1. VENKATA VARAPRASAD DEGELA
Email Id: Prasad.degela @gmail.com
Phone No: Mobile-+1 813 606 6489
Professional Summary:
• 11.5 years of IT experience and in Business Intelligence and Data warehousing technologies.
• Working as onsite coordinator and Technical lead at Citi Bank in Regulatory reporting projects
working between Business and the offshore clients and manage deliverables.
• Extensive experience with analysis, design, development, customizations and implementation of
Data Warehousing, Data Integration & information management applications.
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and
architecture.
• Worked on Ab initio and AI tools ACE, BRE, Express >> It
• Strong database skills, and ETL application development knowledge using Ab Initio GDE (1.14/
1.15/3.1, 3.2), Good experience in UNIX and shell scripts
• Worked earlier on other ETL tools like Datastage PX and Informatica.
• Strong Relational database development skills using SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, Teradata.
• Extensive experience in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including System
Requirements Collection, Design, Coding, Development, Testing, Production Support,
Maintenance and Enhancement in variety of technological platforms.
• Experience in leading and coordinating team. Handled multiple roles – Team Coordinator, SME.
• Good understanding in functional areas of AML, Manufacturing, Financial, Retail sectors
Career History:
• Working for Polaris Software Labs USA (CITI Bank) as Abinitio Techincal Lead from Aug
2014 Till date.
• Worked as Technical lead in Polaris Financial Technology Ltd, Hyderabad from Jul 22nd
2010 to Aug 2014.
• Worked as Senior Advisory Analyst in IBM India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad from July 2010 -
Jul 17th
2013.
• Worked as Senior Software Engineer in Dell international services since October 2007.to July
2010.
• Worked as Team leader in Covansys (CSC) since April 2004 to October 2007.
Education:
• Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A) from Madurai Kamaraj University.
• Bachelors in commerce from Ideal College, Andhra University
• Higher Diploma in software engineering (HDSE) From Aptech.
2. Skill Set
Languages SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus C, C++, Pro*C, Sql Loader.
ETL Tools Ab Initio GDE (1.13.8, 1.14, 1.15, 3.1.1), Ab Initio, EME, ACE,
DataStage, Informatica, CA7.
Concepts Data Warehousing, Data Integration, Data Modeling, Relational
modeling, SDLC
RDBMS & Tools Oracle 9i, IBM DB2, Teradata and front and tools TOAD and Sql
Developer.
Tools HP Quality Center, IBM Lotus Notes, Quality Center.
Operating Systems UNIX, Windows
PROJECT EXPERIENCE:
PROJECTS UNDERGONE / WORKING ON
Project Name : SLR
Client : Citi Group
Company : Polaris Software labs.
Role : Technical Lead
Environment : Ab Initio 3, Unix and Oracle Database
Duration : Aug 2014 to till date.
Description: The objective of this project is develop a systemic and automated process and data
collection to calculate the credit derivatives (CDS) add-on component of the Basel III Supplementary
Leverage Ratio (SLR) per the April 2014 US Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) for Total Citi and CBNA.
The solution will calculate the add-on by determining the net long notional amounts (subject to certain
netting criteria), and the end result will be loaded in Pearl for management reporting.
Responsibilities:
Prepare BRE rulesets for various input feeds and use them in the ACE confirurations.
Used Effectively the Express>>it tool for the plans psets, ACE configs, and BRE creations.
Develop the OC jobs XMLs and migrate to various environments.
Working as Onsite co-coordinator handling offshore teams and co-ordinate with the deliverables
and the business users.
Developed the graphs by understanding the Functional requirements made by the BA, clarifying
the doubts if any, analysis of the changes.
Interact with business teams to capture the project requirements.
Testing in multiple environments like SIT and UAT.
Giving support for all the defects raised by BAs in all the environments.
Involved in fixing the bugs in all the environments.
3. Project Name : STATEMENTS (LATAM CBII Decom)
Client : Citi Group
Company : Polaris Software labs.
Role : Technical Lead
Environment : Ab Initio 3, Unix and Oracle Database
Duration : Aug 2013 to Aug 2014
Description: CBII processes the files for all LATAM regions to Global Information Warehouse (GIW). CBII
decom is to decommission the CBII (legacy system) process and use Abinitio to process data for all 23
latam regions in LATAM region to GIW. As part of this LATAM ASP (Source Team) team will provide 8
source files for each LATAM regions. These source files contains the Accounts, balances and
Transactions for each customer from each branch. Need to process these files by using Abinitio to GIW.
This project involves in enabling of the new feeds in to the generic process and also customizations to
equip the changes of the new feeds as per the existing process.
Responsibilities:
Developed the graphs by understanding the Functional requirements made by the BA, clarifying
the doubts if any, analysis of the changes.
Interact with business teams to capture the project requirements.
Active involvement in defining Project scope and Effort estimation.
Testing in multiple environments like SIT and UAT.
Giving support for all the defects raised by BAs in all the environments.
Providing L3 support by solving the issues, tickets raised by L1 support team.
Involved in fixing the bugs in all the environments.
Involved in analyzing the diff reports between the existing system and the proposed new system
and provided the acceptable differences for the same.
Responsible for ETL release planning, tracking, change control aspects of the project and
prepared Deployment plans for the releases.
Involved in development of database PL/SQL objects like Stored Procedures and Packages as a
part of Warehouse to Mart loads.
Project : Client & Channel Analytics
Client : Suntrust Bank, USA
Company : IBM
Role : SSE
Environment : Abinitio, Mainframes.Unix,Ca7.
Duration : Jan 2012 to Jul 2013
SunTrust clients interact with the bank through multiple channels including Branch, ATM, Online
Banking, Mobile, IVR and STOLI.The Client & Channel Analytics project’s goal is to improve our analytic-
driven understanding of client interactions within the individual channels and across the channels as a
whole.There are three primary stakeholder groups who have been identified as the initial beneficiaries
of improved client & channel interaction analytics. While each has unique analytic needs, a common
need is improved data integration and analytics among client data (i.e., data sourced in CIS) and channel
data (i.e., channel sources including ATM, Voice Response, Branch/STOLI teammates, Online, Mobile).
4. Responsibilities:
Responsible for leading a project team in delivering ETL solution.
Deliver new and complex high quality ETL solution to clients in response to varying business
requirements.
Responsible for ETL release planning, tracking, change control aspects of the project.
Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer.
Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
Interact with business teams to capture the project requirements.
Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish
specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in
client acceptance of the results.
Utilize in-depth knowledge of functional and Technical experience in ETL technologies and other
leading-edge products and technology in conjunction with industry and business skills to deliver
solutions to customer.
Project : STAMP/HRCS Application (AML)
Client : Suntrust Bank, USA
Company : IBM
Role : SSE
Environment : Abinitio, Mainframes.Unix,Ca7.
Duration : Jul 2010 to Dec 2013
STAMP (Suspicious Transactions and Account Monitoring Program) is the SunTrust solution for
enterprise-wide transaction monitoring to detect potentially suspicious activity representing AML (Anti
money laundering or terrorist activity) that SunTrust is responsible for reporting to federal authorities by
law.
Under Stamp application various feeds are provided like FDR, Campus Cards, Skilight Cards etc.
HRCS - HIGH RISK CLIENT SCANNING: FIU uses HRCS application through Bridger to evaluate the results
of “scanning” files of SunTrust customer information from various SunTrust applications, to verify that
the SunTrust customers are not in the OFAC and other watch lists. The input feed comes from many
SunTrust applications for which the scanning is done.
Responsibilities:
Involved in design of generic processes for STAMP like Data extraction, Data Quality check and
related transformations in Abinitio.
Involved in creation of Logical and Physical designs documents for STAMP application process.
Responsible for delivery of ETL design documents and ETL code from Offshore.
Responsible to deliver a defect free, quality code and documentation from offshore.
Responsible to attend the technical discussions with client to get the requirements cleared.
5. Deliver new and complex high quality ETL solution to clients in response to varying business
requirements.
Responsible for ETL release planning, tracking, change control aspects of the project.
Project : DELL HR SYSTEMS
Client : Dell Business Services, Austin, USA
Company : Dell India Pvt Ltd.
Role : SSE
Environment : Abinitio, Oracle 9i, SunSolaris5.8, Teradata.
Duration :Jan 2010 to Dec 2010
Project Description: This project is a part of Dell Data Warehouse (DDW) which provides dash boards
and ELT reports on cost center expenditure and region wise maintenance details on the human resource
inventory. As a part of this project, aggregations, facts are maintained on historic costs, allowances etc.
Responsibilities:
Undergone Knowledge Acquisition Process through transition.
Understanding the existing system, preparing the Application Documents which includes all the
technologies that have been used, about the project and the Production Support Documents
and rewrite of this application.
Created Low Level design documents for ETL Mappings.
Developed different graphs as a part of enhancements.
Prepared Unit Test cases and Integration Test cases.
Performed Unit Testing and Involved in Integration Testing.
Involved in performance tuning of Jobs.
Scheduling and monitoring Sessions.
Handled a role of Data Architect in preparing the requirement design.
Scheduling Weekly Status Meetings to discuss any issues within the team or individually.
Involved in development of database PL/SQL objects like Stored Procedures and Packages.
Project : DELL Data Warehouse (DDW), Customer Segment
Client : Dell Business Services, Austin, USA
Role : SSE
Environment : Abinitio, Oracle 9i, SunSolaris5.8, Teradata.
Duration : Mar 2009 to Dec 2009
Project Description: This project will be the beginning of customer segmentation for US and EMEA HSB
in the Dell Data Warehouse (DDW). As a part of this project, we will calculate the historic profitability of
the customer. The project will also provide a mechanism for the business to upload customer
segmentation data to the DDW.
Responsibilities:
Initiated creation of Technical system Design Documents (TSDs) based BTRDs.
6. ETL architecture design with help of Data Architects and Solution Architects.
Base lining and understanding the Technical requirements of the project.
Active involvement in defining Project scope and Effort estimation.
Close interaction with business in understanding and resolving business issues.
Designing Control-M drafts for scheduling data flow jobs.
Involved in creation of Graphs, Xfrs and Sand Box Creations.
Defining DDLs for various database objects and assisting DBA team in migrating them from
development to production boxes.
Actively involved in tuning several PL/SQL Stored Procedures bringing a good amount of
leverage in performance.
Writing and testing the Unit Test cases using Test Director.
Project : Tailor and Sell
Client : Dell
Environment : Abinitio 1.14,Informatica, Teradata, Unix.
Role : Sr.Software Development engineer.
Duration : Oct 2007 to Feb 2009
Summary:
This project mainly deals in delivering data warehouse reports delivered to management to help in DSS.
The reports are mainly concentrated on the order management, Click Stream analytics, Online Supply
statistics etc. This is a conversion project of Informatica to Abinitio.
Responsibilities:
Developing / Enhancing the Abinitio Graphs, XFR’s, as per the business needs
Creating Modifying Teradata Macros and Tables.
Performing L3 support in the turn and handling all sort of issues in the pipleline.
Actively involved in tuning several PL/SQL Stored Procedures bringing a good amount of
leverage in performance.
Writing and testing the Unit Test cases using Test Director.
Project : CCDRI (Commercial Card Data Repository Integration)
Client Name : Inovant LLC A VISA Solutions Company
Company : Covansys
Environment : Abinitio , DB2, Sun Solaris 5.8
Role : Team Leader
Duration : Jan 2007 to Oct 2007
Summary:
The Project is to build a data warehouse of Credit Card Customers Details of the VISA which are out side
of U.S.A. CCDRI is mainly maintain the data of the Commercial Credit Card Details of the VISA Customers.
Using CCDRI Analysis the data will provided to the different applications (QDW, QDS) to benefit the
customers as well as clients. The objective of the Data Mart is to capture information of the
Customers /clients of CCDRI system. The data Mart is used for the reporting needs of different
applications related to the VISA.
Responsibilities:
7. Creating Abinitio Graphs as per the Business requirement document.
Coordination with onsite / Offshore teams regarding requirements and work allocation.
Configuration of the new enrollments which enables the Abinitio Graphs handles parallel
execution.
Creating wrapper scripts to execute Abinitio Graphs.
Actively involved in tuning several PL/SQL Stored Procedures bringing a good amount of
leverage in performance.
Writing and testing the Unit Test cases using Test Director.
Project : AAGT
Client : PafifiCare Health Systems, US
Company : Covansys
Role : Team Leader
Environment : Ascential Datastage 7.5, SQL Server, Oracle9i, UNIX.
Duration : Mar 2005 to Dec 2006
Project Description: The Appeals & Grievances department would like to track the cases lodged by the
Secure Horizon & PDP members enrolled in the respective PacifiCare Plans. To cater to this business
requirement, Medical Informatics along with e-Systems is in the process coming out with a new
application and comprehensive database housing all the relevant member details. The whole process is
aimed to facilitate tracking the status of the member complaints. The activity is also aim5ed to address
the legal and regulatory requirements governing the MEDICARE PART D plans offered by the PacifiCare.
Responsibilities:
Involved in exporting and importing data stage jobs and projects
Developing ETL jobs in Data Stage Designer.
Writing Oracle Stored procedures, Sql Server stored procedures.
Creating Job Sequencers.
Creating UNIX shell scripts to call DS.
Involved in writing SQL queries for DS jobs.
Involved in job monitoring and production support.
Involved in coding T.Sql Packages, Procedures and functions for bulk load of data etc.
Used Data Stage Manager to import metadata, new job categories and creating new data
elements as well as to export job categories.
Actively involved in tuning several PL/SQL Stored Procedures bringing a good amount of
leverage in performance.
Writing and testing the Unit Test cases using Test Director.
Project : F@ST (Finance @ Speed of Thought)
Client : Ford
Company : Covansys
Environment : Oracle 9iAS, J2ee, Pro*C
Role : Development Engineer
Duration : May 2004 to Mar 2005
F@ST is to provide a Long-term solution to improve & integrate financial Information, analysis, and
accounting systems. Capturing part accounting and related information from part to finished products
8. and to capture data from source into an Operational Data Store (ODS).This contains several modules;
REF (Referential module) is one among them, which acts as a reference point for other modules. REF will
collect the related information from different Sources and store in to the database. This information will
be validated and make available for the reference of other module.
In this Software I used the following options:
Developed Pro*C, Packages, Procedures, functions in PL/SQL.
Used Ref cursors for Multiple records fetching, % rotwype variables for record fetching in out
variables.
Designed different ways of testing all backend packages, procedures and functions.
Did Code reviews of all major packages for maintaining standards.
Unit Testing, Integration Testing.