NithyaRamadas@gmail.com
Summary
Involved in the full Project Life Cycle of the Data Warehouse Project.
Proficient at analyzing business processes and providing Business Intelligence solutions.
Interacted with Business Analysts and Business Users to gather Reporting Requirements.
Strong in ETL and Oracle tools with development experience of Conceptual, Logical, and
Physical Data Models for the Data Warehouse.
Proficient in RDBMS, excellent analytical skills and experience with the system development
life cycle, including requirement analysis, programming, front-end GUI design, testing, and
implementation.
Skills
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Experience
Netpixel(Contracted to CitiBank)
Jun 11 - Aug 13
Cognos Developer
Citibank is a leading global financial services firm. The primary goal of this project is to
help the technology group and various business units generate web based reports. The reports
helped produce customer data, device and circuit inventory, project management, financial
tracking, and network topology information.
Created various List Reports, Grouped Reports, Cross tab Reports, Chart Reports, Drill-Down and
Drill-Through Reports.
Developed Complex reports in report studio including Drill Down reports from DMR modelled
Frame work model.
Created multiple Dashboard reports for multiple packages.
Developed Prompt Pages, Cascaded input prompts to display only the selected entries in the
report and also worked on the customization of prompt parameters.
Created and published several packages which includes Query Subjects, Joins, Filters,
Prompts in Framework Manager.
Created calculations, filters, and prompts in Report Studio.
Developed reports using Cascading and Range Prompts and Calculations in Report Studio.
Developed Templates, Standard Reports, Master Detail Reports, Drill Through Reports, Bursting
Reports and Multilingual Reports using Report Studio and Query Studio.
Used Cognos Connection extensively for organizing, security, scheduling and distributing reports.
Used some advanced features like Conditional Formatting in Report Studio in generating
multipage Reports.
Used Analysis Studio to build Multidimensional Reports.
Involved in scheduling Report Studio and Query Studio reports in Cognos Connection.
Responsible for gathering requirements, writing specifications, developing reports, and
coordinating with the production staff to publish the finished product to the production
environment.
Worked with business analysts and end users to understand business rules and interpret data.
Created standard and adhoc reports.
Supported Cognos development and Production environment.
Environment: Cognos 10.1 (Cognos Connection, Framework Manager, Query Studio, Report
Studio, Analysis Studio), Oracle 9i, SQL, Windows XP.
Used ETL using Informatica to load data from Oracle and Mainframe to the Target Database.
Extensively used ETL tool in data staging area.
Used Aggregate Transformation, Expression Transformation, Filter Transformation, Lookup
Transformation, Joiner Transformation, Sequence Generator Transformation, Stored Procedure
Transformation, Update strategy Transformation, Rank Transformation.
Implemented slowly changing Dimension to maintain the history of data.
Involved in the development and creation of Informatica mappings with PL/SQL procedures/
functions to build business rules to load data.
Design, develop, test and implement detailed mappings\workflows using Informatica toolset
Create tasks and workflows for execution of the ETL process.
Developed Mappings, mapplets and configured sessions.
Created sessions to move data at specific intervals & on demand.
Created the batches to run several sessions sequentially and concurrently.
Configured Target Load Orders to load the targets by different sources in particular order.
Configured the sessions to handle the updates to preserve the existing records.
Created and used Dynamic Data Store to enforce standards.
Involved in Logical and Physical modeling using ERWIN.
Tuned the mappings for better performance maximum efficiency.
Unit testing, Integration testing and system testing.
Coding ETL mappings using SQL*Loader.
Involved in developing the report as per business requirements using Cognos.
Developed Standard List reports, Cross tab reports and Charts using Report studio.
Developed Framework Manager Metadata Model- relational and dimensional.
Participated in the full-life cycle development.
Environment: Cognos 8.4, Informatica 6.x, Sun Solaris, PL/SQL, Oracle, SQL*Loader,
Unix, Erwin, Stored Procedures and functions.
Dec 04-July 06
Participated in the full life cycle phase of ETL starting from Development, QA to Production.
Efficiently worked with the DBAs and Data modelers to analyze the data.
Directly interacted with business users gathering requirements and performing data analysis.
Created documentation to be used as knowledge base for my projects and to comply with
Sarbanes-Oxley and internal audit process.
Worked on heterogeneous data sources like Oracle and Mainframe.
Effectively used ETL Tool to extract and load data from the Mainframe to Oracle target.
Created various complex transformations like Update Strategy, Stored Procedure, Lookup,
Expression, Aggregator, Sequence Generator, Joiner, Filter and Router.
Conducted unit testing, Integration testing and performance testing for all the ETL applications.
Created mapplet that can be used generically to replace the sequence generator transformation.
Created generic scripts that were used as an automatic process to run all the workflows.
Played role in setting up the ETL framework for data staging, Metrics capture and Error logging
for ETL applications.
Worked in conjunction with other groups to schedule the ETL jobs through Autosys.
Created data map for the source mainframe flat file.
Provided 24hr on call production support for Maintaining and supporting the existing PL/SQL
stored Procedures/Functions, Unix scripting and SQL Loader.
Worked on standardizing the naming convention for the Enterprise Data Warehouse and setting
up the standards and procedures.