Career Objectives
To become part of a challenging organization that provides opportunities for personal and professional development in the field of Information Technology & Information Systems with active interest in the field of IT Infrastructure Operations Management that involves Technology Management, High Level Design, Project Planning, Implementation, People Management and Development of Procedures and Processes. To work in a quality certified organization, which gives me an opportunity to demonstrate my skills & in turn be a source of growth for the organization.
Executive Summary
20+ Years of total IT experience with vast exposure to IT Infrastructure Management space. Domain expertise on Oracle & UNIX platforms and successfully managed multiple projects involving Implementation and Production Support. I have extensive subject matter expertise in Cloud Technologies, Datacenter Management, IT Infrastructure Planning (Database, Server & Network Management), IT Services Management (ITSM), Methods, Processes, Strategic Technology & Developing Cost Effective Solutions to meet customer / business requirements. I also have good experience with IT Project Management, Planning, Technology & People Management, Network Administration, System Administration (UNIX & Windows) and Oracle Database Administration on UNIX & Windows systems.
Specialties
IT Service Delivery
ITIL Framework
Disaster Recovery Planning (DR)
IT Security
IT Infrastructure Management
IT Service Management
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Cloud Technologies
IT Operations Management
IT Project Management
Databases (Oracle & MS SQL Server)
AWS & Azure
Virtualization & Consolidation
Server Management
Network Management & FCAPS
DevOps
Education & Qualifications
Master of Science (Majors: Information Technology) from The Global Open University, India
Pursing Executive MBA (Majors: Information Systems) from Sikkim Manipal University, India
Technical & Professional Certifications:
ITIL Expert Certificate in IT Service Management
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
Oracle Certified Professional (Oracle 9i & 10g DBA)
Administering Microsoft SQL Server Databases
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Work Experience: - (Renowned clients)
SITA AERO (AIRLINE INDUSTRY), CAFOS- UK, Edexcel, UK US, IFFCO - United Arab Emirates, McDonalds - ( US - 118 countries and territories around the world), Bharti Airtel, NAB ( Australia Banking), TIAA - (US - Fortune 100 financial services organization).
Oct 2015 onwards
InterGlobe Technologies Pvt Ltd (IndiGo Group) Doha Qatar
Technical Consultant
Oct 2014 to Oct 2015
HCL Technologies Ltd, Noida India
Sr Consultant
(Oracle)
April’11 to Oct’14
IBM India Pvt Ltd,
Sr IT Specialist
Sept’10 to March’11
Fujitsu Consulting India Pvt Ltd
Sr IT Consultant
Feb’09 to Sept’10
Sandhar Technology Ltd
Dy Manager – IT
May06 to Feb’09
Global Trade Cracker Ltd
IT Head
March’99 to May’06
Bharti Airtel Ltd
IT Incharge cum DBA
Feb’98 to Feb’99
Sew Engineering Works Ltd
IT Officer
May’96 to Jan’98
Precision Electronics Ltd
Asstt Programmer
Employment History
InterGlobe Technologies – (Oct 2015 Till Date)
Technical consultant (Oracle / IT Infrastructure)
Client – MOI – Doha Qatar
Responsibilities: Reporting to the Sr Project Manager, As a Technical Consultant, I’m responsible for successful implementation, installation, upgrade, maintenance & troubleshooting of all Practice Management products.
The client is having database servers, windows VM server and mailing (Exchange) server, backup storage server for primary and DR both and databases (Production, Development, Data Warehousing, and UAT) on different versions ranging from Oracle 10g to Oracle 11gR2 RAC with Linux. All these databases are mission critical.
24X7 IT Infrastructures (Hardware/software/network/database/backup) Supporting for both the sites Primary & DR.
Primarily responsible for operations and sustainment of production environments
Monitor, evaluate, and remediate system health concerns of all servers and database systems
Responsible for the specification, acquisition and maintenance (including upgrades) of tools and licenses, as needed, for the design/management and operations of the SOA systems
Provide technical expertise, training and documentation to other groups as needed
Maintains understanding of industry trends and best practices. Identifies opportunities to utilize technology to automate and streamline processes, simplify customer interaction and improve service delivery
Evaluates and responds to customer issues and requests. Documents details of problem events and identifies measures to reduce problem occurrence and improve service delivery
Manages cross functional/department projects. Coordinates the execution of project activities to the satisfaction of customers while conforming to project management procedures/policies
Setting up the KRA’s and reviewing the same for team appraisal.
Evaluate and deploy new hardware, software and technology solutions for business needs and technology upgradation.
Prepare capacity planning and day to day activities related to Hardware, software and technology upgradation to the client for assisting Budgets.
Making sure that the ITIL processed like Incident Management, Problem Management & Change Management are adhered.
Microsoft core technologies such as Active Directory/Group Policy, Exchange, Office Communicator.
HCL Technologies Ltd. India – (Oct 2014 To Oct 2015 )
Consultant (Oracle / IT Infrastructure)
Client – TIAA– US
Working as Consultant Managing and supporting to reputed clients across the globe along with competency management activities.
Responsibilities Included the following: -
Ensuring that required methodology is strictly adhered to. Handling various technical aspects like project documentation, system design & integration, monitoring critical paths & taking appropriate actions.
Facilitated ongoing communication with internal project team to assist with prioritizing workload to ensure milestones are met.
Reviewing existing services, negotiating with the customers, monitoring the Service Level Agreement (SLAs). Implementing service improvement policy and establishing priorities & planning for service growth.
Implementing project plans within deadlines, defining best practices for project support and documentation.
Converting business strategies into structured projects with deliverables identified. Developing and deploying of key execution strategies across businesses.
Conducting periodic external/internal customer review and incorporate feedback received.
Conducting periodic reviews with key stake holders.
IBM India Pvt Ltd, India – (Apr 2011 To Oct 2014)
Project Manager cum Technical Specialist.
Client – National Australia Bank (Australia), Bharti Airtel Ltd, ( India)
Working as Project Manager cum Technical Specialist, Responsibilities included the following:
Overall Oracle Practice Management and Serve as Steering Committee member on strategic projects.
Support the sales cycle through scoping and approval of engagements, Executive-level prospect meetings and Solution reviews
Responding to RFPs (Request for Proposals).
Ensure team billable utilization targets are met.
Implementing service improvement policy and establishing priorities & planning for service growth.
Negotiating Contracts with Local Suppliers for New Data centre DR site readiness.
Developing and deploying of key execution strategies across businesses.
Converting business strategies into structured projects with deliverables identified.
Reviewing existing services, negotiating with the customers and producing & monitoring the Service Level Agreement (SLAs).
Overseeing delivery of projects from conceptualization to delivery within preset budgets and deadlines.
Installing and configuring the Oracle database for internal projects.
Responsible for project staffing and resource scheduling on a broad range of consulting engagements.
Provide coaching and mentoring to assist in resources' career development.
Handle day-to-day administrative tasks such as: vacation scheduling, expense reports, time entry, etc
Manage project portfolio to ensure quality, on-time and on-budget implementations using a mix of global resources.
Fujitsu Consulting India Pvt Ltd – (Sept 2010 to April 2011)
Sr Consultant – Oracle Applications and Database
Client – CAFOS - UK
As an APPS DBA responsible Offshore Production support & Monitoring of Oracle R12 Apps for a major UK based outsourcing client. Tasks included Various Instance refreshes, Database administration tasks.
As a L3 support member of Oracle Apps DBA Team in India we are supporting 20+ customers remotely.
Team is responsible for 24X7 supports for working on alerts and issues, instantly coming from a monitoring tool, named RMON, developed by Fujitsu Projects Team.
Currently involved in working with tickets for patching, cloning, migration and tuning of Oracle Database.
Handling more than 100 instances ranging from 50 GB to 1 TB.
Working on ticket assigned by client DBA.
Assisting in the administration and day-to-day operations of different Databases to provide user support.
Working on different tasks on priority basis.
Applying patches (DB+Applictions) after PPA.
Performed the database up gradation from lower versions to higher versions
Cloning of Oracle Application instances with rapid clone.
Checking Daily Backup, Disk Space management and user management.
Modifying Shell Scripts to cater the client's adhoc requests.
An excellent team player and have very good relationships with the various Application teams and the Infrastructure teams.
Day-to-day Siebel support for operations, monitoring and problem resolution
Coordinate and support release deployment activities for Siebel applications
Work closely with all teams to deliver highly available and scalable services for Siebel with minimal/zero downtime
Sandhar Technology Ltd, India - Feb'09 to Sept'10
Manager - IT
(Sandhar is a global manufacturer of automotive components)
Ensuring smooth running of the system overall
Database upgrade 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.4 & 11g
Performance tuning of database and application tier
Backup & recovery strategy implementation
Database administration, Security and space management activities
Patch work and maintenance of Oracle Applications
Cloning of application & Database
System Administration tasks for Application tier
Tuning the Concurrent Manager
Project Setup
Oracle Applications 12.0.4 EBS Suite.
Database on Oracle 10g (10.2.0.4) RAC setup.
Operating System Sun Solarie 5.10 & Windows Series Servers
SAN Storage
Backup Software - VRTS NetBackup
Above 7000 approx. application users spread in 24 circles across the world
Global Trade Cracker Ltd, India – May'06 to Feb'09
IT Head cum Oracle DBA
Installing Oracle 9i/8i on Red Hat Linux Adv. Server 2.1 and Fedora Linux, MS-Windows NT/2003
Plan and perform backup/recovery
Handle and optimize Export/Import of Data, Load data using SQL * Loader
Tuning the Database for Peak Performance.
Maintaining high availability on servers using techniques such as Oracle Parallel Server’s
Collaborate with the system administrator to analyze the requirement /up-gradation /purchase of existing and new hardware, software products.
Troubleshoot hardware, software and network operating system
Be familiar with all hardware and software
Be familiar with network operating system
Provide orientation to new users of existing technology
Train staff about potential uses of existing technology
Train staff about new and potential use
Provide individual training and support on request
Provide recommendations about accessing information and support
Maintain current and accurate inventory of technology hardware, software and resources
Troubleshoot all technology issues
Maintain log and/or list of required repairs and maintenance
Make recommendations about purchase of technology resources
Research current and potential resources and services
Provide network access to all staff and students
Install work stations
Connect and set up hardware
Bharti Healthcare Ltd – March'99 to May'06
IT Head cum DBA
Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the operations of information systems and electronic
data processing (EDP)
Develop and implement policies and procedures for electronic data processing and computer
Meet with managers to discuss system requirements, specifications, costs and timelines
Hire and manage information systems personnel and contractors to design, develop, implement,
Troubleshoot hardware, software and network operating system
Train staff about potential uses of existing technology
Maintain current and accurate inventory of technology hardware, software and resources
Troubleshoot all technology issues
Maintain log and/or list of required repairs and maintenance
Make recommendations about purchase of technology resources
Install work stations
Connect and set up hardware
Advise staff of security breach and/or change in password or security status
Identify and prepare hardware for disposal when appropriate
Ensure hardware is stripped and secured before disposal
Sew Engineering Works Pvt Ltd – Feb'98 to Feb'99
IT Officer
Assist technology users in identifying and implementing systems improvements.
Troubleshoot hardware, software and network operating system
Be familiar with all hardware and software
Be familiar with network operating system
Provide orientation to new users of existing technology
Precision Electronics Ltd – May'96 to Jan'98
Asstt. Programmer
Write programs in a variety of computer languages, such as Foxpro++ and Cobol and C++.
Update and expand existing programs.
Debug programs by testing for and fixing errors.
Build and use computer-assisted software engineering (CASE) tools to automate the writing of some code
Achievements & Projects: Below are some of the projects in which I was actively involved.
End-to-End Migration & Conversion of the DB’s for iBorder old to New Product.
Multiple Node RAC Setup on Prod & Dev Environments
8 & 6 Nodes Oracle 10gR2 RAC production setup on Linux using EMC SAN storage.
2 Node 11gR2 RAC Production setup on Sun Solaris.
6 & 3 Nodes RAC Development setup on Linux
Developed DBA SOP's & DBA Best Practice
Developed the DBA Standard Operating Procedures & DBA Best Practice Guide for the Project DBA teams at IBM
RMAN Active Database Duplication
Worked on a project to upgrade & deploy large banking applications. This required several databases to be refreshed frequently and on demand. One of the criteria was the source database could not be shut down during the cloning. Using the RMAN Duplicate feature of Oracle 11g allowed me to deliver database copies on demand, reducing the normal delivery time by 80%.
Automation of Development/Stage/Pre-Production Refresh from Production Databases.
Database Character Set conversion to Unicode.
Key IT Skills, Technical Proficiencies & Product Expertise:
Cloud Technologies
Amazon Web Services (AWS Cloud): EC2, VPC, VPN, EBS, S3, Route53, IAM, AWS CLI
DevOps Stack
Ansible, Puppet, Nagios
Networking Products
Cisco Routers 7200, 2600, 2500, 3800, 3600 series; Cisco Switches 4006, 6500, 2950, 1900 series, Catalyst/Enterprising; HP Switches 5820 & 5800
Network Protocols
TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, Ethernet, DNS, DHCP, FTP, HTTP, POP3/SMTP, SNMP, RSYNC
Routing Protocols
RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF,QOS, MPLS VPNs and HSRP/VRRP
WAN Protocols
HDLC, PPP, FRAME RELAY, ATM, Private Line, DS1, DS3, Ocx
Servers
IBM X-Series 335,360,225; IBM H-Series BladeCenter HS23/HS22; Sun E250/E15K, Sun SPARC M3000 / M4000, Sun X3-L2, Oracle T4-2, Sun 4170, Sun V240, Sun V245, Sun V445; Nutanix NX-6000 Series (NX-6020, NX-6050, NX-6060, NX-6070, NX-6080)
Server OS / Platforms
RHEL 4 & 5, Red Hat Linux 8.0/9.0, Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1/3.0, Sun Solaris 8/9/10, HP-UX 11, Fedora Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Windows NT, Windows all platform
Monitoring Tools
Platform Monitoring Tool Kits: NewRelic, SumoLogic, Splunk
Others: Nagios, Cacti, Squid, DansGuardian, Microsoft SCCM 2007/ 2012, HP System Insight Manager
Management Tools
VNC, Remote Shell Access, Webmin, RDP, NetOP
Virtualization
VMware ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 5.0 & VMware VSphere; Citrix XenApp Server 4.5
Storage
Oracle StorageTek 2540, Sun StorageTek 6140, Sun StorageTek SL48 Tape Library, IBM Storwize V7000, Axiom Pillar, EMC-DMX-2, DMX3, DMX4, VMAX10K, VMAX20K, VMAX40K, EMC Clarion, CX3-80, CX3-20, CX400, CX700, CX960, IBM-DS4800, XP1024, XP12K
Backup Software
CommVault Backup / Restore, Symantec NetBackup, NT Backup
Databases
Oracle 9i/10g/11g/12c, Oracle RAC, Data Guard with streams, Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2008/2014
Other Skills
Mainframe, SAP, Active Directory, Lotus Notes, SSH, SFTP, VPN, POSTFIX, MAILMARSHAL, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Load balancers ACE/F5, Nexus Technology