Title:Senior Database Administrator/Unix Systems Admin
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NAME: Choudaraiah Akula
ADDRESS: **** ***** ******* ****
CITY: Fairfax
STATE/PROVINCE: VA
ZIP/POSTAL CODE: 22031
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: ******@*****.***
PHONE: 703-***-****
CANDIDATE ID: 214813
CITIZENSHIP: US
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EDUCATION:
EXPERIENCE: 10
WILL RELOCATE: Yes
RELOCATION INFO: VA
JOB WANTED: Any
RATE NEEDED:
HOMEPAGE:
COMMENTS:
HOTSKILLS: oracle,hp-ux,sun solaris,sql,pl/sql,sql loader,shell scripts,unix,nt
ESUME
Objective:
Seeking a position as an oracle dba/unix admin
Having 7 years of experience as an Oracle database administrator/architect
Areas of expertise:
Parallel Server, Distributed and Replicated databases.
Database design and Performance tuning.
Client/Server Architecture TCP/IP Protocols
Unix administration of HP-UX and Sun Solaris
Education:
MS
in Computer Science, Bowie State University, Bowie, MD
BS
in Mechanical Engineering, JNT University, Hyderabad, India
Summary of Experience:
Having 7 years of experience as an Oracle DBA including support to production databases,
development & testing databases and System Administration for HP-UX and Sun solaris.
Designed and developed oracle database using full life-cycle software methodology
(business requirements, analysis, design, application development (coding), testing
(including volume testing) and deployment).
Area of expertise includes Database design (logical and physical), Creating Databases,
Performance tuning of databases, Recovering databases, Performing On-line and Off-line
database backups periodically and Creating Standby databases for 24/7 availability.
Developed oracle database architecture including capacity planning database server
design, storage architecture, physical database design, high availability and backup and
recovery methods.
Providing 24/7 production database support to AT&T customer account data management
(CADM) database of 1.2 Terra-byte on SUN E10K Cluster configuration. Database files were
soft-linked to raw slices of 2 & 1 Gb. size spread over 7 controllers to balance I/O.
Periodic re-organization of heavy hit tables and indexes during weekend maintenance.
24/7 On-Call support to production and development databases
Developed shell scripts (proactive cron jobs) to monitor production databases to avoid
running out of space in table and index segments.
Support to Hot backups of Database with Veritas Net backup to tapes using features of
RMAN
Migration of database from 732 (HP) to 805 (SUN) and 805 to 8i on SUN E10K.
Recovered database from backup media when database crash due to media failure.
Performing Export and Import of the database to speed up query processing, to avoid index
stagnation, to reduce chaining of rows and to increase data density.
Configured and deployed Oracle replication master to master database and master to
snapshot database.
Expertise in third party tools like Shareplex & Spotlight and very familiar with SRDF.
Developed Stored Procedures, Packages and Triggers to synchronize multiple databases.
Configured system global area (SGA) including relocation of memory to increase the shared
memory segment size, manipulation of tablespaces on raw partitions, tuning the database
as for application needs, Creation of Snapshots and providing dba support to application
developers and application dbas.
Oracle OPS including setup, install and maintain oracle parallel server
Expertise in Software Development of relational database including design and development
of databases, using ERWIN, PROC, PL/SQL, SQLPLUS, UNIX/C Programming and Shell scripts.
Configuration of RAID5 using Sunsoft Solstice Disksuite 4.0 on Sun Sparcstation20s
Installation and Configuration of Servers for storing Image files.
Experience
11/2001
PresentSenior Database Administrator/Unix Systems AdminVerizon Newport News, VA
Environment: Oracle 8.1.5/8.0.5 Sun Ultra (solaris 2.6)/Hp 9000 (hpux 11)
Responsible as an oracle dba for 24/7 availability of 4 development databases and 2
production databases and as an unix administrator for 8 HP 9000 and 2 Sun Ultra servers
Administration of oracle parallel server database which serves as the data repository for
the Genesys CTI system. The database contains the leads list for outbound campaigns which
hold customer data for outbound screen pop, call event data generated by T-Server and
agent data such as login information.
Upgraded hp-ux 10.2 to 11 on HP 9000 servers and configured print services on HP servers.
Trouble shoot problems in bringing up servers and disk configuration by interacting with
HP and Sun support personnel.
Configured kernel parameters as per the increased load on HP 9000 servers.
Support to Java and web developers in setting up databases and creating shemas.
02/99
10/2001Senior Database AdministratorAT&T
Herndon, VA
Environment: Oracle 8.1.7.1/8.0.5.1 Sun E10K (solaris 2.6)/Hp 9000 (hp unix 10.2) AIX NT
Responsible for availability of database 24/7 and database design and development as per
the needs of changing business requirements.
Periodic purge of data and support to application DBAs and Java development projects.
Configured and deployed Table and Index Partitioning as per the requirements of business
logic in 8171 database.
Database design as per application requirement including development, testing and
deployment.
Configured and set up standby database for production database.
Set up and deployed oracle multi master replication and developed routines for conflict
resolution in oracle 8.1.7.1
Set up replication using Quest Shareplex.
Support as a development dba for J2EE and weblogic projects.
Backup (Cold and Hot) and Recovery of database using RMAN 8.1.7 and VERITAS Netbackup
version 3.4, including setting up scripts for alternate client restore and duplicating
production database on to a different host. Rman level0 and level1 backups were taken and
restored on the same host.
Configured and deployed oracle parallel server with 3 instances using Sun cluster 2.0
Monitoring the application and database performance and recommending the changes for
performance improvement at Hardware level, OS level and Database level. HW-controller load
balancing, raw-partitioning, rollback segment tuning and tuning shared-memory segments.
Raw device mappings and disk I/O load balancing.
Fine tuning of large transaction processing queries for optimal performance.
Support to large transaction databases of sizes 900 Gig, 1.2 Terra-byte in volume testing
and production databases.
Recovered database couple of times once when the system datafile corrupted and when the
database has to be restored from backup and roll-forward by applying the archived log
files.
Ported databases of 900 Gig from Hp 9000 to Sun E10Ks.
Migrated databases from 7.3.2 to 805 and upgraded 805 to 817.
Re-org of tables and indexes when ever they got fragmented.
Parallel query management and optimization for data scrubbing and data extracting jobs.
Database administration of 1.2 Terra-byte using raw partitions in production and disaster
recovery environments.
Performance tuning of database (setting initialization parameters) and application
(tuning application queries).
05/98
02/99Senior Database Administrator
Qwest/Lci International Telecommunication Balston VA
Environment: Oracle 8.0.5, 8.0.4 and 7.3.4. Hp Unix 10.2, Sun Solaris 2.5, NT
Responsible for maintenance, security, availability, tuning and upgrading of 4 production
databases and 12 development & product assurance databases.
Designed and developed database for billing system using logical and physical data
modeling using Erwin data modelling tool.
Responsible for Billing system, Lec rejects and Conversion production databases.
Responsible as a production dba for 2 People Soft (Oracle) databases.
Configured and deployed Oracle replication master to master database and master to
snapshot database (read only).
Online redolog management, archiving of redo log files, rollback segment management,
control file management which include multiplexing and moving of control files, managing
job queues with initialization parameters and DBMS_JOB package
Upgraded the databases from Oracle 7.2.3 to 7.3.4.
Migrated Oracle 7.3.4 databases to 8.0.4/8.0.5
Extensively worked to create and maintain of snapshots (read only) and snapshot logs and
troubleshot the refreshing problems of snapshots.
Duplicated several databases from one production machine to another development/testing
machine which involves copying of data files, redo log files and initialization files and
creating new controlfile from backup controlfile command.
Recovered database using backup controlfile and archived redo log files
Used SQLAB to monitor the performance of database and to tune the queries using explain
plan for optimal performance
Establishing security through profiles and roles and periodically analyzing the tables.
Created integrity constraints on tables and triggers to maintain referential integrity on
remote objects.
Configured SQLNET on different client and server machines.
Support to application developers in Java and web development projects and developing
database procedures/triggers.
01/95
04/98Sr. Systems Engineer/DBA/System Admin
Wang Mclean, VA. I-NET Bethesda, MD.
Environment: Oracle 7.3.3 & 7.2.2.4, PROC 2.0, PL/SQL 2.0, SQLPLUS 3.1, Solaris 2.5
Project: Microfiche to Digital Conversion of Bureau of Navy Personnel Records (BUPERS)
and FAA personnel
Responsible for Database Administration and System Administration. Configured Sun
Sparcstation20 server on the network for storing image files.
Designed and developed database using Entity relation attribute modeling for FAA
personnel to convert microfiche to digital (electronic format) .
Performance tuning of bad response queries.
Developed several shell scripts using BORN and KORN shells and stored procedures using
PL/SQL to speed up the production and to improve response time of end users.
Trouble shooting both oracle system and application software for optimal performance.
Configured Sun Sparcstation20 servers on the network with an external raid5 of 60 gig
disk storage distributed over 2 SCSI controllers. (The raid5 was configured using Sun
Solitice disk-suite 4.0).
Installed Solaris 2.5 operating system and 2.4.2 Sun Prestoserve hardware and software on
servers to improve i/o.
Developed stored procedures and triggers to check database integrity and serve various
purposes in the process flow of BUPERS project.
Developed various daily progress reports using SQLPLUS
Responsible for Database Administration and System Administration.
Developed database model for converting Navy personnel records using Erwin
Responsible for developing imaging software systems and conversion of data using PROC and
PL/SQL.
Providing support to end users in the flow process of BUPERS production site.
Developed several application programs using PROC, Creating users, stored procedures,
packages to reduce network traffic and to improve response time.
Recovered database from 8mm backup DAT tape when database crashed from hard disk failure.
Added data-files and created users to database system by analyzing the process flow of
BUPERS project.
Perform database backups periodically (on-line every day and off-line on weekends).
Carried out database export and import monthly to defrag the database and to increase the
i/o .
Developed shell scripts and stored procedures to increase monthly throughput.
Worked on Lenzar scanners (LenzarPro 4000) to process images.
Trained technical staff members to troubleshoot problems on the system.
Developed shell scripts to perform on-line and off-line database backups that includes
data files, control files and archive-log files.
Developed scripts to run database space usage and to monitor disk space utilization.
Configured Sun Sparcstation20 server on the network with an external raid of 110 gig disk
storage distributed over 3 SCSI controllers. (The raid was configured using Sun Solitice
disksuite 4.0).
Installed Solaris 2.5 operating system and 2.4.2 Sun Prestoserve hardware and software on
servers to improve i/o.
11/94
12/94Programmer/AnalystSNC Inc
. Germantown, MD
Environment: Oracle 7.0.16, PROC 1.5, PL/SQL 2.0, SQLPLUS 3.0, Solaris 2.3, NT, TCP/IP
Project: Digital Conversion of Microfiche and Film for FAA Registry Contract.
Responsible for development of imaging software for FAA on Solaris 2.3.
Developed code for dumping data from database to files and exporting data to remote
database using Solaris 2.3, Oracle 7.0.16, C, PROC 1.5 on FAA Registry Conversion
Project.
HW/SW Skills:
Software: HP UNIX 11.0 10.2 Solaris 2.6 VMS WINDOWS NT
Languages: C/C++ SQL PL/SQL PROC SQLPLUS DEVELOPER 2000
Shells: BORN KORN C PERL AWK
Database: Oracle, VAX-RDBMS SQLLOADER SQLFORMS TSREORG SQLLAB
Machines: SUN E10K SUN ULTRA HP9000 NEXT IBM PC
References:
Will be furnished upon request