Bala K

Experience

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  Government of India

  Sept 1993 - Jun 2000

  Systems Analyst / Scientist Engineer

  Modernisation of Machine Tabulation Unit - Migrating Data Processing from outdated Mainframe Systems using COBOL programs to UNIX based Database Management Systems for Structured Query Processing

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  NCS Group

  Jul 2000 - Jul 2001

  Database Administrator

  Oracle Database Administrator supporting Singtel (Singapore Telecommunications) and SingPost Databases

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  Accenture

  Jul 2001 - Jul 2003

  Database Administrator / HP-UX System Administrator

  Database Administrator and HP-UX System Administrator - Re-Architecting legacy Mainframe database system to Oracle RDBMS & Modernising Application

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  Agilent Technologies

  Jul 2003 - May 2005

  Senior Database Administrator, Database Core Competency

  Level 2 &3 - CORE Database Administrator for Oracle and SQL Server in the Global Infrastructure Support Team

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  Global Sources

  May 2005 - Sept 2005

  Senior Database Administrator

  Oracle Applications DBA - Migrating and upgrading databases across Data Centers for Server Refresh

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  IHiS / National Healthcare Group

  Sept 2005 - Mar 2007

  Senior Database Administrator

  Senior Infrastructure Database Administrator for Oracle and SQL Server of Singapore's Health / Hospital Management System

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  JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  Mar 2007 - Aug 2007

  DBA

  Oracle Project DBA migrating databases from Sybase ASE to Oracle RDBMS

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  Amazon

  Aug 2007 - Dec 2008

  Database Administrator - II

  Database Administrator for Amazon's Flexible Payment Systems (FPS) - Re-architecting MySQL databases to Oracle

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  IBM

  Jan 2009 - Jun 2011

  Advisory IT Specialist / Lead Database Administrator

  Lead DBA and Database Subject Matter Expert (SME) supporting ASEAN Region

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  JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  Jun 2011 - Sept 2014

  Regional DBA Team Lead

  Regional Team Lead for DBAs supporting over 20000 database instances globally under Global Technology Infrastructure (GTI) Organization

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  IBM

  Oct 2014 - Jun 2019

  • Base Growth Solution Manager for ThreeUK (Hutchison Mobile) of UK & Ireland and The Co-Operative Bank of UK• Identify and Analyse Customer's business requirements, understanding their strategic priorities and materialize to revenue generating deals with Technical Solutions • Infrastructure Service Delivery on Deploying Avaloq Banking Suite for a major European Bank as, Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Provide Operation Support• Work with the Remote Development and Engineering Teams on conceptualising the Infrastructure Solutions and implementing in a Private Cloud setup with required resiliency & security standards

  • Senior Technical Solution Manager (TSM)

    Nov 2016 - Jun 2019

  • Advisory IT Specialist / Database Service Delivery

    Oct 2014 - Oct 2016
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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  Nov 2019 - now

  Enabling customers to Modernize, Migrate and Manage their Database workloads in AWS Cloud with AWS Purpose Built Databases. Senior Migration Consultant from AWS Professional Services helping customers Modernize & Migrate their Database Workloads to AWS. Applying 7-Rs of migration and enabling success to customer's modernization journey.

  • Senior Database Consultant

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Senior Database Specialty Architect

    Nov 2019 - Sept 2022