Arizona Public Service/Apex Systems,Phoenix, Arizona

Title: Senior Oracle DBA July 19, 2021 to Jan 21, 2022

Worked as a fire fighter. I was deployed wherever there is a critical issue that needed to be solved. Initially I was assigned to restore recover vision database related to nuclear power plant, the second assignment was project: GIS, then third assignment was project SCORE. I was assigned to SCORE project as previous DBA resigned due to stress. I was the main DBA for SCORE (Supply Chain Optimization) project and I was supporting requirements from multiple vendors working on SCORE project (IBM, Wipro, Cognizant, PWC, ApexSystems)


Managing all four environments Dev, Test, QA and Prod (creation, backup, restore, recovery, performance tuning, user support). Deployed Oracle 19c binaries using gold image and upgraded databases Created database using dbca response file. Reviewed and redesigned the backup and restore for the organization for not only restoration from any physical failure but in minimum time I established procedure to restore the table when no logical backup was available. Implemented data redaction for sensitive data like, SSN#, DOB, Balance. Implemented data masking and data subsetting Developed the roadmap for Database Upgrade, migration, and consolidation


Implemented transparent data encryption Implemented unified auditing Trained the team on multi-tenant feature Developed script to run long running rman restore in background mode


Planning migration to cloud I was assigned the task to allow non dba to perform some of the dba tasks. This was a challenging task. I developed procedure to allow offshore team to manipulate Guaranteed Restore Point (Create, List and drop GRP) so that onshore team does not get disturbed in off hours. Created Guaranteed Restore Point and flashed back database to a named Guaranteed Restore Point Developed PL/SQL code and configured cron job to automatically drop Guaranteed Restore Point older than 7 days. Developed shell script to create large number of database users reading the list of users from a file.


Automating regular task by scripting Created databases for IBM Maximo application. This task involved, database creation and database refresh, schema refresh. Function, profile creation and role assignment to users. Created roles for IBM application Maximo, Maximo read, Maximo support, Birt_Qry Developed script that was to run a sql on all the databases running on a server. Performed database patching


I have been working like a go to person, helping the whole team. Worked in a team and all DBA approached me for solution to their problems. Completed VDI Access/ Security Training Installed Casandra and configured replication consistency, performed dml using CSQL, and exported and imported from flat file. Using agile methodology. I am member of multiple SCRUM boards Environment: Oracle RAC 12.2, Oracle 19c, Data Redaction, Auditing, Transparent data encryption, SecureCRT, AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Maximo, MobaXterm 10.8. Service-now, Azure DevOps, VMWare client VDI, PingID, CyberArk, Password Agent 2017, Casandra, CSQL, Agile methodologies, Hadoop, Kubernetes

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