Shaik A Maricar
1(718) 406-4631

 

SUMMARY

·               19 + Years of proven IT track record as a subject matter expert focused in database infrastructure and business intelligence technologies using MS SQL server, ORACLE, MySQL and Microsoft SharePoint server, with dedication and passion to innovate and implement best practices, directing design and delivery of advanced infrastructure technological solutions. 

·               Experienced in implementing Change Management & Source Control with strong motivational, transformational and turnaround managerial leadership skillset.

·               Successful in building, expanding, tuning and optimizing systems with high availability and disaster recovery structures. Outstanding problem solver with reliable ownership, motivating and directing team efforts to support strategic objectives across complex environments.

·               Kimball University trained Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Lifecycle solutions architect. 

 

CORE COMPETENCIES

·   Strategic Planning & Coordination in trouble shooting systems.

·   Expert in Clustering High Availability, Always-On and NLB Load Balancing.

·   Writing custom maintenance and implementation PowerShell scripts.

·   Designing Data warehouse ETL and dimensional models

·   Architecting, Installing, maintaining and developing solution for huge SharePoint farms.

·   Building and maintaining virtual host environments.

·   Implementing and maintaining IIS, web application debugging and troubleshooting.

·   Technical Security Risk & Vulnerability Assessments for application deployment.

·   Production and DR Infrastructure Design, Optimization & Administration.

·   Designing, innovating and improving business intelligence data load process

·   Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Management.

·   Designing and Deploying database monitoring systems using scripts.

·   Managing Systems Development Lifecycle.

·   Designing Roadmaps, Policies, Procedures & Standards Documentation.

·   Program / Project Planning and coordination with senior Management.

·   Best Practices & Continuous Improvement.

·   Team Training, Mentoring & Leadership.

·   Strategic Planning & Coordinating operational support to maintain proactive maintenance.

·   Analyzing compatibility, capacity and performance issues.

 

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Database:MS SQL Server 2014/2012/2008, ORACLE 11g & 12c, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra

ETL Tools:SSIS, Informatica, Datastage

Data Analytics:SAS, R, Azure ML, Tableau, Qlikview Power Pivot,

Cloud:AWS, EC2 S3, VPC, RDS, Aurora, SimpleDB, DynamoDB, Redshift, Data Pipeline

Scripting:T-SQL, PLSQL, VB script, PowerShell, C#, VB, bash

Server OS:Windows 2012/2008 R2, RedHat (RHEL), Centos, Fedora, ubuntu

Framework:.NET 2.0, 3.5, 4.0

Virtual Platform:VMWARE 5.5, Citrix XenApp 6  

Systems:Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS (DMZ/AAR), SCOM, SCCM, Exchange 2013/2010/2007, Lync 2010

Applications:SharePoint 2013/2010/2007, CRM 4.0

Tools:Sybase PowerDesigner, Visual Studio 2013, Automator, Quest Spotlight & Foglight, Litespeed, SQL deadlock detector, Logman, SQL Nexus, AvePoint Docave

 

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

·   15+ years of MS SQL server 2014, 2012, 2008 and 2005 database engineering production support experience.

·   10+ years of database / data warehouse architect experience.

·   7+ years of recent experience in ORACLE 11g, RAC, RMAN, DataGuard

·   8+ years of SharePoint 2013/2010/2007

·   15+ years of experience in Windows Server Operating system technologies deployment and troubleshooting.

·   8+ years’ experience in IIS, .NET C# application design, development and debugging

·   6+ years’ experience in implementing Exchange 2013/2010/2007, SharePoint, Ms CRM, BizTalk

·   6+ years of VMWare vSphere, Citrix XenApp technologies

·   5+ years’ experience in Cisco Networking Switch, Router, Firewall implementation

·   2+ years of knowledge in routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, BGP

·   5+ years Linux operating systems (RHEL, CENTOS, Ubuntu etc.)

·   7+ years of experience in customizing and ordering powerful enterprise servers

·   Sound knowledge in Windows 2012/2008/2003 server Internals

·   Experienced in day to day operations task coordination

·   Fast learner and passionate in performing the role

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Perella Weinberg Partners, NYC                                         3/2012 - Present

Database Systems Engineer & SharePoint Architect

·               Consolidating, upgrading, enhancing and optimizing existing SQL servers.

·               Mentoring and leading 5 member developer team, coordinating and assisting them in terms of query optimization, performance tuning, code review, change control and application development life cycle coordination.

·               Designed, developed and deployed a SharePoint/InfoPath/Approval workflow based corporate wide Change Management Control application.

 

Projects:

Database Architect and Engineering:

·   Self-starter initiating new database projects, introducing and delivering proof of concepts to consolidate and cut down license cost.

·   Recommending hard and soft server requirements for next budget year.

·   Defining database server road maps and server standards.

Database Administration and Optimization:

·   Identifying and rectifying resource bottlenecks.

·   Automating PowerShell scripts for daily server health check. Frequent index, stats and performance checkups, Optimizing, query tuning and troubleshooting production and developer query performance problems.

·   Designing backup and recovery strategy for both SQL server and ORACLE.

Data warehouse ETL Business Intelligence:

·   Providing de-normalization, dimensional model and ETL SSIS process recommendations to developers, helping on issues related to reporting tools like SSRS, QlikView and Tableau. Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence Lifecycle Management using in-depth knowledge from Kimball University.

Database server infrastructure Upgrade:

·   Frequently involved in planning and executing database server migration, installation and upgrading projects. Implementing high availability Active passive WSFC cluster.

·   Implementing Always-On, Mirroring and replication solution.

Research and Development:

·   Review, Plan, Implement, Migrate and Test to provide recommendation about cost effective database server technology solutions as a proof of concept.

·   Delivering and documenting Oracle12C, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra on Linux OS (Centos or RHEL) as an alternate cost effective database server solution for data growth and performance.

·   Work on tools for data visualization.

Team Mentorship / Leadership:

·   Negotiating and documenting SLA (RPO’s & RTO’s), Recommending development and deployment best practices. Recommending best performing query logic.

·   Reviewing code security and process security with developers before production deployment.

·   Administrating and Maintaining Production change management control.

·   Conducting periodical database project team discuss sessions.

SharePoint Farm Architect:

·   Architecting and building scaled-out & Load balanced SharePoint 2013 farm on Windows 2012 and SQL server 2014 High Available Cluster.

·   Upgraded SharePoint from 2007 to 2010, and again upgraded from 2010 to 2013.

·   Gather requirement, design application mockups, Architect, Define solutions.

SharePoint Administration and Development:

·   Customizing SharePoint master page theme by defining custom CSS and client side scripting for a neat enterprise content portal intranet theme look.

·   Taking care of audit, security, Backup and access request.

Web server Admin:

·   Built and maintained IIS, TOMCAT web server.

·   Taking care of Production code deployments.

·   Configuring and troubleshooting IIS server performance.

·   Deployed and Maintained SharePoint, MS CRM, HRIS, Jira, GIT web applications.

Windows Server Admin:

·   Win 2012 Fail over clusters, PowerShell scripting. Deploying, Maintaining and troubleshooting Active Directory, Exchange 2013, DNS, DHCP, IIS (DMZ/AAR), SCOM, SCCM.

·   Knowledge in RIP, OSPF, BGP routing protocols.

Supporting Software Vendors:

·   Reviewing vendor documentation. Facilitating technical requirements.

·   Recommending best practices.

·   Shadowing remotely and documenting while installation and troubleshooting process.

 

 

Brookfield, NYC                                            7/2008 - 3/2012

Lead Database Systems Engineer & SharePoint Admin

·               Lead Database systems engineer for 24/7 global shared services IT department, managed 3 member DBA team.

·               Designed, Deployed and maintained a large scaled out SharePoint 2007 and 2010 production farm of initial size 8TB eventually planned to grow up to 32TB.

·               24/7 responsible for database related server uptime and major incident management.

·               Main go to person for both SQL server and ORACLE database related development solutions, issues / resolution and resource assignment.

·               Mainly focused on engineering tasks such as architecting high availability, disaster recovery designing and documenting proof of concept and risk assessment.

 

MSSQL Server 2008 R2, 2005:

·               Defining corporate wide database road map, standards and best practices for the entire organization.

·               Architected and installed multi node / multi instance production SQL server failover cluster infrastructure.

·               Designing & configuring SQL 2008 Synchronous and Asynchronous mirror solution.

·               Designed and deployed scale-out and load balanced SSRS reporting solution.

·               Proposing and demonstrating new technical architecture to the senior management.

·               Designing and documenting SLA’s (RPO’s & RTO’s)

·               Database server inventory maintenance comprising 100+ SQL server instances (stage and Prod).

·               24/7 on call tier 3 support as lead database engineer.

·               Designing backup and recovery strategy for both SQL server and ORACLE

·               Defining Hardware and software specification for new and enhancement projects.

·               Delegating and coordinating trouble shooting tasks and tickets.

·               Overseeing and coordinating Database consolidation projects.

·               Reviewing and approving problems and resolutions.

·               Architecting DR replication mechanism for full infrastructure, instance only, database only failover strategy.

·               Maintaining Change management and patch management.

·               Working with security and compliance department.

·               Designing and Deploying 24/7 database monitoring, alerting and reporting mechanisms.

·               Reviewing change documentations.

·               Creating, maintaining and managing Server run books, How-to and FAQ documentation for team members.

·               Experience in using LightSpeed, Foglight, Spotlight, Double Take and Avepoint Docave tools.

·               Importantly handling other project management pressures.

·               Conducting team meetings and participating in other project related meetings.

·               Interviewing and hiring contractors and team members.

·               Sound knowledge in Win 2003/2008 AD, DNS, EXCHANGE 2010, LYNC 2010, VMware, CITRIX.

·               SharePoint 2010, 2007:

·               Installed and maintained stage and Prod SharePoint 2010 farm 4 WFE, 3 App and 2 Search servers backed up by a MSSQL multi node multi instance failover cluster.

·               Installed and managed test/Stage/Prod MOSS 2007 farm with 3 virtual web frontend load-balanced with Netscalar.

·               Configured a SharePoint embedded SQL server reporting service.

·               Managed SharePoint backup and restore using Avepoint and native SQL server.

·               Installed and maintained DR Failover solution for SharePoint.

 

ORACLE 11g:

·               Installed and configured ORACLE 11g database on Dev/Test/Prod system on windows.

·               Architected and deployed ORACLE 11g standalone instance, RAC, DATAGAURD.

·               Day to day monitoring, Provided disaster recovery solution by configuring and maintaining physical standby database using Oracle Data Guard.

·               Worked on database cloning to make Production instance available for Test and Development.

·               Created users and involved in database security by granting roles, privileges, and profile to users.

·               Developed PL\SQL stored procedure, package, triggers, cursors, and views.

·               Performed, developed and maintained database backup and recovery using RMAN.

·               Performed logical backup of database, schemas, tables using Export/Import and DATA PUMP utility.

 

Russell Reynolds Associates, NYC                                                   10/2007 – 7/2008

SQL Database Administrator             

·               Worked mainly on production maintenance, server migration and consolidation.

·               In charge of Production database code change and quality control.

·               Verified the daily and hourly backups.

·               Monitor SQL server replication and log shipping status.

·               Check for job status disk free space and free space on database data and log files.

·               Check SQL server error logs and windows event logs.

·               Collect and Bench mark SQL server Performance statistics and recommend query optimization.

·               Scripting objects, creating and granting access to objects, maintain log for newly deployed and changed objects in production. Weekly and monthly weekend maintenance tasks

·               Database migration and consolidation. DTS to SSIS ETL conversion and migration.

·               Involved in .net production application deployment and configuration.

 

 

NetPixel, Inc, NYC4/2005 – 10/2007

Senior SQL DBA / offshore projects coordinator

·               Configured & maintained SQL clusters, replications and mirroring.

·               Monitored Backup Developing SSIS packages integrating data from different database source and structure.

·               Developed Business Intelligence Packages. Configured Backup strategies and disaster recovery plan.

·               Organizing and coordinating offshore application development projects, recommending solutions, Getting involved in testing and approval process.

 

 

Citigroup-PBA, NYC6/2007 –10/2007

Business Intelligence Developer  

·               Designed and Developed Business Intelligence Application using SQL Server, Access, Excel and PowerPoint to analyze law firm survey data.

 

Impulse Novelties, Inc, Westbury, NY                                                              2/2002 – 3/2005

DBA / .NET Developer

·               Responsible for Maintaining SQL 2000 server and ASP.NET application design & development for multi-tier, enterprise-level accounting applications using C# and ASP.NET.

·               Designed Macros for data manipulation in Excel, generating reports in Crystal reports automating outlook sending reports.

 

Acetech Computers, Chennai, India                                           9/1997 – 1/2002

Database Administrator / Team lead Developer

Maintaining, and optimizing the database performance; designing and implementing new databases for various projects according to the requirements from clients; establishing and maintaining database security in development and production environments. Writing project requirements and designing application architecture.

 

Aswathi Computer Needs, Chennai, India                                                         6/1993 – 8/1997

Senior Software Programmer

·               Collaborated on team of eight Programmers to develop business applications for inventory controls, financial applications for banking companies, payroll package for government corporations using Oracle and visual C++

 

 

Education

v      BBA, Financial, Production and Industrial Management, University of Madras, Chennai, India