CAREER OVERVIEW:

A customer focused programming analyst and a proactive team leader with over 5 years experience in Business Intelligence Design Development and Implementation in Retail Industry

SUMMARY:

• Strong Communication, interpersonal, analytical and problem solving skills
• Good expertise in Retail IT Domain and standards
• Experience in team building, leading and mentoring
• Worked in onsite - offshore model, managing teams across time zones.
• Experience in Vendor and Client relation.
• Experience in Business Intelligence design, development and execution
• IBM Certified Websphere Datastage professional
• Experience in Informatica ETL development
• Experience in Data Warehousing, Data Standardization and Data quality

LEADERSHIP SKILLS:

• Served as leader of design team.
• Software Development:
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• System Integration
• Aligned office departments and increased inter-department communication and data sharing.
• Problem Resolution
• Responsible for support and development of company disaster recovery plan.
• Served as advocate for end-users, performing tests and problem analysis for server, desktop and IT infrastructure work.
• Installation
• Installed appropriate security patches to dissolve security vulnerabilities.
• Analysis and Development
• Resolved core issues through the redesign of the broker data model, data house-holding processes and daily round-trip database synchronization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Data Warehousing: Business Intelligence,ETL Strong 5 Ongoing

DataBases: Oracle 11g,DB2 Strong 3 Ongoing

GUI Tools: IBM Datastage,Informatica PowerCenter Strong 3 Ongoing

Platforms: Windows XP/Server,Unix,Linux Good 5 Ongoing

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Seattle

Responsibilities:

• Developed Use cases for new product functionality
• Conducted the feasibility study and presented the reports and results.
• Liaised with Technical Architects and Business for Requirements gathering, Software development life cycle planning and operational implementation.
• Responsible for design and documentation of business and technical specifications including High Level Functional Design(HLD),Technical Design(TD),Requirements overview documents and Implementation plans
• Designed Architecture plans and Environment setup plans for new product implementation and maintenance
• Served as corporate liaison with Informatica for product support issues.
• Currently Leading the development of Real Time Integration of Customer Master Data to Active Data Warehouse using Informatica PowerCenter DataIntegration Tool.
• Leading a team of 5 in onshore - offshore model across timezones

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the offshore Support team in Real time problem resolution, data fixes and problem analysis.
• Suggested and implemented performance and perfective maintenance of existing application to provide Batch completion within defined SLA
• Conducted problem analysis and review sessions.
• Derived resolutions for application support incidents.
• Interacted with Clients, managed and led the onshore - offshore team interactionsSuggested permanent and long term data fixes for Datawarehouse implementation which enabled cost and effort reduction for application maintenance