● Achieved $1M in licensing savings and 40% cost savings by implementing a new cost-effective data tier architecture solution for financial applications.● Designed and implemented a hybrid cloud database HA/DR solution for 90% of the enterprise-wide databases.● Implemented architecture and design strategies for 40% of revenue-generating applications, netting a 30% improvement in performance for 110 TB database ledger production systems.● Automated the compliance process for a broad spectrum of regulatory guidelines, achieving 100% compliance.● Managed a team of 15 engineers and architects responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of a globally distributed network of customer-facing applications. ● Developed and implemented a data management strategic roadmap with an 18-24 month time horizon, resulting in a 20% increase in data quality and a 15% decrease in data storage costs. ● Successfully led a team of engineers and architects in the migration of database applications to the cloud, resulting in a 30% reduction in IT costs.● Improved database performance by 20% through a comprehensive approach that included troubleshooting, performance tuning, storage enhancements, space management, and infrastructure improvements.● Developed and implemented a data-driven strategy that aligned with the business goals of the organization, resulting in a 15% increase in revenue.● Successfully implemented RTO and RPO plans for a variety of complex IT environments, resulting in a 99.9% uptime for mission-critical applications.● Negotiated and managed business relationships and contracts with vendors and third parties.● Implemented a comprehensive data security program that included the use of encryption, access controls, and auditing, resulting in a significant reduction in the risk of data breaches.

● Introduced a series of OKRs goals that resulted in the reduction of $2.5M in licensing costs and a 50% total cost reduction in revenue-generating systems.● Implemented a new data tier architecture using DPaaS solutions that saved ~$425,000.● Cloud Migrations from on-prem to AWS/Azure (Pass and IaaS) environments ● Automated the compliance process for a broad spectrum of regulatory guidelines, achieving 100% compliance with GDPR, SOX, PCI, GLBA, and HIPAA● Developed and implemented a data integration solution that consolidated data from various onsite and regional databases into an ODS, enabling real-time/near-real-time data access for improved decision-making.● Implemented data management and warehousing strategies that resulted in a 10% increase in operational efficiency, a 20% increase in data visibility, and a 30% increase in targeted business growth.● Worked closely with C-level executives to understand the business strategy and implement it by capturing appropriate performance metrics and setting appropriate goals.● Implemented disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical business applications, resulting in a 99.9% uptime.● Utilized BDD techniques to develop data products meeting the organization's requirements.● Contributed to technical problems solving, successful space management through the archival and purge of database servers.● Led the implementation of an AI Chat Bot using Azure cognitive services, resulting in improved customer engagement and reduced support costs for the organization.● Spearheaded capacity planning for individual and farm servers within a data center, resulting in a 10% increase in IT efficiency.

Effectively managed databases on behalf of CLT clients (Formerly Savvis) of the Managed Hosting division with accountability for over 7000 SQL Server instances across the globe hosting terabytes of information. Continually improved database performance through tuning.- Design and Deliver database solutions to customers by collaborating with executives, CTL field presales/sales engineers, and technical teams.- Designed and implemented enterprise wide High availability & Disaster Recovery solutions - Coordinated and led Disaster Recovery testing for datacenter outages on a regional basis for IaaS, SaaS and On-prem database infrastructures.- Lead data center operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications - Hands-on experience in implementing database best practices of integrating cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.- Manage and Lead highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments and implementations- Led SQL Server audits to ensure compliance with a broad spectrum of regulatory guidelines, including SOX, PCI, HIPAA, and GLBA. - Migrated databases to latest versions of SQL Server, creating and deploying migration plans that incorporated emergency cutovers without compromising the quality of operations for end users.- Enterprise wide database maintenance and monitoring automation using Powershell.

Responsible to manage critical Databases adhering to SOX/HIPPA/PCI/GLBA compliance standards for Target Co.Project Initiatives:• MS Sql Server Compliance Engineering Project: This Project is introduced to make sure that all the MS Sql Server databases are compliance to the standards defined by Target security team. This also involved re-writing code and assist application team in getting up to the defined standards. • Enterprise Policy Standards: This was implemented by designing and implementing Enterprise Policy based management using MS Sql server 2008 R2 on Windows 2008 cluster environment which ensured that all those databases which fall under compliance adhere to SOX/HIPPA/GLBA/PCI standards

Responsible to Analyse existing environment and make recommendations.Project Initiatives:• Windows Migration Project: This Project was introduced to migrate all windows 2000 server and MS Sql server 2000 database servers to Windows 2008/2003 and MS Sql server 2005/2008. This also involved re-writing code and assist application team in migrating application for the entire Whole sale group of Wells Fargo • Bindview Retirement: Bindview tool was internally used by business users to perform audit. This project was implemented to retire the product. Therefore the whole Product was re-written using Business Intelligence (SSIS) with VB.NET and backend was MS Sql server 2005 thereby providing the similar audit reports to business users using SSRS. This project saved close to $70,000 pa. • Data Purging and Archiving Initiative: This is part of our initiative which outlines the amount of data Purging and Archiving policies to be put in place. To delete data which is not important for business keeps the database size in check thus reducing maintenance cost, backup/recovery timings, backup infrastructure costs and network load.

Primary DBA in GDBMS division. Responsible for all the Manufacturing Databases, across Dell Global locations.Project Initiatives:• DELL India Factory setup: DELL started its manufacturing facility in India where I took the lead from GDBMS team in setting up the database servers and ensured its high availability, disaster recovery, training local & remote DBA’s and bringing them up to speed in maintaining these servers.• SQL Server Automation Complaince Check: This is a part of checking of server as per Dell Standards before migrating in our support. Before any new server is included in our support team, the server should meet certain Guidelines and Configuration standards both in SQL Server and Operating system front. This project was undertaken to automate that process and that saved us huge time savings and accurate results. The Project was coded in VB.NET, VBScript using ADO and WMI to automate certain tasks.• L1/L2 Support for SQL Servers: This support was introduced to support our SQL Servers by using the “Follow The Sun” approach. This model ensured that the Dell servers are managed and supported round the clock ensuring 100% availability. • Data Purging and Archiving Initiative: This is part of our initiative which outlines the amount of data Purging and Archiving policies to be put in place. To delete data which is not important for business keeps the database size in check thus reducing maintenance cost, backup/recovery timings, backup infrastructure costs and network load.

Worked as a DBA, for CRM support solution division.Responsible to remotely maintain Database Servers and focused on the high availability of these servers. Project Initiatives:• Automated Health Checks: DBA team designed an internal tool for checking the database health and ensure that the database meets certain Guidelines and Configuration standards both in SQL Server and Operating system front. This process also ensured if any new server is included in our support team, the server should meet This project was undertaken to automate that process and that saved us huge time savings and accurate results. The Project was coded in ASP.NET, VBScripts using ADO and WMI to automate certain tasks.• Leave Manager: This supporting tool was designed by DBA team for CAR dealers to keep track staff member details and will also display a report on the sales made by each staff member. Basically this tool ensures easy manageability of staff and tracking them.

Responsible for Installing Configuring and Maintaining Windows,Database, Network Infrastructure of the company. Project Initiatives:• Infrastructure setup: This project was mainly focused on setting up the infrastructure for various branch offices of FHPL which involved laying out LAN/WAN, setting up servers and also involved training users on the system and application usage. • Monitoring Tool: This supporting tool was designed by Network/DBA team to manage all databases and network from central location. This also included various health checks and performance checks for databases.