Hyperion Essbase And Planning Developer Resume
Alpharetta, AtlantA
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- Around 10 years and 10 months of IT experience in advanced analytical software applications, Requirements Gathering, Design, Development, Testing, Administration and Implementation of OLAP and Client / Server projects using industry accepted methodologies and procedures.
- Expertise in Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Essbase, Essbase Studio, Essbase Integration Services, Financial Reporting Studio, Hyperion Reports, Web Forms, ESSCMD, Maxl, Excel Add - in, Hyperion Shared Services, Smart view and ODI.
- Good Hands-on experience on Implementations, Enhancements in Hyperion Planning, Essbase Integration Services, Essbase Studio and Hyperion Essbase.
- Very good hands-on experience in creating Hyperion Planning BSO Cubes from understanding Business requirements. Experience wif implementation and administration of Oracle Hyperion Planning cubes.
- Experience in creating ASO cubes using Essbase Studio and Essbase Integration services.
- Good expertise in planning and designing multi-dimensional cubes leveraging both ASO and BSO technologies.
- Complete hands-on experience in Hyperion Shared Services - creating users and groups, provisioning users and groups. Migration of application from one environment to another using Hyperion Shared Services LCM.
- Expertise in building Financial Budgeting and Forecasting OLAP applications wif Planning.
- Experience in creating Data Forms/Web Forms, Smart Lists, Calculation Scripts and Business Rules
- Very good experience in Production Support and Maintenance of Hyperion applications.
- Complete understanding of Incident Management using ServiceNow.
- Proficient in dynamically building dimensions, attributes, and shared members using rules files in an Essbase Outline by means of several build methods such as generation, level and parent-child references.
- Good hands-on experience in building Hyperion Planning metadata using Outline Load Utility, building Smart Lists using utility, automating Business Rules using Utility and Import/Export Planning security using Utility.
- Having broad understanding of database calculations such as implementing formulas on dimension members, dynamic calculations, developing calculation scripts and ESSCMD.
- Good experience wif Automation of Hyperion jobs using Autosys, Crontab and Windows Scheduler.
- Experience in knowledge transfer, preparing technical documentation, training the clients and business users.
- Very good experience in PL/SQL and Microsoft SQL, creating Stored Procedures, Packages, Creating Dimensions and Fact Tables.
- Understanding of complete Software Design Lifecycle.
- Trainer in Hyperion Essbase and Hyperion Planning - have conducted around 7 boot-camp trainings in Accenture to various levels of employees and received good trainer feedbacks.
- Created many training and guide documents for business users internally.
- Very good communication skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
OLAP Tools: Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management (version 11.1.2.2), Hyperion System 9 BI+, Smart View, Excel Add-In, ESSCMD, MaxL, MDX and Hyperion Planning, ODI, Essbase Studio.
Databases: Oracle 9i/10g and MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008
Reporting Tools: BI+, Hyperion Financial Reporting, Hyperion Web Analysis, Hyperion Reports, Hyperion Interactive Reporting, Hyperion Spreadsheet Add-in, Smart View and OBIEE.
Internet Tools: HTML, DHTML, XML,VB Script and Java Script.
Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, C/C++ and Shell Scripting.
Operating Systems: UNIX, Oracle Linux 5.0, AIX 5.0, Windows Server 2012 R2.
Automation Tools: Autosys Job Scheduling System, Linux Crontab and Windows Task Scheduler.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Alpharetta, Atlanta
Hyperion Essbase and Planning Developer
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Implementation and Development of Hyperion Planning application/cube based on the Business Requirements.
- Upgrade and Migration of Oracle Hyperion EPM suite of products from version 11.1.2.2 to 11.1.2.4 in Windows 2012 and Linux servers.
- Work wif Business Users and Business Analysts to understand and gather requirements.
- Understanding of the Business requirement from Business Analysts, Client Manager and Business Users and converting them into Technical design documents.
- Build metadata for new application in Hyperion Planning.
- Loading metadata using Hyperion Planning’s Outline Load Utility.
- Loaded data into cubes using Rule files and Free-form data loading from text files.
- Created Security Groups and Users in Shared Services and Provisioning of users and groups.
- Metadata Hierarchy maintenance using Planning Workspace.
- Created Data Web Forms based on the business user requirement in Hyperion Planning.
- Maintenance of Security of entire Hyperion applications - Planning, Smart View, Essbase, HFM and Essbase Studio.
- Automating daily backups and running Business Rules using Linux Crontab and Windows Task Scheduler.
- Designed and developed Web Forms in Hyperion Planning.
- Migration of Planning application from DEV to UAT and finally to PROD using Hyperion LCM and Shared Services.
- Individual Support person of 4 Hyperion applications - Financial Statement cube, Employee workforce cube, General Ledger (GL) cube and Sub-ledger (SL) cube.
- Resolve Incidents/tickets, Issues and business users queries. Ensure smooth operation of Production environment.
- Involved in Data Forms and Smart View reports testing in UAT instance wif Business Users.
- Updated ASO Hierarchies and performed data loading using Essbase Studio.
- Build rule files, calculation scripts, report scripts, substitution variables for the BSO cubes.
Environment: Hyperion Planning 11.1.2.2, Planning EPMA Workspace, Hyperion Financial Reports, Hyperion Shared Services, Smart-View, and Excel Add-in, Essbase Studio, Oracle 10g, Oracle Linux, and Windows Server.
Confidential, UK
Senior Hyperion Essbase and Planning Developer
Responsibilities:
- Travelled to onshore at Newcastle, UK to understand and gain knowledge of the existing Hyperion system.
- Worked wif Client side SME and Business Users to understand the requirements.
- Complete Design and Development of Hyperion Web Analyzer reports as per the requirements.
- Understanding the existing applications, business reports, budgeting and finance in the Hyperion Essbase applications.
- Developed and Supported on Hyperion Essbase BSO Cubes.
- Production support and Maintenance of 3 Hyperion Essbase BSO applications.
- Ensuring smooth operation of Production environment.
- Maintenance and Support of around 90 reports in Hyperion Web Analyzer.
- Year-end, Month-end and Daily activities on Essbase applications like Data load, back-up, introduce new members, report generation, Outline build etc.
- Team Management, Service Management, Problem Management & Incident Management using Service Now tool.
- Enhancements of BSO cubes - adding new vehicles, adding new regions etc.
- Complete maintenance of security, assigning user access, creating groups using Hyperion Shared Services.
- Streamline the existing support activities - automating few tasks and batch jobs to minimize human intervention.
- Lead a team of 4 for Hyperion, ASP.NET, and K2.NET - get daily status and ensure smooth operation of support activities, Health checks, and house-keeping activities, monitor all activities, ensure on-call support for any Production Priority issues.
- Loaded Metadata build, Hierarchy Maintenance, running automaters for the changes dat comes under Quarterly and monthly basis.
- As a Support activity, performed data backups and restoration of the data.
- Involved in Monthly and Yearly Hierarchy updates, Substitution variables update and data refresh.
- Administer day to day maintenance and loading of Hyperion Essbase cubes wif fresh data. Re-run the jobs if they fail.
- Automated data loads using ESSCMDs and MaxL in both interactive and batch modes.
- Timely Resolution of Priority tickets wifout breaching SLAs.
- Preparing Technical Design Documentations.
- Providing status updates to Client manager and Accenture manager.
- Essbase Integration Services is used as the ETL tool to load data from Relational Database to BSO Essbase cube - Made changes in OLAP Metaoutlines and Metada Catalog in EIS.
- Automated the complete EIS build process.
- My role was of an offshore Lead and me directly coordinated wif Client Manager and Business Users.
Environment: Hyperion Version 9.x, Essbase Integration Services, Hyperion Essbase Administrative Services, Hyperion Web Analysis Reports, Excel Add-in, Hyperion Shared Services 9.3.
Confidential
Senior Hyperion Essbase and Planning Developer
Responsibilities:
- Development and Implementation of Hyperion Essbase BSO cubes.
- Understand Day-in-the-Life scenarios for various domains such as Utility, Investment Banking and Telecom and tan converting them into technical design reports and finally build Hyperion applications and reports around it.
- Design the solution for new applications.
- Learned new Oracle products such as Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (EID)which halps gain new insights by combining existing data wif unstructured data as well as big data.
- Complete of Installation and Configuration of Oracle Hyperion suite of Products 11.1.2.2 on Linux, Windows and Exalytics Machine - throughin-memory technologywif Essbase, Endeca and OBIA on Exalytics, clients achieve faster access to analytical insights and large volumes of detailed information.
- Have completely owned the infrastructure of Hyperion suite of products in the project.
- Done complete installation and configuration of OBIEE on Linux.
- Installation and configuration of Oracle Endeca.
- Application of Patches in OBIEE.
- Created all how-to documentations on Installations, Configurations and apply patches.
- Write Calculation scripts as per the requirements.
- Create Budgeting and Forecasting reports in Smart View.
- Worked and integrated Essbase wif OBIEE.
- Applications created were used for Demos in Oracle Open World 2012.
- Worked in Big Data.
- Create dummy data in Oracle database.
- Wrote PLSQL stored procedures to load data into staging area in Linux.
- Responsible for the complete Life Cycle Management of development and Production.
- Involved in Metadata Refresh to capture the new changes in the Hierarchy.
- Involved in User provisioning through Shared Services and creating security filters.
- Handling all Hyperion related technical issues and any data issues.
- Having knowledge and functional aspects on the business like business assets, Liabilities, Income Statement revenue expense accounts and profit and loss accounts.
- Designed Detailed Design Documents, Run books and Guides.
- Involved in Production Support.
Environment: Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Essbase Version 11.1.2, Hyperion Smart View, Oracle Endeca, Big Data, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL, Oracle Exalytics In-memory technology wif Essbase and OBIEE.
Confidential
Senior Hyperion Planning and Essbase Developer
Responsibilities:
- Understanding requirements for current release from Business Analysts and SME.
- Analyze current business process (As-Is) in the BRM (Business Review Meeting) application.
- Have done complete Implementation of the Essbase BRM (Business Review Meeting) Application Cube.
- Designed the Solution for new process to meet requirements (To-Be).
- Responsible for gathering requirements from Business Analyst.
- Developed the Essbase BSO Cube.
- Developed complete OLAP model (Star schema) in Essbase Integration Services.
- Extensively worked on SQL Server to build and modify the Dimension and Fact Tables.
- Extensively worked on creating stored procedures and packages in SQL Server.
- Created batch scripts and scheduled them and automating the process to run ESSCMD/Maxl to take regular backups.
- Created batch scripts to automate the EIS data load and building the hierarchy.
- Involved in making the Essbase backups and restores of Essbase application.
- Performed Performance tuning by using the dense/spares settings
- Complete owner of Hyperion application development, UAT testing and finally Go-Live (Production).
- Provided Post Go-Live Support.
- Provided Production support for Hyperion Applications.
Environment: Hyperion Essbase Version 11.1.1.3, Essbase Integration Services v11, SQL Server 2003, Microsoft Windows.
Confidential
Hyperion Essbase Developer and Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Single-handedly owned the upgrade project.
- A total of 6 Essbase BSO Cubes was upgraded and migrated.
- Understanding the present/current application architecture.
- Quickly learning the system and architecture.
- Complete upgrade of Existing 6 Hyperion BSO cubes from version 7 to version 9.3.
- Installation and configuration of Hyperion Essbase Server, EAS and Shared Services in DEV, UAT and PROD environments.
- Done configuration of LDAP.
- Backup of existing data, users list, calc scripts and rules files.
- Migration of Essbase Filters - Created Filters in EAS console, Created Groups in EAS console and Assigned the Filters to the Groups.
- Backup of critical data during the migration phase.
- Create users, securities in the new systems and validating wif the business users after each migration in respective environments - Data Validation was done using Essbase Excel Add-in and using a clone user.
- Created all the basic directories in each of the servers/environments following the norms and standards of MERCK.
- Created Windows Task Scheduler jobs (daemons) for Archival/backup process.
- Prepared the Technical Design Document for the complete project.
- Sending daily status emails to the client on the progress.
Environment: Hyperion Essbase Version 7.x, 9.x, Hyperion Shared Services, Essbase Administration Services, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL.
Confidential
Hyperion Developer
Responsibilities:
- Understanding the architecture of the in-house tool Automated Regulatory Reporting Tool (ARRT).
- Understanding the different requirements from various business users
- Attending calls/meetings wif the Business Analysts (BAs)
- Selecting areas of improvement
- Creating Technical documents of the reports
- Creating/Developing reports on PL/SQL, XML on UNIX
- SQL Performance Tuning for reducing query execution time therefore effective overall job efficiency
- Creating asset documents for the team members and new joiners
Confidential
Hyperion Developer and Support Analyst
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Owner of Production Support and Maintenance of the Greensheet Application - having 2 BSO Cubes.
- Resolve daily Production Issues/Tickets.
- Support a Monthly process where users compare the estimates wif the actual figures.
- Gathered requirements from Client SME for
- Wrote several Maxl Scripts to perform automation and load data, export data, and execute calculations as necessary.
- Wrote scripts in Autosys Job Scheduling Tool’s Job Information Language.
- Made changes in Essbase BSO Outline/Hierarchy due to merger of Bank of America and Confidential Lynch.
- Enhancements to Add New Business Units (BU) in the Hierarchy - Made changes in a complex PLSQL Package having 4 Stored Procedures.
- Created new PLSQL Package for Validation of the new BU.
- Involved in Building the dimensions dynamically. Created rule files for loading data.
- Created & provisioned the users, groups and assigned different levels of security wif necessary roles on applications using Hyperion Shared Services.
- Checked the logs and provided the resolutions related to support systems.
- Attended calls Client Manager for the daily and Weekly updates
- Optimization of Essbase Outlines, Data Loading, Calculation Scripts and Retrieval of Data from the cubes.
- Performed daily Data Health checks.
- Automated various tasks like build, load and Calc using Maxl Scripts.
- Automated the daily Data Health Check in Autosys which was being done manually.
- Involved in documentation on all Hyperion Enhancements processes for all business groups and Technical Documentation.
- Studied Essbase Studio and created a presentation for the client.
Environment: Hyperion Essbase Version 9.x, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL, UNIX AIX 5.0, Autosys Job Scheduler.
Confidential
Hyperion Developer and Oracle Developer
Responsibilities:
- Gather and understand the requirement
- Understand the existing architecture and system
- Analyze the Risk Free Rate and Dividend Yield (As-Is)
- Creating Technical Documents
- Writing/Developing the stored procedures and functions/
- DBA activities like backup of data, restore database, creation of database in MS SQL Server 2000
- Complete Unit Testing and UAT Testing.
Environment: Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
Confidential
Oracle and Crystal Reports Developer/Expert
Responsibilities:
- Extensive Analysis and Assessment of 165 Crystal reports.
- Analysis and study of the As-Is (current) reporting system.
- Get list of all reports from the several of the Lines of Business, SMEs and Client.
- Have meetings wif various stakeholders and SMEs to understand the Current (As-Is) state of all reports.
- Challenge was every Line of Business having different data source, such as, Oracle and MS SQL Server.
- Reports residing on different staging areas.
- Prepare complete Technical Design Documents of all the 150+ reports.
- Owned all Database activities like back-up/restore of databases, installation of various databases (Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server2000), creation of schemas, loading of objects & data, managing database objects, such as tables, indexes, stored procedures and views and tuning database performance, backing up the database and performing recovery operations when necessary.
- Designed and developed reports in Cognos BI.
- Unit testing and UAT testing of reports.
Environment: Cognos BI 8.3, MS SQL Server 2000, IBM DB2, Oracle10g Database.
Confidential
Consultant and Developer.
Responsibilities:
- Analysis & design of the requirement
- Major changes in UI screens in Flexcube – using XML and Javascript Language
- Preparation of test cases and testing them single-handedly.
- Production Support & UAT support.
- Domain knowledge sharing wifin & across projects.
- A client specific requirement for developing the Flexcube (me-flex’s flagship software) where changes had to be made in the Loans & Current & Savings A/C Module.
- Study and analysis of the current working of how an account number is generated in Flexcube
- Complete study and analysis of dependent Lines of Business like Loans account.
- Completely owned this major change – making changes in major code in the Product involving important Stored Procedures, JAVA, Javascript, XM and XSL.
- Installation/Qualification of flexcube on Red Hat Linux 4.0 and zLinux.
- Complete and thorough research and Development activities like installation/implementation of flexcube on IBM WAS6.0/Oracle10gAS on Unix/Linux
- Bugs fixing in the install utility source code
- Helping members from various teams wif installation activities
- Performed DBA tasks such as Installing of database, creating Oracle databases/schemas and performing upgrades of the database to new release levels.
- Changes in many PL/SQL functions, stored procedures and packages.
- Preparing analysis document, design document and unit test plan. End-to-end development of the modules
- Post-Production Support & UAT support.
- Understanding the Multi-Entity requirements – Understanding the approach used for Flexcube Multi-Entity.
- Understanding concepts such as Oracle’s VPD (Virtual Private Database) and Multi-time zone (hands-on)
- Making changes in the code – tables/views, changes in middleware code in java;
- Complete End-to-end testing of the Product.
Environment: SQL Plus, PL/SQL Developer 7.0, IBM WSAD 5.3, Windows2003 Server, Oracle9i, Red Hat Linux, C/C++, JAVA, XML Language, SQL Navigator, Crystal Reports10.