Experience

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  Tesco Bengaluru

  • Bengaluru Area, India

  • Systems Engineering Manager

    • May 2009 - Present
    • Bengaluru Area, India

    Management: Managed database team to support numerous mission-critical databases with five nine’s uptime requirement. Managing database administrators on various infrastructure projects improving service level agreements by reducing time to deliver IT solutions to business Conducting:• Performance reviews, goal settings, attracting and retaining the best talent• Interviews and participated in hiring decisions along with HR to retain the best talent in the organization Responsible for managing and mentoring FTE and contract employees, mentoring them to achieve individual aspirational goals. Managed several critical project deliveries in DB upgrades, migrations, Datacenter decommissioning ensured detailed technical plan, thorough testing & timely delivery. Worked on annual budgeting forecast estimating licensing & support spends. Worked with vendor teams to ensure timely payments for their services. Involved in procurement & commissioning of new Exadata hardware in on-prem. Ensured DB migrations are planned well and in timely manner to quickly decommission the old Exadata hardware. Participating in quarterly meetings with Senior Management to discuss technical infrastructure and market recommendations assisting in the formation of the technology roadmap Ensuring adherence to SLA and various KPI’s as prescribed by business for smooth functioning of retail operations Achieved 50% efficiency in consolidation of support roles for various countries with a shared service model.Technical: Ensured all the incidents are reviewed & permanent fixes applied to avoid repetitive issues. Implemented automation for repetitive tasks like housekeeping file systems, DB builds resulting in considerable reduction in ticket counts & consistent DB builds. Devised several scalable High Availability, Disaster recovery solution for all the critical environments.

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  SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES, LTD

  • Bengaluru Area, India

  • Senior Consultant

    • Sep 2006 - May 2009
    • Bengaluru Area, India

    Worked as a DBA consultant at Cisco Systems, Bangalore managing the production and project support. I was part of one of the critical upgrade projects which involved E-Business Suite upgrade along with DB upgrade.

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  Tech Access LLC, Dubai

  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • Senior Consultant - Oracle DBA

    • Jan 2006 - Jul 2006
    • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Worked at the client location Vela International as Senior Consultant and managed all the Oracle DBA activities.

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  Alzahra hospital, Sharjah, UAE

  • Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

  • Senior Oracle Database Administrator

    • Jan 2001 - Jan 2006
    • Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    Worked as Oracle DBA and managed all their databases.

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  The Karnataka Bank Ltd.,

  • Bengaluru Area, India

  • IT Officer

    • Sep 1996 - Jan 2001
    • Bengaluru Area, India

    Worked as IT Officer and helped in implementing Banking software across branches of the Bank. Worked as Oracle DBA and managed Oracle databases.