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Sunitha Thodupunoori

Summary

Hands-on Project Manager recognized for flawless execution and finding solutions to complex problems. Communicative and reliable professional polished in developing scopes and objectives and maintaining comprehensive project documentation. Commended for unexcelled record of completing critical projects on schedule and within budget. High-achieving management professional possessing excellent communication, organizational, and analytical capabilities. Develops innovative solutions to resolve business and technology challenges. Eager to advance business goals through careful team management

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Manager

Molina HealthCare
Dallas, TX
05.2022 - Current
  • Determined project staffing needs and led resource management.
  • Submitted project deliverables to clients, consistently adhering to quality standards.
  • Actively sought out feedback from stakeholders throughout the duration of a project in order to identify areas needing improvement or adjustment.
  • Drafted project construction schedule and updated as job progressed.
  • Advised other departments on best practices related to managing large-scale projects.
  • Modified project plans are needed when needed to better align with organizational objectives.
  • Managed multiple projects with competing deadlines simultaneously.
  • Drafted reports summarizing progress made on projects for review by the executive leadership team.
  • Identified project needs by reviewing project objectives and schedules.
  • Communicated effectively with stakeholders to ensure project goals were met on time and within budget.
  • Created project plans with established timelines, assigned them to appropriate teams and managed workflow throughout construction.
  • Presented findings from data analysis in a clear, concise manner that was easily understood by stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
  • Created team objectives and roles with specific goals outlined for each individual.
  • Developed and updated project plans to document objectives, technologies, schedules, and funding.
  • Forecasted, scheduled and monitored project timelines, personnel performance, and cost efficiency.
  • Developed solutions to project risks and issues, meeting quality and timeline goals and objectives.
  • Developed and maintained project plans, timelines, and budgets.
  • Generated and tracked change orders and other contractual modifications affecting budget and schedule.
  • Conducted regular status meetings with internal teams and external partners to track progress against established milestones.
  • Managed contracts with vendors and suppliers by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables.
  • Negotiated with project stakeholders or suppliers to obtain resources or materials.
  • Submitted budget estimates, progress reports and cost tracking reports.
  • Conducted periodic inspections of job sites for quality and progress.
  • Negotiated contracts with vendors and suppliers based on company objectives and budget constraints.
  • Identified needs and coordinated resource allocation to deliver quality standards on time and within budget.
  • Prepared cost estimates for projects of varying sizes.
  • Identified risks associated with each project and developed strategies for mitigating those risks.
  • Provided guidance to team members regarding tasks assigned to them.
  • Led meetings with internal team members, consultants and contractors.
  • Made changes to project scope and cost and implemented most effective change management processes to keep project up-to-date.
  • Monitored progress of each project to ensure timely delivery of deliverables in accordance with established quality standards.
  • Produced thorough, accurate and timely reports of project activities.
  • Built and established strong partnerships with teams, vendors and contractors.
  • Drove continuous improvement of project delivery process by providing strong leadership.
  • Reviewed budget and subcontractor estimates in detail and analyzed for accuracy with scope of work relevancy in mind.
  • Created and implemented processes to ensure successful completion of projects.
  • Ensured compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures throughout the life cycle of each project.
  • Furnished project updates to various stakeholders, informing on strategy, adjustments and progress.
  • Implemented effective communication protocols between internal teams working on different aspects of a given project.
  • Created project status presentations for delivery to customers or project personnel.
  • Reviewed project risks and devised proactive strategies to avoid potential roadblocks.
  • Collaborated closely with senior management on long-term strategic planning initiatives related to projects in development or execution stages.
  • Analyzed data from various sources such as surveys, interviews, focus groups. to inform decision-making related to projects.
  • Coordinated resources across multiple departments and teams as needed for successful completion of projects.
  • Participated in cross-functional teams responsible for developing innovative solutions for complex problems.
  • Facilitated resolution of conflicts between team members when necessary.
  • Maintained records of all documents related to each project including specifications, change orders, invoices.
  • Focused on project monitoring and management by developing forecasts and tracking expenses.
  • Conferred with project personnel to identify and resolve problems.
  • Promoted high customer satisfaction by resolving problems with knowledgeable and friendly service.
  • Worked successfully with diverse group of coworkers to accomplish goals and address issues related to our products and services.
  • Completed day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
  • Collaborated with others to discuss new opportunities.
  • Prioritized and organized tasks to efficiently accomplish service goals.
  • Displayed strong telephone etiquette, effectively handling difficult calls.
  • Recognized by management for providing exceptional customer service.
  • Assisted with customer requests and answered questions to improve satisfaction.
  • Understood and followed oral and written directions.
  • Identified needs of customers promptly and efficiently.
  • Delivered products to customer locations on time.
  • Maintained schedule of class assignments to meet deadlines.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional team to define features and build powerful and easy-to-use products and customer-facing workflow tools.
  • Planned and completed group projects, working smoothly with others.
  • Maintained updated knowledge through continuing education and advanced training.
  • Provided excellent service and attention to customers when face-to-face or through phone conversations.
  • Maintained open communication with team members and stakeholders, resulting in successful project outcomes.
  • Approached customers and engaged in conversation through use of effective interpersonal and people skills.
  • Leveraged software skills to input and compile data gathered from various sources.
  • Achieved cost-savings by developing functional solutions to problems.

SQL Database Architect

Careington
Dallas, TX
07.2016 - 11.2019
  • Installed and maintained MS SQL Server 2016/2012 on Windows 2016
  • Administrated the SQL Server 2016/2012/2008/2005 servers in production, pre-production, non-production databases, Front end Application support and Performance Analysis/tuning
  • Worked on Inplace Upgrade of Production servers from SQL 2008 R2 to 2016
  • Participated in the Migration of the databases and managed the location of database files, log files and their sizes
  • Troubleshooting and resolved Application issues, database performance and deadlocking issues
  • Configured AlwaysOn (SQL2016), Log shipping, Migration for Disaster Recovery and also created SQL Jobs for faster, easier and better safety of data
  • Technical Analysis, Code Review, Implementation, 24 x 7 production support
  • Responsible for Stored Procedures optimization, Performance tuning & index tuning
  • Used third party tools like SQL Safe, Red Gate to speed up backup operations and Idera tools like Diagnostic Manager and Compliance Manager to diagnose the Servers
  • Handled an End-to-End SQL Servers migration(2008 to 2016) from On-prem to Azure using DMA, DMS, Azure Data Studio
  • Worked on SQL Server 2008 failover clustering which is built on top of a Windows 2008R2 server cluster
  • Extensively worked on Log shipping for synchronization of databases for SQL Server High Availability
  • Extensively worked on setting up Transactional replication in Production environment
  • Monitoring SQL server performance using profiler to find performance, Deadlocks, blockings and Capturing long running SQL queries for fine-tuning SQL statements that better result in efficient SQL statements processing
  • Worked on creating SSIS packages and resolving complex issues and Error Handling in the packages
  • Worked on SQL Server Timeout errors in Production and Corp Servers
  • Processing dimensions, data and indexes of a cube and also worked on tasks like backups and restoring of the SSAS cubes
  • Monitored and tuned databases to meet the performance and availability requirements of on-line systems and multiple applications
  • Created and managed schema objects such as tables, views, clusters, indexes, procedures, and triggers and maintained Referential Integrity
  • Monitored database status including CPU, memory, I/O, space, and deadlocks using SQL Server utilities
  • Installed, authored and managed reports using SQL Server 2008R2 (SSRS) Reporting Services
  • Monitored and modified Performance using execution plans and Index tuning
  • Used DMVs, DMFs for Identifying missing indexes and Index usage stats, Fragmentation levels of Indexes for query/stored procedures tuning
  • Creating Database Maintenance Planner for the Performance of SQL Server, which covers Database Integrity Checks, Update Database Statistics and Re-indexing
  • Maintained high availability of databases using Database Mirroring and Log Shipping.

Sr.SQL Server DBA

Ford Motors
08.2013 - 06.2016
  • Installed and configured SQL Server 2008R2/2012/2016, on the Windows 2008R2/2012/2016 server and client machines, provide connections and manage databases
  • Administrated and Managed SQL Server 2008R2/2012 databases in Production, Staging, QA and development environments
  • Migrated Databases from SQL Server 2008 Standalone to SQL server 2016 Clustered AlwaysOn Instances and between IT and Mobility environments using Log shipping, Backup & restore
  • Performed Database Integrity Checks, updated Database Statistics and performed Re-indexing on IT and Mobility environments
  • Experience with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), in regular maintenance activities like Query Tuning, statistics update, Index rebuild, log file monitoring, temp DB monitoring, deadlock resolutions, and fragmentation issues
  • Used Policy Based Administration feature (SQL Server) and Worked with SCOM Monitoring
  • Creating and Maintaining Database Maintenance Plans and creating jobs and alerts notifications
  • Used native tools like Database Tuning Advisor, SQL Server Profiler, Performance Monitor and Activity Monitor for performance tuning
  • Generated reports in SSRS using BIDS (Business Intelligence Development Studio)
  • Implementation of SQL Logins, Roles and Authentication Modes as a part of Security Policies
  • Managing local and remote databases from within IIS 7.0(Internet Information Services) Manager
  • Replaced contour mobility on the DR server with a refresh of contour IT production using the SSIS packages
  • Experience in creating Jobs, Alerts, SQL Mail Agent and Scheduling DTS and SSIS Packages
  • Involved in Analysis, Development and Maintenance of Backup Plan, Disaster Recovery Plan, Procedures and Strategies using Maintenance Plans
  • Troubleshooting of Performance issues by using SQL Tools, execution plans, taking traces using Profiler and Index tuning wizard
  • Involved in Configuring and testing the setup of SQL Server Database encryption on DR severs
  • Performed Troubleshooting and resolving all kinds of database issues in the server using New Relic performance tool
  • Designed and developed SSIS packages using different control flow tasks, Transformations and dataflow tasks
  • Setting up Linked Servers in Kerberos authentications
  • Worked in resuming suspended availability database in AlwaysOn availability groups by using Power shell and TSQL in SQL Server 2016
  • Involved in Performing Production data refresh in Mobility Performance environment
  • Implementing DR solution, High availability of database servers using Database mirroring and replications
  • Monitored database status including CPU, memory, I/O, space, and deadlocks using SQL Server utilities and raising Tickets for the upgrading of CPU and memory space
  • Performed data modeling activities using ER diagrams, application performance tuning and code reviews and documenting the changes.

Senior SQL DBA

Chevron
02.2009 - 03.2012
  • SQL Server 2008R2/2008/2005 Database Administration
  • Migrated SQL server from SQL Server 2005 On prem to cloud Azure SQL Server and 2008 R2 using Log shipping, Backup & restore
  • Implemented the disaster recovery models like clustering, mirroring, log shipping and transactional replication
  • Installing, Configuring and Maintaining SQL Server 2008R2/2008/2005 (64 bit) on Active/Active Cluster with latest Service Packs, Hot Fixes
  • Experienced in working with development teams in database design process and make suggestions and recommendations based on the application data usage requirements
  • Installed and configured Microsoft SQL 2 node Clustering (Active/Passive)
  • Created documentation to install SQL Server, apply service pack, hot fix and clustering installation
  • Experience in Database security and integrity planning
  • Created Maintenance Plans for Regular Backups and Rebuilding of Indexes
  • Assisting SQL Developers in query tuning and optimization
  • Deployed multi-campus backup environment based on EMC Data domain storage
  • Installed and configured Storage Area Networks (SAN) in a heterogenous environment
  • Tuning queries which are running slow using Profiler and Statistics by using different Methods in terms of evaluating joins, indexes, updating Statistics and code modifications
  • Successfully implemented the Capacity planning for different servers
  • Experienced in configuring Power shell Scripting, environment for SQL support
  • Implemented new T-SQL features added in SQL Server 2005 that are Data partitioning, Error handling through Try- Catch statement, Common Table Expression (CTE)
  • Installed Service packs and Builds and Worked with SQL Server 2008 in place and side by side upgrade from SQL server 2005
  • Worked on Project for setting up DB mirroring and troubleshooting
  • Worked on setting up Transactional Replication (push and pull) and Merge Replication and troubleshooting along with Slip stream installations and TDE
  • Working on daily tasks include Backup failures, Login creations, Data refresh and Disk space issues
  • Implementation of SQL failover cluster and setting up backup jobs and Checking Control M Jobs
  • Implementing and Maintaining Server Level Auditing for auditing of Logins, Creating and Dropping Objects
  • Checking the performance issues on servers as per request by using Profiler, Perfmon, DBCC and DMVs
  • Monitoring servers by checking Error Logs, Windows Logs, Creating Logins and Roles with appropriate permissions
  • Worked in Configurations of IIS (Internet Information Service) in ISP environment with access to SQL DBs
  • Installed and Configured SSRS and Deploying SSIS packages
  • Analyzed execution plans, and tuned queries and databases for better optimal performance and optimization of the queries
  • Fixing Missing Indexes and Excess indexes using Data Tuning Advisor
  • Managed schema objects like Triggers, cursors, indexes, procedures.

Lead SQL DBA

Infosys
, India
08.2007 - 01.2009
  • Installed and maintained MS SQL Server 2005 on Windows 2003 Server
  • Worked on SQL Server 2003 failover clustering which is built on top of a Windows 2003 server cluster
  • Upgraded SQL Server 2000 to SQL 2005 server for high volume processing databases on a clustered environment
  • Worked on Client/Server tools like SQL Server Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer to Administer SQL Server
  • Configuring, tuning and optimizing SQL Server 2005
  • Responsible for Stored Procedures optimization, Performance tuning & index tuning
  • Administrator tasks like managing users, roles and permissions
  • Extensively worked on Log shipping for synchronization of databases for SQL Server High Availability
  • Implemented new features in SQL Server 2008 like Policy based Management, Table Compression, Backup Compression, SQL Server Auditing, Resource Governor and Merge statement in T-SQL
  • Performed data partitioning for efficient management of database tables and indexes
  • Involved in complete database design including conceptual, logical and physical models
  • Experienced in working with SQL server Power shell provider and central management server from Power shell
  • Participated in the designing and development of software using agile development practices
  • Providing support for storage operations for EMC Data domain, Net backup and other storage products
  • Based on the EMC requirement, updated the drivers (HBA etc)/patches (Operating System) on all systems involved in the data migration
  • Implemented Tivoli Alerting for the SAN Infrastructure devices to alert the command Center and worked closely with Tivoli team to create log adapters and carefully planned out the severity levels
  • Creating DTS Packages for data import/export, scrubbing and scheduled jobs for backups
  • Managing local and remote databases from within IIS (Internet Information Services) Manager
  • Creating Database Maintenance Planner for the Performance of SQL Server, which covers Database Integrity Checks, Update Database Statistics and Re-indexing
  • Maintained high availability of databases using Database Mirroring and Log Shipping
  • Used third party tool, Lite Speed, Red Gate to speed up backup operations
  • Handled migrations of SQL Servers
  • Created Complex reports using SS Reporting services
  • Created and maintained logical/physical data structures
  • Creating views and stored procedures and optimizing them as required by front-end developers for easier implementation on web pages
  • Developing stored procedures, triggers, views and adding/changing tables for data load and transformation, and data extraction
  • Used functions to create predefined conditions and prompts to filter the data and dynamic user selection
  • Involved in creating Cubes using SQL Server Analysis Services
  • Created the reports using Business Objects functionality’s like Queries, Sub queries, Slice and Dice, Drill Down, Cross Tab, Master Detail and Formulae’s etc

Education

Skills

  • Windows 2008/2012/2016/7/10
  • T-SQL,C/C,C#,javascript, VisualStudio 2005/2003, VBNET
  • SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, Crystal Reports, SQL Server Profiler, DTS, Management Studio/Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer, Active X, IIS, MTS, OLTP, OLAP, TSM, Powershell, Scripting, Unix, Perl, SCOM
  • SQL Server 2016/2012/2008/2005, MS Access, MySQL, Oracle
  • Efficiently managing tasks, resources, and priorities while delegating responsibilities effectively by handling the teams Worked as part of small, mid-sized and big teams to lead and deliver the desired outputs Example: Setting SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) goals, aligning actions with organizational vision Assessing risks, prioritizing tasks, weighing alternatives, and considering implications Building collaborative relationships, recognizing and leveraging team strengths, mentoring and coaching Demonstrated the leadership skills by inspiring, motivating, and guiding the team towards common goals
  • Resource Allocation
  • Contract Management
  • Project Planning
  • Project Development
  • Data Analysis
  • Compliance Monitoring
  • Schedule Management
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Risk Management
  • Project Management
  • Work Flow Planning
  • Logistics Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Project Tracking
  • Workforce Training
  • Project Scope
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Client Relations
  • Processes and Procedures
  • Staff Training and Mentoring
  • Programming Languages
  • Stakeholder Communications
  • Project Development and Lifecycle
  • Staff Management
  • Software Development Lifecycle
  • Agile Methodology

Timeline

Project Manager

Molina HealthCare
05.2022 - Current

SQL Database Architect

Careington
07.2016 - 11.2019

Sr.SQL Server DBA

Ford Motors
08.2013 - 06.2016

Senior SQL DBA

Chevron
02.2009 - 03.2012

Lead SQL DBA

Infosys
08.2007 - 01.2009

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