IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Architect Resume

SUMMARY

Accomplished Business Intelligence Professional with extensive experience in server architecture, management, and administration and development.
Highly skilled in leadership, customer support and communication skills at all levels.
Adept at adjusting to new projects, products, and services both quickly and thoroughly.
Known for offering highly organized effective and results - oriented performance in all areas of responsibility.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Server and Content Administration, Framework Manager, Report Studio
Analysis Studio, Transformer, Power Play, Access Manager.
Oracle 8-12C, Oracle BI Discoverer User & Admin.
MS SQL Server, IIS, Microsoft Office, Access, Excel, Project, Visio, Windows Administration.
Aginity Workbench for Hadoop/Netezza. Toad.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Architect

Responsibilities:

Installed / Administrated / Upgraded IBM Cognos 7, Cognos 8, Cognos 10.2x, Cognos Analytics 11.x.
Designed and implemented multi-instance/server/layer, load balanced, fail-over architecture with Disaster Recovery in place.
Created detailed installation, security, architecture, administration and development and deployment standards and documentation.
Provided support, troubleshooting, issue research and problem solution to Internal Customers as well as External Customer facing applications.
Worked with data warehouse and Cognos developers, DBAs, Users on Cognos best practices.
Supported database and Cognos performance tuning.
Used Framework Manager Packages and Report Studio to develop and tune reports. Cognos user and system auditing reports.
Used BSP Meta Manager for deployments, documentation and administration.
Developed and tested reports deployed through SDLC (dev/uat/prod).
Environment databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, Netezza.
Provided Windows Server Administration.
Developed Datameer templates for end users.
Designed security solution for the Datameer interface.
Tested and promoted templates through dev/uat/prod.
Environment databases: Hive and Hadoop databases.

Confidential, Downers Grove, IL

Cognos Business Intelligence Administrator

Responsibilities:

Installed/Administrated/Upgraded versions - Cognos 7(C7), ReportNet, Cognos 8(C8).
Report/Query Studio, Transformer, PowerPlay, Access Manager, Sun One LDAP.
Created installation, security, architecture. administration and development standards documentation.
Used Framework Manager and Report Studio to design custom Cognos user and system audit reports.
Supported Windows Admin, Networking, Server Engineers, BI Developers, DBAs, and end users.

Confidential

COGNOS CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

Member of Strategic Development Group that created reports for Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Demand Planning.
Administered Cognos 7 Impromptu Web Reports, PowerPlay Enterprise Server, Upfront, Access Manager.
Upgraded Impromptu Reports from Impromptu 7.0 to 7.1.
Created, tested and tuned Cognos Impromptu Reports for Impromptu Web Reports.
Performed data validation, catalog development, formatting and tuning using Cognos Impromptu.
Recommended regarding ETL and data architecture for the SQL Server database.