Career profile
A high potential Information Technology professional with a proven record in OBIEE, Business Analysis; project management and IT Service support and Service delivery management strong team player with strengths in implementing successful approaches for technology integration and business processes based on industry “Best Practice”. Over 7 years experience in IS/IT and operations in the financial industry. I am effective in setting out strategies to enable enterprise and eBusiness solutions, while working with multifunctional teams, business, technical staff and management.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

• Platform: Windows 2003/200.X Server, Windows XP, HP- Unix, Solaris, Linux
• Business Intelligence: Oracle Business Applications 7.9.4, OBIEE 10.1.3.4, OBIEE 11.1.1.5, BI Answers, Dashboards, Deliver, BI Publisher, MS Office Plug-in and Administration Tool.
• PM Methodologies: SDLC, Agile, and Oracle AIM 3.0.
• CRM: Siebel Analytics 7.7, CRM and AMDOCS AMSS.
• Databases: Oracle 11g/10g/9x/8i, MS SQL Server 2005/2000, DB2, MSP and LPS.
• Design Model Tools: MS Office Enterprise and MS Visio
• Oracle software: Oracle Toad, Oracle Application Server, SQL Loader, Oracle SQL Plus.
• Languages: SQL, Java, XML, and HTML.
• ERP: Oracle Financials 11i/R12 (AP, FA, GL, AR, CM) Oracle EBS Suite R12, 11.X.

Areas of expertise:

• Business Intelligence (OBIEE) Consultant – Installation, Oracle BI Administration, Presentation Server, Bi Publisher, Bi Delivers, Catalog Manager and security setup
• Test Planning including System Integration Testing Units, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) – Quality Centre Experience
• Proficient in oral and written communication for effective interaction with clients and other stakeholders
• Functional Analyst gathering business requirements, client liaison, data modeling, specification documentation.
• Project Management and Change Management

CURRENT POSITION:

AUG 2010- to date 
Business Analyst- Confidential Plano, Texas

• OBIEE deliverable options with management and create documentation procedures based on the AIM methodology: BP30 (determine requirements), RD50 (gather requirements), BR10 (gaps), MD50 (functional design).
• Clear understanding of business intelligence and documentation management
• Determining and plan of implementation based on functional area/departmental requirements
• Gap analysis - Reviewing the technical and functional environment and comparing to OBIEE capabilities
• Directly interact with the client to conduct meetings, presentations and status report projection
• Effective leader and active participant in managing various aspects of full life cycle project including budget analysis, project scope and milestones, resource allocation, risk management, requirements gathering, requirements analysis and management, GAP analysis, quality assurance and testing and implementation.
• Work in collaboration with IT, administrative, development teams and other business stakeholders to maintain cooperative relation and translate plans into action
• Address critical and problematic situations with ease and analytical thinking
• Available to resolve analytical problems and reporting needs of OBIEE and data warehouse applications
• Develop and maintain documentation, BI dash boards and reports
• Train new recruits, business analysts and other associates as needed

OBIEE Business Analyst / Developer - Confidential Plano, Texas 
AUG 2008 – July 2010

• Liaised with functional leaders to gather business requirements and design the technical solutions using OBIEE tools
• Conducted GAP analysis to review the techno-functional environment and identify the need to improve the deliverance of steps that helped with the increase in productivity.
• Created an OBIEE business proposal, implementation roadmap, presentation and negotiation
• Worked on all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC) includes Requirement, Design, Development, Integration, Testing, Code Management and Deployment.
• Created Connection Pools - Structured physical joins, creating Alias Tables, snow flake schemas and star schemas.
• Development, importing data into the physical layer, modeling it in the business modeling and mapping (BMM) layer, aggregation, time series modeling, calculation wizards, dimension hierarchies, managing session and repository variables, creating users and adding groups for security, deploying the repository to the presentation services using the NQSconfig, create reports in schedule and chart formats in BI Answers, create delivery profiles in BI delivers, creating dashboards and (XML) BI Publisher reports
• Created alerts for job-critical levels and auditable differences delivered to dashboards and email to assist process owners with timely decision making
• Formatted reports, including embedding web-based communications according to business requirements.
• Worked closely with quality assurance analysts & end-users to influence an improvement in the quality of their testing
• Took ownership of test process improvement initiatives and driving them through to completion
• Gained acknowledgement for providing solutions for migrating data to the Lender processing system (LPS) and automating data filtering for non-performing loans.
• Conducted performance tuning to diagnose performance issues, cache management, optimize connection pools, aggregation, event polling tables, data format restructuring usage tracking tables, indexing, scheduling report delivery.

Technical Manager 01/2004 - 10/2007
Confidential 
Privately held: 250 employees- Manufacturing, Farming, Fuel and Tourism services

• Worked closely with Business Analyst in understanding the Analytics requirements and created the business model for generating reports as per the user requirements.
• Configured OBIEE Repository, set connection pools, implement physical data model as per requirements, importing the tables and having the physical joins/keys required and changed the physical joins/key on the existing tables.
• Configured Oracle BI Scheduler to integrate delivers with OBIEEAnswers so as to deliver alerts and reports to end users bysetting up the DB schema for Scheduler that is used to store the runtime data, configuring the scheduler on Windows, configuring the presentation services in order for it to connect to Scheduler and by starting the Scheduler Service.
• Designed and Configured Dashboards in Analytics for different groups of users to view figures across regions, products with the facility to drill down to individual customer relationship manager.
• Developed custom reports/Ad-hoc queries using OBI Answers and Filters.
• Implemented the delivery of iBots using OBI Delivers to alert the associated teams.
• Used Security Manager to define Users and User Groups for easier repository permissions.
• Incident & Problem Management Status report reviews - Investigated and analyzed service problems, instigating and implementing remedial action that improved service delivery
• Production Support Country Lead – tracking documentation of major problems and providing regular updates to users. Managing recurring issues and ensuring long-term resolution
• Supervised and set out strategic financial planning, formulation of policies and procedures, working capital management, cost control, project evaluation. Assisted the company save $500,000 through stringent budget control and analysis
• P&L Analysis and preparing monthly variances for analysis of budget vs. actual and providing guidance on how the company should increase productivity and reduce expenditure.

EDUCATION

• Master of Science in information technology –Project Management( current)-Confidential University
• Bachelor of Science in Accounting –Confidential University
• Associate of Arts in accounting-Confidential University .
• Diploma in Business administration- Confidential University