Sarat Brahmandam

Business Intelligence Architect/Senior Data Architect

Simi Valley, California, United States

About

Sarat has extensive experience in implementing business intelligence applications for Insurance, Pharmaceutical and Financial Industries. Sarat is IBM Cognos certified in Administration, Metadata Modeling and Report Designing. For over 9 years, Sarat has participated in teams doing analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and enhancements of applications. Sarat has provided strategic directions in various projects that resulted in completing the projects before time and under budget. Sarat has hands on experience in Cognos 8.4.1/10.1.1 migration, Administration, Metadata Modeling, cube designs, ETL and in developing reports. Sarat has worked with vendors to review, perform POC, purchase, manage and implement products that integrate with Cognos and leverage features that out-of-box Cognos does not provide. Sarat has effectively managed offshore, offsite and onshore resources by assigning work, setting milestones, meeting deadlines while addressing business requirements. Specialties: -- Extracting data and Creating Star schema structures. -- Modeling Multi-Dimensional OLAP Cubes & DM-R structures. -- Modeling Planning models & Cubes. -- Installation, Configuration and Administration of Multi-server environment. -- Maintaining the security across all the applications. -- Capacity Planning. -- Usage Reporting. -- License Tracking.

Experience

  • Solutions Architect at Pacific Comp Insurance company
    Dec 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 8 mos

  • Data Warehouse Architect at Pacific Compensation Insurance Company
    Dec 2013 - Nov 2015 · 2 yrs

  • DWH Developer at Pacific Comp
    Sep 2012 - Nov 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Sr. Programmer Analyst at SA
    May 2006 - Aug 2012 · 6 yrs 4 mos

    Primary Roles  Technical/Project Lead  Cognos Architect  Cognos Administrator  Cognos Developer  ETL Specialist

  • ETL Specialist at Farmers Insurance
    Nov 2005 - Apr 2006 · 6 mos

    Created Star Schema structures using Decision Stream. Created Mapping documents.