SUMMARY

• Experienced and passionate Oracle Exadata expert (DMA) with almost 11 years’ experience and Oracle certified Exadata implementation Specialist.
• Expert working with various backup technologies like Actifio, NetBackup, Avamar and replication expertise on Golden gate and Shareplex.
• A talented and resourceful professional seeking to build a long term career as an Oracle Exadata DBA and utilize my skills in Oracle databases, Unix, Linux, ASM, Grid control, SQL and shell scripts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SME for Oracle Exadata Team

Responsibilities:

• Participated in analysis and designing of Oracle Exadata Server for infrastructure and related projects.
• Provided technical assistance for development of physical and logical architecture models on all Oracle server platforms.
• Coordinated with project teams for designing and implementation of database infrastructure designs by documentation and system testing.
• Working on Oracle Exadata Cloud Machines.
• Migrated 10g and 11g databases to 12c container database.
• Assisted in integration of Exadata applications into current IT actionable events and solutions.
• Suggested procedures for database performance and tuning of all database machines and related components.
• Created certified processes and procedures for maintenance and upgrading of all database machines.
• Conducted analysis and feasibility studies for development of Oracle Exadata solutions.
• Developed strategies for disaster recovery services of all database machines along with advisory services.
• Performed test cases on pluggable databases restore and recovery scenarios.
• Golden gate support.
• Specialized to handle severity 1 (mission critical, business loss situation) and escalated Issues.

Confidential

Technical Lead for Oracle Exadata Team

Responsibilities:

• Migrating databases to Oracle Exadata Database Machine for different Application.
• Implementing Best Practices for migration E - Business Suite and regular databases to Oracle Exadata.
• Planning and executing Quarterly Full stack patching with no downtime (100% availability)
• Installing, configuring and maintaining Enterprise Manager Cloud Control to monitor and manage Exadata and regular databases
• Configured standby databases for 11g and 12c container databases.
• Zero Downtime Migration to Oracle Exadata with Oracle Golden Gate.
• Analyzing and troubleshooting both critical and non-critical situations.
• Evaluated database performance for investigation of issues and further resolution for efficiency.
• Support AWS ORACLE cloud databases and create monitoring dashboards using splunk
• Providing 24x7 remote and onsite support for customers
• Meeting SLA and OLA for my clients.
• Managing a team of 12 resources.
• Regular audit and management activity

Confidential

Senior Oracle/SAP Golden Gate DBA

Responsibilities:

• Transformation Project: Responsible for migrating oracle/SAP databases from HP-UX to Linux/Exadata servers using Golden gate technology. Also, had Oracle DBA responsibility for supporting ORACLE/SAP databases, performed database tuning, database alert scripts, monitoring scripts, backup procedures, ZFS and configuring data guard.
• Data Center project on which we migrated Databases and applications from One Data Center to another with minimal downtime.
• Migrated SAP databases from HP-UX to LINUX platforms using Golden gate (V 11.2.1.0.27 ) technology.
• Worked on SAP databases, creating databases for SAP applications and configurations.
• Used BRTOOLS to create table spaces, indexes and collecting statistics.
• Configuring the FSFO (Fast Start Failover) for SAP modules.
• Prepared the EXADATA full and half rack and created DBFS for storage needs.
• Implemented Physical Standby Databases for RAC and non RAC environment databases.
• Configured Physical Standby for Production databases and converted Physical standby to
• Snapshot standby
• Worked on golden gate setup, which was setup between 6 different markets and the data was consolidated.
• Participated in on-call rotation and resolved the issues.
• Other activities like applying RDBMS patches, security patches.
• Monitor and implement the backup and recovery strategy as per database.
• Configuring, monitoring and identifying Performance issues using OEM Grid control, error reports.

Confidential

Worked as Exadata/Golden Gate DBA

Responsibilities:

• Software and firmware maintenance of the Database servers in the Database machine including upgrades and patching
• Software and firmware maintenance of the Exadata storage servers in the Database machine including upgrades and patching
• Software and firmware maintenance of the Infiniband switches in the Database machine including upgrades and patching
• Integration of Exadata monitoring and escalation into existing IT monitoring and actionable events solutions
• Consolidation of databases to Exadata environment
• Provide and implement performance and tuning recommendations of all components in the Database machines
• Advise, provide guidance and develop Disaster Recovery strategies for these Database machines
• Configure the machines to meet internal security requirements
• Provide business as usual data structure manipulation (add, remove, modify storage) in the Database machine
• Analyze and determine the feasibility of leveraging the Oracle Enterprise Manager solution to report on performance, provide metrics, and become the centralized proactive maintenance solution for Exadata distributions
• Develop and record certified processes/procedures for all potential IT downstream support groups to maintain and upgrade the Database machines.