SUMMARY

• More than 15 years of broad technology experience delivering high quality, customer focused business solutions. 10 years of experience with reporting and 9 years of extensive knowledge of SAP BusinessObjects additionally 6 months of Tableau development experience.
• Disciplined professional with proven success in cutting costs and meeting tight deadlines.
• Lead experience on a team of developers working to develop a variety of reports, universes and BODS jobs.
• Over 5 years of experience Developing and Administering SAP BOBJ.
• Over 5 years of SQL development experience on MS SQL 2000/2005/2008 and Oracle 9i/10g and over two years of experience on DB2 and Netezza.
• Experience in developing advanced Webi reports, Crystal reports, basic BEx queries, dashboards using Lumira.
• Initial configuration, designing, developing scheduling, publishing and updating reports and universes.
• Scheduling and administering BI processes and activities.
• Conducted dashboard design sessions, created and managed complex dashboards using Xcelsius and Dashboards 4.0.
• Creating complex WEBi documents using WEBi tools.
• Business Intelligence data retrieval from DB2, Netezza, Oracle, MS SQL server, SAP BW 7.3 or flat files.
• Excellent skills in developing Dataflow Diagram and UML diagrams such as Use Case diagram, Activity diagrams, Class diagrams and Sequence diagrams.
• Two years’ experience working with BO Data Services and completed SAP BODS course.
• Conducted requirements gathering, design, construction and implementation of a reporting environment, including modeling, integration/consolidation of multiple data sources, queries, reports, and perform complex data analysis.
• Created Functional Design Documents, Technical Design Documents, Peer Review Documents, QA instructions, Unit Testing Documents.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• BO 4.0/4.1
• BO XI R2/3.0
• BEx Analyzer
• BEx Web Application Designer
• Web Intelligence
• InfoView/Launch Pad
• BO Data Services
• Crystal Reports 2008
• Xcelsius/Dashboard
• SAP XI 3.0
• Query Designer
• Lumira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Jackson, MS

BOBJ Developer

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of BA for requirements gathering and then a team of developers to fulfill the requirements.
• Conducted requirements gathering sessions with executives, business analysts and Subject Matter Experts.
• Involved in all phases of installation and configuration, testing, deployment and support of BusinessObjects implementation
• Responsible for overall front-end BI data and technical architecture in response to functional specifications of initial Go-Live anticipated future needs.
• Designed and implemented universes for Webi and Dashboard data feeds.
• Used existing BEx queries as data sources for new and improved WEBi reports.
• Designed, created and maintained multiple complex dashboards.
• Performance tuning by improved universe design and better reports design.
• Created and managed BOBJ users and BOBJ roles.
• Installed configured the BI4.0 in clustered environment and performed sizing according to SAP standards.
• Managed SAP Business Objects backups using Import Wizard and Life Cycle Management Tool
• Maintained and managed the schedules.
• Implemented and managed the Security Setup for SAP BO contents and its various Applications.
• Enabled the Audit Events.
• Helped with configuration clusters of BO servers.
• Set the Row Level Restrictions to the 25 different departmental accounts based on their profile.
• Set the User Access rights (Control & permissions) using the Central Management Console.

Confidential

BOBJ Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of installation and configuration, testing, deployment and support of BusinessObjects implementation.
• Involved in requirements gathering and preparation of technical specification documents.
• Interacted with users to develop requirements for the development of Reports
• Defined BO classes, Objects, Cardinalities, Contexts, Joins and Aliases in Universes. Also resolved loops using table Aliases and Contexts.
• Involved in designing Universe and migrating existing adhoc ‘Crystal Reports Explorer 11’ to WebI
• Created BO Relational Universe using SQL Server 2000 as well as automated universe creation using Data Federator.
• Improved reporting performance by optimizing Array Fetch Size for the Universe connectivity, using Aggregate aware functions, Index aware and merged joins.
• Developed Analytical Reports with multiple parameters.
• Designed advanced Web intelligence report by applying data restrictions, combined queries and filters.
• Enabled dynamic report linking by passing Variables (prompts) between reports.
• Presented business information using easy to read charts, tables and other visual presentation of complex data.
• Projected data from multiple universes by synchronizing with merged dimension.
• Exported documents to InfoView folders and shared them with users.
• Implemented security using custom authorization objects.
• Created Company calendar and scheduled reports to various groups and users
• Created Dashboard on the top of WebI and Crystal reports using Live Office.
• Created Training Documents and provided extensive training to end users to run, modify and customize reports and provided support.

Confidential - Houston, TX

BOBJ Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed an Initial Study of the Current Reporting application, to finalize the data elements required for reporting.
• Involved in designing and developing of complete reporting application.
• Involved in taking requirements and writing specifications for designing the Universes to get the data from the Data Warehouse.
• Created and tested classes and objects to organize the universe.
• Involved in OLTP extractions from SAP R/3 utilizing Lo Cockpit, CO-PA, flat file and standard SAP data extractors and creating generic data extractors.
• Created and linked multiple queries for some complex reports. Prepared the Functional Specification and interacting with user and getting the requirement
• Checked the integrity of the Universes for existence of loops and resolved them by using aliases and contexts. Created database connections to connect the universes to different data sources.
• Exported Universe to the repository so that users can create Adhoc reports.
• Modified the Universes, add additional Dimension, Detail, and Measure Objects according to the requirements.
• Formatting the Reports to the Users requirements using Multi-Dimensional Analysis like Slice and Dice and Drill Down functions.
• Used Aggregate Awareness feature of Business Objects for the Optimization and Performance tuning of Universes.
• Created Master data Info Sources for uploading attributes, texts, and hierarchies from SAP R/3 system.
• Created BEx Reports using Reporting variables like Characteristics, Text, and Formulas.
• Applied templates for standardized formatting of multiple reports using Crystal Reports.
• Worked on Hierarchy Levels and Developed hierarchies to support drill down reports.
• Performed unit testing, system integration testing, and user acceptance testing of Crystal Reports at various levels.
• Implemented Row level and Object Level security as per the user requirement.