N Ramachandra

Sr.Software Engineer - Allergan Inc

- Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/N-Ramachandra/fd398705641152d1 * Having 4+ years of IT experience in software development, designing, implementation and testing with major focus around Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Database Applications. * Worked on implementation of Data Warehouse, BI solutions and a strong understanding of Data Warehouse concepts, ETL, OLAP, Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, FACT & Dimensions tables. * Solid understanding of Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) process and usage of ETL tool by using Informatica. * Having 3.5 years of experience in Microstrategy Product tool 8.x/9.x * Having Knowledge on Microstrategy Administration * Extensively worked in creating and integrating MicroStrategy Reports and objects (Filters, Metrics, Facts, and Prompts) with the data warehouse. * Experienced in creating Public objects (Dashboards, Reports, Metrics, Auto styles and Prompts ) * Involved in designing, developing and maintaining reports and functionality in the Microstrategy environment. * Created drill maps for end users to drill down and recover data. * Good Knowledge in MSTR Architect and creating the Schema objects with Microstrategy Desktop such as Simple and compound Facts and Attributes, Fact extensions, Hierarchies, Transformations. * Developed and customized Reports as per the business Requirements using Microstrategy. * Created various Daily and Monthly Dynamic Dashboard documents and Scorecards for the decision makers with multiple panel stacks, selectors and customized widgets. * Involved in interacting with the clients for collecting the requirements and analyzing the requirements. * Team player with good interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment. * Excellent multitasking capability efficiently planned and prioritized tasks with strong technical and business management skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Sr.Software Engineer
Allergan Inc - April 2012 to Present Description: Allergan is a global, technology-driven multi-specialty health care company pursuing therapeutic advances to help patients live life to their fullest potential. Allergan's flagship franchises in eye care, neurosciences, medical dermatology and urologics are structured under the company's pharmaceutical business portfolio, Allergan Pharmaceuticals. Allergan is globally located over 60 countries. Responsibilities: Worked with user groups and business users in defining their requirements. Adept in Dash Boarding, Score Cards, and Documents, worked extensively on panel stacks, widgets, and customized the web. Developed Customized and Ad-hoc reports using Templates, Metrics, Filters, Auto Prompts, Custom Groups, And Transformations. Created Customized Auto Styles to allow reports in Microstrategy Desktop and Microstrategy Web to apply customized formats. Extensively worked in developing Public objects including Metrics, Derived metrics, Compound metrics and Filters for complex reports.

 Configured Metrics, Attributes and Filters for each Report. Used Microstrategy Desktop (Templates, Filters, and Metrics) to generate advanced reports in grid, graph, and SQL mode, consisting of data analysis by combining a template with filters. Involved in Testing and Tuning of Reports and Objects. Used Auto Prompts filter feature to give the end-user a choice of different filtering criteria each time they run the report. Documentation of Microstrategy Objects Process flow. Maintenance and Support for the project and end users.

Sr.Software Engineer
Citi Bank - January 2011 to March 2012 Description: Citi Bank is a leading Bank in the world involved in retail and corporate banking, and other financial services. This project was involved in migrating the reports and universes. The Database has lots of historical data. So data warehouse plays a major role in enabling various departments to view the data at a lowest level and help them to make decisions to bring more revenue to company with new tool. Data is analyzed statistically using advanced business methods to foresee trends and patterns in the sales, Purchases and make important business decisions like introducing new product, discontinue non-performing product etc. Various new reports were created as per business requirements via Microstrategy. Responsibilities: * Understanding of existing business model, customer requirements and involved in designing the Technical Specification design based on the consolidated solution design document. * Analyzing the existing attributes, metrics, reports and functionality and creating new attributes, facts, filters and metrics using Command manager. * Worked as a Microstrategy Developer responsible for creating Public objects and Development of reports. * Extensively used Filters, Prompts, Consolidations, Transformations and Custom Groups to generate reports for Business analysis. * Design, development and finalize Microstrategy Reports by creating unit testing and matching to the client requirement. * Reviewing the reports after designing them with the result set of query on the backend. * Generated advanced reports in Grid mode and Graph mode using MicroStrategy Desktop. * Deployed MicroStrategy Report Services to deliver boardroom-quality reports that include Managed metric reports and Business reports. * Created complex Report Services Documents involving display of several grid reports in one RSD * Created interactive dashboards using the new selectors like radio buttons, check boxes, panels, slider, button bar etc

Software Engineer
Whole Foods Market - March 2010 to December 2010 Description Whole Foods Market is a food retailer of natural and organic products including produce, seafood, grocery, meat and poultry, bakery, prepared foods and catering, beer, wine, cheese, whole body, floral, pet products and household products.Data warehouse designed for the purpose of Sales Analysis that basically helps the decision makers to analyze the sales patterns using Reporting tools. Performed ETL Operations using Informatics to load data into Data warehouse and developed reports using Microstrategy to analyze regionwise sales, sub-region wise sales, country wise sales, state wise sales, and product wise sales Responsibilities: * Designed report templates to generate reports in grid and graph mode.

* Extensively created filters, facts, Consolidations, and Custom Groups using Microstrategy Desktop to generate reports for the Business analysis.) * Identified Facts, Dimensions, and Hierarchies and created all types of MicroStrategy Schema Objects. * Involved in creating MicroStrategy objects like Metrics (Conditional, Transformational, Dimensional, and Compound) * Formatting reports as per the requirements of business. * Involved in Tuning and Manipulating SQL Queries through the MicroStrategy desktop using VLDB Properties. * Created Templates, Filters to generate reports in grid and graph mode. Auto prompt filter feature gave enduser a choice of different filtering criteria each time they run the report. * Supported and maintained existing reports, and modified it as per the business needs.

Software Engineer
Deutch Bank - June 2009 to February 2010 Description Reporting Factory is a Pilot Project which HCL proposes to provide a Common Reporting Framework for Russian Regulatory banking organization needs designed to deliver effective reports on the basis of the deals. The deals can be different kinds like Deposits, loans, inter-bank loans, inter-bank deposits, guarantees, mortgage loans, REPOS and etc. we have different subject areas like deal, deal passport, securities, payments, share participation. Responsibilities: * Extracted data from Flat files and Oracle Database using Informatica. * Extensively used Informatica client tools like Source Analyzer, Warehouse Designer, Mapping Designer, Mapplet Designer, Transformation Developer, Workflow Manager and Workflow Monitor. * Involved in performance tuning of the Informatica mapping using various components like parameter files, variables and dynamic cache. * Identified and resolved performance bottleneck so that improving data load performance. * Mappings were built using transformations like Source Qualifier, Expression, Filter, Aggregator, Lookup, Update, Joiner, Sequence Generator, Sorter, Rank and Router.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science

JNTU - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TECHNICAL SKILLS BI Tools: Microstrategy 8.1.x and Microstrategy9 RDBMS: Oracle 9i/10g Operating Systems: Windows, Unix ETL Tools: Informatica 8 Technologies: Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. Languages: C, Java.