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Santhosh R. A
asanthosh.dwh@gmail.com
Mobile no: +91 8867531399

Professional Summary:
 Over 7 years of experience in IT Industry with experience in Analysis, Design,
Development, Installation, Configuration, Testing, Upgrade, Administration Support,
Production Support, DWBI Tools Cognos Report Net 1.1 ,Cognos8,8.1/8.2/8.4,
Cognos8 Series (Cognos8.x) and Cognos 10
 Worked directly with Functional, Business Analysts and Business Users in understanding
their reporting needs and converted Business needs to Functional and Technical
specifications.

 Extensive hands-on experience in designing and developing data model using

Framework Manager.
 Expertise in Relational and Dimensional model using the Framework Manager.
 Creation and Testing of Data sources in Cognos Connection, Users, Groups and Roles
Creation.
 Experience in setting up Cognos Administration and having hands-on in implementing
Cognos security features Cognos Connection and in Cognos Portal
 Experience in developing KPIs, Executive dashboards, scorecards.
 Experience in Creation and Testing of Data sources in Cognos Connection, Users,
Groups and Roles Creation.
 Experience in requirement gathering/analysis, data modeling/design, performance
tuning and development for DWH projects.

 Experience in preparation technical specifications by using functional specifications

 Experience in modeling, design & developing Cognos Reports

Professional Experience:

 Working as Consultant (Technical Lead) with Sonata Software Ltd, from Sep 2012 to till
date.
 Worked as Sr. Software Engineer with L & T InfoTech Ltd, from March 2011 to Aug2012.
 Worked as Associate-Projects with Cognizant Technology Solutions(CTS) India Pvt.Ltd
from May 2008 to Feb 2011
 Worked for Skpweb Technologies as Software Engineer From July 2006 to April 2008.
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Professional Certification:
 Cognos Certifications from IBM.

Academic Credentials:

 Master of Computer Applications (MCA )

Technical skills:

Business Intelligence: Cognos 10.1, 8.x (Framework Manager, Report Studio, Query Studio,
Analysis Studio, Cognos Connection)
Cognos Report net 1.1 (Framework Manager, Report Studio, Cognos
Connection), Cognos Admin
ETL : Informatica and Data stage
Data Bases : Oracle 10g and 9i / 8i, and SQL server 2005
Languages : SQL/PLSQL, UNIX
Business Domain : Banking & Finance, Insurance, Manufacturing, Sales, Retail, Marketing
and Pharmaceutical

Project Details

Project#1
Project : SCM Phase II, JnJ
Client : Johnson & Johnson (JnJ)
Duration : Feb 2012 to till date
Role : Framework Manager and Cognos Developer
Environment : Cognos 10.1, Oracle 9I/10g And Windows xp
Project Description:
 The Supply chain Management (SCM)project DW & BI project for JNJ catered
specifically to the Medical Device and Diagnostics Department (MD & D). The MD & D
department consists of a Regional Planning Team (RPT) which looks after the planning
activities for 13 countries in the APAC region. Some of the common activities done by
this Regional Planning Team are:
• Planning for Demand Supply
• Forecasting
• Planning for Purchase orders
• Analysis for Planned VS Actual
MD & D also has a Regional Distribution Center (RDC) located in Singapore which acts as a
logistics hub for the complete APAC region. Therefore the above mentioned activities done by
RPT also act as vital inputs for the operations of the RDC.
The APAC region consists of 8 franchises of JNJ. RPT is responsible for doing planning
for 6 out of the 8 franchises.
The Reports and Dashboards designed in the SCM project are specifically targeted to
help the RPT to perform their planning activities with accuracy and ease. The purpose and
scope of the SCM phase 2 project is to create or modify the objects in RDW as specified in the
SoW.
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Business Benefits: This will result in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of planning
processes, by focusing the S&OP discussions on important product portfolio, identifying the
inventory imbalances and opportunities for improvement and SLOB control. With RDC it is very
essential to have the demand management capabilities to carry out the proper allocation of
Inventory to affiliates

Responsibilities:

 Worked closely with SME or Solution architect (SOA) form the client side and Business An-
alysts and converted Business requirements into technical specifications.
 Coordinate with customer and to understand the requirements
 Created and maintained the Framework Manager models that can be subjected to contin-
uous improvements and additions as the project moves along.
 Created Dimensional Model with Regular Dimension and Measure Dimension along with
StarSchema Grouping in Cognos 8 Framework Manager
 Creation and Testing of Data sources in Cognos Connection, Users, Groups and Roles
Creation.
 Extensively worked with Framework Manager

 Cognos Reports design

 Monitor testing Bugs and solve the issues
 Writing unit test cases for the developed reports
 Involved in the SIT and UAT Testing of the reports and preparing the Test cases
 Production Support, troubleshooting and Maintenance

Project#2
Project : Lafarge BICC Development
Client : LAFARGE, Europe
Duration : March 2011 to Aug 2012
Role : Framework Manager and Cognos Developer
Environment : Cognos 8, 8.4/10, Cognos Admin, Oracle 9I/10g, ODI, And Windows xp

Project Description:

Lafarge is a French industrial company specializing in five major products:

cement, construction aggregates and concrete and gypsum wallboard. Lafarge T-One project is
Global group project, intended to standardize Information Systems, business language and
practices. The data warehouse is developed to analyze sales and financial data on periodical
basis. The functional area covers sales and inventory. The Data from various branches are
integrated at the central repository of Head Office. The Data Warehouse resides on an ORACLE
Database with Cognos 8, 8.4 providing functionality.

Responsibilities:

 Worked closely with Systems Analysts and Business Analysts and converted Business
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requirements into technical specifications.
 Created and maintained the Framework Manager models that can be subjected to
continuous improvements and additions as the project moves along.
 Created Dimensional Model with Regular Dimension and Measure Dimension along with
StarSchema Grouping in Cognos 8 Framework Manager
 Requirement Analysis
 Extensively worked with Framework Manager
 Cognos Reports design
 Created Master- Detail, Cross-tab Reports and Pie- charts. 
 Extensively worked with Condition Explorer and Query Explorer
 Monitor testing Bugs and solve the issues
 Writing unit test cases for the developed reports
 Involved in the SIT and UAT Testing of the reports and preparing the Test cases
 Production Support, troubleshooting and Maintenance

Project#2
Project : BI solutions for JP Morgan Chase
Client : JP Morgan Chase (JPMC), US
Duration : Nov 2009 to Feb 2011
Role : Cognos Developer
Environment : Cognos 8, 8.4, Oracle 9I/10g, Data stage8.0 And Windows xp
Project Description:
JPMorgan's Performance Measurement tools deliver information to clients
through a client-only, password-protected Web site or through hard-copy reports. The
objective is to Provide Production support and to enhance the existing Cognos8 and Report Net
Reports along with any fresh Requests for development of new reports

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with
assets of $2.2 trillion. It operates in more than 60 countries having more than 200,000
employees. JPMC serves millions of U.S. consumers and many of the worlds most prominent
corporate, institutional and government clients. It is a leader in investment banking, financial
services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction
processing, asset management and private equity

Responsibilities:

 Involved in the preparation technical specifications by using functional specifications.

 Created Dimensional Model with Regular Dimension and Measure Dimension along with
StarSchema Grouping in Cognos 8 Framework Manager
 Cognos Reports design
 Extensively worked with Framework Manager
 Worked with end-users to determine project needs and requirements
 Created security for different user groups @ Package Level, Object Level and Data Level
 Prepared report design document and unit testing documents Involved in the quality
assurance process
 Created Master- Detail, Cross-tab Reports and Pie- charts. 
 Extensively worked with Condition Explorer and Query Explorer
 Created Simple List, Cross-tab Reports and Drill Through reports.
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 Involved in Testing the Report and Preparing the test cases

Project#3
Project : JPMC - American Depository Receipt
Client : JP Morgan Chase (JPMC), UK
Duration : May 2008 to Oct 2009
Role : Cognos Developer
Environment : Cognos8.1, Cognos8.2, Oracle 9i, Informatica and Windows2003

Project Description:
American Depository Receipt (ADR) is a migration project. It
undergoes migration of reports from Power Builder to Cognos and database Sybase to Oracle. It
also includes consolidation of two different schemas in Sybase to a single schema in Oracle.
JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm
with assets of $2.2 trillion. It operates in more than 60 countries having more than 200,000
employees. JPMC serves millions of U.S. consumers and many of the worlds most prominent
corporate, institutional and government clients. It is a leader in investment banking, financial
services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction
processing, asset management and private equity.

Responsibilities:

 Involved in Designing, Developing, and Testing of Reports. 

 Worked with end-users to determine project needs and requirements
 Created Dimensional Model with Regular Dimension and Measure Dimension along with
StarSchema Grouping in Cognos 8 Framework Manager
 Requirement Analysis
 Cognos Reports design
 Created Master- Detail, Cross-tab Reports and Pie- charts. 
 Extensively worked with Condition Explorer and Query Explorer
 Involved in Testing the Report and Preparing the test cases
 Development ,Production Support, troubleshooting and Maintenance
Project#4
Project : Business Intelligent Solutions for AEON
Client : ÆON Co., Japan
Duration : June 2007 to April 2008
Role : Report Developer
Environment : Cognos Report Net 1.1, Oracle 9i, and Windows2000.

Project Description:
ÆON is the largest retailer in Asia.ÆON CO, has franchises of super stores
worldwide. It is Japan's largest Super Market chain offering electronic goods, women clothing
pharmaceuticals.Other operations are shopping center development and credit card services.
This project aims to give Client Intelligent Informational Reports regarding his
existing business situation and how he can analyze specifically his business. The project gives
an insight to analyze industry trends and target specific market segments. It also helps in
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identifying best and worst sellers, product trends and develops a channel strategy, sales
opportunities by capitalizing on buying trends.
Responsibilities:
 Involved in Designing, Developing, and Testing of Reports. 
 Formulated Data to appear in Master- Detail, Cross-tab Reports and Pie- charts. 
 Extensively worked with Condition Explorer and Query Explorer

 Used various types of Calculations, Filters and Prompts.

 Involved in unit testing

 Development ,Production Support, troubleshooting and Maintenance

Project#5:

Project : MARS (Marketing and Revenue Analysis System)

Client : Redland Inc., USA.
Duration : July 2006 to May 2007
Role : Team member
Environment : Cognos Report Net 1.1, Oracle, Informatica and Windows 2000

Description:
In business for more than 80 years, Redland Inc., of Allentown, Pennsylvania,
is one of the oldest stone, blacktop, and concrete companies in the United States. To help its
sales and marketing representatives analyze the customer base and to eventually assess the
efficiency of its distribution network, Redland build a data warehouse that pulls data from file
systems and integrates it, utilizing Oracle 8i and Informatica ,Reprot Net are used to generate
reports such as quarterly revenue, total cost, item quantities and various levels of information

Responsibilities:

 Involved in Designing, Developing, and Testing of Reports. 

 Worked with end-users to determine project needs and requirements
 Requirement Analysis
 Cognos Reports design
 Created Master- Detail, Cross-tab Reports and Pie- charts. 
 Extensively worked with Condition Explorer and Query Explorer
 Involved in Testing the Report and Preparing the test cases
 Development ,Production Support, troubleshooting and Maintenance