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    To work with team spirit in an esteemed organization where my knowledge of Information Systems can be utilized in organizational and personal growth. A challenging position in the field of Information Systems that would provide an opportunity for learning and applying Software Engineering and Database Development skills based on the knowledge of current tools, trends and technologies. I am confident, self-motivated and hard working. I usually get pleased to meet new people and user groups to keep myself up to date. I am target oriented and willing to swim on horizon of Information Technology Management.


      • Summary:

        A Senior Application Developer/Team Lead with over 5 years experience in full Life Cycle development including business analysis, architecture, design, development, deployment & Management using Microsoft technologies. Extensive experience in Design & Architecture of Data Models and Database for MS SQL Server. 3 years of experience in Business Intelligence using Pentaho, Cognos 7 and Cognos8. 3 years experience in designing and developing desktop applications on Microsoft platform using VB, VB.NET, SQL Server 2000 and Crystal Reports. Have domain knowledge of various businesses like Banking, Stock Exchange, Mortgages, E-Learning and Insurance division. Developed various desktop and web enterprise applications using Cognos, VB, VB.NET, Crystal Reports, Teradata, Microsoft SQL Server and MS Access.


        • Technical Skills

          B.I Tools: Cognos 7, Cognos 8, Pentaho Kettle

          Databases: Teradata, MS SQL Server 2000 & 2005, MS Access, Oracle and DB2.

          Development Tools: Visual Studio.NET, MS Visio, MS Project and MS Office.

          Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports, JReports, Active Reports, SQL Server Reporting Services, Crystal Xcelsius

          Live Cycle Tools: Adobe Live Cycle Designer 7.1 & 8.1

          Version and Source Control: Visual Source Safe, SVN

          • Education & Credentials

            SZABIST- Karachi, Pakistan

            M.S in Computer Science, completed in 2006 with 3.66 CGPA.


            BAHRIA UNIVERSITY- Karachi, Pakistan

            B.S.E in Computer Science, completed in 2004 with 3.28 CGPA.


            Adamjee Science College- Karachi, Pakistan

            Intermediate – Pre Engineering , completed in 2000 with B Grade.


            Al Murtaza School- Karachi, Pakistan

            Matriculation - Science, completed in 1998 with A Grade.


          Awards


          • Certificate of Achievement – Outstanding Performance from RBS
          • Exceptional Team Award from Systems Limited.(Worked as Component Lead in this project)
          • Outstanding Team Award from Systems Limited.(Worked as Team Lead in this project)




            • Professional Experience

            From: December 2009-Till Date Data Warehouse Engineer at 360Training

            Description:

            Responsibilities include Designing and Development of Data warehouse and to keep intact with all of the systems running in company. Be involved in full life cycle development and implementation of enterprise data warehouse, BI reporting and analytical services.


            • Designed and Developed Data Warehouse to be capable of containing all Revenue Related Data. Tools: SQL Server 2005/2008
            • Developed ETL to migrate data from all the Systems that are currently being used in company which include Virtual University , Learner MS , Learner Course MS , My Classroom Management. Tools: Pentaho Kettle , SQL Server 2005/2008
            • Improvement of the Database Designs and Optimization of queries that are not performing effectively. Tools: SQL Server 2005/2008
            • Working with Network Operations team to resolve Performance and Other Database related issues. Helping out other teams in Query Optimization and Database Development.
            • Migration of Store Front(IBM) Data to Data Warehouse . Tools: Pentaho Kettle , SQL Server 2005, DB2
            • Migration of Quick books Data to Data Warehouse . Tools: Pentaho Kettle , SQL Server 2005, QODBC

            From: June 2008-December 2009 Assistant Manager – Business Intelligence Unit at RBS

            Description:

            Responsibilities include Managing a Data Warehouse, understanding new requirements, analyze the problems, suggest the solutions, implement the changes, develop BI analytics such as (Reports, Cubes and Dashboard), and perform the verification with associate department.

            • Developed Cubes for Operations, AD&E, Liabilities and Asset Marketing by which user can perform various analytics like Cross Sell, CM Retention and Segmentation. Tools: Cognos 7, Teradata
            • Designed strategic reporting for Consumer Risk Management some of which includes IS-Was analysis, Vintage Analysis, Utilization Analysis, Collection & Collection Performance Reports, and Product Caps Report. Tools: Cognos 8, Teradata
            • DWH Administration Tools: Teradata
            • Providing demand analytics and reports for different departments like Operations, Finance, AD&E, Business Quality, Branch Banking, Wealth Management Unit, Secured Assets and Unsecured Assets. Tools: Teradata, Excel
            • Designed and Developed Reports & Dashboards for Business Heads/Branch Banking Users which include Weekly Dashboard , Monthly Dashboard , Comparison of Current Picture with SPLM , Branch Performance Report , Turnover Report, Account Deepening Report.

            Tools: Teradata, Cognos 8

            From: Feb 2007-May 2008 Senior Software Engineer at Systems Limited

            Description:

            Responsibilities include Managing Team, understanding new requirements, analyze the problems, making project plan, initiate development and implement the changes, updating stakeholders, taking care of each and every step from analysis till deployment.

            • Worked as DBA/Team Lead for Reporting Module/Forms of Victors Application designed for Lenders First Choice (Title Insurance Application). Tools: Cognos 8.2 (BI Tool) / SQL SERVER 2005 (Back end)/Adobe Live Cycle 7.1,8.1(LiveCycle Tool)
            • Worked as Team Lead for Reporting Module of Registrar/Transfer Authority system designed for Central Depository Company. Reports were designed for Corporate Actions, Administration, General, Transfer and SBP sections. Tools: JReports (Reporting Tool) / Oracle 10g (Back end).
            • Developed the Reporting module of Visi Loan Review designed for Bank of America and Freddie Mac. Reports for all type of loans were developed.

              Tools: Crystal Report (Reporting Tool) / SQL SERVER (Back end) / ASP.NET (Front end)

            From: July 2006-Feb 2007 Software Engineer at Wavetec Pvt. Ltd.

            Description:

            • Developed Stock Game for Dubai Financial Market. This project is a game and all the operations and functionality are same as of Real Stock Market. SG is designed for the competition which is arranged by DFM for the students of different schools every year. Important feature of this project is that it was designed in such a way that it’s not restricted to one market and one student can play in more than one market at a time with the same portfolio affected. Tools: ASP (Front end) / SQL SERVER (Back end).
            • Designed and Developed eqConfiguration System. This project is basically a configuration system for Electronic Queue Management System It was designed various clients in UAE. This project has two other parts, which are Desktop Ticket Dispensing Unit, which talk with router and get the ticket number and then print that ticket, other part was LCD TDU Screen that is a picture based screen, it also have the same functions as Desktop TDU, but from pictures. Tools: VB 6.0 (Front end) / SQL SERVER (Back end) / ROUTER (Linux Based)
            • Designed and Developed Attendance Management System for HR Department. Basically this project was having two parts, one was related to Attendance itself and other was a small portion of HR, so that other salary calculation and other matter of HR could also be resolved using this system. This project also consists of some reports and other process to implement other management policy. Tools: VB.NET (Front end) / SQL SERVER (Back end) / Crystal Report (Reporting)

            From: March 2005-July 2006 Assistant MIS at Crescent Leasing Corporation Limited

            Description:

            • Designed and Developed Lease Management System. This project consisted module for Leasing, Depreciation, Assets and CIB. Tools: VB 6.0 (Front end) / SQL SERVER (Back end) / Crystal Report (Reporting).
            • Developed CresTreasury. This project consist modules for Treasury and Money Marketing. Tools: VB 6.0 (Front end) / SQL SERVER (Back end) / Crystal Report (Reporting)
            • Developed Attendance Management System. This project was having two parts, first the interface with the IGAURD Machine which recorded the Attendance and secondly the reports and other process to implement other management policy. Tools: VB 6.0 (Front end) / SQL SERVER (Back end) / Crystal Report (Reporting) / IGAURD (Server)
            • Designed and Developed ChequeInfo System, which main aim was to do the cheque management and other issues related to cheques. Tools: VB 6.0 (Front end) / SQL SERVER (Back end) / Crystal Report (Reporting)

    Thursday, July 2, 2009

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    PROFILE

    Around 56 Months of IT industry experience. Currently, working as a Senior Software Proffesional for TietoEnator Corporation, Pune for last 2 months. Experience in BI - Cognos 8.

    Earlier experience – Worked for HSBC Software Development India Pvt Ltd for 54 months as Senior Software Engineer.

  • SKILL

    • Reporting
    Cognos 8, Framework Manager, OLAP/DMR Modeling, Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, Powerplay-Transformer.
    • Web Programming:
    Core Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, XSLT
    • Databases:
    Oracle, DB2
    • MISC
    UML, Rational Rose, Quality Center, Dom Doc, Clarity

    TRAINING:

    CA Unicenter based (At Computer Associates training center - Chicago):

    • UR376 Unicenter Service Desk: Analyst Operations
    • URV386 Unicenter Service Desk: Administration

    Cognos Reporting (At Cognos Incorporated training center - Chicago):

    • Cognos 8 BI - Report Authoring - Part 1
    • Cognos 8 BI - Report Authoring - Part 2
    • Cognos 8 BI - Metadata Modeling - Part 1
    • Cognos 8 BI - Metadata Modeling - Part 2
    • PowerPlay OLAP Modeling for Series 7 Version 3 & Cognos 8 BI
    • Cognos 8 BI - Server Administration
    • Cognos 8 BI - Content Administration

    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

    TietoEnator Corporation, Senior Software Proffesional (May 2009 – Till date)

    HSBC - Pune, Senior Software Developer (Nov 2004 – May 2009)

    Project Details:



    Project Name: Gepardi - Mankeli Reporting (Cognos 8 Reporting)
    Duration: May 2009 – Till Date
    Organization: TietoEnator Corporation, Pune
    Client: Elisa Telecommunications, Finland
    Summary: Elisa Telecommunications is Finland’s second largest telecom company. Gepardi is the project contains around 120 applications which are maintained and enhanced by TietoEnator. Out of 120 applications 25 applications are BI applications and Mankeli is one of the 25 applications which is the most important reporting solution as it is the financial reporting for Elisa. Mankeli reporting is used as CMS (Corporate performance management solution) by finance department to report on the sales data on monthly, quarterly, six monthly, year to date and yearly basis.

    Earlier this project was maintained and enhanced by IBM and we have taken over the project from them. Proper knowledge workshops were organizes at Elisa premises in Finland. I was there at Finland to represent Cognos Reporting area. Also the project involves Informatica and Oracle related work.

    Cognos system has 12 packages, 5 CUBES, 120 reports and 470 users.

    Role: Development Lead:
    • Attended Knowledge transfer sessions at Elisa premises in Finland by IBM to TietoEnator Corp.
    • Involved in acquiring knowledge about Project Architecture (both technical and business).
    • Involved in knowledge transfer on existing Cognos reporting solution.
    • Prepared resource estimation based on the work for next quarter.
    • Prepared workshop notes which will help the new team members who will join the team.
    • Prepared the ROTA for taking up support stuff
    Environment Cognos 8




    Project Name: Global Service Desk (Cognos 8 Reporting)
    Duration: Aug 2006 – May 2009
    Organization: HSBC GLT Pune
    Client: HSBC USA
    Summary: Global Service desk is service management tool. This will be used across HSBC group to log and record incidents, problem, request, issues, and change order. This application will be implementing the best practices of ITIL recommendation on to the out of box application from CA called Unicenter Service Desk.

    We are creating reports out of both real time database i.e. Oracle and Data warehouse i.e. DB2 for customers all over the globe in HSBC. We have reports out of relational model and cubes.

    Role: Framework Modeler and Report author.
    • Analysis of user requirements.
    • Involved in Data warehouse design
    • Identify fields from OLTP system to be migrated to Data warehouse depending on reporting requirements
    • Creation of data warehouse requester spreadsheet
    • Written transformation logic to de normalize data warehouse
    • Written scripts to test data in data warehouse in all three environments viz Dev, UAT and PROD
    • Involved in metadata modeling using framework manager.
    • Involved in creation of IQD for input to Transformer.
    • Involved in creation of Dimensional data model.
    • Involved in preparing Prototype (Screen mockups for reports).
    • Involved in preparation of Unit Test Cases
    • Involved in Framework Modeling and peer review.
    • Involved in development of reports.
    • Working as Onsite coordinator at client side in Chicago US. Coordinating with client on user requirements and responsible for all the deliveries from offshore.
    • Involved in development of reports.
    • Supporting the existing reports and working on amendments to reports post production of release 1.
    Environment Cognos 8





    Project Name: Global Service Desk – PLADA Integration (Cognos 8 Reporting)
    Duration: Jan 2006 – July 2006
    Organization: HSBC GLT Pune
    Client: HSBC USA
    Summary: PLADA stands for Performance Level Agreement Database Application. PLADA is tool to document service level agreement between IT Service and business.
    Role:
    • Started analysis of PLADA OLTP system (Oracle). Based on reporting requirements I will be designing data warehouse.
    Environment Cognos 8





    Project Name: Global Service Desk (Customization of CA Unicenter Service desk as per HSBC Global requirement)
    Duration: Jun 2005 – Dec 2005
    Organization: HSBC GLT Pune
    Client: HSBC USA
    Summary: Global Service desk is service management tool. This will be used across HSBC group to log and record incidents, problem, request, issues, and change order. This application will be implementing the best practices of ITIL recommendation on to the out of box application from CA called Unicenter Service Desk.
    Role: Software Developer – Team Member
    • Understanding of design and architectural documents.
    • Involved in preparation of Page Specification and Functional Specification Document.
    • Involved in preparing Prototype.
    • Involved in preparation of Unit Test Cases
    • Involved in coding and peer review.
    • Worked for 18 months as Onsite coordinator at client side in Chicago US. Coordinating with different offshore teams i.e. Development Team, Cognos Reporting Team, Testing Team and Technical Writing Team.
    • Involved in promoting the package from development to UAT and then from UAT to Production environment.
    • Involved in Requirement discussion for Reports (Using Cognos).
    • Involved in development of reports.
    Environment Unix, Oracle, HTMPL and spell code (propriety CA’s Language.)



    Project Name: HSBCnet eSecurities
    Duration: Jan 2005 – Jun 2005 Worked on four releases i.e. Release 8, Release FT2, Release 9 and Release 10.
    Organization: HSBC GLT Pune
    Client: HSBC Vancouver Canada
    Summary: HSBCnet is the service provided by HSBC to its corporate clients.

    HSBC eSecurities plays the role of custodian. HSBC Securities Services (HSS) provides comprehensive global, regional and domestic securities services to corporate and institutional clients.

    Development and testing (unit and end-to-end) for eSecurities as per technical specifications provided and to the HSBCnet and the eCommerce CoE general development guidelines

    Role: Software Developer – Team Member
    • Preparation and Understanding of design document i.e. Use Cases, EDR, and IDR.
    • Involved actively in writing Unit test cases and E2E test cases uploading them to Quality Center and also involved in manual execution of test cases.
    • Involved actively in XML, XSLT and Java Coding.
    • Involved in peer-peer testing phase.
    • Worked as Onsite Coordinator for four months at client side in CANADA.
    Environment XSLT, Servlets Using UIMS AND EBSA Framework

    Web Server/Application Server: WepSphere 5.0

    IDE: WSAD 5.1.2

    EDUCATION


    July 2004 Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology), RGPV University, Bhopal

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