Sr. Bi Consultant Resume
San Diego, CA
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- SAP Certified SAP BI/BW Solutions Architect with SAP BW HANA implementation Experience.
- 12+ years of SAP BI Data Warehousing ( ), 19 years of IT experience ( ) IT experience in Design and Development of Business Intelligence Solutions primarily using SAP product suite.
- Six full cycle implementations experience - Blueprint to production support, Working Fortune 500 clients and with SAP America and SAP Partners.
- Has extensive knowledge in Back-end data modeling, Front-end Development and ASAP Methodology
- SAP Functional exposure to SD, MM-IM, FI and PP modules.
- Possessing thorough understanding of Business Objects development tools including Information Design Tool, Universe Design Tool, Web Intelligence, and Crystal Reports for Enterprise, Crystal Reports 2008/2011, Dashboards/Xcelsius, and Analysis for OLAP/Office, Explorer & Lumira.
- Creating complex ad-hoc Reports using Business Warehouse, Business Objects Web Intelligence.
- Experience in Data Analysis, Dimensional Data Modelling (Snow Flake and Star Schema), End User Reporting, Web based Reporting & Implementation, Creating Test scripts and user signoff documents.
- Expertise in front-end Business Warehouse components (BEx Analyzer, Query Designer) for Queries, workbooks, Calculated Key Figures, Restricted Key Figures, Structures, Variables, Exceptions, Conditions, and Web application designer.
- Assist in large-scale SAP Business Objects platform migrations and upgrades.
- Devise Business Objects Governance, backup and Dara Recovery strategy.
- Good understanding of BW platform security concepts: Access Levels, Data security profiles, Row level and Object level security.
- Proficient in Business Objects report distribution methods: Scheduling and Publication.
- Understanding user/business requirements, designing the functional specification document and implementing the technical code.
- Experienced working with databases like Teradata,SAP BW, IBM DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical and technical skills with a strong result oriented approach to problem solving.
- Having good knowledge on performing ETL Based replications in SAP Business Objects Data Services from SAP, Non-SAP & File Systems into HANA Database.
- Strong Knowledge on Data Provisioning techniques to bring Source Objects to HANA Data Base from SAP & Non-SAP Sources.
- Extensively used Business objects ETL tools such as Data services Designer, Data services Server Manager, Data services Repository Manager, and Data services Management Console in developing the data models.
- Good exposure on HANA which includes Data Provisioning, Data Replication, Modeling, Reporting, Information Composer.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Environment: Business Information Warehouse BI 7.0 NW2004S, BW 3.5, 3.0bSAP R/3 4.7, 4.6c, 4.6b, 4.5b, ECC, Solution ManagerReporting & Portals: SAP Enterprise Portals 5.0 SP3/SP4, BEX Analyzer, BEX WEB, Web Application Designer WAD, Report Agent, Business Explorer
OLAP Tools:: SAP BW, BEX Analyzer, BEX WEB and WAD BEx Analyzer, BEx WEB, WAD, Basic ABAP/4, User Exits
RDBMS: Oracle 8i, Oracle client 8.0.1, SQL 2000, Supra, Sybase, DB2
Tools: and Utilities: Assential Datastage, Tivoli, Mercury/HP Quality center, TOAD, Crystal Reports, JDBC, ODBC, OLE DB, MS VISIO, MS PROJECTSAP BW BISAP BI 3.5/7.0/7.3/7.4 , IP, BPC EPM 10 BW Integration
ERP: SAP R/3 4.7/4.6, ECC 6.0HANAHANA 1.0 SP SP04 09, Flat files /SLT / DCX
Languages: ABAP/4, C, C++, JavaScript, HTML, HTML 5, SQL, SQL Script
ABAP: Customer modifications, Function Modules, Update Rules and Transfer Rules reports, BADIs
Web: Dynpro Applications, BSP Applications
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Sr. BI Consultant
Confidential - San Diego CA
Responsibilities:
- HANA Migration from SAP BI 7.3 to 7.4 SPS5 HANA
- Data clean up, system prep
- Upgrade related housekeeping activities
- System migration
- Data quality check between HANA and Older BW System
- Conversion of reports
- Consolidate Sales and distribution system reports - simplified model
- Design simplification - Technical Specifications, Reduced Layer BI modeling, Development, Deployment and user-signoff of BI/BW solutions supporting
- Developed, converted and tested SAP BW Datasources, HANA optimized Infocubes, DSOs, HANA Composite providers, Transformations
- Analysis Workbooks to meet technical specifications and business requirements.
- Assist in development of a current and future state architectural roadmaps that ensures initiatives are aligned with the goals of the business and projects are completed with the highest level of quality.
- Manage change requests and do impact analysis on the Data Warehouse and OLAP, working with stakeholders to do upstream and downstream analysis.
- Coordinated Transport activities
- Gather and articulate business and information requirements from business analysts across the various functional and business areas.
- Analyze and assess the impact of production system changes and new business requirements to the existing data architecture.
- Ensure that systems are developed that use reliable fact data and consistent dimensions.
- Collaborate with the BI Architecture team, business analysts and application developers to develop a high availability operational data store and data warehouse environment.
Sr. BI Sr Consultant
Confidential, Phoenix AZ
Responsibilities:
- Attended Blueprint Workshops, collected reporting requirements, Legacy to ECC Business Process Mapping, Translation from legacy to SAP terminology
- Developed Prototypes, Activated Business Contents and Customized them
- Define Reporting Strategy, Delivery methods and Initial s
- Business Objects - Create Excelsius Dashboard - defining Standards
- Configured Backend - LO, Custom DataSources and InfoProviders for Sand Distribution (Quote to Cash) and Service orders.
- SAP BW HANA Implementation, redesign and removing InfoCubes and replacing DSOs as InfoProviders.
Sr. BI Consultant
Confidential, Dunwoody Gorgia
Responsibilities:
- Designed logical partitions for regional data and implemented Localization options for non standard process. Logical and Physical partition on Multi Bottler solution environment
- Enhanced Standard Logistics Cockpit LO extractors in Production planning area.
- Production Efficiency
- Scrap and empties planning
- Enrich production order data with Machine and environment information
- Addition of new fields, enhance extract structure, populating fields with look-up routines
- Created Management Dashboards using Query views, Web templates.
- Performance tuning existing queries.
- Developed simple Business objects evaluation prototypes, integration to BI, Desktop Intelligence, Integration Toolkit transport imports.
Sr. Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed the Upgrade Scope Prepared Upgrade Plan, coordinated Change control process
- Prepared the system for Migration - Consistency checks, Check lists, Standards
- Performed Functional part of the Upgrade, post upgrade activities
- Completed Technical configuration
- Performance tuned the system for upgrade optimization
- Conducted Go Live verification check
- Prepared Early watch report, analysis
- Coordinated Testing, modified test plan, cases for upgrade
- Trained Business analysts, end users on the new tools
- Supported Post Upgrade, Go-live phases
- Retrofit parallel development objects using Query Designer, BEx Analyzer, Web Application Designer - Web templates
- Data Modeling of the new modules
- DataSource Customization - Custom Extractors - Phase II
- Converted Dataflow to new concept, Eliminated InfoSources
- Rescheduled process chains for optimal performance
- Functional:
- Enhance FI datasources - General Ledger (FI-GL), Profit Center account (PCA), Cost Center(CCA)
- Optimize Financial data extractions - Minute based extractions
- Custom extractors - Data Extraction from External /Non-SAP systems
- Financial Data - Logical Partition for Archival
- Operational reports and users.
- New Master data extraction design
- Data Distribution using Open hub
- Data Retraction for FI Consolidation
Environment: BI 7.0, ECC 6
Sr. Consultant
Confidential, Federal Way, WA
Responsibilities:
- Analyze the existing business process
- Collect, document and manage BI requirements
- Blueprint activities, Gap Analysis,
- Design BI solution
- Prototype Development
- Technical Configuration
- Testing co-ordination, implementation
- Business Analysts, End user
- Go-live support
- Technical tasks overview
- Solution manager - Documentation, Blueprint
- Business content analysis
- BCT customization
- Implement Logistics Cockpit LO extractors for Logistics - PP module
- Including Fields
- Populating them using user Exits
- Validation using R/3 Transactions
- Extract Checker
- Performance improvement on Lookup
- Defining Secondary Keys on R.3
- Design and implement Enterprise Data warehousing layers
- UoM conversions in Transformations
- UoM conversion during report run time
- APD - Analysis process designer
- OpenHub using IBM Datastage
- Custom extractors for Dunn and Bradstreet external system
- Job scheduling -Process chains and Tivoli
- Open Hub
- BIA
- Runtime Analysis, Performance tuning
- Publish Reports - BI Portal
- Upgrade from BI 3.5 to 7.0
- Basic ABAP - Transformations, BEx Variables
- Mercury Quality Center to document testing
- Production support, Issue analysis
- SAP BI Authorizations setup for Authors, Analysts, consumers
Environment: BI 7.0, ECC 6
BW Consultant
Confidential, Palo Alto CA
Responsibilities:
- Developed Web Reporting, Web Application designer, Pre-calculated Web templates
- Gather and interpret their documented reporting requirements
- Data extraction from R/3 and flat file, Creating Info packages, Scheduling and Monitoring.
- Set up procedure for extracting R/3 data for SD using LO-cockpit and into InfoCube.
- Modified standard and created custom Info Source/Data Source, ODS, and Info Cubes
- InfoPackages by using after jobs & after events.
- Generated reports using BEx Analyzer, RRIs.
- Created queries using variables restricted Key figures, filters, exceptions, conditions and free characteristics.
- Fine Tuned performance by creating info cube partitions and creating aggregates.
- Efficient in handling the support problems after going live.
- Analyzed Query performance, post-production Support- and preparing manuals for end users.
Environment: BW 3.0B, R/3 4.6C, BEx, WAD, WAS
BW Consultant
Confidential, Springfield AR
Responsibilities:
- Business Blueprint development
- Estimation of components, defining phases
- Workshops, Demos for Core business initial
- Requirement Gathering
- Business and Technical Analysis
- Business Content analysis
- Realization
Environment: BW 3.0, CRM 4.0, R/3 4.6C, BEx, WAD, WAS