Meher

Professional Summary:

 Around 5+years of experience solving complex business problems related to database planning,
migrations and SQL performance and environment stabilization.
 Database Administration and Development experience on MS SQL Server 2016/2014/2012/2008 R2in
Very Large Databases in OLTP and OLAP environments.
 Extensive experience in Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, Disaster Recovery, Troubleshooting,
Backup and Restore Procedures.
 Expertise and Interest include Administration, Database Design, Performance Analysis, highly
transactional servers and Production Support for Large (VLDB) and Complex Databases.
 Documented Disaster Recovery (DR) plans and participated in disaster recovery drills.
 Configuring and MaintainingMirroring, Fail-Over Clustering using SQL Server 2014/2012/2008 R2 and
Always on for High availability solutions.
 Experience in SQL Server 2012 features like ‘Always on’ availability groups, Column store indexes,
contained databases & Error handling.
 Implemented the new SQL Server 2014 concepts like Buffer Pool Extension, Always on, Updateable
Column Store Indexes, power view, Backup Encryption.
 Have expertise in Production support ( 24x7 ), database recovery and backup, DBCC, Reorg,
Performance and Tuning related issue
 Monitoring Event Viewer, SQL Error logs and Log File Viewer for Software and hardware related errors.
 Proficient in troubleshooting Log-shipping/DB Mirroring/Replication synchronization and cluster
related issues.
 Experience in creating indexed views, complex stored procedures, effective triggers, and useful
functions to facilitate efficient data manipulation and consistent data storage
 Hands on experience in ad hoc SQL queries Sub-queries, CTE’s (common table expressions), Table
Variables, Physical Temp Tables and experience with SharePoint development in visual studio.
 Experienced in implementing efficient Disaster prevention and Recovery Strategies by creating backup
and restore plans according to business RTO and RPO.
 Proficient in index creation, implementation, optimization and troubleshooting
 Handled very large databases (OLTP) which are in Terra Bytes(TBs)
 Hands on experience in Migrating and Supporting Databases in AWS and Azure.
 Expertise in Performance Tuning, DTA and Query Optimization
 Experience in Replication Transactional and Snapshot, troubleshooting the replication issues during any
data inconsistency.
 Experience in Data Compression, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
 Experience in using DMV and DMF of Tables, Triggers, Store Procedure for finding out long running
queries.
 Experience in extracting and transforming (ETL process) data using DTS/SSIS Import Export Data from
various sources, Bulk Insert, BCP and DTS/SSIS Packages.
 Created and Maintained Alerts, Notifications, Jobs, Job Steps and Schedules for system errors,
insufficient resources, fatal database errors, hardware errors.
 Used different type of third party tolls like Red-Gate, SQL Compare according to the requirement.
 Good Knowledge of Lite Speed, IDEARA Diagnostic Manager, and Fog light for MS SQL Server.
 Monitoring ticketingsystem to manage and resolve submitted tickets
 Experienced with Ad-hoc reporting, Parameterized, Custom Reporting using SSRS for daily reports
 Strong development and support knowledge on, SQL, PL/SQL,T-SQL queries programming and creating
objects such as Stored procedures, packages, functions, triggers, tables, and views
 Develop and maintain stored procedures, backup scripts, database restores, disaster recovery, fail
over and high availability via SQL replication and log shipping.
 Performed Logical/Physical Modeling and Reverse engineering with ERWIN and VISIO
 Extensive experience working with PowerShell, CMD Shell, Python for remote database administration
& automation activities.
 Deployed, Upgraded, and maintained SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS in the Production server.

Education:
Bachelor of Technology from Acharya Nagarjuna University, INDIA. 2014
Masters: Wilmington University, Delaware. 2016

Projects
Project #1
Client: AvidXchange, Charlotte, NC
Role: Database admin / Database Engineer
Duration: August 2018 –Present
Description: Working with 4 teams and I am the Database engineer for those teams. Where the data of the
customers will be entered, and the transactions will be recorded and modified daily. Working with the
schema change of databases according to the production servers. Majorly working with 50 sandbox servers.
Working with database automation.

Responsibilities:
 Created numerous simple to complex queries involving joins, sub-queries and stored Procedures.
 Maintained database security and Monitored log running MS SQL Server jobs.
 Wrote T-SQL statements for retrieval of data and Involved in performance tuning of T-SQL
Queries, Stored Procedures.
 Created Drill down, Drill through, sub reports through SQL Server Reporting Services and creating
subscriptions for automating the process.
 Create database maintenance plans for the performance of SQL Server including database integrity
checks, update database statistics, re-indexing and data backups.
 Ability to script within SQL server effectively.
 Involved in merging existing databases and designed new data models to meet the requirements.
 Generated reports in various Tables, Matrix formats using Reporting services (SSRS) and also
created Dashboard Components like Scorecards, KPI's, Indicators, Analytic Charts, and Strategy Maps.
 Created multiple VMs on AZURE Cloud Environments and Moved 500+ databases to Azure Cloud.
 Hands-on understanding of the VMware admin clients and the ability modify Virtual Machine properties
appropriately
 The ability to understand and tune how a database interacts with a specific application.
 Perform daily database backup & restoration and monitor the performance of Database Server.
 Developed the packages with monitoring features and logging so that audit information of the packages
and their execution results are loaded in to the audit table.
 Working on Data compare and compare tool and also in Azure Database explorer.
 Wrote stored procedures, packages, creating different types of triggers, Functions using PL/SQL
 Build report layouts with Visual Studio to design the report according to user specifications and to work
with SSDT.
Environment: SQL Server 2012/2014/2016 , SSRS,SSIS,SSAS, Windows server 2012/2008 R2/2008, GIT,
Compare tool, Visual Studio 2015,2017,Oracle PL/SQL

Project #2
Client: Wells Fargo, Charlotte, NC
Role: SQL Database Admin
Duration:July 2017–June 2018
Description: Worked for team Commbank. I mainly supported for many applications like AMIC,4QA, ITAC
from basic SQL server installation to maintenance of Databases in servers. Migrated many servers from
SQL server 2008R2-2014 and 2012 to 2016. Worked more on Compare tool which is used to deploy
objects from one Database to another database.
Responsibilities:
 Worked on new features in SQL Server 2012, 2014,2016like Buffer Pool Extension, Always on,
Updateable Column Store Indexes, power view, Backup Encryption. Column stored indexes, User-
Defined Server roles and Contained Databases.
 Involved in Planning/implementation of new SQL server builds (MS SQL Server 2016/2014/2012/2008
R2) as Clustered/Standalone SQL instances in Physical/Virtual servers to facilitate business requirement
 Monitor and troubleshoot critical issues with Replication and always on
 Involved in VLDBs Backup and recovery. Maintained database automation for high speed innovation And
also Worked on SAN storage to enhance the storage devices.
 Implemented Always-On along with method of access, device allocation, validation, disk configuration,
security and sizing.
 Successfully implemented/tested/documented enabling TDE feature in critical Share-point application
databases involving Prod/Pre-Prod/Dev/Test environments.
 Involved in Monitor/Troubleshoot synchronization issues of Log-shipping and Replication (Transactional)
 Configured Database mirroring & Transactional replication as per the project requirements for critical
applications.
 Tuning the performance issues in SQL Server 2016.
 Installation of SQL server Instances on VM ware standalone machines & Clustered nodes.
 Extensively worked on Profiler, DMVs, and DTA for troubleshooting and tuning the databases.
 Managed user access to SSRS and also maintained SSRS report server by taking backup of the encryption
keys and also took backup of individual reports by copying the rdl files.
 Performance tuning, index and statistics updating and general maintenance of OLTP and reporting
queries
 Analyzed old reports designed in crystal reports and transform those reports into SSRS report with
proper mapping and error handing.
 Working automation for Azure using ansible
 Migrated all databases SQL Server to Azure Cloud services and also Designed Cloud backup/restore
solutions for AWS
 Created (with respect to standards) Logins, Users, groups, Roles, Jobs, Alerts, Mails confirmation upon
tasks.
 Granting access to internal tools and databases and managing the Security by creating Security groups
adding users to them appropriately.
 Created SQL Server Reports and developed query for generating drill down reports using SSRS 2014.
 Calculated members, named sets, and execute other script commands to extend the capabilities of a MS
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) cube
 Created DB objects such as Tables, Stored Procedures, Views and Triggers as required.
 Scripting the Database Consistency Checks (DBCC), scheduling the scripts to run daily and weekly basis.
 Responsible for the deployment of the Cube on the SSAS. Developed reports from OLAP cubes
 Participated in 24X7 on-call rotation and responded to critical database incidents
 Setup automated jobs for different purposes including backup, monitoring database health check, disk
space, backup verification, and moving databases from environment to environment including creating
test environment.
Environment: SQL Server 2012/2014/2016, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, Compare tool

Project #3 Symphonize Enterprise Solutions Pvt Ltd, Vijayawada, India

Duration: December 2012 – July 2015
Client1: Telecom Billing
Role: Junior Developer
Description: This project is for Telecom Billing and Operations Support System. This project is to process
bills of land line customers. It handles whole billing cycle from the inception of CDR’s from multiple
sources to billing the customers.
Responsibilities:
 Developed SQL Queries to fetch complex data from different tables in remote databases using joins,
database links and formatted the results into reports and kept logs
 Fine-tuned Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers for optimum performance
 Involved in creating Databases, Tables, Cluster/Non-Cluster Index, Unique/Check Constraints Views,
Rules and Defaults.
 Implemented the business logic and processing of the payment by developing stored procedures and
scripts.
 Capacity planning of MS SQL Servers. Implemented and maintained database security.
 Developed Custom Functions, Manual Running Totals and Complex Formulas for reports.
 Worked as SSIS developer and did extensive onshore and offshore coordination and Worked with
developers for creating robust SSIS packages
 Created Linked Server to Oracle to open query for SSRS and Generated reports using Expressions and
Functions using SSRS.
 Conducted database management, performance measurement and performance tuning for new
databases and existing databases by using SQL Profiler, SQL Analyzer, and SQL Enterprise Manager.
 Implemented Features like Data and Backup compression and transparent data encryption to reduce I/O
and to maintain security respectively.
 Automated many operations by scheduling multiple DTS packages using jobs.
 Worked with Application Developers to design databases and tables to support Development activities
and achieve optimal efficiency.
 Worked with SSRS 2005 Reporting web services to dynamically generate the reports by passing report
parameters through .NET console applications using C#.Net.
Environments: MS SQL Server 2012, Visual Studio, SSRS, SSIS, DTS, C#, .NET Framework 2.0, Query Analyzer

Client2: Hyundai Information Service North America

Role: Software Developer
Description:
Hyundai Information Service North America (HISNA) is a global Information Technology services company,
with nearly 300 professionals serving Hyundai KIA Motor Group affiliates in North America. This project
facilitated the Care Agent to query real-time customer account information, track customer interactions
and the actions employed to resolve the customer issues, and can report the results of their efforts.
Responsibilities:
 Develop and create data dictionary, tables, indexes, and functions advanced queries for databases using
Query Analyzer and Enterprise Manager
 Performed T-SQL programming for writing stored procedures, Triggers, Cursors, Views on SQL 2005
servers.
 Troubleshoot and minimize production down issues.
 Designed new job process, new database maintenance plans, DTS programs and did Performance tuning
of the existing processes
 Develop SSIS Packages to transform data from excel/Access file to SQL Server database.
 Generated reports using Crystal reports.
 Tuning Queries and Database performance using tools SQL Server Tuning Advisor, SQL Server Profiler.
 Written and developed shell scripting for application performance, system maintenance and backup.
 Transformed data from various data sources using OLE DB connection by creating various DTS packages.
 Data migration (import & export – BCP) from Text to SQL Server
 Worked with Application Developers to design databases and tables to support Development activities
and achieve optimal efficiency.
Environments: SQL server 2008 R2, Microsoft Visual Studio, T-SQL, MS Excel, DTS, Query Analyzer, Tuning
Advisor