Pune, MH, India 411057
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My approach to contrasting challenges in life is reflective of the
quote, 'If you want something you’ve never had, do something you’ve
never done'. Seeking a challenging opportunity to continue trend of
success in leading projects that optimize organizational efficiencies,
increase user satisfaction and maximize bottom line contributions.
***** Kothari
Senior SQL server DBA
Seasoned DB specialist | Strategic Data Management| Database Analytics
linkedin.com/in/*****-kothari-9a543527/
Summary
A dynamic professional with 10 years of industry experience
in database development and administration
Team player with outstanding leadership skills and ability to
deliver critical assignments on/before time.
Good knowledge of SAN, NAS, SSD, RAID/Striping
Adaptable to SQL based Unix environment
Customer site (onsite) working experience and proficient in
implementing transition plans.
Certified in ITIL foundation
Business Visa: B1/B2 Visa (United States of America)
Experience
Associate Architect
iCertis
Feb’16 – Present
Design, model and implement database components to support product
features that address complex business problems and are secure,
scalable, robust and easy to implement and maintain.
Reports to: Senior Manager – Database Engineering
Understand complex customer scenarios and help them to
address through existing or customized product features.
Prepare use cases and write tests & tooling for those features to
ensure they work well
Work with DevOps, Product and Solution Engineering Team for
Database Deployment, Fine-tuning, Query optimization, develop
SQL Stored Procedures, support deployments for customers as
and when necessary.
Help customer in risk assessment and preparing smooth
transition plans to bring mature processes.
Skills
Technical
Data security, Backup and recovery
Log shipping and replication
Always ON and Failover clustering
Performance tuning
SSIS, SSAS, SSRS
Capacity planning
Database design and modeling
Third party tools
Migration and upgrade planning
Cloud integration (Dell Boomi)
MSSQL development
SQL server encryption
AWS RDS, EC2
Specialist Database Administrator
NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE)
Sep’16 – Feb’19
Key member of the Advanced Support Group.
Working as L3 SQL database administrator.
Direct and coordinate all activities and applications related to
maintaining and refining business intelligence components such as SQL
servers, integration, analysis and reporting services (SSIS, SSAS and
SSRS).
Reports to: Global Deployment and Infrastructure Manager
Designed and supported High Availability/DR Techniques such
as Clustering, Mirroring, Replication and Always ON in SQL
server *********************.
Automation and standardization of SQL Server environment to
operationalize repetitive tasks.
Extensive experience as Production support SQL Server
Database Administrator
Worked on installing, maintaining and tuning the performance of
large, high volume and high criticality SQL environments.
Analyzing and correcting issues with backups, TSQL code,
database corruption, and security.
Performance tuning and optimization including the server,
stored procedures, and queries through native and third party
tools. Perform query plan analysis optimize inefficient queries.
Write and deploy SQL stored procedure, functions and other
programming objects.
Maintain VLDBs and optimize for smooth data loading &
recovery.
Perform and maintain best practices for database maintenance
(Index
and
file
management,
statistics,
database
defragmentation).
Monitoring & troubleshooting the High CPU, Disk Space usages,
Procedure Queue Length and Disk Queue Length through Splunk,
Redgate SQL monitor, Quest Foglight and provides the
recommendations and solutions.
Configure change data capture and other database auditing
techniques.
Enterprise Database Engineer
ZS Associates (One of top 10 Consulting firms)
Mar’13 – Sep’16
Reports to: Associate principal (IT)
Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of Microsoft SQL
Server 2012/2008R2 on Standalone, Cluster servers and AWS
servers according to the Clients / Project requirement.
Providing pre- sales cost analysis for SQL environments.
Capacity planning for Disks and Space Management Database
files.
Security Management for Windows\SQL server Logins and
assigning appropriate access rights.
Open source (Postgres SQL, MongoDB)
Education
B. E. (Computer Science)
University of Rajasthan
2004 –2008
Recognition
Spot award from NICE system
Recognition award from ZS Asscoates
Appreciation for good work from BoB
Recommendations
“I had chance to work with ***** for two years.
He is extremely professional in Database
Administration and highly qualified in
troubleshooting. Always helpful, immensely
smart and analytic with his knowledge and you
can feel his fast and responsive character on
any case.
***** is proactive, responsible, result oriented
and never gives up for any issue which he
encountered with his amazing patience.
I would strongly recommend ***** for his
professionalism and he's also a pleasure to work
with a second time.”
~ Ertunc Varol, Application Consultant-
Customer, Verint
Monitoring & troubleshooting the High CPU, Disk Space usages,
Procedure Queue Length and Disk Queue Length and provides
the recommendations and solutions.
Bulk Insert, BCP Utility and DTS, SSIS packages for data transfer
activities.
Monitoring and troubleshooting the Blocking, Deadlocks, login
failure, disk space, backup jobs, maintenances jobs which helps
the daily work to run faster and in timely fashion
Providing solution for Database migrations and Server upgrades,
Logins transfers for End to End Server Migration.
Core database activities like Shrinking Database, Attach-Detach
Database, Import-Export database, adding files, suspect
database, migration, linked server etc.
Creating and configuring Boomi (dell integrator tool) processes
for synchronizing cloud and enterprise environment.
Analyzing query plans and performance optimization of OLTP
and reporting queries over 6 TB databases.
Database specialist
Tieto Software technologies
Jun’11 – Feb’13
Reports to: Project manager
Creating Databases, Batches, Jobs, Maintenance plan,
Transactions etc…
Database Backups, Configuring SQL Mails, Clustering, Data
Security etc.
Implementation, Monitoring and Troubleshooting database
jobs, space issues,
Database Migration between production, development and UAT
servers.
Installation, Upgrade and Patch management.
SQL DBA Activities, User creation, Granting Permissions,
Creating Roles etc.
SQL Server Authentication and Windows authentication DB
Security.
User creation and security management.
Back and Restoration. Monitoring SSIS packages.
Log shipping on SQL server 2005, Mirroring on SQL server 2005
Database Backups & Restore
Shrinking Database, Attach-Detach Database, Import-Export
database etc.
Database Performance Monitoring, Monitoring Expensive SQL
Statements
Database tuning advisor, Graphical Execution plan, Profiler,
Performance Monitor etc.
Senior software engineer
HCL Info systems/ Bank of Baroda
Jan’11 – May’11
Reports to: Senior Data Center Manager (BoB)
Handling the Backup / Restore jobs and user request
Data Replication.
Installing, Managing, Maintaining & Configuring Microsoft SQL
Server 2005 Databases
Troubleshoot replication and clustering problems.
Daily monitoring and generating performance reports.
“I had the pleasure to manage ***** during his
tenure in NICE.
***** is very professional, knowledgeable,
cooperative and reliable.
I used to work with ***** daily and he often
served as my go to employee in many
scenarios.
I knew that every complicated task I have for
***** will be resolved in no time.
He has intelligent insights and he often
contributed to the team effectiveness.
He has exceptional communication skills and is
a real team player!
I highly recommend ***** and would be happy
to provide additional feedback personally.”
~
Tali Gomelsky, Technical Support Manager,
Varonis
“***** as a Database specialist was a key
resource in my Application development and
Business intelligence group. He had a great eye
for details, was patient and a good listener. He
was the go to guy for the newer associates
within these two groups and for new projects to
help us frame the architecture from a database
design and development standpoint. ***** also
had strong communication skills and he
participated in many of our client discussions at
critical stages of the project. I strongly
recommend ***** for any Database design,
development and architect positions. He is an
asset to the organization.”
Managing and Troubleshooting Database issues.
Monitoring and Troubleshooting database jobs.
Troubleshooting database issues Blocking, Deadlock, High CPU
problem, Memory etc.
Implementing and Troubleshooting Database maintenance
activities Rebuild Index, Update Statistics etc.
SQL Server Authentication and Windows authentication DB
Security
Shrinking Database, Attach-Detach Database, Truncate log file,
Import-Export database etc.
Software engineer
Nav Backoffice IT Solutions Jul’08 – Jan’11
Reports to: IT manager
Write procedures to implement portfolio data checks on basis of
accounting principles and implementation of database email
configuration for critical checks.
Implementation of standard and customized reports for clients
to show risk and performance figures on daily and monthly basis.
Write stored procedures to generate risk and performance data
of client based on client trading portfolio.
Write reporting stored procedures and VBA programmed
macros for excel reports.
Implementation of major modules in parsing utility which
converts report style text files into delimited readable format.
Standardization of reading configuration.
Write data fetching, validating, customizing and saving stored
procedure system.
~ Sai Prakash, Senior Director & Country
Manager, SunGard Availability Services