• Recruiting, building and managing teams across 3 time zones• Driving and aligning team towards organizational goals using a mix of communication, technology, vision and leadership• Resource consolidation during multiple acquisitions• Vendor negotiations• Crisis management during severe outages due to issues in data centers, hardware failures and human error• 24x7 support and 99.9% uptime SLA• Instrumental in creating policies, procedures and setting up key performance indicators (KPIs)• Periodic updates to C-level and senior management regarding database initiatives, security initiatives the ROI and the risks associated• Key role in implementing SIEM (LogRhythm), DLP (Websense) and WAF (Imperva)• Managing operating expense budget of $1.0M+• Influenced and spearheading initiative to move licensed database infrastructure (Oracle) to open source (Postgres) to save $750,000 in Opex cost.• Evaluating and delivering proof of concept (POC) of new products and customizing them for implementation• Evaluating outsource partners and working with them to deliver projects on time and within budget• Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, PCI compliance, SOX compliance and SOX audits• Automation of day-to-day repetitive jobs to save man hours• Data encryption, virtual private databases and access policies• Architecting and rolling out policies and procedures around change control processes. Transforming and steering change control to a level with 0 downtime

Oracle and MySQL DBAOffshore team and remote database management, remote failover sites, 24x7 support, high available databases, stress testing and tuning, planning, setting up and customizing backend systems from scratch, capacity planning, continuous design improvements, evaluating and deciding for most cost effective oracle flavors, delivering proof of concept of new products and versions, presentations to different teams for new features and new projects, delivering on tight service level agreements, database migrations and upgrades, shell scripting and proactive monitoring.Extensive deployment and support on MyISAM, InnoDB, NDBCLUSTER and NDB engines. High availability clustered and replicated MySQL setups.

Role: Lead DBA• Working as a lead DBA and representing my team in India • Taking care of 11i Development environments and performing routine jobs of Apps DBA• Cloning, adadmin, adpatch, supporting developers are some of the routine jobs• Physical and logical standby database management• Upgrade of oracle binaries to new versions• Setup system to support development teams in different time zones (UK, Netherlands and USA). Planned and implemented efficient paging system (mainly backend shell scripts) to page the appropriate team as per the SLA• Weekly status and issues/resolutions meeting to track progress of tickets and projects

Routine DBA tasks

Representing Indusa as a DBA consultant, worked on the following projects:• IT Design USA, Cupertino, USA - Apr 00 to Mar 01• Autodaq.com, San Mateo, USA - Nov 99 to Mar 00• Deptt of Fire and Building Services, Indianapolis, USA - Jun 99 to Nov 99• Deptt Of Environmental Management, Indianapolis, USA - Apr 99 to June 99

Role: System Analyst/Team Lead• Manage in-house development and support the users and system• Important projects lead: Tractor Dispatch and Sales, On-Line Inventory Management System, Purchase Order System and Inter Division/Companies transfer system• Technical lead for multiple sites spread over 40miles and 15 member team• Managing and integrating out sourced development work• PTL is a manufacturing company and people were reluctant to admit the importance of IT. With successful and timely implementation of projects, user training and extensive demo programs, lead the IT division and made it the backbone of a manufacturing company. By end of 1998, PTL had a desktop on each of the admin member desk besides a fully computerized shop floor