Rahul Bhandari Email & Phone Number

Indore Area, India

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Leading a team responsible for supporting and managing SQL databases enterprise-wide• Mentor other DBAs in best practice and automation of tasks whenever and wherever possible• Continually improve and automate standard SQL installations, and other tasks, for multiple environments through repeatable processes • Perform admin tasks such as, install, upgrade, audit, indexing, and backups, restores.• Perform or coordinate database installs, upgrades, patching and implement infrastructure changes in accordance with IT configuration and change management policies.• Ensure monitoring is in place in the database environment for availability, performance, and security• Ensure SQL data assets are available for use by applications; recoverable in the advent of system failure• Perform complex data analysis or troubleshooting, and follow up with design, support, and documentation• Plan, drive and implement capacity, growth and best practice for the SQL Server architecture and prepare documentation for support• Assure compliance with corporate IT standards through participation in solution designs• Strong experience in SQL Server, including SQL 2012, SQL 2008 and SQL 2005• Strong skills with TSQL & experience in a large enterprise • Experience supporting several enterprise-wide high availability systems & services with SLA driven up-time requirements• Strong experience of installation, automation, configuration & SQL security• Demonstrated proficiency using SQL Profiler or Extended Events• Extensive experience troubleshooting real-time production issues in SQL Server including SQL Mirroring and SQL 2012 Availability Groups, replication, performance problems and connectivity issues• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high traffic environment• Ability to work independently while supporting a team environment and assuming various project roles• Working knowledge of network, server, and firewall technologies as they relate to SQL Server

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Support, configure the SharePoint environments, which include company's main intranet portal, team sites• Maintain and administer SharePoint services, including search, content hub and excel services.• Create, configure and maintain document libraries, enterprise lists and site collections.• Manage SharePoint end user accounts, permissions and access rights in accordance with best practices regarding privacy and security.• Support end users with all SharePoint related issues.• Assist with efficient implementation of new software products, tools or systems and for resolution of any adaptation issues.• Assist with software improvements and upgrades. • Working with various deployments for web parts in SharePoint 2007• Site Maintenance and DR for SharePoint.• Regular review, clean up, management and configuration of SharePoint accounts and sites. • Regularly analysing SharePoint content and storage• Monitoring SharePoint trends (e.g. site usage and growth, disk space usage and growth)• Regularly auditing your SharePoint environment• Upgrading SQL Server and SharePoint patches and cumulative updates.• Installation and Administration of MOSS 2007/2010,• Configuring and Administration of Search,• On-Call support for critical Issues,• Providing Level 1,2 &3 support for SharePoint 2007 environment for users • Involve in documentation, defining the processes for different change requests• Provide advanced support for site administrators, including training and troubleshooting• Work with other IT team members and business customers on enabling the SharePoint features• Configured indexes and searches for SPS • Deployed features using stsadm.exe tool at different levels including site collections, web applications and site level • Generate website statistics and reports using custom or packaged tools.• Develop and maintain user and technical manuals and guidelines.

Greater Milwaukee Area

•Microsoft Windows server configuration including registry edits and operating system tweaks. Manage clustering, including application level clustering as with Exchange 2010.•Support and administer all methods of communication with Exchange: OWA, ActiveSync, Outlook, Blackberry and others.•Create up-to-date documentation of the environment as it grows.•Manage user accounts and user mailboxes, mail contacts and mail users including Organizational Units and Group Policy. Manage computer accounts. Understand Active Directory best practices, management of Active Directory objects and modification of attributes.•Configure, manage and support SMTP infrastructure including mail security gateway. Understand associated DNS records, such as MX, A and SRV.•Understand and troubleshoot TCP/IP issues, firewall issues, proxy issues and related testing methods.• Experience on Configuring and Administration of High Availability environment for Exchange Services•Clear understanding of disaster recovery processes, performing restores from DR solutions such as DPM.•Knowledge about front end/back end, OWA, RPC/HTTP and active sync configuration.•Configuration of exchange policies and Email routing•Strong knowledge on Designing and Planning of Exchange Services infrastructure•Strong understanding and experience with MS exchange 2003/2007 and 2010 including backup and restore procedures.•Strong Active Directory knowledge to resolve exchange related issues.•Maintaining Server health by checking Performance monitor logs, disk- space utilization, Events viewer-reporting and taking corrective measures.•Troubleshooting & Administration of Mail Routing / Mail Flow.•Monitoring Queues on all exchange Server, configured alerts.•Message tracking and troubleshooting to resolve mail delivery issues.•Supporting Enterprise Anti-SPAM solutions- Forefront for Exchange.•Supporting Offline Address book, Calendaring and free busy related issues.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

A project “ENSAYO” under National Science Foundation in collaboration with Miami Dade Emergency Operation Center aimed at designing and developing a virtual emergency management system•Study the role of virtualization and cloud computing in emergency response systems•Understanding the entity-relationship based on the interaction between domains•Attend project meetings and milestone review sessions to understand the business process or end user (response managers) requirements•Create Use cases/user stories based on the compiled requirements using visual paradigm•Develop the high-level system design documentation and the level 2-detailed (As-Is and To-Be) documents using MS Visio•Create data flow and process flow diagrams for better understanding•Manually test the user interface for bugs and reporting them on the open source tool called JIRA•Interact with professors and developers for daily progress and suggest improvements•Advise the developer and assisting member teams for using automated tools such as selenium•Develop and maintain (documentation) system navigation and user navigation manuals•Created weekly project progress reports for review of developers and professors.•Participated in development of test cases and gap analysis.•Developed master test plan for the entire system on- functionality, usability, compatibility, performance and security testing.•Used open source document management tool–Epiware. It also helped in creating testing wiki’s.•Study the role of design science to support a research paper.•Other administrative roles at the PINO Centre•Assisting the PINO team with organizing the America’s Venture Capital Conference.•Providing recommendations for knowledge management solutions at the PINO Center.•Utilise SQL to query the database and extract customer information for the marketing teams and test SQL code at database level.•Develop system navigation and user navigation manuals for the AVCC and the GIVe knowledge base.

Indore Area, India

Worlds largest mobile telecommunication company measured by revenues and the second largest measured on the basis of 347 million subscribers in 31 countries.• Supervision over network cell-site integration teams consisting of member engineers and technicians from Vodafone (6 engineers and 4 technicians) and various vendors.• Initial site equipments testing (software & hardware), integration with the network management system followed by call testing once the site is “on air”.• Successfully handled point of interconnectivity with various service providers such as -Airtel (Bharti group), Reliance Communications and BSNL.• Supervised analyzer tests at Switch and TAX levels.• Managed fiber optic installation, testing and maintenance teams along with development of all network fiber distribution and testing documentation.• Responsible for developing and maintaining documentations for cell site equipment connectivity, point of interconnectivity, network redundancy, backbone connectivity, fiber and aerial connectivity.• Coordinating with RF teams for integration of In Building Solutions at various locations.• Documenting feedback from customer service department relevant to network availability based on customer feeds and traffic analysis.• Direct reporting to the technology functional head and CTO for network related issues.• Awarded work appreciation by the customer service department for integrating the maximum number of cell sites (157) for service launch at zonal level.

Ms, Management Information Systems

Activities and Societies: International Students Club

Bachelor'S Of Engineering, Electronics & Communication

High School