded from 11.5.4 to 11.5.9.
Interket: Continued SunRay support, and further setup for
new graphic programs
BT Ignite: Upgraded Oracle Apps(from 11.5.6), SAN
recommendations and printer recommendations and setup.
Hochtief: Worked on the implementation of Oracle Apps
11.5.9 and implementation of Oracle Collaboration Suite.
2004:
CSC,
Copenhagen: Helped migrate for ISS Norway from the previous
outsourcing company to CSC, for their 11.5.7 installation
and Apps 10.7
InterAccess B.V: Outsourcing company, assisting in
migration of Tyco from IBM AIX, to RedHat Linux.
Installation of 9i RAC on Linux, installation and
modication of events for the Apps Event Manager, and the
Oracle Portal.
Also assisted in setting up LoadRunner and performance
monitoring.
Interket: Installed SunRay(Sun Solaris thin client) for
this company, and their 4 “sister”-companies to
use 1 generic setup of ERP-system, and PC-setup
ISS Sweden, ongoing consultancy as APPS DBA, advisor
regarding future development, sysadmin(in particular
analysis of the HR part)
2003:
ISS
Sweden, ongoing consultancy, liaison between customer and
outsourcing-company.
Upgraded database from 8.1.7 to 8.1.7.4(64 bits).
Reorg of database
Performance analysis and improvement on Solaris 8, database
server: 15000-series and forms/web-server(Sun 4550).
Ongoing recommendation for improvements on Hardware,
Solaris and Oracle/Oracle Apps.
Installation/tuning and error-weeding specifically of
Supply-chain.
UPS (European Center, Germany), ongoing consultancy for a
21-country install on HP9000, V2500. Multicountry,
Multilanguage install
Performance analysis, recommendations and implementations.
Analysis and recommendations for Oracle Apps 11i(ERP:GL,
AP, AR, HR, PO) install.
BT Ignite, Sweden, ongoing consultancy on all DBA tasks:
Upgrade(from 11.5.1 to 11.5.8) on Solaris, Interface
modules to bespoke applications both ERP and CRM(AP, AR,
OK, OKS). Upgrade from 11.5.4 through 11.5.8, Interface
modules between OKS bespoke applications both for ERP and
CRM.
2003-2001:
Ferring
Denmark: Upgrade on HP, Applications 10.7 to 11i, and GEMMS
to OPM, interfaces between GEMMS/OPM to bespoke
applications. CLINTRACE/CLINTRIAL installation and setup
for this pharmaceutical company
Skanska Sweden: Consultancy as Oracle Applications DBA ,
relating to latching issues on Solaris 2.6 and Oracle RDBMS
8.1.7.0, “”walk-through” of existing
setup as to recommendations on performance-improvements and
hardware, Solaris 2.6 to 8 transition, Oracle 11.5.4 to
11.5.8 migration, and Oracle Projects issues.
TeleNordia Sweden: Ongoing consultancy; upgrading Oracle
Applications from 11.5.1 through 11.5.5, upgraded the RDBMS
from 8.1.7.3 to 9.2R2, installation/and setup of
online-backup.
2001-1996:
Lunds
University, Sweden: Installation and setup for 10.7, 11 and
11i on Digital Unix(Compaq/Tru64), all technical setup,
installation and maintenance.
Bredbåndsbolaget, Sweden: Worked as a project manager for
Bredbåndbolaget, in defining and installation for Volvo
Cars, Gothenburg, which included extensive cooperation
together with the Volvo IT, in setting up and installation
of WebSphere on AIX and Solaris. This furthermore required
extensive in-depth work on the WebSphere part as this had
to work together with the Oracle Databases on the part of
Bredbåndsbolaget in Lund. This task lasted most part of
2001.
Department of Education, Denmark: Chief technical advisor
for all Oracle Applications installation on all major
universities in Denmark; as diverse environments as: HPUX
9-10, Solaris and Digital OpenVMS.
FLS Industries, Denmark: Oracle Applications installation
on hybrid client-server solution: HP as a backend and
Solaris for the front. Consultancy in areas of performance
improvements, Concurrent Manager issues(locking),
archive-and purge.
Before
I started as an independent I worked for Oracle:
Oracle
EMEA(beginning of 1996): Oracle EMEA is the common European
consultancy division where I headed the Multi-Org
Beta(which forms the basis for Oracle Applications)
programme for all European customers.
Oracle
Deutschland Gmbh.:1992-1996
Started as a DBA with BP, and stayed in that position for
six months. In this position as an APPS DBA I worked
extensively with testing for Apps programs, reports, forms,
etc.
After that I took over as the “MasterDBA” with
Oracle, Hamburg on the DBA/Financials DBA front, meaning I
got all the complex installations and upgrades for all
Customers in the Northern part of Germany.
This includes various flavors of Unix and OpenVMS.
I had a position of heading all Technical personnel for
Financials installations for all of Germany.
As a short description of the customers and installations I
have taken part in: DBA at BP Hamburg(single support center
for all European Financials installations, Installation of
Parallel Server at European Airbus in Hamburg for their big
VAX/Alpha cluster, Installation of Oracle Financials at
Hamburg Hafen, based on a Stratus Computer(Totally fault
tolerant system, 24-hour system), Installation of Oracle
Financials at UPS Deutschland, very critical customer, as
NLS support had to installed for Germany and Austria and
still had to have American appearance for the users in New
Jersey, and a number of other installations all very
complex due to Oracle Financials. As well did installation
and ongoing support for IKEA(Amiko) in Hamburg on the
OpenVMS installation for Apps 10.7/Apps 11/Apps 11i on both
VAX’en and Alpha’s.
Oracle Danmark A/S 1991-1989: Started as presales, but got
quickly into internal systems where I took over
responsability for all in house systems.
This constituted a number of VAX’en and a few
Unix-boxes.
Was sent to California for three months for the first
implementation of Oracle Applications(Oracle Internal) as a
part of the BP-Europe project(first wave).
TPI A/S 1989-1988: Expatriated as a consultant for this
Consultancy company to Switzerland, where I was part of the
installation of a major production plant system.
All developed in SQL*Forms 2.3, RPT SQL*Menu and a number
of C-programs, based on an Oracle Database and VAX/VMS.
Christian Rovsing of 1984 1988-1986: Internal systems,
where I was responsible for in house developed
systems(mainly HR/Personnel), developed in ADABAS/Natural
II.
Made a number of Database Designs for in house packages.
Mainly on Mainframe, but had also the first contact with
VMS on a VAX.
Danish Esso A/S 1986-1984:
Systems Engineer(Personnel Package/HR),
Systems Engineer/Part time Project leader for Fixed Assets
project (McCormack & Dodge, FA), all on Mainframe(IBM
3033 and TSO and MARK IV).
Project-leader for calibrations of Jet fuel(based on a
package from Esso Italiana developed in Basic).
Task descriptions:
Oracle
Applications:
Installation
of version(and with various NLS settings, German, Swedish,
French, Belgian, Finnish, Spanish):
8.6
9.3.6
9.4.2
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.6
10.6.1 Smart Client
10.7
10.7 NCA
11.5.1
11.5.2
11.5.3
11.5.4
11.5.6
11.5.8
11.5.9
11.5.10
This includes also a number of different clients,
PC’s, Macintosh’es and various Unix’es
Upgrading from
any
version to the following, and/or next following number
within the Oracle Applications.
This includes installing all necessary modules, eg.:RDBMS,
Reports, Forms Webserver etc. Also included in this is
actual programming within Forms and Reports for special
sysadmin tasks.
GEMMS/OPM : Installation of various versions of GEMMS
3.x(both client-server and character) and upgrading up til
4.2.x, and integrating these versions with Oracle
Applications. Installation, tuning and
“quality-servicing” of OPM.
Hosts:
Unix:
SunOS, Solaris 8, 9, 10
HP-UX 9x, 10x, 11
Digital Unix 3.2, 4.0x
Siemens Sinix
Pyramid OSX
AIX
Sequent PTX
Stratus VOS
VMS:
Digital VMS 5.x
OpenVMS 6.x
MVS:
TSO
RACF
JCL
IMS
Upgrading from just about any version to a following
version
PC:
The usual stuff..... Microsoft
Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD
Macintosh:
System 7x-
Rhapsody
LinuxPPC
Security/Auditing/VMS:
Have worked for the following Telecom companies:
Telia(Sweden)
TeleNor(Norway and Sweden)
Sonera(Finland)
TDC(Denmark)
BT Ignite
VMS:
Worked
on VMS for: IKEA, Lunds University, TDC, Kodak Diagnostics,
Airbus Industie(Hamburg), Rovsing(Denmark),
FERAG(Schwitzerland). All in all: more than 15 years
experience on VMS
Audit/Security:
Ensure
safe environments(ie. Close off the box, so that noone can
access the system), audit-trail implementation(ie.
Who-has-done-what-when), ensure safe communications(sqlnet
with encryption), secure Apache(https) for Oracle Apps.