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• Completed DRP project for TriState• Working on migrating Oracle Financials and HR system to Oracle Cloud• Also, working on implementing PPM tool - Work Front for TriState

Washington, Dc, Us

• Successfully led the Supplier Awards Management (SAM) cleanup project. Project involved working with 18 government agencies to cleanup supplier data. Cleanup efforts included linking SAM data to Oracle Federal Financials and removing duplicate suppliers from the system. The project was firm fixed price and included delivering documents like Requirements Document, Functional and Technical Specifications Document, Test Scripts, User Acceptance Test Results and Agency Test plans. • Currently leading R12 upgrade project from 12.2.1 to 12.2.2.• Primary interface for OBIEE project implementation for contractor’s scope of work. • Work with executive management at DOI to prioritize critical projects and enhancements; provide regular status reports to the business and executive leadership. • Working with Department of Interior and responsible for Operations and Maintenance (O&M) for Oracle Federal Financials (Tier 2 support). Managing team of 20 developers, DBAs and functional resources. Responsible for managing customer expectations, customer issues, enhancement requests, meeting SLAs, reviewing and approving solution design, system stabilization, and process improvements.

Denver, Co, Us

• Implemented Identity Management system – Dell One Identity Management Suite for the State of Colorado. Successfully implemented the POC project for one agency and obtained approval to implement in 17 other agencies.• The successful implementation of this project enabled the automation of resource management. It used to take 7-10 business days and a lot of manual effort to onboard/offboard a resource, but now can be complete immediately with minimal manual intervention.

Westminster, Co, Us

• As Program Manager worked as primary interface with the customers to understand their business and challenges, offer solutions and manage communication with executive management on project status, project prioritization and product roadmap. • Implemented Ecommerce & Recurring Billing (Subscription) system for six of Trimble’s newly acquired companies within construction division. The project involved requirements gathering from product managers from these newly acquired companies and document must have features and nice to have features in new system, evaluate vendors and customization requirements for each vendor, select vendor and implement the new Ecommerce system. • Managed project to move mission critical applications from Virginia data center to AWS, resulting in flawless execution, zero problems, and no interruption in service to customers; project included building infrastructure at new co-hosted data center, upgrading Oracle database from 9i to 11g, migrating data and application, and implementing new monitoring tools / processes and trigger alarms to resolve problems proactively.• Multiple solutions offered and successfully implemented to improve SLA and decrease costs including, but not limited to: Implemented Oracle Data Guard instead of Share plex for Oracle Replication; Replaced the physical Sun servers with virtual servers, configured virtual servers at AWS; Implemented Grid control monitoring for Oracle databases and offered Grid control monitoring as a service to customers; multi data center redundancy.• Rebuilt Dev/Ops - data management team into high performing, global team, and created team of DBA to support Oracle, SQL*Server, MySQL, and Mongo DB through ongoing coaching and mentoring. Worked on DBA tasks like setting up RMAN backup, setting Grid control monitoring, setting up physical Data Guard and supported testing of disaster recovery.

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Re-implemented Oracle E-Business Suite 12.0.6 in place of upgrading from 11.0.3 by working with 3rd-party consultants to map process and prepare plan, as well as working with on- and off-shore resources for delivery.• Reviewed 11i functionality and mapped to new R12 functionality; prioritized new features to implement, and migrated required customizations and interfaces, resulting in reduced customization, cleansing of old / non-used data, less downtime for migration, and consolidation of operating units.

• Executed several database upgrades from 7.3 to 11g and Oracle Application upgrades from 10.7 Character to 11i• Increased productivity of sales force 19.8%, decreased CPU utilization 50%, and increased customer satisfaction 25% by stabilizing mission critical systems and conducting regular meetings to understand customer requirements and challenges.• Decreased service interruptions and service degradation 40% in 1 year by implementing proactive monitoring, alerts and process to take actions on alerts.• Executed multiple technical projects on time and within budget, including critical system upgrades, server migrations, cloning, multi-org implementation, chart of accounts conversion, implementation of cluster file system (shared APPL_TOP), and establishment of disaster-recovery measures.• Designed creative disaster recovery plan, eliminating all problems for backing up large databases, eliminating performance degradation of production system during backup window, and improving SLA on database refreshes by 70%.• Reduced storage costs ~$500K by archiving data in production databases, decreasing time to backup and improving end-user performance; presented paper on archiving at OAUG conference (2002).• Ensured compliance with Sarbanes Oxley and Payment Card Industry (PCI) by analyzing and improving security, backup, and recovery procedures.• Developed procedure to collect custom performance metrics for 80+ production Oracle databases and 200+ production SQL server databases, including ERP applications, Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft, Documentum, custom applications built internally, and other 3rd-party systems.

Mba, Technology Management

Mca (Masters In Computers), Computer Applications

Bs, Mathematics