HEVEN PATEL

Contact #: 732 640 4549 Email: hevenpatel@gmail.com

Summary

• Around 8+ years of experience as Oracle DBA (11g/10g/9i/8i) on UNIX, Sun Solaris,

Windows 2000/NT, Red Hat Linux.
• Experienced in full life cycle of database administration in Oracle. Worked both as a
Production Support DBA and Development DBA in Oracle.
• Highly experienced in Oracle 10g/9i/8i/7.x Administration, Export/Import. Performance
Tuning, Oracle SQL / PL-SQL tuning, Monitoring, Backup and Recovery, Oracle
Management Server, RAC, Capacity Planning.
• Created Oracle partition tables and applied patches as per the requirements of the
partitioning module and upgrade Oracle and DBMS software.
• Experience in Upgrade and Migration of oracle database to higher version (from Oracle 8i to
Oracle 9i to Oracle 10g) and other platforms using Oracle Data Migration Assistant.
• Installation, Configuration and deployment of Oracle 10g database and Real Application
Clusters (RAC) on different nodes with Automatic Storage Management (ASM).
• Extensively worked on Oracle Cluster ware.
• Working Experience with Crystal Reports.
• Maintained and monitored 6TB databases using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control,
Toad and Embarcadero DBArtisan 8.1.5 in my project.
• Implement Oracle Streams for schema and table level replication.
• Experienced with Performance Tuning MS SQL and Sybase RDBMS (query enhancements,
index optimization and segment placement).
• Extensively used Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) for maintaining and monitoring
databases.
• Performance tuning of SQL queries and advising the application programmer of the
opportunities in tuning the application. And Involved in performance monitoring and tuning
of the database by fine tuning the database implementation.
• Configured securities and access to production databases.
• Understanding of OLTP database architectures.
• Managing, optimizing and tuning Oracle and SQL Server databases through such tools as
Oracle’s Enterprise Manager (OEM), snapshots and AWR Reports.
• Designed and Implemented database security using Oracle roles and privileges. And
securities for users and applications…
• Experienced in Database design including creation, modification, and deletion of table spaces,
data-files, rollback segments and schema's, creating schemas (Tables, Indexes, views,
sequences, synonyms, roles, and users).
• Working experience on Flashback databases.
• Perl Scripting for backup and disk management purpose
• Great working knowledge of ERP R12 upgrades from 11i and supports
• Specialist in creating automated scripts and with Unix & Korn Shell Scripts along with PERL.
• Responsible for using PERL in scripting for backups and space saver policy
• Designed and implemented backup and recovery strategies. Extensively used conventional
and RMAN for backup and Disaster recovery. Logical backup using and full/ partial
export/import and Data Pump.
 • Production support given to the system 24x7. Ability to work beyond regular hours. Carried
primary and secondary support roles with pager rotation to support during weekends,
Holidays and beyond regular hours.
• Provided database related services to their development, Production and QA
environments.
• Successfully implemented physical standby database using Oracle Data Guard feature for
High availability configuration.
• Written Stored Procedures and Triggers for database maintenance and management
using PL/SQL.
• Extensively used PL/SQL (Stored procedures, triggers, packages), SQL* PLUS, SQL*
LOADER, Explain Plan, and SQL tuning of Oracle database.
• Designed logical and physical Data Models using ERWIN forward-engineered into DDL and
executed on large scale to create database.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems HP-UX (11.11, 11.23 & 11.31), Sun Solaris 2.5, 2.6, 8, 9, 10, Linux ,
Red Hat Linux RHEL 2.1, 3.x, 4.x,5.x and Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP

RDBMS Oracle 11g/10g/10gRAC/9i/8i, RDBMS, MS-SQL Server 2000, 2005 and

Sybase

Languages SQL, HTML, C, C++, UNIX Shell Scripting.

DB Management TOAD 9.5, Enterprise Manager grid

Tools/Utilities RMAN, OEM , SQL Navigator, Oracle Management Service(OMS),

SQL*Loader, ASM, Export/Import, TOAD, Patch Management, ODBC,
Data pump, Data guard, VERITAS Net Backup, MS Access, IBM Info
Sphere Data Stage

Tuning Tools TKPROF, EXPLAIN PLAN, STATSPACK, AWR, ADDM

Hardware Sun Fire 15K, Sun Fire 6800, Sun V480, V240, Sun Enterprise 6500 /
Platforms 450, HP XP256 / XP512, IBM C server p5 model 590, and various PC
desktop and servers.

Professional Experience

Unisys, Albany, NY Mar 2010 – Present

Sr. Oracle DBA

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support, Maintenance, Configuration and Installation of Oracle 10g and 11g RAC on Oracle
Cluster File System (OCFS).

• Implemented and configured Physical & Logical Standby Database for Oracle 10g and 11g

• Handling and doing Capacity Planning, Space Management, Database Upgrades /

Migration Data Extraction.
• Monitored and Administered database using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control.

• Create and modify UNIX Shell scripting, awk, & PERL / CGI for backup and monitoring of
databases.

• Backup strategies and planning using RMAN, O/S and logical backups, setting up periodic
backups using cron job and shell scripts.

• Tested and Implemented different physical and logical Backup and Recovery methods like

Point in time, Media recovery, Full/partial export/import.

• Tuned and optimized SQL Query, SGA, and Disk I/O using Oracle Enterprise Manager and

by monitoring the stats pack and AWR report generated from snapshots taken at the peak

Business hours.

• Creating and Managing stored, procedures and triggers, distributed data, database
replication (golden gate), server tuning, automation of administrative tasks, database.

• Recovered huge Database (1 Terabyte) when UNDO table space got corrupted in RAC
Environment.

• Perform User Management, creation, monitoring and management of database users, altering
passwords of users and granting and revoking system/object privileges, roles, auditing user
actions in the database.

• Prepare PL/SQL Scripting for tuning and development purpose.

• Optimized Instance parameter settings for Shared Pool, Buffer Pool, Log Buffer, Sort Area
and multiplexed control files, log files on multiple disks.

• Responding and working with Application Development teams.

• Done PIT Database recovery for testing purpose and again recovered back to the current state
for Database of size 1 Terabyte.

• Upgraded and migrated Oracle 10g to 11g using Rolling upgrade and Golden gate replication
process.

• Monitoring Alert Log Files, Listener Log, Redo Log status, rollback segments and trace
files for the database and analyzing STATSPACK Report at regular intervals to ensure good
database performance.

• Monitoring of the queries with high response time and high disk reads per execution (Top SQL)
and tuning the same using Explain Plan, TKPROF, Auto trace.

• Scheduled jobs to run on daily/weekly/monthly basis through OEM and Crontab.

• 24x7 production support DBA working on a primary/ secondary pager rotation; and
supported on holidays, weekends and beyond regular hours.
Environment: Oracle 11i/11g/10g/9i, MS SQL 2000/2005, HP-UX 11i v3, Linux, Solaris, OEM Grid
Control, AIX, RAC, RMAN, OEM, Oracle Streams, Unix Shell Programming, Functions and Triggers, SQL
Tuning, PL-SQL, Stored Procedures, PERL, Windows 2003 Servers.

Huntington Bank, Stamford, CT Nov 2008 – Feb 2010

Oracle Apps DBA

Role and Responsibilities

• Installation and configuration of Oracle Database Software 10g on Red Hat Linux.
• Creation and configuration of Oracle database.
• Migration of database (from 9.2.0.5 to 10.2.0.1) on LINUX (Red Hat Enterprise Server).
• Installed and Configured RAC on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server with 4 nodes server side
load balancing using Automatic Storage Management
• Performance tuning of SQL queries and advising the application programmer of the
opportunities in tuning the application.
• Setting up streams for bi-directional schema level replication.
• Designed and Implemented database security using Oracle roles and privileges.
• Written Stored Procedures and Triggers for database maintenance and management
using PL/SQL.
• Extensively worked on UDB DB2 Database.
• Extensively work on SQL server 2000
• Managing, optimizing and tuning Oracle and SQL Server databases through such tools as
Oracle’s Enterprise Manager (OEM), snapshots and AWR Reports.
• Configured securities and access to product databases in SQL Server 2000/2005,
Windows 2003 Server
• Configured securities and access to production databases.
• Designed and Implemented database security using Oracle roles and privileges. And
securities for users and applications.
• Worked with Oracle partition tables and applied patches as per the requirements of the
module. Used Oracle replication as databases for read only snapshots to maintain local copy
of master tables in OLTP systems. Also done Patches for upgrading Oracle and DBMS
software.
• Extensively used Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) for maintaining and monitoring
databases.
• Involved in disaster recovery planning; detailed out the processes and procedures of
implementing disaster recovery; implemented database backups and disaster recovery
strategies using RMAN.
• Working on mentioning and implementing new database on UNIX Platforms.
• Configured Oracle Streams (Advanced Replications) and exchanged data between two
databases in remote locations.
• Successfully implemented physical standby database using Oracle Data Guard feature for
High availability configuration.
• Managing, optimizing and tuning Oracle and SQL Server databases through such tools as
Oracle’s Enterprise Manager (OEM), snapshots and AWR Reports.

Environment: Oracle 10g/9i, LINUX (Red Hat Enterprise Server), TOAD, OEM Grid Control, OLTP,
RAC, RMAN, Export/Import, UNIX Shell Scripts.

L&T Infotech, Hartford, CT July 2007 – Oct 2008

Oracle DBA

Role and Responsibilities:

• Upgrading database from Oracle version 9i to 10g and migration of data.

• Good experience in working with Oracle and SQL server 2005. And Good experience with
SQL migration.
• Created Oracle partition tables and applied patches as per the requirements of the
partitioning Module and upgrade Oracle and DBMS software.
• Implemented a large-scale Enterprise Data Warehouse system using NCR Teradata
database size of 4 Terabyte on EMC disk array
• Extensively used Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) for maintaining and monitoring
databases.
• Integrated the Backup Status Reporting for all the databases in the enterprise to enable
the web reporting using Oracle SQL, PL/SQL.
• UNIX shell scripting for backup and monitoring of database.
• Designed and implemented backup and Disaster recovery strategies with RMAN
• Setting up of RMAN on the database to perform necessary back-up.
• Managing, optimizing and tuning Oracle and SQL Server databases through such tools as
Oracle’s Enterprise Manager (OEM), snapshots and AWR Reports.
• Configured securities and access to product databases in SQL Server 2000/2005,
Windows 2003 Server
• Written Stored Procedures and Triggers for database maintenance and management
using PL/SQL.

Environment: ORACLE 10g/9I,OLTP, OEM Grid Control, RAC, RMAN, Export/Import, UNIX Shell
Scripts.

Webster Bank, Scottsdale, AZ Feb 2003 – May 2006

Oracle Apps DBA / Oracle DBA

Role and Responsibilities:

• Team member in a 9 members DBA team, which provided 24x7 supports to 3 productions.
• Installation and Up gradation of Oracle 8.1.6 /9i and other Oracle tools. Participated in testing
the compatibility and portability of Application on Oracle.05 by migrating whole application and
database from 8I TO 8.1.6 /9i.
• Good experience with SQL migration and Data Warehouse.
• Good experience in working with Oracle and SQL server 2005.
• Installation, Configuration and deployment of Oracle 10g database and Real Application
Clusters (RAC) on different nodes with Automatic Storage Management (ASM).
• Performance tuning of application by identifying the SQL, which are not written well;
providing inputs to the application programmer; correcting and implementing the right
components.
• Archiving of the necessary data using Fast Unloads (4.5) of Computer Associates.
• Worked in advanced recovery methods like PITR and TSPITR. Logical backup using and full/
partial export/import.
• Locally managed tablespaces were used which track all extent information in the table space
itself. This results in improved performance as it eliminates recursive operations and reliance on
data dictionary.
• Designed and implemented backup and Disaster recovery strategies with RMAN
• Actively participated in Application Tuning, which includes SQL Tuning, Database design
tuning and tuning at Instance level.
 • Have written shell scripts for automation of various database-monitoring activities.
• Created Oracle partition tables and applied patches as per the requirements of the
partitioning Module and upgrade Oracle and DBMS software.
• Implemented a large-scale Enterprise Data Warehouse system using NCR Teradata database
size of 4 Terabyte on EMC disk array
• Extensively used Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) for maintaining and monitoring
databases.
• Integrated the Backup Status Reporting for all the databases in the enterprise to enable the
web reporting using Oracle SQL, PL/SQL.
• UNIX shell scripting for backup and monitoring of database.
• Designed and implemented backup and Disaster recovery strategies with RMAN
• Setting up of RMAN on the database to perform necessary back-up.
• Managing, optimizing and tuning Oracle and SQL Server databases through such tools as
Oracle’s Enterprise Manager (OEM), snapshots and AWR Reports.

Environment: ORACLE 10g/9I, OLTP 8.1.6 /9i, running under HP-UX, SQL*Loader, Performance
tuning, export/import, Tkprof , RMAN

Priceline, Columbus, OH Feb 2006 – May 2007

Oracle Apps Administrator

Role and Responsibilities:

• Team member in a 9 members DBA team, which provided 24x7 supports to 3 productions.
• Installation and Up gradation of Oracle 8.1.6 /9i and other Oracle tools. Participated in testing
the compatibility and portability of Application on Oracle.05 by migrating whole application and
database from 8I TO 8.1.6 /9i.
• Good experience with SQL migration and Data Warehouse.
• Good experience in working with Oracle and SQL server 2005.
• Installation, Configuration and deployment of Oracle 10g database and Real Application
Clusters (RAC) on different nodes with Automatic Storage Management (ASM).
• Performance tuning of application by identifying the SQL, which are not written well;
providing inputs to the application programmer; correcting and implementing the right
components.
• Integrated the Backup Status Reporting for all the databases in the enterprise to enable the
web reporting using Oracle SQL, PL/SQL.
• Archiving of the necessary data using Fast Unloads (4.5) of Computer Associates.
• Worked in advanced recovery methods like PITR and TSPITR. Logical backup using and full/
partial export/import.
• Locally managed table spaces were used which track all extent information in the table space
itself. This results in improved performance as it eliminates recursive operations and reliance on
data dictionary.
• Designed and implemented backup and Disaster recovery strategies with RMAN
• Actively participated in Application Tuning, which includes SQL Tuning, Database design
tuning and tuning at Instance level.
• Have written shell scripts for automation of various database-monitoring activities.

Environment: ORACLE 8.1.6 /9i, running under HP-UX, SQL*Loader, Performance tuning,
export/import, Tkprof.

NIIT Ltd, Bangalore, INDIA

Jr. Oracle DBA Oct 2002 – Jan 2003

Role and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Oracle 8i logical and physical databases design, implementation and
maintenance on UNIX.
• Installed, upgraded and patched Oracle software. Setup brand new machines including
Oracle software installation, Oracle side configuration, third party backup software Legato
troubleshoot and backup testing.
• Managed and resolved design issues during development.
• Moved database Schema changes to stage or production.
• Migrated and upgraded databases from version 7 to 8i.
• Installation and configuration of Stats pack and analysis of Stats pack performance
report and subsequent tuning of production databases.
• Implemented database refresh with the hot backup using DUPLICATE or full export.
Used EXPORT/IMPORT to do table level and full database defragmentation
• Helped developer to install Oracle Client, troubleshoot and establish the connection to
Oracle database through ODBC, JDBC.

Environment: ORACLE 8i, UNIX Shell scripts, RMAN, ODBC, JDBC.

Educational Qualification:

A.D.I.T. College, S.P. University, Viddhyanagar, Gujarat, India