Saptarshi Dasgupta

213-432-8072 linkedin.com/in/saptarshi-dasgupta-04221b34 Toronto,Canada saptarshi.dsg@outlook.com

SUMMARY
Saptarshi has 11 years of Information technology experience in Analysis, Design, Development and Testing of
Master Data Management(MDM) and Enterprise Data Management Applications. He demonstrates technical
capabilities in large MDM Programs for various industries for Insurance, Retail, Healthcare, Health Insurance and
Travel and Hospitality. He possesses good theoretical knowledge in Cloud Platform like AWS, SNOWFLAKE. He is
working as a Technical lead and Sr. Developer in MDM projects for the last 5 years

SKILLS
• Presently associated with Cognizant Technology Solutions Canada.
• Worked in roles as Tech Lead, Sr. MDM Developer and Data Steward in many projects. Flexible and able
to work effectively in a Team or as an individual contributor and capable of delivering tasks within stringent
timelines. Skilled at translating business requirements into viable, scalable solutions.
• Experienced in developing Enterprise Data and Master Data applications based on IBM Infosphere Master
Data Service Standard Edition (formerly IBM Initiate Master Data Service), Infosphere Master Data
Management Advanced Edition and Java technologies including Java, Spring, Web Services and XML.

• Expertise in various scripting languages including SQL, Unix Shell Script, and Python.

• He has a decent knowledge of Cloud Technologies and have implemented MDM on IBM managed Cloud
Environment.
• Extensively worked in end-to-end development of various MDM applications from requirement analysis to
system study, designing, coding, testing, de-bugging, documentation and implementation, Production
support and Production Deployment.
• Responsible for project status reporting, client communication and coordination for timely completion and
quality maintenance of project.
• Experience in all phases of the SDLC and Agile SCRUM methodologies right from requirements gathering
till post implementation support.
• Highly organized, performance-oriented, and customer-driven. Seamlessly manages workloads and meets
challenging deadlines and quality benchmarks.
• Ability to learn and lead new Technologies and tools quickly and mentor fellow associates and team
members.
• Possess excellent interpersonal, communication, problem solving, strong analytical skills and always
seeking out ways to improve code and designs.

EDUCATION
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering at West Bengal University of Technology (2010).

CERTIFICATE
• IBM Certified Developer InfoSphere MDM Server V9.0
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C02)
• AWS Certified Cloud Practioner
• SnowFlake SNOW Pro Core Certified
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Cognizant Dec 2014 - Sep 2021

MDM Onsite Lead – Sr. Consultant Toronto, Canada

Technologies: IBM Infosphere MDM Advanced Edition v11.6, DB2 v11, Websphere Application Server v8.5,
Informatica Power Center for ETL, Mule Soft, IIB, Unix BASH Scripting, Rally, GITHub, Jenkins, Jmeter
Team size: 15

PROJECT – Customer and BI MDM:

Client is an American insurer group of automobiles, homes and small businesses and provides other insurance and
financial services products. Client has historically been a product centric organization. Customer information is
captured and stored in multiple systems, resulting in the inability to easily identify the same customer across all
systems and even within some systems. To enable more meaningful and profitable relationships with customers,
Client has implemented a Master Data Management (MDM) solution to support a 360-degree view of the customer
by creating an authoritative hub for managing and distributing customer data. The core purpose of creating an MDM
Customer Hub is to become a customer centric organization. Current MDM has around 23M customers on Premise
and 1.5M data on Cloud for Commercial line of business.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in business meeting with Client, analyze the requirement and design, and implement the
changes.
• Responsible for coordinating with the Offshore team and review their assigned work products.
• Implemented an end-to-end Customer MDM project On premise
▪ Created golden data with IBM MDM; tailored and extended out of the box MDM data model to suit
the business needs; deployed with OSGi and WAR; customized with Data additions, Data
extensions, Behavior extensions, implemented Party and Account data model.
▪ Customized PME algorithm to accept additional attributes (Driving License, custom Address,
Phone types) to fit business requirements.
▪ Tuned OOTB PME algorithm, set the Auto link and Clerical Review thread-holds for MDM Hub to
minimize False positive and negatives, Sample Pair Analysis with Data stewards
▪ Created business proxies and customized OOTB External rule classes to tailor fit customer
requirements for data load.
▪ Created business services to fetch real time data from MDM including Client’s internal portals
(Customer Self Service, ServiceOps, Quote, Claims Center etc.) and external systems (Payment
US, Quicken Loan etc.)
▪ Implemented 3rd Party Pitney Bowes Address Standardization tool for real time address cleansing
during data load.
▪ Implemented OTS to improve OOTB Inquiry Service SQL performance.
▪ Planned and Integrated MDM with 10+ Policy systems and multiple data enrichment sources via
NRT (MQ), Batch (Informatica ETL) and Real time (MuleSoft) feed.
▪ Integrated MDM via Pub-Sub model with consumers and source systems, feeding the MDM
generated Unique Enterprise Customer Number to various system - Customer Self Service,
Service Ops, Customer DataMart, Policy Source systems, Enterprise ODS, Payment US Wallet
for Billing etc.

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• Implemented an end-to-end Commercial Customer MDM project in IBM Cloud
▪ Created golden data with IBM MDM; tailored and extended out of the box MDM data model to suit
the business needs; deployed with OSGi and WAR; implemented Party and Account data model.
▪ Tuned PME algorithm, set the thread-holds for MDM Hub, Sample Pair Analysis with Data
stewards
▪ Created business proxies and customized External rule classes to tailor fit customer
requirements.
▪ Created Design document and collaborated with ETL team to complete Full load and set up batch
incremental loads for the MDM hub.

• Implemented MDM Upgrade from v11.0 to v11.6.0.9

▪ Implemented version Upgrade on Developer Workstation and created process document for
Websphere Admin and DBA teams to apply in Test and Prod regions.
▪ Worked with Client’s Infra team and IBM support to identify and fix issues as part of the upgrade.
▪ Migrated all code and scheduled jobs to new Instance once Prod upgrade is completed.
▪ Made sure that there is minimum downtime during the cutover phase.

• Production Run and Maintenance

▪ Responsible for addressing any Production issues identified/reported by external and monitoring
teams based on the criticality and priority.
▪ Involved in handling Incident via ServiceNow and Defect management process HP ALM.
▪ Analyze and fix the Data Issues raised by QA, End Users and Customers.
▪ Fix MDM data issues and data cleansing via SQL programming.
▪ Coordinate with various other vendors including IBM for Infrastructure related issues for on
Premise MDM solution as well as IBM Managed Servers in Cloud.

Cognizant July 2014 - Oct 2014

MDM Offshore Lead – Associate Kolkata, India

Technologies: IBM Infosphere MDM Standard Edition v11.0, Oracle 11g, Websphere Application Server v8.
Team size: 5

PROJECT – MDM Upgrade:

Client, is a Canadian crown-owned telecommunications firm and provides wireline and wireless communications
services, including landline telephone, mobile networks, broadband internet (including copper DSL, fiber to the home,
and wireless broadband), IPTV, and security services.

Client wanted to upgrade their existing Customer MDM Hub with Person data from Initiate v 9.0 to IBM Infosphere
MDM v11.0 Standard Edition. Existing Hub had a single Member Type (Person) with a single entity (id) and
approximate data volume for Member entities is 1.2 million. The upgrade was mostly an "as is" functionality, with no
change in attributes. The upgrade was performed in a way that would minimize downtime and reduce risk. Client
had used their existing Oracle Database version 11g. Environments that were upgraded as part of this assignment
were - DEV, QA/Pre-Prod and finally the PROD Environments.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• As the offshore MDM Lead/coordinator Saptarshi’ s primary responsibilities were to gather the MDM
Hub Upgrade scope, assess the upgrade process and create the project plan, and timeline.

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• Planned and executed the MDM Hub Upgrade from IBM Initiate v9.0to IBM MDM v11.0 Standard
Edition on DEV, QA and PROD environments.
• Installed the new version of IBM MDM on Prod and QA/Pre-Prod environment in the Websphere
clustered Environment.
• Migrated Code from v9.0 Workspace to v11.0 workspace and made required changes to make it
compatible to run in MDM v11.0.
• Carried out validation of Initiate Upgrade Development and Testing activities by QA team.
• As additional deliverable he was involved in creating documents during installation of MDM and share
with stakeholders. He also provided knowledge transfer and technical assistance to the Client
stakeholders with the new IBM Product.

Cognizant March 2014 - June 2014

MDM Developer – Associate Melbourne, Australia

Technologies: IBM Infosphere MDM Standard Edition v11.0, Oracle 11g, Websphere Application Server v8,
JAVA, PL/SQL
Team size: 4

PROJECT – Customer MDM :

Client is a chain of consumer electronics retail stores in Australia and New Zealand. Client stores are generally large
warehouse type stores and rely on volume in sales, often negotiating sale of products for much less than the
recommended retail prices.

Client required a Customer MDM HUB for effectively managing their customers and uses the same for Analytics
and proper Marketing. The Customer hub would like to seek an effective solution to manage their customers.
The customers are present across disparate systems and in silos and there is a need to consolidate them to
increase efficiency, accuracy, lower total cost of ownership, proper identification of customers and enhance
delivery capability and Marketing.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• As the IBM MDM Developer at Onsite, Saptarshi’ s responsibilities were to conceptualize and design
the IBM SE member model and algorithm configuration.
• Performed multiple iterations of Weight and Algorithm tuning via BXM and Sample pair analysis to
meet client requirements.
• Developed a scalable Application Layer counterpart based on JAVA and PL/SQL for Onetime load
and daily incremental loads in the Customer Hub and write UNIX scripts to invoke the data load
services.
• Executed Unit Testing of different components before handing over to QA.
• Worked with Client Stakeholders to provide inputs on Performance Testing, prepare and review
Technical & Process Documents related to the project.

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Cognizant Nov 2013 - Feb 2014

MDM Developer – Associate Kolkata, India

Technologies: IBM Infosphere Master Data Management SE v10.1 (Initiate), Microsoft SQL Server, JAVA, SQL,
Java Server Faces
Team size: 4

PROJECT – MDM Custom UI :

Client is a for-profit American managed and one of the largest health care company that markets and administers
health insurance in the United States and has business interests in Western Europe and Asia. Client has over 13
million customers in the United States, reported 2013 revenue of US$41.3 billion, and has over 52,000 employees.

Client required to upgrade the core IBM Initiate Hub engine from v7.5 to v10.1 since the current version was no
longer supported by IBM. The tool from IBM, Inspector used to replace Auditor in the newer version of software
was not as per Client requirements. Therefore, an alternative tool is required which will replace the existing Auditor
and will be compatible with the new version maintaining the sanctity of all the functionalities.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop a user-friendly Web UI for managing provider linkages and data corrections, compatible
with IBM’s Initiate MDM version 10.1.
• Front end was built using JSF and backend was Java and SQL.
• Executed Unit Testing of different components before handing over to QA.
• Communicate with onsite counterpart about the requirements and timelines of the projects.
• Worked with QA team to provide inputs on Performance Testing, prepare Technical & Process
Documents related to the project.

Cognizant Aug 2013 - Oct 2013

MDM Developer – Programmer Analyst Kolkata, India

Technologies: IBM Infosphere Master Data Management SE v10.1 (Initiate), Oracle Exadata
Team size: 4

PROJECT – MDM Upgrade:

Client is a British multinational hotels company headquartered in Denham, UK. It is the largest hotel company in the
world measured by rooms and has hotels across over 100 countries.

Client had an existing MDM database built upon Initiate v8.5 which they use for maintaining their customers’
information, marketing, and campaign purpose. Besides upgrading the version, the project also had the intention to
use Oracle Exadata and porting existing data to Exadata for IBM Initiate use only; upgrade with Zero/minimum
down time of application and with no impact to the clients served by the application, ascertain that the application
is providing same accuracy and performance as of its previous versions and ensure that the sources and
consuming systems are performing accurately as before in the new environment.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• As the IBM Initiate developer, Saptarshi’ s responsibilities were to work on Initiate member model
configurations.
• Upgraded the MDM HUB Database and Customize the Initiate Inspector (Initiate Data Steward UI),
Migrate Initiate codebase to new Version and deploy to Dev, QA regions.

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• Executed Unit Testing of different components before handing over to QA.
• Worked with QA team to provide inputs on Performance Testing, prepare Technical & Process
Documents related to the project.

Cognizant June 2012 - June 2013

MDM Developer – Programmer Analyst Kolkata, India

PROJECT – MDM DataStewardship.
Technologies: IBM Infosphere Master Data Management SE v9.2 (Initiate), Oracle 10g, Java, Shell script

Team size: 5

Cognizant July 2011 - May 2012

MDM Data Steward – Programmer Analyst Trainee Kolkata, India

PROJECT – MDM DataStewardship
Technologies: IBM Infosphere Master Data Management SE v9.5, Oracle 10g, Websphere Message Broker

Team size: 10

Cognizant Nov 2010 – May 2011

New Hire Trainee - Programmer Analyst Trainee Kolkata, India

Cognizant Academy trainings.

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