IT Manager
Alargan Projects
Total years of experience :20 years, 4 Months
Created and maintaining an infrastructure roadmap to provide the company with redundant, reliable, and highly-available technology infrastructure.
Design, plan, and execute significant IT projects to deliver new capabilities that support business requirements.
Monitor all aspects of the IT infrastructure (Servers, Networks, Storage, Telecom, Data Center) to ensure that core systems are available, scalable, and secure as per company requirements.
Develop, maintain, and enhance the IT security policies as they relate to information systems.
Developing, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing key functional areas, particularly network and server infrastructure, data communications, and telecommunications systems.
Work with senior management, Information Technology team, and outside resources to design and develop effective disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
Ensure ERP system uptime, performance, and availability and service levels are defined and maintained at target levels at all times for all production systems including personal computers.
Maintain a long-term, big picture view; foresee obstacles and opportunities from a technology systems perspective; generate breakthrough ideas; obtain buy-in, and execute in a timely and cost effective manner with a lean number of resources.
Monitor status of company phone and data services. Ensure redundancy measures have been implemented to permit recovery from single-system failure.
Prepare and manage annual departmental budgets and prepare quarterly forecasts.
Evaluation, implementation and documentation of schema release procedures using Quest Schema Manager as a replacement for the existing Oracle Designer. The schema was particularly complex, consisting of more than 1800 tables.
Evaluation of faults in existing physical design and documentation of proposals to improve the system.
Creation of Project QA and development environments, using both cloning and edited DDL scripts to generate smaller versions of the production environment.
Supported releases and applying quarterly critical patch updates for the first time.
Database environment creation, cloning, upgrades and other project-orientated tasks.
Extensive monitoring and tuning activities during stress tests with both Media surface and MS Access code.
Production of an informal list of SQL performance tuning guidelines to improve the quality of future code development.
Owned and developed a detailed database creation process and related documentation to improve the quality of new Oracle system deployments.
Joint Technical Lead on Oracle Grid Control and Audit Vault implementation project.
Lead role on Proof of Concept exercise to establish a suitable Oracle and hardware configuration to load 2.7 billion rows into a new Data Warehouse within a limited batch window. This included multiple performance tests, tuning and documenting recommendations.
Supported releases and applying quarterly critical patch updates for the first time.
Database environment creation, cloning, upgrades and other project-orientated tasks.
Evaluation of existing backup and recovery procedures, recommending and implementing improvements.
Bachelor of Technology – JNTU (Hyderabad, India) Computer Science Data Communication and Computer Networks Operations Research Project Management Microprocessor Architecture and Design