Business Analyst Resume
Objective
Looking for full time/ internship opportunity to utilize my IT skills in corporate sector
Summary
- Experience in building Universes using Designer component of SAP Business Objects XI
- Expertise in developing Strategies for ETL mechanisms using Informatica PowerCenter (8.x/7.x)
- Strong RDBMS concepts and working knowledge of database Tables, Views, Stored Procedures and Functions using SQL
- Involved in troubleshooting, optimizing, and fine-tuning the SQL Queries for efficiency
- Expertise in requirement gathering, process mapping and transitioning knowledge to the off shore team
Education
Master of Science, Management Information Systems
Technical SkillsDatabases Tools: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2008, MS Access
ETL Tools: Informatica, SSIS
Reporting Tools: SAP Business Objects XI, Cognos, SSRS, Xcelsius,
Statistical Tools: SAS 9.0, JMP8.0
Other Tools: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office Suite
Programming Languages and Web technologies: C, C++, HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver
Work Experience
Confidential,Houston, USA (Client: Ceva Logistics) May 2011-Present
Business Analyst
- Gathered requirements through interviews, existing documentation and defining the scope of processes of the logistics industry
- Process mapping and effort estimation to analyze the FTE requirement to implement change management
- Defining timeline for Go Live and gap analysis
- Root cause analysis and implementing corrective measures to fill in the gaps
- Conducting data analysis and defining metrics to create Business Intelligence reports
- Implementing scope change and transitioning process operations to offshore team
- Liaison between the offshore-onshore team and conflict management to maintain customer relationship
Confidential,Ambernath, India November 2006 – July 2009
Analyst (Data Analysis/Reporting and Project Management)
- Reviewed existing documentation of Fuel cell parameters and implemented measures for performance enhancement improving the efficiency by 20 %
- Developed universes to accommodate complex database design approaches.
- Tuned and Enhanced Universes with SQL Queries for the Report Performance.
- Developed Canned and Ad-Hoc Reports using existing/modified universes in Web Intelligence XI 3.1 using web Intelligence features and functionalities
- Created Reports using all the BO functions like Drill Down, Prompts, Dimensional and Measure variables to show accurate Results.
- Developed interactive dashboard using Xcelsius withalerts,calculators, and datacomparisons
- Documented Universe and Reports as per the standards for support and for future references
- Created parameterized Crystal reports and customized existing reports for presentations using Cross-Tab reports, sub-reports, Running Totals, Sorting, Alerting
- Involved in tuning of SQL queries and Universes for better performance.
- Analyzed project requirements and developed specifications for products as per requirements
- Tracked the funding allocation, project status, and procurement activities to maintain timely deadlines
- Negotiated with vendors for price bid comparison
Confidential,Hyderabad, India June 2010-August 2010
Summer Project (Business Intelligence Analysis and Reporting)
- Gathered requirements, designed documents as per client’s specification efficiently served as liaison between business and IT needs
- Worked on Informatica PowerCenter tools-Source analyzer, Target Designer, Mapping Designer and Transformation developer
- Designed and developed Informatica Mapping for data load and data cleansing
- Worked extensively with Designer tools like Source Analyzer, Target Designer, Transformation Developer and Mapping Designers
- Developed several complex Mappings, Mapplets and Reusable Transformations to facilitate periodic loading of Data
- Involved in designing, developing, testing and deploying Business Objects Universesfor report generation.
- Designed and developed reports usingWebIntelligence, and Desktop Intelligence
Confidential,Spring’10
Project Name: Design and Implementation of a Data Warehouse for a Retail Store
- Converted the data into text files and analyzed the data with Pivot Tables to formulate business questions
- Created Star Schemas using dimensional modeling methodology
- Implemented ETL operations using SSIS and constructed Dimension and Fact tables
- Developed a set of BI reports by implementing SSRS and SSAS
Confidential, Fall’10
Project Name: Managing a virtual company in real-time market simulation using ERPSim
- Developed an operational plan describing initial offerings and team organization
- Prepared market research report using Pivot tables to document the existing market know-how.
- Forecasted the market demand and raised production plan accordingly using modules of ERPSim
- Tracked sales and managed inventory levels in response to the market demand
- Establish pricing strategy to meet the demand and to maintain the profitability
- Created Visual Composer dashboard using SAP Netweaver using InfoCube containing market data from ERPSim
Business Database Management, Fall’09
Project Name: Design and Implementation of a Customer Database for a transport company
- Developed an Entity-Relationship schema using MS Visio
- Converted ER model into Relational Design Model up to 4th normal form
- Created tables using SQL server and written queries in SQL
- Developed user manual and documented system components, its control structure etc.
- Awarded Fred W. Dollar Scholarship in recognition of excellence academic achievements and performing job duties
- Member of Council of Info Graduate Students, Texas A&M University
- Among the top ten percentile of the Class of 2011
