Oracle Dba Resume

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over 8 years of experience as an Oracle Database Administrator having hands on

experience in database administration with mainly production support experience and
performed different tasks like installation, configuration, upgrades, patches,
performance tuning, backup and recovery, production support, cloning, space
management, database security.
Experience in Installation of Oracle 10g/11g Real Application Cluster with ASM and
manage Confidential instances using Confidential and Confidential Utility.
Configured multiple database instances using ASM instance.
Troubleshoot performance issues for the Confidential instances.
Backup and Recovery issues related (loss of OCR, Voting Disk and Oracle cluster
ware) & also issues with corruption of individual disk data blocks, loss of OS
configuration files, loss of net configuration files.
Providing DBA support to multiple Cluster, Non Cluster and ASM Database in
production, development and Testing Servers in UNIX, AIX & Windows
Environments.
Resolved/Diagnose Node Eviction.
Upgrade of 10g R2 Confidential to 11g R2 Confidential
Add or Remove Node from Confidential .
Implemented & configuring replication technology using Data Guard & Oracle Golden
Gate installation.
Implemented Uni - Directional & Bi-Directional replication in Golden Gate.
Implemented Golden Gate Director with EM plugin
Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of Logical/Physical standby databases in
Data Guard.
Implemented Data Guard with maximum availability, protection and performance
configurations and worked with Data Guard Fail over and Switch over cases.
Database replication using snapshots, materialized views, import/export and
advanced replication methods like Oracle Golden Gate.
Resolving the issues in conflicts between the target and source database in Golden
Gate.
Good experience in performance tuning for production databases
Experience in 10 & 11g Confidential and Grid/Cloud control setup installation and
patching
Experience in Database Migration and Upgrade Activity across data centers under
Heterogeneous and homogeneous environments
Experience in Data Guard build and Participated in the DR Exercises with various
backup/restore strategies and configurations
Configured and replicated databases using in Golden Gate
Configured Golden Gate Director with EM Plugin
1/5
 Good knowledge in administering databases in EXADATA environment
Extensive experience in analyzing AWR, ASH, ADDM, Explain Plans and trace files
with 10046 & 10053 events.
Experience in SQL Tuning Advisor, SQL Profiles, SQL Plan Management and SQL
Tuning using hints & indexes
Experience in Clustered servers environment
Experience in New Server builds for Production - installation of Oracle, creating
databases and configuring backup & monitoring scripts
Experience in Database upgrades to 10g/11g
Experience in migrating databases from RMAN to ASM and cloning databases using
RMAN
Applied Quarterly patches- CPU, PSU and bug fix patches for databases in all
environments (QA/Dev/Prod)
Experience in Periodic Database maintenance activity like database re-org, index
rebuilds, growth track analysis and House keeping
Participated in Application deployments along with the App team
Planning backup and recovery strategy for various database environments and good
knowledge of exports/imports, RMAN
Good troubleshooting skills for various issues and Performance tuning
Good knowledge of Unix and knowledge of shell scripting

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Data base: Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g & 12c on Linux/Solaris/AIX/Win

Oracle Products: With Confidential /Grid/Cloud/Database control setup, Golden Gate

Installation & Configuration.

Data Guard, RMAN, OEM: 12C/11g, SQL*Loader, Import and Export

(EXPDP/IMPDP)ASM, TKPROF, Confidential, SQL*Loader and SQL*Net

Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, AIX & Windows

Programming Languages: C, C++ & Shell Scripting

Other Tools: TOAD, Putty, SQL Developer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irving, TX

Oracle DBA

Environment: Production/UAT/QA/TEST Support with Oracle 11g with Real Application

Clusters ( Confidential ), Enterprise Manager 12c cloud control, 11g Grid control, NetApp
storage and snap backups

Responsibilities:

We tune/solve database performance issues for e-Commerce and PeopleSoft

applications along with regular database support.
2/5
 Supporting nearly 50+ Databases which includes Prod/UAT/QA/Test databases
Good experience in analyzing AWR & ADDM reports to find out performance
bottlenecks
Extensively used AWR SQL Report to find out the execution plan changes, the plan
performance and identifying the better execution plan for SQLs
Tuned many SQLs and brought down run times of SQLs from hours to
minutes/seconds
Extensively used SQL Tuning Advisor to find out the possible recommendations and
fixes for bad execution plan, better indexes, and any other additional
recommendations for SQLs
Used SQL Plan Management feature to keep better execution plan available for any
particular SQL
Used SQL profiles to pin the better execution plan or to pin the tuned SQL with hints
as part of SQL tuning
Good skills in analyzing Explain plans and using hints for tuning the Queries
Extensively used the 10046 & 10053 trace files to analyze the SQL execution with
wait events and used tkprof to analyze the traces
Tuned nVision & Crystal reports
Built 11g Confidential environments with ASM/NFS as storage options and used
ASMlib to manage ASM disks
Good experience on identifying the performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot
performance issues in Confidential databases environments
Managed ASM storage disk groups like adding/dropping/managing disk groups
Configured and replicated databases using in Golden Gate for e-Commerce
applications
Configured Golden Gate Director with EM Plugin
Extensively used Unidirectional replication in Golden Gate
Configured 11g new feature Active Data guard on 11g and maintained standby
databases
Configured Oracle Wallet and used Transparent Database Encryption (TDE) to
encrypt tablespaces to meet client’s data security norms.
Configured and monitored database Auditing and implemented cleanup procedures
for audit data
Suggested and implemented to use Flashback database feature instead of complete
database backup/restore during minor application upgrade works to save lot of time
Applied CPU and PSU patches for Oracle databases
Performed and automated Net App snap backup refreshes for clients demanding
everyday refresh of QA environments with minimal downtime
Configured scripts to report and mail to client to find out the bad performing queries
along with the SQL Tuning advisor reports.

Confidential, Albany, NY

Oracle DBA

Environment: Production/UAT/QA/TEST Support

Responsibilities:
3/5
 Worked on the server builds for all the production & dev environments - Configuring
OS for Oracle, installed oracle rdbms software, created databases as per the
requirements and configured backups & monitoring scripts
Used various Oracle configuration assistants like Database configuration Assistant
(DBCA), Database Upgrade assistant (DBUA) and Network Configuration Assistant
(NetCA)
Migrated databases from windows to Linux environment
Built two node 10g Confidential setup on RHEL 5
Configured Data Guard setup with Maximum performance mode and performed
switch over during DR exercises without disturbing the primary sites
Tuned database memory parameters and configuration for maximum performance
Performed growth track analysis and kept space utilization under control by doing
periodic database reorg activity.
Used AWR, ADDM and ASH reports to analyze performance issues and fixed them
accordingly.
Performed SQL tuning without altering the application code with help of Indexes and
Table level portioning.
Performed database block recovery using RMAN
Participated in client meetings in application upgrades and provided many inputs
related database related tasks to cut down the overall timelines.
Participated in annual DR exercise which happens once in a year and very critical for
the client. This happens for many of the client applications each with different
strategies - Data guard, BCV synch, export and imports
Implemented different backups like regular exports & RMAN backups as per the
client standards
Based on client requirement automated database refresh process which needs to be
done every night using exports & imports to refresh the DEV databases
Implemented DR setup with regular export/imports as per client’s request
Scheduled various jobs like index rebuilds, daily backup reports, monthly space
reports etc through crontab/autosys
Performed RMAN duplicate database procedure to clone the production database
Provided application go-live support and solved the last minute surprise performance
issues on the fly

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Oracle DBA, Incident team technical Lead

Environment: Production/UAT/QA/TEST Support

Responsibilities:

Supported nearly 600+ Databases and I was primary contact for some clients.
Maintained good track of SLAs under control for the incidents by guiding the team to
resolve them in a timely manner
Worked on the server builds for production & dev environments and configured
backups & monitoring scripts
4/5
Installed and configured two node 10g and 11g Confidential setup on RHEL 4/5
Participated in the DR exercise which happens twice in a year for many of the
applications each with different strategies - Data guard, RMAN restores & Schema
refresh
Configured data guard setup with data guard broker configuration
Implemented different backups like regular exports & RMAN backups as per the
client standards
Implemented the Advanced Compression feature to benefit Giga bytes of space from
the archived data tables
Automated database refresh process using exports & imports to refresh the DEV
databases
Automated Data Guard incremental refresh as temporary solution while working to fix
a Cisco firewall bug which lead to archive logs corruption
Implemented DR setup with regular export/imports as per client’s request
Scheduled various jobs like index rebuilds, daily backup reports, monthly space
reports etc through crontab/autosys
Automated the RMAN refresh process which happens weekly once from prod to QA
by using shell scripting
Performed Tablespace point in time recovery using RMAN
Performed RMAN duplicate database procedure to clone the production database
Provided application go-live support along with application team and suggested
tuning steps
Good experience on ITIL process and change control process
Presented many demos about the new features in the new releases to the teams

5/5