{"id":2,"date":"2015-09-29T22:46:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T04:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aamirharoon.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-10-30T00:24:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T05:24:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aamirharoon.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Aamir Haroon. I am Oracle Certified Professional in 10g. Currently, I am working as a Principal Database Engineer and technical team lead with over 10 years of hands on experience with different RDBMS (Oracle, MS SQL Server, UDB DB2, Informix) and WebSphere Application Server Admin.<\/p>\n<p>My experience includes installing and configuring Oracle RAC 11gR2 and 19c, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c, Oracle Restart 19c, ASM, Oracle DataGuard, Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Application Express 19.<\/p>\n<p>My passions are working on SQL query performance tuning and Oracle database optimization. I am very efficient with Shell scripting and have written countless scripts to automate many jobs and to make my team members live&#8217;s easy. My goal is to help developers build elegant and efficient applications. I am a highly motivated person and able to work individually or within a team.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Life<\/h2>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was born in Hyderabad, Pakistan and moved to USA with my parents in 1993. Most of my life I&#8217;ve spent in and around Albany, NY. Currently, I reside in DFW (Dallas \/ Fort Worth) area with my wife and three handsome sons.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got my bachelor of science in Computer System Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2003. Job market wasn&#8217;t so hot back then so I started to work as Computer Operator and worked my way up. Thanks to a mentor who pushed me into the database world. 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