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Souparno Roy Choudhury

SQL Server Database Administrator
Kolkata,West Bengal
Souparno Roy Choudhury

Summary

Having professional experience in Database Administration & Database Service Support for Banking and
Insurance Domain.

Experienced and results-driven Database Administrator with 12 years of expertise in managing and optimizing SQL Server, Sybase, and Aurora PostgreSQL databases. Proven track record of ensuring data integrity, performance, and security. Seeking a challenging role to leverage my skills and contribute to the success of a dynamic organization.

Overview

12
years of professional experience
7
years of post-secondary education
3
Certifications

Work History

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Kolkata

Database Manager
02.2018 - Current

Job overview

  • Lead a team responsible for the administration of mission-critical SQL Server, Sybase, and PostgreSQL database environments.
  • Implemented performance tuning strategies, resulting in a 20% improvement in query response times.
  • Developed and maintained backup and disaster recovery plans, ensuring data availability and compliance with industry regulations.
  • Conducted regular security audits, enhanced database security protocols, and implemented encryption measures.
  • Collaborated with application development teams to optimize database schema and queries, reducing application downtime.
  • Oversaw data migration projects between different database platforms, ensuring data integrity and minimal downtime.
  • Introduced automation scripts, reducing routine administrative tasks and improving operational efficiency.
  • Managed database capacity planning and scaling activities to accommodate data growth.
  • Played a key role in the successful migration of legacy databases to modern platforms.
  • Resolving SQL Server AG out of Sync issues.
  • Fixing SQL server DB Replication issues.
  • Restoring SQL Server and Postgresql databases hosted on RDS instances.
  • Providing user permissions and roles in SQL,Postgres and sybase instances .
  • Fixing replication threads down issues of sybase databases.

Tata Consultency Services
Pune

Senior Database Administrator
04.2016 - 02.2018

Job overview

  • Install SQL Server and configure the SQL Servers as per the best practices. Installing SQL patches and upgrade the SQL servers to new versions.
  • Perform DB refresh activities. Verify the Database consistency errors, disk space errors and fix the issues.
  • Creation of Logins, Roles and Granting permissions as per the request.
  • Monitor the maintenance jobs and fixing the issues if any.
  • Designed and implemented comprehensive Backup plan and disaster recovery strategies Implemented.
  • Configure and maintain high availabilities solutions (Like Log Shipping, Mirroring, Replication,
    Clustering) as per the project requirement.
  • Perform DR and Failover activities to maintain the readiness during disaster recovery situation.
  • Worked with customers on Application rollouts and server migrations.
  • Using tools SQL Profiler and Windows Performance monitor to troubleshoot SQL performance issues
    if necessary.
  • Perform Health check of Sybase databases.

• Diagnose and troubleshoot the Production Server on the fly.
• Installation of Sybase 12.5.4 and Sybase 15.0.3
• Responding to alters received via mail & calls
• preparing reports of sysmon, system growth, forward and deleted rows and deadlock information.
• Creating user logins and adding users to the respective databases and managing the Security tasks like granting and revoking permissions.
• Creating named caches and binding objects to the cache, multiple tempdbs.
• Handling Database dumps and Load issues.
• Defragmentation of tables as and when required.
• Monitoring memory, processor, Disk I/O, user connections, locks.
• Transferring Data using 'bcp'.
• Checking database consistency periodically.
• Helping the project team during UAT’s & final rollout in production.
• Performing changes in crontab as well as scheduling jobs as and when required.
• Alters the test databases to make it same as production.
• Dealing with issues like segment space shows –ve value.
• Daily database maintenance activities.
• Handling tempdb issues.
• Handling dump and load issues.
• Creating devices and databases as when required.
• Bypass recovery
• Shutdown and Restart the server for maintenance activity.
• Ensuring dump tran to a file is happening and the log segment never gets full.
• Implementing maintenance activities.
• Gathering defragmentation report and providing recommendations.
• Monitoring syslogshold.
• Running Update Statistics.
• Setting different db options.
• Generating DDL for database and database objects.
• Clearing the tempdb by Truncating the tables as when required.
• Creating new tempdbs as when required.

⦁ Binding tempdbs to a login
⦁ Creating aliases

Wipro Infotech
Mumbai

Database Administrator
08.2011 - 02.2017

Job overview

  • Daily monitor the database health and error-logs for critical errors if any. Generating and sending
    daily monitoring reports.
  • Prepare POA and Rollback plan for each database activity along with downtime estimation.
  • Configure the database mail to send the critical notifications. Manage Database security by Creating Users, logins and by assigning Roles and permissions.
  • Data migration (import & export - BCP) from Text to SQL Server.
  • Perform Switch Over – Switch Back activities periodically.
  • Integrity checks on every month. Regularly update statistics, index rebuild, dbcc check-db on periodic/scheduled basis. Track index rebuild operations.
  • Using of BCP, Import/Export to upload data.
  • Managing the VERITAS/Symantec net backups.
  • Working with local server administration teams to address and resolve NetBackup

Education

BITS Pilani
Rajasthan

Master of Science from System Engineering
11.2011 - 02.2015

University Overview

with 58.7 %

JIS College of Engineering
Kalyani

BCA
05.2008 - 06.2011

University Overview

with 73%

The St. Xaviers's School
Malda

High School Diploma
04.2007 - 03.2008

University Overview

with 73%

Skills

    English

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Certification

Exam DP-300 :Administrating Relational Database on Microsoft Azure

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Timeline

Exam DP-300 :Administrating Relational Database on Microsoft Azure

11-2021

Database Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2018 - Current

Exam 70-765: Provisioning SQL Database

08-2016

Senior Database Administrator

Tata Consultency Services
04.2016 - 02.2018

Exam 70-462:Microsoft SQL Server Database Administration 2012

06-2015

BITS Pilani

Master of Science from System Engineering
11.2011 - 02.2015

Database Administrator

Wipro Infotech
08.2011 - 02.2017

JIS College of Engineering

BCA
05.2008 - 06.2011

The St. Xaviers's School

High School Diploma
04.2007 - 03.2008
Souparno Roy ChoudhurySQL Server Database Administrator