SUMMARY:

• Results - oriented Professional in the Medical, Retail, Insurance and Financial industry with over 12 years of experience in Business Objects (SAP BO) and Microstrategy(MSTR) helping clients align IT strategies with corporate strategic objectives across all departments, divisions, and locations.
• Demonstrated and proven ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management and lead complete life cycles, from initial planning and needs determination to final testing and deployment of reporting systems in a client/server environment. Involved in every phase of the life cycle development including feasibility studies, design and coding for large and medium Business Objects XI implementations.
• Hands on experience using Business Objects Enterprise XI (R2, R3,R4.1) and Microstrategy toolset components
• WEBI Deski Designer/Universe Design Administration/CMC/CCM
• Security BODS Crystal Reports Business Layer/Data Foundation
• LCM and Import wizard Report Bursting Dashboard Design Promotion Management
• WEBI Rich Client Business Objects Explorer Publishing Wizard QaaWS
• IDT/UDT Report Conversion Tool Upgrade Management Tool BI Launch Pad
• Tidal OLAP/OLTP Free-hand SQL OpenDoc

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Ft Lauderdale, Florida

Developer

Responsibilities:

• SME in reporting and BI solutions for following departments: Retail Sales, Wholesale, Invoicing, Inventory, Warehousing, Accounts Payable, Accounts receivable, COMP, MTD, QTD, Rolling 12 and YTD Financials as well as Corporate and Retail Accounting.
• BI environment consists of Deski, SAP Business Objects R2, SAP Business Objects R4.1 and Microstrategy.
• Maintains the R2 environment and develops all self-serve BI solutions in R4.1 environment. Fully engage in converting all Deski Reports to BO R4.1.
• I am the only Business Objects resource and I am fully responsible for all aspects of Business Objects Enterprise environments. Microstrategy is another area of support I provide by training and helping users to develop complex ad hoc reports.

Confidential, Florida

Developer/Support

Responsibilities:

• I was the main Business Objects support for all 72 hospitals (3000+ reports). Including WEBI/Infoview training for newly hired employees. Maintained and enhanced current Universes as well as improved reports execution time(Performance tuning) from 60+ minutes to less than 15 minutes. Business knowledge allowed me to developed complex reports without any assistance for Financial and Professional liability and as well as Operational units.
• I played the main role of Administrator for the Business Objects environment. Security and Access being the main functions.
• Provided reporting technical insight for BOE r4 and Teradata warehouse implementation. Universe design and reporting being the main focus.

Confidential, New Jersey

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+ recipients using publications.
• Migrated client from BOEXIr2 to XI r3.1

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Provided Business Objects technical support for duration of the contract. Remained with Denver Children's Hospital until a BO permanent resource was hired.
• Fully tested and audited Business Objects XI r3.1 installation and developed medical user specific WEBI documentation for Hospital's Medical units.

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Developer

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Created part of Citi’s Global Accounting reporting framework used for data analysis. Framework was developed as a replacement for their current home grown reporting system.
• Created High Level of complexity GL WEBI Reports used by locally and global Accounting department users.

Confidential, Austin, Texas

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.