Krishna Kumar R
Summary
Performance-driven professional with over 18 years of experience in designing and maintaining scalable systems on AWS. Expertise in database technologies including DB2,Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Teradata, and SQL Server. Azure Certified Professional, Project management and Program management
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Manager-World Bank Group
Cognizant Technology Solution
06.2025 - Current
- Managed Tibco to lake house migration program with 120 resources for World Bank.
- Led cross-functional teams to achieve complex program objectives efficiently.
- Developed comprehensive project plans to oversee timelines and resource allocation.
- Facilitated stakeholder meetings to align project goals and address expectations.
- Analyzed program risks and created mitigation strategies for potential challenges.
- Mentored junior team members to enhance project management skills within the team.
- Reported program status updates to senior leadership for informed strategic decisions.
- Managed relationships with external clients and business partners effectively.
Project Manager - Apple Inc
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2022 - 05.2025
- Managed offshore team for Apple account, overseeing 40 members in SQL and Python development.
- Led Apple Terminus Program, migrating data from Teradata to Snowflake with successful procedure conversion and testing.
- Collaborated with team to convert complex stored procedures, ensuring alignment with client standards.
- Coordinated recruitment efforts for Apple account, screening profiles and evaluating candidates for technical panels.
- Ensured effective project management through Agile methodologies, delivering results in Global Delivery Model.
- Prepared leadership reports and facilitated steering committee meetings with senior leadership.
- Managed project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques.
- Tracked project performance to analyze completion of short- and long-term goals.
Delivery Manager – City National Bank
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2021 - 09.2022
- Company Overview: Client: City National Bank
- Responsible in leading a team at offshore(100 +Associates) and onsite for Banking Customer, working on MSSQL Server, IBM DB2, client discussions, working on proposals for new projects.
- Leading a team of 100 +resources offshore and onsite for Banking Customer more than 10 teams of developers, testers, production implementation, warranty support etc.
- Client discussions, understanding requirements, project management, people management and working on proposals for new projects.
- Managing client relationships: Responsible for maintaining positive relationships with clients and ensuring their needs are met and provide regular updates on service delivery and respond to client inquiries and concerns.
- Coordinating service delivery: Oversee the delivery of services to clients and coordinate the efforts of different teams to ensure that services are delivered in a timely and efficient manner.
- Monitoring service performance: Tracking and monitor the performance of services, identify areas for improvement, and implement changes as needed.
- Ensuring compliance with service level agreements: Service Delivery Managers are responsible for ensuring that service level agreements are met, and that the services provided meet the required quality standards.
- Managing budgets: Responsible for managing budgets for service delivery, ensuring that resources are allocated effectively, and that costs are kept within budget.
- Building and maintaining teams: Responsible for building and maintaining high-performing teams, and for fostering a positive working environment.
- Continuously improving processes: Continuously evaluate and improve processes to ensure that services are delivered efficiently and effectively.
- Client: City National Bank
Senior Engineer for SQL Server, DB2, OEM
Target Corporation
10.2016 - 09.2021
- SME for SQL Server, DB2, OEM and Technical lead for the team of 10 includes both offshore and onsite.
- Applying latest Service packs and patches on SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/R2 as per Microsoft recommendation for fixing bugs and improving performance of the databases.
- SQL Server Cluster Installation, Configuration and Maintenance.
- Implementing Backup policy for the databases based on recovery model. Perform Full Backups and Transaction Log Backups. Restore them whenever necessary, creating backup strategies and scheduling them for execution.
- Expertise in Database Mirroring Configuration and Troubleshooting issues. Monitoring the sync between principal and mirror server using mirror monitor.
- Expertise in Configuring Log shipping in SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 using in built in mechanism Performed Failover from Production to DR and vice versa. Resolved log shipping failover issues.
- Provision Azure Virtual machines via Portal & Power Shell.
- Implementing Storage Life Cycle Management to save cost for SQL backup on Azure Storage.
- Configuring Recovery service vault and backup policy for backup and restore.
- Configuring and administrating Azure VM, storage, VNETS, Load Balancers, Application Gateways.
- Designing and setting up SQL Always ON and High Availability across Geographical locations.
- Creation of Azure Policy, Defining IAM Roles. Azure Resources Matrix Report preparation. Security Management. Azure Advisor.
- Replicating the data into different servers using Replication topology.
- SME for DB2, leading a team of L2 engineers who works for incidents and requests.
- Implementing change requests and projects like migration of databases, creating new database environments based on the requirements.
- Migrating a huge DB2 database on DPF environment with 150 nodes and 16 physical servers, 90TB size into Oracle Exadata.
- Working on Oracle Enterprise Manager, upgrading the OEM agents, configuring alerts, monitoring the databases through OEM.
- Regularly go for campus hiring for NITs and take interviews for freshers walk-in.
Technology Specialist
Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2014 - 10.2016
- Worked as Technology Specialist in the Database practice team (DOD) which mainly is implementation and development team.
- Lead a team of 5 members for the database migration and implementation project.
- Worked on proposals (RFP) for new projects on database migrations, data archival solutions, masking and other various data solutions.
- Upgrading the database environments from DB2 9.7 to DB2 10.1 around 75 databases including DPF with max size of 60 TB and 150 +nodes and supported the DB2 databases during various activities.
- Providing solutions for data archival projects, data migration and data masking projects.
- SQL Server Cluster Installation, Configuration and Maintenance.
- Performed SQL Server High Availability/Reporting Techniques (DB Mirroring, Log Shipping, Replication, sql clustering).
- Expertise in System and user database movement to another location.
- Implementing Backup policy for the databases based on recovery model. Perform Full Backups and Transaction Log Backups. Restore them whenever necessary, creating backup strategies and scheduling them for execution.
- Recovered the databases during Database crash/corruption from the backups. Performed Database restoration as per business requirement and recovering the databases during disaster recovery.
- Configured Database mail for triggering mails for backup success/failure and security audit.
- Implement and maintain SQL Server and database security (create and maintain users and roles, assign privileges).
- Configured security audit for Login success/failure for SQL Server connection.
- Was in the interview panel for DB2 from DOD practice and took interviews for freshers and experienced DBA.
Technology Specialist – DB2
IBM India Pvt Ltd
08.2013 - 04.2014
- Maintaining the DB2 Database includes installation, migrations, DB creations and upgrading latest fix-packs on LUW environment.
- Handling all types of tickets and resolving within the SLA’s.
- HADR setup, configuration, and maintenance. Rolling upgrades on HADR.
- Creating and Altering DB2 objects depending upon the requirements of Application Team.
- Database performance tuning, index creation for improving the performance of queries.
- Configuring the remote databases using CATALOG and UNCATALOG.
- Configured DB2AUDIT on single partition and DPF environments.
- DR Drills regularly depends upon the clients’ requirements.
- Performing all kinds of backups like full online, include logs, offline, incremental and tablespace level backups.
- Performing normal and redirect restorations in single partition and multipartition environments.
- Maintaining the table-spaces Utilizations under Threshold.
- Used all Db2 utilities RUNSTATS, REORGCHK and REORG to enhance application performance.
- Movement of data using import, export, and load utilities.
- Granting and Revoking Privileges to/from users over Objects.
- Supporting application team for various issues.
- Migrated several databases from lower versions to higher like (DB2 V8 to V9.5) (DB2 V9.1 to V9.5) (DB2V9.1 to V9.7) (DB2 V9.5 to V9.7).
- Applied Fix packs on many production boxes.
- Table space management – Adding, dropping, extending, reducing and resizing table space containers, converting tablespaces from regular to large.
- Logging Strategy – Configure database logging for performing online and offline backups.
- Effective usage of Db2diag, db2pd, db2advis, db2explain.
- Weekly meetings on all open incidents or any requests.
Technology Specialist – DB2
Wipro Technologies
06.2008 - 08.2013
- Worked at onsite in client location for Standard bank at Johannesburg, South Africa as 24/7 support and maintained around 100 DB2 databases on LUW and also DPF environments, along with the client team and maintaining DB effectively.
- Performing all kinds of database administrations tasks and critical activities (L1 to L3 level) on DB2 single handedly at Onsite, with another 2 resources under me at offshore.
- Had cross skilled over MS SQL server and performing DB administration tasks.
- Handling escalations, interacting with clients, preparing DB status reports, providing Root Cause analysis for all the incidents occurs, preparing SOPs and documents for the DB issues regularly.
- Will schedule regular weekly meetings with applications teams, testing teams and also with the clients to discuss the concerns and suggest Service Improvement Plans.
- Represent many Change Approval meetings with clients and raise concerns for performing the change activity and keep environment updated.
- Handling offshore resources of MS SQL and DB2 and will provide regular knowledge transfer.
- Administrating and Tuning DB2 object’s space and performance problems.
- Maintaining DATA and Objects using IBM DB2 Utilities.
- Responsible for moving Stage/Development database objects to production and vice versa.
- Following the Incident and Change management processes effectively and resolving it within SLA s.
Education
Diploma - Computer Science And Engineering
Board of Technical Education Karnataka
06-2006
Skills
- Windows Servers
- AIX
- Linux
- CentOS
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- DB2 UDB
- MSSQL Server
- E-Helpline
- Remedy
- Info web
- Maximo
- Service Now
- Talend
- Informatica
- Optim
Certification
- IBM Certified for DB2 V9
- DB2 V 10.1
- Agile Certification
- Microsoft Azure fundamentals
- Oracle 19 C Database Administration
- MS SQL 2008
Timeline
Program Manager-World Bank Group
Cognizant Technology Solution
06.2025 - Current
Project Manager - Apple Inc
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2022 - 05.2025
Delivery Manager – City National Bank
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2021 - 09.2022
Senior Engineer for SQL Server, DB2, OEM
Target Corporation
10.2016 - 09.2021
Technology Specialist
Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2014 - 10.2016
Technology Specialist – DB2
IBM India Pvt Ltd
08.2013 - 04.2014
Technology Specialist – DB2
Wipro Technologies
06.2008 - 08.2013
Diploma - Computer Science And Engineering
Board of Technical Education Karnataka
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