Gaurav Singhal
Palatine,IL
Summary
Highly skilled Oracle Solution Architect with exceptional experience in Database and Exadata administration, data migration, system upgrades, and server expansion procedures. Currently designed an innovative Rapid Rebuild solution, allowing customers to rebuild the Exadata machine in less than 12 hours.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Principal. ASE, Global Delivery, Engineered Systems &Cloud Solutions
Oracle Corp US
01.2012 - Current
- Seasoned Oracle Database Administrator and solution Architect with 12 years of experience in managing large-scale databases and Engineering systems. Expertise in data migration, upgrades, and expansion procedures. Proven ability to rapidly rebuild servers with minimal downtime. Exceptional proficiency in providing tailored solutions for clients in financial sector, including BOA, Kaiser, Wells Fargo, and PNC. Adept at planning comprehensive backup and recovery procedures and ensuring seamless production patching and migrations.
- Highly accomplished at managing projects, providing direction, implementation of systems on heterogeneous platforms, global product support, team coordination and facilitation of technical solution across multiple countries in multi-ethnic and multi-cultural environment
- Efficient in Risk management and client expectation management, mentoring subordinates, datacenter operation and process optimization.
- Managed large-scale projects from inception to completion, ensuring adherence to budget constraints and timeline requirements.
- Experience in Data Migrations, Expansions, and Upgrades.
- Building new solutions like Rapid Rebuild
Skills
- Engineering System Administration- Managed Exadata environment for multiple clients, ensuring optimal performance and availability Installed and configured around 400 Exadata, Exalogic and ZDLRA servers
- Data Migration & Upgrades-Planned and executed large-scale data migration projects, ensuring data integrity and minimal downtime Led database upgrade projects to latest Oracle releases
- Rapid Rebuild Solution-Developed a new Service in 2024 named Rapid Rebuild allow customer to rebuild Exadata servers in less than 12 hrs in case of any failure
- Backup & Recovery-Designed comprehensive backup and recovery procedures for production patching and migrations Ensured data security and compliance with industry standards
- Client Solutions Architect-Served as single point of contact for many key accounts like Bank of America, PNC, Kaisers, Discover financials, Salesforce, NYSE, Northern Trust, Wellsfargo, etc and provided solutions for new installations, system upgrades, and expansion projects
- Training & Project Management-Conducted comprehensive training sessions for 40 engineers in India on Oracle Platinum product aspects Incident, problem, change, and release management expertise Extensive experience in preparing LOEs, including budgeting, resources, and task estimation
Education Certifications
- Bachelor in Computer Applications from Maharshi Dayanand University
- Master in Computer Applications from Maharshi Dayanand University
- Oracle Certified Professional Database Administrator 9i, 10g, 11g
- Oracle Exadata 11g OCS
- Oracle certified associate in cloud service
- Oracle Cloud Infra 2020 Architect OCA
- Oracle Certified professional in cloud Admin
- Oracle Database Cloud Administrator 12c
- Exadata X3 Implementation specialist
- ITIL Foundation V3 certified
Awards
- Oracle Pacesetter for individual and team FY2021
- FY 2021 for Team
- FY 2018
- FY 2015
- 4 times employee of the month during the 3 year tenure with old company
- Best Student awards of the college during the last year of Bachelor.
- Best Alumni Award for the MCA batch 2009 to 2012.
Timeline
Sr. Principal. ASE, Global Delivery, Engineered Systems &Cloud Solutions
Oracle Corp US
01.2012 - Current
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