Ramesh Radhakrishnan, Database Manager

Ramesh Radhakrishnan

Database Manager

Commercial Bank of Kuwait

Location
Kuwait
Education
Master's degree, Information Technology Management
Experience
32 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :32 years, 1 Months

Database Manager at Commercial Bank of Kuwait
  • Kuwait
  • My current job since June 2008

o Installed and Configured Oracle 10g, 11g & 12c Real Application Clusters with an Automatic Storage Management Feature on Ramsan 620, Ramsan440 & HP EVA storage, Verident & Huawei Flash Drives.
o Installed and configured Oracle 11g Real Application Clusters Database on Oracle VM.
o Used USSD & Write accelerator to improve performance.
o Creation and maintenance of high availability databases using Active Data Guard with real time apply feature.
o Implemented Disaster Recovery System to protect the database from failure and reduce the down time. Using SAN replication to DR Site.
o 24x7 Production support and maintenance of Oracle Databases, OLTP/VLDB including design and optimization.
o Installation & configuration of Oracle 10g IAS & IDS on different platforms.
o Creation of Application users and Responsibilities.
o Setting up Audit Trails
o SQL Tuning, Database Tuning, Designed Backup & Recovery procedure using RMAN.
o Created and distributed Tablespaces across multiple disks to reduce the I/O contention and to maintain optimal flexible architecture, spread partitioned tables across multiple tablespaces, Maintaining Indexes etc.
o System administration duties including Startup and Shutdown, Monitoring the Oracle process.
o Administering oracle process on Linux Operating System
o Disk Administration, User Management, System Accounting and auditing.

Senior Oracle Database Administrator at National Industries Company
  • Kuwait
  • My current job since April 2001

o Designed and created the main production database.
o Migration of data from the mainframe to oracle Database .
o Creation of Application users and Responsibilities.
o Customization of Menus.
o Setting up Audit Trails.
o Gone through Interface tables SQL* Loader control file to transfer data from flat file to vender interface table
o Installed and Configured Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters with an Automatic Storage Management Feature and migrated the data from single instance database to RAC Database.
o SQL Tuning, Database Tuning, Designed Backup & Recovery procedure using RMAN.
o Created and distributed Tablespaces across multiple disks to reduce the I/O contention and to maintain optimal flexible architecture, spread partitioned tables across multiple tablespaces, Maintaining Indexes, Rollback segments, Redo logs.
o System administration duties including Startup and Shutdown, Monitoring the Oracle process,
o Disk Administration, User Management, System Accounting and auditing.
o Implemented Disaster Recovery System to protect the database from failure and reduce the down time.
o Creation and maintenance of high availability databases using many techniques including Data Guard and standby databases.

Senior Apps Database Administrator at DIYAR UNITED COMPANY
  • Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
  • August 2000 to March 2001

o Administration, Maintenance & tune up of ORACLE database under Unix. SQL Tuning, Database Tuning, Database Upgrade & testing & documenting Backup & Recovery
o Creating and distributing of Tablespaces across multiple disks to take care of contention and creating partitioned tables across tablespaces.
o System administration duties including Startup and Shutdown, Monitoring the Oracle process, Disk Administration, User Management, System Accounting and auditing.
o Patch management as per Oracle instructions.
o Created, configured and administered physical standby database.
o Creation of Application users and Responsibilities.
o Customization of Menus.
o Setting up Audit Trails.
o Creation of Document sequence.
o Creating and Administering Folders.
o Setting up profile options.
o Customization of Forms and Reports and concurrent programs.
o Creating and administering concurrent Managers.
o Gone through Interface tables SQL* Loader control file to transfer data from flat file to vender interface table
o Imported journal information into GL module using SQL * Loader
o Applying Database and Oracle Application patches on 11i and 11.5.10.

Senior Apps Database Administrator at AL – AHLEIA INSURANCE CO. S.A.K
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • January 1999 to July 2000

o Installation & Configuration of Oracle Database on Unix Platform.
o Creation of Application users and Responsibilities.
o Customization of Menus.
o Setting up Audit Trails.
o Performance tuning of SQL scripts.
o Database Tuning, Database Upgrading.
o Database backup and recovery and documenting the process.
o Security Administration by creating users with appropriate ROLES & PRIVELEGES.
o System Administration duties including startup and shutdown of Database as well as host OS.
o Disk Administration, User Management System Accounting and Auditing,
o Patch management as recommended by Oracle, Sun for optimal performance of the database.

Senior Database Administrator at INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ADVISERS
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • February 1998 to November 1998

o Administration, Maintenance and Tuning of Oracle Production Database.
o Shell scripting for automating production database backups.
o Scheduling automatic backups in Cron.
o Implementation of General Ledger Symbols Security & Money Market Packages.
o Monitoring Database performance through Tablespace monitoring.
o Optimizing the Database with relation to fragmentation.
o SGA Performance monitoring and sizing.
o Developing Alert reports
o Security Administration by creating users with appropriate ROLES & PRIVELEGES.
o Performed system administration duties including Startup and Shutdown of application, database and host OS.

Senior Database Administrator at EURO-GULF CONSULTANCY SERVICES
  • India
  • February 1992 to December 1997

o Implementation of Share Broker package for Investments company involved in trading shares.
o Monitoring Database performance through Tablespace monitoring.
o Optimizing the Database with relation to fragmentation.
o SGA Performance monitoring and sizing.
o Developing Alert reports
o Security Administration by creating users with appropriate ROLES & PRIVELEGES.
o Performed system administration duties including Startup and Shutdown of application, database and host OS.
o Monitoring the Oracle process, Disk Administration, User Management, System Accounting and auditing.
o Analyzing trace and log files to determine and resolve potential problem areas.
o Design of Backup and recovery and its subsequent implementation.

Education

Master's degree, Information Technology Management
  • at Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning
  • July 2016

'A' Grade

Diploma, Oracle Certified Database Administrator 11g
  • at Oracle University
  • January 2007

Oracle Certified Database Administrator

Diploma, Oracle Certified Database Administrator 10g
  • at Oracle University
  • January 2006

Oracle Certified Database Administrator 10g

Diploma, Sun Certified Solaris Administrator Solaris 9
  • at Sun Microsystems
  • February 2005

Sun Certified Solaris Administrator Solaris 9

Diploma, Sun Certified Solaris Administrator Solaris 8
  • at Sun Microsystems
  • February 2004

Sun Certified Solaris Administrator Solaris 8

Diploma, Oracle Certified Database Administrator 9i
  • at Oracle University
  • February 2003

Oracle Certified Database Administrator 9i

Diploma, Oracle Certified Database Administrator 8i
  • at Oracle University
  • January 2002

Oracle Certified Database Administrator 8i

Diploma, Oracle Certified Database Administrator 8
  • at Oracle University
  • June 2001

Oracle Certified Database Administrator 8

Bachelor's degree,
  • at Madras University
  • April 1985

Specialties & Skills

Solaris
Linux Database
Oracle RAC
Oracle Database Administration
SQL Tuning
Over 15 years of extensive experience as Oracle Applications and Oracle Database Administration

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Oracle Database Vault (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2012
Valid Until:
December 2012