Freeman is the world’s leading provider of integrated services for face-to-face marketing events, including expositions, conventions, corporate events, and exhibits. Founded in 1927, the company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with offices over in 40 cities across North America. The company remains privately held by the Freeman family and over 4,200 employee owners through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. In 2007, Freeman produced over 3,900 trade shows, including 103 (51.5%) of the largest 200 U.S. trade shows, and over 10,000 other events of all sizes worldwide.

The company’s full-service solutions include event design and production, communications content development, execution, and measurement; logistics planning and on-site coordination; large-scale digital graphics and banners; furnishings, flooring, and décor; event staging; audio, video, lighting, projection, digital services and presentation management; simultaneous interpretation; entertainment; theatrical and heavy equipment rigging; exhibit construction and program management; installation and dismantle services; electrical and utilities; global freight transportation and material handling services.

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Do you enjoy working building and maintaining databases?

Do you have experience in upgrading the Oracle DB from 9i to 11g?

Are you looking for a company where YOU can be an integral part of our DBA team?

If so, then please continue reading!

Freeman employees operate on a simple premise: anything is possible if you set your mind to it. It's this attitude that makes Freeman the leader in the exposition and events industry and that makes Freeman a great place to work. As a family- and employee- owned company, we continue to delight our clients with outstanding service and unparalleled resources- in cities across North America.

Who are we looking for?

An experienced Senior Oracle DBA for our Dallas based Corporate Headquarters who will perform installations, architectural analysis, oversee implementation of Oracle databases, do performance tuning of databases including designing, creating, modifying scripts and/or Oracle procedures/packages for related back office applications. Other duties include:

• Leading the upgrading from current state (9i) to future state (11g) and the architecture / design of the Oracle DB engine.
• Analyzing and explaining plans to ensure the highest efficiency is being met before being put into production and continue monitoring post-install.
• Documenting by creating and maintaining database standards, procedures to develop a consistent, cost effective set of services for the IT department
• Collaborating with the App/Dev department to ensure applications, queries and DB engine are optimal and develop archive procedures
• Providing database support to development & QA as well as create documentation to triage incidents and escalation to support teams within the organization
• Collaborating with Service Delivery DBA (Operations team) to ensure alignment of DB planned changes for optimal support.
• Providing on-call support for the production operations team and participate in software deployments

Still Interested? You will need to have at least eight (8) years of Oracle Database Administration experience on UNIX platforms with the proven ability to create, execute and troubleshoot Unix scripts as well as demonstrate DBA level experience with shell scripting, UNIX and Linux administration. A Bachelors Degree in MIS, Computer Science or related discipline is preferred. Proven experience in Oracle 9i, 10g installation, upgrades as well as heavy customer interface and communication skills are a must. Recent experience in installation, configuration and support, upgrade of Oracle 9i to 11g is preferred. Other required skills include an excellent knowledge of network applications such as FTP, Telnet, SSH, SFTP, thorough knowledge of the Oracle framework and architecture, Oracle patch management and patch migration processes and experience in with OEM, TOAD, PL/SQL Developer, Oracle grid-control. Oracle certification(s) preferred

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, a 401K plan, and one of the largest privately held Employee Stock Ownership Plans in the US.

Now that you have read this far, it is time to submit an online application at www.freemanco.com . Click on Careers and see what your potential possibilities are along with more detailed information about our company.

We are an equal opportunity employer and affirmatively seeks diversity in its workforce. We conduct background checks and drug testing on all applicants.

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Freeman Length: 2:40 min