Around 9.5 years of IT experience in Business intelligence using MS SQL Server and Microsoft Technologies .Experience manipulating various data sources to support senior management decisions .Demonstrated leadership abilities and team work skills as well as the ability to accomplish tasks under minimal direction and supervision.
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SQL Server (BI/T-SQL) Consultant
1. SQL Server (BI/T-SQL) Consultant
Raja
Sudheer@brightpathdev.com/Raja2idea@gmail.com Ph: - 404-4545-5454
SUMMARY
Around 9.5 years of IT experience in Business intelligence using MS SQL Server and Microsoft
Technologies .Experience manipulating various data sources to support senior management
decisions .Demonstrated leadership abilities and team work skills as well as the ability to
accomplish tasks under minimal direction and supervision.
· Skills in: Business Intelligence ,SSIS,SSRS ,SSAS/ OLAP, Data Warehousing, Database
Design and Development, SSRS Reporting and T-SQL
· Thorough Software Development life cycle (SDLC) experience including development, designing,
analysis, coding, testing and implementation.
· Expertise in Creating Physical Models based on Functional Requirements and System Design.
· Proficient in SQL Server Developing Stored Procedures, Triggers, Cursors, T-SQL Statements,
UDF Functions and Views.
· Designing and developing OLAP dimensions, cubes, measures, and calculated members with
SQL Server 2005/2008/Analysis Services 2005/2008.
· Designing and developing SSRS reports using both SQL and MDX for retrieving data.
· Converting existing SQL queries from a proprietary database system to run against Microsoft SQL
Server Analysis Services [SSAS] cubes using the MDX query language.
· Extensive Experience in Data modeling, Database Design, Back End Development using Stored
Procedures.
· Excellent T-SQL Programming skills. Experience in query optimization & performance tuning.
Used SQL Profiler, Execution Plan, Performance Monitor.
· Experience in using SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) tools like Import and Export
Wizard, Package Installation, and SSIS Package Designer.
· Migrated DTS packages to SSIS, Package Migration Wizard, and Storage Management.
· Experience in Error and Event Handling, Precedence Constraints, Break Points, Check
Points, Logging.
· Experienced in creating various types of reports (table, chart and matrix report, web reporting
by customizing URL Access etc).
· Worked on creating client reports and custom reports (On demand, AdHoc Reports, Frequency
reports, Summary Reports, Sub Reports, Drill-down, dynamic grouping, Cross-Tab,
graphical, aging reports etc) using SQL Server Reporting Services 2005.
· Thorough knowledge of Features, Structure, Attributes, Hierarchies, Star and Snow Flake
Schemas of Data Marts.
· Extensive experience in creating various database objects in Visual Studio.net 2005 and
deploying them to the SQL Server 2005.
· Worked extensively on ADO.NET to access data from SQL Server.
· Hands on experience in Backend BI SQL testing experience and Performance Testing.
· Participated in creating project and technical documentation including policies, procedures, and
standards.
· Experienced with using source control systems such as VSS and CVS.
· Experience of Relational Database Management systems (RDBMS) and Database design issues like
normalization and de-normalization.
· Worked in a fast paced environment as a very good team player and capable of working
independently. Adapted to changing technologies and environments while maintaining project
schedules.
Education:
2. BS in Computer Science and Information Technology
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Databases: SQL Server 2008/2005/2000/7.0, Oracle 8i/9i,MY SQL, MS Access
Database Tools: Enterprise Manager, SS Management Studio, Query Analyzer, System
Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, SQL Profiler, Index Tuning Wizard,
Upgrade Wizard, Databases Maintenance Plan Wizard, Data Transformation
Services (DTS), Database Engine Tuning Advisor, Bulk Insert and BCP, SSIS,
SSRS, Business Intelligence Development Studio, SQL CMD
Operating Systems: Windows server 2003, Windows 2000 advanced server, Windows NT/95/XP,
MS DOS,
Networking: Internet Information Server (IIS), MS-Front Page, TCP/IP, LAN, WAN
Languages/Scripts/GUI C,C++,JAVA,T-SQL and PL/SQL, C, VB 6.0, VSS,HTML, XML
Designing Tools: Erwin 7.0, MS Visio 2007/2003
Reporting Tools: SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS),Idea on Cognos,Webfocus
ETL Tools: SQL Server Integration Tools (SSIS)/DTS
Web Technologies VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C#, Visual Studio.Net, Java, J2EE ,Servlets
,Struts
Development Tools MS-Visual-Studio-2003/2005,Visual Basic 6.0/5.0,crystal Reports XI/10/9.0/8
.5, Visual Source Safe, eclipse, TOAD
Version Control VSS, CVS, Rational Clear Case, starteam.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Voya Financial (Formerly ING U.S. Investment Management), Atlanta, GA April-2014-
Current
SQL BI Developer
Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), formerly ING U.S., is composed of premier retirement, investment
and insurance companies serving the financial needs of approximately 13 million individual and
institutional customers in the United States. The company’s vision is to be America’s Retirement
CompanyTM and its guiding principle is centered on solving the most daunting financial challenge facing
Americans today — retirement readiness
Responsibilities:
· Understanding Customer requirement via interaction and writing functional specification
· Involved in the System study and Database Design using MS SQL Server 2012.
· Created Stored Procedures, Triggers, Indexes, User defined Functions, Constraints etc on
various database objects to obtain the required results.
· Implemented and enhanced existing reports like Group By, Drilldown, Drill Through , Sub-reports,
List, Tabular , matrix , navigation reports, standard parameter and cascading
Parameter ,Multivalve Parameters
· Created numerous Dashboard Reports (Metrics) for different business modules such as Education,
Advertisements etc.
· experience in Data Warehouse data and dimensional modeling, Business Intelligence and ETL
design and development.
· Designing and developing OLAP dimensions, cubes, measures, and calculated members with
SQL Server 2008/Analysis Services 2008.
· Designing and developing SSRS reports using both SQL and MDX for retrieving data.
· Converting existing SQL queries from a proprietary database system to run against Microsoft SQL
Server Analysis Services [SSAS] cubes using the MDX query language.
3. · Identify queries that can be optimized, merged, and otherwise streamlined to take advantage of
the MDX query language and the data structures of the existing cubes.
· SQL Server Index Maintenance Performance Tuning for Large Tables
· Microsoft SQL Server management and performance tuning. Focuses on index tuning, query
modifications, partitioning and hardware optimization
· Rewrote and tuned long-running SQL queries to cut execution time, ease database load and
improve scalability.
· Designed and populated reporting tables, views and stored procedures
· Transferred data from various data sources/business systems including Oracle, DB2,Teradata, Flat
Files etc to SQL Server using SSIS using various features like data conversion etc. Created derived
columns from the present columns for the given requirements.
· Participating in defining ETL strategies, preparing transformation rules and mapping data from source
to target
· The effective use of Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team System including project
planning, defect tracking, source control repository organization, and code metric tracking.
· Created SSIS packages and scheduled them as jobs to run automatically to Process the cube, load
data etc.
· Created logging for ETL load at package level and task level to log number of records processed by
each package and each task in a package using SSIS.
· Developed, monitored and deployed SSIS packages.
· Responsible for Scheduling Jobs, Alerting and Maintaining SSIS packages.
· Implemented security to restrict the access to users and to allow them to use only certain reports.
· Developed DSV(Data Source Views) from Fact and Dimension Tables and Created Dimensional
Modeling by using Star & Snowflake Schema
· Involved in development &Deployment of SSAS Cubes and Monitor Full and Incremental loads and
support any issues.
Environment: VB.NET ASP.NET 2.0,3.5 ADO.NET, VS 2005, XML, XSL, XPATH, SOAP, UDDI,
WSDL, HTML, UML, SQL Server 2005,SSRS,SSIS, VSS 2005, Acrobat Professional 8,MS Office
2000, MS Visio 2002, Java Script, Web Services, Crystal Reports XI
(R2),Java,J2EE,Struts,jsp, Windows XP/2000/NT.
PRGX, Atlanta, GA Mar-2011-April-
2014
SQL BI Developer
PRGX is a Healthcare Auditing Company, this provide a traditional audit to the claims done by the
hospitals to the US govt. In this company I have worked with Medicare data. I have worked with
different modules from the scratch 1) accounting code module: automation of generating accounting code.
2) Dashboard Reporting: I generate 100 reprots; generate the repots based on US govt requirements
whenever they need in specific manner. 3) SSIS Packages: PRGX receives files in heterogeneous sources,
so first convert those things to SQL SERVER using SSIS/ DTS.
Responsibilities:
· Analyzing business requirements and build logical data models that describe all the data and
relationships between the data.
· Developed Stored Procedures, Functions, Tables, Views, Triggers, Cursors, User Defined
Functions, other T-SQL code and SQL joins for applications to handle large amount of data
manipulation.
· Errors handling using TRY and CATCH blocks and performance-tuning the SQL Code.
· Creating ETL packages using SSIS to extract data from different data sources, reformats the data
and load the reformatted data into destination tables.
· Responsible for transferring the data using SSIS packages from excel/flat file sources to
database.
4. · Published migrated data using SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) Tool through data flow
tasks, look up transformations and script tasks.
· Creating Logging and Error Handling in SSIS Packages
· Responsible for deploying/scheduling SSIS packages as per schedule.
· Monitoring, Identifying and troubleshooting SQL Server performance issues using SQL Server
Performance monitor, profiler and Performance dashboards
· Responsible for creating a trace to identify and analyze the Poorly Performing Queries Identified
by Profiler in SQL Server 2008 R2.
· Used Reporting Services (SSRS) to schedule reports to be generated on predetermined time.
· Developing Cascading Reports for Analytics Reports, Ad-hoc Reports using Report Builder, SQL
server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 R2
· Creating and deploying various Reports like Drill Down, Drill Through, Chart, Linked and
Parameterized reports using SSRS
· Generating on-demand and scheduled reports for business analysis or management decision using
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
· Performing Unit and Regression tests for Developed Reports and Deployed into the Server
· Created dashboard SSRS reports under report server projects and publishing SSRS reports to the
reports server.
· Created SSRS Data Model projects using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and using Report Builder
for report server to facilitate Ad-hoc reporting by the business users.
Environment: VB.NET ASP.NET 2.0,3.5 ADO.NET, VS 2005, XML, XSL, XPATH, SOAP, UDDI,
WSDL, HTML, UML, SQL Server 2005,SSRS,SSIS, VSS 2005, Acrobat Professional 8,MS Office
2000, MS Visio 2002, Java Script, Web Services, Crystal Reports XI
(R2),Java,J2EE,Struts,jsp, Windows XP/2000/NT.
* Macy’s , Inc ., Duluth, Atlanta, GA April-2010 to Mar-2011
SQL Server Developer SQL/MDX/SSIS/SSRS/SSAS
Responsibilities:
Enterprise locator System (ELS): The objective of this project release is to modify the existing
Enterprise Locator System application and components (Admin, Client, and Reporting) to address
scalability and usability issues that surround the Enterprise Locator System. Additionally, this
project will include a single reporting tool that provides performance statistics in a concise,
actionable format for Macys, Inc corporate users.
Financial System Analysis (FSA): Contains a study of the major internal and external factors
affecting Macy’s, Inc. in the form of analysis as well as a breakdown and examination of leading
product revenue streams of Federated Department Stores, Inc. Data is supplemented with details
on Macy’s, Inc. history, key executives, business description, locations and subsidiaries as well as a
list of products and services and the latest available statement from Macy’s, Inc.
· Created and managed schema objects such as Tables, Views, Indexes and referential integrity
depending on user requirements.
· Developed various T-SQL stored procedures, triggers, views, and adding/changing tables for
data extraction ,data load and transformations
· Created various database objects such as tables, indexes and views based on the requirement.
· Dynamically supported business users for given requirements and developed the reports accordingly.
· Created ETL packages with different data sources (SQL Server, Flat Files, Excel source files, XML
files etc) and then loaded the data into destination tables by performing different kinds of
transformations using SSIS/DTS packages.
5. · Developed the packages with monitoring features and logging so that audit information of the
packages and their execution results are loaded in to the audit table.
· Created checkpoints and configuration files in SSIS packages
· Experienced in slowly changing dimension in SSIS packages.
· Created database maintenance planner for the performance of SQL Server, which covers Database
integrity checks and re-indexing.
· Generated various reports with drilldowns, calculated members, dropdowns from the cubes by
connecting to Analysis server from SSRS.
· Created data sources, connection strings and defined the datasets for generating the report.
· Designed and written the queries in the query builder for retrieving the data.
· Created and worked with drill down reports and identified the report parameters.
· Used various report items like tables, sub report and charts to develop the reports in SSRS.
· Deployed and generated reports on to the server using the Reporting Services Report Manager.
· Worked with various Delivery mechanisms of Reports including Email /PDF/Schedules etc
· Created subscriptions to provide a daily basis reports.
· Managed and troubleshoot report server related issues.
· Migrated some Crystal reports to SSRS reports.
· Developed Cubes using SQL Analysis Services (SSAS) and Experience in Developing and Extending
OLAP Cubes, Dimensions and data source views.
· Created Dimensions with the cube wizard and also individually and Generated Named calculations
and named queries.
· Refreshing the cube to get the latest information updated and deployment of Cubes to the production
server.
· Experience in migration of Data from Excel, Flat file, Oracle to MS SQL Server by using BCP, DTS
utility and ETL tools such as SQL Server integration Services( SSIS)
· Worked on large data warehouse Analysis services servers and developed the different reports for the
analysis from that servers.
· Extensively involved in the SSAS storage and partitions, and aggregations, calculation of queries
with MDX, Data Mining Models, developing reports using MDX and SQL.
Environment: VB.NET ASP.NET 2.0,3.5 ADO.NET, VS 2005, XML, XSL, XPATH, SOAP, UDDI,
WSDL, HTML, UML, SQL Server 2005,SSRS,SSIS, VSS 2005, Acrobat Professional 8,MS Office
2000, MS Visio 2002, Java Script, Web Services, Crystal Reports XI
(R2),Java,J2EE,Struts,jsp, Windows XP/2000/NT.
Client: nVision Global, McDonough, Atlanta, GA Sept-2007 to Mar-2010
Sr SQL Developer
Responsibilities:
Accounting code Module: I am the lead architect and am responsible for the entire Module
development. The applications developed and maintained by my team touch every bill in the system.
Payment History Module: This module focuses on the SQL Server Integration Services to extract data
6. from heterogeneous sources and import data into Microsoft SQL Server for Business Intelligence (BI)
analysis and reporting (Keep track of Historical data to avoid duplicate payments)
Reporting: KPI Reports, Ageing Reports, weekly, monthly, quarterly subscription repots, customer
activity report, accrual (Funding estimated reports), Duplicate Review reports
ETL: Transferred data from various data sources/business systems including MS Excel, MS Access, Flat
Files etc to SQL Server using SSIS/DTS using various features like data conversion etc. Created derived
columns from the present columns for the given requirements.
· Creating Database, tables, and views for production environment.
· Writing complex Stored Procedures to meet the business requirements.
· Designing logical and physical database structure to facilitate analysis of data from both
operational and customer perspectives
· Using SQL Profiler to estimate the Slow Running queries and performance tuning purpose.
· Participated in requirement gathering, data warehouse design, application design, SSIS
development, training operational staffs and mentoring junior staffs.
· Created SSIS packages for new projects utilizing Business Intelligence Development Studio
· Designed data flow diagrams for new projects
· Creating user logins and adding users to respective databases.
· Created SSIS package to uploaded data to the warehouse, once the data is verified.
· Generated stats based on the uploaded data and existing data to check the data accuracy and
export them to excel for distribution.
· Created web services to return list of suppliers and customers.
· Created Quality Assurance stats reports using SSRS
· Managing security tasks like granting and revoking Permissions
· Created new database objects like Functions, Packages, Triggers, Indexes and
· Views using T-SQL in Development and Production environment for SQL Server 2005.
· Designing and building data load procedures, using MS SQL Server
· Wrote DTS ActiveX scripts that extract data from database tables and write the data to text files.
· Extensively used SSIS to move data from text files to SQL Server
· Was involved in the Authoring, Managing and Delivery of various reports developed using SSRS
· Written complex SQL statements using joins, sub queries and correlated sub queries.
· Development of automated daily, weekly and monthly system maintenance tasks such as database
backup, replication verification, database integrity verification and indexing updates.
· Daily support, troubleshooting, monitoring, optimization and tuning of server and SQL server
Environments across entire system.
· Fine-tuned the logic in Procedures, Functions and Triggers for optimum performance.
· Used Reporting Services (SSRS) to schedule reports to be generated on predetermined time
Environment: VB.NET ASP.NET 2.0, ADO.NET, VS 2005, XML, XSL, XPATH, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL,
HTML, UML, SQL Server 2005,SSRS,SSIS, VSS 2005, Acrobat Professional 8,MS Office 2000, MS
Visio 2002, Java Script, Web Services, Crystal Reports XI (R2),Java,J2EE,Struts,jsp, Windows
XP/2000/NT.
TSi Logistics, Atlanta, GA Oct -2006 to Aug-2007
System Engineer
Logistics Supply Chain Suite
Responsibilities:
Batch Audit Module (T-SQL, ADO.NET):
The Batch Audit function compares freight bill charges with the carrier’s contractual rates, computes the
correct amount to pay for the freight bill, and identifies potential overcharge claims against the carrier.
Close out Module(T-SQL ,ADO.NET):
Closeout processing allows the user to take a customer’s bills by date range and proceed through the
steps to lock these bills from further update, request and receive payment for this group of bills, and pay
the carriers. The weekly closeout processing is accomplished in several steps
Dashboard Module (Implemented with SSRS and Webfocus): This module was developed to assist
users and management in the creation of reports and KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators). The tool allows
7. the users to track customer data throughout the application process. This tool is relatively easy to use
and provides the user with criteria to aid in searching and retrieving information.
Pricing Module (Implemented with SSIS): There are a total of 20+ Pricing data-entry tasks. The
information entered on these repository is used to calculate rates when rate shopping are auditing freight
bills and bills of lading. These repository’s must be accessed to get to any of the other pricing
information . A carrier, branch, and currency combination must be chosen to get the correct rate for the
bill
Environment: SQL Server 2005/2000, SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Service), SSIS (SQL Server
Integration Services),Business Intelligent Studio, SQL Server Management Studio MS Access
97, ASP, Crystal Report, Enterprise Manager, Excel, Windows XP/2003 Server
Keane, INDIA Jun-05 - to Aug-06
PacifiCare Health Systems
Software Engineer
Description: PHS is a common portal, an internet site developed for PacifiCare Health Systems based on
BEA Web logic Portal architecture and Content Management through Vignette and rendering through
portal, has more than 18,000 pages catering to various products of PHS. It has many modules like
Member/Guest, Provider, Broker, Employer, Tenet, Federal Employee, Retiree/Medicare eligible, etc...
Tenet Module is developed only for California state members. Tenet Module provides various health care
services and plans for every member depending upon the product type like HDHP, HMO, PPO they select.
Tenet module consists of various modules like Member Home, My PacifiCare, Tools & Services, Health &
Wellness, Library etc that provide various health plans and services for various Tenet members. The whole
content is hosted in the Vignette V6 content management system (henceforth referred to as CMS). The
content is to be exported out of the CMS by a custom developed bulk export module via the Vignette V6
MCM (Multi-Site Content Manager).