GURU TEJA
Email ID: **********@*****.***
Mobile # 248-***-****
Summary:
. Over 7+ years of experience in IT industry comprising of OBIEE (Siebel
Analytics) using OBIEE 10.x/11.x, Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g and Informatica
8.x/7.x.
. Hands on Experience in Data Modeling using ER Model, Dimensional Data
Modeling, converting Snow-Flake Schema to Star Schema, Physical &
Logical Data Modeling.
. Experienced in building OBIEE Repository consisting of three layers
(Physical Layer, Business Model & Mapping and Presentation Layer) and
developing Dimensional Hierarchies, Level Based Measures, Aggregation,
Integration Variables, Initialization blocks Configuration, and adding
multiple sources to business model objects (mLTS).
. Proficient in using the Time-Series functions to support historical
time comparison analysis and creating requests, adding filters,
creating prompts and creating pivot tables using OBI.
. Expert in developing Subject Areas, and applying security (group,
access / query privileges) at object and data level in Administration
Tool. Hands on experience in customizing reports,
filters and charts in Oracle Answers.
. Experienced in designing customized interactive dashboards in OBIEE
using drill down, guided navigation, prompts, filters, and variables.
. Created and scheduled iBots using delivers to send alerts, run
reports, and deliver reports to the users. Experienced in supporting
performance tuning and process tuning at all levels.
. Executed OBIEE administrative tasks such as OBIEE server
installation, migration and user maintenance.
. Experience in migrating the Web catalog developments by using the
Catalog Manager and Repository developments to Production from the
Test environment.
. Experienced in BI Publisher, BI Answers and BI
delivers(OBIEE10g/OBIEE11g)
. In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and its
various phases such as Requirement gathering, Analysis /
Design, Development, Testing and Implementation / Release Management.
. Extensively worked in setting up a Multi-User Development Environment
(MUDE) and using OBI Answers to run queries to test and validate
repository.
. Extensive knowledge in Debugging, Optimizing and Performance Tuning of
Oracle BI/Siebel Analytics Dashboards/Reports by implementing
Aggregate Navigation, Cache Management and Materialized Views.
. Configured the NQSCONFIG.INI file for usage tracking using direct
insertion.
. Experienced in writing, testing and implementation of Stored
Procedures and Packages at database level using PL/SQL, Creating user
defined functions, triggers, cursors, views, indexes, and Database
design Methodologies.
. Expertise in Design, Development, Implementation, Administration and
Support of ETL processes for Data Marts and large scale Data
Warehouses using Informatica Power Center 8.x, 7.x.
. Experience in loading huge amount of data into data warehouse using
ETL tool Informatica. Development of mappings in Informatica to load
data from various sources using different transformations like Look up
(connected and unconnected), Router, Joiner, Update Strategy,
Aggregate, Expression, Filter, Source Qualifier, etc.
. Extensively tested the mappings by running the queries against Source
and Target tables and by using break points in the debugger.
. Worked with DAC to configure, monitor and schedule ETL routines.
Experienced in deploying Informatica workflows to the DAC and created
dependency and dependent Hierarchical tasks.
. Knowledge in extracting data from Oracle, OLTP, flat files and
integration and loading data to OLAP systems.
. Expertise in analyzing business issues and providing possible
reporting solutions to end users.
. Multi-platform experience on UNIX / Linux and Windows Server.
. Excellent problem solving skills with strong technical background
having the ability to meet deadlines, work under pressure, quickly
master new technologies and skills and ability to work effectively in
a team environment.
. Flexible and versatile to adapt to any new environment with a strong
desire to keep pace with latest technologies.
Technical Summary:
. Reporting Tools : OBIEE11.x/OBIEE10.x,Seibel Analytics 7.8.2/3,BI
Apps
. ETL Tools : Informatica Power Center 8.6/8.1/7.1, DAC,
. Scheduling Tools : DAC
. Databases : Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, Teradata, and
Microsoft SQL Server.
. Query Languages : SQL/PL-SQL for Oracle/MSSQL Server/ Teradata
. Programming : C++, Java, and UNIX Shell Scripting.
. Operating Systems : Windows Server 2003/2005/2008, Windows
2000/Xp/Vista/7, UNIX, Linux.
. Web Technologies : XML, HTML/XHTML
. Data Modeling : Microsoft Visio, TOAD
. Domain : Banking, Insurance, Financial
Management, Health Care, Retail, Pharmaceuticals.
Sherwin Williams, Cleveland OH
Nov 2012 - Till
Date
OBIEE\ETL Developer
The company primarily engages in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of
paints, coatings and related products to professional, industrial,
commercial, and retail customers primarily in North and South America and
Europe. The company is mostly known through its Sherwin-Williams Paints
line. As BI Consultant, I administrated OBIEE platform. Based on user
requirements, some fit-gaps were identified and customized to load the user
required data and debugged various issues in all the three OBI Components
and custom dashboards were developed.
Responsibilities:
. Partnered with Business Analysts in understanding the analytics
requirements and creating the business models for generating reports
as per the business requirements.
. Based on user requirements, identified various fit-gaps on existing
Oracle analytics warehouse and developed solutions to meet Finance
team requirements and loaded the user required data into the OBAW
. Worked on repository Physical Data Layer, Business Model and Mapping
Layer and Presentation Layer using OBIEE Administration Tool.
. Setup MUDE Environment for Development of RPD for Developers.
. Managed the migrations of the webcatlog and RPD among different
Environments
. Developed many Dimensions and Time Series Objects with Security
settings for analyzing.
. Used the expression builder utility to create new logical columns in
the BMM layer and created various calculation measures.
. Created Dimensional Hierarchy for Dimensions, Level based Measures and
Aggregate navigation in BMM layer.
. Created indexes, materialized views, Aggregate Tables and Configuring
Nqsconfig.ini parameters etc
. Created groups in the repository and added users to the groups and
granted privileges explicitly and through group inheritance.
. Configured Repository and session variables to get dynamic reports and
dashboards.
. Developed different brand level Reports, Filters, and Prompts using
Oracle BI Answers and improve its performance by tuning long running
sql.
. Implemented dynamic dashboard prompts to zoom into particular segments
of the business in a performance-optimized manner.
. Developed and debugged many Dashboards using different Analytics Views
(Pivot Table, Chart, and Column Selector), Dynamic / Interactive
Dashboards with drill-down capabilities, charts, tabular using global
and local Filters.
. Implemented dynamic dashboard prompts to zoom into particular segments
of the business in a performance-optimized manner.
. Developed reports using BI Apps (Financial Analytics) repository, BI
Answers and Dashboards.
. Added new Dimensions and Columns to the Subject Areas to full fill the
Additional Requirements of the Business Analysts.
. Analyzed reporting requirements for dashboard reports and ad-hoc
reports.
. Took back-up of DAC, BI & Informatica repositories and BI Web
catalogs
. Monitored and Scheduled ETL along with reducing application
configuration and development time by using DAC.
. Built multiple execution plans in DAC for weekly and daily loads.
. Built custom analyze scripts for DAC to reduce the time for table
analysis.
. Performed extensive debugging on existing ETL routines and repository
(.rpd) layers.
. Experience in integrating OBIEE with EBS.
. Implemented User, Object and Data security in the integrated
environment (EBS and OBIEE).
. Expert in Unit, System and Integration Testing and Performed Data
Validation for all the ETL's and reports generated from Informatica
and OBI/Siebel Analytics.
Environment: BI Apps 7.9.6, OBIEE 11.1.1.6, Oracle EBS, Windows 2008
Server, DAC, Red-Hat Linux, Informatica 9.0.1
CalPERS
Jan
2012 - Nov 2012
Northern Highland Consulting,
Sacramento, CA
OBIEE Developer
CalPERS (California Public Employees Retirement System) are an agency that
manages pension and health benefits for more than 1.6 million California
public employees, retirees, and their families. CalPERS are known for its
shareholder activism .stocks placed on its "Focus List" may perform better
than other stocks, which has given rise to the term "CalPERS effect".
Outside the U.S., CalPERS has been called "a recognized global leader in
the investment industry", and "one of America's most powerful shareholder
bodies".
Responsibilities:
. Involved in meetings with users, BA's, and data analysts, and examined
the business, functional and technical design documentation.
. Involved in building star and snowflake schemas in the repository as
well as using the foreign key link in the physical layer and the new
complex joint key in the Business Model and Mapping layer.
. Configured the OBIEE repository (Physical, BMM and Presentation
layer).
. Worked with the repository and session variables. Created
Initialization blocks to provide Object level security for the users.
. Created Time Series measures Year ago, Month Ago, Year-to-date
measures using AGO and To Date functions.
. Involved in merging RPD for deployment.
. Built customized reports in OBIEE answers and integrated them into the
Dashboards according to the Business requirements.
. Developed many Reports using different Analytics Views (Pivot Table,
Chart, and Column Selector), Dynamic / Interactive Dashboards with
drill-down capabilities, charts, tabular using global and local
Filters that were following HIPAA standard regulations.
. Used complex expressions to Calculate, Group, Filter, and Format the
contents of the report according to the requirement.
. Modified ETL mappings Using Informatica Power Center Designer
. Scheduled Summary Reports, Ad Hoc reports for viewing purposes by the
managers for the analysis purpose. Created Drilldown-Reports for the
clients.
. Setting up LDAP authentication to enable Single Sign on for Users in
Development environment leveraging Analytics Repository.
. Created and integrated User Defined Functions and Stored Procedures
for reporting purpose.
. Was involved in performing data validation for the reports generated
using OBIEE.
. Responsible for Handling both initial EBS load and daily incremental
EBS load
. Dealt with the performance issues by Tuning the queries for the
reports which are running at significantly higher time periods
. Migrated the approved developments (Web cat, .rpd) from the Test
environment to the Production environment using the catalog manager
. Participated in the walkthroughs of the data models, ETL
specifications, identification of dimensional attributes, Facts and
Star Schema to fulfill requirements.
. Configured DAC and Monitored the Production DAC loads every day
. Used DAC to schedule and run the full incremental ETL loads and to
schedule the informatica jobs in Oracle Business Analytic Warehouse.
Environment: Windows XP, Windows Server 2008, MS SQL Server, ODBC, Oracle
11g/10g, OBIEE 11.1.1.3, Informatica 8.x, DAC.
Nordstrom - Seattle, WA
Nov 2010 - Dec 2011
BI Consultant
Nordstrom, Inc. is a leading fashion specialty retailer offering compelling
clothing, shoes and accessories for men, women and children. One of the
nation's largest upscale apparel and shoe retailers, Nordstrom sells
clothes, shoes, and accessories through more than 117 Nordstrom department
stores about 110 off-price outlet stores (Nordstrom Rack) in more than
31 states and online. My primary role was to set up the financial
environment by performing mapping and generating OBIEE dashboards and
reports.
Responsibilities:
. Worked closely with functional, marketing, sales, finance, and other
business groups to identify, analyze business requirements and
developed detail technical requirement based on business requirements.
. Co-ordinate with the off shore team and taking care of all the
deliverables
. Install and Configure OBIEE for BI Apps for different subject areas.
. Configure the connection pool settings according to the requirements.
. Work in End to End construction of the BI model from repository to
reports development
. Integrate OBIEE with LDAP for Authentication.
. Involve in several administrative roles including setting up users and
roles and permissions, managing catalogs.
. Manage/Administered OBIEE web catalog using Catalog Manager
. Create several dimensional hierarchies.
. Create new Repository Variables, Session variables and Initialization
blocks to configure security, data access and authorization on
Repository and Catalog objects.
. Provide dynamic cascading prompts as per client's new requirements on
organizational hierarchy and configure drill downs for various types
of Hierarchies.
. Created Answers reports using various analytics views like Table,
Pivot tables, Charts, Column Selectors, View Selectors, Narrative, and
Static text.
. Developed ad-hoc reports by writing physical SQL queries in the front-
end.
. Created ibots (Agents) for several reports to be delivered to the
users and to automate the data load process.
. Worked on enabling write-back feature on the reports.
. Created new Dashboards according to best practices by using Columns,
Sections and Guided Navigation.
Involved in developing Informatica Mappings to build key interfaces using
various transformations for loading data into Data Warehouse.
Extensively worked in the Performance tuning of the programs, ETL
Procedures and processes.
Created workflows to schedule and trigger mappings.
Environment: Oracle BI Apps 7.9.6, Oracle BI Publisher 10g, OBIEE 10g,
Oracle, XML, Informatica Power Center 7x/8.x, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus.
Gentech Pharmaceuticals FL
Dec 2008 - Oct 2010
BI Developer
Gentech Pharmaceuticals has been primarily known as a Research and
Development company. It has been involved in producing designer
pharmacological alternatives without the side effects. As a Siebel
Analytics developer, involved in developing BI solution for strategic
analysis by sales, marketing, and pricing to provide marketing and campaign
management capability, an ability to measure effectiveness across all
products and provide single data set for analysis and tracking of results
to the managers.
Responsibilities:
. Working with business users for gathering business requirements and
Identify various KPI's, and Analytics Report requirements.
. Experience on OBIEE 11g Administration using Web logic Administration
console and Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control.
. Used OBIEE 11.1.1.6.0 Administration tool to develop and enhance meta-
data.
. Configured Physical layer, Business Model Layer and Presentation Layer
of the Repository.
. Renamed the components as per business terminology.
. Implemented Dimensional Hierarchies, Aggregate navigation, and other
various features to meet the business requirements.
. Created Repository, system and non-system session variable and
initialization blocks for various reporting needs.
. Configured Logical Layer, Created Logical tables/dimensions, columns,
Created Logical Joins/keys, Set levels to support Drill-down and
Aggregation navigation.
. Implemented Time Comparison and Calculation measures in the business
model using Time series Wizard.
. Created role based dashboards, pages, reports with various views i.e.
table, pivot, charts, narrator, column selector, ticker etc. and
various report prompts.
. Configured iBots to deliver Analytics content based on schedule,
automated iBot queries to obtain daily and weekly reports.
. Trouble shooting the issues related to repository models and report
development.
. Generated various Analytics Reports using global and local filters as
per client requirements.
. Managed security privileges for each subject area and dashboards
according to user requirements.
. Designed and developed global reporting solution in support of the ETL
initiative, developed and maintained documentation to support the team
and business.
. Checked the source, target and mapping bottlenecks to tune the ETL
process performance.
. Used Informatica Mapping Designer to create/update mapping using
different transformations like Filter, Expression etc. which are
required to move data into data warehouse.
Environment: OBIEE 10g, Informatica 8.6, Oracle 10g, Oracle Enterprise
Linux, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP.
HDFC Bank Cards Division, New Delhi India
April 2006 - Nov 2008
Siebel Analytics Developer
The Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC) was amongst the
first to receive an 'in principle' approval from the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) to set up a bank in the private sector, as part of the RBI's
liberalization of the Indian Banking Industry in 1994. It was incorporated
in August 1994 in the name of 'HDFC Bank Limited'. The purpose of the
project is to migrate data from the databases to the Warehouse built on
Oracle database and develop a decision analysis system using Siebel
Analytics/OBIEE to produce customized dashboards and reports.
Responsibilities:
. Worked closely with Business Analysts in understanding the Analytics
requirements and created Business Models for generating Reports as per
the requirements.
. Extensive experience in RPD, Web catalog administration as well as
server configuration.
. Installing Oracle BI Analytics and configuring the connection
parameters with SQL Server, Oracle 10g.
. Used TOAD for Oracle and SQL navigator to connect to databases in
Oracle.
. Create/Modify Metadata repository (.rpd) as per the data requirements
by using Oracle BI Analytics Server Admin tool.
. Independently Designed and developed subject areas in the RPD.
. Created Snowflakes and Star Schema to perform data modeling for
proposed architecture.
. Created the Business Model and Mapping Layer (design of hierarchies,
dimensions, and aggregates).
. Created Repository Users/ Groups and Web Groups and assigned
permissions to the user groups to define security in the repository.
. Gathered and analyzed reporting requirements for the claims and
payment departments.
. Created and customized various Reports and Dashboards for various user
groups.
. Created reports with different views (Compound, Chart, Table, Pivot,
Ticker and Narrative).
. Generated the highly-formatted, pixel-perfect enterprise reports using
Oracle BI publisher.
. Involved in migration of RPD and Catalog from Development to Test
environment.
. Developed and scheduled iBots for delivering personalized reports to
users on time.
. Trained End Users to Build Ad Hoc Reports using OBIEE.
Environment: Siebel Analytics 7.7, Informatica 7.x, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, TOAD
and Windows.
Educational Qualification:
Bachelors of Science,
JNTU, India.