Swetha Patnaikuni
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Summary
With experience in companies like Home Depot and Norfolk Southern, a
graduate in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. looking for a SQL Server
Database Administrator position
Experience
HOME DEPOT USA, INC., Atlanta, GA
Jan 2010-Current
SQL Server Database Administrator
. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, installing and
upgrading SQL Server and its databases, clustering, monitoring database
health, coordinating with storage teams on capacity planning and storage
distribution, backing up and restoring databases, maintenance of database
users and security, database development, data transfer and replication,
mirroring, and server diagnostics and analysis.
. Working as a Primary DBA on several projects including
. SCOM: Setting up Microsoft's SCOM Monitoring Environment that
extends across all platforms and across
all data centers within Home Depot
. SQL Server Consolidation Project and Virtualization: Working on
this effort to consolidate all SQL Servers
Across the Enterprise at all life cycles implementing VMWare's
concepts of Virtualization
. Enterprise Directory: Platinum level High Availability DR project
tied to the company's Active Directory
structure accessed by the company's 350,000+ employees.
. Out For Repair : This is a subsidiary of Home Depot's Tool Rental
Project and is a store facing application
. Worked as Primary DBA for projects such as SCCM, store-facing 20-20
Virtual Showroom, Windows Refresh and Database Refresh, Promotion Manager
Upgrade, HP Opsware Upgrade 8.0, Captiva Upgrade, HP Quality Center
Upgrade and Database Refresh Project within Home Depot.
. Automated the process of monitoring Home Depot's entire inventory of
SQL Servers to ensure good backups of all servers using Powershell
Scripting. Also, provide 24x7 on-call support for Production Databases.
NORFOLK SOUTHERN, Atlanta, GA
Jan 2009-May 2009
Web Application Developer/Brio Developer (Spring Internship)
. Worked on the company's business intelligence (Brio) team and was
involved in the data warehousing team.
. Handled web application development and support for several projects
and prepared logistics for projects
. Handled direct customer interaction in the form of collecting
requirements and dealt with other maintenance /
customer related issues of many projects.
OPEN SYSTEMS INC., Alpharetta, GA May 2008- Dec 2008
Application Developer (Summer Internship)
. Worked on analysis, design, development and testing of several
applications by working with clients.
. Developed a full text search engine that was immediately incorporated
by the client.
. Provided support for previously developed products and ongoing
projects. Worked on developing several test cases using Selenium and also
handled several other assignments like solving issues related to
maintenance of applications using technologies such as Velocity, HTML,
JavaScript, Java, etc. on the Turbine framework.
Education
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Atlanta, GA
Masters of Science in Computer Science, Dec 2009
. Magna Cum Laude, National Scholars Honors Society in May 2009
. Graduate Research Assistant, Earth System Curator Project funded by
National Science Foundation (NSF):
Worked on auto generation of coupler code for climate modeling using
ESMF tool involving technologies such
as Linux, FORTRAN and XML.
GANDHI INSTITUTE OF TECNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (GITAM), Andhra University,
India
Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, May 2007
. Department Topper, Bachelors of Technology, GITAM in 2006 and 2007
. Developed Rainfall Prediction using Artificial Neural Networks:
multilayered feed forward neural networks
trained with error back propagation algorithm were employed for
short term prediction of rainfall using C++.
. Designed Customer Relationship Management System (CRMS) as an open
order management application
offering appropriate security and control; used JSP, Servlets and
Oracle 8i backend.
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Skills
Databases: SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, ORACLE 8i/10G, POSTGRESQL,
MYSQL, DB2
Software: C, C++, SQL, J2SE, J2EE, FORTRAN, FLASH, MS ACCESS
Packages: MS WORD, MS POWERPOINT, MS EXCEL, ADOBE, VISUAL STUDIO
Operating Systems: MS DOS, WINDOWS (XP, 2000, 98, NT, Vista, Server 2000,
2003, 2008, 2008 R2), LINUX,
UNIX
Modeling Languages: UML
Web Technologies: HTML, JAVASCRIPT, XML, VELOCITY, CSS
Business Intelligence tools: Brio
Other tools: SSRS, SSIS, PSSDIAG, SQL Nexus, SCOM, PAL, SQL Profiler
Certifications
. Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS 070-431) -
Microsoft SQL Server 2005-Implementation and
Maintenance (Certification ID: 6906221), Apr 2009
Honors and Awards
. Home Depot Homer Award - for upgrading all (about 400) SQL Server
database servers in Feb 2011
. Pillars of Excellence at Home Depot- for successfully installing the
first 5 node SQL Server cluster in Home
Depot for the SCOM monitoring set-up throughout the enterprise
across all platforms in Oct 2010
. Homer Award for Outstanding Performance - awarded within the first 4
months of joining Home Depot -
for establishing a centralized backup monitoring system using
PowerShell and SQL server in Jul 2010
. Best Paper Award for paper on Iris Recognition at CBIT, National
Technical Symposium in Mar 2006
Paper Publications
. Iris Recognition - An Emerging Biometric Technology at National
Level Technical Symposium, Chaitanya
Bharati Institute of Technology (CBIT), India in Mar 2006
. An Organization of Data in a Data Warehouse at National Level
Technical Symposium, SRKR College of
Engineering, India in Aug 2005
Activities
. At Home Depot, organized knowledge sharing sessions within the
database team as well as with other teams to
educate about new technologies implemented
. Member of the Atlanta Powershell User Group
. Active member of Georgia Tech ICGT Club
. CSE Class Representative at Gandhi Institute of Technology and
Management (GITAM), India
. Acted as a liaison between the professors and students
. Organized Technical and Cultural Symposium at GITAM
. Captain of CSE Throwball team, GITAM, India
. Editor of Diya Magazine, Visakhapatnam, India