SUMMARY:

• 20+ years of strong IT experience
• Strong Data warehousing, ETL, BI, analytics skills
• 15+ years in SAP BI, Native HANA and Analytics
• Strong Data modeling experience
• More than 10 Full Development Lifecycle
• Agile Methodologies - SAFe certified Leading Agile
• Design Thinking
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture.
• Experience in leading and managing teams.
• Handled multiple roles - Technical Manager, Estimation Lead, SME, Project Lead, Architect, and Developer

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Tools: Native HANA, Enterprise HANA modeling, SAP BW on HANA, SAP BI, Informatica, Oracle, Developer 2k, Visual Basic, BPC, SAP Business Objects Suite, Analysis for office, Tableau

ERP: S/4 HANA, Enterprise HANA, SAP BW on HANA, SAP R/3 with SAP BW/ SAP BI 2004s, SAP BW 7.3, SAP CRM Internet Sales, Business Objects 4.0, Analysis for office

Analytics: Hands on experience in Lumira 1.23 and SAP Predictive Analytics 2.0, tableau

Functional Modules: SD, MM, WM, HR, CRM, PP, FICO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Analytics Senior Principal/HANA architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As an architect responsible for all reviews of Native HANA work
• Managed the entire BW to HANA migration project
• Trained the team and streamlined the process in HANA using SAFe.
• Part of S/4 migration initiative especially in the Embedded Analytics side
• Prototyping on SAC for future Analytics requirement
• Extensive work on SDA/SDI for ETL
• Playing role of RTE for starting the train in Manufacturing

BI Lead/HANA SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Fine tuned long running stored procedures in Native HANA
• Worked on building calculation views to clean up objects
• Helped in setting up process for support and projects
• Working closely with SAP in issue resolution on long running procedures/ memory dumps etc.
• Managing all aspects of downstream business analytics in Exxon - breakfixes, CR’s, support pack upgrades
• Extensive experience in SLT to Native HANA
• Played the role of Release Train Engineer in the SAFe framework for 2 PI planning.

SME and BI Onsite lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding requirements from Domain leads
• Helping team to translate the functional specification to technical design
• Designing and developing the solution
• Identifying the tool of choice for reporting and helping end users reap the benefit of HANA/HANA live
• Helping with architecture for S/4 HANA integration with enterprise HANA using SLT and other proven ETL methods
• Extensive work on Embedded BW
• Integration of MongoDB data with SAP data
• Set up the entire offshore and onsite BI team of 20 consultants
• Instrumental in winning the BI work for Release 2 and successful completion.

Senior Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Exploring and doing detailed PoC for client scenario in Lumira, PA 2.0 etc
• Worked extensive on Predictive Analytics association model for SAPPHIRE Confidential app
• Worked on Lumira extensions and Lumira dashboards connecting to various sources like HANA, CRM, SQL, Cloud, BO Universe etc.
• Providing guidance to other team members of LSS on design thinking
• Collaborating with SAP to see how Confidential express tools can be enhanced

SME and BI Technical Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Smooth go live of BW on HANA migration
• Manage and provide specialist support to Business End Users for SAP BW
• Manage requirements/enhancements coming from different geographical locations.
• Analyze new requirements and translate it into a design and ensure end to end execution.
• Work with offshore and onsite team by providing day to day guidance on the work to be done, walk through of the agreed design, and to manage the team’s productivity, quality of deliverable, leaves, performance.

BI SME and offshore lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage the entire lifecycle of BI and BO implementation for the client
• Manage and provide specialist support to Business End Users for SAP Business Intelligence (BW) and SAP Business Objects (BO)
• Define, document and execute modeling and enhancements of SAP BI and BO solutions
• Implement and support appropriate solutions to improve IT cost effectiveness, service quality and business development while meetingcurrent and future needs
• Provide advice and guidance to Business / Departments through Business Intelligence/ Business Warehouse and Business Objects suite for improving analysis and reporting capabilities
• Worked on BPC development

Solution Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Evaluating the reporting requirements of clients to confirm if BI express can be leveraged
• Resolving PP standard content issues for a client due to 3.x to 7.x conversion
• Resolving Inventory data issue in Indian client which was business critical
• Evaluating BI/Cognos work for a french client to see fitment
• Development of Advanced Analysis and Webi reports for the standard Bex queries
• Crystal reports development for standard bex queries
• Participating in BPC related discussion for BPC express solution - primarily all BI related items
• Performing the lead role for the BI/BO asset usage and solutions for Confidential
• Resolving all technical issues related to BI express
• Working with Associate Partners from different Geo’s for installing BI/BO for various clients
• Working on roadmaps for 2012 related to BI/BO and BPC
• Worked as lead BI/BO consultant for Border States electric BI express FI implementation from March 2012.
• Installing SAP Best practices V 1702 and handling all issues related to dashboards.
• Extensive work on Analysis for office to enable FI reports in Analysis for powerpoint. This is extensively used by top management at BSE and I interacted with the top management.

Onsite BI Lead, Technical Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Making sure that all tickets are closed within the SLA agreed with client.
• Performing Root Cause Analysis for Severity 1 and 2 tickets and identifying if it is a bug or enhancement.
• Confidential moved their servers to a virtual environment and all interfaces SAP and non
• End to end project management for this project in different environments - Development, QA and production boxes.
• I was responsible for interacting with 3rd party vendors to make sure the interfaces were ready for testing from Grace side.
• I was also responsible for keeping the project on track in terms of hours and budget and promptly reporting any discrepancies to client and Confidential leadership.

BI SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Data Modeling and design of master data characteristics, DSO and Cube.
• Design and development of Integration between SAP APO, BI, ECC and ICH.
• Set up of info packages, scheduling and monitoring of loads
• Developed Bex queries and extensive work on web templates and WAD for creating dashboards.
• Worked on Integrated Planning

Technical Lead/BI Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Complete understanding of extraction requirement, Design and Development.
• Data Modeling and design of master data characteristics, DSO and Cube.
• Design and development of BI 2004s DSO’s, DTP’s transformations, info cubes, multi provider.
• Worked closely with BASIS to create LFN’s for loading flat files into BI.
• Set up of info packages, scheduling and monitoring of loads and performance tuning using BI statistics.
• Worked in BPS to integrate actual and budget data in reports.
• Developed Bex queries and extensive work on web templates and WAD for creating dashboards.
• Worked closely with SAP on resolving DTP’s migration issues
• Worked with SAP Co-dev delivered BI extractors