Anil Vij
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Functional Discipline:
Oracle Business Intelligence
Strategist(OBIEE)/ Technical
Architect/Project Manager
Oracle/Siebel CRM
Oracle/Siebel CRM
Oracle/Siebel CRM
Oracle/Siebel CRM
Oracle/Siebel CRM
Oracle/Siebel CRM
Oracle/Siebel CRM
Primary
Technical skills
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Years Experience:
20+ years
Master Certified Oracle/Siebel Analytics Consultant
Certified Oracle/Siebel Analytics Server Architect
Certified Oracle/Siebel Analytics Data Warehouse Developer
Certified Oracle/Siebel Application Developer
Certified Oracle/Siebel Consultant
Certified Oracle/ Siebel Marketing Server Architect Consultant
Certified Oracle/Siebel Pharma Analytics Consultant
OBIEE Architecture Authentication/Security, ETL Framework,
OBIEE
High Availability HW Sizing and Metadata configuration
Architecture/Strategy
optimization
Oracle/Siebel
BI Publisher, Oracle BI EE/Siebel Analytics (OBIEE), Pharma,
Analytics
Marketing, Oracle EBS Order Management, Financial Analytics,
Applications
CRM and CDI
Oracle/Siebel
Application Administration; ETL, DAC and Metadata ,
Analytics
Customization, Performance and Tuning
Platform/Applications
Programming
Shell, Perl , C/C++, Java
languages
Microsoft Project to track and manage project lifecycle from start
Project Management
to finish project monitoring related to DW/BI space.
Database
Netezza, DB2,SQL Server, Oracle and Informix
Operating systems
Windows and Unix
Software packages
MS Office Products, Visio, Microsoft Analysis Services
ETL Informatica, ETL Hummingbird, IBM Tivoli and ER
Tools and Methods
Modelling and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis BI solutions
Experience Overview
Anil Vij has hands on Oracle BI Strategist/Technical Architect/Project Manager, with over 20+ years of experience
in building leading commercial IT products. Experienced in Business Intelligence solutions including architectural
design, planning & development through deployment. Proven ability to mange, define, develop and deliver large
software projects on time and on budget. Technology expertise in Business Intelligence, Database, Client/Server
and development tools. Team player with excellent verbal and written communications skills and ability to
motivate.
In the past 6 years, Anil Vij has been invited by several Oracle/Siebel customers as a Technical Adviser/ Chief
Architect to strategize OBIEE roadmap and BI solutions. Established a good reputation to drive best practices,
training and educating business community to materialize ROI and mentoring technical teams with OBIEE
technology. Being part of Oracle/Siebel Expert Group worked internally with various groups to help design OBIEE
Application framework and design for OBIEE applications.
Vertical Industry Experience:
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Utility Industry
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Pricing, Marketing Monitoring, Power Generation, Statistical analysis and Transmission
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Retail Industry
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Pricing, Inventory, Point of Sales and retailers preferred customer program etc.
Airlines
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Scheduling, Reservation, Travel Agent Management and OAG
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Oracle/Siebel Horizontal/Vertical Applications
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Pharma Analytics, Enterprise Customer Contact, Order Management & Fulfillment, Financials
(GL/AR/AP), Marketing and eSales Analytics etc.
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Distribution
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Material Returns, Warranty, Inventory, Shipping and Order Management etc.
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Strong Academic and real life solution implementation background with Operation Research and other
Industry standard Statistical Models
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Cost based analysis using linear and non-linear Regression modeling, forecasting and
distribution modeling etc.
Professional Experience
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Senior Business Intelligence Architect/Strategist - SureShotStrategies Inc (Jan’2007- till date)
Business Intelligence Strategist –OBIEE Technical Architect, Utility company , Littlerock AR (Oct’08 till
date)
Roles and Responsibilities:
As an OBIEE Advisor/ Architect, helping a South Western Pool (SPP) , Little Rock, AR to manage & develop a
Data Warehouse solution using OBIEE platform and Application framework. This involves building a custom data
warehouse and providing Transmission, Market Monitoring and Power Generation reporting solutions using
Netezza Database and OBIEE dashboards/Answers and BI Publisher to support advance BI architecture areas
including OBIEE Web Services, SSO, LDAP, HA and Map Viewer Geo Spatial data analytics etc.
Various subject areas that are being deployed involve near real time SPP Pricing, Power Generation and
Transmission data from various internal and external data sources.
Providing overall BI Technical leadership and driving the ongoing and future BI initiatives from start to finish.
Business Intelligence Strategist –OBIEE Analytics Architect, Social Networking company , CA (Jul’08 till
date)
Roles and Responsibilities:
As an OBIEE Advisor/ Architect, helping a client to develop a real time EBS Accounts Receivable, Payable and
Order Management & Fulfillment analytics applications using OBIEE platform and Application framework. This
involves building a custom data mart and providing reporting solutions using OBIEE dashboards/Answers and BI
Publisher.
Leading and driving the whole project and technical team.
Business Intelligence Strategist –OBIEE Analytics Strategist/Architect, Sigma Design Bay Area, CA (April’08
July’08)
Sigma Designs develops and markets high-performance, highly-integrated System-on-a-Chip (SoC) semiconductors
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connectivity Products
Roles and Responsibilities:
The requirement was to showcase and implement Oracle R12 Financials and Order Management EBS applications
with a comprehensive support for business intelligence solutions using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise
Edition (OBIEE 10g) suites of products.
As a lead Architect and team lead, responsible to deploy the pre-build OBIEE Oracle Financials and Order
Management analytics solutions. The OOTB solution with some customization was configured and deployed in a
span of 6 weeks.
Business Intelligence Strategist –Oracle/Siebel Analytics(OBIEE) Strategist/Architect with American Heart
Association, Dallas, TX (Apr’08- Jul’08)
Roles and Responsibilities:
As an Architect/BI Strategist, invited by AHA (American Heart Association) to carry out an overall assessment of
Oracle/Siebel Sales Analytics deployment. The length of assessment was 3 weeks and resulted into a report
encompassing Architect, Business Process, Performance, Configuration and Database Environment related areas
Subsequent to the current OBIEE environment assessment, AHA requested to provide technical design and
deployment guidance to integrator to implement a custom Order/Shipment Data Analytics using Web
Services and Siebel CRM/Dataflux based applications in real time environment.
Business Intelligence Strategist – Chief Architect with Agilent Technologies, CA (Sep’07 Jun’08)
Roles and Responsibilities:
 As, an Architect/BI Strategist responsible for managing the overall project from technology and architect
perspective.
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This includes Business Requirements, Gap Analysis, DB planning and deployment, Architecting Oracle/Siebel
Marketing and Service Analytics, (OBIEE) Product training, overseeing and establishing system wide
performance best practices for ETL Infomatica/DAC, RPD and WebCatalog metadata
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Responsible for deploying Web replication, Web Server Load balancing, Action Links, iBots and DAC
execution plans
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Responsible for system-wide database, ETL, RPD and Dashboard reports tuning etc
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Responsible for technical aspects of integrates Marketing analytics application involving segmentation,
Campaign Load and List generation etc.
Business Intelligence Technical Architect – Sigma Design in Bay Area (Sep’07-Nov’07)
Roles and Responsibilities:
 As, a Technical Architect, deployed Out of the box Oracle Financial and Order management Analytics.
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Primarily, responsible for installation, configuration and deployment using DAC, Informatica and OBIEE
metadata
Business Intelligence Technical Architect – Face Book in Bay Area (May’07-Sep’07)
Roles and Responsibilities:
 As, a Technical Architect, deployed Custom Oracle Financial Analytics solution.
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Primarily, responsible for installation, configuration of OBIEE metadata
Business Intelligence Strategist - Solar Power company in Bay Area July’07
Roles and Responsibilities:
 As, a BI Strategist responsible for evaluating the existing reporting environment and help define future BI
strategy & direction. The engagement involved environment data gathering, analysis, preparation and
presentation of proposed BI strategy.
Business Intelligence Strategist – Procter & Gamble and HP Canada
June’07
Roles and Responsibilities:
 As, a BI Strategist responsible for evaluating the existing financial analytics reporting environment and help
optimize Analytics design and performance related areas. The engagement involved working with the HP
global services and helping teams from Poland and India to review and optimize Analytics environment.
Business Intelligence Strategist - Midsize Hosting company in Bay Area (Jan’07-May’07)
Roles and Responsibilities:
 As, a Technical Project Manager/Architect, managing a team of analysts and developers to monitor and
execute all the phases of project. The project delivery involves Oracle Financial (GL) and Order management
analytics implementation using OBIEE Platform architecture.
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Primarily, responsible for Project Management and architecting the overall Oracle Order Management
and Financial analytics solutions.
 Technical Architecture Specialist – Oracle/Siebel Corp (Feb’2003-Jan’2007)
Roles and Responsibilities
Job Responsibilities includes working with a team of Onsite/offsite integrators and partners to help with a
variety of Consulting offerings including Oracle/Siebel Analytics (OBIEE) Workshops, Analytics
Architecture Sizing, Analytics Application Design, Configuration, Mentoring and conducting trainings.
 As an Architect specialist, help various fortune 500 customers First American, P&G, McAfee, AT&T, Agilent,
Schwab and integrators IBM, Accenture, Cap Gemini, Cognizant, Skura and Satyam etc. to design,
implement and upgrade Siebel Analytics/BI solutions
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Worked with Siebel Product Marketing and Engineering to develop Best Practices guidelines and help product
enhancement process for the Siebel Analytics/BI solutions including Order Management and Financial
analytics.
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Assisted several customers with pre-implementation planning of Siebel CRM and Analytics applications
including:
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Hardware requirements
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Database sizing
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Recommendations for deployment architectures.
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Experience working on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle
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Designing and implementing various Siebel Analytics High Availability solutions
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High level of expertise in Siebel application server/client, specializing in performance tuning of the Analytics
application involving ETL, Database and Reporting areas
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Conducting Siebel Analytics Trainings
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Data Warehouse Capacity Planning
As a technical lead in Oracle BI EE/Siebel Analytics modules collaborate with Product Marketing and Engineering
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in learning the latest releases of Siebel modules from Architecture perspective (Siebel Pharma,
Marketing/Analytics, CRM modules – both Horizontal and vertical industry applications) and transfer knowledge to
many Fortune 1000 Customers.
 Consultant – (Dec’1985-Jan’2003)
As a Data Warehouse Architect, led a team of business analyst, developer and responsible for gathering
functional requirements, developing business use cases, data architect, Star Schema modeling, reports, ETL
process architect and data warehouse implementation. Also, responsible for defining and instituting the DW
best practice from the execution and implementation point of view. (April’1999- Feb’2003)
 Essilor USA, Dallas Texas
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American Airlines, Dallas Texas
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Royal Caribbean Data Warehousing System, RCCL, Miami, Florida
As a project manager/project Tech lead/Senior Consultant, responsible for managing resources, gathering
functional requirements, developing business use cases, designing and developing Retail Applications using
various programming languages and RDBMS.
As a Research Associate, responsible for implementing various econometrics and statistical models.
(Dec’1985-April’1999)
 Video and Photo In Store Rental Retail Management System, FredMeyers, Portland, Oregon
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Retail Management System, EDS/Smiths Food and Drugs, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Warehouse Management System (NORTHSTAR 2000), Sprint/North Supply Kansas City
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Airlines Reservation System (ReserVision) at Bangkok, Bangkok Airways, Thailand,
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Overseas Subsidiary Company Accounting and Reporting system (OSCAR) for Fujitsu Australia Ltd, Australia
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Modification Control System (MODS) for International Computers Limited (ICL), U.K.
Implementation of various Operation Research and Statistical Models