Cognos Architect / Senior Cognos Administrator Resume Irving, Texas - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

10 years of experience in Cognos development and administration; strong expertise with Framework Manager, Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, and Cognos Workspace Advanced.
Highly regarded for outstanding technical, mentoring, and client relationship management skills.
Proficiency in designing and creating metadata models in Framework Manager.
Able to leverage and enhance Cognos solutions to optimize competitive positioning for large corporations.
Draw upon solid communication skills to clarify requirements from users, instruct teams, train new staff, and expeditiously resolve difficult technical challenges.
Advanced knowledge of troubleshooting and problem analysis methods from end user perspective.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Cognos Architect / Senior Cognos Administrator

Responsibilities:

Clarify requirements from users, train new or junior - level staff, and provide direction to team members.
Install and configure Cognos Analytics V11 components in a distributed platform, administer Cognos TM1, and deliver ongoing support for production and non-production environments.
Govern security aspects such as diligent maintenance of folders, packages, and report access.
Seamlessly migrate reports and packages from development through to UAT and production.

Confidential, Caroltton, Texas

Cognos Administrator / Senior Cognos Developer

Responsibilities:

Joined forces with business analysts, product managers, and end users to precisely define business rules.
Systematically structured technical design document for Report Studio based on functional specifications.
Developed Framework Manager based on best practices to support report generation and maintenance.
Troubleshot challenging query issues during report development including comparing tabular data from Cognos queries with Netezza queries on data warehouse database.
Proactively teamed with data source owners in determining security access and authorization rules.
Trained, educated, and advised ad hoc query users, business author, and professional author in best practices.