Navin Gujar (Oracle Applications DBA)                                     +44 7*0*0***7

xnavin@gmail.com

 

 

• Over 8 years of experience in Oracle Database and Applications Administration
• Wide exposure on Oracle Applications E-Business Suite 11i and R12
• Experience on Oracle Database 8i, 9i, 10g and 11g
• ITIL V-3 Certified
• Basic Disclosure from Disclosure Scotland.
• Worked on many architectures/configurations including single node, multi-node, RAC, ASM, PCP, DMZ, STANDBY, RMAN, SSO, ODV, OTE, virtualization, shared appltop etc
• Experience with Unix, Linux, Solaris, Window 2K/XP/NT
• Shell scripting
• Experience in Implementation, Support Projects, Managed Services, 24*7 support in Offshore-Onshore model, Data-Migration, DR builds
• Worked as a Duty Manager and Virtual Team Lead in Oracle
• Outstanding logical & troubleshooting skills
• A good team player with strong communication, analytical, relationship management and problem-solving skills
• Multi tasking and ability to work under pressure to meet target SLA.

 

Objectives:

 

Looking for a challenging and growth oriented position where my knowledge will be valued. I would like to work in an open environment of an organization where I can put my efforts as a part of success of the organization.

 

Educational Qualifications:

 

• Master of Science (Electronic Science) from the Department of Electronic Science, University of Pune (India) with First Class in 2003.
• Bachelor of Science (Electronic Science) from Abasaheb Garware College affiliated to the University of Pune (India) with Distinction in 2001.

 

IT Certifications/Trainings:

 

• ITIL V-3 Certified
• Oracle Certified Apps 11i DBA
• Oracle Certified 9i DBA
• Attended Trainings on Oracle DB 10g and Oracle Application Server 10g from Oracle University

 

Professional Experience:

 

 

Current Organization: BT Group, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) 

Duration: Since July 10 till date

 

Working on Oracle EBS (Finance) implementation project for the Scotland Government. I am responsible for all PROD and non PROD Oracle E-business Suite instances. (R12.1.1 with Database 11g RAC+ASM and RMAN)

 

Keys/Responsibilities:

 

• DBA Support including for various Oracle and Oracle Applications Instances
• Implementation includes building of multiple Oracle(11g) and Applications(R12) Instances
• Installing and deploying custom schema and code
• Deploying custom objects into an Oracle Applications
• Converting the instances to 11g RAC
• Migrating Oracle 11g instance into ASM
• Identifying, Planning and implementing actions toward the issues
• Implementation of RMAN and managing RMAN backups
• Owning the environments and interacting with other teams
• Data-Migration and Go-Live
• Oracle Data Vault, TDE
• Support for Live issues

 

Last Organization: Hitachi Consulting, Pune (India) 

Duration: Since July 09 till 30^th Apr 10

 

Was working for a team that provides DBA support to mainly UK based clients like BT Group, Go Ahead Group, Arriva, Whitbread, Dalkia, Swiss Re etc.

 

Keys/Responsibilities:

 

• 24*5 DBA Support including Production and Pre-Production environments
• Working closely with UK Team to provide our best
• DBA Support includes all DBA duties like cloning, patching, installations, server housekeeping, troubleshooting, scripting, raising and handling SRs with Oracle Support etc for both Oracle Apps 11i and R12 instances
• Project: US Client with multiple R12 instances for Patching, Cloning, Troubleshooting, Installations and all other DBA activities
• Project: Complete Payroll Implementation from dev to Go-Live
• Multiple installations of R12 instances with various configurations
• Responding to alerts by monitoring system for DBA issues, warnings, and errors
• Identifying, Planning and implementing actions toward the issues
• Supporting and managing STANDBY instances (rebuilding, few times)
• Managing RMAN backups
• Owning and interacting with key customers for their support, issues and service improvements

 

Previous Employer: Oracle India Private Limited, Bangalore (India) 

Duration: July 06 to Jun 09

 

Worked with Refresh Team (GIT). Team works for DB and Applications Refreshes for various (400+) clients of Oracle. I was working on @Oracle and @Customer models, i.e., for those customers having their servers hosted with Oracle in the Datacenter at Austin as well as for those owning the servers by themselves.

 

Keys/Responsibilities:

 

• Worked as a Duty Manager to manage the shift load vs. available resources
• Worked as a Virtual Team Lead in the project to meet reduced Target SLA for single node refreshes
• Taken the initiative to define the Refresh Process across the all the teams.
• Recognized employee of the month (spot award) for Aug 07.
• Working as a member of the best team award in the world-wide Organization.
• Refresh of Oracle Applications R12 instances
• Training SA’s to work on single node refreshes.
• Active interaction with customers / SDM’s for the process and issues.
• Lot of times worked under pressure on SLA nearing Tars.
• Cloning Oracle Applications as per customer demands.

     It includes:

• Application and database refreshes on various environments like Single Node and multi-node architectures of Oracle 11i/R12 on RHL, Sun
• DB Recovery with single node instances/RAC environments
• Configuring components like Apache, WF, Forms, CM (11i and R12)
• Configuring Discoverer 4i / 10g
• Refreshes with complex architectures like DMZ, RAC, PCP Setup, Virtual Hosts, SSO configurations with Oracle Apps 11i and R12
• Troubleshooting of refresh issues
• Troubleshooting of Applications Components like Apache, CM
• Following customer specific post refresh steps
• Worked on automation of the repetitive steps
• Updating and streamlining post ref docs etc
• Performing pre-refresh checklists
• Post refresh buddy checks

 

Previous Employer: Hitachi Home And Life Solutions (India) Ltd

Duration: Jan 2006 to July 2006.

 

Hitachi Home And Life Solutions, Ahmedabad is one of the reputed Manufacturing Company having Head office located at Kadi (Near Ahmedabad - India).

 

Description: Oracle Apps 11i Database Administrator

Environment: Sun Solaris 8, Oracle Apps 11.5.9

 

Keys/Responsibilities:

 

• Regular activities and routine tasks like checking of alert log, trace files, backup log, Invalid objects, Tablespace reports etc
• Ongoing monitoring of Production instance
• Space usage management, server housekeeping
• Managing backups by following designed strategy
• Raising and handling TARs
• Downloading and applying patches
• Cloning
• Installing and configuring Oracle Clients, ADI and OSA
• Supporting ERP team for technical issues
• Creating and managing Users and Responsibilities and other Sysadmin tasks like Report defining, uploading etc
• Documentation of activities.

 

Spider Systems Pvt Ltd, Pune (India)

Duration: From Apr 2004 to Dec 2005.

 

The company gives DBA and Apps DBA support to various clients in Pune and even out of Pune. It is also an Oracle certified training Centre. I have worked with few clients like Honeywell, DNL, Sakal Papers etc.

 

Environments: Oracle 8i, 9i, Oracle Apps 11i (Windows NT/2K, HP-UX, RHL, Sun)

 

Keys/Responsibilities:

 

• Checking of all the log files on regular basis.
• Space Management
• Database Backup and routine maintenance activities.
• Statspack, scheduling of an Utlbstat and Utlestat scripts
• Monitoring database for possible issues using.
• Cloning, Patching etc DBA duties
• Installation of Oracle Clients.
• Creating Users, Responsibilities, Menus, Monitoring of Requests, concurrent managers etc.
• Installation of 11.5.9, 11.5.4 on Linux/Win NT
• Supporting students for technical issues.
• Raising and handling TARs.

 

 

 

Personal Details:

 

Full Name     : Navin Uttamdas Gujar

Date of Birth  : 31/12/1980

 

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Cell   : +44 7*0*0***7

Email : xnavin@gmail.com

 

 

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