Firasat Malik
Firasat Malik
Firasat Malik
Email : firasath.m30@gmail.com
Mobile: +91 8652736076
Professional Summary
Over 3.8 years of IT experience with 3.8 plus years of expertise in developing Business Intelligence and Data
Warehouse applications.
Technical hands-on expertise using OLAP tool Business Objects 5.x/6.x/XIR2/XIR3(Reports, Designer, Web
Intelligence, Info view , and Supervisor).
Expertise in working and implementation of Crystal Reports 7.0/8.0/9.0/10/XI/XIR2.
Well Experience in creating Dashboards and Analytics using Xcelsius 2008 and Dashboard builder.
Exposure to Data Integrator/Services, Rapidmarts in SAP-BO.
Experience in tuning the performance of SQL queries and ETL process.
Experienced in tuning and designing database Tables, views, stored procedures, cursors, triggers using
Oracle and SQL Server 2000/2005.
Expertise in creating Xcelsius Dashboards using UI Controls
Experienced in interacting with business users to analyze the business process and requirements and
transforming requirements into screens, designing database, documenting and rolling out the deliverable.
Involved in Performance tuning of Universes and Webi report devlopment and Databases.
Strong Knowledge in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as developing, testing,
Migrating, security management and production supporting on various platforms like Windows NT/2003/XP,
UNIX.
Expertise in Universe designing, developing and generating complex, Adhoc, dashboard Reports, Business
views, List of values along with User Acceptance Test and data accuracy Test.
Proven abilities in creating complex reports by linking data from multiple data providers, using free hand SQL,
stored procedures and functionalities like Combined Queries.
Managed CMC, Repository, Web Intelligence, Desktop, Destination, Program Job and Event Servers and
Designed security model for users to access the report
Hands on Experience in Scheduling, Working with LOV Objects and Deploying a System and Hands on
Experience in Migrating BO 5.x & 6.x to BO XIR2 Using Import Wizard Workshop
Hands on Experience in Creating Batch Job, Data Flow and Validating, Tracing and Debugging Batch Jobs using
Data Integrator XI.
Designed Performance Management metric universe, Metric, Analytics, Personal Dashboard and Corporate
Dashboard using Dashboard Manager and Created Goals, Goal Analytics, Published Goals to Corporate
Dashboard using Performance Manager and Created Charts with a date range, Value-based alerts and setting up
Drill down in charts using Crystal Xcelsius
Worked with Crystal Report XIR2 for creating complicated reports including sub-reports, parameter based
reports, graphical reports, formula based, well-formatted reports, drilling reports, analysis reports, data reports
along with LOV.
Well experienced in writing Complex queries, stored procedures, functions, cursors and packages using PL/SQL
Programming.
Excellent knowledge in Implementation of Relational Database (OLTP) and Data warehousing systems (OLAP)
and Data Marts.
Good Knowledge about dimensional model (Star Schema and Snowflake Schema)
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Technical Skills
OLAP Tools Business objects 6.5.2 / 5i, BO XIR2,XI R3.1, Crystal reports XI, Crystal 2008,
Xcelsius 2008,SAP BEX,SAP BI/BW
Operating Systems Ms-Windows, Unix, Linux
ETL Tools BODI/DS
Data Bases Oracle, Ms SQL, DB2, MS- Access 2000
Languages C++, JAVA, VB, SQL/PLSQL,UML, UNIX Shell Scripts
Edification
Bachelor of Enganering Degree in IT from OU,AP
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Created different reports containing charts showing revenue and operating income by different divisions, market
share of newspaper by circulation.
Created complicated reports including sub-reports, graphical reports, formula base and well-formatted reports
according user requirements.
Involved in creation of performance management metric Universe, Metrics, Analytics and personal and corporate
dashboards.
Environment: Business Objects 5.1.4/6.5 and with Web Intelligence 2.6, Oracle8i, SQL, PL/SQL, MS Access.
Responsibilities:
Gathered, analyzed and documented business requirements, functional requirements and data specifications for
Business Objects Universes and Reports
Utilized Designer functions like @Select, @Prompt and @Aggregate Aware with summary tables for query
optimization.
Defined hierarchies to facilitate multidimensional analysis and set up custom hierarchies to prevent dimension rift
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Resolved Loops using Contexts and/or Aliases in the Universe and checked the integrity of the Universe.
Created custom LOV’s
Created/checked Joins and detected cardinalities.
Created/Classified of classes and different objects as per the user requirements
Exported Universes to the Repository to facilitate access to the universes
Linked different universes using Kernel/Master approaches
Assisted in documenting Meta data definitions for the universes and reports
Involved in migrating reports and universes from 5.x to 6.5
Used Slice and Dice to format Master/Detail, Cross Tab reports and charts
Complex reports involving the use of complex queries(Sub queries, Unions, Intersects)
Extensive use of calculations using Variables, Formulae and in-built functions to calculate costs, revenues
generated and profitability of customers
Apply Breaks, Sorts, Alerts and Ranking to ease readability in Business Objects reports
Exported reports to the corporate documents, and scheduled/monitored the reports via Broadcast Agent server
Provided production support by solving problem tickets issues and updated the problem tracking database
Responsibilities:
Collecting user requirements and specifications for project development.
Moving the report objects (Deski, WEBI, Crystal) from Dev to Stage to Prod Environments.
Data extraction and Loading in to reporting databases.
Development of Universes and reports using User Module and Web Intelligence based on user requirements.
Report development involves exploring features of Business Objects features, to make the project user friendly
as much as possible.
Used Oracle sub queries, unions in reports.
Supervisor activities and supporting documentation for ongoing user’s maintenance.
Maintenance of Repository Domains, Users and User groups, user privileges, Categories.
Installation of Business Objects on different servers for User Testing purpose.
Worked with Oracle DBA to optimize the Query performance of the Business Objects reports.
Analytical and Detail level of Documentation work to educate the users about the requirement of Web
Intelligence depending on user requirements.
Development is designed to take away ongoing maintenance of table or views creation as fiscal year changes
and to support User-friendly ad-hoc querying.
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different locations place the orders. The system allows marketing and sales persons to maintain targets for various
Properties. It also aids in analyzing sales over multiple promotional cycles, sales channel and increase profits.
Environment: Oracle 8i, PL/SQL, java, JSP and servlets
Responsibilities:
Was involved in front end designing which was done in JSP.
Created the database objects such as Tables, Views, Database Triggers, PL /SQL procedures, Packages
etc.
Created of Database schema as per the requirement definition.
Performance tuning, SQL tuning
Optimized SQL queries.
Involved in designing and coding screens for transaction, information and administrators modules.
Design screens for displaying all users requests for the administrator.
Developed interface for the purchase entry screens.
Reports are generated on daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and in between any two given dates
Involved in Performance Tuning and Scheduled Maintenance of the application.
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