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Enterprise Planning & Business Intelligence Consultant

IBM Certified Solution Designer

Extremely result oriented IT professional with a consistent record of accomplishing goals within the given timeline. Highly successful in understanding the clients’ functional needs & providing them with suitable IT solutions in the Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing field. An established performer in the Corporate Performance Management space, continuously seeking to gain excellence & proficiency within & outside this space.

Professional Experience: May 2007 till date

R.Twining & Company Limited, UK Oct ‘10 – Jan ‘11

One of UK’s largest tea companies. A part of the Associated British Foods umbrella group

BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST DEVELOPER: Twinings North America Business Unit.

Implemented numerous changes/ enhancements in the existing planning models, as part of the CR project.

Comprehensively interacted with the N. American users in understanding their functional requirements & implementing the business logic in the existing systems as Change Requests & the testing, training & Live deployments thereafter.

Executed the migration of huge planning/BI systems thrice from a single server environment (for all BUs) to independent stand alone North America Live, Dev & Test servers.

BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST DEVELOPER: Twinings UK-IM Business Unit.

Successfully integrated & configured the new IBM Cognos environments with distributed architecture for Live, Dev & Test servers. Configuration & Administration of security from Cognos Series 7 Access Manager.

Executed the migration of huge planning/BI systems thrice from a single server environment (for all BUs) to independent stand alone UK Live, Dev & Test servers. Exercised both approaches of migration successfully i.e. Cognos Deployments & content store migration.

Technology World Company, Kuwait June ‘09 – Sep ‘10

One of Middle East’s largest Business Intelligence consulting services provider with focus on professional services, software development, information portals and system infrastructure design and development.

BI CONSULTANT/ PROJECT LEAD: PIC – Petrochemical Industries Company, one of the largest petrochemicals company in Kuwait.

Led the functional requirements gathering, analysis & design phase process for enterprise wide integrated Performance management solution including BI, Planning, Department dashboards & KPI scorecards.

Lead the technical build of Finance & HR reports, along with SBU operations reports (OSEF, Curtailment etc) & supervised the data-warehousing activity surrounding the reports.

Finance, OPEX, CAPEX, HR planning modules development including requirements, analysis, design & build with focus on seamless integration with BI & scorecards.

SBU production planning & sales/marketing planning including annual rolling forecast plans & 5 year plans.

SBU Inventory forecast modeling on rolling basis integrated with the production & marketing plans.

High involvement in KPI mappings & integrating with the budgeting & forecasting solutions.

Played a lead role in planning, data mart & BI integration on IBM Cognos 8 BI, planning & Oracle 11 G database.

Full project life cycle experienced covering initial scoping, requirements gathering, design, installation, configuration, development, user testing, production migration, user training & post production support.

IBM COGNOS CONSULTANT: KNPC – One of the largest oil complexes in the world a number of refineries in Kuwait.

BI reports design & development sitting on an Oracle data-warehouse; planning applications development for the finance department, supporting financial consolidation from the Cost centers level to the Top management, final statement reports, & enterprise wide budgeting & planning process.

BI reports integrated with planning applications, giving instant financial reports.

POC development for HR manpower management- recruitment, separation & inter department transfers.

Client presentations for IBM EPM suite of products. POC presentation & sales pitch.

IBM COGNOS CONSULTANT: KPI – Kuwait Petroleum International, a leading petroleum company in Kuwait.

Migration/ Deployment of Cognos BI & planning applications from a single server environment to a multiple server environment with separate servers for Cognos Planning 8.3, Cognos 8 BI & SQL Server 2008.

Designed & developed complete application automation jobs from database to planning applications to data mart (ETL) & finally to reports.

IBM COGNOS CONSULTANT: ALSHAYA group – One of the largest conglomerates in Middle East with a strong hold in the retail industry in Kuwait.

Migration study & project scoping for enterprise wide retail planning & budgeting process on IBM Cognos 8.1 to version 8.4. Duplicating the planning applications & BI reports for another new region.

Scoping for ETL processes (PL-SQL) migration to the new region planning application.

Hardware architecture study & current hardware performance study.

IBM COGNOS CONSULTANT: KAMCO – premier investment company that provides innovative and performance driven financial solutions to clients.

POC based on client’s sample database, focusing on reports for the daily financial position of the portfolios, growth reports sector & security wise.

Applications for portfolio management for the investment managers, show-casing simulation analysis & driver based price forecasting for the financial products with run time integration with BI reports.

Client presentations for IBM EPM suite of products. POC presentation & sales pitch.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT:

Developed a number of Proof of Concepts for prospective clients, showcasing the multi-dimensional & drill capabilities of BI, & customized to their planning & budgeting needs & addressing their pain areas.

Application demo presentations & sales presentations on planning technologies to top corporate names in the financial & energy industry in Middle East.

Proposal defense against competing technology vendors.

Conducted project scoping activities for planning & BI engagements for development, support, & migration/upgrade projects.

Satyam Computer Services Private Limited May ‘07 – May ‘09

One of India’s top 5 IT consulting & solutions providing companies with a history of over 15 yrs in operation and around 600 global clients.

EPM CONSULTANT / PROJECT LEAD: GE Oil & Gas -- A global leader that supplies advanced products, services and complete solutions to the oil and gas industry

Spear head the project team comprising 2 business analysts & 3 technical analysts (Planning, Reporting & PL-SQL technologies).

Successfully rendered planning solutions to the Fortune 5 client & earned appreciations for designing & developing strategic reporting system with highly interactive dashboards.

Acted as an EPM consultant in providing key functional inputs in utilizing the Cognos planning output for score carding solutions.

Played a key role in understanding/gathering the complex business requirements of the client & in turn proposing technical solutions in line with the ultimate objectives.

Greatly experienced in design of technical systems to cater to the management reporting & strategic planning requirements. Highly effective client handling skills accompanied by efficient handling of project team associates.

Complex report building for the sales forecasting involving multiple joins & drill through, running on the planned data drawn from the planning applications & actuals from the source data base.

Initially, designed & developed a complex sales forecasting model “OTR” (on Cognos Planning 8.3 Analyst) where revenue recognition was based on accrued costs by a Functional Unit at title transfer event.

Conceived & built a robust & automated maintenance & administration engine that catered to the daily structure & data update needs of 17 applications. Automatically allocates contracts to their respective User applications.

Supervised the build of complex Dashboard models & reports precisely suiting the clients’ requirements.

Guided & coordinated the development of a planning engine “ITO”, which is a digitized Order Plan, on Cognos Planning Contributor, which supports any sort of analysis, freezing, comparison (variance analysis) between data.

Extended significant functional support to enable the design & development of the data mart (in PL-SQL) & eventually in the build of reports sitting on contributor cubes as well as data mart packages.

Extensively worked on administration side (Cognos 8.3) & boast of good exposure to SSO configuration with NTLM.

BUSINESS ANALYST: EXL -- A NASDAQ listed global BPO solutions provider.

Contributed in a team of 2 technical resources to design & build a Budgeting solution for the client using the “Cognos Planning 7.3” tool.

Served as a key Offshore Resource in the Client’s requirements’ gathering team.

Synthesized a global Cost Allocation Model for the Client in just 2 weeks; Project time allocated to the task was 3 weeks.

BUSINESS ANALYST: Dole Foods -- An America based leading food items grower & packer.

Collaborated with a team of Business & Technical Analysts to design & build a Budgeting & Forecasting application with reports.

Thoroughly analyzed the complex Inventory driven Forecasting & Planning Process used by the Client & recommended successful ways how it can be included in the model that was being built.

DEVELOPER: Proof of Concept (POC) designed & developed for a NASDAQ listed global BPO solutions provider.

Successfully finalized the Budgeting & Planning POC for the client on “Hyperion Planning” tool in 2 weeks.

Presented the POC solution to the Client through a web conference & satisfactorily responded to the resulting queries.

TRAINER:

Tutored a team of 10 associates, Technical as well as Business Analysts, on planning & budgeting process & “Cognos 8” tool.

Trained 2 associates in overall understanding of Data Warehousing with focus on integration of planning, reporting & PL-Sql technologies.

Technical Proficiencies:

TOOLS:

IBM Cognos Planning 7.3, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4; IBM Cognos BI 8 (Framework Manager, Report Studio, Analysis Studio & Query Studio); IBM Cognos Administration; Hyperion Planning

TRAININGS & CERTIFICATIONS:

IBM Cognos 8 Planning Application Consultant

Data Warehousing Level – 1 Certification from MERITTRAC,

RE101-Integrated Requirements Engineering Series,

Data Modeling Competency Program.

Educational Qualifications:

Masters in International Business 2005-07

CGPA 7.4

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) 2001-04

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Delhi College of Arts & Commerce, Delhi University