SUMMARY:

• Work extensively in SAP - BW, BW on HANA. Experienced in managing a team and leading deliverables.
• Worked on capacity planning and demand forecast. Worked on offshore and onshore coordination.
• Involved in complete life-cycle of requirements-gathering, assessments, analysis, design specification, development, performance tuning, testing, documentation, maintenance, training and security authorizations. Business areas: RR(CO, GL, AP, AR), OTC, MS, PTP, SPM and PP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Associate manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of 10 people and ensuring deliverables as an onshore lead
• Responsible for capacity planning and budgeting based on client-requirements
• Assess and review deliverables with offshore team, prior to client walk-through
• Understand client feedback and ensure speedy resolution while ensuring quality
• Ensure co-ordination between client and offshore delivery team for smoother communication
• Function as Release Coordinator handling cutover activities and go-live support
• Prepare timely status updates at granular level and represent tower in client meetings
• Worked on HANA optimization using BW on HANA and Native HANA
• Part of the conducting team at workshops conducted by Accenture on HANA optimization
• Worked on structuring data for Tableau (Tableau uses BW-HANA as a source for its dashboards)
• Have been involved in analyzing client system and recommend ways for optimizing.
• Worked on BO reporting tools: Analysis for office, Design studio

Business Intelligence

Responsibilities:

• Application lead from onshore for BI - OTC, PTP area
• Responsible for gathering requirements, reviewing design documents from business, providing estimates
• Responsible for timely delivery of projects while ensuring the least possible defects
• Designing optimum solutions in BI and ensure resolution of major technical issues during the various stages involving development, testing and migration
• Work extensively with the functional areas like OTC, MS, RR, PTP, SPM and PP
• Involved in designing and supporting financial statements, SAP-HR and EHS reports (like incident management)
• Designing authorizations for different users based on security roles
• Involved in taking care of all the cutover activities during go-live
• Worked on developing BI- BO reports, WEBI designing and dashboards
• Handled transitions to client team for support on delivered projects

SAP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Leading offshore team in timely delivery of objects based on client requirements
• Designing and implementing finance reports in SAP- BI for EU region
• Provided assessment for a project on converting Hyperion reports into SAP with ECC and Non SAP as sources.
• Worked on requirement gathering and estimations using Accenture standard delivery methodologies.
• Responsible for handling various priority tickets within SLA.
• Experienced in performance-tuning and redesigning to increase data-load and query performance.
• Involved in analyzing DB statistics and providing solutions to clear data and create space.
• Involved in extracting data from SAP (SD, MM, FI), flat files and non-SAP sources using UD connect and DB connect.
• Worked on broadcasting alerts to users based on automated data analysis
• Experienced in extracting data using RDA (Real-time Data Acquisition)
• Experienced in creating APDs using existing BI objects and rules.
• Worked on Integrated Planning, Information Broadcasting and WAD Dashboards
• Designed solutions using Virtual Characteristic and BADI to accommodate a unique requirement
• Worked with different teams like MDM, Data stage, Vendavo for extracting data & reporting

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the development and implementation of SAP BI Project from non-SAP sources.
• Interacting with business-users regarding the requirements and providing solutions for the issues raised
• Gathering requirements from business-users and preparing Report Requirement documents
• Developed Data Validation Reports as part of reconciliation between BI and source
• Trained primary support team to handle post-production issues and scheduling of process-chains/data loads
• Enhancing existing model upon changes in the business requirements of the project
• Imparted training to end-users to familiarize them with the reporting features and also prepared the user manuals.
• Worked on building queries using Customer Exit Variables, Conditions, Exceptions, etc
• Created user manuals and screening documents to verify the Data in sample report and SAP BI reports

SAP Product testing

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the testing the BI 7.0 Product before releasing it to market as well as support packages
• Activated the Business Contents and created the customized infoproviders, infoobjects and Generic Datasources as well as loading data using DTP
• Created Info cubes, Transformations, DTP and Process chains for data loads.
• Worked in remodeling of cubes based on the requirement
• Created queries using Reporting Variables, developed several queries and workbooks using BEx Analyzer
• Worked on integration planning: creating Aggregation Levels, Planning Functions, Characteristic Relationships, Data Slices and Planning Sequences.
• Created Multiproviders to compare the actual and planned data by developing an input-ready query over it
• Created different kinds of planning functions making use of it in input-ready queries and reporting them in BEx Analyzer and Web Application Designer.
• Worked on creating and scheduling process chains for loading data, executing planning functions, executing Broadcaster setting, triggering an event
• Broadcasting the Reports, Queries, Web templates and Query-views to different users by emails and also publishing at the different portals.