Navin Aminha
About Navin Aminha
Navin Aminha is a Senior Oracle Database Administrator at Ally with extensive experience in database management and migrations.
Company
Navin Aminha is currently employed at Ally as a Senior Oracle Database Administrator. He has been working there since 2013, based in Detroit. At Ally, he supports over 600 standalone databases and 45 high availability Oracle 12c databases in a 2-node RAC environment with ASM and Active Data Guard.
Title
Navin Aminha holds the title of Senior Oracle Database Administrator. In this role, he is responsible for database architecture decisions, server configurations, and overseeing large-scale migrations and database management processes.
Education and Expertise
Navin Aminha achieved a Master's degree in Computer Science from Louisiana State University, where he studied from 1996 to 1999. Over his career, he has amassed extensive expertise in Oracle database management, including handling databases ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to over 10 terabytes in size and managing both OLTP and Datawarehouse systems.
Career Background
Navin Aminha has held multiple positions throughout his career. Before joining Ally, he worked at Secure-24 in 2013 for 8 months in Southfield, MI, as a Senior Oracle Database Administrator. He was employed at Ford Motor Company from 2011 to 2013 in Dearborn, MI, and General Motors Onstar from 2009 to 2011 in the Greater Detroit Area, holding similar positions. He also worked for Marketing Associates in Detroit, MI, for two years and for General Motors Powertrain HQ in Pontiac, MI, for four years. Earlier in his career, he served as an Oracle Programmer/Analyst at Billing Concepts Inc in Austin, Texas.
Achievements
In his capacity at Ally, Navin Aminha has led several significant projects, such as migrating a standalone database larger than 6 terabytes from an HP data center to an Ally data center on a 2-node RAC Exadata X3 server. Additionally, he managed the migration of approximately 75 Dealer Financial Services databases to new servers. He has also automated processes related to database builds, patching, and maintenance, contributing to operational efficiency.