Balakiran
Sr. Database Engineer (MCITP)
E-mail: ****************@*****.*** Ph. 732-***-****
Summary:
Ten years of experience as a Database Administrator in Multiple Industries including Fortune 500 organizations
Experience in Leading globally distributed Teams
Extensive experience in Designing High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Experience in Enterprise Architecture and Implementations
Extensive experience in Installation, configuration, upgrade, Migration and administration of MS SQL servers in MS SQL servers 2014,2012, 2008, 2005 and 2000 in Clustered/Geo Clustered/AlwaysON and Stand Alone Environments
Experience in Backup & Recovery strategies
Experience in implementing Disaster recovery Drills
Experience working on SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Experience in Building Windows Failover Cluster
Experience in implementing Always ON Availability Groups and Database Mirroring
Extensive experience in Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, and Troubleshooting
Experience in database design for large (terabyte) databases
Experience in providing 24/7on-call support on rotation basis
Experience in implementing Snapshot and Transactional Replications
Experience in developing stored procedures, functions, triggers using T-SQL
Hands on Experience with VMware
Hands on Experience with Active Directory
Good team Leader, Enthusiastic and project oriented team player with excellent communication and leadership skills
Experience:
Client: Promontory Financial Group, Washington DC (March 2016 – Current)
Sr. Database Engineer
Project: Operations/Consolidation
Responsibilities:
Install, Configure and Maintain SQL Server 2014 and setup AlwaysON (HA and DR)
Install, Configure and Maintain SQL server 2014 Failover Cluster
Setup Polices and Alerts for AlwaysON Availability Groups
Create Templates, VM’s from the Templates using VSphere, Allocate storage, Remove storage, Add CPU, Add Memory.
Create Users in AD, Maintain AD Groups
Perform Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, and Query Optimization
Optimization of SQL Server Performance
Configured Windows Failover Cluster
Create/Optimize Maintenance Plans to take Backups, Rebuild or Reorganize indexes, CheckDB, update statistics
Backup Consolidation, Capacity Planning (Storage Consolidation)
Install and Configure TFS, MYSQL
Supported 24X7 production environments
Client: WilmerHale, Washington DC (Aug 2015 – Feb 2016)
Sr. Database Administrator
Project: Virtualization/Upgrade/Performance tuning
Responsibilities:
Install SQL Server 2012 and 2014 and setup AlwaysON (as part of HA and DR)
Setup Polices and Alerts for AlwaysON Availability Groups
P2V (XtremeIO)
Upgrade SQL Server 2005,2008r2 to SQL 2012 and 2014
Migrate SSIS Packages and SSRS reports to SQL 2014
Perform Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, and Query Optimization
Optimization of SQL Server Performance
Configured Windows Failover Cluster
Create Maintenance Plans to take Backups, Rebuild or Reorganize indexes, CheckDB, update statistics
Testing DR on the newly Built servers
Client: Western Union, Washington DC (Jan 2013 – Aug 2015)
Sr. Database Administrator
Project: Production Support/Maintenance
Responsibilities:
Implemented and Maintained AlwaysON Availability Groups, Database Mirroring and Log shipping.
Implemented TDE (Transparent Data Encryption)
Involved in Design/ Deployment / Stress test activities.
Perform maintenance tasks on Development, QA and Production Databases. Includes:
Monitor and optimize the SQL server performance
Backup Databases
Create and monitor the SQL Jobs
Reorganize/rebuild indexes
Perform Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, and Query Optimization and provide consultation to development team.
Participated/Organized Disaster recovery drills
Installed, configured and Maintained SQL server 2014, 2012 in a Cluster and Stand Alone Environments.
Upgraded SQL Server 2000, 2008r2 to SQL Server 2012
Install SSIS/SSRS, Created and Migrated SSIS packages (SQL 2008R2, 2012)
Maintenance of SQL Server 2008r2, 2005 and 2000
Implemented Snapshot and Transactional Replication
Implement and Maintain database security (create and maintain users and roles, assign privileges).
Monitor the SQL server performance using Performance Monitor and IDERA DM
Provide solutions by analyzing the SQL Error Logs/Application Logs.
Supported 24X7 production environments
Client: Constellation Energy Group/ Exelon, North Andover, MA (June 2011 – Jan 2013)
SQL Server DBA
Project: Production Support/Maintenance/Datacenter Migration.
Responsibilities:
Designing new database schemes and queries including Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, constraints and indexes.
Created and Migrated SSRS Reports
Perform Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, and Query Optimization and give consultation to development team.
Provide High Availability and Disaster recovery schemes for MS SQL Server 2005/2008 and Maintain Tape Backups for the Disaster recovery.
Monitor Performance, Availability and Data Integrity with multiple tools including Performance Monitor, SQL Profiler and Spotlight.
Client: Travelex, Washington D.C (Nov 2010 – May 2011)
SQL Server DBA
Project: SQL Migration /Performance Tuning.
Responsibilities:
Implemented Side-by-Side migration from SQL server 2000 to SQL server 2008R2
Performance tuning of Stored Procedures and Functions
Installed and configured SQL server 2008 servers
Client: TNS Global, Toledo, Ohio. (January 2009 – OCT 2010)
SQL Server DBA
Project: Production Support/Maintenance.
Responsibilities:
Installed, configured and maintained SQL server 2008 Fail- over cluster.
Successfully implemented Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 for high availability.
Migrated SQL servers2000 and 2005to 2008 Servers and also migrated DTS to SSIS packages.
Created and optimized reports using SQL Server Reporting services (SSRS).
Performance tuning, and optimization of stored procedures and queries.
Additional Experience:
Client: IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY (July 2007 – Dec 2008)
Position: SQL server DBA
Client: Indian Petrochemicals Co. Ltd, Mumbai, India (April 2005 – Oct 2006)
Position: SQL Server Developer/DBA
Education:
Master’s in Computer Science.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
Certificates:
Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 - Implementation and Maintenance (070-431)
Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 - Implementation and Maintenance (070-432)
Optimizing and Maintaining a Database Administration Solution by Using Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008(070-450)
Learning Tree : SQL Server® 2012: Administration Skills Upgrade
Brain Bench: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration
Brain Bench: RDBMS Concepts
Technical skills:
RDBMS: MS SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008r2, 2012 and 2014
Tools: Erwin Data Modeler, MS Visio, BMC Service Desk Express Suite,
HP Service Manager, Cherwell Service management, IDERA DM, Spotlight, Performance analyzer, LiteSpeed, VSphere