1. Rafiq Islam
Email:rafiq8345@gmail.com
Phone:(408)718-6258 (C);(408)557-0630 (H)
IT professional withmore than12 Years of Industrial experience in24x7 mission-critical
productiondatabases, DBMigration with ZeroDowntime for hotwire site production database
of size 5TB generating2+ BillonDollars gross booking peryear, completed14TB Data
Warehouse migrationin Exadata (version5.2) environmentone month before the project
completiondate.ExperiencedwithRAC(withorwithoutASM) installationandadministration,
managingeBusinessSuite alongwithqualityfocused,professional attitude,excellentproblem-
solvingskills withon-callpagerdutytosupportproductionsystem.Alsoexperienced with
MySQL and Mongo database administration,replication,Sharding.Successfullyimplemented
Data Guard/Standby in our eBusinessSuite environmenttorefreshtestingenvironment
withinan hour from 2 days to facilitate finance to reproduce critical bugs and fixthem before
pushingin prod.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
April/12 – Present Hotwire.com/Expedia.com,San Francisco, CA 94111
Oracle Database:
 Installedandupgradeddatabasesfromversion11gto 12c to have new featureslike
limitpgausage withResource Manager,MonitoringOnline tableRedefinitionprogress,
renamingandrelocatingonlinedatafilesetc.Reducedthe supportcostabout100K
 MigratedHotwire Site productiondatabase withZeroDowntime withoutimpacting
revenue
 Implemented RMAN Backup/Restore tobackupthe databasesfordisasterrecoveryand
refresh the testingdatabases
 SetupOEM/DB console tomonitor/tune offensiveSQLs/jobstofinishquickly.Response
time improved
 Ran AWR, ADDM, ASHreports to pinpointproblems.Tunedthe SQLstatements.
Response time of the SQLstatementsimproved ~50%.
 Physical Standby/DataGuard torefreshtestingenvironmentwithinanhourtofacilitate
finance toreproduce bugsandfix them
 Maintained RACdatabase in our Data Warehouse onExadatato improve scalability,
betterruntime of the batchjobsetc.
 Wrote SQL, PL/SQL scriptsto monitordatabase,renamingpartitions andgotpage if any
error occurred.

2.  ImplementedInterval partitions,OLTPcompression toaddpartitionwhileneededand
savingdiskspace withperformance improvement.
Oracle Apps:
 AppliedpatchwithAdpatchutility tofix bugs,enhancementsetc
 Recompiledandregeneratedforms,reportfilesetcwithadminutility,troubleshoot
concurrentmanagerand otherparts of the apps
 ChangedAPPS,APPLSYS,GL, AR, AP passwordwithFNDCPASSutilityetc.
MysqlDatabase:
 CreatedandManaged databasesinthe AMAZON CLOUD and in-house.
 Backup/restore databases withinnobackupex/Mysqldump fordisasterrecovery
 Implementedtwowayreplicationforloadbalancing andavoidingdowntime for
patching.ZeroRevenue impact
Mongo (NoSQL)Database:
 ConfiguredreplicaSet,ShardinginAMAZON Cloudandin-house totake 10x traffic
 Setup monitoringagentandCloudManager to monitorand administerthe databases.
Amazon Cloud:
 Migrateddatabasesto AmazonEC2 and RDS to eliminatedatacentercostandsaved
approx.50% of the current cost.
 Administering/Monitoring/Tuningdatabases inEC2instances
Shareplex:
 Replicateddatafrom site Productiondatabase toOperationaldatasource database for
ETL and gettingthe real time data.Reducedthe loadonproductiondatabase.
Unix/Linux:
 Knowledgeof Unix/Linux, writingshell scriptsformonitoring
July/10 – April/12 HP(Hewlett-Packard),Cupertino,CA95051
 Installedandconfiguredthree node RACdatabase togetthe highavailabilityand
scalability
 Upgradeddatabase fromversion10g to 11g
August/04 – Jul/10 Hotwire.com/Expedia.com,San Francisco, CA 94111
 UpgradedeBusinessSuiteto11.5.10 from desupportedversionand save moneyfor
consultant
 Upgradeddatabasesfromversion8i to 9i and version9i to 10g to get new features,save
$100K supportcost fordesupportedversion.

3. EDUCATION
Bachelorof Science inComputerScience
The Universityof Auckland,New Zealand
Masters of EngineeringinIndustrial andProductionEngineering
Bachelorof EngineeringinMechanical Engineering
BangladeshUniversityof Engineering&
Technology,Bangladesh
Visa Status: US Citizen
Reference:Available uponrequest/selected