Supriya Biswas
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DATA ARCHITECT
CAREER OBJECTIVE
Seeking Data Architect role with expertise in BI/DW projects on Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase for an
organization focused on enterprise-scale business applications backed by massive warehouse data.
SKILLS
SDLC experience including both waterfall and agile methodologies.
Business knowledge in Database Security and various compliances, Market Research, Telecommunications,
Financial Services and Manufacturing industries.
Strong ability to articulate and apply knowledge of data warehousing and modeling concepts to transform
complex business logic into dimensional design.
Experience in data extraction, transformation and loading from various data sources into the warehouse and
maintaining data quality at various levels to help clients in their dynamic decision making process using Star,
Snowflake, Ralph Kimball's dimensional model.
Extensive knowledge of developing complex Transact SQL queries, stored procedures, functions, triggers,
views for SQL Server 2005/2008R2/2012 and Sybase ASE.
Experience in both operational and warehouse database performance tuning, data integrity and statistical
analysis.
Ab Initio and alend ETL tools and IBM-Cognos reporting tool.
Autosys, Control-M, Syncsort, JIRA, MS Visio, ERwin, SVN 3 rd party tools.
Extensive knowledge in UNIX shell Scripting. Knowledge C, C++, VC++, Java, PERL and Hadoop.
Experience in software sizing and capacity planning for various productions across the globe.
Great aptitude for learning, and have excellent communication skills, highly motivated, and organized. Work
very well in a team and have ability to lead onsite and offshore tea m.
EXPERIENCE
4/2013 - present
Nielsen, Syosset, NY
Role: Data Architect
Nielsen is the leading Market Research Company provides essential information and consumer insight for better
marketing decisions. Consumer and Shopper Explorer (C&SE) is state of the art statistical Decision Support System
that generates various facts based information for retailers and manufacturer to analyze consumer and shopper
behavior.
Responsible for development and promoting the enterprise data architecture strategy and services so to build
the enterprise information structure across BI, applications, and processe s.
Redesigning and implementing ETL job management for better response and enhanced security .
Design the data integration architecture with high reusability and traceability, high performance, high
consistency, high reliability ETL and subscription based data marts.
Develop strategies and enhance application development process for seamless product migration and
adoption of new market analysis models.
11/2007 – 3/2013
Application Security Inc., New York, NY
Role: Data Architect
Application Security Inc. is the #1 provider of cross-platform database security, risk and compliance solutions for
the enterprise. AppSecInc's products – DbProtect for Enterprise, AppDetectivePro for Auditors, and IT Advisor,
deliver the industry's most comprehensive database security solution.
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Designed, implemented and maintained warehouse dimensional schema and ETL for both User
Rights Review (URR) and Vulnerability scan data
DbProtect scans target databases and generates valuable URR and Vulnerability data. Worked with product
management in developing and reviewing user stories to address current and future customer requirements .
Data warehouse was designed using Kimball’s dimensional model and bus architectures to optimize
performance and user experience. This model is open and flexible to support agility of the product to
address customer needs in the future. Documentation for data model is automatically generated for internal
and external use to ensure appropriate usages of data.
Designed and verified Warehouse automated test cases to ensure data quality
Researched off-the-selves tools for data quality and finally developed in-house automated tool to support
extensive test cases. Data quality and consistency were tested at various levels - starting from raw data
collection to presentation of roll-up data.
Developed awareness for peer groups and clients to improve understanding of BI/DW dimensional
model
Purpose- and structure-wise, DW dimensional model is vastly different from operational normalized data
model. Discussion and blogs are developed to help cross-functional teams and the clients to understand the
data and its authenticity.
Provide customer support to external clients and internal Reporting team
Provide development support for DbProtect during Beta and production deployment. Guided Cognos report
developers to understand the schema and data, provid e prototype SQL queries to guide them in developing
Cognos import views and business views. Reviewed Cognos queries and identified areas for improvements.
Developed SQL based schema and data verification tool for seamless product upgrade and
maintenance
This minimized the involvement of support team and critical production down -time. These tools compare
the base schema against the target schema using schema signature and also validate the data. It produces
summary and detailed reports on the differ ences and steps to eliminate those differences.
Enhanced and maintained operational schema and Knowledgebase for DbProtect and
AppDetectivePro
Developed organization-level best practice for schema design and templates for developing programmable
objects. Responsible for reviewing and maintain the standards for both products.
Responsible as a DBA to maintain in-house test databases
Involved in regular maintenance of in house SQL Server databases of various capacities. These databases
used for scaling the application and understand the behavior of the product during upgrade. Research work
was focused on providing better understanding of warehouse data, database data and log growth etc. based
on extensive study of real data.
3/1998 - 11/2007
ACNielsen, Syosset, NY
Role: Project Lead
ACNielsen is the leading Market Research Company provides essential information and consumer insight for better
marketing decisions.
Consumer and Shopper Explorer (C&SE) is state of the art statistical Decision Support System that generates various
facts based information for retailers and manufacturer to analyze consumer and shopper behavior.
Data Warehouse Performance Improvement
Led a team to identify areas that require improvements. Worked with smaller group of people to do high
level sizing, define criticality, find resources and the time frame for implementation; Responsibilities
include:
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Analyzing SYBASE DB object to find possible improvement.
Developing and enhancing SYBASE SQL code to improve performance and maintain application
components integrity.
Developed awareness among the team to develop efficient SQL query.
Master Data Management – Item Master (UPC) Update
Responsible for developing Ab Initio graphs and UNIX shell scripts along with few team members to
extract update and load active UPC for five regions ( US, Canada, Brazil, Mexico and Columbia).
Global Productions lead for 20+ productions
Some of the responsibilities are:
Problem acknowledgement, initial analysis, priority negotiation and work assignment
Work with the team to resolve critical production data warehouse / data -mart issues.
Planning and execution of new version roll out to all productions
Active contributor in the development and support improvement processes.
Developed day to day production warehouse database change process and periodic database
migration process
Developed and enhanced various Autosys based UNIX Shell and PERL utilities
These utilities were used to monitor and measure production load, manage Autosys queues and slots,
monitoring progress of batch jobs for a given item, helping local and international countries to resolve their
Autosys related problem.
Development of various features for C&SE Decision Support System – Designed and developed codes
for various complex ETL functions of C&SE by using C, C++ and VC++.
4/1994 - 2/1998
Tata Consultancy Services, India
Role: Lead Developer
Worked on financial and telecom projects.
7/1990 - 6/1992
Steel Authority of India Ltd., India
Role: Software Engineer
Developed programs / components for Pay roll and Store and Inventory System of Steel Authority of
India Ltd.
AWARDS & CERTIFICATES
2010 Q2 Presidential Award from Application Security Inc.
2008 DB2 Developer Certificate.
2005 PMP Certification from Project Management Institute.
2004 Arthur C. Nielsen Jr. Global Award from ACNielsen.
EDUCATION
12/1993 - MS in Computer Science and Information Technology from Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur, India
06/1990 - BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
PUBLICATION
Algorithms for Convex Visibility Problems
Source Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 880 archive; Publisher: Springer -Verlag London, UK.
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