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Thursday, January 24, 2008

New Job Posted!

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Cognos 8 Migration Specialist 20080124-0001

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Primary Skills: Series 7 to Cognos 8 Migration Specialist

Location: Waltham, Mass USA

Years Experience: 12 years

Introduction: I have been using the Cognos BI suite of products since 1998 and I have recently gained significant project experience using Cognos 8.2.

Recent Projects:

Project 1.
Worked as a primary consultant for a leading insurance specialist. My main task was to upgrade their 300 Impromptu reports and user interface into a Cognos 8.2 infrastructure. This involved establishing a migration plan, series of user acceptance unit testing, generating documenation, and providing general training on the usage of Cognos Connection, Report Studio, and Query Studio.

Project 2.
Employed as a primary consultant the United States Department of Defense. I was directly involved with reviewing their Cognos Impromptu catalogue and 220 Impromptu reports before planning a migration strategy to Cognos 8. This involved interaction with their Business Analysts to review their current and near future reporting requirements.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

BI Consultant / Oracle DBA 20080116-0001

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Primary Skills: Oracle DBA/Datawarehouse, Cognos 8.1 MR1, Informatica ETL

Location: San Francisco, California USA

Years Experience: 8 years

Introduction: My 8 years experience involves mainly working as an Oracle DBA that was responsible for working with a Fortune 500 Data Warehouse. I was involved with supporting the Warehouse design, generating Cognos reports and testing Cube development. I am looking for a position as a Senior Cognos Developer in the California area.

Recent Projects:

Project 1.
Responsible for Oracle 9i upgrade to 10g sizing around 300GB running on Solaris server for a Fortune 500 company.
• Database upgrade, and performance tuning
• Data Mart creation, data repository/metadata creation/management
• Database Backup/Recovery strategy/Planning
• Cognos 8 BI Server, Framework Manager installation and data modelling
• Reports design/development using Cognos Query Studio and Report Studio, add/manage/schedule tasks using Event Studio

Project 2.
Responsible for administering multiple Oracle 9i production databases, which were around 5TB running on Compaq Alpha servers using Compaq TRU64 Unix. Managed 7 Oracle development instance on Compaq Tru64 Alpha servers and 2 Oracle 9i instances on Sun Solaris servers.
• Database Performance Tuning
• Datawarehouse management (i.e. data profiling, data quality metrics, cleansing, transformation, mapping and loading into multiple targets)
• ER Data Modelling using Erwin 4.x
• Cognos 8 Framework Manager, report development using Query Studio and Report Studio
• Cognos Event Studio
• Implemented Peoplsoft HRMS data mart to Warehouse
• Informatica Infrastructure, installations, patch application
• Team Lead support services for a project of 34 resources
• Applied database upgrades and patches on yearly maintenance cycle
• Installation of Dev, QA, and PROD database instances
• Database Backup/Recovery strategy/Planning

Monday, January 14, 2008

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