Vijaya Kumar S Yashodappa
Email Id: *******@*****.*** Mobile # +1-408-***-**** Location: San Jose, CA, USA
Professional Summary
IT Professional with 10+ years of experience in providing Business Intelligence and Data warehousing solutions using Visualization & Reporting tools like Tableau, Oracle Business Intelligence - OBIEE, ETL ODI/Informatica, Oracle/Teradata SQL, exposure to DataStage, Siebel CRM, TAC/TalenD, Automic, Qlik View
Proficient in BI Implementation cycle includes Analysis, Logical & Physical design, development, testing, migrating and implementing business solutions using Tableau & OBIEE, ODI/ETL & SQL tools
Develop & implement data level security in Tableau, administer users, user groups, define & schedule extracts
Consult with business & technology partners on data visualization solutions for their existing legacy reports
Drive Tableau code migration process across Dev/UAT/Prod and implement best practices & standards
Create & schedule Tableau data extracts auto process with Daily/Weekly/Monthly incremental & full basis
Troubleshoot Tableau related issues & queries, provide customer support to users and help them to write custom SQLs to meet their requirements
Converted OBIEE/Discoverer Reports & legacy MS Excel based reports into Highly Interactive Tableau Dashboards for Advanced Visualizations
Created various rich & intuitive interactive dashboards including the dashboard navigations using URL Actions to navigate to detail Reports, action & quick filters, Parameters, Sets, Groups, custom hierarchy, Bins, calculated fields, table calculations, Level of Details
Created Executive Dashboards by blending heterogeneous data sources by extracting millions of records with decent performance & combined multiple dashboards into a story to enhance the visual appeal of the reports
Used advanced charts in Tableau Desktop like Box and Whisker plots, bullet charts, drill downs, stack bars, bar graphs, scattered plots, geographical maps, pareto, waterfall charts
Very well versed with Tableau connections when to use Extract vs. Live connects for data size vs. performance
Strong experience in dimensional modeling and data warehouse best practices
Experience in Debugging, Optimizing and Performance Tuning of Oracle BI/Siebel Analytics Dashboards/Reports by implementing Aggregate navigation, cache management and materialized views
Experience in Installation, Configuration, Migration & Administration activities of Tableau and OBIEE
Proficient in Repository Design & Development of OBIEE Repository (rpd), Analysis & Dashboards, concepts like Fragmentation, Time Series, Level based metrics, Hierarchies, Aggregate Navigation, etc using OBIEE Admin tool
Expertise in implementing different Security Models like Object & Row level security, RPD level, Webcat level etc.
Expertise in Creating various Variables, Dynamic Dashboards and Reports using Prompts, Filters, Calculations, Conditional Formatting and Drill down Properties, Cache Management, Event polling, & Cache seeding
Involved in Extraction, Transforming and Loading data from heterogeneous data sources into Enterprise Data Warehouse by creating mappings/workflows using ETL tools like Informatica & ODI
Cloud proof of concept – Used Oracle Cloud Solutions & Amazon AWS to test & perform advanced data analytics by transforming current On-Prem BI platforms to Cloud platform solutions
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for efficient client interaction
Strong Conceptual, Business, Analytical skills and highly motivated team player.
Skills
Reporting Tools: Tableau 10/2018/2019.x.x, OBIEE 12c/11g/10g, Informatica 9.x, Oracle Data
Integrator 11x, DataStage 7.x, BI Publisher, Siebel CRM, Power BI
Databases & OS: Oracle, Teradata, Toad, SQL Developer, Win 7/8/10 & Unix
Script: Python & Unix scripts
Others: Service-Now, Workday, Putty, Kintana, TAC/Automic, DAC
Certifications:
Tableau Essentials Training
ORACLE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION SUITE 11G ESSENTIALS
SIEBEL 8 CONSULTANT CERTIFIED EXPERT
Education:
Bachelor of Engineering with major in Computer Science from VTU
Professional Experience:
Marvell Semiconductor Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA Jun 2017 – Present
Staff BI Analyst
Skills: Tableau 10.5/2018.x/2019.x, Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server, ODI 11g, OBIEE 11g/12c
Responsibilities:
Responsible for setting up meetings with different business stake holders for requirements gathering then involve in Design, Development, Implementation and maintenance activities
Developed numerous Data Marts in EDW and built highly rich & reliable Visualizations using Tableau for Sales Operations, Quality & Reliability Engineering, Finance & Revenue teams
Replaced MS Excel Legacy reporting mechanism existed for more than 10 years to Tableau dashboards for their Weekly/Monthly/Qtry Ops review meetings with VPs & other executives
Worked closely with different teams across geography to integrate heterogeneous systems like PDM, FavoWeb, MS Excel, Oracle, Cavium & Phred into mainly 2 Data Marts for Tableau reporting purpose
Closely work with offshore team to allocate tasks and code review to make sure we have quality delivery to users
Built highly reliable daily/weekly summary metrics in Tableau and added users for subscription to schedule them deliver to executives in Quality & Reliability Engineering on daily and weekly basis
Prepared Tableau User Guide Manual and conducted training sessions for Licensed Developers of different stake holders to brief the functionality of Tableau so that they can build their own visualizations as needed
Responsible for Tableau Code migration activities including Data Sources, Workbooks, and Security set up/modify for new users, user groups etc.
Setup different data level security in Tableau dashboards based on Division, BU, Region level requirements
Completely responsible for developing new enhancements to existing Tableau reports delivery to QRE & Sales Ops
Developed and maintain Tableau security model, performance improvements, configuration, etc.
Worked with Sales Operations, Finance, Revenue, Supply Chain teams for configuring dynamic security for users
Responsible for setting up new daily summary metrics reports using Tableau Desktop BI solution and scheduled them to deliver to VP, Store Managers, Divisional and regional heads on daily and weekly basis
Involved in building new mappings/interface/packages & scheduling them in ODI ETL tool to support end to end
Involve in any production support activities for any Daily/Weekly/Qtrly flash reports data discrepancy, month end closure revenue activities, any other reporting issues, security setup, incidents/tickets management etc.
Provide support to existing OBIEE reports & new enhancements in addition to Tableau support for Sales Operations, Finance, Revenue, Supply Chain teams and involve in OBIEE code migration activities to UAT & production instances, setup security for new users
Walmart Global eCommerce (Walmart Labs) Sunnyvale, CA Apr 2013 – Jun 2017
BI Consultant
Product: Online Grocery (US)
Description: Walmart’s Online Grocery (OG), also called as US Grocery is a Delivery/Pick up service from Walmart Inc for Grocery items. This OG has introduced multiple services like Thunderbolt for express pickup and delivery, Curbside, Same day delivery etc. Product and Finance Business team would want to get real time update of the data from source system through Tableau/BI Reports to do better business by evaluating their important KPIs.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for meeting business users directly for Requirements gathering and Design, Development,
Implementation and Maintenance of an Online Grocery reporting project module
Completely held responsible for architecture, design, development, implement & migration of all existing BI reports/dashboards/Repository from Oracle data source to Teradata data sources as part of historical migration project by redesigning, rebuilding them
Developed Finance and daily summary metrics reports using Tableau Desktop BI solution and scheduled them to deliver to VP, Store Managers, Divisional and regional heads on daily and weekly basis
Created different levels of drill down hierarchies, measures with forecast, complex calculations at metric level for Thunderbolt service reports, Pickup Only reports, Manifest Reports and published using Tableau
Developed numerous Tableau reports to capture some of key metrics like YOY, QOQ, MOM, YTD, MTD
Implemented security setup to access reports & dashboards at different levels in Tableau BI desktop & OBIEE for Divisional, Regional, Market Heads and Store Managers for all Tax reports(sales, refund and consolidated), Thunderbolt reports, Pickup Only reports, Manifest Reports
Support new enhancements to existing OBIEE reports and dashboards, tuning the performance of some of ad hoc queries generated by ad hoc users and assisting them in rewriting the queries
Responsible for conducting trainings, guiding & mentoring junior members in the team to bring them up to speed
Provided leadership and direction through subject matter expertise & prepared technical standards to be applied across all elements of the BI delivery spectrum
Cisco Systems, San Jose, US as OBIEE Lead Dec 2009 – Apr 2013
Product: Cisco Management Metrics Center (CMMC)
Description: CMMC is a decision support application which provides access to highly confidential, accurate, timely and secure data from HR and Finance applications that enables HR Professionals to analyze and manage workforce metrics to effectively support their clients and programs
Responsibilities:
Responsible for directly interacting with Onsite Business users & coordinators to providing offshore deliverables
Understand the business requirements on OBIEE, Providing the high level and low level estimation of the business requirement from OBIEE stand on new developments/engagements from offshore
Successfully released some of major enhancements of CMMC called CPC (Cisco Performance Connect), ILM(Identity Lifecycle Management) which helped CISCO to review Employee Performance & also to differentiate Vendors & Partners in CISCO (ILM)Created Technical Design documents based on the FSD designed by IT Analysts
Ensured the quality of design and code before deliver the results to business users from offshore front
New monthly enhancements to increase functionality of CMMC application by releasing them into Production
Oracle India Private Limited, Bangalore, India Apr 2006 - Nov 2009
PFIZER CTMS IMPLEMENTATION, US May 2008 – Nov 2009
GLOBAL CONTRACTS REPORTING PORTAL - GCRP, Bangalore Sep 2007 – May 2008
MERCK SLI - ETL IMPLEMENTATION, Bangalore, India Jun 2007 – Aug 2008
PEOPLESOFT EPM IMPLEMENTATION, Bangalore, India Apr 2006 – May 2007
Senior Developer
Description: Design & develop multiple client specific implementation and enhance oracle products for some of clients including Pfizer Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS), Merck Inc., project which dealt with implementation of Siebel CRM eClincial, Informatica, OBIEE & XML/BI Publisher reporting requirements
Responsibilities:
Involved in analyzing the requirement, coordinating with Onsite team & Client on daily basis
Involved in customizing the Repository (RPD), creating numerous analytical reports based on mockup reports’ templates provided by Pfizer which also involved ad-hoc reports per their request basis
Extensively involved in repository & Web Catalog migration and designing BI Publisher reports
Designing & Developing the Reports using an XML Publisher Reporting Tool which was integrated to PeopleSoft’s EPM Environment
Involved in writing the test scripts for System Integration Testing and Worked on SQL for helping ETL/RPD design
Designed the ETL mappings in order to load Siebel Source tables with Vendor File information provided by Merck
Extensively involved in creating the design documents including Technical Design Documents, Test Scripts etc
Involved in preparing Installation Instruction/Operation Qualification/Post Installation documents for OBI