SHIKHAR KHANNA

214 604-7043/shikhar.khanna22p@gmail.com

 

 

SUMMARY                                                                                                                       

·   Over eight years of IT experience in the BI development, Data Integration, Data Management and Data Analysis.

·   Developed solutions for large scale Enterprise Data Warehouse for three major fortune 500 clients in the US Finance Industry within Consumer Lending and Financial Services space.

·   Four years in Data Management with extensive experience in Data Quality Assessment, quality control and process implementation, monitoring and executive reporting.

·   Developer/technical background with hands on experience with BI products including Teradata, Oracle, SQL server, SAS, UNIX, Informatica PowerCenter, Ab-initio and Cognos Report Developer.

·   Strong understanding of Relational Database Structures, Data Warehouse Architecture, Data Modeling and expert level SQL skills.

·   Waterfall/Agile methodologies and requirement engineering processes to identify, quality measures, Business metrics, Data functional relationships and Business rules to design Data Quality checks.

·   Strong experience in performing business validation, post-production validation and review of test cases.

·   Active Involvement in conducting POC and case studies on behalf of a New Initiatives group for an Open Source Data Integration Product , Talend Open Studio, SAS and QlikView

 

EDUCATION

·   Bachelors in Telecommunication Engineering, Visheshwarya University, Bangalore, India

CERTIFICATIONS

·   SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 (2013)

·   Dun and Bradstreet Financial certifications (2012)

·   FDN-CM104-DB - Equities Overview

·   FDN-CM101-DB - Securities- Overview

·   FDN-BN101-DB - Foundation Course in Banking- I

·   FDN-BN102-DB - Foundation Course in Banking- II

·   BAS-BN203-Payments

·   BAS-BN202-Treasury Operations Basics

·   IBM Certified Designer - Cognos 8 BI Reports (2009)

 

SKILLS                                                                                                                               

Languages	UNIX Shell scripting, SQL, PL/SQL
Data Warehousing	Architecture, Data Modeling, Star Schema, OLAP
ETL Tools	Informatica PowerCenter, SAS, Talend Open Studio
BI Tools	Base SAS 9.3, Cognos 8 Report developer, QlikView
Data Quality Tools	Abinitio Metadata Hub, Informatica Data Quality Analyst/Developer
Databases	Oracle 10g/11g, SQL Server 2005, Teradata 13.0
Other Tools	ERWIN Data Modeler, Quality Center

 

 

EXPERIENCE  

 

Dec ’13 – Till PresentData Analyst                          

Company: Infosys Client: Wells Fargo Advisors, St Louis, MO                                    

One of the nation's premier financial services firms, serving and advising clients nationwide through more than 15,000 Financial Advisors. The current application is a one stop solution for the business stakeholders in need of new data products or changes to the existing. The Data Analysts effectively address the total impact of business needs and translates into a form that the development team consume to deploy the right solutions.

 

·   Service Data Management requests from business by analyzing how the request impacts operational and Analytical Data Stores as well as Enterprise Data Warehouse.

·   Perform Data Analysis and Data profiling to determine nature and characteristics of data being requested or getting impacted by the request.

·   Analyze how the data will be consumed, distributed and determine changes to the data related processes (ETL, File Distribution, Job scheduling, BI reporting)

·   Perform Technical Analysis to determine the technical components and user group impacted, own communication of the related discussions and decisions to all the stakeholders.

·   Create technical and data request artifacts such as Technical Specifications, Functional Data Requirement, File delivery layouts capturing Data Requirements, Data Quality Rules, Business Rules as well as Technical Component changes.

·   Level set Assumptions, Scope items, Technical Limitations and Design Limitations with business in consultation with System and Design Architects.

·   Work closely with Project Manager and lead the Development and Quality Assurance teams to ensure smooth delivery of varied Data Management requests such as System Enhancements, System Upgrades, Data Integration and Additional Capabilities.

 

Environment: Unix, Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Analyst, Informatica Developer, DB2, Oracle, SQL, Unix Shell Scripting, Data Modeling, Microstrategy, Dimensional Models, OLAP.

 

 

Aug ’12 – Nov ’13Data Quality Specialist

Company: Infosys ClientClient: Capital One Auto Finance, Plano, TX

As of 2012, Capital One auto finance is the largest internet auto lender, as well as one of the top US auto lenders overall. The Data Management project is to ensure the operational and analytical systems meet the intent of the Enterprise Information and Data Management policy with strong emphasis on a “Well Managed” and “Well Understood” data environment.

·   Proactive Data Quality control by defining quality checks for data elements, business metrics and tracking data movement. Publish the Data Quality Dashboard to the executive owner.

·   Reactive Data Quality controls though a SharePoint incident management system to track the issue from detection to closure.

·   Ownership of data defects resolution by investigating the issue, prioritizing and directing the support team for fix, socializing the defect fix with the user community.

·   As the Data Store SME, approve, audit and manage technical and business Metadata for the data objects. Ensure Metadata adheres to the defined standard and is current in the Enterprise Repository.

·   Partner and conduct sessions with end users, IT and regulatory groups to ensure business is provided with well-understood, accurate data and with adequate controls.

·   Define and execute on guidelines for data retention, archiving and purging that meets the business, regulatory or legal requirements.

·   Audit and validate data represented on Corporate-Level reports for accuracy, data governed by a regulation, national law or agency for compliance and Enterprise reference data for standardization.

 

Environment: SQL, SAS, Teradata, SQL server, Oracle, Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Developer for Data Quality, Data Profiler, Unix Shell Scripting, Data Modeling, Business Objects, Dimensional Models, OLAP

 

Nov ’10 – Jul ’12      Enterprise Data Warehouse Analyst

Company: Infosys Client: Capital One Auto Finance, Plano, TX

The project involved migration from multiple, redundant Legacy systems to a new Enterprise Standard data warehouse on Teradata platform to provide a stable, reliable, simplified and a single unified data environment.

 

·   Participated in JAD sessions with different groups of stakeholders to brainstorm, explore and elicit the informational needs for the analytical system.

·   Raise data quality risks and make recommendations to IT and Business owners on where to drive source system changes to improve overall quality of data and processes.

·   Reviewed and validated logical data models with the end users to ensure they accurately represent the business process.

·   Support data requests from management stakeholders and data executives and propose system enhancements based on business needs.

·   Conducted UAT and performed Post Production validation to ensure the data matches the source systems.

·   Collaborate with Test leads in reviewing Test cases, Data Mockup, Data Validations, Data Quality Checks and provide support in executing the test cases.

·  Run Business and Data validations, perform Data Quality Checks and provide Warranty Support to Business Users and End Users post Production Deployment.

 

Environment: SQL, Teradata, SQL server, Oracle 10g, Informatica Developer for Data Quality, Data Profiler, Unix Shell Scripting, Logical Modeling, Data Flow Diagram, E-R modeling

 

Jul ’09 – Oct ’10ETL Designer

Company: Infosys Client: Capital One, Richmond, VA           

The project involved enhancements to an enterprise-wide application to receive and consolidate fulfillment requests from diversified sources and fulfill them to various vendors/systems while providing record level reconciliation to the requesting system.

 

·   Leverage custom and scalable fulfillment channels by reusing the platform components for better maintenance, less development effort and cost effective solutions.

·   Designed ab-initio graphs to process outbound data and validate the fulfillment to the target systems.

·   Created reusable components called Action types that can be used by any requesting system thus reducing the effort and faster deployment.

·   Developed the capability of orchestration of multiple requests into one fulfillment request in the system.

·   Worked with design architect, modeler and database developer to translate functional requirements to technical specifications.

·   Coordinated reviews to gather feedback from the end users and handled change controls that arose during the course of the project.

 

Environment: Ab initio, SQL, Teradata, Agile Methodology, Unix Shell Scripting, Logical Modeling.

 

Nov ’05 – Jun ’09BI Developer, Offshore Development Unit, Pune, India

Company: Infosys Client: American Express Technologies

Developed Cognos Multidimensional Reports for the sales and marketing team to enable them to determine current market footprint.

 

·   Implemented a Security layer within the Cognos Reporting Framework to safeguard the confidential information of issuers and acquirers under Open Network Confidentiality and Operation Principles (ONCOP) regulation.

·   Generate Insurance MIS report by extracting Revenue and Premium amount information from the Insurance merchants using remote connection between Mainframe and Unix Database Servers.

·   Generate Statements for payments made to the merchants post creation of Settlement/Payment files for banks to settle the required amount to the merchant.

 

Environment: Cognos 7, Cognos 8.0 (Report, Analysis and Event Studio), Dimensional Modeling, Star Schema design using Framework Manager, Microsoft Visio, TOAD, Putty.