Srinivasa Rao Bandla

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+91-9542199273

Professional Summary
● 8+ years of experience in IT industry as Teradata Consultant.
● Strong experience in Teradata DBA activities like Archive/Restore operations, Teradata user and
database creations, space management, partitioning, Database maintenance activities.
● Experience in Data Warehouse solutions in a Teradata and Informatica environment.

● Proficient in using Teradata tools like Teradata Administrator, SQL Assistant, Teradata Studio,
TARA, Viewpoint, DBQL, BTEQ and other Teradata tools.
● Extensive experience in performance tuning of SQL using methods like analyzing explain plan,
table skewness, statistics collection, usage of volatile tables, working on Indexes.
● Good knowledge of Teradata architecture and design.
● Worked extensively on DBQL data and implemented tasks like PDCR data retention helping to
reclaim space.
● Hands on experience in monitoring viewpoint, enabling alert mechanism, resolving
deadlocks and blocks, capturing bad queries and tuning them.
● Created capacity planning reports and analyzed CPU and disk usage, space growth, IO
changes using the reports.
● Automated tasks like PDCR clean up, dropping unused tables.
● Worked on Incident management and change request
● Scheduled backups, archived and restored data, migrated objects across different servers using
tools like TARA, Data Mover.
● Helped various teams in resolving spool space, guided them on rewriting queries using right
index, joins, volatile tables.
● Experience in working as on-call/production support DBA.
● Enhanced end users understanding of the Teradata system by creating documents and
presentations about data warehouse and DBA task.
● Accurately assessed customer needs and requirements.
● Experience in handling mission critical production support (24x7) scenarios involving constant
interaction with on-site team members, source system support personnel & Business Executives
(end-client).

Technical Skills
Teradata Tools : Teradata SQL Assistant, Viewpoint, Teradata Administrator, TARA, Data Mover,
Teradata Studio, Bteq, Fast load, Multiload, Teradata Manager, Teradata Visual
Explain, Informatica power center
Databases: Teradata V2R6/12/13/14/15
Query Languages: Teradata SQL, BTEQ
Operating Systems: Windows2000/XP/7/8, UNIX
Tools: HP Service Manager, Tivoli workload scheduler (JSC), IPM

Work Experience
 Worked as a Programmer Analyst for Quinnox Consultancy Services, Bangalore from, May ’10 to
September-2013.
 Working as a senior software engineer at Tech Mahindra, Hyderabad from Sept ’13.
 Projects Completed
Project: NAP IT Teradata
Client: GSK
Designation: Senior Database Administrator
Period: October 2015 - Current
Roles and Responsibilities: Teradata DBA

Project Description:
GSK is a leading pharmaceutical industry, head office based out of UK and main branches are located in
USA. GSK Data warehouse holds the environmental pharmaceutical sales and marketing data. And it has
user customer handshake process.
The objective of this project is Support and Maintenance of Teradata development production Services
for North America Pharma IT Data Warehouse applications wherein some new Pharmacy specific
business applications were built on the underlying newly available Teradata DWH platform, primarily
based on capturing the sales data of pharmacy products that are purchased or sold in various ways and
thereby by providing some valuable business insights. The tasks involve Teradata Database
Administration and maintenance and 24 * 7 operational supports thereby confirming the Business
continuity of an all applications live in the warehouse.

Contribution:
● Performed database administration tasks such as creating and maintaining databases, tables
and views and other objects in the data warehouse.
● User management such as the creation of users, password resets, dropping non-existing users.
● Security management - established roles and profiles, granted and revoked access rights and
roles to user accounts as per requirement
● Space management - Ensured there is enough space on databases, dropped unused objects to
reclaim space, and moved space between databases.
● Automated archiving and deletion of old PDCR data from PDCR tables
● Configured viewpoint alerts for units like space, blocked session, CPU usage
● Regularly monitored viewpoint to capture sessions running bad queries using high CPU, spool
space failures, system health, etc and tuned bad queries
● Analyzed and suggested PI for highly skewed tables by changing primary index to minimize
skewness and manage space
● Helped users in optimizing query by analyzing DBQL data, explain plan, stats collection and
partitioning
● Worked with Qlickview and Analytics team in resolving spool space issue and query tuning
● Collected Stats to improve query performance
● Worked with ETL team on batch job failures, blockings, unlocking Fastload and multi-load locks,
deadlocks
● Used data dictionary and PDCR extensively to find logs for other teams
● Created Change management for Teradata upgrades and patches
● Worked on Incident management and Problem management
● Involved with business and development team to create new logical and physical objects
● Helped in automation of data compression
● Created documents (SOP) and presentations on Admin tasks, Lowe’s Teradata architecture for
other teams.
Project: GAMS - Legacy RTS
Client: GEHC
Designation: Senior Software Engineer
Period: Sept 2014 – October 2015
Roles and Responsibilities: Teradata Support

Project Description:
GEHC had many BI applications for reporting purposes. In those am involved in two major BI
application projects development. In those one is Americas Service CRM Reporting project provides
the details of Service Request, Activity, Activity Tracker, Planned Maintenance, Asset, Parts details
about healthcare products to users of US and CANADA region. And Second one is Global Service
Visibility application provides the material cost details to the management on weekly basis.

Contribution:
 Developed ETL solutions with help of Architects to provide the accurate details to users from
data warehouse and data mart.
 Experience in handling mission critical production support scenarios involving constant
interaction with team members, source system support personnel and Business Executives
end client.
 Involved in requirements gathering and design by attending User calls and prepared user
stories.
 Implemented Various ETL logic to move the data from Source (Relational and Flat Files) to
Teradata database using Informatica power center.
 Created Teradata utility scripts (BTEQ, MLOAD, and FLOAD) to move the data in Teradata
Database.

Project: Vodafone Essar Limited

Project Description:
Vodafone India Enterprise DWH project take cares of all the applications and services for Vodafone India
Ltd. DWH maintains historical and daily information about Postpaid and Prepaid Data at Subscription
level or at Aggregation level. Source data comes from different Billing Systems like OSS, BSCS, and CRS
& CRM to the reporting servers and CDR Sources are Intelligence Network Systems like Nokia, Ericsson,
Siemens, EMM, RECC & E-TOPUP.

Contribution:

 Requirements analysis with Business users and Business Analyst team. Assisted BA in
creating Functional Requirement Document till the final version signed off.
 Worked closely with the architecture and technical team to aid the High level and detailed
design creation.
 Conducted Walkthrough meetings with development and QA team to discuss & resolve gaps
in requirement understanding.
 Involved in Extraction, Transformation and loading of data from source to target system using
 BTEQ, Fast Load and Multiload.
 Involved in Performance Tuning of several jobs using COLLECT STATISTICS & EXPLAIN
PLAN.
 Created a BTEQ, Fastload, Multiload script for pre-population of the work tables prior to the
main load process.
 Development of scripts for loading the data into the base tables in EDW using Fastload,
Multiload and BTEQ utilities of TeraData.
 Used various databases of TeraData warehouse in the project like Stage, Target, Work and
Error Database.
 Wrote scripts using TeraData SQL and ANSI SQL based on requirements, conducted Unit
testing, prepared test cases.
 Involved in Performance Tuning and created Aggregate Join Index’s.
 Developed Semantic Layer BTEQ Scripts for a module that underwent complete redesign.

Project: DSSEW (Decision Support System Enterprise Warehouse)

Project Description:

Coca-Cola Enterprises is the world's largest marketer, producer and distributor of Coca-Cola products. Coca-
Cola operates in 46 U.S. states and Canada. Coca-Cola sales represent 16 percent of The Coca-Cola
Company's worldwide volume. Coca-Cola is one of the world biggest brands, which have over 1 billion
consumers with the revenue of 3.2 billion.
Mainly this project includes support, Maintenance, Debugging and validating Data. We are monitoring different
applications like Daily Sales, Minute maid and Fasets of Coca-Cola products. Monitoring Teradata jobs by
using TWS and debugging the problem by using creating and running shell scripts, bteq, Fast load, Mload and
Fast Export scripts. Working on different Maintenance issues according to client requirements. Resolving the
tickets in time depend upon severity by using TSRM Ticketing tool. Generating daily, weekly and monthly
reports by using Micro strategy. This initiative will enable Coca-Cola to understand a customer needs and quick
view of Sales of products. Monitoring Teradata jobs for different applications is the primary responsibility for this
project. This helps the client to maintain the database, monitoring the growth of the data warehouse
environment, keeping historical data, information required for end users and information required for decision
support system.

Contribution:

 Extensively worked in data Extraction, Transformation and Loading from source to target system using
BTEQ, Fast Load and MultiLoad.
 Involved in writing scripts for loading data to target data warehouse for BTEQ, Fast Load and
MultiLoad.
 Involved writing the scripts using Teradata SQL and ANSI SQL as per requirements.
 Involved in running ad-hoc and analytical queries.
 Involved in data validation process.
 Involved in Production support to monitor Coca-cola production jobs.
 Involved in generating daily, weekly, monthly sales reports.
  Involved in scheduling jobs by using JSC and Conman Composer Commands.
 Involved in moving data from source to target with data schedulers by using FTP.
 Provided on-call trouble-shooting support for all applications.
 Responsible in the client discussion on the issues, enhancements and specific code release on weekly
basis.
 Fixing Production issues by creating ad-hoc bteq and UNIX scripts.
 Resolved tickets issued by clients based on severity. Working on production tickets and also in user
tickets such as missing data.
 Investigated the failures, analyses them, and provided knowledge transfer to the team.
 Involved in unit testing and preparing test cases.

Academics
Bachelor of Science from Acharya Nagarjuna University.