1. VELAPPAN MANOHARAN
70 Oakhurst Lane
Mount Laurel, NJ, 08054
Mobile: 609-458-2853 Home: 856-222-0944
manoharanv@yahoo.com
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Summary:
An optimistic results orientated, certified DBA professional with over 15 years of experience in database design,
installation, upgrade, maintenance, backup and restore, performance tuning and 24x7 support. A strong
motivated team player and leader with can do attitude and open to new technologies.
Education:
M. S. (Computer Science) Gundy Engineering College, Chennai, Anna University, India
M. S. (Applied Mathematics) PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Anna University, India
Certification:
Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
ITIL Foundation Certification
Professional Skills:
 Oracle certified professional with 10+ years of progressive hands-on technical experience in managing mission-
critical Oracle databases on multiple versions of Oracle 11g and 12c
 Oracle Database Installation, Configuration, Administration, Performance Tuning and managing mission-critical
Oracle Databases on Linux, UNIX, AIX, Solaris and Windows Operating Systems.
 RMAN Backup & Recovery and automate the procedures using Shell Scripts
 Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) configuration, creation and maintenance with Oracle 10g/11g
 Oracle ASM, ACFS and ZFS Network Storage Technology
 Standby database (DATAGUARD) configuration, creation and maintenance for Disaster Recovery
 Installation, Configuration, Migration and upgrading (patches) Oracle software versions and databases
 Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) EM12c installation, configuration and managing all databases
 Data Export Import using Datapump and SQL*Loader
 Oracle Flashback Query and Flashback Data Archive (FDA)
 Capacity planning and design and build the database structure from scratch
 Performance Tuning with AWR, ADDM and ASH, Explain Plan, SQL Analysis and Tuning
 Oracle ZFS storage with Database Cloning, Snapshots and Database migration
 Oracle Personal Cloud Appliance (PCA) setup, configuration, Virtual Machine, single instance and RAC
 GoldenGate Extract and Replicat procedures
 SQL*PLUS, Shell Script programming using AWK and SED, Toad, SQL*Developer tools
 Data conversion and Migration
 Stored procedures, Triggers and PL/SQL programming
 Microsoft Spreadsheet, Project, Power Point tools
 24x7 database monitoring and support and to follow-up until issues resolved

2. VELAPPAN MANOHARAN
70 Oakhurst Lane
Mount Laurel, NJ, 08054
Mobile: 609-458-2853 Home: 856-222-0944
manoharanv@yahoo.com
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Professional Experience:
TRAC Intermodal, Princeton, NJ
Database Administrator (2014 May-Current)
TRAC Intermodal is North America’s leading intermodal equipment provider and chassis pool manager serving
domestic and international shippers. The company's operations include long-term leasing and short-term rentals
of the approximately 272,000 chassis in the fleet. TRAC also provide pool/fleet management services and are a
leader in providing chassis solutions to the intermodal industry that are designed to increase supply chain
efficiency, control costs and promote safety.
Responsibilities and Projects completed:
 24x7 Monitoring Production databases running on Oracle ODA in ASM/RAC environment
 Created Standby DATAGUARD database for production database in ASM / RAC environment
 Installed Oracle Releases, patches and upgraded software and databases in 11g environment
 Configured Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) for monitoring 100+ databases, systems, etc
 Created RMAN backup strategy and implemented for production databases
 Created standalone databases and provided support for development and QA testing
 Created daily/weekly and monthly clone of production databases in ZFS storage using snapshots
 Created database copy in ZFS storage using shadow migration
 Opened Service Request with Oracle Support for HW and Software issues and followed until issues are fixed
 Managed database security by assigning proper Grants and Roles to Users to enforce Security
 SQL monitoring, tuning, analysis done to improve SQL execution performance
 Supported production code promotion for successful release deployment
 Copied Tables, Schema from one database to another using Datapump (export/import)
 Installed Goldengate Release and implemented history data movement from production to archive
 Set up automatic email alerts for all database tasks, disk space and Software and Hardware issues
 Configure Oracle Personal Cloud Appliance and created Virtual Machines for database and client applications
 Created single and RAC databases in Oracle Personal Cloud Appliance (PCA) Virtual Machines
 Managed Software and Hardware Licenses and follow-up with renewal process
 Provided design suggestions and review for PL/SQL code to development team
 Participated with Product Quality Testing Team, identified performance related issues and resolved

3. VELAPPAN MANOHARAN
70 Oakhurst Lane
Mount Laurel, NJ, 08054
Mobile: 609-458-2853 Home: 856-222-0944
manoharanv@yahoo.com
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COMVERSE, Mount Laurel, NJ
Sr. DBA (2008 Oct-2014 Feb)
Comverse One Customer Application Project
Comverse, also known as Comverse Network Systems, is a provider of software and systems enabling value-
added services for voice, messaging, mobile Internet and mobile advertising; converged billing and active
customer management; and IP communications. Comverse's solutions support flexible deployment models,
including in-network, hosted and managed services. Comverse's customer base spans more than 130 countries
and covers over 500 communication service providers serving more than two billion subscribers.
Joined as Informix DBA in 2000 and converted to Oracle Developer and then to Oracle DBA. Also, as a team
lead, managed DBA and developers in US and India.
 Led the end to end database development process of analysis, design, development, testing and delivery of
ComverseOne product to many billing customers
 Provided upgrade, fallback and backup scripts for static, main, history databases for billing customers
 Provided capacity planning for billing customers and Installed Oracle software, created, maintained and provided
support of Oracle Databases for various Comverse One releases to billing customers in many countries
 Participated in application features design and development and provided suggestions for better database design
for data integrity and performance
 Installed and maintained Oracle RAC for internal development and customers for high availability with automatic
switch over capability
 Installed and maintained MASTER/SLAVE Database configuration with hundreds of static tables Replicated from
MASTER to many SLAVE Databases using Materialized VIEWS with Fast Refresh
 Created Disaster Recovery Databases for Comverse One Real-Time (OLTP) Main and history databases and
created hot standby database with Redo logs applied automatically
 Used Oracle Data Pump Export and Import extensively to move daily historical data from MAIN OLTP database to
HISTORY Database which is Range PARTITION for every day
 Used Oracle FLASHBACK query and DATABASE to restore data for accidental update, delete and Drop by users by
mistake
 Analyzed customer issues by running AWR Reports for performance and provided SQL Tuning help to developers
 Maintained internal and customer databases for disk space and Tablespaces issues and provided immediate
support for minimal down time
 Led a team of DBAs and DB Developers for features design, development, packaging and delivery
 Developed Data Migration tools/scripts for many customers from their legacy system to Comverse One database
using SQL*LOADER, AWK, SED and UNIX SHELL commands
 Created Triggers for Database Auditing to capture the user details with activities performed
 Managed and led a team of Offshore DBAs and developers for Release planning, design, development and delivery
and provided support to resolve customer issues
 Coordinated effectively with Database, PQA/Test and Configuration Management and Release Management
Teams to meet the development and delivery deadlines

4. VELAPPAN MANOHARAN
70 Oakhurst Lane
Mount Laurel, NJ, 08054
Mobile: 609-458-2853 Home: 856-222-0944
manoharanv@yahoo.com
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COMVERSE, Mount Laurel, NJ
DBA/DB Developer (2003 Oct-2007 Sep)
 Real Time Billing System (RTBS) is one of the main products of Comverse prior to Comverse ONE which
comprises of various customer care applications
 Migrated database design and development and data from Informix database to Oracle
 Analyzed space requirements for tables and other objects and created tablespaces and databases
 Designed RTBS database as 2 node active and standby servers using Oracle OPS technology
 Designed RTBS database with MAIN and HISTORY databases. Main DB contains the static and subscriber data for
real-time call processing (OLTP) and history database for keeping history records generated daily
 Designed, created and supported Master/Slave Oracle databases with the static data replicated from Master to all
Slave databases with SNAPSHOT VIEWS with automatic Fast Refresh
 Used DATABASE LINK extensively for Replication and other activities to access remote database with in PL/SQL
procedures
 Created automatic scripts and PL/SQL procedures to move the millions of history records from MAIN to HISTORY
Database and for many nightly Batch Jobs
 Partitioned history database as daily Range Partition for better performance and maintenance. Each daily
partition has many millions of records
 Used SQL*LOADER extensively to load data as part of Data migration and loading selective data from one
database to another
 Extensively worked on performance tuning for real-time call processing and to improve performance of batch
processing
 Designed, created and maintained Report Server/DWH for one of the customer. Automated the unload of static,
subscribers and history data from all Master/Slave databases to report server DB, process the data after received
from all DBs and created reports using Business Objects/Crystal report. The complete procedure is automated
and the report is ready 6 AM every day
COMVERSE, Mount Laurel, NJ
InformixDBA/DB Developer (1999 Sep-2002 Sep)
 Designed, created and support Informix database for Real Time Billing System
 Designed, developed and maintained PL/SQL Stored Procedures and Triggers for real-time call processing
 Developed and maintained many stored procedures and scripts for Nightly Batch processing
 Used UNIX/AIX Cron and Crontab and created many scripts for automatic processing of jobs and other activities
related to database
 Designed and developed Data Migration scripts and procedures for many customer data to RTBS/Informix
database structure
 Developed DB Schema upgrade/Fallback and provided support of many RTBS Releases for internal development
and for many customers
 Developed many UNIX SHELL Scripts for database creation, maintenance and support