EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• 11 + years of experience in SAP BW/HANA/BOBJ as Senior Technical consultant / Architect in Large & Medium Companies.
• Expertise in coordinating Functional Testing, System Testing and UAT test effort and writing System Test Plans and formulating Test Strategies
• Extensive experience in Installation, activation and enhancement of Standard Business Content for various industry like Financials, Logistics, Sales and Planning.
• Worked in ABAP technologies like Reports, SAP Scripts, Smart forms, Enhancements etc.
• SPOC for Production Team for Global Center, Switzerland
• Having Experience on Client Site (Europe, USA) for Requirement gathering, Go - Live etc.
• Experience in Onsite-Offshore delivery model and managing multi-cultural project teams spread across different Geo locations.
• Implemented SAP for various industries like Retail, Oil, Telecom, Auto, Life-science.
• Have involved in Full Cycle Implementations, Upgrades, Roll outs, Migrations, Production Support & Enhancements
• Experience managing multi-cultural project teams spreading across different geo locations
• Extensive knowledge on different project documentations like Business Requirement Document (BRD),Process Design Document (PDD), Business Process Blueprint (BBP), Functional Specification (FS), End User Manual and Training Doc.
• Implemented SAP for various industries like Telecom, Oil, Automobile, Life science, Retail
• Various roles played such as Senior SAP Consultant, Project Lead & Solution Architect
• Quality Centre (HPQC), MS SharePoint, Service-now, NESTOOL and MS-Project etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, California

BI Stream Lead

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Project Management and team leading activities several technologies across BI environments including SAP BI/BW, Oracle DWH, and SAP HANA on BW.
• Good Knowledge of Data Warehousing concepts &Dimensional modeling likeStar SchemaandSnowflake Schema.
• Expertise in coordinating Functional, System Testing and UAT & writing System Test Plans and formulating Test Strategies
• Support business users in every day issues pertaining to Business objects in terms of software support, object mapping, requirement gathering for front end reports
• Creation of OLAP universes based on the SAP BW multi providers, BEX queries and info providers.
• Manage master data, text and hierarchies.
• Manage the data targets by having the correct and up-to-date data.
• Align developments across all the available systems.
• Developed queries and Reports using BEx (Business Explorer Analyzer) Query Designer
• Worked on other supporting business tools like HPQC & EDM (which were critical for the project).
• Provide the support to the team to resolve the data loads issues from various source systems by means of process chains.
• Handling the Tickets (Incident, Service, Change Order) - Acknowledge, Analysis and Estimate, Code Build if exist and Delivery.
• Installation, activation and enhancement of Standard Business Content for various industry verticals and horizontals like Financials, Logistics, Sales and Planning.
• Rich experience in Aggregates, Performance Tuning, Partitioning, Compression, Go-Live, Production Support, End-user training and Documentation.
• To Proactively and effectively communicate potential problems, recommended solutions and progress to the Key Stake holders
• Hands-on experience in APD, Open Hubs.
• Revolutionize new ways to improve current reports and functions to newer versions.
• Was part ofproductionsupportteam and was actively involved introubleshootinganddebuggingfew WEBI reports

Confidential

BI HANA Technical Stream Manager

Responsibilities:

• Being a Senior BW/BI Developer, responsible for the development, support & maintenance of SAP BI/BW version 7.4 on HDB connected to ECC system with the following SAP modules: SD,FI, CO, PM. BW/BI developer will be responsible for analysis, design, and development of SAP BW backend components and front end reports
• Interact with business to gather requirements, prioritize work, develop enhancements to the existing system, coordinate testing, and perform change management/training for BW Reporting and applications.
• Perform analysis and design; write technical specifications; configuration and programming in the SAP/BI environment, including testing and implementation.
• Monitor, communicate and troubleshoot issues with data integrity, data design, and functional and technical software issues.
• Perform routine program modifications, performance tuning, problem solving, debugging, and unit testing.
• Support the on boarding and training of BW Power Users. dis includes providing technical training of key BW toolsets such as BEX web analyzers, query designers, Analysis Business explorer for HANA.
• Worked on other supporting business tools like HPQC and work space designer
• Provide the requisite support to the team to resolve the data loads issues from various source systems by means of process chains.
• Installation, activation and enhancement of Standard Business Content for various industry verticals and horizontals like Financials, Logistics, Sales and Planning.
• Distributed the work among the team members and halped them in development activities.
• Experienced in Project Management and team leading activities. Knowledgeable in different project implementing methodologies and knowledge on Scopes, proposals and participated in multiple pre-sales activities
• Knowledge on basic Integration of BW with BPC for the finance reports.
• Active participation for POC & prototype for IT SAP builds for selling the BW HANA
• Knowledge on BO Crystal reports used for few build in conjunction with Workspace designer.

Confidential

BW Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Extensively Worked on HR,SD modules
• Installation, activation and enhancement of Standard Business Content for various industry verticals and horizontals like Financials, Logistics, Sales and Planning.
• Rich experience in Aggregates, Performance Tuning, Partitioning, Compression, Go-Live, Production Support, End-user training and Documentation.
• The AVIALL Project was implemented using the Project Phases,StagesActivities as defined within the iSAP methodology
• Distributed the work among the team members and halped them in development activities.
• Actively participated in realization phase, unit testing, integration testing, UAT, Pre-cutover, real cutover and post go-live support of the projects

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Required Delivery Document Preparation & Technical Specification.
• Worked under the new Module within BGC in WFM (Work Force Management) - Interface to Empower POS) in Design, Integration, testing across various systems, Go-live & few participation on Reporting scenarios.
• Performing Period-end activities on monthly basis such as cube rotations/DSO, transfer of data to History cubes, Reschedule of chains etc.
• Maintain the status of the Reports in the Portal & provide the reasons for the delay or unavailability of Reports.
• Importing transports from the development layer till the production layer.
• Worked on Management Tools like CA,Autoprome
• Handling the request (Incident, Service Request, Change Order) - Acknowledge, Analysis and Estimate, Code Build if exist and Delivery.

Confidential

BI Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Being part of the development team from India, involved in interacting with the onsite team & the Super users for better understanding of the business requirements on regular basis and based on the perspective working towards realization of the builds.
• Provide support to resolve the tasks, in the appropriate time.
• Involved in preparing the documents for various builds and contributing towards the Centre of Excellence for Improving the Existing System.
• Align developments across all the system.
• Maintain & upgrade re-usable components to reduce the turnaround time of the service offering activities.
• To analyze business requirements (functional and technical) by conducting information-gathering sessions between the Team & Onsite. Designing of APD’s, Bex Quires and writing routines according to user requirements in order to reduce complexity

Confidential

BI Development Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the Business Requirements to Design and create the technical specifications for BI Template Solution.
• Being part of the development team, involved in interacting with the onsite team for better understanding of the business requirements on regular basis and based on the technical specifications working towards realization of the builds.
• Involved in validation of the builds such as debugging of the routines, reconciliation of the data in the info providers with the source data and preparing test scripts.
• Involved in preparing the documents for various builds.
• Develop and implement the Backend and Frontend solution including the BI Content, enhancements.
• Advise and propose to the Client the best practice to follow during the analysis, develop and implementation for the Template Solution
• Develop the localizations adjustments dat the Bottler needs for its own operation
• Development of Localizations for Germany & Malaysia & Singapore Bottlers
• Align developments between BI Template and Localizations
• Developed queries and Reports using BEx (Business Explorer Analyzer) Query Designer.
• Identified the standard objects and GAP’s
• To Work with other business process owners, end-users and project team members & to confirm the Functional correctness of the SRM product Reports
• To Analyze/Review functional and technical specifications associated with reports, interfaces, and Co-ordinate with Delivery point of View and to effectively test and validate the same.
• To analyze business requirements (functional and technical) by conducting information-gathering sessions.
• To Proactively and effectively communicate potential problems, recommended solutions and progress to the Key Stake holders

Confidential

Team lead

Responsibility:

• Verify & manage changes to the project scope, project schedule & project costs by working closely with the customer business process owners & customer IT manager.
• Harmonization of process across the geographical locations.
• Work Allocation & tracking the offshore work of the team members located in various cities countries. Participate in Weekly Conference Calls & SLA Reviews.
• Coordination & communication with the onsite team on a Daily basis.
• Provide the requisite support to the monitoring team to resolve the data loads issues from various source systems by means of process chains.
• Provide support to the Incident Management team to resolve the tickets
• Maintain the status of the Reports in the Portal & provide the reasons for the delay or unavailability of Reports.
• Performance Dashboard and Governance meetings with the customer.
• Represented the team on call with the clients for status on Reports, to face escalations & for other technical discussions.
• Ensure the project deliverables conform to quality standards.
• Monitor Process chains for Master data and Transaction data loads to automated the data loading in the organization and these process chains are scheduled for periodic loads & Involved in transportation of objects to Development, Quality and Production systems.
• A very good knowledge in improving the Effectiveness for query performance as well as loading of data to the data targets by using compression, aggregates, Maintaining Data packet Sizes.
• Migration of Quires & workbooks from 3.X to 7.0
• Hierarchy Downloads from Flat files, Update Rule Testing.
• Working & involved directly with market to know the root cause of issues facing by them & resolving in appropriate course of time.
• Importing transports from the development layer till the production layer.
• Reconciliation of data is done between R/3 and BW systems.
• Good knowledge on R/3 Extraction mechanisms, customizing & configuring the extractors, delta process, delta type, record mode.
• Involve with technical team in designing dashboards, ad-hoc analysis and reporting on KPI's.
• Maintain & upgrade re-usable components to reduce the turnaround time of the service offering activities.
• Involved in Design issues with regards to Data Load Extraction(R/3 extraction, delta handling), Attribute Change Run and overall improvement in Data Load Performance.
• Monitor the data loads from various source systems like R/3, CRM, SEM and APO by means of process chains.
• Involved in the Incident Management (Second Level Support for tickets involving Data load issues).
• Carried out Market wise Disaggregation in SEM and COPA / GD Realignments in BW on Market Requests in coordination with the Onsite Team.
• Investigating Daily Report Availability for the AMS Zone and Markets under Nestle
• Involved in training Shadow resources and other team members
• The main tasks being Monitoring, Change Management. Additional tasks being Ad-hoc loads, Re-initialization of the whole architecture in various business areas, Housekeeping.
• Worked on Management Tools like Peregrine (for ticket handling), Nestool (in-house developed, though powerful) & Document (for documentation)
• Was Single Point Of Contact for Quality & Regression team for all the three Global Centers (America, Europe & Australia), & the Head-Quarters of Nestle, (Switzerland - Vevey) & now, Single Point Of Contact for Production Team for Global Center (America), & the Head-Quarters of Nestle, (Switzerland - Vevey)