Cognos Engineer Resume
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Goleta, CA
TECHNICAL SKILL SET:
- Cognos 8 & 10
- Analysis/Event/Metric/ SQL Server 2000
- Windows XP
- Vista
- Excel
- Word
- Query/Report: Oracle 9i/8i
- DB2
- Windows Server 2003 Access
- SharePoint
- Studios/Cognos Connection
- Teradata
- Informatica and Windows 7
- Unix Project Manager
- Visio
- Framework Power Center 6.x/5.x HTML and XML
- Manager/Transformer
- IBM Cognos Development Suite
- QlikView
- Oracle and Netezza Databases
- ServiceNow
- Salesforce
- Kintana/PPM Case Tracking
- Consona/Knova Knowledge Base
- Centauri
- CA Service Operations Insight
- Avaya/CMS Call Data
- Asset Center
- Jira
- Reference Table Manager
- Canva1
WORK EXPERIENCE:
COGNOS ENGINEER
Confidential, Goleta, CA
Responsibilities:
- Combine the actual and target data to one consolidated table.
- Import data source objects from database in Framework Manager.
- Create relationship between objects and create Alias object if need.
- Create model query objects and also create relationship and set determinants.
- Create the DMR model for report using including dimension and measure, publish the package.
- Creating template for the reports, creating reports based on the package.
- Collecting business requirement with different business unit and aligns the balance between different stake holder’s opinions, High level design, Design the data warehouse with Star Schema.
- Design the table structure which is most suitable for the report development and performance.
- Build the fact table as snapshot or Accumulating Snapshots depending on the requirement.
- Tune the performance by bridge table if necessary.
- Using TM1 creating dimensions to make the cube for user to input target data.
- Using TM1 to make the cube for user to load actual data.
- Writing rule for cube calculation.
- Add List, Crosstab, and Charts to the report and set the layout.
- Add complicated logical or layout to the report like drill through, drill up - down, conditional layout.
- Create the work space based on different report.
- Put the prompt page report in the global area.
- Writing javascript in the report to make some default setting.
- Using ArcGIS to create map chart for customers, Unit Test, Deployment, User Document, User Training, Bug Fix
- Collaborated with managers to provide reporting solutions to meet their needs. Gathered requirements, developed and tested solutions, and moved solutions to our production environment.
- Developed, implemented and trained managers regarding self-serve tools such as Ad Hoc reporting, Analysis Studio (Cube, OLAP), Query Studio and QlikView. This increased the availability of self-serve data to our customers and allowed the reporting team to build more complex reporting solutions.
- Collaborated with management and peers to improve distribution of 800+ reports by creating jobs that would run after daily ETL loads. Worked with peers and managers to confirm unused reports. This increased the speed and accuracy of our report distribution.
- Developed critical reports for various IT ISO 20K audits. These reports helped the Incident and Problem Management teams get ISO certified in a 5 month period.
- Maintained and updated 800+ reports in production environment.
- Interact with executives and technical staff to capture and understand business user requirements and define project scope.
- Gather and assess needs from internal business units; create custom solutions to resolve issues and develop functional specifications for IT group.
- Create a centralized reporting capability for users to perform analytical and ad-hoc reporting for business applications and provide accurate information available to decision makers.
- Develop complex reports in Report Studio using nested crosstabs, creating various charts through union and nesting capabilities, share layout components, page set, master-detail relationship, prompts, parameters, filters, and conditional processing.
- Involve in development of ad-hoc reporting interfaces using Cognos Query Studio.
- Create List Reports and Cross Tab Reports and Drill Through reports.
- Schedule and burst the reports using the scheduling and bursting capabilities of Cognos.
- Create new groups and roles in Cognos 8, added users to roles and granted access permission in Cognos Connection.
- Closely work with Enterprise Data Warehouse engineers to refine data and metadata (ETL).
