Overview
Work History
Timeline
Receptionist

Dona Peschko

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Planning Analytics(TM1) Applications Developer

Precision Global consulting
Apr.2024 - Current
  • Served as developer and support for PA/TM1 financial application
  • Participated in End-to-end testing and documentation of major new requirements being implemented
  • Revised PA/TM1 dimensions, models, and TI processes to support changing business needs.

Senior Planning Analytics/TM1/Cognos Developer

IBM Corporation
Armonk
06.2017 - 04.2024
  • Served as developer and support for critical, 'crown jewel' PA/TM1 financial application used by corporate headquarters for reporting quarterly earnings to shareholders and Wall Street
  • Designed, developed, and implemented PA/TM1 dimensions, models and instances to support changing business needs
  • Interlocked with remote server support team to coordinate installations and upgrades of IBM Cognos Planning Analytics products to the development and test environments and subsequent migration/implementation to the production environment with least impact to my application's internal user base
  • Engaged directly with back-end product development team to resolve any issues discovered during testing
  • Successfully designed, implemented, and maintained the complex data security model for the PA/TM1 application
  • Provided training for the PA/TM1 application and business process and standards to various additional consultants and international team members as they joined the team
  • Communicated closely with business analysts and end user to gather requirements, including analysis to meet the changing business needs and expectations of the PA/TM1 application
  • Served as Scrum Master for the PA/TM1 application project, utilizing Agile concepts
  • This involved using Jira to track and manage change requests and ensuring all approvals and test results were documented prior to promotion to Production
  • Managed and organized requests into sprints, as well as conducted daily scrum meetings that included both client key users and technical team members
  • Provided exceptional customer service and 24/7 on-call support for applications to all levels of the internal user community.

Senior Cognos BI Developer/Applications Systems Analyst

BIC Corporation
Shelton
06.1996 - 01.2017
  • Engaged in technical development and application support, with a focus on end-to-end software development and implementation
  • Delivered expertise in analysis, technical and user documentation, design, development, testing and the implementation of new features and/or enhancements while consistently adhering to corporate policies and procedures
  • Designed, developed and implemented IBM Cognos Series 7 and Cognos 10 cubes, reports, models, packages, catalogs and source structures such as data marts, Sql queries, and stored procedures in addition to design, development and the implementation of ETL processes
  • Actively participated in installations and upgrades of Cognos 10 and Series 7 products to the test environment and subsequent migration/implementation to the production environment
  • Successfully Designed, Implemented and maintained the security model for Cognos Connections/Upfront using Cognos Administration functions
  • Provided Training for Cognos products and business processes to internal end user community
  • Meticulously gathered user requirements, including the analysis of existing business processes for opportunities to redesign/simplify procedures and improve efficiency, providing exceptional customer service to all levels of the internal user community to assist in analysis of KPI's
  • Documented, designed, developed, implemented and trained users on new processes using Cognos
  • Played a key role in the company-wide transition to Cognos to support reporting and business analysis sourced from JD Edwards while replacing company-wide, homegrown, AS/400 applications
  • Served as the lead BIC programmer on a Y2K project as the only non-consultant employee, managing a diverse team of consultants through internal corporate standards and knowledge of the company's business systems and interactions
  • Successfully redesigned and implemented annual sales forecasts and budgeting processes each year to meet business strategies geared toward corporate growth for the coming fiscal year, and participated in analysis and technical tasks as required to run demonstrations/evaluations of multiple supply chain management software packages
  • Provided daily user support for applications as well as 24/7 on-call support.

Timeline

Senior Planning Analytics(TM1) Applications Developer

Precision Global consulting
Apr.2024 - Current

Senior Planning Analytics/TM1/Cognos Developer

IBM Corporation
06.2017 - 04.2024

Senior Cognos BI Developer/Applications Systems Analyst

BIC Corporation
06.1996 - 01.2017
Dona Peschko