Professional Summary

Suresh is an Oracle Certified Professional, has 18 years of administration experience on Oracle Applications Rel12.2,12.1,11i, Oracle Databases 12c, 11g, 10g, 9i, 8i, 8.x, OBIEE Environments, Oracle Demantra, Oracle Transportation Management, Oracle9i Application Server, UNIX and Windows. Administered more than 900 Oracle databases of CISCO Systems in the USA and the UK on various UNIX platforms, and more than 300 Oracle databases of General Electric (GE) in the US. Administered Typical Manufacturing clients as a Senior Application DBA and managing multiple clients, Supporting Shared DBA model in USA and India. Worked Oracle Virtual Machines on most of the large customers in North America. Implemented Data Guard for most of the customers. Performed Clone Automation for customers. Working on IBM Cloud environments and recently involved in Azure and OCI configurations for new customers

Technical Skills

Oracle 12c/11g/10g/9i/8.x/7.x ● Oracle Applications 12.2/12.1/11i/11/10.x ● Oracle9i Application Server ● OBIEE ● GRC ● Apex ● Oracle Demantra ● Oracle Transportation Management ● Applimation● Informatica● Datawarehouse Console ● Oracle Web Server ● Web Publishing Assistant

OVM ● Linux ● Sun Solaris8 ● HP-UNIX ● IBM AIX ● RedHat Linux ● Windows Env.

SQL ● PL/SQL ● Java ● Shell Scripting ● AWK Programming

ERWin ● Oracle12 OEM Grid Control ● Recovery Manager (RMAN) ● Business Objects ● Informatica ● Alliance ● Remedy ● Spot Light ● Web Intelligence ● SFTC ● SQL* Loader

Award

Achieved an award from Client for successful migration for some of the Largest Revenue Manufacturing Clients.

Achieved an award for completing Successfully Oracle Application upgrade from 10.7 to 11i for Cisco Systems.

Achieved an award from Avago Technologies for excellence in Production support and client interaction.

Achieved an award and a Palm Pilot as a prize for successfully implementing Advanced Planning Server(APS) for one of the large customer in Singapore.

Working on clients moving to IBM and OCI clouds.

Professional Experience

IBM Corp., Denver, USA May 2016- Till date

Role: Principal Technical Architect

Environment: Oracle 12c, Oracle 11g, Linux, Oracle Grid Server, TOAD, Oracle Applications 12.x/11i, OEM 12c, OBIEE, Apex, GRC, Data Guard

Accomplishments

Managing four different clients Steel manufacturing, Plastics manufacturing, Electronics manufacturers.

Responsible to lead troubleshooting and maintain all technical documentation of total system and subsystems.

Implemented Data Guard implementation for all Production databases.

Implemented Clone Automation for Reporting databases.

Provide day-to-day administration and ensure integrity, security and availability of total system and subsystems.

Managing team of 10 App DBA’s with different set of client modules.

Implemented and maintaining 12c Data Guard.

Managing Oracle Application 12.x, Oracle Application 12.2.4, 12.1.3 and 11i environments.

Managing 12c RAC databases and OEM 12c Grid control management.

Weekly SEV1 call escalation and root cause investigation meeting.

Attending client calls weekly basis to discuss about issues and other project related issues.

Using ADOP utilities for patch applications on 12.2 environment.

Attending Net Promoter Score(NPS) calls to know about the feedback from clients and explaining team in Quarterly basis how to increase the NPS score.

Moved some of the infrastructure to IBM cloud recently.

AT&T Corp., Denver, USA Nov 2007- May 2016

Role: Senior Technical Architect

Environment: Oracle 12c, Oracle 11g, Oracle10g, Linux, Oracle Grid Server, TOAD, Oracle Applications 12.x/11i, OEM12c, OBIEE, Oracle Demantra, OTM, SOA

Accomplishments

Managed 4 node RAC databases for one of Major client with Oracle Application 12.x environments.

Responsible for translating business needs into technical solutions and defining solutions to problems through reasoned application of information technology principles;

Performed Data Guard Implementation.

Design, develop and analyze overall system architecture including hardware and software using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, ORACLE Enterprise Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows, including storage hardware using Net App, EMC.

Configure, Clone, and backup including disaster recovery

Managed Oracle OBI load in daily basis for performance issue.

Weekly SEV1 call escalation and root cause investigation meeting

Worked on major concurrent programs slowness and long running issues.

Involved in implementation tasks for major code movement.

Attended Net Promoter Score(NPS) calls to know about the feedback from clients and explaining team in Quarterly basis how to increase the NPS

Dex Media Denver, USA May 2007- Nov 2007

Role: Sr.Oracle Applications DBA

Environment: Oracle10g, Oracle 9i, Linux, Oracle Grid Server, TOAD, Oracle Applications 11i

Accomplishments

Production support for their mission critical databases

Managing 2 node Real Application Cluster(RAC) databases

Schema Refresh and Database refresh weekly basis

Created Automatic Storage Management (ASM) instances to manage Oracle10g Databases

Created scripts for easy maintenance

Patching activities during the maintenance window.

Bug fix, Concurrent program tuning

Production support on call basis.

HP Technologies, Singapore May 2006-Apr 2007

Role: Sr.Oracle Applications DBA

Environment: Oracle10g, Oracle 9i, HP-UNIX, Oracle Grid Server, Secure Shell Client, ERWIN, TOAD, Oracle Applications 11i

Accomplishments

Achieved an award and a Palm Pilot as a prize for successfully completing Oracle Applications 11i upgrade

Successfully installed, configured and maintained Oracle Applications 11i, and Very Large Databases (VLDB) of Terabyte size

Administered and Managed 5 node Real Application Cluster(RAC) databases and 6 node RAC applications

Installed, configured, and setup Oracle Database10g and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Grid Control. More than 100 databases were maintained by using OEM Grid Control.

Created Automatic Storage Management (ASM) instances to manage Oracle10g Databases

Part of a team to provide 24 X 7 support for maximum availability and to ensure performance was optimum

Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, CA Feb 2004-Apr 2006

Role: Oracle Applications DBA

Environment: Oracle Applications 11i, Oracle Applications 10.7, Oracle9i, Oracle8i, Oracle 8.x, Oracle7.x, Sun Solaris, HP-UNIX, Linux, Concurrent Manager, Oracle Enterprise Manager(OEM), Alliance, CISCO E-Support, Secure Shell Client, TOAD

Accomplishments

Achieved an award for completing Oracle Application upgrade from 10.7 to 11i

Achieved an award for successfully completing Oracle Applications upgrade from 10.7 to 11i on time

Setup and configured Oracle Workflow, applied patches for Oracle Applications11i, and worked on shared APPLTOP Oracle applications servers

Responsible for applications and database performance, backup and recovery strategy and issues, provided 24 X 7 support

Setup and configured Oracle Single Sign On (SSO), tuned Concurrent Manager, cloned applications and databases

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Santa Clara, CA Feb 2003-Feb 2004

Role: Oracle Applications DBA

Environment: Oracle 8i, Oracle 8.x, Oracle 7.x, Sun-Solaris8, Oracle Workflow, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Remedy, TOAD.

Accomplishments

Created, setup, and configured standby servers for production databases, cloned Oracle Applications from production to test and development environments

Maintained Oracle Applications using AD utilities ADAIMGR, ADAADMIN, ADCTRL, ADRELINK, and ADPATCH

Applied standalone, mini, family and maintenance patches for production and cloned Oracle applications and Oracle databases

Installed, and configured JInitiator on client hosts to access Oracle Applications

Satyam Computer Services, Hyderabad Feb 2002-Jan 2003

Role: OracleDBA/Oracle Apps DBA

Environment: Oracle Apps 11i, Sun-Solaris 5.8, Apache Web Server, Oracle 8.1.6,Sun-Solaris E4500, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Informatica Power Mart Server, Web Intelligence 2.7, Business Objects & Brio, Apache 1.3.19, Erwin 3.5.2

Accomplishments

Installed Oracle Applications11.5.5, migrated Oracle databases, applied patches related to localization, bugs, and performance

Defined specialized Concurrent Managers, and attached work shifts, interacted with functional consultants to schedule concurrent request, to change the schedule of specific requests, and to reduce load on the system at peak times

Carried out system administration functions, supported functional and technical teams to promote applications to production

Created data marts, performed data mart migration, capacity planning, and indexing strategy for data marts. Created, modified, and dropped LOAD, USER, and TEST accounts for data marts

Created, maintained Business Objects universes and developed reports for web users and integrated to Web Intelligence

Taken care of backup and recovery strategies, setup and daily maintenance backups, recovery of databases and ensure availability of databases

Responsible for application, and database performances. Tuned many applications and databases

Installed Oracle software, created databases, managed users, database objects, various day to day database administration tasks

Accomplishments

Certifications

Oracle Certified Database Administrator

Principal Oracle Applications DBA

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Suresh Gevaran

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