+91 9923773235 Anuradha Kovi

Anuradha28510@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Rich experience of 4.6 years in BIDW technologies Cognos 8 BI
Well versed in developing reports with Cognos 8 BI Suite v3.
Extensive experience on migration projects from C7 to C8 environment.
Capable of troubleshooting performance issues in Mappings & Reports.
Interview panel member for Cognos Recruitments.

CAREER PROFILE:
Working as Software Engineer in Zensar Technologies, Pune from April 2008 to till
date.
Worked as Programmer Analyst in Cognizant Technology Solutions, Bangalore
from February 2007 to April 2008.
Worked as Software Engineer in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore from August 2004
to January 2007.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
BI Tools : Cognos 8 BI Suite
(Query Studio, Report Studio, Analysis Studio, Framework Manager)
ETL Tools : Informatica 7.1.1, Genio Designer 5
RDBMSs : Oracle 9i/10g
DB Languages: SQL, PL/SQL (Functions, Stored Procedures)
OSs : Windows 2000 Server/XP Prof/2003 Server

ACADEMIC PROFILE:
M.Sc from Periyar University, Tamil Nadu, during 2001-2003.

PROJECT #1:
Company : Zensar Technologies Ltd, Pune
Client : Trimble Corp (U.S.A.)
Title : Trimble Production Support & Maintenance
Duration : July 2008 to till date (7 months)
Environment : Windows 2003 Server, Cognos 8 BI Suite

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 Role : Cognos Report Developer

Scope:
Trimble currently uses Cognos 8 BI Suite for their Enterprise Reporting purposes.
The current project is the support & maintenance phase of Trimbles Cognos 8 BI
Suite upgrade from Cognos Series 7.
The activities initially involved the following:
Responsibilities Model/Report Enhancements
Added/Modified query items in Query Subjects.
Altered properties of query items in both DB and Business views.
Added/Modified relationships between query subjects.
Published packages onto Cognos Connection and checked logs.
Responsibilities Model/Report Development
Designed New Models.
Designed Chart reports using Cognos 8 Report Studio.

PROJECT #2:
Company : Zensar Technologies Ltd, Pune
Client : Essilor (U.K.)
Title : Essilor Support & Maintenance
Duration : April 2008 to June 2008 (3 months)
Environment : Windows Server 2003, Genio Designer 5, Toad 9.0, Oracle 9i
Role : ETL Process Designer

Scope:
Essilor USA has various Source Systems that cater to the needs of all its
departments. All of these source database systems feed data to the EDW (Enterprise
Data Warehouse). The data is picked up from source tables directly using Stored
Procedures. Genio Designer is used to design Modules, Processes.
The SPs are updated to reflect the correct schemas, tables, columns. The SP
is included in a SP container known as SQLProcedure. This is added to a Module.
Many action items can be added here. The Process may contain more than 1
module. Email and Commit actions are also used.
Responsibilities:
Involved in understanding the requirements.
Worked with Datasets, Running Contexts, Events, Modules & Processes.

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 Involved in writing the SQL scripts.
Created User Documents and Helper Guides.
PROJECT #3:
Company : Cognizant Technology Solutions, Bangalore
Client : Marks and Spencer (U.K.)
Title : M&S Retail BPM Development
Duration : February 2007 to March 2008 (1year 2 months)
Environment : Windows 2000 Server, Oracle 9i, Cognos 8 Report Studio
Role : Cognos Report Developer

Scope:
Marks and Spencer is one of the most iconic and widely recognized chain stores
in the UK with 520 stores. M&S is also the largest clothing retailer in the country, as
well as a multi-billion pound food retailer with revenues over 8 billion.
This warehouse enables the adhoc reporting analysis across multiple business
sectors of Marks and Spencer. Enterprise Data marts were designed to extract data
from EDW staging area for end users and adhoc analysis data for Business
Executives. Data from Operational Source System is extracted, transformed and
loaded into data warehouse using Informatica.
The project is designed to analyze what products are sold in which stores on what
dates under which promotional conditions of the Company. The reports are used to
analyze the sales and profits and perform Estimate analysis. The impact of these
promotional offers on sales quantity and revenue generated has to be analyzed.

Responsibilities:
Designed reports with conditional formatting using different styles
Calculated expressions and performed aggregations
Developed parameterized prompts
Created single-select and multi-select cascading prompts.
Developed complex dashboards involving map charts

PROJECT #4:
Company : Wipro Technologies, Bangalore
Client : UnitedHealth Group (U.S.A)
Title : Galaxy Health Enhancements
Duration : October 2005 to January 2007 (1year 4 months)
Environment : Windows 2000, Oracle 9i, Cognos ReportNet (Report Studio)

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 Role : Cognos Report Developer

Scope:

UnitedHealth Group is one of the largest insurance products providers in the

U.S.A. The Group has a huge enterprise data warehouse, designed and developed
on Oracle 9i named Galaxy, which stores the summarized data of business
transactional operations for almost 18 years.
My role involved working in the Health Risk Appraisal & Laboratory department
for providing a better business reporting solution in terms of their business forecast
for the current and upcoming years. The role involved working in Cognos ReportNet
for price comparison among different insurance products sold by UHG with those of
the competition.

Responsibilities:
Created prototypes of the reports for Business user's presentation.
Performed export/import operations on the packages
Created List reports and Cross-tab reports with Drill-through functionality
Created various types of Filters such as Detailed, Summary, Grouped
Created jobs and scheduled them with multiple reports in a sequence mode

PROJECT #5:
Company : Wipro Technologies, Bangalore
Client : Novartis Pharma AG (Basel, Switzerland)
Title : Drug Regulatory Authority Global regulatory cOmpliaNce Dev
Duration : August 2004 to September 2005 (1year 2 months)
Environment : Windows 2000, Oracle 9i, Informatica 7.1.1
Role : ETL Developer

Scope:
At present, there are different IT systems available in place in Novartis on a
local and corporate level, providing regulatory information and the regulatory
status of this information for pharmaceutical products. None of these systems,
however, is able to demonstrate regulatory compliance in an effective way.

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 The objective of this project is to build an application system, DRAGON (Drug
Regulatory Authority Global regulatory cOmpliaNce system), which would
establish data model to ensure related data, managed in a single system.

Responsibilities:
Understanding existing business model and customer requirements.
Designing ETL data flows (Mappings) from source systems to target systems.
Worked on Informatica client tools (Designer, Workflow Manager, and
Workflow Monitor).
Implemented performance tuning techniques.

PERSONAL PROFILE:
Full Name : Anuradha Kovi
Date-of-birth : 21-JUL-1981
Passport No : E6707220 (Valid till 08-OCT-2013)