Resume for BI Consultant/Analyst

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Pragnya Puspita Padhi
BI Analyst/Consultant
Email ID:pragnyapuspita.padhi@gmail.com
Mobile: 0451310990
Professional Summary:
 Around 8 Years of experience (1 year in Australia) in complete software development life cycle from
installation, configuration, gathering requirements to Design Documents and Develop reports in various Bi tools
like IBM Cognos BI 10.1/10.2/8.4,MS BI, Business Object, PowerPivot.
 Analytics on various business areas under Education, Retail and Reinsurance domain to provide Business
Intelligence solutions using various BI Modeling tools.
 Responsible for data Extract, Transformation and loading process.
 Responsible for Reconciling the raw data using BI modeling tools to do the data integrity
 Subject matter Expert for Performance tuning and Optimization of Cubes.
 Responsible for end-to-end project implementations and involved rigorously in client interactions to understand business
requirements and discuss design Technical document, BI model and system test plans.
 Designed and Developed Active Reports, Dashboards & DMR Reports using BI Tools.
 Actively involved in BI Administration and User Security.
 End-to end configuration and development of Audit Reports
 Around 1 years of work experience as BI On-Off Coordinator in Sweden.
 Flexibility and adaptability in regards with new technologies and environments. A quick learner with the ability to
work under pressure and meet deadlines.
 Hands on experience in TM1
Technical Certifications:
 IBM Cognos BI Author
 IBM Cognos BI Metadata
 ITIL V3
 NRF (National Retail Federation)
 Sun Certified
Work Experience:
 Worked as BI Developer in Study Group, Sydney from July 2015 to March 2016
 Worked as BI Developer for ActiveCube Pty Ltd in Sydney from March 2015 to June 2015
 Worked as Cognos Application Developer for IBM India Pvt. Ltd. from November 2012 to Dec 2014.
 Worked as Onsite coordinator for IKEA Sweden from HCL Technologies Pvt. Ltd from May 2009 to Dec 2011 in
Helsingborg, Sweden.
 Worked as Lead Engineer for HCL Technologies Pvt. Ltd. India since August 2007 till September 2012.
Technical Skills Summary:
BI Tools
Database
Tools
Administrative tools
Languages
Operating System
Methodologies
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IBM Cognos BI 10.2/10.1/8.4, SSIS/SSRS/Visual Studio 2012,PowerPivot
SQL Server Management, Oracle 9i/10G/11G
IBM Cognos BI 10.1/10.2.1,8.4, IBM Cognos Insight,SSRS/Visual Studio,
SQL Server Management, SQL Server 2012 Report Builder, TOAD, MS Visio,
MS Excel 2012
BMC Remedy, HP Quality Center, VSS, Clearcase, Clearquest
SQL, PLSQL, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, UNIX Shell Scripts
Windows XP/7/8, UNIX
Waterfall & Agile methodologies
Projects Handled in Sydney, Australia:
1. Project : Study Group, Australia
Development/Application Support/Maintenance/Enhancements
Duration July 2015 to Present
Environment : IBM Cognos BI v 10.2.1, Framework Manager, Transformer Model,

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SSRS/Visual Studio 2012,SQL Server Management, SQL Server 2012 Report
Builder, IBM Cognos Insight, PowerPivot.
Role : BI Developer
Project Description
Study Group is World’s largest private education company with 50+ Centres in 8 different countries like Australia, New
Zealand, US, UK, Canada, Ireland and Netherlands. It has sales office in 30 different countries and where students are
coming from 170 countries. SG educates students from every corner of the globe enabling them to realise their potential
through a transformational learning experience.
Responsibilities:
 Perform end-to-end task from data integrity, report development, data validation, report deployment, security and
Administration.
 Good understanding of different business areas in education domain
 Data analytic on Student Volume, Enrolments, Booking, Finance, Payment Gateway, Sales and Payroll.
 Design Absolute and Normalised reports based on Headcount and FTE.
 Responsible for Student Scorecarding and KPI (Compliance, Customer, Operations) reports
 Active involvement in user training, Application support and data integrity process.
 Design and Developed Active Reports, Map reports, Dashboards & DMR Reports.
 Configure and design Audit reports
 Design reports in PowerPivot for Ad hoc, on-Off data analysis
 Report validation using SSRS and SQL Server Report builder/Workspace Advance.
 Handling BI Administration and user Security, Data Modelling and Report tuning process
 Design batch file for each cube and schedule in Task Scheduler for cube build.
 Responsible for new data source creation for archive reports.
Key Achievement
 Successfully complete GroupKPI project.
 Successfully designed Active reports for Sales League.
 Successfully setup cognos administration/security for Study group users.
 Successfully configured cognos in BI development environment.
 Successfully implement cognos Audit reports
2. Project : Active Cube, Australia
Development /Enhancements
Duration April 2015 to June 2015
Environment : IBM Cognos BI v 10.1, Framework Manager, Transformer
Role : BI Developer
Responsibilities:
 Model design and report development as and when required.
 Extensively worked on BI Modeling tools and report development.
 Have developed various BI Reports and Dashboards with advanced customization using built in features and Java Scripts.
Projects Handled in IBM India:
1. Project : XL Capital Reinsurance
Application Support/Maintenance/Enhancements for Project
Duration : Jan 2014 to Dec 2014
Environment : IBM Cognos BI v 10.1, Framework Manager, Transformer Cube, Cognos
Workspace Advance
Role : Cognos Application Developer
Project Description
Xl Capital is the reinsurance company which insure other company and keeps records of all the claim records. Insured
amount along with Paid and reserve amount.
There are mainly 5 Dashboard, Performance Dashboard, Analytic Dashboard, Finance dashboard, Losses and large Claim
Movement Dashboard. Borker/Cedent Dashboard.
Responsibilities
 Interacting with Business Users and Analyst for clear understanding of insurance domain.
 Responsible for translating business requirements into technical solution using various s products.
 Data integrity, Data Security and data model design

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 Data Model, Reports and Source data tuning.
Key Achievements
 Successful cognos report migrations from cognos 8v4 to cognos 10.2.1
 Successfully configured Audit package in cognos environments.
 Successfully designed financial dashboards and DMR reports.
2. Project : IKEA POBOS
Application Support/Maintenance/Enhancements for Project
Duration : Nov 2012 to Dec 2013
Environment : IBM Cognos BI 10.1, Business Object, Framework Manager
Role : Cognos Application Developer
Project Description
POBOS is for IKEA IT Sweden. The scope of this project is to migrate BO reports to Cognos reports maintaining the same
functionality and business logic as per the BO report. It also involves creating some Cognos reports as per the business
specification. The core reporting tool used in this application is Cognos BI and Business Object.
Responsibilities
 Implementing the Business logic in IBM Cognos as per the BO report.
 Report Migration from Cognos 8 to Cognos 10 environment.
 Responsible for DMR report design and performance tuning.
 Involved with IBM and Client Review process.
Key Achievements
 Successfully changed BO reports to Cognos reports
 Successfully design Bi models and dashboards.
Projects Handled in HCL Technologies India: (IKEA Sweden)
1. Project : IKEA Customs Applications Reporting Enhancements
Application Support/Maintenance/Enhancements for Projects
Duration : Jun 2010 to Sept 2012
Environment : Oracle Forms and Reports, Oracle 10G, Cognos BI, SQL Server
Role : Onshore-Off Shore Coordinator
Project Description
Customs Project consists of three applications CAIS, CUST and CUSIN. It involves complete business logic for transferring
goods from one port to another for business. The application runs on Oracle technologies. The core reporting tool used in
this application is Cognos BI and lots of interactive reports, Scheduled reports and Burst Reports are being used by the
user. Project consisted of building new reports and dashboards for Customs data
Responsibility
 Worked closely with clients from onshore (Sweden) on business requirements and implementations.
 Interacting with Business Users and Analyst for immediate application support
 Involved with user training process and On-Off coordination.
 Performance Tuning for SQL scripts and BI Reports.
 Defect analyses / fixes, code review and value additions to the work done by sub ordinates.
 Creation/modifications of Oracle forms, DB Packages, Procedures, Functions, Triggers, etc.
 SLF activities and CR Development related team management.
 Release management and version handling
Key Achievements
 Successfully handles On-Off coordination
 Successfully manage release Msanagement, Problem Management and Incident Management.
Note: More details will be provided if required for old projects.
Referee will be available as request