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.
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