Expert Profile
10+ years experience as “hands-on” lead role in the delivery of Data Warehousing & business intelligence (BI) solutions including data mining, reporting and analytic applications. I have worked collaboratively with business stakeholders and IT service providers. Background includes extensive program, project and software engineering management experience. My responsibilities included DWH Architecture, project management, eliciting customer requirements and ensuring they were well defined, documented, and communicated.
I am an experienced Architecture with sound knowledge of Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, DWH & BI Architecture, project and program management processes, requirements analysis, business case development and feasibility assessment.
Skills:
Project Management, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, BI & DWH Architecture, Data Modeling with Erwin, Visio, ETL with Informatica 8, IBM Datastage, SAP Business Objects XI, Crystal, Dimension Insight, OBIEE, Oracle 8, , 0, 1, MS Access, SQL, PL/SQL, Erwin, Toad, Mercury Quality Center, IBM Clear Case , HP Project and Portfolio Management, MS Projects.
Project Management
Certified project manager.
An experienced leader with the ability to initiate/manage cross-functional teams and multi-disciplinary projects and to deliver cost reduction using dedicated processes.
In-depth knowledge and experience in cost management, time management, risk management, and integration management.
Extensive experience in managing enterprise IT project life cycle through all phases.
Experienced in IT project budget analysis, outsourcing strategies, and contract management.
Excellent Interpersonal Communication skills
Project management skills: Influencing, leading, negotiating and delegating abilities
Conflict resolution
Adaptability and tolerant to stressed situations.
Certification & Training:
Association of Project Management Professionals(AMP) – Certificate through Association of Project Management, UK
Certified IT Architecture, IASA
Use Case Modeling – Certificate through George Washington University
ITIL V3
Function Point Analysis
Oracle Certified Professional Training from Star SQL
Membership:
TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute) – Active member of the group. (td ***** )
Information Management Magazine (information-management. com)
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Development & Manage Regional systems (DWH , BI, Portal ) under Regional Systems and Operations team framework primarily used by the Regional Financial & Management Reporting team, Regional Funds and Regional Insurance Management. Responsible for driving all systems developments affecting the MI systems, Data warehousing systems and provides direction for on-going maintenance and “Business As Usual” (BAU) activities.
Key responsibilities can be summarized as:
i. Implementation of regional wide enterprise Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence system for regional finance and insurance management.
ii. Implementation of regional wide ‘Expense Management Portal’ a Business Intelligence system using Dimension Inside within budget and on schedule.
iii. Responsible for DWH / BI Architecture design.
iv. Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives.
v. Leading a team of 20 including Project Managers, Business Analysts and Project Leads.
vi. Responsible for IT governance and risk.
vii. Developed the business case with emphasis on NPV, IRR and ROI.
viii. Managed cost budget to allocate overall cost estimate to individual tasks.
ix. Produced project status reports, managed the team and resolved day-to-day issues with emphasis on SDLC.
x. Define and initiate projects, and assign and work closely with Project Managers to manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program
xi. Develop efficiencies to increase the effectiveness of reporting and consolidate & maintain departmental reports used by other departments, senior managements.
xii. Recruited to realign and lead technical group in implementing & managing software applications, quality and performance resolution with accountability to increase accuracy of monitoring mechanism and reduce implementation cost.
xiii. Managing the datawarehouse with the volume of 2Tb of data and daily processing of *****GB of data.
xiv. Maintenance of Regional data warehouse system with annual cost of $3million.
xv. Choose or suggest data warehouse technologies such as ETL, BI and Database.
Selected Achievements
i. Implementation and enhancement on Regional Datawarehouse System. Responsible for all activities related to the design and development of regional data warehouse and reporting solutions .Work with SAP BO XI series BI packages, IBM Datastage, Oracle.
ii. Successfully implemented Business Intelligence - Expense Management Portal using Dimension Insight, Oracle.
iii. Improved application performance by 35% (accuracy and timeliness) in less than 9 months, achieved by closely reviewing of the application architecture, database re-design with implementing of partitioning and aggregates, ETL optimization.
iv. Reduce the reports from 305 to 170 by reviewing the reports process, eliminating the redundant reports, reports developed but never used, optimizing the reports, implementing the self service using portal and dashboards.
v. Improved month-end closing process by 25%. Created multi-department task force to resolve issues
with data management infrastructure, formulation of corporate metrics, and standardized reporting
PC (Product Control ) Data Warehouse
A fully and globally integrated reporting portal of Credit Suisse and repository for PC where all the data relates according to its business purpose irrespective of the CS business process and/or technology architectures intelligent analytics can be applied to facilitate business tasks information is returned quickly and cross referencing is seamless. Populate the Data Warehouse with all data required to support ‘reporting’ of all PC recognized and defined strategic Processes.
Role: Data Warehousing Architect / Lead
Responsibilities
Working as a DWH Architect / Lead for Project Opera Reporting.
Produced project status reports, managed the team and resolved day-to-day issues with emphasis on SDLC.
Meet with technical and business staff to document the requirements and current process for data warehouse solutions.
Responsible for DWH / BI Architecture design.
Develop data mart models, design specifications to develop analytic and reporting solutions using Oracle OBIEE Reporting Tools.
Supervised and developed staff of 12 IT professionals, coordinated with external consultants.
Applying strategies for data acquisition, warehouse implementation, and archive recovery.
Responsible for Data Modeling, Metadata Management of Opera Data warehousing.
Designed and implemented a Metadata Repository providing a centralized information source for the data models, data maps, processes, ETL processes and Load Routines.
Transformation of data from Staging to ODS (Operational Data Store) using Informatics and PL/SQL
Designing Data Mart/ Data Warehouse and Fact / Dimensions in Oracle 10g
Data Migration and Data Sourcing
Writing the ETL Routines using Pl/SQL and Unix
Migration of Reports from SAP BOXI R3 to Oracle BI (OBIEE)
Data Profiling Analysis.
Developing OBIEE Reports. Data will be channeled from each of the source applications to a staging database.
Writing the technical document for the functional document.
Create a single point of entry for all Product Control clients to access for all their reporting
Selected Achievements
i. Successfully implemented and re-designing of OPERA (Regional Datawarehouse and Business Intelligence System).
ii. Successfully migrated Business Intelligence reports from BO 6 to BOXI R3.
iii. Improved application performance by 30% (accuracy and timeliness) in less than 6 months achieved by closely reviewing of the application architecture, ETL tuning, database tuning.
iv. Implementation of the web based access***** portal for all the business users to access the reports.
Masters In Information Technology
Association of Project Management Professionals(AMP) – Certificate through Association of Project Management, UK
Certified IT Architecture, IASA
Use Case Modeling – Certificate through George Washington University
ITIL V3
Function Point Analysis
Oracle Certified Professional Training from Star SQL