Satish Bobba

SUMMARY:

 

Satish is a highly skilled Business Intelligence Consultant with over 11 years of professional IT experience of which over 6 years of experience in Project Management for many large organizations including State Farm Insurance, CareerBuilder, Havi Global Solutions, Cephalon, Motorola and others.  In addition to Satish’s professional experience he holds a Master of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, India.  This is one of the premier technology Master’s programs in the world.

 

Satish is a natural leader with the proven ability to clearly communicate and build consensus in all levels of the organization and between organizations in direct business relationships. Satish managed people directly and through matrix management.

 

Satish Demonstrated excellent leadership in leading and managing the development of Cross-Sell application for the client Motorola. This project was a part of the client’s initiative with expected annual revenue of $70 million. Satish was involved in all the phases of project from Inception through Closure. He led project teams of sizes varying from 10 to 30, managed remote/offshore teams and worked in 24/7 development and helpdesk environments. As a Project Manager, he is adept in Risk Management, Scope Management, Resource Management and Cost Management, Data Integration and has extensive knowledge and experience in SDLC/Agile/Scrum methodologies.

 

Satish is a motivated Functional Financial or Supply Chain LEAD consultant with implementation experience of a least 9.0 version in Grants/Contracts, Payroll and Benefits/Administration modules. Satish Delivered ROI analysis to reduce transaction costs for the buyer and supplier while fostering continuous improvements of products, services and processes. Satish helped State farm and Cephalon to implement ROI Best Practices to create Business Intelligence Data Mining solutions and communicate the value of their solutions throughout marketing, sales and customer retention. Satish is Value based marketing professional with experience in business intelligence, IT Infrastructure Architecture, Software Architecture, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Supply Chain technologies.

 

Satish’s professional experience as a Business Intelligence Architect has included developing BI Road Map and strategies, Providing guidance, standards, references for adhering to the Business Intelligence Reference Architecture, data modeling (logical and physical) with ER-Studio, Erwin and Oracle Designer, creating architecture and best practices for databases from a few Terabytes to 212 Terabytes, implementing data quality processes/standards/policies including working with Informatica Data Profiler, Trillium Software, designing/implementing Metadata standards/policies/procedures including work with MARS and EAVS dropper, Master Data Management, heavy data integration/data movement work with SSIS and DTS, Informatica, Metadata Exchange, BO Data Integrator,  implementing solutions that include encryption, authentication, identity management and policy compliance enforcement, reviewing architecture plans/gaps with cross functional teams of IS and business personnel and properly mapping databases to storage devices.

 

Satish’s professional experience as a BI Project Manager/Architect has included developing and managing BI Methodology/Strategy, creating Data Warehouse standards, Following industry Best Practices, creating BI Road Map, implementing security models, performance tuning, installations of new versions of SQL Server, upgrading SQL Server, designing large data models, Setting up the Big data lab and creating SSIS Packages/SSAS cubes/Performance Point Server, QlikView reports/dashboards, Cognos Planning (Analyst & Contributor), Back-up and Recovery procedures for Oracle and SQL Server, perform database reorganizations to improve performance and uptime, administer all database objects including tables, clusters, indexes, views, sequences, packages and procedures.

 

Satish keeps abreast with the market trends in Business Intelligence. Satish is in the process of implementing the cloud BI technologies and In-memory analytics at REI Systems, Inc  in order to facilitate better decision making.

 

Satish is very excited to be considered for the BI Manager opening at your organization.  His goal is to join a company that is looking to continue to stay on the cutting edge of Project Management and Database technology while maintaining a team work oriented work environment.  Satish is available to begin interviewing and working as soon as possible.  Satish lives in Herndon, VA.

 

 

EDUCATION:             

·         MTech (Master of technology), IIT Delhi, India

 

 

CERTIFICATION:

·         Oracle Certified Professional in SQL, PL/SQL

·         Six Sigma Black Belt Certified ( GE MMF )

·         Informatica Certified Consultant ( 7.1 Version )

 

 

TECHNICAL

SKILLS:

 

·         Operating Systems: Ubuntu LINUX, UNIX (HP-UX, Solaris, AIX),Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/Vista

·         RDBMS: Oracle 10g/9i/8i, DB2, MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000/7.0, Mainframes IDMS/DB2/CICS, Data Stage, Teradata, MS Access

·         Data Warehouse Tools: QlikView v7.5, 8, 9, 10, Informatica Power Center 8.1.1/7.1.3/6.1/5.1/4.1, Informatica Data Profiler, MetaData Exchange, MARS, EAVS Dropper, Business Objects Data Integrator, DTS (Data transformation services), SSIS (Integration Services), SAS, Cognos, Impromptu, Cognos Power play Transformer, Cognos Report Studio, Cognos Query Studio, Cognos Power Play Cognos Report Net, Business Objects, Trillium 8, Web Intelligence, Power Analyzer.

·         Database Tools: Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer, Management Studio, Business Intelligence Development Studio, SQL Profiler, DTS, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Upgrade Wizard

·         Data Modeling: CA ERWin 4.0/3.5.5/3.5.2, Star-Schema Modeling, Snowflakes              

Modeling, Fact & Dimension tables

·         Web Technologies : HTML, XML, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Sharepoint, eRoom

·         Programming Languages:  TSQL, PL/SQL, C/C++, C#, HTML, XML, JAVA, Base SAS

·         Utilities/Applications: Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project 2007, Mercury Test Director, Adobe Photoshop, MS Project, Visual Studio 2005(BIDS), MS Visio

·         Other Databases: NOSQL (HBase)

EXPERIENCE:

 

06/12 – Till Date   RCG Global Services, Deerfield, IL (Travelling Job)

                             Project – LPD Data Warehouse and Big Data Lab

                             Role: Senior Manager /DW Architect

 

Scope: RCS Business Consulting offering follows a consistent, proven approach to developing strategy and conducting analysis that leads to a custom-fit implementation roadmap. Technology solutions are based upon repeatable processes and practices applied to Development & Integration, Business Intelligence & Data Delivery, QA and Software Testing, Application Management and Project Management. RCG serves 360 clients and 7 of the Fortune 10 across a range of markets, with special focus on the insurance, retail, healthcare, entertainment & hospitality, and energy & utilities industries. RCG is based in Edison, New Jersey, with 12 offices nationwide, an Offshore Delivery Center in the Philippines that is assessed at SW-CMMI® Level 5, and a global recruiting engine. This project mainly focuses on creating the strategy and roadmap for the EDW Project.

                       

                        Responsibilities:

·         Driven all pre-sales activities including facilitating Solution Build sessions to scope solutions, setting overall project plan/strategy, developing the Statement of Work, and creating and maintaining project artifacts.

·         Involved in the setup of multi-node Hadoop Cluster using the HDFS on Ubuntu Linux OS as a part of Big data lab.

·         Involved in the review of solution design recommendations to ensure the architecture is consumed as intended.

·         Assisted with the addition of Hadoop processing to the IT infrastructure

·         Utilized Sqoop, Flume, and Hive for analysis of web site traffic

·         Develop and maintain project plans including the Work Breakdown Structure, task estimates, Milestone Plan, Resource Plan, and Critical Path using MS Project.

·         Build a committed project team, determine ROI, and secure project budgets with the assistance of the project sponsor, project owners and line management.

·         Establish and champion project management standards, project standards, best practices and quality initiatives. Achieve overall project quality as defined in the Project Quality Plan; arrange Project Assurance reviews and technical reviews of the project, monitor and maintain project progress, contain costs, and resolve issues where necessary. Escalate issues when senior management action is required. Monitor scope through an effective change management system. Assess and mitigate project risk.

·         Strategize with the Sales Team in the local market to pursue solutions with prospective customers that are within RCG Global Services focus areas.

·         Involved in local industry and other networking organizations to develop new business leads.

·         Analyzed requirements and defined solution architectures.

·         Generate process models, data models, component designs and user interface designs

·         Integrate new systems and applications into legacy environments

·         Estimate level of effort and cost

·         Assist in technology tool evaluation and selection, and advise customer in leverage/buy/build decisions.

 

Environment:  Hadoop 1.0.3, MongoDB, CouchDB, MapReduce, Abinitio, Oracle 10g, MS Project
                          2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Windows 2008 Server, Ubuntu Linux, MS Office 2007.

 

04/10 – 06/10   REI Systems Inc, Herndon, VA

                         Project – Corporate Finance Data Warehouse – 250 Gigabytes

                         Role: BI Manager

 

Scope: REI Systems Inc provides a full range of business and technical management services that assist in the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of organizational information technology systems, policies, procedures, guidelines, and directives. The main purpose of the REI Corporate Data Warehouse is to provide actionable data to staff in a timely manner. This project mainly focuses on bringing employee, contracts, program and project cost and hours, project metrics such as size and quality, employee performance management and training data through SSIS ETL Framework and creates valuable reports to the executive management.

                       

                        Responsibilities:

·         Lead a 74 member team for gathering and analyzing the needs of end user requirement and system specification and all sprints. Setting up designing standards for the database table, column, procedure and views.

·         Evaluate various hardware/Virtual m/c’s needed in the cloud environment.

·         Led the team in resolving system issues with both end users and technical staff. Off-hours support required on a rotational basis.

·         Involved in creating complex dashboards, reports using Qlikview.

·         Co-ordinate with PeopleSoft Team to provide production support for PeopleSoft Financials/MM/AP/HRMS System

·         Involved in performing implementations and upgrades of the Peoplesoft FSCM Grants/Contracts and Payroll module.

·         Experience in building up the QVD's in different types of Architectures.

·         Responsible for securing new business, as well as managing and developing a portfolio of existing and dormant business customer accounts. My role involved the selling and implementation of EHB Module for a varied and diverse number of industries and individuals. This was done in line with working to and achieving set monthly KPI’s and targets.

·         Support PeopleSoft Team as needed during PeopleSoft Financials Upgrade to 9.1and PeopleTools 8.5.2.

·         Experience in handling large data handling in Qlikview.

·         Maintain external relationships with Federal Government Clients, management consultants, accounting, and Health and Service administration institutions.

·         Developed new marketing strategies to implement new methods.

·         Analyze customer needs to maximize sales and identified service requirements.

·         Adopted agile methodology to client environment and participated in methodology rollout and training activities.

·         Experience in the management of memory footprint for Qlikview.

·         Analyzed current projects portfolio and provided recommended actions for the in-flight and future planned projects as part of the transformation program planning.

·         Responsible for reviewing technical design documents for multiple modules.

·         Led an effort to create transformation program road map.

·         Created solution architecture and planned the development effort.

·         Responsible for the design and development of complex SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Packages for the load and update of the Data warehouse.

·         Analyzed current state technology environment and developed future state architecture.

·         Designed SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages to retrieve, transform and load the data from heterogeneous data sources like flat files, excel files, SQL Server, access database etc to SQL Server and also generate flat files for the client’s operational system.

·         Wrote multiple and complex Script task using VB to write SQL queries using sub queries with parameter passing in sub queries. Also used script task as a transformation in Data Flow tab to write multiple logics to achieve the exception processing logic for the bad data.

·         Created complex views and scripts to convert business logic for different reports.

·         Solely responsible for documenting, restructuring and remodeling of multiple existing processes and making them ready to be moved to production server from development.

·         Created Alerts for successful or unsuccessful completion of the scheduled jobs.

·         Used MS Visio to create a flow chart to convert business design document to a process flow for the development of the project.

·         Used VSS for version Control of packages.

 

Environment:   MS Project 2007, PeopleCode, Datamover, SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, SSIS,

                          SSAS, SSRS, Performance point server 2007, SharePoint 2010, Windows SharePoint services

                          2003, Visual SourceSafe, ProClarity, QlikView 8/9, Transoft U/SQL, Deltek T& E, GCS,

                          Windows 2008 Server, MS Office 2007.

 

 

07/08 – 04/10   State Farm Insurance, Bloomington, IL

                         Project – Finance Data Warehouse – 212 Terabytes

                         Role: Senior BI Solution Design Manager

                       

Scope: Statefarm Insurance is the leading insurance provider for Auto, Fire and Health. The main purpose of the BIRA Reference Architecture is to recommend a new direction for the Federated Data Warehouse (FDW) and BI environments at State Farm. This project mainly focuses on outlining recommendations for support, implementation and the continued evolution of BI Reference Architecture. Also the project focuses on streamlining the financial analysis & budgeting processes that contribute to the creation of P&C application area budget.

 

                        Responsibilities:

·         Worked on multiple projects (usually, 5-7 projects at any time), and managing an offshore team of 10-15 resources.

·         Performed product evaluation for Qlikview against other reporting products.

·         Oversaw development, improvement, and management of billing platform, business intelligence reporting services and data warehouse for provider of unified messaging services with over $180MM in annual revenue.

·         Improved month-end closing process by 70%. Created multi-department task force to resolve issues with data management infrastructure.

·         Designed Project Kick Off Presentation for Global ERP Project

·         Work with Business Leaders to discuss and gather Cognos Planning requirements

·         Assessed project feasibility, gathered business requirements, and executed project plans for various business groups that were part of the $4.5 million budgeted for P&C Business initiatives

·         Involved in the review of solution design recommendations to ensure the architecture is consumed as intended.

·         Developed program specifications and objectives and strategies.

·         Develop standards and guidelines to incorporate a new PMO standard for State Farm.

·         Working extensively on the project planning and execution, using MS Project

·         Address the architectural gaps in current product environment, including evaluation and prioritization of gaps, identification of possible solutions, and validation of significance to the overall BI strategy.

·         Provided leadership, coaching, and guidance on a continuous basis to project team members in the areas of project lifecycle, operating procedures, processes and practices.

·         Constructed and maintained project plans, in addition to reviewing project SOW’s (Statement of Works).

·         Communicated Project Status to either IT Managers; Department Directors or CIO’s.

·         Involved in identifying process gaps surrounding the consumption of the production architecture and drive process changes through appropriate component planning.

·         Utilized Virtual Office and WebEx Methods to assist consultants with Best Practices during the implementation project.

·         Validating the need for review and approve harvested patterns and architectural content for consumer usage.

·         Identify resource requirements and time lines for the project

·         Created logical and physical data models and then translated models into physical database design

·         Managed the scope thru Change Control Processes

·         Created risk management plan to identify, analyze, monitor and respond to risks associated with the project to ensure ability to achieve expected outcomes, on time and on budget

·         Data modeling was done using Erwin.

·         Responsible for initial assessment of data quality, checked data conformity to data quality rules and monitored improvement of data quality.  Utilized Informatica Data Profiler

·         Consolidated data into a “single version of truth” ( Conformed dimensions & facts)

·         DBA Responsibilities include the following:

·         Used Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) feature of SAS for importing and exporting of data from and into SAS, MS Access and Excel.

·         ETL architecture and design of data integration from different sources i.e.; People Soft, MQ Series, DB2 Mainframes etc.;

·         Developing design standards, code conversion standards, address correction standards.

·         Created complex cubes based on the business rules for Auto and Claim policies.

·         Created Audit and Control Model for Inventory tracking, error handling, and load balancing.

·         Presented the Cognos architectural considerations and Infrastructure set up design documentation to BI enablement team.

Environment:  Qlikview 8, Cognos 8.4/8.3, MS Project 2007, PeopleSoft 8.9, SQL Server 2008, SAS 9, SSIS,

                         SSAS, SSRS, PPS2007, Sharepoint 2007, Windows Sharepoint services 2003, Visual Source

                        Safe, Proclarity, Informatica Power Center 8.5, Cognos 8 Planning (Contributor & Analyst),

                         Oracle 10g,TOAD,CONTROL-M,Windows 2003Server, MS Project 2007, MS Office 2007.

 

09/07 – 06/08   Careerbuilder.com, Chicago, IL

                        Project – Finance Data Warehouse – 56 Terabytes

                        Role: BI Manager

                       

Scope: Careerbuilder.com is the U.S.’s largest online job site involved in selling the Job postings to fortune 500 companies. The company has their sales offices in various cities across the globe including Atlanta and Chicago. The project focuses on building a Star Schema data model and implementing the complex ETL Logic with the defined business rules using SSIS and giving the browse capabilities to the end users to tap into the SSAS Cube through MS Excel 2007.

 

                          Responsibilities:

·         Created Project approach and enterprise data model for capture of financial data elements based on defined standards.

·         Stabilized existing Operational Data Store to meet performance and availability requirements in the creation of real-time, daily and monthly customer reports.

·         Assisted in negotiating terms, standards, and best practices with outside SAS Vendor.

·         Develop project plan and maintain project SharePoint site.

·         Identify resource requirements and time lines for the project.

·         Created complex and reusable Macros and extensively used existing macros and developed SAS Programs for Data Cleaning, Validation, Analysis and Report

·         Performed evaluation of different data modeling tools ( i.e. Embarcadero 7.0.1 and Erwin 4.1.4)

·         Review current chart of accounts and verify accuracy of client's hierarchy with proposed prototype / build solution.

·         Responsible for managing and administering systems performance including on-going optimization and tuning of SAS environment.

·         Successfully designed and implemented statistical reporting processes for regular data collection and data analysis.

·         Captured project related documentation and maintain project repository.

·         Advised clients on engineering /and / or Terminal Server recommendations for latency issues

·         Preparation and tracking of the Risk Analysis report and Risk Mitigation Plan for each phase of the project.

·         Engage client's IT division and provide guidance on installation, latency testing and deployment practices of the SAS Environment

·         Responsible for business discovery and documentation of business plan and business requirements.

·         Provide status to client CIO and SAS Project Team.

·         Preparing a Traceability Matrix to map the BR document to Functional Design document to Technical Design document to the System Test Plans

·         Scope Management using the Change Control process, was a part of Change Control Board decision-making

·         Preparing the Functional Design, Workflows (process flow diagrams and data flow diagrams) and Data Dictionary

·         Designed a robust error handling mechanism and developed the SSIS Framework using SSIS templates and Package Configurations.

·         Performed the use case analysis and data model (Financemart & Salessmart) comparisons between various databases (Finance & FinanceDB e.t.c) using Embarcadero.

·         Implemented the Slowly Changing Transformation (SCD) to maintain the Historical Data in Data marts.

 

Environment: SAS 9/8, MS Project 2007, SQL Server Reporting Services(SSRS), Management studio, SQL Server Integration Services(SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), Business Intelligence Development Studio ( BIDS), Windows 2003 Server, MS Office 2007.

 

06/07 – 09/07              HAVI Global Solutions Inc, Chicago, IL

                        Project – Japan DW – DS & GPA, ISR

                       Role: Data Warehouse Project Lead – 750 Gigabytes

 

Scope: Havi Global Solutions Inc is a Multinational company involved in the managing the largest and most complex retail supply chain. The company has their main focus in Packaging sourcing, promotional execution, Supply Chain Integration and Communication. Aim of the project was to build a Retail Data Mart and facilitate reporting to the management using BI tools Informatica 8.1.2 and Siebel Analytics.  Aggregated Data was developed using Reporting tools for the managers to browse the Sales & Revenue measures with respect to various available dimensions.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Actively involved in different stages of Project Life Cycle while enhancing a logical and physical architecture for Japan DW by gathering business requirements through triage meetings with clients and business analysts.

·         Managing the issues/gaps through Change Control process

·         Create Weekly Summary Reports and maintain SharePoint Site.

·         Construct and maintain Project Plans

·         Led activities required to maintain and complete all project documentation.  Obtains appropriate level of approval for all project documentation assigned to ensure appropriate understanding of expectations among all stakeholders.

·         Communicates project status to team and business owners throughout the duration of the assignment and post implementation to make certain all impacted stakeholders have an understanding of risks, issues and activities related to the project.

·         Developed project cost estimates and budgets for assigned projects and initiates cost control measures to ensure project budgets are met

·         Maintain and approve complete development lifecycles for an average of 12 Web development projects in a highly advanced Java Web Environment.

·         Co-ordinate with the business users during the UAT and roll-out of the project

·         Involved in creating High Level Requirements Documents.

·         Facilitate contacts between various ERP Business Sections.

·         Advise and engage my Fellow Consultants in the “Digging and Discovery” Process as we research the business structure for a successful SAS 8 Financial upgrade.

·         Analyze and provide direction to IT Department on Structural Needs.

·         Involved in developing the ETL data flows to move the Data Ware House and Data Marts.

·         Provided Project Estimates for development team efforts.

·         Involved in designing Logical/Physical Data Models for Staging Area using ERWIN.

·         Responsible for generating Quarterly, annual sales and profit summary reports were generated using the Proc Report, Proc Tabulate, Proc Print and Proc Gplot etc.

·         Analyzed various tables using Data manipulation techniques like merging, appending and sorting.

·         Extracted data tables from Oracle, SQL server to SAS and populated new data into Oracle, SQL server using SAS Access (SAS/SQL ‘Pass through Facility.’ and Libname Engine)

·         Worked on dimensional modeling to design/develop STAR Schemas, identifying Fact & Dimension tables for providing a unified view to ensure consistent decision making.

·         Extensively used SAS/Connect to submit jobs via REMOTE server and to effectively distribute workloads across different CPUs.

·         Documented all processes involved in maintaining the database for future reference.

 

                          Environment:  MS Project 2007, Peoplesoft, SQL Server 2005/2000, SAS 8.2, Informatica Power Center 8.1, Cognos 7, Oracle 10G, SAS, ERWIN 4.1,SQL, ERWIN, UNIX, CRONTAB, Toad, Siebel Analytics 7.8, SAS, Shell Scripting using AWK/ SED on Unix Sun OS 5.9, Windows 2000, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Project, XML, UML.

 

01/07 – 06/07              Cephalon Inc, Malvern, PA

                         Project – State Spend Reporting System

                         Role: Senior DW Architect/Project Manager

 

Scope: Cephalon Inc, an integrated biopharmaceutical company with a presence in major markets around the world. The business is focused on therapeutic areas where our knowledge is deepest: disorders of the central nervous system, pain, cancer and addiction. The project was to address the state reporting requirements as well as Cephalon’s own business needs by developing a systematic, automated approach to State spend that enables State-level reporting and monitoring activities related to these requirements, utilized new technologies to manage and deploy more effectively and to build a Data mart that is for Legal department to access the spend data in Cognos reports for flexible state spend tracking and reporting capability.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Worked closely with the engineering and product management teams to prioritize features, clarify scope and finalize release timing of upcoming features

·         Performed System Study and Requirements Analysis, prepared Data Flow Diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams, Data Diagrams, Table Structures.

·         Prepared and maintained a Project Risk Assessment; developed and executed plans for managing risk.

·         Developed and maintained project schedule, identify and track milestones and identify and manage cross-functional dependencies.

·         Analyzed business processes and standards and identifies opportunities for improvements.

·         Responsible for Managing the data extraction, transformation, movement, loading, cleansing and updating processes into the DW environment.

·         Clarifies expectations with associates and inspects progress effectively.

·         Develop data governance solutions that will impact the entire company: frameworks, standards, best methods, repeatable processes, support materials, influential communications.

·         Responsible for testing and implementing new technical solutions.

·         Responsible for technical and system architecture planning.

·         Responsible for Physical Database Design and Implementation of the Staging and the Data Mart databases using Erwin and Oracle 10g.

·         Involved in Informatica 8.1.1 Server-side software Installation, Client-side software Installation, Metadata reporter Installation and applying the SP1 & SP2 patches to the environment.

·         Worked with group of programmers to create SAS Applications using SAS/AF and SCL Programming.

·         Involved in writing the pre and post session Shell Scripts to devise the job status control mechanism.

·         Involved in tuning of the Extract SQL’s using optimizer hints.

·         Involved in Data Modeling using Erwin.

·         Generated reports using Cognos Report Studio, Query Studio and produced descriptive statistical analysis using Cognos Powerplay Transformer.

·         Designed and implemented Data Quality and Audit procedures.

·         Responsible for testing and Data Validation using Data Analyzer and Data Profiling

·         Created materialized views to increase the speed of queries.

·         Tuned the reporting tables by creating table partitioning, materialized views, logs and adding function – based indexes, bit-mapped indexes, usage of hints and making use of Oracle 10g features

·         Designed and developed efficient Error handling methods and implemented throughout the mappings.

·         Strategically thinking and consulting organization on ETL best practices based on detailed knowledge of industry trends.

·         Designed mappings, Mapplets using Informatica Power center Designer.

·         Created Tasks (Sessions, Commands), Workflows using Workflow Manager Tools.

·         Wrote Power Shell Scripts for pre/post session commands and command tasks.

·         Developed, mentored and trained less experienced ETL staff.

·         Used INFACMD commands for starting & stopping PowerCenter 8.1.1 application services (Repository and Integration Service) from command prompt.

·         Provided Cognos reports with in a time sensitive deadline.

·         Used a blend of technical and functional skills to deliver financial data analytics to the appropriate business units.

·         Physical Implementation of database into SQL Server 2000 using T-SQL.

·         Worked on Client/Server tools like SQL Server Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer to administer SQL Server.

·         Created complex stored procedures and functions to support efficient data storage and manipulation.

·         Worked on DTS Package, DTS Import/Export for transferring data from heterogeneous database.

·         Data migration (import & export – BCP) from Text to SQL Server.

·         Generating ad-hoc reports using MS-Access.

·         Participated in testing during the UAT (QA testing). Mentored and monitored team development and status.

 

Environment:  Informatica Power center 8.1.1, Peoplesoft, Power Center Data Analyzer, Erwin 4.x, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL scripts, TOAD 7, SQL*Net 8, SQL Server 2005/2000, SAS 8, Cognos 8 Framework Manager, Impromptu 7.x/6.0, Cognos Embarcedero (ER Studio) 7.1, Power Shell 1.0, Cognos 8 Report Net SQL Server 2000, ER-Win, T-SQL, Excel, Access, and Windows NT.

 

 

11/04 – 12/06              Motorola Inc, Schaumburg, IL

                       Project - GEMS Data Warehouse Design & Development – 35 Terabytes

Role: Data Warehouse Architect/Sector Lead

 

Scope: Motorola Inc, is a Fortune 100 telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, 

Illinois. It is a manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, also designing and selling wireless

Network infrastructure equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal

amplifiers. The project objective was to significantly improve the Backend Informatica batch

processing, utilized new features to manage and deploy more effectively and to build a strategic

warehousing solution for Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector services

lifecycle module to generate BRIO OLAP reports for Analytical/Business Decision making

purposes.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Responsible for detail Requirements Collection and Analysis including interview questionnaire design, interviewing, data analysis, Use Case analysis and Requirements Documentation & Publication.

·         Responsible for Technical Architecture Design & Documentation

·         Responsible for Data Warehouse Modeling and Logical Data Design using Erwin

·         Responsible for Physical Database Design of the Staging and the Data Warehouse databases using Erwin and Oracle

·         Involved in Informatica upgrade from 6.1 to 7.1.3 and 7.1 to 8.1.1

·         Involved in planning the upgrade, preparation of test plans, Server-side software Installation Client-side software Installation, Metadata reporter Installation.

·         Initiated the process first by upgrading Informatica from 7.1 to 8.1.1 in development environment and then in production.

·         Tested new features, revise existing documentation and standards and developed new procedures for deployment and disaster recovery.

·         Involved in testing the development environment and data validation.

·         Performed regression & UAT after up gradation by coordinating with the functional team

·         Trained and mentored offshore team about the architecture, design, build, test and delivery of code from Dev to QA and QA to Production.

·         Define development and coding standards in Informatica

·         Created Business Intelligence semantic layer on Informatica metadata using Cognos ETL Process Architecture, Design and Development using Informatica Power Plug and Power Center.

·         Designed and developed over 200+ Informatica mappings, 200+ Informatica sessions and 25+ batches for the data warehouse.

·         Created users, folders & defined roles using Informatica Repository Manager

·         Designed and implemented Data Quality and Audit procedures.

·         Responsible for testing and Data Validation using TOAD, SQL, Access, Excel

·         Created materialized views to increase the speed of queries.

·         Tuned the reporting tables by creating table partitioning, materialized views, logs and adding function – based indexes, bit-mapped indexes, usage of hints and making use of Oracle 9i features

·         Responsible for Low level design documentation, UTP preparation at Mapping / Session / Worklet /Workflow level.

·         Performed data analysis on the datasets using PROC UNIVARIATE, PROC MEANS, PROC FREQ, and PROC ANOVA.

·         Used Trillium Software for Data Cleansing process

·         Write PL/SQL procedures for complex extraction processes.

·         Designed mappings, Mapplets using Informatica Power center Designer.

·         Created Tasks (Sessions, Commands), Workflows using Workflow Manager Tools.

·         Responsible for implementing performance tuning at Query/Mapping/Session levels.

·         Wrote Shell Scripts for pre/post session commands and command tasks.

·         Involved in system and Integration tests.

·         Responsible for mapping business fields in Brio reports to Data warehouse columns.

·         Performed unit testing & system testing for Brio reports.

·         Used PMCMD command for running Informatica from backend.

·         Provided reports with in a time sensitive deadline.

·         Wrote shell scripts for scheduling the processes during targeted hours and migration scripts to move code to different instances

 

Environment:  Informatica Power center 6.1/7.1.3/8.1.1, Informatica Power Plug 5.1, Erwin 4.x/3.5.2, SAS 8, Oracle Applications 11i (General Ledger Module), Oracle 8i, PL/SQL scripts, TOAD 7, SQL*Net 8, DB2/UDB 7.x/6.x, SQL Server 2000/7.0, CDC, Cognos Power Play 7.x/6.6, Transformer 7.x/6.6, Impromptu 7.x/6.0, Business Objects 5i, Shell Scripts, DB2 Client Access, Trillium 8, Brio 6.6

 

                        Project - Loans Analysis –Data Warehouse

Scope: Motorola Employee Credit Union (MECU) Bank is a subsidiary of Motorola. Inc. It serves nationwide employees, retirees, and contract employees of Motorola, Inc (and its subsidiaries), employees of companies that Motorola has spun off or sold, and anyone related to these individuals or related to current MECU Members. The main goal of this project is to implement Loan Analysis reporting system with DW Methodologies.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Responsible for managing and administering systems performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment

·         Involved in administering Informatica Power Center 7.1.3 (Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of Informatica Client and Server Tools, Performance Tuning, Performing Integration with other tools / platforms, Creating Database connections,

·         Responsible for design, development and maintenance of Universes using BO Designer

·         Participated in design reviews to make recommendations on performance, architecture and fault tolerance.

·         Responsible for design and creation of documents using BO.

·         Mapped the pre-calculated summary data using Aggregate Awareness Feature.

·         Preparation of Design documents and User Manuals

 

Environment: Informatica 7.1.3, PeopleSoft, SQL Server 2000/7.0, PL/SQL, Designer, Business Objects, Supervisor, Oracle 8i

 

                       Project - CGISS Data Warehouse

Scope: Motorola Inc is a Fortune 100 telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It is a manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, also designing and selling wireless       network infrastructure equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal                          amplifiers. The primary goal of the CGISS Data Warehouse is to be the single view of CGISS  

sector data.  At this time, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) data does not exist in the

Data warehouse. Instead, that data exists in two stand-alone Clarify CRM repositories that have

led to the inability to easily manage or view all customer data at the sector level.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Interacted with client to gather requirement specifications and Analysis of source and Target database systems.

·         Responsible for design and development of Informatica Mappings using Designer

·         Responsible for design and development of Sessions, Worklets and Workflows using Workflow Manager

·         Responsible for design and development of SCD type 2 mappings to insert/update the dimension tables

·         Worked on dimensional modeling to design/develop STAR Schemas, identifying Fact & Dimension tables for providing a unified view to ensure consistent decision making

·         Installed and Implemented Informatica and converted existing PL/SQL Packages to ETL  Mappings using Informatica Power Center.

·         Created reusable ETL components and maintenance of ETL mappings.

·         Automated the ETL process through scheduling and exception routines.

·         Responsible for design & development of complex mappings using various transformations such as aggregator, connected/un-connected lookup, update strategy, router, expression, source qualifier, rank, unconnected stored procedure & joiner

·         Involved in writing the Pre-, Post- Session shell scripts to devise the job status control mechanism.

·         Involved in tuning of the Extract SQL’s using optimizer hints.

·         Involved in Data Modeling using Erwin.

·         Developed standard and re-usable mappings & mapplets using various transformations like expression, aggregator, joiner, source qualifier, router, lookup and filter.

·         Involved in tuning of Informatica Sessions using range through partitioning method.

·         Preparation of Design documents, Unit Test plans, System/Integration Test plan and       Traceability Log.

 

Environment: Informatica Power Center 6.1, PeopleSoft, SAS 7, SQL Server 2000, PL/SQL, Erwin 3.5, Clarify, Oracle9i, HP UNIX

 

01/03 – 10/04    GE, Danbury, CT

                          Project - Business reporting Implementation & support – 650 Gigabytes

  Role: Data Warehouse Developer/Module Lead

 

Scope: GE Commercial Equipment Financing (CEF) is a wholly owned subsidiary of GE that is into array of Financial Services such as Leases, Loans, and Sale – Leasebacks etc. CEF sells a variety of equipment and assets from real estate, construction equipment, electronics manufacturing equipment and food processing equipment, to manufacturing, marine, and restaurant equipment. View equipment specifications, photographs, contact information, special sale events, and more...The system was implemented using traditional data warehousing techniques (star schema, data cleansing ETL, dimension and hierarchy maintenance).

 

Responsibilities:

·         Responsible for detail Requirements Collection and Analysis including interview questionnaire design, interviewing, data analysis, Use Case analysis and Requirements Documentation & Publication.

·         Analyzed data warehousing requirements and specifications.

·         Responsible for design and development of Mappings using designer to extract data from Oracle source and flat files and load into staging data base.

·         Responsible for performance tuning, indexing, database optimization, horizontal and vertical partitioning.

·         Performed weekly and monthly Back-Up and Recovery for Oracle Database Environment.

·         Conducted migration from Oracle 7 to 8.

·         Installed Oracle database for new developers.

·         Involved in Corporate risk management and forecasting.

·         Build the presentation layer for the EDW to business users at different levels devise and Implementation of SCD type 1 and type 2 mappings to insert/update records into Dimension tables.

·         Provided Knowledge Transfer to the end users and created extensive documentation on the design, development, implementation, daily loads and process flow of the mappings.

·         Responsible for performance tuning of the Informatica mappings using various components likes Parameter files, Variables and Dynamic Cache.

·         Responsible for performance tuning using round robin, hash auto key, Key range partitioning.

·         Responsible to tune ETL Procedures and STAR Schemas to optimize load and query performance.

·         Created complex mappings using Unconnected Lookup, Sorter, Aggregator, newly changed dynamic Lookup and Router transformations for populating target table in efficient manner.

·         Worked with the data modeling team to understand the logical design and then come up with the physical design specifications, this was then implemented in database.

·         Used business objects reporting module to generate several complex reports, which are then used by the higher management to get a thorough insight into their sales/customers/ Productivity/services at various levels.

·         Ensured accessibility of the web-based environment called Web-Intelligence to ensure to worldwide users of GE Commercial Finance.

·         Responsible for design and development of sessions, workflows using session manager

·         Written PL/SQL scripts to generate the pre-calculated aggregates (Roll Up Data) for the different combinations of dimensions and at required granular level, using CUBE and ROLLUP Operators.

·         Responsible for preparation of Design documents, User Manuals and Unit Test plans.

·         Ensuring that the present project adheres to SEI CMM Level 5 standards.

·         Provide support during acceptance testing and release of the product into the production environment.

Environment: Informatica Power Center 5.1, PeopleSoft, SAS 7, PL/SQL, Oracle 9i, Oracle8i, Oracle 11i, ERWin 4.2/3.5x, Business Objects 5.1.2, Toad, Clarify, PVCS Tracker, Web-I (ver 2.6), Focus, MS SQL 7.0/2000, HP UNIX

 

09/98 – 12/02              Logi Pro Technologies, Delhi, India

                         Project – HRMS PeopleSoft Implementation

                        Role: Database Developer

 

Scope: Logi Pro Technologies is a $300 million Organization headquartered in Delhi, India with over 5 years of combined experience serving personal clients, small businesses, and specializing in Knowledge management Software Solutions in the area of Enterprise Portal and Business Intelligence. It also focuses on Document Management providing a variety of Business Intelligence Solutions. The project, Customer Information System (CIS), keeps track of bank’s entire Massachusetts region database. My team was responsible for separating customers based on the customer details and their business side view. The work involved extracting any old data from Oracle database into SQL server 7.0.

Responsibilities:

·         Continued initial deployment specifications and user testing, data conversion and interface installation in preparation for module implementation, beginning in November 1998

·         Initiated and completed prototyping for admissions and student records

·         Implemented Course Catalog database for production

·         Continued functional testing in all modules

·         Developed specifications for personal data and demographic database conversions

·         Implemented AutoSys (automated client/server job scheduling) and MQ series messaging

·         Designed specifications and programming for payroll interfaces to financial systems

·         Responsible for modification & enhancement of Unix shell scripts.

·         Responsible for preparation of Design documents, Unit Test plans & Integration test plans.

·         Ensuring that the present project adheres to SEI CMM Level 3 standards.

·         Provide support during acceptance testing and release of the product into the production environment.

                        Environment: SQL Server 7.0, T-SQL, PeopleSoft HRMS, Enterprise manager, ERWIN,

                        Windows 2000 platform Informatica Power Center 4.1, Mainframes, Oracle8i, Oracle 11i, Toad,

                        Clarify, PVCS Tracker, Mainframes (IDMS), HP UNIX