Business Intelligence Data Quality

Syed A. Talha

805-***-**** Dallas, TX

ady8vu@r.postjobfree.com

Business Intelligence Engineer

Experienced Business Intelligence Engineer with exceptional business acumen, technical expertise and intellectual curiosity; goal driven with a strong history of accomplishment providing innovative solutions

Value Added

Expertly steers organizational transformations in technical architecture and application development

Demonstrates proficiency in developing and optimizing data and analytics product strategy and cloud service solutions

Employs a pragmatic approach to software development while striving to improve product quality

Partners with technical leads, product owners, designers, and other stakeholders to ensure software and consumer experiences perform as intended in production

Prioritizes and manages multiple projects with competing and/or concurrent deadlines to achieve aggressive goals

Influences decision making at the Management level while navigating large, matrix organizations

Recruits, onboards, and mentors top talent to ensure work efforts align with long- and short-term organizational objectives

Partners with internal and external stakeholders to drive continuous development and improvement

Areas of Expertise

Software Solution Development • Agile Development • Data Analytics • Technical Requirements Gathering • Code Refactoring

Software Portfolio Management • Code Writing/Health Testing • Project Management • Quality Assurance Engineering • Presentations

Global Team Player • Cross-Functional Collaboration • Written & Verbal Communication

Key Achievements

RealPage, Inc.

Selected as a key RealPage Inc Innovative Employee

Designed groundbreaking communication mechanism that enables Cognos Report/ETL with notification and insight into completion or failure of Autosys jobs; the process has been implemented by internal engineering teams worldwide

Designed and built new IBM Cognos 11 burst reporting pattern, reducing global execution and delivery times for critical factory reporting by 45% and saving nine hours per week

Championed adoption of cloud and open-source technologies; upgraded legacy systems to the cloud, improving system architecture

Served as the first member of the Inventory Analytics team

Professional Work History

CAPGEMINI. Dallas, TX

Cognos Developer Admin 2020 – Present

●Monitor Cognos environments to provide usage and performance metrics

●Resolve Problem Management and Resolution tickets

●Plan and schedule Cognos administration projects; provide technical vision and leadership

●Perform capacity planning

●Perform some production support duties during off-hours, on rotation

●Cognos security development and maintenance

●In-depth knowledge of the causes and remedies of performance issues within the Cognos environment

●Creates, modifies, enhances, and maintains Framework Manager Models within Cognos BI

●Works with IR on resolve technical and performance issues related to Cognos

●Constantly seeks process improvement opportunities and applies Lean Sigma practices to those opportunities

●Responsible for data analysis, designing, developing, and testing reports in Cognos 11. x for the various disciplines within organizations in accordance with standard team processes

●Performs more complex quantitative and qualitative analysis for business processes and/or projects. Often manages small projects, business processes, or parts of larger ones

●Assist in the organization of the reporting inventory. Document existing reports, including audience, frequency, and report information into the database. Identify redundant reporting and opportunities for consolidation

●Responsible for his own work and contributing to the team, department, and/or business results.

SUTHERLAND GLOBAL SERVICES. Dallas, TX

Business Intelligence Developer 2019 – 2019

Currently involved with 2 medium-size financial institutions.

Designing, developing, testing, and implementing of multiple complex Dashboard solutions with Big Data for the consumer asset management team.

Defined project plans, established work agreements (SOWs), and served as a Lead to Reporting Team

Worked with Agile Solution Delivery Engineers; performed code reviews, sprint planning, and retrospectives with Client’s On-Shore and Sutherland’s Offshore team.

Report migration from Legacy reporting system to Cognos and PowerBI.

BLUEWATER LEARNING. Richardson, TX

Analytics Developer 2018 – 2019

Design, development, testing, and implementation of multiple complex reporting solutions and applications for the Advanced Data Analytics and Reporting team

Defined project plans, established work agreements, and served as a key contributing member to Reporting Team

Worked with Agile Solution Delivery Engineers; performed code reviews, sprint planning, and retrospectives

Refactored old legacy code while championing the adoption of cloud and open-source technologies

Engineered companywide IBM Cognos 11 upgrade; managed all content development, enhancements, and resources

SIRIUS COMPUTER SOLUTION. San Antonio, TX

Cognos Developer 2018 – 2018

Architected, Installed, Configured, and implemented Cognos 11 BI infrastructure with 2 Content Managers, 7 Reporting Servers, and 2 Gateways.

Worked as Technical Lead in Cognos upgradation. Administered User Groups and Roles by creating permissions in the Cognos portal

Installed regular fix packs and hotfixes to keep the infrastructure up to date. Tuned the environment for performance and documented the techniques.

Actively involved in gathering and analyzing functional requirements from the Business Users

Published standards for content development in Cognos connection and circulated the same among the Development teams

Transformed the functional requirements into technical specifications

Successfully Migrated Reports from Cognos 8x/10x to Cognos 11x

Expert Member of Corporate BI Centre of Excellence

Took the lead in Framework Manager Modelling. Developed efficient Models by creating different layers in the models like Database Layer, Logical Layer, and Presentation Layer

Created filters and used Native SQL for relational modeling in FM

Created DMR models and enabled the packages drill-down functionality in Report Studio.

Created List Reports, Cross tab Reports and Control Charts in Report Studio

Held training classes for the end

Communicated with the IBM support executes thoroughly about the performance bottlenecks and helped them in troubleshooting and fixing various issues.

ULTIMATE SOFTWARE. Westin, FL

Cognos Support Engineer 2017 – 2018

Created Cognos templates for reports and reports landing page for the entire organization to view Cognos reports

Support companywide IBM Cognos 11 upgrade.

Helped client create Dashboards for Global Operations depicting the quarterly cost to revenue ratio, employee demographics, etc.

Created US National Dashboard for Organization-wide KPIs for Finance, HR, Compensation, Benefits & Employee demographics

Successfully implemented best practices, gathered the requirements, and help clients create enterprise-wide Cognos reports.

REALPAGE INC. Richardson, TX

Cognos Developer 2012 – 2017

Operates as “go-to” Engineer for operational and managerial reporting solution design and development

Created Cognos dashboards to provide global leaders with historical product data

Lead analytical team in delivering methodologically sound actionable results that improve the knowledge of the customer, the competition, and the operating environment. Oversee the design, development, execution, and analysis of all custom market research including ongoing tracking studies and ad-hoc research for internal clients including brand marketing, sales, strategic planning, operations and advertising for better consumer insight.

Boosting the enterprise perception and influence of the startup BI division at Realpage by creating Framework Architecture/ Model, consolidated dashboard prototypes accompanied by analytics (Cognos).

Created Enterprise level solutions and Enterprise Standard Cognos Packages to enhance data science projects

Designed and developed solutions in IBM TM1 for confidential code change spearheaded by senior leadership

XO Communications. Richardson, TX

Sr. Systems Analyst (Cognos Engineer) 2008 – 2012

Involved into business requirements and report specifications.

Involved in arranging meetings with business users and business analysts to gathering the requirements and documented business need.

Extensively worked on understanding the business requirements.

Involved in building models, packages using Framework Manger.

Created database layer and business layer, created filter, calculation and Applied Security according to business requirements.

Created BO universes.

Migrated all the BO/BRIO reports on Cognos/Tableau.

Created Report templates for the reports.

Created various reports such as List reports, Cross-Tab reports, Chart reports Dashboards and Scorecards.

Created Drill through report and Master detailed reports using Report studio.

Created Simple and Complex reports with lots of conditional formatting using Report Studio.

Created and modified the standard reports with various types of calculations, conditions, filters, groups and sort.

Education & Professional Development

Bachelor of Business in Computer Information Systems – University of Houston

Advanced Training & Certifications

Cognos Certifications

SetFocus Business Intelligence Master’s Program

Technical Skills

Business Intelligence Tools

Cognos 11/10.2.2/1, 10.1.1, 8, 8.4, Power BI, Tableau, Qlik View, Business Objects, SSRS, Crystal Reports, Brio.

Databases

Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata

Environments:

Cognos, BigData (Hadoop), ODS, SAS, Enterprise Server, SQL Server 2008, 2012, EDW (Enterprise Datawarehouse) Oracle 9i, 10, 11, SSAS, Netezza, TOAD, Win SQL, SSIS, Informatica, MS-Access, Windows XP, UNIX, Tomcat, Composite Server, DataStage.

Civic Affiliations/Certifications

Toastmasters International

Cognos

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