Ashu Dhall - ashudhall@gmail.com- 1-587-893-7677

Business Intelligence & Analytics Solution Architect

 

I believe that in the fast changing market, Analytics with Big Data can provide tremendous competitive advantage.

 

With my diverse experience in Analytics and its architecture, I am confident that I am one of the select few BI Technical professionals, who are in a position to collaborate with business, understand pain points, provide thought leadership and deliver end to end technical solutions. Depending upon the need, I use single or a combination of multiple tools to create this competitive advantage.

 

My passion for keeping my knowledge up to date with the latest trends in BI technology and Analytics helps me to successfully bring value, benefits realization and transform business. Some of my recent additions are

•    Pursuing Online Big Data Analytics & Hadoop Platform & Application Framework courses by University of California, San Diego

•    Completed Online Certificate Course-Introduction to Big Data by University of California, San Diego

•    Completed SAP Certified Application Associate (Edition 2013) - SAP HANA

•    Completed Online Course-HANA In Memory DB Management by Dr. Hasso Plattner - The founder of HANA, SAP, HPI Germany

 

Brief Summary:

•    Business Intelligence & Analytics professional with 19 years of experience from Concept to Realization stage

•    17 year of comprehensive hands-on experience in various industries like Finance, Healthcare, Oil & Gas and Government:

o Data Warehouse Architecture

o Analysis, Design

o Data Modeling

o Reporting and Dashboard for Finance, SCM, HR, Operations, Environment, Health and Safety

•    10 years of demonstrable technical leadership experience in different capacities such as BI -Technical Lead, Solution Architect

 

 

Another important point that I want to mention is that I am a Canadian citizen and can work in the US on the TN visa. This visa does not require any sponsorship and can be obtained by me based on my degrees, experience credentials and offer letter only. This is a simple process that is done at the point of entry in the US by a Canadian citizen. I don’t need relocation assistance.

http://canada.usembassy.gov/visas/doing-business-in-america/tn-visas-professionals-under-nafta.html

Thanks

Ashu Dhall

587-893-7677

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ashu Dhall - ashudhall@gmail.com- 1-587-893-7677

Business Intelligence & Analytics Solution Architect

 

Professional Summary

Result oriented Business Intelligence & Analytics Professional, with 19 years of deep experience in designing, developing and delivering large-scale complex business intelligence applications, with high quality at an accelerated speed. Strong fundamental knowledge of BI technology space, current/future state architecture, and latest BI/Analytics trends to successfully transform business.

Business Intelligence & DWH Solution Architecture and Methodologies

·               Designing and Architecting innovative solutions using Iterative and Agile Development methodologies

·               Assessing existing data architectures, data sources, and processes to design a solution and transition roadmap to a modern data architecture to accommodate unstructured data

·               Defining & Implementing Business Intelligence Roadmap to access data from On-premise and Cloud Applications

·               Driving efficiency by storing data once and access it many ways

·               Designing solutions following Kimball best practices (Traditional DWH & Big Data)

·               Hands-on experience with In Memory & MPP databases

Data Provisioning & Modeling

·               Demonstrated ability in multiple data provisioning techniques - Real Time Replication, Data Virtualization/Federation & Batch Load

·               Expert in designing Relational Data Model, Multi Dimension Model and have good understanding of NoSQL (Schema-less) model

·               Data modeling experience (e.g., conceptual, logical and physical model design, experience with Operation Data Stores, Enterprise Data Warehouses and Data Marts)

·               Strong performance tuning and troubleshooting skills with respect to reporting design, SQL, and ETL processes

·               Solid understanding in designing multi-temperature data management strategy to achieve better ROI

·               Seamlessly integrated Hot data store with Warm & Cold data store for better user experience

·               Proficient in provisioning data across different dimensions (Velocity, Variety, Volume, Veracity)

Technical & Thought Leadership

·               Training and developing team members to attain and maintain business intelligence technical proficiency and competency-based skills

·               Facilitating project execution efforts-to include planning, scoping, resource planning, development, testing, training, implementation

·               Working extensively with Business Units-understanding their requirements, evaluating business benefits and goals of specific project

Major Tech/Tool Expertise

SAP HANA : Attribute View, Analytical View, Calculation View, Smart Data Access (SDA), Smart Data Integration (SDI), LSA++,

SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT), DXC, HANA Live, Near Line Storage, BW on HANA, Native HANA, Hadoop Integration

ETL : BOBJ - Data Services (BODS), Information Steward, IBM Infosphere Data Stage, Informatica Power Center, MS SSIS

Reporting : BOBJ- Design Studio, Web Intelligence, Information Design Tool, Analysis, Information Steward, Crystal Reports,

SAP Lumira, Tableau, MS SSRS, MS SSAS, BIRST (Plateau), Cognos - Report Studio, Analysis Studio, Query Studio, Framework

Big Data : Hadoop Cluster - Cloudera, MS Azure HD Insight, Hortonworks, HDFS, MapReduce, Spark, Impala, Hive, Pig Latin,

SQL, JSON, XML, Java, Python, Scala

Domain       

Financial Services, Oil & Gas, Healthcare, Government, Utility

Diverse Clients/Employers

·   TransAlta	·   TransCanada	·   City of Calgary	·   Pengrowth
·   Suncor ·   Altagas	·   Alliance Pipeline ·   Calgary Health Region	·   ABN AMRO Bank ·   American Express	·   Kinder Morgan Pipeline

Education and Certification

·   Three year Full time Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications

·   B.Sc. (Mathematics)

·   Online Certificate Course-Introduction to Big Data by University of California, San Diego

·   Online Certificate Course-HANA In Memory DB Management by Dr. Hasso Plattner - The  founder of HANA, HPI Germany

·   SAP Certified Application Associate (Edition 2013) - SAP HANA

·   Pursuing Big Data Analytics & Hadoop Platform and Application Framework courses  by University of California, San Diego

·   Cognos 8 BI Modeler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professional experience:

Employer-TransCanada, (03/2014 – till date)

Role:  SAP Business Intelligence Solutions Architect 

Employer information:  TransCanada is a major North American energy company based in Calgary, Alberta, developing and operating energy infrastructure (Pipelines) in North America

Highlights:

As Enterprise BI architect my responsibilities are providing solutions for all BI & Data initiatives across the enterprise. Responsible for the overall architecture, design, modeling, ETL and reporting.

As Solution Expert:

·                                 Led successful technical upgrade from BW 7.3 to BW 7.4 on HANA

·                                 Rationalizing BW model to follow LSA++ architecture

·               Defining & promoting use cases amongst business community for native HANA (SQL Server & Hadoop), BW on HANA to improve analytical performance, which will result in substantial reduction in costs and efficient decision-making

·                                 Developing the roadmap, use cases, architecture for SAP Cloud Application (SuccessFactor, Ariba & Fieldglass) Reporting

·                                 Working on HR Dashboard solution (Design Studio, Native HANA & BW on HANA)

·                                 Coordinated SAP Spend Performance Management RDS implementation

·                                 Defined the BI standards and guidelines  for Business Objects Reporting Suite (Lumira, Web Intelligence, Design Studio, Analysis)

·                                 Delivered successful SCM Reporting solution using native HANA & Smart Data Access using hybrid model (BW & SQL Server)

·                                 Working on a PoC with Pipeline Integrity group to analyze data stored in Hadoop using SAP HANA Vora

·               Developing Data Profiling, Quality Rules & Scorecard  for Material, Services, Vendor, Customer, Assets using Information Steward

·                                 Enabled Supply chain group for self-service reporting capability using MS Power BI & SAP Lumira

·                                 Configured HANA cluster on HEC and Microsoft Azure to quickly demonstrate HANA capability for different use cases

·                                 Leading analysis and design activities for SAP EHSM & EC (Environmental Compliance) regulatory reporting

·                                 Reviews and approves all BI solution designs making sure that solutions are following industry and company best practices

·                                 Defined processes in CHARM to move BI services into development, test, and production environments

 

Employer-TransAlta, (12/2011 – 01/2014)

Role:  SAP Business Intelligence Technical Lead

Employer information:  TransAlta is an electricity power generator and wholesale marketing company

Highlights:

As technical lead, my responsibilities include collaborating with business, overseeing, and advising on SAP BI (BOBJ, BW, HANA) design decisions. Hands-on experience delivering reporting and analytics across the organization and ensure that the solution design adheres to the enterprise standards.

·               One of the first few professionals to upgrade BOBJ from 3.1 to 4.0 after it was released by SAP in 2011

·               Hands-on experience setting up BOBJ Enterprise Suite and its Integration with native HANA (Oracle & Hadoop)

·               Handholding BOBJ (Webi, Analysis for OLAP, Dashboards, Lumira) developers on Financial & SCM Analytics

·               Worked with ABAP team to build SAP ECC module extractors for MM, FI, CO-PA

·               Realized HANA value by improving analysis performance by 479x times for Energy trading group

·               Participated in successful technical upgrade from BW 7.1 to BW 7.3, migration BEx. & Dataflow 3.x to 7.3

·               Provided key input as a Solution Architect for BW on HANA Landscape Planning, sizing, RFP Technical/Functional Definition, HANA on Cloud strategy

·               Developed Data Profiling, Quality Rules & Scorecard  for Material, Customers, Vendor using Information Steward

·               Designed, Built and Improved CEO, Finance & IT Chargeback Dashboards using BOBJ Tools (e.g. SAP Lumira, Design Studio))

·               Loaded data in HANA using SAP BODS, SLT for Finance and Supply chain groups reporting needs

·               Implementing HANA data modeling techniques such as removing redundant BW aggregates and caching

·               Configured business content (HANA Live) for Finance Team

·               Working closely with SAP support/consulting teams apart from offshore & outsourced team from other vendors

·               Configured and built HANA cluster on AWS for building several PoC for different business units

 

 

 

 

 

 

Client -Suncor Energy, (10/2010-11/2011)

Role:  Sr. Functional Consultant/ SAP Business Intelligence Reporting Lead

Employer information:  Suncor Energy is a Canadian integrated energy company. It has oil sands, exploration & production, Refineries, Supply, and Trading etc.  Suncor ranks number 134 on the Forbes Global 2000 list and is the fifth largest North American energy company 

Highlights:

Defined Roadmap for Enterprise Reporting mainly SAP Business Intelligence (BOBJ/BW) solution & related components: interfaces, conversions, HW/SW sizing

·               Hired as an expert to outline Business Intelligence strategy and got buy-in from Architecture Review Board

·               Defined reporting standards and governance framework to support self-service reporting needs

·               Developed plans and roadmaps for deployment of SAP BW-BOBJ projects

·               Configured integration between SAP Business Objects and SAP BW

·               Provided gap analyses-highlighting current state, future state, client needs, best practices and competition

·               Installed BOBJ 4.0 for Project Landscape and defined sizing requirement for Dev./Test/QA environments

·               Built technical architecture direction & proof of concept for SCM- Spend Analytics

·               Collaborated with internal clients to identify ways to increase SAP BOBJ landscape adoption

 

Employer- Pengrowth 06/2008 – 10/2010

Role:  Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst

Employer information:  Pengrowth Energy Corporation is a Canadian oil and natural gas company based in Calgary.

Highlights:

·               Significantly reduced the manual effort involved in the creation of the monthly, quarterly and annual Financial and Operational Stewardship reports using Cognos Report Studio

·               Built & Supported Data Stage  ETL jobs in production and provided solutions in case of failures.

·               Defined ETL best practices and standards for IBM Data Stage

·               Extracted, transformed and loaded data from Qbyte/AFE Nav., FieldView, and Mosaic & Triangle to Financial and Operations Data Mart using IBM Data Stage

·               Modeled relational data in preparation for creating reports like Weekly Production Variance, Estimated Volume vs. Sales Volume, Battery Proration & Gas Plant Report using Cognos Analysis Studio

·               Helped business users in identifying Key performance indicators for Health and Safety dashboard and delivered Safety, Environment Stewardship and Proactive reports using Cognos Report Studio

 

Employer- Online Business System 11/2005 – 06/2008

Role:  Business Intelligence/DWH Analyst/Designer/Architect

Employer information:  Clients: AltaGas, Calgary Health Region, Kinder Morgan, City of Calgary

Highlights:

·               Designed & Developed Pipeline Regulatory reports e.g. Crude Oil Logistic Committee (COLC), Energy Utility Board (EUB) Report

·               Collaborated with the Practice leaders and other business units to coordinate efforts and activities to execute on the company’s Business Intelligence strategy

·               Developed procedures, processes, and guidelines for efficient delivery of BI initiatives

·               Built Sales Analysis Cube/Reports Proof of Concept to demonstrate Cognos Analysis Studio functionality

·               Designed & implemented Kimball architecture data warehouse for Corporate Performance Management Reports

·               Seamless integration with Qbyte, Enterprise Planning & Corporate Reporting Database to deliver outlook/budget variance report

·               Facilitated workshops to show prototype and get buy-in from Business & Data warehousing team during design phase to avoid scope creep, design changes at a later stage

·               Changed Business Objects Universe and developed Business Objects Reports to implement enhancements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employer- Patni Computer Systems 01/2005 - 10/2005

Role:  Business Intelligence Analyst/ Architect

Employer information: Client: ABN AMRO Bank, Netherlands

Highlights:

·               Built an operational BI solution that provided daily revenue figures, for the Financial Markets, Equities business, Dutch Central Bank and other related lines of business

·               Performed a detailed reporting and DataMart analysis and configured BI solutions by facilitating user interviews, workshops and leading an offshore team of 8 developers

·               Designed Logical and Physical data model for Financial Data Mart, Business Objects Universe, Informatica sessions & mappings and BOBJ LDAP integration

 

Employer- American Express 07/1998 - 12/2004

Role:  Team Lead/ Technical Architect/Lead Developer

Highlights:

·               The Global Accounts Reconciliation Tool (GART) was a strategic project to build a scalable, flexible, and globally deployable reconciliation and reporting system for American Express. Received GFCRT award for demonstrating personal accountability

·               Prepared Logical and Physical database design model using Erwin, Developed Cube, and Reports, implemented a security framework

·               Chargeback Accounting and Routing Management System (CHARMS) was a business process reengineering initiative for American Express (Europe). Achieved VP award 2002

·               Analyzed business process requirements, Co- developed from conception to final delivery

·               Single Window Production support project intended to provide improved support for multiple client-server applications across three Financial Centers worldwide for American Express.  The goal of the project was to provide 24X7X365 seamless support. Received American Express Chairman Award for Quality from Mr. Kenneth I. Chennault

·               Conceptualized Digital Dashboard for top management that allowed management to review and analyze the data against dimensions like Products, Business Areas, Time-Series, Locations, etc.

·               AJENTS (Automated Journal Entry System) was designed to improve the efficiency of the Journal Entry Process across different functional areas in all three financial centers for American Express worldwide. Received Certificate of Appreciation for imbibing and implementing SEI-CMM principles

 

Employer- RDM Software Pvt. Ltd and ANS Software Pvt. Ltd 01/1996 - 06/1998

Role:  System Analyst/Developer

Highlights:

·               Designed, developed, enhanced, and implemented software using Powerbuilder for Travel Agents

·               Responsible for troubleshooting production problems related to software applications

·               Researched, tested, built, and integrated enhancements for new products based on requirements

·               Coordinated Data conversion projects

·               Designed and developed new major software products or major enhancements to existing software

·               Prepared and provided software-related documentation

·               Provided status reports for ongoing work