Ajay Gandhi

Technical Project Manager -- Business Intelligence at Software Information Resource Corp (SIRC)
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Ajay is a great person to work with. He has a deep knowlege of Oracle and is easy to talk with and learn from. As a mentor, I could not ask for a better guy. As a technical expert, I found him to be a great resource when I had problems or questions.

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Credentials

  • Exadata Database Machine Models X3-2 and X3-8 PreSales Specialist
    Oracle Partner Network
    Aug, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • Exadata Database Machine Models X3-2 and X3-8 Sales Specialist
    Oracle Partner Network
    Aug, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • Exadata Database Machine Models X2-2 and X2-8 PreSales Specialist
    Oracle Partner Network
    Feb, 2013
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Technical Project Manager -- Business Intelligence
      • Nov 2016 - Present

      • Goals– Provide the organization with a powerful tool that help them monitor their Clinical patient and operations performance, and take corrective actions and include information for future planning.• Key Objectives– Provide a set of robust analysis and reporting tools to support assessment of current and historical data and trends by the Clinical management, operations and services teams.• Key Objective Solution– Creation of new interactive analysis reports in QlikView reporting software using data in various Navy Medical Data systems to replace existing reports and data feeds to the organization.– Provide high level aggregated and detailed metrics– Provide foundation for Navy to continue development of existing application and develop new ones

    • Senior Solution Architect
      • Sep 2015 - Present

      I am responsible for providing a successful Master Data Management (MDM) solution to a government agency. This required integrating Informatica MDM solution with Oracle SOA to provide real-time integration with other state / federal agencies. Managed all changes to the data models. Created data models, solution designs and data architecture documentation for complex information systems.Effectively articulated reasoning for data model design decisions and strategically incorporated team member feedback to produce the highest quality data models.Worked with project and application teams to ensure that they understand and fully comply with data quality standards, architectural guidelines and designs.Aggressively managed personnel across product development organization. Planned, coordinated and implemented security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure.Implemented backup and recovery strategies and disaster recovery strategies utilizing backup scripts and RMAN.Tested programs and databases, corrected errors and made necessary modifications.Modified existing databases and database management systems or directed programmers and analysts to make changes.Implemented changes to bring databases into audit compliance and company and best practices standards.Upgraded and migrated databases from Oracle 11g to 12c.Production, Test and Development environment: Oracle11g, Oracle 12c, Oracle Enterprise Management, PL/SQL, MS Windows Server and LINUX.

    • Sr. Oracle Consultant
      • Jan 2001 - Present

      Serving as a Sr. Principal Consultant focusing on Oracle TechnologiesOracle Systems SpecialistsDuties/Responsibilities: • Designed and implemented Ad-Hoc reporting capability using Business Intelligence (BI) tools such as Oracle Discoverer Administrator.• Created End-User Layer (EUL) to support Oracle Discoverer Workbook.• Implemented Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) using Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) in the development and test environment to prove the feasibility of OBIEE within the PBS Systems Environment.• Designed Dash-board, Balance Scorecard to measure the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for the Rent/Lease Billing Systems.• Integration of various stove-piped systems into an Oracle Database, • Designed the Logical Data Model (LDM) and Physical Data Model (PDM) using Oracle Designer for data modeling. Also designed the data synchronization between OLTP system and OLAP system. • Applied de-normalization, data modeling standards using ERWin and Designer 9i. Wrote Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) using Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB).• Involved in Outline modifications, optimization, building cubes, creation of batch scripts, scheduling runs, developing report scripts and calc scripts. • Analyzed the Lease / Rent data coming to Cubes.• Created Calc Scripts for calculating databases/subsets beyond the outline calculations and needing complex calculations.• Involved in communicating and helping the developers to understand the data structure and the cube multi dimensional data structure.• Involved in creating table spaces, tables, stored procedures, triggers, indexes, user defined data types etc. • Creating SQL scripts to automate most of the repeating tasks such as backup, recovery, import/export, SQL load, creation of synonyms, tables, indexes, and other objects. • Writing and tuning complex PL/SQL queries to create flat files used for data warehousing data loading.

    • eDiscovery Clearwell Consultant
      • Mar 2011 - Dec 2015

      Clearwell support for 3 letter federal agency (confidential) – downtown Washington DC• Configured following as a source for data collection in clearwellSharepoint,MS-Exchange,Enterprise Vault (EV),Fileshare,PST / OST Files• Manage Legal Hold notices including immediate and scheduled delivery, reminders, escalation, tracking, reporting, releasing, archiving (to reuse the legal hold license), and confirmations.• Used Identification and Collection (IC)• Configured Interactive data map functionality to map custodians to data sources, identifying potential sources of data, creating connections to sources, searching and browsing data by group, custodian or data type.• Integration with EV Direct Collector, EV Collection Filters and preserving in EV.• Used on-site collector, metadata filters, keyword filters, collection filters for collecting data• Performed preprocessing to setup and perform discovery on data, configuring pre-processing options and custodian assignments.• Performed processing to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR), applying processing settings, exceptions, jobs, troubleshooting, reporting and de-duplication.• Batch Processing• Load File Import, Load File Configurator• Performed Analysis on search results such as discussion thread, derived messages; find similar, near-duplicate identification.• Review concept searches, creating tags, managing tag lists, managing folder lists, perform bulk tagging operations, performing redaction, auto redaction, smart sampling, smart tagging and review reporting• Performed production and export to native and image-based productions, bates sampling, integrated production folders, export and production management, metadata exports, native-only exports, production export• Create new cases, case analytics, lifecycle reporting, audit trail reporting and activity reporting• Performed system management to troubleshoot the ediscovery platform using the logs feature and other system support features.

    • Data Warehouse Consultant
      • Jan 2001 - Present

      Oracle Data Warehouse Consultant (April 1996 – August 1997)As a Data Warehouse Consultant with MITRE (April 1996 - August 1997), he worked on various phases of the projects. He has performed analysis and design to support the total requirements and cross-functional interfaces of the Data Warehouse from Oracle Financial and created Logical and Physical Models via E-R and Data Schema Diagrams. STAR SCHEMA / De-Normalization concepts were used to implement the physical database. He was responsible for defining the storage parameters for objects like Indexes, Tables and Snapshots. He was the Administrator for Designer 2000 and he installed Designer / 2000 on Client PC and created a REPOSITORY on the Server. He has used Designer 2000 to maintain all changes to the system and generating appropriate DDL for appropriate users. He has done lot of optimization / tuning to speed up the Query for on-line users. I have suggested migrating to Oracle 7.3 to implement Partition View capability of Oracle 7.3 to speed up the queries. He has used Designer 2000 to generate HTML pages for Internet to perform dynamic query against oracle database.

    • Oracle CASE Consultant
      • Jan 2001 - Present

      Oracle CASE Consultant – Oracle Corporation Dec 94 – April 96As a Oracle Case Consultant / DBA with Oracle Corporation (December 1994 - April 1996), he performed analysis and design of Home Shopping via Interactive TV using Oracle*Case. He installed Oracle Designer 2000 on a Client and migrated the Repository from Oracle Case 5.0 to Designer 2000 Release 1.1. As a DBA, he was responsible for creating and maintaining Oracle Snapshots, package procedures, stored procedures, database triggers and role definitions. He also tuned the applications / Database / SQL Statements to speed up the Query for on-line users. As a designer I used the super-type and sub-type modeling techniques. He managed Clearcase tool for creating different “VOB” objects and using it as a Configuration Management tool.

    • Systems Architect for JTAV (Joint Total Asset Visibility)
      • Jan 2001 - Sep 2007

      CSC Aug 97 – Oct 01Oracle DBA / Systems Architect / Data ArchitectFor more information visit http://www.sirc.net/jtavDuties/Responsibilities: He was responsible for all technical aspects of the project, including technical design and the quality of technical implementation and for providing technical assistance and direction to the project team regarding specifications design issues, development guidelines and testing. I have designed and implemented the data warehouse for the Joint Total Asset Visibility (JTAV) and Joint Personnel Asset Visibility (JPAV) task. I was responsible for forcing the J2EE standards (JSP, Servlets, and EJB) using object-oriented technology. Also serve as Chief Oracle DBA for Oracle 8i (8.1.7) to support the JTAV, JPAV, IDE and IRS Data warehouse. He has suggested and implemented the prototype of the Web-Enabled 3-tier Object Oriented Architecture for the JTAV, using JAVA as the language and applying concept of Java Server Pages (JSP), Servlets, and Java Beans.

    • Business Intelligence Technical Lead
      • Jan 2001 - Sep 2004

      US ARMY Combat Readiness Center (USACRC) Technical Lead• Designed the decision support using Oracle 10g environment including Oracle Discoverer, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Database 10g, and Oracle Single-Sign-on (SSO). Implemented 3-Tier Architecture to support the USACRC Decision Support System• Defined requirements and complete redesigned ETL strategies for Group Operational Passenger System of Department of Transportation (GTN21)• Identified business rules of source data• Identified metadata and designed metadata repositories• Analyzed source feed and sampled the source data files (fixed length flat files)• Installed and configured OWB9i / 10g• Designed SDS (Staging data store) repositories• Developed Data Acquisition (ETL) strategies • Developed customized transformations for complex conditional mandatory fields using PL/SQL• Installed and configured Discoverer 4i administration and Discoverer desktop4i• Configured 9iAS within Discoverer plus4i and Discoverer viewer4i• Developed EUL and Business Area for detail reports and summary reports• Created Materialized views to support summary reports and ad-hoc reports• Defined hierarchies for OLAP reports• Created summary analysis reports by ranking and year for ODS, DW and ODS vs. DW• Created detail inventory and stock annual analysis reports for ODS, DW and ODS vs. DW• Researched Oracle warehouse builder, Oracle enterprise manager and Oracle workflow integration• Supported Oracle Portal and Oracle Discoverer integration

    • eDiscovery for Biosurveillance at DHS
      • Dec 2007 - Dec 2013

      Providing on-site support to the DHS Bio-Surveillance team to use the appropriate technology to speed-up the information retrieval in almost real-time. The system is a hybrid between a document management and BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE. The system collects roughly unstructured 5000 documents per day. I have been able to convert the documents into structured environment using Natural Language Processing (ATTENSITY). Based on that, we are able to perform BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE functionality to predict and do trend analysis on the Bio-events happening around the world. I have been very successful in implementing Oracle Technology such as Oracle APEX, Oracle Thesaurus, Oracle TEXT, Oracle Middleware, ATTENSITY (Natural Language Parser), Oracle Spatial Data.I implemented VMWare and ESX Server to create a cloud computing environment for running the Biosurveillance system.By this methodology, our client are able to re-allocate servers, memory, and CPU on-the-fly.Architect the solution for Storage Area Network using Dell Equallogic / EMC Clarion.To make the database Highly-Available,I successfully installed and configured Real Application Cluster (RAC), DataGuard, Automatic Storage Management (ASM) for the Oracle Database.Also implemented Oracle Mapviewer in conjunction with Google Maps and Bing Maps. Successfully retrieved spatial data from Oracle database and displayed it on the map using Oracle Mapviewer. Integrated Business Intelligence data with Oracle Mapviewer to help Biosurveillance Analysts detect and predict the Bio-events.

    • Oracle Consultant
      • 2008 - 2009

    • Database Engineer
      • 2007 - 2008

    • Oracle Programmer
      • 1993 - 1995

Education

  • George Mason University
    Master's degree, Software Systems Engineering (SWSE)
    1992 - 1994
  • M.S. University
    Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Science
    1987 - 1989

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