Rizwan Afgan, SQL Server Administrator / Developer

Rizwan Afgan

SQL Server Administrator / Developer

Oracas (Pvt) Ltd

Location
Pakistan - Rawalpindi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
18 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 10 Months

SQL Server Administrator / Developer at Oracas (Pvt) Ltd
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • My current job since October 2008

• Designing and implementing Reporting Solutions.
• Design & Deploy SSIS Packages
• Designing and implementing Business Intelligence dashboards
• Designing and implementing ETL Solutions
• Building Analysis Services Multidimensional Databases
• Manage, maintain and troubleshoot analysis Service Database
• Installing, configuring, administering, upgrading and troubleshooting SQL Server versions through 2005-2014.
• Using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to integrate and analyze data from multiple homogeneous and heterogeneous information sources such as Excel, CSV & Oracle.
• Supporting end users as well as developers.
• Applying patches, service packs, upgrades, etc and automation of DBA tasks.
• Suggesting hardware & software requirements for implementation of SQL Server to achieve optimum performance.
• Design the migration strategy, test plans and scripts to verify data and migrated databases.
• Ensuring High Availability in mission critical environment.
• Backing up and restoring of Databases through automation scripts.
• Designing and implementing Disaster Recovery solutions and carryout best practices as suggested by Microsoft.
• Security Hardening of SQL Server as well as Windows Server.
• Design, develop & implement SQL Server Tables, Views, Functions & Stored Procedures.
• Designing data models
• Deployment of custom source code and version controlling.
• Working with Microsoft support and resolution of problems.
• Designed and create forms with form validation and exception handling for both server and client side processes.
• Created Database Powered applications for private use in C# using Visual Studio 2012.
• Experience in data migration from and to MS SQL Server.
• Creating Stored Procedures to generate various Drill-through reports, Parameterized reports, Tabular reports, Matrix reports and linked reports using SSRS.
• Reporting using Visual Studio as well as third party tools such as Crystal Reports & Telerik RAD Controls.
• Planning, designing and implementing application database code objects, such as stored procedures, triggers, cursors, tables, views, joins and statements for applications.
• Implementing performance tuning by implementing suitable optimizations and appropriate indexes and keys.
• Using System monitor, event log viewer, SQL profiler, SQL analyzer to monitor and tune the performance of SQL server.
• Developing various complex reports in SSRS 2005-2008, Standard Tabular type reports, including Drill Down and Drill through Functionality and Graphical presentations such as Charts and Dashboard type metrics for effective analysis.
• Scheduling jobs, created alerts, notifications with SQL agent and configuring Linked servers for data access between new and old servers.
• Providing on-call support for production systems with rotation basis.

Assistant SQL Server Developer at Oracas (Pvt) Ltd
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • July 2005 to October 2008

• Assist in multitude of Database development activities such as creating databases, writing queries, troubleshooting performance issues, etc.
• Assist in development of front end data driven applications
• Provide first level support to customers facing issues in their database driven applications.
• Also assist in administration, performance tuning & patching of databases.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Virtual University of Pakistan
  • October 2013

2 Years MCS after BSc

Specialties & Skills

Windows Server
SQL Server
MS Office Automation
MS SQL Server
MS Visual Studio
SQL Server Integration Services
SQL Server Reporting Services
Windows Server
SQL Server Administration
Visual Studio
MS Office Suit

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

Microsoft Technical Network
  • Member
  • March 2009

Training and Certifications

Oracas Certified SQL Server Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2014
Windows Server Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracas
Advanced Diploma in IT (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2007
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Reading IT Books