Shailaja Nizambad

Summary:
Overall IT - 9 years of experience in the analysis, design, development and implementation of Data Warehousing
and other applications using Object Oriented Analysis, Design and Methodologies.
Business Intelligence: 7 years of Business Intelligence experience in building universes, developing reports, and
analyzing OLAP data. Worked in various BO environments linking data from multiple sources, applying several
functionalities, and using various Data Providers. Trained users in producing documents and running queries.
Worked with many types of team members for different tasks. Tested reports for validating and verifying data.
Business Objects: 7 years of experience with complete life cycle implementations using Business Objects
XIR4/XIR3/XIR2/6.5/5.1 (CMC, CCM, Supervisor, administrator, Designer, Infoview, BO Reporting, Desktop
Intelligence, Web-Intelligence 6.0/2.7/2.6/2.5, Performance Management, Dashboard Manager, Set Analysis, BOE
SDK, WebI SDK, Broadcast Agent, Publisher, Application Foundation 6.0/2.5 & Crystal Xcelsius 2008/4.5), Crystal
Reports 9, 10 & XI.
Database: 7 years of experience in Oracle 10g/9i/8i, DB2, MS SQL Server 2000/2005 SQL*Loader, PL/SQL and TOAD.
Data Modeling: Good Knowledge in Data Modeling, Star Join Schema, Snow-Flake, FACT and Dimensions Tables,
Physical and Logical Data Modeling.
Interfaced with vendor and offshore team leads to develop the Reporting Strategy adhering to clients enterprise
standards.
Exceptionally motivated and skilled in effective time management and meeting user requirements with
uncompromising detail.
Hand-on knowledge in Quilk View tool.
Ability to adapt to new technologies very quickly.
Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
Complete understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle.

Technical Skills:
Business Intelligence Business Objects XI R4/XI R3/ XI R2/6.5/5.1 (Desktop Intelligence,
WebIntelligence, CMC, CCM, SDK, Qlikview tool Infoview, Designer, Supervisor,
Administrator, Broadcast Agent, ZABO, Application Foundation 6i/2.5), OLAP Intelligence,
Crystal Xcelsius 2008, Crystal Reports 9/10/XI
Data warehousing Informatica PowerCenter V7, Informatica PowerMart 6.2/5.1, Repository Manager, Designer,
ERwin r7.2/4
Data Modeling

Dimensional Data Modeling experience in designing Star and Snowflake schemas as per Ralph
Kimball/Inmon Methodologies and Relational Data Modeling using Erwin
Databases Oracle 10g/9i/8i, MS SQL Server 2000/2005, DB2 UDB 8x, Access 2000/2003, Teradata
Development Tool TOAD, SQL Management Studio, PL/SQL developer
Programming/Web
Technologies
Visual Basic, PL/SQL, HTML, ASP, Java
Operating Systems Windows 98/2000/NT/ 2003 Server UNIX, Sun Solaris, Linux

Professional Experience:
Delta Dental Parsippany, NJ July 2011- Present
Sr. SAP Business Objects Developer
Delta Dental is a Nonprofit Organization with a mission to promote oral health to the greatest number of people
possible. To support this mission, Delta Dental has created the nation's largest network of participating dentists, all of
which accept predetermined fees as payment in full. These fees control employer and member costs at their source.
Responsibilities:
Involved in Analyzing the End users functional and technical requirements.
Designed universes by defining Joins, Cardinalities between tables.
Resolved the loops, cardinalities by contexts and aliases and checked the Integrity of the Universe.
Created classes and objects by retrieving the data from various data sources and defining the necessary
connections. Created predefined conditions, and prompts in the process of building the universes.
Implemented row level security in the universe to allow the data to be viewed only by authorized person.
Exported the universes to dev, test and prod domains to make resources available to the users.
Extensively used multiple data providers for building reports.
Involved in creating Web I XI R3 reports using Info view and Webi Rich Client with many features of drill down and
alerters and filters etc.
Developed linked Web reports by extensively using OpenDocument function
Involved in developing dashboards using Crystal XCelsius and connected dashboards to live data sources using web-
services.
Created reports using Business Objects functionality such as Drill Down, Master/detail, Crosstab, Charts ,Bar and
Line Graphs, Prompts and Formulas, Breaks, Sorters and Alerters etc.
Coordinated with DBA and ETL in solving various technical issues and also to stream-line universe design and
optimize query performance
Performed query tuning using TOAD and solved performance issues.
Involved in preparing SIT and Unit Test Cases as per Development standards. Prepared Technical design documents
for all the reports developed.
Involved in BO Admin activities like Creating users, groups, managing BO servers to add/delete, enable/Disable
them.
Resolved various technical issues and also worked on to stream-line universe design and optimize query
performance
Environment: BO XI R2/BOXIR3/BOXIR4 (CMS, CMC, CCM, Designer, Desk I, Web I, Import Wizard, Performance
Management), Crystal Xcelcius 2008,TOAD,ORACLE 10g/9i,SQL Server 2005/2008,Mircosoft Excel 2003, PL SQL,SQL,
UNIX

Express Scripts Inc. St. Louis, MO July 2010 - Jan2011
Sr. SAP Business Objects Developer
Express Scripts mission is to make use of prescription drugs safer and more affordable for millions of consumers through
thousands of employers, government, union and health plans. They are dedicated in providing member, clients and
healthcare professionals with services that deliver safe and affordable pharmaceuticals.
Responsibilities:
Interacted with End Client in requirement gathering and Involved in analysis of the given requirements.
Involve in enhancements of existing universe and Reports through Remedy tickets and work towards resolutions.
Designed the universes according to the requirements by identifying the tables/Views.
Created Contexts and Aliases for resolving Loops and join problems in the Universes
Created classes and objects by retrieving the data from various data sources and defining the necessary connections
Created predefined conditions, prompts and custom hierarchies in the process of building the universes
Created derived tables at the universe level to reduce the complexity of universe building.
Created reports using Business Objects functionality such as Drill Down, Master/detail, Crosstab, Charts ,Bar and
Line Graphs, Prompts and Formulas, Breaks, Sorters and Alerters etc.
Create and maintain SQL queries required to support BO reporting needs.
Involved in preparing SIT and Unit Test Cases as per Development standards. Prepared Technical design documents
for all the reports developed.
Coordinated with BO Admin in managing the Central Management Server to add/delete, enable/disable BO
Servers.
Used Crystal Xcelcius interface to import Excel data and formulas, and output interactive dashboards, animated
charts and graphs, financial presentations, and business calculators directly to PowerPoint, Word, PDF documents.
Was Involved with team in migrating Universes, reports and Objects from XIR2 to 3.1 using Import wizard and
Report Conversion Tool
Coordinated with DBA and ETL in solving various technical issues and also to stream-line universe design and
optimize query performance
Performed query tuning using TOAD and solved performance issues.
Involve in peer-reviews to identify defect and suggest better ways of implementing.
Environment: BO XI R2/BOXIR3 (CMS, CMC, CCM, Designer, Desk I, Web I, Import Wizard, Performance Management),
Crystal Xcelcius 2008,TOAD,ORACLE 10g/9i,SQL Server 2005/2008,Mircosoft Excel 2003, PL SQL,SQL, UNIX


EDS, Madison, WI Aug07- May 2010
Data Warehousing Consultant/Business Objects Developer
EDS is a leading global technology services company, which delivers broad portfolio of information technology and
business process outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and
communications and to governments around the world. A data warehouse was created to house the information about
the Medicaid program generated by the claims processing system known as Medicaid Management Information System
(MMIS). They use Business Objects for generating reports with different features on weekly, monthly, quarterly and
yearly bases as per the end users requirements.
Responsibilities:
Involved in Analyzing the End users functional and technical requirements and respective impacts on reports.
Designed, created and maintained Universes for Business Objects and Web Intelligence users using Business
Objects Designer Module.
Created universes by defining Joins, Cardinalities between tables.
Created classes and objects by retrieving the data from various data sources and defining the necessary connections
Created predefined conditions, prompts and custom hierarchies in the process of building the universes
Created Contexts and Aliases for resolving Loops and join problems in the Universes.
Deployed universes in the repository by exporting and importing universes between universe domains, and over
different repositories.
Created both full client reports and Web I reports using Info view with many features of drill down and alerters and
filters.
Generated various reports on a daily, weekly and monthly basis using Business Objects Report module.
Created reports using Business Objects functionality such as Slice and Dice, Drill Down, Master/detail, Crosstab,
Prompts and Formulas, Breaks, Sorters and Alerters etc.
Involved in writing free hand SQL, as data provider for retrieving data when universe doesnt provide required data.
Involved in Scheduling reports based on Specific time, events and calendars and in various formats such as Excel
and PDF using Broad Cast Agent.
Involved in performance testing of all the reports, which helped in analyzing its performance before moving into
production.
Involved with the group which provided support and ideas for migration from 6.5 to BO XI R2 & BO3.1
Migrating existing BO 6.x universes and reports to BOXI R2& R3using Import Wizard to affect new System
(Interchange).
Converted the existing full client reports to Web I docs using report conversion tool to affect new System
(Interchange).
Used Central Management Console (CMC) in creating users and groups and assigning privileges to different groups
and users.
Applied row level and object level securities to different groups and users in the designer wizard.
Developed various SQL, PL/SQL blocks to optimize the query performance using SQL*Plus
Resolved issues during the migration from Test to Production environment.
Resolved any SQL query issues. Escalated and tracked unresolved issues,
Coordinated with BO Admin in managing the Central Management Server to add/delete, enable/disable BO Servers.
Coordinated with DBA and ETL in solving various technical issues and also to stream-line universe design and
optimize query performance
Worked with team in developing Business Objects Data Integrator jobs to extract data from various source systems
Conducted presentations training sessions and created training documents for the Business users on the use of
Business Objects reporting tool and overview of the Universe.
Environment: Business Objects 6.5.1(Supervisor, Designer, Reporter), Web Intelligence, BCA 6.5.1, 3 Tier BO, BO XI R2
(CMS, CMC, CCM, Designer, Desk I, Web I, Import Wizard, Performance Management),BOXIR3, Crystal XI,BO XCelsius
2008 ,ORACLE 10g/9i, TOAD, Windows 2000 Server, Informatica Power Center, SQl Server 2005,,Mircosoft Excel 2003, PL
SQL,SQL, UNIX & Autosys.

Indiana Department of Insurance, Indianapolis, Indiana
Business Objects Report Developer May 06 May 07

The mission of the Indiana Department of Insurance is to protect Indiana's insurance consumers by monitoring and
regulating the financial and market conduct activities of insurance companies and agents. They have implemented
Business Objects for their reporting purpose and corporate management decisions. The data comes from different
operational sources and stored in a data mart and then data is transformed and loaded into a centralized data
warehouse for various strategic business reports. The objective is to automate the entire data load on a schedule basis
and generated reports for the management.
Responsibilities
Participated in requirements gathering, analysis.
Created functional requirement specifications through end-user meetings and analysis of business requirement
documents.
Involved in setting up users through Supervisor and assigning privileges to these users to meet security
requirements.
Setting up row level and object level securities on the universes to various groups and users using supervisor.
Created Universes from multiple data sources which were coming from different databases
Created predefined conditions, prompts and custom hierarchies in the process of building the universes
Resolved issues like loops by creating aliases and contexts as required to remove the cyclic dependencies
Exported the universes to dev, test and prod domains to make resources available to the users.
Creating standard full client/WebI reports, created canned and ad-hoc Reports Using Business objects user module.
Created reports using Business Objects features like Slice/Dice, Drill Down, @Functions, Cross tab, Ranking,
Filtering etc.
Scheduled and Monitored Reports through using BCA in various formats like PDF, Excel and .rep
Involved in performance testing of all the reports, which helped in analyzing its performance before moving into
production.
Involved in installing Business Objects XI suite, creating users, user groups and categories
Created users and groups using Central Management Console (CMC) and assigned privileges to different groups
and users. Created folders and categories in CMC.
Migrating existing BO 6.x universes and reports to BOXI R2using Import Wizard.
Applied row level and object level securities to different groups and users in the designer wizard
Created reports using both Desk I and WebI with multiple data providers.
Involved in publishing various objects and folders to the repository in InfoView and CMC and also scheduling options
using the publishing wizard.
Developed various SQL, PL/SQL blocks to optimize the query performance.
Environment: Business Objects 6.5.1(Supervisor, Designer, Reporter), Web Intelligence, BCA 6.5.1, 3 Tier BO,
BOXIR2(Designer,DeskI,WebI,ImportWizard,PerformanceManagement),ORACLE10g/9i,TOAD,,SQL,PL SQL,SQL*PLUS,MS
EXCEL, HTML, Windows 2000 Server, Unix, Autosys


Dept. of Computer Science Western Kentucky University
Database Assistant Jan 05 May 06
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities included Database maintenance and management
Created users and granted access privileges.
Created Stored Procedures and Functions to call various oracle developer modules.
Created indexes on some columns of tables to increase application performance.
Installed, tested, evaluated, implemented & maintained DBMS related system software & tools.
PL/SQL scripting & stored procedures.
Monitored and tuned database performance including SQL tuning. Tested, enhanced and debugged codes.
Routine database maintenance & SQL data extraction.
Developed and maintained university website by using dream weaver editor.
Involved in troubleshooting and Maintenance of computers, printers and other software or hardware related
devices.
Assisting students in writing SQL, PL/SQL Statements and Core Java.
Conducting lab sessions and helping students in programming.
Created weekly lesson plans and grading criteria for homework
Environment: Oracle 10g/ 9i/8i, MS SQL Server, MS Access, Microsoft Word, SQL* Plus, SQL, PLSQL, UNIX, WINDOWS,
Dream Weaver Editor, JDK, Eclipse

MYM Trade & Channel PTE, Hyderabad, India
Jr. Analyst Jun 03 Dec 04
Project: Online Transaction System - Involved in the design and development of an Online Transaction System. This
project consists of online Shopping Stores, Content Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), content
deployment, Product Search, Messaging, Online billing and Payment, Order Pipeline Processing modules.
Role: Student Trainee
Responsibilities:
Involved in gathering requirements from users, analyzing the data and compose the analysis and developing design
Documents.
Integrating various Database Technologies for smooth functioning of the Online Transaction System
Involved with team in developing JSP and HTML pages for the Product, Order Module, Catalog module, and shipping
module.
Wrote Triggers and Stored Procedures and also to enforce referential integrity.
Involved in fine Tuning and Performance and Query optimization of the Database.
Environment: JDK 1.3, Eclipse, Oracle 8.x, MS Access, SQL Server, MS Word, SQL/PLSQL