ANAND SHARMA
**** ******* ******** ( Riverside, California 92503
951-***-**** ( *******.*****@*****.***
Professional Summary
. Highly skilled professional around with 3 years of experience in IT as
consultant working for major corporate clients, and having 3 years of
in-depth knowledge in Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, Business
Intelligence System Study, Design, Development and Implementation of
applications and Client/Server technologies.
. 3 + years of experience in designing and implementing data warehouse
and data mart applications, mainly in designing and developing ETL
processes using Informatica Power Mart /PowerCenter.
. Extensively used Informatica Workflow Manager and Workflow Monitor for
creating and monitoring workflows, worklets and sessions.
. Experience in creating Sessions and Batches using Informatica Server
Manager and monitored and scheduled the sessions and batches.
. Extensive experience in design, development of Data warehouses/Data
Marts, Data Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL), Dimensional
Modeling, designing the STAR and SNOWFLAKE schemas.
. Extensive experience in various Mappings, Mapplets, Transformations,
scheduling the Sessions and Batches for ETL process using Cognos
Decision Stream
. Strong SQL, PL/SQL and Business Analysis skills with proficiency in
creating triggers, stored procedures, functions and packages using
PL/SQL
. Excellent technical and communication skills and ability to work
effectively and efficiently in teams
. Worked with different data sources like Flat files, XML files,
Databases
. Expertise in data analysis, data warehousing, data modeling, and data
migration.
. Developed reusable mappings, using Mapplet Designer
. Used Transformation Developer to create the filters, stored procedure,
Joiner, update strategy, expressions, Lookup, Aggregate and other
Transformations.
. Worked extensively with ETL Processes for data warehouses.
. Used Source Analyzer and Warehouse designer to import the source and
target database schemas, and the Mapping Designer to map the sources
to the target
. 3 years of experience in RDBMS like Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata and
DB2.
. Strong knowledge of Data Warehousing concepts and Dimensional modeling
like Star Schema and Snowflake Schema
. Expertise in UNIX, Oracle, ETL tools, and analysis tools. Data Access
methods & data modeling tools-ERWIN, Informatica, AB INITIO, SQL PLSQL
. Expert in UNIX shell scripting (Korn shell/Bourne shell)
. Expert in Perl scripting
. Excellent communication, presentation, project management skills, and
a very good team player
Technical Skills
Data Warehousing Informatica 7.3, 8.6, Ab-Initio
Reporting Tools Cognos 8.0 Series
Data Modeling Star-Schema Modeling, Snowflake-Schema Modeling, FACT and
Dimension Tables, Pivot Tables, Erwin
Testing Tools Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, Mercury Quality
Center
RDBMS Oracle 10g/9i/8i/7.x, MS SQL Server 6.5/7.0/2000/2005/2008, UDB DB2,
Sybase, Teradata, MS Access 2003
Programming UNIX Shell Scripting, Perl, Korn Shell, C Shell, Bourne Shell,
Bash, SQL, SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, TOAD, C++, Java
Web Technologies JavaScript, HTML 4.0, and DHTML, Java, J2EE
Education:
. Master of Science in Computer Application . K.I.I.T. University .
Bhubaneswar, Orissa, INDIA
. Bachelor of Science in Computer Application . Bangalore University .
Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA
Patni Computer System Ltd, Mumbai, India
Jan '07 to Jan '09
Informatica Developer - Corporate Credit Card
Responsibilities:
. Working with the DBA group, Business Analysts to extract the
historical data from one oracle database into data marts built in
another oracle database. Attended several business sessions with
the business users and analysts.
. Involved in creating a comprehensive Technical Specification
Document for the project.
. Designed and developed the Informatica mappings for the ETL process
to load the data into the Oracle database tables.
. Designing, building, testing Informatica Power Center mappings,
sessions, workflows, and defining Data Warehouse Staging
Layer.
. Experience with Informatica Power Center version 7.x and later
migrated to 8.6.
. Successfully implemented the Informatica Best Practices on ETL
design / development experience for both 3NF and Star Schema
. Deployed advanced ETL techniques such as staging, reusability, data
validation, and change data capture (CDC) and error processing.
. Independently Monitored performance issues at the source, target,
mapping and session level.
. Applied Strong Oracle skills (SQL, performance tuning, DDL, etc.)
. Implemented Informatica versioning (team based development)
. Performed the Level I support Level II production support.
. Managed Database Objects (Tables, Views, Stored Procedures, and
Database Triggers), Oracle Accounts, privileges and roles.
. Used MS SQL, Flat files, XML files, Oracle files as data sources
and transformed into Oracle and MS SQL databases.
. Achieved good understanding on Informatica Repository Server and
Workflow Manager.
. Created Tasks, Workflows and Worklets using Informatica and
Monitored the Data loads in Workflow Monitor Module.
. Major Involvement in improving the tuning of mappings, both
existing and newly developed. Thorough understanding of session
properties in server manager for performance enhancement.
. Developed mappings for reuse using mapping designer.
. Modified existing mappings for improved performance.
. Complete involvement in ETL lifecycle.
. Maintaining versions of repositories, managing users and upgrading
repositories.
. Created source and target definitions, Mappings, Transformations
and worked with Sessions.
. Created and scheduled many Sequential & Concurrent batches to group
the sessions to run at the same time.
. Created Tasks and Workflows using Informatica Workflow Manager for
all mappings created.
. Worked on several complex transformations to create data warehouse.
. Interact with end users to identify information needs and business
requirements for final reports.
Environment: Informatica Power Center 8.6, ERwin 3.5, Oracle 9i, MS SQL
Server, PL/SQL, XML, Unix and Windows NT 4.0
Escorts Limited, India, Mumbai, India Feb '06
to Jan '07
Informatica Developer - Global Consumer Data Mart
Responsibilities:
. Participated in Requirement Gathering, Business Analysis, User
meetings, discussing the issues to be resolved and translating user
inputs into ETL design documents.
. Analysis, Design and Development, testing and implementation of
Informatica transformations and workflows for extracting the data
from the multiple sources.
. Developed extraction mappings to load data from Source systems to
ODS to Data Warehouse
. Developed complex mappings in Informatica to load the data from
various sources using different transformations like Source
Qualifier, Look up (connected and unconnected), Expression,
Aggregate, Update Strategy, Sequence Generator, Joiner, Filter,
Update Strategy Rank and Router transformations.
. Used debugger to test the mapping and fixed the bugs.
. Executed sessions, both sequential and concurrent for efficient
execution of mappings and used other tasks like event wait, event
raise, email, command and pre/post SQL.
. Used session partitions, dynamic cache memory, and index cache to
improve the performance.
. Documented the mappings used in ETL processes.
. Designed and Developed the Informatica workflows/sessions to
extract, transform and load the data into Target.
. Wrote SQL, PL/SQL codes, stored procedures and packages.
. Developed procedures to populate the customer data warehouse with
transaction data, cycle and monthly summary data, and historical
data.
. Optimize SQL queries for better performance.
. Worked with different Informatica tuning issues and fine-tuned the
transformations to make them more efficient in terms of
performance.
Environment:
Informatica Power Center 7.3, Oracle 8i, SQL, PL/SQL, TOAD, SQL*Plus,
Windows 2000, Unix.