Gaurav Srivastav is an experienced database professional seeking a new opportunity. He has over 8 years of experience in roles such as Teradata Performance Tuning and Production DBA. Gaurav is skilled in Teradata, SQL Server, UNIX, and has certifications in Teradata and ITIL. He aims to utilize his strong technical skills and leadership experience to contribute value for a new employer.
1. Gaurav Srivastav
Mobile : +91 9167494483
Email : gaurav.srivastav.job@gmail.com
Flat no 2003, Building no Richmond E,
Shiv Sai paradise, Majiwada Gaon,
Thane West, Mumbai 400608.
Successful and diligent Database Professional in the IT sector
Summary:
Gaurav is a dynamic and results-driven professional with over 8 years of strong IT and consulting
experience. Possesses ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and recommend
solutions. He has the ability to work under pressure and to communicate with senior
management as well as client to achieve the business needs.
Specialties:-
• Leading two different Projects in Teradata.
• Teradata certified Database Administrator.
• ITIL V3 certified.
• Teradata Performance Tuning.
• Teradata Active System Management.
• Teradata Tools and Utilities.
• Teradata Backup and Restore.
• Teradata DDL Deployment and Management.
• Teradata Users and Access management.
• Teradata Database Administration.
• UNIX
• SQL Server Database Administration.
Significant Achievements at Teradata:
• CPU Savings in two years: Approx. 500 million CPU sec.
• IO Savings in two years: 1.2 trillion IO.
• Space Saving: 10 TB.
• Employee of the quarter award.
Total Experience: 8.3 years.
Technology: Teradata, Teradata Performance Tuning
WORK EXPERIENCE:
2. 1) Teradata Corporation.
1) Role: Teradata Performance Tuning.
CLIENT: FedEx (March 2014 to till date)
Responsibilities:
• Monitor client’s production box using various tools like Viewpoint and Health monitor
proactively
• Track bad users in production box and stop them running poor queries efficiently.
• Identifying top resource consuming queries in Production system and provide tuning
recommendation for them to the client.
• Recommend materialization of high CPU consuming views to permanent table
• Index analysis to get rid of unwanted/unused secondary indexes from production tables
• Statistics analysis for identifying the stale/missing statistics and getting rid of unwanted
stats from production tables
• Identifying View with no locking modifiers and recommend them to client.
• PPI recommendations for production tables that can save significant CPU and IO.
• PI recommendation for top highly skewed production tables
• Secondary indexes, Values ordered NUSI and Join Index recommendations.
• Volatile table and temporary table recommendations to client.
• Queries rewrite recommendation.
• Multi-value compression recommendations for tables with no compression.
• More scope for MVC recommendation on already compressed tables.
• Monthly report creation and sharing with Client.
• Quarterly Audit report creation and sharing with Teradata Management and client.
• Weekly Client calls to discuss tuning scopes and recommendation.
• Biweekly Tower calls to discuss major recommendation with Teradata Management.
2) Role: Teradata Production DBA
CLIENT: American Airlines (August 2012 to till date)
Responsibilities: (Team Lead)
• Leading a team of 5 resources including me.
• Ensures that Daily report, weekly report and Backup report are sent to client in time.
• Create quarterly audit report for higher management.
• Ensure that SLAs are meeting efficiently.
• Periodic brainstorming sessions within team to identify workarounds for issues and
Problems.
• Ensures that everyone in team fills up their time sheet within deadline.
• Ensures that all the processes are followed well within team.
• Participate in Tower call within Teradata.
• Participate in weekly client call.
• Coordinate with Teradata GSC from System issues.
• Coordinating with HP bar support team for any backup issue.
• Monitoring Teradata Database Systems using Viewpoint
• Backup, Restore and Data Copy requests.
3. • Teradata database security roles and profile maintenance.
• User creation requests.
• Password reset and password unlock requests.
• Space management requests and Data transfer requests.
• DDL deployment requests (Table creation, View refresh)
• Performance tuning requests (TASM abort requests).
• Fastload, Multiload, Tpump and TPT.
• Fast Load lock, Multiload Lock and Hut Lock requests.
• Worked closely with the development team of AA to provide query tuning tips, review
the code and come up with suggestions.
•Tracking bad queries running on the system abort them and provide tuning
recommendations.
• IDM Process to drop unused users.
• Sandbox Policy to drop unused Sandbox tables.
• Audit report after Backup activity to ensure all the backup jobs finished successfully.
• Knowledge sharing within the team.
2) IGate
CLIENT: Mosaic (February 2012 to June 2012)
Responsibilities: (Team Lead)
• Worked with a team of 4 resources including me.
• Daily service report call and Weekly tower meeting.
• Coordination with manager for any issues.
• Ensuring that all the incidents are managed effectively within the team.
• Maintain close coordination across all service groups for resolution of incidents/problems
involving multiple groups.
• Initiate periodic brainstorming sessions within team to identify workarounds for issues
and Problems.
• Database Backup, Recovery, SQL Jobs.
• Worked on Performance Tuning, Blocking, and Deadlock.
• Worked on security aspects like logins and users.
• Worked on Database Refresh Activity (Restore / Cloning).
• Proactive monitoring of Disk space, backup and restore jobs, SQL server error logs,
memory utilization, etc.
• Client query management - Includes Mail request from Client for database Specific
Information / issues.
• Participated in major change implementations which include database refresh from
production to UAT, Service pack upgrade etc.
• Worked on clustering, Database mirroring, Log Shipping and replication
1. Capgemini India PVT Ltd, Mumbai.
CLIENT: SHL (October 2007 to January 2012)
4. Responsibilities:
• Installing and Configuring SQL Servers 2005/2008.
• Updating SQL Servers with latest SQL Service Pack.
• Migrating SQL Servers 2000 to SQL Servers 2005/2008.
• Managing 60 SQL Servers and 700+ Databases.
• Configuring and Maintaining Cluster Servers.
• Configuring and Maintaining Log Shipping Servers.
• Implementing the Authentication Mode.
• Managing Data and Log file Growth.
• Performance Tuning.
• Implementing Backup Strategy.
• Creating SQL Server Logins and Roles.
• Assigning user permissions like Granting, Denying and revoking permissions.
• Co-Ordination with Application Team to resolve query related issues.
Achievements at Work:
• Employee of the quarter award in Teradata.
• Excellent service delivery award at Teradata.
• Opportunity to lead a team at Teradata and IGATE.
• Got highest final year review rating in the project at Capgemini.
• ITIL-V3 with 80% on 29 June 2015.
• Teradata certified database administrator.
Extracurricular Achievements:
• I have played for my college at Zonal and Inter-zonal Level football matches.
• I have participated in National Level paper presentation on Hacking Mobile Phones.
• I have won college level competition on Situation Analysis and marketing.
• I was selected for SSB interview from my college and reached up to the conference
interview.
Academic performance:
Qualification University Year Percentage
BE(EXTC) Shivaji University 2007 63%
HSC CBSE 2002 57%
S.S.C. CBSE 2001
67.4%
5. Strengths:
• Determination.
• Never give up attitude.
• Self-realization.
Weakness:
• Habit of documentation.
• Focused attitude toward work sometimes hamper my social life.
PERSONAL
Date of Birth : July 1st, 1985
Languages Known : English, and Hindi
Hobbies and Interests: Exploring cars on YouTube and Football Matches.
Date: 25/07/2016 Gaurav Srivastav
6. Strengths:
• Determination.
• Never give up attitude.
• Self-realization.
Weakness:
• Habit of documentation.
• Focused attitude toward work sometimes hamper my social life.
PERSONAL
Date of Birth : July 1st, 1985
Languages Known : English, and Hindi
Hobbies and Interests: Exploring cars on YouTube and Football Matches.
Date: 25/07/2016 Gaurav Srivastav