Rakesh

Certified Sr Business Objects DI Developer / Admin

   201-604-3582

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Summary:

 

• Around 8 years of experience in Business Intelligence (SAP Business Objects (4i//5i/6i/XI) with Crystal reports, Xcelsius 2008) and Data Warehouse applications.
• Strong Knowledge in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as developing, testing, Migrating, Administrating, security management and production support on various platforms like UNIX, Windows NT/2000/XP/98.
• Worked on new features of Business Objects XI including WEBI XIR3 and Central management console and Crystal Xcelsius and Business Objects Framework (Architecture).
• Technical hands-on expertise using OLAP tool Business Objects 4/5.x/6.0 /XIR2(Reports, Designer, Web Intelligence, Info view , and Supervisor)
• Experience in implementing Business Objects report management with Finance, Sales and Marketing, Supply Chain Management, Healthcare sectors.
• Worked on Financial reports (P&L, Asset Management, Loan Processing and Acquisition) Healthcare reports (Top Diseases, Service class, Vendor details), Sales Reports.    
• Expert in Optimizing, Debugging, Tuning and testing SQL queries, views and stored procedures in Oracle and SQL Server.
• Experience in Warehouse development, working with Data Migration, Data Conversion and Extraction/Transformation/Loading using Data Integrator XIR2 and Data Services with Oracle.
• Involved in designing Jobs using Data Integrator Designer to extract, transform and load data. Extensively used, Data stores, workflows, data flows and transformations in designing the Jobs.
• Designed and developed ETL solutions using SAP Business Objects Data Integrator.
• Written technical design documentation (e.g. data flow diagrams, mapping documents, etc) for Business Objects Data Integrator Jobs.
• Performs testing of ETL data flows.
• Develop a strong working relationship with the appropriate business users to understand the key business drivers and priorities
• Hands-on experience on Crystal Xcelsius in creating Dashboards, graphs, charts, inserting maps and complex analytics reports
• Worked with various types of reporting solutions including analytical, Operational and Adhoc reports for business users.
• Working knowledge of performance improvement measures including aggregate tables, Indexes and Explain plan
• Worked extensively on modules Supervisor, Designer, Info view, and Web Intelligence and Broadcast agent in Business Objects.
• Worked with Crystal Report XIR2 for creating complicated reports including sub-reports, parameter based reports, graphical reports, formula based, well-formatted reports, drilling reports, analysis reports, data reports along with LOV.
• Good knowledge of Data Warehousing/Data Mart concepts including star and snowflake design
• Analysis to design the Universes and Business Objects Reports to support the user requirements.
• Developed templates for data mapping and facilitated workshops with cross functional business users to understand complex legacy systems data structures, mapping data into to-be BO data warehouses and developed conversion/transformation rules
• Used aggregate awareness in universes and created reports employing functionality like Queries, Slice and Dice, Drill down, Functions, Filters & Formulae Exceptional experience in dealing with various databases like Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MS Access, and Flat files.
• Worked with various types of reporting solutions including analytical, Operational and Adhoc reports for business users
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to work effectively as a team member and individually.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

 

• Business Objects Tools:  Business Objects XIR3/R2: CMC, Auditor, Repository Migration, Xcelsius, Report Conversion Tool, Universe Designer, Desktop Intelligence, Info View, Business Objects 6.x, BCA, Crystal Reports XIR2. Web Intelligence, Info view, Crystal Reports XI, Import Wizard, Publishing Wizard, Report Conversion tool, Report Migration Wizard, Software Inventory Tool, Universe Builder, Business view manager, Data source migration wizard.
• Operating systems:  Windows 2000/NT/XP and MS-DOS, Solaris
• Data Base:  Oracle 10g/9i/8i/, SQL Server 2000/2005, PL/SQL.Teradata            
• Servers:  Tomcat Apache, Web logic.
• Languages:  PL/SQL, HTML, DHTML and XML
• ETL Tools:  Informatica (Power Center, Power Mart ),Data Integrator XIR2, Data Services
• Data Modeling Tools:  Erwin, Toad
• GUI TOOLS:  Developer 2000, Power Developer 2000, Power Builder, MS Front Page, Dream weaver.
• Front End Tools: TOAD, SQL Navigator, SQL assistant 7.2.
• Scripting Languages: Perl, UNIX Shell Scripting.

 

 

EXPERIENCE:

 

Boston Scientific MA                                                                                          Aug 08- Till Date

Sr Business Objects DI Developer

Boston Scientific is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices with approximately 25,000 employees and revenue of $8.3 billion in 2007. For more than 25 years, Boston Scientific has advanced the practice of less-invasive medicine¹ by providing a broad and deep portfolio of innovative products, technologies and services across a wide range of medical specialties.  The Company's products help physicians and other medical professionals improve their patients' quality of life by providing alternatives to surgery. 

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Involved in Full life cycle of migration process from legacy BO 5.1.7 to BO XI.
• Migrated SCMDW universes, reports and users from BO 5.1.7 to BOXI using Import wizard and converted them in BO XI WEBI Reports by using Report Conversion tool.
• Created Standard technical documents for validation process for universes and reports in BO XI
• Develop a strong working relationship with the appropriate business users to understand the key business drivers and priorities.
• Worked with Business Object vendor to improve the application performance by using advance functionality of new BO XIR2.
• Develop detailed functional specifications and requirements for new reports
• Upgraded BO reports from BO XI R2 to XIR3.
• Created a backup of WEBI Reports and Universes in BIAR format using Import Wizard.
• Created free hand SQL reports into new WEBI reports in BO XIR2.
• Created dashboards, charts, map reporting and gauges using Xcelsius 2008 for complex data
• Created new users, groups, folders in CMC while upgrading to BO XIR3.

•·         Used Business Objects Data Integrator XI R2 for ETL extraction, transformation and loading data from heterogeneous source systems.

•·         Performance tuned Business Objects Data Integrator XI jobs to ensure optimal performance

•·         Used Complex EXCEL formulae V lookup & H lookup to generate complex Dashboards

•·         Developed web application interface with Web I SDK, ASP.

•·         Customization of Business Objects using Enterprise SDK. Modified the look and feel of the web I and integrated the reports with the intranet portal.

• Designed logical / physical data models and defined primary key, foreign key using Erwin tool.

•·         Used query as a web services and live office for automation of Dashboards.

•·         Created Add-Ins and Macros based on the end users requirement using VBA (BO SDK).

• Extensively worked with DBA and administrator in setting up the security settings.
• Developed and designed the process flows for various SCM reporting needs.
• Worked on profit and loss reports for DSS(Decision Support Systems)
• Performed data analytics using MS Excel, automated the report formatting with macros.
• Extensively worked on Crystal Reports XI, Xcelsius 2008 to generate the Ad hoc reports.
• Created Top Diseases reports from MS Access.
• Developed Bar Graphs, Line charts, Pie charts using WEBI functionality.

·         Developed complex reports in business objects (Used multiple data providers, Union, Intersection, minus and Master/Detail, cross tab, Charts).

• Created user Prompts, Conditions and Filters to customize the report generation in BOXI R3.
• Involved in creation of BOXI R2 Desktop Intelligence and Web Intelligence Reports with different functionalities like Filters, Sorts, and Breaks. Merging common dimensions drill down and drill up.
• Used Publishing wizard to export different document types as objects to different folders in CMC.
• Involved in Migration of Repositories from Development, Test and Production environment using Import wizard.
• Worked with Users to troubleshooting issues during UAT and Production support.
• Provided training for end users for generating their own report including complicated reports.

 

Environment:

BO 5.1.7/ BOXIR2/BOXIR3, SQL, PL/SQL, Business Objects Info View (WEBI), Designer, Windows NT, Crystal Reports XI, Xcelsius 2008.

 

State Street Corporation, MA                                                                             May 07 To July08

Business Objects Developer /Administrator

State Street Corporation is the world's leading provider of financial services to institutional investors. State Street broad and integrated range of services spans the entire investment spectrum, including research, investment management, trading services and investment servicing.

 

Project involved creation of Business Objects production reports for the Sales team. Worked on complex reports including charts and Drill down reports

 

Responsibilities:

 

•·         Requirements Gathering and Business analysis

•·         Familiarized the business, its strategy and implementation.

•·         Gathered Customer, User and Owner requirements; analyzed and documented them.

•·         Designed and customizing data models for Data warehouse supporting data from multiple sources on real time.

•·         Migrated reports from BO 6.5 to BO XI2.

•·         Setup hierarchies in the Universe for providing drill down options in the reporting environment.

•·         Created Sets, Metrics, Rules, using Set Analyzer and Dashboard Manager.

•·         Created and customized application dashboards using Application Foundation and used balanced score cards and speedometers.

•·         Experience in cleansing data in DI using proper data types and mappings and to create Workflows using object library and tool palette to execute data flows.

•·         Linked two universes sales and customer using kernel approach.

•·         Created multiple universes and resolved Loops by creating table aliases and contexts.

•·         Worked with database connections, SQL joins, cardinalities, loops, aliases, materialized views, views, aggregate conditions, parsing of objects, LOVs, and hierarchies.

•·         The universes were frequently tested for validity and correctness of inferred SQL.

•·         Created reports on development data to test the functionality of universes with a group of power users.

•·         Scheduled reports to business users and owners using Broadcast Agent.

•·         Exported the Business Objects reports to Web I to be viewed by all users on the Intranet using Web I; SDK with JSP plug-in.

•·         Extensively worked on OLAP cubes for building universes.

•·         Performance tuned Business Objects Data Integrator XI jobs to ensure optimal performance.

•·         Extensively used Data Integrator to cleanse and populate target database.

•·         Developed Internal control reports to validate the ETL load and scheduled it.

•·         Created reports using WEBI, DESKI, full client.

•·         Created reports using the business object functionality like queries, Slice and Dice, Drill down, functions and formulae.

•·         Knowledge of Crystal Reports reporting system including Crystal Server reports distribution infrastructure.

•·         Experience with Crystal Xcelsius dynamic data presentation software.

•·         Extensively Used Informatica For Etl Process.

•·         Done batch process in Informatica.

•·         Done Mappings and Transformation's in Informatica Power center 8.0

•·         Created the stores procedures and functions at the back end.

•·         Fine-tune the existing universes to enhance their performance.

•·         Created graphs/charts for the reports, Created Master Detail and Cross Tab Reports.

•·         Enabled/Disabled different servers in Central Configuration Manager and Central Management Console.

•·         Performed Server Management Tasks, using Central Configuration Manager (CCM) and Central Management Console (CMC).

 

Environment:

Business Objects XIR2/6.5/6.1, Data Integrator, Dashboard Manager, Xcelsius, Web I 6.1, DESKI, JSP, SQL, PL/SQL, Erwin, SQL*Loader, Informatica Powertcenter 8.0 UNIX Shell Script, Windows 2000/NT, ORACLE, PL/SQL, SQL Enterprise Manager

 

Citi Group NY                                                                                           Nov 2006 To April 2007

Business Objects/Crystal Developer

Major task of the project was to migrate from legacy crystal reports to BO XI reports. Reports on loan acquisition, loan processing, are combined into MRE (Mortgage Report Environment) which helps USBHM Business Partners including Investors, Trustees, Housing Finance Agencies, Correspondents, etc. to access scheduled and ad-hoc reports and files.

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Involved in Full life cycle of the project for migration process from legacy crystal reports to BOXI (requirement gathering to implementation for post and pre migration process).
• Developed post and pre migration check list.
• Worked with BO vendor and conducted an assessment on the current environment to understand the best strategy for the migration process to BO XI.
• Worked resolving the loops in universes using aliases and contexts.
• Worked on Loan acquisition and Loan processing reports.
• Understanding and analyzing the key benefits, baseline of existing environment for number of servers, defined users, active users, number of reports and universes.
• Initially conducted migration on test servers to test report breaks and successful migration.
• Developed technical Design Document, Developers check list document, unit test plan, script document, Validation infrastructure document etc.
• Developed report technical document to compare pre and post migrated reports.
• Created and modified the Crystal Reports for various financial groups using the Universe as a main data provider.
• Created parameterized Crystal reports and customized existing reports for presentations using Cross-Tab reports, sub-reports, Running Totals, Sorting, Alerting, Visual Basic syntax to create formulas for the reports.
• Worked with BO Admin on security levels for both Desktop and Web Intelligence reports . 
• Implemented the best practice of naming the universe connection same across the repositories so that the migration would be seamless across repositories using import wizard.
• Worked on Import Wizard for migrating from CE 9 to XI R2. Using this wizard Desktop Reports (.rep) and WEBI reports (.wid) are migrated to higher versions (XI).
• Worked with the supervisor in setting up the security & scheduling, which is done manually in the central management console and publishing wizard.
• Verification and validation is on the migrated reports to check the migration success.
• Provided Crystal Reports training for the other programmers.

 

Environment:

Seagate Info 7, CE 9, BO XIR2, SQL, PL/SQL, Business Objects Info View (WEBI), Designer, Windows XP.

 

Bank Of America, Charlotte, NC                                                              June 2005 To Oct 2006

Business Objects Developer

Bank of America is nations one of the leading financial institution. Project is developed for the equities and fixed assets management division of Bank of America. This project involves the Design, development and maintenance of Business Objects Reports and universes.

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Involved in Full project life cycle (requirement gathering to implementation phase).
• Working knowledge on new features of Business Objects XI including Index awareness, Derived tables and Central management console.
• Worked on cross-tab and master detail reports. Also represented the same as line charts/ bar charts / pie charts of the same.
• Extensively used Designer to design various universes for different business groups. Created complex reports using cascading prompts, decode objects etc
• Maintained Business Objects universes.
• Implemented the best practice of naming the universe connection same across the repositories so that the migration would be seamless across repositories using import wizard.
• Worked on Import Wizard for migrating from 6i to XI R2.Using this wizard Desktop Reports (.rep) and WEBI reports (.wid) are migrated to higher versions (XI).
• Extensively used Web Intelligence Info view, reporter and explorer for querying, reporting and analysis tasks.
• Worked with the DBA to create aggregate tables and materialized views to improve the performance of the query by cutting down.

 

Environment:

Business Objects 6i/XI, Business Objects Info View (WEBI), Designer, Visual Basic 6.0, DB2, Windows NT

 

STATE FARM INSURANCE Bloomington, IL                                           Mar 2004 To May 2005

Business Objects Developer

Project involved the creation and maintenance of Business Objects Universes and reports to assist the Business Users in decision-making. Worked extensively on the Designer, Reporter, Broadcast agent server, WEBI, Supervisor modules.

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Involved in full project life cycle implementation (requirement gathering to production phase).
• Prepared the following -business/technical writing of requirements, design templates, development standards document and detailed design documents.
• Extensively used Designer to design various universes for different business groups.
• Created complex reports using cascading prompts, decode objects etc
• Created filter objects, and formatted objects and measures within the universe for faster report generation.
• Extensively created Business Objects reports like matrix reports, tables and pie charts.
• Used the formatting options like cross tab representation, section breaks, data sort options, calculations, font, colors, etc
• Involved in performance tuning of Business Objects reports by tuning the SQL.
• Involved in report bursting using Broadcast agent server.
• Responsible for fitting Business Objects into the Information Architecture of the company as well as creating users privileges with supervisor. Also for developing and maintaining universes.
• Removed cyclic dependencies with aliases and contexts.
• Managed the scheduling options stored in the repository and also involved in changing the document descriptions.

 

Environment:

Business Objects 5i, Broadcast Agent Server, Business Objects WEBI, Informatics Power Center 5.0, Info View, Visual Basic 6.0, DB2, Oracle 9i, and Windows XP

 

AT&T, IL                                                                                                            July 2002-Jan 2004

Business Objects Developer

Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Data from the data warehouse is used to design and develop reports using Business Objects 5.1.3, Broadcast agent server, Business Objects Web I.

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Used Broadcast agent for scheduled, batch processing of Business objects and Web intelligence documents.
• Designed, built, and maintained Business Objects universes.
• Authorized user access to one or more universes, created restrictions on objects and classes based on universe privileges.
• Developed various metadata and operational definitions.
• Customized Business Objects web interface (intranet) to access the enterprise reports developed in Business Objects full client.

 

Environment:

Business Objects 4i/5i, broadcast agent server, Business Objects WEBI, Informatics Power Center 5.0, Visual Basic 6.0, Oracle 8i, Windows XP

 

Ajel Technologies, India                                                                          April 2001 To May 2002

ETL Designer

The client makes use of the OLAP technology to maintain information at the warehouse level. Reports are taken out of the three data marts using Business Objects Impromptu Administrator and Power Play. The information out of these reports is taken to analyze the business as well as the employees (HR) information. The company is planning to expand itself by placing several new branches all over the country. It expects to make use of the information to analyze and expand the business.

 

Responsibilities:

 

•·         Prepare documentation including requirement specification.

•·         Design the Data Mart model with ERwin using Star Schema methodology.

•·         Wrote Unix Shell Scripts to automate the process.

•·         Installed and configured Power centre Client and Server Tools.

•·         Creating Dimensions and Facts in the physical data model.

•·         Documented the metadata to capture from the sources

•·         Created Sessions and batches to extract the data.

•·         Involved in the creation of jobs using work flow manager to validate schedule run and monitor the jobs.

•·         Involved in designing the procedures for getting the data from all systems to Data Warehousing system.

•·         Information is stored in table definitions in the repository and is entered using the Repository Manager.

•·         Used the Power centre Designer to develop processes for extracting, cleansing, transforming, integrating, and loading data into data warehouse database.

 

Environment:

Informatica Power center 1.7, Windows NT, Oracle 8i, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Loader, Erwin 3.5, SQL Server 7.0, DB2, Erwin 3.5, IBM AIX 4.2

 

 

 

Desired Salary/Wage:	1.00 - 50.00 USD hr
Current Career Level:	Experienced (Non-Manager)
Date of Availability:	Immediately
Work Status:	US - I am authorized to work in this country for my present employer only.
Active Security Clearance:	None
US Military Service:
Citizenship:	None

Target Job: Target Job Title: Business Objects DI Developer Desired Job Type: Temporary/Contract/Project Desired Status: Full-Time

Target Company: Company Size: Industry: Banking Financial Services Occupation: IT/Software Development ·         Database Development/Administration

Target Locations: Selected Locations: US Relocate: Yes Willingness to travel: Up to 25% travel