RESUME

Sudhakar Ketha
Lead Oracle Apps DBA
E: sudhaappsdba.ketha@gmail.com
M: +91 8885014615

PROFILE SUMMARY

 Having 8+Years of experience as an Oracle Applications DBA (R12.2 &

R12.1.3)/11i (11.5.10.2) and 3+Years as an Oracle DBA (12c & 19c) in
Production environments.
 Handled Upgrade of Oracle Applications for our client successfully within the
allocated time and targeted Budget.
 Have been working as Oracle APPS DBA with production databases along with
development and testing instances and reporting to the senior manager.
 Specific expertise in implementation, upgrade, applying patches, cloning and
troubleshooting of Oracle Apps R12.2/R12.1.3 concepts.
 Good experience working with Oracle Support for Bug fixes by raising TAR/SR's,
Conducting OWC as well as the follow-up process of incident and change request
management for support activities.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

 Extensive experience in managing support model containing more than 60 Oracle

E-Business instances which includes Production, Stage, development test
instances with 99 uptime as SLA.
 Ability to work with and listen to customers/users. Capable of self-learning to
explore technically. Ability to interact with end users, self-motivated, quick
learner and team player with good communication skills.
 Strong skills in Oracle Applications R12.2 and R12.1.3 Oracle 10g/11g Database
Administration including System Administration of Oracle Apps.
 Good hands-on troubleshooting of Oracle Applications in Apache, concurrent
mangers, cloning and patching issues.
 Experience in Managing and Tuning Concurrent Managers.
 Knowledge on Weblogic server on diff versions like 12c(12.1.2 & 12.1.3) and
11g(10.3.5 & 10.3.6) releases.
 Expertise in Dataguard/Standby Setup.
 Expertise in RMAN Backup and Recovery, Developed weekly strategy for RMAN
incremental backups and weekly tape backup. Extensive experience in refreshing
core DB instance using RMAN backups.
 Applied patches to resolve issues with production systems.
 Reduced the patch downtime using features like defaults file and merge patch.
Applied RDBMS patches using OPatch.
 Troubleshooting several worker issues while patching.
 Installed off-cycled products using adspilce utility.
 Monitoring Concurrent Managers and assigning work shifts, increasing process to
the managers.
 Clone/Refresh the database for testing purpose.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

 Working as Team Lead in Elfonze Pvt Ltd from March 2022 to Till Date
 Working as Module Lead in Tech Mahindra from Feb 2016 to Nov 2021
 Worked as Oracle Apps DBA consultant lead in Avvas Infotech Pvt Ltd from Dec
2013 to Feb 2016.
 Worked as Oracle Database administrator in NTT DATA from June 2010 to
November 2013.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Primary Skills Oracle Applications DBA (R12.2, R12.1 and 11.5.10.2) + Oracle
11g,10g & 9i DBA
Tools SQLPLUS, OAM, IMP/EXP, VNC & OEM
Programming Languages SQL
Database Oracle 11G & 10G (Knowledge on 12C)
Operating System RHEL 3.0/4.0, IBM AIX 5.3L, SUSE LINUX & Solaris

EDUCATION

 Master of Business Administration from SV University, Tirupati.

 Bachelor of Computer sciences from S.V University, Tirupati.

Certifications

 1Z0-932: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Associate Architect.

 1Z0-238: Oracle EBS R12: Install, Patch and Maintain Applications.
 1Z0-062: Oracle Database 12c administrator certified Associate.

PROJECT DETAILS

Company : Elfonze, Hyderabad.

Environment : Oracle Applications R12.2 & R12.1.3 on Redhat & Solaris
Role : Module Lead.
Client : Infosys LKQ.
Duration : March 2022 to till date.

Project Description: LKQ Corporation was initially formed in 1998 through the
combination of a number of wholesale recycled products businesses located in Florida,
Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. We subsequently expanded through internal
development and approximately 270 acquisitions of aftermarket, recycled, refurbished,
and remanufactured product suppliers and manufacturers; self-service retail
businesses; and specialty vehicle aftermarket equipment and accessories suppliers

Responsibilities:

 Involved in weekly based refreshes sometimes as requested by customer.

 Daily 24/7 active support for PROD and non-PROD environments.
 Strong skills in Oracle Applications R12.2 and R12.1.3 Oracle 10g/11g Database
Administration including System Administration of Oracle Apps.
 Worked on maintenance, support, patching and cloning with rapid clone.
  Worked on Oracle application upgrade from R12.1.3 to R12.2.0 and R12.2.0 to
12.2.3.
 Configuring DB alerts using crontab.
 Database Restoration and recovery using RMAN.
 Experience in cloning from single node to Multi node and Multi node to Multi
node, RAC to non-RAC and RAC to RAC using Rapid clone.
 Monitoring Concurrent Managers and assigning work shifts, increasing process to
the managers.
 Expertise in Oracle Apps R12.2 patching using ADOP.
 Enrolling users, assigning roles and profiles, maintaining system security through
monitoring user access to the database.
 Monitoring table spaces for space usage and adding required space whenever it
reaches threshold.
 Performing Database/Schema level refreshes using expdp/impdp and RMAN.
 Involved in CPU patching.
 Performed complete patch analysis and Application of apps and DB patches.
 Executing with daily base tickets, and monitoring SLA breached tickets.
 Involved in month-end clones (MEC).
 Checking for the long running jobs and verify for the database locks, session
status SQL statements and, job status, checking previous history of the jobs.
 Effectively sharing the work to across Team members. Taking the responsibility
of allotting the work and making sure of all the SR’s in the requests were
addressed.

Company : Tech Mahindra, Hyderabad.

Environment : Oracle Applications R12.2 & R12.1.3 on Redhat & Solaris
Role : Module Lead.
Client : Babcock & Wilcox, US.
Duration : Feb 2016 to Nov 2021.

Responsibilities:

 Checking the alert logs.

 Involved in Maintenance of Oracle applications R12, performing adadmin,
patching and performing cloning.
 Handling and fixing the Sev1/2/3 tickets within the SLA time.
 Installed Oracle Ebusiness Suite R12.1.1
 Upgraded Application from R12.1.1 to R12.1.3
 Installed Oracle Ebusiness Suite 12.2.0
 Upgraded Application from 12.2.0 to 12.2.4.
 Installed and knowledge on Oracle12c database.
 Installed and knowledge on Weblogic server on diff versions like 12c(12.1.2 &
12.1.3) and 11g(10.3.5 & 10.3.6) releases.
Company : Avvas Infotech Pvt Ltd, Vijayawada.
Environment : Oracle Applications R12.1.3 on Redhat Linux 5
Role : Oracle Apps DBA Consultant.
Duration : Dec 2013 to Feb 2016.

Project Description: Agrigold is the client and promotes new trends in developing
Housing, Residential layouts, Farmhouse lands and Agri farm lands which will give
prosperity, pleasure and satisfaction, where the dreams of a common man are
transformed into a reality. In the Infra Development sector, Roads, Pipelines etc. And
we are Providing Production support to our client Agrigold pvt ltd. And also giving the
test, Development support and Maintenance of various Oracle E-Business Suite version
of R12.1.3.

Responsibilities:
 Monitoring the Instance.
 Cloning production instance to Development and test environments.
 Used FNDCPASS to change APPS, SYSADMIN, and other user passwords.
 Helping to functional and development team on perform action plan regarding SR
(tar), provided file version and migrated file from dev/test to Prod.
 Troubleshooting developers and user issues.
 Handling administration of 24*7 Production and Development / test environment.
 Creating & adding data files to table spaces.
 Creating Users and Granting Privileges.
 Regular health checkup of database including space management.

Company : NTT DATA Company, Chennai.

Role : Oracle Database Administrator
Duration : June2010 to November 2013.

Project Description:

GE Power Systems is comprised of numerous businesses structured to meet targeted

customer needs. The Business structures are divided into various divisions like GE Aero
Energy Products, GE Air Quality Systems & Services, and GE Energy Products -Europe.
GE Power Systems Data Warehouse is built upon integrated legacy system data feeds,
received from many GE-based business data sources.

This is an existing production database with 2.5 Terabyte production instance

including 34 different instances, requires regular monitoring for smooth flow of
business and needs to attend to various bottlenecks, which hamper the database
performance. The Database is designed for Oracle data warehouse environment. This
includes the ability to price and promote services in various combinations within a
unified customer database and bill the client accordingly. The software and database
run on with multiple tiers to enhance reporting and real-time transactional
performance. The work involved in this is administration of Oracle database,
performing regular backup, test the backup & tuning.

Responsibilities:

 As a team member, I started working primarily in Databases and performing

 daily Database related activities.
 Regularly working on production databases and taking care about the health
check-up of all database regularly.
 Supported the development and Test teams with data refresh using exp/imp,
Data Pump and scripts execution.
 Implementation, installation, upgrade on various versions of oracle databases.
 Assisting all development work on Oracle. This includes helping to work with
application Team, Designing and creating database objects, migrating from test
to production, and implementing batch schedules.
 Implemented the Data Guard i.e., setting the logical and physical standby
database and setting the migration from primary to standby databases.
 Fixing all the issues and problems associated with the databases; resolving the
incident tickets within SLA period to ensure business continuity.
 Participate with application development team to design Oracle Database
 Creating Tables, Indexes, Sequences, Constraints, Triggers and Procedures
 Planning and scheduling backup and recovery procedures.
 Performed Schema/Tables/Databases export using Data Pump, Export and
Import utilities.
 Refresh of production data into UAT by restoring and recovering databases for
user tests and requirements.
 Monitoring alert logs.
 Used to attend regular meeting with clients every fortnight.

PERSONAL DETAILS:

Name : Sudhakar Ketha

Father’s Name : Thirupalu Ketha
Nationality : Indian
Marital status : Married
Languages Known : English, Hindi, Telugu & Tamil.