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RAJA SHEKAR
Email: rajas2705@gmail.com Oracle Apps11i DBA

Career Objective

Seeking assignments in Oracle Apps DBA with a technology-driven organization of reputing

& challenging environment that encourages continues learning Creativity and provides
exposure to new ideas and simulates personal and professional growth.

Professional Summary

 A competent professional with an overall experience of 3.6 years in Oracle Applications

DBA / Oracle DBA.
 Expert in Administration of Oracle Applications ERP systems
 Excellent working skills with installation, Cloning, maintaining concurrent manager
processes, Patching, User management issues and space management issues related to Oracle
Applications.
 Experienced in supporting and managing multiple Production, Staging, Development and test
instances and Oracle Applications environments of varied complexity.
 Very good in communicating to the clients and end users from offshore.
 Good knowledge in AD utilities and cloning.
 Excellent skills in database administration, backup and recovery activities.
 Excellent remote systems support and troubleshooting capabilities.

Professional Experience

 Working as an Oracle Apps DBA for Satyam Computer Services Limited, from April 2007 to
till date.

Education Profile

 Bachlor of Computer science from Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Technical Skills

Platforms HP-UX, Linux AS 3.0/4.0, Windows

Database Oracle 10g/9i
ERP Applications Oracle Applications (11.5.9, 11.5.10)
Languages SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, Java
GUI TOAD
Tools & Utilities OAM, SQL Loader, EXPORT/IMPORT
Career Profile

Project#1:

Client INVACARE, USA

Role Oracle Apps DBA
Organization Satyam Computer Services Ltd
Environment Oracle Applications 11.5.10.2
Duration August 2007 to March 2008 And April 2010 to Till date

Client Profile:

Invacare is the global leader in the $6-billion home medical product industry. The company
conducts business in more than 80 countries around the world and has the largest distribution
network in the industry. The company's world headquarters are in Elyria, Ohio, located
outside of Cleveland; the European headquarters are in Tours, France.

My Responsibilities

As APPS DBA:

 Installation of Oracle Applications 11i through rapidwiz.

 Cloning and maintenance of application system and database.
 Patching the Application System. (minipacks, one-offs)
 Configuration of application system through key configuration files.
 Troubleshooting the Application System, which includes troubleshooting and
regenerating application components and file system (forms, reports, menus, and jar
files), relinking executables.
 Worked with various Oracle Applications Utilities like AD Administration, AD
Controller, Autoconfig, AD Merge Patch, AD Relink, AD Splice, Rapid Install,
FNDCPASS, f60gen, CONCSUB etc.
 Monitoring the Application System with Oracle Applications Manager (OAM).
 Reduced the timelines of patching using features like defaults file and merge patch.
 Managing passwords of apps, Product passwords and custom schema
passwords
 Troubleshooted several user issues like apps login issues, dbc file issues, Yellow bar
issue and other connectivity issues.
 Creating and maintaining users (DB as well as Application)
 Create and maintain responsibilities, request groups, menus, and functions
 Involved in Menu creations, Forms personalization and defining forms security
 Manage Discoverer Security (linked with Applications users and Responsibilities)
 Managing the concurrent managers and resolving the issues related to concurrent
manager.
 Created different custom managers and maintained the services
 Working on Single-Signon application servers
  Used Adadmin to generate jar files, compile forms and performing maintain mrc.
 Applied patches in 11.5.10 using hotpatch option.
 Generated dbc file to trouble shooting oam connectivity
 Involved in automation of security management activities
 Security mechanisms used in applications for different modules like CRM,PO,HRMS,INV

As Oracle DBA:

 Handled 24*7 Production and Development Databases.

 Installation and Configuration of Oracle Database 9i and 8i on Linux.
 Database Creation & Maintenance.
 Implemented various Database Backup Strategies like export backups, hot and cold
backups.
 Performance Monitoring through STATSPACK.
 Performed media recovery when a data file was lost.
 Managed tablespaces and other database objects
 Regular database activities, backups monitoring, issues resolving.
 Resolved issues related to 9i listener
 Monitoring tablespace size, resizing tablespace, relocating data files for better
I/O.
 Monitoring alert log and trace files.
 Performed number of dev, test and stage cloning from PROD databases.

Project #2:

Client TUI (Working for Eaton Steel Project)

Role Oracle Apps DBA
Organization Satyam Computer Services Ltd
Environment Oracle Applications 11.5.9 on Linux 3.0
Duration May 2008 to March 2010

Client Profile:

TUI has Business Operations across the Europe and they are implemented ERP for Financial
and Manufacturing modules. Implemented to fulfill the functions of a mid office system and
to provide necessary interfaces to the back office system Oracle Applications. Tourist Union
International has its own flights and ship containers. This TUI provides the following
services like flights, hotels, insurance, and rental cars.

My Responsibilities:

As APPS DBA:

 Involved in installation of Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, configuring and maintenance of

oracle 11i Applications, Cloning, maintaining concurrent manager processes, patching space
management issues and user management issues related to Oracle Applications
 Experienced in Single-node & Multi-node installation on linux platform.
  Well versed in Oracle Applications Utilities like adadmin, adctrl, ad splice, ad patch,
adconfig, merge patch, adrelink
 Monitoring Concurrent Manager & its operations like starting, stopping the concurrent
managers & Troubleshooting problems, resolved the view log/out files issues of concurrent
requests.
 Validating & Recreating grants & synonyms on Apps schema, Performed jar
file/forms generation as a post patch step, relinking the Oracle apps programs.
 Managing passwords of apps, product passwords, user passwords
 Monitoring the Application System with Oracle Applications Manager (OAM).
 Done patch analysis, applied patches (one-off, mini -packs) and checked the patch impact.
Managing patch history till go-live.
 Observed patch impact and applying Applications patches including pre-requisites.
 Troubleshooting several worker issues while patching.
 Creation of application user accounts and assigning the responsibilities.
 Helping users while initial setup of application launch and resolved db Connectivity issues,
Resolving yellow bar issue for users.
 Cloning the oracle apps instances (scheduled or on-demand) from prod to test using
rapid cloning process.
 Managing backups of the apps instances & maintaining daily hot backups of database of
dev/test and involved in recovery of database

As Oracle DBA:

 Installing Oracle server.

 Creation of new databases.
 Automated several processes like daily logical backup and physical backup.
 Once the requirement is given by development team, I will create objects with proper storage
and table spaces.
 Creation and maintenance of other database objects like views, synonyms, sequences, database
link.
 Controlling and monitoring the user access to the database.
 Monitoring weekly/daily backups.
 Making table spaces available to users, adding data files to the table spaces and resizing of data
files whenever the table spaces false the below the threshold.
 Daily monitoring the database alert log files & trace files for any error messages, periodic
checking table spaces.
 Basic level of tuning SQL Statements.
 Documenting the database setup & updating the document whenever there is a change in the
database structure, backup strategy etc.
 Participate in a team to maintain & support for multiple oracle databases
and high availability (24 X 7) environment.
 Monitoring Concurrent Manager & Troubleshooting problems, resolved the
view log/out files issues of concurrent requests.
 Configuring listeners and tnsnames.ora files.
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