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Ilin Star

Brooklyn, NY 11209
Phone (home): 718-836-0073 Cell: 646-250-6548 E-mail (personal): [email protected]
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/ilinstar/

QUALIFICATIONS
An experienced results-oriented, highly self-motivated, self-directed Lead IT professional with many years of diversified, enterprise level experience
in financial, insurance and retail environments, and strong technical, analytical, communication and organizational skills in Business Intelligence/
Business Objects /SQL Server /Business, System and Data Analysis:
Masters degree in Engineering.
15+ years of Information systems experience with the recent 10+ years in enterprise data management and reporting, business systems analysis,
architecture, design and development.
5+ years experience in leadership role driving innovative, enterprise-wide approaches in building solutions that meet business objectives.
Excellent team player with background of individual contribution, creativity, coaching, strong troubleshooting, problem solving, analytical, and
organizational skills, can-do attitude, leading teams by example, and ability managing concurrent multiple assignments.
10+ years experience leading technical project efforts in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and in onsite/offshore model. Project
management knowledge.
9+ years experience leading data warehousing and business intelligence systems: data marts and data warehouse, relational and dimensional data
modeling, implementation of Star schemas, Snowflake schemas, and conformed dimensions, reporting frameworks (approach and tools).
9+ years experience in developing, implementation and maintenance SAP Business Objects, including WEBI and Crystal reports, Universe Design,
Business Objects Administration, server and server packs installations, security maintenance, users training and support.
15+ years experience in SQL development of stored procedures, functions, views, triggers, SSIS, DTS, data profiling, data analysis, developing source
to target mappings, data integration, data migration, data conversion, performance tuning ,application design and support in OLTP and EDW
systems.
10+ years of requirements gathering, analyzing, documenting. Ability to create functional/technical specifications.
15+ years experience in unit, functional, integration, regression, and system testing, documenting QA defined deliverables e.g. test plans, test
scenarios, and test cases including manual testing in large DW/ETL environments.
15+ years experience in production support.

COMPUTER SKILLS
MS SQL Server 6.5-2008, MS Transaction Server, SQL Server Business Intelligence Development and Management Studio, Transact-SQL, DTS, SSIS,
Business Objects 6.0/XI R1/R2/R3, Enterprise Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, Designer, CMC, InfoView, SDLC, MS Access, MS Office, MS Excel, MS
Project, XML, HTML, VB, ASP, PVCS, Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, Jira
Operating Systems : Windows 3.x/95/98/2000/NT/XP, Windows Server NT/2000/2003, DOS
Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Boosted project efficiency by coordinating cross-functional teams and providing business analysis for Reinvestment Business Management
Dashboard at Morgan Stanley.
Trained, coached and mentored staff at Morgan Stanley and Equinox.
Built business intelligence team of highly intelligent and dedicated professionals at Equinox; hired, supervised, monitored activity and goals
achievement.
Strengthened Equinox business by leading implementation of multiple acquisition data conversion projects which brought over 25000 new
members to Equinox.
Conceptualized and designed Enterprise Reporting System for Equinox which brought reporting to the next level, allowed management to make
operational decisions very quickly at any point of time, improved operational effectiveness as well as allowed planning for the future.
Heavily involvement in building EDW for Equinox allowed keeping all reporting data as single point of true.
Designed support strategy for Equinox that clearly defined workflow between clients and Enterprise Data support team to ensure superior customer
service.
MS SQL Server DTS to SSIS upgrade from 2000 to 2005 allowed to eliminate MS SQL 2000 servers and resolve potential support issues and
decreased maintenance cost at Equinox and UBS.
Led a 5-person development team through all phases of Piper Jaffray acquisition project and conversion of Municipal Security Group from Wealth
Management to Investment Bank at UBS which allowed to continue seamless business for trading desk from day 1 new companies became UBS
entities.
Created and upgraded reporting system at UBS which lead to 10% improvement of trading desk performance.
Independently designed and developed Single Point of Entry, Risk Management System and Marine Policy Administration System which eliminated
multiple entry of policies information into different Firemans Fund Systems and increased performance of data entry personal by 40%.
Served as lead on recovery project after September11, 2001 disaster at Firemans Fund Insurance Company.
Always completed all projects on-time and on or under budget.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Morgan Stanley, NYC, NY Nov 2013 - April 2014
Business Intelligence Lead Consultant
Reinvestment is the business development effort to convert Stock Plan Participants to Retail Clients. Business Management Dashboard (BMD)
provides enhanced reinvestment reporting which enable Home Office, Complex and Branch management teams to access the value of reinvestment
by corporate clients, directors and partners and provide them with metrics on which to base reinvestment allocations.
Interacted with business stakeholders, subject matter experts in gathering business requirements.
Coordinated cross-functional meetings with various functional areas, maintained detailed project documentation including meeting minutes,
action items, and issues lists.
Clarified and analyzed business requirements, participated in the creation of BRD, created FRD and High-level Design documents.
Designed logical and physical data models involving star schema, created data mapping.
Profiled and analyzed data, created T-SQL script for using as a source in ETL load.
Developed script, stored procedures and functions in SQL Server 2008 to facilitate the functionality of BMD user interface.
Modified Business Objects Universe and existing reinvestment report for additional KPIs.

Equinox Fitness, NYC, NY Sep 2008 - Nov 2013
Business Intelligence and Architecture Team Lead (April 2013 November 2013)
Business Intelligence Architect (April 2012 March 2013)
Senior DB/BI Engineer (September 2008 March 2012)
Equinox Fitness is a luxury fitness company which operates Equinox Fitness, PURE Yoga, Blink Fitness and Soul Cycle across the US, UK and Canada.
Operations include multiple lines of business: Membership, Personal Training, Pilates, Group Fitness, Spa, and Shop.
Examined and evaluated reporting requirements for various businesses using functional and technical knowledge to develop reporting solution.
Developed and implemented Business Objects (BO) architecture and frameworks that meet the needs of business intelligence, decision support,
and reporting systems; worked with business management to ensure BO are appropriately utilized for all management and ad-hoc reporting.
Balanced short-term business needs and deliverables with long term design implications.
Designed BO Universes (flexible, functional, business perspectives of data), populated universe structures, linked universes together,
created derived tables, added objects to the repository, manipulated objects, created classes, objects, cardinalities, contexts, joins and
aliases.
Managed BO CMS, File Repository Server (FRS), and the Event Server assuring report creation when appropriate files are created.
Administered Enterprise BO, designed and managed security authentication of users and groups for the reporting environment, managed BO
Enterprise content.
Created various reports using BO full client, Web Intelligence and Crystal reports, created scheduled publications for the distribution to the users.
Created ad hoc reports, exported them to Excel, created pivot tables in Excel.
Verified, imported/exported universes and reports between different development, testing and production environments.
Supervised BO Developers, assigned and reviewed work, provided guidance and training to assigned staff and all levels of business users.
Analyzed requirements provided by various business users, translated business requirements into technical specifications.
Profiled and analyzed data, created script in SQL Server 2008/2005 for using in source qualifier for Enterprise DW (EDW) load of different data
marts
Coded, tested and debugged numerous data processes, developed stored procedures, functions, triggers, views utilizing T-SQL, created Indexes for
improving performance.
Designed, developed, tested and implemented data conversion processes to legacy systems and EDW according to Equinox business requirements.
Designed and developed data verification and testing methods for EDW to ensure compliance with specifications.
Produced test documents which captures the test conditions, scripts, expected/actual results. Performed unit and system integrated testing.
Designed, developed, deployed and monitored DTS and SSIS packages including upgrading DTS to SSIS.
Provided guidance for users and production support for daily user activities.

UBS Investment Bank, Jersey City, NJ and UBS Financial Services, NYC, NY May 2005 - July 2008
Senior Associate in FIRC IT - Municipal Securities Group (MSG).
Provided maintenance and production support to the clients of web-based vendors software START for short-term trading (ARC and APS).
Developed, debugged, and tested interfaces to START, tested new releases, communicated with vendors.
Created automatic electronic data feed processes between START and underline systems, designed on-line and ad-hoc reports on clients request.
Developed, tested and implemented data conversion to START for the companies merged with UBS.
Worked on COE (cash management order entry project), analyzed vendors backend processes, coded, tested and implemented the process to
interface with the vendors codes.
Developed, tested and implemented data conversion for the integration of Municipal Security Group from Wealth Management to Investment Bank
Coded, tested and debugged numerous data processes including data conversion and reconciliation, monitored scheduled jobs, troubleshoot and
fixed complex production problems, involved in security administration.
Created database structures, developed and optimized stored procedures, triggers and functions to handle complex business rules, altered
database structures to create complete database replication between databases on multiple MS SQL Servers.
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Designed, developed, deployed and monitored DTS and SSIS packages for exporting, importing, and converting data including upgrading DTS to SSIS.
Configured SQL Server Agent, DB Mail and operators for alerts and notification emails and paging from scheduled jobs
Created batch processes, complex queries, on-line and ad-hoc Webi and Crystal reports.
Provided guidance for users and production support for daily user activities.
Designed user-friendly and technical documents.

Firemans Fund Insurance Company, NYC, NY March 1999 - May 2005
Senior System Engineer
Designed, developed, debugged and tested a web-based single point of entry application (SPOE), Concentration 2000 Risk Management System,
Marine Policy Administration System.
Gathered business requirements, developed technical requirements, created project plans, implemented technical specifications.
Designed, coded, tested, debugged, and enchanted applications.
Analyzed and developed logical and physical database design.
Created database structures, developed triggers, stored procedures and functions, developed and monitored DTS, batch processes and ad-hoc
reports.
Developed, debugged and tested manual data conversion process from MS SQL Server 6.5 to MS SQL Server 7.0 according to the new structure of
the database.
Maintained Database, monitored server activity, troubleshoot and fixed complex production problems.
Created Business Objects Universes and Business Objects and Crystal reports.
Created test cases, unit and SIT testing, provided guidance for users.
Production support.

Sandata Technologies (Health Card Information Systems, Inc) , Port Washington, NY March 1998 - October 1998
Programmer/Analyst
Data conversion of numerous tables from FoxPro to Oracle and MS Access processing them according to the industry standard.
Created database structures, developed stored procedures, functions and triggers. Performance tuning of SQL statements.

TRAINING Municipal Bond School (The Municipal Bond Club of NY), Property Casualty Principles (BISYS); Inland Marine Insurance (eMind);
Requirements Gathering and Writing; Requirements Management Overview; Privacy and Information Security Awareness; IT Information
Security; Privacy laws and practices; Excel LookUp and Reference Functions; Excel Logical Functions; Excel Working with Lists and Tables.