Overall 12 Years and 9+ of experience as an Oracle Database Administrator, my experience has scaled in providing client support, analysis, designing, development, testing, installation, migration, maintenance and administration for oracle databases, which included understanding the requirements, upgrades, performance tuning, backup & recovery, cloning and space management using ORACLE 11g, 10g, 9i performing the role of Oracle Database Administrator according to the set standards and timelines.

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YUGANDHAR UPPALA
Mail: Yugan.sng@gmail.com Cell: +91-9566258899
SUMMARY
Overall 12 Years’ experience and 9+ years of experience as an Oracle Database Administrator, my experience has
scaled in providing client support, analysis, designing, development, testing, installation, migration, maintenance and administration
for oracle databases, which included understanding the requirements, upgrades, performance tuning, backup & recovery, cloning and
space management using ORACLE 11g, 10g, 9i performing the role of Oracle Database Administrator according to the set standards and
timelines.
Experience in project management
Experience in people management
Having ~1 year ONSITE experience at Newjersy /USA.
Major Demonstrated Strengths
• Working Knowledge on DR activity on quarterly basis.
• User administration automation user friendly manner.
• Having Knowledge on table refresh activity between different servers.
• Working knowledge on EXADATA in Cell disk management along with Oracle Support guide lines.
• Working Knowledge on GOLDEN AGTE trouble shooting .
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Technical Exposure:
• Good knowledge on infrastructure technologies (Wintel/Unix) .
• Working knowledge on ITIL process in middle ware support and ITIL V3 certified.
• Extensive experience in installation of Oracle 11g, 10g, 9i, 8i on Linux, UNIX and Windows environments.
• Working knowledge on up gradation database 9.2.0.6 to 11.2.0.3
• Working knowledge on up gradation database 10.2.0.5 to 11.2.0.3
• Working knowledge on quarterly patches apply for standalone and RAC and Data guard
• Managed cold and HOT backup, RMAN with EMC/TSM Net backup, Export & Import, proficient in setting up the network
connections (i.e. setting up Listener and TCP/IP Connections).
• Working knowledge on 10.2.0.4 to 10.2.0.5 upgrades stand alone and RAC and Data guard
• Working knowledge on backup, recovery of oracle databases.
• Working knowledge on DB and Schema Level Refresh activities.
• Working knowledge on monitoring for potential space issues for all servers.
• Experience in planning & implementation of used physical & logical backup using Shell Script, RMAN
• Co-ordinate with UNIX Administrators for space management on various servers, and EMC/TSM Administrators to managing
the backups.
• Service Improvement Process (SIP) Discussions.
• Working knowledge in war room calls on Sev1 and Major Incidents.
• Technical direction and coordination with the team members to fix the priority issues.
• Working knowledge on support and participate for the change control process
• Working knowledge on appropriate inputs to the problem management process, RCA preparation
• Handled conflict situations and make quick decision while driving incidents
• Use escalation matrix appropriately to get appropriate level of focus from technical teams and management.
• Working knowledge on Co-ordination with Change management and Incident management team.
• Oracle Golden Gate installation, configuration, troubleshooting Golden Gate EXTRACT and REPLICAT issues.
• Working knowledge on the DB re orgs to claiming the unused space in the database.
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• Working knowledge on RAC services relocation based on the Middleware team requests as part of connectivity issues .
• Working knowledge on the Blocking sessions issues to avoid to poor performance and contention in the database.
• Working knowledge on converting the standby database to snapshot database as per the Application user requests.
• ~1 year experience on EXADATA and GG (Golden gate) .
• Racspace DBA Support
• L1 support for exadata X% and X3 .
Skill Classification Description
Operating Systems HP-UX 10.x,11.x, Sun Solaris 2.5,2.6,8,9,10, AIX 5.1,5.2, Red Hat Linux 3.x,4.x,5.x,6.x and windows /
2000/XP
RDBMS Oracle 11g/10g/9i, Oracle 10g Real Application Cluster (RAC), ASM
Tools and Utilities RMAN, OEM, TOAD, SQL*Loader , Export/Import, Data pump, Query builder, Net Backup, SQL
Tuning/Access Advisor, SQL Performance Analyzer, Data Guard, Cloning, Migrations
Languages C, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX/NT Shell Scripting
Tuning Tools TKPROF, EXPLAIN PLAN, STATSPACK, ADDM, AWR.
Certifications
10g OCA,
ITIL V3 Foundation,
Oracle 91,10g,11g Brain Bench Certifications
SixSigma yellow Belt,
Oracle 11g Fundamentals
Management Skills
Good Team Player
PMP
35 PDU’S completed and preparing for exam.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
M/s Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Duration
Dec/2013-TillDate
Team Size 12
Technology Team Lead
Location Chennai,
Project Abstract Client Name : CCC-Certified Collateral Corporation,Chicago,IL,US.
CCC Information Services Group helps smooth the dents in world of auto claims processing. The company's software
and services help insurance agencies, independent appraisers, and collision repair shops process auto claims. CCC's
offerings include applications for estimating collision and repair cost and its Value scope claim settlement services
application for estimating the worth of totaled vehicles.
Role- DBA • Planned and Implemented Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability using RAC, Golden gate and Data
Guard.
• Installed and configured RAC (2 node) and Performed up-gradation of grid infrastructure and Oracle
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databases from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.3
• Performed health checks in RAC instances using Crsctl and Srvctl utility.
• Performed Database refresh from Production RAC environment to TEST RAC environment.
• Experience in monitoring and managing of Oracle instances using Enterprise Manager Grid Control (OEM
grid) 10g /11g/12c.
• Starting and stopping the agents to clear metric alerts and collecting ADDM reports in OEM.
• Creating blackouts and templates in OEM and migrated databases from Non ASM TO ASM.
• Performed various tasks on ASM, creating a disk group, adding a disk to disk group, making disk online and
offline and troubleshooting issues in ASM environment.
• Involved in configuring Data-guard for production databases on 11gR2.
• Maintained DR server which have physical standby databases.
• Converted Physical Standby to Snapshot Standby and also to Active data-guard.
• Involved in configuration of parameter files for extract process in primary and replica process in standby
using Golden Gate.
• Installed Golden Gate for replication of database on 11gR2 RAC environment.
• Configured parameters for the Bi-directional replication using Golden-Gate.
• Applied patches on standalone servers using Opatch utility.
• Performed Migration of databases 10.2.0.4 on Solaris to Oracle 11.2.0.3 on Linux.
• Upgraded development and production databases from 10.2.0.x to 11.2.0.3 on RHEL.
• Implemented data transfer using Data Pumps and Export/Import utilities.
• Performed Cloning of databases using RMAN from production to test and dev environment.
• Involved in scheduling incremental, cumulative and full backups and configured retention policy using
RMAN.
• Registered databases in catalog server and also performed database cloning using RMAN.
• Performed daily maintenance tasks like space management, rectified locking problems, managed quotas
and configured network components like TNSNAMES, Names Server, Connection Manager, for easy and
effective management of Oracle networking. Configured listener for external procedure calls.
• Worked closely with ETL applications team.
• Develop and enforce both database and OS-level security policies for data protection.
• Involved in Setup the Oracle Wallet for Encryption Functions and Expertise in protecting the Oracle wallet
with ACFS access controls.
• Created Tables That Contain Encrypted Columns and Oracle Wallet Management for Transparent Data
Encryption.
• Involved in various database security activities like Enabling Transparent Data Encryption, Automatic Login
Enabled for Transparent Data Encryption, Setting and Resetting the Master Key, Adding and Removing Salt
from an Encrypted Columns.
• Involved in administration of all databases in the areas of maintenance, tuning, performance, and
troubleshooting and debugging SQL/PL SQL involved in Application development.
• Extensively used AWR, ADDM and EXPLAIN PLAN for Generating reports.
• Efficient in using the Oracle Tools like OEM, SQL* Plus, SQL* Loader, TKPROF, LOGMINER, STATSPACK,
SQL*Net, IMPORT/EXPORT, and RMAN.
• Involved in writing for shell scripts for monitoring health checks and also for taking RMAN backups and
Developed Scripts for transferring data from production server to testing/development servers.
ONSITE/USA EXPERIENCE:
M/s Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Duration
Aug/2013-Dec/2013
Team Size 18
Technology Oracle DBA
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Location Raritan,NewJersy,USA /INDIA Chennai
Project Abstract Client Name : Johnson & Johnson, Raritan,NewJersy
• Johnson & Johnson is a U.S multinational medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods
manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and
the company is listed among the Fortune 500.
Role- DBA
 9.2.0.6 to 11.2.0.3 Migration.
 10.2.05 to 11.2.0.3 Migration.
 DBMS Software Updates - Installation of DBMS software per best practices. Patch and version upgrade
evaluation, planning and installation.
 Experience in managing Terabyte databases
M/s Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Duration
Apr/2013-Aug//2013
Team Size 20
Technology Oracle DBA
Location Chicago/Illinois
Project Abstract Client Name : Discover Financial Services , Chicago/Illinois
 The Discover Card was originally introduced by Sears in 1985, and was a unit of Dean Witter, which
merged with Morgan Stanley in 1997. In 2007, the unit was spun off as an independent, publicly traded
company. Today, Discover is headquartered in the Chicago suburb of River woods, Illinois.On December 21,
2001, Fourth quarter income at Discover card issuer Discover Financial Services Inc. grew 31% to $193
million, compared with $147 million a year ago.On March 5, 2002, Discover Financial Services, announced
that the Account Center at Discovercard.com had registered over eight million Cardmembers, an increase
of 61 percent since January 2001.On December 17, 2007, Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS ) today
announced the launch of its newly redesigned website.
Role- DBA
 Performance tuning issues handling
 RCA creation based on request Mandatory for Sev-1 and Sev-2 Tickets
 Handling the offshore team
 Involving System Improvement process(SIP)
 Attending WAR Room Calls.
 Adherence to policies, procedures and controls especially in regard to outage and change management,
licensing, and information protection.
 Performed various activities, such as database recovery, performance monitoring and tuning.
 Maintained a high level of user trust and confidence in IT’s knowledge of and concern for user’s business
needs.
 Performed day to day activities: Such as, daily error checks and database health, monitoring of physical
resources (disk space, memory, CPU, etc.).
 Proficient in raising tar with Oracle Support and using Metal ink to resolve the bottlenecks in the database
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environment.
OFFSHORE EXPERIENCE:
M/s Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Duration Apr/2011-Mar/2013
Team Size 48
Technology Oracle DBA/Shift Lead role
AstraZeneca is one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. Backed by a strong research base and extensive
manufacturing and commercial skills, we provide innovative, effective medicines that make a real difference for
patients in important areas of healthcare. We aim to be the first with new ideas and innovative in all areas of our
activity to create value for our customers, shareholders, employees, and the communities in which we work.
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M/s Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Duration Mar/2010 – Apr/2011
Project Abstract
Client Name : : Xerox (UK) Limited & Xerox XE France Application Support
An offspring of digital document giant Xerox Corp, Xerox (UK) markets its parent's products and services, including
copiers, printers, fax machines, document management software, and related supplies throughout the UK. Its
imaging product lines include both color and monochrome models, and range from small office printers and copiers
to large-scale production presses.
Role
Oracle DBA
• Implemented Oracle Database 10g 2 Node Real Application Cluster (RAC).
• Maintained and troubleshooting cluster-ware components in 10G RAC environment.
• Installed 10g standalone servers on Sun Solaris and installed databases on it.
• Used oracle configuration assistants like Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA) for creating databases,
Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA) for upgrading databases.
• Configured listener and TNS names manually.
• Involved in Up-gradation of databases from 9i to 10g.
• Configured Oracle Data-guard for Oracle Disaster recovery on 10g Solaris.
• Achieved High availability, Data protection and maximum performance by maintaining both physical and
logical standby databases.
• Converted physical standby databases to Snapshot standby database.
• Implemented Oracle database backup & recovery solutions using RMAN.
• Configured and Tuned RMAN for better performance and backup strategies.
• Involved in writing for shell scripts for taking RMAN backups.
• Restored and Recovered database at the times of occurrence of critical failures using RMAN.
• Extensive used Oracle Data pump, Exports/Imports utility for moving data among the servers.
• Created user accounts, roles and granting required access permissions and privileges to the database
based on the application they are accessing.
• Performed large batch jobs and tuning of SQL queries and database systems.
• Performed automated backups and scheduling using scripting.
• Written Stored Procedure and Triggers for database maintenance and management using PL/SQL and
Involved in gathering requirements from end users.
• Estimate growth of database size by detail analysis of the company's future policies and generating
reports for the management to act in advance.
• Clear documentation was prepared on all the processes like program specification, bugs fixing logs &
change requests for future reference.
M/s IBM India Pvt Ltd,Chennai
Duration Aug/2009 – Mar/2010
Project Abstract Client Name : AMGEN
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Technology Oracle DBA
Project Abstract
AMGEN Washington was originally the Immunex corporation. Immunex was purchased by Amgen in July 2002.
Immunex was a fully commercialized company with all normal aspects of a Biotech including research, process
development, commercial and clinical manufacturing (Rhode Island site came with Immunex), clinical development,
sales, operations, etc. Because many products were manufactured and sold by Immunex, a number of systems
contained data that needs to be kept for legal or regulatory reasons (records retention). Some of these systems
have been archived or since migrated to newer systems, however, a number are either in online archives or in
functional read-only systems.
Role
Oracle DBA
Performed day to day activities: Such as , daily error checks and database health, monitoring of physical resources
(disk space, memory, CPU, etc.).
Assisting Application Development Project Lifecycle through migration to Production, as well as SQL optimization
and post-implementation storm support.
Provided Production DBA support, as needed, on a 24/7 basis.
Database Recoverability- Supported Operational , Reporting and Development backups and restorations.
DBMS Software Updates - Installation of DBMS software per best practices. Patch and version upgrade evaluation,
planning and installation.
Experience in managing Terabyte databases
Adherence to policies, procedures and controls especially in regard to outage and change management, licensing,
and information protection.
Performed various activities, such as database recovery, performance monitoring and tuning.
Maintained a high level of user trust and confidence in IT’s knowledge of and concern for user’s business needs.
Presented and explain technical information of diverse type of audiences such as management, users, vendors and
technical staff in a way that establishes reports, persuades other and gains understanding.
Proficient in raising tar with Oracle Support and using Metalink to resolve the bottlenecks in the database
environment.
Trend Analysis Database and Table space Level preparation ,Db Quarter list check list Preparation. Monitoring the
Archive backup, Hot backup and Cold backup.
M/s IBM India Pvt Ltd,Chennai
Duration July/2008 – Aug/2009
Project Abstract Client Name : O2 Mobiles
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Technology Oracle DBA
Project Abstract
O2 Ireland is the second largest mobile phone operator in Ireland with approximately 40% market share or
1.6 million customers.The company provides WAP and GPRS services under the O2 Active brand. In October 2005,
O2 Ireland launched a version of NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service. The company holds a UMTS licence, and was the
third Irish operator to offer 3G services, after Vodafone Ireland and 3 Ireland, offering services in some built-up
areas in late 2006.O2 have recently gone through a restructuring phase, seeing it implement a number of cost-
cutting measures which involve outsourcing internal divisions to external companies.O2's IT division was outsourced
to IBM Ireland The company was originally a joint venture between East Telecom Group, headed up by Denis
O'Brien, and Telenor, and was originally known as Esat Digifone.
Role
ORACLE DBA
 Review of Database logical and Physical design.
 Install, upgrade and maintain Oracle 10g, 9i on Sun Solaris and Windows 2003, Redhat4.
 Installation, setup and configuration of DATA GUARD.
 Application Tuning by tuning queries, identifying problematic code, creation of indexes, re-writing queries
using an optimized path, creation of materialized Views and gathering necessary statistics on objects etc.
 Implementing Database Security, Management of role-based security.
 Applying Patches 9.2.0.6 and applying Oracle DST Patches on Oracle database.
 Write and modify UNIX shell scripts to manage Oracle environment.
 Performed Data Migration as a part of enterprise data warehouse project.
 Extensive Performance Tuning, Memory (SGA) Tuning, Net backup, EMC (Time finder and SRDF), RAID,
RAW Devices.
 Cloning databases using scripts as well as RMAN.
 Established database backup/recovery strategy for different databases.
 Recovery procedures are applied for complete and incomplete recoveries depending on the type of
failure.
 Management of table space growth, monitoring data files additions, extent growth.
 Constantly monitor the performance of the Databases and viewing Alert log files & Trace files.
 Implemented schema level, table level and bidirectional oracle streams.
 Used PL/SQL, SQL Loader as part of ETL process to populate the operational data store.
 Performed scheduling Control-m for scheduling jobs.
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9. M/s RAASI Enterprise solutions Ltd, Hyderabad.
Duration June/2004 – Jun/2008
Organization M/s RAASI Enterprise solutions Ltd, HYDERABAD
Project Abstract Client Name : ANDHRA PRADESH STATE TRANSPORT AUTHORITY
Technology Oracle DBA
Project Abstract
The client is State Transport Authority of Andhra Pradesh (STA.A.P). this project consists of 5
modules. 1. Learner Driving License 2. Driving License 3. Registration of Vehicles and taxation 4. Permits 5.
Conductor Driving License. We deal with the implementation and database maintenance part of the project.
This project has already been implemented at 4 district headquarters of A.P. We have implemented the
remaining centers. The advanced DBA concepts are used to establish the connection between the Central
Server at Hyderabad and the remaining centers, which are located at remote places. This project is also
planned to establish online information scrutiny at check posts also, so that the taxes or punishments to the
vehicle owners can be levied at the spot itself. The database will replicate to the central server on daily basis.
Role
Security Management by creating/maintaining database users.
Database performance/Statement tuning, Table sizing, and administration.
Implemented backup/restore procedures in ARCHIVELOG mode.
Manage database Oracle 8i /9i
Strong in third party database management tools like quest software TOAD
Monitoring the trace files and Alert log files.
Exp/imp database at table /schema/database level
EDUCATION SUMMARY
Degree Name Of University
MCA Annamalai University
BCA Andhra University
DECE State Board Of Technical Edu. & Training,Hyderabad
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10. M/s RAASI Enterprise solutions Ltd, Hyderabad.
Duration June/2004 – Jun/2008
Organization M/s RAASI Enterprise solutions Ltd, HYDERABAD
Project Abstract Client Name : ANDHRA PRADESH STATE TRANSPORT AUTHORITY
Technology Oracle DBA
Project Abstract
The client is State Transport Authority of Andhra Pradesh (STA.A.P). this project consists of 5
modules. 1. Learner Driving License 2. Driving License 3. Registration of Vehicles and taxation 4. Permits 5.
Conductor Driving License. We deal with the implementation and database maintenance part of the project.
This project has already been implemented at 4 district headquarters of A.P. We have implemented the
remaining centers. The advanced DBA concepts are used to establish the connection between the Central
Server at Hyderabad and the remaining centers, which are located at remote places. This project is also
planned to establish online information scrutiny at check posts also, so that the taxes or punishments to the
vehicle owners can be levied at the spot itself. The database will replicate to the central server on daily basis.
Role
Security Management by creating/maintaining database users.
Database performance/Statement tuning, Table sizing, and administration.
Implemented backup/restore procedures in ARCHIVELOG mode.
Manage database Oracle 8i /9i
Strong in third party database management tools like quest software TOAD
Monitoring the trace files and Alert log files.
Exp/imp database at table /schema/database level
EDUCATION SUMMARY
Degree Name Of University
MCA Annamalai University
BCA Andhra University
DECE State Board Of Technical Edu. & Training,Hyderabad
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