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Abdul Kurnool

Overland Park,KS

Summary

Over 18+ years of experience in Information technology mainly in Oracle Applications Database Administration, Oracle DBA, Hyperion/BI, Demantra Application Administration. Strong leadership and mentoring experience in leading a team of DBAs responsible for production operations globally. Strong experience in Oracle E-Business Suite application (11.5.10.2, R12.0.4, R12.1.3, and R12.2.12), Oracle databases (9i, 10g, 11g, 12c, and 19c), WebLogic (11g, 12c), Data Guard (12c and 19c). Strong experience in administering RAC databases (11g, 12c, and 19c) hosted on Oracle Engineered Exadata machines. Strong experience in administering databases like SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres DB. Strong experience in administering Fusion Middleware technologies like SOA Suite (OSB, SOA, BAM, ESS) module and BPEL. Strong working experience on Oracle Single Sign-On solutions IDM (OAM, OIG, OID, BIP). Experience in multiple Oracle EBS upgrades, both from 11i to R12 and 12.1.1 to 12.1.3, and 12.1.3 to 12.2.3. Experienced with backup and recovery, cloning or refreshing databases, planning, installation strategy, and management. Strong experience in application and database patching for E-Business Suite, WebLogic, and Oracle databases. Strong experience in administering applications like OBIEE, Tableau, Informatica, and Incorta. Strong experience in troubleshooting performance issues at the application and database level. Create and document architecture diagrams for enterprise business applications. Experience on tools like Ansible, Autosys, GitLab, FlexDeploy, ITG, and JIRA. Experience managing applications hosted on Oracle Cloud. Experience in providing disaster recovery solutions by building physical standby databases (10gR2) and active Data Guard (11gR2). Reliable Manager demonstrating high level of ownership and initiative. Possessing exceptional work ethic and desire to go above and beyond to exceed company expectations. Offering knack for building productive working relationships. Successful in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments to manage goals and team development. History of thriving in team-oriented environments.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DBA Manager Sr

GDIT Inc
, USA
09.2024 - 09.2025
  • Company Overview: CMS is the federal agency that provides health coverage to more than 160 million through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace. CMS works in partnership with the entire health care community to improve quality, equity and outcomes in the health care system.
  • Driving transformation in technology, people and processes by leading a team of 21 DBAs in managing mission critical business financial systems
  • Lead and manage business critical financial systems and integrated applications with complex architecture including Oracle E-business suite, Hyperion, OAS, Incorta.
  • Prepare and provide daily and weekly operational insights to the customer for the critical systems
  • Cross team collaboration with functional and technical team in implementing business focused projects including G-invoicing, 508
  • Integrate and manage business critical applications including Hyperion, e-Business suite, tableau, sftp, CMOD with oracle single sign on solution
  • Proposed custom solutions for post patching issues reducing the resolution times from 18 months to few weeks
  • Lead and manage DR failover, failback for business-critical systems between data centers with the agreed up SLO & SLA
  • Plan and Provide Road maps for all the critical business systems for feedback and prioritization guidance from the client
  • Successfully planned, lead and managed on-prem to cloud migration POC for all the critical business application systems.
  • Propose and Build a strategy to migrate business critical applications from on-prem to cloud(OCI), successfully completed the POC

ERP DBA Team Lead /Architect / Product Owner

Garmin International Inc
, USA
10.2015 - 09.2024
  • Company Overview: Garmin International Inc is an American Multinational technology company that specializes in GPS technology, automotive, aviation, marine, outdoor, and fitness products.
  • Lead and Manage Global Team of DBAs and System Administrators who support Mission Critical Business Applications and Databases
    Responsible for business operations globally
  • Lead the DBA team responsible for Incident management, Problem Management, Performance Management for various mission critical business Applications including Oracle E-Business Suite, ASCP 12.2.11 hosted on 7 Node RAC
  • Maintain and manage other databases including SQL Server and MySQL
  • Support and Manage reporting tools like OBIEE, Informatica and Qlik
  • Develop and Document Production Support Guides which helped the Global DBAs during Incident management
  • Provide mentorship and guidance to the the DBAs during Incident management and Support Issues
  • Develop PL/SQL procedures, Shell Scripts to monitor production databases
  • Tune Long Running Queries using SQL Plan Baseline and SQL Profile
  • Develop Production Support Transition templates for effective transition from Projects to ERP Operations Team
  • Responsible for providing Mission, Vision and Branding for the team according to the future goals and objectives
  • Review and Provide feedback on narratives related to SOX, Security and PCI data compliance
  • Collaborate with Multiple teams leads and managers in establishing SLAs and SLOs

Oracle Applications DBA

Boar’s Head Provisions Inc
, USA
06.2013 - 10.2015
  • Company Overview: Boar's Head Provision Company is a supplier of delicatessen meats and cheeses. The company was founded in 1905 in the New York City area and now distributes its products throughout the United States.
  • Install configure Oracle Demantra 12.2.4 with web application on Weblogic 12c (12.1.3)
  • Build and configure Active Data Guard 11gr2 (11.2.0.4) for Disaster Recovery
  • Clone Patch and Maintain Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.3
  • Monitor maintain and Troubleshoot issues related to Oracle E-Business Suite (12.2.3) and SOA 11g
  • Support and Maintain Oracle E-Business suite 12.2.3 on a 4 node RAC database 11gr2
  • Successfully Migrate Databases to Oracle Exadata Engineered systems X4 machines
  • Maintain and Manage SOA Suite Application and Database
  • Install and Configure Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c (12.1.0.4) to Monitor databases
  • Responsible for maintaining OBIEE Application and Database
  • Support and Manage Incorta Application
  • Troubleshoot issues related to Forms, MWA sessions, and Database performance
  • Optimize RMAN backups by proposing new Hardware specifications.
  • Ensure SOX Compliance with Quarterly password change
  • Develop, Document and Implement process for purging BPEL metadata repositories.
  • Boar's Head Provision Company is a supplier of delicatessen meats and cheeses. The company was founded in 1905 in the New York City area and now distributes its products throughout the United States.

Oracle Applications DBA

Reynolds Packaging
, USA
11.2012 - 06.2013
  • Company Overview: Reynolds Group Holdings is an American packaging company well known for the consumer product Reynolds Wrap, Headquartered for most of its existence in Richmond, Virginia.
  • Cross Platform migration from HP-UX to LINUX using RMAN transportable tablespace.
  • Migrated the database of size 3.5 TB where source and target are using ASM 10g, 11g
  • Migration of Oracle EBS 11i (11.5.10.2) from HP-UX 11.11 to RHEL 5.0.
  • Migration of Oracle Database 10gr2 (10.2.0.5) from HP-UX 11.11 to RHEL 5.0.
  • Configure Load balancer for the Oracle EBS R12 (12.1.3) for the web nodes
  • Install, Configure and Administer WebLogic 11gR1 (10.3.4.0) on RHEL 5.0
  • Install FMW (Fusion Middle Ware) 11g(11.1.1.2) on RHEL 5.0
  • Trouble shoot and fix long running queries using TKPROF, SQL Tuning Advisor, AWR
  • Reynolds Group Holdings is an American packaging company well known for the consumer product Reynolds Wrap, Headquartered for most of its existence in Richmond, Virginia.

Oracle Applications DBA/EPMA Admin

Oracle India
, India
05.2011 - 09.2012
  • Company Overview: Agilent Technologies is a company that designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation.
  • Administer and Patch Oracle E-Business Suite R12(12.1.3) with Shared APPL_TOP Environment
  • Participate in Quarterly password change to maintain SOX Compliance
  • Troubleshoot issues related to long running concurrent programs
  • Upgrade Oracle e-business suite from 11i (11.5.10) to R12 (12 .1.3)
  • Troubleshoot Issues related to SSO, OAM, OIM hosted on web Logic 10g
  • Install and Configure Demantra 7.2.0.1 and Integrate with the E-Business Suite R12
  • Upgrade and Maintain Oracle ASCP Demantra 7.3.0 to 7.3.1
  • Upgrade database from 10g (10.2.0.5) to 11g (11.2.0.3)
  • Administer and troubleshoot issues related to Web Logic 10g (10.2.0.3)
  • Agilent Technologies is a company that designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation.

Oracle Applications DBA/EPMA Admin

Oracle India
, USA
02.2011 - 05.2011
  • Company Overview: American Express Company is a diversified global financial services company headquartered in New York City.
  • Administer and Patch Oracle E-Business Suite R12(12.0.6) with PCP and Shared APPL_TOP Environment
  • Administer and Maintain Hyperion 9 (9.3.1)
  • Administer and Maintain OBIEE 10g
  • Administer and Maintain Informatica 6
  • Maintain and Administer Oracle RAC 11g (11.1.0.7) in a 2-node environment
  • Troubleshoot Issues related to OID and SSO
  • Configure RMAN backups and maintain catalog database
  • American Express Company is a diversified global financial services company headquartered in New York City.

EPMA Admin/Oracle Applications DBA

Perficient Inc
Houston, USA
10.2010 - 01.2011
  • Company Overview: Continental Airlines is a major American Airline based out of Houston, recently acquired by United Airlines.
  • Install and configure Oracle EPMA (11.1.1.3) on windows server 2003
  • Install and Configure Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
  • Involved in the Integration project of Hyperion with E-Business Suite 11i
  • Implement SSL for Hyperion EPMA 11.1.1.3
  • Configure Web logic Server for SSL communication
  • Continental Airlines is a major American Airline based out of Houston, recently acquired by United Airlines.

Oracle Applications DBA

Perficient Inc
Houston, USA
07.2010 - 10.2010
  • Company Overview: Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc., is an energy and technology company that builds, owns and operates coal gasification plants.
  • Clone Oracle Applications using rapid clone
  • Upgrade Oracle database 10g(10.2.0.4) to 11g (11.1.0.2)
  • Troubleshoot Issues related to concurrent Manager
  • Install and configure Oracle Enterprise Manager (10.2.0.5)
  • Migrate Oracle Databases from Standard Edition to Enterprise Edition
  • Install and Configure Oracle EPMA (11.1.1 and 11.1.2)
  • Upgrade Oracle Applications from 11.5.10 CU2 to R12(12.1.1) for the Proof of Concept
  • Resolve Issues related to Application Server 10g
  • Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc., is an energy and technology company that builds, owns and operates coal gasification plants.

Oracle Applications DBA

Gates Corporation
Denver, USA
11.2009 - 06.2010
  • Company Overview: Gates is the only non-tire producing rubber company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of industrial and automotive belts and hoses, plus a host of related products.
  • Upgrade Oracle Applications 11i(11.5.10.2) to R12(12.1.1) on HP-UX RISC 64 bit
  • Upgrade Database from 9i(9.2.0.8) to 10g(10.2.0.4)
  • Supporting and maintaining Oracle ERP 11i suite Production/Stage/Test/Development environments running on HP UX platform.
  • Upgrade Oracle Enterprise Manager from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.5
  • Involved in SQL Tuning and Database Tuning to resolve performance issues
  • Implemented Archival Procedures to reduce size of the Database from 3 TB to 2 TB
  • Gates is the only non-tire producing rubber company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of industrial and automotive belts and hoses, plus a host of related products.

Oracle Applications DBA / Oracle DBA

Broadway Across America
Houston, USA
10.2008 - 10.2009
  • Company Overview: Broadway across America is a premiere promoter and producer of live theatrical events in the United States and Canada with twenty-seven years of experience in the entertainment industry.
  • Installed, configure and administer Oracle E-Business Suite R12 (12.0.4)
  • Extensively worked on Oracle Financials (AP, AR, GL, IE, CM)
  • Installed and Configure Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0
  • Upgrade Oracle applications from 12.0.4 to 12.0.6
  • Successfully Integrated Discoverer 10g with EBS R12
  • Developed RMAN scripts for daily hot database backups and weekly application backups
  • Used SQL Trace, TKPROF for PL/SQL Tuning
  • Used Opatch Utility to apply patches to Application Server 10g
  • Responsible for backup and recovery for SQL Server 2005 Databases
  • Provide 24x7 production support as an on-call DBA
  • Upgrade database from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.4 in DEV, TEST and PROD Environments
  • Broadway across America is a premiere promoter and producer of live theatrical events in the United States and Canada with twenty-seven years of experience in the entertainment industry.

SOA Admin/Oracle Apps DBA

Health Markets (Fujitsu Consulting)
Dallas, USA
07.2008 - 10.2008
  • Company Overview: Health Markets is one of the Americas Leading Health Insurance providers, As an Oracle Applications DBA supported Development, Staging and Production environments.
  • Providing Production support (24/7) and troubleshooting user issues.
  • Plan and Implement strategy to maintain dehydrations store(Meta data Repository)
  • Troubleshoot issues related to Transparent Application Failover(TAF) for BPEL clusters
  • Developed scripts and scheduled for daily RMAN Hot backups
  • Upgrade Oracle Application Server from 10.1.3.1 to 10.1.3.3
  • Installed BPEL Process Manager(SOA Suite) on a standalone server
  • Configure Flash Recovery Area for the production databases
  • Used AWR, TKPROF for tuning the production databases
  • Health Markets is one of the Americas Leading Health Insurance providers, As an Oracle Applications DBA supported Development, Staging and Production environments.

Oracle Apps DBA

PBGC
Washington, USA
09.2007 - 06.2008
  • Company Overview: PBGC is a federal corporation created by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. It currently protects the pensions of more than 44 million American workers and retirees.
  • Upgrade Oracle Database from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.3 both in Development and Production environments
  • Involved in Q3, Q4 and CPU patching both in Development and Production environments
  • Installed and configured Discoverer in production to generate custom reports
  • Troubleshoot issues related to Apache, Java, forms and Reports
  • Cloning oracle applications using RAPID CLONE
  • Administer and Maintain Oracle Applications using Oracle E-Business Suite 11i(11.5.10.2)
  • Involved in 24 x 7 production support as an On Call DBA
  • Upgrade RMAN repository database from 9.2.0.4 to 9.2.0.8 in development and staging environments
  • Ensured Security by registering the applications and databases to OID and SSO
  • Successfully build the standby database to ensure disaster recovery
  • PBGC is a federal corporation created by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. It currently protects the pensions of more than 44 million American workers and retirees.

Education

B. Tech - Electronics and Communication

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
India

M.S - Software engineering

Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT, USA

Skills

  • RHEL, OEL 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
  • Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022
  • Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c, 19c
  • SQL Server 2008, 2012, 2019, 2022
  • Hyperion 92, 93
  • Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, R12
  • Disaster recovery planning
  • Cloud migration strategy
  • Performance tuning
  • Incident management
  • Team leadership
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • SQL
  • PL/SQL
  • Shell
  • Bash
  • Python
  • Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM 10g 11g, 12c,13c)
  • Zabbix
  • Prometheus
  • SolarWinds
  • Ansible
  • Autosys
  • Gitlab
  • Flexdeploy
  • ITG
  • JIRA
  • OBIEE
  • Informatica
  • Tableau
  • Qlik
  • Discoverer
  • Oracle9i/10g Application Server
  • Apache 20
  • Tomcat
  • Web Logic 11g
  • Web Logic 12c
  • Web Logic 19c
  • BPEL
  • SOA 10g
  • SOA 11g
  • SOA 12c
  • Hyperion-EPMA 1112
  • Hyperion-EPMA 11113
  • Demantra 73x
  • Demantra 1224
  • WebSphere 8
  • OCI
  • Azure
  • GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
  • Project management
  • Problem solving
  • Process optimization
  • Client relationship management
  • Strategic planning
  • Mentorship and guidance
  • Effective communication
  • Conflict resolution
  • Staff training and development
  • Performance management
  • Project planning
  • Cross-functional team management

Certification

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Foundations Associate

Timeline

DBA Manager Sr

GDIT Inc
09.2024 - 09.2025

ERP DBA Team Lead /Architect / Product Owner

Garmin International Inc
10.2015 - 09.2024

Oracle Applications DBA

Boar’s Head Provisions Inc
06.2013 - 10.2015

Oracle Applications DBA

Reynolds Packaging
11.2012 - 06.2013

Oracle Applications DBA/EPMA Admin

Oracle India
05.2011 - 09.2012

Oracle Applications DBA/EPMA Admin

Oracle India
02.2011 - 05.2011

EPMA Admin/Oracle Applications DBA

Perficient Inc
10.2010 - 01.2011

Oracle Applications DBA

Perficient Inc
07.2010 - 10.2010

Oracle Applications DBA

Gates Corporation
11.2009 - 06.2010

Oracle Applications DBA / Oracle DBA

Broadway Across America
10.2008 - 10.2009

SOA Admin/Oracle Apps DBA

Health Markets (Fujitsu Consulting)
07.2008 - 10.2008

Oracle Apps DBA

PBGC
09.2007 - 06.2008

B. Tech - Electronics and Communication

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

M.S - Software engineering

Fairfield University

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