Sheraz Salahuddin, Senior Database Consultant

Sheraz Salahuddin

Senior Database Consultant

Zuhair Fayez Partnership

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Studies & Information Technology
Experience
13 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 9 Months

Senior Database Consultant at Zuhair Fayez Partnership
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • November 2014 to July 2015

Involved in the development of Enterprise Search Solution using Cloudera Search. Data sources could be Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server. Data would be indexed on a scheduled basis while changes happen in source systems. This would allow various business systems to be made searchable with minimum search time latency thereby increasing business productivity.

Senior Database Consultant at Zuhair Fayez Partnership
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • July 2014 to October 2014

Process a corpus of Corporate Emails to be able to Tag them by relevant Projects and then compute Sentiments using Hadoop Hive. It was then further enriched with relevant Employee Attributes from Relational Sources. This allowed Project Managers to mitigate Project issues on time.

Sr. Database Administrator at Zuhair Fayez Partnership
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2010 to June 2014

Designed and Developed a Project Financial Reporting System Database for General Authority of Civil Aviation. The System Objectives include Monitoring and Maintaining Project Development Life cycle while considering Government Procedures and Practices. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database is used to develop the system.

Database Administrator at Zuhair Fayez Partnership
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • May 2007 to December 2009

Implemented an enhanced Public Tracking System for the Ministry of Interior. Implementation was achieved while maintaining the functionality of the existing application along with the newly deployed system. The new system enhanced and streamlined the process of tracking people activity wherever required. The database platform used to deploy the system was SQL Server 2005.

Database Administrator at Zuhair Fayez Partnership
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2007 to April 2007

Provided Business Intelligence solutions consultancy service to Saudi Electricity. It involved extracting data from DB2 v7 MVS to SQL Server 2005, Analysis of Data, usage of cubes and it’s attributes like action, calculations; and various problems the client faced while implementing their solutions. This helped them in increase of work efficiency and effectiveness.

Database Administrator at Zuhair Fayez Partnership
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2007 to March 2007

Implemented data warehouse and business intelligence solutions using SQL Server 2005 and ProClarity Analytics for Civil Aviation. This helped them come up with some interesting statistics that could help them in reorganizing their workforce for increased efficiency and efficient traffic scheduling.

Database Administrator at Zuhair Fayez Partnership
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • May 2003 to December 2006

Designed and implemented a relational database design for a Case Management System for Commission of Investigation and Prosecution. This involved integration with other systems at the database level which was also achieved using database objects like triggers, procedures, functions, views etc. This helped in streamlining several business processes; eliminate redundant and time consuming processes that enhanced system interoperability.

Database Administrator at Zuhair Fayez Partnership
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2002 to April 2003

Performed data consolidation, transformation and migration from three heterogeneous database designs and vendors into one database design for a prestigious client. This was accomplished by writing stored procedures, functions and anonymous scripts within a very short period. Actual documents (in binary format) were also loaded. Data validation code was also written to help in data verification and crosscheck requirement for documents in millions. Around 4 Million documents were involved in this exercise. The client could then rely on one single source of documents instead of having three different disconnected systems thereby leveraging data integrity and availability by many folds.

Database Administrator at Zuhair Fayez Partnership
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • March 2002 to July 2002

Ported VB6 Functions to MS SQL Server 2000 stored procedures to be used by web applications for United Matbouli Group.

Database Administrator at Zuhair Fayez Partnership
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • November 2001 to February 2002

Migrated data from Oracle8i to MS SQL Server 2000 database for Royal Saudi Air force (RSAF). Ported stored procedures, triggers

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Studies & Information Technology
  • at Eastern Mediterranean University
  • July 2001

Graduated with GPA of 3.54. Received scholarships in 70% of total semesters. Completed Internship in E.A. Juffali & Brothers

Specialties & Skills

SQL Server 2000 2008
Performance Tuning
Data Migration
Business Intelligence
Database Design
SQL Server DBA
Oracle DBA
Performance Tuning
Data Integration
SQL Server 2008 - OLAP & Data Mining
Data Modeling

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

OCP - Oracle Database 10g (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2006
MCDBA SQL Server 2000 (Certificate)
MCITP - SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Developer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2008
MCITP - SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Developer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Cloudera Certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop CCA-500 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2015
Neo4j Certified Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2016
Cloudera Certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop CCA-410 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013
OCP - Oracle Database 11g (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2011