Ekbal Ahmad

Experience

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  ER & DCI, Noida, Ministry of IT & Communication, Govt. of India

  Feb 1997 - Aug 1999

  Oracle Developer/Data Migration

  • Worked on 'DOEACC Accreditation System' for Department of Electronics, Govt. of India, DOEACC Division under ER&DCI to keep the records of all the students who register for different courses like Level 'A', 'B', 'O', 'C' and so on; migrated all the data from dbase database to Oracle database using SQL* Loader Utility independently• Studied, designed, developed & implemented 'Property Management System' for Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority, Noida

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  Fusion Consulting

  Sept 1999 - Sept 2000

  Oracle Developer/DBA

  • Converted & migrated 'LARIX5.1 SYSTEM' for All Public AG, Switzerland from CUI based system to GUI based system in new environment and version using oracle 8 database as back-end and UNIFACE 7.3 as front-end tool• Modified existing LARIX5.1 SYSTEM to correct coding errors, upgraded interfaces and improve overall performance

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  ABES Engineering College

  Oct 2000 - Apr 2001

  Lecturer in Computer Science

  • Represented ABES Engineering College Team for counseling of students at MNREC/ NIT Campus, Allahabad• Delivered lectures & presentations on DBMS using PowerPoint and classroom technology for undergraduate students

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  Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

  May 2001 - Feb 2006

  Oracle DBA/ Project Leader

  • Studied, designed, developed & implemented multiple systems for Indian Railway including Security Management Information System (SMIS) & Personal Management Information System (PMIS)• Implemented Delhi Police Inventory Management Information System for Delhi Police• Successfully migrated the development database to production database for 20+ locations and installed & configured servers

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  Macro Software Systems LLC MSS

  Mar 2006 - Oct 2008

  Oracle DBA

  • Consolidated various small databases of Client (RCA) into a consolidated large Enterprise RAC Database on LINUX OS• Led the team for application migration and enhancement from client server to 3-tier architecture• Managed more than 10 databases and more than 10 application servers including testing and production environments

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  Diwan of Royal Court, Palace Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

  Nov 2008 - now

  Sr. Database Specialist/Data Center Engineer

  • Leading teams of data specialists to support their organization’s data storage and access needs; identified projects and sets priorities, ensured that team members provided excellent user support and adhered to best practices• Identified potential shortcomings within an organization’s data infrastructure, including areas where there was potential for data loss or unauthorized access• Planning & executing database migration & consolidation projects while defining scope, and managing milestones• Spearheading integrations with other core government ministry databases using Database Link and Web-Services• Providing Oracle support to the customer sites that are having mission critical business environments• Administering current employers’ enterprise backups & recoveries using Commvault; managing VMWare & MS Hyper-V virtualized environments• Resourceful in managing Enterprise HP Storages [3 PAR & Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)]• Assisting in managing Active Directory (AD), Domain Name Server (DNS) and DHCP servers• Reviewing & improving checklists for activities like upgrades, migrations, disaster recovery, backup & recovery, and so on• Managing Oracle, HP, Linux, VMware and Microsoft Media and Licenses• Supervising implementation of the organization’s enterprise security strategy for network and hardware, disaster recovery, data protection and endpoint protection• Analyzing architecture design, implementation, testing and deployment needs to identify project requirements and costs• Collaborating with management teams to develop & test storage strategies and disaster-recovery plan for a client’s operational database; delivered a solution that guaranteed recovery performance and high availability Show less