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Francis Arulnathan

Professional Profile

Education

Personal Details

An experienced, bilingual team player and proficient communicator at all levels. I visualise my career managerial level utilising experience and skills gained from high-profile IT-related organisations. Previously I engaged for five years in customer-facing environments within a variety of industry sectors. Exceptionally at handling a variety of tasks efficiently, successfully manage to quickly adapt to changing environments.

Postgraduate Diploma Oracle IT & Management

Higher National Diploma IT & Management

Date of Birth: 25th July 1974

Place of Birth: Germany

Nationality: German

IT Skills

Career History

•Oracle Architect / Engineering skills

•Experience Oracle 10G and 11g administration / implementation

•Experience in Oracle 8i and 9i administration

•Oracle 12c Cloud Control Implementation and Configuration

•Experience in Design and Implementation of Exadata for Oracle RAC

•Data Modelling experience using ERWIN

•Oracle Exadata Experience X 3-2

•Oracle Golden Gate Replication Implementation and Configuration

•Application of Kimball methodology

•Change Management Experience

•Migration from EMC Clarion to HP XP24000 disk array on ASM 11g

•Migration and setup from EMC Legacy to IBM DS8000 disk Array on ASM 11g and Linux Redhat 5

•Installation and configuration of Oracle 8, 8i, 9i, 10g and 11g

•Administration of IBM AIX 5.3 Server and HACMP & GPFS

•Experience of Cloning Oracle 9i and 10g including with RMAN

•Experience in Sun Solaris 8,9,10 Installation & Administration

•Experience in Linux Redhat Installation & Administration

•Administration of SQL Server 2005

•Experience of HP Unix 11i

•Implementation and administered HP Service Guard 11.19

•Installation of Oracle Grid Control and Quest Toad

•Installation and administered Oracle Dataguard in 9i and 10g

•SQL and Database Performance Tuning experience

•Installation, administration and Performance of Oracle RMAN

•Installation Oracle 9i/ 10G RAC on Sun Cluster and Windows 2003 Server

BASE Company nv/sa Brussels, July 2016 - present

Sr. Oracle Exadata DBA

•Oracle 12c RAC Implementation and Administration using ASM

•ExaData X5-2 Configuration and Support on Linux OEL

•Exadata patching and upgrades

•Migration for VLDG (100TB) to Exadata X5

•Goldengate Replication Setup and Configuration on Exadata

•ZFS Backup and Recovery Setup and configuration

•Performance Tuning in SQL, and other Exadata components, such as IORM, Flashcache, compression and other DBA tools including AWR analysis

•Implementation of Oracle Cloud 13c and configuration

•Exadata Patching and Upgrades

BundesAgentur fur Arbeit, Nuremberg, April 2016 – July 2016

Sr. Oracle Exadata DBA

•Oracle 12c RAC Implementation and Administration using ASM

•ExaData X4-2 Configuration and Support on Linux OEL

•Exadata patching and upgrades

•Oracle Goldengate replication Support

•Support of Deutsche DHS Cluster

•Oracle Exadata Performance Tuning

•Extensive Oracle (Exadata) Performance Tuning

•RMAN backup and Recovery Administration and process

•Oracle ASM Storage Administration

•Support of Oracle in Oracle 12c Cloud Control

Deutsche Bank, London, June 2014 – April 2016

Sr. Oracle Exadata DBA

•Oracle 11g RAC Implementation and Administration using ASM

•ExaData X4-2 Configuration and Support on Linux OEL

•Exadata patching and upgrades

•Oracle Goldengate replication Support

•Support of Deutsche DHS Cluster

•Oracle Exadata Performance Tuning

•Extensive Oracle (Exadata) Performance Tuning

•RMAN backup and Recovery Administration and process

•Oracle ASM Storage Administration

•Support of Oracle in Oracle 12c Cloud Control

IBM UK London June 2012 to April 2014

Sr. Oracle DBA

•Oracle 11g RAC Implementation and Administration using ASM

•Oracle Patching, Migration, upgraded and Refreshes

•Data Warehouse Support of US clients in volumes of 20TB

•Extensive Comvault Backup and Restore Tape for Oracle

•IBM Snapmanager for Oracle Implementation for Snap Backups

•Oracle 12C Cloud Control Design, Implementation and Configuration

•Extensive RMAN Backup and Recovery

•Installation and Support of Oracle 12c Cloud Control

•Database upgrades, cloning, patching

•Installation of Oracle11g Grid Control Installation and Configuration

•Oracle 11g Weblogic administration and setup

•Linux Redhat Support and Administration

Arantech, Dublin, Ireland December 2012 to October 2013

Oracle ExaData Database Administrator

•Oracle 11g RAC Implementation and Administration using ASM

•ExaData X3-2 Configuration and Support

•Oracle Linux OEL Patch and Support

•ZFS Storage Sun Backup Server Installation and Configuration with ExaData

•Oracle 12c Cloud Control Installation and Support and Configuration

•Oracle ExaData Performance Tuning

•Oracle 11g Data Guard and Configuration

•Oracle ExaData Patching

•Oracle Migration from RAC to ExaData

•Experience in JIRA and Confluence for Project Tracking and Documentation and SVN Subversion

Dunnhumby Ltd London January 2012 – August 2012

Sr. Oracle DBA

•Oracle 10g and 11g RAC Implementation and Administration using ASM

•Oracle Patching, Migration, upgraded and Refreshes

•Data Warehouse Support of US clients in volumes of 20TB

•HP Data Protector RMAN Backup and Recovery including Performance Tuning

•Implementation of Oracle 11g OID and LDAP replication

•Oracle 11g Weblogic administration and setup

•Linux Redhat Support and Administration

Oracle UK, September 2011 – December 2011

Sr. Oracle DBA Consultant

•Design of Oracle 10g Advanced Queuing and Streams for Home Office

•Upgrade of Oracle 10.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.4 on AIX 6 P-Series for Local UK Government

•Upgrade of Oracle 9.2.0.8 to 11.1.0.6 on Linux Redhat V 5 for a major UK Retail Organisation

•Performance Tuning of Oracle 10g and 11g RAC Infrastructure

IBM c/o Aviva UK, June 2011 – September 2011

Sr. Oracle DBA

•Design and Implementation of 2 Node Oracle RAC 11g R2 Infrastructure

on Linux Redhat 5.4

•Application in Solvency II Program and exposure to Algorithmics Financial Risk Application

•Oracle 11g Data Guard and Configuration

•Installation and administration of Oracle Web Listener on Oracle Application Server

•Installation of Oracle Flexcube including Oracle Data Integrator and Configuration

•Configuration of DTP in Oracle 11g RAC for Load Balancing of XA Applications

•Integration of new Infrastructure into Aviva Change Management Framework

•Review, Implementation, documentation of Change Management for Oracle Database

•Configuration of IBM GPFS High Availability and administration

•Implementation and Configuration of Oracle Goldengate between Oracle 10g and 11g Databases

•Configuration of 11g ASM, Clusterware and RMAN backup & Recovery

•Troubleshooting of Oracle 11g RAC

•Oracle ASM 11g Disk implementation, configuration and Administration

•Migration and set up from EMC Legacy to IBM DS8000 disk array on Redhat Linux 5 and Oracle 11g RAC / ASM 11g

•Involvement of newly designed Data Centre

•Oracle 11g RAC Performance Tuning including Application Code

•Assisting Application Consultant in Release Management from Test to Production within an Agile / fast paced environment

The Co-Operative Group, January 2011 – March 2011

Oracle Solutions Architect

•Assess current architecture HP-UX/Oracle RAC platform to upgrade from 10g to 11g RAC using ASM / Data guard

•Define in detail strategies for improving the performance and storage headroom without capital expenditure

•ASM 11g Solution Design

•Configuration of DTP in Oracle 11g RAC for Load Balancing of XA Applications

•Administration of Oracle Application Server and HTTP Web listener configuration

•Recommend Hardware and Software remedies

•Application Release Management from Test to Production Environment

•Assist / analyses in Upgrade of Oracle R12 upgrade from R 12.0.4 to R 12.1.3 for HRMS

•Review and analysis of Exadata storage implementation

•Pre-Sales to include of Oracle analysis, discovery, solutions provisioning on Architecture, Presentation of Solutions

•Oracle Performance Tuning on 10g/11g using AWR including SQL and Unix

Omnifone Ltd, London, October 2010 November 2010

Oracle DBA

•Administration of Oracle 10g and 11g RAC Databases

•Administered Oracle 11g ASM, Disk groups, Performance

•Oracle Golden gate replication Implementation & configuration experience between various Oracle Databases

•Designed and Administered Oracle Data Warehousing using Kimball Methodology

•Assisting Application Code Release within an Agile environment

•Administered OLE (Oracle Linux Enterprise)

•Oracle 11g Grid Control Administration

•Oracle 11g RMAN backup and Recovery administration

•SQL and PL-SQL development and performance tuning using AWR including SQL and Unix Servers

H.P. c/o Tesco Plc, London May 2010 – August 2010

Sr. Oracle DBA / SQL DBA

•Design, Implementation of Oracle ASM migration in Oracle 10g

•Migration of Storage from EMC to Xp24000 disk array

•Database Modelling using ERWIN

•Administered SQL Server 2008 including log shipping, mirroring, backup

•Requirement Analysis and Design of Logical / Physical Model

•AIX 5l administered

•Oracle Application Server Administration and Listener Configuration in RAC environments

•Change Board Meetings to review, implement and document Oracle Changes to Production Environments

•Application Code Release Management from Test to Production

•Installation and administered of Oracle using Toad

•Performance tuning and support of Oracle 10g and ASM using AWR

•Application Stress testing using Test Director

•Unit and system testing from an Oracle viewpoint

•Configuration of Oracle 10g RAC two-Node cluster

•Configuration of Oracle 10g Data Guard

McDonalds c/o E-Bizz Consultancy, London April 2010

Oracle RAC DBA

•Implementation and Upgrade of Oracle 9i RAC to Oracle 11g RAC on

•2 node Windows 2008 Server Cluster

•Implementation and Administered Oracle 11g ASM

•Implementation and configuration of Oracle 11g OWB

•Configuration of Oracle Cubes

•Responsible of Oracle 11g Cloning with RMAN

•Implementation of Oracle 11g RMAN

•Performance tuning with Oracle Optimizer and AWR

•Query performance tuning SQL and PL-SQL

•Application stress testing

•Installation and administered Oracle DB using Toad and Grid Control

•Creation & Migration of OLTP an OLAP (2TB) databases

•Implementation and configuration of Oracle 11g RMAN

•Creation and configuration of Oracle 11g RAC Database

•Implementation and administered Oracle 11g Data Guard

•Oracle data pump from OLAP to OLTP Oracle 11g database

Santander Bank c/o Produban, Germany, August 2009 – October 2009

Sr. Oracle Architect

•Requirement and Re-Design of Oracle 11g 2 Node RAC Cluster and Clusterware

•Migration from IBM DB2 Iseries to Oracle 11g RAC OLTP and OLAP (3 TB) data warehousing Oracle Database

•Change Management framework integration of Production Environments

•Review, testing, implementation and documentation of Changes Managements Units for Oracle Production Databases

•Oracle Database Modelling using ERWIN

•Configuration of DTP in Oracle 11g RAC for Load Balancing of XA Applications

•Implementation of HACMP IBM High Availability for Oracle 11g RAC

•Configuration of VIO on IBM P6 series

•Designed Oracle Model using Kimball Methodology

•Implementation and Administered of Oracle 11g ASM

•Implementation and Administered of Oracle 11g RAC

•Pre-Sales to include of Oracle analysis, discovery, solutions provisioning on Architecture, Presentation of Solutions

Lloyds TSB, London, February 2009 – August 2009

Oracle DBA

•Requirement and Design of Oracle 9i to 10g 4 Node RAC Clusterware

•Implementation of Oracle 10g Databases and Backup & Recovery

•AIX Server and Oracle Performance Tuning

•Query and database tuning using AWR

•Database Modelling using ERWIN

•Data Analysis

•Installation of Toad and spotlight

•Configuration of DTP in Oracle 11g RAC for Load Balancing of XA Applications

•Administered VCS clustering for Oracle 10g RAC

•Administration of Oracle 10g RMAN backup and Recovery

•Installation and administered of Oracle 10g Dataguard

•Websphere 7 Application Server configuration and administration

•Best Practise Advise and Support to Developers in PL-SQL

•Oracle Patching to 9i and 10g databases in DEV,UAT & Prod

•Worked in an ITIL / FSA regulated environment

•Provided Best Oracle Practise and Advise to Developers and Project management

T-Mobile, Hatfield, UK December 2008

Oracle Engineering Architect

•Responsible of administration and Support Oracle 11g RAC databases

•Implementation of Weblogic 11g

•Management of Webserver (Weblogic) data to be uploaded into

•Implementation and administered Linux Red Hat Server

•Change Management Board to review, test, implement and integrate Oracle Production Databases

•Unit and system testing & Query optimisation

•Installation of Toad and Spotlight

Oracle 11g databases using SQL Loader in Data Warehouse

•Responsible of Audit for Data Management

GSK Harlow, UK August 2008 – October 2008

Senior Oracle Engineer

•Architectural / Engineering for Design and Implementation of Oracle 10g databases on IBM P-series

•Responsible for Design and Implementation of Oracle 10g 2 Node RAC with GPFS on IBM P-series servers P570 and P550

•Oracle Database Modelling using ERWIN

•Data Analysis and Quality

•Configuration of DTP in Oracle 11g RAC for Load Balancing of XA Applications

•Change Management Board to review, test, implement and integrate Oracle Production Databases

•Implementation of Logical Database Model

•Set-up of Oracle 10g ASM and administration

•Implementation and administered Web sphere application Server

•Administered VCS Clustering

•Cloning of Oracle 10g Databases with RMAN

•Implementation and administration of Oracle 10g Clusterware

IBM Munich c/o MAN Germany, Munich January 2008 – June 2008

Senior Oracle DBA

•Oracle 10G Grid Control Implementation

•Oracle 10G RAC and Clusterware R2 Implementation and Support

•Implementation and Administration of Oracle 10g R2 ASM

•Application 3rd party Performance testing using AWR

•Pre-Sales to include of Oracle analysis, discovery, solutions provisioning on Architecture, Presentation of Solutions

•Stress and Unit testing

•Administered SQL Server 20054

•Managed SQL Server 2005 log shipping, mirroring, backup

•Performance Tuning and Monitoring of Oracle and Storage

•Oracle 10g data warehouse support up to 2TB

•Weblogic administered and Installation

•TOAD & administered for Oracle databases

•Spotlight from Quest Performance monitoring for Oracle

•Administration of AIX 5L on RS 6000

•Export and Import of data from Production to QA environments

•Administered Veritas Cluster Service Groups for Oracle 10g RAC

•Performance tuning of VCS for Oracle 10g RAC

•Oracle 10G Streams administration &Implementation an Administration of Oracle 10g Data guard

Hewlett-Packard, Chennai, India March 2007 – November 2007

Senior Oracle DBA / Tech Team Lead

•Provide Level 3 / 4 Production Support on Oracle databases 8i to 10G on HP, Sun and Linux Servers of OLTP databases

•Implementation and administered HP Service Guard 11.19 for Oracle 10g RAC

•Change Management Board to review, test, implement and integrate Oracle Production Databases

•Configuration of HP Service Guard extension for SAP Modules

•Storage Design and Implementation of Veritas Netbackup for Oracle 10g

RAC, Clusterware & RMAN backup and Recovery

•Implementation, Build, migration, up-gradation and patching of oracle databases

•Administered SQL Server 2005

Credit Suisse First Boston, Zürich, Switzerland, July 2006 – September 2006

Senior Oracle DBA

•Provided 24/7 Oracle Production Support for Oracle 8i, 9i and 10G Databases

•Provided Oracle 9i and 10g Datawarehousing support to BA, Functions Consultant

•Change Management Board to review, test, implement and integrate Oracle Production Databases

•TOAD from Quest administered for Oracle databases

•Spotlight from Quest Performance monitoring for Oracle

•Index and Partition Management for DWH environments

•Implementation of Oracle 10g JDBC

•Query optimisation

•Administered of SQL Server 2005

Eli Lilly GmBH, Bad Homburg, October 05 - February 2006

Oracle Production DBA / SQL DBA

•Responsible for Support and administration or European Oracle Databases from versions 8i to 10G R2

•Managed Installation of oracle databases in regulated environment

•OLTP database support and administration

•Administered SQL Server backup, log shipping, mirroring and range partitioning

•shell scripting (Bourne) in Solaris for backup, file management, backup

•Administration, Support, Performance of Sun Solaris 9

•Managed database clones and upgrades including patches

Amadeus S.A Nice, France, March 05 - October 05

Senior Oracle Data Warehouse Architect

•Principal DWH DBA in an Oracle 10G/ IBM AIX 24 by 7 environment

•Design, Implementation and Support of Oracle OLAP database using Kimball Methodology

•Support and advise of best practise to Developers, Project Managers and Business Analysts

•Pre-Sales to include of Oracle analysis, discovery, solutions provisioning on Architecture, Presentation of Solutions

•Implementation and Configuration of IBM Web sphere for Oracle 10g RAC

•Administration of Oracle 10g Grid Control Agent for OEM Monitoring

•Responsible for conceptual and physical design of multi-dimensional data warehouse Model in excess of 3 TB using Erwin

•Configuration and administered IBM Web sphere application Server

•Implementation and configuration of Oracle 10g OWB

•Administered Oracle Materialised Views, Index and Partitioning Strategy

•Query performance tuning

•Stress testing using Test Director

UBS Warburg, City of London August/04 – March 2005

Oracle Architect

•Migration/Upgrades from Oracle 8.1.7 to Oracle 9.2

•Administration of Sun Solaris 8

•Configuration of Goldengate between Sybase ASE and Oracle Database

•Various OLTP oracle 9i database Production Support

•Change Management Board to review, test, implement and integrate Oracle Production Databases

•Oracle Patching to 9i and 10g databases in DEV,UAT & Prod

•Managing oracle 9i (9.2.0.4) on both Solaris 5.8 and Linux Redhat

•Exposure for Sybase ASE to Oracle Replication administration using Goldengate

•Migration from Sybase to Oracle system

•Basic administration/troubleshooting of Sybase ASE

Royal Bank of Scotland, City Of London 12/03 – 07/04

Oracle DBA

•Principal Oracle DBA for integration work of Direct Line / Churchill

•Support and administration of Financial Money Market, Derivatives, Asset Management Applications Developers and Business Analysts

•Worked on Data ware house project in excess of 2TB

•Change Management Board to review, test, implement and integrate Oracle Production Databases

•Administration of Weblogic 9 Application Server

Refco Securities S.A, Paris, France 03/03 – 08/03

Oracle DBA

•Principal Oracle DBA responsible for installation & administration

•Implementation of SLA and ITIL principles

•Administered SQL Server 2005

•Pre-Sales to include of Oracle analysis, discovery, solutions provisioning on Architecture, Presentation of Solutions

•Provided financial analysis to Senior Management to include

•Support and administration of Money Market and Derivatives

•Managed Installation & administration of multi Sun Solaris 8

•Managed process of upgrading Oracle 7.3.4 to 8.1.7 to Oracle 9.2 RAC on Sun Cluster V3

•Performance tuning and Monitoring

Perfect Technologies Inc, India

Remote Oracle Consultant 01/01 – 02/03

•Responsible for Oracle 8 and 8i administration on NT4 and Unix Solaris

•Support and Best practise advise to application developers and Project management

•Installation and administration of Oracle Databases and Unix Servers

Education & Training

4 September 2007 Oracle India Pvt, Chennai

Oracle 11i e-Business Suite Essentials for Implementers

11i Oracle e-Business Financial Implementer Training GL,AP

2001 – 2002 Sheffield Hallam University, England

Postgraduate Diploma Oracle IT & Management

1992-1995 Itzehoe Business School, Germany

Graduate Certificate in Business and IT

Accountancy & Business Administration and I.T.

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