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
Job Experience:
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(PA) and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting(ZPB),
and Enterprise Performance Foundation(FEM).
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 on an ongoing basis for their Oracle Apps customers, on HP-UX and Solaris
ISS, Sweden: Upgraded from 11.5.4 to 11.5.9.
Interket: Continued SunRay support, and further set-up for new graphic programs
BT Ignite: Upgraded Oracle Apps(from 11.5.6), SAN recommendations and printer recommendations and setup.
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 modification of events for the Apps Event Manager, and the Oracle Portal.
Interket: Installed SunRay(Sun Solaris thin client) for this company, and their 4 “sister”-companies to use 1 generic set-up of ERP-system, and PC-set-up
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 Centre, Germany), ongoing consultancy for a 21-country install on HP9000, V2500. Multi-country, Multi-language 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: Consultancy for Upgrade on Hewlett-Packard, Applications 10.7 to 11i, and GEMMS to OPM, interfaces between GEMMS/OPM to bespoke applications. CLINTRACE/CLINTRIAL installation and set-up 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 set-up 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 set-up of online-backup.
2001-1996:
Lunds University, Sweden: Installation and set-up for 10.7, 11 and 11i on Digital UNIX(Compaq/Tru64), all technical set-up, installation and maintenance.
Bredbåndsbolaget, Sweden: Worked as a project manager for Bredbåndsbolaget, in defining and installation for Volvo Cars, Gothenburg, which included extensive co-operation 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 Open-VMS.
FLS Industries, Denmark: Oracle Applications installation on hybrid client-server solution: HP as a back-end 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.:1996-1992
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 flavours of UNIX and Open-VMS.
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 centre 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 Open-VMS installation for Apps 10.7/Apps 11/Apps 11i on both VAX’en and Alpha’s.
Oracle Danmark A/S 1991-1989: Started as pre-sales, but got quickly into internal systems where I took over responsibility 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, Macintoshes and various UNIX's
Upgrading from any version to the following, and/or next following number within the Oracle Applications.
This includes installing all necessary modules, e.g..:RDBMS, Reports, Forms Web-server 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 till 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
Open-VMS 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(i.e.. Close off the box, so that no-one can access the system), audit-trail implementation(i.e.. Who-has-done-what-when), ensure safe communications(sqlnet with encryption), secure Apache(https) for Oracle Apps.