Senior SQL Server DBA
IT People Gulf
Total years of experience :12 years, 3 Months
IT People has been offering end-to-end IT outsourcing & staffing solutions to companies for two decades. Its clientele arsenal includes several Fortune 500 and Global MNC's.
Accomplishments:
• Spearheaded installation & configuration of all SQL Server versions (2000 to 2016); dexterously managed 30+ production instances, leveraging efficient and cost-effective business intelligence and data warehousing technologies.
• Successfully Installed and configured:
- 3 node HA Cluster with SQL Server 2012 in production environment.
- Oracle 12c on Windows 2012 in test and production environment.
- SharePoint 2013 and integrate with SQL reporting services.
• Instrumental in creating Ahli United Bank’s databases, establishing and maintaining sound policies for data security, backup and recovery.
• Accredited for managing DB2 database on windows system & configuring HADR (Synchronous) for DB2 databases from Production to DR DB server.
• Drove the database engineering best practice, governance and standards. Configured Always-on, Replication, Mirroring and Log Shipping for High Availability.
• Recognized for delivering the highest possible quality of support and resolving database-related production issues pertaining to data warehouse DB performance, cluster failover issues & Disk high IOs.
• Instrumental in mitigating time taken to generate reconciliation reports from more than a minute to less than 40 seconds through SQL tuning and improvement.
• Drastically increased database performance by reducing utilization of server resources from more than 65% to 45%.
• Delivered vital consistency through introduction and implementation of enterprise-wide set of database standards. Migrated All DB servers from TSM to CommVault Backup system.
Key Responsibilities:
Database/Data Services Expert
• Commanding transformation of DB management, operations and support, reduced costs, enhance performance, high availability and quality of infrastructure.
• Comprehending business requirement, transforming the same into business solutions and design the database relational model.
• Creating SQL Server audits process & policies, to monitor activity on SQL databases, ensuring databases were in compliance and met Service Level requirements of the clients.
Data Infrastructure Owner
• Provide leadership and direction for Installation and configuration of Oracle 12c on Windows environment.
• Facilitating application of leading- edge technology - installation and configuration of 2 to 8 node Clusters Active / Active as well as Active / Passive mode of SQL Servers.
• Mastered Database Administration on production servers with server configuration, performance tuning and maintenance with outstanding troubleshooting capabilities.
• Architected several scalable High Available (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), SQL Server Replication and Disaster recovery and planning solutions.
• Troubleshooting performance issues and recommending query optimization & performance tuning using SQL Profiler, Execution Plan, Performance Monitor and DBCC Commands.
Project Management Excellence:
• Leveraging broad competencies in project management, championing both straightforward and complex projects, establishing scope, delivering on schedule, budget and with unrivaled quality and service.
Accomplishments:
• Hand-selected to manage a key project - consolidate servers and remove old/unused databases. Reduced the number of databases to under 900 on 56 instances.
• Led CommVault and Tivoli (TSM) Back-up System Project to configure back-ups for all SQL and Windows Servers.
• Installed and configured SharePoint 2010 and integrate with SQL reporting services.
• Supported calls related to RDBMS, BI and data-replications, performed root-cause analysis to generate standard scripts and procedures, to resolve according to the SLAs times.
Key Responsibilities:
Database Architect and Designer
• Developed and established policies and procedures to management, backup, monitor, security, maintenance and disaster recovery for RDBMS.
• Responsible for overall quality and integrity of the database. Created SSIS packages for extracting and manipulating data from various RDBMS systems; converted existing DTS packages to SSIS packages.
• Partnered with Developers to solve their technical problems, recognized and exploited business opportunities via the application of leading- edge technology.
SQL Database Modeler
• Installed & configured 3 node HA Cluster with SQL Server 2012 in production environment
• Supervised day-to-day database maintenance functions including database monitoring, back-ups, space management, resource utilization and database user’s management.
• Revitalized a struggling upgrade and migrated many SQL Server 2005, 2008 databases to SQL Server 2012, using side by side approach and in-place approach.
• Answered IT Security and internal & external audit trails. Ensured digital databases and archives are protected from security breaches and data losses
• Provided 24/7 production support for the database and application issues; solved critical production problems and performed point in time recovery plans
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:
May 2011 - Nov 2011: Oracle & SQL Server DBA, Dicetek LLC, Client: Union National Bank, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Jun 2009 - Jan 2011: Database Administrator, Mavin InfoTech, Hyderabad, India
Nov 2004 - Aug 2006: SQL Server DBA, eLane Software Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India
B.Tech. in Computer Science JNTU, Hyderabad, India June 2009