Hi, I’m
Vik Katikaneni
Project Management Consultant
Sydney,NSW
Summary
Vik Katikaneni has over 20 years of experience in a wide range of Information Technology roles including Project Management, Solution Manager, Service Delivery, Service Management, Data & Analytics, Enterprise DWH Technical Lead, Solution Architect/Designer, Programmer Analyst and as a consultant in a wide range of industry clients. Vik holds a master’s degree of Information Systems from ACU (Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia).
Vik is pragmatic and results-oriented with widespread knowledge of enterprise systems and broad experience in IT Project Management & Service Delivery including management, design, development and deployment of technology solutions. Vik is also an expansive thinker, with successful track record in implementing new business concepts, delivering innovative business solutions, and facilitating transitioning operations. Vik with diverse background in technology includes extensive knowledge of Cloud Technologies, Big Data, DWH/BI/Analytics, Cyber Security, enterprise content management systems, network infrastructure, databases, web technology, APIs and the seamless integration of emerging technologies in large user communities. Vik has been in involving in the Data & BI Analytics, Data warehouse, Big Data, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security & Cloud technologies area. Vik is an Australian Citizen with AGSVA – NV2 security clearance holder & has working experience in Australia and the USA.
Overview
19
years of professional experience
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Datacom
Project Delivery Manager
Current
Job overview
- Department of Health's Analytics and Reporting Branch are focused on delivering projects with greater efficiency and throughput
- There are several business projects in the pipeline as well as technology upgrades to ensure the EDW applications remain in support and compatible with other technology that's being upgraded within ITD
- As a Project Delivery Manager in the EDW Operations Team, I contributed to improve customer satisfaction, removed obstacles and delivered Data & Analytics technology projects
- I've successfully delivered AWS /GCP Cloud connectivity & migration projects, EDW Application upgrade projects and other minor projects.
Department of Defence
Solution Manager/Architect – Defence Legal
Job overview
- Defence Legal Division is responsible for the provision of legal advice and other legal services to the Australian Defence Force, the Minister of Defence and the Department of Defence.The Defence Legal Cognos Reporting System (DEFLEGAL) contains a Data warehouse/Cubes of all relevant legal services records available for reporting and querying
- DEFLEGAL needed major upgrade of the whole Data warehouse including IBM Cognos Reporting
- As a part of Senior Consultant, I'm whole and sole responsible for delivering design & developing Data warehouse & BI deliverables.
Telstra
Solution Manager/Senior Project Specialist – Defence Engagement JP 2047
Job overview
- Telstra – JP2047 Australian Defence Program, is a multi-phased project to maintain and improve the Defence networked communications infrastructure
- Within the current Phase 3, the science and technology (S&T) community at DST group is supporting the Australian Defence Forces (ADF) in the major upgrade of the Defence Terrestrial Communications Network to provide a modern, integrated multimedia transmissions and switching capability to Defence
- As a part of Engineering Team Senior Project Specialist, I'm responsible for delivering design & developing Data warehouse & BI deliverables.
Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC)
Acting Manager/BI Solution Designer/Team Lead/Scrum Master
Job overview
- The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) is an independent Australian government body that acts as Australia's corporate regulator
- ASIC's role is to enforce and regulate company and financial services laws to protect Australian consumers, investors and creditors
- As a BI Solution Designer/Team Lead is responsible for managing a development team of 10 consultants and a project team
- The role encompassed providing design for the BI projects, Development, mentoring to all BI staff and managing project efforts.
Defence Housing Australia (DHA)
EDW/BI Lead
Job overview
- Defence Housing Australia (DHA) provides a complete housing solution, offering property management and relocation services for members of the Australian Defence Force and their families
- Lease Expiry Process project involved in developing Cube and Reports
- Lease Expiry Cube will pull in and count all Lease Expiry Processes
- The other projects I've involved includes Tenancy, Valuations and Work Orders
- Successfully implemented IBM Cognos reports and dashboards on the KPI's for SLA from SM7
Republic Services Inc.
Senior BI Consultant
01.2007 - 01.2009
Job overview
- Republic Services, Inc
- Is a leading provider of services in the domestic, non-hazardous solid waste industry
- Sales Management and Revenue Tool (SMART) project involved in developing managed reports like, revenue Reconciliation, Revenue Comparison and Revenue Rolling Trend that will illustrate the changes in revenue from the hauling applications and balance these changes to the numbers reported in the general ledger
- The project also involved the integration of the existing reports from Republic Services, Inc
- To Allied Waste Industries, Inc
- Worked as a Senior Consultant where 50% time was spent developing and other 50% with support issues.
Alcon Labs
Senior BI Consultant
01.2006 - 01.2007
Job overview
- Alcon Laboratories, Inc
- Core business is centered on three key divisions – Surgical, Pharmaceutical and Consumer Vision Care
- This project was mainly for migration of Cognos 7 series reports into Cognos 8 series by using different utilities suggested by Cognos
- The Project involved analyzing the functional area of the company to start with as per Cognos methodology editor edition
- The functional areas i.e
- Supply Chain, Transportation, Customer Service, Manufacturing, Finance, involve complex reports to deal with business operations
- Troubles shoot the old reports, migration and developing those into new reports in Cognos 8.
Merrill Lynch
Cognos Reportnet Consultant
01.2005 - 01.2006
Job overview
- The project was developed for Plan Sponsors and Plan Administrators to give them in-depth analysis of the transactions of the customer stock options and account information
- The Data warehouse provided comprehensive record keeping and administrative services for Financial Advisor support and decision-making.
Education
Australian Catholic UniversitySydney, Australia
Master of Information Systems
01.2001 - 05.2002
Uniworld Business CollegeSydney, Australia
Diploma of Records Management IT
01.2000 - 01.2001
Skills
Project Delivery & Management
Service Operations, Service Delivery Management
Business Process Management
Implementation, Delivery, Team Leading & Team management and mentoring
Enterprise Architecture Tools (including System Architect & CA ERwin)
Enterprise Architecture Development (TOGAF & Oakton methodologies)
Enterprise content management (Objective & SharePoint)
Web technologies – web content management, search technology, collaboration, portal technology
Big Data, Data Engineer and Data Science trained professional
Technology evaluation and selection
Vendor relationship management & Customer relationship management
Software Development (DWH) – ETL (Inormatica, SAS DI, SSIS, Data Stage) & BI (IBM Cognos, Qlik)
Innovative projects rollout using both The Waterfall & AGILE methods
Big Data, Data Engineer and Data Science trained professional
Certified ITIL, MSP, PSM SAFe 5 Agilist
Timeline
Senior BI Consultant
Republic Services Inc.
01.2007 - 01.2009
Senior BI Consultant
Alcon Labs
01.2006 - 01.2007
Cognos Reportnet Consultant
Merrill Lynch
01.2005 - 01.2006
Australian Catholic University
Master of Information Systems
01.2001 - 05.2002
Uniworld Business College
Diploma of Records Management IT
01.2000 - 01.2001
Project Delivery Manager
Datacom
Current
Solution Manager/Architect – Defence Legal
Department of Defence
Solution Manager/Senior Project Specialist – Defence Engagement JP 2047
Telstra
Acting Manager/BI Solution Designer/Team Lead/Scrum Master
Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC)
EDW/BI Lead
Defence Housing Australia (DHA)