Rajeev Rajput
** ****** **, ******** ***, NJ ****2
acg0nb@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY
A dynamic and innovative hands-on Senior Principal Database Administrator/Architect and Subject Matter Expert with
more than a decade of experience with focus on database design, advanced performance tuning, high performance data
replication, backup and recovery, and business continuity/disaster recovery using Oracle 11gR2 RAC, ASM, EXADATA,
DataGuard, OEM. Resolved highly technical and complex database and infrastructure related issues before they
impact production and business.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co 11/13 to Present
Sr. Principal Database & Performance Tuning Consultant in High Availability & Resiliency and SWAT Team
• Developed Database Assessment Standards related to Audit, Resiliency and Availability.
• Pro-active deep-dive in-depth reviews, identify risk items in risk register and schedule remediation
• Architected both Infrastructure and Database Resilient Solutions for Critical Applications running on Oracle,
MSSQL – MSCS for local HA and ASYNC database mirroring for DR and Sybase – ASYNC database replication
using log shipping or replication server, choice driven by RTO/RPO and out-of-region requirements.
• Developed methodology and procedures for assessment & evaluation of database related to
Resiliency/Availability gaps within the production estate crown Jewels Applications – Swiftbus, PRPC, BaNCS,
Access Portal, Cash Reporting, ANG, Fircosoft, GCA, iBus, iDDA, iPay, JPM Network Engine, Liquidity Central,
iBus,Zengin, GSM, DUO and many more.
• Provide Oracle database services to application development on all aspects of database performance issues,
database tuning, database configuration, database migration, database layout, high availability, disaster recovery,
database security – audit vault and vendor interactions in line with corporate objectives.
• Familiarity with GTI Database & Pattern Engineering Solution Documents to ensure standard configuration are
configured through OEM and DB Portal
SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. 10/11 to 10/13
Sr. Principal Database Architect /Performance Tuning Expert
• Developed and implemented a technically challenging solution to migrate & consolidate two 15 TB 10g databases
to Linux using 11gR2 RAC-ASM, DataGuard, Linux with SGA size of 420GB and a very complex custom
innovative procedure utilizing many shell scripts, Datapump jobs, concurrent parallel index rebuilds and gather
stats for over 1000+ objects in under 10 hrs. and saved the company millions of dollars.
• Architected migration of SQL server databases using backup and restore, copy database wizard using SQL server
Management Studio and generate the create script using generate Script Wizard(SSMS).
• Lead, manage and provide Oracle database services to application development on all aspects of database
performance issues, database tuning, database configuration, database migration, database layout, high
availability, disaster recovery, database security – audit vault and vendor interactions in line with corporate
objectives.
• Work with infrastructure providers to ensure installation of Hardware, Network, Storage, Middleware, Application
configuration & Installation, Operating systems infrastructure meet the on-going needs of Business and
Application Development teams in terms of performance and security.
• Lead and coordinate the remediation of database audit points, infrastructure security compliance, SOX and DBMS
exception process and resolutions to ensure continuing compliance against audit points and policies, and to
prevent repeat audit points.
• Review capacity planning and sizing documents and provide recommendations for capacity planning and tending
reviews of all oracle databases. Project Estimation process - including attending project kick-offs and reviews as
necessary to appropriately size new environments, recommend & justify infrastructure solutions and deliver
associated cost and resource effort estimates
CREDIT SUISSE 9/08 to 9/11
Consultant/Sr. Oracle Database Administrator Architect
• Provide leadership in the design, architecture of corporate large scale Oracle database infrastructures with a
focus on innovating ways to reduce overall database footprint through Host consolidation on x86 hardware
architectures - EXADATA, CISCO UCS Blade Server 11gR2 RAC, Instance Caging, IO Resource Manager, LPAR
and isolation through Oracle Instance Caging, Oracle VM, VMWare that increases ROI, reduces TCO and meets
the upcoming demand
• Lead, manage and completed EXADATA Proof Of Concept (POC) evaluation and recommendations. Key tasks
included measuring and validating database performance and code scalability using Benchmark Factory(BMF),
migrating current database to X2 Quarter/Half Rack, two six-core Intel® Xeon® X5670 processors running at 2.93
GHz, 96 GB memory, capacity of 600 GB 10,000 RPM High Performance SAS disks, two 40 Gb/second
InfiniBand ports and Smart Flash Cache.
• Lead, manage and provide Oracle database services to application development on all aspects of database
performance issues including troubleshooting WebLogic, Apache, database tuning, database configuration,
database migration, database layout, high availability, disaster recovery, database security and vendor
interactions in line with corporate objectives.
• Work with infrastructure providers to ensure installation of Hardware, Network, Storage, Permissioning and
Operating systems infrastructure meet the on-going needs of Business and Application Dev. in terms of
performance and security.
• Lead and coordinate the remediation of database audit points, infrastructure security compliance, SOX and DBMS
exception process and resolutions to ensure continuing compliance against audit points and policies, and to
prevent repeat audit points.
Merrill Lynch/Bank of America 4/97 to 9/08
Lead Oracle DBA
• Provided on-going Support to Global Wealth Management (GWM) Single Client Profile (SCP) and Hub Online
Projects using Oracle 10gR2 on Sun Solaris 5.10 and Siperian MDM (Master Data Management) Hub with over
3TB of data and 18 Database instances supporting release trains like Dev, SE, IDE, QA, UAT, and Production
database environments. The Client Experience Data Program (CEDP) will re-engineer business processes that
include Profiling, Account Opening & Maintenance, and Wealth Management. These processes will enable FAs
and Client Associates (CA) to efficiently obtain and use relevant client information. This will allow FAs to focus on
providing Wealth Management Advisory Services to High Net Worth clients.
• Architected and implemented the development of distributed, redundant, recoverable database architecture for
Merrill Lynch’s Orchestra Active Policy Management (APM) system using Oracle 10gR2 RAC on LINUX Red Hat
4.0.
• Analyzed and Proposed Database Backup Strategies and Disaster Recovery solutions for existing Projects with
respect to mean time to recover. Specific strategies include implementing flashback database, tablespace point in
time recovery for recovering purged objects, VCS clusters for node failures and EMC SRDF solution for Disaster
Recovery. Provide consultancy in planning & implementation of Database Backup and Disaster Recovery
solutions for new projects. Evaluate the feasibility of making Database Backup Strategy and Disaster Recovery
part of the infrastructure for all new projects.
• Developed and implement best practices and standards for database support activities. Provide technical
consulting services to other departments wishing to exploit RDBMS platforms. Provide DBMS topology, tool
evaluation, and design services to applications requiring DBMS specific knowledge base. This includes (but is not
limited to) software vendor evaluation, tool comparisons, providing technical direction as well as information from
technical journals, IBM and other vendors
• Provided technical consulting services to application development and systems areas on topics relating to
database performance, database enablement technologies, database server environmental configuration, and
data access issues.
• Capacity Planning Lead for Oracle Managed Services - Responsible for the ongoing delivery and execution of
oracle managed service solutions effectively and efficiently within DBMS Application environments as well as the
ongoing maintenance to ensure availability, reliability, supportability and manageability.
• Spearheaded OMS migration project for all current service groups from current tier-1, tier-2 Dev, QA and
Production, CNR environments to PA and Teleport Data Center. Provided timelines for the migration and
prioritized the migration of tier-1 and new clients.
• Provided direction for Monthly Capacity Planning Meetings. For capacity planning analysis worked with Team
Quest and completed the Workload Templates for service groups for detailed analysis to identify opportunities for
load balancing, adding CPU’s and additional nodes or failover a service group to another node. Provided OMS
Best Practices Document which significantly reduced the service group build out ETA and prevented space over-
allocation.
• Architected and provided a solution to manage current large volume of metadata within the RMAN catalog
database with over 300+ database and be able to recover full production database in disaster recovery scenario
within Service Level Agreement.
• Implemented Sarbanes Oxley audit and security procedures
• Setup and implemented XML DB in existing Oracle Database by ensuring Correct CLASSPATH, running
initjvm.sql, loading initial sets of Java classes, load xml components via initxml.sql and loading XMLSQL utility into
the database, converted long data to clob, created xml data types, used xml functions for direct xml access,
created procedures for reporting xml data
ERNST & YOUNG LLP 8/94 - 4/97
Oracle DBA
• Successfully transitioned the IW database into a production database through three different hardware platforms
in one year.
• Monitoring and Optimization the performance of the database
• Installing and Upgrading (from 7.1.6 to 7.2.3) including WINDOWS NT
• Allocating system storage and capacity requirements for the systems- Done extensive space management
• Tuning and troubleshoot database applications and provide support to users and clients
• Enrolling, Controlling and Monitoring user access to database
• Identify opportunities for reorganization of tablespaces, tables and indexes as fragmentation occurs
• Managing schema objects - database links, procedures, packages, triggers, sequences
• Planned and developed applications - Billing Workbench, KL merger financial system.
• Maintaining and Updating Applications, solving application related problems and documenting application.
• Assisted Programmers to improve response time
• System security check by using access control lists - lsacl, chacl
• Installed Oracle Web server and Power Browser on Windows NT platform and using Power Browser tools did
DBA administration tasks
EDUCATION
MCA in Computer Applications
BSc(H) in Mathematics
TECHNICAL SKILLS
HARDWARE: EXADATA, IBM P7 AIX 5.3, CISCO UCS Blade Server, Sun Solaris, RH LINUX 4.0, HP-9000 series T-500
and T-800, WINDOWS NT, SCO UNIX, UNISYS, Novell, AIX (IBM PPS Model 7025)
SOFTWARE: Oracle 12c, 11gR2 & 10gR2, 10gR2 RAC, Grid Control, Database Console, Data Guard, MSSQL, Sybase,
Exadata, PL/SQL, Business Objects, KORN SHELL, awk, sed, PRO*C, C, Designer 2000, DOCUMENTUM, Autosys
MONITORING TOOLS: 11g/12c Oracle Cloud Control, Unicenter, BMC PATROL, PRECISE, TOAD, QUEST, Spotlight
ENTERPRISE BACKUP: RMAN and Legato’s Storage Manager, Tivoli TDP
RECOGNITION: Merrill Lynch Special Achievement Award for sustained value