R, Vijay

Summary:

Solutions Architect with extensive experience in ERP, Data Warehouse, Performance

Management and Business Intelligence applications

Expertise in BigData HDFS Administration and Architecture

Successfully executed projects in Team Lead and Project Management roles providing

Big Data Architecture, Business Analytics, Performance Management and BI solutions

More than 15 years of diverse professional experience in the IT industry

Cognos Certified Professional with certifications in Server Administration, Enterprise

Planning, Content Administration and Report Authoring

Full life cycle implementation experience with PeopleSoft EPM in the Financial,

Pharmaceutical and Consumer products businesses

Full life cycle implementation experience in Data warehousing, BI and Performance

Management solutions

Extensive data warehousing experience in the Financial, Pharmaceutical, Telecom

services, Insurance and Electronic Consumable industries

Experienced in engagements requiring project management, troubleshooting,

requirement gathering and design planning, implementation, performance tuning and

implementation,

Expertise in performing application environment assessments, creating road maps and

presentations for senior business management as well as operations

Versatile as a technical resource with a good understanding of business operations

Active Coordinator with good interpersonal skills

System/Technical Skills:

Big Data

Cognos FPM

ERP Applications

BI/DWH Tools

ETL Tools

Programming

O/S

Databases

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Hortonworks HDFS Administration

TM1 9.x, Analyst, Contributor, Manager 7.x, 8.x

PeopleSoft Financial Analytics, Work Force Analytics, Supply Chain Insight 7,

8.x PeopleSoft AP, AR, GL, HRMS, Billing, Projects

Cognos 10, 8, Report*Net, PowerPlay, SQRs, Crystal Reports, nVision,

Cognos Impromptu 6.x/7, Hyperion Reports

Informatica – PowerCenter, PowerMart 4,5,6,7,8.x, Ascential DataStage 7.x

C, SQL, SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, Cobol, RPG IV

Windows XP/2000/NT, AIX UNIX, Sun Solaris

Oracle 11, 10g/9.x/8.x/7.x, DB2, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Certification/Achievements:

(Hortonworks Certified Administrator)

Cognos Certification – Enterprise Planning Administration, System and Content

Administration, Report Authoring

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Scholarship from the Indian Ministry of Human Resource

Certificate course in Oracle Applications, Oracle DBA OCP (SQL & PLSQL) certification.

Appreciation awards for volunteering and organizing workshops and presentations

Professional Experience

SENIOR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

2005 – Present

Client

Internal

Project Responsibilities

Identify and configure the servers for forming a Hadoop Cluster

environment

Cluster hardware configuration and installation of HDFS and MapReduce

Setting up multiple user environment

Configuring the job schedulers and jobtracker for optimal performance to

capacity

Configured parameters controlling Map and Reduce jobs

Installed and configured Pig, Hive, Hbase, Nagios and Ganglia

Manage logs and parameters to archive, rotate and initialize logs

TSYS

Facilitated requirements gathering sessions with the business unit focus

groups using Planning

Created a project implementation plan based on Best Practices and TM1

implementation approach to create a phased delivery approach

Analyzed the Cognos Planning application implemented for Financial

Planning and Budgeting purposes

Installed TM1 server components in a multi server, distributed

environment setting up Dev and Prod, distributing server components on

Prod

Integrated TM1 with Cognos 8.4 BI and setup TM1 to use Single Sign On

Updated the configuration files to test and improve performance

Designed the Financial Planning module and the Project Employee

module in TM1 and integrated them

Implemented the TIs, Rules and Cube / Cell level security to build the two

models

Created the test plan and test scripts to validate the model and reconcile

data with source systems

Conducted end user and admin and user training for the technology team

NIKE

Conducted a top-down analysis of Global Sales reporting requirements

and mobile BI needs

Designed OLAP model using Cognos PowerPlay to host the

multidimensional, interactive and user intuitive BI Dashboard solution

Created dashboard wireframes, functionality use cases, detailed design

documents and technical specifications for mobile users using iPAD and

mobile devices

Created a best practices and tips and techniques document for

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optimization of server performance and Cognos applications

Developed the Active Reports dashboards using Cognos 10.1.1 for the

iPAD

Architected the approach and plan to implement the proposed solution

Mentored the resources on the project on Data Integration and Data

Management best practices

Provided assistance with Cognos Enterprise Planning and BI integration

to empower the users with Reporting capabilities against Plan and

Budget models

Performed onsite training workshops to train the customer in best

practices for EP, BI, ETL and Data warehousing

SBG

Performed analysis of the infrastructure and security requirements for the

TM1 environment

Provided recommendations on the architecture approach to implement

Cognos 9.5 TM1 and Cognos 10 BI

Analyzed current and future financial, salary planning, revenue planning

and investment planning requirements

Designed Planning model design and development standard operations

procedure for future expansions to provide scalable security design

recommendations

Documented the approach for infrastructure deployment in the

Infrastructure Planning document

Presented the infrastructure and content security recommendations to

the IT and project sponsors

Performed Capacity Planning and Infrastructure analysis to make

hardware architecture recommendations based on current demand and

scope of future strategic expansions

Genzyme

Performed analysis of the infrastructure and security requirements for the

client

Provided recommendations on the architecture approach to implement

Cognos 8 BI, Data Manager and EP

Documented a standardization and upgrade Road map to upgrade from

8.1 BI to 8.4 BI

Analyzed current and future BI security requirements for future

expansions to provide scalable security design recommendations

Documented the approach for infrastructure deployment in the

Infrastructure Planning document

Presented the infrastructure and content security recommendations to

the IT and project sponsors

Performed Capacity Planning and Infrastructure analysis to make

hardware architecture recommendations based on current demand and

scope of future strategic expansions

Baptist Health

Installed Cognos 8 in a distributed server environment with parallel

instances of ReportNet and Cognos 8

Configured Single Signon on IIS with Active Directory as authentication

source

Create Users, Groups and Roles based on User requirements and

configured authentication source

Added permissions and capabilities for Cognos components based on

user types.

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Deployed the Cognos ReportNet Content Stores from Unix to Windows

environment

Trained the Development and System Administration team in Cognos

Report Authoring, Modeling and Server Administration

Chubb & Sons

Analyzed the Requirements of Claims business users to create a

dashboard to monitor claim reserves

Created the resource plan and architecture design to host and deploy the

proposed solution

Designed the Scorecards mock up to identify and display the KPIs and

metrics in relevant groups

Analyzed the key data elements required for the Models and Cubes to

extract the metric data and load the scorecard items

Created the metrics application, integration reports for drill through and

workflow to monitor annual, quarterly and monthly data report the

identified metrics.

Chartered the plan for report deliverables, deployment of the dashboard,

end user training activities.

Implemented the security requirements of the business users and

created a Design document to build security on the Models and define

roles and user information in Access Manager.

Electrolux

Gathered requirements from operational heads of various functions –

Sales, Marketing, Distribution, Warranty, Logistics and likes for the data

warehouse

Created a Road Map for the data warehouse implementation for the

consumer Parts business.

Created requirement templates to provide specifications for the data

warehouse design requirements

Provided a Best Practice document for using Cognos components for

various reporting requirements

Architected the distributed server install of Cognos 8 BI and Cognos

Office Connection for Excel and PowerPoint.

Provident

Bank

Created a security design model for EP users

Built the User, User Class deployment document for Access Manager

based on Organizational roles.

Provided the IT support with template documents to gather security

requirement changes for batch processing

Created Analyst and Contributor Models

Provided Best Practices on Contributor and Analyst model building and

creating access rules.

Created publish databases and reporting models.

Client

Duration

Environment

Project Title

Role

Bank of America

Mar’ 08 – Jun’ 08

Cognos 8, Oracle, Informatica

Research Management Data Warehouse

Data warehouse Architect

Project Description/Responsibilities

Involved in Business Requirements Gathering sessions with the Research Management

group within the Global Investment Banking business unit

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Prepared the Project Plan and Road Map for the execution of the project combining

disparate and heterogeneous source systems

Documented the Content and Component security requirements of Cognos user community

and created the security design to secure Cognos components and Data based on user

privileges

Analyzed the source systems, and designed the project charter and delivery plan for the

implementation of the data warehouse for performance analysis

Performed the role of a mentor / project manager interviewing the resources identified for

ETL, Report development tasks

Designed the architecture and technical design of the data warehouse. Mentored the

development team to align development with the technical design

Documented the technical requirements for ETL development and data load automation

Performed transitioning and training to equip the database and infrastructure administration

team for future maintenance and enhancements

Client

Duration

Environment

Project Title

Role

Americold Logistics

May’ 07 – Jan’ 08

Cognos 8, Cognos EP, Decision Stream

Financial Forecasting and Customer Profitability

CPM Architect

Project Description/Responsibilities

Involved in Business Requirements Gathering sessions with the Strategy and Planning

(S&P) team for Forecasting and Budgeting Planning system.

Created a road map for the Forecasting and Customer Profitability projects recommending

a phased implementation approach for both projects

Performed analysis of the Planning appliucation requirements and created the model

design to provide the users and interface to submit forecast versions.

Developed an Architecture Design for the Forecasting and Customer Profitability models on

Cognos Planning

Setup the Cognos 8 Reporting and Planning environment on a distributed server

environment to support easy integration between Planning and BI

Setup the meta data and defined data sources for the above mentioned models

Prepared a Project Plan and monitored the project plan

Built the Forecast models in Cognos EP using best practices to provide current year vs.

previous year comparisons.

Involved in transitioning and user training. Documented and scripted user manuals for

operating the application.

Defined the star schema based model design for the Planning application to support

reporting using dimensional modeling approach

Tuned the Planning environment for faster retrieval of data into the Forecasting data mart.

Client

Duration

Role

Environment

Project Title

Highmark

Mar’07 – May’07

Cognos Enterprise Planning Architect

Cognos Planning, Cognos 8, Decision Stream

EP – BI Integration

Project Description / Responsibilities

Performed quick analysis of the Planning models to make the planning data BI ready for

further reporting and analysis using Cognos 8 portal front-end

Involved in conversations with IT and Business Analysts to provide requirements for access

to the Planning system and the database environment.

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Architected the BI solution to make the Planning models available on an Oracle schema for

ad hoc reporting and structured reporting and analysis using Framework Manager models.

Provided best practices approach to integrate Cognos EP with BI

Created Planning data marts using back end models published from Cognos EP.

Involved in Performance tuning of the existing Forecasting and Planning models for

effective reporting.

Client

Duration

Role

Environment

Project Title

Qualcomm

Cognos Enterprise Planning Architect

Cognos Planning, ReportNet, Decision Stream

EP – BI Integration Best Practices

Project Description / Responsibilities

Created a Roadmap for Qualcomm’s Cognos Upgrade path and Security model setup

integrating Cognos 8 and Cognos Enterprise Planning security

Setup Cognos environment, implemented Security model on the dashboard and BI models

Provided best practices approach and made SDLC recommendations for the Cognos EP

environment

Created end user application for automation of security setup and synchronizing Impromptu

Catalog, Access Manager and Upfront

Involved in Performance tuning of the reports and cubes

Client

Duration

Role

Environment

Project Title

UTi

Feb’ 06 – Apr’ 06

Data Warehouse Architect

Cognos Planning, ReportNet, Decision Stream

UTi Global Warehouse Planning

Project Description/Responsibilities

Involved in Project planning and scoping meetings with the business analyst and project

sponsors

Gathered business requirements for the implementation of a Global Data Warehouse

with the objective of creating centralized repository of financial and shipping information

for internal and external clients

Created the function design and technical design architecture documents to document

the current scenario and making proposals.

Prepared a pilot to demonstrate the Content Administration setup within Cognos

ReportNet

Made architecture and hardware recommendations for performance enhancement and

improve scalability of the environment to accommodate the data demands of the new

Warehouse

Developed a prototype for the Global Warehouse and conducted knowledge transfer

sessions involving the business and technical resources at the client.

Client

Duration

Environment

Project Title

Role

Food Sciences Corporation

Sep’ 05 – Dec’ 05

Cognos Planning 7.3 – Analyst, Manager

Inventory Forecasting

Cognos Enterprise Planning Specialist

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Project Description/Responsibilities

Created the POC based on the requirements discussed with the Director, IT at FSC and

presented the POC to the Director, Finance and IT at FSC.

Documented the complete project plan, requirements for the project and technical design

document to create the desired model.

Installed the Cognos Enterprise Planning 7.3 application on the network server and setup

the Analyst users with appropriate access

Developed Cognos Analyst Model to create the d-cubes for Inventory forecasting analysis

Created macros to update and refresh the model and provided the macros on Manager for

the Analyst users.

Generated reports from Manager to generate hard copies of the Inventories Order quantity

by Vendor.

Involved in tuning the d-cubes to enhance model update performance.

Conducted UAT (user acceptance testing) of the Inventory model and promoted the

developed model to production.

Client

Duration

Environment

Project Title

Role

CitiGroup, Inc.

Apr’ 02 – Aug’ 05

PeopleSoft EPM (Financial Insight) 8.3/8.8, Windows 2000, Oracle

8/9, Informatica PowerMart 5.1, ERwin

FinanceOne Management Reporting System

EPM Specialist

Project Description/Responsibilities

Responsible for planning, development, implementation and maintenance of the system

created using PeopleSoft EPM Financial Analytics application.

Involved in assessment of resource requirements, interviewing and task allocation to the

technical specialists for ETL, Database support, Reports and cube creation.

Involved in creating and maintaining the Project Plan and Technical Design documents for

one complete Phase of the project.

Created custom application engines, pages and ETL maps for requirements failing the fitgap

analysis.

Organized knowledge creation workshops to train the developers in the approved Code

Standards for ETL maps, Data Acquisition and Maintenance of metadata in EPM.

Played lead role in the coordination activities for DR (Disaster Recovery) testing and golive,

which involved communication between the Operations team, Database and Network

support teams.

Lead the upgrade and migration tasks during the course of the project development.

Migrations involved moving PeopleSoft projects, ETL objects and file objects between

development, UAT and production environments.

Involved in training Operations’ users and knowledge transfer sessions with them on-site

and on-line.

Client

Duration

Environment

Role

Coors Tek, Inc.

Jan 02 – Mar’ 02

PeopleSoft EPM 8.16, Supply Chain insight, Oracle 8.1.6, Windows

2000, HP-Unix, Informatica PowerCenter 5.0, ERWIN

Team Lead PeopleSoft EPM (Supply Chain Insight)

Project Description

Charted out the POC project plan for the implementation of PeopleSoft Supply Chain

Insight.

Involved in the database creation and configuration with storage parameters for the

development, test and production environments.

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Prepared the ETL load sequence for the 460 odd Informatica mappings and 60 Data Loader

maps.

Worked closely with the PeopleSoft Global Support to resolve the bugs in SCI.

Created the required setups in PeopleSoft pages for the EPM application. Also applied the

patch to create the ETL error tables.

Customized the Informatica maps and Data Loader maps to modify the validations

performed in the delivered mappings.

Troubleshot the failed Application Engine programs and prepared troubleshooting tips and

procedures documents for the programmers.

Created metadata reports against PeopleSoft data maps and loading sequence, Informatica

transformation logic and load history.

Documented the modifications to the delivered maps and also prepared the Standard

Conventions document.

Organized the knowledge transfer sessions to provide training in Informatica and

PeopleSoft Data Acquisition programs.

Client

Duration

Environment

Project Title

Role

Detroit Public Schools

Sep’ 01 – Jan’ 02

Oracle 8.1.5, PeopleSoft EPM, Informatica PowerMart 5.1, ERwin

3.5.2, Windows 2000, Crystal Reports, nVision, Cognos PowerPlay,

Impromptu

School Data Warehouse

Tech Lead, School Data warehouse Development

Project Description

Coordinated with functional staff to get the requirements for building the project scope and

objectives.

Perform demonstrations to show the reports using Cognos Suite to the CEO of DSS

Developed PeopleSoft complex queries, reports and created presentations to compare the

efficiency of Crystal and Cognos as a Decision Support Tool.

Created subject areas for Student Assessment, Registration and Teacher-Student

Evaluation using star schema design.

Used GUI tools to build the data models and created Metadata Repository to create reports

adhoc against the ER diagrams and Informatica mappings.

Documented the Standard Convention document for creation of PeopleSoft objects and

Informatica maps. This document also laid out the integration points between the

PeopleSoft EPM module and the custom Data warehouse.

Created PeopleSoft objects (User Roles, Permission Lists, Menus) to assign roles and add

user interface for the users to invoke a report from within PeopleSoft.

Prepared the DSS Tool evaluation doc to stress the need to acquire a full-fledged Analysis

tool for the DSS team.

Performed tuning of the queries, determined storage parameters for the Oracle objects and

documented the database storage parameter modifications.

Interviewed report developers who would take charge of report development.

Client/Company

Duration

Environment

Project Title

Role

Project Description

Merck & Co., Inc.

Sep’ 00 – Jul’ 01

PeopleSoft EPM Workforce Analytics 8.0, Windows NT, HP-Unix,

Informatica PowerCenter 4.7, Oracle 8.1.5 and ERwin

Global HR Data Warehouse

PeopleSoft EPM/ETL Specialist

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Created a HR Global Data warehouse to monitor employee turnover and create a central

repository of HR information.

Involved in modeling, design and development of the ODS tables and creating maps for the

respective tables to load the data from multi source systems

Responsible in the team to design the data entities, data conversion standards and logic

flow charts towards developing a Global HR Data Warehouse for Merck & Co.

Involved in creating database objects for reference and transactional data coming from the

remote PeopleSoft sites and Legacy (Tesseract) system.

Created mappings with logic to cover the correction mode Audit Action issue with data

coming in from PeopleSoft tables with records updated in Correction mode.

Coordinated with the business team to create the ETL specs with data element

requirements to build the dimensions and the fact tables for the HR data mart.

Participated in developing and maintenance of the Activity Log logic and Error Logging

procedure to track the database errors at run time and keeping a track of each session.

Records loaded and date time of load with error records.

Assisted in upgrade of Informatica ETL infrastructure from 4.5 to 4.7.

Performed tuning on the maps, which were causing performance bottlenecks and optimized

them to improve the time efficiency of the maps.

Documented mapping standards for mappings of similar kind and naming conventions for

reusable transformations.

Troubleshooted several data related, database related and ETL related issues in

coordination with the mainframe team and the business team to resolve issues arising out

of the files provided out of the Tesseract (legacy) system.

Involved in on-site training of employees in Informatica and related products utilized in the

project.

Client/Company Williams Communication, OK

Duration

Apr’ 00 – Aug’ 00

Environment

Role

PeopleSoft GL, Billing, Projects 7.5, DB2, Windows NT and HP- UNIX

Technical Consultant

Project Description

Involved in development and design of PeopleSoft GL, Billing and Project modules.

Customized application engines and interface SQRs to reflect the chartfield customizations

made in the GL application.

Created inbound SQRs to import ‘Vendor’ and Vendor details data from the legacy system.

Troubleshot the impact of Chartfield customization on the Billing related Application Engine

programs. BIIVCPN and likes.

Customized the application engine programs to modify the Chartfield structures and the

ripple effects of the Chartfield customizations.

Customized the vanilla Billing lines report SQR program to group data and improve the

presentation format and add the company logo to the report.

Designed the batches to run the migration SQR programs

Reviewed PeopleCode using Application Reviewer to analyze the business logic and debug

the errors.

Documented the customizations made to the delivered SQRs and maintained the change

control document for the implementation phase.

Client

Duration

Environment

Role

HIP, Florida

Jun’ 99 – Mar’ 00

PeopleSoft Financials 6.0, Oracle 7.x, SQR, Crystal Reports Windows

NT and Unix

PeopleSoft Programmer

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Project Description

Involved in Customization, Testing and Implementation of PeopleSoft

Financials/Distribution (Purchasing, AP and AR) Modules.

Customized Voucher-Entry panels. Hiding the Panels carrying the functionality not followed

by the organization.

Designed Load programs to move data from legacy system MASTER_ITEM_TBL,

VNDR_CNTCT, VNDR_ID, VENDOR_INVOICE, VNDR_ADDR_SCROL…. Using SQRs/

Import Manager based on the intensity of control on data required.

Worked on Systems and functional analysis, Design Specifications, Design Modifications

and Customizations and Migration of the project. Performed end user acceptance testing

for quality assurance. Designed queries for analysis and reporting requirements of the

client and functional staff. Designed the MAPI interfaces between VB and PeopleSoft using

Message-Agent.

Worked on systems customizations and maintenance with PeopleTools, PeopleCode,

PeopleSoft Query and SQR. Identified, developed, executed Test Cases Financials (AP,

GL) Modules & assisted the QA Team. Participated in manual system testing and parallel

testing of the different test case scenarios for different panels.

Client/Company Sequel Datamatics

Duration

Environment

Role

Jun’ 96 – Mar’ 99

AS400, Oracle 8.0

Developer

Project Description

Trained the employees in PeopleSoft Financials and PeopleTools.

Worked on the development of various software applications for this company for its

offshore business catering to clients based in Germany, Singapore, and The Emirates.

Developed commercial software applications part time for off shore as well as domestic

clients.

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