Basit Hameed Cell Ph #: 704-705-0754 E-mail: basit.mstr@gmail.

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Professional Summary 7 years of experience in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance in data warehousing environment. 6 years of experience in using MicroStrategy 7.x/8.x/9 as the OLAP tool. Experience in designing techniques like Snowflake schema, Star schema, fact and dimension tables and Logical and Physical modeling. Implementation of best-practices in terms of design, development and documentation standards. Extensive Experience in developing Reports, Dashboard & Scorecard Reports for end users in MicroStrategy Desktop, MicroStrategy Web Interfaces. Strong in developing Proactive Delivery Reports and implementing business intelligence solutions on using MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server. Installing, Configuring of all MicroStrategy products including MicroStrategy Desktop, Administrator, Intelligence Server, Web Server and MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server. Extensive Working Experience with MicroStrategy 7.x/8.x/9, MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server, MicroStrategy Desktop, MicroStrategy Web, MicroStrategy Intelligence Server, MicroStrategy Architect. Upgraded MicroStrategy Intelligence Server projects to higher versions using Configuration Wizard. Exclusive experience in creating MicroStrategy Schema and Application Objects(attributes, Facts, metrics, filters, prompts, Custom Groups, Consolidation, Transformations & also created security model for all users. Very Strong Experience in MicroStrategy Report Services. Involved in continuous performance tuning & improvements for existing OLAP systems. Expertise in the concepts of Data Warehousing, Data Marts, ER Modeling, Dimensional Modeling, Fact and Dimensional Tables. Application knowledge of the following industries: Pharmaceutical, Banking & Financial Services, Retail and Telecommunication. Self-initiative, excellent analytical and Communication skills. Ability to work independently and as a good team player. Technical Skills BI Tools RDBMS Languages Environment Office Tools Education MicroStrategy 9.x/8.x/7.x (Desktop, Architect, Web Server, Intelligence Server, Narrowcast Server. Oracle 9i/10g, MS Access, MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, Teradata, Natezza. C, SQL, PL/SQL. MS-DOS, HP UNIX, Windows 95/98/2000/NT and Sun OS, Rehhat Linux. MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Outlook.

Masters of Business Administration Bachelor of Computer Science Professional Experience Term: April 12 - Present Client: CVS Caremark, Woonsocket, RI Role: Sr. MicroStrategy Developer

2004 2000

CVS Caremark is the largest pharmacy health care provider in the United States with integrated offerings across the entire spectrum of pharmacy care. As a MicroStrategy Consultant, I work in two of the projects: one is Promo Ad Planner, and the Seasonal Reporting; in both of the projects I created new reports and updated the old reports according to the new business requirements. Responsibilities: Participated in the end user meetings to obtain the business requirements for creating the reports. Implemented different Schemas (Star and Snow Flake) to fit reporting, query and business analysis requirements. Developed MicroStrategy Schema objects and Application objects such as; Attributes, Facts, Metrics, Consolidations, Custom Groups, Transformations and Hierarchies. Extensively used MicroStrategy Report Services to generate Report Documents. Designed an efficient BI Dashboard for the Company Executives, through an efficient use of MicroStrategy Report Services. Created all possible Metrics, for enabling the end users to generate customized reports by creating their own Templates and Filters. Built Complex Reports using advanced reporting functions like Level Metrics, Conditional Metrics, Derived Metrics and Advanced Filters. Worked on report services documents to create graphs as per user objective. Involved in report tuning, caching, specifying query governing thresholds, and report optimizations. Created narrowcast services to email /send to a directory either report service documents in PDF or excel files. The grid reports were also narrowcast in excel format. Participated in review, sign off and communication of all changes or modifications. Performing QA and production migrations of MicroStrategy objects between development, UAT and production environments by using Object Manager/Project Mirage Wizard. Managing the offshore team and assigning them tasks. Environment: MicroStrategy 8.1.2 (Desktop, Intelligence Server, Web Server, Narrowcast Server, Object Manager/Project Mirage Wizard) Toad for Oracle 9.7.2, Oracle 10g database.

Term: Aug 11- March 12 Client: Bank of America, Charlotte, NC Role: Lead MicroStrategy Developer Bank of America is a leading provider of a diverse range of financial services including global investment banking, corporate and private asset management, and securities trading. As a

MicroStrategy Consultant, I was involved in two projects: one is Globalization of Reporting, in which I created the credit reports for the global audience and the second project was IDR Loads, in which I created a dashboard, which shows the status of the Banks Natezza database. Responsibilities: Involved in the complete Life cycle of the Project from development, testing, preproduction and production environments. And also involved in the data analysis process. Participated in the end user meetings to obtain the business requirements for creating the reports. Interacted with business users (Customers) on regular basis to know the business requirements and provide technical assistance regarding problems and giving them training about the tool. Involved in the creation of the project Documents; such as project setup requirement document to create a shell of a project in MicroStrategy environment and project object mapping document, which is used to identify and map the data warehouse columns to the MicroStrategy environment; such as an attributes, facts. Developed MicroStrategy Schema objects and Application objects such as; Attributes, Facts, Metrics, Consolidations, Custom Groups, Transformations and Hierarchies. Creating the different user access groups for the projects and assigning authority roles to them according to the clients business requirements. Used Advanced Filters, Prompts and Conditional, Transformation and Level Metrics for creating complex reports and report documents. Designed an efficient BI Dashboard, through an efficient use of MicroStrategy Report Services. Created all possible Metrics, for enabling the end users to generate customized reports by creating their own Templates and Filters. Responsible for the end Users training for the MicroStrategy Web interface. Duplicate Projects, Merge Projects and Users by using Object manager, Project Merge and User Merge wizard. Performing QA and production migrations of MicroStrategy objects between development, testing, pre-production and production environments by using Object Manager and Project Duplication process. Participate in daily status and monthly planning meetings of the department. Leading and Managing the BI offshore team; made them understand the scope of the project, get the work done from them and solved their issues and problems regarding the project. Environment: MicroStrategy 9.0.1, 9.2.1 (Desktop, Intelligence Server, Web Server, Object Manager, Project and User Mirage Wizard, Enterprise Manager) Oracle and Natezza databases.

Term: Sep 10 Jul 11 Client: Home Depot, Atlanta, GA Role: Sr. MicroStrategy Developer/Administrator The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer, with more than 2,200 retail stores in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China. As a MicroStrategy

Developer I was involved in providing users with insightful operational reports and scorecards through the enterprise data warehouse. Responsibilities: Responsible for gathering and refining business requirement from the Business users. Created MicroStrategy Schema Objects and Application Objects by creating Facts, Attributes, Hierarchies, Reports, Filters, Metrics and Templates using MicroStrategy Desktop. Worked extensively on creating Metrics, Filters, Custom Groups and Consolidations for complex reports. Created different Transformations to get the last year actual transactions, week-today, week-to-period, week-to-quarter, and week-to-year. Extensively built Flash Dashboards for multiple Business Clients; the dashboards used custom widgets, panels, selectors and flash visualizations available in MSI. Implemented Star and Snowflake Schema to fit reporting, query and business analysis requirements. Interacted with business users on regular basis to know requirements and provide technical assistance regarding problems and help with the tool. Monitored the performance of reports and reporting applications after implementation. Designed schema objects and developed compound and heterogeneous attributes. Created derived metrics in documents and developed expression based transformations and custom groups. Built Complex Reports using advanced reporting functions like Level Metrics, Conditional Metrics, Derived Metrics and Advanced Filters. Worked on report services documents to create graphs as per user objective. Involved in report tuning, caching, specifying query governing thresholds, and report optimizations. Regular Monitoring of Job Monitor, User Connection Monitor, Schedule Monitor, Cache Monitors and Windows Performance Monitor and Responsible for Maintenance of Security filters, User permissions, roles and Performance Issues. Troubleshooting user login problems, Export issues, synchronizing user security in both Repository and in MicroStrategy Metadata and routine maintenance of generated Narrowcast subscription reports. Participated in review, sign off and communication of all changes or modifications. Worked on Narrowcast Server for Report and Dashboard distribution. Effectively managed the Narrowcast Server Environment for personalized Email distribution to the end user via e-mail client and attachment. Environment: MicroStrategy 9.0.1 (Desktop, Narrowcast Server, I Server, Web Server)

DB2, Teradata and SQL Assistant 13.10, SQL 2005

Term: Sep 09 Aug 10 Client: APP Pharmaceuticals, Chicago, IL Role: Sr. MicroStrategy Developer APP Pharmaceuticals is a company of the Fresenius Kabi Group. It pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and pharmaceutical products. Its primary focus is the anesthetic/analgesic, care and oncology markets. My project at this company was: Replacing Intelligence solution ASI with MicroStrategy. Responsibilities: is a fully-integrated markets injectable anti-infective, critical the existing business

Involved in the complete Life cycle of the Project and in the data analysis process. Participated in the end user meetings to obtain the business requirements for creating reports. Interacted with business users (Customers) on regular basis to know the business requirements and provide technical assistance regarding problems and giving them training about the tool. Involved in Data-Modeling Analysis like Creation of Snowflake, Star schemas and report structure based on the user requirements. Installing, Configuring of all MicroStrategy products including MicroStrategy Desktop, Administrator, Intelligence Server, Web Server, and MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server. Used Advanced Filters, Conditional, Transformation and Level Metrics for creating complex reports. Extensively used MicroStrategy Report Services to generate Report Documents. Designed an efficient BI Dashboard for the Company Executives, through efficient use of MicroStrategy Report Services. Developed MicroStrategy Schema objects and Application objects such as Facts, Attributes, Transformations and Hierarchies. Created all possible Metrics, for enabling the end users to generate customized reports by creating their own Templates and Filters. Responsible for the end Users training for the MicroStrategy Web interface. Involved in Implementation of Security layer for MicroStrategy. Analyzed the source system data and replaced BI Solution ASI with MicroStrategy. Involved in creating users in MicroStrategy Desktop for testing the reports on the Web interface. Migration of all the reports into MicroStrategy from Business Intelligence Solution ASI. Created Attributes, Facts for different MicroStrategy projects. Environment: MicroStrategy 8.1.2 (Intelligence Server, Web Server, Narrowcast Server, Object Manager, Enterprise Manager) Teradata. Term: Dec 08- Aug 09 Client: AT&T Dallas, TX. Role: Sr. MicroStrategy Developer AT&T is one of the largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States with more than 50 million customers. AT&T significantly expanded its deployment of MicroStrategys platform, adopting MicroStrategy Report Services, and making MicroStrategy its enterprise-wide business intelligence standard. AT&T is harnessing MicroStrategy for such areas as call-traffic analysis, marketing analysis, financial performance assessments, Webtraffic analysis and supporting more than 10,000 employees. Responsibilities: Worked with business requirements analysts / subject matter experts to identify and understand requirements and produce the report design specification and estimates the project. Created the Technical Specification Documents for the reports for the acceptance. Created Dashboard and Scoreboard reports.

Created complex metrics with different level dimensionality, condition and transformations for user and business specific reporting needs. Extensively used filters, prompts, custom groups, consolidations and transformations to generate reports for Business analysis. Participate in daily status and monthly planning meetings. Duplicate Projects, Merge Projects and Users, Execute and Create scripts to various administrative tasks by using command manager, Object manager, Project Merge and User Merge wizard. Monitor Server Usage by Enterprise Manager. Performance tuning of MicroStrategy Intelligence server depends on the workload. Performance tuning of SQL for long running reports. Migration of Narrowcast server objects from development to production. Create users in MicroStrategy and grant required access for projects. Created reports for Weekly Minimum Capital Reporting. Created Dashboard for Corporate Financial Forecasting. Created narrowcast services to email /send to a directory either report service documents in PDF or excel files. The grid reports were also narrowcast in excel format. Design and development of MicroStrategy schema objects like Attributes, Facts and Hierarchies using MicroStrategy Architect. Developed Freeform SQL Reports, Standard reports and Dashboard reports Used report services for various banded report to satisfy the printing requirements of the user. Performing QA and production migrations of MicroStrategy objects between development, maintenance, and production environments by using Object Manager and Project Duplication process.

Environment: MicroStrategy 8.1.0(Desktop, Intelligence Server, Web Server, Narrowcast Server) Oracle Database. Term: Feb 07 Nov 08 Client: Capital One Bank - Denver, Colorado. Role: MicroStrategy Developer Capital One Bank is a leading provider of a diverse range of financial services including global investment banking, corporate and private asset management, and securities trading. As a MicroStrategy Developer, I was heavily involved in supporting the analysis of the organization, institutional trades, and leveraged finance activities. This involved creating detailed scheduled reports concerning market data, the creation of various objects with varying access settings using Supervisor to maintain strict security of data between various divisions such as equity research and investment banking. Responsibilities: Responsible for gathering and refining business requirements from the Business users. Developing Multidimensional Model (Logical Model) by studying the source systems and business requirements. Implemented different Schemas (Star and Snow Flake) to fit reporting, query and business analysis requirements. Created the Metadata and Statistic tables for the project on Oracle database. Architecting the MicroStrategy Projects which involved in creating the Attributes, Facts and Hierarchies. Responsible for creating Application Objects viz., Metrics, Filters, Custom Groups, Prompts using Micro Strategy Desktop and Web.

Involved in troubleshooting MicroStrategy Prompts, Filters, and Templates in an enterprise data warehouse team environment. Created different Transformations to get the last year actual transactions, week to day, week to period, week to quarter and week to year and effectively used them with the metrics. Optimized Query Performance by using VLDB settings at report and project levels. Developed XSL style sheets to match the corporate standards for reporting. Configured the Intelligence Server and pointed the database instances in both development & Production environments. Modeling and populating the business rules using mappings into the Repository for Metadata management. Upgraded the MicroStrategy Projects from MicroStrategy 7.5 to 8.0.

Environment: MicroStrategy 7.5, 8.0 (Desktop, Intelligence Server, Web Server) Teradata V2R4, SQL Server2005.

Client: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), Karachi, Pakistan Term: Mar 05 Oct 06 Role: Jr. Developer - SQL / Business Objects Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) is Pakistan's largest converged services carrier providing all telecommunications services from basic voice to data, internet, IPTV, video-conferencing to consumers and complete range of infrastructure services to other carriers, operators and enterprise customers all over the country. The objective of this project was to develop and implement Business Intelligence reporting through the use of SQL and Business Objects. And I acted as a consultant to business units to develop and translate BI requirements into end-user solutions. Responsibilities: Designs and develops Business Objects Universes, Dashboards, Reports to satisfy BI needs of the business by conducting interviews and analysis on business objectives and requirements. Frequent interaction with the business, including executive and external clients. Responsible for unit testing all reports, which can include tracing ETL code back to source system. Researches and resolves technical problems associated with BI reporting components. Work with Business Analyst to analyze business requirements and translate into proper system requirement specifications Responsible for design, development and user acceptance testing of various BI requests including internal/external custom reports as well as manufacturer program specific reports. Responsible for creating complex stored procedures. Responsible for building custom reports using MS Reporting Services. Develops ad hoc reporting and assists with the production of daily, weekly and monthend reporting as needed.

Environment: SQL server 2000, SharePoint Server, SSIS, SSRS, Business Objects, ETL.