SHYAM ASHAR

 

SUMMARY

 

·         Senior Data Analyst with 8 years of experience as in a variety of domains including Customer Master Data, Credit Cards, Auto Loans, Mortgage.

·         8 year of experience working on Data Warehouses for Analytics and Reporting

·         Proven analytical skills in using information systems to discover the most efficient solutions to problems

·         Strong Business and Technical acumen to effectively serve as a bridge between these teams.

·         Experienced in leading large scale Data Quality initiatives aimed at improving overall Data Quality

·         Performed Data Profiling on new data sources and provide recommendations to Business Analysts to formulate Data Requirements

·         Defined data cleansing rules and ensure validity of implementations

·         Validated accuracy of data and research data anomalies to recommend steps to implement corrective measures

·         Ability to meet deadlines and handle pressure coordinating multiple tasks.

·         Analyzed large and highly complex data sets, performing ad-hoc analysis and data manipulation using SQL

·         Wrote Shell Scripts to perform analysis on large flat files well over 100 million records

·         Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with technical and business teams alike.

·         Design, develop and implemented automated scripts for validating large data warehouses and flat files.

 

SKILL SET

 

·         Data Warehousing, Data Cleansing, Data Profiling , Extraction Transformation(ETL),  Master Data Management(MDM), Customer Data Integration(CDI)

·         Teradata, Oracle, SQLPlus, SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, Oracle Golden Gate, TOAD, DB2

·         Shell Scripts, UNIX Command Line, Perl, Scripts

·         Ab-Initio GDE, EME, Talend Open Studio, Cognos Reports Studio, Cognos Query Studio

·         IBM Initiate, Initiate Enterprise Viewer, Inspector, BXM Engine, IXM Engine

·         Quick Test Pro (QTP), HP Quality Center 10.0, UltraEdit, BMC Control M

·         UNIX, Mainframes, Windows

·         Experienced in Agile and Waterfall Software Development Methodologies

·         Highly Proficient on Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word ,and Microsoft Visio

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Senior Data Analyst – Capital One                                                             Aug 2011 – Till Date

 

·         Led Data Quality Initiatives for the Customer Data Integration (CDI) team that served as an Enterprise Master Data Repository providing a 360 view of every customer.

·         Created complex SQL queries to perform Data Analysis for business users.

·         Spearhead large scale Data Integration projects drive by Mergers and Acquisitions.

·         Subject Matter Expert of the Customer Data Platform providing consultation to Internal and External Technical teams.

·         Critically evaluate data gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding.

·         Analyze existing processes to make recommendations for improvement using data mining techniques.

·         Identified gaps in historical data feeds and designed one time scripts to clean up data.

·         Created automated scripts to monitor and validate data quality on a daily basis.

·         Liaise with upstream, downstream teams and stakeholders to understand client business processes.

·         Assisted in defining Data Requirements by profiling source data using UNIX scripts, SQL or Excel based Analysis

 

Data Analyst - SunTrust Bank              Aug 2007 - Aug 2011

 

·         Designed queries on Credit Card Transaction Data Warehouse to generate custom reports for business users.

·         Setup a Configurable Data Quality Framework that defines cleansing rules for all data received from external source systems.

·         Analyzed and resolved issues within existing data streams and provide inputs to triage data issues.

·         Develop and validate reports using COGNOS to deliver key insights into data for business users.

·         Built re-useable tools and artifacts to monitor data quality on an ongoing basis

·         Analyze trends to discover patterns using COGNOS and MS ACCESS, to understand & anticipate problems that impact business and propose viable solutions

·         Work with users to understand needs and provide assistance in response to ad-hoc data requests.

·         Created a backlog of data quality issues, prioritize fixes and work towards implementing them based on severity.

 

Data Quality Analyst – Checkfree                            Oct 2005- Aug 2007

 

·         Plan and execute high quality Data Validation Services.

·         Created Test Scenarios to guarantee that all data scenarios within and across the systems are covered.

·         Generated sample data that is representative of Production data and Negative conditions to ensure optimal coverage.

·         Execute Test Plans to Test Scripts to validate data integrity.

·         Tracked data elements from source through transformations to target and ensure accuracy of data.

·         Identified problematic areas on data workflows, data transformations, and data exceptions and tracked them to closure.

·         Worked with Business Partners to perform UAT

·         Created Data Quality Reports and Metrics and presented to management.

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

 

·         Bachelors in Electronics Engineering

University of Mumbai; 2002-2005

 

·         Diploma in Electronics; Vivekanand Education Society’s Polytechnic; 1999-2002