Summary:

·   Have 15+ years of IT Industry experience and 10 plus years in SAP BW/BI, BO, HANA and BPC Delivery, Consulting, Managing, and executing multiple projects.

·   6+ Years of experience in Project Management Implementation, Support and Upgradation Projects.

·   Experienced in providing effective Implementation solutions, Support, Developing Prototypes, POC’s and Pilot Presentations.

·   Direct and manage project development from beginning to end

·   Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders

·   Develop full scale project plans and associated communication documents

·   Ensure that project meets it’s deliverables in the agreed schedule, as per the scope, within stipulated budget and as per the quality standards

·   Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion

·   Liaise with project stakeholders regularly

·   Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals

·   Draft and submit budget proposals and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary

·   Ensure project or service scope and deliverables are defined and agreed with by all the relevant parties

·   Ensure all project commitments are met and monitor and report the progress to Senior Project Manager, sponsor, client as well as the PMO in accordance with the reporting standards while ensuring that the project remains within scope

·   Diagnose and evaluate potential risks and issues throughout the project. Report regularly to the PMO and Senior Project Manager with regard to risks, and execute appropriate plans to contain them

·   Act as an escalation point for problems and complaints and manage compliance, contingency and risk situations within area of control

·   Monitor and manage resources (staff, suppliers and hardware and software) in a cost effective manner

·   Identify opportunities for cost reduction and action them

·   Responsible for managing the work of consultants, allocating and utilizing resources in an efficient manner and maintaining a co-operative, motivated and successful team.

·   Managing and leading the project team, deliverables in line with the project plan.

·   Managing co-ordination of the partners and working groups engaged in project work.

·   Detailed project planning and control including: Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan.

·   Experienced in handling Competency activities

·   Experience in Pre-Sales, Business Development and Delivery Management in the Current Organization

·   Excellent Technical/functional skills in BI

·   Experienced in Full life cycle implementations of Data warehouse (BI) projects

·   Experienced in handling Technical Upgrades

·   Hands-on support of BW including areas of Application Maintenance and Performance Tuning

·   Experience in working with various versions of SAP and BW the latest being ECC 6.0 and 7.1 respectively.

·   Has excellent communication and interpersonal skills with Problem solving abilities and effectiveness in working independently or as a team player.

·   Good ability to lead people and a proven record of a good Manager.

·   Experience working at different geographical locations like UK and Kuwait.

 

Competency Skills:

Business Intelligence: SAP BW 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.5, 7.0, SAP BO

ERP :SAP R/3 3.1 - ECC6.0.

Planning – (EPM):APO & BPC

Business Area Expertise:SD, FI, PM, MM, HR, COPA, APO

Languages :ABAP, SQL, PL/SQL, C++, HTML, DHTML, VB

Databases :Sybase, Oracle, DB2, SQL SERVER & HANA

 

 

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.

 

Certifications:

ITIL V3 Certified

 

Trainings:

·                       Have been trained on PMP, Prince 2.

·                       Have been trained on core functional areas of SD, MM, FI/CO ,BPC, APO & CRM

·                       Have been trained on SAP BO, Xcelsius and WebI

·                       Have been trained on SAP HANA SP6 (Member for CoE initiations)

·                       Have been trained on SAP at IT Solutions

·                       Have been trained on Oracle SQL & PL SQL at CMC

 

Professional Summary:

 

Organization	Period	Position	Responsibilities
Enterprize Solutions (www.enterprizesolutions .com)	17/02/2014 – 31/10/2014	Principal Architect	With Team of 8 we have developed a unique Product as it gives Performance like HANA but It’s not in memory. Played a big role to achieve it. Pilot projects also shared with existing clients, worked as Architect, Designer, Proof of Concepts, Demos to Client and RFPs.
Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad	22/09/2008 – 03/02/2014	Manager	Technical worked independently in Projects, SAP BI /BW-BO, BPC Technical Lead, Reporting Manager, Pre-Sales, Delivery Management, Transition Management, Competency Activities, Mentoring Program, HANA & BO CoE, Training and Quality Assessment
Birlasoft Hyderabad	July-2006 to Aug-2008	Project Manager	Technical Lead, Pre-Sales, Delivery Management, Transition Management, Competency Activities, Mentoring Program, Tools Development, Training and Quality Assessment
LGS (Lanco Global Systems) Hyderabad	Oct-2005 to June-2006	Senior Consultant	Project Lead, Pre-Sales, and Training
Intelligroup Asia Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad	Sept-2003 to Oct-2005	Consultant	Team Lead, Technical Development and Support
IT Solutions Bangalore	Oct-2001 to Aug-2003	Consultant	Technical Development and Support BO, SAP ABAP and SAP BW
Tulasi Bangalore	Dec 1999 to Oct-2001	Programmer	Programmer on VB and Oracle

 

 

 

 

Technical responsibilities performed as a BI Consultant:

·                       Involved in 9 life cycle implementation on SAP-BI project, 4 production supports and 1 BI 7 Upgrade project.

·                       Involved in Project on SAP HANA studio (Centrica & Burberry Clients).

·                       BPC NW with BW and BO Reporting TAG, Schneider, Gennum Projects

·                       Effectively interact with business community to gather/develop functional and technical requirements and translate the requirements into functional spec robust analytics and reporting solutions

·                       Business Planning and Consolidation System setup : AppSet, Application, Dimensions, Security Setup, Business Process Flows, Building dynamic hierarchies

·                       Currency translation, validation rules, elimination rules setup, Development of Script logic and dimension logic

·                       SAP  HANA  Data  Modeling  using  Attribute Views, Analytic Views and Calculation Views(both  Graphical  &  SQL script based) & SAP HANA Data Provisioning using  SAP  LT  Replication Server (SLT).

·                       Have a strong understanding of dimensional modeling and data warehousing concepts and methodologies and leading full-lifecycle Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects

·                       BW Extractors from the APO ( with Owens Corning), ERP system and working knowledge of SAP structures, object dependencies and tables in ECC environment

·                       Research, analyze, design, develop, and deliver SAP BW/BI solutions that are appropriate for the business and technology strategies.

·                       Review and analyze requirements for SAP BW/BI enhancement requests presented by business teams.

·                       Design, implement and support complex ETL processes (SAP and non-SAP systems).

·                       Participate in the development and support of reporting solutions including modifications, performance tuning, problem solving, debugging, and unit testing.

·                       Provide support and maintenance of stages of the BI project lifecycle.

·                       Create and maintain documentation, including standards, implementation plans, configuration, and procedural documents.

·                       Build BW InfoCubes, DSO, extractor and update programs. Create and maintain DSO’s, InfoCubes & Multi-providers.

·                       Identify and evaluate alternate technical solutions, providing recommendations in the use of new and/or existing technologies.

·                       Collaborate with analysts, programmers, and designers in conceptualizing and developing BI/BW solutions.

·                       Recommends the appropriate BI Tools (BEx, WebI, etc.) based on reporting needs.

·                       Provide recommendations to software developers and technical staff to improve design, performance, and scalability.

·                       Monitor BI and Reporting services.  Provide reports that include statistics, baselines, patterns, and issues.  Make recommendations for improvements and perform tuning accordingly.

·                       Worked on SAP BO XI 3.x Universe Designer and Web Intelligence

·                       Good Hands on experience in BI 7.x Modeling, Extraction, Real Time data acquisition, DTPs and Transformations.

·                       Experience in LO-Cockpit and Generic extraction (Tables/View, Function Module Extraction) to extract data from R/3 systems.

·                       Good knowledge of enhancing the standard Data source, writing the User exits codes, Appending of customized fields to the standard extract structure, Replicating in BW, Assigning info object in the Transfer Structure).

·                       Worked on performance increase of info cubes by using technical content static’s cubes, Aggregates, partitioning, compressions.

·                       Worked on Open Hubs, APD to extract the data for Inventory Sales forecast.

·                       Worked on all kind of Transport activities (Transporting of info cubes, DSO, Queries etc) from BW – Dev to QA and BW-QA to BW-PROD.

·                       Good experience in Process Chains which involved triggering of chains using events, ABAP Program etc.

·                       Configured SMTP, SCOT settings for email alert for Process chains.

·                       Worked on Bex analyzer. Designed queries using Bex Query Designer such as calculated key figures, Restricted key figures, Variables, Conditions and Exceptions.

·                       Good experience in writing Bex Exit code based on the requirement.

·                       Worked on BI 7.0 Web Application Designer, Created Web Template to publish reports in Portal,, performed activities like creating I views, Role Upload etc., Created Dash Reports based on requirement.

·                       Worked in Information broadcasting to broadcast/schedule the weekly and daily report to different Users.

·                       Continuous job monitoring using BW Monitor; Handling tickets which involve solving issues in the area of data Extraction from R/3 and Flat File, data staging and BEx reporting.

·                       Worked on BI Upgrade project which involved pre upgrade and post upgrade activities.

·                       Worked on EARS REMEDY as ticketing tool to support several clients.

·                       Currently Project lead at Capgemini Consulting, leading a team of 12 consultants.

·                       Possess good communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work in fast paced environment.

·                       Best Employee for the Quarter 2’2008 Award in Birlasoft Ltd.

·                       Outstanding Trainer Award for Quarter 1 ‘2009 for SAP BI training conducted for internal staff in Capgemini ltd.

 

As an ABAP Programmer:

·                       Writing BDC programs for an enrollment process in Benefits module

·                       Creating Reports in the Benefits module

 

Managerial Experience:Jul’06 – Feb’14

 

Competency Related:

·                       Currently positioned as a BI Project Manager

·                       Worked as a Technical Consultant and as a lead also.

·                       3 years of People Management Skills

·                       Involved in the Pre-Sales activities for the past 3 years

·                       Participation in the Business Development Activities

·                       Successful negotiations with Client for more business

·                       Proactive involvement in pushing the company’s capabilities

·                       Thought leadership towards the competency development.

·                       Active trainings imparted to the Client on the New Dimension Technologies.

 

Project Management Related:

·                       Co-ordination between the on-site and off-shore teams to solve the issues.

·                       Handling the off-shore team providing them with the technical and functional specifications

·                       Maintaining the documents relating to a project management such as Project Scope Statement, CMS, RAR, Budget control document, Quality documents among others

·                       Developing project budgets, project schedule & risk response plan

·                       Effective communication to the project stakeholders

·                       Risk Mitigation activities to address issues such as attrition

·                       Team building activities and resolving issues related to the team.

 

Pre-Sales Experience:

·                       Capability presentations to the customers

·                       Preparing and proposing solutions to RFP’s -Solution Approach, Resource Estimates & Deployment Plan

·                       Providing solutions for Pro-active (Account Mining) and Reactive proposals

·                       Preparing Presentation Decks for service offerings and assisting Sales teams

 

Tools Development:

·                       Champion the Product RIFT which is aimed at the automation of the migration of the 3.x versions of BW to the latest 7.0 version at Birlasoft.

·                       Champion the initiative of creating a BW Environment in SolMan and creating Dashboards for the CIO of the company and creating a service offering out of the same.

·                       Worked extensively to provide the inputs from the BW for the tools UptimizerND – assessment tool which is helpful to create a time and labor estimate for a technical upgrade of a BW instance. This tool outputs reports which will help the upgrade team to assess the effort needed in terms of objects, inconsistencies and predicts the business value derived by doing an upgrade at Intelligroup.

 

 

 

Assignments handled on SAP BW:

 

Period	Clients	Service Provider	Projects	Role
Mar-14 to Oct - 14	Internal	Enterprize Solutions	Product Development	Principal Architect
July-13 to Feb - 14	Burberry	Capgemini	Support	Manager - Delivery
Nov-12 to June-13	TAG	Capgemini	Implementation	Manager – Delivery
Apr-12 to Oct-12	Gennum	Capgemini	Support	Manager - Delivery
Oct-11 to Mar-12	British Gas	Capgemini	Implementation	Manager
May-10 to Aug-11	Coca Cola - Bottlers	Capgemini	Implementation	Manager
Apr-09 to Apr-10	Schneider Electric	Capgemini	Support	Manager
Nov-08 to Feb-09	USIS - Security	Capgemini	Implementation	Manager
Jul-07 to Sept-08	Almarai -Beverages	Birlasoft	Upgradation	Project Manager
Jan-06 to June-06	NEI.	Birlasoft	Support	Project Manager
Aug-06 to Jan-07	NEI.	Birlasoft	Implementation	Project Manager
Oct-05 to Jul-06	BASF	Lanco Global Systems	Implementation	Project Lead
Jul-05 to Sept-05	GE. (ERC)	Intelligroup	Implementation	Team Lead
Nov-04 to Jul-05	Owens Corning.	Intelligroup	Implementation	Team Lead
May-04 to Oct-04	NACL	Intelligroup	Implementation	Team Lead
Dec-03 to Apr-04	Alghanim	Intelligroup	Implementation	Consultant
Sept-03 to Nov-03	Coke	Intelligroup	Support	Consultant
Jan-03 to Aug-03	Orange Finance	IT Solutions	Support	Consultant

 

Assignment Handled on Non-SAP

Period	Clients	Service Provider	Application	Role
Feb  2002 to October 2002	Standard Charted Bank	IT Solutions	D.W. (Informatica and Cognos)	Consultant
Oct 2001 to January-2002	Unique computing Inc	IT Solutions	D.W. (Informatica and B.O.)	Consultant
May 2000 to October-2001	LIC Development	Tulasi Solutions	Oracle	Programmer
Dec 1999 to March-2000	W.B Finlease Ltd.	Tulasi Solutions	Oracle	Programmer

***References available on request