RESUME
Name: Avinash Madhavan Potti
***** ****** ***, *******, ** 20147
Cell: 201-***-**** E mail: *******.********@*****.***
Status: Permanent Resident [Green Card]
About me
- Highly experienced Datawarehousing and Business Intelligence Project Manager/Architect.
- Experience working with leading organizations across the United States, UK and Australia.
- Proven ability to execute complex programs including project execution and architecture/process
consulting.
- ‘Associate of the year award’ winner – 2008.
- Nominated for 'Associate of the year' award - 2009.
- Authored course content for Informatica Powerexchange Real time data capture from Mainframe systems
for Cognizant Academy
Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions
Employment period: July-2001 till date [11 years, 3 months]
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Operating System - Windows, Unix, Linux, OS 390
Databases - DB2, Sybase IQ, Oracle, Teradata
Programming Languages - COBOL, Easytrieve, SAS
Tools - Informatica Powercenter, Powerexchange [Real Time, Batch], MicroStrategy, Erwin
Professional Experience:
Project 1
Designation/Role: Project Manager
Period: Feb 2012 - Present
Technology:Teradata 13, Oracle 10G, Unix
Location:Ashburn, VA
Currently managing two large and complex programs for a leading Telco:
1. Complex data integration/application consolidation effort that involves integrating subject areas
into the existing datawarehouse.
2. A large environment consolidation initiative that involves setting up separate environments to process data based on compliance levels.
3.Involved in strategic initiatives like arriving at a 'Self Service BI' strategy and dashboards for
better insights.
Project 2
Designation/Role: Architect/consultant
Period: Nov 2011 - Jan 2012
Technology: Business Objects, Big data related technologies, Oracle
Location: St. Louis, MO
Worked very closely with the practice head on a series of short term engagements like
- conducting BI solutioning workshop for a leading marketing company
- providing architecture solutions for Proof Of Concepts
- handling proposals and customer presentations
- assisting with setting up a Data Governance framework for a leading Cable services provider
Project 3
Designation/Role: Data Architect/Project Manager
Period: Nov 2009 - Nov 2011
Technology: Teradata 13, Oracle 10G, Informatica Powercenter, MicroStrategy, Unix
Location: St. Louis, MO
- Worked closely with the resident Warehouse architect on strategy, design, environment upgrades, performance and application optimization
- Led a 8 member team that maintains the Datawarehouse and also manages the ETL and BI environments
- Handled Informatica environment administration for 6 months
- Worked closely with the resident Warehouse architect to conduct POCs on Data Quality related and other BI Frameworks
- Helped define strategy and roadmap for the Enterprise Datawarehouse
Project 4
Designation/Role: Architect/Technical Lead
Period: Jul 2009 to Oct 2009
Technology: Oracle 10G, Data Stage
Location: Kochi, India & Sydney Australia
Played the role of solution architect/Project manager for this short term complex engagement that involved enhancements to the warehouse to accommodate a major upgrade in the source system. The role included
- Requirements Gathering, planning, estimation, architecture & test strategy development, validation and implementation planning.
- Status tracking and reporting.
Project 5
Designation/Role: Architect/Technical Lead
Period: Apr 2009 to June 2009
Technology: Oracle 10G, Informatica Powercenter
Location: Kochi, India
- Led an offshore team to address a set of high priority issues that impacted the ability of the
customer to conduct business
- Conducted a quick assessment of the environment to identify potential areas to focus on
- Worked with the customer architect to arrive at alignment on the focus areas and proposed benefits
- Led the team to address ETL design and performance bottlenecks, redundancy, schedule optimization and query tuning
Project 6
Designation/Role: Project Manager
Period: Mar 2008 to Oct 2009
Technology: Informatica Powercenter, Oracle
Location: Kochi, India
- Worked as the offshore delivery manager for a leading media ratings company
managed a 30 member team offshore
- key responsibilities included offshore delivery management including project planning, estimation, tracking and status reporting, risk management, maintaining optimal team structure
- worked with the customer project manager to set up a production support team structure that enables 24*7 system support and monitoring
- worked closely with the customer to identify potential areas of optimization and improvement including technology consolidation
Project 7
Designation/Role: Project Manager/Technical Lead
Period: Sep 2008 to Dec 2008
Technology: Informatica Powercenter, Oracle, VB, ASP, MicroStrategy
Location: Kochi, India & St Louis, MO
- Led a team of 9 developers to build a metadata impact analysis tool that identifies lineage across Oracle, Informatica and MicroStrategy
- Conducted two weeks of requirements gathering in St Louis, MO
- Provided technology and architecture guidance to the team in building the tool
- Provided deployment support to the customer POC
Note: Additional information including projects and experience details available upon request.