Manager Management

K U M A R L A N K A DA

**** ********** **** 732-***-****

Edison, New Jersey 08820 ********@*******.***

I N F O R M AT I O N T E C H N O L O G Y M A N AG E M E N T

Expertise: Database Administration … Data Engineering / Architecture … IT Infrastructure

Dedicated and resourceful professional offering practical and progressive career success in information technology

management. Exceptional background in implementing and supporting large scale technology solutions, enabling

achievement of challenging business objectives. Extensive experience leading cross functional teams to exceed

expectations and achieve time and budget goals. Analytical and creative individual with a proven record of developing

innovative solutions to complex problems and excelling in high pressure situations. Excellent verbal and written

communicator, able to document and explain highly complex processes to non technical personnel at all levels in

multinational settings. Proven ability to master cutting edge technology and integrate it into company framework by

applying foresight and strategic planning skills.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Needs Analysis Strategic Planning Systems Security

Capacity Planning Data Center Operations Team Leadership

Budget Development / Administration Training and Development Client Satisfaction

CAREER PROGRESSION

CITIGROUP 1999 – Present

Senior Vice President – Warren, New Jersey 2008 – Present

Merited repeated promotion to direct a 16 member team, both on and off site that included two team leads who

managed Sybase / Oracle / IQ and Informix and provided technical guidance to team members.

Position entails supporting 120 Sybase, 45 Oracle, 4 IQ, and 8 Informix databases, adhering to all audit

standards and meeting internal and external requirements.Total database size supported over 50TB with 400 change

control records supported in a week.

Led migration of information security of more than 1,000 Oracle / Sybase / SQL servers to a separate group,

consisting of 350 SQL, 400 Oracle, and 110 Sybase servers, which assisted in automating entitlement review.

Championed numerous efficiency measures, including optimizing backup savings that produced $600,000 in

yearly savings, managing optimization of hardware and servers that saved $500,000 annually, and supporting server

consolidation efforts, which generated a savings of $200,000 per year.

Reduced operational costs 50% by utilizing India team resources to provide operational support to the U.S. team

in the form of night coverage.

Rapidly mastered new technologies to lead a team of Sybase, Informix, and Oracle database administrators,

eliminating the need and costs associated with a database manager.

Vice President – Warren, New Jersey 2006 – 2008

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Oversaw a team of five onshore and three offshore employees responsible for upkeep of database systems

including Oracle / Sybase / IQ / Informix and ensuring they all meet stipulated standards, which includes application

management, high availability, and data migration.

Established an “as the sun rises hotline” by using the India team for night coverage and the U.S. team for day

coverage, improving the team morale and allowing the U.S. team to focus on the business needs of the Sybase Equity

Research Group.

Effective hands on leadership and team management resulted in improved availability and performance of the

Sybase systems, exceeding client availability and capacity management requirements.

Assistant Vice President – Weehawken, New Jersey 2003 – 2006

Led a team of four in support of Informix and Oracle databases, utilizing in depth knowledge of Informix 7.3

and Oracle 9i, including high availability features such as replication, active and passive clusters, and dataguard.

Established new audit standards for both Oracle and Informix rdbms that enforced stringent segregation of

duties between the database system administrator, database system security officer, and audit analysis officer.

Provided exceptional coverage for the highly critical citibankonline.com website and exceeded all operation

level agreements and service level agreements, achieving no unplanned downtime for a continuous period of two

years.

Senior DBA – Long Island City/Wall Street, Natco Systems New York City 1999 – 2002

Supported the citifi.com (precursor to citibankonline.com) as development database administrator, release

manager, and application database administrator, which involved providing support to system administrators for

support of development infrastructure.

Documented and prepared the Citibank’s online account opening data model and extended Broadvisions data

model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases: Informix 7.31, 9.4, Sybase: 12.5.03, 15.0x, IQ, Optim

Operating Systems: AIX, Solaris, Z/Linux, HP

Programming: Informix 4GL, Perl, C, strong Shell Scripting

Application Layer: Broadvision, Websphere, Weblogic

Tools: Autosys, OPC Scheduler, BMC Patrol, SQLbacktrack, iwatch, Erwin, Toad, IBM Optima, Guardium, Oracle

Migration WorkBench

Proficiencies in:

•disaster recovery and planning •data center operations

•high availability •incident management,problem management

•auditing and SOX compliance •security experience in IT infrastructure

•technical documentation •managing remote teams

•release management •supported retail banking

•change management •CBOL as application release manager

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•supported critical global wealth management and CTI •ITIL framework knowledge

businesses

E D UCAT I O N, C E RT I F I CAT I O N S, A N D P RO FE S S I O NA L D E V E L O P M E N T

VINOD GUPTA SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT – Kharagpur, West Bengal, India 1997

Master of Business Management; Major in Information Technology

ANDHRA UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING – Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India 1989

Bachelor of Technology

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS / TRAINING/ACHEVEMENTS:

Rated #1 in Citi’s Performance appraisal for the last 3 consecutive years

Informix Certified System Administrator

Completed Citi’s Level 1 project Management Foundation Course

Successfully completed Two Day Workshop of IBM for DB2 Proof of Technology

Completed Informix Datawarehouse seminar in Bangalore in 1998

Completed various Oracle training including RAC, Performance Tuning, Streams

Qualified in India’s IIT JEE in 1986 with a AIR of 1834

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