Peter Moses
abjnw5@r.postjobfree.com Oracle Apps DBA
Delray Beach, FL
Summary:
. Apps DBA administrator with 6 years of extensive experience in
implementation, upgrade, application & database support, scripting,
cloning, patching, apps integrations, maintaining security, automation
and mentoring.
. Expertise in Oracle apps 10.7 to 11.5.10.2, 11.5.9 to 11.5.10.2 and DB
7.3.4 to 9i, 9i to 10G, 10g point upgrades.
. Actively involved in all phases of Implementation & Upgrade from the
Designing (Including the Methodology of documenting the system and
Identifying the bottlenecks and trouble shooting at various elements
of the system), standardizing procedure, automation, instance
preparation, cut over activities Etc.
. Involved in automating DBA activities including patch comparison
across multiple instances, user responsibility addition, Instance
refresh and created tools like SQLT & tkprof generation, patch
reports, concurrent program diagnostics with shell scripting/plsql
used by DBA and Developer teams.
. Worked on process improvements like DB security, custom migrations
etc., increasing quality and reducing manual efforts.
. Provided support for mission critical databases with multimode
applications and RAC configurations.
. Performed application and database clones and recognized by customer
for quality and timely delivery.
. Led DBA projects, release implementations and production support.
. Worked with functional and developer team in troubleshooting issues
and planning releases.
. Organized, efficient, self-motivated, hard working, cooperative, team
oriented and have strong interpersonal skills demonstrated in all the
assignments.
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Education
Degree/Qualification Institution Name
Bachelor of Engineering Bharathiar University, India
Received "The Best Outgoing Student" award for my achievements during my
four year engineering course.
Employment History
Oracle Apps DBA, Wipro Technologies from Aug 2004 till date.
Engagements and Accomplishments
Client Office Depot, Florida, US.
Project Name Oracle Apps Implementation & Production Support
Role APPS DBA
Period Jan 2007 - Till Date
Environment Oracle Applications R11.5.10.2, DB 10.1.0.2, 10.2.0.4,
Suse Linux
This project is one of the major oracle application(11.5.10) implementation
for Office Depot which includes all major financial, CRM and Order
Management modules (AP, AR, GL, FA, PO, OM, CRM) with a team of 80 +
onsite and 50 + offshore resource.
Responsibilities:
. Administration of Oracle application 11i & DB RAC 10g development,
staging and production environments.
. Building, cloning and maintaining single, multinode and external node
instances.
. Creating processes for DBA support to improve productivity and
tracking.
. Analyzing and applying patches to DB, ASM, CRS and application.
. Performed 10.2.0.4 upgrade on ASM, CRS, DB and OEM.
. Automating DBA activities reducing repetitive manual efforts.
Responsible for automating many processes in the project.
. Patch management across 30 + instances using shell script tool,
Implemented a component which extracts user responsibility details
from xl sheet and attach it to users in Ebiz, Script to compare all
custom files in file system between two instances are few of the
notable scripts written in current project.
. Wrote script for automating production refresh which reduced refresh
time and manual efforts.
. Was awarded with "Value Addition award" for my outstanding
contributions in the current project.
. Setting up SSO login for instances, parallel concurrent processing,
external node configurations.
. Implemented and maintaining concurrent manager load balancing using
request types and custom managers.
. Performing table rebuild and partitions on major Finance tables and
automated table rebuild with threshold, control flag and history
features.
. Optimized the process of gathering schema stats with parallel threads
concept.
. Applying and migrating customizations to instances using Kintana/ITG.
. Integrating third party systems (Taxware,Geocode,Courion) to Ebiz and
administering taxware and Geocode applications.
. Involved in go live and support planning.
. OEM monitoring and creating custom monitoring.
. Currently providing production support for 14 TB Instance and other
development instances.
. Planning and supporting dot releases. Led the support for several UAT
testing cycles.
. Worked with Apex admin and added many features helpful to DBA's like
configuration extracts, DB Security, Shift transfers etc.,
Client Getty Images, Washington State, US.
Project Name HRMS Implementation & Rollout
Role APPS DBA
Period OCT2006- DEC 2006
Environment Oracle Applications R11.5.10.2, DB 10.1.0.2, Unix Sun
Solaris
The project involved implementation of HRMS modules (Oracle Self Service HR
& Oracle Daily Business Intelligence for HR) for Getty Images. This project
included assessment of existing system, creating and configuring instances
to implement HRMS modules.
Responsibilities:
. Assessment of existing instances and Involved in Instance creation &
configuration.
. Analyzing and applying standard Patches to implement SSHR & DBI.
. Applied HRMS family pack patches.
. Support during user acceptance testing.
. Refreshing instances.
. Monitoring and tightening security. Performed forms personalization to
give controlled access on certain secured forms to users.
. Applying customizations to production environment which is part of
implementation.
. Working with functional team fixing user issues.
. Performed user set up for approval management.
. Wrote multimode startup & shutdown script.
. Maintained database security.
Client Subaru, New Jersey, US.
Project Name Oracle Applications Upgrade
Role APPS DBA
Period JUL 2006 - SEP 2006
Environment Oracle Applications R11.5.9, Unix Sun Solaris
This project involved analyzing and upgrading of Subaru's Oracle
Applications from 11.5.9 to 11.5.10.2. Including analyzing of the existing
architecture and technology stack and proposing the method for upgrade.
Responsibilities:
. Assessment of the existing Oracle Applications infrastructure and
documenting the upgrade procedure to be followed.
. Involved in application upgrade from 11.5.9 to 11.5.10.2 and fixing
issues during upgrade.
. Database upgrade from 9.2.0.6 to 10.2.0.2 .
. Involved in analyzing and applying standard Patches.
. Applied Maintenance packs, Family packs and one-of patches.
. Worked with oracle support for critical issues.
Client Sony Electronics, California, US.
Project Name Oracle 11i Applications Production Support
Role APPS DBA
Period MAY 2006 -JUN 2006
Environment Oracle Applications R11.5.10.2 Database 10.1.0.5 and UNIX
Shell Scripts, Unix (HPUX B.11.11)
This project deals with the support of newly upgraded production instance.
This also includes configuration of daily instance refreshes. Monitoring
production instance for performance bottlenecks and support for daily
refreshed instances.
Responsibilities:
. Involved in supporting production instance which was upgraded from
R10.7 to 11.5.10.2 with database upgrade from 7.3.4 to 10.1.0.5.
. Proactive monitoring for any bottlenecks in performance.
. Fixing production issues.
. Automating database & application monitoring by writing scripts.
. Refreshing test instances from production.
. Database problem diagnosis, research, fix, testing and resolution
apply and patches on 11i environments.
. Applying customized patches.
Client Sony Electronics, California, US.
Project Name Oracle applications upgrade from 10.7 to 11i
Role APPS DBA
Period MAY 2005 - APR 2006
Environment Oracle Applications R11.5.10.2 Database 10.1.0.5 and UNIX
Shell Scripts, Unix (HPUX B.11.11)
The project is the initiative taken by the Sony Electronics to upgrade its
oracle applications form an older version of 10.7 to the latest version
11.5.10.2.This project contained lot of technical challenge on DBA
perspective. More than 10 official upgrades and many internal upgrades was
performed to optimize the process.
Responsibilities:
. Involved in creating and configuring instances for the upgrade cycle.
. Upgrading applications from 10.7 to 11.5.10.2, troubleshooting issues
during upgrade and optimizing the process on each upgrade to reduce
the overall downtime.
. Performed 10+ official test upgrades from 10.7 to 11.5.10.2 and
successfully upgraded production.
. Used adaimgr for performing the auto upgrade from 10.7/11.0.3 to 11i.
. Applied Maintenance packs, Family packs and one-of patches.
. Involved in planning cut over activities and implementing the same.
. Upgrading database 7.3.4 to 9i, 9i to 10g, 10.1.0.4 to 10.1.0.5.
. Maintaining centralized document and issue log repository.
. Performing backup and recovery using RMAN
. Extensive use of utilities like RapidInstall, RapidClone, autoconfig,
adpatch, adctrl, adrelink, adadmin, aderelink.sh, LicenseMgr, adident,
adautoconfig for maintenance of Oracle application.
. Creating truncated instances.
. Configuring applications over multimode with load balancer
configuration.
. Workflow and discoverer administration.
. Cloning instances using custom procedures, manual method, rapid clone
and performing single node to multi node cloning.
. Developed scripts to automate functions and processes. Jvm error
alerting, SQLT & Tkprof tool and program for extracting customizations
for developers are few of the notable scripts.
Client Sony Electronics, California, US.
Project Name Oracle applications 10.7 instance Production Support
Role APPS DBA
Period DEC2004 - APR 2005
Environment Oracle Applications R10.7 Database 7.3.4 and UNIX Shell
Scripts, Unix (HPUX B.11.11)
This project dealt with the production database support for SONY
electronics. It helped in acquiring knowledge about the existing
architecture, technology stack, process and procedure in Sony
environment which reduced the assessment time during upgrade project.
Responsibilities:
. Handling and maintaining the routine activities in SONY Electronics
10.7 Instance production support.
. Performing and monitoring daily instance refreshes form production.
. Fixing production issues.
. Monitoring daily/weekly backup and working with system administrator
for issues in backup.
. Applying customized patches.
. Proactive monitoring of the database to identify bottlenecks.
Client Wipro Technologies
Project Name Implementation and Testing of XBRL, XML publisher &
Interface engine
Role Project Engineer
Period AUG 2004 - DEC 2004
Environment Oracle 9i,PL/SQL,Oracle Apps R11.5.10,XBRL,Unix
This project involved in-house implementing eXtensible Business Reporting
Language (XBRL), XML Publisher and Generic Interface engine in oracle
application 11.5.10.
Responsibilities:
. Implemented the XBRL & XML publisher feature and presented white papers
on the same. Papers were published in Wipro K-Times.
. Created Generic interface plug ins with dynamic parameters.
. Fixed issues encountered during implementation.
. Worked with oracle support for fixing bugs in functionality.
. Applied patches and configured mailer.
. Received "THE BEST CAMPUS RECRUIT AWARD" for all the contributions to the
in-house projects.
Areas of Expertise:
1. Oracle Apps & Database upgrades
2. DBA process automation/Tool development
3. Oracle Database Administration 9i/10g
4. Oracle Applications 11i Administration
5. Real Application Clusters Install & Administration
6. Backup and Recovery
7. EBiz security administration
8. Cloning, patching & troubleshooting issues
9. Oracle Apps Implementation
10. Unix shell scripting & PLSQL coding
11. Application Installations
12. Apps Integrations with 3rd party
13. Proficient in tools like OEM, ad utilities.
14. Production support
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