Ñame: - Tamseel Ahmed

Email ID: - tamseelahmedus@gmail.com

Mobile Number: -9902342800

Professional Summary:

 I am having Total 4.2 years of IT experience in that 2.5 Years of experience of Cognos
Administration with Data Warehousing applications using Business Intelligence tool Cognos
10.x/11.x BI Suite (Cognos Connection, Framework Manager, Transformer, Report Studio, Query
Studio and Analysis Studio).
 Efficient and knowledge in relational model and dimensional model in Cognos Framework
manager.
 Strong experience in creating drill through, master detail, burst reports using Report Studio.
 Good exposure on building Base and Virtual cubes using IBM Cognos Cube Designer
 Designed, developed customized interactive dashboards using to Cognos Analytics 11.
 Strong experience in Cognos Project and Reports migration from Cognos 10.2.2 to CA 11.
 Skilled in developing complex reports in report studio using complex SQL queries.
 Well versed with complete Life Cycle Development process which includes Requirements Analysis,
Documentation, Development, Testing, Implementation and Maintenance
 Strong knowledge on Data Warehousing, OLTP and OLAP concepts.
 Implemented Data Security, Object Security, and Package Security in Framework Manager and
Transformer cubes.
 Experienced in the COGNOS Administration like creating new Data Source Connections and
Creating Packages, handling the Deployment of reports, copying from Development to Production
server and also handling the user permissions on the Packages and Folders.
 Creation of user security groups, roles and permissions and providing domain and portal accesses
to various users through service requests.
 Experience in Cognos UI customization and developed new themes for Cognos UI.
 Strong experience on Scheduling in Cognos, Deployment, Bursting, user/role management and
data source connection management.
 Attending the environment level, report level & model level issues faced by users, and resolving
within the Service Level Agreement time.
 Excellent problem-solving skills with strong technical background and good inter-personal skills.
Quick learner and excellent team player, ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
 Flexible to adapt to any type of new environment with a strong desire to keep pace with latest
technologies. Also, a Quick learner, highly motivated with positive attitude, and active personality
with ability to plan and accomplish goals.
TECHNICALL SKILLS:
BI REPORTING TOOLS : Cognos Analytics 11Cognos 10.x (Framework Manager, Report Studio, Query
Studio, Analysis Studio, Cognos connection, Cognos Administration).
DATABASE : SQL Server 2012/2014 My SQL, Oracle 11g.
OPERATING SYSTEM : Windows 2000/XP/7/8/10
Education:
 B-tech (Electrical & Electronics) from Nimra college of Engineering & Technologies under JNTU
Kakinada 2013.

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Career Profile:
 Working as Software Engineer in Birla Soft from JUN 2018 to Till Date
Project – III
Client : Costco
Project : Costco
Role : Cognos Admin & BI Developer
Technologies : Cognos Analytics11.0.x, SQL
Period : Jan 2021 to till date

Skill set used::

Framework Manager, Report Studio, Analysis Studio, Query Studio, Cognos Connection, Cognos
Administration, SQL Server

Client Description:
Costco is Wholesale Corporation warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise.
The second largest retailer in the United States.

With the help of this project client will be able to understand their business process in a better way. Client
will be able to focus on areas where they need to improve themselves for better customer satisfaction.
User reports are created using Cognos.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Understanding the business process for Implementing Models in Framework Manager.

 Creating prompts, filters, calculations and providing Security in Framework Manager Level.
 Experience on Cognos BI Infrastructure Administrator, supporting BI application team, including
but not limited to server management, release management, license management, and Cognos
installation, tuning, configuration and management
 Creating the query subjects and publishing the packages to report server.
 Created the Cubes using the Power play transformer.
 Created dashboards to present critical data in a single report
  Creating adhoc reports by using Netezza, Cognos report studio, analysis studio and Query studio
on datamart wise.
 Worked on performance tuning of slowly running Reports/Dashboards
 Created adhoc reports using analysis studio and Report studio, scheduled them and shared the
data with the business
 Supporting business on Adhoc related queries
 Ability to deliver the Adhoc requests within the given timelines.
 Issues during the migration process were resolved proactively
 Responsible for data checking in the report and fixing data issues in anything found.
 Proactively resolved all the issues with the reports, SQL queries during migration process
 Extensively worked on performance improvement of the reports
 To create and manage printers. To control access to specific product functions, such as
administration and reporting, and features within the functions, such as bursting and user-defined
SQL
 Analyzing existing report structure and redesign the report structure by applying additional
optimization techniques Professional Experience Technical Summary Educational Qualification
 Testing reports performance with manual SQL queries
 Set governors at FM level as required
 Fully automated Reports using Cognos and Netezza which were running by the team manually on
monthly basis
 Automated many SQl based and Cognos reports and scheduled to run on certain timeframes.
Project – II
Client : Kotak
Project : Kotak Retail Banking System
Role : Cognos
Environment : Congo's 11X, Framework manager SQL
Period : Oct 2019 to Dec 2020

Client Description:
Kotak wants to develop a Cognos based dashboard that will help kotak Bank track all retail
banking KPIs across verticals like credit cards, finance, Savings, priority banking and Loans. These
dashboards will help the decision makers to track the performance of each vertical on day-to-day basis as
well monthly basis. So, we developed Business Intelligence System using Data Stage as ETL and Cognos
suite as reporting tool. The Dashboards involves highly Complex reports that will support Managerial
Levels in decision making.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Generated various kinds of reports (List, Cross tab, Drill Through, Master Detail,) using Report
Studio.
 Extensively worked with Query Studio and Report Studio.
 Involved in Creating and Publishing packages in Frame work Manager.
  Created List, Cross tab and Chart Reports Using Report Studio.
 Created Filters and Calculations.
 Prompts and Cascading prompts to dynamically select the values by the user.
 Created variables and applied conditional style and conditional text for highlighting the specific
data.
 Created drill through reports, master – detail reports using parameterized filters.
 Deployed reports and packages from Dev environment to Test environment.
 Interacting with the onsite coordinators on a regular basis for resolving issues pertaining to the
reports. Responsible for the reports delivery on schedule.
 Created various complex reports using conditional formatting and conditional display
 Ensure the timely and quality deliverables of Cognos tasks assigned to me.
 Extensively worked with filters and prompts on report data in Report Studio.
 Worked on scheduling the reports on Daily, Monthly& Quarterly basis using Cognos connection.

Project – I
Client : Hartford
Project : Hartford Life Insurance
Role : Cognos BI Developer
Environment : Cognos 10.1, Cognos 10.2 / Oracle 11g
Period : Jun 2018 to Sep 2019

Client Description:
This project is to provide Maintenance and support of life Insurance Data Warehouse for Hartford
Life Insurance which is fourth biggest life insurance giants in US. This deals with Group Benefit division of
Life insurance.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Created several Lists, Cross tab, Chart reports using Report Studio.
 Developed Reports with Filters, Calculations and Prompts.
 Involved in Team communication.
 Creation of reports based on simple, medium and complex using Cognos8 and 10.
 Do the Unit testing for accuracy of the reports.
 Fixing all issues which are raised in Remedy Ticket tool by Users.
 Design the Cognos reports as per the deadline
 Deployment of Packages & Reports between Development and Production Environment using
framework manager.
 Developed reports using cascading prompts to restrict the data fetch.
 Created List and Cross tab reports with Drill-through functionality.
 Worked on conditional formatting by creating variables and applied conditional styles.
 Involved in development and enhancements of the Reports.