1. Cell: +91-9666777700
Mail: Sankar.sahu@aol.in
Sankar Prasad Sahu
Sr. MS-SQL DBA
Security Clearance
N/A
Languages
English, Hindi, Telugu and
Oriya
Key Skills and Knowledge
Installation, Migration, Up
gradation, Patching, Cluster,
Log shipping, Performance
Tuning, Backup & Recovery
of MS SQL servers, Windows
Server and Lotus mailing
server
Databases
MS SQL Server 20082008
R2200520007.06.5 (32
bit/64 bit) and SYBASE ASE
12.5 0
Hardware
Compaq Proliant ML350m,
Compaq Proliant ML330 &
Compaq Proliant ML530
Operating Systems
Windows 2008 Server,
Windows 2003 Server,
Windows 2000 Server,
Windows 2000 professional,
Windows XP, Linux and
Unix
Tools
Symantec i3, Litespeed,
Citrix, VERITAS Backup,
dbartisan, patrol, sql-
advantage, Idera SQLdiag
Manager
Specialization:
Ten years of IT experience including 8 years in Administration, Maintenance &
Testing of Database Servers using SQL Server 6.5/7.0/2000/2005/2008/2008 R2.
Two years of experience on Windows 2000 and NT Administration
One year experience in Sybase 12.5 / 15.0 administration
Skills Summary (Database Administration)
Expertise in L2 and L3 support for Consolidation, Installation, Configuration,
Database design ,Backup & Recovery, Database Security, Cluster, Log shipping,
Mirroring, DTS/SSIS, Data Modeling, Database creation and Maintenance, Disk
Capacity Planning, Performance Monitoring and Tuning, Troubleshooting and
Documentation
Performed database/infrastructure physical design, database upgrades & applied
software patches to databases as per application/client requirements.
Experience in database administration activities including Database Performance
Monitoring and Tuning, Security Management, Database Troubleshooting,
Migration and Routine Backups, etc.
Experience in implementation, migration and upgrade projects (MS SQL 6.57.0 to
MS SQL 2000, MS SQL 2000 to MS SQL 2005 and MS SQL 2008 R2).
Expert level understanding of Windows/SQL security
Experience in Disaster Recovery/Business Resumption Planning, System Sizing,
data management and capacity Planning
Knowledge and understanding on VMware vSphere 5, and how to optimize for SQL
server 2008 R2, virtual performance counters, bottleneck indicators, all the basic
tricks
Worked with Popular Third Party monitoring Backup solutions like Veritas,
Symantec i3 and SQL Litespeed.
Successfully handled the backend database migration from Oracle 9i to SQL Server
2008 during an upgrade of JDE 8.0 to JDE 9.0.
An effective communication with exceptional relationship management skills with
ability to relate to people at any level of business.
Experience in Creating and managing Databases, data files, log files of Sybase
Adaptive Server Enterprise Edition 12.5.
Setting up cron jobs for Sybase DBA tasks.
Experience in using third party tools like dbartisan, patrol, sql-advantage tools for
managing Sybase Adaptive Server.
Experience in resolving day to day Sybase database issues.
Systems Administration
Maintenance and handling of windows servers including Lotus mailing server.
Installation, configuration and Troubleshooting of Windows NT, 2000 Server,2003
servers, Lotus mailing server, active directory.
Managing physical network based on Ethernet Intranet and website (NT Enterprise
network comprising of DNS, DHCP, POP/SMTP servers).
Monitoring disk space usage and system health on 24hrs basis on file and mail
servers using various monitoring tools and preparing reports on daily system
2. performances.
CAREER SCAN
Unisys Global Services India Ltd., Hyderabad
Client: General Growth Properties – Chicago
Role: MS SQL DBA Duration: April 2008 to till date
Overview
General Growth Properties is a publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust (RETT)
and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol GGP. Including
predecessor companies, GGP has been in the shopping center business for over fifty
years
Working as MS SQL DBA for GGP support project and primarily involved in MS SQL
Server database administration to maintain the GGP systems
Providing 24*7 productions supports of 164 MS-SQL Database Servers.
Successfully Migrated database servers from MS SQL Server 2000 to MS SQL
Server 2005 & MS SQL 2008 R2 on DEV, Testing, Configuration Management and
Production Environment.
Installation, configuration and upgrading of SQL Server software and related
products like Service Packs and hot fixes on Windows box and Windows Cluster,
Mount Points (SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008).
Setup transactional replication with a distribution server to offload the weight of the
BI extractions on our JDE cluster.
Put place backup strategy for all instances, some 1600 databases ranging from 1 GB
in size to 8 TB. As part of the new strategy I implemented differential backups and
compression to reduce the backup windows as well as reduce the disk capacity
requirements by 75%, resulting in substantial savings.
Also added Performance monitoring and alerting Put in place SCOM thresholds to
monitor for all SQL server instances, and to create tickets in ITSM (Ticket
management system)
As per client request creating and managing Databases, data files, log files.
Responding to alerts & service requests from customers within the SLA norms
using Remedy for Incident, Change, Problem and Configuration Management.
Working with application team & configuring Backup & Recovery strategies as per
business requirement.
Responsible for refreshing and recycle databases as per client request.
Successfully configured, managed and troubleshooting SQL Mail, Linked servers
and disaster recovery issues.
JDE Migration/conversion
For GGP I involved in JD Edwards migration from older Oracle Technology to a
SQL Server 2008 Active/ Passive Cluster on Windows 2008 R2 at our main data
center in Salt Lake, with a warm stand by recovery server at our secondary data
center in Eagan. This solution provides N + 1 for minimal business operations at our
secondary data center in case of catastrophic failure at our primary location to
achieve 5 of the 9’s.
The HA solution consisted of 4 ES7000 cells all in separate chassis (2 Salt Lake, 1
Eagan), 2 cells assigned 16 processors, 128 GB RAM, 37 LUNs on one of our EMC
Clarion SAN’s providing roughly a 1 TB in storage for our OLTP VLDB to support
3. the JD Edwards system. The solution was stress tested and sized to support 1000
concurrent connections running interactive and batch jobs.
INTELLIGROUP Asia Pvt. Ltd. (now part of NTT DATA), Hyderabad
Client: Broadcom, USA
Role: Technical Lead Duration: April 2007 to March 2008
Worked as DBA lead for Broadcom support project and primarily involved in MS SQL
server database administration to maintain the financial and people soft system
Successfully Migrated database servers from MS SQL Server 2000 to MS SQL
Server 2005 on DEV, Testing, Configuration Management and Production
Environment.
Major activities include monitoring Database servers, to ensure jobs are
successfully completed, performance tuning and disk storage capacity planning.
Use Light speed for Backup and Restoration of databases.
Prepared the SOP documents for Change Management, Checklist for SQL Server,
and Monitoring of the Production Database Servers
Maintain database changes from Development, Quality Assurance and
Configuration Management to Production.
ASCENDUM SYSTEM Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Client: Multiple Banks, USA
Role: Database specialist Duration: October 2006 to April 2007
Providing support to “DBAdirect” from central location by using ticketing environment
Providing 24*7 production support of Sybase servers.
Creating and managing Databases, data files, log files.
Dumping databases, online/offline backups.
Responsible for refreshing and recycle environments as per client request.
Responsible for attending to overnight batch job failures and resolving.
Managing of data and log segments.
Using dbartisan, patrol, sql-advantage tools for monitoring databases
ACUSIS SOFTWARE Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Client: In-house support
Role: Support Engineer Duration: August 2005 to September 2006
Supporting servers and Applications for 24*7 availability.
Installation and Administration of windows and SQL servers.
Handling database backup of SQL and SYBAS
Creating databases, Managing data files & log files.
Providing support for AcuSuite Application spread across different locations.
Responsible for monitoring File Flow Servers, end-user support activities both in
house and remote users across locations.
Monitoring Issue tracker and resolving server related issues.
Monitoring jobs are running successfully or not and taking the action on failure.
Generating MIS reports, TAT report, QC My Info report (payroll monitor).
WIPRO INFOTECH Pvt. Ltd. (payroll of Progressive Computech) New Delhi
4. Client: MAX-New York Life- New Delhi
Role: Technical Support Engineer Duration: August 2005 to September 2006
Worked as windows as well as Network Administrator.
Academic Qualification:
M.Sc.IT from Punjab Technical University
MBA in Information Technology from Punjab Technical University
Professional Certification
ITIL (R) V3/V2 Foundation Course Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Microsoft Database Administrator (MCDBA)
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Special Achievements
Won individual contribution awards for Disaster Recovery and delivering best
performance of application, Unisys (2008, 2010,2011, 2012 & 2013)
Won Best employee award, ACUSIS
Training Programs Attended
ITIL (R) V3 Foundation Course: Training organized by Unisys and HP in
Bangalore ‘2010
SQL Server 2008 BI Workshop (SSIS, SSAS and SSRS): One week full time
training organized by SOLIDQ Mentors and Unisys in Bangalore, India, 2010.
CCNA: Full time training attended at IACM New Delhi
I declare that all above information given is true to the best of my knowledge.
Sankar Prasad Sahu