Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt has extensive experience in database administration, primarily as an Oracle DBA since March 1996 at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, where responsibilities include managing backup/recovery, deployments, patching, performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring, and providing on-call support. Prior to this role, Mike served as a 24x7 Production DBA at Covidien from 2007 to 2013, focusing on RMAN, new Oracle deployments, performance tuning, proactive monitoring, scripting, data loading, and Oracle upgrades. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lake Superior State University, completed between 1978 and 1983.