ZAKI AHMED

Contact Infol: ac5a43@r.postjobfree.com

Data enthusiast with 8 years of experience working with reporting technologies and source data systems. Experienced in various BI applications such as:

DATA COOKBOOK

INFORMATICA, SSIS

OLAP CUBES

IBM COGNOS REPORTING SUITE

COGNOS TM1 – PLANNING ANALYTICS

TABLEAU

MICROSOFT EXCEL

SPREADSHEET SERVER

SQL SERVER, ORACLE, AS400

Experienced in Financial, Pharmaceutical, Higher Ed, Government and Health care Domains

Team player with good interpersonal and communication skills

Successfully managed data analytics projects from initiation to delivery

Experienced in leading highly active and dynamic Reporting environment

Appointed by Executive VP of Touro College to serve on the operating committee as Touro’s Enterprise Reporting Lead

Expertise working with business users and understanding their Analytical needs

Designed Reports with dynamic functionality to work for High level Management down to Project Associates with integrated security

Expertise translating business requirements into technical specifications

Experience working with Senior management in designing high level Reports/Dashboards

Experience worked with business owners in standardizing business process for better data consistency for Reporting

Trained Business users on Ad-Hoc reporting tools like Cognos Query Studio

Good understanding of business process especially in the Financial, Higher Ed and Insurance areas

Extensively worked on Banner/ODS solution for Higher Education by Ellucian

Developed interim Reporting solutions using Custom built databases and ETL system as needed

Managed gathering of business requirements documented them technically with all phases of SDLC life cycle

Experience in IBM Cognos administration, Metadata Modeling, Multidimensional modeling, Report Development

Experienced using Framework Manager, Transformer, Reporting, Versioning tools in Windows environment.

Extensive expertise in Cognos BI Reporting Suite and Tableau (learning), recently implemented at Touro

RLJ Lodging Trust Bethesda, MD 11/2017– present

Business Intelligence Specialist

RLJ Lodging Trust is a hotel investment company focused on acquiring premium-branded, focused service and compact full-service hotels. RLJ Lodging Trust has a portfolio that consists of 155 properties with approximately 30,200 rooms located in 26 states and the District of Columbia and an ownership interest in one unconsolidated property with 171 rooms.

Source and transform data from internal and external data sources through tools and programming methods.

Used ETL (SSIS) to develop jobs for extracting, cleaning, transforming and loading data into data warehouse.

Troubleshoot and resolve data quality issues and maintain high level of data accuracy in the data being reported.

Use data to tell a story that is useful to support operational and financial departments.

Identify actionable insights, suggest recommendations by effectively communicating findings to cross functional groups

Design, develop, and deploy reports using Cognos

Create and publish Cognos Framework Manager Models to meet business requirements and preparation of business view.

Create advance reports using COGNOS Query Studio and Report studio,

Manage security of reports and models based on role

Design, develop and deploy prompted reports and dashboards in a Cognos and environment

Implement error handling, auditing and reconciliation and balancing mechanisms in ETL processes

Assist in the data and analytics strategy for the company and work with the senior management team to set the strategic objectives for the company and measurement through KPIs

Distill information in an easy to present and digestible manner to non-technical personnel

Scheduled monthly/weekly/daily reports to run automatically onto the Dashboar

Touro College and University Systems New York, NY 2/2012-2/2013 & 11/14 – 11-2017

BI Reporting Team Lead

Touro is a sponsored independent institution of higher and professional education. Recently acquiring New York Medical College in New York, Touro now serves a widely diverse population of over 18,000 students across 30 schools in 4 countries and offers a range of graduate programs, including Education, Law, MBA, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work, Technology, and other degree programs that prepare graduates for professional careers.

Responsibilities:

Manage Touro’s enterprise reporting environment

Work with functional leads (Finance, HR, SAS and Executive Management) in analyzing new reporting needs

Appointed by VP of Touro College to serve on Touro’s Operating Committee as the Enterprise Reporting Lead

Oversee ongoing Reporting projects

Develop and manage reporting process, standards, deadlines and implement best practices

Provide guidance and support to Business users related to Reporting

Work with the team to develop Reporting solutions utilizing external and legacy data as needed

Design Analytics for Senior Management

Design Metadata models for reporting

Implemented Data Cookbook for data governance and as a means to standardize data definitions

Provide hands on expertise with Cognos, Report development, Metadata modeling, Security and Administration

Training business users on Cognos ad-hoc Reporting features

Actively guiding a project to migrate our key Finance reports into our new Tableau environment

Work with Auditors in keeping the Reporting environment compliant with university policies

Provision users with access to Reports as needed

Recently implemented Tableau, working with business users and consultants to design operational Reports

Environment: IBM Cognos 10, Tableau, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Office, IBM AS400, Oracle 12C, SQL Developer, SQL Server 2012 R2, SSIS, Open LDAP/AD, Banner, ODS

Bank of America New York, NY 2/13 - 11/14

Sr. Cognos Consultant

Responsibilities:

Interact with stakeholders and end users in translating high business requirements into meaningful technical specifications

Design Reporting solutions using IBM Cognos

Consult stakeholders on their analytical needs

Create relational and multi-dimensional, DMR models

Develop multi-dimensional cubes using Transformer

Perform Report optimization, fixes and enhancements

Design interactive capabilities using Cognos Active reports to adapt with mobile consumers

Scheduling, Organizing, Distributing and Implementing Security with Cognos administration

Design application security needs within Cognos

Work with DBA’s in developing solutions to support reporting needs

Work with various teams in developing key reporting projects as per strict BOA standards and client needs.

Utilize versioning tools like SVN Tortise and Motio CI-PI

Work with offshore teams for application Development, Testing and Production rollouts

Arinc Annapolis, MD 9/09 - 2/12

Sr Cognos Consultant

Arinc is the leading manufacturer of aircraft to control tower communication devices. It works with government agencies to develop state of the art communication concepts and devices that are also being utilized in commercial airlines. This Project is based on creating complex reports and dashboards for Department of Defense.

Environment: IBM CognosBI, TM1, Planning Analytics, SQL Server

Synchronoss Technologies Inc, Bethlehem, PA 02/09 to 8/09

Cognos Report Consultant

Synchronoss technologies is the leading service provider for Telecommunications industry. Synchronoss will speed, simplify, and automate the telecom-service fulfillment and order management processes of activating their customers and delivering communications services across interconnected networks, focusing particularly on customers acquired through Internet-based channels.

Responsibilities:

Gather and analyze business requirements from users and business community.

Use Sharepoint for requirements management, test plan, test lab, and defects management process tracking

Develop Framework Manager models using dimensions (DMR modeling) and analyze using analysis studio

Utilize advanced features like Conditional Formatting in Report Studio in generating multipage reports

Support business users in generating ad-hoc reports using Query Studio

Design complex report filters, prompts, sub reports and drill through capabilities

Develop and execute unit test plans

Performed BI content administration tasks including scheduling and content management

Administer user access to reports

Setting up environments for Reporting (development, testing and production)

Design sophisticated reports using Cognos 8

Work on metadata modeling to link data needed on reports

Responsible for creating users, groups and roles to manage security.

Environment: IBM Cognos 8 BI, Cognos Connection, Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis studio, Metric studio, Event studio, Frame Work Manager, Oracle 10g,Oracle 9i, SQL, Scheduler,XML and Windows.

Commerce Bank Brooklyn, NY 09/08 – 12/08

Cognos Consultant

Responsibilities:

Work with Business users in gathering business intelligence, requirements and operational needs

Work with a team of Developers, Analysts and Super users to document requirements

Develop complex Reports and Dashboards presenting KPI’s and Alerts

Design reporting solutions using IBM Cognos Reporting Suite

Customize Reporting portal with branding colors, logos and images

Perform Report migrations from IBM Cognos 7 to version 8

Optimize reports to meet business needs and industry best practices

Develop metadata models for Reports development

Analyze data issues using Analysis Studio and Query Studio

Analyze database storage and work with DBA’s to meet Reporting needs

Redesign reports from Microstrategy to IBM Cognos

Create Transformer Models, Cubes and Dimensional Reports

Troubleshoot day to day Report and Data issues

Environment: IBM Cognos 8 BI,Cognos Connection, Cognos Go office Connection, Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis studio, Metric studio, Frame Work Manager, DB2, SQL, XML and Windows NT/4.0.

Assurant Health Milwaukee, WI 03/07 to 04/08

Report Developer

Assurant Health is built on the cornerstone of consumer choice-providing ongoing flexibility and choices in health financing solutions as well as choice of providers. Primary products include individual medical, small group, short term and student health insurance products, consumer-choice products such as Health Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement Arrangements, as well as non-insurance products.

Responsibilities:

Report migration from legacy Reporting system to Cognos

Design reports using Excel and Report Studio, Reportnet

Implement security by adding users and groups in access manager and assigning roles

Develop Reporting level security

Install framework manager to Power Users and provide access to the data source

Work in multitier environments (development, testing and production)

Content deployments across environments

Develop ad-hoc reporting interfaces using Query Studio.

Responsible for solution-oriented complex reports using Report Studio

Implement automated Report distributed to several Insurance Agents by Bursting

Troubleshoot existing ReportNet Reports with issues

Environment: Reportnet, Cognos Connection, Report Studio, Query Studio, Frame Work Manager, Oracle 10g,Oracle 9i, SQL, Scheduler and Windows NT/4.0

Technical Skills:

BI Tools: IBM Cognos Reporting Suite 8, 10, 11 (Active Reports, Business Insight-advance, Transformer, Powerplay), Microsoft Excel, Spreadsheet Server, Tableau 10, Web Reports, Motio CI-PI, SVN Tortise subversion, SSIS, SPSS

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/XP/2000/2008R2/7/8, UNIX/ Linux (Learning).

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, MDX, HTML, XML, XHTML, Python, C#

Databases: Oracle 12c/11g/10g/9i/8i/8.x, MS SQL Server 7/2000/2003, 2008 R2, DB2, Teradata, AS400 and MySQL

Other Tools: Oracle SQL developer, Toad, Deployment Tool & Migration Utility, Teradata SQL Analyst,Test Directory,

Microsoft SharePoint, ODS, Banner Oracle Forms, Evision Scheduler, Zendesk, Budget pack, Oracle VM,

BI Validator, Metadata Manager (BSP).

Education: Colorado State University, Global Campus: Candidate for BBA in MIS & Business Analytics (Continuing)

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