M Athar Ali-Business/Technical Consultant CV

contact: connect_matt@yahoo.com

Objective: To utilize my business and performance management skills in business

intelligence, data warehouse and database projects to effectively capture business
requirements. Subsequently utilize my technical skills to design, develop and implement
solutions to meet those business requirements.

Professional Overview:Athar is a Business/Technical Consultant with more than 5

years experience in capturing business requirements, analyzing, designing, and
implementing enterprise class business intelligence, data warehouse, business rules engines
and database applications. Athar has strong leadership, project management and technical
skills and has led teams of Business Analysts and Software Engineers. He has experience in
Project management and instituting CMMI level 5 processes.He has excellent
communication skills. During his multiple client engagements, he has worked both as
business and data analyst.

Keywords: Business Rules Engine, Business process, Business Process Redesign,

business requirements gathering, fund asset management, online advertising, performance
management, project management, data analysis, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Server, Sybase,
Oracle 9i/10 g, OLAP, DB2, IMS DB/DC, MS Access, Aqua Studio, data migration, data
profiling, data quality, Microsoft Visio, multi-dimensional data modeling, star schema,
entity-relationship modeling, normalized modeling, Erwin data modeler, data source
metadata, agile methodologies, JAD, full life-cycle SDLC, Operational Data Store (ODS),
Data Warehouse, DataStage, iterative development, one-on-one user interviews, surveys,
project proposal documentation, presentation skills, SPSS, CMM/CMMI, supply chain,
disaster planning, emergency management, risk management, Cognos Report Studio/Event
Studio

• Business Analyst
• Data Analyst
Roles
• Database Designer / Modeler
• ETL Developer

• Business Intelligence
• Data Warehouse
Solutions • Database
• Business Rule Engine
• Risk Management

• Financial Services/Asset Management

Industries • Online Advertising
• Defense

• IBM DataStage
• Cognos BI 8 Report Studio
Technologies • Oracle 9i/10 g, DB2, SQL Server 2005, Sybase
• SQL, PL/SQL
• Microsoft Visual Source Safe, SVN
 • UNIX
• Erwin Data Modeler, Oracle Designer
• TOAD, SQL Server Management Studio

Key Professional Engagements

• Interview business users and Subject Matter Experts (SME's) to gather

business requirements
• Analyzing and documenting business documents/ use case analysis/
swim-lanes / sequence diagrams / component diagrams to extract
functional and non-functional business requirements in collaboration with
business users and SME's
• Gap analysis and redesign of existing business processes to make them
more efficient for automated processing
• Documenting as-is business processes with emphasis on financial
performance management
• Analyzing as-is business processes and recommending performance
indicators for to-be business processes
• Documenting the to-be business rules to be implemented in collaboration
with the business
• Design and implement the data layers requiring data architecture skills
Business
for business rules engine
Analyst,
• Translating business requirements into data layer requirements
Deutsche Data
• Designed and implemented multi-dimensional modeling design using
Bank Analyst and
dimension and fact tables in a star schema design
DBA (1 yr
• Source data analysis and data profiling and qualification, data
10 months)
validation and verification
• data integrity identification and resolution in collaboration with the owner
of the data source, data quality
• Creation and management of the Sybase and MS SQL Server databases
• Data Migration for business processes from spreadsheets into database
• Database release management in UAT and Production environments
interfacing with the application development team
• Participated in Quality Assurance testing as team member
• Conduct training sessions with business users as well as other members
of technology team

Accomplishments:
• Automated 40 business processes for fund asset management group
• Extra-mile award winner
• Volunteered as DBA and helped save the client personnel costs

• Key member of the data warehouse team in a multi-phase effort to draw

at least thirty percent more traffic to the web site
ETL
• Analyze the business requirements
Developer
Cars.com • Translate business requirements into technical specifications
(5
• Develop ETL programs in DataStage to meet requirements to load data
months)
in Operational Data Store (ODS) after cleaning and transformation
• Develop Shell scripts to integrate and execute various modules
 • Development, Code-Walkthrough and code-review for DataStage code
components
• Development code unit testing and quality assurance
• Develped a process to improve the quality of deliverables for the
development team including other Datastage developers.

Accomplishments:
• Substantially increased quality assurance by reducing defects of
DataStage code deliverables

• Research assistant with Cognotive laboratory and the famed CERIAS

security labs at Purdue
• Research the usability issues associated with user privacy
• Identifying problems and documenting and presenting feasibility reports
to laboratory faculty
• Conduct user interviews and surveys to understand user awareness of
Research
privacy issues
Assistant (1
Purdue University • Design and conduct experiments on the user group
yr 7
• Analyze the data collected and present findings
months)
• Present findings at workshops and conferences at Purdue and other
universities

Accomplishments:
• Published research in respected Human-Computer Interaction science
journals
• Invited to present research at Carnegie-Mellon

• Led a team of data analysts and developers for loan products

• Instituted CMMI Level 5 in the project
Sr. Data
• create ad-hoc and other reports
Analyst (1
HSBC
yr 6
Accomplishments:
months)
• Project earned CMM-5 Level in less than half-the industry standard
time

• Interviewed senior management

Consultant • Developed and presented a risk management solution to senior
BAE Systems
(1 month) executives
• Developed a disaster management plan

Education Professional Training/Certifications

• MS, Purdue University,United States 2006

• Cognos 8 Report Author certified
(Computer Technology) GPA 4.0
• DataStage training
• Bachelor of Engineering, REC India 2002
• CMMI, CMM-5
(Mechanical Engineering) Passed with Distinction