SAP HAN BW Consultant/Manager

Experience: 9+years.

Skill Set       : SAP HANA1.0.74, SAP BI7.x, SAP BW3.x, ABAP, Qlikview, Xcelsius. Analysis Office

 

·               9+ Years of dedicated Data warehouse modeling & reporting experience as a Techno Functional Consultant which includes 8 years on SAP BI in SD, MM, FI, HR modules, 1 Year on Qlikview in Accounts Receivables and Master Data and 1 year on SAP HANA in Finance and Treasury.

·               Presently associated with Infosys Ltd

·               Proven experience of more than 3 years in Managing Teams in SAP BI/Qlikview/SAP Support Tracks. Also.

·               Worked in various roles such as developer, Technical Consultant, Functional Consultant, Team Lead, Production Support Lead, SPOC, Project Manager

·               Has been a member of the core design & architecture team as well.

·               Excellent understanding of PLC (SDLC) & demands and necessities of Production Support

·               Excellent Communication, Interpersonal, Leadership, Analytical & Problem Solving skills.

·               Very good understanding of the functioning of an Organization and is adaptable.

·               Ability to independently generate solutions based on strong quantitative and analytical skills along with business knowledge to conduct requirement definition sessions with Clients business & IT teams.

·               Has excellent exposure to Global Delivery model (Onsite – Offshore coordination)

·               Willingness to learn new technologies and become proficient in a short span of time.

·               Knowledge of HP OVSD, USD Tools for change Management and ASAP Methodology.

SAP HANA Expertise:

·                  Very Good understanding of HANA architecture.

·                           Expertise in creating & using SAP HANA Information Models such as Packages, Attribute Views, Analytic Views, Graphical Calculation Views and Script based Calculation Views using SQL Script and CE Functions.

·                           Expertise in exploiting the best functionalities of various information models provided by SAP HANA from the Performance point of view.

·                           Expertise in writing SQL Script Procedures.

·                           Expertise in using SAP HANA scenario based functionalities such as Decision Tables, Sequences etc.

·                           Expertise in Generating Time Data for the fiscal calendar, schema mapping

·                           Expertise in setting up and working with SLT & loading data into HANA via BODS.

·                           Expertise in performing administration activities like Import / Export of SAP HANA meta data between systems, monitoring the index server, statistics server.

·                           Expertise in performance tuning of SAP HANA Information Models and SQL script procedures.

·                           Expertise in creating & managing analytical privileges to enable course grained and fine grained access control.

SAP BI Expertise:

·               Excellent understanding of SAP BI and its integration with various SAP modules.

·               SAP BI 7.X end-to-end implementation experiences. Also worked on SAP BW 3.5.

·               Expertise on supporting a SAP BI Business Solution.

·               Extensive knowledge and hands on experience in gathering requirements, building the functional specifications, translating functional specs to technical design, estimating the development work, developing BI technical objects, building the reports and publishing the reports.

·               6 years experience on ABAP/4 programming in BI.

·               Expertise in report generation using Bex Query Designer and WAD

·               Excellent understanding of various types of variables, restricted and calculated key figures and various other properties of Bex Query designer.

·               Excellent understanding of various design tools such as charts, tables, tabs, URL commands provided in WAD.

·               Extensively worked on extracting data from R/3 to BI specifically on LIS & LO extraction. Has also worked on enhancing & creating data sources.

·               Has given in User training.

·               Extensive knowledge and experience in monitoring the loads to the EDW and debugging the problems encountered during data loading.

·               Worked extensively in performance tuning of queries using Aggregates, BIA, table partitioning, Indexing, Compression.

·               Extensively involved in the performance tuning of loads to the BW system while loading to DSO and info cubes.

·               Used BW statistics to keep track of the usage of various objects to fine tune the data loads and there by increase performance.

·               Extended the functionality of standard content objects based on the requirements using User Exits.

·               Prepared Unit Testing plans at project level.

·               Worked with Quality assurance business resources  to complete System and Integration testing.

·               Has excellent understanding of Analysis Authorizations, User set up & management, roles and Authorization objects.

·               Involved in the transportation of objects over the system landscape and troubleshoot issues.

·               Through knowledge of ERP and data warehousing concepts

·               Strong communication, collaboration and team building skills with proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilize the same in a productive manner.

·               Motivated, Focused, Process Oriented with the right attitude to implement solutions to Clients requirements

·               Involved in SAP BI projects for clients like Apple, Celanese, Rio Tinto, Thomson Reuters, CHEP and played the role of Techno Functional Consultant/Team Lead/SPOC/Project Manager in a multi vendor team environment. 

·               Good Team Player, with experience in working in design, development and testing phases of the project

Qlikview Expertise:

·               Excellent understanding of Qlikview Architecture and its integration with various Sources.

·               Expertise in creating QVW scripts as per the business requirement.

·               Expertise in scheduling Tasks in Management Console.

Functional skills:

·               Mapping client/business requirements and providing customized software solutions involving finalization of report specifications and selection of appropriate techniques for smoother and effective implementation.

·               Good understanding of the SAP ECC table relations for SAP SD and FI modules.

·               Customizing the SAP standard datasources to meet the requirements if any.

·               Conducting system study and coordinating with team members for System Design & Integration, Application maintenance, etc.

·               Handling various technical aspects like design, coding of modules & taking appropriate actions.

·               Delivering and implementing the project as per scheduled milestones; extending post-implementation and maintenance support to the client.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

§   Working as Project Manager with Infosys Limited from August 2014 to Till Date

§   Working as Technology Lead with Infosys Limited from September 2008 to July 2014.

§   Worked as a SAP BI Consultant with Thomson Corporation, from June 2007 to August 2008.

§   Worked as a SAP BI Consultant with Six Sigma Consultancy, from April 2007 to May 2007.

§   Worked as SAP BI Consultant with Itzact Technologies from August 2005 to March 2007.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP HAN BW Developer/Consultant /Manager    

Project: APPLE Inc, Sunnyvale, CA.

Duration:August 2014 To Till Date

Environment:SAP HANA1.0. 74, SAP BI 7.3, SAP BPC 8 , SAP Analysis 1.4

As a Manager:

·               Involved in creating SOW’s for all the BI related Projects

·               Managing the Onsite Projects team across all the SAP BI tracks including SAP HANA

·               Involved in resource forecasting for each quarter along with my Delivery Manager.

·               Made sure all the documentation is done as per the processes defined and all the deliverables are completed as per the plan.

BPC on HANA Phase2:

·               Create a Virtual Providers on BPC Providers

·               Created reports on the Multiprovider which is based on the Virtual Providers

·               Added the newly created reports to the Roles from PFCG Tcode so that the reports can be executed through AO

·               Extensively worked on creating the Queries as per the Business Requirement.

·               Created AO workbooks using the BI queries and published the same in the roles.

·               Coordinate with Basis and Security teams regarding OSS notes, transports and authorization issues.

 

 

 

Treasury Reports:

·               Work with the functional teams to come up with functional spec keeping in view of the development to be performed in HANA. This is specific to this project, as majority of the functional consultants almost had no knowledge of SAP HANA. 

·               Translate the functional specifications into Detailed Design documents which will be used by HANA Modelers

·               Was a part of the architecture team, which decided to use the security features of SAP BW. SAP BW would act as the layer which uses HANA models and provide the objects on which reporting queries are built.

·               Model the objects in HANA

·               Perform reviews for the objects developed in HANA from the business logic perspective and performance perspective.

·               Prepare the specifications for the objects to be built in SAP BW.

·               Review the BW objects.

·               Build the queries on top of BW objects in alignment with the functional specification

·               Review BW queries

·               Build the reports according to the specifications in AO .

·               Perform unit testing of the reports.

·               Work with the functional teams to validate all developments objects alignment to the BRD.

·               Work with the Basis team on SAP SLT to get the data from SAP ECC replicated into SAP HANA database.

·               Work with the BODS team to facilitate various interfaces (FXALL, Clearwater, Bloomberg etc) to populate data into HANA database.

·               Perform IS&T playback during the course of the project development life cycle to keep all the stake holders informed of the progress, challenges faced and about the co-ordination between various teams.

·               Perform business playback and take keep the key business stake holders a look and feel of the solution developed and also to feedback on the solution for any minor improvements which can be fit in the current life cycle of the project.

·               Documentation of all developed objects

·               Participate in the go-live activities.

·               Perform end-user training.

·               Created Virtual Providers Based on HANA View (Used Calc Views as Source).

·               Created Master Data Objects which gets Data fro HANA Attribute Views.

·               Created the Treasury Reports on the Virtual Providers.

·               Added the Created Queries to the Role so that the same can be executed using SAP Analysis Office.

·               Created Customer Exit Variables as per the Business Requirement.

·               Coordinate with Basis and Security teams regarding OSS notes, transports and authorization issues.

SAP BI Team Lead/Manager (Both Support and Development)

Project: CELANESE Corporation, Dallas, TX.

Duration:December 2011 To Till date

Environment:ECC6.0, APO 7.x, BI7.x, Qlikview, GTS

As Manger:

·               Responsible for all the deliverables in Projects/Support in SAP BI portfolio including SAP BI, Qlikview, IP/BCS.

·               Managed both Onsite and Offshore team in SAP BI portfolio..

·               Used to do the Monthly Invoicing for the support tickets completed by team.

·               Responsible for getting various Projects like SAP Data Archiving etc.

·               Managed the SAP BI support for more than 2 years with Ticket SLA always more than 95%.

·               Used to plan the project resources as per the demand from the Client

Production Support:

·               Worked on day-to-day support issues for clearing tickets in SAP BI Queue.

·               Worked on Data Load Monitoring and fixed the issues within the SLA whenever there is a data load failure.

·               Worked on issues related to SD, MM New GL and AR reports.

·               Mentored the new resources who joined the BI team in the business processes.

·               Coordinate with Basis and Security teams regarding OSS notes, transports and authorization issues.

·               Did extensive code review as per client’s coding standards.

·               Acted as bottleneck between offshore team and business users for incident resolutions and move to production in timely manner to meet SLAs.

SAP Data Archiving:

·               Designed the entire SAP BI archiving solution using ADK approach.

·               Created custom Archiving Objects for DSO’s.

·               Implemented a Custom tool for House Keeping activities for Deleting PSA’s and Change Logs.

·               Due to the Archiving Solution the Total BI System DB size is reduced by 60%.

Sales BOM Report Implementation:

·               Designed functional specification documents for the new extractors, DSO’s and Cubes.

·               Worked on functional design for FM Based Extractor for BOM Item level data and a View Based Generic extractor BOM Header Data.

·               Worked on creating Transformations, DSO’s, Cube and MultiProvider to load data from the BOM Extractors.

·               Created reports on the Sales BOM data business requirement.

·               Prepared system test plan and UAT documents.

Qlikview Global Sales DashBoard:

·               Designed functional specification documents for the new Qlikview Sales DashBoard .

·               Worked on design for of all the backend objects which used BI and R/3 as Sources.

·               Worked on creating required scripts needed for the new DashBoard.

·               Prepared system test plan and UAT documents.

·               Scheduled the Tasks in Management Console.     

SAP BI Consultant (Both Support and Development)    

Project: RIO TINTO, Brisbane/Perth, Australia.

Duration: September 2008 To November 2011

Environment:ECC6.0, BI7.x, APO7.x

APO Implementation:

·               Prepared Technical design documents for all the Info Objects / Cubes/Transformations to be created in the APO System.

·               Prepared test scripts and UAT documents for complete end-to-end testing of objects created.

·               Assisted users involved in cutover activities.

·               Worked on post go-live issues resolution.

Support Pack Implementation:                       

·               Prepared system test plan and UAT documents when applying support packs.

·               Executed all the test scripts for before and after scenarios.

·               Fixed all the issues arising due to Support Pack Implementation

·               Cleared the delta queues when before applying the support pack.

·               Worked on cutover activities.

BW Unicode Conversion Project:

·               Worked on Unicode conversion using UCCHECK and checking obsolete ABAP.

·               Worked on performance analysis and code review for the programs in the BI system after the conversion.

·               Fixed the ABAP Code which is resulted with error after executing the UCCHECK.

 Production Support Activities:

·               Worked on day to day support issues and data load monitoring activities.

·               Worked on number of change requests as per the business requirement.

·               Maintained work history of all the tickets in OVSD until it is closed.

·               Done the knowledge transfer to offshore from onsite.

·               Implemented SAP notes to fix the issues.

·               Worked on all the cutover activities related to BW system.

·               Acted as bottleneck between offshore team and business users for incident resolutions and move to production in timely manner to meet SLAs.

Master Data Reports Implementation:

·               Developed new reports based on Cost Centre, Work Centre and Functional Location Master data.. 

·               Created a virtual provider on each on the Master data tables that will have the data.

·               Created reports on the Virtual Providers as per the business requirement.

·               Created design documents, Test scripts and UAT plan for the new reports.

SAP BI Consultant (Both Support and Development)    

Project: THOMSON CORPORATION, Eagan, MN.

Duration: June2007 To August 2008

Environment:SAP R/3 4.6C, BI7.x.

Production Support Activities:

·               Worked on Data Load Monitoring and Production support issues.

·               Worked on AWB to customize Info Objects, Info Sources, Info Cubes and DSO’s

·               Worked on installing business content as per the business requirement.

·               Maintained work history of the support tickets in Peregrine tool until it is closed.

·               Created aggregates to improve the query performance.

·               Extensively worked on change requests as per the business requirement.

·               Worked on fixing the data load failures without missing SLA.

·               Worked on Data Source enhancements using CMOD.

·               Worked on creating customer exit variables for reporting purposes.

·               Worked on Implementation of Purchasing Module in BI to enable reporting on Purchasing to the business.

Asset Accounting Reports Implementation:

·               Developed new reports for depreciation information for assets. 

·               Created a cubes based on the Asset Accounting Transactional Data Sources “0FI_AA_11” and “0FI_AA_12”.

·               Created customer exit variables for the Asset Accounting reports as per business requirement.

·               Created design documents, Test scripts and UAT plan for the new reports.

SAP BI Associate Consultant

Project: CHEP, Orlando, FL.

Duration:April2007 To May 2007

Environment:SAP R/3 4.6C, BW3.5.

Responsibilities:

·               CHEP implemented SAP R/3 and SAP BI having business operations in 44 countries across the world.

·               Created the BI Objects from the Detail Design Document

·               Worked on testing of developed objects for UT.

·               Created Business Process Procedures (BPPs) as per client requirement.

·               Uploading Final Versions of BPPs into Mercury Quality Centre. 

·               Involved in Knowledge Transaction with the team people.

·               Involved in Client Interactions if there are any deadlocks.

EDUCATION

 

Master’s in Engineering  in Power Electronics  from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore with Distinction (8.32/10).

 

 

PERSONAL DETAILS

 

 

Name	Venkata Nagarjuna Reddy Thammeneni
DOB	20-JAN-1982
Sex	Male
US Work Authorization	H1B
Marital Status	Married
Nationality	Indian
Contact No.	+1 214 583 7866
Languages Known	English, Hindi and Telugu