1. VIKRAM SOUNDARARAJAN
Redmond, WA 425-533-4969 vikramnkl@gmail.com
Professional Summary:
Over 9.3 years of IT experience in developing complex distributed applications, system design, system
analysis using Microsoft .NET and extensive database programming using SQL Server.
Possessed tremendous Microsoft BI knowledge: Power BI, and Power Pivot from my 3+ years of BI
project experience gained.
Strong knowledge in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) from creating ETL frameworks for
extracting data from different source systems such as relational data, multidimensional cubes and from
flat files.
Expertise in creating Power View reports from an unstructured Datamarts.
Valuable work experience in using “DAX” formulas for Excel reports.
Hands-on experience in creating “Tabular Cubes” as a source for Excel based reports.
Hands-on experience in developing SQL Azure DB programming.
Strong knowledge in database and datamart designs.
Extensively involved in various phases of SDLC, development of web and windows client/server
architecture, web services, internet/intranet and project management.
Very good work experience in DBA activities, SQL Server maintenance plans, SQL database backup and
restore, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
Strong knowledge of Microsoft .NET Framework, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, and Web Services.
Worked end to end in design, development and deployment of database projects.
Experience in UI design and development using HTML, CSS and VBScript.
Experience in developing test cases using NUnit.
Strong experience working with Visual Source Safe (VSS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS).
Ability to handle projects independently and to work proactively within cross team environment.
Used AgileMethodology onasupport and maintenance project.
Hands-onexperience in Quality Assuranceandinvolvedintestcasedesign.
Workedin Delphi.
Technical Skills:
Programming
Languages
SQL, DAX, MDX, C#.net, VSTO, C, C++, XML, VB, ASP.net.
Web/XML
Technologies
HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT.
Frameworks ASP .net 3.0.
Reporting Tools Power BI, Power Pivot, Excel.
Tools & Utilities VSTO, VSS. SQL server 2012/2014. Nunit.
RDBMS SQL Server 2012 and 2014, and MySQL
Source Control Microsoft VSS, TFS (Team Foundation Server).
Data Warehousing SSIS , SSAS.
Operating Systems Windows server 2012, Windows 10.
Professional Work Experience:
Client: Microsoft, Redmond, WA Apr ’13 till Date
2. Senior Programmer Analyst.
Project: MCI-Skylab
SKYLAB is responsibleforcollecting, consolidatingNativeCost, BG DemandandUsableCapacity numbers and
leveraging the samefor Corptool entries. Skylabis afinanceplatform to support reporting needs for the Finance
Managers. It is the mainsource forall reports within the MCI group. Skylabsystem consolidates all thedata from
the MicrosoftCorpFinancesystem, Mercury, alongwithotherMCIO internal systems.
.
Responsibilities:
Created ETL packages using SSIS to extract and transform data from different financial source systems.
Created “Tabular Cubes” as sourceforPowerPivotbasedExcel reports to performanceandreducedowntime.
Created PowerBI sites using“Tabular Cube” as sourceandpublisheditonmonthly basisforfinancereviews.
Creating new automated Excel reports using Power Pivots and Power View and publishingthem to finance
users.
Created Excel based reports by leveraging Excel Cube Formulas and DAX queries.
Gathering and Analyzingbusiness requirements andinterpret them into functional requirements, reviewand
customer signoffs.
Creating and maintaining Excel add-ins based reporting tools using VSTO for easy user interaction with
backend data.
Publishing the Power Pivot based reports and fixing data issues.
Solely responsible for implementing Microsoft’s internal reporting tool MSRA into the project.
Performing Impact Analysis and provide optimal solutions to the corporate and finance users for their
complex report requirements.
Adhere to Service Level Agreements with the customers related to data releases, data delivery and reports
publication timelines.
Performance tuning and enhancing the system to improvetheoverall system performanceand to eliminatethe
delays.
Environment: SQL, SSIS, SSAS, Power Pivot, Power View, DAX, MDX and VSTO.
Client: Microsoft, Redmond, WA Jan '12 – Feb ‘13
Technology Lead
Project: RENF
TheRE&F project involves thedevelopmentof anenterpriseplatform fortheReal Estate andFacilities Department
of Microsoft(RE&F). RE&F willserveas asinglesourceof truthforthe foundational inputs and coremetrics relied
upon by the organization to accurately and reliably manage their business. This applicationalso delivers aRE&F
performance dashboard to be used by RE&F management and business operations managers for communication
of core business metrics and business insight to Microsoft C-suite of executive management.
This project is an end-to-end application development project involving requirements elaboration, design, build,
testing, implementation and support. The system will be developed in multiple releases. This is a BI project
wherein; we fetch data from multiple data sources. This project is developed on the latest Microsoft Technology
stack.
3. Responsibilities:
Gathered system requirements and created functional and technical specifications.
Provided daily and weekly client reporting.
Created POCs for extracting data from web services using SSIS packages.
Worked on “multi-dimensional” cube bug fixing and also generated reports using cubes.
Created POC on “SharePoint Titles” to project normal tabular data to enable excellent UI experience.
Involved in package creation and responsible for the team deliverables.
Involved in estimation and resource allocation process for the team.
Environment: SSIS, SSAS, C#.net, SQL, SharePoint.
Client: Microsoft, Redmond, WA Jan '10 – Dec ‘11
Technology Analyst
Project: BGOS
BGOSproject was all about to providesupportand Maintenanceto someof MicrosoftInternal applicationto
maintainSKU details. This projectinvolvedwith12internal applications andall these applications wereusedby
the end users and MicrosoftFTE’s andvendors to keeptrack of all internal activities.
Responsibilities:
Worked as a L3 Support Analyst and troubleshot user issues.
Provided weekly reporting on the overall project activities.
Involved in all major bi-weekly metrics discussion with client.
Environment: C# .net, SQL server 2012.
Client: Honeywell Jun '09 – Dec ’09
Senior software Engineer.
Project: MyISR (Portal)
Theproject was onUImigrationof an internal webpage i.eMyISRfrom ASP.net2.0to ASP.net 3.0. Thementioned
page was used by Honeywell to track their internal hardware service requests. Along with the UI migration, we
havemigrated the backendfrom SQL Server 2000to SQL Server 2005. This projectalso involvedinconvertingthe
existing reports to SSRS based reports and helped users to resolvetheir adhoc requests on their web page portal
itself.
Responsibilities:
Involved in requirement gathering and decision making activities.
Worked as a developer on the complete portal migration and solely responsible for the end to
end deliverables.
Involved in project management activities in addition to my own project assignments.
Environment: SSRS, ASP .net 3.0, SQL server 2005.
4. Client: Profund (UK). Aug '06 – Jun ’09
Senior software Engineer.
Project: Profund-oPen
Profund-oPen is anUIbased to tool create and maintainpensionrelated tool forthe customers inUK. Theproject
was providingsupport and maintenance work for the abovementioned tool, inwhichUI was developedin Delphi
5 and SQL Server 2005 as backend. Profund was a leading Pensionproviderall overUK. It had 2 different levels of
functionalities: administrator and end users. The main activity in that project was to address the issues and
changes reported by the end users of “oPen” tool.
Responsibilities
Involved in requirement gathering and acted as point of contact for all the deliverables.
Prepared “Impact Analysis Document” and test cases.
Automated test cases using NUnit.
Created excel based applications using VBA.
Worked as the team lead and was responsible for task assignments to the team.
Environment: VSS, Delphi 5.0, VBA, SQL server 2000, Nunit.
Educational Qualification:
B.S. in Computer Science, August 2006.