1. Thameem Ansari P
Mobile: 9884850128
Email:p.thameemansari@gmail.com
248.786.2500
Career Objective
To be associated with a progressive organization that gives me a scope to apply my knowledge,
skills and to involve in a team that dynamically works towards the growth of the organization.
Professional Summary
Having 3.9 years of IT experience in design, development and implementation of Business
Intelligence & Data Warehousing (BI/DW) applications in client/server environment using
Cognos 7.4/8.4/10.1 (Cognos Connection, Query Studio, Report Studio) and SAP Business
Objects XIR3(Universe Designer, Web Intelligence, InfoView).
IBM Certified Professional in Cognos BI 10 Report Studio.
Good experience in building standard reports, charts, drill through reports, master detail
reports and bursting reports using Cognos Report Studio and Query Studio.
Designed, implemented and migrated complex Universes and Business Objects Reports,
Created classes, subclasses, objects, Cardinalities, Conditions, Contexts, Joins, External
Strategies, Prompts and Aliases for resolving Loops and checked the Integrity of the
Universes.
Excellent communication and reporting skills to update management on project status,
including work estimates, updates etc.
Involved in data Extraction, Load and Transation using informatica 9.1
Designed mappings, workflows and sessions using Informatica 9.1
Ability to meet deadlines and handle multiple tasks, flexible in work schedules and possess
good communication skills.
Worked in Control-M/Enterprise Manager GUI which allows enterprise users to schedule and
control complex BIRA job batches in FDW 2.0 Production environment.
Worked on multiple projects and delivered in time.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (EEE), 2006 - 2010
KCG College of Technology, Chennai Affiliated to Anna University
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Technical Skills
ETL Tool Informatica Powercenter Workflow Monitor (9.5, 9.1.0, 8.6.1)
Front-end Tools Micro Focus Rumba Desktop 8.0.
Reporting Tool Cognos Report studio, Cognos Analysis Studio, Cognos Query studio,
Cognos Event Studio, Cognos Impromptu, Cognos Upfront, Impromptu
Web Reports (IWR), BO Universe Designer,BO Desktop Intelligence,BO
Web Intelligence,BO GUI.
Databases IBM Optim Database Admin, IBM Optim Development Studio 2.2.1.0
,WinSQL Professional V7.0,MS SQL Server 2000/2005, and Oracle
(8i,9i,10g,11g).
Other Tools and
Controls
HP Service Manager, Control-M/Enterprise Manager GUI, EMS Visio,
BEST Tool(BMC Performance Assurance Console),DB2 Command Editor.
Other Applications Attachmate Reflection FTP/SSH Client, Putty, UltraEdit, Sharepoint Server
2.0, Snagit 10,Netop Remote Control.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Project # 1 (Jun 2014 – Till Date)
Title iSEIT Cognos Report Development
Client State Farm Insurance, Bloomington
Role Cognos Report Developer.
Environment Cognos 10.2/10.1.1/10.1(Cognos Connection, Report Studio and Query
Studio), WinSQL.
Project Description:
This is State Farm Migration project for Cognos reports from Cognos Version 8.4 to Cognos 10.1.1.This
project involves collecting all the information stored in database iSEIT and converting them into simplified
cognos reports for business partner analysis.
Responsibilities:
Developed Drill through and Drill Down Reports in Cognos 10.1.1
Developed Prompt Page Reports using Conditional blocks and Conditional Variables
Created Cascading Prompts, Filters, and Calculations in the Report Studio reports.
Created filters, prompts, and complex financial calculations in Report Studio.
Developed Gage charts, bar charts and micro charts to display value ranges.
Validated application level data with database.
Used WinSQL Professional to query and validate database schema between the application and
Oracle.
Participated in meeting with Functional people (Business Analysts) to get the functional
specifications.
Maintained healthy relation with Business Users.
Fixed many Production issues and Bugs using CMRs (Change Management Request) and
coordinated with Admin team in migrations.
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Project # 2 (Jan 2014 – May 2014)
Title iSEIT Cognos Report Migration
Client State Farm Insurance, Bloomington
Role Cognos Report Developer.
Environment Cognos 10.2/10.1.1/10.1(Cognos Connection, Report Studio and Query
Studio), WinSQL.
Project Description:
This is State Farm Migration project for Cognos reports from Cognos Version 8.4 to Cognos 10.1.1.This
project involves collecting all the information stored in database iSEIT and converting them into simplified
cognos reports for business partner analysis.
Responsibilities:
Developed Drill through and Drill Down Reports in Cognos 10.1.1
Developed Prompt Page Reports using Conditional blocks and Conditional Variables
Created Cascading Prompts, Filters, and Calculations in the Report Studio reports.
Created filters, prompts, and complex financial calculations in Report Studio.
Developed Gage charts, bar charts and micro charts to display value ranges.
Validated application level data with database.
Used WinSQL Professional to query and validate database schema between the application and
Oracle.
Participated in meeting with Functional people (Business Analysts) to get the functional
specifications.
Maintained healthy relation with Business Users.
Fixed many Production issues and Bugs using CMRs (Change Management Request) and
coordinated with Admin team in migrations.
Project # 3 (Jan 2013 – Dec 2013)
Title Service Management Cognos Report Development
Client State Farm Insurance, Bloomington
Role Cognos Report Developer.
Environment Cognos 10.2/10.1.1/10.1(Cognos Connection, Report Studio and Query
Studio), WinSQL.
Project Description:
This is State Farm Migration project for Cognos reports from Cognos Version 8.4 to Cognos 10.1.1.This
project involves collecting all the information stored in database for using HP Service Manager Tool and
converting them into simplified cognos reports for business partner analysis. The Purpose of this project is
to Convert the Oracle Database Reports to DB2 Database Reports.This conversion will involve all
managements used in HPSM tool like Change Management,Request Management,Service Desk
Analysis,Configuration Management,Problem Management which is considered as business requirement
for cognos reports.
Responsibilities:
Received Appreciation Certificate from Client Team.
Worked with Cognos 10 BI Report Studio, Analysis Studio.
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Developed Drill through and Drill Down Reports in Cognos 10.1.1 Staging Environment.
Created highly customized reports in Cognos 10 Report Studio and some of the Ad-hoc reports in
Query Studio.
Developed Prompt Page Reports using Conditional blocks and Conditional Variables
Created Cascading Prompts, Filters, and Calculations in the Report Studio reports.
Created filters, prompts, and complex financial calculations in Report Studio.
Developed Gage charts, bar charts and micro charts to display value ranges.
Validated application level data with database.
Validated report level data in Dev environment (DB2 Source) with report level data in
Simprod environment (Oracle Source).
Used WinSQL Professional to query and validate database schema between the application and
Oracle.
Participated in meeting with Functional people (Business Analysts) to get the functional
specifications.
Maintained healthy relation with Business Users.
Fixed many Production issues and Bugs using CMRs (Change Management Request) and
coordinated with Admin team in migrations.
Project # 4 (Sep 2012 – Dec 2012)
Title DIS 2nd Level Help Desk
Client State Farm Insurance, Bloomington
Role Change Agent, Incident Support Analyst, Problem Analyst, Service
Desk Analyst
Environment Control-M/Enterprise Manager GUI, BEST Tool(BMC Performance
Assurance Console), Micro Focus Rumba Desktop 8.0, Attachmate
Reflection FTP/SSH Client, UltraEdit, Informatica Powercenter Workflow
Monitor (9.1.0,8.6.1), IBM Optim Database Admin, IBM Optim
Development Studio 2.2.1.0
Project Description:
This is Statefarm support project involves monitoring complex production workflows and host jobs
using Control-M Tool and Mainframe Rumba.
Responsibilities:
Working with different application teams on supporting their daily/monthly job run and
finding issues in case of any abend.
Performing appropriate recovery actions for the abended jobs as suggested by application
team owners.
Interacted with Application team for submitting BIRA/Host jobs in the Active Job files for execution,
tracking jobs, and analyzing execution results.
Worked in Control-M/Enterprise Manager GUI which allows enterprise users to schedule and
control complex BIRA job batches in FDW 2.0 Production environment.
Attending Daily BIRA Ops Meeting with all application teams to discuss on their daily abended jobs
and recovery actions.
Also attending emergency meeting with DB2 database owners if FDW 2.0 environment is down.
Rerunning/Bypassing/Forcing/Deleting/Holding/Confirming Workflow jobs in BMC Control-M
Enterprise Manager.
Verifying Sysout/View JCL script for job failure error message.
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Use BMC Control-M/Forecast to verify schedules and observe simulated job flow
Define and manage prerequisite conditions in Control M.
Worked in Micro Focus Rumba Desktop to monitor Host jobs running in FDW1.0 Production
environment.
Submitting On request jobs for application teams to perform some specific tasks to complete job
like updating status code to force complete job.
Intimating application owners to update host job information if ROUTE/BLDDOC for job is missing
or incorrect.
To Keep track of Monthly Host/BIRA jobs till completion.
Monitoring BIRA CPU Utilization(BIRA Servers) in BEST Tool so that if any server usage is high,
need to create a task to find the root cause.
Project # 5 (Jun 2012 – Aug 2012)
Title RAS Strategic Migration
Client State Farm Insurance, Bloomington
Role Business Objects Report and Universe Developer
Environment BO XIR3(Business Objects Universe Designer, Web Intelligence, Desktop
Intelligence, InfoView),WinSQL.
Project Description:
This effort will migrate the Risk Analysis System (RAS) from FDW 1.0 (Datamart) to FDW 2.0 (BIRA
Environment).Involves migrating 4 universes containing around 4500 objects and 710 BO Reports for
14 regions.
This universe will be utilized to report on the recommended actions, final actions and differences
between these actions by various organization, product and policy dimensional objects. At a more
detailed level, the universe will be utilized to display the reunderwriting event (trigger and associated
policies) and the specific characteristics of each policy in that event.Each Region are subcategorized
by 4 types of reports like Daily, Monthly, Weekly, Annual.
Responsibilities:
Extensively worked with Business Team and Functional Team to review business requirements,
and Functional clarifications.
Prepared Universe Mapping Documents by reviewing FDW 1.0 Auto and Fire universe design.
Responsible for creating and maintaining all testing documentation including test cases, test
scripts, and test task lists.
Created Complex Universe Design, Complex reports in Cognos Report Studio and Ad-hoc reports
in Query Studio.
Imported required database tables/views for the universe under BO Universe Designer.
Created Alias and Derived tables for these tables so that it can be used as replication
Created around 4500 objects for each Auto and Fire universe and simultaneously validated these
objects for any parsing error.
Constructed around 98 Joins for these tables and validated those joins for any Closed Loop
issue.
Responsible for the daily, weekly, monthly, Quarterly and Year End Reports for business needs.
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Project # 6 (Jan 2012 – Jun 2012)
Title Mutual funds,Stocks & Bounds
Client State Farm Insurance, Bloomington
Role Cognos Report Developer
Environment Cognos 8.4/7.4, Cognos Connection, Report Studio, Impromptu
Administrator, LDAP, WinSQL.
Project Description:
This Statefarm project dealt with conversion of investment reports for investment Accounting from
COGNOS Impromptu fat client report writer to next version of COGNOS (COGNOS 8).
Responsibilities:
Developed around 410 Reports in Cognos 8 Report Studio.
Developed Prompt Page Reports using Conditional blocks and Conditional Variables
Created Cascading Prompts, Filters, and Calculations in the Report Studio reports.
Created folders, filters, prompts, and complex financial calculations in Report Studio.
Use WinSQL Plus to query and validate database schema between the application and Oracle.
Documented build and deployment procedure and performed knowledge transfer to client upon
successful completion of implementation.
Project # 7 (Mar 2011 – Jan 2012)
Title Investment Data Mart Cognos Report Development
Client State Farm Insurance, Bloomington
Role Cognos Report Developer
Environment Cognos 8.4/7.4, Cognos Connection, Report Studio, Impromptu
Administrator, LDAP, WinSQL.
Project Description:
This Statefarm project deal with conversion of investment reports for investment Accounting from
COGNOS Impromptu fat client report writer to next version of COGNOS (COGNOS 8).
Responsibilities:
Developed around 200 Reports in Cognos 8 Report Studio.
Developed Prompt Page Reports using Conditional blocks and Conditional Variables
Created Cascading Prompts, Filters, and Calculations in the Report Studio reports.
Created folders, filters, prompts, and complex financial calculations in Report Studio.
Use WinSQL Plus to query and validate database schema between the application and Oracle.
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Documented build and deployment procedure and performed knowledge transfer to client upon
successful completion of implementation.
In House Training - Dec 2010 to Feb 2011
Project
Abstract
A progressive experience as a Programmer Analyst Trainee, and Undergone
Professional Training in HTC Global Services (SEI - CMM Level 5) on below
technologies,
Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g,Oracle Forms/Graphic Designer.
Software Management skills such as Organization behavior, Quality
Management, Project Management, Business management and SDLC
Personal Information
Date of Birth : 22 - 01 - 1989
Sex : Male
Nationality : Indian
Language Known : Tamil , English and Hindi
Marital Status : Married
Declaration
I assure that the above-furnished details are true to the best of my knowledge.
Thameem Ansari P