PROFILE:

Accomplished information technology manager and team leader. Highly skilled and experienced in Project management. Expert in SAP programming, installation, and security. Focus on business intelligence and business objects. Record of achieving project results in a timely manner. Known as a self - motivated, driven and hard-working team player who establishes clear actionable steps to create appropriate business results. Reputation for working effectively with business partners and maintaining focus on using technology to improve business performance.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of excellent project management experience with expertise in Agile and MS project
• Over 10 years of extensive SAP BW/BI and BOBJ experience, along with 10 years IT experience
• 4 full life cycle implementations and SAP BI Upgrade projects, applying ASAP methodology and project management skills.
• Trained in Project Management. PMP in Process
• Expert in Administration , Business Objects , Designer , BOBJ (Desktop/Web I Intelligence) , Supervisor/CMC and Info View . Hands on experience in Installation , configuration & deployment of Business objects . Setting up Testing , Quality Assurance and Production Servers Environment.
• Created interactive Executive Dashboards, Charts and Graphs using Xcelsius. Involved in Performance Tuning of Reports and Universe. Hands on experience in working with databases like Oracle, MS SQL Server and MS Access.
• Excellent leadership, communication, interpersonal and project management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP BW Versions: 3.0B, 3.0A, 3.5, BI 7.0, SAP R/3 4.6, ECC 6.0, SAP BOBJ Versions 3.1, 4.0,4.2 SP05, MS project 2016, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, MS Project, MS Office, MS FrontPage 2003 HTML, Adobe Photoshop 5.0, MS-Access, MS Visio, MS Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Cordinated Project team Orientation
• Created Project financial, forecast and actuals tracker
• Created Project Charter
• Engaged Wipro Dev resources and other external resources
• Created App Inventory Spread sheet
• Sorted through Corporate account Feeds ownerships
• Managed build-out NEW FTP Servers
• Identify the AD names/groupings
• Engage App owners
• Execute (Design, Development & Testing and Implementation)
• Execute Work Streams (dev, test, through go-live)
• Completed SFTP Migration to new server
• Completed Production Verification & System Acceptance
• Reviewing and approving resolution and closeout of any discrepancies generated during protocol execution
• Review and approve the summary report to ensure that the results and conclusions in the report are acceptable.
• Scheduled and led daily team and scrum meetings
• Engaged in face to face meetings and communication with major stake holders
• Completed weekly project update dashboards and graphs
• Maintained daily MS project update of tasks and milstones.
• Confirmed hand-off to operations for ongoing support
• Project Documentation Reconciled & Stored Appropriately
• Created lessons learned report & Sent to Project & Portfolio Management
• Closed Financials (Tracker, Invoices Paid, PO's Closed, IO/CPA Closed)
• Created variance summery (Time & Cost)
• Reviewed Benefits Realization Status with Portfolio Manager
• Conduct Stage Gate review - Project Closeout

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed TCO, Business Case & benefits realization Plan with IT functional sponsor
• Created Project Financial Tracker & Forecast
• Created Project Charter
• Engaged QA and CSV
• Put in the POs for the BusinessObjects hardware.
• Onboard Project Team
• Baselined Project Plan (In PWA) - after Change Request approved and all planning in place
• Gathered functional requirements specifications
• Coordinated upgrade and deployment of all File server jobs to point to new servers (Dev / QA / Prod)
• Initiate communication / coordination with external stakeholders for FTP jobs upgrade
• Reviewing and approving validation protocol and associated summary report
• Ensuring that the results presented in the report are accurate acceptable and that acceptance criterion have been met
• Provide support in resolution, closeout and approval of discrepancies generated during protocol execution, where applicable.
• Reviewing and approving of QA discrepancies observed during the execution of quality assurance.
• Coordinated the build of 4.2 BO Environment Servers, Load Bal, Backup & Rec FOUNDATION
• Coordinated content resync to current date and code freeze
• Led and scheduled daily team meetings and task follow-ups
• Designed and completed weekly project update dashboards and charts
• Engaged in weekly 1: 1 meetings with major stakeholders and project sponsors
• Managed project financials, forecast and actuals tracker.
• Coordinated UAT with business partners and vendors
• Conducted project closure meetings and documentation.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage large scale systems, network and software deployment projects for client companies with full oversight for design, development, deployment and production.
• Define technical requirements and document plans for project lifecycle deployment including the scheduling of project deliverables, budgets and timelines.
• Direct all IT deployments and job scheduling with oversight for vendor and consultant management.
• Coordinate internal IT projects ensuring that implementations are ready as required by client deadlines.
• Proven ability to resolve complex problems, quickly diagnosing and identifying issues and determining the proper resolutions.
• Utilize Microsoft Project to plan project initiatives, communicate goals and provide continual updates on progress.
• Analyze, prepare and document operational procedures and technical guidelines.
• Plan, develop and deploy change management initiatives for technical implementation including productivity software, systems, technical application and hardware release.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Assistant Project Manager/Data Modeling Architect

Responsibilities:

• Proposal of solution options for decommission the legacy applications
• Developing strategies for retiring the legacy systems and moving retain data into a new data warehouse
• Overseeing the development of the new data warehouse to house relevant data that was agreed on for the retention policy
• Co-ordinated with business to create a retention policy as per industry and federal standards

Confidential

Business Objects Dashboard Designer/Developer

Environment: Xcelsius 4.0, MS Excel

Responsibilities:

• Designed Forecast Accuracy dashboard (high level) that functioned as:
• World map containing view of forecast accuracy color-coded based with red/yellow/green threshold.
• Trend graph contained view of forecast accuracy (forecast/actual units) by month.
• Dashboard contained dropdown to filter by brand with (ability to select multiple brands at once)
• Developed Prospective Coverage dashboard functioned as follows (high level):
• Map of Europe contained view of prospective coverage by country color-coded based with red/yellow/green threshold.
• Designed Trend graph that contained view of prospective coverage (inventory / forecast demand) by month. This was forward looking, starting at current month and projecting 6 months out.
• Dashboard contained dropdown to filter by brand (with ability to select multiple brands at once)

Confidential

Business Objects Admin Developer

Environment: SAP BW 3.5, BI 7.0, SAP R/3 4.6c., ECC 6.0, Teradata Database, Business Objects XI 4.0 and FP2.5, SAP IK XI 3.1 SP2 and FP 2.5, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius 2008, Qaa WS, Live Office

Responsibilities:

• Installed BOBJ Enterprise XI 4.0 and Fix pack 2.5 and SAP Integration Kit SP2 and Fix pack 2.5 on BOBJ Dev., QA and PRD systems.
• Built reports that have multiple display objects on a single page (tables and charts) in Web Intelligence for user friendly analysis of data.
• In WEBI used Calculations, Variables, Breaks, Sorting, Alerts, Prompts, slice and dice, and Drill down/up functionality for creating Master-Detail reports, Cross-tab reports related to the company’s Accounting and Financial Planning.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP BI & BOBJ Data Services Architect

Environment: SAP BW 3.5, BI 7.0, SAP R/3 4.6c., ECC 6.0, Business Objects XI 3.1 SP2 and FP2.5, SAP IK XI 3.1 SP2 and FP 2.5, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius 2008, Qaa WS, Live Office

Responsibilities:

• Senior BI Resource in the BW 3.5 upgrade to BI 7 and also interfaced with the ECC 6.0 configuration team iteratively.
• Provide Gap Analysis, package selection, Functional and Technical specification for SAP BW related projects in ( Corporate Services Group?). Solve complex application issues including investigation, troubleshooting, ongoing support and resolution in Project Participation in Business blueprint and Requirement Gathering Discussions with End Customer, Design and Development of Business Requirement &Technical Specification documents.

Confidential, Toledo, Ohio

Environment: SAP BW 3.5, SAP R/3 4.6.Oracle 9.2 Version 7, SAP Net weaver 200, Business Objects XI 3.1, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius, Info view, CMC, Crystal Reports, Qaa WS, Live Office

Sr. SAP BI/BO Developer/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Developed Core Universes based on the BEX queries and implemented MDX code
• Installed standard BI Content and involved in Data modeling Architecture
• Implemented ETL with standard and custom defined LO and FI Extractors such as sales order, delivery, billing information, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.
• Maintained ETL processes, using ABAP code to derive business logic where applicable.