Microstrategy Architect Resume Profile
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Qualification Summary
- Over 7 years of IT experience in Data Warehousing, Data Architecture and Data Modeling using MicroStrategy Platform, Tableau, Informatica and Erwin.
- Strong experience using MicroStrategy 8.x/9.x Suite Intelligence Server, Administrator, Architect, Desktop, Web , Business Objects 5.x Web intelligence and Deski ,Tableau Desktop and reader.
- Worked with MicroStrategy Architect to build Hierarchies, Attributes, Facts and Relationships between various attributes and developed perfect logical models for reporting environment.
- Created Transformations Table based, Formula based for using in comparative reports like sales of various products this year to last year year to date and month to date .
- Creating Logical views in MicroStrategy to support the new requirements.
- Managed schema development changes/enhancements effectively. Extensively worked in creating Hierarchies, Attributes, Facts and Relationships between various attributes and developed perfect logical models for reporting environment.
- Worked on Various Complex Data models involving both Star and Snowflake schema.
- Worked with the Business Analysts and involved in gathering Business requirements and determining the appropriate facts, attributes and metrics from the same and documented them.
- Guided the business users by creating prototypes for the Dashboards and Scorecards.
- Involved in Analysis, Design, Development and Implementation of Business Intelligence and Maintaining Applications using MicroStrategy DSS Tool suite.
- Worked extensively on MicroStrategy Desktop, Administrator, Intelligence Server and Web.
- Worked closely with MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server applications.
- Provided complex Reports in MicroStrategy Desktop and MicroStrategy Web using Templates, Filters, Prompts, Consolidations and Custom Groups.
- Extensively worked on the intelligent cubes and created reports out of it.
- Developed Reports, Flash dashboards and Interactive documents extensively from Desktop and Web.
- Experience in Visual Insight Services.
- Involved in creating Custom Documents in MicroStrategy to combine the Data sets of multiple reports and also created Custom Dashboards and Scorecards using Report Services.
- Extensively worked on the Object Manger to move the Objects between different Environments.
- Extensively worked on MicroStrategy Administration that includes Intelligence Server Administration, configuration of Memory settings, and Performance monitoring.
- Tuned the reports to enhance performance and reduce the running time.
- Expertise in calling reports by passing parameters through Edit links and hyperlinks in reports and dashboards.
- Very proficient in working with large Databases like Oracle,Teradata and SQL Server.
- Used Erwin to generate logical Physical models of the Data Warehouse Structures.
- Used Tableau 8 reporting tool to develop custom SQL workbooks based on the business needs.
Technical Skills:
OLAP Tools: MicroStrategy 9.4,9.3, 9.1, 8.1.0, 8.0 8.0.1, 8.0.2 , Administrator, Desktop, Web, Architect,
Narrowcast, Report Services . Tableau 8.
ETL Tools: Informatica 7.0/ Power Center
Data Modeling: Erwin 4.0
RDBMS: Oracle 11g10g/9i, SQL Server, DB2 v7.2, Teradata V2R5,V2R6, 12/14, Teradata Aster, Microsoft Access, Essbase.
Tools: SQL plus, Erwin 4, Toad, Visio, SQL Query Analyzer, Visual Source Safe, MS-Office 2007, SharePoint, Remedy, MS-Project 2007, SAS Enterprise Scripting: SQL, PL/SQL, SQL-MR, ksh, Visual basic script.
Languages: SQL, PL/SQL,C,C
Professional Experience
Confidential
Role : MicroStrategy Architect / Developer
Responsibilities :
- SDLC methodology Requirement Gathering, BRD, BSD, Gap Analysis, Data Modelling, SSD, Project Architecture, Report Development and Performance tuning.
- Successfully Architected 2 MicroStrategy Projects for PO Change Tracking and Single View Reporting groups.
- Involved in gathering business requirements and documenting specifications.
- Architected objects and developed strategic reports integrating multiple country data for International Business groups.
- Worked with the Business Analysts and involved in gathering business requirements and determining the appropriate facts, attributes and metrics from the same and documented them.
- Architected objects and developed strategic reports integrating multiple country data for International Business groups.
- Managed schema development changes/enhancements effectively. Extensively worked in creating Hierarchies, Attributes, Facts and Relationships between various attributes and developed perfect logical models for reporting environment.
- Created Transformations table based, formula based for using in comparative reports like sales this year to last year year to date and month to date .
- Designed and Developed Templates, Filters, Metrics, and OLAP Reports using MicroStrategy 9.0.
- Developed Auto Prompt Filters that gave user a choice of different filtering criteria each time they run the filter.
- For complex reporting needs, worked extensively on creating Metrics and Compound Metrics, Filters, Custom Groups and Consolidations.
- Resolved Many to Many relationship between the attributes and identified the one to one and one to many relationship between the attributes
- Provided end user training for the MicroStrategy Web users.
- Worked extensively on MicroStrategy Administration like creating the new users, roles Privileges, Access control lists.
- Responsible for various administration tasks like Tuning,Caching,specifying Query Governing Thresholds, and Report Optimization.
- Hands-on experience in administration and maintenance of MicroStrategy platform for all data warehouse components.
- Extensively worked on Dashboards using Report Services and also migrated documents to 9.0.
- Responsible for various administration tasks like Tuning, Caching, specifying Query Governing Thresholds, and Report Optimization.
- Extensively used MicroStrategy Report Services to generate Report Documents.
- Involved in troubleshooting MicroStrategy Web Reports, optimizing the SQL using the VLDB Properties.
- Customized reports, Documents and deployed them to MicroStrategy web.
- Extensively used Narrowcast Server for personalized Report distribution.
- Reduced the time taken for the reports to run by taking advantages of VLDB properties like query optimizations.
Confidential
Role : MicroStrategy Developer
Responsibilities:
- Started with generating MicroStrategy Schema objects and Application objects by creating Facts, Attributes, Hierarchies, Reports, Filters, Metrics and Templates using MicroStrategy Desktop.
- Developed Complex business reports in desktop using multiple Prompts, Filters and Compound metrics.
- Created Narrowcast objects such as Information Objects, Question Objects, Publications Control Documents, Excel attachments, Email body , Services, Sub I/O, Schedules etc.
- Created Dashboards and Scorecards using Report Services and also migrated documents to 8.1.
- Trained Microstrategy's BI team on the updates from the tool and monitored them.
- Created Custom Documents using MicroStrategy Reports to combine the Data sets of multiple reports and also created custom Dashboards and Scorecards using Report Services.
- Developed Narrowcast Reports for the SMART support team using Static and Dynamic subscriptions.
- Designed Flash Enabled Interactive Dashboards by adding additional functionalities using panels, selectors and widgets and delivered the files to the end users via Narrowcast Server.
- Created Individual MicroStrategy reports in desktop using the Custom Groups and Consolidations and thus Information objects from them, to align them in the Excel Document editor in the Narrowcast.
- Extensively used Micro Strategy's Narrowcast to create Weekly Excel reports and created excel attachments in Narrowcast using the Excel document editor, populating the Document elements into it.
- Extensively worked on MicroStrategy administration like creating new users, roles and Access s control lists and Privileges.
- Developed the Excel Reports which contained multiple tabs and multiple dropdowns which was built using the Macro code for the Narrowcast Requirements.
- Involved in implementing optimization techniques to enhance the performance of queries dynamically generated by MicroStrategy using VLDB properties and also by interacting with DBA's and designers.
- Developed Weekly, Quarterly and Monthly scheduled Narrowcast Reports.
- Troubleshooted the Narrowcast Issues looking at the logs.
Confidential
Role : MicroStrategy Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Author Business Requirement Document BRD , Business Solution Document BSD , and Report Requirement Document RRD and provide logical data modelling to the ETL and the off-shore teams.
- Extensively worked with Logical and Physical modelling, design and implementation of Oracle.
- Created more than 100 reports from the scratch by creating the project, Attributes, Facts, Hierarchy, Filters, Metrics, Prompts and all other MicroStrategy related objects.
- Obtained the requirement specifications from the Business Analysts for Corporate work place project Interacted with the business users to build the sample report layout
- Worked on MicroStrategy Schema objects and Application objects by creating facts, attributes, hierarchies, reports, filters, metrics and templates using MicroStrategy Desktop and Architect.
- Some formal responsibilities on the project includes Reporting requirement finalization with business users report mockups , Help Data Analyst with Data Model Design, Create MSTR Schema Objects ,Work with DA and DBA on better index pattern and database views for higher performance, Performance Tuning on a Teradata database of 22 terabytes, Migration testing of MicroStrategy 7.5.2 reports to version 8 report.
- Created Users, Roles Privileges using the MicroStrategy Desktop Administrator .
- Developed Facts, Attributes, and Hierarchies using respective editors.
- Worked extensively on creating Metrics and Compound Metrics, Filters, Custom Groups and Consolidations.
- Generated freeform reports for faster and better performance of the system as per the user requirements.
- Reduced the time taken for the reports to run by taking advantages of VLDB properties like star join, query and sub query optimizations for Oracle 9i and SQL hints.
- Designed and Developed Templates, Filters, Metrics, and OLAP Reports using MicroStrategy 8.1.
- Developed Auto Prompt Filters that gave user a choice of different filtering criteria each time they run the filter.
- Designed and developed reports using Advanced Metric Objects, Filters, and Prompts and hence providing users with the facility to create customized reports by creating their own filters and templates.
- Resolved Many to Many relationship between the attributes and identified the one to one and one to many relationship between the attributes
- Provided end user training for the MicroStrategy Web users.
- Worked extensively on MicroStrategy Administration like creating the new users, roles Privileges, Access control lists.
Confidential
Role : MicroStrategy Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Created database for production environment In Oracle.
- Created users, roles and privileges on the Oracle databases.
- Created user groups, roles, privileges using MicroStrategy Application.
- Involved in Designing Ad-hoc Reports, Scorecards, and Dashboards.
- Generated analytical reports using Slice, Dice, Drill Down, Cross Tab, Master Detail and Formulae features.
- Created and configured database for development and production environments.
- Created tables in SQL Server 6.5.
- Developed stored procedures and database triggers using PL/SQL.
- Database and log backups restoration, backup strategies, scheduling the backups. Backing up System User Databases and restoring them when necessary.
- Monitor tune SQL scripts. Creating upgrade scripts for production Database and support.
- Performance monitoring and tuning of SQL servers and Data transfers using BCP.
- Setting up the monitoring triggers on NT for SQL Server Databases