Teradata Dba Resume
Columbus, OH
SUMMARY
- Over 8 years of work experience in IT Industry in the Teradata Developer/performance Tuning/DBA, Informatica and Unix in Data warehousing stream.
- Thorough understanding of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Concepts with emphasis on ETL and Full Life Cycle.
- Experienced in building the semantic views.
- Experienced in Teradata utilities like BTEQ, Fast Load, Multi Load, Tpump, Fast Export And Teradata SQL.
- Experienced in Teradata performance tuning.
- Experienced with Teradata Tools like SQL Assistant, Teradata View Point, Teradata Manager
- Experienced in Administrative activities like creating users, roles and monitoring performance of queries.
- Through understanding in protection concepts like Fallback, RAIDs, Journals.
- Good Knowledge on backup and recovery operations.
- Good Knowledge in TERADATA data warehouse architecture.
- Experienced in Informatica Power Center (versions 9.x/8.x/7.x), Mappings, Mapplets, Transformations, Workflow Manager, Workflow Monitor, Repository Manager, Star Schema Modeling, Slowly Changing Dimensions (Type 1, Type 2 and Type 3)
- Strong understanding of Performance tuning in Informatica and Databases. Experienced in loading data into Data Warehouse/Data Marts using Informatica
- Experineced using PDO ( Pushdown optimization ) in Informatica with Teradata
- Good Knowledge on Dimensional Modeling concepts Star Schema and Snow Flake Schema.
- Experienced with UNIX shell scripting and processing files.
- Having good knowledge about financial sector (Banking and Insurance)
TECHNICAL SKILLS
DATABASES: Teradata 13, Teradata 12, Teradata V2R6, Teradata V2R5,Netezza, Oracle 9i,SQL Server 2008
ETL Tool: Informatica 9.1, Informatica 8.6, Informatica 7.1, Datastage 8.7, Abinitio 2
Operating systems: Unix, Windows, Mainframes
Languages: UNIX Shell Programming, SQL, PL/SQL
Application Utilities: BTEQ, Multi load, Fast Load, Fast export, TPUMP
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Columbus, OH
Teradata DBA
Responsibilities:
- Working as Teradata developer and Application DBA.
- Performance tuning of Teradata code, analyzing the explain plan and determining which column/index/table needed to collect statistics, improved the performance up to 40% - 50%.
- Analyzed the skew ness and suggested the changes to Primary Index at the time of development to resolve the performance bottle necks.
- Involved in preparing Physical Data Model (PDM).
- Worked closely with Modelers while creating physical tables.
- Capacity planning based on project planning.
- Analyzed the space requirement and assigning and recovering.
- Database / Users / Other objects creations.
- Space assignment and recovering.
- Granted Access Rights between databases.
- Created and granted ROLES to the users as per the requirement.
- Reviewed DDL for the objects.
- PI Selection attributes.
- Published the DDLs into repository.
- Reviewed Objects and code as per the Teradata Best Practices.
- Stats recommendation and defining.
- Performance improvement suggestions and implementation.
- System monitoring completing daily basis incidents from multiple application teams.
- Designed and Developed Informatica mappings, mapplets, sessions and workflows for data Loads.
- Created design and mapping documents for ETL processes, defining the transformations and join conditions.
- Developed complex mappings involving joiners, lookups, routers and update strategy.
- Used parameter files, reusable sessions and worklets in the workflows.
- Parameterized all the queries using the unix scripts
- Used FTP connections to read files from various FTP Sources.
- Did migration of the code between environments having all the components in sync.
- Involved in unit testing and source code reviews.
Environment: Teradata 14.0, Informatica 9.1, unix, Control-M
Confidential, Richmond, VA
Teradata Lead
Responsibilities:
- Discussed the requirements with client.
- Attended the calls with data Architect to get the knowledge on data models.
- Involved in preparing the low-level technical design documents.
- Building the views in semantic layer.
- Created the Teradata bteq scripts, Fastload, Multiload and Fastexport scripts.
- Developed various Mappings, Mapplet and Transformations for migration of data from various existing systems to the new system using Informatica Designer.
- Created the mappings using transformations such as the Source Qualifier, Aggregator, Expression, Look up, Filter, Router, Normalizer and Update Strategy
- Created Informatica sessions and workflows to use Pushdown optimization with Teradata.
- Created and defined DDL’s for the tables at staging area.
- Attended the defect analysis calls with testing team.
- Prepared the work status reports.
- Prepared the status reports and presenting to the client.
Environment: Teradata 13, Informatica 8.6.1, unix, Cognos 8
Confidential, SanJose, CA
Teradata Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Created the mappings using transformations such as the Source Qualifier, Aggregator, Expression, Look up, Filter, Router, Normalizer and Update Strategy
- Created and configured Worklets, workflows, and sessions to transport the data to target warehouse using Informatica Workflow manager.
- Mapplets and Reusable transformations were used to prevent redundancy of transformation usage and maintainability.
- Identified the performance problems.
- Identified the bottlenecks in the sql queries.
- Tuned the queries using tuning techniques.
- Tested the query performance with sample data in development environment.
- Tested in the test environment.
- Migrated the code to the production.
- Created Bteq scripts as per the requirement.
- Good experience of error handling in bteq scripts
- Handled job failures of fast load and tpump.
- Written reconciliation queries between oracle and teradata
- Fixing reconciliation issues.
- Scheduled sessions through $U tool.
- Loaded the data to Teradata using utilities.
- Provided Adhoc reports to users.
- Created CRs to change in database objects.
- Implemented permanent fixes through CR.
- Analyzed and modified the Unix shell scripts as per the requirement.
Environment: Teradata 12, Informatica 8.6.1,unix, Cognos 8
Confidential, Minneapolis, MN
Teradata Developer
Responsibilities:
- Understanding the Business Process and providing the interim solution to users.
- Retrieved data from Teradata database.
- Involved in SQL performance tuning and also handled critical spool space errors in database.
- Implemented quick fix and suggested a Permanent fix to the other Teams as per the Business need.
- Implemented Data fix on database as per the User Request for the Business.
- Generated the adhoc data as excel Reports to Users (through Teradta SQl).
- Done Route cause analysis on Production Support issues.
- Created UNIX shell scripts as per the business requirement.
- Developed simple & complex mappings using Designer to load dimension and fact tables as per STAR schema techniques.
- Implemented Informatica transformations such as Source Qualifier, Aggregator, Expressions, Look up Filters and Sequence Generator
- Updated slowly changing dimensions (SCDs).
- Received the sales data from stores and loaded that into data warehouse.
- Involved with migration team to fix the deployment issues in the Production environment.
Environment: Teradata V2R6, Informatica 7.1.3, unix, Microstrategy
Confidential
Teradata Developer
Responsibilities:
- Understand the Business Process and provided the interim solution to users.
- Interacted with Client to get the requirements.
- Used Erwin to change relations in data model.
- Created the Physical data model by using logical Data model.
- Implemented the Slowly changing dimensions to hold the historical data.
- Created Bteq scripts as per the requirement. Used most of the SQL functions.
- Created fast load and multi load scripts and tested in test environment and move the code to production.
- Extensively used Fast export to export the data and Multi load to import the data
- Pre processing of source files.
- Created unix scripts to call Teradata Utilities.
- Resolved the loader issues in Abinitio.
- Provided Adhoc reports to users.
Environment: Teradata V2R6, Abinitio, unix