SUMMARY:

• Self - starter with over 16+ yrs IT experience with 11+ years’ experience in Data warehousing and Business Intelligence projects
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently in a team and individual environments with excellent interpersonal, technical and communication skills with several years of experience in leading technical teams.
• Extensive experience in end to end project management in business intelligence projects involving Business Objects SAP BOBJ 4.0/3.1, Business Objects XI R2/R1/6.5, Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, Universe Designer- UDT/IDT, BI Launchpad/Infoview, CMC, CCM, Report Conversion Tool, Upgrade management Tool, Promotion Management, LCM, Dashboard Manager, Performance Manager, Xcelsius, QWAAS, Live Office.
• Working knowledge and proficiency with Business Objects Enterprise products namely Business Objects Reporting, Business Objects Designer, Web Intelligence, Infoview and Webi Rich Client.
• Strong experience as Business Objects Administrator including installation, configuration of BO Tools, setup and maintenance of Business Objects Enterprise environment, creating and managing groups and user profiles.
• Experience in upgrading lower version to higher versions of both Business Objects server and client products.
• Knowledge on ETL tool Informatica.
• Strong experience in the Pharmaceutical, Banking domains, Telecom domains.
• Extensive experience in Data Modeling (Star Schema, Snowflake Schema), Business Object Universe design, report development, and administration of SAP Business Objects Tool.
• Proficient in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) starting from project definition, requirement gathering, analysis and design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Experience in analyzing the business processes, analyzing the data quality, defining data granularity, data elements mapping, and data modeling for data warehouse systems.
• Collaborating with business, functional and technical teams to capture customer requirements correctly into functional specifications and driving the implementation of BI solution through completion.
• A good team player with excellent communication skills, cooperative and knowledgeable provider of strategic technical leadership. Always open to learn and implement new ideas .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Data Modelling: Erwin 9.5

BI Reporting Tool: SAP Business Objects 6.x / XI / XI R2/XI R3/4.0, BI Launch Pad/Infoview, Web Intelligence/ Webi Rich Client (WEBI), Desktop Intelligence (DESKI), Universe Designer Tool (UDT), Information Designer Tool (IDT), Central Configuration Manager (CCM), Central Management Console (CMC), Import Wizard, Upgrade Management Tool (UMT), Promotion Management Tool, Life Cycle Manager (LCM) Xcelsius 2008, Dashboard Manager, with exposure to SAP HANA, Cognos 10

RDBMS: Oracle 9i/10g/11/12c, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2010, Teradata 13/14

Operating Systems: Unix (SCO 4.1, Aix 7.0, Solaris 7.0, Linux 7.1, Confidential -UX)

Languages: C, C-ISAM, ESQL/C, Java

Application Server: Tomcat, IIS, Web logic, Web sphere

Other Applications/Tools: Confidential Quality Center; Application Life Cycle Management (ALM); Service Now; ADAPT; Silk Test; Rebeqa; MS Office; MS Project; MS Visio, Document Management System.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technologies Used: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Power Point Presentation

Project Manager/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Currently involved in multiple projects as Business Analyst and Project manager.
• Work with IS and Business team of Amgen in understanding the document content that has to be migrated from another system.
• Prepare high level plan and involve the required business stake holders.
• Setup multiple workshop meetings with business and help them in metadata mapping of documents from source to destination.

Confidential

Technologies Used: SAP Business Intelligence Suite BI 4.0 SP5, SAP Business Objects Admin, Oracle 11g, Microsoft Project

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involve in SAP Business Objects Administration providing migration, IDT Connection setup and configuration.
• Work with functional team, SMEs and design teams in phases or requirement gathering, design documentation and current development stage for producing final product.
• Involve in SAP Business Objects Installation, configuration, user administration, universe design and development of the reporting platform.

Confidential

Technologies Used: SAP Business Objects 4.0 SP7, SAP Dashboard 4.0 SP7, Oracle 11g, Microsoft Project

Senior Business Objects Consultant/ Project Lead/SME

Responsibilities:

• Served as the subject matter expert, and coordinator in SAP Business Objects in gathering requirements from client for report designing and development.
• Created Requirements Specification, Functional Specification and Design Documents ensuring that requirements were complete, consistent, accurate, and unambiguous.
• Provided guidance to the team on technical issues on Information designer tool (IDT), report development using Webi Intelligence/ Webi Rich client, as needed.
• Conducted technical training on SAP Business Objects tools - IDT, Webi to users Confidential .
• Installed, configured and deployed entire SAP BI 4.0 SP7 system and other software’s on windows 2008 server in clustered environment
• Played a key role in implementing the testing strategy, defect tracking and bug fixing.
• Involved in any project discussions and helped to resolve any issues.
• Ensured that deliverables were executed on time as per the deadline.
• Handled Change request project and executed the project on time which involved report development using SAP Business Objects 4.0 SP7

Confidential, Thousand Oaks

Technologies Used: SAP Business Objects XIR3, SAP Business Objects 4.0 SP5, Universe Designer, Information Designer Tool (IDT), Infoview/ BI Launchpad, Web Intelligence, CMC, Promotion Manager, Teradata, Microsoft Project Plan, Confidential Quality Center

Senior Business Objects Consultant/ Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Platform Migration from SAP Business Objects XI 3.1 & 3.6 versions to SAP Business Objects 4.0 SP5 using Upgrade Management Tool
• Installed SAP Business Objects Patches and Service Packs to resolve bugs.
• Involved in SAP Business Objects Admin activities providing user access, IDT connection setup.
• Extensively used Central Management Console (CMC) in setting up security in BI 4.0 and also managed security configuration for various reports and universe in development, Test and production environment.
• Extensively worked with SAP support team directly for 4.0 product related issues
• Responsible for Solution Proposals, Presentations, Status Reporting, Risk Assessments and Mitigation.
• Responsible for troubleshooting high priority issues in the report functionality & data.
• Responsible for understanding the business processes and collaborating with business users in requirements analysis, functional design, and technical design documentation.
• Reviewed the HLD (High Level Design), LLD (Low Level Design) and STM (Source to Target Mapping) documents.
• Involved in creating the functional specification documents for Promote Inbound and Outbound interfaces.
• Developed data management, information governance strategy documents along with standards document.
• Controlled the quality of deliverables and Risk Management Planning.
• Provided support in post-deployment phase and involved in project transition to production support.
• Created EDM Quality documentation including Functional & System Requirements and Design Specs, obtained required approvals from Quality, system owners & business owners.
• Planned and estimated the tasks based on requirements.

Confidential

Technologies Used: Business Objects XIR3 SP3, Universe Designer, CMC, Import Wizard, Teradata 12

Senior Business Objects Consultant / Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business knowledge and requirements to document Glossary of Terms, Business Object Models, and Use Cases.
• Planned and estimated the tasks based on requirements.
• Organized and ran workshops to help clients make the best use of the Business Objects.
• Served as the subject matter expert and coordinator in analyzing the system impact and high level business requirement of various new initiatives on accounting operations.
• Involved in SAP Business Objects Admin activities providing user access, Universe connection setup.
• Extensively used Central Management Console (CMC) in setting up security in XI R3 and also managed security configuration for various reports and universe in development, Test and production environment.
• Used import wizard to migrate reports, folders, users, groups, universes from different environments.
• Scheduled reports per agreed upon timelines, modify as requested by customers, Audit and validate cross-functional system data to ensure data integrity, troubleshoot applications issues.

Confidential

Technologies Used: SAP Business Objects XIR3, Universe Designer, SQL Server 2005,Erwin

Senior Business Objects Consultant/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and documented business requirements from the client.
• Designed and documented Adhoc Universes using Erwin.
• Involved in development of the universe using Universe designer tool (UDT)
• Coordinated testing with the QA team.
• Coordinated UAT with the business stakeholders and ensured results met the requirements.
• Provided KT to new team members.

Confidential, Thousand Oaks

Technologies Used: SAP Business Objects XIR3, Teradata, Universe Designer Tool, Microsoft Project Plan

Senior Business Objects Consultant /Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reporting requirements gathering with Client at Confidential (Thousand Oaks, CA).
• Documented the reporting requirement at Confidential and communicated the requirement to development team in Offshore.
• Lead the development team both at Onsite/ Offshore and Co-ordinated in delivering the work on time.
• Conduct Client review iterations to take the feedback on reports and passing on the changes to development team.
• Involved in technical review of the reports developed by developers using Webi Intelligence reporting tool on SAP Business Objects XIR3 and provided technical guidance/suggestion to the team.
• Estimate the development effort and involve in presenting the status of the progress of the development to the client. Involve in document updating and technical review related to project.

Confidential

Technologies Used: SAP Business Objects XIR2, Universe Designer, Oracle 10g

Senior Business Objects Consultant/ Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the client to understand and document their business requirements.
• Worked in Confidential as Coordinator and communicated the requirements to development team.
• Designed and developed Universes and reports based on the business requirement using universe designer tool on SAP Business Objects XIR2.
• Conducted review sessions with the client by presenting the Universes developed, documented the review feedback, and passed the information to offshore team to implement any changes.
• Analyzed the data and interacted with client to resolve any data inconsistencies.
• Interacted with client to understand their business issues and resolve the same.
• Obtained the client sign-off for the developed work completion.

Confidential

Technologies Used: SAP Business Objects XIR2, Universe Designer, MS SQL

Senior Business Objects Consultant / Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Universes and reports based on the business requirements from the client. This was internal client to Confidential .