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Praveen Konda 

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Resume Headline: Praveen Konda

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Praveen Kumar Konda

973-738-2001

 

 

10 years of total IT experience in the field of Information Technology, expertise in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse and Data Visualization, having in depth knowledge in system study, analysis, design, development and implementation of Microsoft BI, SAS BI and Qlikview applications.

 

 

Proven ability with:

·   Have 4+ Years of Experience in Microsoft Business Intelligence (SSAS & SSRS).

·   Have 4.3 Years of Experience in SAS Business Intelligence.

·   Have 2 Years into Powerful In-Memory data visualization tool Qlikview.

·   Have good knowledge in understanding leading edge Technologies like Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Concepts and BI Tools.

·   Strong experience in working with multiple Commercial BI Technologies like SAS BI and MS BI.

·   Experience in developing and implementing Enterprise DW and BI Solutions that provides strong governance to facilitate business change and maximum value.

·   Experience in developing the enterprise data architecture/model and worked closely with the client heads, Business and IT.

·   Capable to guide project teams on design and development aspects in terms of best practices, estimation, process adherence, reviews on DW/BI Solutions.

·   Ability to present and articulate technical architecture as well as conceptual subject data models.

·   Strong Experience in end to end Data warehouse design and development experience for large size enterprise data warehouses.

·   Having Good Knowledge in BI & DW Assessment and knowledge of Gartner.

·   Experience in working as a Senior Developer and Technical Leader.

·   Experience in supporting pre-sales team in DW and BI Solutions.

·   Possessing good interpersonal skills which were applied in coordinating with development team, QA team and support team as required.

·   Experience in Designing Logical Data Model, Data Marts, OLAP, Dashboards, Scorecards, Reports and Portal.

·   Experience in developing comprehensive solutions with reporting products such as SQL Server Reporting Services and SAS Web Report Studio.

·   Ability to import, clean, validates, and model data and provides interpretations and draw conclusions from the data through appropriate analysis techniques using Qlikview. 

·   Strong attention to detail and accuracy.

·   Able to Work in New Technologies and have ability to explore different ETL, Reporting, Dashboards, Scorecards and Portal Technologies.

·   Extensively Worked on OLAP Cubes, MDX Queries and Stored Procedures.

·   Good knowledge in SQL and PL/SQL and Query Optimization.

·   Fast and Independent learner and ability to function as a Team Leader and alternatively work independently to achieve objectives.

·   Good Experience in Deploying and Hand Over of Reports at Client Area.

·   Having Experience in executing custom reports and perform data analyses in support of Sales, Implementation, and Marketing.

·   Experience in presenting Trainings on DW & BI Concepts.

·   Have excellent writing and communication skills and have the ability to effectively present information before our clients, management, and employees of organization.

·   Actively participated in building and maintaining productive working relationships with coworkers. Actively shared information as required with coworkers and team members.

 

 

Education

 

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in 2005.

 

 

 

 

Technical Skills

 

Languages:SQL, PL/SQL.

Databases:Oracle 9i/10g, MSQL Server 2005, MSQL Server 2008 R1 & R2, MSQL Server 2012.

BI Tools:SAS OLAP Cube Studio, SAS Information Map Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide,

SAS Information Portal, SAS OLAP Viewer ,SAS Web Report Studio, SAS BI Dashboard, Microsoft Integration Services 2005/2008 R1/2008 R2 (SSIS) , Microsoft Reporting Services 2005/2008 R1/2008 R2 (SSRS) , Microsoft Analysis Services 2005/2008 R1/2008 R2 (SSAS), Microsoft SharePoint Services, Microsoft PowerPoint Services, QlikView.

Known Open Source BI Tools:Talend 4.2 /5.0.1 and Eclipse BIRT 3.7.

SQL Tools:MS SQL Server Management Studio and Oracle SQL Developer.

Operating systems:WINDOWS 2003/08/08 R2 Server and WINDOWS XP.

Known BI Tools:Business Objects XI R2, Oracle Warehouse Builder and Oracle APEX.

Project Management Tools:       JIRA

Version Control Tools:            SVN and TFS

 

Professional Experience

 

Fulcrum World Wide Software Pvt Ltd                   Oct 13 – Till Date

Crum & Forster (C&F), NJ

Sr.OLAP & SSRS Developer

Description:

The Crum & Forster groups of companies are wholly owned subsidiaries of Crum & Forster Holdings Corp. and indirect subsidiaries of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited. The operating units within Crum & Forster Holdings Corp. provide standard and specialty insurance products & services.

 

Crum & Forster has a Data Warehouse which includes different department’s data and is populated using various jobs of Informatica. C&F has a Reporting Framework on SSRS 2005 and all the existing Reporting framework should be moved to SSRS 2008 R2 and some new reports development using OLAP in SSAS 2008.

 

Migration activity is the major initiative to move existing Reporting Framework of 2005 to Reporting Framework 2008 R2.

 

 

Hands on Development Skills:

·   Involved in Migration of SSRS Reports from 2005 to 2008 R2.

·   Involved in the Optimization of SSRS Reports in 2008 R2.

·   Involved in Installing Hot fixes for SSRS 2008 R2 Issues.

·   Involved in resolving the Formatting Issues in Reports.

·   Involved in creation of SSAS cube using multiple Facts.

·   Developed various calculated measures using MDX Queries.

·   Involved in Optimization of MDX Queries.

·   Involved in Development of OLAP Cube creation using SSAS.

·   Involved in Development of SSRS Reports using OLAP Cube.

·   Involved in Development of SSRS Reports like Summary and Detail reports with Drill Downs.

 

Environment: Microsoft Reporting Services 2008 R1, R2 & 2012 (SSRS), Microsoft Analysis Services 2008 R1, R2 & 2012, 2012 (SSAS), Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R1, R2 & 2012 and Windows 2008 Server R2.

 

Fulcrum World Wide Software Pvt LtdAug 11 – Sep 13

EDW BI Improvements, SHPS, USA (Onsite)

Sr. SAS BI Developer

Description:

SHPS is a leading, independent provider of integrated health solutions that improve personal health and reduce spending. By integrating traditional health management and benefits administration services, SHPS delivers people-centric solutions that empower individuals to make wise healthcare choices. It serves large and mid-sized employers, government agencies, and third-party administrators through the company’s Care wise® Health, Landacorp, and SHPS brands.

Phase 1 Includes the POC 1 Design and ETL development which we have done successfully. For POC 1, In order to show the Report Output files on SAS Portal, we have Created Custom Tree Portlets which has a functionality of Expanding and Collapsing the Folders.

 

Hands on Development Skills:

·   Involved in Understanding the Business Life Cycle.

·   Involved in Understanding the Business Requirements.

·   Involved in the Design of the SAS Information Portal and deployed various Reports, Scorecards, Dashboards and OLAP Views.

·   Involved in Development of Custom Tree Portlets for Different Report Categories.

·   Developed OLAP Views and Dashboards using SAS OLAP Viewer and SAS BI Dashboard.

·   Involved in Suggestions of Cube Changes.

·   Involved in EDW Scheduling Automation Assessment.

·   Involved in Documentation for few Technical Design Specifications.

 

Environment: SAS OLAP Cube Studio, SAS Information Map Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS OLAP Viewer, SAS BI Dashboard and UNIX.

 

 

Fulcrum World Wide Software Pvt LtdJul 10 – Aug 11

Office for National Statistics, UK (Onsite)

Sr. Qlikview Developer

Description:

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the Kingdom. It is charged with the collection and publication of statistics related to the economy, population and society of England and Wales at national, regional and local levels.

The Collected information will be stored into a third party system and will be generated as a XML format which will act like a source to populate an Oracle database. ONS generates a format of SDMX - XML which are generated through third party tool CODP.A Business Intelligence Open source ETL tool called TALEND of version 5.0.1 which is java based tool and this tool picks any type of database as source like SQL Server, Oracle, and ERP etc. and also picks any type of file as source file like CSV, XLS, and XML etc.  Files as input and processes it for further use in different applications/Database.

In this Assignment Talend is used to extract data from the XML to the Oracle Environment called as IMPORT and from IMPORT data will be transformed and dumped into another Oracle environment called STAGING and finally from STAGING data will be loaded into the final Oracle environment called as TARGET.

On top of the TARGET environment Liferay Portal is deployed and some additional data being fed into TARGET using Liferay Screens. Finally TARGET Data will be deployed and shared as dashboards, scorecards, charts and reports in QlikView.

 

Hands on Development Skills:

·   Created mock-ups showing the intended functionality, visual aspects of the dashboards to be developed.

·   Developed dashboards pertaining to KPI monitoring using QlikView10.

·   Developed complex QlikView scripts to build model, to support various KPIs and time comparison.

·   Responsible for positioning and delivering QlikView projects and cross building applications into new and existing customer base.

·   Worked as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for various projects. Taught the users to get along with Qlikview.

·   There were 40 million records with daily incremental reload schedule.

·   Emphasized on Data Integrity to good chart aesthetics.

·   Performed time over time analysis of Census.

·   Worked with QlikView 10, SQL, Excel files and flat files.

 

 

Environment: Qlikview 10, Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2008, Flat files and Windows Server 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fulcrum World Wide Software Pvt LtdMar 10 – Jun 10

SOAP Opera 2, Leeds Met University, UK (Onsite)

Sr. Qlikview Developer

Description:

Student retention is an important issue for the University as it has funding consequences; it is used by government as a measure of performance and is a reflection of the student experience. 

 

There are known to be several indicators of a student’s behaviour, course of study and demographics, which can be used to highlight a student at risk of dropping out of their course. These behaviours concern how students make contact with the University and how often. By defining these touch points and measuring them a scorecard of the students contact with the University can be created and students can be identified as being at risk.

 

The SOAP Opera 2 BI will be a key initiative to build such Key performance Indicators that will showcase the information from Data Warehouse which is populated from the STARTRAK application tables through an ETL approach. A Qlikview reports engine is places on top of the Data Warehouse to create a reporting user interface to display the analysis reports and Dashboards using Qlikview as per Leeds Met requirement.

 

 

Hands on Development Skills:

·   Involved in Understanding the Business Life Cycle.

·   Involved in Requirement Gatherings and Detail Design Documents Creation.

·   Involved in Designing Report Formats based on the Requirements.

·   Involved in development of QVD’s.

·   Involved in Development of Calculated measures for calculating various KPI’s like Day Score, Risk, Lowest Engagement, Medium Engagements and Highest Engagements using Qlikview.

·   Designed and Developed Various Reports, Dashboards and Charts.

 

Environment: Qlikview 9.0 SR2, SQL Server, Flat Files and Windows Server 2008.

 

 

TechKnit IT Enabled Services Pvt Ltd.Mar 08 – Mar 10

Raksha TPA Pvt Ltd, India (Offshore)

SAS BI Developer

Description:

Raksha TPA Pvt. Ltd is one of the premier and most comprehensive Health service facilitator. With its vast experience as a Health Service provider, Raksha TPA has emerged as one of the leading Third Party Administrators in providing Unique and innovative services through Web based technology linking the Insurer, Insured and Provider.

The concept of TPA (THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATOR) has been introduced by IRDA (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority) for the benefit of both the insured and the insurer. While the insured is benefited by quicker & better service, insurers are benefited by reduction in their administrative costs, fraudulent claims and ultimately bringing down the claim ratios. We Extracted the Insurers and Insured Details From Oracle to a Ware House and Generated Management and Analysis Reports.

 

Hands on Development Skills:

·   Involved in the development of the Reports as a Team Player.

·   Created Functional specifications of the Business Requirements.

·   Developed Monthly, Quarterly and yearly reports for the management.

·   Involved in the development of the Complex Reports.

·   Involved in development of Reports and Customizing Portal using SAS OLAP Cube Studio, SAS Information Map Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS Web Dashboard, SAS OLAP Viewer and SAS Information Portal.

·   Developed the reports using SAS functionalities like SAS OLAP Cube Studio, SAS Information Map Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS Web Dashboard, SAS OLAP Viewer and SAS Information Portal.

·   Developed Management Reports using Different Layouts as Per Client requirements like Zero Premium Reports, Serviced, and Un-serviced Premium.

 

Environment: SAS OLAP Cube Studio, SAS Information Map Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS OLAP Viewer, SAS BI Dashboard and UNIX.

 

 

TechKnit IT Enabled Services Pvt Ltd.Jan 07 – Feb 08

Maybank, India (Offshore)

OLAP & SSRS Report Developer

Description:

This project caters to Reporting needs of a large Insurance Company. This Insurance Company sells policies to Customers through various Agents appointed by the company. These Agents contact customers & submit proposals. On acceptance of a proposal by the customer, the proposal is converted into a policy. The customer on receipt of a policy pays Premium to the Insurance Company as per the policy terms. The Agent in turn gets commission out of these premiums. Company analyses the Agent performance vide No. of Customers, No of Policies, No of Proposals, Premiums etc. The various reports constitute this analysis. Maybank is an ERP product developed for Insurance Company. This product has various modules, we are asked to handle 3 modules which are CMS i.e. Channel Management System, Finance, Claims

For all the above 3 modules we have generated data marts and reports. On basis of reports study, we have created the data marts from which the reports are generated.

For populating data in Data mart we had to do ETL i.e., Extract, Transform, Load using SSIS.

Once the Data mart is populated, the reports are connected to this Data mart by Creating SSAS OLAP Cubes and Stored procedures.

 

Hands on Development Skills:

·   Involved in the Requirement gathering and ETL mapping.

·   Involved in developing ETL Packages using SQL Server Integration Studio (SSIS).

·   Involved in the development of the Reports as a team member.

·   Created Functional specifications of the business requirements.

·   Created Monthly, Quarterly and yearly reports for the management team using SSAS and SSRS.

·   Involved in the development of the Complex Reports.

·   Developing complex drop out Reports using SSAS OLAP Cube and SQL Stored procedures.

·   Extensively Worked on OLAP and MDX in Developing Complex Reports.

·   Creating User Parameters, Inserting Logos, validating Logos depending on the Parameter Passed by User.

 

 

Environment: Microsoft Integration Services 2005 (SSIS), Microsoft Analysis Services 2005 (SSAS), Microsoft Reporting Services 2005 (SSRS), Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Windows 2000 Server.

 

 

 

 

Platinum Global Technologies Pvt Ltd.Jun 06 –Jan 07

AmSouth Bank, India (Offshore)

SSRS Report Developer

Description:

This project is involved in the development of data warehouse for Am South Bank based on four kinds of data marts such as Accounts, Loans, Credit Cards and Insurance. Each data marts represent a collection of data pertaining to a single business process. In Loan data mart, Am South Bank involved in disbursal of loan amounts for various purposes like: Personal Loan, Educational Loan, Vehicle Loan, Housing Loan, Consumer Durable Loans etc. The company requires different levels of analysis regarding loan amount, type of loans, type of the penal interest calculations etc. They needed a data warehouse so that they could maintain historical data and central location for integration, analyze business in different locations.

 

Hands on Development Skills:

·   Created Functional specifications of the business requirements.

·   Involved in the creation of the Complex Reports.

·   Developing Reports and Customizing Reports using Tables, Matrix, List, Rectangle and Sub reports.

·   Developed the reports using Stored Procedures and also OLAP.

·   Created and Deployed Reports and Satisfied the Clients with Efficient work and In-Time Delivery.

·   Extensively Worked on OLAP and MDX in Developing Complex Reports.

·   Creating User Parameters, Inserting Logos, validating Logos depending on the Parameter Passed by User.

 

Environment: Microsoft Analysis Services 2005 (SSAS), Microsoft Reporting Services 2005 (SSRS), Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Windows 2000 Server.

 

 

 

Platinum Global Technologies Pvt Ltd._______Nov 05 – May 06

Agara Inc, India (Offshore)

SSRS Report Developer

Description:

The warehouse consists of business data related to automobile products. The current business model of the client relies heavily on paper-based sales reporting to inform business and sales managers about performance, thereby lots of paper-based reports being accumulated. This project enables business users to explore large volumes of summarized data within different environments at any technical and business level for performing multi-dimensional analysis, the monetary value of the products sold, pieces sold, analyze profit margins on different products and patterns, etc to help take effective decision-making judgments for improving their business and contribute to profitability.

Hands on Development Skills:

·   Created Functional specifications of the business requirements.

·   Involved in the creation of the Complex Reports.

·   Developing Reports and Customizing Reports using Tables, Matrix, List, Rectangle and Sub reports.

·   Created the reports using Stored Procedures and also OLAP.

·   Created and Deployed Reports and Satisfied the Clients with Efficient work and In-Time Delivery.

·   Extensively Worked on OLAP and MDX in Developing Reports.

·   Developed User Parameters, Inserting Logos, validating Logos depending on the Parameter Passed by User.

 

Environment: Microsoft Analysis Services 2005 (SSAS), Microsoft Reporting Services 2005 (SSRS), Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Windows 2000 Server.

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Current Career Level:

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Date of Availability:

Immediately

Work Status:

US - I require sponsorship to work in this country.

Active Security Clearance:

None

US Military Service:

Citizenship:

None

 

 

Target Job:

Target Job Title:

MSBI Developer/SSRS Developer/Business Intelligcence Developer

Desired Job Type:

Temporary/Contract/Project

 

Target Company:

Company Size:

Occupation:

IT/Software Development

·         Database Development/Administration

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-NJ-Central
US-NY-New York City

Relocate:

Yes

Willingness to travel:

Up to 25% travel

 

Languages:

Languages

Proficiency Level

English

Fluent