Microstrategy Architect Resume
Overland Park, KS
SUMMARY
- 10+ years of total IT experience and Technical proficiency in the Data Warehousing involving Business Requirements Analysis, Application Design, Development, testing and documentation.
- Around 6.5+ years of Comprehensive working Knowledge with MicroStrategy Suite (Desktop, Architect, Web, OLAP Services Environment).
- Extensive Experience in Software Analysis, Design, Development and Production Support of business intelligence application using MicroStrategy.
- Involved in Migration of project from Microstrategy to Tibco Spotfire.
- As part of migration I have created useful visualizations to make the analysis easy and fruitful to the users using Tibco Spotfire.
- Extensively worked in creating MicroStrategy Public and Schema Objects (Attributes, Facts, Hierarchies, Relationships, Metrics, Filters, Prompts, Templates, Consolidation and Custom Groups etc)
- Experience in Microstrategy Architect, Object Manager, Development - designing and dashboards in MicroStrategy.
- In-depth understanding of fundamental data warehousing concepts such as Star and Snowflake Schemas, Fact and Dimensional tables, Logical and Physical data modeling.
- Experience in Microstrategy schema & application layer, report analysis & report services design, development, implementation, migration and testing.
- Exposure to Clients interaction, user- requirement analysis and user support.
- Involved in ETL team to develop detailed project plans, transformation specifications and data mappings based on requirements.
- Extensive knowledge on SQL and very proficient in working with databases (RDBMS) like Oracle, TERADATA, SQL Server.
- Involved in Full Life Cycle Development of MicroStrategy Project.
- Excellent problem solving skills with strong technical background and good interpersonal skills.
- I am a Quick learner and excellent team player, ability to meet deadlines and willing to take challenges works under pressure.
- Around 3.5 years of experience in developing .net applications. Worked on .net frame work (2.0) and SQL SERVER databases.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
BI Tools: MicroStrategy9.x/8.x ( Architect, Desktop, Web, Intelligence Server, Report Services and OLAP Services), Tibco Spotfire 7.0
Databases: Teradata 14, V2R6.0 Oracle 10g, 9i, SQL Server (2005/2008),, and Microsoft Access.
Data Modeling: Microsoft Visio
Supporting Tools: MS Project, SQL Navigator, SQL Assistant, Adobe Flash
Web: HTML, DHTML, XML, XSL. ASP.NET, ADO.NET
OS: Windows XP/2003/2000, UNIX and Linux
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Microstrategy Architect
Responsibilities:
- Analyze the Business requirement document to understand the Business requirements.
- Created Attributes and Facts for the new requirements.
- Developed Reports and the report objects like metrics, filters and others as per the requirement.
- Created Dashboards to showcase it to the customers
- Prepared Report playback documents.
Confidential
Microstrategy Technical Architect
Responsibilities:
- Analyze the Business requirement document to understand the Business requirements.
- Involved in Migration of project from Microstrategy to Tibco Spotfire.
- As part of migration I have created useful visualizations to make the analysis easy and fruitful to the users using Tibco Spotfire.
- Involved in creating database tables and views for the enhancement purpose and utilized them in Microstrategy as per the requirement needs.
- Created Attributes and Facts for the new requirements.
- Worked on Support activities for the Microstrategy Perspective and resolved the tickets for the user.
- For reporting needs, worked extensively on creating Metrics, Filters, consolidations and custom groups.
- Migrated newly created objects from Dev. to test environment with the help of object manager.
- Created filters and other report objects, drilling, defined hierarchies.
- Develop Standard as well as Ad-Hoc Reports based on the user need, the end-users were able to generate ad-hoc report by drilling up, down, within and across dimension or anywhere.
- Involved in troubleshooting MicroStrategy Web Reports, optimizing the reports.
- Tested all the reports by running queries against the warehouse using SQL Assistant tool. Also compared those queries with the MicroStrategy SQL engine generated queries.
- Used the Object Manager to move the objects from Development to QA and to Production environment in MicroStrategy.
- Prepared Mapping document to identify easily the Attributes and facts which needs to use for corresponding developed reports.
- Resolved critical issues and made the application works during the business hours for users.
- Update the ticketing tool with the status of the change.
- Support end users in helping to create their own reports.
- Responsible in checking with ETL team for data availability and cleared the data issues if any.
- Has a significant role in managing the time estimates and coordination with different teams in the project.
- Prepared Unit test cases and done the testing for developed reports.
Environment: MicroStrategy 9.4.1 Architect, Desktop, Web, Report Service Documents, Tibco Spotfire 7.0, OLAP Services, Teradata.
Confidential
Microstrategy Architect
Responsibilities:
- Analyze the Business requirement document to understand the Business requirements.
- Prepared the Logical design document for creating the Schema objects.
- Created Schema objects like Attributes, Facts for the report development using MicroStrategy Desktop according to the Design document.
- Prepared Mapping document for the development team to identify the Attributes and facts which needs to use them for corresponding developed reports.
- Created User hierarchies and hierarchy prompts based on it.
- Helped in creating the report design document for the report developers to create their reports.
- Responsible in checking with ETL team for data availability and cleared the data issues.
- Developed reports which include Advanced Prompts, Conditional, Transformation metrics and Level Metrics as per the User requirement.
- Prepared Unit test cases and done the testing for developed reports.
Environment: MicroStrategy 9.3 Intelligence Server, Desktop, Web, Architect, OLAP Services, SQL Server 2005
Confidential
Technical Lead / Functional Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Analyze the Business requirement document and prepare the functional document for the same.
- Identified and Created Schema objects like Attributes, Facts for the report development using MicroStrategy Desktop.
- Prepared Requirement playback documents.
- Used Advanced Prompts, Conditional, Transformation metrics and Level Metrics for creating complex reports.
- Used conditional formatting feature to enhance grid and graphs in documents.
- Responsible for creating Metrics, Filters, Custom Groups & Consolidations, Compound metrics, Prompts, Transformations using MicroStrategy Desktop and Web.
- Analyze the database tables and views for the upstream data.
- Validate the data with querying the database tables.
- Used MSTR Web to generate the ad hoc reports.
- Developed Documents and Transformed reports by optimizing Query Performance using VLDB settings.
- Performed Unit testing and Validating, resolving data issues processes and efforts of the results to meet functional requirements.
- UAT Support for the end users
- Prepared and present the transition KT document for users to understand the application.
Confidential
Microstrategy Developer
Responsibilities:
- Experienced in large-scale, high availability, end to end MicroStrategy Business Intelligence application development through user interaction to gather business requirements.
- Prepared Documentation and User Guides to identify the various Attributes, Facts, Metrics and multiple Grid & Graph Report objects embedded in HTML Documents needed by business users.
- Created documents with both Grids and graphs as per user requirements.
- Identified and Created Schema objects like Attributes, Facts for the report development using MicroStrategy Desktop.
- Used Advanced Prompts, Conditional, Transformation metrics and Level Metrics for creating complex reports.
- Used conditional formatting feature to enhance grid and graphs in documents.
- Responsible for creating Metrics, Filters, Custom Groups & Consolidations, Compound metrics, Prompts, Transformations using MicroStrategy Desktop and Web.
- Created Complex Filters (Relationship Filters, Dynamic Filters, Embedded Filters, Custom Filters), Compound Metrics with dimensionality.
- Developed Documents and Transformed reports by optimizing Query Performance using VLDB settings.
- Provided access to MicroStrategy platform from Microsoft Excel (Non-MicroStrategy Interface) by using MicroStrategy Office.
- Performed Unit testing and Validating, resolving data issues processes and efforts of the results to meet functional requirements.
- Assisted in rollout, maintenance and support for project end users and ongoing admin functions.
Environment: MicroStrategy 9.1 Intelligence Server, Desktop, Web, Report Service Documents, Narrowcast Server, OLAP Services, Teradata.
Confidential, Overland Park, KS
Programmer Analyst (Microstrategy Developer)
Responsibilities:
- Involved in full life cycle development of Business Intelligence System.
- Involved in implementation of Microstrategy Reporting Suite including web and narrowcast server.
- Created Attributes, Facts, Advanced qualification Filters, Custom groups, Prompts, Hierarchies, compound metrics, filters, object prompts, custom expression filters according to the business needs.
- Communicated with the business, Data Modeling team and ETL team in various levels for the stabilization of the reports.
- Implemented drill functionality on the reports using Drill Maps.
- Provided access to MicroStrategy platform from Microsoft Excel (Non-MicroStrategy Interface) by using MicroStrategy Office
- Involved in developing reports through Micro Strategy Desktop.
- Writing BTEQ Scripts to load data into Dimension tables with the hierarchy.
- Extensive hands-on experience working on Microstrategy Web Universal.
- Developed Reports enabling Data Drilling across multiple Dimensions using Desktop and Web. Graphs and Alerts were used to support the Reporting process.
- Actively participated in developing the work flow for creation of report and report services by using the logical model built in consideration with the business requirement.
- Provided level of effort (LOE) estimates for new project work, enhancements and fixes.
- Developed Custom (composite) controls and user controls for reusability.
- Extensively used Obout suite for grid view, calendar controls and for combo boxes.
Environment: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Microstrategy Desktop 8.0/8.1.x, Narrowcast server, Erwin 7.x, Teradata v2r6, Windows XP.
Confidential
.NET Developer
Responsibilities:
- Gathering and Analyzing business requirements for my module from stake holders.
- Extensively used MS-Visio to draw the Use case diagrams, Sequential Diagram and Class diagrams Developed Business logics and customer service messages for the application.
- Used .Net Validation controls for client side validation.
- Developed Custom (composite) controls and user controls for reusability.
- Extensively used Obout suite for grid view, calendar controls and for combo boxes.
- Used ADO.NET extensively for data retrieving, querying, storing and manipulating
- Developed Stored Procedures using SQL Server 2005.
- Developed complex T-SQL code for data retrieval.
Environment: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Web Services, C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, HTML, XML, AJAX, XSL, JavaScript, CSS, MS SQL, VSS.
