Khaja Afzaluddin, Oracle Database Administrator

Khaja Afzaluddin

Oracle Database Administrator

GYG IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, Computer Science
Experience
8 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :8 years, 6 Months

Oracle Database Administrator at GYG IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Hyderabad
  • July 2011 to December 2015

• Giving 24*7 Production Database administration support.
• Installation, configuration and administration of Oracle 10g and 11g Databases on Solaris, RHEL 4 and IBM AIX.
• Performing DB maintenance, DB refresh and backup management.
• Resolving Connection issues and access issues.
• Taking backups using RMAN.
• Patching the databases with latest patches.
• Cloning of database for testing purposes.
• Monitoring AWR & ADDM reports for resolving the Performance issues.
• Performing gather stats job and index rebuilt on scheduled basis.
• Resolving User management issues.
• Performed Database up-gradation from 10g to 11g.
• Resolving Script failures, job failures and backup failures.
• Performing Logical Backups through Export and Import Utility.
• Doing monthly refreshes of Development boxes from Live Databases.
• Configured Oracle 10gR2 RAC setup with 2 Nodes.
• Monitoring of cluster ware files i.e., OCR files & Voting Disk files.
• Troubleshooting RAC database and instance issues.
• Monitoring the ASM disk group and adding the disk to the disk group when required.
• Worked along with developers and QA team on issues like unusable indexes, table privileges and some other change order requests.
• Taking care of all other daily routine DBA tasks like creating users, roles, tablespaces and monitoring alert logs etc.
• Troubleshooting of all ORA - errors with appropriate solution.
• Raising Service Request (iTAR) to ORACLE Metalink when required.

NOC Support at IPro Networks Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Hyderabad
  • July 2009 to June 2011

Installation and Administration of Network Management software (Telecommunication Switch).
Configure the Network Gateways by properly addressing the ports capacity.
Adjust the routing as per LCR (Least Cost Route).
Update the routing table in Network Management Software with appropriate priorities assigned to the Network Gateways.
Control and Monitor the status of Network Gateways of Network Management Systems in order to ensure the stats as per the requirement.
Monitor the alarms of all Network Elements throughout the Operations and Network Management Software.
Perform periodical maintenance routine activities according with existing procedures.
Monitor the Network Elements alarms from the Network Operations Center consoles, identify and replace the faulty parts and / or inform other maintenance personnel as per the equipment type, location or complexity.
Provide shift reports to NOC Manager about all the events occurring in the network and logs them within the online Data.
Troubleshoot the tickets raised by customers by understanding the issue properly.
Escalate the issue to higher level as per the ticket complexity.
Optimize the routes in order to deliver high performance stats.
Co-ordinate with L2 Engineers to get the issue resolved on priority basis.
Check the stats of Network Gateways on interval basis to provide pro-active tuning.
Configure Gateway groups to ensure dedicated ports capacity to customers.
Check periodically the Interrupt Analysis of Network Gateways and troubleshoot the gateway which has more interrupts.
Record all the information regarding the outages (description of the event, actions taken, implicated persons / teams, timing and results).
Offer assistance for Field Maintenance Teams and / or Hardware Technicians for clearing hardware faults.

IT Instructor at Royal Institute of Technology & Science
  • India - Hyderabad
  • July 2007 to June 2009

•Conducted the subject lectures regularly, keeping an eye on the understanding of the students.
•Carried out practical sessions with explanation about the purpose of the experiment and the procedures that follow to seek results.
•Carried out debate sessions in regular classes to help students to understand the subject better.
•Encouraged students to build committees among themselves.
•Provided students with information outside the classroom such as the future prospects in the subject, the competitive exams, etc.
•Provided necessary education counseling as the class advisor to the students.
•Provided useful guidance in the project work of final year students as a project coordinator.

Education

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
  • November 2014
Master's degree, Finance
  • at Osmania University
  • November 2012
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
  • June 2006

Specialties & Skills

Database Backup and Recovery
Oracle Database
Oracle RAC
Oracle Database Administration
ORACLE RAC
DATAGUARD
BACKUP AND RECOVERY
ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATION

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert
Telugu
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Oracle Certified Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2011
ORACLE CERTIFIED ASSOCIATE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2008
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Surfing on Internet
  • Playing Cricket
  • Learning new Technologies