BHASKAR_KOTA_SAS_Certified_Developer
- 1. Page 1 of 7 BHASKAR KOTA 4805242357 (bhaskarkota.sas@gmail.com) EDUCATION: Master of Technology with specialization in Control Systems from Veermatha Jijabhai technological institute (VJTI) Mumbai, India. Bachelor of Technology with specialization in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: SAS Base & Advanced Certified professional with over 7 years of experience in developing software applications for Financial, Health Care and Insurance sectors. Proficient in SAS/BASE, SAS/EG, SAS/MACROS, SAS/Connect, SAS/SQL, SAS/ODS, SAS Arrays, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH,UNIX Shell Scripting, NDM Scripting, and SFTP. Worked extensively with SAS on UNIX, Windows and Mainframes, SAS Enterprise Guide, PC-SAS. Ability to turn business requirements into Technical Design specifications and documents, SAS Programs, and SQL Queries related to quantitative, statistical and financial models. Capable of working with cross-functional teams to manage projects, determine prioritization, and create appropriate timelines. Professional Experience with Import Various External Data Files into SAS Dataset / SAS Library by Using SAS/ACCESS, SAS/INFILE, SAS/IMPORT, SAS/SQL. Extensively worked on various RDBMS like Oracle and SQL Server. Four years of experience at Onsite Client location and 3+ yrs of experience at offshore location. Extensive Experience in arranging and participating in meetings with Business Users and suggesting recommendations for improving system performance. Worked in Production support, Development, Technical project requests, Enhancement, implementation support, post-production batch monitoring and Client issues for all supported applications. Develop project plan, work-breakdown-structure, metrics, tasks lists, action items, Identify critical paths. Understand and define priorities and milestones. Proven skills in efficient processing of millions of records of data, optimizing SAS programs for better performance. ETL process design, Analyzing, Reporting and migrating Data from multiple platforms/databses(UNIX, SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, Mainframes, DB2) using SAS, NDM and SFTP. Statistical distributions and calculations. Involved in all stages of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). Thorough Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Office tools like MS Access, MS SharePoint, MS word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel. Proven abilities in establishing effective task priorities as a team player with result oriented attitude. Excellent working experience in tools such as INFOMAN, Maestro, Autosys, Resolve IT and ServiseNow. Involved in different server setups for new projects and accessing destination servers on various operating systems such as Unix, Windows and Mainframes. Have knowledge on HADOOP-HDFS, PIG,SQOOP,HIVE,HBASE and MapReduce.
- 2. Page 2 of 7 TECHNICAL SKILLS: SAS Tools: SAS/BASE, SAS/MACRO, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/Access, SAS/ODS, SAS/Internet SAS/GRAPH. Database: Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL Server 2000, MS Access. Operating Systems: UNIX, MS Windows (95, 98, 2000, NT, XP), MS-DOS, MVS. Languages: SQL, PL-SQL Development Tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access) Scheduling tools : Maestro, Autosys Special Software : Infoman, Resove IT,Autosys(Work Load Center) and ServiseNow Professional Memberships / Certifications Professional Society / Certification Member Since / Date Certified IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 Universal 02/01/2008 Database (DB2 UDB) V8.1 Family - Test 700 Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 - 310-055 03/01/2008 Exam 1Z0-007: Introduction to Oracle9i : SQL 03/13/2009 Certificate in Banking & Finance V2 11/16/2009 SAS Base Programming for SAS9(211) 09/29/2010 SAS Advanced Programming for SAS 9(212) 08/17/2012 AREAS/APLICATIONS Real-estate(REL)/Mortgage Citi Financial North America(CFNA) Banking Domain :BOA credit cards and Citi Bank North America (CBNA)/UCCB. Retail business. Insurance CAREER PROFILE 1) Since June 2010 till date – CITI GROUP Client CITI Group Project Name Non-Cards Solutions Bridging Group Duration From Feb 2011 – till date Line of business of REL,CFNA,CBNA and CARDS the client About the project The primary objective for the Non-Cards SB group is to provide rapid technology Solutions when a traditional IT solution is either not required or cannot be achieved within the timeframe mandated by business needs. Our team supports all lines of business, including Cards (Private Label / FDR only), CFNA/One Main, UCCB and REL. The technology framework we operate within consists of primarily SAS and SQL code executed in a Unix environment, though we do have a small mainframe application that is still supported by our group. Project requests are received via a CCR project request. Once captured in that system the requests are routed to the CCLM repository where they are tracked during the project life cycle. Project status is updated routinely on that site where upper management in the Collections COE
- 3. can view them. Simultaneously projects will have corresponding Planview requests and support tickets opened for tracking hours spent and for managing all required project artifacts during its lifecycle. Our products are delivered to our customer base using several methods, including NDM and SFT data transfers, SharePoint repositories loaded via SMTP transfers (email) and externally to vendors using CitiSFT via SFTP. The vendors we interface with today include Soundbite, ORCC, Venture, Convergys and Sapient. The team includes 3 in Offshore and 5 at onsite. The technologies used for the Project are SAS, Oracle, SQL Server, Page 3 of 7 Unix ,NDM scripting and Secure File Transfer (SFT) Role Project Leader Activities Involved in requirements gathering & Estimation of Efforts. Design Preparation. Assigning the projects to the team based on capacity. Follow-up with the team and making sure the work done on time. Successfully completed more than 20 development projects. Developed SAS code and SQL’s for Data Extraction and Loading into flat files. Reviewing Unit Test cases to make sure testing is done properly. Conducting Final Inspection & Audit. Regular Status meetings with the clients and TCS Managers on the progress of tasks. Sharing of Knowledge with the team members. Tracking and updating the project status by using the CCLM repository. Technical Platform Operating system: Windows Server 2000/ UNIX Languages/Tools: SAS, UNIX, NDM, SFTP, SSH Tectia, Infoman, Maestro, Autosys and Resolve IT. Database: Oracle, SQL Server Location CITIGROUP, IRVING,TX,U.S.A Client CITI Group Project Name Leveraged Solutions Bridging Production Support Duration From Oct 2010 – Feb 2011 Line of business of REL,CFNA,CBNA and CARDS the client About the project The prime objective of Solutions Bridging production support team is to offer quick solutions unlike any normal development team. The team includes 4 in Offshore and 1 at onsite. The primary function of the Leveraged Solutions Bridging Production Support team is to identify any production issues and work those issues through to resolution. The issues should be resolved within a 24 hour period for processes running daily. Those processes running less frequently would generally need to be dealt with in 24 to 48 hours depending on the job in question. Notifications are received when jobs fail for any reason but can also be triggered by non-fatal issues that should be investigated. LSB has two means of receiving notifications for job failures/alerts. The first notification is usually via an automated email. The second means of notification is via the command center. Often both notifications are delivered but not always. UNIX script errors are generally trapped by Maestro. Maestro has a web tool that can be used to view any error messages trapped from an
- 4. Page 4 of 7 abended process. Role Team Lead Activities Involved in presenting induction to the new joiners in the project Worked as primary point of contact for all the Production support jobs Resolved all the abends on time and achieved the customer confidence Developed SAS code and SQL’s for Data Extraction and Loading into flat files. Regular Status meetings with the clients and TCS Managers on the progress of tasks. Automating the Job failures/alerts notification process by using the UNIX Scripting. Resolved the abends as soon as received a call from command center. Technical Platform Operating system: Windows Server 2000/ UNIX Languages/Tools: SAS, UNIX, NDM, SFTP, SSH Tectia, Infoman, Maestro, Autosys and Resolve IT. Database: Oracle, SQL Server Location CITIGROUP, IRVING,TX,U.S.A Client CITI Group Project Name CITI Cards – Collections Duration From July 2010 – OCT 2010 Line of business of CITI CARDS the client About the project In CITI Cards Collections, DRI - Diversified Resolutions Incorporated is a default application when a loan becomes default for a user the account gets in to the collection/ default processing system. It is a system where the loan account gets the default processing service done. The project recreates the existing default system of CITI and merges it in to a single GUI application and integrates all the modules on a single sign on system. Role Team Member Activities Requirement Analysis Create and review the design documents (both HLD and LLD) Development and Coding Test script Preparation Unit and System Testing Reviewing and Delivering Bug Fixing Conducting Final Inspection & Audit Sharing of Knowledge with the team members Regular Status meetings with the clients and TCS Managers on the progress of tasks. Published the knowledge based documents into Knowmax. Published code snippets in Mighty for automation which avoids re-work. Prepared implementation Documents for Production implementation by Maestro Team. Technical Platform Operating system: Windows Server 2000/ UNIX Languages/Tools: SAS, UNIX, NDM, SFTP, SSH Tectia, Infoman, Maestro, Autosys and Resolve IT. Database: Oracle, SQL Server Location TCS, Chennai, India
- 5. Page 5 of 7 2) Since July 2009 to June 2010 Client Name Bank of America Title Information Management Non Basel - Information Analytics Foundation Collections (IAF - COLLECTIONS) Period Since July 2009 to June 2010 Position Team Member Line of business Credit Cards, Banking About the project The goal of the initiative is to produce a number of data extracts from the BACARDI database which will be fed to the IAF - COLLECTIONS platform by way of the JMS subsystem. The programming language used to produce these extracts will be SAS. In addition to the daily scheduled extracts and transfers, a one-time full extract for each feed will need to be produced in order to initialize the IAF - COLLECTIONS platform. The SAS extract programs should be written such that they can produce either this full extract, or the normal nightly “delta” feed based on a passed parameter Responsibilities Analyzing the Business Requirements and System Specifications to understand the application. Involved in presenting induction to the new joiners in the project Developed SAS code and SQL’s Automation of run book preparation for support related activities after implementation. Prepared implementation Documents. Involved in Creation and review of test Scenario and test Case based on requirement and design document Interacting with onsite coordinators and clients. IQA & EQA activities in the project and preparing defects log Customizing the existed components to work for the newly created Creation of New Jobs & Schedules for Info quest. Code fixing, testing, tracking all the documentation and code through IPMS tool mapping and following the standards defined in TCS-IQMS. Monitoring and fixing production jobs during batch run. Capturing of requirements for enhancement projects, coding, Unit testing and System testing of the modules. Languages SAS, UNIX, SQL & SQL SERVER. Special Software IRIS, SCCS. Tools IPMS, IQMS, EXPEDITOR, CHANGEMAN, FILEAID, INFOMAN, ELIPS, TSO SAR, REVINE, ASA, TCA, ASSENT Work Location Hyderabad (India)
- 6. Page 6 of 7 3) Since April 2008 to June 2009 Client Name AC Nielsen, USA. Title Metered Sample Hub (MSH) Period Since April 2008 to June 2009 Position Team Member Line of Business Retail About the Project The Metered Sample Hub (MSH) is the corporate HUB for the Metered Sample data that is collected through the MSM application. The Metered Sample Hub archives household and persons characteristics for metered samples. MSH replicates data from MSM and A/P Collection Facility systems to its stage database throughout the day. It also serves as a history database for the A/P Collection Facility. The MSH close process, every day, transfers the replicated data to the elemental database in MSH HUB. MSH transforms some of the data to the legacy Descriptor Control Database (DCDB) format for Active Passive and Mark II metering technologies. The transformed data is stored in MSH Summary and loaded to the DCDB. The Elemental data is used to serve MSH clients such as MVD, IVA, Tracking, ELDB, FMDS, NDDS, National (NPower), HHR, A/P Crediting. This project comprises of maintenance and production support activity. Responsibilities Understanding and Capturing of requirements. Involved in the preparation of high level/low level design documents. Involved in the Analysis, Development and testing phases of the project. Involved in Analyzing and providing the resolution for the bugs raised. Involved in the Unit testing and User Acceptance Testing. Involved in the Resolution of technical issues while testing. Production Support (Dedicated). Worked on Control-M tool for keeping the system healthy and to make the jobs of various environments to run as per the schedule. Creating our own region for testing modelling the UAT regions. Adherence to IQMS (Integrated Quality Management System) by Following quality procedures like IQA (Internal Quality Assurance). EQA (External Quality Assurance) and FI (Final Inspection) for all the deliverables. Adherence to IPMS by entering efforts and logging defects. Adherence to SPEED by achieving goals periodically. Languages SAS,UNIX,SQL-PL/SQL Database SYBASE Special Software/Tools PVCS (for source code control), WSFTP, Control-M, Remedy, Remote desktop Project Location Chennai (India)
- 7. Page 7 of 7 4) Since November 2007 to March 2008 Client Name Prudential & Financial, USA. Title Output Systems Period November 2007 – March 2008 Client Name Prudential & Financial, USA. Position Developer Line of Business Insurance About the Project Prudential Output Systems is the doorway through which prudential communicates to its customers. DAP-(Document Automation Platform) is used to produce the policy package and customer communication letter. The System interfaces with the policy administration system AOS. Documents are composed from images using the DAP Tool. The tool will produce print files in either metacode or Print Control Language (PCL). The former is used in production environment and the later in development environment. Responsibilities Analyzing the Business Requirements to understand the application. Prepared implementation Documents. IQA & EQA activities in the project and preparing defects log Code fixing, testing, tracking all the documentation and code through IPMS tool mapping and following the standards defined in TCS-IQMS. Capturing of requirements for enhancement projects, coding, Unit testing and System testing of the modules. Languages SAS,UNIX,SQL SEVER,Mainframes Cobol. Special Software/Tools DAP Tool. Project Location Chennai (India) Awards/Appreciations Professional Society / Certification Member Since / Date Certified CITI Galaxy of thanks 02/20/2014 TCS On the spot award 12/11/2009 Bank of America Chess Championship 08/13/2010 TCS On the spot award 07/18/2012 TCS Best Team award 08/07/2013