Vijaya Ulsala
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*** ********** **, **********, ** 30004
Tel: 972-***-****, Email: ************@*****.***
Objective:
To secure a challenging position in the field of data warehousing that will
utilize my strengths and knowledge.
Summary:
. 9 years of professional experience in information technology using tools
and technologies like Informatica, Pentaho, SSAS, Business Objects,
Teradata, Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server.
. Strong expertise in data analysis, data extraction, data loading,
and performance tuning.
. Experience in Administration activities like Creating and Managing
Repositories, Users, User Groups, Folders, working with administrator
functions and support of Repository Manager.
. Proficient in working in different RDBMS (in Teradata, Oracle 8i/9i, SQL
Server, DB2 etc.) and strong troubleshooting skills.
. Strong Experience in Data Warehouse requirements gathering, analysis,
design, conversion of business requirements into high level functional
specifications, Data Loading, and Business Intelligence Processes. Worked
with Data Loads and Data Migration using Oracle SQL Loader, and Teradata
Loaders.
. Good working knowledge of Teradata utilities like BTEQ, FastExport,
FastLoad, MultiLoad and Tpump.
. Expertise in implementing complex Business rules by creating robust
mappings/mapplets, shortcuts, reusable transformations and partitioning.
. Good experience designing and developing business intelligence
applications by creation of business objects universes using the business
objects designer
. Extensive expertise in implementing complex business requirements by
creating re-usable transformations and mappings/mapplets.
. Extensively used SQL and PL/SQL to write stored procedures,
functions, and triggers.
. Experience in the Implementation of full lifecycle in Data warehouses and
Business Data marts with Star Schemas and Snow flake Schemas, Data
Migration, Data Conversions, Data Extraction, Transformation and Data
Loading (ETL) and product support on various platforms.
. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and is experienced in
working with senior level managers and developers across multiple
disciplines.
Certifications:
. Brainbench certified Informatica Developer.
. Teradata Certified Professional V2R5
Technical Skills:
ETL Tools : Informatica powermart/powercenter 8.1/7.1.2/6.2,
Pentaho 3.2/3.4, SSIS
Reporting Tools : Business objects 5.1, Cognos 5.1
OLAP Tools : SSAS
Languages : C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL
Scripting : UNIX shell scripting
Web Skills : HTML, XML
Operating Systems : UNIX (AIX, Solaris), Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Modeling : Erwin 3.5.2/4.0
RDBMS : Teradata V2R5.1, Oracle 9i/8i, DB2, SQL Server
2008/2005/2000, MS Access 2000
Work Experience:
Sr ETL Developer, SNL (formerly iPartners), Atlanta, GA
Nov 2010 - Current
As a leading provider of on-demand P&C insurance business analytics
solutions, iPartners enables insurance executives to make higher quality
and more timely decisions by delivering accurate, easy-to-use and relevant
data through a suite of customized dashboards, scorecards, and a library of
P&C specific key performance indicators.
iPartners solution gathers client requirements, and applies business rules
using ETL tools to load client's data which is later loaded into
datawarehouse. Cubes are built using SSAS, which feeds data to the reports.
Environment: Informatica Powercenter 8.1, SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g,
SSIS, SSAS and Windows 2000.
Role:
Created database, designed staging tables and master tables to load
client's data.
Understanding business requirements and converted into technical designs.
Mentored junior developers.
Used Informatica to merge client's data from multiple sources into
datawarehouse.
Involved in Designing and developing Star Schema and creating Fact Tables
and Dimension Tables for the Warehouse, and also built cubes using SSAS.
Worked on identifying mapping bottlenecks in Source, Target, and Mappings
and improved performance.
Interacted with Reporting team to provide data required for creating
dashboards.
Created indexes for improving performance of queries.
Developed stored procedures and functions.
Worked on troubleshooting and tuning SQL queries for better performance.
Created slowly changing dimension tables and fact tables.
Used Workflow manager to create, schedule, monitor, and send the messages
in case of process failures.
Sr ETL Developer, Incomm, Atlanta, GA
Apr '09 - Oct 2010
InComm is the industry leading marketer, distributor and technology
innovator of stored-value gift and prepaid products.
InVision Back Office
IBO is the application used by Incomm to manage its merchants, vendors,
products, pricing and billing. This platform will eliminate disparate
legacy systems by unifying the sales, customer support, transaction
processing, rating, billing, product development, and ERP systems into an
enterprise-wide platform. Pentaho is used to load data from legacy system
to the new application.
Environment: Pentaho 3.2/3.4, SQL Server 2008/2005, DB2, Oracle 10g, Mysql,
Linux, and Windows 2000.
Role:
. Developed complex ETL workflows for data movement from and to SQL server
databases, Data Warehouse, XML and flat files using Pentaho.
. Worked closely with business users to gather the business requirements to
develop the transformation logic.
. Provided on-call production support.
. Migrated ETL mappings from Development to Test and Production
environments.
. Worked on identifying mapping bottlenecks in Source, Target, and Mappings
and improved performance.
. Designed and developed shell scripts to automate the process of loading,
pulling, renaming and pushing data from and to different servers.
. Involved in analyzing stored procedures on legacy systems and converted
them to ETL mappings.
. Conducted Unit, Acceptance, and Regression testing for initial/daily
master data & data warehouse ETL load.
. Designed exception process for the ETL processes that load legacy data
into the new master data.
. Participated in designing Data warehouse and worked on ETL logic to load
Data warehouse.
. Developed Mappings using various transformations like Lookups, Filters,
Aggregators, Joiners, and SQL based upon requirement.
Sr ETL Developer, ING Insurance, Atlanta, GA
Jun '06 - Mar '09
ING's businesses offer individual, business and institutional customers
innovative financial products and services in insurance, investment, asset
management, and internet banking.
AdminSever
AdminServer is a web-based policy-administrative system that supports Life
New Business and Policy services. The AdminServer Implementation Program
will implement the new AdminServer administrative system, new term products
on the platform, and convert selected legacy systems to the new platform.
Informatica was used to load the data from DB2 to DB2 and flat files.
Environment: Informatica Power center 8.1/7.1.2, DB2, UNIX, and Windows
2000.
Role:
. Designed and developed the Extraction, Transform and Load process by
studying the business requirement from the users.
. Analyzed clients ETL needs, Identified distinct functional areas.
Interacted with end users and documented their queries for business
analysis and reporting needs.
. Wrote override sequel queries, documented the Informatica mappings,
design and error handling and test strategy of the mappings.
. Designed and developed mappings and reusable objects using
Informatica.
. Developed Mappings using various transformations like
connected/unconnected Lookups, Filters, Aggregators, Update strategy,
Routers, Joiners, Union, and SQL depending upon requirement.
. Scheduled and monitored sessions and batches on the Informatica Server
using Informatica Workflow Manager and ControlM.
. Developed Informatica sessions for data processing and loading, scheduled
sessions using Informatica Work flow Manager.
. Wrote SQL, PL/SQL, stored procedures cursors for implementing business
rules and transformations.
. Designed mappings between flat file, using Informatica and RDBMS source
to data warehouse which is in db2.
. Created join indexes, materialized views, dimensions for increasing query
performance
. Developed shell scripts and stored procedures to run from the Informatica
pre and post sessions to create and drop the indexes to improve the speed
of session execution.
. Involved in tuning Informatica mappings and workflows for better
performance.
ETL Developer, Cendant (Galileo - Orbitz), Denver, CO
Aug '05 - May'06
MIDT Repository
This project provides competitive MIDT booking information to Galileo
Subscriber departments. Creation of the Knowledge Management repository
includes taking the output files from Shepard, applying the business rules
where applicable, and loading this data into the Knowledge Management
Repository.
Environment: Informatica Power center 7.1.2, Cognos 5.1, Teradata V2R5.1,
Oracle 9i, UNIX, Informix, DB2, and Windows 2000.
Role:
. Used teradata loaders like Tpump, Mload and fast load to load data from
Informix, teradata into teradata.
. Developed several reusable transformations and mapplets.
. Analyzed clients Data Warehousing needs, Identified distinct functional
areas. Interacted with end users and documented their queries for business
analysis and reporting needs.
. Worked with large volumes of data.
. Extensively worked on performance tuning of Teradata SQL using explain
plan and understanding Joins and Data distribution.
. Involved in migrating data from Informix to teradata.
. Created slowly changing dimension tables for loading the history data.
. Developed mappings with transformations like joiner, update strategy and
lookup (Connected& Unconnected, Flat file lookups) to mould the data in
required form.
. Created List, Sub and Cross-Tab reports using Impromptu and distributed
Catalog to users for Ad-Hoc reporting and analysis using Cognos.
. Developed Korn shell scripts to load data from various source systems to
Teradata warehouse using MultiLoad and BTEQ utilities on UNIX Platform.
. Involved in tuning mappings and workflows for better performance.
. Done debugging using debugger.
. Troubleshoot and tune SQL using explain plan.
ETL Developer, Neiman Marcus, Irving, TX
Jan '05 - Jul '05
The main aim of this project was to support the exposure of Neiman's online
catalog to search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL. Informatica was
used to load the data from oracle database to oracle and flat files. This
warehouse also helps marketing and sales teams in promotional campaigns and
generating sales reports.
Environment: Informatica Power Center 6.2, Business objects 5.1, Oracle 9i,
TOAD, UNIX, PL/SQL, Windows 2000.
Role:
. Involved in the development of Informatica mappings and Mapplets.
. Extensively used parameter files.
. Worked with transformations like Source qualifier, Aggregator,
Expression, Lookups, Filter, Router, Sequence Generator, Update strategy,
Rank Etc.
. Performed tuning SQL queries for speedy extraction of data.
. Wrote UNIX Shell Scripts to process text files.
. Business Objects Universe, Business Objects Reports and Business Objects
repository has been extensively used.
. Created sessions, batches and unit testing of the mapping/sessions and
batches.
. Interacted with the end users to gather the business requirements.
. New universe were designed and developed to support the user Requirements
using Business Objects.
. Used partitions like key range to improve the performance.
. Enhanced the existing Informatica mappings to meet the new requirements.
. Wrote pre session and post session commands for processing shell scripts.
Education:
Bachelor's in Engineering[pic]