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Cognos Business Analyst

6 years of experience in the design, development, configuration, support and administration of Cognos BI solutions from version 7 through 10.1.1; Implementation from the scratch of Cognos BI solutions 8.4 in a variety of applications (travel, finance, logistic, real estate); Expertise in Framework Manager, Cognos Impromptu, PowerPlay, Transformer, Analysis Studio, Report Studio, Event Studio, Metrics Studio, Query Studio; Proficiency in T-SQL, VB, Visual Pascal, SQL Server, SSIS, ETL, DTS

Work Preferences

Desired Salary
Negotiable per year  
Availability
3 Weeks  
Desired Job Type
Any Type  
Can Travel for Work
Moderately  
Highest Education Level
Masters  
Current Location
Sydney  
Willing to relocate?
No
Residency / Visa
Authorised to work in Australia

Skills and Experience

Category Yrs. Exp. Until
Consulting Business Analyst 7 2012  
  Consultant 14 2012  
  Senior Consultant 4 2012  
Databases Administrator (DBA) 6 2012  
Project Project Director 4 2012  
Software Development Analyst 6 2012  
  Architect 6 2012  
  Technical Writer 6 2011  

Employment History

Job Title
Senior Marketing BI Analyst
Industry
Telecommunications
06/2011 to Current

1         Providing insightful data concerning customer usage, spend, behaviour  and movement

2         Intelligent forecast and comprehensive reporting for CEO and key stakeholders

3         Advanced Cognos Reporting development including advanced SQL Scripting, liaising with BI regarding creation and implementation of new Cubes and Packages

4         Development of Weekly and Monthly CM Dashboards and Reports, data error resolutions

Job Title
Cognos Developer and BI Consultant
Industry
Computing - Consulting / Professional Services
03/2011 to 04/2011
Working on POC project for major client in financial/insurance industry using IBM Cognos 10 BI, installation, configuration, ETL, DTS, designing data structure, hierarchies, dimensions, migrating reports and models from Cognos 8 to Cognos 10, creating new reports and dashboards.
Job Title
Cognos Developer and BI Consultant
Industry
Computing - Consulting / Professional Services
08/2005 to 11/2010

1         Installed and configured Cognos on distributed multi-server environment, supported and administered Cognos 8 Environment including performance tuning, secured the portal by using  AD and periodically monitored the overall performance, maintained and managed the permissions for users, groups and roles using administrative tools in Cognos.

2         Developed various complex reports in Report Studio and Analysis Studio; well versed in creating Dashboards, Scorecards and customised portal tabs for various business units.

3         Designed and developed Framework manager models, packages, metric packages, cubes, joined fact and master data sources by using schema concepts based on business needs.

4         Specified, wrote and maintained Cognos Version 7 Powerplay cubes with drill through reports using Transformer; was responsible for the migration of Cognos Series 7 to Cognos 8

5         Worked on a SQL Server 2005 Management/Development Studios to perform the data transformation and ETL procedures.

6         Evaluated business processes and strategies, performed business analysis, captured and translated business requirements into technical specifications

7         Monitored application performance and made adjustments and recommendations on improvements that increased annual sales by 20% per year (2005-2008)

Job Title
IT Consultant
Industry
Computing - Consulting / Professional Services
09/1998 to 05/2005

1         Was responsible for successfully designing the relational schema for the cube, designing & building the cube and ETL work loading data into the relational data-store using SQL scripts.

2         Participated in a set-up and configuration of automated trigger-based job scheduling. Have developed DDL & DML scripts for enhancements.

3         Took responsibility over the presentation of financial reports and management information.

4         Was responsible for data analysis & processing

Qualifications

Completed Institution Degree / Qualification
1995 Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas Master Degree in Applied Mathematics  
1998 Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) under the Ministry of Foreign Affai Master Degree in International Economic Relations  

Work Related Training & Certification

Completed Institution Training / Certification
2006 EMEA Regional Investment Certification Program Citibank Russia Certified Investment Consultant  
2007 Training Center “Specialist” MS SQL Server 2005, T-SQL, BI Specialist, Adobe Photoshop; Adobe Flash CS4  
2007 Training Center “VTB Bank” Corporate Client Relations Management, Branches of VTB Bank  
2007 Institute of Banking & Finance under the Association of Russian Banks Certificate in Client Relationship Management, Practice, methodology, skills