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Yousaf Khan, Database Manager

Yousaf Khan

Database Manager·ISlamabad Diagnostic Center IDC

Pakistan

Master's degree, Information Technology

Work experience

Total years of experience: 16 years, 10 months

Database Manager

August 2017 - October 2024

ISlamabad Diagnostic Center IDC

Pakistan

August 2017 - October 2024

-Installation, Administration and Maintenance of ORACLE and SQL Server Database.
-Setup Test, Dev., Staging and Production Environments.
-Create Users and assign permissions based on the level of database access the user would need.
-Design database Backup and Restoration Strategy.
-Once created the database Backups, monitor those backups are being performed regularly.
-From time to time recover the databases to a specific point of time, as per the requests.
-Setup High-Availability as part Disaster Recovery Strategy for the Databases. (Failover Clustering,
Database Mirroring, Log Shipping and Replication)
-Troubleshoot various problems that arise in a day-to-day work and fix the issues. (Monitoring SQL Server
Error Logs and checking your email alert (if there is one configured))
-Monitoring and Performance tuning; Physical Server Level, Database level (Database settings and options) and query tuning. (Creating and maintaining those Indexes, performing database shrinking, memory settings, monitoring CPU usage and Disk I/O activity etc.)
-Documenting major changes to the SQL Servers.
-Apply Service Packs.
-Database tuning performance using DMV’s and nodes and server resources monitoring through DMV’s.

Company industry:
Medical Hospital
Job role:
Information Technology

Senior MS SQL SERVER DBA

August 2015 - August 2016

Broad Peak Technologies

Islamabad, Pakistan

August 2015 - August 2016

• Daily Reporting through T-Sql.
• Database Tuning and Maintenance through SQL & Oracle
o Backup and recovery of entire database.
• Taking daily back on system and tape device.
• Restoring the crashed or corrupt databases from backup files.
o Replicating the Database to and from had office servers using Merge Replication.
o Generating the snapshots on Need.
• Monitoring the Database Performance MS SQL & Oracle
• Database Development and transactions through MS SQL
o Using DDL and DML commands.
o Creating and modifying the stored procedures.
o Creating and modifying triggers
o Creating and monitoring the jobs for different tasks.
• Working with different teams of the Organization.
o Analyzing and normalizing the databases.
o Creating and altering the databases and Reports for desktop and web applications.
o Creating and altering the tables using T-Sql and GUI.
• Reporting Server MS SQL SERVER SSIS, SSRS
o Configuring the Reporting server of Sql Server and ETL Development.
o Monitoring creating the reports for Operation deportment and Other Deportment's for daily, weekly and monthly Reports.
• Help in development of complex ad hoc queries and analyses. Works in conjunction with data analysts for developing dashboards and other end user solutions. Works with business analysts and acts as a liaison between technical departments and business departments. Trains the power users of respective businesses along with business analysis.

Company industry:
Software Development
Job role:
Information Technology

Senior Database Administrator

April 2014 - July 2015

Smart IS Consulting

Islamabad, Pakistan

April 2014 - July 2015

-Installation, Administration and Maintenance of SQL Server Instances.
-Setup Test, Dev., Staging and Production Environments.
-Create Users and assign permissions based on the level of database access the user would need.
-Create Linked Servers to SQL Servers and other databases such as Oracle etc.
-Design database Backup and Restoration Strategy.
-Once created the database Backups, monitor those backups are being performed regularly.
-From time to time recover the databases to a specific point of time, as per the requests.
-Setup High-Availability as part Disaster Recovery Strategy for the Databases. (Failover Clustering,
Database Mirroring, Log Shipping and Replication)
-Troubleshoot various problems that arise in a day-to-day work and fix the issues. (Monitoring SQL Server
Error Logs and checking your email alert (if there is one configured))
-Monitoring and Performance tuning; Physical Server Level, Database level (Database settings and options) and query tuning. (Creating and maintaining those Indexes, performing database shrinking, memory settings, monitoring CPU usage and Disk I/O activity etc.)
-Documenting major changes to the SQL Servers.
-Apply Service Packs.
-Database tuning performance using DMV’s and nodes and server resources monitoring through DMV’s.

Company industry:
Business Consultancy Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Senior Database Administrator

March 2013 - November 2013

National University Of Science & Technology (NUST) Islamabad Pakistan

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

March 2013 - November 2013

Worked to manage Oracle 11gR2 Database, RAC, Oracle people Soft ERP, MS SQL 2008 Database Administration.

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School
Job role:
Information Technology

MS SQL Database Administrator

June 2012 - October 2012

Esquire Systems

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

June 2012 - October 2012

worked with Emaar properties technologies as Sr.MS SQL DBA on 3 month outsource from esquire systems till 9th October 2012.

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Database Administrator

January 2011 - December 2011

mtbc. medical transcription & billing corporation.us based.

Islamabad, Pakistan

January 2011 - December 2011

Working as SQL SERVER and ORACLE 10g DBA, replication, maintenance, recovery, SSIS, SSRS and on SSAS.

Company industry:
Mechanical Engineering
Job role:
Information Technology

Database Developer

January 2009 - December 2009

Hique Systems

Islamabad, Pakistan

January 2009 - December 2009

Worked as Database Developer working with software development team database maintenance and recovery.

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Database Administrator

January 2005 - December 2008

mtbc. medical transcription & billing corporation.us based.

Islamabad, Pakistan

January 2005 - December 2008

Worked as SQL SERVER Database Administrator, database tuning maintenance and reporting database development and data analysis.

Company industry:
Mechanical Engineering
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

Gomal University

December 2004

December 2004

Master's degree, Information Technology

Pakistan

Masters Degree in Information technology, Software engineering and Databases

Gomal University

December 2000

December 2000

Bachelor's degree, Information Technology

Pakistan

Double Maths , Computer science

DAE Civil

December 1999

December 1999

Diploma, Civil Engineering

Pakistan

3 years Diploma of associate civil engineer

B.I.S.E Bannue

December 1996

December 1996

High school or equivalent, Science

Pakistan

Matriculation

Skills

Oracle RAC
Expert
Oracle RAC
Expert
Oracle
Expert
Oracle
Expert
SQL Server
Expert
SQL Server
Expert
SSRS
Expert
SSRS
Expert
SQL Tuning
Expert
SQL Tuning
Expert
MS SQL SERVER
Expert
MS SQL SERVER
Expert
PostgreSQL
Expert
PostgreSQL
Expert
MySql
Expert
MySql
Expert
MongoDB
Intermediate
MongoDB
Intermediate

Languages

English

Expert

Urdu

Expert

Pushto

Expert

Arabic

Beginner

Training and Certifications

Certifications
ITIL® v3 Foundation
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP: SQL 2012) Administration
OCP Oracle 10g