KARMARI. GANGADHAR.

Professional Summary:
Around SIX years of experience in Software Designing and development that include:
Object Oriented Analysis, Design, and Application development in Client/Server
environment with professional expertise in building Data marts/Data
warehouse.

• 3+ years of strong experience using Ascential Data Stage 7x/6x/5x.

• Area of specialization includes Database designing, building of Data

Warehouse, ETL development.
• Extensive knowledge in Data modeling, Data warehouse using tools like
ERWIN.
• Involved in Different modules of DataStages like Designer, Manager,
Director & Administrator
• Worked on Parallel Extender involving different stages like Lookup
Stage Join, Merge, Change Apply, Change Capture,
Remove duplicates, Funnel, Filter and Pivot stages.
• Involved in performance tuning for various Datastage jobs by
usage of Hash Stage, SQL Tuning, Job Tuning and usage of
IPC`s.
• Experienced in Scheduling and running Jobs using DataStage Director.

• Designed many Batch Processing jobs within Datastage and

created many sequences in Datastage using Job Sequencer.
• Responsible for all activities related to the development, implementation,
administration and support of ETL processes for large-scale data
warehouses using DataStage.
• Export & Import, Performance & Tuning of Database, Backup and
Recovery, SQL*Loader .
 • Strong analytical and problem solving abilities. Troubleshooting various
critical technical problems and provided feasible solutions.
• Organized, Motivated, Enthusiastic, and Creative Team Player and ability to adapt
to new environments and looking forward to accept new challenges

Technical skills:

ETL Tools: IBM Websphere Datastage 7.5x, Ascential

DataStage 7.0/6.0.1/5.1/5.2, parallel extender,IBM
Websphere Qualitystage 7.5.
Reporting Tools Business Objects 5.1
Data Modeling Star-Schema Modeling, Snowflakes Modeling,
FACT and Dimension, Tables, Erwin
Database Tools SQL Plus, SQL *Loader, TOAD, DTS
RDBMS Oracle 9i/8i, SQL Server 2000, DB2 UDB 6.1,
Sybase, MS Access
Programming UNIX Shell Scripting, SQL, SQL*Plus, PL/SQL,
FoxPro, FORTRAN
Operating Systems Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95, MS-DOS, UNIX.

Work Experience:
West Corporation, Omaha, NE Feb 05 – Tilldate
Data Warehouse Developer

Data Warehouse. This project involved extracting data from different sources and
loading into a Data Marts. The major job involved in cleansing the data and transforming
the data to the staging area then loading the data in the Data Marts. The Data Marts is an
integrated Data Mine that provides feed for extensive reporting. It enables an insight
into the current and future financial situation/needs based on the information received
from the Data warehouse.
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Responsibilities:
Extensively involved in determining the data needed to address business user’s analytical
requirements and design data mart to support these analysis.
• Translation of business requirements into data mart design and developed ETL
logic based on the requirements using DataStage 7.5.1
• Involved in logical and physical data modeling using Erwin 4.0
• Development data warehouse repository using DataStage Manager by
importing the source and target database schemas.
• Designed DataStage jobs to populate and incrementally load the source data to
the staging area, created the update strategy, transformations, filters,
lookups and necessary source-to-target data mappings to load the target
using the DataStage Designer
• Worked extensively on different types of stages like Sequential file, ODBC,
Hashed File, Aggregator, ORA Bulk, BCPLOAD, Transformer, Merge,
Join, Lookup, Sort for developing jobs
• Used lookup stage with reference to Oracle table for insert/update strategy
and for updating slowly changing dimensions
• Used the DataStage Director extensively to run, schedule, monitor, debug
and test the application on development, and to obtain the performance
statistics
• Developed job control routines for batch processing in DataStage BASIC
• Involved in performance tuning of the ETL process and performed the data
warehouse testing
• Designed the complete Decision Support System using MicroStrategy by
creating different types of reports for trend analysis using filters, conditions and
calculations
Environment:
IBM Websphere DataStage 7.5- (Administrator, Designer, Manager, Director),IBM
Websphere Quality stage 7.5, Oracle 9i, DB2, SQL-Server2000, MicroStrategy,
Windows NT .

Bell South, Detroit, MI April,04 – Jan,05

Role: Data Warehousing / ETL Specialist
BellSouth is a leader in the provision of state-of-the-art telecommunications systems and
services and in promoting and demonstrating its commitment to the world. BellSouth is
customers' choice for high-value, high-quality data, voice and video communications and
services. Bellsouth strive for excellence in customer service for customers.
Responsibilities:
• Stored reformatted data from different Mainframe applications using
DataStage (ETL)
• Designed and maintained logical and physical enterprise data warehouse
schemas
• Design, develop and deployment of new data marts along with modifying existing
marts to support additional business requirements
• Designed and developed complex Aggregate, Join, Look up and Update
transformation rules
• Configured DataStage 6.2 Server and Client components

• Created naming and system standards for lookup, transformation and target
tables
• Loaded consolidated data using SQL*Loader in parallel and direct mode

• Developed schedules to automate the update processes and Jobs

• Used Business Objects Designer, Reporter and Supervisor

• Designed, developed and implemented universes using Business Objects

• Maintained stored definitions, transformation rules and targets definitions using

DataStage repository manager
• Generated reports for end client using Query tools

Environment: Ascential DataStage 7.0/6.2, (Designer,Administrator,

Manager, Director), Erwin4.1, Shell Scripts, SQL*Loader, UNIX (IBM - AIX), Oracle
8i, Windows 2000

Bank of America, Charlotte, NC Oct,02 – April,04

Role: Database / Data Warehouse Programmer
Project: Data Warehouse Management system

This project involved extracting data from different sources and loading into a Data
Marts. The major job involved in cleansing the data and transforming the data to the
staging area then loading the data in the Data Marts. The Data Marts is an integrated
Data Mine that provides feed for extensive reporting. It enables an insight into the
current and future financial situation/needs based on the information received from the
Data Warehouse.

Responsibilities:
• Involved in Dimensional modeling of the Data warehouse and used Erwin 4.0 to
design the business process, grain, dimensions and measured facts
• Writing PL/SQL procedures for processing business logic in the database. Tuning
of SQL queries for better performance
• Working on database connections, SQL joins, views, aggregate conditions,
parsing of objects and hierarchies
• Created synonyms for copies of time dimensions, used the sequence generator
transformation type to create sequences for generalized dimension keys, stored
procedure transformation type for encoding and decoding functions and Lookup
transformation to identify slowly changing dimensions
• Created mappings and complex transformations using DataStage Designer
• Involved in massive data cleansing and data profiling of the production data load
• Used DataStage Manager for session management, database connection
management and scheduling of jobs to be run in the batch process

Environment: Ascential DataStage 6.2, Oracle 8i, SQL Server 2000,

SQL/PLSQL, UNIX Shell Programming, Erwin, HP - UX

Medco Health Solutions, Inc.

Franklin Lakes, NJ. Aug, 01 – Sept,2002
Role: ETL Developer
Medco Healthcare Solutions Inc. has been setting the standard for safe, cost-effective
pathways for a diverse healthcare community. As the largest privately held pharmacy
benefit manager (PBM) in the nation, they use unbiased clinical guidelines, cutting-edge
proprietary software tools, and forward thinking business practices to meet a wide range
of healthcare needs. Medco Specialty Solutions offers high-quality clinical service and
cost-effective utilization of specialty pharmaceuticals. Their service has three core
features: payor-centric, ability to integrate medical and pharmacy data and superior
clinical and customer service, that are collectively unmatched by other specialty
providers.
Responsibilities:
• Involved in the design and development of Datawarehouse.

• Participated in analyzing user requirements, identifying data needed to deliver

requirements, and developed data models using data warehousing concepts.
• Programmed shell scripts, stored Procedures using SQL, PL/SQL to extract
client data from Oracle/DB2 sources and mapped the data into a target Oracle
warehouse.
• Used DataStage Designer to develop processes for extracting, cleansing,
transforming, integrating, and loading data into target data marts.
• Developed user defined Job Control Routines using Universe Basic.
• Automated Job Control using Batch logic to execute and schedule various
Datastage jobs.
• Used DataStage Director to validate, schedule, run, and monitor DataStage jobs.
• Utilized SQL *Loader to load bulk data into target Oracle data warehouse.
• Implemented performance-tuning techniques along various stages of the ETL
process.
Environment:
DataStage 5.0, PL/SQL, SQL*Loader, Oracle 8i, SQL Server 2000, DB2 UDB, Erwin 3.5,
Shell Scripts, Windows NT 4.0/2000, UNIX.

OBJECTORB, BANGALORE JUNE,2000 - July2001

Employee Management System
Role: Developer
ObjectOrb is a next generation technology company focused on providing IT solutions to
the healthcare community. Objectorb excel working with early stage and small-medium
companies, building world-class products
The objective of the project is to keep track of the employee activities in various
departments of the organization and maintain their personal details, awards, memos
and the loans taken.

Responsibilities:
• Worked on identifying the requirements of the system.

• Thorough study on creation of schema objects like indexes views, stored

procedures and synonyms.
• Involved in a team in designing the database schema for the metadata for
storing the informative queries that are generated dynamically.
• Good knowledge of writing triggers which internally calls procedures and
functions
• Reports generated to provide information of employee details, history, loan etc.

• Involved in documenting the entire technical process.

Environment:
VB 6.0, Oracle 8i, Windows 98