SHYAM ASHAR

Email:    shyam.ashar@gmail.com                                                                                                  Phone:              404-551-7536

 

SUMMARY

 

·         8 years of experience working on large scale Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Reporting platforms

·         5+ years of experience as a Senior Data Analyst executing Exploratory Analysis on large data sets to derive business insights and drive decision making.

·         Synthesized large scale data to create summary reports and drill down analysis of business critical data.

·         Proven analytical and problem solving skills, handling datasets over 200 million records.

·         Extract, Manipulate and Interpret information from multiple data sources.

·         Strong SQL skills on industry standard databases like Teradata, Oracle and DB2

·         Developed scripts on UNIX to analyze large flat files on UNIX.

·         Strong experience on ETL technologies, staging, transforming and aggregating data to create a unified view of Enterprise data.

·         Identified opportunities to create automated solutions to monitor daily data, create alarms to trigger data anomalies ensuring accurate is used for analysis.

·         Knowledge of Data Warehousing concepts, Data Modeling techniques required to stand large BI platforms.

·         Strong Business and Technical acumen, thus driving data sourcing and data analytics.

·         Knowledge of integrating data from variety of Financial Systems like TSYS (TS2), Fidelity IMPACS, Savings Time, SHAW to Data Warehouses.

·         Knowledge of Web Analytics using Adobe Site Catalyst.

·         Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, writing formulas, macros and creating reports to aid data visualization.

·         Working knowledge of new age cloud based data analytic and visualization tools like Splunk, Microstrategy.

·         Quick learner and adaptable to new tools, techniques and technologies focused on delivering high quality data analysis and insights to drive business growth

 

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, SQL

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

·         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 Initiatives for the Customer Data Integration (CDI) team that served as an Enterprise Master Data Repository enabling a 360 degree customer for over 170 million customers.

·         Drill down analysis on Customer Data to identify patterns that are key inputs to strategic marketing initiatives.

·         Generated Customer profile reports to analyze customer exposures to Capital One’s Products and Services

·         Adhoc Analysis of data using complex SQL queries for business partners.

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

·         Spearheaded large scale Data Integration projects driven by Mergers and Acquisitions of HSBC and INGD adding over 20 million customers to Capital One.

·         Evaluated data gathered from multiple sources and extract business insights.

·         Analyzed existing data processes to make recommendations for improvements

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

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

 

Data Analyst - SunTrust Bank              Aug 2007 - Aug 2011

 

·         Designed SQL queries on Credit Card Transaction Data Warehouse to generate usage reports.

·         Developed and validated reports using COGNOS to deliver key insights into data for business users.

·         Created summary and drill down reports for Credit Card Transactions to track usage patterns.

·         Created and maintained Data Flow diagrams and rules for over 500 data elements from SiteCatalyst to track Web Analytics.

·         Executed Trend Analysis, Page flows, User Visit trend to optimize web

·         Worked with Business and Technical teams to ensure analytical data is captured in accordance to the defined requirements.

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

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

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

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

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

 

Data Quality Analyst – Checkfree                            Oct 2005- Aug 2007

 

·         Planned and executed 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.

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

·         Tracked data elements from source through transformations to target and ensured 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

 

 

 

 

 

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