David Cohn
Atlanta, GA ***** Mobile: +1-314-***-**** ********@***.***
*****.****@*****.***
Professional Profile
Accomplished Senior IT professional with a background in business
intelligence, software design and full life-cycle development. Capable of
managing numerous projects while leading cross-functional teams to meet and
exceed overall IT initiatives. Demonstrated consultative process skills
with emphasis on written and relationship development skills. Highlights
of skills:
. Business Intelligence
. Data Warehousing
. Process Improvement
. Team Leadership & Effectiveness
. Strategic Planning and & Analysis
. Reporting Systems Architecture
. Process Implementation
. Software Design & Development
Technical Expertise
. Tools: Business Objects 4, XI r3, r2, r1, 6.5, WebIntelligence 4,
XI, 6.5, UDT/IDT; Data Integrator 6; Data Services 4, XI 3.2, 4;
SSIS; SSAS; Ab Initio; BEx Query Designer; Sagent; BrioQuery; Cognos;
Genio; Erwin; Crystal Reports 2011, XI, 8.5; Xcelsius 2008 / Dashboard
Designer; IIS; SQL Loader; Visio; PVCS.
. Languages: Visual Basic 6; PL/SQL; SQL; Transact-SQL; Active Server Pages
(ASP); JavaScript; VBScript; HTML; DHTML; Ajax; JQuery; CSS; XML; eBay
API; SAS; Cobol.
. Databases: SQL Server 2008, 2005, 2000, 7.0, 6.5; Oracle 11I, 10I, 9I,
8I, 7; Teradata; Hyperion Essbase; Netezza; MySQL; MS Access; UDB; DB2;
Sybase; FoxPro; Filemaker.
. Business Applications: SAP (ECC 4.7, 6.0 -- HCM, SCM, SD, Material
Master, Vendor Master, iDocs, LSMW, Salesforce; Oracle Financials.
. OS: Windows Server 2008/2003/7/Vista/XP/2000/NT/98/95/NT; Mac OS;
Mainframe.
. Other: OLTP; OLAP; ODBC, ADO; OLE DB; Inmon; Kimball; Forecasting; Trend
Analysis; Full Life-Cycle Development; Star and Snowflake Schemas;
Executive Dashboards; 3-Tier Programming.
. Industries: Commodities, Defense, Consumer Products, Investments,
Pharmaceuticals, Clinical Trials, Finance, Leasing, Mining, Health Care,
Insurance, Telecommunications, Energy, Legal, and Manufacturing.
. Certifications: Teradata Certified Professional, Teradata Certified SQL
Specialist.
Professional Experience
Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, GA, 07/2014 to Present
Data Services Expert
. Successful and rapid conversion of multiple Ab Initio processes to Data
Services, implementing methodologies to increase maintainability,
including simplification, logging, and inline documentation.
. Data analysis, modeling, and profiling using SQL Server and Data
Services, to provide new and improved data structures related to
conversion efforts. Included both inline and offline documentation of
table structures.
. Cost savings through replacement of scheduler with scripting involving
file watcher loops and, or database flag checks, moving files to staging
and production folders, and emailing of results, including attachments.
. Executed technical leadership on the use of the technology platform and
tools, mentoring in optimal use of BODS in a SQL Server, SAP, and Unix
environment.
Environment: Data Services (BODS) 4, SQL Server 2008, Oracle, SAP, Ab
Initio, Acorn, Win 7, Unix.
Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, IL, 05/2014 to 07/2014
Data Services Specialist
. Helped spearhead conversion from existing to new financial system,
providing ideas on best practices and standards.
. Cleaned up local and global data using address cleansing transforms in
BODS.
. Implemented processes with AIO methodology to speed development and
provide consistency.
. Developed processes within BODS that generated LSMW's and iDocs for
consumption by SAP.
Environment: Data Services (BODS) 4, SQL Server 2008, SAP, Win 7.
Kimberly Clark, Atlanta, GA, 03/2012 to 03/2013, 06/2013 to 05/2014
Data Services and Xcelsius Lead Developer
. Constructed reusable templates to speed ETL development in BODS and
provide auditing functionality. Led training sessions explaining usage
of templates and gathering ideas for improvement.
. Created and optimized executive summary, operating information, gross
margin, and framework (Xcelsius) dashboards, including hierarchical
selectors, flash variables (linking to dashboards), and dynamic sales and
marketing information based on live SAP BPC data.
. Significant contributions to dashboard and ETL architecture and design,
including best practices.
. Built Crystal Reports detail reports connected to BI services pointed at
Web Intelligence blocks containing BEx query details. Reports launched by
and received prompts from Xcelsius dashboard.
. Acted as go-to for the team for technical concerns and idea development.
Environment: Data Services (BODS) 4, Dashboard Designer (Xcelsius),
Business Objects 4 (WebI, UDT, IDT), Crystal Reports 4, SQL Server 2008,
Neteeza, SAP BPC, Win 7.
CP Kelco, Atlanta, GA, 02/2013 to 06/2013
Data Services and Business Objects Enterprise Developer
. Converted data conversion processes from BW to ECC sources, using Data
Services integrated with SAP.
. Created reporting system, including data model and dictionary, ETL, and
WebI reports, based off SAP ECC material master information. Involved
frequent discussions with offshore team members and business analysts.
. Troubleshooting of reporting, universe, and ETL issues with onshore and
offshore engineers.
Environment: Data Services (BODS) 4, Business Objects 4 (WebI, UDT),
Oracle, SAP BW and ECC, Win 7.
US Navy (Contract), Remote, 10/2011 to 06/2012
Business Objects Admin / Architect
. Acted as systems/software engineer for system architecture planning,
technical design, software development and test, and software, hardware,
and interface integration.
. Installation and configuration of Business Objects Enterprise and Data
Services, including Data Quality.
. Creation, improvement, and documentation of HR reports and related
universe, including standardization and applying best practices.
Environment: Data Services XI r3.2, Business Objects XI r3.2, SQL Server
2008; Win Server 2008.
UCB, Atlanta, GA, 02/2011 to 11/2011
SAP Data Services Architect
. Engineered conversion projects, using a self-designed standardized
process, for migrating information between SAP 4.7 and 6.0. Trained other
resources in process usage.
. Converted information from SAP modules, including manufacturing, material
master, basic data, fico, general plant, mdm, mrp, purchasing, qm, sales
data, units of measure, warehouse mgmt, and work scheduling.
. Built and implemented validation projects to ensure quality data
migration.
. Frequent daily interaction with SAP functional analysts and business to
review requirements and results and provide time estimates.
Environment: Data Services XI r3.2, Oracle 9i; SQL Server 2008; SAP ECC
4.7, 6.0; Win XP.
Westinghouse, Pittsburgh, PA, 11/2010 to 02/2011
SAP Business Objects Specialist
. Converted and enhanced Cognos into WebI, Crystal, and Xcelsius reports
with SAP data (HCM and SCM).
. Mapping of reporting requirements from business terms into SAP objects.
. Creation and maintenance of OLAP universes source from BEx queries.
. Writing and editing of SAP BEx queries using Query Designer.
. Writing of test scripts for accuracy, formatting, and performance.
Environment: Business Objects XI r3.2; SAP ECC 4.7 - HCM, SCM, SD; Cognos;
SQL Server 2008; Win XP.
American Safety Insurance, Atlanta, GA, 06/2010 to 11/2010
Business Objects Architect
. Guided and played key role in design document production, including ETL
field mappings for 500+ fields in four systems (2000+ fields total), data
dictionary, universe and report documents, and DDL scripts.
. Designed centralized data warehouse and subject specific data marts,
following Inmon methodology.
. Led report development effort, including creation of many Web
Intelligence reports and universes.
. Designed and implemented Business Objects architecture, including
hardware and software requirements, CMS information, security, and
migration from XIr2 to XIr3.
. Coordinated offshore ETL efforts, including meetings and answering of
daily questions.
Environment: Business Objects XI r3.2; SQL Server 2008; Inmon; Crystal
Enterprise SDK, Win XP.
Convergence Consulting Group, Tampa, FL (Remote) 07/2010 to 10/2011
ETL Architect
. Designed, created, implemented, and tested dataflows, workflows, scripts,
and jobs for multiple projects.
. Troubleshooting and performance tuning which reduced several jobs from
several hours to less than one.
. Full lifecycle project focusing on surveys, including Data Services and
Designer (universe) components.
. Migrated dataflows, workflows, scripts, and jobs between repositories.
Environment: Data Services XI r3.2, Business Objects XI r3.2; SQL Server
2008; Windows Server 2008, XP.
Black Watch Data, Atlanta, GA, 01/2010 to 07/2010
Data Quality Expert with Focus on ETL and Dashboards
. Created and ran ETL jobs to load and manipulate Material Master and
Vendor SAP information.
. Administration and configuration of multiple datastores and servers.
. Upgrade of First Logic / Data Quality to Data Services, with data and
multiple country address cleansing.
. Developed, published, and scheduled batch and real-time jobs.
. Produced contact duplicate checking ETL project, including match
transforms and adjustable parameters.
Environment: Data Services XI r3.1, 3.2; SQL Server 2005; SAP (extracts);
Xcelsius 2008; Windows XP.
AT&T, Atlanta, GA, 2007 to 2009
Business Objects Technical Lead/Architect
. Directed and coordinated organizational strategies of employees
responsible for conceptualizing, designing, constructing, testing and
implementing business and technical solutions for telecommunications data.
. Partnered with software and architectural teams to plan and build out new
systems, understand scalability and constraints of software, and manage
disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
. Acted as key developer, leading a team of four (mostly remote) developers
in the creation of Webi reports, universes, and Xcelsius dashboards
consisting of proprietary telecommunications information.
. Modeled and integrated several data marts using Kimball methodology.
. Held weekly training sessions with business users, analysts, management,
and other developers explaining how to use and edit reports and explaining
related business concepts.
. Full lifecycle development in multiple projects, all reaching sign off on
schedule.
. Reverse engineering of SAS reports using ETL (SSIS) and Business Objects
universes and reports.
. Created tables, synonyms, views (particularly with analytic functions),
and sequences in Netezza.
. Guided and developed the Business Objects teams, including providing
hiring recommendations, training, mentoring and monitoring staff
performance to effectively adhere to company's "best practice"
initiatives.
. Recipient of the "Employee of the Quarter" Award (Q4 2007).
Environment: Business Objects XI r2 (Webi, Designer, CMS, Admin); Crystal
Reports XI; Crystal Xcelsius 2008; SQL Server 2005; Teradata; SAS; SSIS;
Netezza; Kimball and Agile methodology; SAS; Windows XP.
Rho, Chapel Hill, NC (Remote) 2008
Senior Business Objects Developer
. Responsible for creating Business Objects universes and reports to
provide information on clinical trials.
. Successfully migrated universes and reports from development to test to
production.
. Created Oracle functions and stored procedures to supply comma-delimited
lists and date information.
. Created functional and technical documentation for all reports and
universes.
Environment: BusinessObjects XI r2; Oracle 9i; ARISg; Windows XP.
Oldcastle, Atlanta, GA, 2007
Lead ETL Developer
. Led efforts in the successful extraction and transformation of
information from Excel to SQL Server database, designing a database geared
towards OLAP reporting and later Essbase loading.
. Created >2,000 transformations to alter information extracted from Excel.
. Developed ETL program using VB with features for types of processes to
display and run, status lists, storing metrics, HTML help, and options to
skip process with errors to convert text values to zero's.
Environment: SQL Server 2005; Visual Basic 6; Hyperion Essbase; OLAP;
Windows XP.
Intercontinental Exchange, Atlanta, GA, 2006 to 2007
Lead Developer/Administrator - Business Objects/Crystal Reports
. Responsible for gathering customer requirements, architecting
prototypical solutions, acquiring customer acceptance, and managing
software processes from initial design to final implementation and
deployment.
. Primarily responsible for migrating Sybase, Business Objects (6.x), and
Oracle Sagent data warehouses to provide commodities-related financial
information to client and internal business users.
. Key Projects:
o Migrated three reporting systems to Business Objects XI and Crystal
Reports XI, with Oracle 9i.
o Administration using Central Management Console to schedule reports,
configure user and group security, and manage categories, folders,
universes, and licensing.
o Created and tested reports and universes with information about
commodities, futures, and options.
o Installed, tested, and maintained Business Objects XI (including
Crystal) client and server software.
Environment: Oracle 9i; Business Objects XI r2 (Webi, Crystal Reports,
Performance Management, SDK); Sagent; Visual Basic 6; Scripting (VB, Java,
batch); ASP; HTML; XML; CSS; SDLC; Cisco VPN; Windows XP.
IT Consultant 1995 to 2006
Key Clients: LeasePlan, Lockheed Martin, WPAFB (Air Force), Haworth, HPFS,
AT&T, Travelers, CIT, Cigna, Anheuser-Busch, Peabody Group, MasterCard,
Ralston Purina, Maritz, Davis Interactive
. Client: LeasePlan, Atlanta, GA - Business Objects Expert (2005 to 2006)
o Created a Business Objects data warehouse to provide leasing
information to >100 key clients.
o Designed and rolled out an innovative reporting system using Webi,
including linked reports.
o Created conversion utility supporting improved (Excel) and
unavailable formats (Word and HTML).
. Client: Lockheed Martin (US Navy, SPAWAR), New Orleans, LA - Bus. Objects
Expert (2004 to 2005)
o Gained acceptance of a conversion of an Access reporting system
into Business Objects.
o Developed, documented, and performance tuned thirteen reports and
associated universes.
o Conducted qualitative and quantitative analysis to define project
scopes and technical criteria.
o Collaborated with key internal and external decision makers to
recommend process enhancements.
o Recipient of the "Lockheed Martin Outstanding Performer" Award
(2004).
. Client: WPAFB (US Air Force), Dayton, OH - Bus. Objects Technical Support
Analyst (2003 to 2004)
o Provided expert analysis and assistance for the Air Force Knowledge
System application, supporting over 450 tickets arising from over
300 users.
o Tested and troubleshot WIS and INF errors, training, and network,
database and universe issues.
o Troubleshot invalid data resulting from universe and database
problems.
. Client: Halworth, Holland, MI - ETL Developer (2003)
o Gathered specifications and developed, tested, and rolled out
transformations and universes for AP, PO, and FA segments of Oracle
Financials using Business Objects Data Integrator and Designer.
. Client: HFPS, Murray Hill, NJ - Business Objects Expert (2003)
o Served as financial reporting analyst, balancing data related to a
conversion of a loan system.
o Provided support to users for report requests and maintenance,
creating and testing >30 reports.
o Analyzed, documented, and implemented recommendations for SQL
Server DTS scripts.
. Client: AT&T, Bedminster, NJ - Business Objects Expert (2003)
o Reporting analyst assigned to analyze and improve call center
performance and processes.
o Responded to daily maintenance requests, streamlining processes
through the installation, administration and configuration of
Business Objects, including Publisher.
. Client: Travelers, Hartford, CT - Business Analyst (2002 to 2003)
o Main point of contact in a Focus mainframe, SAS to client-server
(Business Objects, Crystal Reports) migration and conversion of the
Annuity Reporting System.
o Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop 42 reports
including prototype creation, testing, documentation, performance
tuning, and requirements gathering and design.
. Client: CIT, Livingston, NJ - Business Objects Expert (2002)
o Served as lead financial reporting analyst in a Citation mainframe
to client-server (ALS) Business Objects implementation of a data
warehouse (Oracle, Sybase) for leasing.
o Partnered with end-users and key internal decision makers on
requirements gathering.
o Full life-cycle development and performance tuning of 54 flawless
reports using Business Objects Reporter, Designer, Supervisor, and
Broadcast Agent.
o Trained, mentored and monitored new and existing developers,
instilling "best practices" to adhere to internal protocols and
procedures.
. Client: Cigna, Hartford, CT - Data Warehousing Consultant (2001 to 2002)
o Responsible for the enhancement and maintenance of a customized
Brio data warehouse reporting application for investment data,
including transforming source data (Genio).
o Gathered scopes and specifications to test and provide daily
support of Brio and Genio.
o Taught end users on the capabilities, enhancements, and limitations
of Brio.
. Client: Anheuser-Busch, Inc., St. Louis, MO - Senior Business Objects
Developer (1999 to 2001)
o Implemented full lifecycle design of a 60 report data warehouse for
pricing and promotions, that aided retailer sales tracking and
marketing applications.
o Administered Business Objects repository, security, setup,
universes, and report scheduling, including an upgrade from version
4 to 5.
o Constructed automated universe and report documentation with
Business Objects SDK.
o Participated in Oracle ETL (transformation) related efforts,
including creation of PL/SQL functions, packages, stored
procedures, views, tables, indexes, explain plans, and types.
. Client: Peabody Group, St. Louis, MO - Business Objects Developer (1999)
o Production included report creation, design, and prototyping
security, universe maintenance and origination, data definition and
manipulation, testing and layout.
. Client: MasterCard, St. Louis, MO - Consultant (1998 to 1999)
o Accountable for the conception of financial reporting system and
associated graphical user interface, generating financial reports
using Crystal Reports, VB, and Oracle.
. Client: Davis Interactive (Interchange Technologies) St. Louis, MO -
Consultant (1995 to 1999)
o Responsible for design and support of multimedia projects with
Macromedia Director and VB.
Maritz, St. Louis, MO 1997 to 1998
Programmer/Analyst
. Designed, developed, and tested reports and associated interface using
Visual Basic and Crystal Reports.
Education
. Bachelors of Science Degree in Accounting, Minor in Business Management -
Maryville University; Recipient of Academic Scholarship. Graduated
December 1996.