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Project Manager Developer

Location:
Herndon, VA, 20171
Posted:
November 04, 2010

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Resume:

Vasudha Yerravally 248-***-****

Summary

Over 7 years of experience in analysis, design, development, implementation and

administration/support of Data Warehousing, Reporting and Client/Server applications.

Over 5 years of experience in Business Objects XI R2,6.x/5.x/4.x products.

Areas of expertise include BO Reporter, Explorer, Designer, Supervisor, Web Intelligence

(WebI), InfoView, BCA (Broadcast Agent), Publisher, BCA Console, and ZABO (Zero Admin

Business Objects).

Extensive experience in report creation, scheduling, distribution (export/import) and

promotion/migration (development/test/production environments) using Business Objects

user module.

BO Designer experience includes Universe creation and distribution (export/import),

promotion/migration (development/test/production environments), classes/objects creation,

joins, resolving loops using aliases/contexts, resolving fan and chasm traps,

personal/shared/secured connections, linking universes, aggregate awareness, and

customizing universe parameters.

Other areas of technical expertise include customizing thick client and thin client

environments using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), WebFocus,Dashboards,BO SDK

(Software Deployment Kit), ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, Web based Reporting and WebI

SDK.Knowledge of working with Crystal Reports.

Over 3 years Oracle database experience includes querying, database objects

creation/maintenance, stored procedures, embedded PL/SQL using SQL, PL/SQL, dynamic

SQL, and SQL Loader.

Over 4 years of experience as a Business Analyst.

Over 3 years of experience in UNIX with expertise in Unix Shell Scripts.

Obtained Training in Web Logic Server 9.2

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Education

Bachelors in Computers

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications, NIIT, Hyderabad.

Skills

BI Tools/ Datawarehousing: Business Objects 4.x/5.x/6.x,XI R2,Reporter/Explorer,Supervisor,Web Intelligence/WebI,InfoView,Broadcast Agent,BO SDK,WEBi-

SDK,ZABO,OLAP,Dimensional Modeling,Star Schema,Snowflake

Schema

Languages: C/C++,Visual Basic 5.0/6.0,VBA,MS IIS Server,HTML/DHTML,ASP,JSP,VB Script,JavaScript,SQL,PL/SQL,Stored Procedures,Triggers,Packages,SQL*Plus,SQL*Loader,HP-UX 11,Windows NT

4.0,Windows 2000,Windows 95/98,MS DOS

RDBMS: Oracle 8i/9i, Oracle 8.x/7.x, SQL Server 2000, Sybase, MS Access

2000, DB2, Teradata, PL/SQL, SQL, Stored Procedures/Triggers

Experience

Comerica Mar 10 – Sep 10

Senior Business Objects Developer

Responsibilities:

Created a new Universe.

Designed and developed Business Objects Reports with minimal supervision.

Creating reports with numerous numbers of formulas, case statements, breaks, master

detail sections.

Created reports with multiple tabs with multiple data providers, conditions, formulas,

complex Global and Table filters, sorts

Created ad-hoc reports for the customers and users.

Gathered reporting requirements from the users.

Scheduling reports using BCA Console to the Users Inbox and Infoview on weekly and

monthly basis.

Managing the access and security related issues of the Users for the Reports and

Universe.

Providing BOXI R2 training to the team members as this was a new product in the

project.

Providing Infoview and Report navigation training to the Users.

Demonstrating the BOXI tool to the team and the Users.

Solely responsible for creating all the reports for different modules and Universes in the

current project.

Documentaion of the Reports and Universe changes and updates as per requirements.

Technical environment includes Business Objects XI R2, BO Designer XI R2,Web

Intelligence,Infoview XI R2, Oracle 11, and Windows XP,Exposure with WebFocus and

Dashboards.

Ford Motor Company Apr 07 – Feb 10

Business Objects Developer

Responsibilities:

Worked with the ESPS Group (Extended Service Plan System) as a Business Objects

Developer.

Extended Service Plan coverage offers protection against high repair bills after a vehicle is

out of its manufacturer warranty. Different levels of coverage are available: PremiumCARE

covers 500+ parts; ExtraCARE covers 113 parts; BaseCARE - 84; PowertrainCARE -

29.Most coverage provides Roadside Assistance and a towing and rental allowance too.

Coverage can be purchased on Ford and non-Ford products, new and previously owned

vehicles.

Reports are made for the customers, mostly about the dealers, insurance, contracts details.

Reports contain highly sophisticated information regarding the premiums, cancel amounts,

claim amount for all types’ contracts. And based on this information dealer’s bonus,

payments, refund amounts are decided.

Created a master- detail report.

Managed Universes, Business Objects products, Stored Procedures, Repository, and

Document domains.

Created reports with multiple tabs with multiple data providers, conditions, formulas, complex

Global and Table filters, sorts, breaks, and master-detail sections reporters.

Responsible for modification and formatting to the existing Business Objects reports and

Universes.

Created ad-hoc reports for the customers and users.

Scheduled reports using BCA Console.

Exported Universes and Published reports to the Production Environment.

Gathered requirements for the specific Universe and the report change.

Documented requirements given by the customer.

Involved in the implementation of Web Focus.

Obtained the training for Web Focus.

Created reports out of Web Focus Environment

Technical environment includes Business Objects 6.5, BO Designer 6.5,Web Intelligence 6.5,

Teradata SQL Assistant 6.2, and Windows XP, WebFocus 5.3.

Ford Motor Company Oct 05 – Jan 07

Business Objects Developer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

Worked for the Service Center Integrated Reporting (SCIR), which is an application that uses

Business Objects 5.1.8 and Teradata. This application generates daily and monthly reports

about the Dealers, Accounts, Account Maintenance, Branch and Company Losses, Phone

Time with Customers, Agents, Delinquencies, employees and their performance, and

company trends throughout North America.

Designed, developed, tested and maintained Business Objects Reports and Universes.

Responsible for modification and formatting to the existing Business Objects reports and

Universes.

Created reports with multiple tabs with multiple data providers, conditions, formulas, complex

Global and Table filters, sorts, breaks, and master-detail sections reporters.

Worked with the customers and end users for requirements gathering, business analysis,

testing, metrics, and project coordination.

Managed Universes, Business Objects products, Stored Procedures, Repository, and

Document domains.

Created Dimensions, Measure and Detail objects in the Universe.

Created reports using simple to complex reporting tool functionalities.

Created ad-hoc reports for the customers and users.

Defined aggregate SQL functions on measures to improve performance.

Worked on database connections, views, parsing of objects and hierarchies.

Defined aggregate SQL functions on measures to improve performance.

Used the formatting options like cross tab representation, section breaks, data sort options,

calculations, font according to the applications reporting standards.

Used BO functionalities in order to improve the report performance for efficiency and faster

run.

Created SPUFI’s, modified the tables, added and deleted rows from the tables in Teradata in

order to improvise the required data from the database.

Presented features related to Business Objects to the end users and customers.

Scheduled reports on a weekly, monthly and specific time period reports on a regular basis

using Broadcast Agent (BCA).

Provided production 24/7 and on call support for the daily jobs which required immediate

attention and solved the issues promptly.

Technical environment included Business Objects 5.1.8,BO Designer 5.1.8,Web Intelligence

5.1.8,Teradata SQL Assistant 6.2, and Windows XP.

National Grid Feb 04 – Aug 05

Business Objects Developer/Analyst

National Grid is a power and utilities company in the New England and New York regions. This

application has been developed using Business Objects 6.1a and DB2 7.0. This application

captures all the safety related data like injuries, lost time & restriction time due to injuries. Safety

reports were created in Business Objects and built in order to capture the incidents.

Responsibilities:

Designed, developed, tested and deployed Safety Reports Universe.

Interacted with users/customers for getting inputs for the Business Objects reports.

Developed around 100 reports which contains which contains master-detail, cross tab reports

with multiple data providers (files, RDBMS), complex/union queries, prompts, complicated

layouts, breaks and sub-totals, ranking, custom sorts, drill up/drill down,slice & dice.

Used the slice & dice, drill down features of Business Objects for formatting the reports.

Created Business Objects reports customizing for the user browser environment and

scheduled documents using Infoview.

Defined the Universe and BO Report deployment across multiple universe domains and

multiple document domains.

Schedule the reports and send it to the users via email. As soon as the report is generated an

alerter will be triggered letting the user know that a report has been generated. This was

done using the BCA and Publisher.

Created Master-Detail, cross tab reports using data from DB2.

Extensively used Filters in reports.

Created Standard Templates for future reporting needs.

Promoted reports from one environment to another environment.

Created Complex SQL Queries in DB2 7.0.

Implemented Security among the BO Tools using Supervisor.

Worked with classes and objects creation, linking Universes and customizing Universe

parameters.

Generated PDF report file automatically at schedule intervals of time using Broadcast Agent

and Publisher.

Trained the developers in creating reports, universe and its deployment and also to business

users in using Designer, Broadcast Agent (BCA), WebI and Supervisor.

Interacted with Project Manager and other resources in understanding the requirements and

writing Universe, report specifications

Defined and created classes, objects, conditions, and user and measure objects to capture

complex formula.

Created variables, formulae and detail objects at report level.

Resolved the performance issues in report generation.

Tuned the universe for better performance – recommended database views to capture

effective date logic in PeopleSoft tables.

Built Universe hierarchies and facilitated drill down in the BO reports.

Extensively used multiple data providers for building reports.

Technical environment included Business Objects 6.1a, BO Designer 6.1, Web Intelligence

6.1a, DB2 7.0, Windows XP, and Mainframe (MVS/OS 390).

Kraft Foods Jan 02 – Jan 04

Business Objects Developer

Responsibilities:

Involved in designing Supply Chain Management System at Kraft Foods in Chicago in existing

Data Warehouse, for all types of users using Business Objects as front end including Supply

Chain and Transportation Analysts.

These BO reports include information such as products supplied to various Kraft Customers at

Detail and Consolidation level used for Analysis and Forecast using Fact Dimensions and

Aggregate Tables. Some of the reports also give information related to Transportation such as

Carrier, Load, Origin and Destination Information.

Exported the Universes to the Repository to making resources available to the users.

Created BO Reports for various Portfolios using the Universes as the main Data Providers.

Created BO Reports with add-ins/macros to enhance product features.

Created complex SQL Queries, joins, resolving loops using aliases/contexts, resolving fan and

chasm traps.

Interacted with the users extensively for modifying the reports when needed.

Scheduled reports using Broadcast Agent, which involves time, based event scheduling.

Gathered requirements from the user and created reports accordingly used Business Objects.

Customized thick client and thin client environments using VBA Macros.

Created web based reports using Web Intelligence (WebI 2.6.2).

Published reports into different environments using Publisher.

Designed and developed Drilled Reports in Full Client Web Intelligence.

Created Contexts and Aliases for resolving Loops in the Universes.

Involved in production support and gave training to the users.

Wrote Stored Procedures and Triggers in SQL Server 2000.

Promoted Reports using Broadcast Agent Server (BCA) for scheduling.

Also involved in Production Support for existing reports and Universes and security of Business

Objects using Supervisor Module such as adding users, giving access to Universes and Reports.

Publish to the corporate documents repository as a PDF using BCA and Publisher.

Use of BO Reporter, Designer 5.1.2 Query Panel and Data Provider.

Used Filters and Conditions, Slice and Dice extensively.

Customized reports using drill up/drill down features.

Created and monitored user groups from Supervisor.

Have deployed desktop/server products on different Operating Systems for Test Purposes.

Working on Universes, Query Panel, Prompts and Report Layout and re-formatting

Created SQL test scripts for the reports testing and analysis.

Helping in maintenance work related to reports.

Use of Designer Module to implement Universe, Linkages between Tables, create prompts and

queries, parse the Universes, apply Contexts and Alias Tables to remove cyclic dependencies

Used Visual Basic Macros to interact with Tabs within reports.

Helping in maintenance work related to reports.

End User Training and System Documentation.

Technical environment included Business Objects 5.1.2, Web Intelligence 2.6.2, Designer 5.1.2,

Teradata and SQL Server 2000.



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