Ravinder Ghuman

Experience

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  Rtz Computer Services Limited

  Apr 1991 - Jan 1992

  Senior Programmer

  Evaluating Business Requirement and Development Of Complex Share Registration System For Lloyds Bank. Working Within A Close Knit Team And Analysing Business Papers To Convert Into System Modules. Developing The System Using Vax Basic And 4Gl From Cortex Corvision. Hardware: Dec Vax 8350, 11/750 Under Vms Software: Corvision,Vax Basic, Datatrieve, Rms, Acms, Dec Forms, Cdd+, Dcl

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  Allen Computers Limited

  Jan 1992 - Nov 1992

  Team Leader Retail Project

  Team Leader Of Rdms (Retail Distribution And Management Project) Responsible For Rdms Project For Determining The Functional And Technical Specification And As Technical Advisor On Vax Vms Utilities, 4Gl Language Corvision, Vax Basic/Cobol And Dec Rdb. During The Project Also Designed And Created System Logical Design Document (Dfd) Using Structured Technique/Methodology Tool Yourdon. Also Responsible For Communication Links From Epos Terminal To Pc To Vax And Vice-Versa On Ethernet. Rdms Project Was Mainly Written On Corvision, With Reflection Used As Terminal Emulator For Pc And Scanmaster For Linking Epos To Pc. Working With Project Manager In Customer Liaison, System Design, And Analysis And In Estimation And Task Distribution. Show less

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  Cumulus Systems

  Nov 1992 - Nov 1993

  Senior Analyst Programmer

  Worked as Senior Analyst programmer on Cumulus Capital Market and Eurobond project. Reporting To Group Manager As A Senior Member Of The Development And Support Team. Reporting To Group Manager And Responsible For All Phases Of The Euro Bond And Capital Market Project, From Initial Specification To The Final Project, Installation And Live Users Software Support. Responsible For Maintenance, Upgrade And Support Of Cumulus Software Including Auto Report, Screen Writer. Other Involvement Includes Writing Modules On Pdp And Vax Using Basic/Basic+2. Technically Involved In Migration Of Software From Pdp To Vax, Including Writing Utilities To Convert Client Data Files. Involved In System Programming For System Security And System Access Control And Implementation Of Dec Windows Show less

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  Yorkshire Water

  Nov 1993 - Apr 1994

  Senior Analyst Programmer

  Worked on several projects in Yorkshire Waters as SAP as freelance contractor.As Corvision Contractor Responsible For Setting Up Corvision System From Initial Set Up To The Final Project. Sole Responsibility For Design, Analysis, Development And Support Of The Bozo (Corvision) Interface Of Main Gis System. Carried Out Full Project Responsibility From Design Of The System To Development And Installation. Also Helped The Project Leader In Project Analysis. The System Was Written In Fourth Generation Language Corvision From Cortex, C/C++ Along With Dec Relational Database (Rdb) And Designed To Run Both Client/Server (Microsoft Windows) And On Terminal Host (Vms Server) Show less

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  Associated Co-Op Creameries

  Apr 1994 - Jan 1995

  Contract Analyst/Programmer

  As Analyst Programmer was involved In Design And Developing Central Milk System In Corvision. Solely Responsible For The Development And Support For The Project. Also Responsible Partly For Other Projects And Consultant In Corvision For The Computer Software Team. System Was Written Mainly In Corvision But Was Also Involved In Support Of Projects Written In Vax Basic And Vax Cobol With Fms, Hence Some Development In These 3Gls. High Quality Of Work With Full Commitment Was Given To The Project Which Was Highly Appreciated By The Company Show less

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  Southern Electric

  May 1995 - Mar 1996

  Oracle Data Conversion DBA

  Worked on a large project to convert Southern Electric IT database from Oracle RDBMS to Oracle RDB. SQL tuning was core objective in this transition of database technologies.

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  NATS (LATCC (Military))

  Apr 1996 - Apr 1999

  Oracle Database Manager

  Contract Database Manager for ALFENS. Defence (MOD) Security cleared and responsible for management and support of VL Oracle database for MOD project ALFENS (Automated Low Flying, Enquiry and Notification System). As database manager for ASST I was responsible for laisoning with LOGICA for planning, designing, implementing, maintaining & performance tuning of Oracle database. I was also responsible for design of CATC (Artificial intelligence) project using Oracle, NT 4.0 & Unix.

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  PITNEY BOWES PLC

  Mar 1999 - Jul 1999

  Oracle Production DBA /VMS Consultant

  Worked as a Senior Oracle RDB DBA and VMS consultant to place backup and DR solution and validate heritage systems running oracle RDB. Removing Oracle Rdb Database Corruption, Performance Tuning And Y2k Testing

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  X/IP Telecommunication Ltd, London

  May 1999 - Apr 2000

  Oracle Production DBA / Unix Administrator

  Contract Oracle/Unix DBA, responisble for support and administration of an Oracle based Voice over IP C/S telecommunication system on Unix Sun-Solaris & NT platform. Senior most member of XIP support team responsible for every aspect of the project from configuration of the network to the installation and configuration of back-office support system based on Oracle8 database. Installation & configuration of other third party software to support network.

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  EQUONT Application Services

  May 2000 - Sept 2000

  Oracle Development DBA

  Senior contract Oracle Development DBA for Greaves development team contracted to design the new DPS system. Responsible for business process modeling, systems analysis, database design and physical database creation of Dynamic Pricing System (DPS) using Oracle Designer.

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  BT CellNet (MMO2)

  Sept 2000 - Mar 2003

  Snr Oracle Production DBA

  Senior contract Oracle Production DBA and responsible for the 24 by 7 on-call support of over 150 production & development Oracle large databases running on a range of UNIX, NT & Vms operating systems & applications.

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  Swisslog

  Mar 2003 - Sept 2007

  Oracle/Techical Consultant

  Senior Technical consultant/DBA and sole responsible for providing technical expertise to the Swisslog UK and Europe-2 in all aspect related to Oracle database design, build, installations, configuration, testing and production and development support

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  Vanderlande Industries - Terminal 5 Heathrow

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2009

  Senior Oracle/Unix Consultant

  Senior Oracle/Unix DBA responsible for support and maintenance and implementation of T5 High level infrastructure including UNIX and windows servers, databases, application servers, network and communication using ITIL best concepts and policies.

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  Capgemini Consulting

  Jul 2009 - Apr 2016

  Principal Oracle DBA / IMCC DBA Manager

  Principal Oracle DBA and Team leader of IMCC ORACLE for Capgemini. Responsible for support and maintenance of Oracle infrastructure on MET Account’s, including design, configuration and development of new MET projects. The infrastructure include over 150 UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX) and Windows Oracle databases server installations, SQL Servers cluster Databases, Oracle 10g AS, Weblogic/J2EE , Oracle RAC clusters, Oracle Data Guard Standby (logical and Physical), CDC, Oracle Stream, Oracle Failsafe, SSO, OID, LDAP, Discoverer, Networks/ Communication using ITIL standards. Show less

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  CSC

  May 2016 - Jul 2020

  Senior Professional/Team Lead

  Senior Professional Oracle & SQLManaging team of Oracle and SQL consultants. Responsible for support and maintenance of Oracle & SQL servers infrastructure on MET Account’s, including new projects design, configuration and it's development on MET estate.