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TECHNICAL
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Nearly fifteen years of experience in Database Administration, Architecture, Design, Implementation,
Performance Tuning, Deployment, Development, Capacity Planning, Scaling & Support of Mission
Critical MS SQL Servers 2016/2014/2012/2008 R2/2008/2005/2000/7 in Development, Production,
Test, Replication, Cluster, QA and VLDB Environments.
Three Plus years of Netezza Administration and Development Experience.
Installed, configured, maintained, monitored, troubleshooted and applied service packs on MS SQL
Server 2016/2014/2012/2008 R2/2008/2005/2000/7.0 Versions in both Mission Critical, Clustered
(Active/Passive and Active/Active), Multi Site, Stand-Alone, Hyper-V and VMware Environments.
Created SQL databases in Azure IAAS and PAAS.
Implemented SQL Server 2014 and 2016 always on availability groups in Azure IAAS.
Deployed SQL Server 2014/2012 Databases to SQL Azure PAAS.
Created Disaster Recovery Plans and tested them.
Implemented High Availability plans like Always on Availability Groups (Synchronous and
Asynchronous Mode), Clustering, database mirroring (Synchronous and Asynchronous Mode), Logshipping and performed Forced, manual and automatic failovers
Created Availability Groups, Listener, Replicas, Endpoints, Backup Preferences, data synchronization,
Readable Secondary’s in Always On Availability Groups in On premises and Azure IAAS.
Improved the performance of the Queries, databases, SQL Servers, Replication, SSIS Packages,
SSRS Reports, Windows Servers, applications and optimized the slow running queries.
Detected and resolved the conflicts in the Merge Publication, performance issues of the SQL Server
relating to CPU, Memory, I/O, tempdb, disk space and contention issues.
Creating Databases, Tables, Adding Indexes, Reading and Updating Data, Taking Database
Backups, dropping databases, Reading the event Logs, Monitoring SQL Server and Performed
Cluster maintenance using Powershell.
Performed Data Exchange, Database Optimization, Server Optimization, Consolidation and
Standardization.
Resolved issues related to database performance, database capacity, Cluster, replication and
migration.
Used Performance Monitor/Profiler to resolve the Blocking, Dead Locks and Long Running Queries.
Used DMV’s, DMF, Traces, System Stored Procedures, User defined stored Procedures, DBCC
Commands, Wait Statistics, Perfmon Counters, Extended Events, third party Tools to resolve
performance Issues.
Checked the Query Execution Plans, Operators and optimized the Queries.
Performed Upgrades & Migration from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005/2008/2008 R2, SQL
Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008/2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server
2008 R2 to SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2012 to SQL Server 2014 and SQL Server 2014 to SQL
Server 2016 in both 32 bit and 64 bit environments and resolved the issues.
Performed Migrations from SQL Server 2012 Data Warehouses and Data Marts to SQL Server
Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW).
Moved the data from PDW to Hadoop Archives.
Created and Managed Alerts from Hadoop and PDW.
Performed Maintenance Tasks on Hadoop and PDW.
Performed Migrations from Oracle, DB2, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0/15.7and MYSQL to
SQL Server 2005/ 2008/ 2008 R2/2012/2014/2016 and from SQL Server 2005/2008/2008
R2/2012/2014 to Netezza.
Designed, implemented & tested Archiving, Database Backups (Full, Differential, Transactional, File
Group, Copy Only), Point in time Restores of Encrypted Databases & Databases, Page and File
Group Restores and Disaster Recovery Procedures.
Resolved Database, Performance, Replication, Always on Availability Groups, Clustering, logshipping, Database Mirroring, Connectivity, Security, Log, blocking and dead locking related Issues.
Used ETL tools like DTS, SSIS and automated the collection of the data from various Data Sources
like Netezza, Oracle, SQL Server, Excel, flat files, DB2 applied the transformations, cleaned the data
and loaded the data into Staging, ODS and Data ware-houses.
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Used SSIS Packages to clean the data, transform the data and load the data into flat files, Excel,
Oracle, Netezza, DB2 and SQL Server Databases.
Configured the security of the SSIS Packages and Projects.
Created DTS, SSIS Packages and deployed them.
Scheduled DTS and SSIS packages using SQL Server Agent Jobs.
Designed and Implemented Fact Tables, Dimension Tables, Data Flows, Control Flows, Data Quality
Services, Master Data Services, Package Configuration Files, Auditing, Logging, Event Handlers,
Script Components, Script Tasks and Data warehouse.
Installed and Maintained Data Quality Services, SSIS Components.
Performed Data Modeling, Conceptual, Logical and Physical database design using Erwin Tool.
Created Entities, Data Elements, Candidate Key, Primary Key, Alternate Key, Surrogate Key, Foreign
Key, Relationships, Recursive Relationships, Subtypes, Domains, Validating Rules, Datatype
Standards, UDP’s, templates using Erwin Data Modeler.
Performed Forward Engineer and Reverse Engineer.
Implemented SQL Server 2016/2014/2012/2008 R2\2008\2005\2000 Best Practices, Management
Data Warehouse, different types of Replication models like Snapshot, Merge, Peer to Peer,
transactional replication and monitored them.
Experience in Resolving Tickets, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), SQL Server Memory
Management, Incident Management, Change Management, Version Control, OLTP, OLAP, MS-DTC
and fixing the database corruption.
Used Tools like DAC, SQL Litespeed for backup-recovery and Performance Advisor, Extended
Events, Spotlight for performance tuning.
Performed Schema Management, Client/Server Connectivity, Database Rollouts, Load Testing, Load
Balancing, Database consistency checks using DBCC Utilities.
Created Linked Servers, Maintenance Plans, Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Perl Scripts, VB Scripts
and Power Shell Scripts.
Involved in the Design of Contained Databases, Databases and database objects like Polybase
Tables, Tables, Indexes (Clustered, Non Clustered, Covering, Filtered, Full Text, Column Store, XML,
Spatial), Stored Procedures, Table-Valued functions, Scalar-Valued functions, Aggregate functions
and Views.
Archived SQL Server data using Partitioning.
Created VLDBs, distribution database, Server Roles, Application Roles, Users without Logins, Logins,
Users and controlled their permissions and access by using Server Roles, Database Roles and User
defined Roles.
Created Jobs and had set up the Database Mail and Alerts using the SQL Server Database Mail and
SQL Mail.
Created Reports with parameters using Tableau, Microsoft Reporting Services (SSRS) and Crystal
Reports.
Created Subscriptions, Dashboard and Scorecards.
Setup and configured Reporting Servers for Optimal Performance in a Load Balanced Environments.
Configured and Maintained the Report Server and the Report Manager.
Installed SQL Server 2005/2008/2008 R2/2012/2014/2016 Reporting Services in SharePoint
integrated Mode and had done configurations on the MOSS box.
Designed and implemented OS Layout for Oracle, SQL Server, OLTP Databases, Fact Tables,
Dimensions Tables, Star Schemas, Snow Flake Schemas, Tabular and Multidimensional Models,
Data-ware Houses (Kimball and Inmon), Data Marts, Data Mining and Reporting Servers.
Created Multi-Dimensional Cubes, OLAP Cubes and modified the cubes using Cube Designer.
Created Dimensions, Hierarchies, Local Partitions, Remote Partitions, Key Performance Indicators
(KPI’s), Attributes, Measures, Measure Groups, Calculated Members, Data Source Views(DSV’s),
Named calculations, named Queries, Perspectives and Translations.
Processed the Cubes and Dimensions.
Created Analysis Services Databases, and performed the database Backups and restores.
Wrote MDX Queries, MDX expressions for cube calculations and KPIs.
Tuned Cubes and Dimensions
Performed Geospatial Analysis.
Detected SQL Injection and eliminated it.
Prepared project documents like Change requests, Status reports, Issue tracking.
Implemented Page and Row Level Compression, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), Change
Releases to Production.
Used Windows System Resource Manager and Resource Governor to manage server level
resources.
Implemented policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the SQL Server
databases.
Experience in Security management, auditing (Sarbanes-Oxley) and user access control on the
databases and Servers.
Installed, Configured, Monitored Oracle 10g/11g/12c on Windows/Linux Servers.
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Monitored Errors, Alerts in Oracle.
Created Users in Oracle and controlled their access through Roles and Privileges.
Performed RMAN backups and Restores.
Performance Tuned Oracle Servers, databases and queries.
Created Tables, tablespaces, Views, Stored Procedures, Sequence, Synonyms, Indexes, alerts,
Maintenance Windows in Oracle.
Created Jobs and scheduled them in oracle.
Loading the data into the tables in Oracle database.
Created Databases, Tables, Views, and Stored Procedures, Events in Netezza and optimized them.
Created Users, Groups and Maintained the security of the users, Groups in Netezza.
Performed Netezza database maintenance, Netezza backups and restored them.
Loaded data into tables in Netezza using NZLoad.
Writing shell scripts and scheduling the cron Jobs.
Troubleshooting the Query performance Issues and system performance issues like
(H/W,SPU/SPA/Switches/SAS Gig Ethernet Switches).
Performing Netezza Databases Backups using TSM and restores.
Installed SQL Extensions and INZA Analytics on Netezza.
Creating Performance Baselines in SQL Server and Netezza.
Performed Capacity Planning in SQL Server and Netezza.
Performed Migrations from Twinfin and Stripper to Mako.
Analyzing the Netezza Log files for fixing the performance issues.
Setup CallHome, Query History DB, Performance Portal, Health Checks in Netezza.
Implementing the Best Practices in SQL Server and Netezza.
Applied Fix Packs on Netezza.
Worked on Netezza Encryption and Netezza Key Management and trouble shooted issues related to
it.
Created and Maintained Sites, Document Libraries in SharePoint.
Provided 24X7 on call Production Support for the Deployments, Migrations, Applications and SQL
Servers.
Provided Knowledge Transfer, Training to the Users on Databases.
Excellent Technical Presentation, Soft, Oral and written communication skills.
TECHNICAL
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Databases: MS-SQL Server 2016/2014/2012/2008R2/2008/2005/2000/7.0, MS Access, Oracle
9i/10g/11g/12c, Netezza 7.2/7.0.5/7.0/6.0.5, Sybase ASE 15.0/15.7, DB2, MySQL, SQL Azure, DB2
9.7/10.5, GreenPlum 4.2, HP Vertica 7.0.0, Teradata 13/13.10/14, MongoDB 3.0, Informix
Languages: T-SQL, PL/SQL, NZPLSQL, ASP.Net, VB.Net, C, C++, ColdFusion MX, XML, XSLT,
SQL PL, HiveQL
SQL Server Tools: Enterprise Manager, Profiler, Query Analyzer, Export & Import, MS BI Dev Studio
,SSAS, Client Network Utility, Server Network Utility, SQLCMD, SQLDIAG, SQL Server Configuration
Manager, Service Broker, BCP, Database Engine Tuning Advisor, Replication Monitor, Report
Services Configuration tool, T-SQL Debugger, Activity Monitor, Resource Governor, Performance
Data Collector, Policy Based Management, Central Management Server, Compressed Backups, SQL
Server Audit, Data Compression, Cube Designer, Dimension Designer, Mining Model Viewer, Master
Data Services Configuration Manager, Master Data Manager, dwconfig, PDW Migration
Advisor(PDWMA), SQL Server Data Tools(SSDT), Database Mirroring Monitor, Always On High
Availability Dashboard, Microsoft Replication Conflict Viewer
BigData: MapReduce, Tez, HCatalog, HBase, Accumulo, Storm, Solr, Spark, YARN, HDFS, Ambari
2.0, ZooKeeper, Oozie, Flume, Kafka, Falcon, HDInsight, Capacity Scheduler, Datameer, Cloudera,
Sqoop, Avro, Mahout
Hadoop: Hadoop Common, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Hadoop YARN, Hadoop
MapReduce, PivotalHD, Cloudera, HortonWorks
Work Flow: Oozie
Data Integration: Flume, Sqoop
Massively Parallel Processing(MPP) Appliance: SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse(PDW)
Netezza : Mako, Striper, TwinFin 3, Model 1000-3, Host Model x3650 M3, Host Model x3650 M4 ,
Host Model x3750 M4, NPS 6.0.5.P2/7.0.P2/7.0.P5/ , 7.0.4.4-P1/ 7.2.0.3 P2, 1000 DW Appliance,
NZADMIN, NZLOAD, Netezza Performance Portal v 2.1.0.0\2.1.1.1, Web Admin,N3001-002, N3001005,N3001-010, N2001-010, N1001-005, SQL Extensions 7.2,NZ Analytics v3.2.0, nzbackup,
nzcontents, nzhostbackup, nzhostrestore, nzrestore, nzstart, nzstop, nzconvert, nzds, nzevent, nzhw,
nzload, nzodbcsql, nzpassword, nzreclaim, nzrev, nzsession, nzspupart, nzsql, nzstate, nzstats,
nzsystem, nz_migrate, nzload, nzhistcleanupdb
Oracle Tools: SQL Developer 4.1/4.0/3.2/3.1/3.0, SQL Developer Data Modeler, SQL Plus, Oracle
Enterprise Manager, Oracle Application Express(APEX), Warehouse Builder, Business Intelligence
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EXPERIENCE:
Discoverer 11g, Recovery Manager(RMAN), Real Application Clusters, Golden Gate, Data Guard,
Active Data Guard, Database in Memory , Database Upgrade Assistant(DBUA),Oracle Data Integrator
Teradata Tools: Teradata Studio, BTEQ, Teradata SQL Assistant, SQL Assistant , Management
portlets , Viewpoint, Active System Management portlets ,Workload Analyzer, Analyst Pack,
SystemEmulation Tool, Index Wizard, TPump, FastLoad, MultiLoad, FastExport, Unity and query
routing, Parallel Transporter, ARCMAIN, Aggregate Designer, Warehouse Miner, Profiler, Analytic
Data Set Generator.
SAS: Base SAS, SAS/ACCESS, SAS Scoring Accelerator, SAS Model Manager
DB2 Tools:
db2pd,db2diag,db2top,db2support,db2caem,db2trc,db2dart,INSPECT,vmstat,iostat,ps,svmon,db2advi
s, IBM Data Studio 3.1
Web Servers: IIS 6/7, Web Logic , Sun One (Web Server 6.1)
Framework: .NET Framework 1.0/2.0/3.0/3.5/4.0/4.5, Apache Hadoop 2.5.2,Hadoop YARN, Hue
ETL Tools: DTS, SSIS, IBM Info Sphere DataStage, Abinitio, Informatica, Pivotal HD DataLoader 2.0
Reporting Tools: SSRS, Crystal Reports 2008, Report Designer, Report Builder, Report Manager,
RSKeymgmt, RS, Model Designer, Hyperion, Congo’s 8 Business Intelligence, Dundas Chart for
Reporting Services, ProClarity, LogiXML, mysqlreport, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query,
Power Map, Power BI for Office 365, Microstrategy Analytics, Tableau
Back UP Tools: Idera’s SQL Safe backup, Quest’s Litespeed, IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager, Red
Gates SQL Backup Pro, RMAN
Change Management Tools: Idera’s SQL Change Manager, Quest’s Change Director, Embarcadero
Change Manager, HP Service Manager(HPSM)
Cluster: Cluster Administrator, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Cluster Server Web-based Cluster
management console(VCS MC)
Data Modeling Tools: Erwin Data Modeler, Erwin Data Model Validator, ER/Studio, MS Visio, Quest
Toad Data Modeler, Sybase’s Power Designer
Performance Monitor Tools: Perfmon, SQL ultimate Performance Monitor, Foglight Performance
Analysis, Spotlight, SQL Diagnostic Manager, SQLdiag, SQL Sentry 7.5, PAL,SQL Trace, SQL
Nexus, dmv’s, Extended Events, RML Utilities, SQL Nexus, PSSDiag, Management Data Warehouse,
phpMYAdmin, MySQL Tuning Primer Script, MySQLTuner, mytop, innotop, DAC, Spotlight on oracle
9.6, Memory Visualizer, Activity Monitor, Event Analyzer, Health Center, InfoSphere Optim
Performance Manager V5.3, Optim Query Workload Tuner for DB2 v5.3, Optim Query Tuner for DB2,
FODC, MONREPORT, Process Explorer, Extended Insight, Management Console (MC), Ganglia
3.7.1/3.6.2, RedGate SQL Monitor,
SharePoint: SharePoint Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Office SharePoint Designer 2007, Power Pivot Gallery
Scripting: Power Shell 1/2/3/4/5, Shell Script, Java Script, VB Script, Pig
VPN Tools: Cisco AnyConnect VPN,RSA SecureID
Other Tools: Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012/2013, LINQ, Legato Networker, event viewer, FTP,
SQL Server Migration Assistant for Oracle, MS-DTC, Visual Source Safe, Visual Studio Team System
(VSTS), Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer(MBSA), WinSQL, Ultra
Edit, Opsware, DB Artisan, NZADMIN 7.0/7.0.5,Active Directory, NTLM, Kerberos, Power BI, System
Center 2012, System Center Service Manager 2010, System Center Operations Manager 2007
R2/2007/2005, System Center Data Protection Manager 2010/2007, HP Operations Manager, SQ
Data, Office 365, Tableau, pgAdmin III, Sybase Central v6.0,Toad for Oracle 12.1,Toad for MySQL
6.3,Toad for DB2 4.7,Toad Data Modeler 5.1, Quest SQL Optimizer 8.8.1 for Oracle, DbVisualizer 9.2,
Benchmark Factory for Databases, Aginity Workbench for PureData System for Analytics, Tortoise
SVN, MySQL Workbench 5.2, Attachmate Reflection, HeidiSQL 9.1, Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler
6.2, CA Autosys Workload automation v11.3,dwloader,PowerPivot, RedGate SQL Test, RedGate SQL
Multi Script Unlimited, RedGate SQL Comparison SDK, RedGate DLM Dashboard, RedGate SQL
Doc, RedGate SQL Search, RedGate Source Control, RedGate SQL Compare Pro, RedGate SQL
prompt, RedGate SQL Dependency Tracker, RedGate SQL index Manager, RedGate Scripts
Manager,DWLoader, Datastage Info Sphere 8.5/8.7/9.1,ADO.NET, Xcelsius
Operating System: Windows NT 2012 R2/2012/2008R2/2008/2003/2000/4.0/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1, Unix
,Wintel Server, Linux 5.7, Mac OS X, Windows Azure, Oracle Solaris 10, HP-UX 11i, IBM AIX 6.1/7
Gaming: IGT Advantage 9.1, IGT SBX 4.1, EZPay 9.1, TableManager 9.1, Tournament Manager 2.0,
Bravo, eMarker
VMware: vSphere Client 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5
Slot Systems: Oasis, CMS, LMS, Legacy
SAN: HSG80/EVA5000/EVA8000/AMS2500/HDS AMS2500(40 TB), EMC VNX 5500/5700, Netapp
FAS 3240
Networking: NAS,DAS,LAN,WAN,TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, Intranet, Terminal Services
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5/15–Till Date
Merrill Corporation, St. Paul, MN
Sr. SQL Server DBA
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The project was to Provide Database Administration support on SQL Server
2016/2014/2012/2008/2005. Installed and configured SQL Servers 2016\2014\2012 Always On in
cloud using Azure IAAS and on Premises. Performed Migrations from SQL Server 2005 to 2008, 2008
to 2012, 2012 to 2014 and 2014 to 2016. Moved the databases from SQL Server 2014 to Azure
PAAS. Troubles hooted CPU, I/O, Memory, Tempdb performance Issues and Increasing the
performance of SQL Servers. Moving the SSIS code in different environments through TFS. Created,
Modified and Deployed the SSRS reports and Cubes in Various environments. Performed SQL Server
Consolidation. Installed and configured SSIS, SSAS and SSRS in various Environments. Designed,
Implemented and Tested HADR for SQL Server 2016\2014\2012\2008 R2\2008\2005. Installed SQL
Server Service Packs to resolve the bugs in SQL Servers. Implemented SQL Server Best Practices.
Eliminated SQL Injection and database corruption. Scheduled Database Maintenance Jobs, Alerts.
Reviewing the SCOM alerts and fixing the issues. Implemented Tabular Models in SSAS. Imported
the data from Hadoop into SQL Server. Integrated data from various data sources like CData, sales
force, OBIEE and Hadoop into SQL Server. Created the SSIS Packages, SSRS Reports and made
SSAS cubes run faster. Created Reports using PowerBI and setup gateways for PowerBI.
Environment: SQL Server 2016/2014/2012/2008R2/2008/2005, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, PowerBI,
SharePoint 2013, TFS, Skype for Business, MIM, SCOM, Cloudera
12/14–04/15
United Health Group, Plymouth, MN
Sr. SQL Server DBA and Netezza DBA
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The project was to Provide Database Administration support on SQL Server 2014 and MPP systems
such as Netezza which includes software installation, configuration, upgrading/patching, database
system management, monitoring, tuning and optimizing, troubleshooting and maintenance. Uphold
enterprise policy guidelines and recommend new and improved guidelines to ensure compatibility and
better service for end-users. Performing capacity monitoring and short and long-term capacity
planning in collaboration with development resources, system administrators and system architects.
Maintain security according to best practices and general security solutions that balance auditor
requirements with user requirements. Writing shell scripts and automating them. Participating in 24X7
on call rotation and customer service experience. Implement DR Strategy for SQL Server 2014 and
Netezza databases. Identifying and initiating resolutions to user problems/concerns associated with
Netezza functionality (hardware and software) and SQL Server. Implemented Always on, Database
Mirroring, Multi Site Clustering for SQL Server 2014./2012/2008. Created Table Reports, Matrix
Reports, Digital Dashboards, Parameter Reports, Linked Reports. Deployed Reports Using Report
Designer. Uploaded Reports using Report Manager. Implemented EMC VPLEX with SQL Server 2012
on Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering and EMC EXTREMIO for SQL Server 2014 Data
Warehouse Fast Track. Implemented and Maintained Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS),
Parallel Datawarehouse (PDW) and HDInsight
Environment: NzAdmin, Aginity Workbench for Netezza, IBM Netezza Performance Portal v
2.1.0.0\2.1.1.1, Putty, Ultra Edit, Netezza 7.2.0.3 P2/7.0.4.4-P1, NZPLSQL, Shell Script, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, Attachmate Reflection, Cisco Unified Personal Communicator 8, Jabber, Cisco
Anyconnect Secure Mobility, VMWare Horizon View Client, Ultraedit, Webex, Sharepoint Workspace
2010, N3001-002, N3001-005,N3001-010, N2001-010, N1001-005, Host Model x3650 M4 , Host
Model x3750 M4,SQL Extensions 7.2,NZ Analytics v3.2.0, Aquadata Studio 8, Quest Toad 2.5.1, SAS
9.3_M1, BASE SAS 9.3_M1, SAS/ACCESS 9.3_M1, SAS Add in for MS Office 9.3_M1, SAS
Enterprise Guide 9.3_M1, SAS Drivers for ODBC 9.3_M1, PC SAS 9.2/9.3/9.4, SAS Server 9.3/9.4,
Informatica 9.6.1 HF1, Microstrategy 9.2.x, Tableau 8.2, SQL Server 2014/2012/2008R2/2008, SSIS,
SSAS, SSRS,EMC DB Classify, EMC VSPEX SQL Server Sizing ,EMC VPLEX, EMC EXTREMIO
11/13 –11/14
JLG Industries, Hagerstown, MD
Sr. SQL Server DBA and Netezza Developer
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The project was to Implement SQL Server 2012/2014 Always on Availability Groups on Windows
Server 2012 R2/2012 standalone servers. Applied Best Practices in setting up SQL Server
2012/2014. Created, optimize and test the Databases, Tables, Views, and Stored Procedures.
Applying Best Practices in writing the Stored Procedures. Provided Recommendations on the Stored
Procedures. Took Netezza databases backups and restored them. Performed Database Migrations
from Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.7, MYSQL and DB2 to SQL Server 2012/2014 and SQL
Server 2012 to Netezza. Setup Parallel Data Warehouse, Always on Availability Groups on SQL
Server 2012. Installed SQL Server Clusters on active- active Node. Trouble-shooted and Deployed
SSIS Packages. Created SSIS Packages and loaded the data into Netezza and SQL Server
databases. Performed Database Maintenance in Netezza and SQL Server. Used Datastage to load
the data into Netezza. Performed patch installations in Netezza. Created Reports using SSRS and
scheduled them. Created SQL Server Disaster recovery plans and tested them. Created Tivoli Data
warehouse, Data warehouses (Kimball), Cubes and wrote MDX Queries. Creating Inventory SQL
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Server reports using SSRS and Moving to the Service Manager. Installing and administering IBM
DataPower SOA Appliances. Setup Jobs, Alerts, Operators, Database mail and Database
Maintenance Jobs in SQL Server 2012. Used DAC tool for performance tuning.
Environment: SQL Server 2014/2012/2008R2/2008, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, TwinFin 3, NPS 7.0.P5,
1000 DW Appliance, SharePoint Server 2013, RedGate SQL Monitor, RedGate SQL Admin Bundle,
System Center 2012, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.7, Windows Server 2012
R2/2012/2008/2003/2000/7, Netapp FAS 3240
01/12 –11/13
Revel, Atlantic City, NJ
Sr. SQL Server DBA/ Architect
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The project was to resolve the performance problems for the Gaming (IGT) and Non-Gaming SQL
Servers. The project Involves in designing a new OLTP Server and Implement the best practices.
Responsibilities were to perform Monitoring, Performance Tuning, Troubleshooting the issues,
Backup and Restores , provide High Availability, Security, Design specifications for the OLTP server,
databases, Transactional Replication, Perform Auditing, Creating SSIS Packages and scheduling the
Jobs, Perform Capacity Planning , Setting up Tivoli Data warehouse, Management Data Warehouse
,Parallel Data Warehouse, Always on Availability Groups, Alerts and Notifications, Creating Disaster
Recovery Plans and testing them. Created Analysis Services Databases, taking their backups and
restoring them. Creating Cubes, Dimensions, Hierarchies, Attributes. Giving access to the users in
Analysis Services. Tuned the cubes and dimensions. Creating Data warehouses (Kimball and Inmon),
Loading the data into data warehouses and generating SSRS Reports, Creating, optimize and test the
Databases, Tables, Views, Functions and Stored Procedures. Applying Best Practices in writing the
Stored Procedures. Providing Recommendations on the Stored Procedures. Taking Netezza
databases backups and restoring them. Performed Database Migrations from Oracle, Sybase
Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0, MYSQL and DB2 to SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2
to Netezza. Provide Support to applications like IGT(Advantage & SBX),Bravo, eMarker, Infogenesis
Universal Desktop 4.3.1, RedRock, MGT, UltiPro, Bartech, SolarWinds, SharePoint, Labor
Scheduler, BellDesk, AllStar, Fusion, Nagios, MDM, Scannet, NetPay, iTrack, Performance
Management, Four Winds and CallCopy. Used Datastage to load the data into Netezza. Performing
Netezza database Maintenance and patch installations. Creating Inventory SQL Server reports using
SSRS and Moving to the Service Manager. Installing and administering IBM DataPower SOA
Appliances. Installed SQL Azure databases and performed maintenance on them in Windows azure.
Monitored and tuned the Performance of the SQL Azure databases. Configuring the firewalls.
Performed Geospatial Analysis.
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Environment: SQL Server 2012/2008R2/2008/2005/2000, MS Visual Studio 2012/2010, MS BI Dev.
Studio, Enterprise Manager, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, IIS, Query Analyzer, DMV’s, Vb.NET, C#, MS Visio,
Perfmon, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Resource
Governor, Change Data capture, Management Data Warehouse, Windows Server 2003/2008/2008
R2/2012 , Team Foundation Server, Unix, Power shell 2, Erwin ,IIS 7.0 , SQL Sentry 7.5, IGT 9.1 ,
SBX 4.1, ezPay 9.1, Tournament Manager 2.0 , Table Manager 9.1, TwinFin 3 , NPS 6.0.5.P2/7.0.P2,
1000 DW Appliance, Cognos, UNICA Campaign 9.0.0.1 and Infogenesis POS, vSphere Client
5.0/5.5, Solar Winds, Microsoft Access 2010, Master Data Services Configuration Manager, Master
Data Manager, System Center 2012, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0, Oracle 11g\12c, SQL
Server Parallel Data Warehouse(PDW). RedGate SQL Test, RedGate SQL Multi Script Unlimited,
RedGate SQL Comparison SDK, RedGate DLM Dashboard, RedGate SQL Doc, RedGate SQL
Search, RedGate Source Control, RedGate SQL Compare Pro, RedGate SQL prompt, RedGate SQL
Dependency Tracker, RedGate SQL index Manager, RedGate Scripts Manager
01/11 –12/11
DebtX, Boston, MA
Sr. SQL Server DBA/ Architect
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The project was to resolve the performance problems for their DXMark Servers. The project Involves
in designing a new OLTP Server and create a data ware house (Kimball ) and a reporting server.
Responsibilities were to perform Monitoring, Performance Tuning, Troubleshooting the issues,
Backup and Restores , provide High Availability, Security, Implementing Best practices, Design
specifications for the OLTP server, databases, Transactional Replication. Performed Database
Migrations from Oracle, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0, MYSQL and DB2 to SQL Server
2008 R2. Provide Support to Marketing applications like DXMark. Creating SSIS Package and
scheduling them through SQL Server Jobs. Creating Inventory SQL Server reports using SSRS and
Moving to the Service Manager. Upgrading Analysis Services from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server
2008 R2. Creating KPIs, Dimensions, Attributes, Cubes, Hierarchies, Analysis Services databases,
Cubes. Replicated the data between databases using SQData. Created Reports using
Microstrategy.Tuned the Cubes.
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Environment: SQL Server 2008R2/2008, MS Visual Studio 2008/2010, MS BI Dev. Studio,
Enterprise Manager, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, IIS, Query Analyzer, DMV’s, Vb.NET, MS Visio, SQL
Diagnostic Manager, Perfmon, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
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2007, Resource Governor, Change Data capture, Management Data Warehouse, Windows Server
2008 , Team Foundation Server, Unix, Power shell 2, Erwin ,IIS 7.0 , DXMark , Foglight Performance
Analysis for SQL Server, Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise, ProClarity, SQL Compare 9.0, Citrix,
System Center Service Manager 2010, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0,SQData ,
Microstrategy Analytics, Oracle 11g, RedGate SQL Test, RedGate SQL Multi Script Unlimited,
RedGate SQL Comparison SDK, RedGate DLM Dashboard, RedGate SQL Doc, RedGate SQL
Search, RedGate Source Control, RedGate SQL Compare Pro, RedGate SQL prompt, RedGate SQL
Dependency Tracker, RedGate SQL index Manager, RedGate Scripts Manager
07/10 – 12/10
NFI, Cherry Hill, NJ
Lead SQL Server DBA/Oracle DBA
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The project goal was to provide production support for Foursite, Navitrace, Accuplus, Boomi, TMT
Fleet Maintenance, the Dawg, Mechanic Workstation, Shop Planner Applications and mission critical
SQL and Oracle databases. Creating SSIS Package and scheduling them through SQL Server Jobs.
Environment: SQL Server 2008R2/2008/2005/2000, Windows Server 2008/2003/2000, MS Visual Studio,
MS BI Dev Studio, Enterprise Manager, SSIS, SSAS, DMV’s, DTS, SSRS, Oracle 10g R2, IIS, Query
Analyzer, Vb.NET, Crystal Report, MS Visio, Litespeed, Perfmon, LINQ, Spotlight, Windows SharePoint
Services 3.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Change Director, Numara Track-It 8, Microsoft
Visual Source Safe 6, NFI Query Farm Maintenance, Team Foundation Server, Unix, Power shell 2, Perl,
Idera SQL Safe Backup
11/09 – 06/10
Fresenius Medical Care NA, Lexington, MA
Lead SQL Server DBA
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The project objective was to provide production support for Sorian Financials and Clinicals
applications. I have to migrate the DTS Packages to SSIS Packages, load data into the Datawarehouse, support SharePoint environment, provide documentation for the SOX compliance and
perform database administrative tasks and development work. Creating SSIS Package and
scheduling them through SQL Server Jobs.
Environment: SQL Server 2005/2008, Windows Server 2003/2008, MS Visual Studio, MS BI Dev Studio,
Enterprise Manager, SSIS, SSAS, DTS, SSRS, DMV’s, Oracle 11g, IIS, Query Analyzer,Vb.NET, Crystal
Report, MS Visio, Litespeed, Perfmon, LINQ, Spotlight, Foglight, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0,
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Change Director, LogiXML, Netezza, WinSQL, Team Foundation
Server, Unix, Power shell 2, Perl, HP Operations Manager, Idera SQL Safe Backup
01/02 – 10/09
Tropicana Casinos and Resorts, Crestview Hills, KY
SQL Server DBA
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The project objective was to work on database development, data warehousing and maintenance of
data architecture, business intelligence, database administration, performance tuning, operating
platforms, design, development, data modeling, monitoring, database capacity and utilization, server
applications security, archiving, Disaster Recovery, and documentation based on the corporate
policies, industry best practices and business Requirements. Creating SSIS Package and scheduling
them through SQL Server Jobs.
Environment: SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, Windows Server 2003/2008, MS Visual Studio, MS BI Dev
Studio, Enterprise Manager, SSIS, SSAS, DTS, SSRS, DMV’s, Oracle 11g, IIS, Query Analyzer,Vb.NET,
Crystal Report, MS Visio, Litespeed, Perfmon, ProClarity, LINQ, Legato Networker Module , Spotlight,
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Change Director, Unix, Idera
SQL Safe Backup
EDUCATION:
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Bachelors in Computer Science Engineering
Microsoft 70-431: Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
Microsoft 70-443: Designing a Database Server Infrastructure by Using SQL Server 2005.
Microsoft 70-444: Optimizing and Maintaining a Database Administration Solution by Using Microsoft
SQL Server 2005
Microsoft 70-445: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence - Development and Maintenance.
Microsoft 70-453: Upgrade: Transition Your MCITP SQL Server 2005 DBA to MCITP SQL Server
2008.
Microsoft 70-457: Transition Your MCTS on SQL Server 2008 to MCSA: SQL Server
2012 Part 1.
Microsoft 70-458: Transition Your MCTS on SQL Server 2008 to MCSA: SQL Server
2012 Part 2.
IBM C2090-560: PureData System for Analytics v7.1
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