

Senior Oracle Database Administrator (Sr. DBA) with 20+ years of experience designing, coding, testing and supporting next generation database solutions in Oracle enterprise environments. Proficient in learning, adapting to new technologies and in an assortment of technologies including Oracle 12c, 18c and 19c in Server, ODA,OCI and Exadata environments. DBA skills include
• Installation, Upgrades, Administration, Maintenance and Support on Exadata, Unix and RAC.
• Oracle cloud, Exadata X9-2, X7-2, X4-2 Database Machine installation and Database Administration.
• Oracle Database Migration/Upgrade in VMWare and Exadata
• Oracle RAC experience in planning, design, develop, deploy, maintenance and support for High Availability (HA) on IBM AIX, Sun Solaris and Microsoft Windows. . Set-up primary and standby databases for 24x7 availability with Data Guard Broker.
• Patch and upgrade RAC nodes with 10g, 11g ,12c,18c & 19c Oracle versions.
• Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) experience in maintaining, performance monitoring, scheduling jobs and events.
• Install and implement OEM 13c Grid Control Management Server and Agent with 10g R1/R3, 11g R2 , 12c & 13c repository to manage numerous targets (include primary and standby databases, Grid Control Agents and application server components on more than 2000 servers). . Load Balancing on RAC database using SRVCTL utility.
• Oracle Data Guard 10g/11g/12c/18c/19c experience in both physical, logical and snapshot standby on Unix and MS Windows servers. . Database Backup, Restore and Disaster Recovery (DR) procedures. Hands on experience on Hot Backup, RMAN, Flashback, Data Pump (expdp, impdp), Export/Import and Transportable Tablespaces.
• Implement DBMS_SCHEDULER. Monitor and optimize the performance of the database using AWR/ADDM tools, STATSPACK and TKPROF as well as query tuning.
• Data replication using Golden Gate 11g/12c/18c/19c/21c.
• Develop Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies for the database environments.
• Knowledge and experience of Real
• Support Enterprise-wide databases of various Wisconsin State Departments.
• Migrated over 100+ databases to Exadata and RAC (Real Application Cluster) for multiple departments using RMAN backup and recovery, Transportable tablespace, Data Pump, Data guard physical standby and Advanced Data guard migration options.
• Used RMAN restore, Data Guard, Golden Gate and Data Pump for several multi terra-byte database migrations to Exadata and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Developed and implemented Exadata software patches across all components of Exadata database machine.
• Installed, configured and maintain Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c/13c to monitor and manage Exadata machine and databases.
• Installed ASR and activated Exadata ASR assets for hardware fault monitoring.
• Designed and implemented database backup and recovery strategy.
• Implemented Active Data Guard and Snapshot Standby.
• Installed, configured and maintained Oracle 11g/12c/18c/19c Real Application Cluster (RAC)/ASM on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Exadata and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Migrate all non-production databases on Exadata servers as per the project's requirements. . Built physical, logical and Snapshot Standby in both VMWare and Exadata environments.
• Installed and configured Oracle 12c/18c/19c multi-tenant container database and pluggable databases in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Upgrade databases from 12c/18c to 19c pluggable and non-pluggable databases in OCI.
• Analyzing database performance and tuning database on Oracle Exadata using Real Application Testing (RAT)
• Working experience in Exadata platform with Peoplesoft applications. . Migration experience from AWS RDS to AZURE VM , On-prem to Oracle cloud with RHEL OS
• Setting up databases in AWS using RDS and configuring instance backups
• Oracle Golden Gate (OGG) A Install and configure OGG heterogenous environments from Oracle to Oracle Exadata > Install and configure OGG heterogenous environments from MS SQL Server to Oracle Exadata Install and configure OGG heterogenous environments from Oracle to Bigdata using different handlers(BQ, Hbase, Kafka, HDFS etc) > Set up High Availability Oracle Golden Gate (OGG) systems on Oracle 11g R2/12c RAC environments. Developed Golden Gate scripts to achieve zero downtime production migration of mission critical systems to Oracle Exadata database machine. > Upgraded Oracle Golden Gate (OGG) from 11g R2 to 12c, 18c,19c and 21c. Implemented OGG upgrades in mission critical production environments.
• Worked in 11g/12c clustered environment with high availability.
• Worked extensively on DB version upgrades, migrations and patching in both stand-alone and clustered environments. . Installed and configured Oracle on various operating systems for OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) and Data Warehouse environments.
• Implemented Disaster Recovery (DR) High Availability Oracle solutions by installing, configuring and maintaining Data Guard and RAC databases on various platforms.
• Proficient in using Flash-Back Recovery and perform manual recoveries by using RMAN managed backups with/without catalog, archive logs, cold and hot backups, full backups, incremental and cumulative backups.
• Experienced in using Oracle cloud control 12c/13c for monitoring, managing and maintaining Oracle Databases.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of the databases using AWR/ADDM tool using Oracle Cloud Control.
• Implemented Oracle TDE to provide transparent encryption of stored data.
• Modified database structures including tablespaces, tables and various objects as well as configuration and storage allocation to support application enhancement.
• General DBA Support that involved various usage monitoring, table/index rebuilds and reorganizations etc.
• Assisted in designing conceptual, logical and physical data models. . Test and promote Quest SHAREPLEX replication tool between different instances for High Availability.
• Created, scheduled, and worked on database maintenance tasks that involved upgrades, patching, table/index analysis, index rebuild, materialized views refresh, DB exports and regular day to day tasks.
• Monitor production databases with Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) to troubleshoot and diagnose database issues.
• Provide technical research, development, and consulting services to support department applications.
• Control, design, upgrade, and integration of complex Oracle Database systems
• Provide advanced problem resolution support and diagnosis.
• Installing, troubleshooting, operating, testing, planning, configuring and Tuning 9i,10g, and 11g Databases.
• Worked in RAC, 11g migrations, upgrades, CPU (Critical Patch Upgrades) patching, ASM and Data Guard
• Monitoring space usage and ASM administration using ASMCMD command. Adding disk to disk groups and performing ASM disk group rebalance when required. Good hands-on experience in Oracle Grid Infrastructure by using SRVCTL and CRSCTL commands to start, stop, configure, modify and verify the cluster resources.
• Extensive experience recovering with RMAN on Real Application Cluster and standalone databases. Recovered several databases when UNDO, TEMP, SYSTEM table spaces and Control Files got corrupted.
• Clone Databases using RMAN Backups. . Monitoring Day to Day Backups, Log's recovering them as per the requirement. Utilized LOG MINER Technology applied Application Database Transactions on other Databases.
• Successfully implemented oracle 11gR2 Physical Standby database using Oracle Data guard in high availability configuration . Extensive experience as 24x7 DBA supporting multiple clients, attending Incidents and Normal/Emergency changes. All the activities were documented with details that got delivered to customers. 9i,10g/11g, IBM AIX, Linux Sun Solaris, SQL, PL/SQL, TOAD, UNIX Windows XP, SQL Navigator, SQL* Loader, RMAN
• Install, configure, and support Oracle Database (Release 10g/11g) for Dev, QA, Staging, UAT and Production environments.
• Monitoring all the databases for tablespaces and OS disk space usage and add space as necessary. . Installed the Grid Control agents on all the DB servers to better monitor the performance and gather a lot other metrics for the target databases.
• Executing Database script for scheduled releases on all the database environments.
• Refresh the data from Prod to UAT/Staging/QA databases on need basis using expdp/impdp and RMAN utility.
• Identifying the long running queries from Grid control monitoring and working with Development team to get the explain plan for such long-running queries and suggest a preferred query hint or any other query changes to make the query faster.
• Expertise in configuring and Implementing Encryption & Compression in 11g . Writing Unix Shell script to track and monitor database alerts and scheduled the scripts
• Configured, implemented, Upgraded 10g/11g RAC with GPF's file system on AIX servers. . Extensively Used Explain Plan, SQL Trace, AWR, ADDM and ASH reports to Monitor Performance Tuning. . Interacting with the users and troubleshooting the problems involved with the development of stored procedures, triggers and with the privileges. . Scheduled scripts to monitor each of the RAC nodes and to detect any RAC hang check.
• Used expdp and impdp commands for database back-up and refresh activities.
• Created automated scripts to make hot snapshot backup and RMAN backup (both Full & Incremental) for the Oracle database.
• Created physical Data Guard for Production database for the purpose of datacenter move (HDC to CDC) . Executed the backup/recovery drill by recovering a copy of the database from the hot backup and documenting the steps.
• Created database monitoring jobs through UNIX shell scripts and scheduled the scripts through cron job . Writing Technical Specification Document (TSD) and oracle stored procedure for new client's Migration project.
• Created and maintained read-only users for non-dev databases and scheduled jobs to set read-only access for new tables.
• Extensively worked on Oracle stored procedure, function, package, trigger and other oracle objects
• Developed scripts to create table, view, materialized views, external table, index, sequence, synonyms, grant privilege along with the DB storage clause, wherever required. . Extensively worked on many database development tools such as TOAD, SQL Navigator, and PL/SQL developer.
• Worked on optimizing new and existing SQL queries by creating index and Materialized views.
• Expertise with Partitioning of very large tables AIX, Solaris, XP, Navigator
• Install, configure and support Oracle Database (Release 10g) on all the environments.
• Installed Oracle Cluster ware CRS, Clustered Install of Oracle 10g, applying patch in clustered environments, created database / instances using DBCA on a four-node cluster, troubleshooted RAC at OS / OCR / CRS / DB Level.
. Installed the Grid Control agents on all the DB servers to better monitor the performance and various other metrics for the target database.
• Executing Database script for scheduled releases on all the database environments.
• Refresh the data from Prod to UAT/Staging/QA databases on need basis using expdp/impdp utility.
• Identifying the long running queries from Grid control monitoring and working with Development team to get the explain plan for such long-running queries and suggest a preferred query hint, indexes, materialized views to make the query faster. . Installed and configured 10g Real Application Cluster (RAC) and added 2 Nodes to make it a 6 Node RAC. Maintaining large OLTP databases on RAC Environment. . Added and relocated the OCR Mirror and Voting Disks to existing RAC Setups to prevent Single Point of failure and scheduled & tested their physical and logical backups. . Did Extensive Performance Tuning of RAC Databases including Interconnect Tuning too.
• Implemented Oracle Data Guard 10g (Logical and Physical) as Oracle's data protection, High Availability and disaster recovery solution. . Writing Unix Shell script to track and monitor database alerts and scheduling the scripts through grid control servers.
• Used export and import commands for database back-up and refresh activities.
• Create hot snapshot backup and RMAN backup (both Full & Incremental) for the Oracle database. . Added new instances to the cluster DB and removed instance from the cluster. . Experience in working with CRS related commands. . Extensive Performance Tuning, Memory (SGA) Tuning, Locks and Latch resolution in DBBC and Shared pool. Monitoring and optimizing the Performance of the database using AWR/ADDM tools, STATSPACK & TKPROF.
• Created database monitoring jobs through UNIX shell scripts and scheduled the scripts through cron job
• Writing Technical Specification Document (TSD) and oracle stored procedure for new client's Migration project.
• Created and maintained read-only users for non-dev databases and scheduled jobs to set read-only access for new tables.
• Extensively worked on Oracle stored procedure, function, package, trigger and other oracle objects for Canvas projects (such as, new client migration and data archival job).
• Developed scripts to create table, view, materialized views, external table, index, sequence, synonyms, grant privilege, DBMS jobs including the storage clause, wherever required. . Extensively worked on many database development tools such as TOAD, SQL Navigator, and PL/SQL developer.