Shiju Mathew _PMP – BI Project Manager/ETL Architect

Email id: Shiju_Mathew80@yahoo.com         Contact#: +1-214-415-8949

Highly experienced (12.3 years) PMP certified Project Manager / ETL Architect with thorough knowledge of all aspects of Data Management and in particular of Data Modeling. Competent in all stages of the project lifecycle, from business analysis and data modeling to ETL architectures, performance tuning and analytic applications.

Good balance of technical and management skills, with proven ability to lead complex, globally distributed teams and deliver projects on time and on budget, with broad technical knowledge combined with strong analytical skills, leadership ability, team and creative problem-solving skills.

Has been a key player in many projects as Project Manager, ETL Architect, and Data Modeler taking care of the architecture and coordinating the activities inside the project team while working hands-on on the most critical aspects of the project. He is currently seeking a position to utilize strong technical, developmental, strategic-thinking, and leadership skills, and to make a positive contribution to the further success of the employer

 

Professional Summary:

·   Worked in various capacities across Project Management, Delivery, Assessments, Presales (Solutions Anchor for RFP), Steady State Support/Upgrade and Client Relationship/Engagement, experienced in managing projects with distributed delivery/ onshore-offshore model, work allocation, performance review, interview and onboard new resources, creating interview templates, capacity planning, and conflict resolution

 

·   Outstanding ability to perform cross-functional managerial duties, and to come up with innovative solutions and products. Charismatic leader with high potential in bringing positive changes to a team or company via effective team building, motivation, supervision, instruction, and coordination.

 

·   Good industry knowledge in Retail (Supply chain, Logistics, Marketing systems) and CPG-implemented and Pharmaceutical. Expert in Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies.

 

·   8+ years of experience in Informatica Power center/Power Exchange with expertise in architecting the overall ETL framework for data integration & analytics, implementing SOA based data services using Informatica, leveraging change data capture facility for seamless application integration, designing ETL process for scalable & robust data movement

 

·   Hands on experience in designing & developing complex Informatica mappings, developing web services using Informatica, building change data capture process for real time data pulls from legacy, relational & XML sources using power exchange, tuning Informatica jobs for high performance data loads

 

·   Experience in identifying the process flows & schedule the jobs through Informatica scheduler, IBM Tivoli scheduler & Unix manual schedulers. Perform Informatica Powercenter Admin activities like software installation, upgrade, user, folder maintenance, security, repository backup, restore and Production deployment

 

·   Demonstrated experience in modeling data warehouses & data marts using star & snowflake schemas, staging area design, implementing dimensions & facts, data analysis & profiling, creating source to target documents, transformation specs, cleaning & cleansing rules and performance tuning techniques

 

·   Strong background in multi-terabyte data warehouses using Oracle 9i/10g, DB2, MS-SQL Server 2005. Skilled in writing/tuning SQL, PL/SQL programming, effectively coupling Informatica with these databases. Hands on experience in Logical data modeling and Physical data modeling using Erwin data modeler

 

·   Hands on experience in creating and testing BI reports and dashboards using Business Objects. Experience to create Universe and adhoc BO reports for the user data reconciliation

 

·   Around 3 years of experience in .NET Framework 3.5/2.0/1.x and its technologies ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, WCF, ADO.NET, Web Services and Windows Services.

 

Technical Skill sets:

 

·   Technical:

ETL Tools	Informatica Power Center 9.1.0, 9.6.1, 8.x, Informatica Power Exchange 8.x
BI Tools	Business Objects XI R2
Databases	Oracle 11g/10g/9i, DB2, FoxPro, SQL Server 2005/2008, MS Access
Project Management Tool	Visio 2013/2010, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Office 98 and above
.Net Technologies	. NET Framework 3.5/2.0/1.x, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web Services, WCF
Languages	C#, VB.NET, VB 6.0, C, XML, UNIX Shell Scripting
Web Development	ASP.NET, ASP, JavaScript, VB Script, HTML, AJAX
Utility Tools	TOAD, SQL Developer, SQL Plus, PLSQL developer, Teradata SQL Assistant, ER studio, eRoom, FTP tools
Modelling Tool	ERWIN data modeler 7.1.2/7.3

 

Web & App Servers	IIS 5.0/6.0/7.0, Visual Studio.Net
Design and Development Tools	Visual Studio.NET 2008/2005/2003, Visual Studio 6.0, Visio, MSMQ
Operating Systems	Windows NT/2000/XP, DOS, OS/400,Unix
Version Control	MS Visual Source Safe (VSS),  Subversion (Tortoise SVN)
Methodologies	Waterfall, OO Analysis and Design (OOAD), SCRUM Agile Development Methodology
Operating Systems	Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003
ORM tools	LINQ to SQL
Testing Tool	WAS tool, LoadRunner9.10, Quality Center 9.2

 

Academic Qualification

•     Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science in 2002 from RGVP University, India.

 

Certifications / Professional Awards:

•     PMP Certified Professional
•     Certified in Informatica Professional
•     Certified NRF - Basics of Retailing

 

2003-Till Date

Technical Project Manager/ ETL Architect/ Team Lead/ Analyst Programmer/ Senior Software Engineer (Infosys Limited) Technical Project manager / Architect / data modeler / project leader for primary consulting companies. Designed and delivered Data Warehouse / BI systems for clients in both the private and public sectors including Retail and Pharmaceutical

 

 

Was involved in a new initiative for Neiman Marcus client with the primary objective of providing a consistent NM brand shopping experience across each of their channels. The primary task of this objective was to replace the existing merchandising system with a single, uniform and modern platform using the Oracle Retail Suite with the key benefits of incremental sales, improve gross margin, reducing the inventory cost and providing as many choices for customers as possible. Was involved as an ETL architect/Integration work stream Lead for the Financial and pricing work stream for this initiative and in parallel managed a 14 member support team.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·   Work with application (NMG One and Legacy) teams and business Analysts to ensure the solution satisfies with the functional and non-functional requirements. Identify the Integration design pattern to use and coordinate with PMO for integration solution delivery.

·   Worked closely with the business team for preparation of WRICEF list & detailed design document from the requirements document defining the attribute lists, pub-sub data model & validation framework. Responsible for the design and development of high level technical and functional solution architecture, frameworks, scope and designs based on business and functional requirements

·   Involved in the analysis of existing legacy systems and participated in requirements gathering and planning with business users and created high level design documents discussing with NM architects, closely worked with Data Modeling team on Oracle tables & DBA team for requesting schemas, role setup, user, groups creation.

·   Liaison among departments and managers, acting as sole point of contact to integrate environments with minimal downtime. Responsible for delivery of assigned module/ components /phases of a project. Responsible for people Management, including goal setting, providing performance feedback, Status reporting and guiding the development team. Responsible for estimation, planning and execution  with specific focus on requirement analysis and design

·   Responsible for creating the Project Plan, Weekly status reports and Monthly Steering Committee reports. Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans

·   As the ETL Technical manager, involved in interviewing many candidates, wrote the functional specifications, designed the data model, defined the architecture of ETL processes and managed the development team up until delivery of the expected results.

·   Created AS-IS business process blueprint that should be migrated to the new Oracle version including detailed process flows in MS Word (Process description, roles and responsibilities, process Input/output, current pain points, metrics/reporting, process & sub process description) and in MS Excel with comparisons of different implementation scenarios (effort, standard vs. customization, level of automation) at sub process level

·   Generating and sending data from Informatica environment to MQ and Hadoop environment

·   Worked as an Onsite coordinator

Environment/Tools: Informatica Power Center 9.1.0, 9.6.1 Oracle 11g, Linux Server, Unix scripting, Visio 2013, Microsoft Project 2010, Tortoise SVN

 

Was involved in Development and Maintenance & Production Support projects. Has done effective Problem/Change Management with daily interactions with Business and IT to prioritize & resolve tickets, supervise daily activities of production support to ensure timely and effective reporting, tracking, follow-up and communication of problems to internal & external stakeholders, technical resources and executives. Involved in owning incidents & problems and work to get to detailed root cause analysis & suggest workarounds and/or solutions for recurring issues. Work with relevant stakeholders & team to carefully plan, design & deploy with continual improvements to service quality

 

The objective of the project was designing Business Reporting application to achieve visibility to financial set of reports, where I was involved in business requirement analysis and implementation of a project using ETL tool and was involved in managing a 20+ member geographically dispersed team

 

Responsibilities:

 

·   Acted as single point of contact for multiple vendors, business units, and IT partners during implementation of the financial report using ETL tool, administering schedules and communicating risks.

·   Created customer presentations, internal and project budgets, financial statements, work plans etc. and did presentations to the country heads for the Asia Pac and EMEA region and maintaining very close work relationship with the Client Global team based out of more than 8 geographical regions

·   Effectively leveraged Infosys proprietary “Tools & Accelerators” to perform the repository analysis for estimating the level of customization done to the Asia Pac instances

·   Schedule & Track project milestones and deliverables using MS Project. Draft and submit budget proposals.  Delegate tasks and responsibilities to resources using MS Project. Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.

·   Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations. Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.

·   Problem and change Management. Production deployment and Post Production support

·   Created technical implementation plan (milestones, resources, effort in man days, risks and mitigations, quality assurance for each project phase, quick wins)

·   Involved in all phases of SDLC like scoping reporting requirements, data & functionality analysis, documenting ETL & reporting specifications, data/dimensional modeling, ETL design, development, implementation and support

·   Managed the developers as a technical/project manager and responsible for project scoping, work breakdown & allocation, requirements gathering, business users communication, status reporting, code & design reviews, mentoring & assisting, change, issues & release management

·   Assisting the ETL team to solve complex mappings and performing the ETL development in some cases for a specific module of a project. Implemented BI best practices like effective star schema design and maintaining integrity among the various data marts, avoiding data repetition in multiple data marts, implementing uniform naming conventions/standardization, emphasizing the use of common/confirming dimensions across data marts

·   Provided expertise on project management best practices within the organization. Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

·   Provide the admin support of the versioning tool SVN. Create the standards for creating the folders in SVN

·   Designed the required Dimension and facts tables which satisfy the BO reporting rules by interacting with reporting team and produced the DDL scripts to Database team.

·   Designed the ETL specification documents to gather existing workflows information from different ETL teams and shared with Integration and production maintenance team.

Environment/Tools: Informatica Power Center 9.1.0, Oracle 11g, Linux Server, Unix scripting, Microsoft Project 2010, Business Objects XI R2, SVN

 

 

Played a ETL architect role for integrating the data from SAP BW system into Oracle. Reviewed and improve on existing systems, making use of new methodologies to seek continual improvement for existing systems. Was involved in analyzing MDO applications and designed the flow of ETL process. Also interacted with SME team to design the ETL database schema for integration and worked with offshore team for developing the Informatica jobs.

 

Responsibilities:

·   Was involved in Framework development, requirement analysis, design & build reviews, development of complex modules, technical feasibility analysis, deployment and guiding the team for technical solutions

·   Involved in interacting with Business Analysts to get functional requirement and creating logical/Physical models and was responsible for creating various artifacts like Data Flow Diagram, Source To Target Mapping, Data Dictionary, Data analysis and profiling

·   Designed the ETL execution Plan to extract required data from multiple sources systems into Landing and staging areas. ETL plan included to Consolidate, profile, cleanse, enrich, de-dup and Integrate the data as per Target systems.

·   Development of ETL mappings to handle the data from various sources like DB2 database, flat files and Oracle database using Lookup, Rank, Aggregator, Normalizer and update strategy transformations. Create Informatica mappings to implement SCD type 1, type 2 and type 3 dimensions in the datamart using mapping variables

·   Deployment of the Informatica components in QA and in Production environment

·   Designed the validation tables and control tables to keep track of processing files by basing on File types and File Names

·   Designed custom mappings as per business requirements and utilized to standardize the source systems data in power center

·   Extensively used Informatica to extract data from source system and load into Operations tables after processing batch jobs

·   Exclusively worked with different Technical teams and Business users and gathered Information in Integration and development phases.

·   Supported production team in resolving processing difficulties with migrations, parameter files, Database tables and shared objects.

·   Assisted developers by providing solutions for ETL related issues

·   Performance tuning of slow running processes by optimizing the SQLs, tuning the mappings to use partitioning & better memory, cache management, indexing tables, creating Materialized Query Tables etc. 

·   Worked as an Onsite coordinator during the development phase

Environment/Tools: Informatica Power Center 8.6.1, Informatica Power Exchange 8.6.1, Oracle 10g, SVN, ERWIN data modeler 7.1.2

 

 

 

The project (Door to Floor technology) involves developing RF functionality and reporting to support Merchandise location planning for the stores. The purpose of the project is to create visibility to orders and key information in the Supply chain and Store Network. Played an Onsite Lead role - Was involved in Systems analysis; understanding and representing the various views of information. Door to Floor technology was cited by InformationWeek as one of the “20 Great Ideas.” The technology enables store management to know what merchandise will be delivered up to 48 hours in advance, allowing for optimal planning and preparation for getting merchandise off the truck and onto the sales floor. The end result is greater efficiency in terms of merchandise speed to floor, set execution and overall increased productivity

 

Responsibilities

·   Designed and coded application components in an Agile environment  using scrum methodology

·   Interacting with project teams, and getting involved in the business requirement discussions/meetings of different projects, then translating these requirements into dimensional data models with emphasis on actual implementation of the SDW, identifying risks & proposing risk mitigation plans, identifying gaps in operational systems that could cause issues during data integration

·   Worked with the clients to scope the project objectives, requirements and created specification documents. Worked with the client side architects and submitted proposals for the high level ETL and Data Architecture

·   Designed the Technical specification document and the implementation method documents and shared with Integration team and other ETL project teams.

·   Designed the ETL runs performance tracking sheet in different phases of the project and shared with Production team.

·   Prepared the validation report queries and executed after every ETL runs and shared the resultant values with Business users in different phases of the project.

·   Create Informatica mappings using transformations like Joiner, Lookup, Sorter, Aggregator, and mapplets to load the data from the data model to KPI tables

·   Create Informatica workflow and test the Informatica mappings

·   Performance tune the Informatica Mappings like filtering records out in the source qualifier, sorting the database sort wherever possible before aggregation, bulk load the target wherever possible

·   Create reusable Informatica mappings (mapplets)for test data (flat files and Oracle table data)

·   Written shell scripts to configure the ESP schedules. Configured the ESP mainframe scripts to execute the ETL jobs in required order. Coordinated with the operations team for scheduling the Work Flows and processed the flat files with data wise.

·   Tested the mappings generated by analyzing the data flow, evaluating transformations and fixing the bugs so that they conform to the business needs.

·   Supporting upcoming enhancements to global data warehouse for corporate wide data requests including ETL modifications and next generation reporting capabilities.

·   Coordinated with the operations team for scheduling the Work Flows and processed the flat files with data wise.

·   Exclusively worked with Business users and gathered Information in Integration and development phases.

·   Exclusively worked with production team in resolving processing difficulties with migrations, parameter files, Database tables and shared objects. 

·   Implemented the session level parallel processing performance method to extract the data.

·   Worked on data base changes and created required indexes and applied post session commands in ETL like Alter session for Data formats and performance

·   Performance testing using Load runner tool

·   Creation of web services and web components using .net Technologies

·   Worked as an Onsite coordinator during the development phase

Environment/Tools: Informatica Power Center 8.6.1, Oracle 9i, DB2, . NET Framework 3.5/2.0, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Web Services, WCF, Toad, Teradata SQL Assistant, WAS tool, LoadRunner9.10

 

 

 

The project involves transitioning some of the Info vision reports to supplier compliance site.  It also involves developing new reports and enhancing the existing supplier compliance reports. 

 

Responsibilities

·   Requirement gathering from the client. Participate with the customer for design discussions

·   Implementing Road Map, Defining and building best Practices for .NET Application Development.

·   Defining the logical, technical and physical architecture of the .NET Application implementation

·   Assisted in development and documentation of several ASP.NET based applications.

·   Developed & tested Reports module where user can search and view reports based on certain criteria, & module where user can Search, View, Add, Update and Delete, Assignment module where user can Search, View, Add, Update and Delete Assignments involving creation of action classes, tiles definition file and validation .xml file. It also involved preparations of technical specification document, SQL script file and test log.

·   Developed sub modules under Admin Module in Management application which aims at providing users with online screens which will capture user data and maximize automation of various processes and prepared test logs for this module.

·   Designing and deploying services exposed as Web Services and Custom GUI. Development of custom user interfaces for vendor data upload and migration functionality after developing complex exhaustive validation logic using script coding for the application server box.

·   Create Unit test cases and test plans Deployment of the code in QA and in Production environment

·   Programming in .NET technologies, DB2 DB

·   Code walk through, Unit testing

Environment/Tools: . NET Framework 1.x, ASP.NET, Teradata SQL Assistant, DB2

 

 

The scope of the project is maintenance of the following applications – LoCS(Logistics Control system), WOS(Warehouse operating System), FAP(Freight Audit and Payment system) and Visibility.

 

Responsibilities

·   Preparing Requirement and functional specification, Client/Onsite communication and interaction

·   Classic ASP Development

·   Write VBScript Code to display record sets returned from SQL Server using two dimensional array.

·   N-tier architecture using ASP pages, JavaScript, HTML, VB Script, SQL Server 2005

·   Unit Testing, Integration Testing

·   System Testing Support

·   Deployment of the program

·   Post production support

Environment/Tools: Classic ASP, JavaScript, Teradata SQL Assistant, DB2

 

 

 

This project involves in building the Data warehouse for various applications. This involves gathering requirements from various Business Process Teams of client and Designing the Data Warehouse, Building Informatica Scripts for Extraction, Transformation and Loading the Reports development using Business Objects.

 

Responsibilities

·   Worked with the clients to scope the project objectives, requirements and created specification documents

·   Data & Dimensional modeling and getting sign offs from the client side modelers

·   Worked with the client side architects and submitted proposals for the high level ETL and Data Architecture

·   Created Data flow diagrams and did systems inter-dependency analysis

·   Knowledge transfer of Business Functionality to ETL developers

·   Designed/Developed complex Informatics mappings

·   Assisted developers in solving program/code related issues

·   Tuned the mappings/sessions for performance & to meet the Service Level Agreements

·   Design document of the ETL components

·   CM (Configuration Management) – Team member

·   Business objects Report Development

·   Writing test scenarios, Developing test cases and Test plans

Environment/Tools: Informatica Power Center 6.0, DB2, Unix scripting