Praphul Mohandas, Database Administrator

Praphul Mohandas

Database Administrator

Family Development Foundation

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree,
Experience
19 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 5 Months

Database Administrator at Family Development Foundation
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since April 2010

The following are the main responsibilities in the IT Dept of the organization as a DBA:
- Designing the configuration, Installation and maintenance of the Oracle Application Instances and supporting the functional team with activities like patch applications, cloning, backups and troubleshooting of application and database related issues.
- Upgrade the Oracle E-Business Suite to 12.1.3 and database to 11g Release 2.
- Providing support for the MS Sql Server Databases of custom financial software, with activities like backup management, cloning, performance monitoring etc.
- Integration of MS Sql Server Database with Oracle database using Oracle gateway.
- Established Oracle 11g R2 RAC on VMware server.

Senior Database Administrator at Hyperlink
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • June 2008 to April 2010

Hyperlink is a management and technology consulting firm that delivers mission-critical solutions to industry. They utilize a proven methodology that aligns their clients' technology with ever-changing business needs. Hyperlink has implemented over 56 Oracle HRMS implementations during the past few years throughout the Middle East.
The following were the main responsibilities in the organization as an Oracle Applications DBA:
- Responsible for all the applications dba tasks on different project sites.
- Pre-Sales Technical Solutions for the new Oracle E-Business Suite proposals.

Senior Solution Specialist at Oracle Corporation
  • India - Bengaluru
  • April 2006 to May 2008

The following were the main responsibilities in this group as an Oracle Applications DBA:
- Maintain the Oracle Application Instances and support the Development team with activities like installations, patch applications, cloning, backups and troubleshooting of application and database related issues.
- Setting up of High Availability configuration for the 11i and R12 Production instances using RAC configuration and Shared Application Top.
- Implement Disaster Recovery Setup for the Production Instances at two different sites using Oracle Dataguard.
- Building of Unix Shell scripts for automating various business requirements.

Project Engineer at Wipro Technologies
  • India - Hyderabad
  • December 2004 to April 2006

The following were the main responsibilities in this group as an Oracle Applications DBA:
- Providing 24 X 7 troubleshooting and support for Oracle E-Business Suite Instances
- User administration, patch management, migration, cloning and installations of Oracle Applications.
- Monitoring Oracle Applications Instance and Oracle Databases
- Backup and recovery of Oracle Applications Instance and Oracle Databases
- Compilation of the best practices, administrator manual and checklists.
- Oracle Applications Upgrade from 11.5.9 to 11.5.10.2
- Reconfigurations/customizations in Oracle Applications to suite the business requirements

Education

Bachelor's degree,
  • at Mahatma Gandhi University College of Engineering , Kerala , India
  • June 2004

Compeleted BTech in Computer Science and Engineering Discpline with 86.2% ( University 3rd Rank)

Specialties & Skills

Oracle Applications
Management
Installations
Integration
Oracle Apps DBA
Oracle RAC and HA Technologies
MS SQL Server
Oracle Database

Languages

English
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Hindi
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Malayalam
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