PRAVEEN BABU KALAPALA
Brambleton
Summary
BI Manager with proven expertise in different verticals, leading cloud initiatives and enhancing data analysis capabilities through Power BI and Tableau. Spearheaded automation projects, boosting team efficiency through motivating leadership. Skilled in project management and team leadership, delivering impactful BI solutions that drive strategic decision-making.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
BI Manager
Holman Automotive
Mt. Laurel
11.2020 - Current
- Company Overview: Holman is one of the largest family-owned integrated automotive service companies in North America
- Holman has unique set of services in fleet management, upfitting and equipment, and commercial and retail vehicle sales
- Holman uses many Cloud, BI and DW Products to provide Analytical solutions for internal users and clients
- Managing a team of 5 BI resources to deliver Projects Involving BI And Cloud technologies
- Working on a major cloud initiative across the organization, heading the BI project to move Business Objects and Tableau report/Dashboards to PowerBI
- Coordinating with ETL and Databases teams on Azure project for moving the databases to cloud, Data Masking etc
- Working with Data Engineering team Supporting CI/CD process for Azure Synapse Pipelines
- Implemented and managing Qlik replicate environment to move data from on-perm database to Azure Data Lake
- Spearheaded a project to automate weekly reports, freeing up 15 hours per week for the analytics team
- Implementing Power BI across organization, leading to richer data analysis capabilities and improved decision-making
- Facilitated the integration of business and IT through streamlined data architecture, boosting operational efficiency by 20%
- Managed 7+ software rollouts, ensuring minimal business disruption during transition
- Designed user-friendly BI dashboards in Tableau and Excel, providing real-time data-driven insights to management
- Assisted in incident management, change management, and review ongoing release and production management
- Implemented Agile methodology in project management, increased productivity by 20%
- Managed reporting process and metrics development, coordinating various process performance and reporting activities as well as metrics reporting
- Involved in POC of many tools, optimized costs for the company by moving Reporting Backup and Auditing process to a cost-effective tool
- Assisted in developing business intelligence strategies in coordination with business
- Holman is one of the largest family-owned integrated automotive service companies in North America
- Holman has unique set of services in fleet management, upfitting and equipment, and commercial and retail vehicle sales
- Holman uses many Cloud, BI and DW Products to provide Analytical solutions for internal users and clients
- Environment: PowerBI, Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Qlik replicate, Azure DevOps, Business Objects 4.2/4.3, Tableau 2021.3
- Infoburst 2022.2.2, Sql Server 2012/2016, Python
BI Team Lead
Information Builders
Arlington
05.2019 - 11.2020
- Company Overview: Information Builders (IB) is headquartered in New York, NY, with global offices, and remains one of the largest privately held companies in the industry
- IB provides services in the fields of Business Intelligence, Data Integration and Data Quality
- DOJ is one their primary government client
- Implemented Business intelligence and Master Data Management solutions utilizing the IB tool suite at DOJ
- Managed BI team of 4 developers and an administrator, provided guidance in implementation of BI Projects
- Designed and implementing the DR solution to support the failover mechanism as well as to meet the highly availability requirements of the production environment
- Created user groups matrix across multiple departments in DOJ to access the IB MDM tool
- Worked with IT stake holders in project planning, resource management, high level design meetings
- Analyzed current architecture and proposed technical solutions to meet growth and future needs
- Assisting in incident management, change management, and review ongoing release and production management
- Implementation of iWay Data quality and Data services tools in DOJ with Integrating Business objects reporting
- Managed resources for JDAGS development and implementation projects
- Information Builders (IB) is headquartered in New York, NY, with global offices, and remains one of the largest privately held companies in the industry
- IB provides services in the fields of Business Intelligence, Data Integration and Data Quality
- DOJ is one their primary government client
- Environment: Business Objects 4.2, WebFOCUS 7702, iWay iSM, iWay DQE, Oracle 18, Outlook 2016, Office 365, Windows Server 2016, Linux, AIX, SharePoint
BI Team Lead/Architect
1800Admin LLC
Falls Church
07.2018 - 05.2019
- Company Overview: 1800Admin LLC is a sub-contracting agency to DOD’s Defense Health Agency
- This agency’s mission is to deliver information technology solutions to the Military Health System
- Business Intelligence Common Services (BCS) is the Business intelligence reporting system of DHA
- Participated in high level technical discussions, vendor meetings and provided solutions for BCS applications
- Working as main technical resource in BCS PMO group and providing guidance to all member projects in BCS environment
- Analyzed current architecture and proposed technical solutions to meet growth and future needs
- Worked with multiple teams for Sizing, Scaling, Clustering and Load Balancing of all the three BO environments
- Worked with TIER 3 team to test the Business Objects disaster recovery and failover Mechanism
- Reviewed the existing documentation and provided necessary inputs to the BCS APP support team to update the DR and Architecture documentation
- Reviewed and implemented best practices in BO Architecture design for load balancing to improve performance of overall system
- Worked with Load balancing and network teams to resolve performance and network related changes
- Extensively worked on Business Objects Production support, trouble shooting, developing end User documentation and training of end users
- 1800Admin LLC is a sub-contracting agency to DOD’s Defense Health Agency
- This agency’s mission is to deliver information technology solutions to the Military Health System
- Business Intelligence Common Services (BCS) is the Business intelligence reporting system of DHA
- Environment: Business Objects XI 4.2 SP5, IBM DB2 10.1, SQL Server 2012, Outlook 2012, Office 365, Windows Server 2012, AIX 7.1, Websphere 8.5
Sr. BI Architect/Administrator
Partners Healthcare System
Somerville
01.2013 - 07.2018
- Company Overview: Partners HealthCare is a not-for-profit, integrated health care system which includes community and specialty hospitals
- EPIC is integrated with Business Objects and Crystal Reports for all the analytical as well operational reporting purposes
- Designed & Implemented systems that meet the information delivery needs of business intelligence teams
- Participated in different high level technical and vendor meetings and provided solutions for server, data storage and database components of BO systems
- Designed and implemented the DR solution to support the failover mechanism as well as to meet the highly availability requirements of the production environment
- Responsible for Sizing, Scaling, Clustering and Load Balancing of all the three BO environments
- Tested Disaster Recovery mechanism every six months and failed over to another data center servers to meet Healthcare standards
- Analyzed current architecture annually and proposed technical solutions to meet growth and future needs
- Implemented EPIC Clarity ETL solution to move data from EPIC system to Enterprise Data warehouse
- Lead all Business Objects infrastructure and Reporting Projects in Partners Healthcare
- Experience in SAP Dashboard Design, SAP Design Studio, SAP Lumira, SAP Hana, etc
- Provided training for the in-house resources in BO administration for the backup role
- Partners HealthCare is a not-for-profit, integrated health care system which includes community and specialty hospitals
- EPIC is integrated with Business Objects and Crystal Reports for all the analytical as well operational reporting purposes
- Environment: Business Objects XI 4.2/4.1/4.0/3.1, Crystal Reports 2013/2011/2008, EPIC 2014/2012, SQL Server 2011/2008/2012, Outlook 2007, Office 365, Windows Server 2008 /2012
Sr. BO Architect/Administrator
Adaptive Systems Inc.
Princeton
04.2012 - 01.2013
- Company Overview: As IT Consultant worked for client Eisai Inc
- Which is a U.S
- Pharmaceutical company
- Involved in high level system design meetings and recommended architectural solutions to scale the BO systems
- Upgraded Business Objects reporting system from BO XI R2 to BO XI 3.1 and to 3.1 SP3
- Responsible for BO production support of all three regions user base i.e
- US, UK and Japan
- Closely worked with them in the off hours in case of any production support issues
- Analyzed existing universe and proposed recommendations for enhancements, performance tuning options to improve performance
- Performed POC of replication of existing ARISG database and demonstrated the benefits to business of having an isolated database for the reporting purposes
- Involved in database replication process using Golden Gate software for reporting purposes
- Responsible for BO production support of all three regions user base i.e
- US, UK and Japan
- Trained the users in Business Objects report creation and publishing through group presentations or through individual sessions
- As IT Consultant worked for client Eisai Inc
- Which is a U.S
- Pharmaceutical company
- Environment: Business Objects XI 3.1, Crystal Reports 2008, Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10g, Toad, Lotus 7.0.2, MS Office 2010
Sr. BO Architect/Administrator
3i Infotech Inc.
08.2005 - 03.2012
- Company Overview: 3i Infotech is a global software solutions company, providing several emerging IT technical solutions for their clients
- Involved in complete Software Development Lifecycle including Production Support post deployment and maintenance
- Worked extensively in Requirement gathering and analysis of the existing reports
- Worked extensively on production support and managed all the three environments (Production, QA and Development)
- Upgraded all the BO Environments from XI R2 SP1 to SP2 and then migrated to XI 3.1
- Clustered Production and QA BO Environments across Windows and Linux environments and have good experience on working with SAN
- Involved in Sizing, Scaling, clustering and load balancing of all the three BO environments
- Designed & Implemented the BO User Security model for all the three environments
- Worked extensively on ETL tool (Informatica) for the building of the Datamart
- Worked both on Windows and LINUX operating systems in configuring and tuning BO XI systems
- 3i Infotech is a global software solutions company, providing several emerging IT technical solutions for their clients
- Environment: Business Objects XI 3.1/R2, Crystal Reports10/XI R2, Informatica 7.1.1, Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server 2000/2005, VMware 5.5.2, SQL navigator 5.1, Toad, Ant, UNIX, Eclipse
Education
Master of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA05.2005
Skills
- Business intelligence
- Data analysis
- Cloud computing
- ETL processes
- Data visualization
- Data warehousing
- Project management
- Team leadership
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Data Services
- SAP business objects
- Azure Synapse, ADF
- Databricks
Candidate
PRAVEEN BABU KALAPALA, 508-395-3516, praveenbkalapala@gmail.com, U.S. Citizen, Louisiana Tech University, Master of Science (Mechanical Engineering), 05/01/05, Holman Automotive, BI Manager, 11/20/20, Present, Not Provided, Mt. Laurel, NJ, 08054, Managing a team of 5 BI resources to deliver Projects Involving BI And Cloud technologies., Information Builders, BI Team Lead, 05/01/19, 11/01/20, Not Provided, Arlington, VA, 22201, Implemented Business intelligence and Master Data Management solutions utilizing the IB tool suite at DOJ., 1800Admin LLC, BI Team Lead/Architect, 07/01/18, 05/01/19, Not Provided, Falls Church, VA, 22046, Participated in high level technical discussions, vendor meetings and provided solutions for BCS applications., Partners Healthcare System, Sr. BI Architect/Administrator, 01/01/13, 07/01/18, Not Provided, Somerville, MA, 02143, Designed & Implemented systems that meet the information delivery needs of business intelligence teams., Adaptive Systems Inc., Sr. BO Architect/Administrator, 04/01/12, 01/01/13, Not Provided, Princeton, NJ, 08540, Involved in high level system design meetings and recommended architectural solutions to scale the BO systems., 3i Infotech Inc., Sr. BO Architect/Administrator, 08/01/05, 03/01/12, Not Provided, Not Provided, Not Provided, Not Provided, Involved in complete Software Development Lifecycle including Production Support post deployment and maintenance., Cloud Technologies, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Data Governance, ETL Tools, SQL, Agile and Waterfall methodologies, Technical Documentation
Timeline
BI Manager
Holman Automotive
11.2020 - Current
BI Team Lead
Information Builders
05.2019 - 11.2020
BI Team Lead/Architect
1800Admin LLC
07.2018 - 05.2019
Sr. BI Architect/Administrator
Partners Healthcare System
01.2013 - 07.2018
Sr. BO Architect/Administrator
Adaptive Systems Inc.
04.2012 - 01.2013
Sr. BO Architect/Administrator
3i Infotech Inc.
08.2005 - 03.2012
Master of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Louisiana Tech University
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