KULDIP KUMAR
MicroStrategy Developer/Architect
609-***-**** (Cell)
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Professional Summary
. Over 7 years of IT experience with well acquainted in performing Micro
Strategy Developer, Micro Strategy Architect and Micro Strategy
Administrator.
. Comprehensive working Knowledge with MicroStrategy Desktop,
MicroStrategy Architect, Microstrategy Web, MicroStrategy Narrowcast
Server and OLAP Services Environment.
. Extensively worked in creating and integrating MicroStrategy reports
and objects (Attributes, Filters, Metrics, Facts, Prompts, Custom
Groups and consolidations) with the data warehouse.
. Expertise in MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Architecture
. Designing Data Marts using different multidimensional modeling
techniques such as Star Schema and Snowflake Schema, Fact and
Dimensional tables, Logical and Physical data modeling
. Extensive Experience in Software Analysis, Design, Development and
Production Support of business intelligence application using
MicroStrategy 9.x/8.x/7.x versions Oracle 10g/9i/8i and SQL Server
2000/2005.
. In-depth understanding of fundamental data warehousing concepts such as
Dimensional Modeling, Star and Snowflake Schemas, Data marts, Security
and deployment, FACT and Dimensional tables, Logical and Physical data
modeling.
. Managing schema objects and application objects across the project by
using Object Manager
. Expert in creation of Report Service Documents, Scorecards and
Dashboards which helps in better understanding of business trends.
. Experience in Data Modeling using ERWIN 3.x/4.0 Data Mart and OLAP for
business analysis using star and snow flake schemas, for faster and
effective querying.
. Strong SQL Skills related to information retrieval and analysis.
Exposure to Clients interaction, user- requirement analysis and user
support.
. Involved with the Full Life Cycle Development of the data warehouse
project.
. Performance monitoring, System optimization and tuning experience in
Multiple BI applications.
. Clarified client requirements, business needs and project objectives,
via feedback sessions and client meetings, in collaboration with all
stakeholders
. Conducted business analysis, project assessment and feasibility
determination.
. Excellent problem solving skills with strong technical background and
good interpersonal skills.
. Involved extensively in Database Performance tuning
. Quick learner and excellent team player, ability to meet deadlines and
work under pressure.
Technical Skills:
Business Intelligence: MicroStrategy9/8.1.1/8.0.2/7X(MicroStrategy
Desktop, MicroStrategyWeb, MicroStrategy
Intelligence Server, Report Services, MicroStrategy
Narrowcast Server, Enterprise Manager, Business
objects XIR2/6.5
Databases: MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000,
Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g,Teradata, DB2, MS Access, DB2
Database Version 9.0
Development Tools: TOAD, PL/SQL Developer, SQL-Navigator,
SQL*Plus, Test Director, Win Runner
Operating System: Window XP, MS - DOS, UNIX, AIX
EDUCATION: Bachelor's of Science, North Gujarat University, India
Professional Experience:
Dean Foods, Franklin Park, IL
Jan 2010 - Present
Dean Foods is an American food and beverage company with two operating
divisions: Fresh Dairy Direct and WhiteWave-Morningstar.
Sr. MicroStrategy Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Involved in Administrating and Maintaining MicroStrategy Intelligent
Server, Distribution Services.
. Involved in the meetings with business users to discuss and finalize
the requirements and design of the reports.
. Created the technical specification for the reports for offshore
developers to build the reports using the public object.
. Worked as team with DBA, ETL, Business Users and QA for performance
tuning of the reports and meet the requirement.
. Involved in scrum meetings for fast track development for day to day
work status and set the goal for the time period.
. Architected and performed the Report Development for the MicroStrategy
projects by creating Shema Objects like facts, attributes, hierarchies
and Application objects like reports, filters, metrics and templates
using MicroStrategy Desktop to meet report requirements
. Involved in Dimensional Data Modeling (Star Schema, Snow-Flake Schema)
Data Architecture, Business and Data Analysis
. Architected the projects and created all the necessary schema,
application and configuration objects.
. Created advanced and transformational metrics, filters, consolidations,
custom groups and reports with VLDB properties.
. Created ad-hoc reports by drilling up, down, within and across
Hierarchies.
. Involved in creation of Security filters to end users to access
database on their privileges.
. Used Apply Simple and Apply Comparison functions to develop complex
Filters and Transformations.
. Created Analytics and Metrics to build Dashboards using Dashboard
Manager.
. Created rules and goals using Performance manager and used them in
creating Dashboards. Extensively used filters, templates,
consolidations and custom groups and VLDB Properties to generate
reports for business analysis using MicroStrategy 8i.
. Developed an extensive collection of interactive dashboards using
MicroStrategy Report Services for distribution to executives and field
sales teams.
. Extensive hands on Dashboard and reports regarding Profitability
Analysis of Customer.
. Created different reports like Tabular, Cross tab, Master detail,
Graphs using different reporting features like Slice and Dice, Drill-
down, Prompts, filters, Alerts, Sorts and Breaks.
. Responsible for creation of mappings using filter, splitter, lookup,
sequence, constant operators in Oracle warehouse Builder.
. Created transformations for rolling time period reporting and trending
of prescription counts.
. Extensively used filters, templates, consolidations and custom groups
and VLDB Properties to generate reports for business analysis using
MicroStrategy 8i.
. Developed an extensive collection of interactive dashboards using
MicroStrategy Report Services for distribution to executives and field
sales teams.
. Design, Develop, Test and Implement MicroStrategy reports.
. Analyzed Business Requirements and interacted with the Business
Analysts for designing Ad-hoc reports.
. Developed various Simple and Compound Metrics, Attributes, Facts,
Hierarchies, Prompts, Filters etc.
. Worked with back end Database Administrators to provide requirements
for necessary back end tables
Environment: MicroStrategy 9(Desktop, Web, Architect), SQL Server 2008,
Teradata, Oracle11g, Windows 2003 Server, Distribution Services.
Barclays Bank, Delaware
Nov 2007 - Dec 2009
Barclays is a major global financial services provider engaged in
retail and commercial banking, credit cards, investment banking,
wealth management and investment management services, with an extensive
international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia
MicroStrategy Architect/Developer
Responsibilities:
. Involved in interacting with users and gathering the requirement and
analyzed the needs of the business user.
. Gathered and documented business requirement and making mock up reports
in Microstrategy Excel by understanding the clients reporting
requirement.
. Worked with database admin to identify Entity Relationship attribute
and tables.
. Worked with ETL team for loading data in database.
. Architected and performed the Report Development for the MicroStrategy
projects by creating Shema Objects like facts, attributes, hierarchies
and Application objects like reports, filters, metrics and templates
using MicroStrategy Desktop to meet report requirements
. Involved in Dimensional Data Modeling (Star Schema, Snow-Flake Schema)
Data Architecture, Business and Data Analysis
. Used Workflow Manager for Creating, Validating, Testing and running the
sequential and concurrent Batches and Sessions and scheduling them to
run at specified time with required frequency
. Actively involved in walkthroughs and meetings with Business team to
discuss related issues and review of the Objects and reports.
. Created various event based Schedules.
. Involved in requirement gatherings and Initial Implementation of
Microstrategy 64 bit version 9.0
. Upgraded from MicroStrategy 9.0 to MicroStrategy 9.0.1
. Responsible for keeping team members on track toward completing the
terms of goals.
. Created Schema Objects (facts, attributes, hierarchies) and application
objects (filters, prompts, metrics, reports)
. Created and managed database connections to various data store
. Created project plans for development of MicroStrategy projects.
. Created Relation Ship tables to avoid Many-Many relationship between
parent and child attributes.
. Involved in the creation of three types of reports like Map Application
Reports, Reference reports and Adhoc Reports.
. Involved in creation of Datamart Reports, Partition Mappings and
Aggregate tables to improve performance of reports.
. Creating Dash Board Reports to view personalized reports based on user
requirements.
. Involved in the Creation Document from multiple Datasets like Map
Application Diagram, Grid and graph.
. Responsible for using Report services to have High performance In-
Memory, faster reporting for more people and to Drill from cube to
cube, with no hard coded links
. Developed reports by using Free Hand SQL Queries in MicroStrategy
Desktop.
. Added new tables and objects in already existing universes, resolved
the design issues like loops and traps
. Worked on data movement utilities like EXTRACT, TRANSFORM and LOAD
(ETL)
. Exporting universes to repository, so that the users can easily access
the resources.
. Responsible for creating process flows to execute mappings with the
dependencies in Oracle warehouse Builder.
Environment: MicroStrategy 9(Desktop, Web, Architect), SQL Server
2008, DB2 EE v9.5, Oracle11g, Windows 2003 Server
National Life Insurance, VT
Mar 2006-Oct 2007
National Life Insurance pleased to offer a range of flexible insurance
products including health, dental, vision, and life insurance, as well
as prescription drug coverage
Microstrategy Architect/Developer
Responsibilities:
. Involved in Administrating and Maintaining MicroStrategy Intelligent
Server, Narrowcast Server and Web Server.
. Developed and Implemented Security Roles, User Groups, Privileges and
Object Security for developers and end Users.
. Developed and Implemented Event and Time-based Schedules.
. Created Metrics, Prompts, Filters, and Custom Groups for the Report
Development
. Assisted during the project migrations to various environments using
the MicroStrategy Object Manager
. Prepared product scope documents, product requirement specifications,
product business designs, product system testing, and involved with
final product deployment
. Gathered and analysed business requirements from clients and End-users.
. Developed schema objects (facts, attributes, hierarchies, tables) using
MicroStrategy Architect.
. Created transformations for rolling time period reporting and trending
of prescription counts.
. Extensively used filters, templates, consolidations and custom groups
and VLDB Properties to generate reports for business analysis using
MicroStrategy 8i.
. Developed an extensive collection of interactive dashboards using
MicroStrategy Report Services for distribution to executives and field
sales teams.
. Created advanced filters, advanced prompts, advanced report designs and
drill maps.
. Built Logical Views in MicroStrategy 8.1.1 to combine warehouse tables
at runtime during report execution.
. Resolved attribute role problems in Data models by developing table
Aliases and Attribute Role recognition methods in VLDB settings.
. Used SQL Developer extensively to test and debug MicroStrategy reports
as a key step in data validation.
. Analyzed and developed partitioning and indexing strategies for
performance improvement.
. Worked on Performance Tuning of the MicroStrategy reports after
implementation
Environment: MicroStrategy 8.1.1(Desktop, Web, Architect), Microstrategy
Narrowcast Server, SQL Server 2005, DB2 EE v8.1, Windows 2003 Server
Johnson&Johnson,NewBrunswick,NJ Nov 2004- Jan
2006
Johnson & Johnson is a global American pharmaceutical, medical devices
and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886.
Sr.Microstrateg Administrator/Developer
Responsibilities:
. Worked closely with Business Users in gathering Business Requirements
and created Documentation for all Report Requirements.
. Participated in business requirements analysis, report designing and
modeling, development of technical specifications, testing and
Implementation.
. Installed, upgraded and managed MicroStrategy 7.2 - 7.5 Intelligent
and Web servers for development, test and production environments
. Designed, developed and maintained logical and physical enterprise data
warehouse schemas using Erwin.
. Design and Developed MicroStrategy Schema Objects and Application
Objects to provide ad-hoc reporting capability against Forecast
Application Tables.
. Performed User Training Sessions for New MicroStrategy Web Users and
help them understand the reporting data dictionary.
. Used Object Manager to migrate objects from DEV to QA and QA to PROD
Environments.
. Used Narrowcast Server to Deliver Reports.
. Involved in writing VBA macro's to populate data from Micro Strategy
Reports to Excel files.
. Involved in creation of Datamart Reports, Partition Mappings and
Aggregate tables to improve performance of reports.
. Set-up the narrowcast environment and created services using
subscription sets, schedules, Information objects.
. Creating Dash Board Reports to view personalized reports based on user
requirements
. Involved in the Creation Document from multiple Datasets like Map
Application Diagram, Grid and graph.
. Involved in customization of Grids and graphs by using SDK.
. Responsible for using Report services to have High performance In-
Memory and faster reporting for more people.
. Responsible for using Report services to Drill from cube to cube, with
no hard coded links.
Environment: MicroStrategy 7.5(Web,Desktop), Oracle 9i and Retek, SQL
Server 2000/2005, Microstrategy Narrowcast server
APPOLO HOSPITAL, India
Sep 2003-Nov 2004
Apollo Hospitals is a group of hospitals which has several branches
spread all over India. Through their excellent service and
hospitalization they are the largest healthcare providers in Asia
MicroStrategy Developer
Responsibilities:
. Modeled the data warehouse by applying dimensional modeling principles.
Identified source tables and columns required to create the
MicroStrategy projects, which references the IBM DB2 data warehouse.
. Developed in a conformed dimension framework to eliminate expensive
redundancy and rework.
. Evaluated and documented strengths and weaknesses of MicroStrategy 7i
for implementation.
. Designed the data model and forward engineered the model into the data
warehouse using Erwin Data Modeler 4.0.
. Developed new reports and converted existing reports for the business
line to satisfy the specifications using DSS Agent.
. Created metrics, filters and templates for the reports.
. Created reports objects such as Filters, Metrics and Templates in
MicroStrategy Desktop.
. Designed report templates to generate reports in grid and graph mode.
. Created Drill Maps to obtain aggregated results.
. Applied OLAP and statistical functions to calculate metrics.
. Created user accounts and group privileges
. DB instance for MicroStrategy and added all the tables, table prefixes
and updated the table structure required for the Project.
. Perform Daily Checks for job Monitor, User sessions and Cache Monitor
to keep the system stable
. Designed many Prompts with different options like Filters, Objects and
Value to facilitate Ad hoc reporting.
. Developing Auto prompts to give end users a choice of different
filtering criteria each time they run the report.
Environment: MicroStrategy 7.2 (Administrator, Web, Desktop), Oracle
8i, SQL Server.