PRANATHI KARRA
Phone: 732-***-**** Email: ************@*****.***
SUMMARY
2+ years of experience in Database engineering, server, network administration to provide technical and functional guidance and achieve operational excellence.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
New Jersey Institute of Technology United States
Masters in Information Systems GPA: 3.8
Aug 2014 – Aug 2015
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University India
Bachelors in Computer Science GPA: 8.4
Jun 2007 - May 2011
ITIL V3 CERTIFIED
WORK EXPERIENCE
HCL Technologies
Project: IKEA; Inventive Health
Senior Analyst- Database Engineer June 2011 – Sep 2013
Worked on Microsoft SQL Server and gained extensive experience in RDBMS concepts, and developed
Database Objects such as Tables, Indexes, Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers, User Defined Data Types and User Defined Functions
Design database diagrams, E-R diagrams for certain functional requirements.
Experience in requirement analysis, coding and testing various modules in a software development life cycle.
Maintained re-runnable SQL scripts, indexes and complex queries for analysis and extraction to generate ad-hoc reports.
Organized performance optimization including database performance tuning for faster execution time.
Recommend solutions and define database physical structure, functional capabilities, database security, data back-up, and recovery specifications.
Worked on debugging code base for front end applications.
Adept in application support including user issue resolution, troubleshooting, defining user requirements and priorities, and facilitation of IT/user communication.
Extensive knowledge of Windows Server operating systems and Active Directory.
Worked on manually updating the storage firmware for more than 500 Windows servers.
Adept in User experience design, storyboarding & interacting with users to better understand requirements.
Web (IIS)/ File/Application server’s deployment and support and creation of websites, troubleshooting in IIS.
Good Knowledge of VMware Hosts/VSphere and support of the servers and deployments of VM clients in VSphere console.
Expertise Knowledge on Incident management, problem management and Change Requests/ITIL processes and making sure SLA is met with.
Familiar with agile methodologies and scrum techniques.
Hands on experience in managing and communicating with servers and in troubleshooting IT/Software application related technical issues.
Highly motivated, enthusiastic & thorough professional, with proven correctness and credibility with a systematic approach and a single-minded dedication towards the task at hand.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills coupled with interpersonal and leadership skills.
Key projects:
Worked with Ikea Sweden application team on four projects.
Application Calc that supports the internal pricing process for Ikea by calculating cost based prices for all items sold.
Distribution management system, Gemini for North America region to handle store replenishment and customer order fulfilment. s
Claim case handling system, Casy a legacy system for handling product and supply quality deviations and as sales stops and alarms.
A financial system called Coda used as an accounting software solution for number of companies within Ikea.
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Database design & Tuning Microsoft SQL Server Mongo DB
Stored procedures Machine Learning ITIL Process
PL/PGSQL T-SQL DDL/DML/DCL
SDLC Data structures Data warehousing, architecture & design
Active directory Agile Methodologies User experience design
Tableau Dependency Injection Story boards
Weka Data mining Axure
VMWare/VSphere R, Python (Beginner) TCP/IP
UML Citrix JavaScript
DFD Windows Server HTML
Knowledge management REST/SOAP ITSM
IIS Teradata