Microstrategy Developer/admin Resume
NH
SUMMARY:
- Around 6+ years of IT experience in various fields like Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Database applications and Client server programming.
- Strong experience in MicroStrategy Suite (Intelligence Server, Administrator, Architect, Desktop, Web, Narrowcast Server, Distribution Services, Mobile).
- Extensively worked in creating and integrating MicroStrategy Reports and Objects (Attributes, Filters, Metrics, Facts, Prompts and Hierarchies) with the Data Warehouse.
- Expertise in creating complex reports in MicroStrategy Desktop using features like Templates, Filters, Prompts, Consolidations and Custom Groups.
- Developed various Micro Strategy Narrowcast Server Objects like Service, Schedule, Publication, Information objects, Information Source and Subscription etc.
- Extensively worked on delivering reports and business intelligence solutions on the web using MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server.
- Knowledge in Tableau.
- Participated in various migration works to tableau.
- Got trained and gained extensive knowledge in reporting tableau
- Create highly interactive MicroStrategy dashboards by using Visual Insights that replaced legacy reports
- Produce Ad - Hoc queries and reports as needed along with providing on-going analytical support for these requests with metrics, attributes, relationship filters, and prompts to support reporting
- Perform detailed data analysis, validation, and identify data quality issues to ensure consistency across all environments.
- Used SDK for customization of various dashboards by using Java.
- Implemented Mobile versions of Dashboards for iPad and iPhone.
- Created Transaction Services Microstrategy Dashboards.
- Delivered visualizations and Widgets including Bubble Grids, ESRI Maps, Heat maps, Time Series, Waterfall graphs, Micro charts in Microstrategy Dashbnoards.
- Provided Calendar, Geography, Demographics, and Economics enhancements to client data models.
- Developed basic and user-specified Metrics (level and conditional) in the object model of Microstrategy.
- Created drill maps for end users to drill down and recover data.
- Designing and executing Application objects and Schema objects using MicroStrategy Desktop.
- Water fall and Agile software development life cycle process to data development projects
- Expertise in creating Microstrategy custom Dash Boards and Scorecards using Flash and DHTML.
- Experience in configuring the Microstrategy Intelligence Server and pointing the database instances in both development & Production environments.
- Experience in designing Data Marts using different multidimensional modeling techniques such as Star Schema and Snowflake Schema, Physical and logical data modeling.
- Expertise in using MicroStrategy Report Services to generate electronic snapshots of business data and present them in a visually appealing and intuitive format.
- Experience in setting up VLDB properties at different levels to customize SQL generation by MicroStrategy.
- Collaboration with team members and also being actively involved in learning opportunities for better solutions.
- Good experience in RDBMS - Netezza, DB2Teradata, Oracle, SQL server and
- Build E-R Relationships using E-R Charts and Data Modeling Tools.
- Worked on upgrading the MicroStrategy project created in MicroStrategy version 8.x to version 9.4.1 and also 10.1 version.
- Involved in process of data movement from DB2
- Worked extensively on Visual Insights, which help in analyzing the data quickly.
- Very well versed with Data Warehousing concepts.
- Performance monitoring and tuning experience for all MicroStrategy reports and dashboards.
- Excellent analytical, inter-personal and communication skills with clear understanding of business process flow.
- Applied Teradata Application Utilities and Teradata SQL . Also Fine tuned SQL using Teradata.
- Strong experience in understanding Business Applications, Business Dataflow and Data relations. Exception ability to quickly master new concepts and capable of working in-group as well as independently.
- Extensive knowledge of SQL,PL/SQL and worked on very large databases in Teradata V2R5/V2R4, Oracle 10g/9i/8i/7.x, and SQL Server 2005/2008
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
BI Tools: MicroStrategy Desktop10.4, 9.x/ MicroStrategy Architect, MicroStrategy Web, MicroStrategy Intelligence Server, Administrator, Report Services, Command Manager, Object manager Enterprise ManagerRDBMS: Oracle 9i/10g, MS Access, MS SQL Server, MySQL.
Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Netezza.
OLAP Tools: MS SQL Analysis Services, DB2 OLAP Crystal Reports
Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux
Other Tools & S/W: Microsoft Office, GIS
Interpersonal Skills: Great knowledge and Experience in Communication Skills, Prepared and conducted many seminars. Committed to development of self and team
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, NH
MicroStrategy Developer/Admin
Responsibilities:
- Mapped all the columns of table using Architect according to the user requirement.
- Analysed and documented the need of all data needed for the transition of Liberty Mutual to Linclon Financial.
- Involved in various business and technical discussions to dicuss the direction.
- Worked closely with ETL people to make sure the data is in the right type needed for reporting.
- Created cubes to make sure the performance is up right.
- Scheduled the cube and monitored it daily and weekly.
- Added metrics to the cube often according to the business requirments.
- Created reports filters,hierarchies, custom groups and consolidations.
- Also created advanced objects like derived metrics, compound metrics.
- Worked on creating various metrics for measuring satisfactory and unsatisfactory measures.
- Builded documents from scratch to export them as PDF and Excel formats.
- Created BarGraphs, Pie, Ring Chart for data visualization, so that business can make quick decisions.
- Created complex document with 8 graphs including 5 ring charts and 2 bar graphs and a pie.
- Worked extensively on Visual Insight Dashboards, by co-ordinating with stake holders.
- Created Data Sources names for various connections.
- Worked as an Admin for creating schdules and scheduling cubes.
- Administered MicroStrategy environments and formulated user groups.
- Monitored Cache and user groups and security privilages.
- Performed various testing using Microstrategy Tools to make sure all the business is delivered right.
- Worked on various levels of tickets to make Mstr system stable.
Environment: MicroStrategy 10.4 (Developer,MstrWeb,Object Manager,Architect,Enterprise Manager), Informatica, Hive, SQL, Netezza, AWS, Windows
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
MicroStrategy Developer/Admin
Responsibilities:
- Involved in design/development life cycle including gathering requirements, user interaction and report design and development.
- Co Ordinated with internal & External Stake Holders.
- Developed Metrics, Filters, prompts to achieve the functionality of the canned reports
- Created advanced objects like Derived Metrics, Compound Metrics.
- Extensively worked on building Schema in Microstrategy
- Designed and developed OLAP cubes and dimensional models.
- Worked extensively in creating complex reports using simple metrics, compound metrics, relationship filters.
- Experience in using Java program in Command manager to automate the process.
- Validated end user requirements using MicroStrategy tools.
- Experience in Managing & Coordinating both Offshore and Onshore teams.
- Performed various SDK customizations to ensure clients user friendly operations by using various scripts in Java.
- Created OLAP cubes using SSAS and starch schema techniques.
- Worked closely with all aspects of the Business Intelligence group in order to deliver the required solutions in a timely manner.
- Creation of Microstrategy Intelligent Cubes and sharing to reduce the database load and decreasing the report execution time by using the cube services.
- Create, maintain and modify Attributes, Metrics, Filters, Facts, and Hierarchies.
- Use the Warehouse Catalog to move and update tables in Microstrategy.
- Developed MicroStrategy Dynamic Dashboards in the Flash Mode using several controls and worked extensively on widgets.
- Converted existing interactive reports with prompts to non-prompted reports for Narrow casting.
- Create Parent/Child relationships and set up dynamic attributes.
- Set dimensionality, conditions, filtering and grouping on metrics.
- Monitoring the cubes load based on daily, weekly.
- Hands on experience in deployments using Object Manager.
- Worked with the DBA on issues of database performance and security.
- Worked with ETL experts in discussing and analyzing data load issues.
- Analyzed and created documents for easy usage of User Manager.
- Worked on administrative tasks like User Groups, Roles, Privileges, Cache Management.
- Used MicroStrategy Web to offer interactive reporting to the end users through a web browser. Proactively created report formats and delivered personalized messages from the Data warehouse.
- Actively participated in creation of Dashboards for Revenue recognition, Claims processing and employee Performance.
- Created Dynamic Dashboard documents for Field marketing people with multiple panel stacks, selectors and customized widgets.
- Involved in various forms of testing before deployment.
- Performed smoke testing and QA testing.
- Involved extensively in the overall lifecycle of the Data Warehouse integration project.
- Generated different kinds of Pass-Through Functions and used for time filters like current month and previous year etc.
- Created different Project Sources for different environments like production, testing and development.
- Participated in Microstrategy Upgrade 10.1 from version 9.4.1
- Well versed in installation, configuration and Project creation and tuning of MicroStrategy Business Intelligence.
- Extensively worked on delivering reports and business intelligence solutions on the web using MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server& Distribution servers.
- Generated reports using Advanced Metric objects, Filters, Prompts and also created Customized Templates to facilitate the End users to create customized reports by choosing Filters, Metrics and Report Attributes.
- Administered MicroStrategy environments and formulated user groups.
- Handled user licenses for projects and Managed backup of Metadata.
- Extensively worked on Desktop to create Applications Objects, Reports and Dashboards (Documents & Scorecards).
- Extensively worked on MicroStrategy Defects to make system stable
Environment: MicroStrategy 10.1 (Developer, Object Manager, Enterprise Manager), Informatica, Oracle 10g, SQL, Netezza, HTML, Windows
Confidential,Columbus, Indiana
MicroStrategy Developer/Admin
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for understanding the business requirements from the users and analyzing the report specification documents.
- Worked on converting Teradata reports in SQL to MicroStrategy reports and documents.
- Analyzed logical data models, understand data warehouse tables and columns, map the columns to the MicroStrategy project by creating public objects.
- Identified the Source tables and columns required to create the MicroStrategy Project, thereby achieving a logical mapping of the physical data warehouse in the MicroStrategy Metadata Repository.
- Expertise in reporting through visualization.
- Designed MicroStrategy Schema objects and Application objects using MicroStrategy Desktop and maintained data dictionary for the project.
- Worked extensively in creating complex reports using simple metrics, compound metrics, relationship filters.
- Analysing data models and recommending.
- Worked with an agile framework involving rapid prototyping and quick, iterative dashboard development and enhancement.
- Created highly interactive MicroStrategy dashboards by using Visual Insights that replaced legacy reports.
- Validated Hadoop migration using and transformation process with Hive.
- Creating step by step solutions for movement and transformation of data using Hive and Scala.
- Worked on creation of views for the creation of MicroStrategy objects.
- Created Dashboards through report services document through MicroStrategy Desktop.
- Worked in Market Basket analysis with Relationship filters.
- Created design and technical specification documents for realizing MicroStrategy objects to be integrated in the report.
- Demonstrated the Dashboard reports and documents to the users.
Environment: MicroStrategy 9.4.1 (Desktop, Object Manager, Enterprise Manager), QlikView, Informatica, Oracle 10g, SQL, Teradata, HTML, Windows.
Confidential, Boston, MA
MicroStrategy Developer/Admin
Responsibilities:
- Involved in gathering of business requirements.
- Architected schema objects such as attributes, facts and transformations.
- Created a DB instance for MicroStrategy and added all the tables, table prefixes and updated the table structure required for the Project.
- Created various MicroStrategy objects such as Metrics (simple and compound), Filters, Prompts, Custom Groups, Consolidations, etc.
- Worked with MicroStrategy Object Manager to move objects among the Development, Testing and Production environments.
- Involved in testing of the entire project when Teradata is upgraded from V2.5 to V2.6.
- Involved in upgrade process of MicroStrategy 8.1.2 to 9.0.
- Writing BAT file to call Command manager to execute Service.
- Created custom attribute functionalities using OLAP services.
- Set Up MicroStrategy and Windows Performance Counters and Log them to Text or CSV for Performance Tracking.
- Worked on creating the Visual Insights including the various widgets and demonstrated to the business users.
- Perform Daily Checks for job Monitor, user sessions and Cache Monitor to keep the system stable.
- Micro strategy Intelligent Server Tuning for performance.
- Creation of Intelligent Cubes and sharing to reduce the database load and decreasing the report execution time by using the cube services.
- Created additional visualizations to display the data in multiple ways.
- Modified, rearranged or resized visualizations in a quick dashboard.
- Involved in creating services and objects in Narrowcast server.
- Used Narrowcast Sever for timely delivery of report for authorized users.
- Created various event based Schedules.
- Actively participated in developing Report Delivery Schedules.
- Created reports with various object prompts to generate various Ad hoc reports.
- Worked with Erwin in designing the schema for database views.
- Actively participated in creation of Dashboards for Revenue recognition, Claims processing and employee Performance.
- Created Dynamic Dashboard documents for Field marketing people with multiple panel stacks, selectors and customized widgets.
Environment: MicroStrategy 8.1 (Administrator, Architect, Desktop, Narrowcast Server, Object Manager, Enterprise Manager) MicroStrategy Narrowcast server, ETL, OLAP, Windows Server 2003, MicroStrategy Dashboard, Teradata.
Confidential -New York, NY
MicroStrategy Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Involved in collecting the business requirements from users by understanding the Source System (OLTP) and interacting with the users.
- Created and maintained Business Documents for reporting and Coordinated with business users and report development team for all reporting changes.
- Designed and developed different types of reports as per the requirements.
- Developed Transformations (table based, formula based) to be used for comparative analysis like loans this year to last year (year to date and month to date).
- Deployed MicroStrategy Desktop in designing the MicroStrategy projects. The business rules of the data warehouse were implemented into MicroStrategy Architecture.
- Worked with Pass-through functions, like Apply Simple in defining the attributes, facts and metrics.
- Used MicroStrategy Web to offer interactive reporting to the end users through a web browser. Proactively created report formats and delivered personalized messages from the Data warehouse.
- Developed scorecards and dashboards that provide users a highly graphical, summary view of key metrics.
- Developed thorough understanding of the project’s technical details (e.g. call flow, billing, provisioning, operations, etc.); uncovered and assessed project’s risk and dependencies.
- Worked extensively with Intelligent Cubes in developing the dashboards to increase the performance.
- Created attributes, Consolidations and derived metrics on the reports from Intelligent Cubes.
- Designed Dashboards using selectors & widgets and summarized key business indicators by presenting them in visually intuitive, easy-to-read, interactive documents.
- Created report services documents to personalize the reports as per user requirements, which included combination of several sets of individual grid reports, customizing and formatting.
- Created users and user groups, and granted them access to different projects based on the security.
- Created Dynamic Subscriptions for users to be able to receive reports via email.
- Prepared data migration plans including migration risk, milestones, quality and business sign-off details.
- Worked with end users in solving the current financial Issues.
- Extensively worked with end-users to resolve the issues faced during day-to-day activities.
- Integration with the User Interface application built for Chase client.
Environment: MicroStrategy Desktop 8.1.1, MicroStrategy Intelligence Server, MicroStrategy Web, Narrowcast Administrator, Oracle 10g, Oracle Data Integrator, MS SQL Server
Confidential
MicroStrategy Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Involved in the complete Life cycle of the Project and in the data analysis process.
- Participated in the end user meetings to obtain the business requirements for creating reports.
- Involved in Data-Modeling Analysis like Creation of Snowflake schema, report structure based on the user requirements.
- Installing, Configuring of all MicroStrategy products including MicroStrategy Desktop, Administrator, Intelligence Server, Web Server.
- Used Advanced Filters, Conditional, Transformation and Level Metrics for creating complex reports.
- Extensively used MicroStrategy Report Services to generate Report Documents.
- Designed an efficient BI Dashboard for the Company Executives, through efficient use of MicroStrategy Report Services.
- Converted the previously created web flash dashboards to IPad dashboards with swipe and tap functionality using MicroStrategy Mobile Server.
- Developed MicroStrategy Schema objects and Application objects such as Facts, Attributes, Transformations and Hierarchies.
- Created all possible Metrics, for enabling the end users to generate customized reports by creating their own Templates and Filters, Administrated MicroStrategy Intelligence Server and Web Server.
- Responsible for the end Users training for the MicroStrategy Web interface.
- Involved in Implementation of Security layer for MicroStrategy.
- Involved in creating users in MicroStrategy Desktop for testing the reports on the Web interface.
Environment: MicroStrategy 8.1.2 Product Suite (Architect, Desktop, Web, Object Manager) Oracle 10g
Confidential
SQL Developer
Responsibilities:
- Performed the Creation, manipulation and supporting the SQL Server databases.
- Involved in Creation of tables, indexes, sequences, constraints, triggers and procedures.
- Created stored procedures and triggers, which were used to implement business rules.
- Helped in integration of the front end with the SQL Server backend.
- Written triggers, stored procedures and manipulated the data using DDL and DML functions.
- Migrated the data (Import & Export of data) from one server to other servers using tools like Data Transformation Services (DTS)
- According to the business requirements made the documentation of the performed tasks.
- Extensively Used SQL Profiler for troubleshooting, monitoring, and optimization of SQL Server and non-production database code as well as T-SQL code from developers and QA.
- Backing up, restoring system & other databases as per requirements, and also scheduled those backups.
- Managing the security of the servers, creating the new logins and users, changing the roles of the users
Environment: MicroStrategy 7.1.0/8.0 (Administrator, Architect, Desktop, Narrowcast Server, Object Manager, Enterprise Manager) Informatics Power center, Oracle, Toad, Windows NT.