System Performance Management Consulting
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Founder/Principal at DBPerfMan LLC
- Past
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- Director, System Management Products at Oracle Corporation
- Director, System Management Products at Oracle
- Director, Storage Management Products at Quest Software
- Technical Manager at Accenture LLP
- Principal Consultant at Stonebridge Technologies
- Consultant/Principal Instructor at Oracle
- Unix/Oracle Consultant at Owens Corning Fiberglas
- Education
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- Bowling Green State University
- Delhi University
- Vana Vani Matriculation Higher Secondary School
- Besant Arundale Senior Secondary School
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Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha’s Summary
Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha has more than sixteen years of industry technical expertise working with Oracle systems, with over eleven years in engaging in real-life performance management. He is the Founder/Principal at DBPerfMan LLC, a specialty performance consulting firm that focuses on optimizing Oracle systems.
In the recent years, he has worked in a variety of product management roles providing strategic and technical direction to application performance and storage management solutions for companies such as Veritas Corporation, Oracle Corporation and Quest Software. Gaja also served as a Technical Manager at Accenture LLP, specializing in Oracle Systems Performance Management.
He is the primary author of the “Oracle Performance Tuning 101” published by Oracle Press. Gaja is also one of the co-authors of the book "Oracle Insights : Tales of the Oak Table", published by Apress LP.
He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has presented many papers at various regional, national and international Oracle conferences and has served as faculty of the IOUG-A Master Class University. Gaja is a member of the OakTable Network.
Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha’s Specialties:
* Oracle Performance Management Consulting for Oracle Real Application Clusters
* Applications Performance Management for ERP - EBizSuite, SAP, PeopleSoft and Custom Apps
* Storage Management Consulting
* System Architecture & Scalability Analysis
* Technical Product Management
* Oracle Performance Management Training
Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha’s Experience
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Founder/Principal
DBPerfMan LLC
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2004 — Present (4 years 8 months)
• Provide technical leadership and consulting services in the areas of System Performance, Oracle Performance and application-centric Storage Management
• Provide high-end Oracle performance troubleshooting, diagnostics, scalability and system management consulting services
-- Oracle Database Performance Evaluation
-- Identification of application and database performance bottlenecks
-- Diagnosis with root-cause analysis of slowdowns
-- Resolution through application tuning and database configuration changes
-- Specialized Performance Management for Data Warehouses and Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP, PeopleSoft, Custom Apps
• Provide high-end storage management consulting services
• Provide product management services - product evaluation, market feasibility and “time-to-market” analysis
• Impart core fundamentals of “Oracle Performance Management” via one-day seminars -
Director, System Management Products
Oracle Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — September 2003 (1 year 4 months)
• Provide technical direction to Oracle’s storage and performance management initiatives in the System Management Products Group
• Manage and direct product functionality for the Oracle 10g Performance Management solution in Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Engage in functional and design specification reviews for Oracle 10g server manageability projects
• Manage the various facets of the Enterprise Manager and RDBMS Beta Program for Oracle 10g -
Director, System Management Products
Oracle
(Computer Software industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year)
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Director, Storage Management Products
Quest Software
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; QSFT; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — June 2002 (2 years 1 month)
• Manage the technical content, design, development, release and launch of StorageXpert for Oracle – The industry’s first object-level Oracle storage bottleneck diagnostic tool
• Provide strategic technical and business direction to the storage management product line
• Provide business and revenue model for product including “time-to-market” technical and marketing expertise
• Foster technical alliances with key enterprise storage vendors -
Technical Manager
Accenture LLP
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1998 — March 2000 (1 year 5 months)
• Launch and lead the Oracle Performance Management Team under the Technology Product Services Group
• Design and develop the Oracle Performance Management Methodology for Accenture
• Engage in proactive and reactive performance management engagements at various
• Fortune 100 corporations
• Train engagement teams and client personnel in the rudiments of Application and Database Performance Management
• Lead and contribute knowledge capital in all Accenture Oracle Discussion Forums -
Principal Consultant
Stonebridge Technologies
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1997 — November 1998 (1 year 2 months)
• Define and provide direction in various facets of Oracle system deployment at various customer sites
• Plan, Scale and deploy a multi-terabyte Oracle data warehouse
• Develop customized internal Oracle7 DBA and Oracle8 Features Training
• Engage in Database, Application and System Performance Management -
Consultant/Principal Instructor
Oracle
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
May 1994 — September 1997 (3 years 5 months)
• Deliver a multitude of instructional classes to Database Administrators & Developers
• Design and develop the Oracle8 DBA curriculum
• Review and design Oracle8 Beta classes (Classroom/Oracle Channel)
• Deliver performance management consulting and training at Fortune 500 corporations
• Maintain 98%+ quality rating -
Unix/Oracle Consultant
Owens Corning Fiberglas
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Glass, Ceramics & Concrete industry)
May 1992 — August 1993 (1 year 4 months)
• Design & develop the first UNIX-based, mail-enabled, information delivery vehicle
• Design, develop and deploy system for sales history and forecasting information delivery
• Establish standards and conventions for system quality assurance
• Manage a team of six developers
Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha’s Education
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Bowling Green State University
Master of Science, Computer Science, 1990 — 1994
Great campus, the Computer Science Department (at the time) was small but has grown significantly since then. The faculty were very knowledgeable, friendly and made every effort to facilitate your academic success!!!!
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Delhi University
B.Com (Hons), Business Accounting & Economics, 1985 — 1988
Shri Ram College of Commerce
- Activities and Societies:
- Cultural meets, Cricket
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Vana Vani Matriculation Higher Secondary School
High School, 1983 — 1985
Gorgeous school campus inside the woody and picturesque Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. There were many spotted deers in the campus roaming in the wild. Made it to be a very special experience!
- Activities and Societies:
- Public speaking, Debates, Music, Football (the real thing) and Cricket
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Besant Arundale Senior Secondary School
Elementary and Middle School, 1973 — 1982
Associated with the world-renowned fine arts school "Kalakshetra", this school was located in the main campus and it laid the foundation for life for many of us. This school was founded under the direct guidance of the Late Smt. Rukmini Arundale. This experience was something that I will cherish with many others. It was (and still is) a very serene environment for academic, art and cultural pursuits!!!
- Activities and Societies:
- Music, Theater, Dance and Cricket!!!
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Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha’s Interests:
Fitness, Cricket, Motorcycling, Salsa Dancing, Yoga, Tennis and SCUBA Diving
Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha’s Groups:
National Institute of Information Technology
Independent Oracle Users Group
Northern California Oracle Users Group
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