1. CurriculumVitae
Name : Farooq Ali Omer
Address : 18-7-198/A/290, Talab katta, Sultan Shahi Road,
Hyd-2, Telengana, India.
Mobile : +91-9989112821
Email : sfomer@gmail.com
Profile
Experienced and passionate Oracle DBA, over 18 years of working experience on Production
Databases. Worked on day to day DBA activities, Backup & Recovery both conventional and
RMAN. Worked on RAC, ASM and DR setup. Worked for Capacity planning, Database
auditing, Performance Tuning…and DB upgrade.
Experienced Oracle Applications DBA. Worked as a member for implementation team for
Oracle Apps R12. Upgraded the Oracle Apps 11i to the Oracle Apps R12. Cloning, Patching,
and managing the Concurrent requests both custom and seeded of the Application...Managing
the application using OAM.
Experienced Oracle Exadata Admin. Performing assessment for Oracle Exadata implementation
Maintaining and Troubleshooting Exadata Cell/Storage and Compute node performance issues.
One Command configuration on Exadata.
Executive Summary
I am a certified core DBA, an excellent Applications DBA and a capable Exadata Server Admin.
Having over 18 years of professional experience as Technical Lead, Oracle APPS DBA, Lead
DBA, and Technical Analyst. Strong in Installing/creating and Maintaining Oracle
Databases/Oracle applications, performance tuning of Oracle Databases/Oracle Applications and
Oracle Exadata server Admin.
Strength: Thus far worked on production support only with 24X7 support… a thorough
professional…high on performance tuning of DB and application.

2. Education & Qualifications:
Masterof Computer Applications(MCA) 1996
Osmania University, India
Bachelor of Computer Science(B Sc.) 1992
Osmania University, India
Technical & IT Certifications:
Oracle certified expert, Oracle Exadata X3 and X4 Administrator
Certified Oracle DBA (Oracle 10g).
Certified Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Applications DBA.
Oracle WebLogic Server Admin(11g).
ITIL V3 Foundation Certified.
Employment History:
Currently providing corporate training for Oracle DBA… and working freelance as Exadata
Admin supporting US client. Associated with Amis Software Consulting services.
Oct 2013 – Present
National Commercial Bank (NCB) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Senior Oracle DBA/ Apps DBA
June-2010 – Sep-2013
Responsibilities: Worked as Senior Oracle DBA/Apps DBA in a 24X7 support environment.
HRMS, CRM and GL were the application(11.5.10.2 & R12) modules and 11g was the RDBMS
version. HP-UX as operating system.
Oracle Corporation, Hyderabad, India Senior Technical Analyst Jan 2006 – Jun 2010
Responsibilities: Worked as Senior Oracle DBA/Apps DBA in a 24X7 support environment.
Worked on 400 + servers, with business critical environments. Several RAC instances, Linux as
operating system. Some of the customers were…
 American Airlines
 Clopay Corp.
 Essilor America
 Sato International
 GE & Genworth
 Barrick Gold Australia
 Del Monte
 School Speciality
 Travel port Operations Inc.
Wipro Technologies, Hyderabad, India Senior Software Engineer Oct 2005 -- Dec 2005
Responsibilities: Worked as Senior Oracle Apps DBA in a 24X7 support environment.
Supporting Emerson Motors USA. With more than 50 Productions instances running on Linux
machines (worked only for a 3 months project).

3. Birlasoft Ltd, Chennai, India Senior Software Engineer Mar 2005 -- Sep 2005
Responsibilities: Worked as Oracle Apps DBA in a support environment. Supporting GE and
Genworth, as Birlasoft being one of the BDC for GE outside USA.
Abrif Software Solutions, Hyderabad, India Database Administrator/Apps DBA
Jan 2003 -- Mar 2005
Responsibilities: Worked as Oracle DBA/Apps DBA in some internal projects production
support environment. 11.5.9 was the Oracle Apps environment and RDBMS version 9.2, Linux
as OS.
Allied InfoTech, London, UK Database Administrator Feb2002 -- Dec 2002
Responsibilities: Worked as Oracle DBA for London Electricity.
Zentech Info Solutions, Hyderabad, India VB Developer Feb 1998 -- Jan 2002
Responsibilities: Developed some in-house projects in VB for Hospital Management.
Professional Experience:
Oracle Database Administration Support:
 Attending to regular alerts on Tablespace space issues, locking issues, OS space issues,
CPU utilization etc(housekeeping).
 Regular Refresh/Clone of Stage and Dev instances from Production RAC to non RAC
using Hot, Cold and RMAN backups.
 Regular Schema level refreshes from Production to Dev/Stage
 Installed and configured 11g R1/R2 & 12C RDBMS.
 Rebuilding indexes if fragmented.
 Tables and Tablespace Reorg
 Planning and applying database patches quarterly.
 Monitoring growth of the database and health check daily basis.
 Manual Code migration from development instance to production.
 Created and Maintained production databases and development databases which
includes tablespace space management, user creation, privileges, roles etc.
 Experienced in administering and monitoring database using OEM.
 Upgraded 11gR1 to 11gR2/12C.
 Migrated databases using Expdmp/Impdmp utility from Solaris to Linux.
 Used Oracle Dataguard tool for creating standby database.
 Extensively worked on Real Application Cluster (RAC). Worked on 18 node cluster
env.
 Tracing, troubleshooting with database performance and tuning issues.
 Used ADDM and AWR diagnostics and performance gathering reporting tools for
performance and tuning issues.

4. Oracle Application Admin Support:
 Installed, upgraded and configured EBSO 11i & R12 and DB.
 Creating Users, Responsibilities, changing Profile Options, Request Groups, Request
Sets, Registering Forms, reports, printers.
 Exp in Licensing and installing products to an existing application.
 Installed new product using adsplice.
 Provided support of the development, UAT, production environment to functional leads
and users to resolve their issues.
 Manual Code migration from development instance to production.
 Efficient in Performance Tuning of database and applications such as forms, Concurrent
Manager and Apache.
 Applied Patches, bug fixes, and CPU patches(PSU).
 Assisted clients’ DBAs to resolve issues and provided transfer of knowledge to their
DBAs.
Middleware Technologies:
WebLogic SeverAdministration Support:
 Install, configure and support Weblogic Application Servers 11g on Linux
 Creation of Weblogic Manged server
 Increase the Maximum Capacity in weblogic servers conneciton pool settings
 Deploying War file and properties file in Weblogic server
 working knowledge in configuring multiple Weblogic domains including machines,
manage servers, node managers and cluster environments.
High availability(Oracle Engineered Systems):
Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Oracle 11g/12C RAC·
 Worked on quarter RACK environment on X3.x to X4.x.
 Migrated database from non-exadata to exadata machine.
 Experience in grid control console.
 Troubleshooting exadata Storage like flash cache disk and DB server performance issues
 Performing assessment for Oracle Exadata implementation.
 Troubleshooting Exadata Smartscan/Offloading issues.
 Applied patches on Database server/Storage server/IB.
 Configuring, Maintaining and troubleshooting Exadata Cell disk/Grid Disks.
 Configuring IORM/DBRM and Implementing Oracle Exadata best Practices.
 Using CELLCLI and DCLI utilities for managing storage cells.
 Monitoring the Infiniband Switches/ports ,HCA ports on DB/CELL nodes and IB
topology.
 Troubleshooting Infiniband/RDS performance issues.

5. Performance Tuning:
 Efficient in Performance Tuning of database and applications like Apache, forms,
Concurrent Manager and Workflow.
 Analyzing stats pack report, ADDM, AWR and SQLTRPT query execution plan and
wait events.
 Monitoring overall performance of the DB using OEM.
Project Management:
 Successfully managed DBA team for DB Migration Project from Solaris to Linux for GE.
Trainings Undergone:
 Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators from Oracle University.
 Oracle Database 10g Administration II Workshop from Oracle University.
 11i Install Patch and Maintain Oracle Applications from Oracle University.
 11i System Administrator Fundamentals from Oracle University.
 Oracle Discoverer Administrator 10g: Develop an EUL from Oracle University.
 Oracle Application Server 10g R2 Administration I from Oracle University.
 Oracle Application Server 10g R2 Administration II from Oracle University
 Teamwork skills from Oracle.
 Customer Focus from Oracle.
 ITIL
Soft skills:
 Good communication skills, self-motivated, ability and desire to learn new technologies.
 Good managing skills, proven interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure.
 Taking up the Shift Lead to manage team and working on high escalation cases for many
customers.
Technical Skills Highlight
Oracle Products:
 Oracle 10g, 11g and 12C. Oracle Apps 11i/Rel.12, Oracle Middleware(WebLogic).RAC 10g, 11g
Oracle Exadata Storage Server 11g/12C.
Operating Systems:
 Linux, Solaris and HP-UX
Personal Information:
Nationality : Indian
Marital Status : Married
Languages Known : English, Arabic and Urdu.
Other Interests : Computers, Reading and Sports
Current Address : Hyderabad, India.