·                       9 Years of Professional IT Experience; Proven expertise in Application design, development and implementation with strong hold in Project Management

·                       Management & Leadership skills: Project management & planning, effort estimation with resource planning, business analysis & team management. Planning & co-ordination between cross-functional teams. Onsite / offshore Team Lead for multiple projects

·                       Adept in both strategic and tactical projects, with working knowledge in development and operations side of BI

·                       Developed and maintained the project plans, including Work Breakdown Structures, timeline estimates, resource plans, Risk management plan, Communication management plans, Schedule management plan, training plans and other project related plans

·                       Provided options analysis, expert advice and recommendations to support effective departmental decision making

·                       Responsible for identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing project risks and monitoring throughout the project phases to drive successfully

·                       Holds experience in Business analysis such as facilitating requirements sessions and documenting Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Conceptual documents, Technical documentation creation and maintenance, Traceability Matrix, Project Estimate, Training and User Manuals, Master Test Plan Documents (User Acceptance Test Documents), Deployment Specification Documents.

·                       Driven projects in Waterfall model, Agile model and hybrid model  with multiple vendor/contractors teams

·                       Defined and communicated strategies regarding project delivery; Was reporting to C level executives on Monthly basis regarding the project progress and status

·                       Provided and/or overlooked the deliverable quality assurance, prior to delivery to the client;

·                       Proven expert in Technology Integration, Application Management, Process Re-engineering and System/Process optimization

·                       Primary focus on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligences using BI OLAP tools(MSTR,BOBJ, OracleBI)/ ETL  Tools like Informatica, SSIS, Talend . Having technical expertise and experience in Business Object, QlikView, Oracle BI, Talend Integration Suites, Netezza, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server and Unix

·                       Worked for different clients in multiple domains (Healthcare, Retail, Insurance, Supply chain Management etc.) responsible for interaction with stakeholders, gathering and documentation business requirements, strategic planning and effort estimates for project delivery. Also responsible for impact analysis, review for quality of the deliverables.

·                       Good capability to prioritize task / plan, execute, monitor and control project

·                       Strong Business Intelligence technical experience including but not limited to data modeling, DB development, ETL development/Migration and BI Reporting; Strong SQL skills

·                       Managed project end to end starting from Business requirement gathering, Source data analysis, Data modeling (LDM,PDM), ETL development and BI reporting development, QA phases and UAT support/Warranty support

·                       Managed tasks and/or resources with tight deadlines and proven to perform efficient multi task; Performed  project close-out and wrap-up activities and documented according to generally acceptable project standards

·                       Possess proven experience in diversified areas of SDLC life cycle such as database design /management, ETL, Data modeling, reporting applications along with performance tuning, testing, production rollout & support activities.

·                       Training & Development: Experienced trainer, facilitator & course developer. Conducted technical training across the teams. Ability to share business/functional knowledge across the team member, Technical ability to train and troubleshoot and mentor project/team members.

·                       Excellent verbal and written communication skills; Adept quick learner

 

 

 

·                       Bachelors of Technology - Anna University

 

 

·                       Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)® - PMI Institute USA Feb 2014

·                       Certified Scrum Master (CSM)® - Agile Manifesto USA September 2013

·                       Certified Managing Successful Programs Foundation (MSP®) - Cabinet of UK, March 2014

·                       Certified Managing Successful Programs Practitioner (MSP®) - Cabinet of UK, April 2014

·                       Microstrategy Certified Project Designer , Nov 2013

·                       Certified Business Objects XIR2  Professional , Systech Academy,              India June 2009

·                       Certified Microstrategy Professional Systech Academy, India

·                       Certified Microstrategy Expert Systech Academy, India

·                       Certified Business Intelligence consultant (Systech Academy India) May 2009

·                       Certified Microstrategy Professional (Systech Academy India) July 2008

·                       Certified Microstrategy Expert (Systech Academy India) Sep 2009

·                       Certified Netezza Professional (Systech Academy India) Oct 2009

·                       Certified Business Object Professional (Systech Academy India) 2009

·                       Certified Oracle Bi Professional (Systech Academy India)2009

 

 

Databases	Netezza 6/4.0.1, Oracle 10g/9i, Microsoft SQL Server
BI Tools	Microstrategy , Business Objects , OBIEE, Hyperion, Cognos
ETL Tools	Informatica 8.1.1,SSIS,Talend
Project Management	MPP, VISIO, MS OFFICE Suite, Planning Tools

 

Client	Project	Technology	Roles and Responsibilities	Duration In Months
FOSSIL	Global Customer Platform	IBM Info Sphere MDM Standard Edition v 11.3/Netezza 7.1/Datastage 11.3	Project Manager	12
Luxottica	Eyemed Eye Transform	Business Objects, Oracle 10g	Project Manager	10
Universal American	UAM	Business Objects, Oracle 10g	Project Manager	15
United Healthcare	Fresh Start	Microstrategy 9.2.1, Oracle 9i	Project Manager	6
United Healthcare	OptumRX	Business Objects/Cognos, DB2	Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst	6
American Express Credit cards-Finance	IDN Finance	Microstrategy 9, SSIS, SQL   Server 2008	Project Manager	17
Guitar Center	GC,MAC	Microstrategy 9, Netezza	Application Architect	13
G.T.Nexus	Supply Chain Management	Microstrategy 8.1, Oracle 9i	Team Lead	11
PI Solutions	Media Mix Analytical Model	Microstrategy 8.1,SQL Server	Technologist	8
United Online	Sales Operational Analytics	Cognos/Microstrategy 8.1,Oracle	Technologist	4
Nationwide better Heath	Insurance Module	Microstrategy 8 , Netezza	Developer	2

 

 

 

1.        PROJECT NAME	Global Customer Platform
Industry	Retail
Client	fossil
Role	Project Manager
Project Specific Skills	IBM Info Sphere MDM Standard Edition v 11.3/Netezza 7.1/Datastage 11.3

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

 

Fossil Groups the leading chain retailer known for vintage-inspired watches, leather goods & more, along with modern designs. Fossil need to implement common, centralized, flexible enterprise wide architecture and simplification of IT systems to support key business and CRM initiatives

Integrate data assets and enrich current data assets with value append. Need to develop customer attributes and deliver through Customer Foundation for Americas/APAC/EMEA campaign management to enable targeted and personalized customer interactions and to drive ability to measure and drive ROI and Cost Benefit

 

 

RESPONSBILITIES

Ø       Managed Business Intelligence GCP projects from conceptualizations to implementation

Ø       Prepared Project plan, RTM and maintained BRD, various technical documents

Ø       Developed project plans, prepared schedule and ensured work accordingly

Ø       Analyzed business requirements and developed project deliverables

Ø       Administered projects and prepared regular status reports

Ø       Coordinated with various stakeholders and management for execution of project appropriately

Ø       Maintained good working relations with all key teams of organization

Ø       Assisted technical team in developing and analyzing operational reports

Ø       Performed overall project management, analysis, architecture, design, development and implementation of data warehousing / business intelligence initiatives

Ø       Worked with top management and executives, business sponsors and IT department on regular project status presentations

Ø       Responsible for defining the information architecture and technology infrastructure along with the design of multi-dimensional data models and the Business Intelligence delivery solutions

Ø       Responsible for managing the data analysis, data sources, data mapping

Ø       Managed the evaluation of ETL and OLAP tools and recommended the most suitable solutions depending on business needs

Ø       Developed Risk Planning and communication strategies and monitored closely with appropriate contingency plans

Ø       Performed Functional Analysis to facilitate the documentation of Functional specification documents

Ø       Performed System Integration Analysis to support the GCP implementation

Ø       Practiced in clarifying business requirements, performing gap analysis between goals and existing procedures/skill sets, and designing process and system improvements

Ø       Conducted Requirement gathering & design session workshops

Ø       Project / Delivery / Resource Management for entire SDFC life cycle phases

Ø       Conducted brain storming sessions with business users to gather requirements and to concede cross functional team plans

Ø       Involved in requirement feasibility analysis & solution architecture planning and development

Ø       Was part of UAT phases for User satisfaction/defect analysis and reporting with regular follow up for sign off and approval processes

Ø       Ensured the delivery of each mile stone as per project plan and was responsible for project implementation and close out activities

 

 

2.        PROJECT NAME	LUXOTTICA RETAIL
Industry	Health CARE
Client	EyeMed EYE Transform
Role	Project Manager
Project Specific Skills	Business Objects, Oracle 10g

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

 

Luxottica Group S.P.A. is an Italian eyewear company. It is the world's largest eyewear company, controlling over 80% of the world's major eyewear brands, Luxottica also owns EyeMed Vision Care, a managed vision care organization in the United States. As of 2012, it is the second largest vision benefits company in the United States, EyeMed Providers More than 36 million members in the United Status. This project is part of Eye Transform EDW engagement. EyeMed maintains various systems like SAP, FACETS and other major healthcare/financial legacy systems, Web portals like vision web etc. The bottle neck was to get the consolidated reporting and reconciliation across systems which paved the way for EDW enhancement. As part of this project build/maintain data warehouse, ETL & reporting solution for organization was developed.

 

RESPONSBILITIES

Ø       Managed multiple projects EDW Reporting ,Compliance Reporting and ETL data feeds;

Ø       Requirements gathering, effort estimations, documentation and project scope management

Ø       Project / Delivery / Resource Management for entire SDFC life cycle phases

Ø       Prepared Project plan, BRD, various technical documentation & RTM.

Ø       Conducted brain storming sessions with business users to gather requirements and to concede cross functional team plans.

Ø       Worked with business users to understand their business/requirements

Ø       Developed Project Management Plan

Ø       Developed Scope Management Plan

Ø       Developed Project Staff Assignment plan; Reported on team performance assessment, Project Performance reporting, BI weekly status reporting

Ø       Developed Requirement Tractability matrix

Ø       Developed Activity duration estimates and Activity resource estimates

Ø       Managed Project Execution for Eyetransform

Ø       Developed and Managed Stakeholder registry and management plan

Ø       Managed Change request, Issue log and Risk register

Ø       Responsible project Monitor and Control activities ; Reported on Quality metrics, Project Performance

Ø       Responsible for Project Close out activities

Ø       Following up on approvals and maintaining process and standards in project

Ø       Was part of Data analysis to integrate various source systems;

Ø       Involved in requirement feasibility analysis & solution designing using MPP

Ø       Worked with team leads to ensure timely project milestone completion

Ø       Was involved in data modeling and building various module of DataMart

Ø       Created ETL technical specifications & data mapping documents; Modeled  architecture part and was responsible for creating report design and technical specification documents; Performed report unit and system integration testing;

Ø       Maintained SDLC phases throughout the projects life cycle.

Ø       Ensure the delivery of each mile stone as per project plan.

Ø       Handling / supporting offshore/onsite team to apply the technical changes in ETL/DB/OLAP

Ø       Worked with different sources team to mitigate the risk of projects.

 

3.        PROJECT NAME	UNIVERSAL AMERICAN INSURANCE
Industry	Health CARE
Client	UNIVERSAL AMERICAN
Role	Project Manager
Project Specific Skills	BUSINESS OBJECTS/COGNOS, Oracle 10g

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

 

Universal American Corporation (UA) is insurance, Finance and administrative services company that specializes in offering products to the senior and self-employed markets. UAM has targeted the senior market in particular because it is the fastest growing demographic segment in the country. They apply their capabilities broadly across health care in markets worldwide, providing health care management, consulting and specialty services globally. And they had the scale and resources necessary to take on some of the most important challenges in global healthcare. The project was to implement ICD10 remediation and EDW performance tuning.

 

RESPONSBILITIES

Ø       Managed ICD 10 remediation project phases in waterfall methodology

Ø       Planned and executed various system dependency and interface interactions for project planning and estimation

Ø       Created effective project plan with other supporting plan documents to ensure project successful implementation

Ø       Constantly worked with Business users to set expectations on schedule/Budget and project outcome

Ø       Business Object Functionality changes were taken care along with the ICD 10 implementation which created challenges in project timeline which was handled effectively with contingency plan

Ø       Involved in full project life cycle implementation (requirement gathering to production deployment and support)

Ø       Prepared the following -- business/technical requirements, design templates, development standards document and detailed design documents

Ø       Worked with the IT team to bring in the data required into Business Objects Universe so as to make available for users to create Adhoc reports

Ø       Constantly worked on complex reports providing for a report generation based on user-needs

Ø       Worked on various source data and report analysis to ensure quality deliverables

Ø       Worked with the development team closely on timeline and milestone completion with constant risk monitoring and quality evaluation

Ø       Created a Business Objects User's power point presentation for an introduction to first time users and provided standards to be followed for documentations

Ø       Responsible to get production movement sign off and did various levels of follow up on approvals

Ø       Co-ordinated with cross functional teams for effective interface involvement development and quality testing processes along with UAT completion/deployment

 

4.        PROJECT NAME	FRESHSTART
Industry	Health Care
Client	UNITED HEALTHCARE - OPTUMRX
Role	Project Manager
Project Specific Skills	Microstrategy, Oracle 9i

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

 

Optum Rx is leading Pharmacy Benefit management (PBM) company in North America acquired by United Health group leading health insurance provider. This project is part of Fresh Start Database Management (FS-DM) of Optum Rx DWH. They are mainly responsible to build/maintain data warehouse, ETL & reporting solution for entire organization. After applying transforming logic using Informatica data gets release to Online reporting system (OLR-MSTR) of view to all business units.

 

RESPONSBILITIES

Ø       Business Process improvement, data analysis , asset management and document standardization

Ø       Root cause analysis to identify issues and develop process improvement for cost savings

Ø       Was involved in planning and implementation

Ø       Involved in Requirement gathering & designing MSTR application

Ø       Facilitated daily scrums, managed issue escalation and resolution

Ø       Developed and maintained various technical specification documents for existing code and for newly created code

Ø       Responsible for complete project phases, completed on-schedule and on-budget using a hybrid waterfall/agile methodology

Ø       Led the requirements gathering effort, analyzed the requirements, and created the scope

Ø       Worked with the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to obtain buy-in on the common definitions

Ø       Planned the Data Warehousing initiative from requirements gathering, analysis, design, identifying and analyzing the source systems, to data quality, to ETL, and to the end user data access

Ø       Utilized the iterative phased approach to create data marts

Ø       Conducted risk workshop to identify, plan, and mitigate those risks

Ø       Provided strong technical leadership to the project team

Ø       Developed the ramp up and the deployment strategy

Ø       Analyzed the training needs, developed the course contents

 

5.        PROJECT NAME	OPTUMRX
Industry	Health CARE
Client	UNITED HEALTHCARE - OPTUMRX
Role	Project Manager/Sr. Business Analyst
Project Specific Skills	Microstrategy 9.2.1,DB2,UNIX

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

 

Optum Rx is leading Pharmacy Benefit management (PBM) company in North America acquired by United Health group leading health insurance provider. They are mainly responsible to build/maintain data warehouse, ETL & reporting solution for organization. After applying transforming logic using Informatica data gets release to Microstrategy reporting system of view to all business units.

 

RESPONSBILITIES

Ø       Project / Delivery / Resource Management in entire SDFC life cycle phases

Ø       Requirements gathering, effort estimations, documentation

Ø       Prepared Project plan along with resource allocation

Ø       Prepared Release Plan and documentation

Ø       Ensure the delivery of each mile stone as per project plan

Ø       Handling / supporting offshore/onsite team to apply the technical changes in ETL/DB/MSTR

Ø       Leading/Managing technical team for Designing & Building DB/ETL/OLR using Informatica/DB2/ MSTR

Ø       Worked with different sources team to mitigate the risk of projects

Ø       Projects handled so far PDL Audit Datamart, cDUR datamart, Eligibility/PAS datamart reporting, Program indicator

Ø       Was responsible for cDUR, DDAC Microstartegy project development

Ø       Was involved in creating schema objects, Public objects and NCS objects

Ø       Worked with QA/UAT team in test Cases Preparation, QA/UAT testing process

Ø       Defect fixing and tracking and updating data model as per changes required. Deployment of code in QA/UAT / Production as per Optum Rx Process

Ø       Worked with business users to understand their business/requirements

Ø       Data analysis to integrate various source systems

Ø       Was involved in data modeling and building various module of datamart

Ø       Created ETL technical specifications & data mapping documents; Modeled Microstrategy architecture part and was responsible for creating report design and technical specification documents; Performed report unit and system integration testing

Ø       Maintained SDLC phases throughout the projects life cycle

Ø       Was responsible for deployment process activities, production roll out approvals co-ordination and provided warranty support/fixes

Ø       Received appreciation from PMO group for PDL Audit and cDUR project for getting the project deployment with high quality within very stringent project schedule

 

6.        PROJECT NAME	IDN FINANCE
Industry	BANKING
Client	American Express Credit Cards-Finance
Role	Application Architect
Project Specific Skills	Microstrategy 9, MS SQL Server 2008

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

American Express credit cards are leading banking service providers. IDN Finance module was to build separate Datamart for internal finance group to report on the revenue spent in state wise internal expenditure.

The project was brand new which was built from scratch starting for source data analysis from various source system, modeling and building the architectural design in the Microstrategy end for the user specific dashboard and adhoc report requirements.

 

RESPONSBILITIES

Ø       Responsible for handling 4 projects and resource management activities;

Ø       Worked with client to gather requirements and prepared technical specifications documents

Ø       Source Data analysis and Data modeling;

Ø       Performed MSTR and ETL development, Documentation/Template preparation ;

Ø       Analysis and Design of Microstrategy Model; 

Ø       Responsible for the preparation and presentation of proto-type reports to end users and get acceptance to develop reports

Ø       Development of schema objects, public objects, Report Services, Reports Development

Ø       Involved in designing of schema objects like Attributes, Facts, Hierarchies and Transformations from data warehouse

Ø       Expertise in using OLTP Function in Attributes and Metrics to make manipulations to values

Ø       Responsible in developing of public objects (Filters, Prompts, Metrics, Consolidations, Custom Groups, Templates and Reports) on top of Schema Objects

Ø       Responsible for the creation of metrics like Compound metric, Derived Metric, Filter Metric and     Transformation metric to generate more complex Microstrategy reports in an efficient way

Ø       Involved in creation of logical views and Freeform SQL Reports

Ø       Was involved in complete project cycle starting from requirement gathering till providing solution using Microstrategy dynamic dashboards using widgets like bubble chart, gauges for user alerting dashboard

Ø       Have done NCS development with Dynamic as well as static subscription sets with user personalization’s;

Ø       Was responsible in Solution Testing;

Ø       Preparing project documentations, user manuals

Ø       Providing Production support & Training, and offshore resource training

Ø       Production environment issue analysis and fixing;

Ø       Taken care of deployment process activities, production roll out approvals co-ordination and provided warranty support/fixes

 

7.        PROJECT NAME	GC, MF and MAC
Industry	retail
Client	Guitar Center
Role	Team Lead
Project Specific Skills	Microstrategy 9,Netezza 4.0.1

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

Guitar Center is the world largest musical instrument sellers having 250 stores across USA. They have even acquired MAC instrument stores and do online sales as MF.BI solutions has been provided with various DataMart and enterprise data warehouse development.             

 

RESPONSBILITIES

Ø       Responsible for implementation of best practices in project architecture, report development as well as recommendations for various improvements.

Ø       Maintained end-to-end EDW projects planning and strategy development. Designed robust data model, and development of reports, corresponding dashboards, documents to facilitate the Business user decision making process flexible and providing decision making solution for user needs with enterprise level dashboard development.

Ø       Was managing Microstrategy maintenance tickets for support activities.

Ø       Lead the offshore team.

 

8.        PROJECT NAME	IDN FINANCE
Industry	SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Client	G.T.Nexus
Role	Team Lead
Project Specific Skills	Oracle 9i, Microstrategy 8.1

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

GT Nexus is a cloud supply chain platform provider. It runs an on-demand global supply chain management platform that is used by organizations to manage global logistics and trade processes

 

RESPONSBILITIES

Ø       User interaction and requirement gathering

Ø       Have created and maintained different documents for converting the user requirements into technical specifications

Ø       Designed and maintained Microstrategy schema and public objects;

Ø       Performance tuning of the environment

Ø       Utilized command manager for bulk creation of objects and object manager to migrate

Ø       Have written various levels of SQL queries and have documented the same for quality process

 

9.        PROJECT NAME	PROFIT ANALYTICS
Industry	BI  SOLUTION ANALYTICS
Client	P.I.Solutions
Role	Technologist
Project Specific Skills	SQL Server, Microstrategy 8.1

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

PI Solutions is a business analytics service provider across USA. They provide various business solutions across domains.

 

RESPONSBILITIES

Ø       Implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) solution for sales & marketing planning       and customer services units using the Microstrategy tool.

Ø       Identified sources / target system also analyzed source data. Source data analysis and data modeling.

Ø       Was involved in ETL as well as Microstrategy development.

 

10.        PROJECT NAME	ONLINE ANALYTICS
Industry	Internet marketing
Client	United Online
Role	Technologist
Project Specific Skills	Cognos, Oracle

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

United Online is a provider of consumer products and services over the Internet, where the company's brands have attracted a large online audience that includes more than 60 million registered accounts. The company has three operating segments (FTD), Classmates Media and Communications. FTD segment offerings include floral related products and services for consumers and retail florists that are marketed under the FTD and Interfloral brands. Classmates Media segment offerings include online social networking services, primarily under the Classmates.com and Stay friend’s brands, and online loyalty marketing services under the MyPoints brand. Communications segment offerings include Internet access and email, primarily under the NetZero and Juno brands

 

RESPONSBILITIES

Ø       Requirements gathering for solution development extensively worked in creating and integrating MicroStrategy

Ø       Reports and objects (Dashboards, Filters, Metrics, Facts, consolidation and Prompts)

Ø       Implemented complex business logics using advanced Microstrategy features

Ø       Created narrowcast services with excel imported templates to achieve intricate formatting requirements

Ø       Use to develop and send Personalized and scheduled reports for different levels of users. Performed object migration activities

Ø       Documentation and Template development and maintenance

 

11.        PROJECT NAME	Nationwide Better Health DataMart
Industry	INSURANCE
Client	Nationwide Better Heath
Role	Developer
Project Specific Skills	Microstrategy 8,Netezza

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

Nationwide Better Health, Inc. develops health and productivity management programs. Its services include health promotion; work-site health services. DataMart and MSTR reports were built to report on the promotion expenditure.

 

RESPONSBILITIES

Ø       Requirements gathering for solution development extensively worked in creating and integrating MicroStrategy

Ø       Reports and objects (Dashboards, Filters, Metrics, Facts, consolidation and Prompts)

Ø       Implemented complex business logics using advanced Microstrategy features

Ø       Use to develop and send personalized reports for different levels of users

Ø       Documentation and Template development and maintenance