Michael A Tacker: Teradata - Informatica Consultant

Michael A Tacker
Data Warehousing & ETL / Custom Financial Reporting & Automation / Front-end Development

Teradata Certified Professional experienced in all phases of project life-cycle development, from gathering business requirements and coding to client delivery and providing end-user support. Proven ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies that translate requirements into valid client-focused solutions. Specialist knowledge of financial systems, analysis, and reporting, providing a balanced mix of business and technical expertise. Willing to take on any task. Well respected by peers, clients and management.

DATABASES	RDBMS UTILITIES	PLATFORMS
Teradata V2R4, V2R5, V2R6 Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g SQL Server 7, 2000 MySQL 3.23 MS Access 97-2003	Teradata: MultiLoad, BTEQ, FastExport, FastLoad, SQL Assistant (Queryman) Oracle: SQLPlus, SQLLoader, TOAD, DBA Studio ETL Tools: Informatica PowerCenter 8.1	UNIX: MP-RAS (NCR), HP-UX, Sun Solaris Linux: Red Hat, SuSE Windows: All including XP Pro, Win2k, Win2K Advanced Server
LANGUAGES
UNIX: SQL, korn shell, regular expressions, PERL Windows: Visual Basic, VBA (object models for Access, Excel, Outlook, Word, Project), DAO, ADO, Windows Scripting Host, C++ Web: HTML, DHTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, ASP, VBScript
TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES
vi editor, emacs, Exceed, Reflection X, ETL, ERwin, PowerDesigner 7.5, Visual Studio 6.0, All MS Office Products including Visio, Project, PowerPoint, FrontPage, IIS, FTP, Telnet, Advanced Macro Design in Excel, SCCS, Harvest Change Manager, Maestro Scheduler, Dreamweaver MX 2004
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS
Hyperion Intelligence (formally Brio Intelligence), Business Objects, Crystal Reports
METHODOLOGIES
Experienced in logical & physical design, development of star & snowflake schemas, data normalization

Key Qualifications:

Database / Data Warehouse Developer: 12 terabyte data warehouse experience. Skilled developer of both front-end applications and back-end ETL processes ETL (Extract-Transform-Load)
is the process of extracting data from the operational data store or external source and transforming the data (e.g., cleansing, aggregating, summarizing, or integrating) and loading the data into the data warehouse. that extract financial & marketing data from the warehouse transforming it into data sets useful for analysis or loading to other marts or systems. Proven experience in relational database theory and design including logical and physical structures, data normalization and star and snowflake schemas. Competence extends to both Windows and UNIX environments.

Additional Technical Aptitude: Accomplished developer of advanced VBA based Excel & Access reporting solutions. Proficient in applying this technology to the automation of complex financial and business processes. Dedicated to effective code commenting practices and adherence to established naming conventions. Determined to provide clear and complete documentation of projects and processes.

Functional Skills: Experienced analyst with background in corporate budget planning & analysis, financial reporting, and systems migration.

Communication: Dependable and well-spoken providing effectiveness on high profile client-facing projects. Excellent written and verbal skills. Dedicated to clear and complete documentation of complex projects and processes. Recognized for relationship building with clients. Productive contributor to many cross-functional teams and projects.

Personal Attributes: Strong functional and technical aptitude. Innovative problem solver. Committed to goal achievement. Dedicated to providing more than the client asks for within given time & budget constraints. Creative and resourceful with a high degree of personal integrity.