MANOJ KUMAR VARATHARAJAN
Present Address: * **** ******, **** ****, NY - 11729
Email: ablxl7@r.postjobfree.com / Mobile: 520-***-****
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Manoj Kumar is an MIS Graduate with 3.5 years of experience in requirements
analysis, data analysis, quantitative analysis, BI reporting & web
analytics and Software Application Development. Proven experience of
providing out of box solutions to the client's business needs and
delivering projects within given time and budget. Energetic self-starter
and venture in multi-oriented tasks for mutual growth.
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Management Information Systems, December 2009
GPA - 3.583 / 4.0
The University of Arizona, Eller College of Management, Tucson, AZ
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, May 2006
GPA - 3.51 / 4.0
Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
EXPERIENCE
Datavibes Inc, Pittsburgh, PA
March 2010 to Till Date
BI Consultant
Client: Forest Laboratories, Commack, NY
. Created and reviewed Business Requirement Document (BRD) and
Functional Specification Document (FSD)
. Developed Use Cases and UML models using Rational and Sequence
Diagrams, OOD using UML
. Coordinated with ETL and BI Developers to prepare System Design
Documents for the functional requirements
. Assisted in managing project schedules, documentation and test plans
. Designed and Developed dashboards for the C-level executives and Sales
Representatives to track the Forest products prescribed by the
Physician's across United States
. Providing Analytical support & training to the Customer Analytics team
for the user acceptance.
Client: McKesson Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
. Interviewed BI team and identified the technical intricacies of using
OBIEE to generate static and ad-hoc reports
. Analyzed BI practices, infrastructure, resources and available BI tool
licenses
. Evaluated McKesson environment using Datavibes' Insight Index tool and
identified McKesson's BI stand-point
. Researched on Oracle BI publisher and Microsoft SSRS to meet with
McKesson's reporting needs
. Saved 58% of the cost by recommending OBIEE and provided a road-map
to effectively use OBIEE
Client: YWCA, Pittsburgh, PA
. Involved in analysis, Business Requirements gathering in Joint
Application Development (JAD) sessions following CMM standard
methodologies
. Reproduced 4 existing paper-based reports in the SSRS to demonstrate
the BI capabilities to the Business users.
. Developed Business scenarios for the Directors to analyze their
Programs and Projects using SSAS Analysis cubes.
Tucson Unified School District (TUSD), Tucson, AZ
March 2009 to December 2009
Business Intelligence Consultant (Academic Project)
. Identified Microsoft BI suite for BI initiative and coordinated the
environment setup for BI initiative.
. Interviewed Finance, Accounting & IS team and identified 3 key changes
from the new system - manage funds, visibility over School's operation
and ability to track Students records.
. Interviewed CFO, Assistant Director of Financial Services, Financial
Analyst, and Accounting Department Head and identified the KPI: Grant
spent per school for every fiscal year to track the federal & state
funds.
. Researched on BI practices and adapted Kimball's approach of building
data marts.
. Designed Finance data mart using Star Schema approach to support the
financial metrics.
. Coordinated with ETL developers to clean the data using SSIS packages
and populated the data mart.
. Coordinated with BI Developers to develop Project Fund Report to track
the money spent for the TUSD initiatives.
. Recreated TUSD's traditional reports in SSRS and showcased the
Reporting capabilities to C-level executives.
. Implemented Table partitioning methodology and improved the ETL
performance by 91%.
. Built and Demonstrated OLAP capabilities to CFO with a "Dashboard-
prototype" developed using SSAS.
. Submitted a detailed Solution document with the roadmap for the future
implementation.
Lands' End, Dodgeville, WI
June 2009 to August 2009
Business Analyst - Intern
. Designed Sales Dashboard using QlikView (BI tool), to give 360 degree
for Lands' End Business in U.S. and International operations.
. Measured KPI - Sales / Customer for every promotion and designed
QlikView Reports for the Marketing and Finance divisions to identify
the best promotion that attracted customers and generated revenue
. Collaborated Business Intelligence team and Functional groups by
building online BI community in SharePoint and embedded Dashboards &
Team discussion board for seamless communication.
Intuit Incorporation, Tucson, AZ
January 2009 to May 2009
Business Intelligence Consultant (Academic Project)
. Interviewed Marketing and Finance teams and identified the
inconsistent data refresh issues in the BI reports.
. Gathered Requirements and the changes expected by the users in the
existing Reports.
. Analyzed the Infrastructure, ETL processes including staging areas,
log tables, job schedule time and Reports.
. Researched on various approaches and BI practices to finalize on
Kimball's star-schema approach for data mart.
. Designed the Star-Schema with the Report, Process and Time dimensions
to track the Status of the ETL logs.
. Designed and developed a prototype with SQL Server (DW), SSRS (for
Reporting) and MS-Excel (for Analysis) and demonstrated the solution
to the Business users.
. Recommended Business Intelligence team with the directions to
implement the solution in Intuit's environment.
Arizona Respiratory Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
December 2008 to May 2009
IT-Analyst (Student)
. Gathered Requirements by interacting with lab technicians and hospital
resources to manage Patient lab records.
. Implemented Knowledge Tree solution by coordinating with the IT team
member.
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., India
March
2007 to July 2008
Assistant System Engineer
Client: British Airways, U.K.
. Analyzed the Business Requirements and finalized the technical
specifications with the team members
. Developed Proof of Concept and demonstrated to users to ensure the
understanding of requirements
. Developed Functional Requirements & Design documents to guide the
Developers through the Development.
. Introduced Java Server Faces (JSF) to ease webpage design by reusing
the existing objects.
. Interfaced Database with Java application using Hibernate to improve
system performance.
. Developed web based Planning & Forecasting tool (BI Application) for
Cabin Crew resource management issues using Java interfaced with
Business Object Reports.
. Designed Test framework to automate 8000 Regression test cases &
improved productivity by 21%.
Cognizant Technology Solutions, India
June
2006 to March 2007
Software Quality Analyst
Client: PEMCO Insurance
Company, U.S.A.
. Framed test strategy & plan to execute the test cases in strict time-
lines for every Test cycle.
. Faced several Quality Audits and ensured the alignment of process with
organizational standards.
. Built "Online-Knowledge Repository" for Test Cases and integrated
Insurance domain.
. Developed "Environment tracker" to automate Server failure reports for
clients.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
. Enterprise Tools: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint and
Project 2007
. Design Tools: Adobe Dreamweaver (prototype & screen design), MS Visio
(DFD, E/R, Use-case design)
. Business Intelligence Tools: MS - SQL Server Reporting / Analysis
Services 2008, QlikView Enterprise v 8.5 & 9.0
. Databases: Oracle (9i & 10g), MS-Access, SQL Server, MySQL