Giri Kumar has over 5 years of experience as an Informatica and Cognos Administrator. He has extensive experience installing, configuring, and upgrading Informatica PowerCenter and Cognos environments. Currently he is an Administrator for Xerox Healthcare supporting their Cognos and Informatica environments. Previously he provided production support for International Netherlands Group's insurance project.

1. Email: giri99kumar@gmail.com
Giri Kumar M Phone: (+91) 7893731041
Professional Objective:
Seeking a challenging position as softwareprofessional in a quality-oriented company, that will
utilize my skills and experience and contribute to growth by learning and adapting existing practices
and achieving excellence at work.
Summary:
 5+ years of professional experience in IT
 4+ years of professional experience Informatica and cognos Administration for large data
warehouse projects using Informatica versions (Power Centre 9) and cognos BI (10.1, 10.2).
 Installation and configuration of distributed environment in windows and Unix AIX OS in both
Cognos 10.1,10.2 and Informatica9.1,9.5,9.6(Powercenter)
 Identify,troubleshoot, and resolve complex production environments (Informatica Application,
cognos, Databases, etc.) reported through monitoring systems, support teams, and trouble
tickets as per established SLAs.
 Cognos and informaticaservices shutdown and Restart.
 Co-ordinated with Informatica& Cognos developers forthe connectionchanges and migration
 Monitored the existing scheduled reports and jobs.
 Handled multiple projects including over100 application servers
 Experience in Installing Informaticapower center on Linux, including upgrading versions and
applying hotfixes/patches.
 Knowledge in the Informatica administrator tasks like creating Connection Strings, copying &
moving mappings, workflows,creating folders etc.
 Proficientin hot fixing the Informatica objects.
 Good Knowledge at UNIX,Linux flavors and Informatica tools.
 Good experience in Outages Handling and communicating withdifferent teams at the outage
time (DBA,DB2, Middleware etc...).
 Created and update the relational connections forInformatica workflow manger based on
request.
 Fixed the issues related to database/connectivity while monitoring the loads by checking the
logs
 Collaboratively worked with Offshore& Onshore Teams with good communication skills.
 Self-motivated team player withgood communication skills, analytical and problem solving
skills.
 Skilled in authoring technical documentation and performing reviews.
 Ability to workindependently or collaboratively.
 Ability to support by carrying pager/cell for on call support and resolve issues during non-
business hours.
 Preparing Daily,weekly and Monthly Reports.

2. Competencies:
SKILLS TOOLS
Industry Skills Health care and Insurence
Technical Skills: Cognos 10.1.,10.2, InformaticaPowerCenter 9.1/9.5.1/9.6.0
Database Oracle 11g/10g/9i/8i,DB2UDB 9.7 and SQL Server 2008
Operating Systems UNIX (AIX,, Linux), Windows NT/2000
Tools Putty,PowerCenter Designer,Repository Manager,Workflow
Manager,Workflow Monitor, Lotus notes, Task manger, services center.
ProjectHistory:
CognizantTechnologysolutions May2013 – TILL DATE
XeroxHealthCare
Project– State Healthcare
Role:CognosandInformaticaAdministrator
ProjectDescription:XeroxState Healthcare, LLC offers healthcare program administration services.
The company administers Medicaid, state children's health insurance programs, long-term care
programs, and pharmacy benefits management programs, as well as the health insurance programs of
state employees and higher education institutions. It also provides care coordination and management,
health information analysis, and fraud and abuse protection services. Xerox State Healthcare, LLC was
formerly known as ACS State Healthcare, LLC and changed its name to Xerox State Healthcare, LLC in
April 2012. The company was founded in 1970 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Xerox State Healthcare,
LLC operates as a subsidiary of XeroxBusiness Services, LLC..
EducationandCertifications
Masterof ComputerApplicationsfromANNAUNIVERSITY,CHENNAI.
Certifications : IBM CertifiedAdministratorCognos10BI .

3. Responsibilities:
 Installation, configuration and up gradation of Informatica PowerCenter 9.1,9.5/9.6.1.
 Installation and Configuration of cognos 10.1, 10.2.
 Deployed the Cognos packages and reports from lowerenvironment to upper
 Good experience in creating multiple Informaticaconnections like (DB2, Oracle etc.)
 Deployed Informaticaobjects, parameter files and the scripts among different environments
using PowerCenter repository manger.
 Created data source connections in Cognos portal
 Creation and maintenance of Informatica users and privileges.
 Created Groups, roles, privileges and assigned them to each user group.
 Repository Service Backup, Migration and restore between DEV,QA and PRODenvironments.
 Coordinated with UNIX and Database Administrators.
 Identify root cause and implement resolution for production processing issues.
 Collaboratively worked with Application Support Team, Network, Database Teams, and UNIX
teams.
 Monitoring the loads (workflows)whethertheloads are scheduled to respective timings.
 Responsible tomanage Development, QA and Productionenvironments.
Environment: Cognos BI (10.1, 10.2), Informatica powercenter 9.1/9.6/9.6.1/ Oracle 11g / Linux/AIX.
CognizantTechnologysolutions Sep2011 – April 2013
International NetherlandsGroup
Project– Insurance
Role:Productionsupportmanagement
Responsibilities:
 Performing certain actions on jobs such as ForceComplete , Re- run , Hold , Release of Jobs
through Control M Enterprise Application and also through Mainframe
 Detecting and logging problems (proactively orreactively)
 Providedthe support to carry out day to day activities
 Analyzing Clarifications and new updates, which we receivefrom client side and about this
cascade to team members.
 Review the workorder typefirst, than review instructions given by ING to Policy holder.
 Funds Transaction processed thought the RUMBA.
 Prepared Manual checks through the people soft for fixed tasks and Lotus notes for Variable
tasks.
 Funds matched though the Recon Application.
 Maintaining quality Reports day to day.
 Maintaining ProductionReports and Time Sheets day to day.
 Efficiently work with MS-Office.