Professional, detail-oriented Database Administrator motivated to ensure high availability and optimum performance of a database system as part of a dynamic team. Always strive to learn and implement cutting edge technology and best practices.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Database Support Engineer
Imagine Communications
Thames Ditton
01.2014 - 04.2019
Provided DBA support for Oracle/Sql server production databases.
Responsible for Installation, Administration and Maintenance of Oracle/SQL Server Instances.
Setup Test, Dev, Staging and Production Environments.
Created Users and assign permissions based on the level of database access the user would need.Worked with developers in development of the database schema design using the Entity-relationship model as per user requirements
wrote and reviewed T-SQL Scripts for creating tables, constraints, triggers, stored procedures, views and functions for critical business applications
Established backup of SQL server 2012 by using SQL Server Agent Jobs for periodic backups
Updated statistics with full scan on a weekly basis to make sure that the query optimizer uses the most recent statistics
Used SQL Profiler, Execution Plan, Performance Monitor and DBCC Commands to find the slow running queries to get the performance metrics .
Installation and implementation of the Oracle 11R2 on Windows
Upgrading from Oracle 10.2.0.3. to Oracle 11.2.0.4.
Implement Production control and change management. Identify, monitor, recommend and implement changes under change control in production environment.
Advanced Backup and Recovery using Oracle’s RMAN software; used offline/online for recovery in a production environment via shell scripting.
Implemented and maintained Oracle 10g/11g Data Guard/standby databases.
Experience in Data Guard using Enterprise Manager, Data Guard Broker and also manually via sqlplus
Propagation from primary to standby via automated scripts, and sometimes use standby databases to immediately restore primary database. As its standard edition automatic standby maintenance is not available.
Mentor other DBA in effective use of RMAN software, and my scripts.
Experience with ‘graceful’ switchover and switchback between primary and standby databases by using Enterprise Manager, Data Guard Broker and also manually via sqlplus .
Database Support Analyst
Robert Walters London (Head Office)
London
10.2013 - 11.2014
· Installation and implementation of the Oracle 11R2 on Redhat 5.
Advanced Backup and Recovery using Oracle’s RMAN software; used offline/online for recovery in a production environment via shell scripting.
Implemented and maintained Oracle 10g/11g Data Guard/standby databases. Experience in Data Guard using Enterprise Manager, Data Guard Broker and also manually via sqlplus
Propagation from primary to standby via automated scripts, and sometimes use standby databases to immediately restore primary database. As its standard edition automatic standby maintenance is not available.
Mentor other DBA in effective use of RMAN software, and my scripts.
Experience with ‘graceful’ switchover and switchback between primary and standby databases by using Enterprise Manager, Data Guard Broker and also manually via sqlplus.
Replicated to a disaster recovery site for increased server manageability and availability.
Create and maintain materialized views.
Implementing and maintaining database security (create and maintain users, roles and assign privileges)
Fine tuning Initialization parameters, I/O, Memory and Operating System kernel parameters.
Managed appropriate use of freespace within tablespaces, reclaimed space whenever possible. Reorganized tables and indexes within databases when needed.
Monitored the production Oracle alert logs for database errors.
Monitored system resource availability and responded to system memory and data issues.
Configured OEM on all the database and Mentor other DBA in effective use of OEM.
Implemented dashboard to display all the backup by using power shell scripting.
Create various Stored Procedures and Database triggers.
Ongoing proactive database-level performance tuning, with a good working knowledge of Oracle internals.
Use Oracle scheduler to schedule database backup job, analyze specific schema job, maintain schema related data jobs and monitor schemas related data growth job. Schedule database statistics gathering jobs.
Restoring development/test databases for month end activities and testing.
Creating Service Request and monitoring Service request to resolve issues faced in production server. Performing root cause analysis of issues faced in production environment.
Experience with Oracle client Installation and upgrade.
Experience in working ITIL process to raise Change Requests, Resolving the incident example Cherwell Service management, HP Service manager.
Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science -
Visvesvaraya Technological University
India
10.2008
Skills
Database Design and Development
Installing, Configuring and Harding SQL Server/Oracle Instances
Implementing Oracle/MS SQL server security practices
Database Backup and Restores
Database Mirroring, LogShipping & Replication
Scheduling and monitoring SQL server jobs and maintenance plan
AlwaysOn Availability groups and Failover Clustering installation and Configuration
Senior Director of Partnerships and Business Development at Imagine CommunicationsSenior Director of Partnerships and Business Development at Imagine Communications