Payal Bhat                                                                                                   

 

Profile Summary

 

·         Having 6+ years of total I.T experience in requirements gathering, analysis, designing,

      developing, testing and production support.

·         Having 5+ years of experience in ETL tool Datastage. Have hands on experience on Datastage servers parallel (version 7.5x,8.7) and Abinitio (GDE 2.14).

·         Have experience in databases like Oracle 8i(using Toad),Oracle 9i(using Toad), SQL Server 2005,DB2 OS/390 9.1.5

·         Have knowledge of SQL, Shell Scripting and some knowledge of PL/SQL.

·         Experience in design and implementation of Data Modeling concepts.

·         Experience in design and implementation of Data migration projects.

·         Experience in writing, testing and implementation of Stored Procedures in Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

·         DataStage7.5x IBM Certified.

·         Implemented Data Warehousing projects for Retail and Banking domains. Having knowledge on banking domain with more exposure on risk management.

·         Experience in analyzing the data of Risk parameters like EAD,LGD/CCF,etc for the loan division.

·         Proficient in Documentation of requirements and rules as Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and conducting meetings with Business people to give a walkthrough of final BRD to get their concurrence and approval.

·         Experience in preparation of the Functional Requirement Document (FRD) based on the approved Business Requirement Document (BRD).

·         Understanding of activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams using Rational Rose according to Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodologies.

·         Establishing and maintaining productive working relationship with client, management and team members.

·         Comprehensive problem solving abilities, good analytical and communication skills

·         Involved in Technical designs, planning of production runs, Integration Test Execution and Resource management for the same.

·         Experience in planning Data Stage upgrade projects and strong knowledge on all SDLC phases.

·         Good experience as Team Lead, Tech Lead, Onsite Coordinator, POC for Data Stage in projects.

·         Have been leading the production support team of around 10 people.

·         Have been leading a team of around 12 people for new development project.

 

 

Skills Profile

 

Languages Known	C,C++, SQL,PL/SQL, Java(Basic),ASP, HTML, Shell scripting
ETL Tools	Datastage7.5x Server and PX, Datastage 8.7, Abinitio GDE 2.14, Informatica 8.5 (trained)
OS	Linux, UNIX, Windows
Database	SQL Server 2005 & 2008, Oracle 8i(using Toad),Oracle 9i(using Toad),DB2 OS/390 9.1.5
Reporting Tools	Business Objects and Hyperion – Trained
Domain	Banking , Capital Markets, Risk Management, Retail
Scheduling Tools	Tivoli
Others	HP Quality center, clear quest,MS Office, VBA,IBM - Maximo

 

                                                                                                                                    

Education

 

Bachelor of Engineering (Information technology): Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune.

Year of Passing: 2007

 

Certifications/ Training Programs

n           Greenfield Training and certification (Software Engineering fundamentals and ETL) [Accenture]

n           IBM Datastage PX 7.5 Certification [IBM]

n           Finance foundation Training and Certification [Accenture]

n           Data warehousing Certifications [Accenture Level 2]

n           Datastage Certification [Accenture Level 2]

n           Attended IBM vendor training for Infospherev8.5 and Abinitio GDG 2.14.

n           Taken training for laterals on Datastage 7.5x server and parallel

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

Client: Nordea Bank, Stockholm, Sweden                                                                        May 2009 to till date

 

Project Description: Basel II is a regulatory framework for calculating and reporting risk-weighted assets (RWAs). For Nordea Basel II is expected to enhance risk management tools and strengthen competitiveness. It's a matter of license to operate and be competitive. A bank of Nordea standing is expected to use IRB (Internal Ratings Based) model. It also means improved credit process efficiency and external quality recognition.

 

Responsibilities as Datastage Consultant:

 

·         Played role of onsite coordinator working from client location in Stockholm.

·         Played the role of technical design lead while working from client location in Stockholm.

·         Worked as team lead for production support team and currently leading the team for new development project with around 10-12 team members.

·         Performed the pre study of comparison of different ETL tools(DataStage 8.7,Informatica 9.5,Talend,Microstratergy etc) which can be used to replace Datastage 7.5 version and presented it to the client team. Resulting in approval from client to upgrade the Datastage 7.5 to 9.1 and whole work is to be done by Accenture even though we had few strong competitors. Received appreciation from client about this.

·         Build the prototype on 8.7 before the migration was done,

·         Planned the migration of datastage from 8.7 from 7.5

·         Proposed the changes in the existing architecture of ETL part to the client and planned on the activities and action plan of restructuring the architecture in Datastage and SQL.

·         Being the defect manager and release manager, assigning tasks to other team members and was responsible to ensure quality of the all deliverables.

·         Worked on developing data mapping documents and mapping rules to illustrate data flow from source system to target tables

·         Worked extensively with Datastage 7.5 Server jobs and Job Sequencers.

·         Worked on reusability of Datastage jobs across teams and performance improvement of Datastage jobs.

·         Implemented and done performance improvement in SQL 2005 stored procedures.

·         Worked on basic JCL’s in mainframe as those JCL’s were used to trigger further flow ETL and read input datasets from mainframe system.

·         Involved in coordination with third party team in changes in scripts used in Tivoli scheduler to change the job schedules for new developments.

·         Built Estimator tool in excel for estimations in during the design phase.

·         Handled the Quality Review Assurance and review meetings with quality analysts for the project.

 

Responsibilities as Business Analyst:

·         Involved in gathering requirements from banking experts from bank and converting those into functional and technical designs.

·         Proficient in Documentation of requirements and rules as Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and conducting meetings with Business people to give a walkthrough of final BRD to get their concurrence and approval.

·         Experience in preparation of the Functional Requirement Document (FRD) based on the approved Business Requirement Document (BRD).

·         Acted as POC for functional and technical knowledge transfer of all the team members.

·         Understanding of Unified Modeling Language (UML), SDLC and HP Quality Center.

·         Maintained extensive Requirements Traceability (across all deliverables) in HP Quality Center for change.

·         Gathered client requirements, validated and analyzed customer data to find trends and relationships to identify the required risk parameters.

·         Changed the requirements into the business rules which could be used for development.

·         Acted as owner of the change requests coming from banking functional experts throughout all the phases of SDLC.

 

 

Environment: Datastage 7.5 and 8.7, DB2 OS/390 9.1.5, SQL Server 2005, Unix Shell scripting, Mainframe, Tivoli scheduler

 

 

Client    :  First Data Corp, Omaha, NE                                                                                    Nov 2008 to April 2009

 

Project Description: First Data Corporation is an American payment processing company. It includes merchant transaction processing services; credit, debit, private-label, gift, payroll and other prepaid card offerings; fraud protection and authentication solutions; electronic check acceptance services through TeleCheck; as well as Internet commerce and mobile payment solutions. Was involved in the solution which was doing calculations whether a credit card holder will be defaulter or not based on the different parameters.

 

Responsibilities:

 

•              Involved in Knowledge Transfer of the assigned Applications from Client.

•              Identified the reusable Abinitio graphs(GDE 2.14) and shell scripts in the existing systems.

•              Done analysis of shell scripts, Ab initio graphs and mainframe JCLs involved in the system.

•              Prepared Understanding Document of the assigned application.

•              Developed graphs for given requirements and made changes to database oracle 9i at table level.

•              Trained other team members on the assigned application.

 

Environment: Abinitio GDE 2.14, Oracle 9i(using Toad), Unix Shell scripting, Mainframe

 

Client    :  GAP EU, London                                                                                                   May 2007 to Oct 2008

 

Project Description: The GAP EU Board has initiated a program to support the expansion of the European business utilizing the Oracle Retail footprint to support the creation of a new business operating model that will support the extension of the GAP brand in Europe. This project is concerned about the conversion of the existing legacy system data into new Oracle Retail Systems.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Involved in Functional Design transition, Technical Design, Implementation (Datastage px), Unit testing and Assembly testing.

·         Identified and developed reusable jobs to make the development of other jobs easy.

·         Written routines in BASIC.

·         Developed and optimized Data Stage7.5 PX jobs according to job specification documents.

·         Developed UNIX shell scripts for jobs.

·         Prepared Unit Test cases as per the GAP standards.

·         Prepared Assembly test plans as per the GAP standards and loaded data to required tables in Oracle 8i for functional testing.

·         Prepared lesson learnt documentation.

 

Environment: Datastage 7.5 parallel and server, Oracle 8i(using toad), Unix Shell scripting

 

Project Title: Key Management Server on Linux                                                        Aug 2006 to Apr 2007

 

Responsibilities

·         Had a major role in development of the source code in C language following the standard SDLC.

·         Did extensive search on finding the different ways of implementing cryptographic algorithms.

·         Neatly documented all the work done in the different phases and prepared a complete report.

·         Did extensive testing for checking the validity of the field entries.

 

Environment: Linux, VMware, Shell scripting, C laguage.

 

Other Contributions

 

ü          Active contributor in Financial Services Center of Excellence in Accenture where I have written few white papers for the capability.

ü          Supporting the new joiners in Accenture by providing required trainings (laterals as well as freshers).

ü          Have acted as Subject Matter Expert in Datastage to evaluate the proficiency of Datastage resources.

ü          Actively participating in hiring new resources by providing support for technical evaluation.

ü          Cleared the Finance Foundation training and certification with high score.

ü          College Topper in Bachelors of Engineering Final Year.

ü          Received Ist Prize in national level project competition for a presentation of the Key management server project held at MIT-Pune.

ü          Created open source software for a kiosk to be used by villagers in IIT-Powai.