manohar damaraju
Tel 347-***-**** (M). E-mail: **********@*****.***
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Technically sophisticated and business-savvy Senior Oracle Database
Administration Consultant with more than 10 years of career experience
reflecting strong leadership qualifications coupled with hands-on
expertise. Maintains focus on achieving bottom-line results while
formulating advanced technology and business solutions to meet a diversity
of needs. Good team player with excellent interpersonal communication
skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
. Profound knowledge of Oracle server concepts and got excellent
troubleshooting skills.
. Experience in high availability solutions like Oracle RAC, Data Guard
etc and knowledge of Oracle Streams.
. Strong SQL and PL/SQL skills and possess knowledge of Shell scripting.
. Working experience with both Development DBA and Production DBA roles.
. Worked on many flavors of UNIX like Redhat Linux, IBM AIX, HP-UX,
Solaris etc as well as on Microsoft Windows environments, and possess
good knowledge of CPU, Memory and IO management and hardware and SAN
concepts.
. Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) and worked on Oracle 11g, 10g, 9i,
8i,8 and 7.3.4 versions.
. More than 10 years of experience as Oracle DBA and Developer at
various levels.
o Sound knowledge and experience in installation procedures,
migrations, patching and cloning.
o Setting up level 0 and incremental RMAN backups and BCT, knowledge
of Media management layers like HP Omniback and Legato. Worked on
different recovery scenarios.
o Extensive experience with 10g grid control, OEM and other tools like
TOAD, SQL Developer etc. Also, got experience with Quest tools TOAD,
Foglite and Spotlite.
o Good understanding and experience in working with Dataguard
databases.
o Sound knowledge of database and sql performance tuning. Worked on
tkprof, AWR, statspack and OEM tuning pack. Always try to update
myself with industry best practices.
o Setup Oracle RAC with ASM at different projects in Lunix and
Solaris. Got good understanding of setup, tuning and troubleshooting
of RAC environments.
o Good understanding of Oracle security patches, Oracle SOX
compliance, general database security setup, Fine grained access
control and knowledge of setting up database audit.
o Worked on highly concurrent OLTP databases, online index reorg and
online table redefinition.
o Knowledge of managing data warehouse databases, different methods of
partitioning, local and global indexes, bitmap indexes, data and
index segment compression, parallel query and parallel DML.
o Knowledge of star schema and dimension tables and experience with
supporting OLAP applications and ETL tools like Datastage,
Informatica.
o Understanding of multimaster replication, refresh methods,
materialized views, MV Logs and query rewrite.
o Worked with utilities export, import, data pump, SQL Loader, Log
miner etc.
o Extensively worked on PL/SQL programming. Implemented stored
procedures, triggers and was involved in application design and
development. Got working experience on PL/SQL collections, bulk
collect, autonomous transactions etc. Worked on several Oracle
supplied packages.
o Got good understanding of advanced sql features like analytic SQL,
cube and rollup operations etc.
o Basic understanding of Oracle HTML DB.
. Knowledge in basics of Oracle Apps database administration.
. Good knowledge of Data Modeling and got working experience with Erwin.
. Got working experience with tools like Remedy, Autosys, Jobtrac, PVCS
etc.
. Exposure to Perl and shell scripting using Bourne Shell and Korn shell
(KSH).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Active Health Mgmt. Data Warehouse Implementation and Maintenance, New
York, NY. Sep 2008 - Till date.
Role: Senior DBA
ActiveHealth Management, a wholly owner subsidiary of Aetna Inc., is a
leading provider of health management services, including disease
management, clinical decision support and personal health records. The
project involves enhancements, maintenance and production support of their
Data Warehouse database.
. Work on all aspects of their data warehouse database running on 4 node
Linux RAC.
. Provide oncall support to all the Oracle databases and applications.
. Colloborate with the development team in understanding the Informatica
transformations and worked on performance tuning the same.
. Perform application performance tuning like setting up for parallelism
where ever possible, parallel DML and evaluating right index
strategies, bitmap indexes etc.
. Discussed with development team, the advantages of Analytic SQL and
implemented the same extensively in their reporting modules.
. Involved in setup of snapshot replication for a couple of modules and
maintain our replication environment.
. Troubleshoot long running queries and reports.
Amazon.com, Forecast and Merchandising Systems project, Seattle.
Oct 2006 - Aug 2008.
Role: Senior Database Administrator
Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, Washington, is the
global leader in e-commerce. Project involves creating, maintaining and
monitoring every aspect of their retail and forecast system databases.
There are at least 50 production databases most of which are OLTP and a few
DSS systems all running on RedHat Linux.
. Work involved maintaining, monitoring and performance tuning of large
scale massively concurrent OLTP databases. The databases were
primarily running on 10g with a few databases upgraded to 11g.
. Ability to quickly respond to and act on complex database scenarios.
. Worked with development teams in design and development of new
modules, worked with Erwin to maintain data models, work with change
management tools etc.
. Coded extensions to our generic partition maintenance program in
pl/sql to handle multi column partition keys, subpartitions, data
segment compression etc.
. Implemented streams replication to replicate data from procurement
module to the data warehouse. Setup change data capture, setup rules
and made transformations and applied to the data warehouse database.
Worked on automating the administration and monitoring of the same.
. Developed and maintained scripts and standards for our group of
approximately 50 production databases.
. Configuring databases for high availability and massive horizontal
scaling. The architecture enables us to build and seamlessly deploy
new databases and perform migrations with quick turnaround time and
minimal down time. We have setup DataGuard and MultiMaster Replication
for different databases based on the requirements of the applications.
. Worked on 4 node Linux RAC with ASM for our pricing database. Worked
configuration, setting up monitoring scripts, RMAN backups,
troubleshooting and performance tuning.
. Worked on setting up connection time load balancing and transparent
application failover. Setup services for instance affinity and manage
load on the database instances.
. Worked on troubleshooting issues with interconnect, monitoring
performance bottlenecks, RAC wait events etc.
. Tested backup efficiency and implemented Block change tracking (BCT)
in some databases.
. Providing on call support for our databases and applications.
Woolworths Limited, Architecture and Competency Group, Sydney, Australia.
May 2003 - Jan 2006.
Role: Senior Oracle DBA and Module Leader
. Member of a team of 8, maintaining and monitoring more than 150 Oracle
databases running on HP-UX and Microsoft Windows.
. Maintaining both OLTP and DSS databases and on UNIX (HP-UX 11,11i) and
Windows platforms.
. Conducted Performance, Scalability and Reliability (PSR) tests on some
products to ensure that the applications would scale to the required
volumes in stipulated batch processing times.
. Worked on HP Omniback Media management software with Oracle RMAN for
database backups.
. Working on Disaster Recovery project to setup databases in EMC SRDF
replication and usage of BCVs for quick and reliable backups.
. Experience in capacity planning, system and database resource
estimates.
. Received many appreciation letters from clients for my works in PSR
testing.
GE Power Systems, Parts ERP project, Atlanta, GA.
Apr 2001 - Mar 2003.
Role: Apps Developer
. Developed PL/SQL code to transfer data from GEPS Parts ERP database to
their Data Warehouse. The majority of work involved extraction and
transformation of source data using PL/SQL and then send feeds or load
it to the data warehouse database. Worked on Solaris and Wondows
environments.
. Worked in the project from design, testing to production maintenance
phases of the project.
. Worked on Erwin to create logical and physical models and create
entity relationship diagrams.
. My work mainly involved Order Management, Warehouse and Shipping
modules of Oracle Apps version 10.2. Developed a good understanding
of these modules, schema and Oracle Apps tech stack.
. Followed Quality procedures and worked on Technical documentation for
my modules.
. Worked with PVCS version control software and Kintana Object migrator
for Oracle Apps.
. Lead a team of 5 people at offshore and facilitated coordination
between offshore and onsite in Atlanta.
Oracle Consultancy Group.
Sep 1999 - Jan 2001.
Role: Oracle Technical Support Consultant
. TCS is a reseller of Oracle products in India. My work involved
supporting our customers with installations, migrations,
troubleshooting and performance tuning.
. Performed installations of many different Oracle products and
developed good understanding of Oracle products and Oracle database
lifecycle on most unix platforms including IBM-AIX and SGI-Irix.
. Configured many high availability solutions like Oracle Parallel
server and Oracle Standby database.
. Gained knowledge on PL/SQL and shell scripting.
. Successfully performed media recovery for some of our customers.
EDUCATION : Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Systems Engineering
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