BALU KULANDAISAMY
PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE
Career goal is to be a Lead Oracle Applications Specialist by performing roles that include Oracle Database and Applications Administrator, Oracle Applications architect, development, test, training and end-user support. Be a valuable asset to organizations by performing value added services including project management functions, and contributing to strategic initiatives for efficiencies in Oracle infrastructure projects as well as operations.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
£ Expert Oracle Applications DBA in Senior and primary roles for last 8+ years, with experience in multiple versions of Oracle Applications including 11i releases that include installations, upgrades, and lifecycle support with 24x7 production support on a variety of platforms.
£ Experience in Oracle Applications Developer functions including Oracle Reports 10G and Developer 6i, Oracle applications customizations.
£ Personable and customer oriented service provider with experience in Applications Support functions including end-user support, test and training.
£ Managed setup and schedules of business processes in E-Business suite. Provided techno-functional support for e-Business suite implementations and worked with Business functionals to derive synergic workflow and efficient application administration for the business functions.
£ Strong Oracle DBA work experience with Oracle products and technologies for 13+ years.
£ Valuable contributor to project management functions, collaborator by working with cross-functional teams and knowledge sharer by learning, sharing and mentoring.
£ High caliber IT professional with a total IT experience of 18+ years in a variety of industries including Utility, Banking, Manufacturing, and Information Technology.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT 2005 – PRESENT
Oracle Applications Consultant for multiple clients (Aug’05 – Present)
§ Successfully upgraded Oracle Applications from 10.7 to 11.5.10.2 on HP-UX environment comprising of Financials, Purchasing, Projects, and Manufacturing modules for a leading medical equipment manufacturer.
§ Deployed third-party Oracle applications product Outerbay archiver suite on 11.5.9 environment for a leading Imaging equipment manufacturer. Modules covered for purging and archiving are GL, INV and OM.
§ Integrated of iSuppliers module that involved significant patching to products including ATG.H, NLS Latin America products to Oracle E-Business suite application on Solaris environments for a leading sports equipment manufacturer. Also setup DMZ configuration for Internet facing E-Business applications.
§ Successfully worked in a variety of Oracle applications environments with multiple clients that included Financials, Manufacturing, Projects, Purchasing, HRMS, Payroll, web-ADI, and self-service modules including iProcurement, iExpenses, and self-service HRMS.
§ Setup of efficient HR and Payroll batch processes to meet accommodate business schedules.
§ Experience in setting up RAC for E-Business suite, parallel concurrent processing and load balancing.
§ Implemented Outerbay archiver for GL and Payroll modules for a leading retail chain.
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CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR, CA 1999- 2005
The California ISO is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation charged with operating the majority of California’s high-voltage wholesale power grid. A strong IT organization supports the critical functions of managing the state electricity grid, power exchange functions and settlements among the participants.
Senior Database Engineer and Sr. Applications Engineer
Successfully performed Primary Oracle Apps DBA role for Oracle eBusiness Applications environments 11.5.7 with AR, AP, GL, FA, CE, HR, OTL, BEN, PO, and PA, webADI, and self-service modules including SHRMS. Also primary Apps DBA for 10.7 environments and 11.5.9 re-implementation environments with AR, AP, EDI and GL modules. During original implementation, involved in planning, defining, documenting and setup of applications for business processes including flexfields definitions as required. Performed rotated 24x7 on-call support of Oracle E-Business applications and non-eBusiness databases. Recognized multiple times by the company for significant contributions to the organization.
- Oracle eBusiness Applications experience at CAISO
§ Primary Applications DBA in key projects including 11i, 11.0.3, Y2K upgrades, HR, and BEN implementation in development, test and production, and OTL in upgrade and development environments.
§ Spearheaded upgrade of 11.0.3 to 11.5.7 along with configuration of iProcurement and iExpenses.
§ Successfully integrated HRMS products including Self-service HRMS, and Benefits for 550+ users.
§ Fluency in patching including downtime optimization, HRMS global and legislative patch drivers, ‘ad’ tools, and diagnostics packs. Applied recent patches including patch sets ATG.H, HR.J, HXT.H and OTL.I.
§ Performed applications systems administrator functions including user security, concurrent processes management, registering custom applications and application components.
§ Successfully optimized concurrent program schedules to minimize performance impact on the production environments that enabled faster operations. For example, rescheduling of HR batches contributed their timely delivery while serving Financial accounting transactions on-time including EDI transfer to the banks.
§ Responsive to changes and challenges. When transitioned from infrastructure support team to applications support team, quickly and successfully learned and supported business processes including Market Invoice Processing, and Payroll processing.
§ Refreshed with latest Oracle development tools upon transition to new group, including learning of Reports 10G and leveraging on Oracle Developer 6i skills, to contribute to the team in development, testing and customizations.
§ Saved time and resources by studying and setting up concurrent request sets to automate business processes.
§ Pro-actively administered database and applications security, including escrow user access including accounts management and streamlining access by function security controls and custom responsibilities, and menus.
§ Specially recognized for implementing SSL feature that required significant re-configuration of technology stack components of Oracle Applications, and co-ordination with Security, Business support, Network and Unix staff. This helped the company complying with security requirements on time.
§ Successfully patched configured applications and documented for Autoconfig, Rapidclone features to increase efficiencies in maintenance and operations.
§ Enabled webADI by patching and appropriate configuration to increase maintainability and to complement the client-server version of ADI.
§ Successfully configured workflow and java workflow notification mailer functions.
§ Implemented customizations, and helped functionals with data migration, data conversions, meta-data uploads including in recent HRMS integration, ongoing OTL implementation and Market Clearing projects.
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- Oracle Database and System infrastructure experience at CAISO
§ Increased reliability and availability of systems by Monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting, and Capacity planning proactively, 24x7 support, and documenting incidents and resolutions.
§ Led and executed upgrades of several Oracle Applications databases from 8i to 9i along with applications co-requisite patches. Also led upgrades that include 7.3.x to 8.0 and 8.0 to 8i upgrades of Applications databases.
§ Enhanced availability by implementing Hot Standby with Fallback including data guard between primary in Folsom site and standby in Alhambra site for Market Financials, Master file and other key environments.
§ Improved backup performance by implementing advanced backup and recovery procedures that include backup and recovery from standby site to minimize performance impact on primary production.
§ Configured and implemented Real Applications Cluster (RAC) database environments under HP-Tru64 and Sun platforms with failover procedures.
§ Implemented and supported advanced replication, and streams features.
§ Cut back on down time by developing efficient procedures fallback, failover, backup, and recovery tasks.
- Team Player, Best practices and Synergy functions at CAISO:
§ Fostered positive working relationships with cross-functional team members including UNIX, NT, Security and network administrators, developers, business support personnel, end-users and vendors.
§ Mentored peers in E-Business database environments and Oracle products.
§ Conducted internal training to peers including recent ones on Apps cloning, Oracle 10G and ASM.
§ Worked with change management and version control and change management procedures. Familiar with Virtual Source safe, Perforce, and Remedy applications.
§ Demonstrated team-work skills while engaged in integrating Oracle eBusiness system with other systems. For e.g. (a) Settlements transactions to be transferred from custom settlement applications into AR interface in eBusiness applications and (b) Upload enterprise user status changes from HR module to Remedy applications to trigger security escrow events down stream.
§ Configured EDI by effectively working with third party EDI services provider Sterling commerce and Bank of America and internal support teams.
§ Planned and implemented best practice procedures and security procedures for database and E-Business applications environments.
QUEST AMERICA INC. CA 1997-1999
Quest America Inc. is a global full service IT professional services firm established in 1995 specializing in business system solutions and resources for a variety of industries and technologies, primarily using Oracle Applications. Quest America's expertise and experience covers the broad spectrum of Oracle Applications e-Business suite and provides expert consulting services for its reputed client base and public sector organizations.
Sr. Applications DBA for the clients
CALIFORNIA ISO, CA OCT, 97-SEP, 99
§ Special recognition as primary Apps DBA for Applications 10.7SC 16.1 implementation. Installed new systems as part of startup, supported development, test and production environments including configuration, setup, and techno-functional tasks for the implementation of applications.
§ Architected interfaces with non-apps database environments and integration with EDI.
§ Performed RDBMS and applications upgrades to 7.3.4/10.7SC16.1
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MICRON ELECTRONICS INC. ID JUL-OCT, 97
§ Successfully supported Apps 10.7 SC16 and 10.4 of 290 Gb size with 800 users that include most of the Financials and Manufacturing modules. Setup efficient job scheduling for INV, BOM and WIP processes.
§ Primary DBA for upgrade from 10.4 to 10.7 SC16. Implemented and supported Parallel Concurrent Processing feature on IBM Numa environment.
MBNA AMERICA, DE MAR-JUL, 97
§ Commended for Oracle Applications 10.6 SC15 Financials suite upgrades of Production, and test systems.
§ Engineered building of new 10.6SC15 production environment for MBNA, Canada.
QUEST AMERICA INC. CA JAN-MAR, 97
§ Performed Sr. Apps DBA support role Oracle Applications 10.6. SC14 Financials suite, OE, INV and PO.
§ Successfully installed and upgraded applications environments for the clients and documented procedures.
NATIONAL INFORMATICS CENTER, TAMILNADU, INDIA 1988-1996
Oracle Database Administrator and Sr. Systems Analyst
§ Performed Oracle Database administration 7.2/6.x and UNIX administration, System design, analysis and implementation for state information systems.
§ Managed District Computer center management of computer and communications infrastructure.
EDUCATION
Master in Business Administration - University of Phoenix, USA.
Master in Computer Applications with Distinction honors - Anna University, Madras, India.
Bachelor of Science in Physics - University of Madras, India.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
£ Oracle Applications DBA, Applications System Administration, Oracle DBA.
£ Functional experience in Oracle applications modules and business processes.
£ Experience in Oracle Applications 11.5.x upto 11.5.10.2, 11.0.3, 10.7, 10.6, and 10.4.
£ Experience in Oracle and databases 10gR2, 9i, 8i, 8.0, 7.x, and 6.x.
£ Oracle technologies that include RAC, Parallel servers, Data Guard, RMAN, 9i iAS(Apache), 10g IAS, ASO, OID/LDAP, OEM, ASM, Streams and 10gR2 Cluster ware.
£ Oracle development tools including Developer6i and Reports 10g.
£ EMC, SAN, RAID and Veritas storage technologies, MS-Access, and Legato and working knowledge of MS-SQL-Server.
£ SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Loader, exp, imp, Streams, UNIX shell scripts, MS projects, Visio, Pro* C, C, C++, and working knowledge of Perl, Java, jsp, XML.
£ Working knowledge of Unix administration.
PLATFORMS
£ HP Tru64 Servers with HP Tru-Cluster 4.x/5.x, Solaris 2.x, HP-UX 10.x, Red Hat Linux ES/3, and Windows NT/2000.
WORK STATUS
US Green Card Holder – Permanent Resident Status
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