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[QUOTE=Guest-IJT;140457][B]Name [/B]: ANIL KUMAR PENDLI
[B]Email [/B]: pendleeanil AT gmail.com
[B]Designation / Skillset[/B] : Senior Cognos Developer (Lead)

[U][B]Resume[/B][/U] :
 Result-oriented Business Intelligence Designer/Architect with Gallagher & Travelocity global BI deployment experience. Good problem solving skills in highly integrated Business Intelligence environments. Proven ability to build strong relationships with clients and staff using negotiating talent, persuasion and demonstrated commitment. Strong leader creating vision and inspiring teams to drive results.
[B]Skill Set [/B]:
[B]Cognos 8 BI v.8.1 - 8.4 [/B]: Framework Manager
 Powerplay Transformer
 Report Studio
 Query Studio
 Analysis Studio
 Event Studio
 Map Manager
 Cognos 8 GO Dashboard, GO Office! 
Cognos ReportNet v.1.1
Cognos Series7 v.7.3.MR3 Powerplay Enterprise Server
 Powerplay Transformer
 Powerplay for Excel
 Impromptu (Web Reports)
 Upfront
 Access Manager
 Script Editor
Cognos Planning 7.3 Analyst
 Contributor
 Cognos Analysis for Excel
Cognos Migration
Omniture Site Catalyst
Data warehousing Informatica (Designer, Power Mart & Power Center)
Database Teradata 10, 12
 Oracle 9i, 10g
OS Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and below.
[B]Corporate Trainer [/B]: Took up Corporate Training sessions at various levels across the Company.
Has good Business knowledge on Insurance and Travel Domains with great passion on Finance.
Arthur J. Gallagher (Bangalore, Itasca IL.)
2010 Sep to Till Date
Gallagher Basset.
Have been leading the GB Cognos Team from past 10 months and ensured to make it the best team in TPA Business.
Had been to Onsite (Chicago, IL) for a period of 5 months to understand the business layout and participated in the Business requirement meetings with the users.
Designed Business requirement Specification and Project Specification based on the discussions and requirements.
Organized meetings initiated client interactions and finalized the requirements based on those discussions.
Created Technical requirement documents based on the business requirements.
Gave training on GB Business Knowledge (TPA Business knowledge) to the BI, Operations and Testing teams.
Guided the full BI, Operations and Testing teams to understand the business requirements.
Have been doing the Gap Analysis on a regular basis and came up with proper solutions.
Gave training on Cognos Reporting and Powerplay Transformer Cubes.
Created various reports using Report studio, HTML & java scripts to make it more user friendly.
Worked in & out of transformer cubes and made the team to understand the requirements and fix the issues.
Have been doing the report & data validation on a regular basis and came up with more optimized solutions both for the BI & DB teams.
[B]About Gallagher Basset [/B]: GB is world leader in TPA business serving around 3600 clients across the world. With its recent acquisition of GAB Robins it has increased its business by 20% with revenues surging almost by 25%.
[B]Previous Project [/B]:
Sabre Holdings (Bangalore) 
2007 Jun – 2010 Sep
Travelocity Global.
[B]Athena Build 1 and Build 2 [/B]:
[B]Successfully Completed Project Athena [/B]: a complete new Reporting Environment..
[B]Powerplay Transformer Model & Cube Reports [/B]:
Designed the Project Specification and Cube Specification based on the discussions and requirements
Participated in the meetings to finalize the requirements and made necessary changes.
Designed the Athena Cube Model structures, Created IQD Files and then created the Transformer Models.
Designed 26 Models of Cubes, Built, tested and fixed the relevant issues and Published all the 26 Cubes.
Created some sample reports from cubes and then tested them and sent it for review.
Modified the IQD files and made changes in the Transformer Models. Converted each IQD file to multiple IQD files to create incremental cubes.
Optimized the Cube performance by making the Incremental Cube Build Models.
Tested Incremental Build models and fixed its relevant issues.
Created Macros/Scripts using Cognos Script Editor for incremental Builds.
Successfully built both (full and incremental cubes) and fixed all its relevant issues.
Set up securities for all users/user classes for the 26 cubes and tested them.
Created Cube Packages and published them to the portal and tested them.
Coordinated in testing of all the cubes and reports in all environments (Development, Certification and Production)
Created Documentation for the whole project and reviewed it.
[B]Framework Manager Model & Reports [/B]:
Designed the Athena Project Framework Manager Model and Designed the Athena Cube Model structures.
Created Athena Framework Manager Model and its 3 Layers – Database Layer, Business Layer and Presentation Layer.
Created the Joins, Filters and Prompts at FM level
Designed 6 Business Models in FM for 6 LOB’s and tested them at various levels.
Published 6 Packages to Development Portal.
Designed sample report specifications and reviewed them.
Created more than 50 Reports from packages tested them and sent it for review.
Created Project Plan for Build 2 and reviewed it.
Imported new tables from the Database and created new join structure in FM Model.
Modified Business Models, tested and published the modified packages.
Designed an extraordinary report specification and reviewed.
Created more than 100 Standard reports for all LOB’s, tested them and fixed the relevant issues.
[B]About Travelocity [/B]:
Travelocity is a leading provider of consumer-direct travel services for the leisure and business traveler. It markets and distributes travel-related products and services directly to individuals through Travelocity and its various brand Web sites and contact centers, and Web sites owned by its supplier and distribution partners. Travelocity customers can access offerings, pricing information about airlines, hotels, car rental companies, cruise lines, vacation and last-minute travel packages, and other travel-related services. For business travelers, Travelocity Business provides the integrated online corporate travel technology and full-service offering of our GetThere product along with the online expertise of Travelocity. Travelocity is the leader in European online travel through its European brand, lastminute.com and a key player in Asia-pacific through its Asian brand Zuji.com.
[B]Support / Maintenance [/B]:
Maintained OPEX Cubes and Reports.
[B]Supported entire Cognos Reporting Environment for Holiday Autos [/B]:
Cognos Cubes form the core Reporting need of the Holiday Autos Business. There are 36 cubes and more than 100 reports which help the HA users deliver Reports on a monthly, weekly, daily and Hourly basis. Data is broken down into individual cubes dependent on functional business area, data source and cube size.
Maintained those 36 Cubes by rebuilding them on Hourly, Daily, Weekly and Monthly basis (automated).
Resolved/fixed those issues which came across in the course of their build time.
Set new user credentials and unlocking the user accounts using Access Manager.
Made changes to the existing reports after getting confirmation from those report users.
Created new ad-hoc reports based on the user requests.
[B]Other Reports and stuff [/B]:
Created Competitive Pricing Report specification and created those reports.
Created Email Cube and reports and made enhancements to it recently.
Automated the complete MIDT stuff by bringing it into Cognos
Created New Framework Manager Models and created Packages from those models..
Created .iqd files from Framework Manager and used them as a source to build new Transformer model and generated cubes from those models.
Involved in setting securities in Framework Manager (Data, object and Package access),
Published the cubes and Reports using Cognos Enterprise Server.
Involved in the migration of Reporting Environment from Cognos 7 to Cognos 8.
[B]Environment [/B]: ReportNet 1.1, Powerplay Transformer, Powerplay, Cognos 8, Impromptu, Cognos Script Editor, Visualizer, Teradata and Windows 2000 Server.
[B]Projects in Accenture (Bangalore) [/B]:
2006 Dec – 2007 May
[B]Aon-Agility [/B]:
It is a Support based project concerned with Insurance, which has its Development base at Melville and the Production base at Chantilly. Here it is divided into three sectors 1) ACS 2) ARS and 3) ACW. Under ACW there are Sub-Groups like CTR, Health & Benefits, EBO and Retirement. In this we have various applications like BENEFITS, EPO TSC, EPO Scheduling, TRACKER, APC, NNS, COGNOS, ASTARS, CIGARS and BIDS from CTR Team. And then HR Portal, IVR, Pension Plus, Settlement, CRYSTAL Reports and P2K from EBO Team.
[B]My Role [/B]:
[B]Involved in handling the BIDS and the whole Cognos Application. Eventually I will be getting the requests from the Client, which is of two types [/B]: 1) Problem requests and 2) Service requests. For Problem requests there will be severity mentioned on it like SEV-1, SEV-2, SEV-3 and SEV-4. Further here we have various clients with the specified Catalogs and Reports like Tracker Reports, Dreyers Reports, Citibank Reports, Verizon Reports, and WF LMDB Reports etc.
[B]My Responsibilities [/B]:
- To make a Review and Create the Estimate for the assigned Request..
- To Design, Build, Review the specified tasks and Update the Documents.
- To Test and Deploy to Production and make a User Review and Release the Clock.
[B]My Tasks [/B]:
- Created some New Reports and Catalogs based on the requirements.
- Involved in the creation of New Cubes and published those cubes to Upfront.
- Made necessary changes to the specified Dimensions & Levels and created specified User Classes.
- Created single select or multi-select prompts for the reports, which were already created.
- Tested those reports at various levels like Assembly and Product Testing and also tested in BIDS DEVQA Environment.
- Involved frequently in interacting with the Client concerning the daily updates.
- Created Project Documents and created the Excel Templates
[B]Projects in Valtech (Bangalore) [/B]:
2006 Feb – 2006 Nov
Used to work on the Cognos tools like cube reports and Impromptu Reporting.
Used to work on some adhoc reports using impromptu web reports.
Used to extract data out of cubes and made excel reports.
Used to work on Excel Reports – DIB, MIB, and Site Health Dashboard Reports on daily basis.
Used to work on some ad hoc requests by extracting the data directly from the database and making excel reports.
Environment: Microsoft Excel, Powerplay, Upfront, Impromptu web reports and Teradata.
EDUCATION and OTHER ACTIVITIES
B.Tech (Mechanical) from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad in 2004.
Postgraduate Program in Business Management from Barathiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore 2009.
Doing Advanced Certificate Program in Business Analytics from Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management - IIT Bombay.
Active member of Toastmasters Club - played various Leadership roles and gave some of the best speeches.
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