Suresh Sachidanandam

3181 Fazio Terrace Dublin, California, 94568          4804381117        suresh.sachi@yahoo.co.in

 

Work Experience

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Foster City, CA

Manager - Projects, Aug 2002 – present

·   Design, implement, or operate comprehensive data warehouse systems to balance optimization of data access with batch loading and resource utilization factors, according to customer requirements.

·   Develop data warehouse process models, including sourcing, loading, transformation, and extraction.

·   Create supporting documentation, such as metadata and diagrams of entity relationships, business processes, and process flow.

·   Design and implement warehouse database structures.

·   Map data between source systems, data warehouses, and data marts.

·   Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.

·   Create or review technical design documentation to ensure the accurate development of reporting solutions.

·   Document specifications for business intelligence reports, dashboards, or other outputs.

·   Consult with users, management, vendors, and technicians to assess Business Intelligence needs and system requirements.

·   Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action.

·   Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods.

·   Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users.

·   Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools.

·   Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity.

BI/DW Consultant - Visa Inc, Jul 2013 – present

·   Designed and implemented ETL jobs to extract data from multiple source databases having millions of records, transform data and calculate various measures and load into reporting layer database. I used Talend Open Studio to develop the jobs over Hadoop/Hive and MySQL

·   Installed Cognos BI 10.2 in a distributed environment

·   Upgraded the content store from Cognos 8.4 to Cognos 10.2

·   Migrated a Series 7 secured cube to Cognos 10 cube.

·   Redesigned the security which used Custom Views on Series 7 and implemented the data level security using session parameters within Transformer Cube.

BI/DW Consultant - American Express, Mar 2012 – Jun 2013

·   Developed a system to track, publish and monitor the capability governance metrics effectively on regular basis

·   Used Fusion Charts as the visualization tool to generate reports and graphs

·   Used Teradata BTEQ scripts to perform transformation and loading of data into the Enterprise Data Warehouse

·   Developed workflows to load data from multiple sources using the in house Meta Data Framework/Rules Engine.

 

BI/DW Consultant - Royal Bank of Canada , Aug 2011 – Feb 2012

·   Analysed various source systems, data requirements and assisted in designing the data Model

·   Worked with business users in ETL requirements gathering sessions and created functional designs and technical designs

·   Collaborated with design team members from other streams like data architecture, testing

·   Worked on optimizing the DW solution and performance tuning. Reduced the daily data refresh time by 35%

BI Architect - Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation , Dec 2010 – Jul 2011

·   Worked with stakeholders to design and architect the BI Roadmap

·   Evaluated various tools available for BI (Microstrategy, Cognos, Business Objects)  and finalized on Cognos 10 which best suited their needs

·   Designed a Dimensional Model using Framework Manager, which acted  as a source for the complete range of BI capabilities: reporting, analysis, score carding and dashboards

BI Consultant - Discover Financial Services , May 2005 – Nov 2010

·   Migrated 3000+ reports from Microstrategy/Crystal Reports to Cognos Report Net in the span of 9 months

·   Worked on upgrading Cognos Report Net Content to Cognos 8.2/8.4

·   Developed  BI/DW strategy which included a BI Competency Center and technical architecture to support the future BI needs

·   Created a Cognos Center of Excellence team, conducted proof of concepts, developed training materials

·   Conducted multiple sessions and trained 75+ end users per session. Showcased various capabilities of Cognos Suite

·   Create Audit Reports to analyze the User Counts and assisted reducing the end user licensing cost. Consolidated unused/dormant User Account by 25% and saved $50,000 per year

·   Performed Tool Evaluation as part of BICC, by comparing open source tools like Tableau, Spotfire & ESRI for Geo-Spatial analysis.

DW Lead - American Express Bank , Jan 2003 – Apr 2005

·   Designed the SQL Server database objects to assist in Data Migration

·   Migrated data from 40 MS Access to SQL Server Tables using SQL Server - Data Transformation Services (DTS/SSIS)

·   Redesigned 50+ MS Access Reports into Cognos Series 7 Reports

·   Published the Series 7 reports as Impromptu Web Reports in Cognos Upfront

·   Developed Power Prompt reports using Cognos Script and Java Script to provide various filter and prompts

 

Education

P.S.G College of Technology, Coimbatore, India

Mechanical Engineering, Mar 2002

·   Passed with Honors

 

Symbiosis, Pune, India

MBA - Operations, Mar 2013

·   Passed with Honors

 

Additional Skills

·   As a Business Intelligence/Database  Consultant, I have worked on Data Warehouse projects for Banking and Financial Services domain

·   Assisted in implementation of Enterprise Data Warehouse and Data Marts, dimensional tables (Star Schema) with identification of Measures and Hierarchies.

·   Handled Development / Re-Engineering / Migration / Up-gradation / Enhancements / Production Support projects.

·   Seamless performance in gathering requirements from the business users, liaising requirements with developers working in near-shore and off-shore, and tested end product before delivery

·   Extensive internal/external consulting and project management skills in a variety of disciplines

·   Involved in team management, client management, preparation of proposals, client presentations, career development of direct reports and resource allocations

·   BI Tools - Cognos Series 7, 8, 10, Microstrategy 7.2.3 , Crystal Report XI

·   IBM Cognos Certified Professional (Series 7 & 8)

·   Proficient in SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, MySQL & Sybase

·   Big Data – Talend , Hadoop/Hive

·   ETL Tools – Datastage, DTS(SSIS)