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United States

Rye Brook, New York, Us

Topeka, Ks, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

• Complete ownership of entire database infrastructure, with direct report to VP Tech and CEO• Implement and configure highly scalable database servers, resulting in meeting SLA and exceeding previous company standards of security and performance • Resolve and document root cause analysis of critical production issues involving database corruption, blocking and deadlocks • Re-architected client data import process, bringing down import time significantly• Implemented highly successful automations, streamlining client on-boarding, data warehouse migrations, and index maintenance, and thus increasing efficiency and bringing down execution times• Design and develop disaster recovery/high availability solutions to ensure continuity of business and seamless client experience • Work closely with development teams to analyze query execution plans, recommend code changes, and implement performance improvements, such as query and index tuning• Selected to contribute to ongoing infrastructure strategy taskforce, along with senior company executives

College Park, Md, Us

Analysis of software applications using GUI Testing tool in Java funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)• Generated automatic test cases in order to research and analyze the bug patterns and their patches• Analyzed several applications and identified GUI bugs prior to software release

Moline, Il, Us

• Supervised SSIS packages and data transformation from heterogeneous sources • Migrated SQLServer2005/2000 to SQLServer2008/SQLServer2008R2, resulting in security and performance gains for the company • Implemented database compression, indexing and performance optimization on affected applications, resulting in 99.99% availability of the servers and integrity of critical information• Performed root cause analysis of critical production issues and resolved database corruption and deadlocks• Implemented capacity planning of databases and monitoring of space usages on disk

Houston, Texas, Us

• Proposed recommendations to VP-Technology and heads of business on capacity planning, database design, backup, and recovery, resulting in performance improvement and cost reduction for company• Created and implemented SQL Server databases• Resolved critical production issues such as database corruption and availability issues, leading to integrity of critical data• Implemented high availability and disaster recovery solutions such as clustering, replication, database mirroring and log shipping• Led a team of 24 DBAs, and managed and supported operations encompassing 900 database servers• Recommended and implemented the use of compressed database backups using Quest Lite speed

New York, New York, Us

• Implemented complex reports on business objects and reporting services using SQL queries, stored procedures, triggers and cursors• Extracted and transformed data from various sources with the implementation of packages using SQL Server Integration Services tool• Responsible for database monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and high-availability strategies with SQL Server 2005 in a 24x7production environment• Resolved database production issues resulting in continuous availability of database and software applications• Reorganized index creation, design and maintenance to improve query performance

Mumbai , Maharashtra, In

•Designed and implemented Banker’s Realm Microfinance application- A financial retail banking product•Development of server-side logic, data-management services (including data model, SQL stored procedures) and communication services•Took the lead in developing application architecture, enhancing code modules, and creating business reports and dashboards