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  Abraham Zachariah

 

 

Technical Skills

 

Databases:                  

Oracle RDBMS V. 11g, 10g, 9i, 8i, 8, 7.x,  SQL Server,  Microsoft Access

 

Software:                    

SQL,   PL/SQL,  Informatica, Oracle Forms & Reports, Delphi,  Visual Basic,  SQR,  C,   Pro*C,    SQL*Loader, 

Crystal Reports, Perl, Eagle Pace, Eagle Star, Shell Scripts.

 

Front End Tools:         

Oracle Forms, Delphi, TOAD, PL/SQL Developer, DBTRACK, Microsoft FrontPage

 

Data Warehouse:         

Informatica Power Center, SQL*Loader, PL/SQL, Oracle Import & Export

 

Design Tools:              

Erwin, Designer 2000, MS Project

 

Version Control :         

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe,  Star Team, Rational Clear Case, PVCS, SVN

 

Operating Systems:    

HP-UX 11.0 (SAM), Sun Solaris 7 and 8,  Windows (Vista, XP, 2000, NT, 98, 95, 3.1), MS-DOS

 

 

Experience as an Oracle Consultant

 

Apr 2009 – Present

Health and Human Services Commission, Austin , TX                     

 

Development and Implementation of Match Ievs Project.  Enhancements and Performance Tuning of OIG projects that monitors of any irregularities of the State Aid to the Applicants. 

Role:

bullet Developed various Stored Procedures, Triggers, Functions with PL/SQL for Match Ievs project.
bullet Created  and implemented ETL programs that uploads Match Ievs data to the Audit Data Warehouse.
bullet Responsible for Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Logical Design and Development Match Ievs project.
bullet Created various Database Objects for Match Ievs project which generates various Reports that points out the irregularities in a person’s income level and the current State Aid.
bullet Database Performance Tuning of Match Ievs Application.
bullet Tuning RDPS application code using the DBMS Profiler, Tkprof  and Explain Plans.
bullet Support and Maintenance of various OIG Applications.

 

Environment:  Oracle 10g, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL, Unix Shell Scripts, Rational ClearCase, PL/SQL Developer, TOAD,  Dbtrack, Unix

 

Nov 2007 – Apr 2009  

Brown Brothers  Harriman (BBH), Boston, MA                                   

 

Data modeling, Development and Implementation of various Oracle Database projects for the Fund Accounting division that supports Eagle Star/Pace Panels and Reports systems

Role:

bullet Data Modeled, Developed and Maintained NML and Russel Downstream Client Reporting Projects.
bullet Created Portfolio Valuation and Net Asset Value reports  with Eagle Star and Oracle Stored Procedures.
bullet Production Support of various Eagle Star and Eagle Pace Exporters and Uploaders.
bullet Created and Maintained Schemes for Pace Uploaders and Exporters for Fund Accounting System.
bullet Performance Tuning of Oracle Stored Procedures and Functions.
bullet Designed and Developed various Oracle Packages, Stored Procedures and Functions that supports Eagle Pace Uploaders and Exporters.

 

Environment:  Oracle 10g/9i ,  Eagle Star, Eagle Pace, PL/SQL, Mercator 6.7,  Unix, TOAD,  DBTRACK, PVCS 8.1, SVN

 

Dec 2006 - Oct 2007

Level3 Communications, Denver, CO

 

Responsible for the Design, Development and Maintenance of  ETL programs that uploads data into Transaction History and Reporting databases

Role:

bullet Responsible for Project Scope planning and staffing the team
bullet Designed  various Load programs and Stored Procedures with PL/SQL and Informatica Power Center.
bullet In charge of various Data Migration projects consisting of data sourcing, mapping, conversion and loading.
bullet Implemented various Data Cleanup procedures, Transformations, Scripts, Stored Procedures and Test plans.
bullet Troubleshooting and Correcting of Data Acquisition failures from different sources.
bullet Performance Tuning of existing and new PL/SQL programs.

 

Environment:  Oracle 10g ,  Informatica PowerCenter 8.1, PL/SQL, Shell Scripts, Erwin, TOAD,  DBTRACK

 

Jul 2006 - Dec 2007

Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago, IL

 

Design and the Creation of Outright/Spreads Load project  for  Time and Sales tracking  for Futures and Options where Trade data is extracted, transformed and loaded into Trade Admin database and Data mart.

Role:

bullet Responsible for requirement analysis, process analysis, design and development.
bullet Data Modeled Outright/Spreads Load project.
bullet Created various Partitioned Tables, Partitioned Indexes, Materialized Views  for the project.
bullet Developed Stored Procedures and PL/SQL scripts that extract Trade data from ODM database, convert prices into TREX, TICKS and CBOT formats, convert contract month, create contract key and handle various correction entries.
bullet Migrated data from various Trade Databases to the data mart using Informatica PowerCenter.
bullet Translated and Loaded the business processes into Informatica mappings for building the data mart.

 

Environment:  Oracle 10g & 9(i), Star Team, Informatica Power Center 7.1, Unix Shell Scripts, PL/SQL, DBTRACK, TOAD

 

Jun 2005 - Jul 2006

Cisco Systems, Austin, TX

 

Data Architect and Team Lead for SDPO and MTTR projects.  SDPO automates the closing of the tickets that are generated by certain customer related issues such as power outages, reboots, and line bounces.  MTTR tool provides Cisco technicians with a mechanism to determine the order in which they should work on tickets.

Role:

bulletCreated Oracle infrastructure and designed SDPO and MTTR applications.
bullet Assembled and Managed a team of six Developers that achieved strong business unit satisfaction by providing consistent results in quality and timelines.
bullet Involved in the design, development and implementation of the Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) process and Data Mart.
bullet Designed ETL Mappings for the source systems data extractions, data transformations, data staging, movement and aggregation.
bullet Performed extensive Design Reviews, Code Reviews and Test Plan & Test Case Reviews for development team.

 

Environment:  Oracle 10g, & 9(i), Informatica PowerCenter 7.1, Oracle Forms & Reports,  Star Team, PL/SQL, DBTRACK,  TOAD

 

Dec 2004 - May 2005

JP Morgan Chase,  Jersey City,  NJ                                                     

 

Enhancements, troubleshooting and support for Broker Surveillance Application which  analyzes and monitor the sales practices and trading compliance and reduces the possibility of losses from fines, penalties and settlements.  Using data management and data mining technology, it helps to uncover rules violations and identify suspect activities.

Role:

bullet Performed data analysis and data migration from the existing system into new system.
bullet Created Eagle Pace scripts to load Sales data into Broker Surveillance tables.
bullet Created various stored procedures to call from within the master procedure as well as Eagle Pace to meet the business needs.

 

Environment:  Oracle 9(i),  Eagle Pace, PERL, SQL Loader, PL/SQL, Unix Shell Scripts, Rational ClearCase, Toad

 

Apr 2004 - Dec 2004

State Street Bank, Boston, MA

 

Designed and Implemented PHT project where Up to the Minute data for the Positions, Holdings and Trading are made available for all divisions of the Bank.  PHT provides as-of Position data and as-of Holdings data for trading dates and for settlement dates to various investment funds, as well as eliminates redundant data from the current system.  A single Accounting Transaction Processing Engine will handle all inbound share transactions that update Position, Holdings and Holding Encumbrances.

Role:

bullet Designed and Created Oracle database objects for the Loading and Reporting of Positions, Holdings and Trading of Fixed Income Securities among different portfolios.
bullet Created Scripts to test various modules against real portfolio data and performed Unit / Integration testing. 
bullet Responsible for Performance Tuning and Sql Query enhancements for Repository Systems.

 

Environment:  Oracle 9(i), PL/SQL, SQL Loader, Unix Shell Scripts, Rational ClearCase, Toad

 

Aug 2000 - Apr 2003

Bank of America, Dallas, TX

 

Design, Development and Production Support of Bank of America's Global Government Banking group Applications which provides special banking services for the federal government.  Two of those systems were Bankruptcy and  US Courts Applications which are the rewrites of existing systems based on Sql Server database, which are converted to Oracle and with online banking functionality.  Numerous enhancements were also implemented for the applications.  And the third system, USAMM was a new application which manages deposits made by various government agencies that must be forwarded to the treasury each day.

Role:

bullet Performed Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Logical Design and Development of Bankruptcy, US Courts and Usamm Applications.
bullet Created various Shell Scripts, Stored Procedures and Triggers as well as the User Interface with Oracle forms 6i and Reports 6i.
bullet In charge of SQL and PL/SQL Performance Tuning of Modules for the applications.

 

Designed and implemented Data Conversion and Loading projects for Bankruptcy and US Courts that include Mapping, Converting and migrating data to Oracle Databases.

 

bullet Successfully completed three major Data Conversion projects with data originated from different SQL Server and Access databases, Excel spreadsheets and various text files.
bullet Created Unix Shell Scripts for automatic conversion and uploading of data.
bullet Responsible for maintaining Data Quality throughout the environment by verifying the data structure and by making sure data is captured correctly.
bullet Designed and developed mapping, transformation logic and processes in Informatica for implementing business rules and standardization of source data from multiple systems into the data warehouse.
bullet Created complex Informatica mappings that involved extensive use of transformations like Aggregator, Filter, Router, Expression, Joiner, Sequence generator.

 

Administration of Oracle 8(i) and Sql Server 2000 databases for Courts System that manages the financial transactions of various Courts around the country.

 

bullet Monitoring of database operational functions and statistics to ensure system availability.
bullet Performance tuning of database as well as applications.
bullet Responsible for managing user access to the database. 

 

Environment:  Oracle 9(i) & 8(i),  SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Access, Informatica PowerCenter 5.1, Oracle Forms 6i, Reports 6i, PL/SQL, SQL Loader, RMAN, Erwin, Visual SourceSafe, HP-UX, Unix Shell Scripts, Toad, HTML, FrontPage

 

Mar 1999 - Aug 2000

DMR Consulting Group, Dallas, TX

 

Provided Database expertise to clients in Managing their Application environments as well as improving the current architecture and support structure of the databases for clients,  Airline Pilots Association of American Airlines as well as for the wholesale long distance calls provider IXC Telecommunications.

Role:

bullet Modeled and Designed an Oracle database structure with Designer 2000, which stores membership data for Airline Pilots Association.  Responsibilities included  logical & physical design of the Database and the Application.
bullet Designed and developed Parse and Merge programs with Visual Basic, where different text files containing the Pilots Information are parsed and merged into SQL Server database tables and created  various reports from the updated tables with Crystal Reports.
bullet Administered SQL Server 7 & 6.5 database.
bulletDeveloped and Maintained Rate Import System for the wholesale billing division of IXC Telecommunications.  Duties included gathering of Customer Requisites, Designing of the Rates Import Application, Developing and Performance Tuning of the Application.

 

Environment: Oracle 8(i), 8, SQL Server 7 & 6.5, Visual Basic, Designer 2000, Transact SQL, PL/SQL, SQR, Crystal Reports, Oracle Forms 5 & Reports 3, Sql Loader, Toad, Unix Shell Scripts, Visual Interdev, VBScript, XML, HTML 

 

 

Mar 1998 - Mar 1999

Nationwide Insurance Co, Columbus, OH

 

Development, Maintenance and Upgrade of AIMS (Agents Information and Management System) database for the management of Current as well as for the Renewal/Termination of Insurance Agents.

Role:

bullet Developed and Supported AIMS application with Oracle PL/SQL, Forms 4.5 and Reports 2.5.
bullet Provided Database Administration support to ongoing development efforts by administering and maintaining Oracle 7.3 database, environments and schemas for AIMS.
bullet Performed Database Tuning – SGA tuning, Shared Pool tuning, SQL, PL/SQL areas, Disk I/O tuning, routine checks of log and trace files to checkup the database activities.
bullet In charge of User Security and Access management.

 

Environment:  Oracle 8 & 7.3, Developer 2000 Forms 4.5 & Reports 2.5, Sql Loader, Oracle Import/Export, PL/SQL, Pro*C, Microsoft Access, Unix Shell Scripts, Sun Solaris 7, Windows NT

 

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

Oracle Certified Professional  DBA   Oracle Corporation     California 

 

Master of Commerce,  University of Kerala, India

M.I.S, Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Corporate Taxation, Economics.

 

 

   
 
 
   

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