1. ASHISH LEWALKAR
E-Mail: ashish.lewalkar@gmail.com Mobile: +91-7030463666
To work with a professionally managed & progressive organization, to seek challenges and utilize my best
knowledge and abilities to achieve organizations higher goals.
Sr. DBA Lead (Sr. Manager Level)
PROFESSIONAL SNAPSHOT
A competent & result oriented professional with around 15 years of overall IT experience and around 12+
years in Oracle Applications DBA.
Currently designated as Sr. Lead DBA (Sr. Manager Level) with KPIT Technologies. Managing DBA services
for various clients. Responsible for overall DBA deliveries.
Experience in Oracle Application versions 11i and R12 releases.
Strong Knowledge in Oracle Applications Installation, Configuration, Cloning, Patching, Upgrades and
Release Management. Good experience with Customer’s Production Environments.
Built offerings for Oracle practice on Accelerated R12 upgrade.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
12 Years IT Experience.
KPIT Technologies. 07 Oct 2008 – Till date (6+ Years)
Syntel Inc 20 Mar 2007 – 06 Oct 2008
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd 29 Dec 2003 – 14 Mar 2007 (3+ Years)
Boston Labs 25 Jan 2002 - 24 Sep 2003
Hibiscus Net Pvt. Ltd. 01 Sep 1999 - 30 Dec 2001
Oracle Application DBA KNOWLEDGE
Oracle 10G Certified – OCP
Oracle Database 11g, 10g, 9i, RAC and RMAN.
11g SOA suite.
Oracle Upgrades – from 11.5.10.2 to R12.1.3 and other upgrade paths, including DB upgrade.
Performance Tuning – Applications, Application Server and Database Tuning.
Oracle Applications Administration utilities – adpatch, adclone and adadmin
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
TECHNICAL
Operating Systems : Linux, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, Tru64
Oracle Applications : 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, R12.1.1, R12.1.3
Database : Oracle Database – 9i, 10gR1, 10gR2, RAC, RMAN
Applications Admin Tools : OEM(12c), Wizard, adclone, adpatch, adadmin, and adctrl
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Oct ’08 – Till date KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd. Sr. DBA Lead (Sr. Manager Level)
Project Details:
APPS DBA Support for Masco, USA:
Managing DBA support for various production and non production instances including ERP. Client is on 11.5.10.2
apps and 10gR2 DB and planning for upgrade. We are team of 7 resources. I am managing and responsible for
DBA services and deliveries. Apart from escalation handling, defining new processes, planning and implementing
new technologies, also responsible for adding up new opportunities from technology side & building new offerings.
Notable Accomplishments:
Zero unplanned downtime. Zero escalation. Improved service quality and on-time delivery.
DB Upgrade.
Migration of few databases.
Accelerated R12 upgrade offering for Oracle Practice:
Build offering for accelerated R12 upgrade, the solution provides impact analysis, Steps needed for smooth
upgrade and expedited upgrade procedure for ebiz 12.1.3 upgrade. Completed POC with 11.5.10.2 instance
upgraded to 12.1.3.
2. Notable Accomplishments:
Upgraded apps to 12.1.3 & Upgrade DB to 10g, 11g, 12c.
Fined tuned R12 upgrade process & innovative ways to reduce the upgrade time.
APPS DBA Support for University of Technology, Sydney:
Supporting all the environments with RAC and RMAN configured. Client is working on advance technologies and
my role is to support and manage DBA activities required to implement those advance technologies such as SOA
integration and ebiz 12.1.3 upgrade. Currently all the instances are at 12.1.3 with DB 11.1.0.7.
Notable Accomplishments:
Upgrade apps to 12.1.3.
Upgrade DB to 11.1.0.7.
R12 upgrade and migration support
APPS DBA Support for Eclipsys:
Successfully migrated production and other instances from Oracle On-Demand to in-house hardware. Completed
setup monitoring and admin system “Oracle Enterprise Manager”. Handling production support and providing
required support to development team for migration and other activities.
Notable Accomplishments:
Migration of Oracle apps 11.5.10.2 (10g) instance to in-house.
OEM implementation.
Quality production support.
APPS DBA Support for Cummins India Limited (CIL):
There are various oracle applications module implementation going on for CIL, and DBA team provides support for
more than 5 instances having around 650G size of DB and DMZ enabled production instance.
The support includes regular DBA activities required by development teams, including code migration/promotion.
Supporting various instances and the activities include patching, cloning from production instance to development
and test instance. Proactive monitoring of production instance. Also perform regular sysadmin activities e.g.
creation of new user and attaching/detaching responsibilities approved by management.
Notable Accomplishments:
Remedy ticketing system usage for instance related issues.
Server consolidation.
Automation of 3 nodes to 1 node cloning activity.
Mar ’07 – Oct ’08 Syntel Ltd. Project Lead
Project Details:
Oracle Financials Implementation for American Express (AMEX):
It was a multi-team project to implement GL as a first financial module for American Express, there I was part of
release and implementation team.
The main purpose of this project is to replace all the financial legacy systems which are running and developed in
mainframes with Oracle General Ledger and also get all the historical data into Oracle Apps GL.
Notable Accomplishments:
Successful release of Oracle Financials Implementation, the Oracle GL customization for AMEX.
As a Project Lead: List of responsibilities and roles.
Co-ordinate DBA and project release activities for all the test as well as production instances.
Coordinate the changes to all the test as well as production instances.
Plan, develop, enforce and release project.
Execute, implement the Oracle Financials module release.
Dec ’03 – Mar ‘07 Oracle India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad Senior Applications Engineer
Project Details:
R12 Installation and Upgrade:
The project activities includes creation of R12 vanilla and vision instance from various release cycles (Drops), also
upgrade to R12 from previous versions of Oracle Apps, 11.5.8, 11.5.9 and 11.5.10.2.
Oracle Apps 11.5.10 and Upgrade to 11.5.10 CU2:
This project includes installation of Vanilla 11.5.10 and application of 11.5.10 CU2 Maintenance pack for the
preparation of base for 11.5.10.2 release and from prior releases.
Critical Patch application for Oracle Apps 11.5.9 and 11.5.10 instances:
This project includes implementation for 11.5.9 and 11.5.10 with all the modules and application of Critical Patch
Update for pre-release customers.
3. Oracle Wizard tool for On Demand:
Oracle has On Demand customers and as a part of on demand team maintenance of On-demand customer
instances was the key challenge, to reduce the complexity development of Wizard tool was done. Wizard tool
helps us in installing new on-demand customer instances with required configuration and standard dir structure
Support for On-Demand Customers:
Triaging production issues, cloning production instance to create test instance for the application of various one-
off patches and CPU patches. Perform sanity checks and checking if the issue has resolved.
Skills used in above mentioned areas:
Database : Oracle Apps DBA Skills, Oracle DB skills.
Notable Accomplishments:
Involved in Apps Release 12 activities.
Successful release of Apps 11.5.10.2.
Successful release of Apps 11.5.10.
Automation of installation and upgradation for On Demand customers.
Automation of Configuration and Clonning for On Demand customers.
Successful release of quarterly Critical Patch Update.
Jan ‘02 – Sep ’03 Boston Labs Software Engineer
Project Title : Service Crafter.
Client : BrightOne, USA.
Scope : This was a product targeted for Applications and Internet service providers, it provides
suite of services for ISP’s including anti-spamming disposable email id’s apart from anti-virus scanning on server
side.
Languages Used : C, C++, PHP, Oracle.
Server : Apache Server.
Platform : Server (Linux) Client (Windows)
Sep ‘99 – Dec ’01 Hibiscus Net Pvt Ltd Senior Software Engineer
Project Title : RecruitPlex.
Scope : This product was developed for recruitment firms, it Intranet and Internet modules.
Languages Used : C, PHP, Oracle.
Server : Apache Server.
Platform : Server (Linux) Client (Windows)
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Pursuing Master in Business Administration (MBA) from ICFAI.
Master in Computer Applications (MCA) from Amravati University in 1999. Secured 73%.
Bachelor in Computer Science from Amravati University in 1996. Secured 63%.