CHAITANYA

Sr. DBA

E-Mail: benakala@sreeinfotech.com
Mobile: 972-332-3471*100,108

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• Over all 10+ years of IT experience as an Oracle Database Administrator providing 24/7 production and
development support of Oracle 12C, 11g RAC,10g RAC, 9i, 8i, 7.x.
• Proficient in Database Administration activities such as installation, database creation, sizing, backup
and recovery, performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Experience in query optimization, cloning, patches, up gradation, migration, troubleshooting, TAR
support, space management and UNIX Shell Scripting.
• Experience with Partitioning.
• Experience with oracle Golden gate 10g,11g and 12c.
• Excellent experience as an Oracle DBA in various platforms such as Sun Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Red Hat
Linux, Windows etc.
• Plan, install, configure and perform upgrades of Oracle software on various platforms.
• Implementation of high availability solutions with Oracle 10g RAC, Physical and Logical Standby
database (Data Guard), Materialized views, VCS, Streams Replication, Golden Gate.
• Experience in database administration of OLTP and Data Warehousing applications.
• Experience with Systems Analysis, Design and Data Modeling.
• Experience with logical design and physical design.
• Backup and recovery with RMAN.
• Experience with big memory machines like oracle M6.
• Recovery of Databases (Recovering from Media failure, Recovering Tables dropped accidentally,
recovering data files, Recovering from Block Corruption etc.).
• Excellence in Performance Tuning using STATSPACK, TKPROF, EXPLAIN PLAN, SQL TRACE,
AWR, ADDM.
• Proactive monitoring, identifying areas that need to be improved in the application and database using
AWR, ADDM.
• Used ODI (Oracle Data Integrator) ELT tool to create Dataware Housing OLAP model.
• Install, configure and monitoring of OEM Grid Control.
• Experience with writing PL/SQL Packages, Stored Procedures, Functions and Database Triggers.
• Proficient in SQL, PL/SQL Programming, Shell Scripting and analyzed Batch programs.
• Worked on 4 nodes Linux RAC with ASM.
• Expert experience in Hot and Cold Backup and Recovery, cloning of databases using RMAN, Veritas
Net Backup and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
• Used Data Pump (expdp, impdp) to take backup at database level or tablespace level and also to
accomplish table level and full database de-fragmentation.
• Proficient in using various database Utilities like EXPORT/IMPORT, Data pump, TOAD.
• Experience in Extracting, Transforming and Loading (ETL) data using SQL loader, External Tables and
PL/SQL.
• Experience with oracle ERP and interfacing with Oracle ERP.
• Automated many common tasks using crontab including Backups, exports and imports, archiving old
records and verification of such processes.
• Worked on OLTP/DSS database systems, implementing and managing Large Oracle databases (VLDB).
• Experience with RAT (Real Application Testing).
• Expertise on upgrading and patching of CRS, ASM and Oracle RDBMS.
• Enabled high-performance replication and data integration for Oracle® 10g, 11g databases with
SharePlex.
• Good Knowledge of SQL Server.
• Worked on different types of storage structures (SAN/NAS).
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, a very good team player and also has the ability to work
independently when needed and a quick learner of new technologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems: UNIX (Sun Solaris 8, 9,10,11/HP-UX 10.x,11.x/IBM AIX 5.1,5.2,5.3,6.1), RHEL 3.x,
4.x,5.x, 6.x, SLES 9,10,11 and Windows NT/2000/2003
Relational Databases: Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g RAC, Oracle 11g RAC, Oracle 12C, EXADATA,
SQL Server, TERADATA, PostgreSQL
Data Modeling Tool: ERWIN, Designer 9i
Tuning Tools: SQL TRACE, TKPROF, EXPLAIN PLAN, STATSPAK, AWR, ADDM
Tools and Utilities: RMAN, Import / Export, Data Pump, SQL*Loader, ASM, TOAD
ETL Tools: Informatica10, DataStage , ODI 11g and 12C ( Oracle Data Integrator )
Querying/Reporting: PL/SQL, SQL, Pl/PgSQL
Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, JAVA, VB, UNIX Shell Scripting, Pl/PgSQL.
Administration Tool: Oracle Enterprise Manager, SQL Navigator, BMC Patrol, Spotlight, Service Now,
Remedy
Protocols: FTP, SFTP, SSH, Telnet, TCP/IP
Other: EMC, Veritas NetBackup, IBM TSM, TAM, NetApp, Golden gate, Oracle M6, ServiceNow(SNOW),
Remedy, AWS RDS, Delphix, Autosys, Puppet, Flyway, Jenkins, AWS DMS, AWS EC2, Cloud Watch, GIT,
OEM 13C.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science. Jun 2004 – Jul 2008

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FannieMae, Reston, VA Jan 2017 – Present

Senior Oracle DBA & Postgresql Cloud DBA

Responsibilities:
 Troubleshot and resolved web application issues resulting from customers and other departments with a
high success rate.
 Worked with clients to analyze computing and network needs and implemented appropriate solutions
with every department.
 Experience in performance monitoring/tuning/troubleshooting - Oracle database services with
EXPLAIN PLAN, TKPROF, STATSPACK, AWR, ASH and SQL TRACE.
 Experience in Installation, configuration and maintenance of Physical, Logical, Active standby
databases supported by Data guard on Oracle 10g, and 11g RAC for disaster recovery purposes.
 Generated ASH, ADDM and AWR Reports using OEM from Oracle 10g, 11g and 12c database and
analyzed the reports for better performance, time consuming SQL queries, tablespace growth, and
database availability.
 Implemented database re-organizations as required to improved performance and ensure maximum
up-time of the database.
 Launched and maintained EC2 and RDS instances in AWS.
 Created S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files, sometimes which are required to serve static
content for a web application.
 Worked on the databases of the Amazon RDS and carried out functionalities for creating instances as
per the requirements.
 Used security groups, network ACL’s, internet gateways and route tables to ensure a secure zone for
organization in AWS public cloud.
 Created snapshots to take backups of the volumes and also images to store launch configurations of the
EC2 instances.
 Migrated existing data and replicate ongoing changes using AWS DMS .
 Maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers using Cloud Watch service.
 Responsible for performing tasks like Branching, Tagging, and Release Activities on Version Control
Tools like SVN, GIT.
 Created Snapshots, Elastic IPs, EBS Volumes, Security Groups per clients/costumer’s request.
 Planned and implemented high availability solutions such as Real Application Cluster (RAC) in Oracle
11gR2 Grid and 10g on ASM and ACFS file systems.
 Migrated multiple stand-alone databases to RAC databases using Rconfig, RMAN and OEM.
 Migrated single instance databases from NON-ASM to ASM file system to improve performance.
 Expert in Installation of Oracle 10g, 11g and 12c software and created multiple databases including
Plug-able and container databases in oracle 12c.
 Applied PSU on standalone TEST environment using OPatch and same PSU (Grid and RDBMS
Patching) on production cluster using OPatch Auto.
 Replicated data in real time using Oracle Golden Gate and Oracle streams.
 Analyzed, interpreted and troubleshot Golden Gate related issues.
 Designed and implemented different backup strategies like Cold, Hot backup using RMAN with Flash
Recovery Area and Logical Backups with EXPDP/IMPDP.
 Scheduled RMAN backups, purge jobs, Maintenance Jobs using DBMS_JOBS, DBMS_SCHEDULER,
Crontab and OEM.
 Implemented and managed logical backup/recovery with Datapump and Export/Import utilities.
Cloned databases using RMAN and Manually using scripts.
 Implemented Point In Time Recovery on one or more tablespaces to recover lost of a table(s) while
eliminating down time for the database.
 Extensive experience in Upgrading databases from 10g to 11g and 12c using DBUA, Datapump,
Manually.
 Upgraded databases from 12.1 to 12.2 .
 Implemented expdp / impdp from AWS RDS oracle instance to on-prem oracle instance , vice versa.
 Maintenance of Aurora and RDS PostgreSQL databases.
  Experience in upgrading and installing new Aurora and Redshift environments.
 Expertise in performing backups on Aurora and Redshift clusters and individual nodes.
 Expertise in tuning, administering and architecting large scale Aurora and Redshift clusters.
 Expertise in configuring and administering Aurora and Redshift clusters in public cloud environments.
 Migrated schemas from Oracle to Postgres RDS using AWS DMS.
 Triage, troubleshoot and analyse root causes (root cause analysis).

Environments: Oracle 12C, Oracle 11g RAC, PostgreSQL, IBM AIX, HP-UX , Red Hat Linux, Sun
Solaris, AIX, Windows XP, SQL*Plus, SQL*Loader, SQL Developer, Import/Export, Data Pump,
TOAD, ODI, Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Golden Gate, AWS RDS, SQL Workbench, PG Admin, SVN,
GIT, AWS DMS, AWS S3, PostgreSQL, Aurora, Redshift.

IBM, Remote Location July 2015 – Dec 2016

Senior Oracle DBA

Responsibilities:

• Database Administration support (24x7) for large mission critical production databases.
• Database Security Management involving managing Users, Roles and Privileges Expert in
troubleshooting problems. Providing necessary privileges or roles to users as per the requirement.
• Installation, configuration and administration of Oracle 12C, Oracle 11g RAC, 10g RAC, Standby
Databases for High Availability and Disaster Recovery purpose.
• Performed Data guard switch over to check the standby database is in SYNC with production as per the
business requirement and also operated standby database using Data Guard broker.
• Troubleshooting the database performance using Oracle Enterprise Manager, generating the monthly
reports on the database to see how much load has been applied on database constantly.
• Participated in doing schema refresh like taking export of one schema and importing it into another schema
using different ways of utility tools like REMAP_SCHEMA, REMAP_TABLESPACE.
• Extensively used ODI (Oracle Data Integrator) ELT tool to create Dataware Housing OLAP
• model.
• Performance Tuning in Oracle Data Integrator.
• Hands on experience with Data Extraction, Transformation and Data Loading in Data Warehouse
environment.
• Creating variables, sequences, user functions, scenarios, procedures, interfaces and packages in ODI.
• Space management of logical structures (i.e. table spaces, rollback segments) and auditing of users.
• Optimization of SQL queries, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures, Functions, Database Triggers and Shell
scripting and worked with the users to meet business requirements.
• Good knowledge on troubleshooting Golden Gate whenever Extract or Replicate process get abended.
• Implemented both unidirectional replication as well as bi-directional replicate using Golden Gate.
• Upgraded databases from 10g RAC to 11g RAC and 11g RAC to 12C RAC.
• Upgraded production databases from 10g to 11g without downtime using Golden Gate replication.
• Working with High transaction databases (OLAP) using Golden Gate to replicate the data to source.
• Installing and configuration of Golden Gate Veridata on production, development and testing.
• Responsible for automation of startup, shutdown of database without the involvement of DBA to start the
database manually. Effective knowledge of working with System Administrator’s.
• Administration, Optimization, Monitoring, Tuning of Oracle Databases.
• Knowledge of storage technologies like SAN, NAS whenever we have a disk outage or mount point issues
due to database growth. Raising a request to SAN or NAS to request for additional storage.
• Table Space management, Database Refreshes, and User Administration. Adding additional data file to
table space whenever there is required and also involved in shrinking of table space size.
• Involved in scheduling file system backup using Net backup or FDR/Upstream.
• Proficient in using Oracle utilities i.e. export/import, Data Pump, Flash Back Recovery, SQL Loader, Data
Guard, ASM and OEM Grid Control.
• Ability to restore and recover databases from file system backup in order to bring it to the original state
as per the business or user requirement. I have done Point in time Recovery using RMAN.
• Experience in working with Oracle support to resolve the issues quickly as per the business requirements.
• Applying latest versions of database patches to minimize the bug issues and maintaining security.
• Performed upgrade of ODI 11g to ODI 12c.

Environments: Oracle 12C, Oracle 11g RAC, 10g RAC/9i, IBM AIX, HP-UX , Red Hat Linux, Sun
Solaris, AIX, Windows XP, SQL*Plus, SQL*Loader, SQL Developer, Import/Export, Data Pump,
TOAD, ODI, Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Golden Gate.

Core Logic, Redwood City, CA Dec 2011 – Jun 2015

Senior Oracle DBA

Responsibilities:

• 24 X 7 Production database administration, support and monitoring to ensure a proactive problem

recognition and resolution of database issues.
• Performed database cloning to setup test and development database.
• Conducting sizing& capacity planning for Oracle databases.
• Provided technical assistance for designing, installation and administrating of Oracle EXADATA.
• Participated in analysis and designing of Oracle Exadata Server for infrastructure and related projects.
• Conducted analysis and feasibility studies for development of Oracle Exadata solutions.
• Experience in deploying and managing of databases in web-based applications.
• Upgrading production and development databases to Oracle 11g.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Oracle 11g RAC.
• Applied security patches to Oracle Databases and Oracle Applications.
• Applied Oracle Applications and database patches.
• Cloned/Refreshed Oracle Databases and Oracle Applications for development and testing.
• Responsible for optimizing the queries and application tuning.
• Perform SQL tuning and assist developers with coding PL/SQL.
• Provided support to Application Database Administrators in designing the database.
• Extracting, Transforming and Loading (ETL) data.
• Installed and Implemented Backup & Recovery procedures.
• Designing the logical and physical database structure.
• Used RMAN for backup and recovery. Performed backup validations using RMAN.
• Implement Hot, Cold and Logical backup plans.
• Involved in taking Backups using Oracle RMAN (Recovery Manager) and TSM (Tivoli Storage
Manager). Customization and development of Korn shell scripts.
• Management of schemas, objects partitioning the tables & indexes.
• Automation of data load using Korn shell scripting and SQL*Loader.
• Responsible for setting and managing user accounts, Granting required privileges to users.
• Defining and Implementation of backup and recovery strategies.
• Installation, configuration and monitoring of Golden Gate on sun solaris with Oracle 11g.
• Monitoring setup for golden gate through heart beat table, lag scripts via crontab and veridata.
• Hands on experience with golden gate log dump utility.
• Perform other regular DBA activities including space management and performance monitoring.
• Optimization and tuning SQL queries using TRACE FILE, TKPROF, EXPLAIN PLAN.
• Continuous monitoring of database performance during peak and non-peak loads using STATSPACK.
• Implemented the replication of data between multiple databases using Streams.
• Involved in process improvement, Oracle Server Installations / Upgrades/Patches, Space Management,
Capacity Planning, Backup & Recovery, Disaster Recovery, Database Performance Tuning, Memory
Tuning, Application Tuning, Security Administration, Data Warehousing, Data Guard, Oracle Advanced
Replication, Real Application Clusters, Oracle Standby.
• Enabled high-performance replication and data integration for Oracle® 10g, 11g databases with
SharePlex.

Environment: PL/SQL, SQL, SQL*Plus, Oracle 11g RAC, 10gRAC , EXADATA, Sun Solaris Unix,
AIX, RHEL, Windows 2008 Server, Windows XP, Streams, BART, TOAD, Data Pump, Informatica,
TSM, OEM(Grid Control), Golden Gate, Shareplex.

Deloitte, Santa Ana, CA Jan 2011 – Dec 2011

Oracle DBA

Responsibilities:

• 24 X 7 production database and application support.

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Oracle 9i, 10g RAC and 11g RAC databases and OEM
Grid control for Testing, Development and Production.
• Converted single instance to RAC
• Added nodes to RAC
• Upgraded Oracle different version from 9.2.0.4 to 10.2.0.4 and 10.2.04 to 11.2.0.2
• Involved in Capacity Planning and Optimal setting of Storage Parameters.
• Performed Database administration activities like user and roles administration, schema management and
checking alert log of all the databases.
• Experience with real application testing (RAT).
• Involved in database cloning, tuning, patching and monitoring
• Performing Backup/Recovery of Oracle databases.
• Implemented RAC and Standby databases for high availability/ disaster recovery purpose.
• Recovery of Database (Recovering from Media Failure, recovering tables dropped accidentally,
recovering data files, Recovering from Block Corruption).
• Developed stored procedures, packages and database triggers.
• Proactive analysis of systems by running AWR, ADDM reports and taking necessary measures.
• Experience in monitoring and tuning system resources associated with the database performance, hit
ratios, I/O, lock and latch contention.
• Create tablespaces, tables and indexes, sizing the tablespaces, allocating default table space for users.
• Creating and dropping of users, granting and revoking permissions to users/roles as and when required.
• Experience with Systems Analysis, Design and Data Modeling.
• Knowledge of writing Automated Scripts in the cron for backups and restoration.
• Used TKPROF, EXPLAIN PLAN, and STATSPACK to improve the performance.
• Monitor CPU usage, I/O contention, memory paging and identify the resource and performance
bottleneck.
• Involved in design and implementation of standby databases (Oracle Data guard).
• Experience in replication using golden gate, materialized views.
• Replication and Extracting data and applying on production using Golden Gate.
• Configured Golden Gate for real-time data warehousing, multiple source databases send data to one
target warehouse database.
• Extracting, Transforming and Loading (ETL) data using SQL loader, External Tables and PL/SQL.
• Writing SQL scripts to monitor Archive log gaps in DR, monitor table space and extent growth.
• Working with Materialized views with Query Rewrite, Bitmapped Indexes, etc.
• Involved in the migration of databases from Windows to Linux
• Automation of Startup, Shutdown on all production and development databases.
• Handling day-to-day activities.

Environment: Oracle 11g RAC, Oracle 10g RAC, 9i, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, RHEL, AIX , RMAN,
ASM,TSM, SQL*Loader, Data Pump, OEM (Grid Control), Golden Gate.

Employment Development Department, Sacramento, CA. Aug 08 - Jan 2011

Oracle DBA

Responsibilities:

• 24x7 database and applications support.

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Oracle 9i, 10g RAC and 11g RAC databases for Testing,
Development and Production.
• Converted single instance to RAC
• Added nodes to RAC
• Upgraded Oracle databases from 9i to 10g, 10g to 11g
• Involved in Database Design with Data Architects.
• Evaluating database products and third party tools for the Project.
• Setup of the database environments for the Dev and QA teams.
• Setup of High Availability of the database for business with RAC.
• Reorganizing Tables and Indexes for improving performance.
• Created the database objects based on the requirements for project requirement.
• Table space analysis, space allocations for tables, rollback segment monitoring and as member of
application development team.
• Implemented complex business rules using database triggers and constraints.
• Adding, dropping users, creating Roles, and Grants based on the Role of the user.
• Planned and implemented database Backup and Recovery procedures.
• Performed backups and recoveries.
• Implemented Bi-directional replication using Golden Gate.
• Implemented Hot and Cold Backup and Recovery, cloning of databases using IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager (TSM).
• Testing of Backup’s and Documenting backup strategies.
• Developed stored procedures, packages and database triggers.
• Involved in design and implementation of standby databases (Oracle Data guard).
• Participate in disaster recovery exercises using Oracle Data Guard technologies including Fail-over and
Switch-over operations.
• Performed Diagnosis & Tuned database and SQL statements as and when required.
• Managing Production as well as Development Instances.
• Identified and provided solutions for poorly written queries.

Environment: Oracle 11g RAC, Oracle 10g RAC, 9i,8i , Sun Solaris, HP-UX, RHEL, RMAN, ASM,
SQL*Loader, Data Pump, Toad, Golden Gate.