SUMMARY

• Availability Now available as a Business Intelligence Cognos OLAP cube developer and reporting analyst for full-time, part-time, or short term contract assignments. Health benefits are NOT required. Professional Summary
• Business Intelligence professional with 12 years of diverse experience in Olap COGNOS cube development and 4gl Reporting for fortune 500 firms. I have both the business and technical skillsets needed for end to end MI development and testing of many software products and have been a vital team member in many complex and successful implementations. I'm experienced with agile methodologies, offshore system integration and all phases of the software production implementation life cycle and have extensive experience working in a fast paced deadline driven environment. At both Hartford Steam Boiler and Bank of America I quickly became in integral, key member of the team. At Travelers, I received written recognition and accolades for going above and beyond what is regularity expected of my job duties, working weekends and after hours when called upon. Became the relied upon, go to SME Subject Matter Expert for some of the business intelligence Cognos Cube data applications I designed.

Skills Summary

Professional Experience

Confidential

• Currently on contract thru 12/6/2013 as a Cognos Consultant for Hartford Steam Boiler. My contract was extended 4 times and is still active.
• Now actively working in the HSB Claims Reporting Department supporting the new Guidewire Claim system conversion. Fully re-coded and QA tested 120 Operational Cognos reports to run off a new SQL Server Database. The Cognos report changes also included Catalog revisions, adding in new tables, reworking the data item joins, and publishing the changes out to Dev, Qa and Prod.
• Re-coded all the Cognos reports and I added in many new flexible prompts, drill-thru's and additional features to enhance the usability and functionality of the reports.
• Worked closely with the Cognos Administrator, Business Customers and QA to get all 120 Cognos reports approved, signed off and published.

Confidential

• Worked under contract thru NOV 2012 with Confidential as a full time Cognos 10 Consultant. My contract was extended 3 times.
• Designed and coded approximately 200 complex Government Sox Compliance Cognos 10 prompt and graph reports, created dashboards, framework models, and much more.
• I quickly became a key member in the overall success of this highly complex project, working closely with management, the database designers and QA testers to coordinate and to ensure the project success.
• One of the challenges was designing the reports in parallel while the actual database was being created, so we did not have good testing data while coding
• As a key team member, I worked many extra hours, way above and beyond, to meet the tight deadlines. There were over 200 unique sub-reports.
• Worked closely with offshore QA, on the phone, sharing screens, sometimes 5 hours per day, to fully ensure that the reports balanced back to the source I-Series data.
• Once this QA testing phase was 100 signed off, I then spent much of my time working directly with LOB, business managers, to complete the final testing phase.
• Became the SME, and offered suggestions on new approaches in utilities and processes to make the datamart and reporting functionality more reliable and efficient.
• I also worked closely with offshore India on my off-hours, night-time and early morning, to align and coordinate project timelines and tasks to be sure the project kept moving forward and to ensure time and resources were being spent and utilized efficiently.

Confidential

• Worked weekends part-time for a smaller company integrating new software and enhancing the existing systems, with an emphasis on data security/spyware removal, software problem resolution, process improvement and overall system integrity and reliability
• Opened own business, designed HTML web sites.

Confidential

• Advanced Training in Cognos 8, management information reporting, such as Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, Framework Manager and Powerplay Transformer. Created reports to support ad hoc analysis and advanced cubes using Transformer.
• Designed created Models using Framework manager.
• Developed and published packages using framework manager
• Created the reporting and Olap layers required for forecasting the plan, actual and projected trends for insightful business decisions marketing analysis
• Experienced in UNIX Shell Scripting, FTP and File Management in Various Unix Environments.
• Actively involved in systems development life cycle SDLC and Systems testing life Cycle STLC and developed User Requirement specification SRS and QA Testing.
• Experienced to creating star schema Multi-Dimensional Cubes using Power play Transformer.
• Scheduled various reports to run on a daily, weekly and monthly basis using cognos connection scheduler.
• Familiar with the new features of Cognos 10, including Active reports and hot file pic lists.
• Worked identifying Cube data trends and integrating new thought paradigms including building out the emerging Telematics and Segmentation initiatives at Travelers.