Summary   ü     Over 7 years of IT experience, which includes extensive experience in SAP Business Information Warehousing (BW) Expertise in Business Warehouse ,HANA Components like Queries, Extractors, Info Objects, Info Sources, Update Rules, Transfer Rules, Info Cubes, Info Packages, Authorization, Modeling, Extraction and Reporting,Analyticalviews,Attribute views and calculation views& Solution Manger 3.2.   ü     Involved in the scope of implementations using Accelerated SAP methodology from business blueprint phase till Go-Live of the project and created necessary documentation for the knowledge transfer to the support team after MTP [Move-To-Production].   ü     Strong business and technical experience in conducting workshops, requirements gathering, BW landscape, signing of the systems, GAP analysis including Designing, development, implementation, and installation of Business Content for Financial Reporting.   ü     Extensive experience in professionally interacting with all levels of the user community. Effective in executing multiple tasks and assignments ahead of schedule with excellent communication skills.

SAP BW Expertise   ·                Involved in complete life cycle implementation of SAP BW including modeling,       design and development of BW info providers and other objects, data extraction       from SAP and non-SAP products, BW data access using Business Explorer and Extensively used BEx Analyzer Web Designer for creating Reports.   ·                Expertise in Business Warehouse Components like Extractors, Info Objects, Info        Sources, Update Rules, Transfer Rules, Info Cubes, Info Packages,       Authorization and Modeling.   ·                Expertise in OLTP extractions from SAP R/3 using LO Cockpit, COPA, Generic        Extractions and non-SAP R/3 extractions using DB Connect. Also extract data        from the flat files.   ·                Extensively worked in various modules in R/3/ECC –SD, MM, , FI(AR, AP, GL), COPA, IS-OIL, TSW , PS,SEM-BPS/IP,PLM,QM,EHS, APO-DP, HR and CRM for extracting data and loading in to BW Data targets.   ·                Experienced in designing SAP BW interface requirements with both R/3 source        systems as well as non-R/3 source systems and in modeling of custom Info       Cubes and Info Sources for non-R3 data and configuration of the Non-R3 data.   ·                     Proficiency in Performance Tuning using Rollups, Partition and Compression.   ·                Experienced in front end technologies like Bex/Xcelcius/Webi, Crystal reports.     HANA  Expertise   ·               Expertise in Design, Development and Deployment of SAP HANA Information Models. Hands on experience in creating Information Models in SAP HANA along with SLT and BODS connectivity.   ·   Having experience in Loading of data using SLT, BODS and Flat files, Sybase replication. Performance tuning by creating Calculation Views with the SQL Scripting. Worked on report Unit Testing, Layout and Integration Testing.   ·                  Created Users, Roles and assigned Security Privileges using SQL Privileges, System Privileges, Analytic Privileges and Package privileges to them. Good knowledge in Optimization and best practices.   ·                  Changed the settings through Modeler Preferences window. Created Attribute, Analytic, Calculation views through graphical and SQL Script methods, Created Calculated Attributes, Calculated Measures, Counters, Variables, and Input Parameters in the views.   ·                  Performed Mass Copy and Mass Activation of information models, Created tables, views, joins, projections, aggregations, unions, unit conversions, declarative and imperative procedures using variables and control structures of SQL Script.   ·                  Used SQL Script Cursors to fetch the rows from a result set and make transformations Understanding of tracing and debugging of SQL Script, Accessed Analytic and calculation views from Business Objects Analysis via ODBC connection (BOBJ Integration).Accessed HANA data as Pivot tables in Microsoft Excel through via MDX provider. ·                 ·               Good Knowledge of Data Provisioning and replicating data from source system to HANA Database using SLT, Sybase Replication Server and Business Objects Data Services. (Trigger based, Log based and ETL). ·

Skill Set Summary

 

Tools              :  SAP HANA 1.0 (SP4, SP5& SP6), SAP BO 4.0 Analyzer, Business Objects, BWA.

Reporting Tools          : BEx Analyzer, BEx QD, Web application designer, Universe Design, Crystal Reports, Web intelligence, Cognos, Dashboards.

Operating Systems      : Windows 7/XP/VISTA, Unix,Linux.                                                   

Databases                     :  Oracle and DB2.

Data Modeling Tools  : Erwin 3.x/4.x, MS – Visio

SAP BW/BI Extraction: ECCData Extraction, Flat File Data Extraction.

Languages                     : Sql, Cdl

 

Certifications

 

ü       SAP Certified Application Associate-Business Intelligence with SAP BW 7.3 and SAP BI 4.0.

ü       Oracle Database certified– SQL Fundamentals 11 g.

 

 

Professional Summary

 

Burts Bee’s / Clorox, Durham, NC                       (June ’13 –Present)

SAP BW/HANA/BOBJ Consultant.

 

Project description

Burt's Bees is personal care products and subsidiary of Clorox making products for personal care, health, beauty, and personal hygiene. This project mainly involves integrating Burts Non-SAP system with Clorox SAP system and replicating the data from ECC to HANA and developing Business Objects reports on HANA.

 

Environment: SAP HANA 1.0 SP6, SAP HANA Studio, BW 7.4 SP2, SQL Server 2008,Tableau, Design studio,Lumira, SAP BO Suite 4.1, Webi, Dashboard designer, Universe/IDT,Crystal Reports, Analysis for office & OLAP, Explorer, SAP ECC 6.0.

 

Responsibilities

·   Worked with Business Managers, Key users and End users in documenting requirements, providing estimates, creating High Level Design and Detail design specifications.

·   Worked extensively on Business Objects Suite 4.1 Information Design Tool (IDT), Webi Rich Client, BI Launch Pad, BO Explorer, and Lumira with Hana and BW as sources.

·   Created, managed and personalized the information spaces for analyzing the Sales data using the BO Explorer.

·   Used BICS for connecting to BEx reports and creating webi reports.

·   Developed Information models using Attribute Views, Analytical Views, Calculated views and Analytical Privileges.

·   Created calculated and restricted measures within an analytical view to derive KPIs.

·   Proved performance capability of HANA using various reporting scenarios.

·   Replicated data from ECC to HANA using SLT (SAP Landscape Transformation) on a real time basis.

·   Experience working with SLT Advance Settings.

·   Created data flows and configured data load jobs in Business Objects Data Services.

·   Analyzing the SQL Query performance by using Execute Plan and visualize Plan that HANA database follows.

·   Built Calculation Views to join multiple tables and implement complex business logic to meet reporting requirements.

·   Used SQL scripting to create column tables in HANA, selective deletion of data, debug, and preview and monitor performance.

·   Created Data services jobs to load data into HANA from non-SAP systems.

·   Worked with system monitor/administration console for database monitoring and system configuration.

·   Defined schemas and packages to group tables and HANA views.

·   Good knowledge of Hana Smart Access and Hana Side Car scenarios.

·   Worked with SAP technical support to optimize performance for multiple HANA views.

·   Analysed with Tableau and Lumira tools for the analysis of data.

·   Provided technical assistance/support to analysts, business community and responded to inquiries regarding errors, problems, or questions with programs/interfaces

·   Provided training to end users to use various functionalities of Business Objects.

 

 

Fannie Mae, Washington, DC                                               (March ‘12 – May ‘13)

SAP BW/BO/HANA Developer

Over view: Fannie Mae serves the U.S. housing market by providing capital and affordable housing to communities. Get Current project provides data reconciliation and reinstatement of financial results. Fannie Mae has multiple Data Warehouses (RDW, ADW) from which all the reporting has to be done. Fannie Mae uses Business Intelligence tools like Data Integrator, Business Objects, crystal reports and Hyperion for Decision Support Systems.

Environment: BODS 4.0, BOBJ4.0, HANA 1.0 SP3, SAP ECC 6.0, Linux, MS Office, Visio, MS Outlook.

 

Responsibilities

·   Gathered and analyzed the requirement to replicate the ECC content in HANA using data provisioning.

·   Strong experience in carrying Functional, Integration, Latency, Performance, reliability testing for various Business Objects Enterprise suit products.

·   Established the best modeling and recommended strategies for BOBJ environment and architecture for SAP HANA.

·   Installed BOBJ 4.0 and BODS 4.0 and configured SAP and Windows AD authentication for Business objects enterprise.

·   Integrated BOBJ 4.0 and BODS 4.0 with SAP HANA1.0.

·   Created Technical specifications and standard modeling documents for HANA.

·   Developed testing scripts and performed UAT on SAP net weaver portal using Test ID's for developers, super users, and end users.

·   Worked on various Java sdk scripts to configure authentications, SSO, and web servers for HANA, SAP BW7.3 , BODS4.0 and BOBJ4.0

·   Performed data modelling and developed Analytical views for the transactional data, Attribute views for the master data, and the calculation views as final model in HANA Studio.

·   Developed data models for the operations, PP, Global sustainment, Quality management tables in HANA.

·   Created web services for querying HANA database from external end user report portal using real time jobs in data services 4.0 design.

·   Migrated HANA content from development, testing environment to Production environment using delivery units.

·   Integrated SAP Net weaver portal to Business objects content using Knowledge management, Iviews, work sets, portal roles.

·   Developed the security model, Naming conventions, folder structure for HANA 1.0 and BOBJ 4.0 and established the recommended SAP best practices for developing Universes, reports and dashboards from HANA data sources.

·   Developed Webi reports and dashboards for different operations and finance KPI'S like Project planning, quality management, warehouse management, Material management, Global Sustainment, Value management.

·   Created Universes on top of HANA calculation views and developed the Webi reports and dashboards using IDT (Information design tool).

 

CMS Energy, Jackson, MI                                                                                            (Oct ‘11 – March ‘12)

SAP BI/BO Analyst.

 

Environment: SAP BI 7.0, SAP Business Objects XI release 3.1 SP3/R2, BWA,Web-Intelligence, SAP Data Services, APO-DP Oracle 9i/10g, PL/SQL, Xcelsius 2008,Informatica, Cognos and Crystal Reports XI. 

 

Responsibilities:

 

·   Created/Modified universes for their Online Financial Portal and generated reports such as Company Revenue, Department Revenue, and Profit by Year etc by developing finance target platform on top of Bex Queries.

·   Involved in Dashboard development which uses different data from different sources.

·   Created derived tables for Universe design to meet specific results in Web Intelligence.

·   Supported and modified the BW queries and workbooks utilizing BEx functionality.

·   Modified Universes by utilizing BEx Queries for more enhanced reports as per the client requirements.

·   Developed the data model for Supply chain Planning and Global Manufacturing and Logistics, where using this data model more than eight reports were developed for the Business users.

·   Developed BEx Query on top of the SAP BW cube in which dashboard data was residing.

·   Built Universes on the top of this BEx query as a part of getting the data to the dashboard.

·   Enhanced the existing master and transaction data in Info cubes to get better results in the dashboard.

·   Created Analytic Dashboards for upscale users on the Financial Actual Budget and Target Budget.

·   Report Generation with BEX Analyzer and the third party tool COGNOS

·   Investigated the data coming from SAP APO/SCM to Teradata for the Demand planning reports, created new views and enhanced existing views, Virtual cubes and multi providers for generating above reports in BEX.

·   Supported analytic Dashboards for upscale users on the KPIS of the organization.

·   Creation of various Dashboards using Business Objects Xcelsius 2008 where Live Office as a middleware between Xcelsius and BO Universe.

·   Awareness functionality to improve performance on OLAP Universe. (SAP Suggested to by Accelerator for performance improvement).

·   Responsible for ensuring Data Quality using tool Data Quality before extracting data from different sources.

·   Involved in performance tuning and enhancements of reporting.

·   Designed Daily, Weekly and Monthly Business Review documents explaining server activities by business line.

·   Involved in implementing Report Bursting feature using Profiles and Publications.

·   Supported and monitored SAP Business Objects issues, Process chains loads and Data Services loading jobs as part of the role.

·   Interacted with the users in the weekly meetings, and also supported them in building reports.

 

Value Labs, India.                                                                                                                               (June ‘10- Sep ’11)                                                                                     

SAP BW Consultant   

Environment: SAP BW 3.0B, BW (SD, MM, FI), SAP 4.6C, ABAP/4.

 

Responsibilities:

·   Involved in gathering business requirements from business analyst for data modeling.

§ Extensive interaction with the Process Team and End Users to gather all specifications for Data Modeling and development.

§ Customized Info Cubes and used Transfer rules, Update rules and start routines. Enhanced extract structures for adding additional fields and corresponding User Exit changes for populating the data.

§ Developed BW objects (Info Objects, Queries, ODS, Extractors, Info Sources and Info Packages), Update and Transfer rules.

§ Developed various data extraction procedures for master data (full and delta upload) for attributes, texts, hierarchies and transactional data – full and delta, and generic extractors for customer-defined tables.

§ Lead BW ISCP production support team and provide guidance in data modeling, enhancements, bug fixing in data extraction and reporting in ISCP Supply Chain and APO Demand Planning functional areas. Release.

§ Evaluated Business Content for Costing, Sales and Manufacturing and activated the relevant B.C Objects

§ Developed User-exits to populate characteristic variables and formula variables.

§ Maintain and create Aggregates and Hierarchies, both time dependent and time independent.

§ Extensively worked on Query building, filtering data, Structures, Variables and conditions.

§ Developed modeling and naming standards, written modeling guidelines, developed power-user training materials and training power-users on utilizing, developing, and administer BW queries.

 

 

GTN Textiles Ltd., India                                      (Feb ‘09 – May ’10)                             

SAP BW Consultant

Environment: SAP BW 3.0B, SAP BWA, SAP R/3 4.6c.

 

Responsibilities:

·   Created Info Packages and info Package Groups and scheduled them in order to load Master Data and Transactional Data from SAP R/3 as well as Flat File Source Systems into BW.

·   Played a crucial role in gathering, analyzing the user requirements and involved in monitoring the extraction of data from R/3 and Flat files.

·   Designed Generic data extractors (RS02) to extract and transform the data sources to suit the Business Warehouse model.

·   Full life cycle involvement including large volume proof of concept and implementation of Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA).

·   Installed Business Content data sources (RSA5), Post Process of the data source (RSA6), Initialization of the Set Up tables, Deleted the Set Up tables.

·   Actively Involved in Monitoring and Extraction of the Data from PSA into Data targets.

·   Created info packages by populating info cubes by executing Info packages using both the update methods (Full update method and Initialization of Delta update).

·   Well versed with Reporting Environment using BEx Analyzer, BEx Browser, Query Creation, Workbooks etc.

·   Created & modified queries based on the user requirement using Calculated Key Figures, Restricted Key Figures, Free Characteristics, Navigational attributes, Filters, Structures, Variables, Text Variables, Conditions, Formulas, Exceptions, Query variants.

·   Implemented conditions and restriction in the reports based on the requirements to generate Queries and embedding them into Workbooks and global views.

 

 

Kirloskar Brothers India Limited                                                                                                       (Feb ‘08 –Jan ’09)

SAP BW Consultant        

Environment: SAP R/3 4.0B, SAP BW 2.1C

                

 Responsibilities:

·   Reconstruct the data requests from PSA in case of data load failure.

·   Re-initialization of business area in case of inconsistency in data targets.

·   Involved in dropping the secondary indexes before loading master data and created the secondary indexes and compressing the Info Cubes.

·   Involved in Batch scheduling of jobs for updating Info Cubes with live data.

·   Giving support for the Service Center tool to close the tickets Performance.

·   To check the Performance of Reports on monthly basis and giving the status to the business analysts.

·   Real time monitoring and corrections of failed loads and resolving the issues in time

·   Short dump monitoring and analysis to resolve the issues.

·   Deletion of PSA data, change log data as per the request of the business analysts  

·   Regularly checking the early watch reports to check the performance on time. 

 

 

 

*References will be provided on request.