RAHUL ARORA
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CAREER SYNOPSIS
An accomplished Senior Technical Lead with an overall experience of 15 years in IT industry of which 8+ years in Metric Analysis & Reporting and 6+ years as a Technical Lead for developing various BI reporting capabilities
Record of success in managing analysis, design and development of various BI/Analytical Solutions
Skilled at leading cross functional teams for migration of OBIEE dashboards, Informatica and database upgrades
Rich experience in managing project team size of 10 – 15 members in BI & DW domain, across technologies such as Oracle, OBIEE, Tableau, Informatica, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI11g) and SAP Business Objects
Strong problem solving, troubleshooting, analytical, communication and interpersonal skills
Experience in collaborating effectively with geographically diversified teams located in different Time zones
Experienced in Data Analytics with sound Data Visualization skills
Strong understanding of ITIL processes
Robust understanding of project management principles, practices, techniques, and tools
CERTIFICATION & TRAINING
CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) Certified
ITIL Trained
TECHNICAL SKILLS
BI Technologies
OBIEE 11G/10g, Siebel, Tableau 9.2, SAP Business Objects
ETL
Informatica 9.6.1/9.5.0, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI11g)
Databases
Oracle 11g/10g/9i
Programming
PL/SQL, R
Tools and Utilities
SQL Developer, TOAD, MS Project, Kintana, Quality Center, BMC Remedy, PVCS (Version Control)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Veritas Technologies, Mountain View, CA Aug’17- Till date
Senior BI Consultant
Responsibilities:
Oracle Sales Analytics OBIEE reporting platform provides the Global Sales Ops and Renewals team near real-time view to analyze Pipeline, Leads, Forecasting and Quota.
Participate in Standup meetings with Sales Team.
Assist in Data Model design.
Develop and merge Repository in a MUD setup.
Create Dashboards and Adhoc reports.
Perform data validation and QA testing.
Work with integrations team for data extraction issues.
Provide Adhoc data extracts per Business Requests
Environment: OBIEE 11g, ODI 11g, SQL Developer, Oracle 11g.
Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose USA Mar’17 – Jul’17
Project Lead
Responsibilities:
Workforce analytics Platform is a centralized data ecosystem for individuals and teams to store data and enable diverse access to it. Tableau/OBIEE based dashboards provides visibility into metrics needed to understand and analyze workforce activities.
Managed multiple tracks through defined processes such as Project Planning, estimation, tracking issues identifying risks, creating mitigation plans etc.
Participate in gathering attribute and reporting requirements.
Work with SMEs for source system integration analysis, data extraction, transforming and loading.
Collaborate with Architects to setup environments.
Created Dashboards in OBIEE and Tableau.
Environment: OBIEE 11g, Oracle 11g, TOAD, MS Project, Tableau 9.2
Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, CA Feb’13 - Mar’17
Senior Technical Lead
Responsibilities:
Metrics role-based OBIEE/Tableau dashboard that contains simplified, actionable Metrics aligned to IT Scorecard Metrics. The dashboard provides a real-time view of the current operational state of services.
Lad a multi-offshore team to provide 24x7 support and development services.
Oversaw ETL (Informatica), BI Reporting (OBIEE) design and development
Participated in data modelling and code review sessions.
Created Tableau Dashboard to monitor Planned and Unplanned downtime metrics.
Conducted Project team meetings to facilitate discussions for risk assessment and mitigation plans.
Environment: OBIEE 11g, Oracle 11g, TOAD, Informatica 9.6.1, BMC Remedy, Quality Center, SAP Business Objects
Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, CA Nov’12-Feb’13
Senior OBIEE/ODI Lead
Responsibilities:
Real-Time view of various Program team’s data and information in support of learnings conducted across Cisco.
Lead the migration of OBIEE reports/dashboards from version 10.1.3.4 to 11.1.1.6.0
Coordinated with cross functional teams, for UAT, pre-production and Go-live phases
Worked on Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) to develop processes for extracting, cleansing, transforming, integrating, and loading data into data warehouse database
Environment: OBIEE 11g/10g, Oracle 11g, TOAD, ODI, Quality Center
Viasat Inc, Carlsbad, CA Sep’12 - Oct’12
Senior OBIEE Consultant
Responsibilities:
Installation and configuration for ViaSat’s OBIEE 11g instance along with End User and Administration Training.
RCU schema creation and OBIEE 11.1.1.6.0 installation
Set up Secured LDAP authentication and enabled SSL
Enable Write back, Integrate OBIEE with map viewer, Configure Scheduler
Trained End Users and Pilot Users on OBIEE 11g Tools.
Environment: OBIEE 11g, Oracle 11g.
Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, CA Aug’07 - Sep’12
Senior OBIEE Consultant
Responsibilities:
COVC-BI project is a decision support system that assists the business to analyze the actual manufacturing trends, collaborative planning and analysis with the end goal to track results. It also helps the Business to bring together metrics that reflect more globally coordinated activities of marketing and quality control of the hardware products.
Identified risks to programs success and create mitigation plans.
Reviewed requirements, provide SME support and case management
Provided project status report to management.
Participated in technical document and architecture reviews for OBIEE/Informatica
Prepared effort estimation document
Environment: OBIEE 10g, Oracle 9i, TOAD, Informatica 9.5.0, Quality Center, Kintana, PVCS
Cisco Systems Inc., Pune India Mar’06 - Aug’07
Senior Siebel Developer
Responsibilities:
CS Team Dashboard provided metrics information regarding customer and sales behavior and the productivity & performance of CS staff and processes, using appropriate security and access controls. It provided extensive analytical, drill-down, exception and “early warning” notification capabilities. Additionally, this access point provided up-to-date and reliable access to critical KPI’s to improve productivity and user satisfaction.
Gathered requirements from Client through day-to-day client meeting and preparing functional specification documents accordingly.
Designed and developed the report prototypes to facilitate the client to better understand the final design.
Environment: OBIEE 10g, Oracle 9i, TOAD, Informatica 9.5.0, Quality Center, Kintana, PVCS
Delta Airline, Pune India Oct’05 - Mar’06
Siebel Developer
Responsibilities:
Involved in Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and deployment of Siebel, Informatica and DAC.
Primary responsibility is to develop reports, Build Repository and create dashboard.
Environment: Siebel, Oracle 8i, TOAD, Informatica
Dell Inc., Pune India Jan’02 - Sep’05
Siebel Developer
Responsibilities:
Development of Siebel Analytics Repository
Develop Informatica mappings
Environment: Siebel, Oracle 8i