Anish Pillai

BI Developer
Mobile: +91-9766962127
Email: anish.p.pillai@gmail.com, pillai_anish@yahoo.co.in
Summary
Thorough knowledge and experience in using MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Product Suite (MicroStrategy
Intelligence Server, MicroStrategy Desktop, MicroStrategy We, MicroStrategy !rchitect, and MicroStrategy
!d"inistrator#$
Process oriented and experienced in onsite%o&&shore pro'ect delivery$
Involved in client interactions$
(ull )i&e%cycle Business Intelligence (BI# and Data Warehousing pro'ect experience, starting with re*uire"ents analysis,
proo&%o&%concepts, design, develop"ent, testing and i"ple"entation$
Sound knowledge o& Data warehousing "ethodologies and Di"ensional Modeling like Star sche"a and Snow&lake
sche"a$
Do"ain knowledge o& Banking and (inance, Securities, +*uities and Derivatives, ,etail and -onstruction Industry$
Strong !nalytical Skills and Business !nalysis +xperience$ ! good Tea" Player with excellent written, veral, and
interpersonal skills$ +&&icient at leading initiatives and estalish strong -lient ,elations$
Technical Skills
Business Intelligence Tools MicroStrategy .$/01ot&ix 2, MicroStrategy 3$4
+T) Tools S5) Server Integration Services, Talend 6pen Studio
Data Modeling 7or"ali8ed, De%nor"ali8ed, Star and Snow (lake Sche"as
Dataases S5) Server 944:, 6racle3i0/4g, MS !ccess, 7ete88a, Teradata
Progra""ing )anguages S5), -, -;;
5uality !ssurance Tools Bug8illa, -o"pare Suite, Beyond -o"pare
6&&ice !uto"ation Tools Microso&t 6&&ice, 6pen 6&&ice, Microso&t <isio, !uto"ate
Do"ain =nowledge ,etail industry, Supply -hain Manage"ent
Eperience
InfoCepts Technologies Ltd. Sept 2008 - till date
Pro!ec" Pro#iles
PromGirl Oct 2010 !o" 2010
#icroStrateg$ %e"eloper
Pro">irl was &ounded in /33. and is dedicated to ringing teen pro" and special occasion &ashions $Pro">irl is an 6nline shopping store and
all the sales is done online$
While Pro">irl already had so"e asic reports uilt in on -old(usion, they wanted to leverage the capailities o& the MicroStrategy?s BI
plat&or" and do etter reporting with trend charts$
,esponsiilities@
Anderstand usiness architecture$
-reated MicroStrategy Sche"a 6'ects B attriutes and &acts$
-reated MicroStrategy application o'ects B "etrics and &ilters$
-reated asic reports$
To$s &'& (s) #erchant *eport +,tomation #a$ 2010 Sept 2010
-I %e"eloper
Toys CDC As is a toy store chain ased in the Anited States$ It is the largest toy%centered retailer and the second largest overall toy retailer in
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the Anited States$ Its C,C ,eports provides a su""ari8ed view into key "etrics to senior "anage"ent to support our co"pany?s strategic
supply chain initiative and aid in assessing areas o& opportunity$
The Merchant ,eport !uto"ation initiative includes develop"ent o& a suite o& scorecards and reports to e i"ple"ented in C,C ,eports$ These
reports will i"prove ti"eliness o& delivery, reduce ti"e spent "anually generating existing reports, reduce risk o& errors due to "anual nature
and i"prove consistency in "eetings$
,esponsiilities@
!naly8ed re*uire"ents &or Pro&it E)oss reports
Designed +T) and MicroStrategy reports$
-reated +T) scripts &or Teradata dataase (BT5 scripts# &or the Pro&it E )oss reports
Per&or"ed D5! analysis on client?s warehouse data$
(ine tuned the +T) scripts &or per&or"ance and dataase opti"i8ation
Developed MicroStrategy reports &or Pro&it and )oss analysis
6pti"i8ed MicroStrategy report &or per&or"ance
Worked on unit testing and ug &ixing o& other MicroStrategy environ"ent related issues$
.,antisense) Inc. Oct 200/ #a$ 2010
0TL %e"eloper
5uantiSense Inc$ is the leading provider o& usiness intelligence and data warehousing applications exclusively &or specialty retailers$
5uantisense announced that it will collaorate with 7ete88a -orporation to deliver its usiness intelligence and analytics application developed
exclusively &or the retail industry$
The pro'ect started with an idea where they wanted to do a 5uantisense P6- Pro'ect standardi8ation in a way that the &ront end o& the
application which is a MicroStrategy pro'ect re"ains &ixed and their +T) scripts are developed so as y a "ini"al change, their +T) will e
co"pleted in a one click with every new client$
,esponsiilities@
!naly8ed and understood re*uire"ents and di&&erent layers o& staging areas in the +T)
Modi&ied the +T) codes to work with 7ete88a dataase
(ound issues and &ixed the ugs in the scripts
-reated new dataases and ran the +T) &or every changes
Modi&ied S5) -ode >eneration spreadsheet
-reated new scripts and stored procedures and "odi&ied existing scripts to incorporate changes
Worked on !uto"ation o& the +T) run using !uto"ate tool$
Tuned the scripts &or per&or"ance
Tested the pre%uilt MicroStrategy reports
Worked on deugging S5) scripts in Teradata &or 1B- pro'ect$
1e2elr$ Tele"ision
#icroStrateg$ +rchitect
+,g 200/ Oct 200/
Fewelry Television (FT<# is an !"erican television network, si"ilar to the 1o"e Shopping 7etwork$ It was &or"erly called C!"ericaGs
-ollectiles 7etworkC (!-7#$ FT< started on a new pro'ect HFT< Business Intelligence? and wanted In&o-epts to help &inding solutions to their
Design and !rchitectural Prole"s$
,esponsiilities@
Microstrategy !rchitecture review and design "odi&ication
-orrected relationships etween attriutes to solve 'oin issues in various reports$
!ssisted in designing Ti"e Di"ension &or six di&&erent calendars
!ssisted in "apping Ti"e "easures to di&&erent calendars o& Ti"e Di"ension$
+xtended (acts
Set <)DB settings &or Pro'ect and reports$
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Microstrategy ,eport tuning$
-reated reports with )evel "etrics during correction to reports created y end users$
Set <)DB settings to provide advanced tuning to reports$
%a"id3s -ridal) #+ *eplenishment Pro4ect
#icroStrateg$ %e"eloper
5e6 200/ +,g 200/
David?s Bridal is a leading retailer o& Bridal !ccessories and dresses$ They switched their inventory opti"i8ation syste" &ro" +2 -orp$ to
Manhattan !ssociates$ The Pro'ect was to recreate all the o'ects that were sourcing the given list o& old replenish"ent tales and will
hence&orth use the new replenish"ent tales designed y Manhattan !ssociates ensuring that the ,eports are not roken$
,esponsiilities@
!naly8ed the pro'ect re*uire"ent and the sche"a o& the syste"
-reated MicroStrategy +nterprise Manager ,eports &or &inding out reports, docu"ents which are not used &ro" a long ti"e
Ased MicroStrategy 6'ect Manager &or &inding out unused o'ects in the syste"
-reated -o""and Manager Scripts &or rena"ing "ass o'ects and creating shortcuts
-reating Sche"a Design Docu"ent and ,eport Design Docu"ent
-reated Sche"a 6'ects re*uired &or the replenish"ent process
-reated ,eports and other application o'ects re*uired &or the pro'ect
!ssisted in checking S5)?s &or opti"i8ing the ,eport Per&or"ance
Si"ultaneously worked on other pro'ect HStore Si"pli&ication? &ro" the sa"e client &or a short ti"e where I did the &ollowing tasks@
!ssisted in &or"atting the H,eport Service Docu"ents?
1elped in checking S5)?s &or 5uery 6pti"i8ations o& the -o"ponent reports o& the docu"ents$
In#o$ep"s% $orpora"e Training
#icroStrateg$ %e"eloper
1an 200/ 5e6 200/
-o"pleted training o& MicroStrategy 3 and did the &ollowing workshops@
Workshop on Intelligent -ues to use MicroStrategy new 6)!P &eature$
Workshop on ,eport Service Docu"ents with new added &eatures$
>raphical !rchitect Workshop% MicroStrategy ?s new &eature
S5) 6pti"i8ation Workshop
Workshop on Multisource% MicroStrategy ?s new &eature
Workshop on -o""and Manager
Workshop on Integrity Manager
Workshop on -ohort !nalysis
In#o$ep"s% $orpora"e Developmen"
%ata 7areho,sing +ssociate
%ec 2008 1an 200/
-reated training "aterials &or the In&o-epts oot ca"p process on the &ollowing topics@
Data Warehousing +T) process
MicroStrategy BI !rchitecture
MicroStrategy Pro'ect Design
MicroStrategy !d"in Tools
MicroStrategy +nterprise ,eporting
Asing (ree (or" S5) to ,etrieve 6perational Data

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InfoCepts !agp,r) India
%ata 7areho,sing +ssociate
Oct 2008 %ec 2008
Success&ully co"pleted In&o-epts? three "onths Data Warehousing Boot -a"p$ The training covered the &ollowing topics@
S5) +ssentials education and training
Introduction to Data Warehousing
Data Warehouse Design
Data Integration
MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Plat&or" B MicroStrategy -erti&ied +ngineer (M-+# training$ -ourses@ ,eporting +ssentials,
Pro'ect Design, !dvanced ,eporting, +nterprise ,eporting, Dyna"ic +nterprise Dashoards, Intelligence Server !d"inistration,
+nterprise Manager, -o""and Manager, 6'ect Manager, We ,eport Design and !nalysis, Develop"ent Standards, and
7arrowcast Server$
-onsulting Skills Training including co""unication skills, pro'ect "anage"ent, ti"e "anage"ent and client "anage"ent
Pro'ect work, "odeled upon actual In&o-epts? custo"er?s applications, consisted o& the analysis and develop"ent three data
warehouse0usiness intelligence solutions as &urther descried elow@
-oot Camp Pro4ect 8 1 #aintenance #anager Pro4ect
This application enales aircra&t "aintenance analysis to ensure sa&ety, docu"ent &ull co"pliance and achieve peak per&or"ance$ It
auto"ates the data gathering, analysis and reporting &or co""ercial aircra&t "aintenance and reliaility processes$ The product &eatures over
/44 MicroStrategy reports$ The Pro'ect was on MicroStrategy .$/ and the dataase was on 6racle 3i$
09ercises:
Studied the ,eports ,e*uire"ents Speci&ications Docu"ent and Ase -ases
!ssisted in creation o& the Test plan and Test -ases
Tested the reports &or &unctionality, data and look and &eel, along with "easuring their execution ti"e
Wrote custo" S5) &or all the reports to validate the report results
-reated ,eport Docu"ents containing the screen shots and S5) &or all the reports to assist in the A!T process
-oot Camp Pro4ect 8 2 - Conference -oard
The -on&erence Board conducts research, "akes &orecasts, assesses trends and pulishes in&or"ation and analysis$ Developed
MicroStrategy reporting application to analy8e trends in corporate charitale contriutions$ The analysis included year%to%year contriutions,
"edian ratio o& A$S$ corporate contriutions to do"estic pretax inco"e, "edian ratio o& total A$S$ contriutions to the nu"er o& A$S$ corporate
e"ployees, and international contriution proportion$
09ercises:
-reated the )ogical and Physical Data Model
Per&or"ed the +T) &or the Pro'ect
!naly8ed the ,eport Speci&ications
!rchitected the Sche"a 6'ects &or the Pro'ect
-reated all the reports including re*uired MicroStrategy !pplication 6'ects and re*uired Pro"pt 6'ects$
-oot Camp Pro4ect 8 ; +d"ent,re 7or<s %ata 7areho,se Pro4ect
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The goal o& this pro'ect was to load data co"ing &ro" a transactional source syste" co"prising S5) Server Dataase and &lat &iles into the
Data Warehouse using S5) Server 944: Integration Services$
09ercises:
Designed the Data Warehouse Model
!naly8ed the source data
-reated source to target "apping &or +T) process
-reated 3 SSIS packages to load data to the target Data Warehouse &or oth initial and incre"ental loads
E&uca"ion
Bachelor 6& +ngineering, 7agpur Aniversity
Ma'or@ 0lectronics and Telecomm,nications
2008
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