SUMMARY

• Highly accomplished, self - motivated and goal-oriented SAP BI professional with a successful 16+ years of track record in manufacturing, consulting services and healthcare industries.
• Strongly proficient in SAP, Concur, Tableau, SQL and MS Office with a proven ability to utilize technology effectively to accomplish and deliver various SAP and non-SAP projects. Over 16 years of BI development, administration, laying out BI strategy and SAP experience in managing multiple implemenations, upgrades and production support projects.
• 6 full life cycle implementations including upgrades and system migrations
• Experienced in global digital transformation to create new or modify existing business processes, culture, and customer experiences to meet changing business and market requirements
• Experienced in laying out BI strategy and executing enterprise wide global projects
• In-depth understanding of business strategy, business/IT goals and it’s relevance to BI implementation
• Project Management experience working with multiple teams including Project charter, project plans, task management, and resource management, stakeholder management, requirement churn analysis, and change control management
• Effective Manager of employees and contractors by mentoring, prioritizing work load balance and liaising with executives to determine BI roadmap and working on approved projects that add value to organization by cost reduction and implementing cutting edge technologies
• Experienced in managing resources in on-shore/off-shore model
• Proficient with Tableau analytics & visualizations, design, administration and reporting
• Experienced with BI/BOBJ 4.x platform (Web Intelligence, Lumira, Dashboard, Crystal Reports, Universe Designer Tool, Information Design Tool)
• Proficient with BPC 10.0 on NW, design, administration and reporting
• Hands on with BW 7.31 administration and reporting tools
• Highly skilled with Concur administration and support (T&E system)
• Experienced in ServiceNow and LiquidPlanner for incidents, projects and resource planning
• Great analytical skills
• Great interpersonal skills
• Great communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP ECC 6.0, BI7.x (NW), BOBJ 3.1, BOBJ 4.1, BOBJ 4.2, BPC 10.0 (NW).
• Tableau, Power BI, BEx Query Designer, BEx Query Analyzer, Web Intelligence, Lumira, Design Studio, Analysis for OLAP, Crystal Report, Cognos, Concur, MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Outlook), SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2016.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Senior BI Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led global BI Strategy with a focus on global transformation (Currently in progress).
• Led global Tableau roll-out in NA, APAC & EU (Currently in progress).
• Played a key role in building Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) as a “single-source-of-truth”. (Currently in progress).
• Led upgrade of BOBJ from 3.x to 4.x along with migrating content from local clients to a centralized repository (BI Launchpad).
• Configured SSO in Tableau using SAML and Microsoft Azure.
• Configured SSO in BOBJ using Windows Active Directory.
• Promote higher adoption rate for BI applications within the organization.
• Supported existing systems - BOBJ, Tableau, Power BI, TM1, HFM, EDW, Informatica - administration and enhancements.
• Supported creation of RFI, RFP, SOW, MSA & Contracts.

Confidential, CA

Senior BI Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led BW 7.31 implementation and deployed modules like: FI, CO, SD, MM, PS, and HR.
• Led BOBJ upgrade successfully from XI3.1 to 4.1 that included tools like Web Intelligence, Crystal Report, Design Studio and Lumira.
• Rolled-out enterprise wide BI strategy, and was responsible for putting together a BI training program for users within the organization.
• Managed day-to-day administration of Business Objects (BOBJ) platform.
• Designed and managed the security model, report scheduling and distribution in BOBJ.
• Set up new business processes to stay SOX compliant.
• Led the design and development of data warehouse and reporting.
• Led BPC 10.0 NW implementation for Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting and Consolidation.
• Worked closely with FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) and Consolidation teams on BPC 10.0 and assisted them in closing financial books efficiently on-time.
• Administered SAP Concur platform (T&E System) and implemented new travel and expense policies in Concur resulting in $250K in cost savings.
• Led a team to carry out day to day troubleshooting, end user support, holding live demos and training sessions, report development (IBM Cognos 10.0), report bursting and scheduling, activating new audit rules in the system according to company policies and coming up with smarter ways to close out any loopholes in company’s existing business processes.

Confidential

BI Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of engineers responsible for building out test platforms for storage media.
• Helped various departments in formulating high-level strategy around BOBJ implementation and identified operational, tactical and strategic key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Involved in creating customized analytical reports using Business Objects (BOBJ).
• Led data analysis in SQL and Access databases and help put together management reporting packages.

Confidential, CA

ERP Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Specialized in the field of designing databases (SQL Server 2000).
• Interacted with clients on a regular basis to gather their system requirements.
• Worked closely with other team members and assisted in designing dynamic websites, building and maintaining computers on the network, data backup, etc.