Cognos Developer/Consultant
Srunaj
Email:***********@*****.***
(Skype): Srunaj
Mob: +1-416-***-****
SUMMARY
Around 8 years of experience as Cognos and TM1 Administrator and Cognos BI Developer
Extensively worked on content (reports, packages, dynamic cubes, active reports) migration from Cognos 10 to Cognos Analytics(11)
Expertise in BI Application Migration
End to End Testing of BI reports comparing the business specifications provided by the Business Analysts
Configuring alerting systems like Centauri, Sitescope, and Concord for monitoring the BI environments.
Setting Multi-Tenancy for the applications
Experience with Impact study analysis and implementation of Cognos 8.4 to Cognos 8.4.1FP2 upgrade and migration of code from 8.4 to 8.4.1FP2
Installation and configuration of Cognos 10.1,10.2, 11 on Windows and Unix servers.
Deployment Management – Planning and execution of weekly Deployment of code from DEV to SIT, SIT to UAT, UAT to Pre Prod and Pre Prod to Prod
Created Project Plan and scheduled for major upgrade of Cognos 8.4 Application and Servers adding load balancing to the environment.
Experience in optimization using load balancing and distributed hardware infrastructure
Excellent experience in client interaction and understanding business application, business data flow and data relations from them
Solved customer security issues as well as created a process to extract user information from security application for easy access.
Created Disaster Recovery documents in the event of a disaster.
Designed and developed OLAP Cubes and Reports using Powerplay Transformer for UNIX.
Expertise in PL/SQL, SQL for Analytics, Star Schema Design, SQL and PL/SQL Tuning and Cognos BI/Web Reporting Development and Support.
Designed and developed Framework manager 8.x modeling, which includes creating regular dimensions, measure dimensions, resolving multi-grain multi-fact, loop joins, relationships and appropriate use of determinants.
Creating new users for Control M.
OBIEE application maintenance and migrating RPDs, Web catalogs and DAC migration from DEV to STAGE and STAGE to Prod environments.
Business Objects application maintenance and creating a regular back up of the reports and universes.
TM1 installation and integrating the application with Cognos BI application.
Extensively worked on design and development of reports using Cognos 8.x Report Studio which includes use of Cognos 8.x features like cross tab indentation, MDX functions, complex list reports, charts, conditional formatting, multiple prompt pages, etc...
Excellent analytical, communication, interpersonal skills and self-driven.
EDUCATION
Masters in Computer Science from Sheffield Hallam University
Bachelor of Engineering from JNTU, Hyderabad.
Intermediate (+2) from Board of Intermediate Education
AISSCE from the Central Board of Secondary Education.
Technical Skills:
Cognos BI Tools
Cognos Analytics, Cognos 10.2.1,10.1.1,10.2,8.4.1FP2,8.4.0,8.3, 8.2 BI, 7.1 MR2 (Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, Event Studio, Metric Studio and Framework Manager, Transformer for UNIX 7.1 MR2, Powerplay Enterprise, PowerPlay Web, Access Manager, Netscape Directory Server (LDAP)
Databases
Oracle 9.2.x/10G, SQL-Server 2000/2005, Teradata Warehouse, DB2, SAP BW
Operating systems
IBM AIX, Solaris, Windows
ETL Tools
Oracle Warehouse Builder9.2, Custom ETL (Pl/Sql 9i/10g), Informatica 6.2.x, Data Stage
Languages
SQL, PL\SQL.
Oracle Tools
SQLPlus, TOAD,
Scripting/Scheduling
Power Shell, SQL.
Web
HTML,
Other Tools
Clear case, Clear quest, SVN, JIRA, Qlik View, VM Ware Service Manager
Experience
Boehringer Ingelheim.
Cognos/TM1 June 2015 – June 2019
Developer/Admin
Cognos upgrade from Version 10.2.1 to Cognos Analytics 11.0.12
Setting up Multi-Tenancy for various Business units on same application.
Handling BISM (Business intelligence Service Manager) requests on a daily basis
Installation of new Cognos 10.2.1, Cognos 10.2.2 instances for the new clients
Extensively worked on design and development of reports with Cognos report builder
Develop/design models, import data and publish with IBM Cognos Framework Manager (FM)
Working with IBM support in resolving the application software bugs
Coordinating with business clients across the Globe in case of application downtimes or maintenance
Performance tuning of application/reports with increase in application loads
Schedules monitoring and helping business clients in distributing the schedules over non-peak periods
Creating Documents for the users across global in different languages (working with translators) for the better use of tool
Creating TM1 server instances and helps the users with deployments.
Migrating QVDs amd QVWs for Qlik View users
Windows performance tuning and security administration
Application upgrades/migrations to a new version or deploying the existing one on new hardware
Change management and documenting the tasks accomplished using ITEMS (SAP Documents Repository)
Environment: Cognos10.21, 10.2.2, Cognos 11, Windows2008, 2012, Oracle, ActiveDirectory
Office Depot March 12 – Jan 2015
Cognos Developer/Administrator
Promoting the Cognos packages, reports, jobs from Dev to QA and once tested then to Prod following the SDLC process
Design and development of reports using Cognos report builder
Developed Framework manager 8.x modeling package
Monitoring the performance of Cognos environment ensuring 100% availability of the system
Working with the IBM support on BI Server Limitations and providing the requested information and work towards the closure of the issues
Installing the Hot fixes provided by the support and documenting the roll back procedure for the activities performed
Creating new jobs, scheduling the jobs, setting the parameters for reports, creating report views as per the user requirements
Performing Health check of the Data stage and Cognos applications and sending out report to the top-level management on a daily basis
Code migration of Data stage jobs to the production environment.
Adding additional dispatchers to the production farm depending on the increase in user requirements
Working with the external DB teams, Windows Admins, LDAP Team, in case of any Data source connection issues, IIS issues, disk space issues, memory issues and user provisioning issues
Environment: Windows 2003 & 2008 serves, IIS 6 & IIS7, Active Directory, Terradata, Oracle, Cognos 10.1.1 &
Cognos 10.2
Qualcomm
BI Application Administrator July 11- March 12
On-Call support: Level-1 support for varied BI applications (COGNOS-BI, TM1, BO, OBIEE, HFM)
Primary role is to perform all Cognos Admin activities and secondary is the provide admin support to other BI (OBIEE, HFM, Qlikview, BO, Cognos TM1) applications
Install, configure, POC and review of Cognos 8.4.1, 10.1 BI, on Windows Server 2003/2008 platform
development of reports using Cognos report builder
IBM SR management and resolution with the help of Cognos Support team using Cognos Support secondary ID.
Cutover type version upgrade from 8.4.1 to 10.1 of Cognos BI Suite
Scheduled and unscheduled application maintenance activities.
Setup and Administration support to OBIEE. Scheduling / triggering of OS and application level activities using Control-M scheduler.
Install and configuration of Splunk (log indexer) agent on Windows and Unix servers.
Configuring and maintenance of BI applications using monitoring systems (Site Scope, Centauri, Sysedge (e-Health), Splunk)
Creating a regular backup of the Control-M tables.
Report development using Cognos Report Studio
Creating global filters for the reports on a dashboard.
Team building activities.
Environment: AIX 5.3/6.1, Cognos 10.0, Cognos 8.4.1 FP2, Windows 2003 and 2008 servers, Microsoft IIS, IBM HTTP Server, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g