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Yoonus Padannapurath, Oracle E-Business Suite Application DBA

Yoonus Padannapurath

Oracle E-Business Suite Application DBA·Al Hamra Kuwait Company W.L.L.

Kuwait

Master's degree, MSc.IT

Work experience

Total years of experience: 20 years, 10 months

Oracle E-Business Suite Application DBA

July 2009 - Present

Al Hamra Kuwait Company W.L.L.

Kuwait

July 2009 - Present

Administering R12 (12.1.3) deployed on OEL and Oracle E-business suite 11.5.10.2 deployed on Solaris
Effectively carrying out database maintenance & support activities pertaining to Space Management, Schema Management, Security Management, Resource Management and Capacity Planning
Constantly watching oracle technology application blog for latest application and technology related updates
Analyzing recommended patches with patch wizard to apply recommended patches to proactively prevent known issues
Patching oracle application modules with adpatch and other oracle suggested methods
Getting hands-on on using online patching utility “adop” to patch applications online
Patching oracle database using opatch
Use adadmin to carry out different application admin related tasks
Configuring printers on solaris/Linux servers to make it accessible for oracle applications
Effectively managing Application User Accounts/Responsibilities
Assisting user issues with day-to-day tasks in different modules like GL/AR/AP/PO..
Assisting users in period closing/year end activities
Fixing Data related issues with AP using GDF and if the issue requires support from Oracle, logging SR and co-coordinating with oracle support till closure
Preparing backup plans for hot and cold backups
Preparing backup shell scripts to back up database using RMAN and OS
Duplicating database with RMAN for testing production issues
Refreshing Test system with production data
Carrying out Quarterly Recovery Simulations; and ensuring that storage, archiving, backup and recovery procedures are functioning appropriately
Validating backup validity and Archiving database backups
Cloning production system with adclone (Application and Database)
Monitoring system performance using different Unix utilities like sar, iostat and dtrace.
Installing, configuring and administering different oracle database versions on Linux and Windows servers
Installing and configuring oracle products like oracle developer, discoverer, apex, XML publisher
on Linux and windows servers
Migrating oracle application and database to different platforms on physical and virtual environments
Oracle Net configuration for database and other oracle products
Use Oracle Enterprise Manager for various database administration tasks
Configuring and maintaining Oracle Apex
Setting up new environment to test new technologies
Creating SRS and support community posts for application/database issues and closely following up for fast resolution
Using expdp, impdp, exp, imp utilities to export and import database and database objects for different purposes

Achievements

EBusiness suite test system data refresh hurdle was overcome by using hot database cloning method. Which helped reduce unexpected downtime. Completely Automated data refresh for E-business suite so that test system gets refreshed with fresh data, without human intervention.

Provisioning clone of production for test on demand was not very easy process, this was solved using virtual machine template to provision production clones for different purpose like test/dev on demand.

Played a key role in oracle application 11i (11.5.10) upgrade to R12(12.1.3) including database upgrade from 10.2 to 11.2 which also involved migrating of oracle applications from Solaris 10 to Oracle Enterprise Linux 5

OS level database back up and compressing with gzip compression tool used to take around 5 five hours was replaced by a parallel compressing tool resulted in reducing down time from 5 hours to 1 ½ hours.

Platform Migration of oracle 11i(11.5.10.2) application with Database 10g(10.2.0) deployed on Sun Solaris to Redhat Linux was carried out successfully. This migrated application environment is virtualised and used to test upgrade process to R12. This upgraded R12 instance was given to users to test and evaluate before actual production environment.

Company industry:
Construction & Building
Job role:
Information Technology

Oracle Application Developer / Database Admin Assistant

August 2005 - June 2009

INTEGRAL SERVICE COMPANY W.L.L. (I.S.C.O)

Al Ahmadi, Kuwait

August 2005 - June 2009

As an Oracle Developer involved in the full life cycle of projects from Requirement study to Handover of the project which includes analysis, user requirements, database modification, coding, Support and testing in various environments and Responsibilities include gathering functional and technical requirements, design, development and resolution of problem tickets raised by users.
Documentation which includes SRS, STS, TCM, UG
Developing new applications and reports (oracle report, Discoverer) to suite corporate new requirements.
Developed and modified many reports to support different modules in the Orion ERP.
Ongoing support to GL/AR/AP/Procurement/Inventory/Fixed Asset Modules
Production Support: Working on post production support phase which involves bug fixes, enhancement of existing and new features.
Integrating 9i Developed Applications and Reports with Orion ERP.
Enhancement to existing applications and customizations based on user requests.
Working on Performance Tuning to increase the performance of Concurrent programs.
Expertise in working with PL/SQL stored procedures, triggers, packages
Possess excellent communication skills and a smooth client handling and interaction experience. Strong proficiency in problem solving, Initiative taking, Time management.
A number of simple applications developed with oracle forms were migrated to Oracle Apex.
Testing, Debugging and code migration
Assisting with impact analysis of any changes made to the database objects
Troubleshooting with problems regarding the databases, applications and development tools
Administers all database objects, including tables, clusters, indexes, views, sequences, packages and procedures
Scheduling database backup, monitoring and testing validity of backup
Enforcing and maintaining database constraints to ensure integrity of the database
Using expdp, impdp, exp, imp utilities to export and import database and database objects for different purposes
Achievements

Labor Timesheet Management
Developed Labor time sheet tracking system to track and analyze efficiency of employees that were done by many employees in many excel files. By doing this all work were brought to single point and this helped to provide many reports for top level.
Designed and Developed Project Master screen that keeps tracks of all running projects
Designed the screen that records Team Head and subordinates allotted for different projects
Designed the screen that records head's allotment of time to subordinates
Developed the screen that helps to manage subordinates leaves.
Developed the screen that helps to edit subordinate in an out time
Developed the report that shows Idle hours of subordinate grouping by head
Developed the report that shows monthly attendance of employees
Developed the report that shows number of worked hours on different levels
Developed the report that shows running of projects

Employee Cost to Company
Provided CTC form to accounts department to simplify the process of CTC calculation of employees. This was done by different departments manually causing discrepancies.
Designed the screen that facilitate to Enter user employee code and produce employee cost to company.
Designed the report that displays employees cost to company in a printable format.

Online Approval Outlook
Architecture Re-Design of existing Online Approval Outlook so as to resolve performance issues (3-5 minutes per load to 5-10 seconds)
Developed a screen that gives logged in users information of different kind of requests that are pending for action from his/her side. This is a complicated application which brings all requests to single screen. Request can be material request, asset request, purchase request.
Added Enhancement Modules of Online Approval of Request to Enquiry Stage

Company industry:
Purchasing & Procurement
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

SMU

April 2012

April 2012

Master's degree, MSc.IT

India

Oracle University

April 2012

April 2012

Diploma, Oracle Certified Professiona DBA - OCP

India

Oracle University

November 2006

November 2006

Diploma, Oracle Certified Forms Developer - OCP

India

Aptech

June 2004

June 2004

Diploma, DISM(Programming & Database)

India

Skills

Oracle E Business Suite
Expert
Oracle E Business Suite
Expert
Databases
Expert
Databases
Expert
Oracle
Expert
Oracle
Expert
Oracle SQL
Expert
Oracle SQL
Expert
Linux
Expert
Linux
Expert
Oracle E-Business suite Administration (11i,R12)
Intermediate
Oracle E-Business suite Administration (11i,R12)
Intermediate
Oracle Application Developer(Forms,Reports,Discoverer,XML reports,Apex)
Expert
Oracle Application Developer(Forms,Reports,Discoverer,XML reports,Apex)
Expert
Solaris, Linux (RHL, OEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.)
Intermediate
Solaris, Linux (RHL, OEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.)
Intermediate
VB.Net,Ms-Sql 2000,Java
Beginner
VB.Net,Ms-Sql 2000,Java
Beginner
Oracle Database Administration (9i,10g,11g)
Expert
Oracle Database Administration (9i,10g,11g)
Expert
Windows 2000/2003/2008/XP/Win 7
Expert
Windows 2000/2003/2008/XP/Win 7
Expert
Sql Developer, Toad for Oracle
Expert
Sql Developer, Toad for Oracle
Expert
Oracle E Business Suite
Expert
Oracle E Business Suite
Expert
Databases
Expert
Databases
Expert
Oracle
Expert
Oracle
Expert
Oracle SQL
Expert
Oracle SQL
Expert
Linux
Expert
Linux
Expert

Languages

Arabic
Intermediate
Hindi
Intermediate
Urdu
Beginner
Malayalam
Beginner
English
Expert