Resume -Sr.

DB2 DBA LUW

D H I R AJ B I LWAL C o n t a c t : + 9 1 - 9 1 5 8 - 7 7 7 - 4 8 8

Email :dhirajbilwal@yahoo.com

Education & Certifications:

Bachelors in Computer science and Technology Amaravati University (Maharashtra), India.
PRINCE2 Foundation Certification for Project Management.
PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification for Project Management.
IBM Certified DB2 UDB Database Administrator for Unix, Linux, Windows.
Workshops, Trainings & Seminars Attended:
Attended training on disruptive leadership, 2015

Participated PMP, Project Management Professional, 2009 training

PMP Mega Exam Development Workshop, 2010
Cleared Wipro ITIL foundation program 2009 and practiced in all projects
Attended Trainings & Having good exposure Disaster Recovery Planning & Management.
Attended IBM Workshop on Big Data Hadoop & Participated in IBM Cloud seminars for Idea
Cellular
Profile Summery.
A PRINCE2 Practitioner Certified in Project Management having 14 years of experience in
executing enterprise level projects from inception to deployment in fast-paced environments
of Information Technology & Operations for Banking and Telecom domains. 7 years of seniorlevel leadership spanning across IT infrastructure Operations and Service Delivery , consulting
Services, Project Management, Database support and services , Disaster recovery planning and
management.
As Sr. DBA Tech Lead/Manager Responsible for Drive Transition from solution design to
solution delivery. Perform Direct and Manage Project Execution. Ensure the project deliverables
meet the define needs it was intended to meet from customers perspective. Working on large
volume DPF Data Warehouse projects - db size80 TB, 360 TB and 406 TB with 36 , 85 ,148
logical partitioned respectively, OLTP databases & applications which have SMP/MPP/High
Availability (HADR /HACMP/ Rolling -HA ,DataGard ,RAC11g, Replication - SRDF/ SQL
Replication) Benchmark testing , Product development, Design Backup/ Recovery strategy,
Automation on multiple flavors of Linux/ Unix/ Windows/ Aix and RDBMS,
Good hand-on experience about B&FS, Telecom domain for warehouse projects. Liaising
between stake holders, Change Authority ,Project Manager, Project Support (i.e. BI-OPS,
Projects management, support and delivery management, Storage and TSM backup,
compliance ), Infrastructure build, Migration and maintenance for Business Critical IT
applications with agile methodology & solutions.
Extensive experience about production databases support and services, streamline operations ,
customizations and implementation of software applications, Proficient in analyzing and
translating business requirements to technical requirements , design & development with and
architecture understanding, Good hand-on experience about Project and delivery management,
Audit & Compliance, ITIL process , KPI Automation.
Good communication and interpersonal ,Leadership skills, self-motivated, quick learner, good
team player. Microsoft Project 2013, Open Project & Excel
Environment & Skill Set
RDBMS & Tools : IBM DB2 LUW V 8x ,9x,10x , IBM BLU ,SOLIDDB , PDOA V 1.0 ,1.1 with DB2
V10.1/10.5 ,ISAS ,Oracle 8.x/11g, Sybase, BigData Hadoop , BMC Petrol, Tivoli,Java2.0,C,TSM ,Net
Backup VERITAS, Sql Backtrack, FDR , Legato Networker , SPSS, RAVE ,Remedy ,Infoman ,Datastage ,
Quest Center,ER WIN, SQL ,SQL/PL ,C ,Java, Shell scripting.
O/S & Middleware : Aix 6x/7x, Unix, Linux/Linux/RedHat, Solaris, Win 2K/NT. CRM , MQ , SAS ,WBI
Hardware : IBM Servers P-7 ,P-8 , Storage DS3500,V7000, Flash System 900 V7000v2 , Logical
CPU/per node: 16 ,32 ,64 ,80, DS4500, DS7700 IBM 9119- 595 , Sun E4500, 400 MHz , Sun Fire V220/
440 /880 /490.890, HP9000, Sun Storage 3310/ 3510 FC RAM 32/128/256 GB.FCS communication links
8GB, 10 GB, 40 GB.
Connectivity S/w : Putty, FTP, SSH, SFTP, Telnet, VPN, Citrix, Runtime client, RDP.

Employement Details

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2005

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IBMIndia Pvt.Ltd.India
WiproTechnologyServices,M
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April
Dec
Feb

2005
2004
2004

To July 2005.
To April 2005.
ToOCT04.

Sr. DB2 UDB DBA

DBA
DB2DBA

Oct

1998

To Feb 2004

DBA/Developer

Endroit Technologies Pvt. ,Mumbai

Wipro Technology Ltd(India), BLR
ExtraquestResearch(India)P
vt.Ltd
Pyramid Data Solutions Nagpur.

Projects
IBM - Executed large volume DPF Data Warehouse projects for B&FS domain-SBI ATM Analytics, SBI
WAREHOUSE-ISAS, Telecom domain projects like 1.CAMPAIGN Management, 2.BISAS 3. PDOA (IBM
PureData System for Operational Analytics).-. these warehouse system completely handle telecom business
and operations. These systems have (DPF) db size 80 TB, 360 TB and 406 TB with 36 , 85 ,148 logical
partitioned respectively. Established On-line backup/recovery in warehouse, Warehouse DB Migrations
with zero downtime. ( Since 2013 to till date )
Wipro/Citigroup - Executed OLTP projects for B&FS domain Like-Citigroup CBNA IP Image
Exchange ,CTI SAS FRAUD ,CTI Data Center Optimization(ASPAC/EMEA/NA Region) ,Citigroup
Banking Group : CBNA Consumer - Retail Bank , Citigroup : Global Consumer Group ,Citigroup Global
Securities Services( CIB), GCX2 Global Cash Exchange Warehouse Services , Flex cube-Retail Banking
product Development ,Company Billing System, HRMS ,Quality management System. (Aug 2005 to July
2013)

Professional Experience : Sr. DBA Tech Lead/Manager (IBM India Pvt. Ltd.)

Since 2013 to till date

As a Sr.DBA Lead Responsible for Customer Satisfaction,Project Planning & Implementation,Quality &
Process, Building Technical Depth and Expertise, Team Development.

As Sr. DBA - Lead, Trained and Managed 19 member team, consisting of 4 Tech Leads, 8 Level
2 resources and 7 Level 1 resources for the 24x7 telecom database support on Idea Cellular
network on platform db2 version 9.7/10x & Oracle 10g/11g databases. DB count count 1245.

Responsible for leading a project teams in delivering solution to our customer IDEA Cellular Pvt. Ltd. in the
telecom sector. Drive Transition from solution design to solution delivery. Production infrastructure build ,
DB migrations/upgrades. Analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of customized
business solutions.

Strong analytical and technical skills, working on IBM DB2 UDB product warehouse projects(PDOA).
Work and coordinate closely with stake holder teams BI-Operations ,Service delivery ,Storage ,Backup, BIApplication Compliance team , Change Advisory Board (CAB)to execute project scope with well SLA
adherence and standard policies, procedures and process.

Responsible for developing and maintaining the database standards, Conventions, best practices and
technical details for SOPs/ Work Instructions and ensure are followed to maintain a viable system.

Monitor storage capacity of the systems - database growth.review performance and availability needs of
overall application and DB2 UDB database. Perform periodic database reviews and audits, user
management ,VTM Patch and new features software, FixPak, Licenses management, Usability, Scalability,
Backup & Recovery, storage optimization for production databases. Prepare SOP, case studies. Prepare
migration plans with agile mitigation methods.

Staying abreast of the most current release of DB2 LUW including compatibility issues with operating
systems, third party software and utilities.

Support of daily operations including job monitoring and troubleshooting of the 24x7 DB2 databases.

Perform database maintenance tasks - backups/ restore (Online/Offline/incremental/delta),High availability

HADR/ HACMP/Rolling-HA, roll forward recovery, reorgs, runstats, and compression activities. schedule
Autosys Net Backup job, TSM backup jobs for processing UDB backup.

Keeping the database up to date in technology, on patches and supporting the roll-out of new versions &
features.

Assist in developing solutions to complex problems with ingenuity and innovation while ensuring solutions
are consistent with organizational objectives

Consult and review SQL code, perform analysis and provide recommendations

Monitor, troubleshoot and tune database environments.

Work with application development teams and assist with problem resolution

Understand policies, standards, and guidelines regarding databases, database development and management
to comply with Corporate audit requirements and other regulations.

Participate in projects & work with project management, project and infrastructure teams to confirm scope,
resource plan, and technical tasks

Work with auditors and regulators to ensure database systems are compliant with all regulations.\

Capacity planning for all the database systems.

Identify opportunities of process improvement and automation.

Identify opportunities of process improvement & automation and implement solutions to optimize the
system, resource utilization for maximum performance.

Execute upon key DB2 team initiatives and provide technical support as needed for upgrades, installations,
refreshes, proofs of concept, backups, disaster recovery, capacity planning and other complex projects as
needed

Engage vendor support/technical staff to assess solution options and to analyze and resolve or escalate
issues.

Able to work independently as well as cooperatively across team

BAU- Implement UDB infrastructure and setup, Installation of db2 udb & Fix-Pak software, db and
warehouse db Migrations , db upgrade, Vendor Third party S/w. Provide architecture, design and
deployment support, such as design UDB database layout, infrastructure setup with native and vendor
Product, Automate and Schedule Maintenance jobs cronjobs, application testing ,validating proof of
concepts/casestudy to ensure performance tuned and optimized from high transactions.

Maintanance
-Provide
day-to-day
database
administration
availability
support
for
PROD/COB/UAT/DEV environment i.e. Object maintenance ,validate indexes , export/import/load ,reorg,
runstats , tablespace maintenance ,data movement tools like load cursor , admin_move procs ,design tables
and maintain purging policies, prepare automation scripts. Writing/running shell scripts as required to
execute database maintenance and process automation, Performing standard Data Purging activities
attach/detach partitions to meet the storage limits and performance.

Understand the data flow process and the nature of data processing, monitor system resources , recommends
configuration changes for performance tuning, Provide roll-out of each DBMS/Infrastructure level objective
in co-ordination with Business & Vendor for vendor product, Leverages database tools to improve database
performance and resolve support issues. automate repeatable practices to ensure data integrity and
availability. Execute proactive database and system availability. Prepare RCA, investigating the error logs,
NMON, audit reports, support for problem tickets, and lead the DBA pool and operation teams ,provide
daily report to business and customer management as necessary, report project progress to Matrix Manager
regularly.

Capacity planning and SLA- Evaluate and predict hardware and software needs to support rapid growth,
review performance and availability needs of overall application and DB2 UDB database. Perform periodic
database reviews and audits, user management ,VTM Patch and new features software, FixPak, Licenses
management, Usability, Scalability, Backup & Recovery, storage optimization for production databases.
Prepare SOP, case studies. Prepare migration plans with agile mitigation methods.

Reporting - Report the problem, prepare root cause analysis (RCA) with detailed Explanation. Review
DB/os/storage logs and NMON reports. Provide daily report to business for Daily EMS tickets/escalations,
record the OS, Storage, Database availability, issues raise PMR with IBM , third party s/w support and
track them to closure.

Working as hadoop admin for migration of warehouse database (300TB) to Hadoop platform 22 node
cluster.
Sr. DBA - DB2/Oracle (Wipro Technologies)
Aug 2005 to July 2013

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Citigroup Inc- doing business as Citi, is a major American financial services company based in New
York,NY Citigroup Inc. has the world's largest financial services network, spanning 107 countries with
approximately50 datacenters worldwide.
As Sr. DBA - Lead, Trained and Managed 22 member team, consisting of 4 Tech Leads, 8 Level 2 resources
and Level 10 resources, for the 24x7 Banking security database support for APAC, North America & Europe
regions on platform db2 version 9.5/9.7 & Oracle 10g/11g databases. DB count 742.
Work as Onsite co-ordinator involved maintaining and supporting very large size production Databases
(DB2, Oracle & MySQL) on servers in the production and development environment.
Confirm sign-off on how we will know if the work we do will acceptably meets project's requirement.
Implement UDB infrastructure and setup, i.e. Installation of db2 udb & Fix-Pak software.Database and
warehouse db Migrations , db upgrade, Vendor Third party S/w. Provide architecture, design and
deployment support.
Design UDB database layout, infrastructure setup with native and vendor Product, Automate and Schedule
Maintenance jobs, cronjobs, application testing ,validating proof of concepts/casestudy to ensure
performance tuned and optimized from high transactions.
Planed and Implemented Backup Recovery and high availability i.e Backups/ Restore (Online /
Offline/incremental/delta), High availability setup for HADR/ HACMP/SRDF & SQL replication, Datagard,
RAC, schedule Autosys Net Backup, TSM, Legato backup job for processing UDB/Oracle backups.
Running and writing shell scripts as required to execute database maintenance.
Provide day-to-day database administration availability support for PROD/COB/UAT/DEV environment
across globe i.e. Object maintenance ,data movement using tools load cursor , admin_move procs
export/import/load/db2move,,Performing monthly standard Data Purging activities to meet the storage
limits.monthly reorg, daily and weekly runstats , tablespace maintenance(alter tablespace / reduce high
watermark) ,design tables ,Grant revoke access,prepare SOP ,automation scripts and KPI.
Perform periodic database reviews and audits, new features software,
VTM Patch, FixPak ,
Licenses,Usability, Scalability, Backup & Recovery, storage optimization , Deploy monitoring tools for
production databases (db2opm ,WLM,db2top,vmstat,nmon,tivoli..).
Take initiative for transition of projects module deployment and mentoring development teams and support
personnel in the implementation for UDB upgrade , Migration , business request rollout.
Provide daily report to business for Daily EMS tickets/escalations, Database availability, db2 Applications
status, raise PMR with IBM and track them to closure.
Building subject-matter-expertise on programs/applications supporting business & operations in

defining processes & best practices. Technical Program Set Up Assurance and Recovery - TSAR: Defining,
shaping and mobilizing technology programs.
Provide daily report to business for Daily EMS tickets/escalations, Database availability, db2 Applications
status, raise PMR with IBM/Oracle and track them to closure. Set-up weekly governance call with onsite
and offshore teams & matrix managers.

Achievements:
1. Received a Special Recognition Award from customer CIO IDEA, for outstanding
contribution in implementation of CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT, 13-FEB-2015 (Migration of 40 TB
Warehouse database and services, designing and developing a customized solution with zero
downtime). This migration increase customer revenue by $59 Million in one quarter.
Campaign Management solution for Idea Cellular wins Dataquest Technology Award
2. High Availability Solution : Implemented online backup and Point-in-time recovery solution for
Campaign Management warehouse database (40 TB).
3. WareHouse Migration :Successfully delivered migration of 190 TB ISAS (DPF) database
environment on PDOA (DPF) Appliances. Which include transitions ,planning ,design ,execution
,deployment without downtime.
Received Special Recognition Award for (ISAS (190 TB) TO PDOA ) Migration without downtime
from customer CIO IDEA. Won the Praise award , Feather In Cap (FIC) , Thanks a zillion (TAZ) ,Rave
awards during Wipro and Citigroup.

PERSONAL:
1. Full Name

: DHIRAJ BHAGWANSIHA BILWAL

2. Education Qualification

: B.E. Computer Science and Technology.

3. Pass port

: K7570850, (Valid B1 Visa-2017)

4. Nationality

: Indian

5. Present Employment

: IBM INDIA Pvt. LIMITED, Pune. IDEA Cellular Panchashil infotech Park
4th floor.

6. Local Address
: Dhiraj Bilwal Flat.-K702 IRIS BLDG , Magarpatta City Hadapsar Pune.
References: Available upon request.Also many more during official discussion..