Kaleem Ahmed, Manager Database and Applications

Kaleem Ahmed

Manager Database and Applications

Burque Corporation Pvt Limited

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
25 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :25 years, 3 Months

Manager Database and Applications at Burque Corporation Pvt Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since August 2017

o Design strategy and create road-map for upgrade planning
o Specify the business need for recovery and back-up of data and for protection against viruses.
o Evaluate the risks to the business caused by security threats to IS/IT.
o Plan for Application / Database Availability, Continuity and Capacity.
o Managed and maintained hosted production, development, test Oracle applications in a 24X7 environment.
o Analyze & maintain database objects e.g. table, views, index, tablespaces and etc.
o Specify backup/recovery procedures and tools
o Monitored and optimized performance, resources, availability, and operation of all systems.

Achievements:
o Completely take over responsibilities from team of consultants and maintaining environment without compromising service quality
o Identify backup procedure short coming and improve mechanism
o Successfully manage & maintain Oracle Cloud environment and setup Oracle DR site on cloud
o Successfully test switchover and switchback Cloud DR environment
o Migration of database intensive process on data integration tool and enhance database performance

Oracle Apps Dba at Saleh and Abdul Aziz Abahsain
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • April 2016 to June 2017

Oracle EBS R12 (12.1.x) instance system/application administration
o Design strategy and create road-map for database and application upgrade.
o Plan for Application / Database Capacity, Continuity and Availability.
o Evaluate the risks to the business application & database caused by security threats to IS/IT.
o Developing, testing, and managing backup plans for safe data recovery and specify the business need recovery
o Managed and maintained hosted production, development, test Oracle applications in a 24X7 environment.
o Analyze & maintain database objects e.g. table, views, index, table spaces and etc.
o Monitored and optimized performance, resources, availability, and operation of all systems.
o Backup & Restore databases that are corrupted due to any failure/incident.
o Create & maintain duplicate/clone of production environment for testing & development purpose.
o Apply patches using adpatch and adop to fix application vulnerability and bugs.
o Plan, upgrade, test and go-live Oracle E-Business Application R12 (12.1.3) to R12 (12.2.6)

AM Databases at Dollar Industries Pvt. Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • April 2008 to April 2016

DBA / APPSDBA
Installation, configuration, upgrade, and migration
Cloning/Hot Cloning/Patching
Backup / Recovery and Disaster Recovery Planning
Database security
Data Integration
Storage and capacity planning
Performance monitoring and tuning
Virtualization
Data guard / ASM / RAC
Troubleshooting

Head of IT at Mohamad Ismail Mohamad Aslam Private Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • February 2004 to March 2008

DB2 to Oracle Migration
RPG to Oracle Form development
New Software Development
Managing existing software
DBA
Performance & Tuning
Backup & Recovery

Head of Technical Team at Hamdard Information and Technology Services
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • May 2000 to February 2004

Perform Leading role in Developing application for Karachi Port Trust (One of the biggest Service Industries working under the Govt. of Pakistan)
Port Operation & Vessel Control System
Estate Management System
Manages Software requirements, Database Designing
Handling Database tuning issues
Have some worked on national language using UNICODE character set - demonstrated in Karachi Expo Center

DBA at Orasoft Training Institute
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • February 1999 to May 2000

Assist students to perform their Database Administration related activities

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at Federal Urdu University
  • December 2012
Master's degree, IT
  • at Hamdard University
  • December 2006
Diploma, Software
  • at Petromen Training Institute
  • December 1996

Specialties & Skills

Database Administration
Oracle Applications
Disaster Recovery
Performance Tuning
Backup & Recovery
Database Administration (DBA)
Data Integration (ETL)
Oracle Application Administration (AppsDBA)
Hot Cloning & Patching
Performance Tuning & Optimization

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Oracle Certified Professional - 7 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2000
Oracle Certified Professional - 9i (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2014
ITIL - Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2014
Oracle Certified Professional - 11g (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2014