Haritha Menon Padijakkara
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Module Lead – Client engagement – Data Engineering – DW & BI Reporting – POCs
Highly skilled and qualified professional with 8 years of experience in Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence application development.
Managed entire SDLC of a new BI module including planning, requirement gathering, designing, development and testing.
Developed proof of concept for many revenue generating, high impactful projects for clients.
Worked extensively on ETL, dimensional modelling, cube building and reporting as part of a data warehousing projects
Expert in data modelling required for high performance reporting and powerful visualization.
Expertise in data analysis and performance tuning using SQL.
Proficient in creating dashboards and interactive reports using different BI tools.
Working knowledge of MicroStrategy and Tableau. Trained on Python and QlikView.
Excellent capacity to assimilate new ideas efficiently and retain them
Experienced as a team lead as well as an individual contributor in various roles over the years.
Certified CLOUD PRACTITIONER (AWS)
Certified IBM COGNOS META DATA MODELLER
Career Snapshots
Module Lead Mar 2010 – Oct 2015
MindTree Limited
Software Engineer- Product Development Apr 2006 – Apr 2008
Symphony Services Corp. (India) Pvt Ltd
Lab Facilitator Feb 2005 – Apr 2006
Wipro Technologies, India
Career Profile
Module Lead Mar 2010 – Oct 2015
MindTree Limited
Project Title : TPAIR Reporting
Company : MindTree Limited
Technologies : Cognos 10.1 Query Studio, Framework Manager, DB2
Projects Description:
This POC was to create few highly interactive and complex reports in Cognos Query Studio, which enables the users to generate their reports in much shorter time and without the TPAIR helpdesk assistance. Singlehandedly managed to convert a simple thought to a revenue generating, high impactful project that led to great customer satisfaction. Responsible for the end-to-end phases of the project - analysis of existing system, requirement gathering, finalising the best solution approach, designing, data modelling, developing, testing and UAT.
Project Title : Netezza POC
Company : MindTree Limited
Technologies : Cognos 10.1, Framework Manager, Netezza
Projects Description:
The focus of the POC was to showcase the performance improvement of Cognos Reports when pointing to Netezza instead of DB2 and to demonstrate the capability and compatibility of ESRI map component in the interactive dashboard in Cognos.
Project Title : MicroStrategy POC
Company : MindTree Limited
Technologies : MicroStrategy 9.3, DB2
Projects Description:
The POC on recreating the existing Cognos Dashboard report and Drill through reports, with dynamic calculations, in MicroStrategy and verify the performance improvement.
Project Title : Chartis eSurety LGC T & M
Company : MindTree Limited
Technologies : Cognos 10, Framework Manager, Sybase
Projects Description:
The project involves addition of a new method of exposure calculation parallel to the existing exposure calculation, which includes development of parallel set of existing reports with new exposure calculation. In the process we must analyse the existing reporting modules, apply new risk calculation in line with changes in database and application and rewrite the part of the functionality on the Client Application Cognos platform.
Project Title : AISMART CONVERSION
Company : MindTree Limited
Technologies : Cognos 8.4, Sybase
Projects Description:
This project involves migration of Environmental and 60 Commercial Casualty surety processing data to the client application system. In the process we must analyse the existing reporting modules and rewrite the part of the functionality on the Client Application Cognos platform.
Project Title : AIG AISMART T&M
Company : MindTree Limited
Technologies : Cognos 8.4, DB2 9.5
Projects Description:
The AISMART application is a Surety application used by underwriters to book surety bonds. The system has a reports module used by the underwriters to generate and view reports. Crystal Reports Server is used at the backend to generate reports. In line with the customers corporate initiative, it was decided to migrate from the Crystal reports technology to Cognos reporting. The project involved analysing the existing reporting module and rewriting the entire functionality on the Cognos platform. Had to work closely with client in each phase of the project, from analysing and understanding the existing report module to the final production support.
Software Engineer- Product Development Apr 2006 – Apr 2008
Symphony Services Corp. (India) Pvt Ltd
Project Title : ANALYTICS
Company : Symphony Services Corp. (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Technologies : Oracle 9.2.0, Cognos Impromptu 7.x, Cognos Transformer 7.x, Cognos Power Play 7.x, Cognos 8.2, Toad, PLSQL Developer.
Projects Description:
Requirement Analysis, Estimation, and development of the application per Design and Standards.
Customise and create data source for Cognos 8 reports using Oracle SQL & PL/SQL
Review, cross-test, and debug code written by team members.
Data modelling, power cube generation using Powerplay Transformer, development of Cognos Reports and deployment.
Unit testing of own reports and Cross testing of team members' reports.
Initial phase development of ETL Engine using Oracle 9i.
Developed SQL for each cell of the reports as part of testing automation.
Lab Facilitator Feb 2005 – Apr 2006
Wipro Technologies, India
Being part of corporate training team, was responsible for the Oracle lab sessions for the new recruits of the organization.
Developed language portal for the cross-cultural training using Macromedia Dreamweaver and javascript.
Awarded the best lab facilitator of the year
Education
Masters in Computer Application 2002 - 2005
University of Mysore
B.Sc in Mathematics 1999 - 2002
Christ College – Calicut University