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May 2013
– presentAl Elm
Riyadh- KSA
Database Management
Supervisor – Operation department
Leading team of
12 DBAs, mixed SQL and Oracle in a very fast and dynamic diversity
expanding environment, with mission critical databases affecting everyday
life of KSA residents.
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Application
Architectural validation and review to achieve highest performance, at
budgeted cost.
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Lead the team
to provide 24/7 support for mission critical databases.
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Re-architecting
and design for production components for performance enhancement and scaling
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Lead team to
achieve database uptime of 99.98%, through stabilizing the production
environment, maintenance, and ongoing performance enhancement.
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Assessment of
the logical database design, database code review and analysis.
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Responsible
for the database physical design, partitioning, scaling, and capacity
analysis.
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Redesign
process/policies for the Database team to adhere with best practices to
achieve quality and performance.
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Architecting
and design the database monitoring, and alerting across the production
database environment.
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Saved 8.3
Million SR of database licensing, through consolidation and choosing the
right database edition through true up and by developing code for
reconciliation of a production project that was leaking payments.
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Business process
analysis and verification of code implemented results across integrated
system, is performing same as the SRS document.
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Leading the
oracle team for two success Exadata implantations to production,
performance tuning, and operational daily maintenance tasks.
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Ownership of
change management, ticketing, service requests related to database.
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Owner of
implementation process for DB activities of new projects.
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Ownership of
service delivery process to database team.
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Responsible
to assess and review codes through change management.
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Responsible
for assessment, design and architecture, for all the proposals with
proposal team.
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Engage in the
application architecture to fix performance issues affecting the database
performance.
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Lead the team
to document operational tasks, and routines.
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Planning of
the expansion of the database team, according to services, technology,
administration and operational tasks.
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Lead the DB
team for daily operational tasks, requests, tickets, achieving best
resolution time across the operation team.
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Participating
in the stress test scenarios to stress the database, Analysis and
performance tuning after stress test
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Work closely
with infrastructure team, application team to mitigate performance and
design issues.
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Direct,
motivate, and develop team, maximizing their individual contribution, their
professional growth, and their ability to function effectively with their
colleagues as a team.
April
2012 – April 2013Ministry of Higher
Education
Riyadh- KSA
Database Consultant
MOHE has one of
the largest SQL DB environments in KSA, VLDBs, and sophisticated
applications running on top, serving numerous crowds.
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Architecting,
design and implantation for the Database infrastructure for the DR for the
whole DB production clusters EMC VMAX, with consideration to dependencies
and interconnection of the clusters introducing the ability to span, SQL
2012, 2008, concept adopted to oracle RAC as well.
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Analysis of
the existing Architecture & Production environment, Scaling &
recommendations for new environment.
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Capacity
Planning and bench marking SQL Server hardware, CPU, Memory, cache, Disk
IO, RAID, Network.
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Ensure
adequate coverage for the 24/7/365 environment so that the database
infrastructure is running effectively at all times which includes
continuous monitoring of all services, and ensuring that every reasonable
effort is made to restore service as quickly as possible in the event of an
outage.
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Automating
various database operations by coding T-SQL scripts and implement in SQL
Agent jobs
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Managing the
HA of SQL Servers, using Clustering, Mirroring, Logshipping and Replication
technologies.
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Enterprise
Level SQL Server Consolidation & Virtualization using VMware, HyperV.
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Architecting
Alerting systems proactively.
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Architecting
database backup and restore policy, shifting from netbackup to Avamar, and
support the infra team for taking ownership over the backup.
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Design and
implement database archiving to offload data from production, through ETL.
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Database
Security Audit, Data Retention
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Team Management,
Client interaction, Consulting & Reporting.
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Architecting,
design and implementation of replication for VLDBs.
2004 -
2012 Misr International University Cairo- Egypt
System Architect
/Technical Manager
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Design/Architect/Administer
and Lead MIU Applications/Database servers serving the needs, and managing
every aspect of the Database operations since version 2000 till 2008 for
over 8 years serving 20K students and 1500 staff members.
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Architecting
and leading the development of complex Educational ERP system, Student/
HR/Attendance system with gates and access control, billing system of
Students, Advising System, Asset Management System, Library/POS, Course and
Curriculum Inventory.
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Design the
DRP (data recovery plan) and administer coaching and training of various IT
staff to execute.
Control Change Request Process
for the Database, Database Architecture, design replication, maintenance
plans and delivering high level administration for the database engine, and
software design.
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Management of
the Developer teams, and coaching the support teams, Manage Incidents,
Problems, Plans and directing the operations of the Software and Systems.
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Architecting
and leading the development of complex Educational ERP system, Student/
HR/Attendance system with gates and access control, billing system of
Students, Advising System, Asset Management System, Library/POS, Course and
Curriculum Inventory.
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Architecting
and leading the development technical perspective mailing, exchange server
management and account management, with integration with Google apps
integration/web services/SAML
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Analyze
business needs by interviewing representatives from all departments to
understand the needs, and introduce business solutions/proposals based on
IT.
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Architecting
MIU Portal Model, and leading the developers’ team to achieve the Portal
known as Student Services Online, and working close to management to
analyze the students’ needs.
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Managing the
Implementation of new Technologies and prototyping systems before deployment.
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Providing
employee development, coaching, mentoring, and team building.
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Leading the
project of switching ERP application from Oracle DB to SQL server/ASP.NET.
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Designing,
and lead the administration team of MIU network which swaps over 1500+
terminals, this network runs the follows (Oracle DB Server/Application
Server, MSSQL 2005/2008 ,MS Exch9ange, WSUS, SMS2k3, IIS5/6/7, ISA, FTP,
Exchange 2007, VERITAS, MYSQL, Apache, Linux, MYSQL)
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Designing and
implementing the Network security, Firewall, Antivirus and performance
analysis, documentation and reports
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