SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished, self - driven and creative BI Manager with a distinguished 12+ year career leading the design and implementation of BI solutions to enhance decision-making. Skilled in partnering with business, leadership, teams and partners to identify needs, define strategy, and guide the delivery of BI solutions. Proven ability to quickly grasp and apply new technologies and best practices in large enterprise wide implementations.
• Total IT work experience of 12.5 years with exceptional skills in BI Platform Architecture, Solution Architecture, Program management and Platform administration.
• Seasoned BI program manager specialized in driving complex enterprise BI platform upgrades and infrastructure qualification, new platform introduction and data center consolidation projects in a time critical environment.
• Experience managing multiple technology teams across the globe in a 24X7 environment with 99.5% availability.
• Collaborates with enterprise architect and IT leadership on strategic BI solution, roadmap, and evaluation of BI tools and define the technical solution design.
• Experience in project management, resourcing, impact and risk analysis, budgeting and project life cycle processes including waterfall, agile. Vast experience driving projects in a regulated environment (Qualification, Validation) according to the GxP, CSV policies and standards.
• Experienced in providing end to end solution architecture for BI solutions with the expertise in various BI tools and technologies and domain knowledge.
• Significant strength in defining platform architecture, On demand/cloud strategy, Vendor evaluation and proof of concept, Disaster Recovery strategy and setup, Environment qualification, Performance tuning, capacity planning, scalability and maintainability of the environment, high availability setup, security implementation across BI platforms, defining BI standards and, backup strategy for contents.
• Experience in managing BI tools includes Business Objects XI, Cognos Series7 and Series 8 suite, Cognos Finance Application Administration, OBIEE, Oracle EPM, Redwood Cronacle, Symphony Metreo Vision, Informatica Power Center, Data Replication, Metadata Manager and Cisco Data Virtualization - all .
• Experience in writing and maintaining Platform Requirement Specification, TAD (Technical Architecture Diagram and Description) documents, Infrastructure qualification and application validation documents
• Experience in integrating BI with Sales Force, Twitter and other social media platform and provide data visualization.
• Exposure to Big data, cloud, social and mobility platforms and tools through self-learning and proof of concepts.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Data Integration: Informatica Power center, Real time Integration, Informatica Data Replication(IDR), Informatica Metadata Manager (IMM)

Data Quality: Informatica Data quality(IDQ), Data validation option(DVO)

Data Federation: Cisco Data Virtualization

Planning and consolidation: Cognos Finance 7.4 MR2, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)

OLAP (Reporting): SAP Business Objects XI, Cognos 8 BI, Cognos Series 7 (Impromptu, Power Play Transformer, Upfront, Access Manager, Visualizer) and Cognos ReportNet 1.1 MR2, Essbase, OBIEE 11g

Data visualization: Spotfire

Pricing Analytics: Symphony Metreo Vision

Database: Teradata, Oracle

Enterprise Process Automation: Redwood Cronacle

Oracle Tools: SQL Plus, TOAD

ETL: Informatica 9.5.1, Teradata utilities (BTEQ, Fast load, Multi load)

Application, Web Tier: WebLogic, iPlanet, Apache; Tomcat

Version Control: SVN

Testing: Quality Center, HP ALM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE:

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

BI Program Manager

Solution Environment: Informatica Data Replication, Cisco Data Virtualization, Oracle EPM 11.12.1.3, Teradata V12

Responsibilities:

• Subject matter expert for new platform introduction. Evaluate, identify and define potential new areas and platforms to help drive business growth in line with strategic initiatives of BI.
• Work closely with enterprise architect, solution architects, program teams on architecture, design and platform build. Collaborated with technology service organization (infrastructure) for servers, database, storage, security and risk reviews.
• Manage third party vendor relationship, teams across the globe, manage project budgets, ensure project tracking and reporting, monitor performance and resolve critical issues, mitigate project risks, end user on new technology and facilitate the use of best practices.
• Design and implement disaster recovery for the platforms, backup and archival strategy, implement high availability, fail over architecture and user security.
• Define system architecture, hardware/software specification design, user communication and deployment plan.
• Co-ordinate regression testing of platform, identify and address performance bottlenecks, drive system testing and user acceptance testing activities.
• Ensure platform implementation is carried out according to standards and guidelines defined by GxP (environment qualification, application validation) and SoX procedures.
• Co-ordinate and plan for platform retirement and hardware/software decommissioning per BI CoE blue print, including migrating legacy applications to the new platform.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

BI Manager and Platform Architect

Solution Environment: Informatica 9.5.1, OBIEE 11g, Redwood Cronacle V9, Teradata V12, Linux, Windows, Solaris

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical and subject matter expertise on the overall technical requirements within respective technology.
• Participated in activities related to qualification of the environment (GxP).
• Worked with enterprise architects and VMware architects to enable On Demand BI infrastructure.
• Developed technical architecture descriptions, design specifications, operational and maintenance procedures and installation qualification and operational qualification scripts.
• Co-ordinated with teams DBAs, System administrators, Storage administrators, Compute architects and BI production support and development teams during the upgrade.
• Performance fine tuning of platform, web tier, app tier, network and database.
• Managed team of 10+ platform administrators and reported status updates frequently to the stakeholders.
• Prepared project plan/schedule in accordance with the cost and schedule, Conducted Project Management Reviews, ensured schedule and quality, obtained customer feedback and devised plans to close gaps or concerns raised by the customer.
• Co-ordinated preparation of standard operating procedures (SOP), Admin work instructions (WI).

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

BI Platform Administrator

Solution Environment: Cognos 8.4.1, Business Objects XI R3.1, Teradata v11, Redwood Cronacle, iPlanet, Weblogic, Cognos Finance, Solaris, Windows

Responsibilities:

• Built and upgraded Cognos series 7 to 8 and migrated contents to the new environment.
• Created development standards and guidelines, utility scripts for administration.
• Installed and configured Business Objects in a clustered environment.
• Created user security, integrated with single sign on, site minder with LDAP authentication,
• Administered Cognos Finance Platform which was used as consolidation/financial reporting tool.
• Managed Cognos and BOXI migrations across environments (Development, Stage, Test, Production)
• Worked in a 24*7 support model in onsite offshore model. Involved in recasting, quarter close, year-end and year roll over setup activities.
• Proactive monitoring for performance related issues and recommendations to remediate
• Automated the validation of data against source.
• Monitored the loads for general ledger processing and fixed any data issues.
• Built dashboards, reports and OLAP cubes for the HR function.