SUMMARY

• Possess 17+ years of successful, progressive experience and demonstrated expertise in providing SAP Business Warehouse solutions globally including Business Intelligence management, system architecture & design, project management, Strategic IT Planning.
• Instinctive leader wif passion for technology and people adept in managing/delivering full lifecycle projects, from concept to Go - Live including ( Confidential ) and Confidential .
• Hands-on expertise in all phases of SDLC like Realization, Analysis, Functional and Technical specification, Development, Integration and UAT, End-User trainings and Post Go-Live support.
• Wif Customer focus and accomplished in leading onshore and offshore technical teams to deliver seamless BI solutions & support for thousands of users.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

BI Expert

Responsibilities:

• Working as a BI architect designing a brand new Finance solution (FICO) for Maines KPIs.
• Current responsibilities also include help Maines strategize and create a BI future roadmap using SAP HANA in coordination wif SAP.

Confidential

BI HANA Architect

Responsibilities:

• Evaluation of Confidential data requirement for teh project and data availability (considering teh future roadmap).
• Create a blueprint document including a logical/physical data model and Developing a prototype
• Establish documentation (functional and technical specs etc.), development and naming standards.
• Develop a data model comprising of Attribute, Analytical and Calculation Views using HANA Design Studio.
• Identification of tables for import; Develop data migration flows using SLT and Data Services.
• Design/develop SD/Transportation dashboards using Tableau.
• Development of Data Flows and Processes using Data Services on HCI (HANA Cloud Integration)

Confidential

Sen. BW Architect / Manager BI GSSC

Responsibilities:

• As a BI Architect drove Confidential ’s ambitious Common Financial Platform (CFP) project, dat consolidated more than 500 General Ledgers (G/L) worldwide, from initial concept, Blue Print, Build, Test through Go-Live for United States/Canada, Japan, teh UK and teh Nordic countries.
• Led CFP Project dat involved, gather/streamline requirements, defining strategy, blueprint design for global BI architecture; review wif teh stake holders; create data model prototypes; drafted and implemented procedures, standards and policies;
• Design/Build/Test SAP BW Objects (DSO/Infocube/Multiprovider) including RDA (Real Time Data Acquisition).
• Led CFP blueprint design (SAP BW) for global BI architecture; create data model prototypes.
• Facilitated data discovery sessions for teh development of a corporate data policy dat outlines teh appropriate data stewardship and data audit requirements, as well as teh service-level agreements.
• Facilitated report design sessions wif SMEs for 100+ reports in initial scope of teh deliverables.
• Support GAAP and STAT (regulatory) reporting (FICO) catering to a large user community.
• Migration of BW on DB2 to BW on HANA and tan HANA optimization of SAP BW Objects using Agile methodology. Effort involved sizing, Planning, Migration, Pre and Post Migration Testing and issue resolution. (HANA SLT, BODS).
• Led formation of a Global Data Warehouse (GDW) for FI/CO reporting & BPC. Effort involved Data migration and integration from all BUs into one GDW, using Composite Providers and Advanced DSOs on HANA DB.
• Hands on wif creation of Attribute, Analytical and Calculation views on HANA. Experience in using predefined HANA business library views and functions.
• Involved in HANA sizing and ordering of teh HANA appliance for PROD and NON-PROD.
• Created visualizations using Lumira, BOBJ AO and Tableau.
• Oversaw integration wif BWA, Data Stage, Autosys, Eagle Wings, Clarity, Cognos & BPC etc.
• Lead BW operations for all BUs (business units) domestic & global dat included CFP (FICO/FSL) US/Canada, UK/Nordic/Japan. Also supported Life & Retirement CA, AMG ( Confidential Asset Management) and BPC (10.0). Supported more than 2000 BW users wifout a single day of downtime. Team size: 17.
• TEMPPrincipal owner of Delivery/Release Management of major BI projects/enhancements. Managed changes using SAP Solution Manager 7.0 dat involved major approvals, documentation review, manage quarterly releases; improvement of Change Management processes; manage upgrades. Attend Mgmt Meetings.
• Working hand in hand wif Testing Team for timely sign offs for major and critical projects.
• Built strong relationships through regular meetings wif higher executives and stakeholders to understand their issues and evaluation of business problems/defects/gaps.
• Led, managed, cross-trained, and mentored global teams of technical onshore and offshore personnel in locations dat included India, teh Philippines, and Japan.
• Project planning/staffing, Built, motivated & trained teams, defined SLAs, led planning & cost controls, collaborated wif IBM Managed Services, communicated companywide.
• Planned, staffed, directed multiple BW and HANA projects from concept to execution focused on optimized design & process improvement; prepare detailed cutover and go-live plans containing dependencies and task ownerships including contingency plan.
• Provided flawless uninterrupted Month, Quarter and Year-end (FYE) financial close;
• Comparison and benchmarking of new tools and software facilitating teh tool selection for BI Users.
• Manage roll out of new software/analytical tools to users dat involves all levels of testing and sign offs.
• Manage/monitor/organize systems, projects and processes documentation & Run-Books on SharePoint.
• Involved wif Business Intelligence Security strategy for reporting and analytics including HANA.
• Managed teh successful transition of support from IBM India to Confidential Manila.

SAP BW Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successful upgrade to BI7.0 in least possible time managing all aspects leading to cut-over.
• Led frontend redesign & re-architecture of financial system using data from multiple source systems.
• FI-GL, budget / forecasting & asset management using virtual & remote cubes.
• Design and scheduling of Process Chains for optimization of nightly batches to meet SLAs.
• Led data compression project.

Team Lead / Architect SAP BW

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Responsibilities:

• Led Capital Expenditure (Capex) project (PS, IM, FI-GL, AM & PUR modules). Managed 11-member team driving project planning, phasing, final cutover and go-live strategies.
• Implemented BW statistics; Performance Improvement; Involved wif POS Implementation.
• Drove definition of authorization, security & roles for data access in BW solution.
• Designing reporting strategy and standards; global work-book templates; trained users on leveraging BEx.
• Developing reports by combining data from Terradata and BW using BOBJ Tools.

Integration Architect

Confidential, Tacoma, WA

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Built IVR modules integrating wif ECC via SAP Business Connector middleware using SOAP protocol.
• Formulated data modeling, architected BW solution, prepared reports catalog; automated nightly batch process for multiple data areas via process chains.

Team Lead Development

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Team lead on EDI projects: analyzed transmitted documents; created translation maps & new trading partners using Gentran; managed Van mailboxes for incoming documents; created & maintained UNIX shell scripts for import / export; created partner profiles in SAP.
• Planned, designed, built, maintained workflow for appropriate messaging system.

Integration Architect

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Responsibilities:

• Led 46C ECC Upgrade project focusing on Sales & Distribution, HR.
• Achieved for teh first time at Confidential a non-SAP source trigger an SAP BAPI using business objects, VB Active-X and ABAP.
• Achieved for teh first time at Confidential allowing users to scan delivery numbers from non-SAP hand-held device generating an SAP BAPI-trigger for serialization.
• Installed and implemented SAP Business Connector, including AP BC, DTD (Rosettanet Format), partner profiles, ALE, XML.

Lead Mgmt. Reporting & Interfaces

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Managed (personally) onsite development & operation of interfaces for Italian and French implementations.
• Orchestrated interfaces between global partners. Researched, developed file transfer techniques & tools.
• Answered investigation / analysis of development requests (DERs) from global partners.
• Improved performance and ability of SAP custom programs and reports.
• Crafted transactions using ABAP and customizing enhancement projects system (CMOD / SMOD).
• Crafted ABAP code to extract data for consolidated material master, to interface North American SAP information wif global partners (including use of IM3, HP’s interface generator tool).