1. ANIRBAN KUNDU
Contact No - +91-9970648884 Email ID: anirban.k08@gmail.com
5.5/Nego/1m
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Areas of Core Competence are :– Data Warehouse Design, Business Objects (3.1,XI R2)
Universe Design, WebIntelligence (WEBI), WebIntelligence Rich Client, Desktop
Intelligence, CMC, Info burst 2.6, LifeCycle Manager (LCM),Microsoft SQL Server BI
Tools- SSRS 2008, SSAS 2008,SSIS 2008,Cognos Report Studio.
9 Years of Professional Experience into Business Objects, Business Intelligence, Data
warehousing and Analytics in India/UK.
Currently working as a Technical Specialist (Offshore Team Lead/Manager) at Zensar
Technologies Ltd, India for the client John Lewis Partnership, one of the retail giants in
Europe.
Complete understanding of Equity and Derivatives market.
Experienced in using various Trading Strategies within Futures and Options by
Hedging/Speculating/Arbitrage Strategies.
Exercised various Option Strategies like Spreads, Straddles, Strangles, and
Butterfly Spreads.
NISM (National Institute of Securities Markets, a SEBI initiative) Series –VIII
Equity Derivatives Certified with 80% distinction.
Prepared PoCs (Proof of Concept) for prospective clients by building Data Marts using
Business Objects Data Integrator (BO DI) and preparing Business Intelligence solutions
using Business Objects XI 3.1.
Worked as Senior Programmer Analyst for Barclays Technology Centre, India/UK
primarily in Retail Banking and Capital Markets domain.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
SOFTWARE PLATFORMS AND TOOLS, APPLICATION KNOWLEDGE
Languages: SQL/PL-SQL
Database: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2
Business Intelligence tools: Business Objects Universe Designer (3.1, XI R2),
Desktop Intelligence (3.1,XIR2), Central Management
Console, Web Intelligence(WEBI), Web Intelligence Rich
Client, Life Cycle Manager(LCM), InfoBurst 2.6, Microsoft
SQL SERVER Analysis Services (MS-SSAS 2008),
Microsoft SQL SERVER Reporting Services (MS-SSRS
2008), Cognos
Report Studio.
Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, Linux, UNIX
Other Skills: Quantitative analysis, Arbitrage Strategies, Futures and
Options trading and hedging Strategies.
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2. SPECIALIZED SKILLS
Business Intelligence (BI) Technical Training
Designed instructional materials that matched features and functions to
learning to create a high quality classroom experience.
Delivered hands on technical training. Product functionalities included
Business Objects(BO), SSRS, SSAS, Comparisons b/w BO and SSRS/SSAS,
Business Intelligence, DataWarehousing.
Member of Centre of Excellence for Business Intelligence at Quinnox
Consultancy Services.
Enhanced learning and information discovery by creating sample data and
designing dashboards, scorecards and reports for use in lab exercises.
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
B.TECH FROM DA-IICT,Gujarat (Ranked 13th all over india in the latest data-
quest rankings)
June 2014 till date: Zensar Technologies Ltd as Technical Specialist.
21ST
June 2010 to June 2014: Barclays Technology Centre, India as Senior
Analyst Programmer.
15th April 2008 to 18th June 2010: Zensar Technologies Ltd as Senior
Software Engineer
15th September 2007 to 9th April 2008: Quinnox Consultancy Services as
Level 2 Consultant(Member of Business Intelligence- Data Warehousing
Centre of Excellence)
2nd January 2006 to 9th September 2007: Reliance Communications as Data
Analyst(L3) in DSS(Decision Support System)
WORKING EXPERIENCE
1. Company : Zensar Technologies Ltd, Pune/UK
Tenure of Service : June 2014 – Till Date
Designation : Technical Specialist
Title : JL Management Information System
Client : John Lewis Partnership
Duration : June 2014 – Till Date
Team Size : 8
Platform/Tools : BO XI 3.1, InfoBurst, Abinitio, DB2
Role : Business Objects Technical Specialist and Offshore Team Lead
Description
JLP is one of the Retail giants in Europe and based in London, UK. This project caters
to all John Lewis Users who desire to view Business Reports in native/excel/pdf
format.
Responsibilities
Complete end to end understanding of the John Lewis Retail Business.
Management of Technical and Function team based offshore (6 members) in
India.
Mentoring of team members technically and functionally.
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3. Development and enhancement of the universe(s) through direct coordination
with Business and ETL team, onsite at John Lewis.
Creation of Business Objects reports in WebIntelligence and Desktop
Intelligence.
Distribution of the reports using Third Party tool known as InfoBurst.
Creation of Business Objects Security Architecture for administration of the
reports.
Ownership of server handling and Load Balancing.
Complete maintenance and enhancements as and when required for the
reporting Environment.
2. Company : Barclays Technology Centre India, Pune/UK
Tenure of Service : June 2010 – June 2014
Designation : Senior Analyst Programmer
Title : Business Objects Senior Programmer Analyst
Client : Barclaycard Western Europe Stakeholders
Duration : April 2010 – June 2012
Team Size : 8
Platform : BO XIR2, Oracle 10g
Role : Business Objects Expert
Description
Barclays is one of the world’s Largest Banking Solution Provider. This project caters to
the entire Western Europe Cards DataWarehouse. It involved the complete process for
creation of the DataWarehouse including the Transaction Load for the DwH and the
Statement Load for the DwH. It required procuring of Business Knowledge for which a
visit to Barclaycard in UK was undertaken.
Responsibilities
Complete end to end understanding of the Credit Card Business, its significance
in Barclays and the working knowledge in Barclaycard.
Development and enhancement of the universe(s) through direct cordination
with Business, ETL team and Stakeholders within Barclaycard.
Desktop Intelligence Business Reports and their delivery to users located in
Western European countries like Portugal, Spain, Greece, Italy, Botswana and
France.
Complete maintenance and enhancements as and when required for the
reporting Environment.
3. Company : Barclays Technology Centre India, Pune/UK
Tenure of Service : June 2010 – June 2014
Designation : Senior Analyst Programmer
Title : Business Objects Senior Programmer Analyst
Client : Barclaycard Western Europe Stakeholders
Duration : June 2012 – September 2013
Team Size : 8
Platform : BO XIR2, Oracle 10g, Cognos Report Studio
Role : Business Objects Expert/Business Analyst
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4. Description
Barclays is one of the world’s Largest Banking Solution Provider. This project caters to
the entire Western Europe Cards DataWarehouse. A part of the existing DwH had to be
migrated from Business Objects Enterprise to Cognos Environment with Teradata as
the underlying DB.
Responsibilities
Involved in studying the feasibilty of incorporating the Data Migration from
existing Oracle Data Mart to Teradata Data Mart.
Involved in assisting the team in creating Cognos Framework Manager by giving
them insights and technical details about the existing Universes in Business
Objects.
Involved in creation and simultaneous testing and review of Cognos reports in
accordance with the existing Business Objects Desktop Intelligence Reports.
4. Company : Zensar Technologies Ltd, Pune, India
Tenure of Service : April 2008 – June 2010
Designation : Senior Software Engineer
Title : Principal Designer- Business Objects/Infoburst/Business
Objects Data Integrator
Client : John Lewis Partnership(JLP )
Duration : April 2009 – April 2010
Team Size : 4
Platform : BO XI R2/SQL Server 2005/Infoburst 2.6
Role : Team Lead
Description
JLP is one of Europe’s largest retail chains. This project comprised of the entire
hierarchy inside the organization. The project is going to help users i.e Power users as
well as Business Users to analyze data related to the financing of their respective
departments. It uses Business Objects Data Integrator(BO DI) as the ETL tool,
Business Objects Universe, WebI, DeskI as the reporting/ananlysis tool and Infoburst
2.6 as the Bursting/Scheduling tool. The entire security has been implemented using
Central Management Console. The CMC along with Universe Designer implements the
object level,folder level as well as the row level security.
Responsibilities
Gained Knowledge about the proposed Reporting/Security/Scheduling set up
directly from the Client(JLP) at their place in London,UK..
One of the 5 people responsible for setting up the entire BO architecture on
client side and developing the team.
Involved in Designing the Universe based on Rapid Mart as a data source. Rapid
Mart is fed with data using Business Objects Data Integrator.
Primarily used Contexts, Aggregate Awareness, Derived Tables to design this
Universe. Also used the feature of Linking universes.
Subsequently on completion of the Universe, will be involved in designing and
developing complex WEBI/DeskI reports with new members from Zensar Team.
Going to lead the Business Objects/DW team from off-shore. Most of these
reports will be drill through reports which will adhere to the hierarchies followed
inside JLP.
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5. Have also designed the Security Model as required during the tenure of the
Project. This was agreed upon during my time at Client Side and has been
developed using Central Management Console(CMC).
Involved with members from Client Side in designing the Scheduling
Architecture. Reports are being scheduled according to Business Requirements
and bursted based on specific filters/parameters on reports using a third party
tool known as Infoburst 2.6 whose data sits inside a SQL Server 2005 DB.
Infoburst is made to interact with Business Objects.
5. Company : Zensar Technologies Ltd, Pune, India
Tenure of Service : April 2008 – June 2010
Designation : Senior Software Engineer
Title : Universe Designer and Report developer for JLP One-Stop
Report related to Sales, Revenue
And all verticals running in the Organization
Client : John Lewis Partnership(JLP )
Duration : Oct 2008 – April 2009
Team Size : 4
Platform : BO XI R2/SQL Server 2005/Infoburst 2.6
Role : Senior Developer
Description
This required the consolidation of various data-sources to compile on single report for
all the budget,sales,revenue,profit/loss figures incurred by the organization during
different periods and years. The Data sources were in Oracle,SQLServer 2005 and DB2.
Responsibilities
Designed the most customized Universe which was used for Ad-Hoc as well as
Canned Reporting
Primarily used Aliases, Contexts and Materialized Views to design this Universe.
Work in co-ordination with ETL developers to understand and fetch data
correctly.
Develop the one-stop report for Budget, Sales and internal Information for JLP.
This report was a complete package not only for operational reporting; it was a
complete BI Solution where in analysis on various metrics could be easily
performed.
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6. 6. Company : Zensar Technologies Ltd, Pune, India
Tenure of Service : April 2008 – June 2010
Designation : Senior Software Engineer
Title : BO Universe Designer and Report Developer(Business Objects
Lead)
Client : NMSS
Duration : Jul 2008 – Oct 2008
Team Size : 5
Platform : BO XI R2/Oracle PL/SQL
Role : Business Objects Lead
Description
NMSS is one of USA’s biggest NGOs. They accept donations from all the major Business
Houses and individuals across the country. This project captured all transactions
happening daily,weekly,monthly and yearly. The ETL was designed using PL/SQL
scripts which led to a Data Mart and subsequently to a Star Schema type Data
Warehouse. The users could see the Data inside Infoview and some of them could run
their own Dektop Intelligence reports.
Responsibilities
End to End DWH designing.
Designed the typical Star Schema warehouse and used it to design the
Universe according to the Business Requirements.
Involved partially in manipulating ETL scripts according to the needs of the
universe.
Designing, Developing, and Testing of Universe and Reports.
Developed complex reports using WEBI. The reports were mostly linked
reports. Led the Business Objects team.
7. Company : Zensar Technologies Ltd, Pune, India
Tenure of Service : April 2008 – June 2010
Designation : Senior Software Engineer
Title : BO Designer
Client : Edexcel
Duration : April 2008 – July 2008
Team Size : 5
Platform : BO XI R2/Oracle PL/SQL
Role : Business Objects Expert
Description:
Edexcel is an educational institution based in London, UK. This project required
operational reporting for their various courses which is used by the trainers,invigilators
and various other Business users. The reporting was mainly done in DeskI.
Responsibilities:
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7. Involved in Designing, Developing, and Testing of Universe and Reports.
Reports were operational in nature.Specified the joins and checked the
cardinalities.
Created the reports using Business Objects functionalities like combined
Queries, Slice and Dice, Drill Down, Cross Tab, Master Detail and formula.
8. Company : Quinnox Consultancy Service, Mumbai, India
Tenure of Service : September 2007 – April 2008
Designation : Senior Consultant(BI)
Title : Member of Business Intelligence CoE Team (BICoE) at Quinnox
Client : Inhouse Quinnox HR Team
Duration : April 2008 – July 2008
Team Size : 3
Platform : Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS 2005), Analysis
Services (SSAS 2005) and Integration Services(SSIS 2005)
Role : Business Intelligence Expert
Description:
After agreeing with all the heads of the all the Verticals a DW had to be designed to
provide data for analysis .
Responsibilities:
Creation of Business Reports pertaining to revenue, delivery and HR.
Creation of databases using Dimensional Modeling.
Designing Jobs and running schedules for feeding the Star Schema using SSIS
2005 with suitable data.
Creation of of OLAP Cubes, their deployment on remote server and the
development of
reports.
Building up of Semantic layer (Report Models) and ad-hoc reports (Report-
Builder).
Configuration of the Report Server and SharePoint Server. Securing the servers
using item
level, system level and directory level permissions.
9. Company : Quinnox Consultancy Service, Mumbai, India
Tenure of Service : September 2007 – April 2008
Designation : Senior Consultant(BI)
Title : Member of Business Intelligence CoE Team (BICoE) at Quinnox
Client : Various Delivery Teams
Duration : April 2008 – July 2008
Team Size : 3
Platform : Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS 2005), Analysis
Services (SSAS 2005) and Integration Services(SSIS 2005)
Role : Business Intelligence Expert
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8. Description:
To cater to various delivery requirements people had to be trained on the
benefits/features of DW and Business Intelligence Tools.
Responsibilities:
Provide training on Data warehousing, Business Intelligence and Microsoft SSAS/SSRS
2005
10. Company : Reliance Communications, Navi Mumbai, India
Tenure of Service : January 2006 – September 2007
Designation : L3(Data Analyst)
Title : Data Analyst in Decision Support System (DSS)
Client : Rcom(Inhouse)
Duration : Jan 2006 – September 2007
Team Size : 5
Platform : BO XI R2
Role : Business Intelligence Expert
Description:
Rcom is one of India largest telecom service providers. Every day data had to be
captured and fed into the Data Warehouse which used Business Objects to perform
queries.
Responsibilities:
Involved in designing, developing and maintaining Business Objects universes.
Generating database reports using the Business Objects reporting tool.
Distribution of reports and implementation of BOE XI R2reports sent through
Lotus mail.
Publishing the reports to all environment, including production and responsible
for testing.
Implementing Row level security, Report level security and granting rights to
users.
Scheduling Objects based on different events.
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