Preethi Manoharan
( acn1hg@r.postjobfree.com
Professional Summary
> Over 6+ Years of experience in the areas of analysis, design and
development of Business Intelligence solution using Tableau, Business
Objects reporting tools.
> Partnered with Business stakeholders and executives with the goal of
providing them with the ability to make decisions and gain insights
through data visualization reports and operational reports.
> Experience in building prototypes for demonstration and illustration
purposes for Business partners and senior leaders
> Developed dash boards with rich Graphic visualizations, Drill Down and
Drop down menu options, Parameterized using Tableau.
> Worked extensively with Advance analysis Actions, Calculations,
Parameters, Background images, Maps, Trend Lines, Statistics, and Log
Axes. Groups, hierarchies, Sets to create detail level summary reports
and dashboards using KPI'
> Provided technical and analytical expertise in responding to complex,
specialized report requests requiring complex business logics and detail-
level data analysis.
> Administered user, user groups, and scheduled instances for reports in
Tableau
> Extensive Knowledge of Tableau Server Concepts like tabcmd, tabadmin,
creating users, sites and projects
> Hands-on development assisting users in creating and modifying
worksheets and data visualization dashboards in Tableau.
> Worked in Business Intelligence Reporting tools like SAP Business
Objects XI R4 (Universe Designer Tool, Information Design Tool,
Dashboards, Explorer), XI R3/XI R2 (Universe Designer, Webi, CMC).
> Extensively used various features like Joins, Alias and Contexts in
Universe designer to overcome various traps (Chasm, Fan) and Loops.
> Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and
solution development
> Extensive experience in PL/SQL and SQL and in performance tuning SQL
queries in TOAD.
> Strong database experience in using Oracle 10g/Sql Server
> Ability to meet deadlines and handle multiple tasks, decisive with
strong leadership
qualities, flexible in work schedules and possess good communication
skills.
> Team player, Motivated, able to grasp things quickly with analytical and
problem solving skills
> Unique combination of personal, analytical, technical and communication
skills.
Technical Skills
Tools : Tableau 8,Business Objects 4.0/XI 3.1, Xcelsius
Databases : Oracle 10g/9i,Sql Server
Operating Systems : Windows Server 2003/2000/NT, Windows Vista/
XP
Windows Utility : MS-Word, MS-Excel and MS-PowerPoint.
Programming Languages : SQL, PL/SQL, JAVA, HTML
Query Tools : TOAD, SQL*PLUS
Work Experience
Tableau Developer GSK, NC
Jan 2013 - Dec 2014
The primary IT systems to support all experimental Product Development
effort across GSK - which includes BioPharm BioProcess Development and PTS
Chemical Development, Pharmaceutical Development, and Clinical Trial
Responsibilities
> Involved in gathering, analyzing, and documenting business
requirements, functional requirements and data specifications .
> Implemented Tableau BI Dashboard reporting solution for different
groups in the organizations
> Effectively used data blending feature in tableau to get data from Sql
Server & MS Excel
> Converted WEBI Reports to Tableau Dashboards for Advanced
Visualizations
> Created Tableau Scorecards, dashboards using stack bars, bar graphs,
scattered plots, geographical maps, Gantt charts using show me
functionality.
> Executed and tested required queries and data before publishing
Dashboard
> Created action filters, parameters and calculated sets for preparing
dashboards and worksheets in Tableau.
> Created complex data Views Manually using multiple measures, also used
sort, Filter, group, Create Set functionality.
> Mastered the ability to design and deploy rich Graphic visualizations
with Drill Down and Drop down menu option and Parameterized using
Tableau.
> Worked creating Aggregations, calculated Fields, Table calculations,
Totals, percentages using Key Performance Measures ( KPI) and
Measure .
> Worked in Tableau environment to create dashboards like weekly,
monthly, daily reports using tableau desktop & publish them to server.
> Working on the SQL tuning and optimization of the Business Objects
reports.
> Designed and maintained complex Universe, resolved loops by
creating aliases and contexts.
> Extensively used the @functions and Aggregate Aware feature. Worked on
back end views, tables required by the business objects universes.
> Created and defined the Hierarchies for various reports based on the
Business rule of the Organization.
> Troubleshoot errors for reports, dashboards, and universes. Fixed them
to work as per the business needs.
> Created complex reports by linking data from multiple data providers
and functionalities like Union Queries, Drill Down, Master Detail,
Custom Sorts etc.
> Extensively worked with Ranks, Alerter, filters, prompts, variables
and calculation contexts in designing reports.
> Extensive testing and migrating the reports from development to
Production system.
> Developed testing scripts and test cases.
Business Object Developer Cardinal Health, India
Apr 2011 - Dec 2012
Cardinal Health is a recognized leader in IV infusion delivery systems
and provides a range of disposable products for use with infusion systems
and for a wide range of IV therapy procedures. The Alaris Products (syringe
pumps, volumetric pumps, and Guardrails Suite of safety software
applications) offers the very best in safety-first infusion systems.
Responsibilities
> Involved in gathering, analyzing, and documenting business
requirements, functional requirements and data specifications
for Business Objects Universes and Reports.
> Working on the SQL tuning and optimization of the Business Objects
reports.
> Designed and maintained complex Universes, resolved loops by
creating aliases and contexts.
> Exported the ad-hoc ready universes for making semantic
layer available to the users.
> Extensively used the @functions and Aggregate Aware feature. Worked on
back end views, tables required by the business objects universes.
> Created and defined the Hierarchies for various reports based on the
Business rule of the Organization.
> Troubleshoot errors for reports, dashboards, and universes. Fixed them
to work as per the business needs.
> Created complex reports by linking data from multiple data providers
and functionalities like Union Queries, Drill Down, Master Detail,
Custom Sorts etc.
> Extensively worked with Ranks, Alerter, filters, prompts, variables
and calculation contexts in designing reports.
> Extensive testing and migrating the reports or objects from
development to Production system.
> Developed testing scripts and test cases.
Business Object Developer Northwestern Mutual, India Jan
2010 - Mar 2011
Northwestern Mutual is the largest direct provider of individual life
insurance in U.S.The Northwestern Mutual provides two types of Products
namely Insurance Products (Life Insurance Policy, Disability Insurance
Policy) and Investment Products (Mutual Funds, Annuities).
Responsibilities
> Involved in understanding the end-user requirements and business
processes in creating and designing universes, queries and reports.
> Designed Universes, incorporating all the business requirements.
> Implemented object level security universe to incorporate security for
sensitive information.
> Designed universes, solved loops by creating aliases, contexts and
resolved traps.
> Created complex variables, breaks, sorts, filter and conditions for
various reports.
> Created complex reports involving master/detail and cross-tab and
Combined queries and sub-queries
> Coordinated with DBA and Business objects designer group in solving
various technical issues.
> Created multiple contexts for catering different functional areas in a
single user query.
> Used Aggregate awareness function of Business Objects to route the
query objects through the appropriate path while selecting from
multiple contexts..
> Used prompts in the reporter as well as in the universe to create more
interactive reports for running different kind of campaigns.
> Extensively used scheduler for report scheduling and deployment
> Generated various report templates for standardizing the reports
throughout the organization.
> Scheduled pre-canned reports through Scheduler for distribution and
printing.
Business Object Developer S&P,India
Apr 2008 - Nov 2009
The Major Objective of Economic Data System (EDS) is to develop a
reporting system to help the S& P Analysts, for analysis of the demographic
statistical information. The application consists of static reports of the
information, providing comparative views at State, City, County and School
district levels compared against themselves and against US Country level
data. The source data for this reporting system was provided by a 3rd party
vendor and routed through S&P's standard Feeds platform. The reports
were generated against the warehouse
Responsibilities
> Analysis of Business Objects environment, Universes, Reports.
> Developed Universe using Designer module in Business Objects.
> Developed and created classes with Dimension, Detail & Measure Objects
and specified the hierarchies.
> Specified the Joins and checked the cardinalities.
> Implemented User Objects in Reports.
> Created Condition in Universe.
> Ad-hoc reports were used for Business Objects user modules for various
portfolios using the Universes as the main Data providers.
> Resolved loops by creating Aliases and Context.
> Organized data in reports by using filters, sorting, ranking and
highlighted data with alerts.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science