EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• 11+ years of total IT experience in Retail, Media & Entertainment and Banking.
• Having sound knowledge in implementation and consultancy of BUSINESS OBJECTS 5.x,6.x, XI R2, XI 3.x. and BI 4.x
• Effectively administered and supervised the Business Objects (SAP BI) environment by monitoring/granting permissions and rights to users for viewing, creating and publishing reports.
• Knowledge about Business Objects Security Model and experience with Business Objects Security Implementation (Row level, Object level, Command level in both 6.5 and XIR 2).
• Expertise in working with all the modules of Business Objects (All Versions including BI 4.1) like Supervisor, Designer, BO User, Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, CMC, CMS, BO SDK and Crystal Reports.
• Having sound knowledge in implementing aggregates, linked universes, drill - through and dynamic modules.
• Experience in Training & Supporting end-user reporting needs using Business Objects.
• Extensively worked on Business Objects Designer, Business Intelligence Launch Pad, Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, BOSDK, Xcelsius, and Dashboard Manager and possess good knowledge in Business Objects XI R2, XI 3.x, SAP BI 4.x and Crystal Reports.
• Experience in interacting with business users to analyze the business process and gathering requirements and transforming requirements into screens, documenting and rolling out the deliverable.
• Experience in developing applications using ASP.NET, Visual Basic, C#.Net, MS SQL Server, Oracle 9i/10g,SQL,PL/SQL,Teradata and MySQL.
• Good at client interactions and gathering the useful information during the study and design phase of the projects.
• Looked after at all types of technical support for the range of Business Objects Products.
• BO SAP Integration Kit

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP: Business Objects 6.5,XI R2,XIR3.x and BI 4.x

Database: SAP HANA, MSSQL, Oracle 9i/10g,Sybase,Teradata 13,MySQL

OS: Windows, Unix, Linux

Others: VB,VB.Net, C#.Net,ASP.Net

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Red Hat Certified Engineer

Confidential, Rhode Island

Responsibilities:

• Installation & Implementation of BI 4.x
• Migrated BO XI R3.1 to BI 4.x
• Re-defining full security model across all applications using custom access levels & Documentation
• Created Macro to delete list of inactive users from the BO XI R3.1
• Created Macro to add list of users to group.
• Created Macro to check the sync of DEV, QA and Prod reports CUID.
• Implemented infoburst tool for schedule the reports.
• Develop monitoring & performance reports for audit through Sherlock universe
• Migrating report using Promotion Management tool
• Maintained & managed different versions of the same report using Version Management tool
• Optimizing the report and Universe performance.
• Support and maintaining the BO Universe and report issues.
• Involving day to day admin activities like adding new user, modifying user access, monitoring schedule report and BO servers etc.
• Monitoring the folders and report CUID sync for Dev, QA and Prod systems.
• Expertise in Resolving the Daily issues in the Daily Production Environment
• Develop BOSDK tool

BO Lead

Technologies: BOXI R3.1 & BI 4.1, SAP HANA, Oracle and MSSQL.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring Business Objects XI R3.1
• Importing existing Reports, Universes and existing users and groups
• Designing and implementing new security model on BO XIR3.1, Comprehensive testing of the migrated reports and platform
• Assisted in re-designing the existing Universes by tuning them making them more scalable
• Redesigned some complex report in to XI R3.1,Report conversion and modifications as required
• Highlighting and demonstrating the new features of Business Objects XI R3.1
• Developed monitoring & performance reports for audit
• Developed BOSDK tool
• Installation & implementation of BO Lifecycle Manager for BO change management and Business Object Mobile technology
• Re-defined full security model across all applications using custom access levels & Documentation
• Mapping end-to-end BO architecture including technical infrastructure & application components

Tech Lead

Technologies: BOXI R2 & R3.1, Teradata, DB2, Oracle and MSSQL.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assessed current Business Objects 6.5 configuration
• Installed and configured Business Objects XI Release 2
• Imported existing users, groups and universes
• Imported existing full client and Web Intelligence Reports
• Imported Inbox, Personal and Corporate categories and documents
• Designed and implemented new security model
• Configured SSO using Win AD
• Sized the BO XI R2 infrastructure based on the capacity planning assessment based on the expected usage of the BOE system.
• Comprehensive testing of the migrated reports and platform
• Assisted in re-designing the existing Universes by tuning them making them more scalable
• Redesigned some complex report in to XI R2
• Report conversion and modifications as required
• Highlighting and demonstrating the new features of Business Objects XI R2/R3
• Administrating and Security training.
• Data masking into the existing universe credit card, debit card and card number objects and assign object level privileges.
• Developing new core banking reports using Webi and Deski (Power users).

Project Leader

Confidential

Technologies: BO 6.5, XIR2, Sybase, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and managed Universes in Business Objects Designer for generating the pay roll reports for sales, marketing reports for marketing group users.
• Interacted with customer support regularly, in order to generate the reports required and to resolve the existing issues.
• Created Universes by defining connections and retrieving data from database.
• Created reports like Residential and Business Customers reports, Service charge validation Reports, Monthly paper bill Reports
• Created New Classes and User Objects in designing the universes.
• Created and modified the Crystal Reports for various financial groups using the Universe as a main data provider.
• Imported/ Exported the Universes from/ to repository to make them accessible to end-users.
• Defined Aliases and Contexts to resolve loops in the universes.
• Created User Conditions and Filters to improve report generation & readability of report and displayed the summary of data by creating Charts.
• Defined Hierarchies in Universe to provide the users with Drill down option in reports and Predefined Conditions to use in Business Objects.
• Extensively used Calculations, Variables, Break Points, Drill, and Slice and Dice for generating reports.
• Involved in creating various reports by extracting data from Data Marts
• Created reports using Oracle Databases and Personal Data File Providers.
• Monitored and solved the issues encountered in Universes and reports while migration and tested before moving to production.

Sr. BO Consultant

Technologies: Business Objects XI R2, MSSQL, Oracle 10g

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved client interaction for project initiation and getting knowledge Transition from client technical team
• Involved in gathering, analysing and documenting business requirements, functional Requirements and technical specifications about the Business Objects Universes and Reports
• Generated reports in Web Intelligence module using universe as the main Data Provider
• Created complex reports using the universe as the data providers and synchronized the Data by linking the common objects. Created complicated reports with multiple query, formula based and well-formatted Reports according to user requirements

Team Lead

Technologies: Business Objects, SQL Server, Oracle 10g

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design and development of Business Objects Universes that suits standards and ad-hoc reporting requirements of the Business Objects users.
• Involved in the troubleshooting of universe schema with loops, chasm, fan trap and cardinality problems.
• Created reports for various portfolios using various data providers like free hand SQL, stored procedures and personal data files.
• Created different reports using Business Objects functionalities like slice and dice, drill down, alerts, ranking, sorting, breaks etc..