Sap Sr. Consultant Resume
SUMMARY
- Confidential (Business Intelligence) lead with overall 11+ years and about 5 years of Project management experience.
- Her expertise is on SAP Analytics tools with integration from various source systems.
- Performed five Full lifecycle implementations involving SAP BW/ BOBJ/ SAP HANA Enterprise and a migration project from SAP BW 7.3 to SAP BW on HANA leveraging LSA++ architecture and now SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics (CDS views) with FIORI applications. Having strong expertise in all three areas - backend data modelling & designing, data extraction & loading (ETL) and frontend reporting using Bex Designing, BOBJ tools, Tableau, Design Studio and Confidential .
- Have worked through the entire lifecycle of a project starting from attending workshops, creating
- WRICEFs, preparing proof of concept, Requirement Gathering, Blueprint, Design, Development, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, User Training and Post production support.
- Have played varied roles from Project or Team Lead, Techno-Functional lead, Architect to developer.
- Proven experience in managing and planning team tasks, deliverables and budget in both waterfall and hybrid agile models.
OVERALL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
- Extensive experience in providing Strategic Roadmap for implementing overall SAP solution for various clients to meet their organizational goals within budget.
- Expertise in conducting workshops with clients, gathering requirement, designing, developing, testing of reports, preparing cutover plan, and training end users with strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Efficient in understanding and providing solutions across various modules -Supply chain Planning ( including APO -
- Advanced Planning Optimizer, IBP), Sales and Distribution, Finance and Controlling, Material Management, Asset Management and Project Systems.
- Proven experience in managing various stakeholder expectations during a project cycle by providing timely status and raising risks and concerns.
- Managed team of 8-10 people in onshore- offshore model. Managing responsibilities included planning work schedules, assigning tasks, managing deliverables status by conducting daily or weekly meetings or by holding daily Scrum meetings within team and various Project and Organization leaders, controlling project budgets of up to $1M. Conducting year-end reviews and providing timely feedback to keep teams moral high, in both waterfall and hybrid-agile environments.
- Enthusiastic about learning new technologies in Analytics area to provide best possible solution for business needs.
- Natural team player that helps in providing smooth coordination between various Business users, functional and technical teams.
- Have extensive experience in Analytics including SAP HANA enterprise, SAP BW on HANA, SAP BW, SAP BOBJ, SAP S/4HANA
- Embedded Analytics, Informatica and dashboarding tools like Tableau.
- Extensive experience in preparing and performing various cutover and change management activities like migrating transports (keeping in mind dependencies on source system transports) and managing Change Requests and defects.
- Successfully handled multi-vendor Analytics projects, keeping team morale high from all ends.
- Efficiently handled onshore-offshore team of size 4-6 members with great coordination, on time project execution and successful delivery of the project.
- Lead teams to manage deliverables under Waterfall, Agile and hybrid methodologies.
- Known for providing innovative solutions for creating and designing dashboards using Design studio, Tableau and Confidential .
- Involved in providing resource and timeline estimations for various project proposals for sales bidding and aligning price estimations with senior management expectations for SAP BW, BW on HANA, HANA enterprise, BOBJ upgrade RFPs (Request for Proposal).
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
- SAP Analytics Solutions Architect for 8 end-to-end implementations, including providing solutions for SAP Data warehousing, Embedded Analytics(SAP S/4HANA CDS views) and reporting (using Business Objects and Tableau) projects involving integration from various SAP and Non-SAP( Legacy) source systems.
- Highly Business/customer focused professional to help meet business there organizational goals with great quality.
- Expertise in conducting workshops with Business users and Functional Leads for gathering requirements and proposing reports in various areas like Supply Chain Planning area, Project Systems, Material Management (MM) and Sales & Distribution (SD), FI&CO.
- Lead multiple international teams with onshore- offshore model from both onshore as well as offshore that gives her better understanding of issues that can arise and in hand solutions to avoid such situations.
- Efficient in understanding and providing solutions across various modules -Supply chain Planning (APO -
- Advanced Planning Optimizer), Sales and Distribution, Finance and Controlling, Material Management, Asset Management, Project Systems and HR.
- Extensive experience of integrating HANA Enterprise system with ECC and other source systems - COUPA, CONCUR using SLT (System Landscape Transformation) and Smart Data Provisioning for real time replication and BODS where lagged information does not impact reporting requirement.
- Extensive experience in preparing and performing various cutover and change management activities like migrating transports (keeping in mind dependencies on source system transports) and managing Change Requests and defects.
- Successfully handled multi-vendor Analytics projects, keeping high team morale in demanding situations.
- Experience in managing and leading upgrade/migration projects from BW 7.2 on oracle database to BW 7.4 on HANA using DMO.
- Efficiently handled implementation of many projects with better coordination, on time project execution and successful delivery of various projects.
- Involved in providing resource and timeline estimations for various project proposals for sales bidding and aligning price estimations with senior management expectations for SAP BW, BW on HANA, HANA enterprise, BOBJ upgrade RFPs (Request for Proposal).
- Extensive experience on emerging technologies like HANA, S4HANA Embedded Analytics, BW/4HANA and FIORI apps
- Prepared Training content and Conducted trainings for latest SAP Analytics technologies - SAP B4HANA, HANA 2.0, CDS views ( Embedded Analytics)
SKILL SET
SAP-BI: - ETL, Extraction Transformation and Loading of data from various sources (SAP ECC, Hyperion, Concur, COUPA, Flat files)
SAP-BI: - BEx Designer
SAP-BI: - Modelling 7.x on HANA
SAP-BO: - Web Intelligence, Dashboard Design
SAP-BO: - Analysis for Office (Excel)
SAP BO: - Universe Design Tool - IDT and UDT
SAP BO: - Confidential 2.0
SAP HANA Enterprise: - HANA views
SAP S4HANA: - Embedded Analytics (CDS views)
FIORI: applications
Tableau: SAP B4HANA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SAP Sr. Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Providing disposition from Confidential in Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting, Cost Accounting and Planning areas to SAP S/4HANA.
- Provide high and detailed level architecture of the solution using various analytics technologies like SAP BW on HANA, Embedded Analytics or existing Data warehousing solution.
- Creating Detailed Design Documents, planning for sprints, testing reports, preparing and performing cutover tasks.
- Creating Proof of concepts from FIORI apps using Smart Business Application and KPI modeler, and Analysis for office and WebI solutions using CDS views.
- Designing and developing CDS views for reporting requirement
- Providing training on emerging technologies like FIORI apps and Analysis for office leveraging Embedded Analytics.
- SAP HANA/ BOBJ (Analysis for Office, WebI) Implementation.
Confidential .
Responsibilities:
- Managing and interacting with consultants, client members and third party vendors.
- Managed the team of seven consultants.
- Created FDS (Functional Requirement Documents) for report requirements gathered during workshops.
- Performed fit gap analysis post requirements in workshops based on HANA live views.
- Prepared high-level architecture for development team and facilitated team to prepare TDS for report development.
- Prepared Cutover, Integration test plan and relevant schedule.
- Coordinated and performed Functional & end-to-end Integration testing.
- Reported project status and issues to project management proactively to avoid any roadblocks.
- Performing FUT and helping team members to resolve the defects.
- SAP BW 7.3 to SAP BW 7.4 on HANA - Migration Project
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Managed and assigned daily tasks to team members.
- Analyzed performance bottlenecks of current system in various areas - Report execution, Data Extraction and design issues.
- Performed analysis of system to identify performance optimization areas post migration.
- Preparing cutover plan for Migration and executing it within period.
- SAP BW/ SAP BOBJ (WebI and Analysis for Office) Implementation.
Confidential .
Responsibilities:
- Managed and assigned daily tasks to offshore team members to make sure timely execution of deliverables.
- Coordinated with onshore team members on project status and rapid changes in design.
- Identified gaps in requirement gathering and updated functional specification documents.
- Designed and developed BEx queries and WebI reports for RTR area.
- Delegated deliverables/tasks to team members, keeping track of their progress and reviewing the completed deliverables.
- Prepared cutover plan and transport list for migration using Solution Manager.
- Preparing end user training schedule and content.
- SAP BW and APO Integration
- SAP BW and BOBJ Implementation - worked in Hyper Care phase at onsite ( USA)
Confidential
Team Lead
Responsibilities:
- Given training to the Confidential team members and process owners to understand BW Concepts.
- Interacted with the senior management, middle management to understand the business needs.
- SAP Developments in accordance with the Confidential and Client Standard.
- To maintain good client relationship and win customer confidence in my domain knowledge and system capabilities.
- To Mentor core team and lead them in a progressive manner and achieve each project milestones as per schedule.
- To train the Confidential team members in SAP - BO-Xcelcius to all the new joiners to meet the project timeline deliverables.
- Modeling and Configuration of BI 7.0 Content.
- Creation of RFC in SAP-BI source system and further creation of ECC Source System in SAP-BI.
- Installation of Standard data Sources in SAP-ECC.
- BI Development like InfoCubes, Transformation, InfoObjects, DSO, MultiProviders, InfoSources etc.
- Modeling of non-SAP Source System like Flat File and DB Connect, UD Connect Systems.
- Creation of BI queries serving as source for Xcelcius Dashboards.
- Translation of business requirements and to technical design documents for realization in SAP BW.
- Performance tuning SAP NW BI Production landscape.
- Issues identification and resolution for developments and production issues for SAP BW
- Improvised processes and then designed it in SAP BW to meet the business requirements.
- Doing solution of the Business Processes using SAP BW BI and SAP BOBJ (Business Objects)
- Creating technical Specs for the developments.
- Testing the SAP Business Intelligence system and Business Objects solutions provided by Confidential .
- Ensure Quality Procedure within the development team.
- Coordinate between client Basis team and Confidential ’s BI BO team.
Software Engineer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Creating the Technical Design, Functional Design Documents.
- Review the Functional Design created by the Application Support Specialist.
- Review the Technical Design created by the peer.
- Review of the Technical Development in the team.
- Created new queries as per the change request.
- Suggesting various ways to improve the system performance using various Performance Tuning techniques and suggested to the client.
- Responsible for handling all kinds of ETL Errors occurred during extraction, transformation and loading of data and resolving it within stipulated time.
- Responsible for executing the Reconciliation Reports and validating the data between BW and R/3 source system.
- Responsible for data analysis and updating it to the client.
- Resolving critical, high and medium priority Tickets within SLA related to data load, reporting and other BW issues.
- Received various awards in Deloitte for her work including Outstanding Award, Applause Award, and Spot Award. Top ranker of Greenfield training (Training for Fresher’s batch) in Accenture 2007 Awarded with Best New Joiner award in Team for FY07. Appreciated by Project Supervisor/Mangers by awarding Celebrating Points for the contribution in the projects.