Vijay Nadendla

Current

Financial Reporting System- Product Owner at Fortress Investment Group

Past

Sr Data Architect at MedAssurant
BI & Data Architecture Director at United Health Group
BI Consultant at Bloomberg, New York, NY

Sr Data Architect at American Stock Exchange
Data Warehouse Architect at IDT Telecom Inc
Data Warehouse Architect at WebMD
BI/DW Director at Harmonic Communications

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Education

Louisiana State University

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Information Technology and Services

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Vijay Nadendla’s Summary

• More than fifteen Years experience building about two dozen data warehouses and in quantitative data analysis. .
• Over 90% sucess rate in DW/BI projects as opposed to almost the opposite in the industry because of DW development philisophy based on agility, simplicity and strong scope control.
• Hands on in design and development with / without ETL tools (Informatica, Ab Initio, Business Objects, SSIS, SSAS, Proclarity) at expert developer level without being a tool jockey.
• Developed a big picture view of the data warehouse encompassing purpose and vision, data, Data model design, database design, ETL, impact on design of infrastructure, life cycle, and expectations management.
• Interface with executive sponsors and serve as the primary point of contact to establish project plans, work breakdown structures, milestones, deliverables, status reports and risk assessments.
• Provide hands on leadership and direction to the development of a Data management and business intelligence competency including architecture and standards at multi terabyte scale. Establish a roadmap for the above.
• Proper mathematical and statistical data analysis and model building background. Developed an understanding of financial market data, Macro economic variable, derivatives etc to help properly design and manage financial data.

Vijay Nadendla’s Specialties:

Financial, Web, Retail, Health Care, Scientific, Marketing

Vijay Nadendla’s Experience

Financial Reporting System- Product Owner

Fortress Investment Group

(Public Company; FIG; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)

Redesign and develop a financial reporting system for the accounting
and finance group to perform period end close of financial results.
Supported Distributable Earnings, Balance Sheet, Income Statement,
Cash Planning, Scenario analysis for various options of cash raise and
redemptions.
• Designed and mentored the ETL that loads the manual adjustments, as
well as accounting data from Lawson into the reporting system.
• Develop a multi dimensional cube to support the above product.
Developed simple solutions to complex problems like multiple
hierarchies, Carry over and beginning balances for various periods
with different balances carrying over for different hierarchies all in
the cube. This kept the cube simple, small and results predictable
taking advantage of cube functionality without writing complex MDX.
For more on this approach to cube development please see my Blog.
• Designed and mentored the reporting engine development that provides
a simple interface to the data input into the reporting system (e.g.
manual adjustments) and ability to report of the same interface.
Keeping in mind the preferences of the user, the pivot tables are not
used. A very simple excel interface is built, which users excel the
way accountants are used to.
• User support and user training in the use of the reporting system.
Similar commercial solutions sell for 5 million. Keep in mind that inhouse product is not commercial product. It works for us.
Sr Data Architect

MedAssurant

(Privately Held; Hospital & Health Care industry)

March 2009 — September 2009 (7 months)

MedAssurant brings an end-to-end medical informatics solution including
* Comparative Effectiveness Analyses
* Research, Development & Clinical Trial Support
* Business Intelligence
* Custom Datasets & Registries for marketing research, disease management analysis, fraud and abuse surveillance etc
BI & Data Architecture Director

United Health Group

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UNH; Insurance industry)

March 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 5 months)

• Worked with the business leaders to set up Governance, Data Definitions, develop a Road Map, set expectations, and anticipate future needs.
• Influenced the Development, QA, Business Groups and Operations to consider the analytical agenda up front by working with respective groups and providing technical expertise and experience where needed. Worked with the respective groups to sell these concepts to their management.
• Took over and provided development assistance to above groups in specific cases – Data Architecture for IT, Data QA for QA, Campaign Management for Marketing etc.
BI Consultant

Bloomberg, New York, NY

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Financial Services industry)

November 2006 — March 2007 (5 months)

• Redesigned and developed a multi terabyte scale data warehouse analyzing the user behavior on Bloomberg terminals using SSIS and SSAS.
• Advocated, mentored and educated the various groups in the company responsible for data warehouse from source application developers to hardware and network engineers on how the data warehouse affects / influences their designs.
• Developed analysis / report using proclarity to identify abuse patterns for management.
• Developed an internal tutorial / Introductory Document to train rest of the group in MDX.
• Developed and presented BI strategy for upper management.
Business: Finance; Environment: SSIS, SSAS, Proclarity, MDX, SQL Server
Sr Data Architect

American Stock Exchange

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Financial Services industry)

September 2006 — November 2006 (3 months)

• Got to production a very messy data warehouse storing hybrid online / floor trading data for regulatory purposes. This was a troubled data warehouse with strict deadlines that needed to be met. Hence, the strategy is to get the data warehouse to work.
• The data warehouse size is over 20 Terabytes in size. For legacy reasons this data warehouse has over 150 dimensions and about 50 fact tables. Proper redesign is not an option.
• Devised and developed solutions to manpower intensive problems and innumerable bugs the above design implied.
• Devised an ETL process that handled the above without a staging environment.
Data Warehouse Architect

IDT Telecom Inc

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2005 — September 2006 (11 months)

• Plan and implement the strategy & methodology to replace the current ad hoc stovepipe data marts and databases in the company with an 8-terabyte-enterprise wide data warehouse.
• Responsible for the creation and enforcement of enterprise data standards within the organization.
• Mandate includes team creation, Software evaluation and purchase mentor and advocate data warehousing and data architecture within the company.
• Took the company from RFI and POCs (Informatica, Data Stage and Ab Initio) to tool selection and company wide implementation. Responsible for the architecture for data management using Ab Initio.
Data Warehouse Architect

WebMD

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2002 — 2004 (2 years )

• Responsible for the technical and data architecture in the development of a 2-terabyte sized Data Warehouse and the data analysis framework using SQL Server and analysis services.
• Developed logical and physical data models for the integration of data from disparate corporate environments. Developed multidimensional data structures for efficient data access.
BI/DW Director

Harmonic Communications

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

This data warehouse stored data from multiple online and offline data sources –e.g. from newspaper ads to websites for a unified view of campaigns. Informatica on UNIX, ORACLE, ErWin, SQL

Vijay Nadendla’s Education

Louisiana State University

phd , physics , 1991 — 1996

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Vijay Nadendla’s Interests:

math, Physics, Cricket, Quiz

Vijay Nadendla’s Groups:

Business Intelligence Group
DataShaping Advanced Analytics
Healthcare Technology Alliance
Data Warehouse Architects
TDWI's Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Discussion Group
Data Warehouse
Microsoft Data Warehouse Skillsets
Microsoft Business Intelligence
Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence and Analytics
Data Architecture Professionals
American Stock Exchange Alumni
Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence Architects
Data Warehouse Professionals
FEDERAL BIZ Network - Government Stimulus Teaming Jobs PMI Consulting Funding Sales Opportunities
United Health Care Alumni
Data Warehouse Consultants