PROFILE:

• 19+ Yrs. in IT consulting (15+ years in USA) experience, US Citizen since 2008, having worked wif clients in USA, Canada, Qatar, Singapore and India.
• Last 13 Yrs. focused on SAP Areas: SAP HANA, BW on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP BW, SAP BusinessObjects, S/4HANA v1610 Embedded Analytics, SAP Fiori, EPM (SPM, BW - IP, SEM BPS, SEM BCS, BPC), EIM (BODS) & Predictive Analytics.
• Last 1+ yr worked as Exec. Consultant, SAP HANA Competency Lead in CGI India.
• Played different roles - SAP HANA Competency/BI Practice head, COE lead, HANA BI Solution Architect, Technical Manager, SME, TEMPPrincipal Technology Consultant.
• Provided technical advisory, thought leadership, SME across technology/functions to drive implementation of technology strategy, roadmap direction, discovery/blueprinting workshops, architecture, implemented SAP best practices at SAP customers.
• Excellent customer facing skills, provided solutions to complex business problems.
• Collaborated TEMPeffectively wif other key stakeholders wifin the organization (Verticals, Support functions, Competency, Technology and consulting teams)
• Managed large teams and projects, having strong delivery experience and accountability of ensuring on time, on budget delivery, having managed complex SAP BW/BO, HANA, EPM engagements - implementations, global rollouts, upgrades, AMS and consulting.
• Implemented several full life cycle projects in different platforms and technologies - SAP Business Analytics services, DWHSE, legacy, Client Server and RDBMS.
• Experience in Partnering wif 3rd Parties/vendors, worked closely wif pre-sales, business development teams to close engagements, execute deals and deliveries.
• Experienced wif modeling HANA / VDM-CDS Views using HANA Studio / Eclipse, Attribute/Analytical/Calculated views using Graphical and SQL Script, Modeling for BPC Embedded in BW powered by HANA, EPM Add-In, BusinessObjects Analysis(BoA).
• Experienced in SAP Planning and Consolidation: Create planning applications, Data modeling, Front-end/User interface - report and input template development, planning cubes, planning functions, Planning sequences, filters, data loading and transformations.
• Worked on projects in Predictive Analytics area using tools SAP Predictive Analytics, Tableau 8.0 and SAP Business Intelligence tools and technologies.
• Strong functional knowledge and served many customers-Telecom, Confidential, utility, oil & gas, healthcare, retail, consumer products, financial, insurance, healthcare.
• Expert in reviewing SAP BW / BI system architecture, landscape, sizing, meeting wif Key business users, gathering business and technical requirements, analysis and translating them to design, data modeling, defining reporting strategy, implementation strategy, testing, end user support, training, security strategy and defining BI roadmap.
• Experienced in handling large teams using PM tools and methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP HANA: HANA 1.0 Certified, SAP HANA Modeling HANA Views HANA Studio, Eclipse BW / VDMs - CDS views, S/4HANA Embedded Analytics, BW on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, S/4HANA v1610 Finance/Logistics, SAP BO Integration, Fiori, SuccessFactors, BPC 10.1 Embedded in BW on HANA, EPM Add-in, BoA, HCP, SLT, BODS and SDA.

SAP BW Back-end: Versions 7.x, 3.x, DWHSE Workbench - modeling, design & development of BW components, Extraction, BW-BOBJ Integration

BW Front-End Reporting: BEx Tools - Analyzer, Designer

SAP BusinessObjects: BOE XI 3.1, BI 4.x, CMC, InfoView/BI Launchpad, Webi, Universe Designer/IDT, SAP Lumira, A-OLAP, Xcelsius, DB Designer, BODS

Project Management: SAP Activate, Agile, ASAP, MS Project, MS Excel

Upgrade Projects: BW 3.x to 7.x, BOE XI 3.x to BI 4.x

Predictive Analytics Tools: SAP Predictive Analytics, Tableau 8.0

ETL wif Source Systems: S/4HANA 1610, ECC/SAP R/3 (SD, MM, FI, FI/CO,PS), SAP TM/FI-CA, CRM, IS-U(CR&B),TSW, SEM BPS, SRM, SCM-APO, Non-SAP

ABAP for BW: Working Experience wif Rules, Routines and Transformations

EPM: SPM, SPM-DEC Integration, BPC 10.1 Embedded in BW Powered by HANA, BPC NW, BW-IP, SEM BPS, SEM BCS

DWHSE Skills/Tools: Cognos, Ascential (ETL), ERwin, MS Visio, PL-SQL, TOAD, Oracle Developer, SQL Plus

RDBMS & Legacy: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2

Legacy Systems: Mainframe - IBM DB2, Cobol, VSAM, JCL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building SAP HANA Competency/Capability in CGI India: SAP HANA, Native HANA, S/4HANA, HCP, BW on HANA, Embedded Analytics, Fiori, SuccessFactors
• Plan, build, configure S/4HANA demo boxes, build custom Fiori apps for demo
• Plan, execute, conduct internal trainings on SAP S/4HANA Finance, S/4HANA Basis, SAP HANA Modeling (Studio / IDE Eclipse Neon), Embedded Analytics, SLT and BODS.
• Install and configure SAP delivered standard Fiori apps for operational reporting.
• Responsible for Projects, plan, implementation and offshore delivery end-to-end:
• RFP and implementation of first win ECC to S/4HANA migration project for SaskTel,
• BW to S/4HANA Embedded Aalytics for Operational reporting,
• Implementation and support of BW on HANA projects for Bell Canada and LVMH
• Install, activate and configure SAP Standard and custom Fiori Apps for reporting
• PoC for IFRS RAR, SAP BW/4HANA
• Implementation of PoC for BPC 10.1 Embedded in BW on HANA, SAP IBP
• Implementation of HCP, Fiori reports (Light House Program-CGI partnership wif SAP)

Sr Manager / Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• AMEA BW/BI Lead responsible for Sustain (AMS) and Projects Responsible for maintenance of BW productive systems for East and West AMEA, technical issues raised during batch loading and reporting Responible for project/resource planning, estimation
• Implementation and over all solutioning and delivery of BW/BI projects across AMEA Implement HANA upgrade (BW on HANA) project Support BW-IP, implemented SAP BPC 10.1 NW Standard on HANA and reporting
• Responsble for Coordination wif Global team, AOP & Non-AOP demand for BW/BI from business users, BRMs, BELs

Architect / Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• BW/BI Solutioning and architecture
• End-to-end BW/BOBJ project implementation, responsible for meeting stake holders, requirement collection, translating in to BW/BI design, development, go live and support
• Resolving BW and BOBJ integration issues
• Implement HANA upgrade (BW on HANA) project
• Leading BI team Implementation & over all solutioning, delivery of BW/BI project.

Priciple consultant - SAP BW / BOBJ

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Requirement collection from Nestle Sales Finance team, Blueprinting and analysis of existing strategic pricing database (SQL Server) and reporting Design development, testing thru go-live for first phase
• NUSA BI Analytics Platform to support Pricing strategy development and price optimization by Sales Finance team External POS data (Nielsen & IRI) merged wif internal data (Profitability, Billing, IB/OB Distribution & Master Data)
• Reporting tool (Tableau) integration wif BW, worked wif vendor to fix any integration issues Visualization tool comparisons Tableau v/s SAP Lumira 1.0, Build POCs for comparing Tableau v/s SAP Lumira PMO activities like project planning, effort/resource estimation etc

SAP BW/BI/HANA/Predictive Analytics

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting APAC clients in BW/BI and SAP Predictive Analytics areas
• Solutioning BW/BI back end for predictive analytics projects
• Technical Lead / PMO for BW/BI, BW-IP, BPC NW projects for Reliance India
• Responsible for managing BW/BI, BW-IP, BPC NW projects and teams from SAP, client and partner

Sr Consultant - SAP BW/BusinessObjects

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing consulting services in the area of SAP BW, BOBJ, HANA, BW integration wif SAP BPC, SEM BPS/BCS and having Worked for SAP Business Analytics Services division of SAP North America, providing consulting services to SAP customers in USA and Canada..
• Modeling of HANA content - attribute views, analytical view, calculated Views (graphical and script).
• Integrated third party systems wif SAP HANA.
• Modeling for Native HANA, BW on HANA, BW-IP, SEM BPS, SEM BCS, BPC projects.
• Implemented POCs for SAP clients (Native HANA and BW on HANA). Eg: CO-PA.
• Implemented SAP BW integration wif SPM-DEC project(s) at Zimmer & Merck.

Senior Consultant - SAP BW

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead BW/BI implementation and enhancement projects. Directing client/partner teams on BW technical/functional issues and provided alternative solutions.
• Resolved BI configuration and implementation issues. Conducted meetings wif business users and collected reporting requirements Review BW architecture, sizing, landscape, design.

SAP BW Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for various BW implementation projects at Valero Energy: CRM-BW integration, budget and forecast reporting (SEM BPS), project system reporting and TSW-BW integration.
• Tech lead, managed and mentored team for two major upgrades across BW landscape: (3.0 TO 3.5) & (3.5 TO 7.0) Supported as BW security ‘Approver’ and implemented BW security in 3.x and 7.0 versions. Involved in production support activities (on-going)

Project Manager / Sr Consultant - SAP BW

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in initial client engagement & pre-sales activities
• Planned, coordinated and executed various activities of BW transition project at BASF
• Managed team of 6+ members
• Managed scope the project, prepare high level and detailed project plans.
• Involved in requirement gathering from end users, gap analysis and preparing the functional and technical specifications.
• Managed and controlled BW & source system changes via GSKC, coordinated global changes wif Europe, South America, Mexico and Canada.