Pramila
Phone: +1-408-***-****
Mailto: *******.*******@*****.***
SUMMARY
. Over 8 years of experience in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise
Edition(OBIEE) 10G/11G Reporting tool, BI Publisher 10G/11G and PL/SQL
9i/10G/11G.
. Demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills
during identification of user requirements.
. Experience on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in enterprise,
client/server applications with models like Waterfall, Agile Methodology.
. Experience in designing and developing end-to-end BI solutions according
to standard OLAP methodologies using Oracle Business Intelligence
(OBIEE).
. Expert in working with OBIEE administration tool developing Metadata
repository and strong experience in working with OBIEE Answers, OBIEE
Dashboards.
. Strong background in Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, and Reporting.
. Experienced in data modeling using Dimensional Data modeling, Star
Schema modeling, and Fact and Dimensions tables including physical,
logical data modeling in the OBIEE Administration tool.
. Expert in working with MUD( Multi User Development) environment.
. Expertise in OBIEE Repository management, Physical Model, building
Business Model, Presentation Catalog, Web Catalog, and extensive
knowledge in the reports and scheduling iBots.
. Have extensive experience in configuring Answers, Interactive Dashboards
with Drill-Down capabilities using Prompts, Filters, OBIEE Security Setup
(groups, access / query privileges), Metadata Objects and Web Catalog
Objects (Dashboard, Pages, Folders, Reports).
. Expertise in Managing Security Privileges for each Subject Area and
Dashboards according to user requirements and also worked on Security
Setup at both Object and Data Levels, which involved creation of
users/groups, LDAP Authentication Setup and configuration of Multiuser
Development Environment.
. Expertise and hands-on experience in creating Aggregations and managing
metadata using OBIEE to optimize performance.
. Experienced in working with Variable Manager to define session and
repository variables and initialization blocks to streamline
administrative tasks and modify metadata content dynamically.
. Highly experienced in creating Oracle BI Publisher Report Templates
using BI Publisher Desktop Edition.
. Hands-on experience in Installing, Configuring and Administration of
OBIEE Administration Tool also in migration from previous versions of
OBIEE 10G to 11G.
. Excellent analytical, programming, Technical Documentation skills with
ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
. Very strong Analytical and Presentation Skills, Problem-solving
techniques.
. Excellent Team player and can work on both Development and Maintenance
phases of the project.
. Ability to provide timely solutions and work within specified time
frames.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
BI Development Tools: Oracle BI Administration, Oracle BI Presentation,
Oracle BI Dashboards, Oracle BI Delivers, Catalog
Manager, BI Publisher 10g/11g
Databases: ORACLE 11g/10g/9i
Data Modeling: Star Schema, Snowflakes Modeling
Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL
Platforms: Windows 98/2000/2003/2008 /NT/XP
Tools : SQL Developer, TOAD
Domain Experience: Banking and Finance Services domain
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology.
Rajarshi Shahu College Of Engineering, Pune University, India.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Client: PNC Financial Services, Pittsburgh, PA
Jan' 13 - present
Role: OBIEE Consultant
Description: PNC bank provides services in Banking and Finance in United
States, It is the sixth largest bank by deposit in the United States. PNC's
consumer analytics teams provide analytics to support consumer and business
banking asset class strategies and pricing. To give users easier access to
critical information of Reveleus in Risk management dashboards are created
using Dashboard Manager. Dashboard contained reports that presented the
Credit Risk, Market Risk, Liquidity Risk, Operation Risk. Dashboard shows
Geography wise Risk reports which help clients to differentiate Risk
between different branches. Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and
Agile methodologies are used in the project.
Responsibilities:
. Worked with business analyst on user requirements and wrote functional
and technical requirements documents.
. Daily attending the status meeting with clients and coordinating with
onsite team to discuss further move.
. Understand and design the generic metadata RPD, physical and business
model diagram mapping and joins with facts and dimensions based on the
star and snow flake schemas as per best practices.
. Implemented and Worked on MUDE (Multi-User Development Environment) mode
setting up with different users and developers prospective.
. In Business model mapping Layer implemented the dimensional hierarchy,
level based measures, aggregations, security groups and roles using LDAP
authentication, etc.
. Created new logical columns defining the business logic as per the
requirements.
. Involved in setting up session such as user session and repository
(static and dynamic) variables such as location as static and current
day/month/year as dynamic variable using various initialization blocks.
. Merging the RPD and web catalog folder with OBI admin tool and catalog
manager.
. Responsible for implementing data-level security and object-level
(dashboards/reports) security among users, groups and web-groups.
. Highly experienced in setting up session variables and repository
variables using various Initialization Blocks.
. Responsible for creating additional users and maintaining visibility
privileges using OBIEE administration on repository side as well as front
end to display OBIEE reports based on the business user for that
particular area.
. In reports created the filters and time dimension prompts for all the
dashboard pages,charts, tables, Pivot tables, Narrative view and
View/Column selector, etc.
. Developed time series objects using Ago and ToDate functions for time
series comparisons.
. Implemented write back capability to enter values directly into a report
and have those values used in calculations and charts in the report.
. Used various cache management techniques for performance tuning including
configuring, defining cache parameters, cache persistence time, cache
seeding and purging, and event polling.
. Configured Oracle BI scheduler for delivery options of a report and also
scheduled FTP delivery options for a report.
. Handled complex navigation using GO-URL navigation syntax.
. Used javaScript code to enable email feature to send across the OBIEE
runtime report in multiple formats dynamically, as per the groups
selected by the user via prompts.
. Migrating the application from development environment to QA staging and
production environments.
. OBIEE Environment migration from 10G to 11G.
. Developed test cases and performed unit testing and integration testing
of the Repository and Web Catalogs.
. Execute defect prevention and causal analysis activities.
Environment: Oracle BI Administration, Oracle BI Presentation, Oracle BI
Dashboards, Oracle BI Application Server & MUD Environment, BI Publisher,
JavaScript, XML, MS Office, Oracle 10g/11g,SQL Developer, Toad, Windows
2008/XP
Client: City Bank, New Jersey
Mar' 11 - Dec' 12
Role: OBIEE Consultant
Description : Citigroup is the largest bank holding company in the United
States by total assets. Citibank is the consumer division of financial
services multinational Citigroup. Dashboards/Reports are based on Basel II.
Basel II is an international accord on capital requirements that applies to
banking institutions in the United States of America and in various other
countries. The Basel II framework encompasses three complementary pillars:
Pillar1 Capital adequacy requirements Pillar2 Supervisory review Pillar3
Market discipline. Under Pillar 3, capital adequacy must be reported
through public disclosures that are designed to provide transparent
information on capital structure, risk exposures, and the risk assessment
process. Implemented migration of BI Publisher Reports to the OBIEE
environment, applied patches and maintained them.
Responsibilities:
. Installed Business Objects Enterprise on both server and client machines
and Enterprise Performance Management on the server machine.
. Interacted with users on a daily basis to gather requirements for the
corporate dashboard.
. Managed ODBC connections with created meta data and repositories
according to needed subject areas.
. Designed and implemented physical and logical star schemas using facts,
dimensions, alias, metrics and extension tables provided with foreign and
complex joins.
. Created a dashboard with menus and sub menus using dashboard builder to
organize the analytics in an intuitive manner.
. Created and maintained security within OBIEE using a combination of LDAP
integration, data level security, and presentation catalog groups.
. Extensively used BO reporting functionalities like slice & dice, drill-
down, cross-tab, @functions, master/detail, breaks and extended syntax.
. Created interactive reports with drop down filters that were used to
navigate from the analytics for detailed information.
. Used advance features in designer like aggregate awareness to accommodate
the aggregate tables in the datamart and security management to apply
object and row level security.
. Implemented row and object level security depending on user rights.
. Implemented drill down feature for multiple level drilling down in
reports.
. Implemented charts like 2D and 3D, tables, cross-tabs in the reports.
. Integrated BI Publisher with OBIEE to build reports in word, excel and
doc format.
. Created various templates, reports, and prompts in BI Publisher.
. Created schedulers and developed iBots to deliver reports and dashboards
to the subscribers as per the schedules and alerts.
. Performed the performance tuning of dashboards and reports and made
required changes to repository and database
. Maintained and modified existing reports according to needs of users.
. Supported the administrator in installing patches, migration, setting
user privileges and access restrictions, and resolving server issues.
. Used SQL extensively for performing unit testing for the developed
Modules. Coordinated with the testing team to test the flow of data from
ODS to Informatica ETL to Data warehouse to reports. Compared data in
reports against source systems.
. Participated in designing, coordination and execution of user acceptance
testing (UAT) with QA, BA and selected business users.
Environment: Oracle BI Administration, Oracle BI Presentation, Oracle BI
Dashboards, BI Publisher 10g, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Oracle
10G,Toad,WIndows 2008.
Client: Cummins Inc., Columbus, IN
Dec' 09 - Feb' 11
Role: OBIEE Consultant
Description: Cummins Inc. is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and
distributes engines, filtration, and power generation products. Corporate
Financial Planning Dashboard created to understand the impact financial
plans have on assets, revenue and sales with the ability to view financial
planning data by year and month. Created financial plans for the entire
organization. Audit Dashboards were created to help audit team understand
how well they perform, how close they are to the set target, Reports
display department wise performance.
Responsibilities:
. Interacting with management, business and users, gathering the business
requirements, designed and developed complex dynamic business quality
compliance group reports related to audit and early warning.
. Created physical and complex joins. Exposed custom attributes in
presentation layer.
. Used the repository documentation utility to document mappings from
presentation columns to the corresponding logical and physical columns.
. Utilized various building blocks like calculation measures, time series
measures, initialization blocks, session and repository variables, fact
tables, dimension tables, dimension hierarchies.
. Used narrative text, column selector, global and column filters to
provide the functionality of viewing .
. Utilized aggregation to improve query performance.
. Created reports using different views.
. Involved in troubleshooting of Informatica mappings and workflows.
. Designed report templates using XML/BI Publisher.
. Created highly formatted reports using BI Publisher based on Oracle
database.
. Implemented BI security using external table for authentication and
authorization.
. Configured security at the repository level, catalog level & the
application level.
. Experience in complete Software Development life Cycle (SDLC) which
include system study, analysis, physical and logical design, resource
planning, testing and implementing business applications.
. Validated the data and tested the accuracy by running simple queries in
business objects and directly querying the database by writing SQL for
Oracle databases.
. Very strong analytic and presentation skills and problem-solving
techniques with emphasis on individual and team effort backed by
excellent communication skills.
Environment: Oracle BI Administration, Oracle BI Presentation, Oracle BI
Dashboards, BI Publisher 10g, JavaScript, XML, Oracle 10G/11G,Toad,SQL
Developer, Windows 2003/2008
Client: KPIT Cummins Info system Ltd. India
Nov' 08 - Nov' 09
Role: OBIEE Consultant
Description : KPIT Cummins Info system Ltd is a vertical focused IT
consulting and product engineering solutions and services provider to
automotive & transportation, manufacturing and energy & utilities
corporations. Dashboard shows professional asset management of various
securities (shares, bonds and other securities) and other assets in order
to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of the investors.
Reports shows the fund allocation in different asset class definitions such
as stocks, bonds, real estate and commodities .Waterfall model followed in
this project.
Responsibilities:
. Collected user requirements, conceptualized and designed dashboards and
reports.
. Analyzed the data and developed logical star schema model with
consultation from data modelers and Business Analysts.
. Proficient in defining key performance metrics, facts, dimensions,
hierarchies and developing star and snow flake schemas.
. Build repository by importing the data, defining keys and joins, creating
business model, defining complex joins, mapping columns and sources,
creating measures, and developing subject areas.
. Managed users/groups involving multiple domain and multiple repositories.
. Experienced in configuring and set up of OBIEE security using LDAP and
external database tables and configuring object level and database level
security.
. Implemented security based on LDAP authentication.
. Implemented various security settings including groups, access / query
privileges.
. Created reports with complex variables and formulas involving calculation
contexts.
. Created dimension hierarchies, aggregation criteria and multiple logical
sources in the BMM layer.
. Developed reports and dashboards with different analytics views including
pivot table, chart, gauges, column selector, and view selector with
global and local filters using Oracle BI presentation services.
. Experienced in creating interactive UI Design including experience in
user interface design using CSS, HTML, XML and Java Scripts.
. Linked multiple data-providers, used combined queries, sub-queries, user-
objects, and free-hand SQL for customized and specialized reports.
. Implemented security by creating roles and web groups.
. Configured iBots to deliver analytics content based on schedule,
automated iBot queries to obtain weekly reports.
. Provided guidance and support to end users during the implementation and
in production.
. Create test plans, test cases and performed unit and integration testing.
Environment: Oracle BI Administration, Oracle BI Presentation, Oracle BI
Dashboards, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Oracle 10G,Toad,WIndows XP
Client: KPIT Cummins Info system Ltd, India
Jul' 06 - Jul' 08
Role: PL/SQL Developer
Description : Pdart is a SAP base system implemented to store internal
information and Atlas is a digite's tool which is Project management
system. Implemented interface between these two systems to flow project
data, user allocations from Pdart to Atlas, timesheet data flow from Atlas
to Pdart. Different database objects used to fetch data from staging area
and insert into Atlas database and vice a versa. Some data transfer on
daily basis and remaining data transfer as per the scheduler.
Responsibilities:
. Involved in requirement gathering, customer interaction, analysis of the
requirements and project module designing.
. Involved in logical & physical database layout design.
. Developed back-end Logic.
. Experience with data flow diagrams, data dictionary, database
normalization theory techniques, entity relation modeling and design
techniques.
. Involved in writing SQL queries and functions and applying optimization
techniques.
. Created packages and procedures to automatically drop table indexes and
create indexes for the tables.
. Experience with oracle supplied packages such as DBMS_SQL,DBMS_JOB and
UTL_FILE.
. Developed stored procedures and triggers using PL/SQL in order to
calculate and update the tables to implement business logic.
. Worked extensively on ref cursor, external tables.
. Expertise in dynamic SQL, records, tables, collections (nested tables and
arrays) and exception handling.
. Used pragma autonomous transaction to avoid mutating problem in database
trigger.
. Implemented SQL loader, DB links, materialized view & UTL File.
. Wrote packages to fetch complex data from different tables in remote
databases using joins, sub queries and database links.
. Creating indexes on tables to improve the performance by eliminating the
full table scans and views for hiding the actual tables and to eliminate
the complexity of the large queries.
. Experience with performance tuning for Oracle RDBMS using explain plan
and HINTS.
. Have done code reviews, debugging, bug fixing, performance tuning and
unit testing.
. Have documented overall system resources in migration document, testing
procedures in user acceptance testing document.
Environment: Oracle 9i/10G,PL/SQL,SQL Developer,Toad,Windows 2008.