VENKATKRISHNAN (VENKAT) RAGHAVAN

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PROFILE SUMMARY

Experienced Business Information Management specialist; Over 8 years of consulting, Application Development & Maintenance

experience; domain knowledge in Insurance, Financial Services & Telecom. Core competencies include:

Enterprise Systems Design & Development Data design and Transformation

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Project Management & Global Distributed Delivery Application Support & Maintenance

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Healthcare Claims Processing Financial Service Credit Processing

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TECHNICAL SKILLS

ETL: Informatica 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, Datastage 8.7

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Databases & Design: Oracle,Teradata

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Scripting: Perl, UNIX shell scripts

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Project Management: Microsoft Project, Open Project, Microsoft Office

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Key Clients : WellPoint, Dun & Bradstreet, Royal Bank of Scotland, American Tower Corporation, Mead Johnson

EXPERIENCE

Lucid Technology & Solutions Chennai, India

ETL Tech Lead Apr 2014 –Present

Lead a team of 8 FTEs to design and implement Oracle BI Application for a major Telecom infrastructure provider to

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provide executive analytics and insights on their Financial and Asset management performance.

Leveraged Agile based methodology to review business user stories and develop technical specifications through a joint

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functional and technical team.

Designed & implemented trade promotion analytics application for a leading consumer product company.

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Integrated information across multiple data stores using Datastage and streamlined rebates calculations & campaign

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ROI.

Lead Practice development efforts – Developed reusable frameworks to improve productivity and quality, coached and

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mentored over 15 junior staff members, lead technical interview panels for new hire recruiting.

Tata Consultancy Services Chennai, India

IT-Analyst May 2012 –Apr-2014

Lead a team of 10 engineers to design and develop data stores to support client’s retail reporting BI.

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Prepared Teradata macro to generate SCD queries by querying the source and target table metadata,which reduced

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considerable development and testing efforts by 70%.

Facilitated design workshops with business users and architects to design data models based on business use case.

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Designed and Presented implementation strategies for alignment with enterprise architecture frameworks.

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D&B TransUnion Chennai, India

Senior Software Engineer Nov 2010 – May-2012

Lead support engineer for data management across 90 source systems.

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Provided break fix, enhancements and performance tuning solutions.

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Collaborated with key stakeholders to develop and analyze business requirements.

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Achieved 80% improvement in reporting turnaround time through automation in Perl /UNIX.

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Used structured analysis, process flows and data flow diagrams to update design.

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Provided oversight to D&B staff and 3rd party vendors: IBM & Cognizant.

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UST Global Chennai, India

Senior Software Engineer Sep 2007 – Nov 2010

Lead a team of 20 engineers to design, develop, and support a Prescription Management Claims Processing System.

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Performed requirements analysis and coordinated the architecture definition phase.

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Managed developers across various modules in the project and coordinated the project schedule and delivery.

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Standardized the usage of Unix & Perl Scripts and established Coding standard for Informatica.

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Supported various version upgrades of Informatica from 7.1.1 to 8.1 and from 8.1 to 8.6.1.

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Migrated historical data like Claims, Prior Auth & Accumulators for various Clients into an enterprise data warehouse.

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Improved development code efficiency by 90% by creating re-usable codes.

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Conducted more than 20 training sessions for new team members and developed account level training framework.

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EDUCATION & TRAINING

ANNA UNIVERSITY Chennai, India

Master of Science in Information Technology June 2007

INFORMATICA CORPORATION India

Informatica Certified Developer 8.x Dec 2008

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