SureshKumar

SQL Database Administrator

Mobile: +91-9686703300

suresh.kumardba333@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
4.2 Years of Experience in Installation, Configuration and administration of MS SQL Server
2008, 2005 and 2000 in production, test and development environments.
Experience in configuring and maintaining High Availability Features Like log shipping,
Mirroring and Replication.
Experience in defining backups, restores and Disaster Recovery solutions
Ensuring the Data consistency in the database through DBCC Commands.
Experienced with Troubleshooting database issues, performance issues and blocking issues.
Proficiency in improve Performance using Execution Plan, Database Tuning Advisor.
Experience in Creating and Managing Databases and adding data files and log files to the
Databases whenever it is required.
Experience creating Logins and users in the SQL server environment and granting
permissions to the user and logins.
Experience in Creating scheduled Jobs, alerts and Maintenance plans.
Database scheduled backups and recovery.
Daily activities include monitoring Databases, checking error logs, Event logs, checking the
log file size and free space in the data drives, connectivity of the databases.
Exposure to migrating SQL Server Databases.
Upgrade the databases to SQL Server 2000/2005 to 2008
Extensive experience in supporting 24x7 production environment.
Excellent communication, interpersonal skills and highly motivated with strong
commitment to quality and client service.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Currently working as a MSSQL Database Administrator for IBM, from July 2014 to till date.

Worked as a MSSQL Database Administrator for iGate, from Sep 2011 to June 2014.

EDUCATION:

Master Of Computer Applications from Vinayaka University, TamilNadu

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:
Operating Systems

: Windows 2008, 2003 & 2000 Servers and XP.

Relational Databases

: SQL Server 2008R2, 2008, 2005, 2000.

Database Technologies

: SSMS, DTS, Perfmon, Profiler, Red gate.

Programming Languages
Applications

: T-SQL
: Microsoft Office.

PROJECT PROFILES:
Project
Project

#1
: Discover Financial Services

Client

: Discover Financial Services, US

Role

: SQL Server DBA

Team size

:6

Duration

: July 2014 to Present.

Synopsis:
Discover Financial Services is a direct banking and payment services company with one
of the most recognized brands in U.S financial services. The company has become one of the
largest card issuers in the United States. The company operates the discover cards and offers
personal and student loans online saving accounts and money market, Discover card was one of
the earliest to offer 24/7 customer service and secure account numbers for online purchases.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Database Administration for Development, Test and Production servers with MS SQL Server
2008R2, 2008, 2005 on windows 2008, 2003 Server.
MSSQL Server 2008, 2005 and installations, configuration and security settings for standalone servers.
Configuring and maintaining SQL Server high availability solutions that include Log
shipping, mirroring and Replication.
Having knowledge on rebuilding master, msdb databases during crash situations.
Maintaining and Creating logins, users and giving permission to them as per request.
Creating and Maintaining scheduled jobs and implementing automation for other tasks.
Experienced in using Red gate, third party tool for backup and restore of Databases.
Perform Full, Differential Backups and Transaction Log Backups, Restore them whenever
necessary, creating back up strategies and scheduling them for automation.
Involved in troubleshooting, resolving data integrity and monitoring performance issues.
Handling blocking issues and troubleshooting accordingly.
Maintaining the database consistency with DBCC commands at regular intervals.
As per hardening measure, changing system and user databases of default location.
Performing Shrink operation while having space issues based on the situation.
Creating and Managing Databases and adding data files and log files to the Databases
whenever it is required.
Reorganize or Rebuild indexes and update statistics of a Database whenever it is required
and improving the efficiency of a Database.
Upgrading the databases to SQL Server 2005 to 2008/2008R2
Restoring databases from one server to another.
Providing 24X7 supports to all the production databases.
Project

#2

Project

: Allied Health Claims

Client

: Allied Insurance, USA.

Role

: Associate SQL DBA

Team size

:8

Duration

: Sep 2011 to june 2014.

Synopsis:

Allied Insurance is one of the largest insurance companies in USA. It deals with
different kinds of insurances and this project mainly deals with Health Insurance. It has an
automated online system which maintains all policy details, Medical details of patient and claim
details. The functionality of this project is covering the insurance coverage details of the patients
and storing the details of the services rendered by physicians and patient claim payments,
outstanding and paid-up amounts, adjustments, etc.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Responsible for Managing Production, Development and Test Databases for 24x7.

Responsible for Backup and Recovery of Database.

Created Server Logins and Database Roles to define Security.

Administering SQL Server by Creating User Logins with appropriate roles, monitoring the
user accounts, creation of groups, granting the privileges to users and groups. SQL
Authentication.
Scheduled Full and Transactional log backups for the user created and system databases in
the production environment using the Database Maintenance Plans.

Creating and Maintained Operators, Alerts, Notifications, Jobs, Job Steps and Schedules.

Maintaining the database consistency using DBCC at regular intervals to minimize

complexity.

Resolving fragmentation issues.

Managing Permissions, and creating appropriate logins, database users, roles.

Preparing daily reports like disk space report.

Responsible for task completion on a timely and accurate basis.

Resolving blocking and monitoring dead locks.

SQL server daily health check.