1. Azhar Mohammed 413-551-9855
(Informatica Admin/Analyst)
azharuddin.mohammed@gmail.com
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Summary:
9 years of experience in IT Industry with experience in analysis, design, testing,
development, documentation and implementation of client server applications.
4+ years of Informatica Admin Experience using Informatica Power Center 9.5/9.1/8.5/7.1,
Power Exchange 9.5/9.1/8.6/8.0, Warehouse Designer, Power Connect, Power Plug, ETL,
Datamart, TIDAL, OLAP, OLTP, Business Objects 5.1/5.0 (Web-Intelligence 2.5, Designer
5.0, and Developer Suite & Set Analyzer 2.0).
1+ years of IDQ experience.
4 years of work experience in Oracle 9i/8i/8.0/7.3, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Loader, Stored
Procedures, TOAD, Explain Plan, TKPROF Functions, Ref Cursors, Constraints, Triggers,
Indexes-B-tree Index, Bitmap Index, Views, Inline Views, Materialized Views, Database
Links, Export/Import Utilities.
Strong analytical and conceptual skills in database design and development using Oracle
9i/8i/8.0/7.3, MS Access, MS Excel, Sybase 12.0/11.x/10, MS SQL Server 2000/7.0/6.5/6.0,
DB2.
Installation and upgrade of Informatica Version 9.5/9.1 and version and 8.6 on
Solaris/Linux/AIX/Windows.
Responsible for interacting with business partners to identify information needs and business
requirements for reports.
Technical Summary:
Data Warehousing Informatica (PowerCenter 9.5/9.1//8.6, Informatica PowerMart
5.1.2/5.0/4.7.2, Data Warehousing Designer, Mapping Designer,
Transformations), HA Recovery, Server Grid, TIDAL Scheduler 2.5,
Siebel 2000, Datamart, OLAP, OLTP, SQL*Plus, SQL*Loader, WS_FTP
Pro 9.0.
Databases Oracle 11g/9i/8i, MS SQL Server 2000/7.0/6.5/6.0, Sybase 12.0/11.x/10,
DB2, MS Access 7.0/’97/2000, MS Excel VBA
BI Tools Business Objects 5.1/5.0, Business Objects SDK, Web Intelligence
2.5/2.6, Info view 1.0 and, Business Objects Designer 5.1, Business Minor
4.2, BO Developer Suite (Broadcast Agent, Supervisor, Designer, Info
View), Business Objects Universe Developer, Crystal Reports 4.0/6.0,
Business Objects Reporting, MS Access Reports
Data Modeling Erwin 4.0, Designer 2000, Star Schema, Snowflake Schema
Programming Java 2.0, ASP, HTML, SQL Server 7.0, Oracle 8.0, Unix Shell Scripting,
Korn Shell, SQL, SQL-Plus, PL/SQL, XML.
Environment Win 3.x/95/98/XP/2000, Win NT 4.0, Sun Solaris 2.6/2.7, Unix, MS-DOS
6.22.
Education:
M.S in Electrical Engineering – Detroit, MI Apr 2002
2. *****The reason I have gaps in projects as I was taking breaks for 4-6 months for travelling
for religious and personal reasons within and out of the country.*******
Professional Experience:
Cleveland Clinic Nov 14 – Present.
Cleveland, OH
Informatica Admin
This project centered on the installation of Informatica and it utilized capabilities of Informatica
Data Quality tools like MRS, DIS, Analyst tool. Responsible for the overall health of the
Informatica system working with PowerCenter and IDQ.
Responsibilities:
Experience with Informatica 9.1/9.5 server administration.
Configured and installed Informatica MDM hub server, cleanse server, resource kit in
development
Upgraded for different versions of informatica. (v8.6 to v9.1) (v9.1 to v9.5)
Experience in Informatica repository trouble shooting, creation, Backup and Restore
Experience in monitoring informatica repository health through informatica admin console
Experience with PowerExchange for Tableau, Informatica Data Explorer (IDE), Informatica
Data Quality (IDQ), Metadata Manager, and Pushdown Optimization.
Installed the v9.1/v9.5 Powercenter on AIX.
Performance tuning of Oracle PL/SQL Scripts
Environment: Informatica 9.5, Informatica Multi domain MDM 9.5.0,Informatica Developer 9.5,
Oracle 10g, AIX, UNIX Shell Scripting, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Plus 9.2, TOAD 8.0.
CVS Health Apr 15 – Jul 14.
Buffalo Grove, IL
Production Support Analyst
This project was involved on doing production support for the application that was written in Java,
and 80%+ of the data processing it does is done with Informatica ETL’s.
Responsibilities:
Experience with Integration tools such as Network Automation’s Automate or IBM’s Cast Iron
Informatica ETL troubleshooting and development.
Debugging and troubleshooting skills with ability to read and write complex SQL statements.
Highly skilled on databases, SQL queries, writing complex joins.
Performance tuning of Oracle PL/SQL Scripts
Environment: Informatica 9.5, Oracle 10g, AIX, UNIX Shell Scripting, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Plus
9.2, TOAD 8.0.
Accenture Nov 14 – Mar 15.
Chicago, IL
Informatica Senior Developer Analyst
This was Full time role with Accenture but they were not able to find a project anything locally for
me and we to travel but the position I accepted as they said this was going to be locally within
Chicago, but when they were not able to find anything within Chicago they let me go.
AJG Oct 13 – Mar 14.
Chicago, IL
Integration Specialist
3. This project was involved on working on IBM’s Cast Iron writing SQL queries and complex joins.
Responsibilities:
Experience with Integration tools such as Network Automation’s Automate or IBM’s Cast Iron
Knowledge of file transfer mechanisms.
Knowledge of Encryption mechanisms.
Used SSIS ETL for data migration from different sources like flat files, excel sheets and
Oracle DB’s to client specific SQL server DB’s hosted locally.
Created SSIS Packages by using advanced tools (i.e. pivot Transformation, Derived
Columns, Condition Split, Term extraction, Aggregations, Multicasting).
Highly skilled on databases, SQL queries, writing complex joins.
Performance tuning of Oracle PL/SQL Scripts
Environment: MS SQL Server 2012/2008R2, T-SQL, Tableau, SSIS, Tortoise SVN, SSRS, MS
Excel, Visio,
MWV Oct 12 – Feb 13.
Richmond, VA
Informatica Admin
This project centered on the installation of Informatica and it utilized capabilities of Informatica
Data Quality tools like MRS, DIS, Analyst tool.
Responsibilities:
Experience with Informatica 9.1/9.5 server administration.
Configured and installed Informatica MDM hub server, cleanse server, resource kit in
development
Upgraded for different versions of informatica. (v8.6 to v9.1) (v9.1 to v9.5)
Experience in Informatica repository trouble shooting, creation, Backup and Restore
Experience in monitoring informatica repository health through informatica admin console
Experience with PowerExchange for SAP/webMethods, Informatica Data Explorer (IDE),
Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), Metadata Manager, and Pushdown Optimization.
Installed the v9.1/v9.5 Powercenter on AIX.
Performance tuning of Oracle PL/SQL Scripts
Environment: Informatica 9.1.0,Oracle 10g, AIX, UNIX Shell Scripting, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Plus
9.2, TOAD 8.0.
DPSG, Dallas, TX Jul ’12 – Oct 12
Informatica Admin
Dr Pepper Snapple Group is a leading producer of flavored beverages in North America and the
Caribbean. Dr Pepper has 6 of the top 10 non-cola soft drinks, and 9 of our 12 leading brands are
No. 1 in their flavor categories.
Responsibilities:
Experience with Informatica 9.1 server administration.
Upgraded for different versions of informatica. (v8.6 to v9.1)
Experience in Informatica repository trouble shooting, creation, Backup and Restore
Experience in monitoring informatica repository health through informatica admin console
Experience with PowerExchange for SAP/webMethods, Informatica Data Explorer (IDE),
Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), Metadata Manager, and Pushdown Optimization.
Installed the v9.1 Powercenter on AIX.
Performance tuning of Oracle PL/SQL Scripts
4. Environment: Informatica 9.1.0/8.6.1, Oracle 10g, AIX, UNIX Shell Scripting, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL
Plus 9.2, TOAD 8.0.
YellowBook, KOP, PA May ’10 – Jun ‘12
BI Foundation
Informatica Admin
Yellowbook is a 360-degree marketing company that has been helping small businesses grow
and succeed for the last 80 years.Yellowbook offers a full spectrum of marketing tools and
services that go Beyond Yellow to lead our clients to success, now and in the future. Provided
administration support on Informatica Powercenter. Support consisted of application development
and production support,deploying middleware applications, capacity planning, problem resolution,
on-call production support, and documenting standards and procedures.
Responsibilities:
Informatica administrator of the Informatica repository Service and Informatica Integration
Service.
Responsible for migrations/upgrades for different versions of informatica. (v8.6 to v9.1)
Configured the HA/Grid setup for High Availability and recoverability.
Responsible for Software/application configuration management.
Wrote scripts to monitor the application. (Repository Service and Integration Service).
Responsible for overall of all Informatica development.
Performance tuned the long running sessions.
Installed software upgrades and patches.
Responsible for applying EBF.
Installed the v9.1 Powercenter on Linux.
Performance tuning of Oracle PL/SQL Scripts
Environment: Informatica 9.1.0/8.6.1, Oracle 11g, RedHat Linux, UNIX Shell Scripting, SQL,
PL/SQL, SQL Plus 9.2, TOAD 8.0.
LockHeed Martin, Baltimore, MD Apr ’09 – May ‘10
CMS NDW Project
DW Support Analyst/ Informatica Admin
Lockheed Martin operates CMS’ largest data center under its Enterprise Data Center contract.
The purpose of the NDW contract is to help the Medicare program accommodate a growing
claims volume, standardize operations, expand e-health services, bolster security and lower
costs. The CDS data center is not only one of the largest data centers in the world for health
information, but built for scalability and flexibility depending on customer requirements.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for program and project management support for the CMS NDW for Department
of Health and Human Services.
Informatica administrator of the Informatica repository server and Informatica pmserver
Responsible for migrations/upgrades for different versions of informatica. (v7 to v8.5)
Functioning in a business analyst role by interfacing with traders and other users to identify
gaps between the new and old securities end to end system, and introducing enhancements
to the new system’s securities pricing processes.
Responsible for overall of all Informatica development.
Responsible for migrations/upgrades for different versions of informatica. (v7 to v8.5)
Performance tuning of Oracle PL/SQL Scripts
Environment: Informatica 8.6.1, Oracle 11g, Windows NT 4.0, UNIX Shell Scripting, SQL,
PL/SQL, SQL Plus 9.2, TOAD 8.0.
5. Dun & Bradstreet, Parsipanny, NJ Jan 09 – Apr 09
Informatica Admin
D&B (NYSE:DNB) is the world’s leading source of commercial information and insight on
businesses, enabling companies to Decide with Confidence.
Provided primary middleware administration support with a primary focus on Informatica.
Middleware support consists of application development and production support,
software/application configuration management, installing software upgrades and patches,
deploying middleware applications, ensuring high-availability and recoverability, application
monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, problem resolution, on-call production
support, and documenting standards and procedures
Responsibilities:
Responsible for applying EBF and Upgrading Informatica from version 7.1.3 to 8.1 then onto
8.5 and 8.6.
Informatica administrator of the Informatica repository server and Informatica pmserver
Responsible for migrations/upgrades for different versions of informatica. (v7 to v8.5)
Performance tuning was done for various complex mappings (facts and dimension maps) to
reduce the load time.
Responsible for configuring the Server Grid/HA Recovery and set the sessions to recover
automatically in case of any failure which are configured on a 4 node Grid.
Responsible for registering the AS400 tables for changed data capture using power
exchange and creating PowerExchange CDC maps.
Environment: Informatica 8.6.1, Oracle 11g, Windows NT 4.0, UNIX Shell Scripting, SQL,
PL/SQL, SQL Plus 9.2, TOAD 8.0.
JP MORGAN CHASE, Houston, Texas Jul 04 – Jul 08
Informatica Admin
High-profile, multi-million dollar project to decommission a major legacy system. Team’s specific
objective is to distribute data from a third party vendor to a large number of downstream
applications based on the downstream application user’s individual functional specifications
Responsibilities:
Responsible for overall delivery of all Informatica development done locally and in New York
Responsible for providing knowledge transfer and mentoring junior developers with new
versions of informatica, Grid functionality and HA Recovery.
Created Test Strategies, Test Plans and assisted the manager in generating estimates based
on approved BRD.
Responsible for creating comprehensive test artifacts (test plans, test cases, bug reports,
etc.) and documented ETL Test Plans.
Responsible for testing different versions of informatica and resolving the issues identified in
the new version with the Informatica Support Team.
Functioning in a business analyst role by interfacing with traders and other users to identify
gaps between the new and old securities end to end system, and introducing enhancements
to the new system’s securities pricing processes.
Improved development time by leveraging metadata, and reduced IT coordination costs by
providing a common working business model across the Company’s enterprise architecture.
Working directly with traders to automate manual processes that previously caused losses in
revenue
6. Leading the day-to-day functions of a four person operate team that is responsible for the
support of the Informatica application delivered in Phase I of the project.
Designed architecture of Informatica and database environments for development, test and
production.
Performance tuning of Oracle PL/SQL Scripts
Designed and developed UNIX shell scripts.
Optimized/Tuned mappings for better performance and efficiency
Created complex joins, transformations of all types to pass data through ETL maps.
Acting as technical lead in Informatica, assisting in implementation of best practices,
development standards, migration, and operating procedures
Mentoring other Informatica Power Center developers
Upgraded the application from informatica v6 to v7.
Involved in fixing invalid Mappings, testing of Stored Procedures and Functions, Unit and
Integration Testing of Informatica Sessions, Batches and the Target Data.
Used UNIX Shell scripting for automation of the process, invoking PL/SQL procedures, and
Informatica sessions.
Did Unit/Stress Testing for the entire application.
Environment: Informatica 8.5.1/7.1.2/6.2, Oracle 9i/10g, DB2,MS SQL Server 2000, Windows
NT 4.0, UNIX Shell Scripting, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Plus 9.2, TOAD 8.0.