Santhosh Kumar has over 2 years of experience as an Informatica PowerCenter developer and administrator. He is certified in Informatica PowerCenter 9.X and has experience developing mappings, managing environments, performing upgrades, and automating tasks. Some of his key skills include managing multiple Informatica domains, developing automation scripts, and setting up web service hubs. He has worked on various projects for clients like Aviva and AXA involving data migration, ETL, and Informatica upgrades.
1. Santhosh Kumar M
kavempu.santhosh@gmail.com
+91 9986979735
Professional Synopsis
2 years of hands on Experience as Power Center Developer, Administrator.
Informatica 9X Certified Power Center Developer Specialist .
Worked as Informatica Tech lead in ILP and trained more than 100 associates in Informatica and SAP
BO
Worked on Web services and MQ services of Informatica.
Closely worked with Informatica Customer Support to resolve the product and configuration issues.
Having the Experience of Informatica Version upgrade from 8.6.1 to 9.1.0 and 9.1.0 to 9.6.1
Good experience in Informatica Installation & Configuration.
Having the experience in Power-Center GRID & HA architecture.
Good experience in Informatica Administration(Power Center & Data Quality, DVO,MM)
Good experience in Power Center & Data Quality Development.
Having good experience in Code deployment through Deployment Groups & Automation.
Knowledge on UNIX functionality & Database concepts.
Good knowledge on troubleshooting, debugging and root cause analysis and performance tuning.
Familiarity with working in production environment and grasp Data Warehousing concepts
Ability to manage in a team or independently.
Key Skills
Managed 9 Informatica Domains with more than 50 Services single handed from offshore.
Have done 6 end to end Informatica upgrades from versions 9.1.0 to 9.5.1 and 9.6.1.
Automated Environment rebuild task , which will rebuild the environment with zero user interaction by
providing limited input list .
Developed Framework which does the same function of ETL tool with help of Shell scripts , Teradata
utilities and Mainframes which avoided the cost ETL tool license.
Developed Auto deployment scripts to promote the code to higher environments to avoid manual
effort put by the Admin team.
Web service hub setup and configuration to avoid manual process of Xml input files .
Automated below BAU tasks to avoid the time and to improve the productivity.
- User Management
- Server/Space alerts
- Access Management
- Environment setup
- Unix Housekeeping
2. Awards and Appreciation
“ ILP Kudos Award “ for Excellent performance during ILP Program.
“ CPL Faculty Award “ for achieving the best feedback rating as a Informatica Tech Lead.
“ Appreciation “ from Head , TCS BI India for training more than 100 associates.
“ On the spot Award “ for National Project for solving critical issue in very less time.
“ CPL Faculty Award “ for Training Informatica Administrators with in TCS.
“ Client Appreciation “ award for Leading Informatica Upgrade activity.
“ On the Spot Award ” for showing Excellency in Informatica Server issues to avoid down
time.
Certification/Education
Masters in computer applications
Bsc - Electronics & computer science
Informatica PowerCenter 9.X Developer Specialist Certified
UGC NET certified
IT Skills
Data-warehousing -BI : Power-Center V910 ,V951,V961 Data Quality V910,V961, DVO
Platform : Windows, UNIX , AIX 6.1 TL8
RDBMS : Oracle 10g & 11g, TeradataV12, v13
Professional Experience 2 yrs
Tata Consultancy Services, Ahmadabad July 2013 – Oct
2013
Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad Oct 2013– Dec
2013
Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore Dec 2013 –
Present
Projects Details:
Project Name : NATIONAL Information Migration
Client : Aviva , United Kingdom
Location : Bangalore, India
Description: Aviva has acquired a company in France and project was developed to migrate all the source
system data to Aviva EDW [Enterprise data warehouse] by applying aviva standards and business rules and
3. logic’s.
Language/Tools: Shell scripting, Informatica
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Configured Web Service hub to host the Informatica web services.
• Developed Web service Provider and Consumer mappings in Informatica.
• Developed complex mappings to incorporate critical business logic’s.
• Promoted code to UAT and Production .
• Bug fixing which are raised by Testing team.
• Transition to Support team and also part of warranty support team
• Informatica Admin support for the Project.
• Taken care of Environment setup , Access issues , Web service issues etc.
Project Name : UKGI Aviva Central Services
Client : Aviva Plc, United Kingdom
Location : Norwich, United Kingdom
Description : Supporting the Informatica application services in total of 9 environments with Grid and High
availability architecture for Production Run services, and ongoing development projects across the UKGI Aviva
landscape along with the System testing and UAT environments.
Language/Tools: Shell scripting, PC Client Tools, Developer Client, Administrator Tool
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Carrying out the daily health checks for all Informatica services.
• Carrying out root-cause analysis and solution design for the issues.
• Carrying out the Environment setup and access management for Development, Test and
Production
• Carrying out the code movement from development to test and to Production environment
through code deployment.
• Applying the Hot-fixes/EBF's on Informatica servers.
• Identifying the bottle necks in batch processing and guide the team on performance tuning
Project Name : AXA 9.5 Upgrade
Client : AXA Plc, United Kingdom
Location : Bangalore , India
Description: Migration of the ETL Informatica Power-Center Environment up-gradation from 9.1.0 version to
9.5.0 Version, along with the OS and database upgrade.
4. Language/Tools: Shell scripting, PC Client Tools, Developer Client, Administrator Tool
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Carried out the Informatica up-gradation from PC910 to 950
• Installed and configured the Informatica application for Power-Center.
• Configured Power-Center environment to work on multiple nodes for different operational
unit.
• Coordinated with windows and Database Administrators to get the desired configuration
capacity.
• Carried out the Environment setup and access management for testing the new software.
• Upgraded all repositories and handed over to Team, to work on new software.
Project Name : UKGI 9.x Upgrade
Client : Aviva Plc, United Kingdom
Location : Bangalore, India
Description: Migration of the ETL Informatica Power-Center Environment up-gradation from 9.1.0 version to
9.6.1 Version, along with the OS and database upgrade.
Language/Tools: Shell scripting, PC Client Tools, Developer Client, Administrator Tool
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Carried out the Informatica up-gradation from PC910,DQ910 to 961
• Installed and configured the Informatica application for Power-Center & Data Quality.
• Configured Power-Center environment to work with GRID along with HA (High Availability).
• Coordinated with UNIX and Database Administrators to get the desired configuration capacity.
• Carried out the Environment setup and access management for testing the new software.
• Applied the Hot-fixes / EBF's on the Informatica servers for the issues/bugs as part of upgrade.
• Upgraded all repositories and handed over to Team, to work on new software.
Project Name : Password Parametrization
Client : Aviva , United Kingdom
Location : Bangalore, India
Description: Parametrize all the user names & passwords of the database connections in Power Center
services, and generate the parameter file for all the sessions with the encrypted passwords respective to each
module.
Language/Tools: Shell scripting, PC Client Tools
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Configured all the connections with parametrized user credential inputs.
• Identified the components which are not using any parameter files.
5. • Generated the parameter files with credentials details as global parameters with parameter file
generation scripts.
• Modified the existing scripts to include the credentials as global parameters at the front of
each parameter file.
Project Name : QMH – DVLA Metadata driven Framework
Client : Aviva , United Kingdom
Location : Bangalore, India
Description: Creation of new framework that does the same job of ETL Tool with the help of Unix scripts ,
Teradata Utilities , Informatica workflows and Tivoli. This new framework is to bypass the processes that were
consuming more time while promoting small changes to the Production environments. In this Project we had
single click promotion concept where any DDL change or Business logic implementation needs to be promoted
to Production with in very less time.
Language/Tools: Shell scripting, PC Client Tools , Teradata Utilities , Tivoli
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Developed a shell scripts to perform the ETL functions.
• Created the metadata for the framework.
• Generated the parameter files with credentials details as global parameters with parameter file
generation scripts.
• Created Audit mappings as part of error handling.
• Developed Informatica complex components that are part of Framework .
• Provided Admin support for the Project setup and Configuration.
6. • Generated the parameter files with credentials details as global parameters with parameter file
generation scripts.
• Modified the existing scripts to include the credentials as global parameters at the front of
each parameter file.
Project Name : QMH – DVLA Metadata driven Framework
Client : Aviva , United Kingdom
Location : Bangalore, India
Description: Creation of new framework that does the same job of ETL Tool with the help of Unix scripts ,
Teradata Utilities , Informatica workflows and Tivoli. This new framework is to bypass the processes that were
consuming more time while promoting small changes to the Production environments. In this Project we had
single click promotion concept where any DDL change or Business logic implementation needs to be promoted
to Production with in very less time.
Language/Tools: Shell scripting, PC Client Tools , Teradata Utilities , Tivoli
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Developed a shell scripts to perform the ETL functions.
• Created the metadata for the framework.
• Generated the parameter files with credentials details as global parameters with parameter file
generation scripts.
• Created Audit mappings as part of error handling.
• Developed Informatica complex components that are part of Framework .
• Provided Admin support for the Project setup and Configuration.