APPURAJ K.R.

Kannoth House
Kanjirakkadu,Perumbavoor
appuraj1988@gmail.com Rayonpuram PO
Mobile:7899740230 / 8095385862 Kerala PIN:683543

Career Objective

To be part of an organization where I can utilize my technical skills and leadership abilities in the most
proficient manner and gather knowledge to build my career

Professional Summary

• IT Professional with overall 11 years of experience in Database Administration.

• Expertise in Installation, Upgradation/Migration and Maintenance of Oracle and DB2 databases
on various OS platforms.
• Experience in DB2 LUW databases.
• Experience in Oracle RAC & ASM Installation/Administration.
• Experience in Oracle Data guard Implementation/Administration.
• Experience in handling Oracle 11g, 12c and 19c Version databases.
• Experience in handling DB2 9.1, 9.5, 9.7, 10.1, 10.5 Versions on various platforms.
• Good experience in performing Backup and Recovery.
• Experience in Performance Tuning.
• Provided 24/7 Support for Database Production Environments for Oracle and Db2 Databases.

Technical Skills:

• Primary skill: Database administration in Oracle.

• Secondary skill: Database administration in DB2 LUW &
• Other Skills: Basics of Shell Scripting, Python
• Operating System: Linux, Solaris, AIX
• Database: Oracle: 11g, 12c and 19C
DB2 V9.7, V10.1, V10.5, V11.1
• Tools: BMC Remedy Ticketing tool, CISM Ticketing tool, ServiceNow and Putty.
CAREER SNAPSHOT:

1.

Organization Designation Duration

Oracle India Pvt Ltd Principal software Engineer From 16/12/2021 to present

Solution Environment: Oracle ( 11g,12c,18c & 19c)

Roles and Responsibilities

• Working for the Global customer care support (GCS) for Clusterware/storage
• Checking on the Sev4,Sev3,Sev2 and Sev1 service requests raised by customer and assist on their
issues
• Attending zoom sessions with the customer to identify the issues correctly and assists them
accordingly.
• Experience in working on issues like clusterware startup , ASM, ACFS, grid Patching, grid
installation ,grid upgrade, AHF install etc.

2.
Organization Designation Duration

Tata Consultancy services IT analyst From 16thJanuary 2019 to 3rd

December 2021

Project 1:
Title: Cisco Offshore Support
Client: Cisco
Role: Team Member
Duration: January 2019– till date
Database: Oracle
O/s: Linux
Description: Patching activities

Oracle DBA Responsibilities:

• Perform build activity – Installation and DB creation in 19c

• Applying patches to the database like PSU patches and One-off Patch to stand alone,datagurad
and to RAC environment.(11g,12c and 19c).
• Performing Database upgrades from 11.2.0.4, 12.1 and 12.2 databases to 19c version.
• Performing Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Restart upgrades from 11.2.0.4, 12.1 and 12.2
databases to 19c version.
• Perform Dataguard Upgrades from 11g, 12c to 19c Version.
• Perform DG Switchover activities.
• Administration of RAC .
 • Troubleshooting RAC startup and node eviction issues .
• Administration of ASM .
• Creating and maintaining Physical standby databases.
• Performing regular activities like gathering statistics of database, rebuilding the
fragmented/invalid stale Indexes.
• Fix performance related issue in database.
➢ Joining performance call, monitoring the sessions and generating the AWR/ADDM/ASH
reports for analyzing .
➢ Analyzing Wait Events and resolving them.
➢ Comparing Database performance between two periods
➢ Checking and working on the query history
➢ Checking and comparing the plans
➢ Pinning the better plan.
➢ Generating SQLHC Reports for problematic queries
• Preparing SOP documents for Daily DB Operations and POC document whenever required
• Prepare reports on incidents and changes.
• Creation of SR with Oracle incase of any database problem

3.
Organization Designation Duration

Infosys Technologies Technology Analyst From 20th September 2014 to

limited January 2019

Solution Environment: Oracle (10g, 11g) & DB2 LUW (V9.7,10.1,10.5)

Project 1:
Title: Daimler Offshore Support
Client: Daimler
Role: Team Member
Duration: September 2014 – till date
Database: DB2 LUW (UDB) and Oracle
O/s: Solaris, AIX, Linux, UNIX, Windows
Description: Database Administration, Database creation, maintaining the Databases for different
environment

Oracle DBA Responsibilities:

• Performed Installation of Oracle software version 10g , 11g & 12c

• Creation of databases using manual as well as dbca
• Upgradation from 11g to 12c
• Creation of Oracle Datagurad
• Space management activities like creation and alteration of tablespaces and datafiles
• User creation and assigning necessary privileges
• Performed restart of database and listener services
• Configuring listener for new database
 • Manual as well as automated database copies
• Use of export and import functionality
• Performing cold and hot backups during maintenance activities
• Restore and recovery, manually as well as using RMAN
• Performed block recovery using RMAN
• Copying the database using RMAN duplicate method
• Performing Upgrades of the database and software to new release levels
• Monitoring and administering high-availability databasess
• Generating AWR reports
• Creation of SR with Oracle incase of any database problem.
• Fix performance related issue in database.

4.
Organization Designation Duration

Sobha Developers Ltd Engineer From 25/07/2012 to

12/09/2014

Solution Environment: Oracle (10g, 11g)

Project 1:
Title: CRM
Role: Team Member
Duration: July 2012 – Sept. 2014
Database: Oracle 10g/11g
O/s: UNIX, Windows
Description: Database Administration, Database creation, maintaining the Databases for different
environment

Roles and Responsibilities

• Taking care of all the day to day operations on databases which included incidents, changes and
alerts.
• Space management activities like creation and alteration of tablespaces and datafiles
• Managing and creating Oracle database.
• User creation and assigning necessary privileges
• Performed restart of database and listener services\
• Creating and administrating database objects like table, views, indexes, materialized views etc .
• Use of export and import functionality
 • Generating AWR reports
• Creation of SR with Oracle in case of any database problem.
• Applying oracle patches.
• Database backup and recovery using rman

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Oracle Database 19c OCP certified- 1Z0-083 - Oracle Database Administration II

• IBM Certified Database Associate DB2 10.1 Fundamentals.
• Amazon Web Services Solution Architect Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundation associate

TRAININGS:
• Oracle DBA 11g and 12c training conducted by Infosys.
• Oracle Data Guard training conducted by Infosys.
• Basics of Shell Scripting training in IIHT Limited.
• AWS training from Prathama InfoTech Bangalore
• Oracle ASM and clusterware trainings from Oracle University.
• M001: MongoDB Basics
• M103: Mongo DB Basic Cluster Administration
• M150: Mongo DB Authentication & Authorization

AWARDS RECEIVED:
Received Milestone achievement award from the project-Infosys

EDUCATION:
✓ MCA with 77.5% at Union Christian College, Aluva- Kerala.