SUMMARY

Over ** year experience in the IT industry with 10 years working for Hewlett Packard (Houston) on end to end implementations of Enterprise Level Data Warehouse Projects dealing with aspects like Dimensional Architecture and Modeling, Data Sourcing, Data Analysis, Data Transformation and Loading, Designing and Developing Reporting Layers, Dashboards/Visualizations and Implementing Data Quality/Enterprise Standards Initiatives. Successfully held leadership roles in Data Warehousing, Data Integration and BI projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Independent Consultant - Data Analytics and Visualization - (2016 to present) - Cloud based Education Management Solution System.

Implementing Predictive Analytics and Visualizations using Tableau to predict student engagement and student success for a Cloud based Education Management Solution System.

Pursuing Tableau Certification, Ongoing continuing education in Big Data analytical solutions and Hadoop architecture, Updating skills related to Big Data Analytics and Data Visualization tools like Tableau.

Webmaster for KATY ISD Tomkins High School Choir website.

Senior Business Systems Analyst - Hewlett Packard, Houston, Texas (2000-2010)-Enterprise Data Warehouse

Architected creative and robust ETL solutions for corporate EDW project. Leading a team of ETL developers and analysts.

Key Responsibilities:

Subject Matter Expert for the design of the Enterprise Data Warehouse

Facilitated meetings with business users to model the different subject areas based on business requirements and GAP analysis.

Implemented Data modeling, Data sourcing and Date loading for Enterprise Data Warehouse. Lead a team of ETL developers and analysts to implement detailed design specifications for Data Warehouse.

Implemented Data Quality initiatives and Enterprise standards.

Handled change management issues and took on the role of Release manager.

Lead a diverse development team spread across multiple locations and time zones (Offshore teams in India, China and Mexico). Provided third level production support for the ETL issues encountered.

Senior Business Systems Analyst - Hewlett Packard, Houston, Texas (2000-2010)-Financial Data Warehouse

Business Analyst, Project Release Manager for the Financial Data warehouse project. Key deliverables included Designing, Developing, Implementing and Supporting HP’s Financial Data Warehouse (FDW).

Key Responsibilities:

Lead a team of Business Analysts to understand business requirements and solution definitions.

Facilitated design meetings and feasibility assessments. Developed technical requirements definitions and detailed design specifications. Technical design and development of ETL processes.

Designed and Developed user reports and tool to do adhoc reporting using Brio and Business Objects.

Ensured complete hand-off to support teams and providing third level production support.

Lead Programmer Analyst -IKON Office Solutions, Houston (1998 - 2000)

Design, Develop, Test and Document internally developed programs and interfaces to Commercial off the shelf software. Participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle. Provide guidance and leadership to other developers in the systems development process. Provide 3rd level support for application software used at the corporate office and various field locations across the nation. Train the help-desk personnel on the trouble shooting various issues faced by the applications used in the field.

Programmer Analyst - Somerset House associates, Houston, Texas (1997)

Software Engineer - E.P.I.C Software group, The Woodlands, Texas (1995 - 1996)

EDUCATION

Calicut University (GECT-Trissur) Kerala, India BS in Civil Engineering (First class with honors and distinction)

Anna University (School of Architecture and Planning) Tamil Nadu, India MS in Town and Country Planning

Data Warehouse Lifecycle and ETL architecture in Depth training by Ralph Kimball.

KEY SKILLS

Business Intelligence/Big Data/ Analytics

Strong knowledge of Business Intelligence Design Studio, SQL Server Data Tools & Visual Studio.

Strong relational database experience using MS SQL Server and Oracle

Excellent SQL skills

Strong knowledge of data warehouse design, dimensional modeling and data modeling

Experience using Datastage ETL, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler, Shell scripting

Proficient in BI reporting tools - Brio, Crystal reports, Business Objects

Knowledge of BI tools e.g. Tableau, Excel(including pivot tables and advanced functions)

Knowledge of Big Data concepts and technologies (Hadoop, Map Reduce, Spark, Hive, Sqoop)

Knowledge of R programming, Basic skills in scripting language such as Python

Visual Source Safe.

Other Skills &Tools

Experience with Agile and Waterfall methodology

Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office including automated spread sheets, pivot tables, macros, data sources & ODBC, VBA etc.

Knowledge of Toad/SQL Navigator

ASP.net, VB.net, C#.net, J#.net, Java Script, Object Orientation, UML design, HTML, CSS, Administration/Design, Flash, InDesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver.

Citizenship/visa status : US Citizen

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