Profile of Ashokkumar Mani

1. ASHOKKUMAR MANI., OCP
CELL : +91 81975 99922 (INDIA)
EMAIL ID: ashok.mani13@gmail.com
LINKEDIN: https://in.linkedin.com/in/ashokkumarmani
Career Objective:
To pursue my career in an organization, which caters to my core competencies, where I can instigate my skills,
knowledge and experience to achieve organizational goals through continuous learning and self- development, while
being innovative and enduring and to lead a team and attain the goals and visions set by the organization.
Work Summary:
Oracle DBA, 12c/11g/10g/9i OCP Certified, experienced in providing Oracle Support, Oracle Database Administration,
High Availability: Real Application Clusters (RAC), Data guard , performance tuning ,installation, migration, backup and
recovery etc. Spanning various industries like in a variety of environments like UNIX (RedHat Linux, HP –UX, AIX, Sun
Solaris) and Windows.
Career Experience:
 Having around 9.x years of total experience and around more than 8.x years of valuable experience in Oracle
Database Administration, Database Migration, Installation and Up-Gradation of Database.
 Conversant with:
 Oracle 12c Database Administration
 Oracle 11g/10g Real Application Cluster (RAC)
 11g Dataguard, Performance tuning
 ASM,RMAN,UNIX Shell Scripting,
 Expertise in designing and implementing High avaibility features and Backup strategies
 Support of Oracle database hosting Siebel, SAP, Java based application.
 Excellent Experience in Oracle 12cR1, 11gR1,R2, 10g R2, 11gR2 RAC (Real Application clusters), 11g Active
Dataguard,Disaster Recovery Planning and Implementation using Standby Databases for high availability and
11g ASM (Automatic Storage management) technologies.
 Experience in Banking, Retail, Aviation, Telecom and Hospitality industries. Experience on DR solution design,
Implementation of Physical standby database setup for Retail domain, DR Build documentation, run book
preparation and SOP for DR Drill.
 Experience in installation, setup and configuration on OEBIEE, 12c OEM, Repository Database for OEM
 Experience in Performance Tuning, Up gradation of Oracle Database 10.2.0.1 to 11.1.0.6 , 11.1.0.6 to 11.2.0.3
on Linux , 11.1.0.6 to 11.2.0.4 on AIX and 11g Web logic Implementation on RHEL 6.5
 Experience in Deploying, developing and Supporting Oracle Retail application and oracle databases.
 Experience in Recovery Manager (RMAN), Database Refresh,Capacity Planning,Database Designing,Database
hardening and PL –SQL Programming
 Experience in Database administration on 20TB + database size and handled 2800+ databases.
 Experience in 3 Nodes, 2 Nodes 11g RAC Database Setup and Configuration, PSU patch apply, Adding Node ,
Database Upgradation (11gR1 to 11gR2), 11g ASM Installation and configuration and Adding Disk
 Experience on the migration of Non-RAC Database (11.2.0.1) to RAC Database (11.2.0.3). Installation and
Configuration of 3 Nodes 11g RAC on RHEL 6.5, migration of 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.4 Database on AIX
 Experience on the Sql fine tuning using ASH/ADDM,Tkprof, Explain Plan, SQL profiles, SQL tuning advisor (STA) ,
AWR and Oracle 12c OEM
 Experience in Linux administration, Networking, Windows server Administration, VMware workstation and
VMware server Administration, Weblogic Administration.
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2.  Provide DBA implementation and support for Siebel/obiee Oracle migrations and upgrades, including
environments using Oracle (11.2.0.4 )DataGuard
 Experience on add/remove disk to asm diskgroup, Creation of database users, table spaces, temporary table
spaces and assigning quotas, roles, privileges and profile of users, table-reorg and database export and import
 Good Understanding/Knowledge on EXADATA, Oracle 12c (12.1.0.2), OBIEE and ODI
 Good Understanding/ Knowledge / Experience on Data Architect (ETL) , in DATAWARE House Concepts for
Islamic Banking and Aviation’s domain.
 Good Experience on ITIL Process
 Good Understanding / Knowledge on EBS-Oracle R12, Concurrent Manager, Patching, Apps Cloning, 11g, OBIEE
ETL tools. Good Knowledge in UNIX/Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Shell Scripting
Technical Skills:
Database Admin : Oracle 12c R1/ 11g R2/R1/10g/9i
RDBMS : Oracle, MS SQL
High Availability : 11g R2 RAC / 11g Dataguard
Operating Systems : AIX 6.5, RHEL Linux 6.5, 5.5/ HP Unix, Solaris 10, Windows 2008 R2, 2003, EXADATA
Tools/Utilities : 12c OEM, 11g ASM, RMAN, SQL* Loader, Expdp/Impdp, Exp/IMP, AWR/Statspack,
Sql Tuning Advisor ,advisor, SQL Profile , ADDM,ASH, Rational Clear Quest, Subversion, Sql*Plus, Maximo, VMware
Server1.2, VMware workstation ,VMware servers 2.0, Toad ,SQL Developer, Oracle 12c cloud control ,BMC Remedy
Languages : SQL / PL SQL ,SHELL Html,C, Core Java
Applications : Siebel 8.1.1.4, Informatica, Cognos, 10g OBIEE and ODI .
Professional Certifications & Training:
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) on Oracle 12c DBA from Oracle University – 2016
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) on Oracle 11g DBA from Oracle University - 2013
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) on Oracle 10g DBA from Oracle University - 2008
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) on Oracle 9i DBA from Oracle University - 2008
• Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) on Oracle 9i DBA from Oracle University - 2008
• Oracle Certification SR.No. 3226073
• 10g RAC training course conducted by Oracle (10 November 2011 – December 2011).
• Microsoft 2008 SQL Server Administration training conducted by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt.Ltd (
March 2013)
Academic Qualifications:
• Post-Graduation in Master of Computer Application from Bharathidasan University
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Annamalai University
• Diploma in Computer Technology form SRI Polytechnic, Tamil Nadu.
Professional Experience:
• I have been working as a Technical Specilist at HCL Technologies Ltd, Bangalore Since Nov 2015.
• Worked as an Associate IT Consultant at ITC Infotech Ltd, Bangalore,India from Jan’2012 to Oct’2015.
• Worked as an Oracle DBA in IBM, IBM Embassy for Artech Info system Pvt.Ltd, Electronic City,
Bangalore from Jan-2011 to Sep-2011.
• Worked as a Software Engineer for Accenture Services Pvt.Ltd, Bangalore from May’ 10 to Oct’ 10.
• Worked as a Database Administrator (Freelancing/Corporate trainer) Bangalore from Feb’08 to
Apr’10.
• Worked as a System Administrator for Maraekat Info tech Pvt.Ltd, Mumbai from July 2005 to July
2006.
On-site Experience:
• Worked as an Oracle DBA at Landmark Retail Group at DUBAI (UAE) Jan 2015 to May 2015
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3. • Worked as an Oracle DBA for 1 year at National Commercial Bank (NCB) KSA from Oct 2013 to April 2014
Experience Distribution Country No: of Years – Months No of Projects
On site
Dubai (UAE)/ Saudi
Arabia
(KSA)
1.4+ year 2
Offshore India 7 years 8
Experience Summary:
Company :HCL Technologies Ltd , Nov 2015 – Till date
Project Name : VOLVO
Project Type : Production (Premium)/Standard/Basic) Type – Automobile/Transport/Train/Cargo
Environment : Oracle 12c R1, 11g R1, 10g , Oracle Streams, Oracle Dataguard (+ DG Broker), MS SQL
Postgresql,Golden gate
Role : Database Administrator
Project Description:
Production/Standard and Basic Databases Creation, 24/7 Production support, High availability Configuraiton, Maintenance,
Production Disaster Recovery (DR) Databases Support /Administration, Patching and Monitoring,
Key Responsibilities Handling:
● Database Creation on Linux 5.x,6.x and AIX
● Database optimization ,Index optimizations, Database Performance analysize
● Database PSU Patch apply , Database troubleshooting, Creating SR for “ORA-“ errors with oracle
● 3500+ Databases operation support ,
● Creating PKE (Problem Known Records) , Handling Problem tickets,
● 15TB Database size support, capacity planning and management ,
● Database Monitoring on Oracle 12c Cloud control, MS SQL DB and Oracle DB replication monitoring .
● 24/7 production support, Performance check, Database hardening
Company :Air Asia Malaysia, June 2015 – October 2015
Project Name : Air Asia
Project Type : Production/UAT/Devimplementation
Environment : ExadataX5 , Oracle 12c (12.1.0.2), ODI,Obiee, EDQ
Role : Oracle DBA (Performance DBA)
Project Description:
Database designing, database setup, implementation of databases in development,UAT,production(Exadata
Machine).Database optimizations, Index optimizations, SQL query optimizations on UAT & Production Envionments
Key Responsibilities Handled:
● Worked as a Performance DBA with offshore and onsite teams .
● Created partitions table on databases in exadata machine .
● Installed ODI installation on RHEL 6.6 64bit
● Worked with ODI, Data ware house team members by resolving critical performance reports issue
● Daily analyzed and checked wait events during business hours.
● Checked wait events, latch contentions, Disk IO usage, CPU usage, memory contentions,
● Regularly checked Increased space of database when ever is required , increased demand of memory utilization's
● Kept focus on locking activities for monitoring of critical and 24/7 running databases.
Company : LANDMARK (DUBAI) Jan 2015 to May 2015
Project Name : Disaster Recovery infrastructure
Project Type : IT Disaster Recovery Implementations
Environment : Oracle 11g Data guard, Database up gradation, Siebel
Role : Sr.Oracle DBA (On Site DBA)
Project Description:
Database Disaster Recovery Planning, setup and implementation on Production and Pre-production, up gradating
databases on an AIX operating system for Development, testing, User Authentication and Production environment.
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4. Key Responsibilities Handled:
● Involved in Preparing Technical diagram and solution design, supporting Offshore and onshore team
● Involved in Database Disaster Recovery planning, implementation and execution (Physical standby structure ),
Contacting CAB meeting, DR POC, DR –drill,
● Installed 11g database installation on AIX 6.1 OS,
● Upgraded 10+ Tera bytes size of critical siebel and Obiee databases.
● Cloned Prod databases to Test Lab , Installed 11.2.0.4 RDBMS servers on LAB, Upgraded databases.
● Configured High Availability features in Databases on Test and Prod using Active Data guard
● Enabled Flashback features in both primary and standby databases.
● Worked on DR Solution, DR build , DR Run book and SOP documentation. Provided and ensured documents to
Clients.
● Configured Dataguard commands in Sanovi tool. Tested database switch over during build and test phase .
● Tested Database Fail over in Test Environment
● Executed DR Drill after Build phase , Ensured and tested all applications (siebel , EDC and Obiee).
● Created NMON reports before & after database up-gradation and dataguard configuration.
Analyzed Nmon reports after DR Drill and compared AWR reports.
● Involved on Data purging assignments, worked on production database parameter changes , created indexes,
created sql profiles
Company : National Commercial Bank (NCB), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) Oct 2013 to April 2014
Project Name : Data ware House (DWH)
Project Type : Project development/Designing & Support
Environment : Oracle 10g, cognos, Data Stage
Role : Data Architect / DBA (On site)
Project description:
Worked with ETL Team for DWH project, Gathered requirement from client, Designed Table structure for ETL, Target
system, supported business user Reports (I) , Handled pl-sql issue, Involved in performance tuning activities.
Key Responsibilities Handled:
● Involved in Designing the partition table structure for ETL and created documentation for Production.
● Involved in Performance tuning activities
● Involved in SupportingDev/UAT & Production Database incident issues.
● Involved in Exporting and Importing DB users, table, index from prod to dev and creating the Sql query for ETL
activities.
Company : ITC InfoTech Ltd, (QANTAS/FINNAIR/NBTY/SrilankanAirlines) Jan 2012 – Oct 2015
Project Name : Finnair EDW Migration Airlines/Apollo Implementation /NBTY-Retail/Qantas Airlines (SLA)
Project Type : ProductionRAC/ UAT/ SIT/ Dev/DB Migration/ PBA/PFX/Retail Project development
Environment : Oracle 12c R1,11g R.x,11g RAC,ASM,12c OEM, Web logic,11g OBIEE, Cognos , Informatics
Role : Oracle DBA
Project Description:
RAC Database Implementation, Configuration, Migration of Non RAC database to RAC database.Customer support for
performance tuning issues (Cognos Cube), Migrated IBM databases to Oracle database operation using Informatics and
cognos tools.OLAP cubes performance tuning assignments. SLA with Booking and reservation, bulk inventory. PBA has been
developed as part of the loyalty program developed by ITC to handle frequent flyer programs for Qantas. PBA handles the
part of invoicing the partners based on the transactions done NBTY project aims at enrolling members into a loyalty
program, providing them with various benefits like enrolment bonus, etc.It includes Membership Card creation, Coupon
Creation and Consumption Customer Care, Processing transactions, thereby enabling the member to accrue and redeem
points via promotions.
Key Responsibilities Handled:
• Worked on Exadata X5 -2 (OEL 6.6) Machine.
• Implemented 3 Node RAC Database (11.2.0.4) on RHEL 6.5 for Data ware House
Team for Pre-Production and Production Servers (Apollo Project), cloned databases with 15+ Terabytes of
size from one VM Machine to another VM Machine.
• Installed ,Configured , Maintained Oracle 12c (12.1.0.2) on RHEL 6.6 Server
• Converted Non -RAC Database to 2 node RAC Database (11.2.0.3) on RHEL 5.x using RMAN, Installed RPM's ,
Configured ASM for Single & RAC Instance, Implemented backup jobs scripts using Shell Scripts (Finnair).
• Played a crucial role in implementation of ITDR solution project for Shukran loyalty program, upgraded
databases, applied Security patches ,Configured DR Database for Shukran Applications (Siebel and OBIEE
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5. Applications). During IT Disaster recovery set up: Provided and executed DR Solutions, DR Run book and DR
SOP documents to client.
• Upgraded 32+ Databases for different client (starting from 11.1.0.x to 11.2.0.x , 11.2.0.x to 11.2.0.3 ,) for
PROD/UAT/SIT/DEV on Windows 2K8,RHEL 5.0 and AIX servers NBTY & Landmark).
• Installed MS SQL Server 2008 on windows 64 bit servers. Installed Obiee Application Server on Windows
Servers (64bit), Configured batch jobs in windows servers (NBTY).
• Tuned Siebel SQL query for Siebel and SADMIN applications users, Created Indexes on Production
Tables, Created Partitions tables.
• Investigated AWR Reports for DB hung, Memory leaking and latch issue, Analyzed Ash report, ADDM Report ,
created SQL profile for siebel and cognos sql queries. Analyzed NMON reports for CPU & Memory usage on
weekly basis .
• Installed OMS ,OEM Agent services & Web Logic servers and Configured 12c OEM Grid Console. Configured
Metrics for frequent jobs
• Handled databases of various sizes running from 200gb to 15TB.
• Patched and Administrated for Prod/Pre-Prod/Test Servers.
Company : Maxis Telcom, (Malaysia). January 2011 – September 2011
Industry : Telecom
Project Name : Maxis Telecom
Project Type : OLTP support
Environment : Oracle 10g RAC, Oracle 9i, 10g, 11gR1, Linux/Solaris/HP-UX
Role : Oracle DBA
Project Description:
DBA Maxis is the only integrated communications service provider and Maxis provide a variety of communication products,
applications and value added services for consumers, large enterprises and small & medium business owners. The
extensive reach and range of their network, products and services create a differentiated customer experience for both
consumers and businesses.
Key Responsibilities Handled:
● Worked on Database auditing , Database hardening ,
● Worked on regular alert log checking ,
● Coordinated with customer for performance issues. Enabled Audit trail features,. Enabled SQL trace for secific
application users.
● Configured , Managed RMAN Backups and Defined backup policy as per agreement .
● Created Tablespace , users, roles, privliges and assigned this to users .
● Exported and Imported Schemas, DBs, and Tables from PROD to Test.
● Worked on Tables re-org and database re-originations
● Managing, Monitoring RMAN Backups, Configuration of RMAN
● Involved in Checking DB Health, Database Hardening,Monitoried 800+ Databases with size of 15 Tera bytes < 20
DBA’s
● Installed ,Configured Oracle 10g RAC Database ,Monitored RAC 10g & ASM
Company : C1000 IT Schutema, (Neitherland) May 2010 – October 2010
Industry : Retail
Project Name : C1000 IT Schutema
Project Type : Application Development for Retail product
Environment : SQL –Developer, Rational Clear Quest, Citrix, Subversion
Role : Application DBA
Project Description:
C1000 IT Schuitema is the supermarket big retail project in neither land, in this module; we had done End to end
application migration, deployment, customized test application by using AIA, BPEL tools. Migrated test application
to production applications.
Key Responsibilities Handled:
• Deployed AIA, BPEL components in Build Severs, Moved codes from SIT to UAT phase.
• Configured FTP, Locus, JMS, DB Adapters for Build servers
• Created user, Assigned roles, granted privileges to users (offshore & onsore team).
• Deployed Oracle Forms, Pro ‘C’ in Test server, UAT and SIT
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6. • Deployed sql, Pl-Sql, Function, Trigger and Procedure scripts in Test Environment for DEV team, ensured the
programming codes are updated in subversion. Created table spaces for test database for dev team provided
database support for Dev team and onshore team.
Company : Upper Desk Resort Pvt.Ltd July 2005 – July 2006
Industry : Hospitality
Environment : Windows 2003, Linux 4.0
Role : System administrator
Key Responsibilities Handled:
• Installed, Configured & Managed Linux and Windows servers.
• Ensured network connectivity throughout a Upper Desk Resort clients LAN/WAN infrastructure is on par with
technical considerations.
• Created OS Users, groups with permission, assigned roles to linux users, increased swap size.
• Installed Hotel Management software and Packages in Front Office (FO), F&B (Food and Beverage), Restaurant,
Inventory and Account Departments.
• Given hotel management training KT to hotel and Management staffs.
• Supported LANs, WANs, network segments, Internet, and intranet systems.
• Monitored networks to ensure security and availability to specific users.
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7. • Deployed sql, Pl-Sql, Function, Trigger and Procedure scripts in Test Environment for DEV team, ensured the
programming codes are updated in subversion. Created table spaces for test database for dev team provided
database support for Dev team and onshore team.
Company : Upper Desk Resort Pvt.Ltd July 2005 – July 2006
Industry : Hospitality
Environment : Windows 2003, Linux 4.0
Role : System administrator
Key Responsibilities Handled:
• Installed, Configured & Managed Linux and Windows servers.
• Ensured network connectivity throughout a Upper Desk Resort clients LAN/WAN infrastructure is on par with
technical considerations.
• Created OS Users, groups with permission, assigned roles to linux users, increased swap size.
• Installed Hotel Management software and Packages in Front Office (FO), F&B (Food and Beverage), Restaurant,
Inventory and Account Departments.
• Given hotel management training KT to hotel and Management staffs.
• Supported LANs, WANs, network segments, Internet, and intranet systems.
• Monitored networks to ensure security and availability to specific users.
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