Lead Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) / Lead UNIX System Engineer with 16 years' experience - 12 years’ support, administration and consultancy experience in UNIX and Oracle, 4 years’ application development experience in UNIX/Oracle as well as COBOL/Proprietary Systems

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) via Sylvan Prometric (Regn. No SP2051329) in all current Oracle DBA streams - Oracle 7.3 (July '99), Oracle 8.0 (Dec '98) and Oracle 8i (April 2000)

Highly skilled and experienced in providing support, administration, consultancy, tech-team leading and training in various versions of ORACLE and UNIX. Identify, assess, procure and implement new technologies and computing infrastructure, including system management and bench marking tools

Consistent record of success while working in various large organizations in the Middle / Far East and India; constantly sought out for problem solving and consultancy on a wide variety of technical subjects on account of breadth and depth of knowledge and experience

Excellent in both written and spoken communication; Routinely produce and update technical documentation and project implementation plans; Able to present complex technical concepts and problems in easily understandable terms

Paper and articles online here

Also actively participate in Oracle Applications and DBA Listservs serving the Oracle technical community

Responsible team leader and creative self-starter always striving for technical and professional excellence; easy going personality and ability to perform under pressure with strong crisis management experience; provide leadership, mentoring and training of technical staff

Database Administration of Oracle 8i (8.1.5), 8.0.6, 7.3.4 (and older versions) on a variety of UNIX and NT platforms with skills certified via the Oracle Certification Program

System administration and user/application support in AIX 4.3/4.2 on IBM RS/6000 and IBM SP 604e/Thin nodes; Sun Solaris 2.7/2.6 on Sparc Servers; HP-UX 10.x on HP9000 servers and older UNIX variants

System and Database Monitoring tools such as HP OpenView and Operation Centre, Oracle Enterprise Manager and DB-Patrol as well as a plethora of home grown Korn/C shell scripts and SQL*Forms based utilities; Benchmarking tools such as Benchmark Factory ’95 and Knowledge bases such as RevealNet's Oracle KBs

Application development using SQL*Forms 3 and 2, SQL*Menu 5 and 4, SQL*ReportWriter, PL/SQL, Pro*C, Pro*COBOL and Pro*Fortran as well as plain COBOL, Fortran and ‘C’; Good working knowledge of Developer/2000, MS-Access, PowerBuilder and other ODBC based tools; basic knowledge of Java and Java IDEs

Middleware and other tools - enterprise backup systems such as Legato Networker and IBM ADSM, X-Terminal emulators (X-Vision, eXodus), plotting software such as Spider, Zeh; Security tools such as Digital’s SCM (Security Control Manager);

Excellent working knowledge of Windows NT Server 4.0, NT Workstation 4 and VAX VMS

Good working knowledge of Web servers - Netscape Enterprise Server 3, Oracle Web Server 3.0 and WebDB 2.1

Working knowledge of older versions of Sybase, Ingres, Informix and associated front-end tools

Completed "Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management" in April 1996

Bachelors’ Degree (BS) with Honours in Electronics and Communication Engineering, completed in 1984 from the Anna University of Technology, Madras, India

On assignment to various clients in the Bay Area as Consultant/DBA - Email for details

Initially as a Senior DBA/Systems Engineer and currently as Service Manager/Team Leader for Oracle and Technical Services, I provide a lead role in Oracle database administration and UNIX System Administration to a Petro-technical and non-technical user community of about 3000 users using about 120 UNIX (AIX/HP-UX/Solaris) servers and workstations. Service Management responsibilities include tech-team leading and supervision (3 subordinates), setting and maintaining service levels via pro-active action as well as ongoing support, assist IT management in drawing up and implementing quarterly plans and targets, provide charge-back figures, capacity planning and asset usage, maintain service documentation, plan staff training, provide staff evaluation, etc. This is done using accepted IT Service Delivery Standards based on ITIL (see http://www.itil.co.uk)

Perform NFS server and Workstation consolidation by introduction of IBM SP High and Thin nodes

Leads, train, motivate and mentor System Engineers and junior Database Administrators

Advise Business Analysts and guide Application Developers in UNIX, Oracle and development tools

Developed Oracle DBA Handbook, Oracle Developer Guidelines and SP System Documentation

Effectively use the Internet/Intranet for information retrieval and sharing via discussion groups

Provided System Administration and Oracle DBA skills to a general/technical community of about 2500 users using a combination of 50 AIX/HP-UX/Solaris Servers and Workstations

Established, oversaw and guided a UNIX/Oracle Helpdesk of 3 individuals; provided 2^nd level support

Developed a suite of Korn/C shell scripts for reporting System performance, availability and utilization

Developed and ran regular UNIX/Oracle Training sessions and Clinics for both developers and users

Produced Oracle development standards and later led a team of 3 developers in this project

Provided support, consultancy and training in UNIX and Oracle to both internal and external customers

Grew through the ranks from Systems Specialist to Senior Systems Consultant

Last headed a Central database group providing specialist support to 22 field offices nationwide

Lead member of central benchmarking and technical specialist group for UNIX and Oracle systems

Member of Software Quality Assurance, testing and release group for UNIX and RDBMS applications

Established initial market base for Wipro hardware and software in Malaysia

Developed applications using ORACLE/UNIFY and COBOL; developed COBOL-RDBMS interfaces

Grew through the ranks from Customer Support Executive to Customer Support Specialist

IBM SP Planning and Administration - Sep 1997, Brunei

Windows NT 4.0 Core and Administration - Oct 1997, Brunei

IT Service Management and Delivery (via Pink Elephant, UK), Apr 1996, Brunei

ORBITEL (Telephone Exchange Interface) Training, Luton UK, April 1993

Oracle VAR Training, Cyprus, February 1992

AIX Basic and Advanced Training, Sultanate of Oman, 1991

UNIX/Basic Oracle Training, Wipro, India, 1984, 1989

Willing to perform limited travel (upto 10%)

References from past and present employers available on request