The document provides a summary of Karthikeyan Ponnusamy's experience as a SQL Database Administrator and Technical Lead. He has over 10 years of experience handling large SQL database environments of up to 6 terabytes in size. He has worked on various projects for clients in industries such as media, manufacturing, logistics, and education. His responsibilities have included database installation, maintenance, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and providing 24/7 support.

1. Karthikeyan Ponnusamy
+91-98414-35220
karthik830312@gmail.com
Experience Summary:
Having 10+ years of overall experience in database systems. Having good Experience in handling large
environments and Teams as a TechnicalTeam Lead role. Having more than 7 years of Experience in
Production Support. Maximum size of DB handled is 6 Terabytes.
Having good experience in working SQL 2008R2/2008/2005/2000 as SQL Server DBA. Responsible for
Installation, Capacity planning, Migration - Upgrade & maintaining high availability techniques like Log
shipping, Database Mirroring and SQL Clustering.
Experienced in DBA activities spread across areas such as Installation and Upgrade, Migration,
Performance Tuning, Backup/Recovery, User management, SQL Alerts and configurations, Job
Scheduling/Monitoring, Log shipping, Database Mirroring, SQL Cluster setup/maintenance, Disaster
Recovery solutions and troubleshooting of day to day operation, Hands on knowledge in SSIS
configuration and Package deployment.
Have enough experience in Knowledge Transition from onsite team for SQL server support. Knowledge
Transition has been completed successfully for 18 countries for the Project ‘The Nielson Company’ in
TCS.
Worked as Technical Lead to support SQL servers for 24X7 in mission critical production environment.
Having Experience with Backup tools like TSM, SQLsafe, Litespeed, CommVault, Monitoring tools like
Tivoli, SCOM, Ignite and Ticketing tools like Maximo, Manage now, Clarify, HPSM and Remedy.
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2. Karthikeyan Ponnusamy
+91-98414-35220
karthik830312@gmail.com
Experience Summary:
Currently working in Harland Clarke Holding Software India Private Ltd (Global Scholar) as Lead SQL
Database Administrator from March 2011 to Till date.
1 Year experience as Technical Lead in Cognizant Technology Solutions from April 2010 to March 2011.
1 Year 7 Months experience as Technical Lead in IBM India Private Limited from Sep 2008 to April 2010.
5 Months experience as Team Lead and SQL Database Administrator in TATA Consultancy services Ltd
from May 2008 to Sep 2008.
3 Years 2 Months experience as SQL Database Administrator & SQL Programmer in Software Team in
ZENTA (Global Realty Outsourcing (I) Pvt. Limited) from April 2005 to May 2008.
Education and Certifications
 B.Tech in Information Technology, Madras University – INDIA
 ITIL V3 Foundation Certified
 Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in SQL Server 2005.
Technical Skills
Operating Systems Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP.
Tools MS Office, SQLSafe, TSM, Tivoli, SCOM, Lite speed, CommVault, Ignite.
Database SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2008R2
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3. Karthikeyan Ponnusamy
+91-98414-35220
karthik830312@gmail.com
Professional Experience
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4. Karthikeyan Ponnusamy
+91-98414-35220
karthik830312@gmail.com
Harland Clarke Holding Software India Pvt Ltd (Global Scholar)
Duration March 2011 to Till date
Project ASPS/GradeBook/PI
Client US Clients
Role SQL Database Administrator - Lead
Team Size 4
Project Abstract ASPS/GradeBook/PI is education based product development project mainly used in
US schools and colleges. It’s purely on Online education, Online tutoring and web
based training for students. Also this project is for tracking student records like score,
attendance, performance and grade.
Responsibilities  SQL Server Installation and Service Pack Upgrade.
 SQL Server Migration from SQL 2008 to SQL 2008R2.
 Database Backup, Refresh and Recovery.
 Managing database security, creating and assigning appropriate roles and
privileges as required by the application.
 Monitoring Server (Performance), Database Jobs and Performance Tuning.
 Replication Setup and maintenance.
 SQL Server Cluster Installation and maintenance
 Setup Database Mirroring for few databases.
 Defragmentation of tables and indexes for improved performance.
 Implementing Scripts and Data Validation in Production server.
 Attending Client calls, Project Status calls and SLA meetings.
 T-SQL Code review for Objects created by Developer
 Performance Tuning based on slow running queries.
 Disaster Recovery setup and test.
 Status Reports for On-call Support and Requests, Project Tracking –
Planning and Progress,
 SPOC for SQL database related requests for internal and external clients
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5. Karthikeyan Ponnusamy
+91-98414-35220
karthik830312@gmail.com
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Duration Apr 2010 to March 2011
Project Travelers Insurance
Client US Clients
Role Technical Lead
Team Size 16
Project Abstract “Travelers” is an insurance company in US. We provided 24X7 end to end SQL
Server Support for all SQL servers in Production, QA and Development environment.
Most of the servers are in SQL 2005 and SQL 2000. Worked in moving all SQL
servers to shared environment and consolidation. The DBA team owns the total
responsibility for the support activities of the database administration. Worked as
Primary DBA for Travelers Client.
Responsibilities  SQL Server Installation and Service Pack Upgrade.
 SQL Server Cluster Installation and maintenance.
 SQL Server Consolidation and moving Servers to shared Environment
 SQL Server Migration from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005.
 Database Backup, Refresh and Recovery.
 Managing database security, creating and assigning appropriate roles and
privileges as required by the application.
 Monitoring Server (Performance), Database Jobs and Performance Tuning.
 Defragmentation of tables and indexes for improved performance.
 Implementing Scripts in Production server.
 Hands on experience in Database Mirroring.
 Attending Client calls, On-Call and SLA meetings.
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6. Karthikeyan Ponnusamy
+91-98414-35220
karthik830312@gmail.com
IBM India Private Limited
Duration Sep 2008 to Apr 2010
Project Lam Research (Manufacturing Sector), Patriot Coal, Avis Budget (Logistics)
Client US Clients
Role Technical Lead
Team Size 6
Project Abstract Lam Research, Patriot Coal, Avis Budget are US projects. We provided 24X7 end to
end SQL Server Support for all SQL servers in Production, QA and Development
environment. Most of the servers are in SQL 2000 and SQL 2005. Migrated more
than 10 production SQL servers to SQL 2008 version. The DBA team owns the total
responsibility for the support activities of the database administration. As the project
had prescribed SLAs, we had the strong status reporting mechanism and weekly
meetings/conference calls with the onsite team.
Responsibilities  SQL server Installation, Service Pack Upgrade and Hot Fix Patching.
 SQL Server Cluster Installation and maintenance.
 Creating Backup Maintenance Plan and Maintenance activity jobs.
 Database Refresh and Recovery.
 Managing database security, creating and assigning appropriate roles and
privileges as required by the application.
 Monitoring Server (Performance), Database Jobs and Performance Tuning.
 SQL Server Migration from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 and SQL 2008.
 Defragmentation of tables and indexes for improved performance.
 Hands on experience in configuring Log Shipping and Database Mirroring.
 Attending Client calls and SLA meetings.
 Responsible for On-call Support to provide 24/7 support to clients.
 Handling a Team of 5 members to support day to day activities in SQL
servers
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7. Karthikeyan Ponnusamy
+91-98414-35220
karthik830312@gmail.com
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8. Karthikeyan Ponnusamy
+91-98414-35220
karthik830312@gmail.com
Tata Consultancy Services
Duration May 2008 to Sep 2008
Project The Nielsen Company(Media Research and Marketing)
Client Worldwide
Role Team Lead and SQL Database Administrator
Team Size 10
Project Abstract The Nielsen Company is the Media Research and Marketing company. We provided
24X7 end to end SQL Server Support for all SQL servers in Production, QA and
Development environment. Most of the servers are in SQL 2000 and SQL 2005. The
DBA team owns the total responsibility for the support activities of the database
administration. As the project had prescribed SLAs, we had the strong status
reporting mechanism and weekly meetings/conference calls with the onsite team.
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9. Karthikeyan Ponnusamy
+91-98414-35220
karthik830312@gmail.com
Responsibilities  Completed Knowledge Transition from Onsite Team for more than 18
Countries worldwide to support SQL servers from Offshore.
 Handled more than 1000 SQL servers to provide SQL support to client.
 SQL server Installation, Service Pack Upgrade and Hot Fix Patching.
 Creating Backup Maintenance Plan and Maintenance activity jobs.
 Database Refresh and Recovery.
 Managing database security, creating and assigning appropriate roles and
privileges as required by the application.
 Monitoring Server (Performance), Database Jobs and Performance Tuning.
 SQL Server Migration from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005.
 Performing Replication setup and troubleshooting.
 Defragmentation of tables and indexes for improved performance and Space
Management.
 Hands on experience in Clustering and Database Mirroring.
 Attending Client calls and SLA meetings.
 Handling a Team of 5 members to support day to day activities in SQL
servers
Zenta Knowledge Services Private Limited
Duration April 2005 to May 2008
Project Internal Projects
Client US Clients
Role SQL Database Administrator & SQL Programmer
Team Size 3
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10. Karthikeyan Ponnusamy
+91-98414-35220
karthik830312@gmail.com
Project Abstract Zenta is a BPO/KPO company. We provided 24X7 end to end SQL Server Support for
all SQL servers in Production, QA and Development environment for Internal Projects.
Most of the servers are in SQL 2000 and few SQL 2005. The DBA team owns the total
responsibility for the support activities of the database administration. As the project
had prescribed SLAs, we had the strong status reporting mechanism and weekly
meetings/conference calls with the Management team.
Responsibilities  SQL server Installation, Service Pack Upgrade and Hot Fix Patching.
 Creating Backup Maintenance Plan and Maintenance activity jobs.
 Database Refresh and Recovery.
 Managing database security, creating and assigning appropriate roles
and privileges as required by the application.
 Monitoring Server (Performance), Database Jobs and Performance
Tuning.
 SQL server Migration from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005.
 Performing Replication setup and troubleshooting.
 Defragmentation of tables and indexes for improved performance and
effective space management.
 Attending Management calls and SLA meetings.
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