Sumon Basu

           Phone: +1 661 380 8928

Summary

 

Total Work Experience: 16+ Years

Total IT Experience : 16+ Years

Total Project Management Experience: 11+ Years

Education: MBA in Information Systems from SMU

 

Core Areas:-

 

ü       Project Management Skills:  SCRUM Methodology, ITIL processes, MOF, SLA Management including defining of SLA & SOW, Manage Delivery Teams & Reporting, Planning, Estimation, Risk Management, Project Execution & Control, Change Management, Quality Assurance, Knowledge Management, Process Management, Leadership, Business Consulting, Customer Expectation Management, Customer Relationship Management, People Management, Vendor Management

ü       Cloud Stack: Understanding of Cloud Computing Stack along with Hybrid Cloud, Understanding of Microsoft Azure and Azure SQL Server Databases in terms of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Understanding of Google Cloud Services and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

ü       SQL DBA Skills: Database Administration for SQL Server 7.0 / 2000 / 2005 / 2008 with SSIS & SSRS, SQL Server Clustering, Replication, Log Shipping, Performance Tuning, Backup & Recovery, Table Partitioning, Policy Based Management for SQL Server 2008, Hands on Experience on writing Stored Procedures, Functions & Triggers, Data warehousing concepts using SSAS, Database on SAN Environment

ü       Other RDMS Skills: Exposed to IBM DB2 Database Administration, Oracle 11i Installation on Solaris platform, Oracle 8i / 9i / 10g Installation with Backup / Recovery using Tool RMAN, Apache Hadoop, Shard

ü       OS Skills: Windows Server 2008 / 2003 / 2000 Enterprise edition administration(L1), Windows NT 4.0, Windows Vista / XP / 98 / 95, Hands on experience on UNIX, Linux / Sun Solaris, DOS

ü       Other Technical Skills: Understanding of Switches, Routers, Firewalls, VPN Devices, LAN, WAN, Data Center Infrastructure, DR Sites, Fiber Network, Storage Array System of EMC, NetApp Storage and Snap Mirror technology, Development Experience of Visual Basic 6.0, C/C++, Java 2.0, HTML, Java Script, VB Script, ASP etc., Web Server Hosting and maintenance, email clients, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes etc.

 

 

Certifications:-

 

ü       PMP Project Management Professional, PMI

ü       Advanced Diploma & Diploma in Computer Applications, Govt. of West Bengal Youth Services, Calcutta, India

ü       Certificate in Software Engineering, RKMSCPCC, Belur Math, Howrah, India

ü       Certificate in Computing, Indira Gandhi National Open University

ü       Certificate in RDBMS Concepts, Brainbench.com

ü       Certificate in MS SQL Server 2005 Programming, Brainbench.com

ü       Certificate in MS SQL Server 2005 Administration, Brainbench.com

ü       Certificate in MS SQL Server 2008 Administration, Brainbench.com

 

Professional Experience

                                                                                                                                         

 

1.                 Chevron, USA & L&T InfoTech Private Limited, Mumbai, India

Designation               : Project Manager (IT Infrastructure) / Onsite Co-ordinator

Period                                    : November 2007 – Till Date

Clients                                      : Barclays Bank PLC. India, Coloplast Limited, UK, MDTablet LLC, USA

                              UTC Fire & Securities, USA, Ingram Micro, USA, Chevron Texaco, USA

 

       Responsibilities include:

 

·   Successfully introduced, designed and deployed Managed Service Model including onsite and offshore resources for various Infrastructure areas like Servers, Databases etc to reduce the OPEX to meet the challenges of Oil and Gas sector.

·   Preparation of requirements/design specs, Project Plans

·   Performing performance tuning and fine tune the slow running apps and databases

·   Infrastructure Setup for the Application & Database at Data Center

·               Management of complex highly available infrastructure design and deployment, including all

aspects of environmental, hardware and software components.

·               Managing projects including budgeting and resources using Gantt charts and time-boxing.

·               Business process re-engineering.

·               Infrastructure and application architecture assessment, design, implementation and migration for high

availability, scalability, performance, best practices and security.

·               Server consolidation feasibility study, application suitability assessment, planning and implementation.

·   Database Recovery Planning and DR Site Creation

·   SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 Data Migration from St. Louis, US to New Jersey, US

·   People Management

·   Testing: Designing unit and integration test cases, unit and system testing

·   Setting Log Shipping, Replication & Clustering

·   Daily monitoring of Incident Tickets & Tasks & acting upon those pertaining to Database issues/requests

·   Handling performance related issues with respect to disk space (SAN partitions) constraints as well as database files

·   Maintaining 99% uptime of highly critical application databases which are SharePoint, BizTalk & user databases

·   Performing user requests such as one time database backups, database restorations (using the SQL Server Maintenance Plan Wizard as well as VERITAS Netbackup), installations of various SQL Server 2005 / 2008 components, applying latest Service Packs & hot fixes as & when recommended & required, migrations from SQL Server 2000 to 2005 and 2005 to 2008, assigning appropriate Server level & database level permissions, creation of SQL Server jobs & configuring VERITAS jobs by creating VERITAS backup & restore scripts, performing health checks against databases & so on

·   Monitoring the SQL Server error logs, application logs & troubleshooting backup failures if any

·   Reconfiguring Memory/AWE options

·   Rebuilding the indexes is weekly activity which needs to be performed after the successful completion of full backups

·   Checking database consistency periodically using various DBCC commands

 

2.   WebDev Inc, Mumbai, India

Designation                             : Sr. Database Developer (SQL DBA)

Period                                     : July 2007 – November 2007

Client                                      : Various Financial Domain Clients

Domain                            : Software / Financial / Data Centre

 

Responsibilities:     

      As a SQL Server Database Administrator my responsibilities are to install, maintain and optimize   databases for various projects. Providing 24 x 7 Support for client databases, which includes Database monitoring, Backup monitoring, database maintenance & also solving performance related issues. Defining & implementing Hardening on various databases depending on the size and criticality of the databases and also monitoring the databases regularly.

 

·   Installation & Configuration of SQL Server 2K-2005 on  Win2k-2003 / enterprise edition / standard edition.

·   Designing & Deploying databases for various front-end applications

·   Designing Backup & Recovery plans for point in time recovery

·   Performance tuning for optimized use of the available infrastructure

·   SQL Server Hardening as per the Client Policy

·   Performance Tuning & Monitoring (Tools Used : SQL Profiler & Windows Performance Monitor)

·   Creation of Logins, Roles and granting rights

·   Index creation and maintenance

·   Reconfiguring Memory/AWE options

·   Backup and restore on daily, weekly and monthly basis of SQL and IIS Servers

·   Migrating database from SQL 2000 on Windows NT  to  SQL 2005

·   Upgradation of SQL Servers with latest SPs

·   Assist peers and new comers on business process/technical process

 

Most of the above activities were documented and checklists were created every day

 

 

3.   In Touch Technologies, Kolkata, India

Designation                             : Project Manager / SQL DBA / Data Architect

Period                                     : January 2002 – June 2007

Client                                      : Various Bajaj Auto Limited Dealerships, Techna Digital Services,

                               www.stratplan.org, Leatherman, Rolta Distributors

Domain                            : Software / Automobile / Finance / Data Centre

 

Responsibilities:     

      As a Project Manager my responsibilities are to interact with the clients, understand their requirements, and prepare Project Plan and monitoring day to day activities of the developers to complete the project in scheduled timelines. My day to day activities also include prepare reports for stakeholders, manage team, maintain knowledgebase. As a SQL Server Database Administrator my responsibilities are to install, maintain and optimize   databases for various projects. Providing 24 x 7 Support for client databases, which includes Database monitoring, Backup monitoring, database maintenance & also solving performance related issues. Defining & implementing Hardening on various databases depending on the size and criticality of the databases and also monitoring the databases regularly.

 

·   Installation & Configuration of SQL Server 2K-2005 on  Win2k-2003 / enterprise edition / standard edition.

·   Designing & Deploying databases for various front-end applications.

·   Designing Backup & Recovery plans for point in time recovery.

·   Setting Log Shipping

·   SQL Server Hardening as per the Client Policy

·   Performance Tuning & Monitoring (Tools Used : SQL Profiler & Windows Performance Monitor)

·   Configuring Db Maintenance Plans, Checking database consistency periodically using various DBCC commands

·   Creation of Logins, Roles and granting rights

·   File group management and space management on Raid Systems

·   Index creation and maintenance

·   Reconfiguring Memory/AWE options

·   Migrating database from SQL 2000 on Windows NT  to  SQL 2005

·   Assist peers and new comers on business process/technical process

 

4.   Data System Integration (BD) Ltd, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Designation                             : IT Manager / SQL DBA

Period                                     : August 2000 – July 2001

Domain                            : Software / IT / Education / Data Centre

 

Responsibilities:     

      As an IT Manager my responsibilities are to interact with the stakeholders, understand their business process, and implement various solutions and monitoring day to day activities of the other staff members to complete the projects in scheduled timelines. My day to day activities also include prepare reports for stakeholders, manage team, maintain knowledgebase. As a SQL Server Database Professional my responsibilities are to install, maintain and optimize   databases for various projects. Providing Support for client databases, which include writing T-SQL codes for various Applications i.e. writing of Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers, Database monitoring, Backup monitoring, database maintenance & also solving performance related issues. Defining & implementing Hardening on various databases depending on the size and criticality of the databases and also monitoring the databases regularly.

 

·   Installation & Configuration of SQL Server 7-2000 on  Win2k / enterprise edition / standard edition.

·   Designing & Deploying databases for various front-end applications.

·   Designing Backup & Recovery plans for point in time recovery.

·   Performance Tuning & Monitoring (Tools Used : SQL Profiler & Windows Performance Monitor)

·   Creation of Logins, Roles and granting rights

·   Index creation and maintenance

·   Assist peers and new comers on business process/technical process

 

5.   Dolphin Travels, Kolkata, India

Designation                             : System Administrator cum Support Executive

Period                                     : April 1998 – July 2000

Domain                            : Software / Travel & Tourism

 

Responsibilities:     

      As a System Administrator my responsibilities are to maintain the IT environment, understand their business process, and implement custom solutions and interact with the Development team to complete the projects in scheduled timelines. My day to day activities also include Server monitoring, Network monitoring, build test cases and bring the staging application to production environment

 

6.   Advanced Computer Center, Kolkata, India

Designation                             : Asst. Programmer

Period                                     : January 1997 – March 1998

Domain                            : Software 

 

Responsibilities:     

      As an Asst. Programmer my responsibilities are to writing codes in VB, test the Application, enter test data into the system to support Sr. Programmers. The responsibility also includes design of the application from client perspective, and interaction with the client regarding the changes before going into the final production.

 

Technical Skills

 

Database                            :      SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008

Platforms worked on           :      Windows (95/98/ME/2000/2003/2008/NT/XP/Vista)

Hands on      :Oracle 8i / 9i / 10g / 11i, IBM DB2

Process      :ISO 9001, ITIL, MOF 4.0, CMM Level 5

 

 

Academic Qualification

                      

MBA (IS) from Sikkim Manipal University.           

 

Name of exam.	Year	Board/University
MBA (Information Systems)	2010	SMU
B.Sc	1996	Calcutta University
H. S. C.	1994	West Bengal State Council
S. S. C.	1992	West Bengal State Board