SUMMARY

• Information Technology professional with over Fifteen years of experience in Program, Project Management, Analysis, Design and Implementation of Architectural solutions, software - based applications and Business Intelligence projects in medium to high complexity environments.
• Independently executed complex projects or program deliverables and developed enterprise-wide solutions roadmaps, made proposals to align business processes and IT architecture to fit the customer’s strategy with Industry standards.
• Ability to present and discuss strategies and technical information in a manner that establishes rapport, persuades others, and establishes understanding for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong liaison and vendor management skills with experience in managing business customers, internal teams and third-party service providers to support the delivery of services.
• Excellent strategic communication skills, including the ability to build relationships and effectively communicate and influence across all management and organizational levels, both internally and externally.
• Expert in providing product and business-related expertise to support customer demos, proof of concept building, product testing and validation activities.
• Consulting Practice in influencing consulting sales and delivery professionals to apply best practices and mitigate risks.
• Certified SAP Trainer to teach SAP Certification Classes for SAP Americas (Public and virtual) for Associate level Programs
• Hands on experience in collecting requirements, performing business and gap analyses, configuration, customizing interface objects, testing and providing performance and post implementation support.
• Experienced Public Speaker - Presented on several SAP topics during Innovation Day and many other occasions.
• Able to work effectively in a tight timeframe and pressured environment by understanding the issues and participating in the creation of the solution. Confident, independent, leadership skills, good decision-maker.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Conflict Management, Resource Management, Risk & Issue Management, Agile & Scrum Methodologies, Cost/Benefit Analysis, Change Management, Stakeholders, Internal/External Clients Management, Go Live Support, Project Management
• Technology Consulting, BI, DS, ETL/ELT, SSIS, Azure, ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL Server DW (MPP), ADF, Azure DevOps, SSIS, Data Quality, Data Steward, Lineage & Governance, JSON, HTML, SQL/PL-SQL, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
• SAP BW-BI, Microsoft BI Reporting and Analytics Tools, Tableau Etc.
• MS Azure, Snowflake Azure, Azure Data Lake
• Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Teradata and MS Access, SAW BW NW
• Informatica, DataStage, Data Services, SSIS
• MS-DOS, UNIX (Sun Solaris, LINUX), Windows Servers
• Erwin
• Visio, Project Plan, Excel, JIRA, VSTS, HPQC, Scheduler, CtrlM, MDM, Confluence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Architect/Tech Lead Azure Cloud SQL DW/ETL/DevOps/CI-CD/BO/Power BI

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and implemented cloud based ETL framework for the Credit Union clients using Azure cloud services, Azure SQL Data Warehouse (MPP), ADLS Gen2, Azure Data Factory, Azure functions, SSIS-Integration Runtime
• Converted Azure SQL Server based Enterprise Data Warehouse system to Azure SQL Data Warehouse (MPP) and orchestrated ETL and workflows using Azure Data Factory
• Worked with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for Build / Release deployment process
• Participated in performing code reviews, data integration testing, and release management activities
• Created ADF Pipelines to support data load and transform activities and execution of tables creation using stored procedures
• Proposed data integration and data migration architecture design strategy
• Performed ETL code reviews, data integration, lead testing efforts and assisted in release management
• Used Business Objects Opendoc links for reports in Sharepoint and other applications for direct access to Web Intelligence reports stored in the BI Platform
• Upgraded BO BI 4.1 platform to BI 4.2 SP5 version
• Enabled HTTPS protocol using SSL certificate. Incorporated BI 4.2 version enhancements.
• Worked with enterprise wide business and IT senior management to understand & perform deep dive analysis of reporting visualization and data analysis needs and provide compelling stories to the management.
• Worked on optimizing database for reporting performance
• Maintained and incorporated modification of BI Reports, tested reports for accuracy and performance, and documented testing results
• Provided Business users with instructions and guidance to utilize SAP Lumira 2.x for their Visualization and Dashboarding needs

Product Owner/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Product Owner/Project Manager of BI Reporting and Analytics Projects in an Agile /Scrum environment
• Owned and managed Product Backlog, Sprint Review, Sprint Planning meetings and provided frequent updates to the Sr. Leadership, PMO and advisory teams throughout the projects
• Defined, owned and managed weekly status updates, conflict management strategy, risk mitigation plan, communication plan, cutover and go-live plans for the reporting stream
• Managed and owned Time tracking and work management of the tasks and teams using JIRA & Clarity applications
• Lead Defects management of HPQC tickets and seamless integration with JIRA application which provided single version of the truth for all the work that Reporting stream handled
• Ensured successful delivery of reporting work on daily/weekly and as per sprint planning basis
• Managed a team of 21 individuals, and projects with varying levels of complexity and identified and mitigated potential risks; developed requirements, managed change control, and tracked schedules and cost performance while ensuring project activities aligned with business objectives
• Improved Project Management processes, enhanced project visibility to determine project status for Executive decision-making
• Worked on reducing cost and overheads to simplifying the overall deployment package efforts and reduced downtime

Environment: Agile, Clarity, SAP BO and MS BI Applications, Power BI, Tableau, Azure Cloud, JIRA, HPQC, MS Project Plan, Visio, VSTS, DevOps, CI/CD, Data Warehouse Tools, SSIS, SQL/PL-SQL, JSON, SQL Server, Azure Data Lake, ADLS Gen2, Azure Data Factory

BI & DW ARCHITECT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Completed Rapid Marts, Data Services, BI, Lumira and HANA Data Center Migrations, Upgrades and integrations with BI and DW applications server environments
• Defined migration strategy, managed overall project plan and project teams
• Enabled end to end single sign on (SSO) for all BI applications
• Installed and configured Design Studio, Mobile platform, Lumira servers and desktop products in a BI clustered server environment
• Updated datastores for Data Services application
• Enabled all the scheduled and batch jobs. Managed incidents throughout the project implementation
• Helped users with UAT testing and support activities
• Assessed BI Platform in terms of Content, users, groups, security, hardware, usage, and processes implementation, data governance, policies etc.
• Drafted and presented application platform upgrade plan to the management and BI user community
• Identified Key Business Users and resource requirements to carry out the upgrade activities
• Lead the entire BI 4.x upgrade from start to finish and provided guidance to technical teams involved on the project
• Installed and configured BI 4.x to set up N and N+1 landscape
• Set up Business Objects cluster and F5 URL request redirector to achieve fault tolerance, fail over, and load balancing
• Conducted functional, technical system testing and validation exercises
• Streamlined User Access and Content Promotion requests
• Set up Promotion Management and Version Management applications
• Introduced Design Studio and Mobile application environment
• Completed HANA-BI integration, enabled HANA Views for BI and Lumira environments,
• Completed health check and gap analysis of existing 4.0 BI and DS environments
• Redesigned architecture set up of BI and DS platforms
• Shunt down applications that were installed but not planned to be used by reporting users
• Completed Sizing as per 4.x Infrastructure Requirements
• Enabled Mobility for iPad and iPhone users
• Redesigned security model and user provision to BI and DS applications
• Defined Promotion Management Strategy - CTS+, Promotion Management tools
• Lead team of multiple administrators, developers and testers on the project
• Trained UAT, upgrade team and end users on new tools and features