Database Administrator

To acquire employment in a research & development oriented organization with growth opportunities which encourages creative thinking and appreciates personal initiatives.

1-DataCheck(Pvt.)Ltd, Karachi(Mar. 2010–To Date) Working as Database with this Credit Bureau to administer Oracle & Microsoft SQL Server Databases.
Beyond the job responsibilities like live database monitoring,backup & routine miscellaneous activities, the project summary is as follows:
- Data Masking - Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g & self designed subroutines/ procedures(Mask financial & demographics data)
- Partitioning – In depth for all application areas- (55% performance achievement)
- Automatic archival deletion - with HA solution (Data Guard)
- Fragmentation – Half yearly activity
- Backup optimization & automation
- Database duplication
- Complete Infrastructure upgrade to(Oracle Database 11g with Tablespace Encryption, Application server 10g)

2.Ora-Tech Systems(Pvt.)Ltd, Karachi(Jun.2007–Feb.2010)Worked as Oracle Support Analyst to perform different implementations of database technologies, providing 24/7 support for our value added customers with this Oracle Partner.
Project Summary:
- Real Application Clusters implementation using ASM,OCFS & GPFS file system at multiple operating systems (AIX5L,Linux,Windows)
- Data Guard implementation at multiple operating systems (AIX5L,Linux,Windows,Sun Solaris)
- Backup and recovery (using OS scripts, RMAN)
- Database level performance tuning (using stats pack, AWR)
- Oracle Database Server installation and patching
- Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Weblogic Server Administration & Configuration
- Application Server 10g R2 Installation, Configuration & Application Deployment
- Bulk loads and data migrations (using SQL*Loader, imp/exp) from previous Oracle versions (8i, 9i) to Oracle 10g
- Replication (snapshots/materialized views, streams)
- Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g Installation & Configuration

Bachelor of Science(Hons)-- University Of Huddersfield,U.K(4 yrs. Program 2002– 2006) Computing Software Development
F.Sc(Pre–Medical)-- D.J Sindh Govt. Science College(1998 – 2000)
Matriculation -- Defence Authority, S.K.B.Z High School(1996 – 1998)

Tehfiz-Ul-Quran(2000 – 2002) Madarsa Sheikh Zayed Bin Muhammad Al-Nahyan,
Defence Housing Authority, Karachi.

Oracle Certified Associate(OCA) DBA track.
Oracle Certified Professional(OCP)DBA track.

Professional Skills Summary:
• Specialized in the area of Database Technical Support.
• Adept different stages of project lifecycle, from business requirements and technical definitions to development, testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), production support, and completion.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Application server 10g, Oracle database server 8i,9i,10g,11g, Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g,11g.
• Keen focus on performance tuning, testing, and performance of the database.
• Collaborate well with project management, system analysts, and department management teams.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Hands on experience of deploying various Oracle technological, disaster recovery implementations at numerous well-reputed Organizations.
• Takes pleasure in working with a team as well as keen to use own initiatives.
• Have a potential to meet challenges.
• Honest, self-motivated, hardworking, able to do work in pressure.