Madhavi
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SUMMARY:
Around 10+ years of experience in full life cycle includes Design
Analysis, Application Development, Implementation, Maintenance and
Documentation of Data Warehouse, Data mart and Business Intelligence
using OBIEE.
Expertise in implementing and practicing best practices in OBIEE
environment.
Experience in implementation of Data Warehouse, BI solutions and a
strong understanding of Data Warehouse Concepts, ETL, OLAP, OLTP, Star
Schema, Data Modeling using Normalization, Business Process Analysis,
Dimensional Data Modeling, FACT & Dimensions tables, Physical & Logical
Data Modeling.
Proficient in Installation and configuration and Administration of
OBIEE 10.1.3.x /11.1.1.7.1 and related components.
Experience in development and production support environments, setting
up single-sign on, LDAP authentication.
Expertise in providing end-to-end business intelligence solution by
configuring metadata and building Analytics Repository, dimensional
modeling design, building business models using Siebel Analytics/
Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) EE.
Extensive experience in designing and maintaining complex reports in
canned and ad-hoc environment.
Experience configuring Interactive Dashboards with drill-down
capabilities using global and local Filters, Siebel Security Setup
(groups, data access/query privileges), Metadata Objects and Web
Catalog Objects (Dashboard, Pages, Folders, Reports, Filters, Prompts).
Experience in administrative duties like Setting up permissions and
privileges to the requests, dashboards, prompts and Setting up users
and groups.
Experience in technical assistance, resolving issues, training end
users in OBIEE.
Experience in Designer, Desktop Intelligence, Web Intelligence, Crystal
Reports.
Expertise in Universe designing, developing and generating complex, ad-
hoc, complex reports by linking data from multiple data providers and
functionalities like Combined Queries.
Experience in working closely with IT development team on various complex
projects.
Excellent Verbal and Written communication skills; Self Motivated and
good team player, adaptive to changes and challenges, detail oriented
ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Information Technology
TECHNICAL SKILLS
BI Tools OBIEE 11.1.1.7.1,
BI Publisher, Business Objects XIR2, Designer,
Reporter,
Performance Management, Crystal reports
ETL Tools Informatica Power
center 8.x, 9.x
DBMS/RDBMS Oracle 11g/10g/9i, DB2,
Teradata, MS Access
GUI Tools Toad, SQL Developer,
SQL Loader
Web Technologies HTML, DHTML, XML
Operating Systems Windows 7/2003/2008/XP
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PEPSICO Inc.
Sr OBIEE Consultant
Oct 2011 -
Current
PepsiCo is mainly focused on convenient foods and beverages and it
seeks to produce financial rewards to investors as they provide
opportunities for growth and enrichment to their employees, their
business partners and the communities in which they operate.
Responsibilities:
Primary Lead role with support, development, maintenance of several
projects, point of contact person onsite for users and other BIS teams.
Meeting with Business Users/Partners to discuss requirements for new
reports and enhancements on existing reports.
Documenting the requirements and distribution of the documents for sign-
off before proceeding with development and also documenting the ongoing
reporting work for future reference.
Played a key role in setting up project plans/schedules and EMP/PLM
documentation for seeking e-approvals.
Installing all components required for development like Oracle Client,
Rapid Sql, OBIEE, Crystal Reports, BIP & Siebel Tools.
Extensively navigating and accessing Siebel Application in all
environments for data validation, generating sample xml files for BIP
Reports etc.
Created several BIP Reports by creating rtf templates and uploading to
BIP server and attaching report to list view and detail views in Siebel
Application.
Worked extensively with stored procedures with parameters, automated
the process with session variables on Dashboard reports/prompts in
OBIEE
Created few new Subject Areas and worked on several enhancement
requirements in existing Subject Areas in repository/rpd.
Automated the monitoring process for Agents by customizing dashboard
reports using Usage Tracking SA.
Created several new reports and recreated existing
reports/dashboards/triggers/delivers/segments in OBIEE
with data sources such as Oracle, DB2, Teradata, Excel.
Created new Crystal reports and modified existing reports with data
sources such as Oracle, DB2 and Sybase.
Created several repository variables, automated Metadata and created a
dashboard for report and application metadata enabling users to search
for columns or reports or dashboards etc.
Submitting TSRs in DEV/FIT/Prod for Autosys job to automate Metadata in
OBIEE 10g.
Performed several administrative tasks like recycling the services on
DEV, FIT servers and also migrating the rpd, catalogs, individual
reports, filters, prompts, Marketing triggers, segments etc. from DEV
to FIT.
Setting up permissions for Marketing Server Groups, managing Marketing
jobs and Marketing defaults.
Created several target levels, segmentation catalogs, list catalogs,
qualified list items.
Created segments, list formats, campaign load formats using Segment
Designer.
Set up delivers or ibots to deliver the files to Business Users Web
Servers and emails to users with attachments.
Involved in testing alias names of several physical server replacements
to virtual server replacements for Autosys jobs and delivers.
Involved in testing Office 2010 compatibility for BI Publisher Add in,
Adobe 9, MS Power Point, IE 8 compatibility with OBIEE and also
development testing on Windows 7.
Provide training to users on usage of new consolidated SA, powerful
features like "Combine with Similar Request", creating segments from
reports etc. and also support the application.
After report writing, conducting tests on the reports like data
validation and format validation.
Writing test scripts and adding to test labs for users to execute and
sign-off upon successful completion.
Followed ROI process to create defects according to Severity, priority
of Business process
Worked on Ticket Trend Reporting, weekly status reports, create and
close production support tickets
Trained new contractors offshore and onsite on environment and best
practices, conducted several KT sessions
Environment: OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1/11.1.1.7.1, BI Publisher, Crystal Reports
2008, Job Monitor, Siebel Tools 8.1.1.5, Siebel Call Center 8.1.1.5, MS
Office, Rapid Sql 7.6.3, PL/SQL, Oracle 11g, IBM DB2,Teradata
13.11,Sybase, Informatica 9.1, HP Quality Center 10.0, Autosys, Borland
Star Team, SM 7,Caliber,PEPNET,PPM,Sharepoint
State of Georgia DHS, Georgia
Sr OBIEE Consultant
Jan 2011 - June 2011
The Georgia Department of Human Resources, in partnership with local
communities, will assist individuals and families in achieving safe,
healthy, independent and self-sufficient lives. The scope of this
project is to provide the Department of Human Services (DHS) Division
of Child Support Services (DCSS) a DHS Data Warehouse which will
provide reliable information to DCSS executives, managers, agency
analysts, clients, providers, and other federal and state agencies.
Responsibilities:
Reviewed Business Requirements Document, System Technical Specification
Document, ER Diagram, Design Document Deliverable and ETL Design
Specification document.
Involved in several meetings with Business users, Business Analysts,
Managers for understanding requirements and discussing next action
plans.
Involved in monitoring the saw logs as users are being logged out of
the system while accessing the dashboards randomly and raised a SR with
Oracle.
Involved in load balance testing while IBM team has monitored the
Databases for load balance on two nodes.
Involved in troubleshooting several data issues, documenting the
discrepancies and resolving the issues.
Worked on identifying data issues, mapping issues in existing reports
or mapping logic on Data warehouse, documented, came up with solutions
and discussed with Deloitte team to get approval for fixing the issues.
Worked with DBAs, ETL Developers, and Application Architects in fixing
the duplicate data issue etc.
Worked with end users, BAs in understanding the requirements and mapped
Business Elements to Data Elements as part of new report requirements.
After creating new reports, unit tested the reports and migrated rpd,
catalog from DEV to UAT and fixed issues came across during UAT.
Applying conditional formatting to the reports, making necessary
changes, monitoring the query response time, view session logs and
analyzing the queries.
After successful completion of UAT process, migrated rpd and catalog to
Production.
Compared the data between DB2 and DW as part of existing Prod DW
reports maintenance.
After deletion of duplicates, checked all the interdependent tables for
trace of any duplicates in Toad.
Conducted a knowledge transfer session with the team regarding the best
practices and accessing, modifying the dashboards or reports.
Environment: OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1,Informatica Power Center 9.0.1, Business
Objects XIR2, Linux 5.3,IBM Mainframe Z/OS 11,Adobe Robo Help 7,ER
Studio Data Architect 8.5, Oracle 11gR2.0.1, Toad, SQL Developer,
Putty, WinSCP
Quintiles, North Carolina
Sr OBIEE Consultant
May 2010 - Dec 2010
Quintiles Transnational helps to improve healthcare worldwide by
providing a broad range of professional services, information and
partnering solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and
healthcare industries.
They seek unendingly to bring their customers' products and services to
market ever sooner and to play a creative role in their achievement of
earlier and greater commercial success.
Responsibilities:
Worked with BA Leads to document the requirements as per the report
numbers into FDDs.
Developed mockup reports in Adobe Dream Weaver so as to show Business
Architects & End Users.
Installed all components required for development like Oracle Client,
Toad, Sql Developer, OBIEE & Siebel Tools.
Worked with Offshore team located in India, had daily scrum calls where
in we discussed issues concerns and progress of development of reports
with Managers.
Navigated through the Siebel Application and mapped Siebel Columns to
Data store columns depending upon list of EBCs.
After ERD has been reviewed, involved in rpd design process
corresponding to our Subject Areas.
Developed reports after rpd is done on Dev Server in 3 Subject Areas,
main features in reports include navigation between reports, column
selectors, report selectors, guided navigation.
Documented unit test cases for all reports and made a Unit Test Case
Template.
Prepared SDS Documentation Template for all reports after successful
completion of report development and testing.
After report development is done, tested the reports with Siebel Dev
Application & Data store, inserted data in Siebel application required
for reports and tested the report if it's showing in the report.
After successful development & testing of reports on dev server,
reports are migrated to test environment and tested the reports with
Siebel Test Application & Data store.
Worked in Integrated environment of Siebel Application where in users
have access to dashboards
Fixed Bugs & issues raised by testing team in QC, after the issues are
fixed, added comments in QC to close the tickets.
Environment: OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1, Adobe Dream weaver CS5, Siebel Tools
8.1, Siebel CTMS 8.1, MS Office, SQL Developer, PL/SQL, SQL * Plus,
Oracle 11g, Toad, HP Quality Center
Verizon Communications Inc, Texas
OBIEE Consultant
Sep 2009 - Mar 2010
Verizon Communications Inc operates America's most reliable wireless
network, serving more than 91 million customers nationwide. Verizon
also provides converged communications, information and entertainment
services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers
innovative, seamless business solutions to customers around the world.
Responsibilities:
Interacted with the existing team to go with an action plan for design,
implementation and maintenance of the project, reviewed design
documents and data dictionary.
Developed reports using BI Publisher using RTF templates and integrated
into OBIEE Dashboards.
Configured report-level properties and runtime properties for several
BI Publisher reports.
Configured jdbc connections for several databases in Dev, Test and Prod
environments.
Extensively used pivot tables and conditional formatting as to meet
existing report layouts in BO/Crystal.
Involved in several administrative roles like setting up users and
roles and permissions, managing catalogs.
Monitored Saw log for Server crashes or any errors and acted
accordingly, Purged Cache entries from time to time in Answers and rpd,
refreshed metadata after every minor change in rpd online.
Developed reports, dashboards as part of migration from BO/Crystal to
OBIEE and deployed in UAT and Production.
Created several dimensional hierarchies, initialization blocks,
repository variables, session variables and presentation variables and
request variables.
Used Stack Chart, Bar Chart, view selectors, Column Selectors, static
text, narrative views, guided navigations, and links for several
summary and detailed dashboards.
Used Catalog Manager to manage requests, dashboards, prompts and
folders in setting up permissions and privileges.
Purged Cache entries in rpd and cleared all sessions manually when
needed while development, disabled cache in UAT environment.
Provided dynamic cascading prompts as per client's new requirements on
organizational hierarchy.
Environment: OBIEE 10.1.3.4, Catalog Manager, BI Publisher, Business
Objects XIR2, Crystal Reports XI, MS Office, SQL Developer, PL/SQL, SQL
* Plus, Oracle 11i/10g, Toad, ODI
AT & T Services Inc, Ohio
OBIEE Consultant
June 2008 - Aug 2009
AT & T is recognized as one of the leading worldwide providers of IP-
based communications services to businesses. They also have the
nation's fastest 3G network and the largest international coverage of
any U.S. wireless carrier. It's making huge advances in the
entertainment and communications industry.
Responsibilities:
Involved in gathering technical requirements and preparation of
Requirement Specifications documents from various end users.
Monitored each and every dashboard loading time and defaulted prompts to
show less data when report loads initially and took several performance
tuning measures for good performance.
Involved in design and development of repository (Creating / Modifying
objects in Physical, Business and Presentation layer) and the process
of repository migration.
Created connection pools, physical tables, defined joins and
implemented authorizations in the physical layer of the repository.
Implemented Comprehensive Security Model, by creating User Roles and
Web Groups, and setting up External Tables and LDAP Servers.
Created new universe and also modified existing universe for creating
WebI reports.
Created Crystal Reports using Standard, Summary, Cross Tabs, SQL,
Command Objects, Selection Criteria, grouping, sub reports.
Environment: OBIEE 10.1.3.3, Web Catalog, BI Publisher, Informatica
Power Center 8.1/7.1, DAC, Business Objects XIR2,Crystal Reports XI, MS
Office, SQL Developer, PL/SQL, SQL * Plus, Oracle 11i/10g, Toad, SQL
Server 2000/2005
Deloitte, PA
OBIEE Developer
Dec 2007 - May 2008
"Deloitte" is the brand under which tens of thousands of dedicated
professionals in independent firms throughout the world collaborate to
provide audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management,
and tax services to selected clients. The Life Sciences and Health Care
global industry practice at Deloitte member firms worldwide are helping
our clients meet the challenges and face the opportunities that are
shaping today's industry.
Responsibilities:
Worked with management professionals, analysts as well as other
business teams on requirement gathering.
Worked on repository development, configured metadata objects (Subject
Area, Table, and Column) and web catalog objects (Dashboards, Folders,
Reports).
Identified Facts and Dimensions according to the design specification.
Developed analytical repository using Siebel Analytics Admin Tool
(importing database object into physical layers, defining logical
objects that includes Dimensions & facts in BMM layer and presentation
catalog in Presentation Layer).
Modified Dynamic Session Variables used for Data Visibility, Configured
Security at the repository level, Catalog level & the Siebel
Application level.
Created measures in Administration tool for the requirements using
expression builder and calculation wizard and also created hierarchies
and level-based measures for drilldown detail within Analytics Reports.
Used BI Publisher for report delivery in many popular pre-packaged
application suites, like the Oracle e-Business Suite.
Created Rich Text Format (RTF) templates to generate BI Publisher
Reports and embedded them on Oracle Intelligence Dashboard.
Environment: OBIEE 10.1.3.3, Informatica Power Center 7.1, Business
Objects XIR2, Crystal Reports XI, DAC, Oracle BI Apps 7.9.4, BI
Publisher, DAC,SQL Server 2000, SQL * Plus, Oracle 9i, Toad, XML, UNIX,
Windows Server 2003
Acumen Solutions, VA
Siebel Analytics Developer
Sep 2005 - Nov 2007
Acumen Solutions investigates each customer touch point, focusing on
the direct sales, contact center, and self service experiences, to
ensure that you meet or exceed your customers' expectations. It
develops metrics to track customer experience, provide feedback to all
customer channels, and create customer insight programs to support the
cross-sell/up-sell opportunities.
Responsibilities:
Worked with functional and technical project leads, marketing, sales,
finance, and other business groups to identify, analyze, and document
Business requirements.
Configured Siebel Analytics Repository like implementation of physical
data model as per requirements, importing the tables and having the
physical joins/keys required and changed the physical joins/key on the
existing tables.
Developed Star Schemas and Created Custom Star Schema as per the
Business Requirements.
Created dimension hierarchies and assigned levels and custom
aggregation rules for each level.
Suggested and implemented Siebel recommended Performance & tuning
practices to improve Siebel Analytics server performance by
implementing Query Caching, using aggregate tables, tuning &
reorganizing database indexes and configuring NQSConfig.INI files
performance parameters.
Created Dashboards by embedding Reports and providing intuitive
drilldowns, interactive flash-based drillable charts and links to
exploit the full benefit of Analytics.
Customized Dashboards, Administered permissions and privileges for
Dashboard visibility and modifications to users.
Environment: Siebel Analytics 7.x/8.x, Informatica 7.x, Business
Objects XIR1, SQL Server 2000, Oracle 8i, Windows NT
D & H Distribution Co, PA
Siebel Analytics Consultant
Oct 2003 - Aug 2005
D&H is an Employee Owned national wholesale distributor of computer,
video game, and consumer electronics products. Clients include small
and large resellers and retailers, system builders, and college
bookstores. Suppliers include Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Microsoft.
Responsibilities:
Involved in gathering functional requirements from system users and
converted them to business requirement documents.
Used Metadata Design Principles to design Repository based on business
requirements and followed Best Practices.
Customized and developed the SA BMM layer by creating new logical
columns, aggregate columns, hierarchies etc.
Specified aggregate levels for each source and created dimension
sources for each level of aggregates.
Developed many Reports / Dashboards with different Analytics Views
(Drill-Down, Pivot Table, Chart, Column Selector, Page and Dashboard
Prompts).
Environment: Siebel Analytics 7.x, Informatica 6.x/5.x,Oracle 8i, UNIX,
Windows 98
TCS, Hyderabad, India
PL/SQL Developer
May 2002 - Sep 2003
At TCS, it means achieving real business results that allow you to
transform, and not just maintain, your operations. TCS is uniquely able
to help clients solve these business challenges. TCS serves large and
fast growing organizations who share a common set of objectives. TCS'
success and reputation is built on ensuring certainty of outcome for
these client objectives.
Responsibilities:
SQL Loader was used to convert the data from the Excel to oracle
tables.
Oracle Reports were deployed in PDF format over the Intranet available
for other users.
Analyzed, developed and maintained Oracle Forms and Reports.
Prepare detailed statistical reports in MS Access and MS Excel to track
progress of weekly, monthly and quarterly customers and sales growth.
PL/SQL was extensively utilized for coding and writing complex database
triggers, stored procedures and packages.
Sub-queries and joins were extensively used in stored procedures.
Environment: Oracle 8i, Oracle Developer 2000, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, SQL
Loader, MS Excel, Windows 95