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Kamal Kaur
248-918-0690
Email: kamal.mstr@gmail.com
Summary:
Over seven years of extensive experience in the field of Data Warehousing, Data Architecture, Data Modeling,
Business Intelligence and ETL Applications.
Extensive experience as MicroStrategy Developer, Architect & Administrator.
Expertise in migration of Projects / Objects between different environments.
Strong hands-on experience on advanced Report Development.
Extensively worked on schema objects such as Facts, Attributes and Hierarchies.
Strong knowledge in creating application objects such as Metrics, Filters, Reports, Templates..
Expertise in pointing different databases to different environments (Development, UAT and Production).
Good Knowledge in Java script.
Expertise in creating MicroStrategy users at different levels with required privileges.
Good knowledge in implementing and maintaining Dashboards and Scorecard Reports on the web.
Good knowledge of MicroStrategy 9 Reporting Services documents.
Designed interactive and visually stunning Dynamic Dashboards using Report Services objects like
Gauges, Dials, Widgets and Grid/Graph combinations.
Created complex reports in MicroStrategy Desktop using features like Templates, Transformations,
Consolidations and Custom groups.
Having strong experience in SQL and performance tuning.
Accomplished System Optimization, Performance Monitoring and Tuning in MicroStrategy Business
Intelligence environment.
Got experience in building Data Model & interpretation.
Extensively involved in the complete software projects life cycle (SDLC).
Expert in database development skills using SQL and writing Stored Procedures, Packages and Triggers.
Ability to work in tight schedules with high quality and efficient in meeting deadlines.
Strong experience in understanding Business Applications, Business Dataflow and Data relations. Exception
ability to quickly master new concepts and capable of working in-group as well as independently.
Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Business Intelligence:

MicroStrategy 9.x/8.x/8.1/8.0.2/7.x (MicroStrategy Desktop/Web, Intelligence

Server, Narrowcast Server) Business Objects, Decision Point/Cast.

Operating Systems:

Window XP//2000, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS, Linux.

Databases:

DB2 AS400/ UDB, Oracle 10g/8i/7.x, SQL Server.

Data Modeling:

Microsoft Visio 2000/2003/2007, ERwinr7.3

Utilities:

Oracle SQL- Loader, Visual Basic, Oracle Forms 6i, Reports 6i, FastLoad,
MultiLoad, FastExport, TPump, Visual Explain, Queryman/SQL Assistant, SVN,
Visual Source Safe.

Languages:

Oracle SQL Developer/*Plus, PL/SQL, Teradata SQL & SPL, C

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Education:
MS Computer & Information Science, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
BS Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Punjab University, India
Professional summary:
Fannie Mae, DC
MicroStrategy Developer

Jun12 Present

Description: The Purpose of the project was to modify the data entry, MicroStrategy reporting layer and database
components to provide enhanced email capabilities that allow users and administrator to self-adjust email
distribution. Ensure the performance of existing microstrategy reports is improved to return results faster.
Responsibilities:
Gather requirements by interacting with senior managers and users for design of reports.
Participate in BI team meetings to discuss the user requirements.
Recognize source tables and columns, and build Schema objects, Application
objects necessary for
creation of a MicroStrategy project.
Create Complex grid reports with drill capabilities.
Generate grid and graph reports by using appropriate Facts, Attributes, Compound metrics, Level
Metrics, Advance filter.
Created reports with various object prompts to generate various Ad hoc reports.
Design Interactive Dashboards in MicroStrategy Web to assess companys performance and monitor
the overall goals of the business.
Implemented different Schemas (Star and Snow Flake) to fit reporting, query and business analysis
requirements.
Create standardized reports (Canned reports) and Report Services documents for users.
Used Transformations (table based, formula based) for comparative reports for Investment Operations.
Perform Daily Checks for job Monitor, user sessions and Cache Monitor to keep the system stable.
Responsible for design and development of Narrowcast Services, Schedules, Subscription sets,
documents for narrowcasting reports to file server/ via email.
Production support, trouble-shooting and fixing of reports was done in record time.
Performed knowledge transfer to the business users, documented the general design of the reports.
Adept at managing projects through entire systems development life cycle, including creating
timely/thorough status reports and leading status meetings.
Environment: MicroStrategy 9.2.1 (Architect, Intelligence server, SDK, Web, Web Universal, Narrowcast server,
Desktop), Report Services, SQL Server 2005.
Vonage, NJ
Micro Strategy Developer

Apr 11May 12

Description: Vonage is a leading voice communication company with assets to the tune of 156 billion approx.
Micro Strategy software is the heart of Business intelligence at Vonage used to track financial, sales and customer
activity in order to make decisions that improve business performance and strengthen customer relationships As a
Micro Strategy Developer/Admin, I was heavily involved in supporting the analysis of the organization, customer
activity, and leveraged finance activities.
Responsibilities:
Involved in collecting and documenting business requirements from end clients and translating them
into report specifications for the MicroStrategy platform.
Involved in Dimensional Modeling by selecting the business process, declaring the grain, and choosing
the dimensions and facts.

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Generated reports for the cooperation for Assets period to period.

Delivered documents for Financial Analysis, Statements and Summary, Customer lifetime value and
Customer loyalty.
Generated Key Performance Indicators (KPI) metrics and other metrics.
Managed projects through entire Systems Development Life Cycle, including creating timely thorough
status reports and leading status meetings.
Created logical data models to recognize source tables and columns, to build MicroStrategy Schema
objects
including
Attributes,
Facts,
Hierarchies
and
Relationships necessary
to
create MicroStrategy project.
Team member for the upgrade from 8.0.1 to 9.0
Added new users to groups and assigning them security privileges.
Performed Administration tasks, like User Creation, Session Handling, Creating Security roles,
Analyzing Report performance, administered all aspects of web, Intelligence server and Narrowcast
Server.
Created joins and relationship according to the data model Schema.
Identify and modified source tables and columns in the warehouse required creating the MicroStrategy
project. Studied and modified the attributes, facts andhierarchiesbased on the requirement. Used
MicroStrategy Desktop for creating various application objects.
Tested report layouts, validated the SQL query, prompt ordering prompt defaults, security filters,
export/print functionality and drilling options like simple and advanced.
Extensively worked in developing Metrics (Dimensional metrics, Compound metrics), Filters, Custom
groups and Consolidations for complex reports.
Extensively used MicroStrategy administration tools include MicroStrategyCommand Manager,
MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager, and MicroStrategy Object Manager, Job Monitor.
Used Transformations for comparative reports like claims this year to last year (year to date and month to
date).
Proactively created report formats and delivered personalized messages from the BI platform through
MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server to a wide range of users.

Environment: MicroStrategy 9.0/8.1.2 (Architect, Intelligence server, SDK, Web, Web Universal, Narrowcast
server, Desktop), Report Services, Oracle 10G , Toad for Oracle version 8.6.1, Informatica Power center 8.1.1,
UNIX, SQL Server 2005, ERWIN, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 and Windows Server 2003
SANOFI PASTEUR, Swift water, PA
MicroStrategy Developer

Sept 10 Mar 11

Description: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi-Aventis group (NYSE:SNY) is the largest company
in the world devoted entirely in manufacturing vaccines.
Responsibilities:
Worked on Production Support by assisting users from Canada and United States and involved in
development of new projects.
Created reports and documents for core Flu and Shipping teams, VSs, DDPH, BASS and DASH
reports users across United States and Canada who are working for Sanofi Aventis, Merck and VaxServe
companies
Worked on primary role for DASH and BASS reports production support
Worked as Administrator to monitor user access to reports, documents, dashboards, real time contact
center dashboards for United States and Canada users
Provided support to business users by working on multiple projects along with development of new
projects.
Worked on Axure Rapid prototyping which is an alternative to MS Visio
Worked Closely with Informatica Team to assist them for getting proper data loaded in our MicroStrategy
DEV environment after understanding the raw file structure and reporting requirements

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Developed, tested and implemented reports for internal and external users by making the reports available
through MicroStrategy Desktop, MicroStrategy Office and MicroStrategy Web
Interaction with business (user) group in requirements gathering and analysis aiding in implementation of
better optimization techniques for improved performance.
Provided documentation of report specifications for reports needed by business
Created MicroStrategy public objects and schema objects such as filters, prompts, hierarchies,
transformations, metrics, attributes and facts.
Worked with MicroStrategy Administrator, Architect and Data Modeler
Worked effectively with ETL Team to assist them in Data migration
Performed Unit Testing when projects in Dev environment were pointed to SIT and UAT database
instances
Understanding the Source System and the User requirement.
Worked with business users to get sign-off after testing MicroStrategy objects in UAT/SIT environment.

Environment: Micro Strategy 9.0/8.1.2 (Architect, Intelligence server, SDK, Web, Web Universal, Narrowcast
server, Desktop), Report Services, Oracle 10G , Toad for Oracle version8.6.1,Informatica Power center 8.1.1,
UNIX, SQL Server 2005, ERWIN, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 and Windows Server 2003
Citi Bank, NJ
MicroStrategy Developer

May09 Aug 10

Description: Citibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial
services giant Citigroup. Citigroup is the third largest bank holding company in the United States by domestic
deposits. In addition to the standard banking transactions, Citibank offers insurance, credit card and investment
products. I worked on developing projects from the scratch to end which includes requirements, data modeling,
reports, and documents and maintained the project.
Responsibilities:
Gather requirements by interacting with senior managers and users for design of reports.
Participate in BI team meetings to discuss the user requirements.
Create logical data models, recognize source tables and columns, and build Schema objects,
Applicationobjects necessary for creation of a MicroStrategy project.
Create Complex grid reports with OLAP and drill capabilities.
Architected schema objects such as Attributes, Facts and Transformations.
Generate grid and graph reports by using appropriate Facts, Attributes, Compound metrics, Level
Metrics, Advance filter.
Created reports with various object prompts to generate various Ad hoc reports.
Design Interactive Dashboards in MicroStrategy Web to assess companys performance and monitor
the overall goals of the business.
Implemented different Schemas (Star and Snow Flake) to fit reporting, query and business analysis
requirements.
Day to Day Administrative activity of Sales processing project including maintenance, enhancement
and User Management using Object Manager.
Developed Flash Dashboards & Scorecards in MicroStrategy 9 using Widgets and Selectors for
summary level reporting
Create standardized reports (Canned reports) and Report Services documents for users.
Used Transformations (table based, formula based) for comparative reports for Investment Operations.
Migrated and upgraded the I server and Desktop from MSTR version 8.1.2 to 9.0
Delivered personalized reports from MicroStrategy project to subscribers using MicroStrategy
Narrowcast Server.
Perform Daily Checks for job Monitor, user sessions and Cache Monitor to keep the system stable.
Migration of objects from QA to Production environment using Object Manager.

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Responsible for design and development of Narrowcast Services, Schedules, Subscription sets,
documents for narrowcasting reports to file server/ via email.
Production support, trouble-shooting and fixing of reports was done in record time.
Performed knowledge transfer to the business users, documented the general design of the reports.
Adept at managing projects through entire systems development life cycle, including creating
timely/thorough status reports and leading status meetings.
Involved in various back end ETL development tasks and Production Support.

Environment: MicroStrategy 8.0.1/9, MicroStrategy Desktop 8.x/9, SDK, MicroStrategy Web 8.x/9, MicroStrategy
Intelligence Server 8.x/9, MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server , IIS, SSL, ERWIN 4.0, TOAD 7.0, Microsoft Visual
SourceSafe 6, Informatica Power Center 5.1, Teradata V2R5, Oracle 11i, Windows XP.
E Gate Solutions, IL
Micro Strategy Developer

Aug 07 Apr 09

Description: E-Gate Solutions offers a comprehensive portfolio of web based applications and solutions. By
leading the mobile world with trusted solutions for all types of business including retail, restaurants, service
companies, wireless merchants, airlines transportation, E-Gate continues on its long tradition of application
development stewardship.
Responsibilities:
Extensively involved in interacting with the users and gathering the requirements, and analyzed the needs
of the end users.
Involved in implementing the star and snowflake schemas to fit reporting, querying and business
requirements analysis.
Developed logical and physical data model by defining strategy for Star Schema with Fact and Dimension
tables with Detail, Summary, Look-up tables, Indexes and views.
Designed Interactive Dashboards in MicroStrategy Web to assess companys performance and
monitored the overall goals of the business.
Extensively involved in data modeling to create attribute relationships.
Developed new reports and converted existing reports for the business line to satisfy the specifications
using MicroStrategy Desktop and MicroStrategy web.
Created Facts, Attributes and Hierarchies using the MicroStrategy Architect.
Developed various Metrics, filters, consolidations, custom groups and prompts to give decision
makers a handy tool to choose the criteria for reports and view information from different perspectives.
Involved in customization of MicroStrategy Web.
Involved in designing Templates to generate Reports in grid and graph mode and used filters with
prompts to give the end-user a choice of different filtering criteria each time they run the report along with
different custom groups.
Involved in creating various transformations to analyze different metric values in this year to last year
using MicroStrategy Architect.
Extensively worked on Documents by adding additional functionalities using XSL sheets to create more
personalized documents with images, hyperlinks and other report objects.
Involved in performing various analysis using the MicroStrategy Desktop.
Used Narrowcast server for content Management, Self-Subscription, Profile Management, Proactive
information Delivery and alerting and to personalize the reports and information.
Involved in configuring the Intelligence Server and pointing the database instances in both development
and production environments.
Worked with Administrator in installation process of the MicroStrategy Tool Suite.
Designed mappings and the logic to migrate data from Legacy source system to the target Database.
Worked with Data stage tool suit for data Extraction, Transformation and Loading into the warehouse
database from Oracle databases.
Coordinate scrum, release committee meetings, defect triage for defect tracking and defect management,
root cause analysis and speedy resolution.

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Capture daily work progress and generate weekly status report.

Environment: Micro Strategy 8.x (Desktop, Administrator, Web), MicroStrategy, Intelligence Server 8.x,
MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server 8.x, Teradata v2r4, Windows Server 2003.
Staples Inc., CO
Micro Strategy Report Developer

June 06 to July 07

Description: As the worlds largest office products company, Staples Inc. has a presence in more than 26
countries. The success of this company lies in its multiple sales approaches such as retail, catalog, and online
sales. Staples enhance corporate performance, efficiency and productivity by deploying Micro Strategy interactive
grids and dashboards for performance of Store, Sales Representative, and Daily Product. Using Micro Strategy
tools, Staples instantly accesses multi-channel sales information to understand and respond to rapidly changing
market trends and enhance decision making and at the same time strengthen customer relationships.
Responsibilities:
Participate in the end user meetings to obtain the business requirements for creating reports.
Assist DBAs in creating views and making changes in the Database as required for the Micro Strategy
Environment.
Work on Micro Strategy Reports by creating Custom Groups, Attributes, Hierarchies, Filters, Metrics,
Compound Metrics and Filters for complex reports.
Work with Business end users and conduct regular demos for report functionality in MSTR Web.
Develop Report Service Documents and dynamic dashboards using new data sets and widgets.
Implement proactive, personalized information delivery services using Micro Strategy Narrowcast Server.
Created different objects that define Narrowcast Server services, including content Information Objects,
Documents, Subscription Sets, and Schedules.
Troubleshoot Micro Strategy prompt, filter, template, consolidation, and custom group objects in an
enterprise data warehouse team environment.
Optimize the performance of the reports using the VLDB properties in Micro Strategy.
Co-ordinate with off-shore development team, delegating tasks and providing directions for fast
deliverables.
Coordinate with business, data modeling and ETL team at various levels for stabilization of reports.
Involve with Business end users to develop MSTR Office Power Point and Excel templates.
Work with QA, testers and business users to ensure completeness and accuracy of reports data.
Environment: Micro Strategy 9.1/9.2.1m/9.3 (Desk top, Object Manager, WEB, Enterprise Manager, Narrowcast),
Oracle, DB2, MS Visio, Windows 7.