VIGNESH RAVICHANDRAN vigneshravichandran28@gmail.com

+1 479 799 8636 Louisville 40208, KY, USA EDUCATION https://www.linkedin.com/in/vigneshravichandran28

Master of Information Systems (GPA 4.0/4.0) 2015 August – 2016 July Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR Bachelor of Technology (Major: Electronics & Communication) (GPA 8.12/10) 2009 July – 2013 May SASTRA University Thanjavur, India PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Data Services Associate - Intern 2016 May - Present Genscape, Inc. Louisville, Ky

Administering 100 plus Oracle clusters, Postgres, SQL Server and Mongo replica set databases.

Formulated a new backup strategy and migrating Oracle backups from Data Protector to NetVault Tool.

Created a continuous database integration system using Bitbucket, SQL Compare, TeamCity and Octopus. Graduate Assistant 2015 August – 2016 July University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Fayetteville, AR

Built up a new replica set sharded Mongo database cluster for a real time web scrapping application.

Proactively monitored and tuned database health using Mongo Cloud environment. Database Administrator 2013 June – 2015 July Ford India Private Limited Chennai, India

Administered over 300+ Oracle, and Progress production databases along with their corresponding development, and test databases.

Resolved 20 plus SQL related issues in batch jobs as part of the Performance Tuning team which decreased the execution time by a factor of 4.

Automated database refresh in Oracle and Progress databases hosted in Linux environment using shell scripting which helped the team to complete the refresh 30% faster than manual method.

Performed Data Guard broker setup, Disaster Recovery, and Database restorations using RMAN utility Key responsibilities:

Performed database cloning in QA from a production database of size 1 TB using RMAN active duplication

Reduced the CPU Consumption of a Database Server for a critical application from 90% to under 5%.

Contributed to space regain project and helped the team to regain space of around 1TB using Oracle Advanced Compression option.

Carried out Database, and Table space Point in Time recovery during multiple DB crash incidents.

Implemented database migration, upgrade and patch activities on 15 Linux production servers.

Engaged in the SGA standardization project which proactively avoided shared memory issues and received customer appreciation for that.

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Active participant of All India Oracle User Group (AIOUG)

Provided sessions on overview of Information Technology in FORD to ROSS school of business students

Completed the online course ‘Fundamentals of AWS’ in CloudAcademy, MongoDB for DBA’s from Mongo University and currently doing MongoDB for developers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2003/NT/XP, UNIX, Linux (SuSE, CentOS), Amazon Linux, Solaris, Z/OS.

Databases: Oracle - 11g, 10g, Postgress 10.0, MySql 5.1, Mongo 3.0, HBase, and Progress 11.0.

Programming Languages: C, C++, PYTHON, R, SQL, PLSQL, PHP, Shell Scripting.

Tools: Cloudera Hadoop, AWS, PGAdmin, SQL Server Management studio, VMware, OEM, TOAD, Putty.