Murali Sankaran480-626-4105 (Cell) msk280@gmail.com

US-CT-Danbury (open to relocation/travel)www.linkedin.com/in/sankaranmurali

Professional SummaryHighly skilled, motivated, detail-oriented, disciplined IT Specialist offering vast knowledge as Database/Data Warehouse Architect/Developer, System Administrator, Systems Analyst, Technical Architect, Application Designer and Tester with 15+ years’ information technology experience.

Key Skills Excellent analysis, troubleshooting, communication, planning, coordination

and documentation capabilities. Versatile, working in roles as: Cognos Architect, Cognos Administrator,

Technical Lead, System Administrator, Senior Cognos Developer and Business Analyst. At times, performing more than one of these roles in the same job.

Experienced in SQL with popular relational databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Teradata and DB2.

Technical Skills and LanguagesCognos 10.x, Business Objects, MicroStrategy, Microsoft BI (Power BI and SSRS - Report Builder 2014), Informatica, Oracle, Sybase, Teradata, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Erwin, ER-Studio, PowerDesigner, PVCS (Version Control Manager), Dimensions, Powerbuilder, Maestro Scheduler, UNIX, Windows

Education Bachelor of Commerce (Osmania University, India) Inter. Chartered Accountant (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India) Systems Analysis and Design Additional Continuing Education at the end (Page 9)

Certifications Project Management Professional (PMP) Cognos Enterprise Business Intelligence Solutions Professional Cognos ReportNet (Authoring, Administration, Modeling) Cognos Planning (Analyst, Contributor) Cognos (Certified User, Administrator, Architect) Informatica (Designer, Administrator, Consultant) Sybase (Database Administrator, Fine Tuning Specialist) Microsoft Windows 2000 - Certified Professional SQL Server - Microsoft Certified Database Administrator Oracle Certified Professional DB2 (Expert User, Database Administrator) Teradata Certified User

Residential Status: USA Green Card Holder

Murali Sankaran

Roles and Responsibilities

I have performed more than one of these roles in the most of my assignments, which have been consolidated below:-

Served as the data technical strategy expert and will lead the creation of all technical requirements and design deliverables

Interviewing Subject Matter Experts, asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business and technical people.

Strong experience in Business and Data Analysis, Data Profiling, Data Migration, Data Integration and Metadata Management Services.

Gather business requirements for Cognos reports or data cubes. Translate business needs into technical requirements documentation according to standard procedures.

Practical understanding of the Data modeling (Dimensional & Relational) concepts like Star-Schema Modeling, Snowflake Schema Modeling, Fact and Dimension tables.

Review business requirements, minimize ambiguity and incomplete requirements, identify opportunities for engaging business review throughout the solution development and provide technical leadership and advice as needed

Act as a Business Intelligence Architect for new projects and perform all responsibilities in the successful execution of the project

Provide full-life cycle architectural guidance to relevant teams Create and implement standards for Cognos portal administration across

environments, including security maintenance Recommend standard operating procedures

Review existing data design for use in reporting and analysis Recommend alternatives as needed to improve performance of Cognos reports, data cube refreshes, drill-through reports, etc.

Created, documented and maintained logical and physical database models in compliance with enterprise standards and maintained corporate metadata definitions for enterprise datastores within a metadata repository.

Established and maintained comprehensive data model documentation including detailed descriptions of business entities, attributes, and data relationships.

Interact with various levels of staff across multiple company departments, Domestic and International, to provide Cognos BI System Support and Development services

Research and resolve Cognos technical support problems related to reports, data marts and Cognos server portal access Provide workarounds and/or solution(s)

Successfully managed report migration project from start to completion, consolidating 200+ MicroStrategy Dashboard/Reports into Cognos Reports on a fixed budget and timeframe

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Install and configure IBM Cognos 8 software on Windows servers (multiple environments)

Recommend best practices to build and maintain Framework Manager Models, metadata packages, and Transformer models

Develop reports and data cubes to supplement the workload of Cognos development resources and to prepare prototypes when needed to meet new and unusual requirements

Develop, test and deploy Cognos reports and data cubes across environments, per end user requirements

Provide weekly team status reports to Client Manager Lead weekly team status meetings in their absence

Prepare and give presentations to end user management at significant project milestones, often in situations where attendees are connected remotely and NetMeeting is used

Transferred knowledge to Development and Operations resources via WebEx sessions: programming tips, best practices, software installation & configuration, and system administration tasks

Provide 24/7/365 On Call support for existing critical completed projects Develop ETL specifications, target mappings, and other documentation

required for ETL development Assist Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) developers and report,

query, and analytical tool developers in understanding data and meeting user requirements

Participated/created complex Stored Procedures/Triggers/Views/SQL/Data Load Scripts for Reports/Data Loading (Sybase, Teradata, DB2, Vertica, Cognos, Oracle)

Participate in selection and hiring new team members

Employment History

Genpact – USA Senior Principal Consultant Jul 2016 – Present Computer Sciences Corporation – USA System Architect Senior Professional May 2007 – Apr 2016

Trinus Corporation – USA BI/DW Architect Apr 2003 – Apr 2007

Gurus IT Services – USA BI/DW Consultant Jan 1999 - Apr 2003

Professional Experience

Cognos Lead/Data Architect Jul 2016 - PresentBoehringer Ingelheim, Ridgefield, CT (Through Genpact)

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The Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the world's 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Still headquartered in Ingelheim, it operates globally with 146 affiliates and more than 47,700 employees. The company's key assets of interest are: respiratory diseases, metabolism, immunology, oncology and diseases of the central nervous system.  Provide service in interpreting architecture and design, code reviews, mentoring, guiding and monitoring programmers, ensuring adherence to programming and documentation policies, software development, testing and release. Represent project teams in project/program meetings or in meetings with sponsor.

Technical Architect Dec 2015 – Apr 2016Golden State Foods, Irvine, CA (through CSC)Golden State Foods is one of the largest diversified suppliers to the food service industry, servicing approximately 125,000 restaurants in more than 60 countries. Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT (through CSC)Intermountain Healthcare provides hospital and other medical services in Utah and Idaho and also offers integrated managed care under the insurance brand SelectHealth.

Worked as Data Architect/Analyst providing POC, Project Proposal and Business Intelligence Evaluation and Strategy plans on Cognos, Tableau, Microsoft (SSRS and Power BI).

Data Architect May 2014 – Nov 2015AT&T, Atlanta, GA (through CSC)

AT&T is the second largest provider of mobile telephone and the largest provider of fixed telephone in the United States, and also provides broadband subscription television services.

Data Architect/Analyst for data migration projects aimed at monthly/quarterly data improvement releases (under SDLC and Agile Methodologies).

Participate in all releases end to end till deployment (Database Design, Data Modeling, Data Maintenance, Database Security, Database Management, ETL Design, Requirements Analysis, Offshore Team Management and co-ordination and Training Junior Team Members).

10% time devoted to coding activities (Informatica, Vertica SQL, Teradata SQL, Teradata load & export utilities, Oracle PL/SQL, Unix Scripts and Maestro Scheduling).

BI/DW Architect Dec 2008 – Apr 2014Arizona Public Service, Phoenix, AZ (through CSC)

Arizona Public Service Company is the largest electric utility in Arizona, USA and the principal subsidiary of publicly traded S&P 500 member Pinnacle West Capital Corporation (NYSE: PNW), which in turn had been formerly named AZP Group, when Arizona Public Service reorganized as that holding company in 1985.

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BI/DW Architect/Analyst/Data Modeler for Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing Project

Complete cycle of Cognos BI life-cycle implementation from Planning to Implementation (Cognos, Informatica, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Server, DB2)

Business Requirements, project planning, estimation and resource loading Data Modeling, Functional & Technical Design Documents with Mock Ups,

Unit Test Cases and ETL Data Mapping. KPIs and Dashboard Design, Framework Models, Cubes, Reports design Mentoring team and also coding to accelerate critical projects Migration planning, design and monitoring major migration project

(Microstrategy to Cognos involving 200+ reports)

Projects: Marketing and Trading Financial Control Reporting, Power Contracts – Renewable Energy, Load Forecasting Project, SOAR Dashboard (Transmission & Distribution), FOSSIL Dashboard, BI Report Conversion (Microstrategy to Cognos – 200+ Reports), Billing Exception, Industrial Hygiene, Transformer Load Analysis (Phase 1 & 2), Cost of Service

Data Architect Oct 2007 – Dec 2008GAP, San Bruno, CA (through CSC) The Gap, Inc., commonly known as Gap Inc. or Gap, is an American worldwide clothing and accessories retailer. The company operates five primary divisions: GAP, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Intermix, and Athleta.

BI/DW Architect/Analyst for Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing Project aimed at Sales Forecasting and Reporting

Complete cycle of Cognos BI life-cycle implementation from Planning to Implementation (Oracle, Teradata, Cognos)

Data Modeling, Functional & Technical Design Documents with Mock Ups, Unit Test Cases.

Framework Models and Reports design

Data Architect May 2007 – Sep 2007Mattel Inc., El Segundo, CA (through CSC)

Mattel, Inc. is an American multinational toy manufacturing company founded in 1945 with headquarters in El Segundo, California. The products and brands it produces include Fisher-Price, Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and Matchbox toys.

Business Analyst in Documenting business processes and communicate potential business and systems impacts based on analysis of the data.

Data Modeling, Conversion of requirements in to Functional & Technical Design Documents with Mock Ups, Unit Test Cases for further development in Cognos.

Data Architect Mar 2007 – May 2007Century National Insurance, Burbank, CA (through Trinus Corpn)

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Established in 1956, Century-National Insurance Company (CNI) has grown to be a prominent property insurer in the West. Homeowners insurance is offered in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. CNI also provides discount-priced personal automobile insurance to preferred risk drivers, and operates a successful commercial automobile insurance business serving small and medium size businesses.

BI/DW Architect/Analyst for Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing Project Client implemented Cognos 8 and assisted in Cognos BI life-cycle

implementation from Planning to Implementation Reports Migration support from Cognos 6 to Cognos 8

Systems Administrator/BI Architect Jan 2004 – Feb 2007 Disney Buena Vista Television, Burbank, CA (through Trinus Corpn)

Disney–ABC Domestic Television, also operating as ABC Syndication (formerly known as Buena Vista Television and also known as Disney Domestic Television and Disney|ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution), is the in-home sales and content distribution firm of the Disney–ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Content distribution responsibilities include domestic television syndication, domestic pay TV, internet and cable video-on-demand (VOD), and pay-per-view outlets.

System Administrator/SQL Server DBA/Cognos 8/Informatica Administrator 24/7/365 support for 12 Cognos Reporting/Planning Servers and 3 SQL

Servers (Install/Maintain/Backup/Restore/Migration) 25% Cognos Design/Development

Cognos Administrator/Developer Aug 2003 – Dec 2003 Disney Consumer Products, Burbank, CA (through Trinus Corpn)

Disney Consumer Products (DCP) is a subsidiary and business segment of The Walt Disney Company that engages in merchandising of the Disney brand and Disney properties.

Cognos 7 Reports/Cubes Performance Tuning 30% Cognos Design/Development and Sybase SQL/Stored Procedures

Cognos Architect May 2003 – Jul 2003 Amgen Inc., Newbury Park, CA (through Trinus Corpn)

AMGen (formerly Applied Molecular Genetics Inc.) is an American multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. Located in the Conejo Valley, AMGen is the world's largest independent biotechnology firm.

Cognos 6 to Cognos 7 Server/Metadata/Reports Upgrade/Validation Design Documentation for Production Upgrade

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Cognos Architect Apr 2003

Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Florham Park, NJ (through Gurus IT Services)

Novartis is a global healthcare company based in Switzerland that provides solutions to address the evolving needs of patients worldwide.

Cognos 6 to Cognos 7 Server/Metadata/Reports Upgrade/Validation Reports/Cubes User Acceptance Tests

Cognos Architect Mar 2003

Akins Nutritionals, Inc., Ronkonkoma, NY (through Gurus IT Services)

Atkins Nutritionals Inc. is a leading player in the $2.4 billion weight control nutrition category and offers a powerful lifetime approach to weight loss and weight management.

Cognos 7 Server Install/New Reports/Cubes Proof of Concept

Cognos Support Nov 2002 – Feb 2003

MTD Products, Strongsville, OH (through Gurus IT Services)

MTD Products is an American manufacturer of outdoor power equipment for the mass market. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, the company began in 1932 and is a family-owned, private company. 

Production Support for Cognos 6 based Cubes/Daily Data Load

Cognos Developer Aug 2002 – Oct 2002

Goodyear Tires, Akron, OH (through Gurus IT Services)

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturing company founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling and based in Akron, Ohio. Goodyear manufactures tires for automobiles, commercial trucks, light trucks, motorcycles, SUVs, race cars, airplanes, farm equipment and heavy earth-mover machinery.

Cognos 6 – Sales and Forecasting Cubes/Reports Development Teradata SQL

Developer – Customer Billing Jan 1999 – Jul 2002 Excel Communications, Inc., Dallas, TX (through Gurus IT Services)

Excel Communications, Inc. is one of the largest providers of telecommunications services in the United States. The company uses Arbor/BP Billing from Kenan Systems. All the existing systems provide Customer and Billing information through Sybase ASE Interface to Arbor/BP.

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Sybase Data Modeler/Developer for commercial billing system 24/7 Data Load Production Support

Professional Development (Continuing Education)Udemy.com

Agile Scrum Training Fundamentals of Business Analysis SPSS Beginners An introduction to Tableau Desktop Data Science A-Z Applied Data Science with Python Tableau 9 for Data Science

Coursera.com Data Science Toolbox R Programming Executive Data Science (In progress) Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business Specialization (In progress)

Springboard.com Data Science Intensive (In progress)

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