Experience Summary

 

§    Over 8+ years of experience in Business Intelligence Products such as Microstrategy, SAP Business Objects/ Crystal Reports, SAP BI/ BW, SAP BW – Business Objects Integration, Data Warehouse/ ETL process, Exposure to Data Modeling, Data Warehouse architecture, Oracle and SQL Server.

§    MicroStrategy Schema Review & governance & follow Development Best Practices and Standards

§    Full life cycle implementation experiences for small, middle and large BI implementations & Mobile Dashboard Implementation

§    Support, design, build and test MicroStrategy objects, projects, reports, dashboards, cubes and Narrowcast /Distribution Services

§    MicroStrategy Architecture & Environment Assessments & involved in various Administration Tasks & troubleshooting Performance Tuning

§    Working on Conversions from Business Objects platform to Cognos/Microstrategy as part of strategic consulting

§    Experience with Installing and Administration of entire hardware, and software products like WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server, Tomcat, IIS 5, and Apache & integrate with LDAP/Single Sign-ON authentication

§    Manage, install, configure and maintain MicroStrategy/ SAP Business Objects software releases; conduct analysis for new releases/upgrades and make recommendations as appropriate.

§    Bring in automation procedures delivered from vendor & leverage within client site to reduce the manual overload & streamline BAU activities.

§    Strong Knowledge in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as developing, configuration testing, Migrating, Administrating, maintenance, security management and production supporting on various platforms like UNIX, Windows 2012/2008

§    Maintain optimal performance of the application by conducting performance monitoring and tuning activities; utilize knowledge of best practices and industry standards to make recommendations regarding performance

§    Monitoring capacity planning of BI environment & Debug problems, testing and implementing changes *

§    Working on cross technologies like Hadoop-Big Data & Microstrategy and also performing integrations between the systems.

§    Designing and Developing dashboards and reports for tracking product utilization and product performance.

§    Serve as a technical expert providing input to application design regarding environment, tuning, and administration requirements by supporting SAP BI & MicroStrategy systems and related infrastructures by resolving escalated and technically complex trouble tickets in a timely and efficient manner.

 

Educational Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering

                                                 (JNTU Hyderabad)

                                             Master’s Degree in Computer Science

                                               (University of Illinois)

Certifications:

·   Microstrategy Certified Platform Administrator

·   Microstrategy Certified Report Developer

·   SAP ABAP ECC 6.0

 

Trainings:

·   SAP ABAP (ECC6.0) – Through Siemens, India

·   Cloudera Administrator – Through Cloudera

·   Microstrategy Administrator – Through Microstrategy

 

 

 

                     

Technical Skills

 

 

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

 

Employer: Hexaware Technologies Inc.                                                                                May 2012 – Till Date

Role: Systems Analyst

Client: Citigroup

Site Details: www.citigroup.net

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

·   Manage, install, configure and maintain MicroStrategy software releases from 9.4 to 10.2 ; conduct analysis for new releases/upgrades and make recommendations as appropriate. Performs and schedules software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages, and maintains them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures.

·   Involved in performance improvement for MTDI Cubes in MSTR 10.2 version & was responsible to meet the SLA for Dashboards which were presented to Senior Management.

·   Administer the change management process by promoting projects and objects through the various environments.  Educate report developers with report development standards and enforce the standards during MicroStrategy Object promotions & maintain project schemas

·   Serve as a technical expert providing input to application design regarding environment, tuning, and administration requirements.

·   Support MicroStrategy systems and related infrastructures by resolving escalated and technically complex trouble tickets in a timely and efficient manner.

·   Worked on the end to end implementation for delivery of various following dashboard projects.

·   Gathered the requirements of all the different data sources and using Multisource designed the architecture to support all the different dashboard requirements.

·   Responsible for overall MicroStrategy architecture design and standards of transformed reports.

·   Worked closely with Directors and managing directors for requirement gathering and also dashboard demos.

·   Designed all the dashboards with compatibility on Mobile and Web by reducing maintenance overhead.

·   Designed and developed custom visualizations which are not available out of the box with MicroStrategy.

·   Implemented Map widget with geo codes.

·   Lead Performance tuning to ensure acceptable Report/Dashboards/I-Cube execution times

·   Participated in ETL and data model approach/design for the transformed reports and made sure the model fit into existing Enterprise Architecture

·   Involved in establishing processes and development best practices for offshore

·   Mentored the team and provided technical guidance to complete development tasks

·   Worked on creating object manager migration packages.

·   Worked with Integrity manager for testing and validation between the environments & Enterprise Manager to develop reports used to monitor MicroStrategy environment usage.

·   Implemented multi-sourcing architecture.

·   Support MicroStrategy systems and related infrastructures during system upgrades and maintenance.

·   Additional Skills include Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management and Release Management processes.

·   Working on various POC’s for conversion of Business Objects Reporting to Microstrategy/Cognos working in conjunction with CATE engineering & vendor.

Environment: MicroStrategy 9.4 , SAP Business Objects 4.0, Oracle 10g/11g, Linux RHEL 6.4, AIX 6.1, IIS, Tomcat and WebSphere 8, Site Minder

 

 

Employer: Ivytech Solutions Inc.                                                                                                      Sep 2008 – Mar 2012

Role: Programmer Analyst

Client: General Electric

Site Details: www.ge.com

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

·   Perform System Analysis, Design and Development and gather Business requirements and translate them into functional documents of software applications.

·   Responsible for development and support/maintenance of FP&A systems @ General Electric Headquarters, CT.

·   Responsible for designing developing the schema layer for multiple projects that serve the reporting requirements for financial reporting.

·   On a day to day basis, allocated tasks and ensured consistency in quality and timeliness on deliverables

·   Executed multiple conversion projects from SQL server to Teradata platform.

·   Managed and Executed MicroStrategy version upgrade projects.

·   Designed all the dashboards with compatibility on Mobile and Web by reducing maintenance overhead.

·   Designed and developed custom visualizations which are not available out of the box with MicroStrategy.

·   Responsible for providing effort estimates for any enhancement requests.

·   Implemented MicroStrategy Mobile.

·   Developed MicroStrategy Documents has been properly set to be exported to Excel/PDF format

·   Worked closely with Business Analyst for requirement gathering.

·   Worked on creating object manager migration packages.

·   Worked with Integrity manager for testing and validation between the environments.

·   Worked with Enterprise Manager to develop reports used to monitor MicroStrategy environment usage.

·   Implemented Silent install package for MicroStrategy desktop installations.

·   Provide 24*7 support for critical financial applications to support the financial planning cycles.

·   Work with business partners and business users of our clients, to create standard functional solutions.

·   Assist in developing and implementing company wide goals of improved data quality, integrity, timeliness, security and accuracy.

·   Work on Enterprise Business Intelligence Reporting tools and provide the client with analytics solutions.

 

Environment: Microstrategy 9.3, SAP Business Objects Planning & Consolidation, Business Intelligence Reporting Tools, and Hyperion on Windows Environment.