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Email: pp61a226@westpost.net
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DATAWAREHOUSE / BI ARCHITECT
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Data Architect with passionate and innovative, future-oriented vision, 8+ years
of experience in implementing the full software system development life cycle in
defining, designing, building and managing Data warehouses, ETL and Business In
telligence applications. Delivered IT Services Management (ITSM) solutions focus
ed on ITIL best practices including Release Management, Change and Service Level
Management, Incident and Problem Management.
Catalyst in aligning business process rules to technical detail. Demonstrated ha
nds on experience in creating unified data architectures to accomplish operation
al and corporate reporting. Applied tactical and strategic planning towards impl
ementing Master Data Management(MDM). Certified in Software Design Peer review t
raining process and Business writing. Coached /mentored staff to higher standard
s of performance.
* Business Process Management and Workflow * ITIL Methodologies
* Data Mining and Corporate Reporting
* ETL and Data warehousing * Capacity Planning and Project Management
* Peer Reviews and Business Writing
* Master Data Management
* Data Modeling - Logical and Physical data modeling * Team Leadership and Effec
tive
Communication
* Staff training
WORK EXPERIENCE
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CNA Surety Corporation - Sioux Falls, SD
10/2006 - Present
Data warehouse Architect
As a Data warehouse Architect, Managed 12+ ETL/BI resources both onsite and offs
hore, and successfully led multiple project assignments to completion within pla
nned budget and time. Gathered business requirements from the users community an
d created logical and physical data models using Erwin. Created ETL transformati
on design rules, conducted code reviews and guided development team to successfu
lly deploy ETL solutions. Created Business Objects Universes, Identified KPIs an
d MIs, enhanced data marts and dashboards to support corporate reporting.
Streamlined existing architectures and ETL processes to enhance operational repo
rting needs with the creation of Operational data store (ODS). Effectively handl
ed Problem and Incident Management using tools ClearQuest and HEAT, and Change a
nd Release Management using Rational ClearCase.
Achievements:
* Successfully deployed multiple BI projects budgeted $500k to $5MM to productio
n in the roles of Data warehouse/BI Architect
* Accomplished Unified Data architecture to enhance operational and corporate re
porting. Streamlined ETL job routine to tightly integrate with Control M schedul
e and improved operational performance by 30%
* Implemented Master Data Management strategies of business entities across 50 U
nited states
* Established Data purging processes after conducting JAD sessions with Business
Users.
* Established Standards and Procedures for data loading into Operational Data st
ore, Data warehouse, data marts and ETL development artifacts.
* Successfully demonstrated expertise in Project Planning & Management, Data and
Statistical Analysis, Quality Assurance Process Management, Requirements Manage
ment and Resource Management
* Successfully upgraded Informatica PowerCenter v7.1.3 to v8.6.1 beginning with
Project planning through deployment
Technologies: Oracle 11g/9i, Teradata 8.5, MS Sql Server 2005, Informatica Power
Center 8.6.1/7.2.3, BO Xi/6.5, HP-UX, Rational Tools, Control M

GLOBAL IT GROUP- Lisle, IL 04/2003 - 10/2006

As a Technical Consultant at Global IT Group, architected scalable systems, acco
mplished several IT assignments in Data warehouse and BI Technologies. Brought s
ignificant difference to Client engagements by building teams, designed and deve
loped code.
Client: WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT - Boston, MA
Data Architect, Technical Lead
As a Data Architect for London Accounts Reporting and Investment Data Repository
projects, Managed 8+ resources onsite and offshore and successfully led project
assignments to completion within planned budget and time. Conducted user interv
iews with Business Users in London, UK. Created logical and physical data models
, and facilitated JAD sessions with Business Partners in US. Authored design doc
umentation and Peer reviewed code. Performed Integration and System testing for
the components developed and further supported projects through User Acceptance,
Deployment and Post-deployment activities. Effectively communicated project iss
ues with project managers and escalated Data quality issues to the Project spons
ors. Coordinated and worked with resources from the Business, Project services,
Development, Database administration and Infrastructure areas to develop solutio
ns that advance the best practices within enterprise architecture.
Achievements:
* Delivered IT Services Management (ITSM) solutions based on ITIL best practices
that focused on the people, process, and technology, and information perspectiv
es of providing business solutions within the IT infrastructure.
* Streamlined ETL jobs and tightly integrated with Control M which resulted in a
chieving operational performance
* Established Standards and Procedures for data loading into Operational Data st
ore, Data warehouse and Data Marts.
* Created and established standards for automated job routines, ETL design and d
evelopment artifacts.
* Delivered ETL solutions with XML sources and large DB objects like CLOB,BLOB e
tc.
Technologies: Oracle 10g/9i, Teradata 8.5, Informatica PowerCenter 7.2.3, BO 6.5
, UNIX (Solaris), TestDirector, Control-M
Client: EMC CORPORATION - Westborough, MA
Technical Consultant
As a Technical Consultant for ELMS (Synergy) and CCA5 Migration projects, Facili
tated discussions with customers to obtain corporate requirements. Designed Tech
nical Documentation based on the Business requirements. Created Physical and log
ical data modeling using Erwin. Formatted BI Reports to the Users requirements u
sing Slice and Dice, Drill Down Functionalities.Developed and customized Complex
Reports as per user requirements in GL, AR, AP applications.Developed Custom In
terface programs to migrate data from the legacy system to Oracle Inventory by c
reating staging tables.Created Reports by writing the complex queries including
Nested queries, Unions and Partition joins.Effectively utilized Teradata Client
Utilities like BTEQ, FastExport, FastLoad , MultiLoad to enhance operational da
ta load processes
Achievements:
* Accomplished and Delivered Data migration strategies to convert Legacy data fr
om a number of source systems to Centralized data repository for ELMS(Synergy) p
roject module.
* Successfully migrated Customer-Product Information from legacy systems to the
web-based new application driven data module
* Created and established automated job routine which improved the systems opera
tional efficiency
Technologies: Oracle 10g, Oracle e-business suite 10g, Teradata 5.0, Informatica
PowerCenter 7.2.3, OWB, BO 6.5, UNIX (HP-UX), Rational tools
Client: ING GROUP - Hartford, CT
Technical Consultant
As a Technical Consultant for multiple projects, created BO Universes, Adhoc and
Corporate Reports.Extensively worked on Oracle Stored procedures, functions and
database triggers. Wrote Unix shell scripts to schedule jobs for daily loads.Im
plemented Materialized views for faster processing.Developed Mappings for Increm
ental extraction and loading of data and for TYPE1 and TYPE 2 slow changing Dime
nsions.Worked with Clearcase to perform version control management, to assign bu
gs to relevant developers and update status across the lifecycle
Achievements:
* Delivered successfully the ETL modules of Strategic image and Workflow and Cus
tomer Master Integration projects
* Delivered several BI corporate and adhoc reports per user requirements
* Created and established standards for automated job routines, ETL design and d
evelopment artifacts
Technologies: Oracle 9i, DB2, Informatica PowerCenter 6.1, BO 5.1, UNIX (HP-UX),
Rational tools
Neer Interactives - INDIA
02/02 - 04/03
Support Team Player
o Provided production Support, Maintenance and Enhancement of existing applicati
on
o Activities involved are Knowledge acquisition, Knowledge sharing, Analysis, De
sign, Coding, Unit testing and System testing with detailed documentation
o Extensively worked on stored procedures, triggers, functions, and packages.
Technologies: Oracle Pl/Sql , SQL *Plus
TECHNOLOGIES
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ETL Tools Informatica PowerCenter 8.6.1/7.2, Microsoft DTS, Oracle Warehouse Bui
lder
BI Tools Business Objects XI/6.5/5.1, Qlikview
Languages SQL, PL/SQL, Java, UML, XML, VB.NET, Unix Shell Scripting, C, C++
Databases Oracle 10g/9i/8i, Teradata 7,8.5, DB2 7, SQL Server 2005/2000
Operating Systems UNIX(Sun Solaris, HP-UX, AIX) , Windows NT/2000/XP
App/Web services Oracle Application Server, Apache, ASP.NET
Other OEM, ERWin, TOAD, Oracle SQL Developer, Reports 6i, SQL Navigator, SQL*Plu
s, Eclipse, Visual Studio.Net ,Webmatrix, Rational Tools, Humming Bird Exceed, T
eraTerm Pro, Putty

EDUCATION
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* Western Kentucky University
Candidate for Master of Science in Computer Science
* Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
CERTIFICATION
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* Oracle9i Database Administrator Certified Associate