Mahesh Balasubramanian 8512 Eversham Road, Richmond, VA 23294. Phone: (804) 397-9188 MAHESH.BALA@SOLVCENTRAL.COM Professional Profile An IT professional with experience in a combination of consulting and system implementation roles. Qualified with very good server administration, scripting and database skills. Have been involved in the design, development, testing, validation, documentation, training, support and maintenance of systems and applications on a variety of platforms. Technical & Business Skills * Operating Systems and Networking technologies Windows 2000 Advanced Server, NT, 98, 95 LINUX/Unix (Solaris) SolvMonitor (BI deployment monitoring tool)* Application Server Technologies Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server) Apache Web Server Tomcat Application Server* Database, Data Warehouse & OLAP Technologies BusinessObjects WebIntelligence Oracle MS SQL Server ODBC MS-Access* Development Tools & Programming Skills HTML C C++ JAVA (J2EE) JSP ASPProject Experience SolvCentral.com Inc. Jan ‘04 - till date (Professional Services Consultant) SolvCentral is a leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. With expertise coalesced from data warehousing, enterprise analytical reporting, and application server markets, and specializing in add-ons for enterprise BI tools (Business Objects, COGNOS) including Dashboards, BI Monitoring and Report Distribution. SolvCentral has carved a niche in distributed BI deployments. * Deployment of Business Objects 5.x/6.x distributed architecture solutions. * Development, training and support of add-on products for Business Objects 5.x/6.x product suite. * Installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and best practices integration of various data warehousing and OLAP systems (Business Objects 6.x, Analytic Applications 6.x). * Performance tuning and optimization of Business Intelligence solutions including capacity planning, migration procedures, and usage analysis. * Data mapping, server architecture design and delivery of enterprise performance management with enterprise BI tools – including creation of metrics, analytics and corporate dashboards. * Customization of Business Objects InfoView Portal and development of custom Web Services applications using the WebIntelligence SDK [both on Microsoft (ASP) and Java (JSP) platforms]. Accounts managed include – GMAC, Wells Fargo, Customs & Border Protection, NCH, IBM, AMR and McKesson. Key consulting assignments are listed below. GMAC-RFC –Minneapolis, MN GMAC Residential Funding is a part of GMAC Financial Services. This project involved integration of the developer Suite ASP document viewer in the e6.1a ASP Info View portal. This integration helped in customizing the Prompt panel for GMAC-RFC. Wells Fargo –San Francisco, CA Wells Fargo has a distinguished pedigree - in the use of technology, and in the development of new financial tools and techniques that have redefined the meaning of financial services for individual, institutional and investment banking clients. This project involved installation and configuration of BCA Publisher 6.1a and also setting up publications for the Corporate Properties Group of Wells Fargo. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) – Washington D.C U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This project involved customization of Business Objects WebIntelligence module. Dynamic drilling of webintelligence documents based on the object hierarchy was accomplished. National ChemSearch (NCH) – Dallas, TX NCH USA and Group NCH international manufacture and market an extensive line of maintenance, repair and supply products to customers. NCH products include chemical specialties, fasteners, welding alloys and plumbing parts as well as maintenance supply products. This project involved building an executive dashboard for NCH. Application Foundation was used for building the dashboard and Webintelligence for the dynamic reports in the dashboard. American Medical Response (AMR) – Denver, CO AMR serves communities and customers as a private ambulance service provider in the nation. This project involves building an application portal to provide users details to metrics such as unit hours, payroll hours, ontime performance. McKesson – Richmond, VA McKesson Corporation is the leading provider of supply, information and care management products and services designed to reduce costs and improve quality across healthcare. McKesson solutions empower healthcare professionals with the tools they need to deliver care more effectively and efficiently. This project involves building detailed reports which would be accessed by account managers and internal users to look at monthly and yearly item sales, average gross profit and various other measures. University of Houston Aug ‘01 – Dec ‘03 (Research Assistant) Development of Intelligent System for Electric Power Load Forecasting Artificial Neural Networks were employed to develop a short-term load forecasting system. The system was evaluated and tested with real data obtained from utility companies. The system is capable of forecasting electric power load for the next hour and also for the next day based of the past load data and the temperature and humidity conditions. Development of Neural Network models for potable water microfiltration prediction and prediction of crossflow filtration Artificial Neural Networks models were developed to predict the microfiltration of potable water conducted using constant pressure and constant flux. Another model was developed for crossflow filtration prediction conducted using three different types of stable suspensions for a total of 45 crossflow filtration experiments. AdventNet Development Center Jan ‘01 – Jun ‘01 (Software Engineer) Telecom Worked with AdventNet V5 Protocol Stack, V5 Monitor and V5 LE simulator. V5 Protocol is certified by European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). The V5 LE Simulator is a Local Exchange simulator and V5 Monitor is used to track the signals between the Local Exchange and the Access Network. WEB NMS Worked in Client team and Product Quality Assurance (PQA) team under Web NMS (Web Network Management System) Web NMS is managing the whole network system that includes computers, switches, routers, printers etc; The team deals with the client side of the network that enables one to access the whole network. PQA Product Quality Assurance in WEB NMS deals with an aim that the customer should buy the best. As a part of the PQA team I had tested the NMS and implemented the testing procedures defined. Education * Recipient of Graduate Scholarship funding from University of Houston, TX * MS in Electrical Engineering * BE in Electronics and Communication Engineering