ALI NAWAZ AHMED J

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PROFILE

Versatile and highly motivated IT professional with approximately 4 years of experience in IBM DB2 and

Microsoft SQL Server Platforms as DBA with a large financial client.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

Technical

IBM Certified Database Administrator- DB2 10 for Z/OS IBM Certified Database Administrator- DB2 10.1 for Linux UNIX and Windows IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 10.1 Fundamentals, DB2 9 Fundamentals IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Cloud Computing Architecture V3IBM Certified Specialist - Midrange Storage Technical Support V3

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate - Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Administering and Deploying System Center 2012 Configuration Manager - Server Virtualization with Hyper-V and System center 2012 -Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure

VMware Certified Associate – Cloud Fundamentals, Datacenter Virtualization

Process

ITIL V3 Foundation

Domain

Loma Level 1(LOMA 281, LOMA 291)

Partner Accreditation

MongoDB for DBA’s, Red Hat Delivery Specialist.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages COBOL, JCL, SQL, C++

Databases DB2 V9,10 for Z/OS,DB2 V9.7,10.1 LUW (HP-UX), MongoDB, SQL Server 2012

Operating Systems Z/OS,HP-UX, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008/2012, RHEL 6, Suse Linux 11

Technologies DB2 (V9, V10), CICS (V4.1), IBM Utilities, VSAM, SQL Server 2012, Microsoft Azure

Tools

SQL Server Management Studio,Profiler,Perfmon,Activity Monitor,System Monitor,SSIS

FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, JOBTRAC, OMEGAMON for CICS/DB2, TSO, ISPF, $AVRS, CA

Database Management Suite for Z/OS, CA OPS/MVS, IPCP, IBM Data Studio, SPUFI,

QMF, BMC Remedy, DB2 Connect, Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio

Miscellaneous Ms-Office, Lotus notes

CAREER PROFILE

Nov 2012 –Till Date Tata Consultancy Services

Title USA-ILI-DBA-Core-Offshore

Position Lead Database Administrator, Server Administator

Responsibilities Team Lead for a team of 5 members

Responsibilities as Lead Database Administrator :

Installed and configured DB2/SQL Server instances

Executed database utilities on a daily basis

Ensured DDL consistency across different environments

Refined SQLs for programs yielding CPU cost/time savings

Oversaw promotion and testing of code as it moves from QA, UAT, E2E and finally to PROD

Resolved Database Production issues by doing Root-Cause Analysis and providing permanent fixes

Implemented Disaster Recovery/High Availability solutions

Orchestrated upgrade of databases and various tools used on newer releases

Facilitated learning sessions across teams for Improving Competency on Database technologies

Chaired team meetings between Application team, Data Modelling team and System DBA’s for improv-

ing processes

Documented Process Improvement techniques and shared it across organisation

Responsibilities as Server Administrator :

Provided system administration support, user account setup and Group policy setup for offshore

Served as first point of contact for any Network/Server issues in offshore ODC.

Facilitated patch upgrades and software upgrades.

Audited all PC’s for software compliance.

Achievements

Devised DASD space reduction for Database Objects by implementing Tablespace Compression and

automatic resizing of datasets resulting in more than $15,000 savings per year

Replaced Traditional Image copies by Incremental Flash copies saving $10,000 per year

Fine tuning and rewriting SQLs of application programs to optimize performance resulting in less CPU

Consumption saving more than $20,000 per year

About the Project

Client is one of the largest and most diversified financial services institutions in the world. My team, the

Development DBA Group for the Individual Life Insurance is responsible for Developing and Administering the

Database Infrastructure and for maintaining Data in all Non-Production Environment.

Project Location TCS, Chennai, India

May 2011 – Nov 2012 Tata Consultancy Services

Title USA-GBTS-Offshore

Position DB2 Production Database Administrator/ CICS Administrator

Responsibilities

Responsibilities as DB2 Application Database Administrator:

Maintained Production Databases and related objects.

Performed yearly Archival and Migration activities for different applications.

Planned and Formalized Disaster Recovery Tests

Developed periodic reports for Historical Tracking and Performance Improvement

Resolved Production Database Issues during office hours and during On-call support

Chaired change control meetings and coordinated change implementation

Responsibilities as CICS Application Administrator :

Designed CICS Regions and defined resource definitions for applications online need

Performed CICS regions and vendor tools upgrade (Omegamon, IPCP, Xpeditor and Hiperstation)

Established ISC/MRO and MQ connections between regions

Controlled file allocation and de-allocation through batch and online

Controlling CICS regions through schedules created by using SSM (System Schedule Manager) and

monitoring the Performance of CICS regions using Omegamon

Troubleshooting CICS region issues and On-call support during off-hours

About the project

Client is one of the critical groups for production management services for major global financial sector

companies. We provided uninterrupted availability of applications for use by Business partners and clients.

Project Location TCS, Chennai, India

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, 77% (May 2011), Anna University, Chennai

Higher Secondary, 88.87% (March 2007), St. Mary’s Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, Chennai

High School, 90.6% (March 2005), St. Mary’s Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, Chennai

Final Year Undergraduate Project

Knowledge Based Association Rule Mining Using Ontologies

Proposed a new interactive approach to prune and filter discovered rules

Used ontologies in a post processing task to improve integration of user knowledge and also pro-

posed Rule Schema formalism

PERSONAL DETAILS

DOB/Sex/Nationality December 23, 1989/Male/Indian

Passport Details J310471, Valid up to Jan 24, 2021 H1B visa stamped and valid till August 2017

Hobbies and Interests Actively participating in courses offered by MIT, Stanford, MongoDB and BigData Universities to learn new technologies

I hereby declare that the details provided above are true to the best of my knowledge.