SUMMARY

• I have over Ten years of hands - on experience as a PeopleSoft Administrator and Oracle Database Administration which involves activities like application installation, administration, maintenance, upgrades, migrations from operating systems to another and performance tuning.
• I possess complete life cycle knowledge including Installation, Configuration, Development, Testing and Deployment of PeopleSoft HRMS, Enterprise Financials/SCM, ELM, CRM & Enterprise Portal product lines.
• Have extensive experience in performing PeopleTools Only Upgrades and Application Upgrades of PeopleSoft Financials & SCM, HRMS/ HCM and Enterprise Portal applications.
• Migration experience includes Patches and Fixes, Bundles, Maintenance Packs, Tax Updates and Service Packs across PeopleSoft environments manually and using Quest STAT product.
• My Responsibilities also include PeopleSoft Administration/Security Administration, installing & configuring Change Assistant, App servers, Web servers, Process Schedulers, PeopleSoft Internet Architecture (PIA) and Portal on Windows and UNIX (Linux, Solaris, HP-UX flavors). Network architecture plan was created with the help of the network team (F5 & Cisco Content Switch & ACE) which involved logical design of load balancer and network switch setup.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• ERP: PeopleSoft Financials/SCM (version 8.4, 8.9, 9.0,9.1), HRMS/HCM (8.3, 8.8, 8.9, 9.0,9.1), PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal (8.8 & 9.0,9.1), PeopleTools 8.22, 8.43, 8.45, 8.48, 8.49, 8.50, 8.51, 8.52
• PeopleTools: Configuration Manager, Application Designer, Data Mover, Process Scheduler, Process Monitor, Application Messaging Monitor, Upgrade/Change Assistant, RenServer, Integration
• Databases: MS SQL Server 7.x, 2000, 2005, Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g R2, 11g
• Database Tools: Grid Control, Toad Xpert (SQL Optimizer)
• Operating Systems: MS Windows, UNIX (Solaris 8/9/10, AIX, HP-UX, Linux )
• Hardware: Sun SPARC M4000, M3000, T5220, T2000, Sun Fire 15K, Sun 6320 StorEdge, Sun Enterprise Servers 890/880, Hitachi, EMC-VMAX, EMC-DMX, Dell Servers, Compaq Servers 6000/3000/1600
• Middleware: BEA Tuxedo Application Server 6.5, 8.1, 9.2, 10.2
• Web Servers: BEA Weblogic 5.1, 6.5, 8.1 SP5, 9.2, 10.3

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Germantown, MD

Responsibilities:

• Performed PeopleTools upgrade from Peopletools 8.48.15 to 8.51.20 simultaneously on both CRM 8.8 and Portal 8.8 in a very heavily customized environment
• Implemented best practices as it related to OS kernel parameter setup (RHEL 6.1)
• Configuring the Integration Broker setup between Portal and CRM environments ad also integrations via WSDL integrating with other third party applications.
• Performed a complete infrastructure migration from Windows server 2003 to RHEL 6.1 for web, application server and process scheduler tiers.
• Created custom Unix shell scripts which are used to start/stop/confirm status of the application server domains and process scheduler domains and webserver domains
• Performed capacity analysis and planning to determine future hardware requirements and/or configuration changes.
• Mentor the PeopleSoft Administrative staff.
• Performed sticky bit implementation on the netscaler to facilitate issues incurred during webserver load balancing
• Implemented firewall rules to facilitate the use of the DMZ and custom integration broker setup

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Attending the weekly status call with our customers’ and also the internal team meetings to discuss how to still build our team stronger.
• Troubleshooting various issues related to Web Server instances, Application Server and Process Scheduler domains.
• Setting up single-signon between Enterprise Portal and Content Provider Environments (Financials/SCM, HCM, ELM environments).
• Configuring the Integration Broker setup between Financials/SCM and Human Resources environments.
• Set Blackout utilizing Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) to eliminate notifications during patching/upgrading.
• Implemented Oracle Parallelization so as to maximize host resources and reduce data conversion time during upgrade.
• Provided infrastructure recommendations based on max concurrent users and customer specific procedures.
• Provided a migration/upgrade path from DB2 to Oracle utilizing oracle import export mechanism and also upgrading from Financials/SCM 8.46/8.8 to Financials/SCM 8.51/9.1

Confidential, General Motors, MI

Responsibilities:

• Attending the weekly status call with our customers’ and also the internal team meetings to discuss how to still build our team stronger.
• Troubleshooting various issues related to Web Server instances, Application Server and Process Scheduler domains.
• Setting up single-signon between Enterprise Portal and Content Provider Environments (Financials/SCM, HCM, ELM environments).
• Configuring the Integration Broker setup between Financials/SCM and Human Resources environments.
• Applied Maintenance Packs, Bundles and Fixes to Financials/SCM and Human Resources environments.
• Created Global Support Center (GSC) cases and worked with them extensively in troubleshooting issues.
• Preparing action plans for any action items to be carried out by the next shift coming in.
• Generated Environment Manager Report (EMR) for the various customers to view and decide on what updates they want EDS to apply.

Confidential, Chersterfield, MO

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with frequent project developers’ needs/requests for system configuration and database administration, and institute standard guidelines to streamline resource management
• Worked as a PeopleSoft System Administrator and was responsible for the complete upgrade (full cycle) of PeopleTools 8.46.03 HCM 8.9 to PeopleTools 8.49.16 HCM 9.0 MP7.
• Performed Upgrade, which includes creating new environments, upgrades, performance testing, migration to production and stabilization of production.
• Installation of PeopleSoft Software, BEA Tuxedo, BEA Weblogic, configuring PIA and creating DEMO and SYS databases
• Configuring PeopleSoft environment including Tuxedo, PeopleSoft Application Servers, Process Scheduler Servers, Web Servers, PIA, Report Repository, and Report Nodes etc.
• Installed and configured Change Assistant to apply the PeopleTools and Application upgrade and Maintenance Packs.

Senior PeopleSoft/SQL Server DBA,

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and tuned PeopleSoft’s Financials 9.0 application PeopleTools 8.49.05 and all related middleware on Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2005 environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Multi-tier PeopleSoft Architecture, Tuxedo, and WebLogic.
• Experienced in PeopleSoft Technical Architecture Design, System Sizing, and Application Installation/Configuration/Administration of different PeopleSoft product lines.
• Apply and maintain inventory of Patches/ Bundles/ Maintenance Packs for PeopleTools, Applications, and SQL Server 2005.
• Migrated objects between database environments.
• Tuning database- performance and perform capacity planning
• Assist with PeopleSoft Financials migration from Oracle 9i to SQL Server 2005.
• Provide support for Financials on SQL Server.
• Managing multiple database environments
• Applying Patches/ Bundles/ Maintenance Packs
• Prepare a DBA HandBook

Confidential, Adelphi, MD

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and tuned PeopleSoft’s Financials 8.9 application and all related middleware on Solaris 9 and Oracle 9i environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Multi-tier PeopleSoft Architecture, Tuxedo, and WebLogic.
• Experienced in PeopleSoft Technical Architecture Design, System Sizing, and Application Installation/Configuration/Administration of different PeopleSoft product lines at UMUC.
• Working knowledge of PeopleSoft middleware platforms, and message queuing systems.
• Performed PeopleSoft and Oracle administration and ensuring the global PeopleSoft production, testing, and development environments are performing to meet the requirements of its customers (external students/faculty and internal staff/developers)
• Integrated UPK within PeopleBooks
• Installed Oracle Application Server as the web server of choice for a PeopleTools 8.48 installation

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and tuned PeopleSoft’s Human Capital Management (HCM) version 8.8, PeopleSoft’s Financials 8.8 and PeopleSoft’s Portal 8.8 applications and all related middleware in an Confidential AIX, Windows 2003 and Oracle 9i environment.
• Configured and administered multiple web and application servers,, Process Schedulers, Report Repository and Integration broker messaging.
• Designed and architected layout design, hardware sizing and procurement.
• Designed the physical and logical layout of the servers (3 tier architecture) was done based on user requirements, scalability needs and uptime requirements.
• Network architecture plan was created with the help of the network team which involved logical design of load balancer and network switch setup.
• Performed installation and upgrade on the Financials/SCM 8.8 application from Financials/SCM 8.8 as well as from PeopleTools 8.45 to PeopleTools 8.47
• Configured Integration Broker between the Financials/SCM and HRMS applications on a PeopleTools 8.48 and 8.46 architecture as well as between Financials/SCM and the Portal applications on a PeopleTools 8.47 and 8.45 architecture
• Configured the REN Server along with WebLogic Proxy Server for use with SSL.
• Performed installation and upgrades on the HCM 8.9, Financial/SCM 8.8, Portal 8.8 and EPM 8.8 applications as well as upgraded from PeopleTools 8.45 HCM 8.8 to PeopleTools 8.46 HCM 8.8 MP1 through the use of Change Assistant.
• Performed the installation of EPM 8.8 as well as the installation of the client and server modules of Ascential Datastage, and Ascential Metastage

Confidential, Dulles, VA

Responsibilities:

• Implemented programming solutions using C++ and C#.
• Performed analysis, debugging and troubleshooting of major issues in the AOL client version before its official launch.
• Designed proprietary software to help solve debugging issues.
• Designed the framework for owner drawn components using W32.
• Initiated, evaluated and resolved information technology problems by providing appropriate technical guidanc and assistance to others
• Defines site objectives by analyzing user requirements; envisioning system features and functionality