Neeraj Chaudhry
neerajch29@rediffmail.com
91-124-07168 919811907168
N-813, Jalvayu Towers, Sec-56, Gurgaon
Current Location: Gurgaon
Title:
Oracle Apps Lead DBA with 7.5+ years experience on
multiple OS platforms like Solaris,HP,NT.
Work Experience:
Skills:
7.5 years
Oracle Applications DBA 10g,9i,8.x,
SQL,PL/SQL,UNIX(SOLARIS,HP)
Industry:
Consultancy,IT/ Computers - Software
Highest Degree Held:
Gender:
Date of Birth:
B.E/B.Tech (Chemical) ,Panjab University
Male
29th December 1976
Detailed Resume:
NEERAJ CHAUDHRY
Oracle Applications Lead DBA
91- 9811907168 (Cell), 91-124-4142168 (R), neerajch29@yahoo.com
I am working as Project Lead Oracle Applications DBA with total experience
of more than 7.5+ years. Experienced in Implementation, upgrade, refresh,
migration, cloning and configuration of Oracle Applications (24x7) database
on release 11i, 11.0 in both production and testing environments.
Maintained Oracle 7.x/8.x/9i/10g databases on multiple OS platforms like
Solaris, HP, Linux and AIX. Experience in administration of Oracle 9i RAC &
well versed in defining Backup & Recovery strategies and performance tuning
issues. Expertise in troubleshooting issues of Oracle Applications middletier components and databases. Have production support DBA experience of
more than 6 years. Also have hands on experience in setting up disaster
recovery and failover
servers for production databases.
I am managing a team of 10 Apps DBAs (Junior to Senior Level) in the
present role.
I possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills along with
exceptional presentation capabilities.
Technical Skills
RDBMS - Oracle 7.x / 8.x / 9i / 10g
Operating Systems
- HP UX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Windows, RH
Linux, SCO-UNIX.
ERP Suites - Oracle 11i E-Business Suite V11.5.1 - V11.5.10, 11.0.2,
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Application Servers - Oracle 9i AS
Cluster Engines - Oracle 9i RAC
Languages - SQL & PL/SQL, Unix Shell Scripting
11i Utilities & Others - All AD Utilities, Autoconfig, Rapid Clone,
Workflow setup,
DB Utilities and Tools - Export / Import, RMAN, TKPROF, DBV,
SQL*Loader, OEM,
Oracle Supplied Packages, Statspack, RMAN
Third Party Tools
- Veritas, Quest Central, Spotlight, SQL
Navigator, Quest Space
Manager (Live Re-org),
Kintana
Certifications
- ORACLE Certified DBA (OCP) for Oracle 8
(Upgrading to 10g).
Professional Experience
Organization: Fidelity Investments
June 2003 to Present
Designation: Project Lead DBA
Project Name: Oracle Applications HRMS /Payroll & Financials
Onsite (NH, USA) Experience - 3 months.
Project Scope: Oracle Applications HR/Payroll & Financials module is being
supported for Fidelity clients - Bank of America, Agilent, Knight Rider,
First American, Hughes, Analog Devices, Fleet and Visteon. There are total
250 databases being maintained out of which 30 databases are production.
Responsibilities / Achievements:
1. Upgraded Oracle HRMS applications database from 11.5.4 to 11.5.9 /
8174 to 9205
2. Upgraded Oracle Financials from 10.7 to 11.5.8
3. Upgraded 240 clients Oracle Apps Database from 11.0.3 to 11.5.8
4. Upgraded 11i clients to Family Pack-J release in month of July, 2005
5. Applying the latest Vertex, Quantum & Oracle release patches
periodically manually and through Kintana
6. To provide 24X7 on-Call support to Fidelity Clients
7. Perform new environment builds and refreshes (on day to day basis)
8. Working with Oracle on TAR escalations.
9. Capacity planning.
10. Troubleshooting database and application related issues
11. Installing third party tools on prod and non-prod instances
12. Maintaining Oracle Applications using AD Utilities
13. Performing concurrent managers, apache, forms server troubleshooting
14. Live Re-org of the databases & performance tuning of queries
15. Shell Scripting & monitoring health check using Unix shell scripts
16. RMAN setup using Galaxy tool on productions systems
17. Performance tuning and pro-active analysis using Quest tools Spotlight, Quest DB Analysis, Stealth Collect and Space Manager for
Live Reorg.
18. Project Planning for weekly and maintenance tasks
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19. Training team members and users
20. Involved in CMMi & DBA Center of Excellence activities
21. Client (USA) interaction on day-to-day basis & weekly status meetings.
22. Regular team meeting offshore (India) and with onsite managers / team
(USA).
23. Installation of Oracle 10g and testing the features like ADDM, ASM &
cloning, configuring other instances using Oracle 10g enterprise
manager.
Organization: Oracle Software India
Nov 2001 to June 2003
Ltd.,
Hyderabad
(A.P.)
Designation / Role : Team Lead DBA
A. Project Name: Global Single Instance (GSI)
Description: Oracle eBusiness Suite is 100% Internet based ERP applications
and has got over 150 modules which can serve any type of industry and
businesses. We were responsible for complete rollout of these business
applications suites as part of global team. The database is 24x7 with
overall size of 4TB and supports 3000 concurrent users.
Hardware Environment: Database Servers: Sun E12k/900 MHz, 32CPU/96GB RAM
Middle Tier Servers: Dell
2650, 2CPU/6GB RAM
Responsibilities:
1. Performed Cloning, refreshes, upgrades, migration tasks on prod / test
environments.
2. Upgraded Oracle Apps 11i (11.5.4 to 11.5.8) and application of
maintenance patches, packs & minipacks on Oracle Applications.
3. Application of RDBMS patches on production / test instances.
4. Provided On-Call 24x7 Support
+ Troubleshooted on day-to-day basis for the entire middle tier issues
including apache, concurrent managers, reports and forms servers.
6. Performed Oracle Applications System Administration.
7. Troubleshooted configuration issues related to new environments
created on Linux servers & Printer configuration
8. Configuration of 9iAS, portal & workflow setup and migrated Oracle
Apps middle tiers from Sun OS to Linux.
Project Name: Oracle Online services - Exchange Operations
Project Scope: Administration/Maintenance of ORACLE Apps module named
Oracle Exchange (5.2.1/6.x/6.2.x) which is integrated with the Oracle Apps
11i.
Description: Oracle Exchange Hosting Services
encompasses creation of new Exchange infrastructure environments & their
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maintenance (Application release upgrades / troubleshooting of problems
faced by users on the Environment & technology stack setup / Database
related issues) for customer base on a 24 X 7. Oracle Exchange is an
Internet based mission critical B2B application facilitating online
business for buyer and sellers. Every customer has a test/training and
production site. In total we had more than 200 databases.
Responsibilities & Contributions
+ Administrated highly visible and sensitive, mission critical Oracle
Exchange customer applications (application setup and databases).
Supported them on a 24 X 7 basis in co-ordination with parallel team
in US.
+ Installed new Application & various component & Database instances for
new customers.
+ Applied RDBMS & Application patches on all the hosted Exchanges.
+ Involved in troubleshooting and resolution of day-to-day
problems/issues
+ Managed scheduled / un-scheduled Outages of Exchanges for carrying out
emergency/planned activities
+ Performed database recoveries using available hot / cold backup.
+ Automated the processes of backup through UNIX shell scripts
Project Name: Installation & Cloning of Oracle Applications 11i
Description: A new VISION demo database was initially installed for the
application developers for testing. Later a production database was
installed which was used for projects. It required duplication of an
existing 11i application onto another Sun Solaris Enterprise server.
Implementation Details:
1. Creation of applications owner and installing technology stack and
setting up the installation for VISION demo and the Production
database using Rapid wiz.
2. Configuration of database, portal page, startup and shutdown of the
applications services through scripts.
3. Application of Post Install patches and maintenance pack.
4. Creation of digital signature for the JAR files downloaded to the
client.
5. Configuration of the client Jinitiator, startup Oracle Self Service
Web Applications, changing Applications passwords.
6. The Oracle prescribed method for cloning using Rapid wiz on the target
server with the new Instance ID and ports and pathnames and
reconfiguring the target Applications using adclone.pl utility.
7. Remote copy of the source Applications to the target site and
reconfiguring appropriate files on the target site prescribed by
Oracle Support.
8. Troubleshooting of the Apache, CM startup issues
Organization:
Chandigarh
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Infotech
Ltd.,
Chandigarh
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Mar 2000 to Oct 2001
Designation: Database Administrator
I was responsible for Database administration support as consultant for the
clients of Chandigarh InfoTech like Nestle India Ltd and others.
Maintained the Database on Win NT for Milk Management System which is a
mission critical application that covers all user requirements in the
business of milk management, collection, transfer, payment, operations,
monitoring and forecasting. The system is use to generate payments to
nearly 180000 farmers on fortnightly basis.
Responsibilities:
Defined Cold Backup methods
Periodic tuning of the database from time to time & performed
troubleshooting activities
Used third party tools like Veritas for taking backups
Performed logical backups from time to time
Installed statspack and used daily statspack report for diagnosing the
bottle necks and resolved them
Tested the system with a set of test data and analyzed key areas for
troubleshooting
Organization of the database for optimum performance
Performed logical & physical backup regularly
Made customized the backup scripts
Created users & assigned profiles
Organization: DeFacto Infotech, Chandigarh
June 98 to Feb 2000
Designation: Database Administrator
Maintained Oracle 7 Database which is a very critical financial application
with around 100 nodes. The size of database is approximately 6GB. It
maintains the data of around 12000 employees working in the plant in
addition to the data of stocks across various warehouses.
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Responsibilities:
Defined proper backup and recovery strategies & made independent and
automated backup and recovery procedures
Performed various types of recoveries and troubleshooting
Performed Hot/Cold Backup regularly
Made various database tuning scripts for periodic tuning
Configured & maintained the database structure for optimum performance
Managed users and maintained system security
Education Background
Bachelor in Engineering from Punjab University, Chandigarh (June 1998)
Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) in Oracle 8 DBA (Upgrading to 10g)
Oracle 10g training - New features for administrators
Awards & Recognitions
Got Spot award for successfully upgrading Oracle Database from 8i to 9i Nov 2003.
Got "You Have Earned It" for successfully upgrading Oracle Apps DB from
11.03 to 11.5.8 - Feb 2004.
Got "Spot award" for being consistent performer and team mentor - June
2004.
Got "You Have Earned It" award for being "out of the box thinker", gaining
client confidence, managerial capabilities in building the team and
effectively executing projects and plans from India - Nov 2004.
Got "Spot Award" for successful upgrade of Oracle Apps DB from 11.5.4 to
11.5.9 for Visteon client - Feb 2005.
Got "Spot Award" for successful implementation of Family Pack - J & K for
HRMS production databases in July 2005 & Nov 2005 respectively.
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