SUMMARY:

• 16 years of IT experience in that over all 14yearsin SAP arena and worked in various roles like Programmer, Consultant, Senior Consultant, Team Lead, Solution Architect, Project Lead, BI - HANA System Lead for various implementations, rollout and support projects, spanning over 13 years of experience in SAP-BI/BW4HANA/BO/ native- HANA/S4HANA/BPC, One year experience as an ABAP programmer and Two years’ experience in J2EE products development in the area of manufacturing.
• Extensively Four years of SAP-HANA,BW-HANA and Three years of BPC Implementation, Support experience on Financial planning and consolidation end to end process.
• SAP BW/BO/HANA platform Architect-defining the solutions for large and medium scale projects.
• Experienced to collaborate with SAP- Confidential (HANA Enterprise Cloud)team on day to day support tasks, handling OSS tickets, meetings and HANA,SLT,BI support pack(SP) upgrade activities.
• SAP HANA Certified consultant with hands on experience on SLT, native HANA, BW-HANA, BW (ODP) replication, BODS, Design Studio, BPC and POSDM tools.
• Worked on HANA Views, SQL Scripting, Import/Export, HANA Security with basic admin tasks, HANA optimized DSO's, Info Cube, Transient Provider and Composite providers.
• Worked in various roles of senior technical architect and on-site coordinator in various implementation projects both on-site (US,UK, Germany, South Africa) and offshore.
• Good Exposure on S/4 HANA, SAP Activate methodology, SAP-Fiori along with use cases and implementation business cases knowledge from open SAP.
• Good exposure on SAP Lumira reporting, Predictive Analytics, Data Science, Big Data Analytics and Internet of things (IOT) .
• Experienced in BW74upgrade,Business Objects (BO), Integrated planning (IP), WAD,APO with BW, BODS4.x and BPC10.
• Worked on Integrated planning (IP) aggregation levels, Confidential, custom planning functions, Data slices, planning sequences and planning reports using WAD.
• Experienced on BW Server optimization, pre and post-support pack upgrade end to end activities.
• Exposure on BW/4 HANA,S/4 HANA Implementation road map, Simple Finance(Sfin), Best practices, SAP Activate methodology.
• Knowledge and experience with S4/H CDS Views (Embedded Analytics) and HANA Live.
• Experienced to gather BPC Financial planning, Consolidation business requirements, Functional, Technical spec Design, Implement and deploy end to end solution.
• Experienced on Integrating BPC with client tools Analysis Office, BPC-Add In and BPC Security.
• Experienced on BPC implementation, support projects along with BPC Planning, Consolidation, BPC Models, Dimensions, Attributes, Input schedules, Script logics, Consolidation rules & methods, daily support activities scheduling Data manager package(DMP) jobs, Data validations and other tasks.
• Experience in full life cycle implementation using SAP BO 4.0 & 4.1 Universes, Web-I Reports and Dashboards.
• Worked on BO Performance Tuning and Optimization for universe & Reports.
• Worked in various domains like Manufacturing, Insurance, Banking, Pharma, Retail, Aerospace, Automobile, Fertilizers, Oil- Gas and IT.
• Implemented SAP modules to BW were SD, MM, PP, FICO, HR and New Dimension products
• R2R ((New G/L, parallel ledger, AP, AR, Asset accounting, Cash management, CCA, PCA, Internal Orders, Product Costing, COPA).
• OTC (Sales, delivery, Billing, Shipment, Schedule Lines, Billing Condition, Contract, SD-FI Integration), MM (Purchasing, Inventory, Invoicing, MM-FI Integration), EWM (Inbound delivery, Outbound delivery, Warehouse tasks and Wave exceptions).
• End to End Implementation and Process Improvements Experience
• Experienced with 7 End to End Implementations(Including three BI7.xImplementations and BW73,BW75 Upgrades) completed successfully15 rollout and support projects which includes two migration projects usingSAP-BW7.x and HANA.
• Successfully managed 4 large projects and one medium project as a Project lead.
• I have been actively involved with process improvement and team building activities and was part of the metrics team, which formulated and analyzed the metrics to be used for quantitative process management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

BW-HANA Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Experienced to Implement solutions to solve business problems in the areas of Financial planning(FP&A) using BPC and BW.
• Experienced to understand requirements and present design to Business teams and excellent collaboration skills to deal with Finance users and leadership teams.
• Experienced BW data (Master/Transaction) integration with BPC, creation of planning versions, definition of hierarchies for accounts, cost center, company codes and profit centers.
• Created and maintained BPC Dimensions, Models, input-forms, reports, business process flows, Work Status, Business Rules.
• Good Experience with EPM Add-in, Analysis office(AO) and Bex reports and web intelligence reports.
• Strong experience on change management process and Transporting BPC objects.
• Experience to translation of business requirements into technical solution and hands-on configuration, data modeling, BPC scripting, HANA stored procedures, calculations and report writing.
• Worked on BI-HANA migration project and performed pre upgrade and post upgrade activities like releasing/deleting unwanted transports, PSA data deletion across the system, deletion of unused data flows, reports and workbooks.
• Migration of 3.x data sources, transformation (Start, End, Field routine) code optimization, redesign process chains for newly migrated data flows, Bex workbooks conversion into Analysis office(AO) workbooks.
• Perform before and after migration testing and bug fixing.
• Migrated HANA optimized Info cubes and DTP’s.
• Worked on HANA Views, SQL Scripting, Import/Export, HANA Security admin tasks, HANA advanced DSO's, Open ODS views and Composite providers using BW modeling tool.

Confidential, Boston, MA

BW Architect

Responsibilities:

• Understand functional requirements (FICO,SD, MM, PP) and prepared technical specs, designed data flows and data models to fulfill third party Theia rules integration.
• Experienced on FI-GL detail Theia rules design, implementation and cutover activities.
• Conducted meetings and handled offshore delivery gaps from onsite to met the deadlines.
• Worked on complex transformations using EXPERT routine, Start, END routines.
• Responsible on-time deliverables and ownership of the project.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

BW on HANA Architect

Responsibilities:

• Experienced HANA Enterprise Cloud ( Confidential ) system management and support pack (SP) handling.
• Experienced on Change Control Management, Workflow governance, Onsite-Offshore teams management.
• Provided daily front end support to Finance, Purchasing & Inventory, EWM teams and other stake holders at client location.
• Worked with senior leadership teams across business functions to identify requirements and design the data flows by utilizing BW on HANA,SLT ODP replication, SLT with HANA replication, BPC consolidation, POSDM, Design Studio, Analysis Office and Web intelligence reporting tools.
• Developed Hybrid scenarios to full fill business requirements using BW data models and HANA views for Purchasing, Sales, Billing and EWM inbound, outbound delivery lines and wave exceptions.
• Make sure daily data availability, data accuracy for real time and near real time operational reporting and analytical reporting.
• Provided HANA data to external sources for Master data maintenance and other auditing teams.
• Worked BW on HANA system cleanup activities, building complex SAP-EWM data models on HANA for real-time reporting.
• Experienced on BPC Consolidation Models, Dimensions, Attributes, Input schedules, Script logics, Consolidation rules & methods, daily support activities scheduling Data manager package(DMP) jobs, Data validations and other tasks.
• Experienced loading Master, Transaction data loads to SAP BPC Models, Dimensions from BI to BPC using Data manager Packages and Data reconciliation tasks.
• Worked on BPC Security, support tickets and enhancement activities.
• Groomed offshore resources to work with BW on HANA,SLT ODP replication, SLT with HANA replication, POSDM, Design Studio1.x, Analysis Office 2.x tools and system configuration tasks.
• Responsible for overall BI tower delivery on daily production support, project rollouts, SP upgrades and producing weekly productivity dashboard KPI's to customer leadership team.

Confidential, Wichita, KS

BW on HANA Architect & Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on BW74post upgrade activities like activating inactive objects, rescheduling jobs, identifying SAP notes and migration of Info Cubes into HANA optimized objects.
• Worked on BW on HANA system cleanup tasks by deleting historical transaction data to gain memory for new development objects.
• Prepared white paper on dynamic tiering which includes BW on HANA and Native HANA
• Identified poor performance reports and migrated data models into HANA optimized cubes and rebuild using advanced DSOs and HANA Views, Composite Providers.
• Tested all new objects functionality like advanced DSO, Open ODS, Virtual provider using HANA views and other BW73 modeling objects(SPO, Hybrid Provider).
• Identifying best practices to improve BW on HANA database performance(Ex: Memory Unload)
• Implementing new BW developments on HANA studio by creating HANA Views, SQL Script stored procedures.
• Good on using SQL script and CE functions while integrating with business requirements.

Confidential

BI Delivery Lead & Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for offshore account delivery and managing the team.
• Involved three systems support pack upgrades, testing, team handling, test script management.
• Handled AMS dashboard management on daily, weekly and monthly basis for KPI’s tracking and client status meetings.
• Actively taken care of global system health checks on BW, BO and BODS systems.
• Identified performance improvement areas for each business process and took approval to implement required models on development, quality and production systems from the client to align with change management process.
• Implemented reusable objects as a best practice to eliminate rework and improved production system performance.
• Extracted data from missing stores for all regions and achieved global data reconciliation to sync with all dependent systems.
• Implemented BO dashboards on top of remedy ticketing tool to measure KPI performance for tickets and work orders.
• Experienced on BPC Models, Dimensions, Attributes, Input schedules, Script logics, Consolidation rules & methods, daily support activities scheduling Data manager package(DMP) jobs, Data validations and input schedules.
• Experienced Loading Transaction Data to SAP BPC Models, Dimensions from BI to BPC using Confidential Data manager Packages.

Confidential

BW on HANA Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on SAP-BI core-banking system optimization and performance activities.
• As a solution architect designed, optimized data flow from data source to open-hub prototype.
• Worked on development system kernel upgrade and support stack upgrades testing on sandbox, development and quality systems.
• Prepared and conducted SAP HANA overview session to Confidential bank management.
• Designed and Implemented Proof of concept (POC) with BW on HANA system.
• Worked on HANA modeling (Attribute Views, Analytical Views and Calculation Views), Data migration using BODS4.x.
• Worked on HANA optimized DSO's, Info Cubes, Transient Providers and Composite providers in Sandbox and Development system.
• Tested HANA users, roles, and analytic privileges in the sandbox system and supported to security team to implement in development system.

Confidential

BI Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implemented BW73 data model for material availability report.
• Implemented SD & MM modeling objects data flows to provide top-level view to the system owner.
• Tested Semantically Partitioned object SPO and Hybrid-provider functionality on Sandbox system.
• Performed pre-upgrade and post-upgrade activities using ASU/START transaction on Sandbox and Development systems.
• Performed BO integration testing by establishing BO and BW73 connectivity, Universe creation and web-intelligence reports.
• Extracted data using BODS4.x and implemented different transforms and data cleansing process.
• Worked collaboratively with ABAP,Basis team on support pack upgrade, SPAU, SPDD corrections.
• Experienced on BPC Models, Dimensions, Attributes, Input schedules, Script logics, Consolidation rules & methods, daily support activities scheduling Data manager package(DMP) jobs, Data validations and other tasks.
• Experienced on Sales Planning, Financial Planning with input schedule template design.

Confidential

BI Delivery Lead & Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a BI project Lead, Understanding offshore supporting model and business execution.
• Identified support gaps in the supporting model and informed those gaps to the senior management.
• Lead offshore team and scheduled team meetings and client meetings on weekly basis.
• Involved deeply with team members and work closely to identify resource strength and weakness.
• Understanding support criticality and advising solutions to the team members on technical and business front.
• Resolving complex tickets along with team to clear backlog and validating weekly KPI report every week.
• Enhanced IP Real-time cubes, Aggregation levels, filters, characteristics relationships.
• Created customized IP planning functions and also used standing planning functions.
• Modified IP planning reports on top of multiprovider to plan the forecast data.
• Responsible on-time deliverables and ownership of the project.

Confidential

BI Lead Consultant & Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead onsite and offshore team members.
• Understanding business requirements and preparing delivery plan and internal project plan.
• Conduct meetings on daily basis with onsite and offshore team members.
• Worked as an architect to build complete data flow of LMS system.
• Advised solutions to the team members on technical and functional front.
• Supported team to achieve on-time delivery and UAT testing.

Confidential

Technical Architect & Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understand the scope of Confidential phase-1,2 Implementation and global delivery model.
• Conducted meetings with onsite coordinator to know user requirements and status updates.
• Responsible to assign tasks to tem members, solution analysis, technical, functional guidance to achieve on time delivery.
• Understand functional requirements (SD, MM, PP, QM) and prepared technical specs, data flows and designed data models to fulfill functional reporting requirements.
• Created IP Real-time cubes, Aggregation levels, filters, characteristics relationships and data slice.
• Created customized IP planning functions, sequences and reports.
• Created web-templates to integrate IP functions and sequences.
• Created actual and forecast reports on top of multi provider to compare actual and forecast data.
• Trained internal resources to meet the project requirements and times lines.
• Worked on asset utilization & visibility proof of concept (POC).
• Created BO Universes, Web Intelligence reports and also used alerter, break, section, sorting and ranking.
• Identified dashboard KPI's and collaboratively worked with team members.
• Involved in building Xcelsius dashboards using live office.

Confidential

BI Architect & Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understand the scope of Confidential BI GRS BPM IP Implementation.
• Conducted meetings with client to understand business requirements complexity and objects dependency.
• Based on functional design implemented technical design.
• Created Real-time cube, Aggregation levels, filters, characteristics relationships and data slice.
• Created customized planning functions, sequences and reports.
• Created web-templates to integrate IP functions and sequences.
• Created actual and forecast reports on top of multiprovider to compare actual and forecast data.
• Created user documents and test cases.
• Conducted KT session to the project team members.
• Managed BW deliverables on time.
• Measures, tracks and evaluates progress against the project plan.
• Resolved deviations from the project plan by providing realistic time lines to theclientmanager.

Confidential

Project Lead & Offshore Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Conducted meetings with client to understand delivery plan.
• Handled incidents and work orders of specific countries.
• Handled QSCR project management process to clean up the system.
• Created client on boarding kit to deploy new resource into the project.
• Created monthly dashboard to update delivery status to the managers.
• Managed backlog incidents on priority basis.
• Ensures quality of deliverables across the entire engagement life cycle
• Prepared status reports and updated project plan to client manager
• Providing technical guidance to the offshore development team
• Report status & timely escalation of any potential
• Development of test conditions and test data.
• Conducted team meetings and handled offshore calls from onsite on weekly basis. and knowledge transition to junior resources.
• Helped to PM on Project management activities like team monitoring and dashboard reporting’s.
• Involved in production support activities like time sheet maintenance, Remedy tickets status report.
• Followed ( SLA) service agreement to meet the time lines.

Confidential

BI Architect & Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted meetings with the business to understand unique UK requirements.
• Designed blueprint based on global Confidential model.
• Designed technical specs for MM, PP, SD modules for BW implementation.
• Created modeling objects and reports for the above modules.
• Transported objects from Dev to Qty,Prd systems.
• Created Data flows for MM, PP, SD modeling objects to create process chains.
• Created and conducted user documents and user .
• Measures, tracks and evaluates progress against the project plan.
• Ensures quality of deliverables across the entire engagement life cycle.
• Co-ordinate with various cross module teams for BW related queries.

Confidential

BI Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed modeling objects and reports to provide structural authorizations.
• Worked on Info Cubes, DSO’s, Info objects, Transformations, DTP’s, Data sources, Data Extraction, Business Content.
• Worked on transformations, START and END routines.
• Transported objects Dev to Qty systems.
• Created Data flows for modeling objects to create process chains.