SUMMARY:

• I am a results - oriented professional with extensive experience in the Medical, Retail, Insurance and Financial industries.
• I have several years of experience working in Information Technology and most recent area of expertise is Business Objects (SAP BO) including Microstrategy(MSTR).
• I specialize in helping my employer/client align IT strategies with corporate strategic objectives across various departments, divisions, and locations.
• I have demonstrated a dependable ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management and lead complete life cycles, from the initial planning and needs determination stage to the final testing and deployment of reporting systems in a client/server environment.
• I always play an active role in every phase of the life cycle development including feasibility studies, designing and coding for large and medium Business Objects XI implementations.
• Additionally, I have a wealth of hands on experience using Business Objects Enterprise XI (R2, R3,R4.1) toolset components.
• I am currently seeking an opportunity with a growing company in which my experience can help leverage competitive advantage as well as profitability.
• WEBI/Web Intelligence Deski IDT/UDT Administration/CMC/CCM
• Access Level Security BODS Crystal Reports Row Level Security/BOUser
• LCM and Import wizard Report Bursting Design Studio/Xcelsius Promotion Management
• WEBI Rich Client Business Objects Explorer Report Publishing QaaWS
• Version Management Report Conversion Tool Upgrade Management Tool BI Launch Pad
• DW and Analytics OLAP/OLTP Free-hand SQL OpenDoc

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012), Client Server, HP3000, AS400, Netron, OS/400, CL, TSO/ISPF, MVS, Expeditor, VB6, VBScript, Java, Cool2:E, Microsoft Office, Advanced Excel, SQL Query Optimization, (SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2014), DB2, Relational databases, MS Access, Toad, Oracle 10g, Neteeza), OLAP Cubes.

Advanced technical knowledge on integrating SAP Business Objects (IDT) with:

Hana Tables (Schema)

Hana information models(Views)

BEx Query

SAP Netweaver BW using BICS

SAP ERP Data Sources

Excel or flat files

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Ft Lauderdale, Florida

Business Objects Developer

Responsibilities:

• Business Analytics SME for following departments: CRM, Merchandising, Payroll, Retail Sales, Invoicing, Inventory, Wholesale, Warehousing, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, COMP, MTD, QTD, Rolling 12 and YTD Financials as well as Corporate and Retail Accounting.
• Migratedthe entire BO platform from BOXIR2 to BOXIR4.1 and supported the R2 environment until it was completely decommissioned. Converted all Deski reports to WEBI as well as UNV to UNX universes .
• Created reporting and visualization framework (including Universes) using IDT, WEBI and Design Studio for all Payroll and part of Merchandising departments. I supported and administered the entire BO environment for all departments within the Confidential brand.
• Being the only Business Objects resource, I was fully responsible for all aspects of both (R2, R4.x) Business Objects Enterprise environments. The merger between Confidential and COACH provided me with an opportunity to acquire MicroStrategy (MSTR) skills and these skills were shared with BO users transitioning to MSTR. I conducted training for them and assisted with the development of complex MSTR ad hoc reports.
• Implemented a calendar changes to all of Confidential 's analytics due to COACH using a different retail calendar. The implementation was on time even with a 4 week tight deadline. This project touched every single Universe and every single report and delivery was transparent to the recipients or users of these reports since complexity was handled at the Universe and database level.

Confidential, Naples, Florida

Business Objects Developer/Support

Responsibilities:

• I was the main Business Objects support for all 72 hospitals and 200+ clinics.
• Including WEBI/Infoview training for newly hired employees.
• Maintained and enhanced current Universes as well as improved reports execution time(Performance tuning).
• Medical and Insurance knowledge allowed me to speed up the development and deployment of complex analytics with minimum requirement gathering assistance from Financial and Professional liability and as well as Operational units.
• I created Business Analytics capabilities for Professional liability team (Malpractice area). Initial planning as well as business and technical requirements gathering led to the creation of a data mart. A universe was developed over the data mart to allow self served WEBI reporting as well as the deployment of actionable dashboards using Design Studio for Professional liability personnel (including Attorneys). Actionable meaning drill down from the dashboard to a WEBI document.
• Assisted in the development of WEBI reports within the Managed Care group as well as maintaining the universe within the Payor/Provider contracts group.
• I played the main role of Administrator for the Business Objects environment. Security and Access being one of the main functions.
• Provided reporting technical insight for BOE r4 and Teradata data warehouse implementation. Universe design and reporting being one of those functions.

Confidential, Warren, New Jersey

Business Objects Developer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Business Objects WEBI as the replacement for Risk Management Legacy Reporting System.
• Developed Universes and implemented 7 different context levels within the Universes to allow the Risk Management Team and other departments to generate Single instead of Multi-query WEBI reports.
• This was a huge accomplishment since aggregation issues were resolved and report development was cut in almost in half.
• Provided WEBI training and user friendly WEBI documentation to Risk Management team and other departments.
• Converted 100+ Crystal reports (Part of Risk Management Legacy Reporting System) to WEBI and implemented "Report Bursting" for 600+ TPA recipients using publications.
• Created loss triangle reports, dashboards using Xcelsius as well as loss analysis for those claims getting ready to go into litigation.
• Migrated client from BOEXIr2 to XI r3.1

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Business Objects Developer

Responsibilities:

• Provided Business Objects technical support for duration of the contract.
• Remained with Confidential Hospital until a BO permanent resource was hired.
• Good exposure to Epic Ambulatory KPI and Chronic Disease management universes.
• Assisted hospital staff to create complex reports using these universes.
• Assisted in getting the Hospital's reporting system up and running during a Registry corruption in the BO server.
• It not only involved restoring from back up but also making sure the correct version of reports were being restored and generating the desired output.
• Fully tested and audited Business Objects XI r3.1 installation and developed medical user specific WEBI reports and documentation for Hospital's medical units.

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Business Objects Developer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the data de-normalization life cycle of data models.
• Assisted with performance testing a new universe built over a Sybase vertical database.
• Created complex multi Query reports used for performance tuning.
• Reviewed SQL scripts generated by WEBI to help identify performance issues.
• Implemented part of Citi’s Pearl Global Accounting analytics framework..
• Framework was developed as a replacement for their current home grown reporting system.
• Developed High Level of complexity WEBI Reports used by operational units as well as Financial department users.

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Claims and Risk Management Analytics Business Objects Developer

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities include but not limited to coordinating, planning, and conducting interviews with business users in identifying and capturing business requirements, defining and developing project scope/plan, creating procedures for installing and configuring BOE in production environments, Creating and testing universes, performing BOE software upgrades and patch installations in development and production environments, creating and developing of Business Objects WEBI, Deski, Crystal and Dashboard reports, training business users on how to navigate through BOE INFOVIEW and creating and accessing reports.
• Served as a Specialist/Consultant for RISKMASTER clients in the following areas:
• Collaborated in the Design, Development, Implementation, Delivery and Support of Business Objects reporting solutions for RISKMASTER’s 500 + clients. These reporting solutions is helping clients to gain insights into their Risk, Financials, and Claims data to enable them to capitalize on business opportunities and mitigate losses by using built-in WEBI and DESKI Report Templates and Dashboards.
• Designed universes and created clear and easy to understand WEBI report templates for RISKMASTER’s World-Class clients(Like: Boeing, Southwest Airlines, Safeway, Starbucks, Payless Shoe Source, FedEx, Nordstorm and over 500 others) to help them centralize self insured Claim Incident reporting.
• Developed a large number of the 200+ complex WEBI reports and Dashboards that come with RISKMASTER’s reporting system. These reports are being used by Managers to help identify operational patterns and in some cases to help do predictive analysis.
• Served as a Decision Support Analyst for IT departments on best practices during BO Enterprise XI installations and configuration. Assisted with the creation and recreation of repositories, security domain for user’s groups, security implementation using database views and backup/disaster recovery planning.
• Created, improved and maintained Crystal Reports for an Enterprise Reporting System used for the creation of standard type of reports.
• Served as a mentor for team member consultants in need of a complex WEBI and Dashboard template solution to better convey BI results to target audiences.
• Provided WEBI and DESKI training sessions at User Conferences and guided clients attending the conferences on how to find solutions for their reporting needs through lab sessions.
• Conceptualized and analyzed SAP’s new reporting tools like Business Objects Explorer and prepared a plan on how to integrate the reporting tool into existing reporting environments.
• Explained the reporting technical aspect of Business Objects XI architecture to prospect clients during reporting product introductions done by the sales team at conferences and sales presentations.
• Expertise in Cascading LOV’s, Row level security, Drilling Up and Down using hierarchies, Data integration using multiple data providers/data sources and calculation context definition, Complex queries, Combined queries, Sub-queries, Sub-reporting using hyperlinks, free hand SQL, Multi-Block reporting, Stored procedures, Reporting User Acceptance test, Reporting Data validation, and Performance tuning.