Girish Kandan has 2 years of experience as an offshore database administrator working with Teradata environments. He has worked on projects for Travelers Indemnity Company and Abbott Laboratories. His responsibilities include database administration, production support, space management, backup and recovery, data loads, and upgrades. He has received recognition for his work in storage management, version releases, and solving critical incidents.

1. GIRISH KANDAN M Mobile No. 9003020539
E-mail: girishkandan@live.com
Summary:
An adroit professional with 2 years and 1 month of hands on experience in Teradata data
warehouse administration and internal project management. Effective in managing relationship
with people at all level of business.
Education:
 Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from Agni college of Technology
Affiliated to Anna University with First class.
Technical Skills:
Database  Teradata
Tools  Teradata database & Tools Utilities 13.10 & 15 (Fastload,
Fastexport, Multiload, Tpump, Bteq, Arcmain, Teradata Manager,
and Administrator).
Relevant Project Experience
Project 1 :
Client Travelers Indemnity Company, USA
Team size 5
Organization Cognizant Technology solutions
Duration 14th
April 2014 To 19th
June 2015
Role Offshore Database Administrator
Environment Teradata 14.10
Project 2 :
Client Abbott Laboratories, USA
Team size 2
Organization Cognizant Technology solutions
Duration August 14th
2015 To Present
Role Offshore Database Administrator
Environment Teradata 14.10

2. CLIENT DESCRIPTION (PROJECT 1)
Travelers offers a wide variety of property and casualty insurance and surety products and
services to businesses, organizations and individuals in the United States and in selected
international markets. In addition, the company can meet insurance needs in more than 90
countries worldwide through our network of insurers. Personal Insurance offers a broad array of
property and casualty insurance products for individuals
Cognizant IT IS provides administration, maintenance and upgrades in DB2 databases
and servers. Also provide 24x7 & on-call support. Team handles L1, L2 & L3 tasks involving
administration of high availability solutions and product support operations.
The support module has onshore and offshore team member working on various
databases technologies in Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Teradata.
Service provides on different Line of Business (LOB) Personnel Insurance (PI), Business
Insurance (BI), Claims and Bonds. Major four towers are in the Database support model.
 Microsoft SQL Server 200020052008 versions hosted on Windows 20002003 and
2008.
 ORACLE 9i/10g/11g versions hosted on Linux/Sun OS/IBM AIX servers.
 Teradata database servers hosted on Linux and IBM AIX servers.
 DB2 version 9 hosted on Z/OS servers.
CLIENT DESCRIPTION (PROJECT 2)
Abbott Laboratories is an American worldwide health care company Abbott has a broad range
of branded generic pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, nutrition products, including
Ensure, a line of meal replacement shakes. The company's in-vitro diagnostics business
performs immunoassays and blood screening. Its medical tests and diagnostic instrument
systems are used worldwide by hospitals, laboratories, blood banks, and physician offices to
diagnose and monitor diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, cancer, heart failure and metabolic
disorders, as well as assess other indicators of health.
o The support module has onshore and offshore team member working on various
databases technologies in Oracle, SQL Server, and Teradata.
o Services provided on different Divisions Such as ADD Dallas, ADD division, AN
division, AV Division, EPD Division, GIS-BSS Divison, APOC Division, GSS
Division and LATAM Division.
o Totally 278 servers are handles by Oracle Team, 286 servers by SQL team and
15 servers by Teradata Team (Only AN division).

3. Contribution
 Provide maintenance and support for enterprise DWH Teradata Databases environment for
DEV, TEST, MO & PROD including on call support during the weekends.
 Proficient in database administration, production support, space management, database
security
 24x 7Production database administration, support and monitoring to ensure a proactive
problem recognition and resolution of database issues.
 Regular database activities like user and database creation, role and privilege setup and
trouble shooting.
 Loaded the data from a flat file to the respective Teradata database table using Fast load
and Multi load scripts.
 Involved in Backup/Archive/Recovery in all environments
 Monitoring Teradata Manager/View Point
 Trouble shooting Teradata backup job failures
 Done migration activities (Moving the data from old server to new server).
 Production server Workload performance reporting

4.  Data refresh from production to DEV/TEST environment
 Involved in Teradata upgrade activity from 13.10 to 14.10.
 Willingness to learn new concepts and technology and apply them to yield successful results
Special Mention
 Received “Kudos” from higher management for initiating best practices in Teradata storage
management – reclaimed 8 TB of space from unused databases to DBC
 Received “Gold Star” from client for actively coordinating critical version releases in
production environment
 Engage in cleaning up left over spool spaces across environments as part of space
management activity
 Coordinated with Teradata in FRO upgrade activities and 13.10 to 14.10 upgrade activities.
 Received appreciation mails for solving critical incidents and also for successfully
completing the Migration.
 As service improvement, automated the process of backup job tracking
Additional skills:
 6 months of experience in Share point 2013 administration in Zirlen technologies
 Heads up on project management activities like daily dashboard, Audit and monthly deck for
entire DA team.
 Completed 2 months certified course on JAVA and got certified as Oracle certified JAVA
professional(OCJP) from Oracle.
 Completed internal certification for ITIL V3 Foundation course from Cognizant academy
 Certified as IT IS six Sigma – Yellow belt from Cognizant academy
PERSONAL PROFILE:
Father’s Name - M. Girish kandan
Date of Birth - 25.06.1992
Age - 23 Years
Email - girishkandan@live.com
Phone - 9003020539
Place: Chennai DATE: 18.05.2016