VENU KURRA 248-497-8933

Sr.Database Administrator venukurra@gmail.com

SUMMARY

Total 8+ years of IT experience of which Over 6+ years of experience as an Oracle DBA with proficiency in
Oracle 10g/9i/8.x. Has expertise in software Installations, Database Migrations, Database Capacity Planning,
Automated backup Implementation in Oracle 10g/9i/8.x on Unix and Windows NT environment. Involved with
architect group in designing the logical and physical model of the databases and has thorough understanding of
the Oracle Architecture. Comfortable with IBM DB2, MS-SQL Server, MySql, PeopleSoft, SAP features and
implementation. Has good knowledge in UNIX administration. Has good knowledge in Installation and
Configuration of middleware application servers like IBM WebSphere. Has excellent communication and
interpersonal skill and is a good team player.

• Expert in installation and configuration of Oracle 9i/10.x on Unix and Win NT/2000 Operating Systems.
Designed development, test, production and large data warehouse databases.
• Designing, Testing, and implementing various database projects on Client/Server applications, Trouble
shooting and provide support on 24x7 basis for Production environment.
• Expert in installing SQL Server 7.0/2000/2005 32 bit and 64 bit and Configuring SQL Server for
different environments (DEV, TEST, UAT, Staging & PROD).
• Extensive experience in Database management products (Grid Control, OEM, Toad, Dataguard,
RAC) and 10g utilities (AWR, ASM, ADDM,Advisors,Flashback query, Log Miner).
• Expertise in setting up of 10g RAC on Linux with ASM(2 Node cluster).
• Expertise in maintaining RAC Environment using Oracle utilities (srvctl, crsctl).
• Perform Daily Monitoring of Oracle instances using Oracle Enterprise Manager, monitor users,
tablespaces, memory structures, rollback segments, logs, and alerts.
• Expert in Installation of 10g Grid control and configure and upgrade non-RAC nodes to RAC
systems.
• Expertise in OS performance monitoring tools as tar, vmstat, iostat, sar, ulimit.
• Expert in 10g AWR reports to collect database statistics and derived metrics for better performance.
• Capable of overseeing a project from conceptual phase to development by utilizing Technical and
Project Management skills.
• Enforcing security by creating roles, granting system and object privileges on the tables and stored
procedures.
• Expert in Planning/Implementing backup /recovery strategies and disaster recovery plans.
• Extensive experience in performance tuning, optimization, capacity planning, standby database (fail
over) Backup & recovery using RMAN.
• Tune application, memory, and disk using Oracle and third party utilities and initialization parameters,
tune SGA, PGA sessions.
• Has experience in applying patches to Oracle apps(financial, HR) modules.
• Expert in writing stored procedures, functions, packages, triggers, along with UNIX shell scripts.
• Worked with SAP Basis admin on UNIX/Windows environments and has knowledge in understanding
of SAPDBA, SAPGUI, brtools and moving objects using RFCs.
• Expert in maintain the physical standby using dataguard.

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 • Extensive experience in Peoplesoft administration which involves regular activities like application
installation, product upgrades, administration, maintenance, backup and recovery, and performance
tuning apart from product support and data and user security.
• Worked with Oracle/Peoplesoft databases on UNIX/Windows environments and has knowledge in
understanding of Peoplesoft 8.x Internet Architecture (PIA)
• Extensive experience on data integration, data extraction and loading by using external tables.
• Extensive on partitioning and sub-partitioning (Range, Hash, List, Composite) of tables in Data
warehouse, OLTP environment.
• Expert in Tune the Unix/Linux kernel parameters according to application requirement.
• Experienced in implementing and Configuring of RAID levels using Solstice DiskSuite, Veritas Volume
Manager 4.0 and Sun Volume Manager.
• Experience in configuring basic and advance replication using Oracle Streams.
• Has experience on ETL tools like Informatica and business objects.
• Has experience in Installation and configuration of Oracle 11g on different Operating Systems.
• Experience with Working on the DB2, SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 6.5 Databases.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Hardware /OS: Solaris 8, Solaris 9, SUN 6000, SUN 4500, SUN e15K, RedHat Linux 6.2 /
7.x/8.0/2.1/3.0 AS/ES, HP-UX 11/11i, IBM/AIX 5.2,Windows NT 4.0/2, and Windows
2000 AS.
RDBMS: Oracle 11g/10g/9i/8.x, IBM DB2 8/8.2, MS-SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 6.5.
Languages & Scripting: PL/SQL, SQL*PLUS, UNIX Shell scripts, Perl, JAVA.

Tools / Utilities: 10g Grid,DB Artisan, Recovery Manager, DBVerify, Exp/Imp, DataPump, TKPROF,
TOAD, brbackup, Autosys, AWR, Cygwin, Putty, PSADMIN, SAPDBA, Erwin, ER
Studio 8.x, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)2.2, Oracle Apps 11i, SAP R/3
4.6B/4.7C, PeopleSoft 8.8.
UNIX Admin Exp: Designed UNIX File Systems (Database Perspective) for Installation of Oracle on both
standalone and HA environments.

DBA EXPERIENCE

The Hartford, Hartford, CT Mar’07 – Mar’ 09

Sr.Database Administrator

The Hartford is a leading provider of investments products, anilities, mutual funds, college saving plans as well as
life insurance, group and employee benefits, automobile and homeowner’s insurance and business insurance.
The Hartford serves millions of customers worldwide including individuals, institutions, business through
independent agents and brokers, financial institutions and online.

Responsibilities:
• Member of technical architecture and database engineering support teams for migrating databases from
test to production for Source application.

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 • Support on-call pager by 24X7 on a weekly rotation and support various weekend activities.
• Implementing databases according to production standards mostly in high availability environment.
Providing support to solve production database problems and engineer production database changes.
• As database administrator my activities include verifying free space of tablespace in all instances.
Maintaining all instances are up and running, look for alert logs, verifying rollback segments contention,
identify bad growth projections, Space-bound objects, Harmful growth rates, Tuning in I/O and network
bandwidth.
• Involved in the creation of users, roles and implemented database security.
• Used I3 VERITAS, OEM and TOAD for regular performance monitoring, space utilization and memory
usage.
• Developed and reinforced standards, procedures, and policies for change management, object naming,
data archival, data purging, database security plan and auditing.
• Worked with development, integration and production support team to write sql, plsql code, Functions,
Procedures, and Triggers.
• Developed and implemented unix shell scripts to automate the maintenance jobs and batch processing.
• Used autosys, cron jobs, DBA JOB schedulers for maintenance and batch processing jobs.
• Developed scripts to refresh production db with other QA, development and training environment on
weekly basis.
• Working with RAD application team to support on applying patches to Oracle Apps 11i.
• Maintained RAC setup for different project which is connected to Source application and managed
different instances.
• Created and maintained the ASM instances and disk groups for performance test machines on Linux
boxes.
• Worked with Data Warehouse team to stream line the process of converting data from data warehouse to
production.
• Worked on ETL tools to migrate the data and build the staging warehouse for different customers.
• Installed and Configured Oracle 10g Grid, agent control.
• Worked with ISD storage team and Systems DBAs on space, Backup issues to support conversion
events.
• Worked with EMC and Veritas SAN teams on hardware issues and production snapshot, preparing split
and establish a new production support copy.
• Worked with remedy, release management to open, resolve tickets prior to production releases and
incidents.
• Involved in the process for upgrading Oracle 9.2.0.4 to 9.2.0.8 in all QA and production environments.
• Worked on MS-Sql server to integrate with biztak server and support developers to register sql server
database.
• Connected to MS-Sql server, verifying transaction logs and Export/Import of Database Objects between
servers.
• Worked with Microsoft team to configure cluster services on MS-Sql server.
• Prepared process documents for SOX Audit for technical specification.
• Worked as MS-VSS admin to create and maintain users to check-in, check-out code and data scripts in
VSS.

Environment: Oracle 9.2.0.4, Oracle 9.2.0.8,Oracle 10g,Apps 11i, MS-Sql 2000/2005, RHEL 4, Solaris 9,
RAC,ASM,Storage Array EMC-DMX,DB, I3 VERITAS,10g Grid, OEM, Autosys, MS VSS6.2, MS
.Net, TOAD 8.4

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Syntel Inc, Troy, MI Sep’05 – Feb’ 07.
Database Administrator

Syntel Inc. provides information technology (IT) services worldwide. It operates in four segments: Applications
Outsourcing, e-Business, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), and TeamSourcing. The company offers its
services to financial, manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation, retail, and information/communication
industries.

Responsibilities:
• Providing technical architecture and database engineering support to move databases from test to
production for multiple applications.
• Implementing databases according to production standards mostly in high availability environments.
Providing support to solve production database problems and engineer production database changes.
• Installation of Oracle 10g, 9i, 8i, 8.x databases on RAC Servers to the latest patchset in 10g (10.2.0.4).
• Installation of Oracle 10g grid control, agent and client deployment.
• Configured the Database Hosts, cluster databases, Database instances, ASM instances in Grid control.
• Installation and Maintenance of 2 node 10g RAC database using ASM on Linux platform.
• Adding a new node to and removing an existing node from RAC cluster.
• Expertise in maintaining RAC Environment using Oracle utilities like srvctl, crsctl etc.
• Installed & configured PeopleSoft on Windows 2K Server.
• Create and Configure PeopleSoft Application Domains and Process schedulers using PSADMIN.
• Application support and responsible for overall management of databases and data integrity of the
PeopleSoft HCM and Financials.
• Provide consultation to the senior management on strategic decisions relevant to the database and the
PeopleSoft and third party applications.
• Performed database upgrades to bring databases to the latest Oracle release levels.
• Supported test and development environments to ensure smooth transition of applications into
production.
• Reviewed existing backup model, and made recommendations.
• Working with metadata repository to provide a consistent and reliable means of access to data.
• Using Perl to access the database.
• Running import/export utilities, from production database 9.2.0.5.0 to 10g.
• Implemented database backups through the use of shell scripts and by AUTOSYS.
• Also efficiently working using OEM to do most of the tasks like monitoring sessions, checking SQL
Queries, database links, tablespace storage usage and also used oracle expert for SQL history and
session tuning on databases.
• Worked with ISD on backup, recovery settings using BMC Sql-Backtrack.
• Also used DB Artisan for performance recommendations for the SQL queries.
• Also having hands on work experience on SQL Server 6.5 and 2000 Database like doing the health
checks, creating New databases creating users with limited permissions etc.

Environment: RedHat Linux ES 3.0, Windows 2003,IBM/AIX 5.2,Oracle 10g R2, Export /Import,
DataPump, TKPROF, RAC, ASM,10g Grid, RMAN,PeopleSoft 8.8 (application) 8.42 (People
Tools),DL360G4P

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Applied Biosystems, Foster City /CA Aug’04 – Aug’05.
Database Administrator

This is 16 * 5 production and development server support for users across Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
Applied Biosystems is a technology leader and driving force in the changing dynamics of the life science
marketplace. The Applied Biosystems business is focused on the following markets: basic research, commercial
research (pharmaceutical and biotechnology) and standardized testing, including forensic human identification,
paternity testing and food testing. The company has an installed base of more than 50,000 instrument systems in
approximately 100 countries.

Responsibilities:
• Installation of Oracle 9i, 8i, 8.x databases on SUN, HP and Linux to the latest patchset in 9i (9.2.0.5).
• Providing on-call support to resolve production database problems and issues.
• Performed database upgrades to bring databases to the latest Oracle release levels.
• Implemented database backups through the use of shell scripts.
• Supported test and development environments to ensure smooth transition of applications into
production.
• Setting up and administering replication framework between Production/Live database and internal
reporting database (data warehouse).
• Checked for the database fail over and fail back in HA environment.
• Also efficiently working using OEM to do most of the tasks like monitoring sessions, checking SQL’s,
database links, tablespace storage usage and also used oracle expert for SQL history and session tuning
on databases.
• Also used OMS (Oracle management Server) using the sysman login and efficiently used the Oracle
performance manager for performance overview and maintenance like the CPU utilization locks.
• Also performed ANALYZE of the database objects using OEM and assigning and altering the profiles
of the Database schemas for security purpose.
• Analyzing the SQL queries thru SQL Analyzer and observing top sessions.
• Reorganization of database using export/import used this feature in OEM and as well Shell scripts.
• Also scheduled jobs using the CRON like taking full database backup, password aging check.

Environment: Solaris 8, Linux 7.2/2.1 AS, HP Unix 11i, HP-UX 11i, Windows 2000 AS , Oracle 8.1.7.4,
Oracle 9i, SAP 4.6B/4.7C, Exp/Imp,brtools,Server Manager, TKPROF, OEM, RMAN,SAPDBA.

OAT Systems, Bangalore, India Jan 02- Apr 04

System Engineer / Database Administrator

OAT Systems has helped nearly 100 companies to take advantage of RFID to streamline operations, enhance
customer satisfaction and increase bottom line results.OAT is the recognized RFID solution leader with software
that empowers business to achieve a competitive advantage and ROI from RFID.

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Maintenance of databases.

• Configure Storage parameters and log parameters in parameter file.
• Proficient in Creation of Schema objects & Space management.
• Performance Monitoring and tuning. This includes database structure and instance parameters to

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 maximize system performance. Maintain system resources. (Users, space, rights…).
• In charge of system tuning. (Index, table relations, query optimization etc).Using SQL *Plus and SQL
*Loader very well.
• Installation and configure rational Clear Quest for developers to track the bugs in code.
• Comfortable in creation and conversion of text files to data files using SQL*Loader.
• Responsible for maintaining Development Environment by installing the Applications and configuring
the application according to the development needs. Replicating the Clients environment at
development center.
• Responsible for building and maintaining lab environment. Lab environment consists of Sun Ultra 5S,
Intel Hardware with Solaris, Linux and windows family.
• Interfaced with customers to provide solutions to common Win98, Solaris, Linux and WinNT problems.
• Responsible for maintaining Sendmail, Bind, TCP/IP, network connectivity with windows clients.
• Configuration and maintenance of Cisco routers, switches and ipcop firewall.
• Identify and Capturing the network packets using tcpdump and netstat.
• Installation of Software Involved in installation and configuration of software of servers, workstations
(100+ in number) in Linux/Solaris/WinNT Environment. Configuring and fine-tuning the application
packages. Loading required patches to the Solaris2.8.

SoftPro Systems, Hyderabad, India Jun 00- Dec 02

System Administrator / Associate Database Administrator

SoftPro, is a leading Software Solutions and Services Provider in the Global Market, providing Business
Solutions and High-End Technology based services to its customer base in USA, Europe, and Asia with on-site,
off-site and off-shore development models.

Responsibilities:
• Worked as a Systems Administrator configured and Maintained Solaris 2.x, on Sun Ultra Sparc Servers.
Partitioned the disks, created the file systems using newfs and mounted them using mount facility.
Configured Different hardware compatibilities IBM, HP, Dell, Acer, zenith.
• Involved in Performance Tuning, which includes kernel tuning and rebuilding the kernel and optimizing
the memory parameters and other parameters. Involved in user, package, patch administration
• Integrating UNIX and NT file systems using packages like SAMBA. Setting up printers on UNIX / NT
machines to work seamlessly across platforms. Setting up X-Windows environment on NT machines.
• Setup, maintain and management of user accounts and groups according to the security needs.
• Network administration and Network monitoring. Troubleshooting network connectivity, used ping, arp,
ifconfig, rpcinfo and traceroute commands. To login to the remote systems, used tcp/ip,rlogin, telnet and
SSH. To transfer files across the systems on the network used ftp, tftp, rcp commands.
• Proficient in Creation of Schema objects & Space management.
• Performance Monitoring and tuning. This includes database structure and instance parameters to
maximize system performance. Maintain system resources. (Users, space, rights)
• Backup and recover date and files. (DBfiles, control files, log files)
Extensive experience in using tools like IMPORT, and EXPORT.

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• Designed and implemented Web*DBA, a web based DBA tool that provides solutions to enterprise database
management from a common interface. Some of the current modules include Storage Manager, Security
Manager, Session Manager

EDUCATION

• Bachelors in Mathematics and Statistics.

• Masters in Computer Management.

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