Cognos Report Developer

Cognos Report Developer - Golden Rule Insurance

Bangalore, Karnataka - Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/806cefafe921dbd5

Over 4+ years of IT experience in Cognos Business Intelligence tools. Extensive experience in

Cognos 10 & Cognos 8.4 with Query studio & Report studio.
Good experience in creating simple and complex reports using Query studio & Report studio.
Experience in Cognos Framework Manager, Creating Packages and Filters.
Experience in creating Jobs and Schedules.
Having knowledge in creating Active Reports in Cognos 10.
Good knowledge on installing and configuring Cognos 10 & Cognos 8.4 with Oracle 10g, Apache
web server 2.0 on windows.
Possess complete domain and development Life Cycle knowledge of Data Warehousing and BI.
Good understanding on existing business processes, data analysis requirements, business system analysis
and design, converting requirements into functional specifications.
Good communication and team player skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Cognos Report Developer

Golden Rule Insurance - July 2011 to Present
Duration: July 2011 - Till Date
Environment: Cognos 8.4, Report Studio, Framework Manager, Oracle 10g, Windows XP
Role: Cognos Report Developer
Team Size: 6

DESCRIPTION:
Golden Rule is a premier company selling insurance and financial products through independent insurance
agents and financial advisors nationwide. Golden Rule offers a comprehensive mix of products that help
individual; organizations and companies protect the things they value and profit from financial opportunities.
Golden Rule products include auto, home, life and business insurance; investments such as mutual funds,
annuities and stock purchase plans, retirement plans for businesses, trust services, and surety bonds.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Developed and Implemented an Enterprise Wide Reporting system using Cognos 8.4
Created Framework model using Framework manager.
Created package & publishing the packages using Framework manager.
Created Dashboard report based on the user's requirements.
Created List Reports using Cognos Report Studio.
Created Crosstab reports using cascading prompts, conditional formatting.
Created Drill- through reports, Master detail reports.
Developed some complex Reports by using calculated fields in Report Studio.
Creating Query Prompts, Calculations, Conditions and Filters in the reports.
Extensively implemented conditional blocks to display/hide the report contents based on the user selection
on the prompt.
Scheduled and Distributed reports using Schedule Management in Cognos Connection.
Moving Reports from Development to UAT.
 Updating the project status to the team in weekly status meeting.
Communicating status to Team Leader on a regular basis.

PROJECT 2:

Cognos Report Developer

Technochrome Informatics Pvt Ltd - Bangalore, Karnataka - August 2009 to Present
Sr. Software Engineer

Cognos Report Developer

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals - September 2010 to April 2011
Duration: Sep 2010 - April 2011
Environment: Cognos 8.4, Report Studio, Oracle 10g, Windows XP
Role: Cognos Report Developer
Team Size: 5

DESCRIPTION:
A Pharma company required a business intelligence initiative that will enable speedier, accurate and reliable
decision-making. The project is designated to analyze what products are on sale in which stores and on what
dates under which promotional conditions of the Company. The reports are used to analyze the sales and
profits. The Higher officials to know the effort put by the down line officials till distributor and sales executives.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Analyzing the customer requirements through business requirements document.
Created complex reports by using multiple queries.
Organized data in reports by using filters, grouping, sorting, ranking and highlighted data with alerts.
Developed reports with prompts, cascading prompts, calculations, conditions and variables.
Developed reports with drill through and drill down features.
Created the reports using cognos functionalities like Master Detail etc.
Moving Reports from Development to UAT.
Updating the project status to the team in weekly status meeting.
Actively involved in responding to the IBM Cognos Forum & Community queries.

PROJECT 3:
Project Name: Insurance Intelligence Warehouse.

Cognos Report Developer

GUARDIAN - October 2009 to August 2010
Team Size: 6

DESCRIPTION:
GUARDIAN is an Insurance company that provides health insurance. The Project involves developing the
reports for all the medical claims sent by clients. The project goal was to create a centralized reporting
capability for users to perform transactional, analytical, and ad-hoc reporting and data analysis. Being the
primary developer, job task involved generating reports on the Advanced Planning and Scheduling utilizing
Cognos and Impromptu.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Involved in discussion with the clients to better understand the business requirements.
 Involved in creation of list reports with many number of queries, used techniques like drill through.
Created value prompts, and text prompts to filter the data using cognos report studio.
Created Crosstab reports using cascading prompts, conditional formatting.
Created Drill- through reports, Master detail reports.
Moving Reports from Development to UAT.
Updating the project status to the team in weekly status meeting.

EDUCATION

M.Sc in Bio-Informatics
Bharathidasan University - Trichirappalli, Tamil Nadu
2004 to 2006

SKILLS

TECHNICAL SKILLSET Business Intelligence: COGNOS 8.4 & COGNOS 10 BI Suite Database: Oracle
10g, SQL Server 2005 Operating System: Windows Packages: MS Office

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

TECHNICAL SKILLSET

Business Intelligence: COGNOS 8.4 & COGNOS 10 BI Suite

Database: Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2005
Operating System: Windows
Packages: MS Office