SUMMARY:

• More than 13 years of IT experience involving SAP BI/BW and having 4 years of project management and Scrum Master experience involving every stage of the software development cycle.Managing on time delivery with excellent quality of the SAP BI/BW projects, Project/Release planning, Schedule & Task Tracking and Status Reporting, proposals, client facing role, managing BW teams etc.
• Overall 12 years of combined IT industry and Project Management Consulting experiences in the area of Business Intelligence, Strategic Enterprise Management, Information Management, and Data Warehouse.
• Successfully led multiple BI teams and implemented several multi - million dollar Enterprise Hana,(Integrated Business Planning),SAP BW,Business Objects (BO),( SAP FIORI,TABLEAU, Design Studio,Dashboards, IDT, Crystal Reports),SAP BPC,SAP ABAP for several Confidential 500 companies.
• Successfully implemented 6 full life-cycle implementations for SAP BI/HANA/BPC using ASAP, Prince2, and Agile methodology in methodologies in various domains like Retail,Travel,healthcare,Oil & Gas, Chemicaland Manufacturing.
• Proactively supported many projects in different phases of life-cycle including business requirement gathering, business blueprint, architect design and solution, data modeling,Cut-over Strategy, UAT testing, post production support, and business user .
• Participated in developing several client proposals and creating Statement of Work (SOW) for different project assessments in the area of Information Strategy, Business Intelligence, and Data Warehouse. Successfully managed and implemented $4 million SAP BI/HANA project for a chemical client by enhancing their SAP BI and ECC systems within time and under budget.
• Specialized in Analytics and reporting along with extensive work on the areas of Sales and Distribution (SD), and controlling (CO), SRM, CRM, HR, PP, Materials Management (MM), Inventory Management (IM) and Warehouse Management (WM) and have in-depth business process knowledge.
• Rich experience in BW ON HANA migration, information and data architecture, system upgrades, requirement analysis, solution design, enhancements, implementation and support.
• Having good Project management experience, project planning, resource planning, resource estimation, project cost and managing the finances of the project, Migration projects, upgrade projects.
• As a Lead Architect, demonstrated excellent technical, strategic and interpersonal skills as well as effective communication, leadership, team dynamics and issue resolution capabilities.
• Strong success track helping clients implementing large and complex solutions which best suits their needs.
• Flexible in dealing with changing organizational needs and a strong supporter of technical innovation.
• 4 Years Experience as Project Manager experience on Enterprise HANA, BW with 6 full life cycle Implementations
• 10 Years Experience in SAP BW,Data Conversion, SAP BODS 4.0, 4.1,
• 6 YearsExperience in SAP Business Objects 3.1, 4.0, 4.1, TABLEAU, Design Studio.
• 2 Years Experience in Integrated Business planning(SAP BI-IBP-HANA PAK).
• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.

SUMMARY OF TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

• Experience in Data Provisioning using FLAT FILES.
• Experience in Data Provisioning using BODS 4.0 (ETL Based Experience in Approach - Building AGILE Data Marts).
• Experience in Building Data Flows in Designer (to Load the Data to SAP HANA).
• Experience in Loading the Data from diff files to SAP HANA using SAP BODS (Text files, spread sheets, XML files).
• Experience in Loading the Data from different SAP ERPS (like ECC, CRM) using SAP BODS to SAP HANA.
• Experience in Loading the Data from SAP BW 7.3 to SAP HANA using SAP BODS (Open Hub Tables, DSO tables etc).
• Experience in Loading the Data from Non-SAP Source Systems to SAP HANA using SAP BODS.
• Extracting ERP data using SLT.
• Experience in Loading data from CSV, MySQL.
• Experience in Exporting to Binary and CSV.
• Experience in Extracting Data with SDA and SDI.
• Experience in Replicating SAP system tables with SLT.
• Experience in Real-time replication from ECC to HANA with SLT.
• Experience in Building Data Flows in Designer (to Load the Data to SAP HANA).
• Experience in Creating an attribute view.
• Experience in Creating an analytic view.
• Experience in Creating a calculation view.
• Experience in Creating Attribute Views with Hierarchies.
• Experience in Creating Scripted Calculation view.
• Experience in Calculated columns in an Analytic view.
• Experience in Calculated columns in an Attribute view.
• Experience in Using Variables with Analytic views.
• Experience in Using Decision Tables with update values.
• Experience in Using Decision Tables with return values.
• Experience in Creating Tables: Row Store vs Column Store.
• Experience in Example Calculations in Columns and Views.
• Experience in Creating Stored Procedures.
• Experience in Creating SQLSCRIPT for DELTA Merge.
• Experience in Creating SQLSCRIPT for Aggregation.
• Experience in Creating SQLSCRIPT Triggers.
• Experience in Creating SQLSCRIPT for Synonyms.
• Experience in Handling Currency Conversion.
• Experience in HANA, Reporting Layer and Connectivity options
• Experience in SAP Business Objects BI 4.0
• Experience in Designing Complex Universes in IDT based on HANA Tables and HANA Views.
• Experience in WEBi 4.0 on HANA.
• Experience in Crystal Report for Enterprise with HANA
• Experience in Designing the Dashboards using Query Browser on HANA Universes using Dashboard Design 4.0
• Experience in SAP Business Objects BI 4.0 Explorer
• Experience in Designing Information Space based on SAP Experience in HANA Information Model using BO Explorer 4.0
• Experience in Creating reporting using Design Studio
• Experience in Exploring the Data using BO 4.0 explorer based on Information Spaces created on HANA
• Experience in Creating Analysis Views using Analysis edition for OLAP (HANA OLAP connection).
• Experience Creating datshboards in Tableau consuming HANA Data Models
• Experience in Information Design Tool(IDT)
• Experience in Universe Designer Tool(UDT)
• Experience in Web intelligence
• Experience in Dashboard Design Tool
• Experience in BI Launch Pad
• Experience in SAP BO 4.0, BW 7.3 Integration
• Experience in SAP BO BI 4.0 SAP HANA INTEGRATION.
• Experience in SAP LUMIRA
• Experience in Multi-Dimensional Model in SAP BI 7.4
• Experience in Infocube Designing
• Experience in DSO Designing
• Experience in Process Chains
• Experience in OpenHub, APD to Transfer data to FlatFiles.
• Experience in Remodeling of Infocube
• Experience in BEX Query Designer to consume BW Infoproviders.
• Experience in BEX analyzer for Office
• Experience in Creating Calculated Key Figure, Virtual KeyFigures, Restricted Key Figures.
• Experience in Creating Variables with User Entry/ Default Value, Replacement Path, Customer Exits.
• Experience in Creating Start Routines, End Routines and Expert Routines.
• Experience in Datasource Enhancements.
• Experience in LO-Cockpit Extraction.
• Experience in Generic Extractors
• Experience in Function Module Extraction
• Experience in Infoset Query Extraction
• Experience in View Extraction
• Experience in Data Extraction and Data Flow within SAP BI 7.3 NW 2004S
• Experience in New Data source Concept of BI 7.3
• Experience in Transformation in BI 7.3(ETL)
• Experience in DTP (Data Transfer Process)
• Experience in UPGRADING DATAFLOWS FROM 3.X TO BI 7.3
• Experience in Business Content
• Experience in Administration of InfoCubes and Aggregates

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Stamford, CT

SAP/ITProject Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to SAP BI Director
• Leading the CAB team Overall Confidential and SAMSUNG
• Responsible for Change Management and Service Delivery
• Managing multiple (mid-sized) projects and potentially multiple work streams within each project.
• UsingAgile methodology as relevant for system implementation.
• Experience in Configuring and updating Project Management Plan and develops project work effort estimates.
• Experience in managing project to established capital and expense budgets.
• Experience in Creating / configuring projects in Microsoft SharePoint / JIRA / Work-Front for work management and collaboration.
• Experience in Scheduling and facilitating Daily Stand up Meetings.
• Experience in Handling Risk, Next Steps, Issues log.
• Experience in Managing business / stakeholder expectations and communicating to the different levels of the organization as required.
• Experience in Approving Business Requirements as technically complete and gets sign off on Business Requirements from Stakeholders.
• Experience in Managing Virtual teams globally.
• Experience in Managing the defect resolution process, Publishes and maintains change control process.
• Experience in Playing Scrum Master role on Agile projects and traditional Project Manager role on Waterfall projects..
• Familiar with backlog grooming, sprint grooming, and other scrum ceremonies.
• Familiar with road map planning and continuous testing/deployment concept.
• Managing and providing analysis of existing roles using current transaction usage reports, based on analysis of transaction usage update existing roles or create new roles as required.
• Good experience with current Security Weaver tool to ensure that all roles are SOD (segregation of duty) compliant.
• Working with Client personnel to ensure complete testing of roles and controlling Assignment of roles to end users
• Assisting Client personnel with ensuring that basic audit requirements are met from an SAP Security and Basis standpoint.
• Experience in coaching agile practices to individuals and teams.
• Working knowledge of the product owner role and facilitates ensuring product backlog is groomed to feed the upcoming sprints and keeping the delivery pipeline working optimally

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SAP HANA/BW/BI/BOBJ Project Manager / Scrum Master

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP HANA, SAP BI 7.4, SAP BO 4.0

Responsibilities:

• Managing and supporting testing activities (Functional, Integration, System, User experience) based on the plans and in line with defined processes with guidance from client teams involved.
• Responding to the issues assigned, conduct analysis, suggest / implement workarounds, communicate to all the stakeholders and close issues as per the agreed timelines in order to ensure support availability as per agreed SLAs
• Participating in and preparing content for Knowledge Transfer sessions.
• Managing Onsite-Offshore Teams .
• Proposing unique strategy on adopting HANA, more specific to customer Business case.
• Ability to Re-architect the current BI solution with SAP HANA as Database, BW as EDW layer & BO BI as Analytics solution.
• Having expertise in delivering HANA projects like BW on HANA Implementations.
• Experience in following SAP’s roadmap on various products like Design Studio, Predictive Analytics & SAP Lumira.
• Experience in Understanding the Business requirements & convert them into Blueprint.
• Experience in Defining the Design Documents for the HANA Models.
• Managing and analyzing transaction usage reports for role creation
• Managing Support security requirements gathering and analysis for an SAP ECC, BW, GRC system
• Managing and Identifying process improvements and confirm audit compliance
• Int erac ting wi th bu si ne s s users to ga the r req ui r em en ts, p r i or i ti z e work, d ev e l op en ha nc em en ts to the ex i s ti n g s y s tem, c oo r di na ting testi ng an d pe r f orm c ha ng e management and trai ni n g f or Business Objects and BW.
• Preparing and conducting User Acceptance test sessions with business end users, demonstrating how the solution meets their requirements; manage and adhere to subsequent change control processes.
• Maintainingand Reporting Team Help Desk tickets, including assignments, prioritizations, planned work sequences and ETCs, and be prepared to review and discuss current status of all open tickets with business teams on a regular basis.

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA

Sr.SAPHANA/BW/BI/BOBJ Project Lead

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP FI, SAP HANA, SAP BI 7.4, SAP BO 4.0

Responsibilities:

• Working very closely with internal client team as well as with the implementation team.
• Will be walking into the very early stages of the project and will be responsible for blueprinting, requirement gathering, design, strategy and eventually the build of SAP HANA.
• Supporting IT standards by ensuring processes and procedures are followed by project teams.
• Managing project teams through design and development cycles by ensuring all requirements are met and objectives are completed on time.
• Managing major project test cycles by tracking all reported issues through resolution.
• Building, distributing and presenting project status reports for parties within and outside of the IT organization.
• Maintaining project backlogs to scope upcoming projects and Releases.
• Coordinating with business leads across the organization to ensure project resources are scheduled and requirements are met.
• Helping the Director to continually improve operational efficiency of the Applications team.
• Managing all project related change management communication across the organization.
• Solid business acumen - experience working with production environment.
• Solid Skill and experience with both data analysis and business process analysis.
• Experience in implementing BI improvements across multiple functions.
• Experience in working with various levels of the business structure in a large organization.
• Experience in managing multiple projects/initiatives simultaneously.

Confidential

Sr. SAP HANA/BW Lead

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP HANA, SAP BI 7.3,SAP BO 4.0

Responsibilities:

• Working very closely with internal client team as well as with the implementation team.
• Will be walking into the very early stages of the project and will be responsible for blueprinting, requirement gathering, design, strategy and eventually the build of SAP HANA.
• Will be leveraging SAP BW with BPC alongside HANA and also installing SAP HANA studio and HANA Live
• Worked as Solution Architect with progressive experience in Design/Development and Consulting in SAP specializing in SAP HANA 1.0 SP06, SAP Net Weaver Business Warehouse & Business Objects Reporting Tools.
• Experience in SAP BW/BOBJ with subject matter expertise in Business Intelligence domain integrating to SAP HANA.
• Experience includes
• Worked as Solution Architect with progressive experience in Design/Development and Consulting in SAP specializing in SAP HANA 1.0 SP06, SAP Net Weaver Business Warehouse & Business Objects Reporting Tools.
• Experience in SAP BW/BOBJ with subject matter expertise in Business Intelligence domain integrating to SAP HANA.
• Experience includes end to end Implementations, support and upgrade, roll up projects as well as solution architecture and Pre Sales.
• Data Provisioning using FLAT FILES
• Preparation of data, designing and implementing HANA analytical models, data provisioning into HANA tables, and designing and implementing BO reports on HANA data.
• Data Provisioning using BODS 4.0
• Building Data Flows in Designer (to Load the Data to SAP HANA)
• Data Modeling
• Creating Attribute Views, Analytical Views, Calculation Views for FI scenarios, COPA scenarios, Sales Scenarios, Purchasing Scenarios and Marketing Scenarios
• SAP HANA SQL
• HANA, Reporting Layer
• WEBi 4.0 on HANA
• Migration of BW to HANA.
• Migrated HANA content from development, testing environment to Production environment using delivery units.
• Designing the Dashboards using Query Browser on HANA Universes using Dashboard Design 4.0
• Migration from BW to BW-HANA.
• Done the migration with PCA - Post Copy Automation Tool which is an automated solution for delta queue cloning and synchronization on the production systems for BW on HANA migrations based on a BW system copy.
• Rapid database migration of BW on RDBMS to BW on HANA
• BW on HANA fresh installation and moving only the required, data models & content, in the process optimize and cleanup the BW system
• Carving out a part of large BW and moving only relevant content (like for a business unit or region)
• HANA as real time, high value agile/custom data mart and later migrating BW to BW on HANA
• New projects, initiatives on new BW on HANA installations.
• Performs activities required after the initial system copy of aSAP NetWeaver BW system reliable.
• Done with post migration activities.
• Worked on creating Data Models - Creating InfoObjects, Datasource, InfoPackage, DTP, Transformations, DSO, Infocubes, Multi providers etc. and optimized the relevant objects for HANA in accordance with LSA++ architecture.
• Worked in ABAP routines - Start routine, End routine, field routine and Expert Routines in transformations - written codes for master data look-up, filtering data based on complex conditions, used function module for various conversions, etc.
• Created Transient Providers, Composite providers to import native HANA models to BW and also exported cubes to HANA Studio to leverage HANA optimized BO reporting tools.
• Created Open Hub Destination to load the BW data to 3rd party system.
• Created, published and scheduled reports as per requirement on BO OLAP analysis, Explorer and Webi.
• Implemented cells, workbooks and OLAP variables (like Customer exits, formula variables etc.) in BEx.
• Extensively worked on BEX analyzer for Office for drilldown reports
• Created and scheduled Master data and Transactional Data chains to automate data load process.
• Extensively worked on Business Objects (BO) integration with BW for reporting requirements.
• Extensive experience on developing Web Intelligence Reports and Crystal Reports.
• Experience in Business Objects universe designing (OLAP Universes), Business Objects Web Intelligence (Webi), Business View Manager, InfoView, and Business Objects Enterprise (BOE).
• Created Functional Designs and Technical Design documents based on real-time report
• Requirements to be implemented on HANA enterprise along-with requirements of accelerated BW based reports.
• Worked on data provisioning from Teradata systems using Data Services and from SAP ECC using SLT servers.
• Worked on creating Attribute views, Analytical views & Calculation views based on requirements and data-warehousing standards.
• Worked on SQL based authorizations and CE functions.
• Worked on row level authorizations & hierarchies

Confidential

Sr.SAP BW/BI/BO/HANA Lead

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP HANA, SAP BI 7.3, SAP BO 4.0

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in the requirement analysis, data modeling and technical implementation.
• Responsible for Design the FDD's and TDD are based on business requirements.
• Taking care of production support activities like loading the data, monitoring and improve the System Performance.
• Worked on Data modeling Considerations.
• Updating the Marketing attributes from BW to CRM Using APD Interface.
• Worked on Customer 360 view to increase the effectiveness of employees who are interacting with Customers.
• Designed and developed the multiple Infocubes and Multiproviders to analyze the Opportunities, Activities, Quotes, and Contracts.
• Developed the Sales order, Delivery, Backlogs, and Billing info cubes based on the client reporting requirements.
• Worked on reports (Billings, Bookings and Backlogs) using Bex.
• Worked on Campaigns (Saves and MSF).
• Worked on reports (Order process, Saves, Student services, Coaching, Retentions, and Inside sales) using BEx published the reports into the roles.
• Created the process Chains and automated the load process based on the business needs.
• Worked with SAP on CRM Extractor Delta Issues and suggested the Basis Team to Apply the OSS Notes in the system.
• Resolved many issues that came in Production support
• Environment: SAP BW 3.0B, Oracle, CRM 3.1, R/3 4.0, Java Script, and Non SAP systems.
• Worked extensively in the finance modules like FI-AR (Accounts Receivable), FI-AP (Accounts Payable) and FI-GL (General Ledger).
• Installed Business content for FI-GL, FI-AR and FI-AP business content cubes according to the business requirement.
• Extracted Data from Purchasing and Inventory Management.
• Extracted data from MM module and uploaded the data into the procurement cubes.
• Developed and scheduled Business Content data extraction from SAP R/3 Source System and data load procedures.
• Business Blue Print Phase
• Worked on the SAP HANA POC project.
• Preparation of data, designing and implementing HANA analytical models, data provisioning into HANA tables, and designing and implementing BO reports on HANA data.
• Designing SAP HANA Tables, HANA models (Attribute Views, Analytical Views and Calculations Views) for Sales and Inventory scenarios.
• Developed complex SQL scripts in Calculation views.
• Worked on Schemas, table definitions, Attributes, Measures & Hierarchies in HANA.
• Executed Data Extraction Transfer Loading (ETL) using SAP Data Services 4.0 to import csv files into SAP HANA tables to reflect exchange live rates application.
• Involved in SAP HANA Security including User Management, Roles, and Privileges
• Reporting, Accessing Analytical and Calculation views from EXCEL.
• Involved in Information Design Tool Creation of Data Foundation, Universe for HANA reporting.
• Creating Attribute Views, Analytical Views, and Calculation Views for FI scenarios, COPA scenarios, Sales Scenarios, Purchasing Scenarios and Marketing Scenarios.
• Migration of Oracle 11.2, IBM DB2 LUW 9.7 to HANA.
• Done with Unicode conversion.
• BW on HANA fresh installation and moving only the required, data models & content, in the process optimize and cleanup the BW system.
• Performs activities required after the initial system copy of a SAP NetWeaver BW system reliable.
• Done with post migration activities.
• Utilized new BI 7.3, Data flows, transformations and DTPs for all new developments.
• Developed numerous custom data sources using database views and custom function modules.
• Implemented new BI 7.3 security authorization objects.
• Responsible for developing BI data models and designs, configuring custom and delivered BI content, analyzing BI reporting requirements, developing detailed reporting specifications.
• Involved in activating Business Content for Standard Info Objects, DSO, InfoCubes related to FI, CO-PA, SD.
• Experience in upgrading to BI 7.0/7.3 and in depth knowledge of migrating data sources from BW 3.5 to BI 7.0/7.3.
• Involved in creating many complex OLAP variables, DTP routines.
• Generated CO-PA redesign which involves addition of more fields with complete different flow and was involved in complete end to end testing for all the developments assigned.
• Performed LO-Cockpit extraction for Sales Order, Sales Delivery, and Billingsby extractingStandard Data Sources from the Business Content using LO-Cockpit extraction methods for Transactional data and enhanced them to meet the reporting requirements.
• Extensively worked on BEX Query Designer, BEX Analyzer for Office, BEX Web Application Designer.

Confidential

Sr. SAP BW/BI/BOBJ Consultant

Environment: SAP Net weaver 04s (BI 7.0), ECC 6.0, CO, FI-GL, SD, BEx Analyzer.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete lifecycle implementation of the project from gathering user requirements, preparation of technical specifications documents, designing and developing reports, Integration testing, Unit testing to Go live production support.
• Interacted with the Business Users to analyze the business process and gathered the requirements.
• Responsibilities included interacting with clients’ business process team; collect all the business requirements, create functional specifications, which would be used by the construction/programming team.
• Worked with the business in designing and implementing complex technical and functional solutions, identified gaps and addressed the gaps with solutions.
• Involved in decision-making for the screen layout of Master Records including General Ledger, Vendor Master Record and Customer Master Record.
• Customized Operating Chart of Accounts, Group Chart of Accounts & Country Chart of Accounts.
• Created different G/L accounts centrally and at company code level, like expenses, revenue, cash, asset and liability.
• Performed different transactions like clearing, post with clearing, credit memo etc.
• Configured vendor account groups & assigned number ranges to vendor groups.
• Maintained Vendor Group Field Status for General Data, Company Code Data & Purchasing Data which reflected on the Vendor Master Records.
• Configured Cash discount lost account and set tolerance limits for customers for posting AR documents.
• Customized the Payment Program to in corporate Company Code Data, Paying Company Code Data, Country Payment Methods, Company Code Payment Methods, and House Banks etc.
• Designed functional and Technical specifications for Implementation and Development of BO XI R2 over SAP BI.
• Involved in BW 3.5 to BI 7 upgrade processes and was responsible for design, development and extraction from R/3 Source system and flat files to BW for FI & CO.
• Extensively worked on SD InfoCube 0SD C03 and data sources 2LIS 13 VDHDR, 2LIS 13 VDITM, 2LIS 13 VCITM and financial data providers, multi provider’s 0FIAP M40 data sources 0FI GL 40 according business needs in SAP BI.
• Involved in development, integration testing, UAT to Go live production support of OTC, RTR reports.
• Created new info providers in SAP BI depending upon the end user needs.
• Developed extract structures and Data Sources in Financial Accounting to facilitate the data extraction to
• Developed many complex ABAP enhancements like User Exit Functions, ABAP enhancements in ECC generic extractions and also in BI data modeling like Start Routines and End Routines.
• Extensively worked on BEx reporting and workbooks using RRI, cell definitions, variable offsets, exceptions, conditions.
• Master and Transaction Data extraction from Flat files and loading into Info Objects, DSOs and Info Cubes.
• Performed analysis, design, development and implementation of standard/customized Info Cubes and DSO Objects for SD, FI and SCM modules.
• Created intermediate write optimized DSO Structures and APD’s in BI7.0 to improve performance while loading AP data.