Santhosh Balla		Ashburn, VA
		Phone: (703) 887 9855
		Email: santhoshballa@gmail.com

 

Professional Summary

●        15+ years experienced IT professional in Data/Database Architecture, Development and Administration, Data Integration, Business Intelligence, Data Visualization and Reporting, Big Data and Cloud Computing.

●        Experience in architecture, design and implementation of very large scale data architecture projects involving data acquisition, data integration, Operational Data Stores (ODS), Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), Master Data Management (MDM) and data distribution across the enterprise.

●        Experience with relational and dimensional database design, data modeling techniques (Normal Forms, Star/Snowflake schemas) using conceptual, logical, physical and canonical models.

●        Experienced in RDBMS database architecture, design and development and administration including performance tuning, partitioning, advanced compression techniques, and backup/recovery.

●        Broad experience with Enterprise Data Architecture frameworks and methodologies; TOGAF and Zachman frameworks, Inmon and Kimball approaches to data warehouse and datamart design.

●        Implementation experience on Talend Suite of products including data integration, master data management, big data, application integration and data profiling.

●        Very strong experience with data modeling tools; ER/Studio, ERwin, IBM Data Architect, Visio, MySQL workbench, RDBMS skills using Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL on Linux, Solaris and Windows, data integration, profiling, big data, MDM skills using Talend Suite of products, data visualization using Tableau.

●        Knowledge and very good understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure cloud computing platforms, Horton Works, Cloudera and Amazon EMR big data platforms.

●        Excellent knowledge and experience with data visualization, enterprise data management, data mining, statistical and data analysis skills.

●        Interested in Data Science, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Data Integration, Enterprise Data Management, Business Intelligence, Data Visualization, Data Architecture and Development.

 

ETL Architect, NRUCFC, Sterling, VA

February 2016 -- Current

Accomplishments and Responsibilities

·   Discover, analyze and investigate the Current State ETL Framework and Architecture supporting the Phase I data integration (DI) between the CIS (Customer Information System) internal and Salesforce CRM Software as a Service (SaaS) Cloud applications.

·   Scheduled interviews with Stakeholders, Business Users, SME’s to understand the DI current state, use cases and pain points, identify potential gaps, root cause analysis, roadblocks, bottlenecks and propose the future state architecture.

·   Data profiling and analysis of the source and target data sources, analyze SSIS ETL framework, SSIS packages, transformations used, T-SQL stored procedures and functions.

·   Provided meeting minutes, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, Flowcharts and Diagrams as part of the project deliverables.

 

Data Migration Architect, Freddie Mac, McLean, VA

August 2015 – January 2016

Accomplishments and Responsibilities

·   Data Migration Strategy and Plan to migrate BMC Remedy legacy COMET database to Model Risk Tool (MRT) built using the Appian Platform.

·   Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the BMC Remedy COMET database in a short period of time (< 2 months).  Mapping the BMC Remedy COMET application, functional and technical SME for the COMET application and database.

·   Identified, designed and documented the strategy to extract 13000+ artifacts for data migration from COMET to MRT. Strategy to extract and migrate 8000+ documents stored in the SQL Server database (Image data type) to SharePoint.

·   Designed, identified and documented the Data Migration Strategy, Design, Release, Tutorial documents, COMET application mapping, Source to Target, Gap Analysis, Transformation Logic, Data Definition and Dictionary. Created Architecture, Process Flow, Application and data migration Current State and Future State diagrams in Microsoft Visio and PowerPoint.

·   Data Migration Architect, created Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) Talend jobs for data migration from SQL Server database and Excel.  Extensively used T-SQL, SQL Server database, Talend for ETL, Excel, data profiling for data migration. Automated the data migration process by exporting and executing using the command line and Windows Scheduler.

·   Data Profiling the COMET database, documenting 40 unique values for 13000+ columns, table and column analysis, schema analysis. Application mapping (UI labels to database columns) for more than 13000+ data elements in the COMET database.

·   Designed, developed and created the data migration physical data model, generated DDL and DML for database objects for data migration purposes.

·   Scheduled meetings, Collaboration and Communication with the off-shore teams, meeting minutes, status updates and reports. SharePoint, AdobeConnect, WebEx and Outlook for Collaboration and Communication, VersionOne for User Stories, Epics and Tasks.

·   Mentored the Appian and Data Architecture team during the Proof of Concept (POC), development of the MRT application using the Appian Platform. Mentored and Assisted team members in the use of PowerPoint presentations for Product Owners, Stakeholders, Business Users and members of the team.

·   Worked with the Quality Assurance, testing teams to identify and resolve bugs and defects.

Architect, LMU, Los Angeles, CA

January 2015 – August 2015

Accomplishments and Responsibilities

●        Technical Architect to automate the ETL data integration projects for the Admission and Registration Statistics Dashboards, Microsoft CRM Dean of Students project.

●        Provided expert level technical knowledge, mentoring and leadership for data architecture, data quality, data profiling using Talend suite of products including Talend Data Integration, Profiling and Talend Administration Center on Oracle 11G, Microsoft SQL Server databases and ER/Studio for Data Modeling.

●        Reviewed, analyzed and modified the Registration and Admission Datamarts. Created DDL, DML and DCL alter scripts to make model changes.

●        Provided source to target mapping, gap analysis, use cases, test cases, requirement traceability matrix, project management tasks, effort estimation and documentation.

●        Created complex SQL queries, PL/SQL packages, procedures and functions for data analysis, profiling and data quality using TOAD and Oracle SQL Developer.

●        Provided technical and release documentation, PowerPoint presentations as part of the project deliverables.
 

Senior Data Architect - SME, USPTO, Alexandria, VA

September 2014 -- January 2015

Accomplishments and Responsibilities

●        Lead Data Architect on the Trademark Datamart (TRDM) data warehouse project, responsible for creating and updating the 15+ star dimensional data models.

●        Reviewed and analyzed COBOL reports, documentation and code on the mainframe, provided gap analysis, source to target mapping and data validations between source and target.

●        Physical Data Modeling using IBM’s Data Architect using Oracle 11g as the database.  Created and/or modified 15+ star data models, 29 fact and 55 dimension tables in the TRDM data design project. Generated the DDL, Alter Scripts, Model Diagrams, Compared structure, property and merged objects.

●        Performed data analysis, data profiling and data quality on the source (TRAM) and target data sources (TRDM).

●        Create complex queries using Advanced Analytical Queries in SQL for data analysis, profiling and validations.
 

Solutions Architect, Coca-Cola, Atlanta GA

June 2014 -- September 2014

Accomplishments and Responsibilities

●        Conducted a total of 41 meetings and interviewed 37 individuals globally including Business Users, Architects and SME’s to understand the Current State Social Media Architecture and Landscape, Identify Gaps, propose the Future State and develop the Blueprint and the Roadmap for the next 3-5 years.

●        Interviewed stakeholders from the Global HUB, the 5 Coca-Cola regions (EUR, EU, APAC, LATAM and NA), Business and IT.

●        Documented Current State Architecture, Gaps, and Use Cases and provided recommendations for Future State. Analyzed existing architecture and compared it to leading practices for social media platforms.

●        Documented Current State Architecture including an inventory of tools for social listening and publishing, data sources, feeds, and integration touch points across The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC).

●        Prepared meeting minutes, inventory list of tools, analysis and presentations as part of the project.

●        Collected list of Social Media KPIs used to measure Social Media activities at the Global and the Regional level.
 

Talend Developer, Fordham University, NY

June 2014 – September 2014

Accomplishments and Responsibilities

●        Designed and created the source target crosswalk model, data dictionary and other artifacts for the data integration system with Banner ERP.

●        Created Regular Expressions using Talend Enterprise Data Quality for Names, SSN, Professional Designation and Religious orders.
 

Data Architect, Inovalon, Herndon VA

December 2013 -- June 2014

Accomplishments and Responsibilities

●        Worked on cutting edge Business Intelligence INDICES reporting product, a very powerful, easy to use reporting platform built on Microsoft Technology using Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, SSAS, SSIS and SSRS.

●        Created, modified and tested complex SQL Server procedures, functions and views. Created Fact and Dimensional database objects for the STAR data warehouse database. Created complex SQL Server scripts to Conform Dimensions.

●        Created SQL Server SSAS Multidimensional Cubes, Data Source Views, Dimensions, Hierarchies, KPI’s, Actions, Perspectives, Aggregations and Partitions.

●        Extensively used Data Compare and Schema Compare to identify similarities and differences in the data, structural differences between databases and database projects between a database and a database project.

●        Used Microsoft Team Foundation Server Database Projects using Source Control, merged code and synced seven different databases. Deployed backend database changes to QA and UAT environments.

 

Enterprise Data Architect, CareFirst BCBS, Washington DC

April 2013 -- December 2013

Accomplishments and Responsibilities

●        Provided leadership for definition, direction and guidance at CareFirst’s Data Architecture team to support the business needs.

●        Lead Data Architect for the Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM), Medicare Part D and the Medi-Span Data Acquisition Layers.

●        Conceptual, Logical and Physical data modeling using CA ERwin and ER/Studio Data Architect, Repository and Portal. Implemented naming standards for logical and physical names and translation between logical and physical entities and attributes.

●        Forward and reverse engineered data models, compared and merged changes between logical and physical data models, capacity planning and volumetrics to manage and estimate the growth of data.

●        Active participation during Architecture Review Board (ARB) and Solution Review Team (SRT) meetings on behalf of the Data Architecture team.

●        Provided technical solutions and recommendations, engaged with ETL developers and Architects, Business SME’s and other stakeholders throughout the development of the solution.

●        Worked with the DBA’s to implement and deploy the generated DDL from the physical data models and resolved outstanding issues.

●        Reviewed logical and physical data models, data flow diagrams (DFD) and DDL scripts with the Data Architecture team and provided valuable recommendations.

●        Conducted review meetings and JAD sessions with the Data Architecture and development teams to review LDM’s and PDM’s.

●        Worked with the Data Architecture team to create a 2014 Corporate Initiative for the Hadoop Big Data proof of concept project.
 

ETL Architect, Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Princeton, NJ

January 2013 -- April 2013

Accomplishments and Responsibilities

●        Architect for ETL/ELT data automation projects using Talend and Microsoft SQL Server.

●        Elicited and gathered requirements, designed, developed and tested Microsoft SQL Server and Talend ETL data automation solutions for Alignment Common Publish, MDM Common Publish and Veeva.

●        Recommended and established best practices and naming conventions for Talend and SVN.

●        Prepared and authored documents for the Architecture of Talend and SVN. Prepared and presented Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to the business users.

●        Designed, developed, saved, tested and exported Talend ETL java code into zip files and migrated code into various environments from development through to production.

●        Performed unit, integration and system testing of the Talend ETL jobs.

●        Authored release documents for migration of data automation jobs from development to production.
 

Database Architect, Ogilvy & Mather, New York, NY

September 2010 -- January 2013

Accomplishments and Responsibilities

●        Provided leadership for ETL/ELT projects, data modeling, relational database management systems administration, design, development, tuning and implementation for a 4 terabyte Oracle 10g 8 node RAC, Oracle 11g and MySQL environments.

●        Global technical support for Oracle, MySQL, Talend, Tableau, SQL Developer, SQL and PL/SQL. Supported analytics departments in New York, Chicago, London, Bangalore, Paris and Bend.

●        Automated ETL and ELT data loading processes for IBM, Marin Search, Invitemedia, DoubleClick, Unica, Mediamind, Miaozhen, Eicoff and Idesk/Mediaocean using ETL/ELT tools like Talend and Talend Administration Center, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL and PL/SQL.

●        Automated processes for Big Data solutions using Oracle 10g/11g, working with datasets as big as 7.7 billion records, 3 terabyte Oracle Tablespaces. First at Neo@Ogilvy to provide an automated process to create the Attribution Model dataset.

●        Designed and developed more than 200 Talend jobs to automate ETL and ELT processes in an Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server environments. Migrated Talend jobs from version 4.1 to 5.1.

●        Created complex advanced analytical SQL queries and PL/SQL code including packages, procedures, functions, triggers, materialized view, index organized tables and views.

●        Data Migration expert, having migrated Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and Microsoft Access databases to Oracle, Oracle databases to MySQL.

●        Designed the logical and physical data models for the IBM Metadata, Invitemedia, Mediamind and Marin Search projects.

●        Oracle performance tuning using Explain Plan, Oracle Enterprise Manager GRID Control and Database Control, Parallel Query and Hints.

●        Installed, configured, administered and troubleshoot Tableau products. Created workbooks, dashboards and reports using Tableau, Business Objects and Excel for data visualization.

●        Oracle and MySQL database administration including controlling and monitoring user access to the database, monitoring and optimizing the performance, securing the databases, planning for backup and recovery, and generating various reports by querying the databases.

●        Worked closely with business users and heads, SME’s during discovery to deployment phases. Gathered and analyzed business requirements and authored business documents.

●        Worked with software product vendors to troubleshoot product defects and customer issues related to Tableau, Talend and Oracle.

 

Database Analyst, GMU, Fairfax, VA

January 2005 -- September 2010

Accomplishments and Responsibilities

·   Installed Oracle 11g/10g software, created databases, managed Oracle storage structures, administered database users, database objects and secured the Oracle database.

·   Production support for all SunGard Banner ERP database instances, finance and student data marts and UC4’s Applications Manager and the Strong Password project databases.

·   Designed, implemented, and monitored database backup and recovery processes using RMAN, Recovery Catalog and Virtual Private Catalog.

·   Monitoring and analyzing database performance, usage patterns and performance tuning using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid and Database Control, Explain Plan, Hints, Parallel Query and SQL Profiles.

·   Automated database administrative tasks using UNIX shell scripts, PL/SQL procedures.

·   Participated in the resolution of production problems that involved database issues.

·   Provided leadership, mentoring, and technical assistance to junior team members.

·   Documenting the installation, testing and database procedures and processes for the GMU management.

·   Tech Lead for ETL/ELT development using Talend Open Studio, SQL and PL/SQL in an Oracle and MySQL environment.

·   Automated complex Extraction, Transformation and Data Loading projects using Talend Open Studio for Data Integration, SQL and PL/SQL.

·   Created Talend jobs using Talend Open Studio to load data from Excel, XML and delimited files.

·   Wrote complex SQL, PL/SQL procedures, functions and triggers for loading data into the Datamarts.

·   Provided leadership, mentoring, and technical assistance to junior team members for development using Talend, SQL and PL/SQL.

·   Monitoring and analyzing database performance, usage patterns and performance tuning using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid and Database Control, Explain Plan, Hints, Parallel Query and SQL Profiles.

·   Production support for all 7 SunGard Banner database instances, Datamart and UC4’s Applications Manager and the Strong Password project databases.

·   Provided 24/7 production support in the resolution of production problems that involved Oracle databases and Talend issues.

·   Documenting the installation, testing and database procedures and processes for the GMU management.

·   Designed, developed and modified the websites of five departments into a more professional looking, appealing, easy to use, user friendly websites.

·   Designed, developed and maintained various applications like the Faculty Research Expertise Database (FRED), File Tracking System, Request for assistance with Proposal Submission, Conflict of Interest and Contracts Agreements.

·   Designed and developed physical and logical modeling of databases for the ColdFusion applications.

·   Prepared requirement specs, design documents and worked with faculty and staff to design and develop ColdFusion applications.

·   Use case, Test Cases, Plan, Strategy, Unit, Black and White Box testing, Functional, Load, Regression Testing using Apache JMeter, Badboy, Selenium.

·   Provided technical support for more than 45 staff members information technology needs including installing software, troubleshooting software and hardware issues and providing solutions to their problems and issues.

·   Responsible for the implementation of the Pre and Post Award Management system called COEUS.

·   Supervising and mentoring student workers with database related technologies that they can use when they leave GMU.

·   Awarded George Mason University’s Outstanding Achievement Award (2006) for sustained, long-term accomplishments, which improved processes, saved time and money and resulted in significant benefit to the Office of Institutional Assessment.

·   Performance evaluation rating of “Extraordinary Achiever” for showing outstanding technical skills, extraordinary contributions, problem solving abilities, leadership and communication skills.

·   Migrated Office of Institutional Assessment databases from Microsoft Access to Oracle 9i using Oracle Migration Workbench, SQL loader and Quest Software’s TOAD for Oracle.

·   Responsible for the design, development, physical and logical modeling of databases for the online surveys, applications and reports.

·   Prepared requirement specs, design documents and worked with the Director and staff to design and develop surveys and reports using ColdFusion and an Oracle 9i database.

·   Analyzed survey data using statistical analysis tools like SPSS and SAS.

 

Database Administrator, WVU, Morgantown, WV

August 2000 -- December 2004

Accomplishments and Responsibilities

·   Created and administered Microsoft Access databases and an Oracle database for the various departments. Wrote complex SQL queries, PL/SQL procedures and functions for reporting.

·   Responsible for the maintenance of hardware and software for the six different computer labs, Audio and video equipment and webpage development.

·   Installed, assembled and configured computers, monitors, network infrastructure and peripherals such as printers, scanners and related hardware.

·   Made hardware and software acquisition recommendations including helping faculty, staff and students assess needs and provided justification for equipment and services.

·   Prepared tutorials and provided instruction and written documentation where required.

·   Assisted with the design, maintenance and web page development of the TLTC computer lab.

·   Troubleshoot problems with computer systems, including hardware and software, e-mail, network and peripheral equipment problems, made repairs and corrections where required.

·   Provided "on call" support and solved hardware and software problems for the faculty and staff.

·   Ghosting and troubleshooting both PC and Macintosh machines.

·   Assisted with the design, maintenance and web page development of the TLTC computer lab.

·   Made hardware and software acquisition recommendations including helping faculty, staff and students assess needs and provided justification for equipment and services.

Skills

Languages	SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, XML, XSD, XPath, C, C++, Java, Python, Shell Scripting, PowerShell
Databases	Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access
Database Tools	OEM Grid and Database Control, Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Toad, SQL Plus
Data Modeling Tools	ER/Studio Data Architect, IBM Data Architect, CA ERwin, Toad Data Modeler, MySQL Workbench
ETL/ELT Tools	Talend Data Integration, Master Data Management, Data Quality, Profiling, Big Data, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Talend Open Studio, Talend Administration Center, Microsoft SSIS
Reporting Tools	Tableau Desktop, Business Objects, Microsoft Excel
Big Data Ecosystem	Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Hbase, HCatalog, Beeswax, Oozie, Hue, Hue Shell, File Browser, Job Browser and Designer, Oracle VM VirtualBox, HortonWorks Data Platform and Cloudera (CDH)
Cloud Computing	Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), S3, RDS, EC2, Rackspace
Software Packages	Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Database Projects, Data Compare, Schema Compare, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, SPSS, MS Office
Others	Source Control, SVN, TortoiseSVN, VisualSVN, VPN, Google Apps (Docs, Email, Calendar, Hangout), WebEx, SSH Secure Shell, WinSCP, Putty, Apache Tomcat, Jboss, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Parallels Desktop, SharePoint, Adobe Connect

 

Education

●        M.S., Mathematics, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, WVU, Morgantown, USA

●        B.S., Metallurgical Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India