Vikram A. Email & Phone Number

St Louis, Missouri, United States

St Louis, Missouri, United States

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Kansas City, Missouri

Greater St. Louis Area (Nestle Purina)

• Upgrade from BO 3.1 to 4.1 environment.• Performed sizing analysis based on BO XI 3.1 load statistics and made recommendations on the size of new BI 4.1 platform.• Installed and configured BI 4.1 on a cluster of servers.• Split web tier to deploy all webapps on apache and tomcat. All static content was deployed on apache resulting in better performing environment.• Configured SSL on apache and tomcat for all BI web applications.• Setup Kerberos Single Sign On for apache and tomcat server.• Support day to day development of reports, universes and dashboards.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Lead project on upgrade to BI 4.1 from BO XI r3.1.• Co-ordinated system setup with unix team based on recommendations from SAP.• Installed BI 4.1 on Redhat Linux 6.5 on Sandbox, Development, Test and Production – 19 servers in total.• Setup a cluster of distributed BO servers – with web tier, intelligence tier and processing tier on different machines with fault tolerance capabilities.• Setup tomcat 7 as the Web application server with F5 as load balancer, helped configure F5.• Setup SSL on web application server and F5.• Configured LDAPS for AD groups and users.• Responsible for server maintenance and patching.• Troubleshoot server and installation problems in 4.1.• Work with SAP support to resolve server and Business Objects reporting issues.• Installed Explorer on top of the production and Development cluster.• Patched all systems to resolve QAAWS and WEBI upgrade related bugs.• Setup load testing using Jmeter on 4.1 machines for 400 concurrent WEBI sessions.• Customized branding on 4.1 based on HSN needs.• Define and set up user and group level security model.• Setup CMS monitoring using Oracle and configured the system to handle monitoring load.• Configured SAP mobile for access to Dashboards and explorer.• Installed and configured Netezza drivers for connection to WEBI reports.• Helped in optimizing Netezza data warehouse design model specifically for reporting.• Worked on report consolidation project where legacy reports were migrated from Oracle to Netezza DB based universes.• Developed Data federated UNX universes on Netezza and Oracle using IDT.• Designed Xcelsius Dashboards using QAAWS and BIWS.• Set up Information spaces on Explorer over Netezza universes.• Helped develop new datamarts in Netezza based on Business Objects needs.• Worked with business users and report developers to develop dynamic and interactive reports.• Setup Datastage parallel ETL jobs to load Netezza tables.

Greater St. Louis Area (Monsanto)

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Science

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Systems Engineering