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Nick Kletnoi
Big Data Architect with MSBI/ Business Intelligence Consultant
http://www.linkedin.com/in/nickkletnoi
T: 386-264-5658 E: kletnoi@yahoo.com
Nick Kletnoi brings over 17 years of experience in data warehousing development with
a strong background in many related aspects of this area of technology that range
from designing complex POC’s on multi-fact table star schemas that collect important
BI KPI’s - to developing industry-standard SSIS ETL packages that perform intricate
data pulls and populate fact and dimensional tables from a variety of source systems -
to complex data-driven production engineering constructs that dynamically partition
large corporate cubes with DSO and AMO - to precision crafted front-end reporting
solutions with Microsoft products utilizing expert knowledge of SQL and MDX languages
and the latest BI solutions including cloud based SQL Azure, Power Views through
Performance Point and power pivot application both free stand and through
SharePoint. Extensive IT experience in various industries has been gained by hands-on
implementation of very large scale BI projects as well as scaling complex BI pilots
using the most current development paradigms. EXPERT IN POC’s FOR HIGH-PROFILE
MSBI PROJECTS
Technical Background:
Main Skill Set
 Expert in Data-Warehousing Solutions with Analysis Services 2016 (SSAS/Tabular) as well as previous
versions: SSAS 2014; SSAS 2012 R2 and earlier; SSRS integrated with SharePoint 2014
 SQL Azure plus cloud based Data warehousing solutions with SSAS/Tabular;
 Data ETL with DTS and SSIS 2014 (Expert in migration to from Data stage and /or Informatica to SSIS) ; AB
Initio ; Informatica 11; Erwin 11
Extensive experience developing advanced DTS Packages for data movement;ProClarityDesign and tuning;
Architecture of cubes and data-martboth in SSAS 2012 and SSAS 2012,data-modeling with Erwin 10
 Expert in VL(5 Terabytes+) Cube Production Engineering – author of data-driven partitioning
constructs with DSO (AMO) & advanced KPI's in SSAS 2016; BSM ; Performance Point 2016 ;
SharePoint 2014web-parts andSharePoint integration with Reporting Services;
 Expert Knowledge of Cognos TM1 10 and financial reporting; migration to or from TM1 (10); TI
Large Database design both OLAP and OLTP (data-marts and subjectareas)
Extensive experience in programming T-SQLPL/SQL and writing complexstored procedures;complexrelational
and dimensional data modeling;DB2 SQL; Teradata SQL; Oracle PL/SQL
 Expert complex Business Case Solutions with MDX and multi-dimensional math modeling with MDX
Extensive experience with translating complexbusiness requirements into multidimensional models
Hands-on Maintaining ofLarge Data-warehouses;migrating ODS and scaling pilots
 Expert level understanding and experience with Design Patterns and industry specific data-
warehouse schemas pertaining to KPI collection
Secondary Skill Set
ASP.NET(VB.NET & C#); Web Services; XML; ASP: (VBScript); VB6; three tier application design;specialty-
complexfront end reporting interfaces to CUBES in ASP and ASP.NET with MDX; ASP to ASP.NET migration;
CASE Tools;SharePointPortal Server; ActiveX with ASP accessing database tables with ADO; Excel VBA; COM
objects;MS Access 2003 VBA; Business Objects 5i customized reports and extracts;
Microsoft Reporting Services reports with SQL and MDX
Auxiliary Accounting: GAAP; GL; AR; AP; cost-accounting, financial reports; costallocation methodologies;Fixed
and variable costcalculations;costdrivers;profitabilityanalysis;forecastmodeling;Operational Budgeting
Auxiliary Math: operations on complexnumbers with T-SQL; setoperations on complexnumbers with server-side
functions;complexaggregate operations on number sets;variance calculations;statistical distributions;z-tests;
Auxiliary Networking: Windows 2008 Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP,TCP/IP, RIS, WTS, SSL, Kerberos
14+ Years OLAP Experience in Industries: Financial,HealthCare,Food,Mortgage, Manufacturing,
Entertainment;Retail;Software Consulting;Government;Distribution.
Work Experience
01/16 – Current
NRUCFC Sterling, VA
Senior MSBI Consultant
 Architected, developed and deployed a SSRS framework reporting againsta Cassiopeia Financial
Management Platform for NRUCFC;involved in modeling and prototyping a SSAS cube solution;
 Delivered 25 Financial reports for areas spanning GL ledger accounting,financial facility,long-term loan
and other financial products;facilitated front and back office reportintegration into one cohesive solution;
involved with dashboard prototyping;
 Worked heavily with end Business Users on finalizing exact Reporting Requirements and produced a
BRD (business requirements documentalong with a BDG (business data glossary) reflecting business
and technical definitions ofall of the required elementfrom the old and new systems;
 Prototyped an incremental Data warehouse ETL architecture flow for backend nightly data pulls from
Cassiopeia Financial managementsystem into a Data warehouse solution;
 Developed an Azure Machine Learning algorithm for ‘Mostlikely Financial ProductCross -Sell’ prediction
model and accessorized itwith Azure Data-Factory movementpackage for uploading data to the cloud;
04/14 – 01/16
US Government Washington, DC
Senior MSBI Consultant
 Singlehandedly produced a Full-Functionality POC (proof-of-concept) solution on a High-Profile SAP to
MSBI conversion project in 8 weeks flat; this involved producing a complex financial/budgeting 2014
SSAS prototype cube to demonstrate effective replacement of a portion of existing SAP ECC reporting
for a large Government Organization (8th largest county in the US by revenue); existing solution was
based on SAP BW and was developed over a long period of time; presented POC was for one module
only – FM (funds management);Clientwas thrilled with proposed POC solution as presented and decided
to expand to all of the other ECC modules (FM, GM etc.);
 Took Client from Blank slate to Full Production Stability with the FM module and portions of the GM
module (Cube + ETL + tables + reporting ) ; provided nightly cube processing and incremental nightly
ETL’s that ran smoothly for months with no human involvement; achieved production DW system that
was self-regulating with multiple safety-netfeatures that detected anomalies in the underlying stage data
and responded with differing processing routes depending on data anomalies;
 Provided feedback for user training on this new product (200+ people from all county agencies were
trained on my solution and the feedback for this initial user test bed was overwhelmingly positive; users
cited advanced improvements in navigational abilities as well as speed and cross-module efficiencies;
 Served as Chief ETL Architect and Developer and technical lead for the SQL side of the ETL processing
that populated the data warehouse and the SSAS Cube; authored all of the stored procedures that
populated the cube as well as authored the framework for the whole ETL data processing; packages;
notifications; established standards;naming conventions;optimization guidelines; process flows; and etc.
 Served as Chief Cube Designer and worked with the Budget Reporting Group users to enhance and
advance the usability of the SSAS cube from POC stage phase to full Production phase which involved
directly collecting requirements in real-time,coming up with solutions/ways ofimplementing these features
within the context of cube attributes, drill-through actions, reporting actions, mdx calculations or
alternatively reporting features residing on the SSRS reports; or figuring other ways of satisfying the client
reporting need and presenting it to the client;
 Provided guidance in showing an MS Tabular approach to the same POC and helping client in evaluating
alternatives of varying development/deployment options possible with 2014 MSBI technologies;
01/14 - 04/14
Blue Cross Blue Shield of PA ( IBC )
Philadelphia, PA
Sr. MSBI Consultant
 Helping IBC move their existing physical data warehouses into the cloud space (Azure);
 Authoring the SSAS cube and backend (table) design for a comprehensive Member Analytical Engine to
be used for advanced member/prospectsegmentation and full ad-hoc analytics capabilityto include:
utilization analysis,prospectliftanalysis,treatmenteffectiveness analysis,provider rankings etc;
 Working with key business users and stakeholders ofthe project(C360) in order to aquire in-depth
business knowledge necessaryto deliver on the complete end-to-end turn-keyproduct; ROI of the project
estimated to be in the 10-15 million US dollar area;
04/13 – 11/13 FHCP (Division of Florida Blue)
FL, Daytona
Data Warehouse Consultant/Technical Manager
 Architected, designed,piloted,directed implementation and put into Production an FHCP Pharmacy
Data-warehouse solution on SSAS 2012 platform that provided the opportunity to perform intricate
data analysis along providers, drugs categories, patients and claims and other category groupings
over time; involved in all aspects of the implementation from requirements gathering, to table, key
construction,cube development,key metrics and ratios as they pertain to the pharmaceutical space,
and resolving very intricate type II issues regarding the historical reporting on patients and providers
in the mixed model (payer/provider) space; authored SSRS reports for Rx reporting from cube;
 Performing cube query performance tuning etc. and finally – upper management presentation; the
managementatFHCP was totally mesmerized by the efficiencies ofthe BI solution in terms of impact
on supply chain and other cost improvements gained from timely pharmaceutical information and
speed of information retrieval;
 Developed and deployed and configured SSAS/Tabular solutions to the business unitas a transition
to the Rx cube data warehousing solution to the various business units and for testing of data; DAX
 Also Involved in ETL architecture,mapping,metric design,some technical resource management as
well as participation in standard setting and recommendations to the upper management Steering
Committee as to the major direction of BI efforts at FHCP; leveraged as a key company technical
resource for all Microsoft Business Intelligence technologies;
01/12 – 01/13 BLOOMBERG
NY, NYC
Sr. Data Warehouse Consultant
 Architected, designed,developed and spearheaded implementation of a unique file loading system
for the marketing data-warehouse atBloomberg with information from several hundred sources which
involved auto code-generating capabilities as well as a mechanism to for data-type checks without
interruptions of the overall load; this ETL was put into production and reduced overall ETL
maintenance by well over 75%;
 Designed and modeled several proof-of-concept customer segmentation data-mining models for
advanced customer analytics and for the cross-selling offinancial products to Bloomberg customers;
 Participated in the maintenance ofthe click-stream data analysis and loading for the main Bloomberg
website; wrote MDX for metrics inside the SSAS cube that held aggregations of this data;
 Authored SSRS reports for financial product reporting using CLR and other advanced functionality;
08/09 – 11/11 GAF
NJ, Wayne
Microsoft BI Consultant
 Providing detailed hands-on technical guidance to the entire GAF BI team in regards to all aspects of
Microsoft BI products.
 Instrumental in the successful first production release of ‘Sales Center’ Data-warehouse at GAF by
improving performance ofReporting Services reports and architecture; overall performance of the reports
improved by over 65% through correctly identifying and eliminating bottlenecks by methodical stress -
testing and improving both front-end (RS), back-end design (Cube) as well as correct configuration and
hardware; sourcing from data from PeopleSoft 8.8 into SQL Server data-warehouse tables; query cost
analysis; production and post-production issues; managing lifecycle, translation of complex business
requirements into a detailed and valid and scalable data-warehouse model and SSAS cubes; authored
reports using SSRS exposed and configured through SharePoint 2010
 Deployed to production new and improved ETL processes feeding the cube and as well as sourcing
additional complex Metrics and KPI’s by means of MDX; lowered ETL load windows by more than 50%
 Hands-on technical and strategic direction guidance on migration from a mature Cognos TM1 9.1 financial
reporting environmentto an SSAS based reporting environment; provided analysis and detailed technical
migration strategies and technical direction and advice involving finer aspects of TM1 and SSAS both from
an architecture and from data-movement standpoints (TI’s and SSIS packages).
10/08 – 06/09 JP Morgan/Chase (HFS division)
CT, Greenwich (One American Lane)
Enterprise BI Architect / Business Intelligence (Hedge Fund Services Unit)
 Advising JP Morgan Chase on Best Practices in regards to data-warehouse design and development in
the Microsoft BI space; advised on ProClarity design and suggested performance enhancements on some
of the long-running reports; suggested re-design of ProClarity reports to improve query speeds;
 Architecture, documentation and process improvements for the Prime Broker unit of operations; business
analysis, assessment of current ETL PB processes; provided technical guidance to offshore resources;
 Authored SSRS reports for complexhedge and cross currently exposure reporting and configured security
for them through SharePoint 2007.
01/2008 – 10/08 Merrill Lynch
NY, WTC (N. Tower)
Chief Enterprise BI Architect / BI (Equities Research Unit)
 Advised Merrill Lynch (Research) on industry Best Practices in regards to data-warehouse design and
development in the Microsoft BI space. Provided senior technical guidance to the team.
 Authored, architected, constructed, tuned and deployed a Global ML BI Application: RDW Analytics.
 Designed, architected and technically spearheaded a radically new way of modeling very complex business
requirements with SSAS. These requirements pertained to equities research and reporting analysis at Merrill
Lynch. The approach received top honors from three adjacentbusiness units and was adopted as a de -facto
standard for modeling complex relationship research reporting designs at ML.
 Acquisition and incorporation of data from RDR, Next-Gen, GWM Revenue, Star mine and other sources into
a cohesive SSAS cube, providing detailed guidance and architecture of the ETL packages that perform the
daily loads ofdata into the cube; solving multiple complexintegration,data architecture and data usage issues;
providing business solutions; advised on ProClarity design and performance enhancements;
 Authored SSRS report components (functions) that other report developers used for report construction;
 Provided technical guidance to an offshore resource team of 12 people consisting of ETL developers and QA
testers.
10/2007 – 01/2008 Citi Group
NY, NY 111 Wall Street
Chief Enterprise BI Architect/Consultant (EMCT Division)
 Advised Citi Group EMCT Division (Emerging Markets CreditTrading) on industry Best Practices in regards to
data-warehouse design and development overall and in regards to the Microsoft BI implementation
 Design and modeling of complex Credit Derivative trading instruments in the multi-dimensional cube space
and using the Microsoft BI toolset; recommended solutions for vast improvement of daily cube loads.
 End-to-end complete BI solution analysis and key recommendations for performance improvement of the
whole EMCT data warehouse; this included but was not limited to: analysis of current schema design for
optimal efficiencyand performance; analysis ofaggregation strategy;analysis of risk calculations; analysis of
modeling alternatives with regard to fast changing attributes and their impact on performance; analysis of
modeling alternatives in regards to issuer, counterparty, product, risk and their impact on cube size,
processing time and cube performance; analysis and recommendations on schema improvements; analysis
and recommendations on correct and valid attribute relationships for the trade dimension; analysis and
recommendations on optimal cube processing strategyand ETL architecture in light of global data processing
demands and for near-real-time/no-down-time regional availability;complete and thorough front-end analysis;
04/2007 – 10/2007 Hewlett Packard
Roseville, CA / Houston, TX
Enterprise BI Architect/ BI Consultant
 Advised HP on industryBestPractices in regards to data-warehouse design and developmentoverall and in
regards to the Microsoft BI implementation specifically;Providing Leadership and direction for the BI team (23)
 Enterprise Architectural Guidance;common dimensional BUS architecture; environment gap analysis; project
analysis, tracking, risk management, change management, course correction & process improvement
 Came up with several pivotal architectural solutions that provided on average a 50% improvement in Cube
query performance for the sales funnel and other cubes for the Pro-Curve division of HP.
 Designed the backend architecture and provided cube architecture and guidance for the Supply-Chain project
and provided heavy analytics for specialty metrics calculation for the HP supply chain area with use of BSM
(business scorecard manager and Microsoft Performance Point), integration with Microsoft SharePoint
 Delivered on several key performance improvement recommendations in the BPM (business performance
management and the Finance PNL ) leading to drastically reduced query performance times and 1/10 of the
existing code base via migration of business logic to the cube layers and utilization of reporting and UDM
layers in the most efficient manner possible; provided detailed technical direction and instruction for cube
developers; Authored SSRS reporting templates that other report developers used in report development;
 Delivered on a complexpiece of custom parallel-periods comparison MDX logic in the Finance PNL cube that
satisfied a very intricate business requirement that had to do with dynamic partial period comparisons.
 Architected a solution enhancement for the sales compensation analytics area and enhanced the current
production internal dynamic SSAS securitymodel to include securityalong several dimensions; authored and
proposed an external dynamic security solution model;
Lehman Brothers
09/2006 – 04/2007 (HQ) New York, NY
Chief Business Intelligence Architect/Consultant
 Advised Lehman Brothers on industryBestPractices in regards to data-warehouse design and development;
 Development of the architecture of the SSAS cube to model P&L data for credit risk derivatives, fixed income
products and other investment products; calculation of complex real-time exposures rates; P&L rollup of
accounts using ragged hierarchies and advanced cube design structures; modeling complex investment
vehicles in multi-dimensional environment using the Microsoft BI toolset in SSAS 2005; revenue/loss
participation ratios; percent contribution and other advanced calculations;
 Authored Functional and Technical Specification documents for PALS project (subpart of Alpine), heavy
trading desk analytics and resolution of complex performance issues with current reporting logic through
stored procedures in Sybase; authored pilot cube simulating exposure rates of credit risk derivatives
The Home Depot
09/2005 – 09/2006 (HQ) Atlanta, GA
Sr. Business Intelligence Consultant
 Advising Home Depoton industry BestPractices in regards to data-warehouse design and development;
 Production Engineering, Partitioning VL (11 terabyte backend tables) Microsoft Analysis Services Cubes with
DSO and later AMO, creating and authoring automated data-driven top-tier production engineering
mechanisms; design of custom aggregations for increase of performance of MSAS cubes;
 Authored and coded an Advanced MSAS/SSAS CUBE Aggregation scripting utility which creates XML
aggregation stores from production cubes and then reverse-processes those original aggregations back into
the cubes (performing a name/vs. ordinal match-up) on demand even after structural changes to the original
cubes have been made; used SSRS to model reporting templates for business users and get sign-off;
 Designed and developed cubes and data-marts for the supply chain area SSAS 2005 (SPM, RTV, REC);
complex metrics; currency conversion paradigms with MDX; customer basket analysis with MDX; ratios with
MDX; solving complex supply-chain reporting OLAP modeling issues; ETL with DTS; complex mappings ;
complexSQL againstsource in DB2; Designing complex data feeds with AB Initio; creating and adjustment of
fact table feeds; Migration of AS 2000 cubes to SSAS 2005 and executing proof-of-concept models in SSAS
2005; migration of production engineering code from DSO to AMO; redesign of cubes and data-marts in the
SSAS 2005 environment; creating KPI indicators; working hand-in-hand with Microsoft Consulting Services
(MCS);
 Provided technical guidance to an offshore resource team of 7 people consisting of ETL developers and QA
testers and BA people.
Encore Development
12/2004 – 09/2005 Jacksonville, FL
Sr. OLAP Developer & BI Consultant
Consulting Fortune 1000 clients ofEncore Developmentin Florida;developmentofnew data warehouses and
business intelligence custom turn-keysolutions for clients;hands-on leading design and developmentpractices
and BI related projectefforts; responsible for logical & physical designs ofOLTP and OLAP related solutions;
creating complexdata-feeds with T-SQL and performing data-movementwith the use of DTS; designing and
migrating existing business reports to MS Reporting Services;leading reportdesign efforts; building and
configuring cubes;configuring SQL Server for high-availability;configuring ‘farm’ type setups
for Reporting Services;writing complex MDX for business reports.
DOE (State of Florida, Department of Education, FL)
Lead Architect for a Data Warehouse Effort for building a data-repositoryfor all
FCAT scores ofall Students of all Districts in the State of Florida;currently involved in
developing DTS packages for importing data,designing backend tables,staging and
cleaning data and other data-movement;deploymentof Microsoft SharePointPortal
Server & Reporting Services;
Special Note: working directly under/for MCS (Microsoft Consulting Services);
This projectis an on-going & very high-profile international-visibilityeffort. R-1 release of
this product(Aug. 19) was a resounding Success with Jeb Bush.
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority, TN)
Developed reporting engines thattrack Nuclear Facility Government
Compliance Standards ofthe organization and coded and deployed a pilotsolution that
provided the same functionalityas the client had but with ~9x times more performance
scaled x3 on the new Microsoft Reporting Services platform in a ‘farm’ type
configuration with 5 currentproduction norm-compliance reports for 5 nuclear facilities
coded in MDX and SQL and preciselyexecuted in the Reporting Services environment
with code-behind features providing for dynamic SQL assemblyand ultimate flexibility of
report-building;Projectwas qualified as a big Success.
DME (Daytona Beach, FL)
Analyzed KPI reporting data pertaining to reporting metrics of CARMAX
Dealership that was the end client and developed and deployed a reporting solution
from justthe end-user (manually assembled) Excel Reports; solution included: hands -
off ETL (DTS), data-mart tables in SQL Server 2000 with relevant hierarchies and fact-
table metrics; report-generating SQL and 5 reports designed in Reporting Services
mimicking functionality of the legacy reports; total (all-inclusive) project timeline –
7weeks from start date;
Project was qualified as a Success;
8/2004 – 12/2004 Jabil Circuit Inc. (HQ) St. Petersburg, FL
Corporate Data warehouse Design Consultant
Responsible for the modeling and data architecture of the Corporate Data Warehouse for Jabil Circuit Inc. for
capturing calculating and analyzing manufacturing ‘parts and vendor quotes’ information; design of metrics,
dimensions; identification of business needs and translation of them into valid technical database designs;
designing, coding and implementing Supply-Chain KPI ETL for 550 manufacturing facilities; performance
improvementofmission-critical and very complexstored procedures which calculate productprice and cost for the
whole product supply chain for all types of inventory and at various stages of the manufacturing process.
6/2004 – 11/2004 Office Depot (HQ) Delray Beach, FL
Sr. OLAP Developer/ETL & DW Consultant
 Responsible for Migrating Viking Data into Cubes and Creating two Data-marts – ‘Customer’ and ‘Marketing
Effort’ used for sales revenue and costanalysis ofa purchased subsidiary‘Viking Products’;
 responsible for design ofcubes modeling existing business retail models and practices ofOffice Depot;
 creating data-feeds for the ‘Customer’ and ‘Marketing Effort’ Data-marts with DTS sourcing information from
SQL Server 2000,ORACLE 9i and Teradata 2.5; and Excel 2000
 design ofbase and compound metrics,sets,calculated members,dimensions
 performing successful and timelyproduction data-loads into staging and production tables meeting established
ETL windows with the use of Data-stage;
 performing complexduplicate checking and conditional removal during batch processing;
 setting up MS Reporting Services farm for improvementofreport-generating response-times;
 analysis and design ofad-hoc querying tool for analysis ofvalue-added marketing campaign efforts relating to
catalog mailings ofa purchased subsidiary(Viking Products); implementation of highlyefficient processes
6/2003 – 7/2004 Publix Supermarkets, Inc. (HQ) Lakeland, FL
OLAP Data Architect/BI ETL
 Responsible for hands-on design,modeling,developmentand VB coding as part of an inside development
team delivering OLAP data-martsolutions for various Business Units within Publix;
 Involved in requirements gathering;identifying implementation strategies;design ofcubes,dimensions,
elements,sets;dimensional modeling ofhighlycomplexbusiness models with OLAP MS Analysis Services
cubes; Special Note: working directly under/for MCS (Microsoft Consulting Services)
 Partitioning cubes and optimizing performance of5 data-marts (Analysis Services cubes)- totaling 2.4
Terabytes in SQL Server 2000 tables;
 Partitioning of large tables;auto partitioning of cubes with DSO; index fine-tuning; dupe removal;handling
nulls/unknowns;coding complexbusiness logic rules using MDX functions and calculated sets within the
CUBE Editor;
 Modeling and Coding ETL data-martloads with 4+ source systems and daily“Hands-off” loading
requirements;Designing,coding and implementing Supply-Chain KPIETL for 1000+ Publix stores – complete
with store-side Extracts and Corp-side Loads using DTS (MQ Series for file transfers);
 Loading data into pre-staging and staging areas,complexcleansing and then loading into corporate cubes
for detailed analysis for improvementofInventory productflow Preparing and implementing complex,multi-
conditional type1 and type2 corporate dimensional data updates for the Loss -Prevention PharmacyDrug
Data-martsystem;Improving dimensional updates and ETL for PIMS system
(SQL Server 2000 and DTS with XML):
 Tuning High-volume data movementProduction systems for efficiency and performance;dynamic indexand
covering index creation;identification of performance bottlenecks and customizing effective solutions for
attaining desired performance levels;scripting backups and restores;
 DTS scripts & package tuning to narrow processing time windows;streamlining existing SQL Server Stored
Procedures for speed and efficiency in performing ETL processes;coding complexand highly successful
ActiveX ETL scripts in VBScript within the DTS designer environment;
 new design and/or reverse-engineering ofexisting data load processes to gain loading efficiencies in terms of
data quality and time loading;
 Designed inputconfiguration XML files for DTS packages and defining standards;coding new Stored
Procedures for data extracts for new data-marts in development;modeling highlycomplex“Flex-Pricing” data
engines thatuse cubes for multi-condition price setting with MDX;
 Coding routines in VBScript as needed for complexDTS tasks for key lookups and data cleansing;
supporting existing reports in Pro-Clarity5.0;
 Custom reports with MicrosoftReporting Services engine;solving heavy production issues
(SAP BW3 and DTS)
 Defining Info-Sources & transfer rules;use of DTS and XML for performing data loads and extractions
into/from SAP and RDAS systems;star schemas;
1/2002 – 6/2003 LA County Public HealthCare Systems LA, California
Data-warehouse Database Administration
 Responsible for design and implementation ofa multi-million record data warehouse for the Los Angeles
County Public HealthCare System;designing data-model,backend schema,inputmethodologies;HIPAA
& HL7 conformance; issues related to systems analysis ofvital statistics information as well as patient
information from 5 County Hospitals and 16 County Health Centers plus other healthcare-related
information in LA County; hands-on design ofCUBES, dimensions,elements,calculated sets;hierarchies;
 Complexmodeling ofstatistical figures & mathematical rates with MDX into systems used by
epidemiologists and other analytical staff in reporting;
 Migrating patientinformation and hospital visitinformation from ORACLE 9i to SQL Server 2000.
 Was designated technical Resource with Responsibilityfor bottom-line delivery of high-profile Projects
(SQL Server 2000 and DTS):
 Analysis Services with SQL Server 2000; heavy use of DTS and DTS package design to clean and pump
data into the CUBES;
 Data transformation using “transform data”,”data-driven query” and other DTS tasks;writing ActiveX
scripts to communicate with and extract data from Excel spreadsheets and other media to integrate into
SQL Server 2000 through DTS; developing automation routines with DTS employing SQL Server Agent to
extract data from remote locations
(ASP with MDX):
 Pages that pull information from the cubes on demand,depending on inputfrom the user;designing
stored procedures on the SQL Server 2000;
 Writing MDX queries for CUBE reports;designing and coding those reports in ASP; deploymentof the
Biztalk server for systems integration;
 Supervising a developmentteam of five people as partof a data warehousing group.
8/2001 – 1/2002 Healthcare Express LA, California
Technical Team Lead
ASP: Coded an online server-side Blood air-deliveryStatus Package and flight tracking program with custom
client-login driven menu options athttp://www.healthxpress.com ;coded a server-side application for the sales
force to track and maintain new customer leads and programmed a reporting interface to monitor sales staff
performance and individual status of/notes on the progress ofthose leads.
XML & XSL: Designed an XSL style sheetfor several reports that are currently received as a XML stream from
outside sources; proposed alterations to the current DTD; coded an invoicing process in XML.
PL/SQL: Troubleshooting Data loads performed with SQL*Loader;Creating Stored Procedures in P/L SQL,
Packages,Dimensions,Indexes & Materialized Views with OEM; supportof existing and developmentof new
reports using Crystal Reports 9.
6/2000 – 7/2001 CBS Studio Center (HQ) LA, California
IT Systems Programmer of OLAP & SQL
Financial OLAP : Developed and put into production a cube-enabled CBS Studio Center Balance-Sheetand
Income Statementon the OLAP TM1 server; administered the TM1 OLAP server; routinely transferred
GL figures from the accounting application into the TM1 OLAP server through importlogs;maintained and
developed those logs; helped the Financial Planning Departmentputtogether the yearly Corporate Budget.
ASP & ASP.NET: Developed and launched a companystore web site in ASP; maintained the companyweb site
at in ASP; Developed and deployed into production an online Employee Directory; developed and deployed into
production an online ProjectScheduler for keeping track of the details ofactivities going towards specific projects
(coded in VB.NET); developed an online PO system (in ASP);
SQL Server 7 and DTS: Deployed the SQL 7.0 on a test server and tested systems data conversion to the new
DBMS; wrote stored procedures & triggers;fine-tuned queries;setup indexes;configured access rights and
permissions;converted and imported tables with DTS; setup full search capability;improved query performance;
developed tables and setup relationships and keys
5/1998 – 7/2000 Courtesy Mortgage Associates Orange Park, FL
IT Programmer/SQL
Financial OLAP: Performed fine-tuning of OLAP SQL databases (“data-marts”);performed indexing oftables;
designed a payroll CUBE for monitoring changes in payroll cash outflow over time;performed relational modeling;
performed systems tuning ofTM1 CUBES; designed dimensions,elements and wrote importlogs for accounting
systems integration with the DSS.
SQL Server 7 & ASP: Designed a backend relational model for a shopping web-site;designed a backend
relational model and coded an E-commerce site (in ASP); designed a backend relational model and coded an
EquipmentInventory Application (in ASP); wrote a mortgage program (in ASP) and performed consulting services
at client sites;maintained companydatabases in SQL 7.0; wrote triggers and stored procedures for ensuring
referential integrity; wrote ad hoc queries on an "as needed"basis.
8/1996 – 5/1998 Delaware Savings Bank Jacksonville, Florida
OLAP Analyst/SQL
SQL Server 6.5 and SQL: Provided assistance to the DBA with compiling reports to the end users;wrote SQL
statements to generate reports;assisted in OLAP cube design on the TM1 server; assembled dimensions and
hierarchies;tested integrityof keys; resolved reporting issues.
TM1 OLAP & VBA: Cube access problems;tested stored procedures and triggers and CUBE rules on the test
servers to ensure correctreporting with respectto deployed applications in VBA and ASP; by the DBA.
Education:
1996 BA Major - Management, Minor - Computer Science
University of North Florida

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Resume of Nick Kletnoi

  • 1. Nick Kletnoi Big Data Architect with MSBI/ Business Intelligence Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/nickkletnoi T: 386-264-5658 E: kletnoi@yahoo.com Nick Kletnoi brings over 17 years of experience in data warehousing development with a strong background in many related aspects of this area of technology that range from designing complex POC’s on multi-fact table star schemas that collect important BI KPI’s - to developing industry-standard SSIS ETL packages that perform intricate data pulls and populate fact and dimensional tables from a variety of source systems - to complex data-driven production engineering constructs that dynamically partition large corporate cubes with DSO and AMO - to precision crafted front-end reporting solutions with Microsoft products utilizing expert knowledge of SQL and MDX languages and the latest BI solutions including cloud based SQL Azure, Power Views through Performance Point and power pivot application both free stand and through SharePoint. Extensive IT experience in various industries has been gained by hands-on implementation of very large scale BI projects as well as scaling complex BI pilots using the most current development paradigms. EXPERT IN POC’s FOR HIGH-PROFILE MSBI PROJECTS Technical Background: Main Skill Set  Expert in Data-Warehousing Solutions with Analysis Services 2016 (SSAS/Tabular) as well as previous versions: SSAS 2014; SSAS 2012 R2 and earlier; SSRS integrated with SharePoint 2014  SQL Azure plus cloud based Data warehousing solutions with SSAS/Tabular;  Data ETL with DTS and SSIS 2014 (Expert in migration to from Data stage and /or Informatica to SSIS) ; AB Initio ; Informatica 11; Erwin 11 Extensive experience developing advanced DTS Packages for data movement;ProClarityDesign and tuning; Architecture of cubes and data-martboth in SSAS 2012 and SSAS 2012,data-modeling with Erwin 10  Expert in VL(5 Terabytes+) Cube Production Engineering – author of data-driven partitioning constructs with DSO (AMO) & advanced KPI's in SSAS 2016; BSM ; Performance Point 2016 ; SharePoint 2014web-parts andSharePoint integration with Reporting Services;  Expert Knowledge of Cognos TM1 10 and financial reporting; migration to or from TM1 (10); TI Large Database design both OLAP and OLTP (data-marts and subjectareas) Extensive experience in programming T-SQLPL/SQL and writing complexstored procedures;complexrelational and dimensional data modeling;DB2 SQL; Teradata SQL; Oracle PL/SQL  Expert complex Business Case Solutions with MDX and multi-dimensional math modeling with MDX Extensive experience with translating complexbusiness requirements into multidimensional models Hands-on Maintaining ofLarge Data-warehouses;migrating ODS and scaling pilots  Expert level understanding and experience with Design Patterns and industry specific data- warehouse schemas pertaining to KPI collection Secondary Skill Set ASP.NET(VB.NET & C#); Web Services; XML; ASP: (VBScript); VB6; three tier application design;specialty- complexfront end reporting interfaces to CUBES in ASP and ASP.NET with MDX; ASP to ASP.NET migration; CASE Tools;SharePointPortal Server; ActiveX with ASP accessing database tables with ADO; Excel VBA; COM objects;MS Access 2003 VBA; Business Objects 5i customized reports and extracts; Microsoft Reporting Services reports with SQL and MDX Auxiliary Accounting: GAAP; GL; AR; AP; cost-accounting, financial reports; costallocation methodologies;Fixed and variable costcalculations;costdrivers;profitabilityanalysis;forecastmodeling;Operational Budgeting Auxiliary Math: operations on complexnumbers with T-SQL; setoperations on complexnumbers with server-side functions;complexaggregate operations on number sets;variance calculations;statistical distributions;z-tests; Auxiliary Networking: Windows 2008 Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP,TCP/IP, RIS, WTS, SSL, Kerberos 14+ Years OLAP Experience in Industries: Financial,HealthCare,Food,Mortgage, Manufacturing, Entertainment;Retail;Software Consulting;Government;Distribution.
  • 2. Work Experience 01/16 – Current NRUCFC Sterling, VA Senior MSBI Consultant  Architected, developed and deployed a SSRS framework reporting againsta Cassiopeia Financial Management Platform for NRUCFC;involved in modeling and prototyping a SSAS cube solution;  Delivered 25 Financial reports for areas spanning GL ledger accounting,financial facility,long-term loan and other financial products;facilitated front and back office reportintegration into one cohesive solution; involved with dashboard prototyping;  Worked heavily with end Business Users on finalizing exact Reporting Requirements and produced a BRD (business requirements documentalong with a BDG (business data glossary) reflecting business and technical definitions ofall of the required elementfrom the old and new systems;  Prototyped an incremental Data warehouse ETL architecture flow for backend nightly data pulls from Cassiopeia Financial managementsystem into a Data warehouse solution;  Developed an Azure Machine Learning algorithm for ‘Mostlikely Financial ProductCross -Sell’ prediction model and accessorized itwith Azure Data-Factory movementpackage for uploading data to the cloud; 04/14 – 01/16 US Government Washington, DC Senior MSBI Consultant  Singlehandedly produced a Full-Functionality POC (proof-of-concept) solution on a High-Profile SAP to MSBI conversion project in 8 weeks flat; this involved producing a complex financial/budgeting 2014 SSAS prototype cube to demonstrate effective replacement of a portion of existing SAP ECC reporting for a large Government Organization (8th largest county in the US by revenue); existing solution was based on SAP BW and was developed over a long period of time; presented POC was for one module only – FM (funds management);Clientwas thrilled with proposed POC solution as presented and decided to expand to all of the other ECC modules (FM, GM etc.);  Took Client from Blank slate to Full Production Stability with the FM module and portions of the GM module (Cube + ETL + tables + reporting ) ; provided nightly cube processing and incremental nightly ETL’s that ran smoothly for months with no human involvement; achieved production DW system that was self-regulating with multiple safety-netfeatures that detected anomalies in the underlying stage data and responded with differing processing routes depending on data anomalies;  Provided feedback for user training on this new product (200+ people from all county agencies were trained on my solution and the feedback for this initial user test bed was overwhelmingly positive; users cited advanced improvements in navigational abilities as well as speed and cross-module efficiencies;  Served as Chief ETL Architect and Developer and technical lead for the SQL side of the ETL processing that populated the data warehouse and the SSAS Cube; authored all of the stored procedures that populated the cube as well as authored the framework for the whole ETL data processing; packages; notifications; established standards;naming conventions;optimization guidelines; process flows; and etc.  Served as Chief Cube Designer and worked with the Budget Reporting Group users to enhance and advance the usability of the SSAS cube from POC stage phase to full Production phase which involved directly collecting requirements in real-time,coming up with solutions/ways ofimplementing these features within the context of cube attributes, drill-through actions, reporting actions, mdx calculations or alternatively reporting features residing on the SSRS reports; or figuring other ways of satisfying the client reporting need and presenting it to the client;  Provided guidance in showing an MS Tabular approach to the same POC and helping client in evaluating alternatives of varying development/deployment options possible with 2014 MSBI technologies;
  • 3. 01/14 - 04/14 Blue Cross Blue Shield of PA ( IBC ) Philadelphia, PA Sr. MSBI Consultant  Helping IBC move their existing physical data warehouses into the cloud space (Azure);  Authoring the SSAS cube and backend (table) design for a comprehensive Member Analytical Engine to be used for advanced member/prospectsegmentation and full ad-hoc analytics capabilityto include: utilization analysis,prospectliftanalysis,treatmenteffectiveness analysis,provider rankings etc;  Working with key business users and stakeholders ofthe project(C360) in order to aquire in-depth business knowledge necessaryto deliver on the complete end-to-end turn-keyproduct; ROI of the project estimated to be in the 10-15 million US dollar area; 04/13 – 11/13 FHCP (Division of Florida Blue) FL, Daytona Data Warehouse Consultant/Technical Manager  Architected, designed,piloted,directed implementation and put into Production an FHCP Pharmacy Data-warehouse solution on SSAS 2012 platform that provided the opportunity to perform intricate data analysis along providers, drugs categories, patients and claims and other category groupings over time; involved in all aspects of the implementation from requirements gathering, to table, key construction,cube development,key metrics and ratios as they pertain to the pharmaceutical space, and resolving very intricate type II issues regarding the historical reporting on patients and providers in the mixed model (payer/provider) space; authored SSRS reports for Rx reporting from cube;  Performing cube query performance tuning etc. and finally – upper management presentation; the managementatFHCP was totally mesmerized by the efficiencies ofthe BI solution in terms of impact on supply chain and other cost improvements gained from timely pharmaceutical information and speed of information retrieval;  Developed and deployed and configured SSAS/Tabular solutions to the business unitas a transition to the Rx cube data warehousing solution to the various business units and for testing of data; DAX  Also Involved in ETL architecture,mapping,metric design,some technical resource management as well as participation in standard setting and recommendations to the upper management Steering Committee as to the major direction of BI efforts at FHCP; leveraged as a key company technical resource for all Microsoft Business Intelligence technologies; 01/12 – 01/13 BLOOMBERG NY, NYC Sr. Data Warehouse Consultant  Architected, designed,developed and spearheaded implementation of a unique file loading system for the marketing data-warehouse atBloomberg with information from several hundred sources which involved auto code-generating capabilities as well as a mechanism to for data-type checks without interruptions of the overall load; this ETL was put into production and reduced overall ETL maintenance by well over 75%;  Designed and modeled several proof-of-concept customer segmentation data-mining models for advanced customer analytics and for the cross-selling offinancial products to Bloomberg customers;  Participated in the maintenance ofthe click-stream data analysis and loading for the main Bloomberg website; wrote MDX for metrics inside the SSAS cube that held aggregations of this data;
  • 4.  Authored SSRS reports for financial product reporting using CLR and other advanced functionality; 08/09 – 11/11 GAF NJ, Wayne Microsoft BI Consultant  Providing detailed hands-on technical guidance to the entire GAF BI team in regards to all aspects of Microsoft BI products.  Instrumental in the successful first production release of ‘Sales Center’ Data-warehouse at GAF by improving performance ofReporting Services reports and architecture; overall performance of the reports improved by over 65% through correctly identifying and eliminating bottlenecks by methodical stress - testing and improving both front-end (RS), back-end design (Cube) as well as correct configuration and hardware; sourcing from data from PeopleSoft 8.8 into SQL Server data-warehouse tables; query cost analysis; production and post-production issues; managing lifecycle, translation of complex business requirements into a detailed and valid and scalable data-warehouse model and SSAS cubes; authored reports using SSRS exposed and configured through SharePoint 2010  Deployed to production new and improved ETL processes feeding the cube and as well as sourcing additional complex Metrics and KPI’s by means of MDX; lowered ETL load windows by more than 50%  Hands-on technical and strategic direction guidance on migration from a mature Cognos TM1 9.1 financial reporting environmentto an SSAS based reporting environment; provided analysis and detailed technical migration strategies and technical direction and advice involving finer aspects of TM1 and SSAS both from an architecture and from data-movement standpoints (TI’s and SSIS packages). 10/08 – 06/09 JP Morgan/Chase (HFS division) CT, Greenwich (One American Lane) Enterprise BI Architect / Business Intelligence (Hedge Fund Services Unit)  Advising JP Morgan Chase on Best Practices in regards to data-warehouse design and development in the Microsoft BI space; advised on ProClarity design and suggested performance enhancements on some of the long-running reports; suggested re-design of ProClarity reports to improve query speeds;  Architecture, documentation and process improvements for the Prime Broker unit of operations; business analysis, assessment of current ETL PB processes; provided technical guidance to offshore resources;  Authored SSRS reports for complexhedge and cross currently exposure reporting and configured security for them through SharePoint 2007. 01/2008 – 10/08 Merrill Lynch NY, WTC (N. Tower) Chief Enterprise BI Architect / BI (Equities Research Unit)  Advised Merrill Lynch (Research) on industry Best Practices in regards to data-warehouse design and development in the Microsoft BI space. Provided senior technical guidance to the team.  Authored, architected, constructed, tuned and deployed a Global ML BI Application: RDW Analytics.
  • 5.  Designed, architected and technically spearheaded a radically new way of modeling very complex business requirements with SSAS. These requirements pertained to equities research and reporting analysis at Merrill Lynch. The approach received top honors from three adjacentbusiness units and was adopted as a de -facto standard for modeling complex relationship research reporting designs at ML.  Acquisition and incorporation of data from RDR, Next-Gen, GWM Revenue, Star mine and other sources into a cohesive SSAS cube, providing detailed guidance and architecture of the ETL packages that perform the daily loads ofdata into the cube; solving multiple complexintegration,data architecture and data usage issues; providing business solutions; advised on ProClarity design and performance enhancements;  Authored SSRS report components (functions) that other report developers used for report construction;  Provided technical guidance to an offshore resource team of 12 people consisting of ETL developers and QA testers. 10/2007 – 01/2008 Citi Group NY, NY 111 Wall Street Chief Enterprise BI Architect/Consultant (EMCT Division)  Advised Citi Group EMCT Division (Emerging Markets CreditTrading) on industry Best Practices in regards to data-warehouse design and development overall and in regards to the Microsoft BI implementation  Design and modeling of complex Credit Derivative trading instruments in the multi-dimensional cube space and using the Microsoft BI toolset; recommended solutions for vast improvement of daily cube loads.  End-to-end complete BI solution analysis and key recommendations for performance improvement of the whole EMCT data warehouse; this included but was not limited to: analysis of current schema design for optimal efficiencyand performance; analysis ofaggregation strategy;analysis of risk calculations; analysis of modeling alternatives with regard to fast changing attributes and their impact on performance; analysis of modeling alternatives in regards to issuer, counterparty, product, risk and their impact on cube size, processing time and cube performance; analysis and recommendations on schema improvements; analysis and recommendations on correct and valid attribute relationships for the trade dimension; analysis and recommendations on optimal cube processing strategyand ETL architecture in light of global data processing demands and for near-real-time/no-down-time regional availability;complete and thorough front-end analysis; 04/2007 – 10/2007 Hewlett Packard Roseville, CA / Houston, TX Enterprise BI Architect/ BI Consultant  Advised HP on industryBestPractices in regards to data-warehouse design and developmentoverall and in regards to the Microsoft BI implementation specifically;Providing Leadership and direction for the BI team (23)  Enterprise Architectural Guidance;common dimensional BUS architecture; environment gap analysis; project analysis, tracking, risk management, change management, course correction & process improvement  Came up with several pivotal architectural solutions that provided on average a 50% improvement in Cube query performance for the sales funnel and other cubes for the Pro-Curve division of HP.  Designed the backend architecture and provided cube architecture and guidance for the Supply-Chain project and provided heavy analytics for specialty metrics calculation for the HP supply chain area with use of BSM (business scorecard manager and Microsoft Performance Point), integration with Microsoft SharePoint  Delivered on several key performance improvement recommendations in the BPM (business performance management and the Finance PNL ) leading to drastically reduced query performance times and 1/10 of the existing code base via migration of business logic to the cube layers and utilization of reporting and UDM layers in the most efficient manner possible; provided detailed technical direction and instruction for cube developers; Authored SSRS reporting templates that other report developers used in report development;  Delivered on a complexpiece of custom parallel-periods comparison MDX logic in the Finance PNL cube that satisfied a very intricate business requirement that had to do with dynamic partial period comparisons.  Architected a solution enhancement for the sales compensation analytics area and enhanced the current production internal dynamic SSAS securitymodel to include securityalong several dimensions; authored and proposed an external dynamic security solution model;
  • 6. Lehman Brothers 09/2006 – 04/2007 (HQ) New York, NY Chief Business Intelligence Architect/Consultant  Advised Lehman Brothers on industryBestPractices in regards to data-warehouse design and development;  Development of the architecture of the SSAS cube to model P&L data for credit risk derivatives, fixed income products and other investment products; calculation of complex real-time exposures rates; P&L rollup of accounts using ragged hierarchies and advanced cube design structures; modeling complex investment vehicles in multi-dimensional environment using the Microsoft BI toolset in SSAS 2005; revenue/loss participation ratios; percent contribution and other advanced calculations;  Authored Functional and Technical Specification documents for PALS project (subpart of Alpine), heavy trading desk analytics and resolution of complex performance issues with current reporting logic through stored procedures in Sybase; authored pilot cube simulating exposure rates of credit risk derivatives The Home Depot 09/2005 – 09/2006 (HQ) Atlanta, GA Sr. Business Intelligence Consultant  Advising Home Depoton industry BestPractices in regards to data-warehouse design and development;  Production Engineering, Partitioning VL (11 terabyte backend tables) Microsoft Analysis Services Cubes with DSO and later AMO, creating and authoring automated data-driven top-tier production engineering mechanisms; design of custom aggregations for increase of performance of MSAS cubes;  Authored and coded an Advanced MSAS/SSAS CUBE Aggregation scripting utility which creates XML aggregation stores from production cubes and then reverse-processes those original aggregations back into the cubes (performing a name/vs. ordinal match-up) on demand even after structural changes to the original cubes have been made; used SSRS to model reporting templates for business users and get sign-off;  Designed and developed cubes and data-marts for the supply chain area SSAS 2005 (SPM, RTV, REC); complex metrics; currency conversion paradigms with MDX; customer basket analysis with MDX; ratios with MDX; solving complex supply-chain reporting OLAP modeling issues; ETL with DTS; complex mappings ; complexSQL againstsource in DB2; Designing complex data feeds with AB Initio; creating and adjustment of fact table feeds; Migration of AS 2000 cubes to SSAS 2005 and executing proof-of-concept models in SSAS 2005; migration of production engineering code from DSO to AMO; redesign of cubes and data-marts in the SSAS 2005 environment; creating KPI indicators; working hand-in-hand with Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS);  Provided technical guidance to an offshore resource team of 7 people consisting of ETL developers and QA testers and BA people. Encore Development 12/2004 – 09/2005 Jacksonville, FL Sr. OLAP Developer & BI Consultant Consulting Fortune 1000 clients ofEncore Developmentin Florida;developmentofnew data warehouses and business intelligence custom turn-keysolutions for clients;hands-on leading design and developmentpractices and BI related projectefforts; responsible for logical & physical designs ofOLTP and OLAP related solutions; creating complexdata-feeds with T-SQL and performing data-movementwith the use of DTS; designing and migrating existing business reports to MS Reporting Services;leading reportdesign efforts; building and configuring cubes;configuring SQL Server for high-availability;configuring ‘farm’ type setups for Reporting Services;writing complex MDX for business reports. DOE (State of Florida, Department of Education, FL) Lead Architect for a Data Warehouse Effort for building a data-repositoryfor all FCAT scores ofall Students of all Districts in the State of Florida;currently involved in developing DTS packages for importing data,designing backend tables,staging and cleaning data and other data-movement;deploymentof Microsoft SharePointPortal Server & Reporting Services;
  • 7. Special Note: working directly under/for MCS (Microsoft Consulting Services); This projectis an on-going & very high-profile international-visibilityeffort. R-1 release of this product(Aug. 19) was a resounding Success with Jeb Bush. TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority, TN) Developed reporting engines thattrack Nuclear Facility Government Compliance Standards ofthe organization and coded and deployed a pilotsolution that provided the same functionalityas the client had but with ~9x times more performance scaled x3 on the new Microsoft Reporting Services platform in a ‘farm’ type configuration with 5 currentproduction norm-compliance reports for 5 nuclear facilities coded in MDX and SQL and preciselyexecuted in the Reporting Services environment with code-behind features providing for dynamic SQL assemblyand ultimate flexibility of report-building;Projectwas qualified as a big Success. DME (Daytona Beach, FL) Analyzed KPI reporting data pertaining to reporting metrics of CARMAX Dealership that was the end client and developed and deployed a reporting solution from justthe end-user (manually assembled) Excel Reports; solution included: hands - off ETL (DTS), data-mart tables in SQL Server 2000 with relevant hierarchies and fact- table metrics; report-generating SQL and 5 reports designed in Reporting Services mimicking functionality of the legacy reports; total (all-inclusive) project timeline – 7weeks from start date; Project was qualified as a Success; 8/2004 – 12/2004 Jabil Circuit Inc. (HQ) St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Data warehouse Design Consultant Responsible for the modeling and data architecture of the Corporate Data Warehouse for Jabil Circuit Inc. for capturing calculating and analyzing manufacturing ‘parts and vendor quotes’ information; design of metrics, dimensions; identification of business needs and translation of them into valid technical database designs; designing, coding and implementing Supply-Chain KPI ETL for 550 manufacturing facilities; performance improvementofmission-critical and very complexstored procedures which calculate productprice and cost for the whole product supply chain for all types of inventory and at various stages of the manufacturing process. 6/2004 – 11/2004 Office Depot (HQ) Delray Beach, FL Sr. OLAP Developer/ETL & DW Consultant  Responsible for Migrating Viking Data into Cubes and Creating two Data-marts – ‘Customer’ and ‘Marketing Effort’ used for sales revenue and costanalysis ofa purchased subsidiary‘Viking Products’;  responsible for design ofcubes modeling existing business retail models and practices ofOffice Depot;  creating data-feeds for the ‘Customer’ and ‘Marketing Effort’ Data-marts with DTS sourcing information from SQL Server 2000,ORACLE 9i and Teradata 2.5; and Excel 2000  design ofbase and compound metrics,sets,calculated members,dimensions  performing successful and timelyproduction data-loads into staging and production tables meeting established ETL windows with the use of Data-stage;  performing complexduplicate checking and conditional removal during batch processing;  setting up MS Reporting Services farm for improvementofreport-generating response-times;  analysis and design ofad-hoc querying tool for analysis ofvalue-added marketing campaign efforts relating to catalog mailings ofa purchased subsidiary(Viking Products); implementation of highlyefficient processes 6/2003 – 7/2004 Publix Supermarkets, Inc. (HQ) Lakeland, FL OLAP Data Architect/BI ETL  Responsible for hands-on design,modeling,developmentand VB coding as part of an inside development team delivering OLAP data-martsolutions for various Business Units within Publix;  Involved in requirements gathering;identifying implementation strategies;design ofcubes,dimensions, elements,sets;dimensional modeling ofhighlycomplexbusiness models with OLAP MS Analysis Services cubes; Special Note: working directly under/for MCS (Microsoft Consulting Services)  Partitioning cubes and optimizing performance of5 data-marts (Analysis Services cubes)- totaling 2.4 Terabytes in SQL Server 2000 tables;
  • 8.  Partitioning of large tables;auto partitioning of cubes with DSO; index fine-tuning; dupe removal;handling nulls/unknowns;coding complexbusiness logic rules using MDX functions and calculated sets within the CUBE Editor;  Modeling and Coding ETL data-martloads with 4+ source systems and daily“Hands-off” loading requirements;Designing,coding and implementing Supply-Chain KPIETL for 1000+ Publix stores – complete with store-side Extracts and Corp-side Loads using DTS (MQ Series for file transfers);  Loading data into pre-staging and staging areas,complexcleansing and then loading into corporate cubes for detailed analysis for improvementofInventory productflow Preparing and implementing complex,multi- conditional type1 and type2 corporate dimensional data updates for the Loss -Prevention PharmacyDrug Data-martsystem;Improving dimensional updates and ETL for PIMS system (SQL Server 2000 and DTS with XML):  Tuning High-volume data movementProduction systems for efficiency and performance;dynamic indexand covering index creation;identification of performance bottlenecks and customizing effective solutions for attaining desired performance levels;scripting backups and restores;  DTS scripts & package tuning to narrow processing time windows;streamlining existing SQL Server Stored Procedures for speed and efficiency in performing ETL processes;coding complexand highly successful ActiveX ETL scripts in VBScript within the DTS designer environment;  new design and/or reverse-engineering ofexisting data load processes to gain loading efficiencies in terms of data quality and time loading;  Designed inputconfiguration XML files for DTS packages and defining standards;coding new Stored Procedures for data extracts for new data-marts in development;modeling highlycomplex“Flex-Pricing” data engines thatuse cubes for multi-condition price setting with MDX;  Coding routines in VBScript as needed for complexDTS tasks for key lookups and data cleansing; supporting existing reports in Pro-Clarity5.0;  Custom reports with MicrosoftReporting Services engine;solving heavy production issues (SAP BW3 and DTS)  Defining Info-Sources & transfer rules;use of DTS and XML for performing data loads and extractions into/from SAP and RDAS systems;star schemas; 1/2002 – 6/2003 LA County Public HealthCare Systems LA, California Data-warehouse Database Administration  Responsible for design and implementation ofa multi-million record data warehouse for the Los Angeles County Public HealthCare System;designing data-model,backend schema,inputmethodologies;HIPAA & HL7 conformance; issues related to systems analysis ofvital statistics information as well as patient information from 5 County Hospitals and 16 County Health Centers plus other healthcare-related information in LA County; hands-on design ofCUBES, dimensions,elements,calculated sets;hierarchies;  Complexmodeling ofstatistical figures & mathematical rates with MDX into systems used by epidemiologists and other analytical staff in reporting;  Migrating patientinformation and hospital visitinformation from ORACLE 9i to SQL Server 2000.  Was designated technical Resource with Responsibilityfor bottom-line delivery of high-profile Projects (SQL Server 2000 and DTS):  Analysis Services with SQL Server 2000; heavy use of DTS and DTS package design to clean and pump data into the CUBES;  Data transformation using “transform data”,”data-driven query” and other DTS tasks;writing ActiveX scripts to communicate with and extract data from Excel spreadsheets and other media to integrate into SQL Server 2000 through DTS; developing automation routines with DTS employing SQL Server Agent to extract data from remote locations (ASP with MDX):  Pages that pull information from the cubes on demand,depending on inputfrom the user;designing stored procedures on the SQL Server 2000;  Writing MDX queries for CUBE reports;designing and coding those reports in ASP; deploymentof the Biztalk server for systems integration;  Supervising a developmentteam of five people as partof a data warehousing group. 8/2001 – 1/2002 Healthcare Express LA, California Technical Team Lead ASP: Coded an online server-side Blood air-deliveryStatus Package and flight tracking program with custom client-login driven menu options athttp://www.healthxpress.com ;coded a server-side application for the sales force to track and maintain new customer leads and programmed a reporting interface to monitor sales staff performance and individual status of/notes on the progress ofthose leads.
  • 9. XML & XSL: Designed an XSL style sheetfor several reports that are currently received as a XML stream from outside sources; proposed alterations to the current DTD; coded an invoicing process in XML. PL/SQL: Troubleshooting Data loads performed with SQL*Loader;Creating Stored Procedures in P/L SQL, Packages,Dimensions,Indexes & Materialized Views with OEM; supportof existing and developmentof new reports using Crystal Reports 9. 6/2000 – 7/2001 CBS Studio Center (HQ) LA, California IT Systems Programmer of OLAP & SQL Financial OLAP : Developed and put into production a cube-enabled CBS Studio Center Balance-Sheetand Income Statementon the OLAP TM1 server; administered the TM1 OLAP server; routinely transferred GL figures from the accounting application into the TM1 OLAP server through importlogs;maintained and developed those logs; helped the Financial Planning Departmentputtogether the yearly Corporate Budget. ASP & ASP.NET: Developed and launched a companystore web site in ASP; maintained the companyweb site at in ASP; Developed and deployed into production an online Employee Directory; developed and deployed into production an online ProjectScheduler for keeping track of the details ofactivities going towards specific projects (coded in VB.NET); developed an online PO system (in ASP); SQL Server 7 and DTS: Deployed the SQL 7.0 on a test server and tested systems data conversion to the new DBMS; wrote stored procedures & triggers;fine-tuned queries;setup indexes;configured access rights and permissions;converted and imported tables with DTS; setup full search capability;improved query performance; developed tables and setup relationships and keys 5/1998 – 7/2000 Courtesy Mortgage Associates Orange Park, FL IT Programmer/SQL Financial OLAP: Performed fine-tuning of OLAP SQL databases (“data-marts”);performed indexing oftables; designed a payroll CUBE for monitoring changes in payroll cash outflow over time;performed relational modeling; performed systems tuning ofTM1 CUBES; designed dimensions,elements and wrote importlogs for accounting systems integration with the DSS. SQL Server 7 & ASP: Designed a backend relational model for a shopping web-site;designed a backend relational model and coded an E-commerce site (in ASP); designed a backend relational model and coded an EquipmentInventory Application (in ASP); wrote a mortgage program (in ASP) and performed consulting services at client sites;maintained companydatabases in SQL 7.0; wrote triggers and stored procedures for ensuring referential integrity; wrote ad hoc queries on an "as needed"basis. 8/1996 – 5/1998 Delaware Savings Bank Jacksonville, Florida OLAP Analyst/SQL SQL Server 6.5 and SQL: Provided assistance to the DBA with compiling reports to the end users;wrote SQL statements to generate reports;assisted in OLAP cube design on the TM1 server; assembled dimensions and hierarchies;tested integrityof keys; resolved reporting issues. TM1 OLAP & VBA: Cube access problems;tested stored procedures and triggers and CUBE rules on the test servers to ensure correctreporting with respectto deployed applications in VBA and ASP; by the DBA. Education: 1996 BA Major - Management, Minor - Computer Science University of North Florida