PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years of experience in Business Intelligence, ERP Implementations, Development, Delivery Management and Project Management.
• Handled Technical Leadership and Consulting roles for large customers in Retail, Banking, Logistics, Utility and High Tech industries.
• Led or participated in multiple SAP BW, BPC, ECC and BI implementation projects as architect or developer.
• Managed and lead SAP BW competency at Target SAP COE
• Expert level skills in SAP technologies: BW, BPC, ABAP, Business Objects, HANA, SAP Security and Netweaver.
• PMP certified; SAP s in BW 7.4, BW on HANA, HANA, and ABAP.
• Strong grasp of latest developments in business technologies - BI, Big Data, HANA, Analytics. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Hands on in analytics and big data tools - R, python, HANA, Hadoop

EXPERIENCE DETAILS:

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Providing best practices and design options for various enhancements
• Restructuring system wide process chains.

Senior SAP BI Consultant

Confidential, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Lead architect for requirement scoping and blueprinting
• Design, rapid prototype, test and deploy data models, ETL components and reports for
• Cost of Goods Manufactured
• Purchase Price Variance
• Production Orders
• Plan Vs Actuals & Plan accuracy

SAP BI Architect

Confidential, SC

Responsibilities:

• Lead architect for developing Confidential suite of tools.
• Worked on analysis, design, end-user interface, write specifications, work and coordinate the development with team of developers, product testing and release.

SAP BI Consultant

Confidential, MN

Responsibilities:

• Confidential were undergoing a BI upgrade to 7.0.
• Assisted with upgrade testing, issue resolution, developer mentoring for BI7 features, working with SAP support for issues and for functional migration of BW objects to BI7.
• Provide expert advice on best practices in BI to assist the project team in technical design decisions, enhance existing objects, work on new features of BI7 and upgrade tests.

SAP BI Consultant

Confidential, LA

Responsibilities:

• With its central data warehouse on SAP, it has huge analysis and reporting requirements from business users.
• This project built a set of dashboard applications to present in summarized format KPIs in Sales, Marketing and Customer .
• Platform was VC and BI7.
• Involved in designing and implementing components of back-end data model and queries and web-templates for the same.

SAP BI Architect/ Consultant

Confidential, Orlando

Responsibilities:

• As a BI Architect/Consultant, involved in three major deliverables - Performance analysis and tuning, BI 7 upgrade, and dashboard applications.
• Performance analysis task involved looking at load and query performance, analyze and enhance info cube design, query performance analysis, new aggregates and BIA implementation.
• Development work for dashboard included blueprinting, development and optimization of data model, ETL process and reports to build the dashboard application. Senior management of Confidential and Key external customers are the consumer of these dashboard reports; revenue, inventory and customer KPIs were reported in form of graph, tables and alerts. These dashboard reports used WAD, MDX, and Bex queries.
• On the back-end, was involved in analyzing load and data model performance and enhance or change the objects where needed.
• BI 7 upgrade related testing and development was the other activity. This includes SAP note analysis and application, post-upgrade testing, new development, BIA related config and testing and resolving any technical issues related with BI 7.

SAP BW Developer

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• For this purpose, a BW based data warehouse was designed bringing data from operational systems, and various reports were built on top of it.
• Involved in realizing the components in modeling and extraction of data, and in creation of reports.
• Responsible for testing and user- of the new applications.
• Architect role for blueprinting the BI model for customers EHS data. Standard business content didn’t support this data (coming from R/3 and legacy systems), role was to design and implement the data warehouse layer, extraction functionality on the source systems, and reporting.

SAP BW Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• This is a prototyping project for building and testing data mining models using BI7.0 platform.
• A set of test data for customers and sales transactions in a time-series are generated using a custom built application.
• Data mining models are then created and trained to build decision trees and clusters. Objective of this project was to build prototype templates for data mining models that can be quickly implemented in production environment.
• Involved in realizing the custom test data generator that can follow instructions to generate huge amount of data with certain patterns based on user inputs.
• Responsible for creating, and validating models that are then used in analytic process designs created using APD.

SAP BW Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• The project had two major deliverables both involving design and implementation of data warehouse in BW for classification data from R/3 systems.
• Complexity due to insufficient standard SAP support for classification data extraction coupled with the large number of characteristics (800 plus) required a robust extraction and data modeling design.
• Involved in analyzing standard SAP functionality and various other options including generic extractors and data staging in ODS to implement this.
• Responsibility included preparing and presenting the design blueprint, and help the team implement the same.

BW Developer

Confidential, Palo Alto

Responsibilities:

• Responsibility was to design and setup data extraction from source systems, extraction from BW for data mart interface, migrating existing legacy reports to BW.
• Involved in ETL, reporting and integration of BW with other systems.
• Responsibilities included modeling, setting up extraction, coding user-exits, Bex queries, and BW administration activities.
• This project aimed to build a reporting data mart for all supply chain collaboration related data, and had integration requirements of BW system with R/3, Oracle and flat-file systems.
• Handled resource and effort estimation and planning, issue tracking, status monitoring and reporting, interfacing with key users and project teams of third party systems, and assisted in other project management activities.

BW Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Most of the critical summarized decision support reporting was moved from the operational R/3 systems to BW in this project.
• Role included design, develop and maintain data extractions from R/3, and develop Bex queries and web template applications to move the reporting from operational system to BW.
• Responsibility included developing Bex queries, and web reports.
• Worked with Bex, authorizations, variables, user-exits, reporting agent, RRI, testing tools (RSRV, RSRT, ST03) as part of the activities performed in this project.
• In addition to technical design and development, my role involved resource estimation and planning, task coordination, issue tracking, interfacing with key users and project teams of third party systems, and project management activities.

BW Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support activities in modeling, and development on the R/3 end.
• Involved in analysis, modeling, enhancement, testing and implementation activities.
• Worked with business content, FI/CO, LIS/LO/CO-PA/Generic extractions as part of this project.
• Worked with process chains, authorizations, reporting. On R/3 side, was involved in test/debug of extraction, generic extractor development and transport activities.
• Involved in effort estimation, milestones tracking, periodic status reporting, issue tracking and resolution for my team.
• Additionally, worked with security team to establish security requirements and setup technical specifications for the same.

SAP Lead Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing the upgrade strategy and planning.
• Coordinated upgrade and post-upgrade stabilization activities for all technical objects.
• Developed tools for identifying and monitoring upgrade impact and its resolution.
• Lead IT analyst for impact analysis, problem resolution and testing activities for this upgrade project.
• Involved in project management activities as the technical team lead and handled custom development scope definition, work coordination, issue monitoring and resolutions, resource estimation and planning and status reporting.

SAP Lead Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Migrating newly acquired Confidential business and its IT applications from MFGPro to SAP R/3.
• Handled the responsibility of migration of all technical objects and functionality from the legacy system to R/3.
• This was a rollout project for newly acquired Confidential business and plants for Confidential IPG. With the legacy system in MFGPro, data migration, report and interface developments and testing activities were part of my responsibilities in this project.
• Coordinated and managed the developer team efforts for the project.

SAP Lead Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead developer for this integration project involving merger of one large R/3 instance handling Confidential IPGs US business with its global SAP instance.
• US instance with three company codes and multiple plants was running in its own landscape and on a different R/3 release. This was to be merged to the global SAP instance.
• The project required significant development and testing efforts, similar to a new R/3 implementation.
• Handle all development, testing and technical issue resolution.
• Involved in ABAP development, interface design and implementations, data migration and development work coordination activities in this project.

SAP Lead Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in support and enhancement activities in this maintenance project for the R/3 landscape for Confidential IPGs US operations.
• Responsibilities included enhancements, new ABAP and interface developments, ensuring service levels, performance monitoring and optimization of custom applications, working with SAP for problem resolution in standard SAP application, and work coordination of the support team.