Lead Teradata Application Architect/dba Resume
Pleasanton, CA
OBJECTIVE
- Seeking a challenging role where my leadership and Business Intelligence skills can be fully leveraged to implement effective solutions that enhance both business performance and customer satisfaction.
SUMMARY
- Over Thirteen Years of diversified experience in IT in Enterprise Application Architecture, Database Administration, and Project Management. Recently focused on Data Warehouse optimization, ETL, and business intelligence applications.
- Over 8 years of working experience in TERADATA Data Warehouse landscape for Enterprise Data Warehouse applications.
- Extensive experience with TERADATA architecture and administration.
- Worked on Data Models, Logical and physical data modeling, implemented using ERWIN, and IBM Software Architect.
- Experienced in diversified application development in Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, Peoplesoft et al.
- Good at working with high volume databases of multi terabytes, management of Data and Capacity Planning.
- Worked on Big Data/Hadoop Architecture and Administration
- Worked on reverse engineering projects to improve performance of existing applications. Involved in Data Migration between Teradata and Oracle.
- Being a Certified SQL Tuning professional reduced execution time significantly for long running tactical queries. Good experience in Oracle (10g, 9i, 8i), Sql server on OLTP/OLAP environments for large Databases.
- Certified DBA Professional with Strong Knowledge of Data warehouse Design Methodology, and Data modeling techniques.
- Proficient in TERADATA DBA activities like creating databases, managing tables/ Indexes, Security, Space management, and Performance tuning, System monitoring, ResUsage Reports.
- Experience with UNIX Shell Scripting and good coding practices using SQL, PL/SQL.
- Deployed Business Objects Dashboards for management reporting.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Data Modeling: CA Allfusion ERWin, ER/Studio Data Architect 9.0, Rational S/w Architect, DataModeler2.0, Visio Conceptual/Logical/Physical Modeling, Data Mart Design, Metadata Management
RDBMS: Teradata 13/12/v2R6.0/v2R5.x, Oracle 10g/9i/8, DB2, SQL Server 2005/2000
ETL/OLAP/Reporting Tools: Informatica PowerCenter 8.x/7.x, Business Objects, Xcelsius, FastLoad, MultiLoad, TPump, MicroStrategy 7.1.2, Query manager, DataStage7.5/7.0, BTEQ, AtanaSuite Expert
Hardware platforms/Operating systems: Solaris 8/6, Teradata 5550x/Appliance, HDFS, AIX5.3/5.1, Windows 2008/NT, Linux AS2.1
Programming Languages: BTEQ, PL/SQL, SQL*PLUS, Unix Shell, MapReduce, C, Java, UML, PeopleCode
Tools: /GUI Teradata Viewpoint Teradata Administrator, TD Performance Monitor, Teradata Manager, Query Analyzer, DFSadmin, TOAD, Priority Scheduler/UC4, winDDI, TDWM, ARC
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Pleasanton CA
Lead Teradata Application Architect/DBA
Responsibilities:
- Evaluated Data Models for performance analysis.
- Implemented changes to data models to in corporate new features for Compression, Indexes, Statistics, PPI
- Requirements gathering for new applications, Identified various facts and dimensions from the source systems, worked on conceptual models.
- Coordination between different teams across regions for smoother implementations.
- Developed ILDM, Logical and physical models after sessions with Architect/DBAs team.
- Optimized Performance of long running tactical queries
- Supported Applications to design physical implementations like table sizing, and security design, promoting database changes Development through Production
- Developed best practices for Performance monitoring, Query Tuning, Space Management.
- Providing guidance to less experienced team members, and trained them
- Worked with Teradata Support during Upgrade initiative to TD14
- Involved in setting up Hadoop Architecture/clusters for Ohio region, Primary & Secondary NameNodes, and JobTracker on HDFS.
- Used fsck proactively to maintain HDFS, and DFSadmin for administration tasks
- Enabled logging on hadoop to help Audits on Hadoop
- Used Chukwa/Claudera Manager to Monitor/Manage Hadoop stack
Environment: Teradata12, Teradata Manager, TARA, Teradata Administrator, BTEQ, DBQL, Hadoop, dfsadmin, TDWM, CA ERwin Data Modeler r8, Teradata5550/5450, Clarity, Teradata Viewpoint, Business Objects, HIVE, HDFS, MapReduce
Confidential, Milpitas CA
Lead Performance Architect/DBA
Responsibilities:
- Long running queries were tuned for Optimal Performance.
- Enforced proper use of Primary and secondary indices after analysis.
- Saved CPU by optimizing the collection of Statistics
- Reduced execution time for jobs by working on the workload management using TASM.
- Gathered Viewpoint requirements, prepared the Design Document. Customized Viewpoint Portlets to provide better functionality, and customized ViewPoint was implemented.
- Set up Alerts & Metrics for monitoring purposes by Operations
- Created centralized application to report Performance Metrics and Capacity Utilization.
- Provided Capacity plans for applications. Optimized space requirements for applications
Environment: Teradata13/12, Informatica PowerCenter 8.6.1, Oracle, NetBackup/TARA, TD Administrator, DBQL, TDWM, Teradata5555/5650, TD Manager, TD Viewpoint
Confidential, Dallas, Texas
Teradata Performance Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Data warehouse was running out of capacity. Saved over $1.8 mil after utilizing the space efficiently by implementing the multi value Compression.
- Performed Data analysis to make data types optimization suggestions.
- Enforced proper use of Primary and secondary indices after analysis.
- Achieved better performance, and saved CPU by optimizing the collection of Statistics
- Developed process to identify, get rid of unused data, and then reclaim huge free space
- Reduced execution time for jobs by working on the workload management.
- Reviewed Physical Data Models to remove the data redundancy.
- Conducted interviews with business users to help them understanding the efforts, and to expedite the implementation of recommendations.
Environment: Teradata12/Teradata v2r6, DataStage7.5, DB2, NetVault, Teradata Administrator, BTEQ, DBQL, ERWIN, PL/SQL, TDWM, Teradata5550, Teradata Manager
Confidential, Richmond VA
Teradata Application DBA/Architect
Responsibilities:
- Developed Physical Data Models after interacting with business and analyzing Logical data Models using ERWIN.
- Analyzed and translation of data models to Star or Snowflake database schemas.
- Implemented physical data models, created scripts for Tables, views, Created PIs.
- Implemented multi value Compression. Reduced storage cost and gained performance
- Created MLOAD/FASTLOAD scripts to load data to Teradata.
- Improved Performance optimizing TERADATA SQL statements and various data loading strategies using TERADATA VISUAL EXPLAIN.
- Enhanced existing processes to run more efficiently by working on PPI, Skew, Joins, AJIs, workload management and Compression.
- Performed bulk data load from multiple data source like Oracle 10g to TERADATA, and used utilities like using BTEQ, FastLoad, MultiLoad, and FastExport.
- Utilized Tpump for daily alignment changes to update data
- Created and maintained DBQL historical tables, set up process for data collection and purging for ResUsage which provides valuable information of AMPs and Space usage
- Executed admin tasks using Teradata Manager such as workload activity, space utilization, statistics collection, and system performance monitoring.
- Managed security, space, jobs, tuning of loads, and backup/recovery using ARCMAIN
- Perform Teradata database performance testing and tuning for required data warehouse database changes, and determine proper indexes on newly created tables.
Environment: Teradata 12/Teradata v2r6, FastReader, Informatica PowerCenter 8.6, PL/SQL, Solaris2.8, Oracle 10g r2, Windows XP, BTEQ, BO XI r2, NetVault, Teradata 5550/2500
Confidential, Brisbane CA
Lead Teradata DBA/ Architect
Responsibilities:
- Developed logical and first - cut physical data models using ERWIN by interacting with business analysts. Worked on schema optimization.
- Data Source Mapping to the Retail Logical Data Model
- Implemented physical data models considering PPIs and Compression for the optimized performance and less storage costs
- Reduced execution time for long running queries using VISUAL EXPLAIN.
- Enhanced existing jobs/queries to run more efficiently and faster by working on factors like PPI, Skew, Joins, AJIs, workload management and indexes.
- Performed Unit testing, System Testing and Integration testing to validate the data.
- Created scripts using FastLoad, Multi-Load, TPump to load data into the Teradata EDW.
- Developed Unix shell scripts to schedule heavy reports to run during off peak hours
- Performed Teradata DBA tasks using Teradata Manager such as workload activity, space utilization, statistics collection, and system performance monitoring.
- Used winDDI for user administration which involved Security, Space, Roles, Profiles.
- Setup of Statistics Collection process which ensures all DB Indices have current Statistics.
Environment: Teradata v2r6, Business Objects XI r2, Informatica PowerCenter 8.6, PL/SQL, PeopleSoft, Solaris2.8, Oracle 9i, Windows XP, AtanaSuite CompressTool
Confidential, NC
Teradata DBA
Responsibilities:
- Analyzing the source and the target systems to aid the implementation of the Enterprise Data Warehouse. Performed technical and functional requirements analysis towards the ETL architecture through interactions with business.
- FASTLOAD and MULTILOAD jobs to load extracted data into TERADATA databases.
- Enhanced existing queries and data loads to run more efficiently and faster by query optimization using Teradata Visual explain, Statistics collection, & proper Indexing.
- Worked on Operational Data Stores (ODS) for specific healthcare requirements
- Worked on ARCMAIN with NetVault for backup and recovery operations
- Used ENDEVOR to implement Change Control management, and Priority Scheduler with UC4 to optimize the schedule for batch jobs.
- Involved in the archiving of Confidential ts data, and making accessible to Teradata
- Worked on DBA tasks like User creation, security, database creation, Primary/Secondary indexes and Scheduling/maintenance of jobs.
- Prepared downstream data using FASTExport
- Involved in Informatica 6.x ETL mappings/mapplets/workflows to load migrated data and execute converted transformation processes from legacy system and application databases to the new BO Universe based reporting.
Environment: Teradata v2r5.1, QueryMan, BTEQ, FastLoad, FastExport, Oracle 8i, UC4, MVS, JCL, SAS, Windows2003, ERWIN, Informatica PowerCenter / PowerMart 6.2, BOXI.
Confidential, Phoenix, AZ
Teradata Consultant/DBA
Responsibilities:
- Requirements gathering from multiple zones and consolidated for the corporate data
- Translated the logical data model to technical specifications
- Involved in creating Dimensions, Fact tables, Suggested data type.
- Standardized the ETL scripts catering to error table handling process, and load statistics collection using industry's best practices
- Responsible for testing and fixing various issues arising from data validation process.
- Worked on loading of data from several flat files sources to Staging using Teradata MLOAD, FLOAD and Tpump. Created batch jobs using BTEQ
- Worked on exporting data to flat files using Teradata FEXPORT and to Oracle. Generated scripts to automate loading and unloading using AtanaSuite tool.
- Handled User Security, SqL Tuning, Space management
Environment: Teradata V2R5 (BTEQ, FLOAD, MLOAD, FastExport), T-Sql, winDDI, VISIO, TD Manager, Informix 9.30, Ascential DataStage 6.0, HP-UX 11.11, Queryman, AtanaSuite Expert
Confidential
PeopleSoft/Oracle DBA
Responsibilities:
- Optimizing the Performance of the applications including Oracle database instances
- Updating Financials application by applying the latest Patches & Fixes
- Resolving Production Issues related to App/Web/Database Servers & Process Scheduler
- Configuration of PIA, App Server Domains, and databases
- Database and Environment Refreshes
Environment: PeopleSoft Financials (GL, AP, AR), PeopleTools, Oracle8i, Solaris2.6, Weblogic6.1, Tuxedo6.5/Jolt1.2, Terminal Server, Config Manager, PSADMIN
