Michael

 

 

Profile Summary:

 

·               Having over 8.5 + years of experience  in  HANA,BO,BI/BW with Implementations,3 full life cycles(end to end Project life cycle) & Support, Enhancement projects.

·               Worked in SAP HANA, BO, BI 7.0 and SAP BW 3.5 environments in USA,Singapore,India

·               Extensively worked in Business Intelligence Info cubes, DSO, Multi providers, Info objects, Info objects Catalogs, Transformations, DTP, DataSources, Info packages, Data Extraction, Business Content and Process Chains.

·               Worked extensively in SAP BI specific to ECC - SD, MM, HCM and FI,CO PA modules.

·               Worked in Design, development and production support, with extensive experience in SAP BW - Data Modeling, Report development and expertise in Performance tuning.

·               Worked in Hybrid, Transient info providers, BWA objects, Semantically-partitioned objects,Transient and Composite Info providers.

·               Involved in requirement gathering, analysis of requirement, designing the models, build the reports as well as Testing and deploy the Solution.

·               Worked in full life cycle implementation of SAP BW which dealt with a Blueprints Realization, Data Modeling, Data Extraction, Data Loading (Full / Delta Up-Loads), Scheduling, Monitoring, BEx Analyzer, Query Designer and Web Application Designer, Testing, Go live for BW  FICO, SD,CO-PA .

·               Experience in all areas of SAP BW implementation Front end, Backend, Modeling, Configuration, Reporting and Extraction with sound Knowledge of BW Architecture, Data Flow Strategy, Source Systems, Data Source, Info Source, Info Objects, PSA, ODS and Info-cube and performance tuning.

·               Extensively worked source system analysis, identifies key data issues and performed data profiling, Performs fit gap analysis for both functional and technical requirements.

·               Involved in leading the Cutover, BW housekeeping activities, rollout and configuration Management, which involved conducting technical meetings and analysis.

·               Data load and query performance Compression, creating Aggregates using BEX Query Designer, BEx Analyzer for building Queries and Workbooks.

·               Experienced in End-User Interface and Planning Process and Proficient in Data modeling using MDM and BW extended star schema models.

·               Expertise in Performance Tuning of BW Systems. Evaluated statistical performance and improved data load and query performance using Compression, Aggregates and Partitioning techniques. Good understanding on OLAP performance using BW Statistics.

·               Extensively Involved in Setting up the procedures for LO Cockpit, Maintaining the Extract Structure, Involving Activating the Business Content Data Sources, Generating the Data Source and Activating the Data Source.

·               Created CO-PA data sources and extracted data to BI.

·               Involved in Managing of InfoCubes, which involves Info Cube Content, Performance issues like Indexes, Statistics, Compression of Info Cube and Rolling up the data to the Aggregates.

·               Worked in creation and maintenance of Info Objects, Info Cubes, ODS, Info Sources, Application Component, Data Source, Communication Structure, Transfer Structure, Transfer rules, Update rules, Update methods, info packages.

·               Involved in creating Characteristics and Key figure Info objects, Data Sources, Transfer rules, Info source, Update rules, Info cube, ODS Objects, DSO objects Info packages, Extractors, Data Extraction, Business Content, Data Marts, Process Chains.

·               Worked extensively on loading master data and transactional data from flat files and SAP R/3.

·               Involved in extracting data from SAP R/3 using Generic extraction as well as LO Cockpit.

·               Involved in BW system administration tasks like BW security.

·               Worked in Open Hub Extractors for data extraction.

·               Involved in Managing of Info Cubes, which involves installing Business Content Cubes, Performance parameters like Indexes, Statistics, Compression and partitioning of Info Cube and Rolling up the data to the Aggregates.

·               Good exposure on Process chains, like creating and modifying process chains, adding Info packages to Process chains.

·               Extracted data from non SAP sources using DB connect.

·               Worked on SAP HANA involving Data Provisioning through SLT from ECC system, Importing data  from Flat files, Importing data using BODS.

·               Worked with LTR, IUUC_REPL_CONTENT to perform transformations while replicating data from ECC to SAP HANA.

·               Worked with SAP HANA Specific catalog objects – schema, Database tables (Column Based, Row Based), Column views, Views, Sequences, DB Trigger.

·               Worked with creating IDT universe with Relation connection to access the column views

·               Involved in Implementations and Production support as per the SDLC Process.

·               Involved in writing Start Routine for transformations and End Routine in Transformations.

·               Worked in ABAP and Business Objects.

·               Involved in creating Customer exits for the reports.

·               Worked in EWM data to extract to BI.

·               Worked with Hybrid, Transient info providers,semantically-partitioned objects (SPO’s), Transient and Composite Info providers.

·               Worked in analysis authorization concepts.

·               Worked in integrating BW report to SAP Portal administration.

·               Worked in Gathering the requirements from the business users ,analyzing the requirements and designing the reports based on the business requirements and deploying the best practices in HANA as recommended by the SAP.

·               Involved in extracting from APO like Demanding Planning, Detail Scheduling  to extract data into SAP  BW.

·               Worked in business intelligence concepts including Extract Transform and Load (ETL), report delivery strategies, dashboards, master data management, data architecting, analytics, data warehousing , metadata management.

 

Professional Certifications:

 

·          SAP HANA Certified professional, SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP HANA 1.0 C_HANAIMP_1

·   SAP Consultant Certification, Solution Consultant SAP NetWeaver2004s – Business Intelligence

 

 

Technical Skills:

 

SAP	SAP BI 7.0, SAP BW 3.5/7.3 ABAP,BO,HANA
Operating Systems	MS-Win9x/NT/2000/ Xp, Unix
Database	MS Access, Oracle,Hana
Programming Languages	C, C++, Java

 

 

PROFESSIONAL Experience:

 

Philadelphia Insurance , Philadelphia, PA  June 2013 to till date

 

     Description: Philadelphia Insurance Companies cover designs, markets, and underwrites commercial property/casualty and professional liability insurance products, incorporating value-added coverage and services for select industries.

      Role: SAP BW/BO/HANA Consultant

Environment: SAP BW 7.3, ECC 6.0, ABAP/4, SD, MM, Inventory Management, Production Planning, BEx Query Designer, WAD, BO and EP.

Responsibilities:

·               Involved in HANA POC to Validate the Master Data and Transaction data Tables with multiple Analytical View, Attribute View, Calculation View, Restricted Measures and Calculated Measures

·               Created analytic and complex calculation views using SAP HANA modeler.

·               Worked in HANA as Datamart (Side car approach)

·               Involved in Gathering the requirements from the business users ,analyzing the requirements and designing the reports based on the business requirements and deploying the best practices in HANA

as recommended by the SAP.

·               Experience in SAP HANA data modeling using attribute view, analytical view and Calculation view.

·               Experience in SAP HANA Data provising using SAP LT replication server(SLT) and data server.

·               Worked on SAP HANA Data provisioning, Delivery Units and Schema Mapping.

·               Experience in reporting techniques such as creating calculation views, managing attribute mappings, creating analytic privileges, adding variables, using system generating joins.

·               Information Modeling in SAP HANA and Report Generation in BOBI 4.0 for Sales and Distribution module towards Comparative Analysis for Actual Sales and Planned Sales

·               Data Replication using BODS 4.0

·               Design of HANA schemas, table relations and database objects.

·               Gather customer requirements and showcase analytic solution built using SAP HANA.

·               Involved in rapid-prototyping using HANA platform for various customer scenarios.

·               Synchronizing Planning InfoProviders within the BW PCA Copy Methodology.

·               Involved in migration activities from traditional DB to HANA DB.

·               Experience implementing Rapid deployment solutions and modify HANA models.

·               Created Universe on SAP Cubes, MultiProviders, BW Queries and exporting the universe to CMC

·               Creating OLAP Universe and resoling the loops by using aliases or contexts

·               Created reports on Cube universe, Query Universe

·               Used variable for creating formulas (like calculated Key figures  & Restricted Key figures in SAP)

·               Used variable for creating formulas (like calculated Key figures  & Restricted Key figures in SAP)

·               Designed, Developed and Maintained Universes by defining joins, cardinalities between tables applying contexts and alias tables to remove cyclic dependencies

·               Involved in gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, functional requirements and data specifications for Business Objects Universes and Reports. Excellent experience in designing Business Objects universes, complex BO reports both full client Web Intelligence Reports.

·               Used Live Office and QAAWS (Query as a Web Service) to feed live data into Xcelsius 2011 (both Dashboards & Scorecards). Used Charts, Sliders, Container, Tabs, Maps, Gauges, Radio Buttons, Toggle Functionality, Dynamic User Selections and Visibility.

·               BOBJ 4.0 was integrated with SAP ECC and SAP BI 7.3 to build Universes and further direct connection [BICS] for ASIA region reporting.

·               Experience in Creating and executing Data Service Job in SAP BODS to populate HANA.

 

Philadelphia Insurance - TMM,PA  May 2012 to June 2013

 

Description : Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. is Japan’s oldest property, casualty and marine insurer. It serves as the core insurance company of the Tokio Marine Group, which has an international network of offices in 38 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania and Middle East.With annual revenues of over $30 billion, the Tokio Marine Group is the world’s 6th largest property and casualty insurer having about a 25% share of the Japanese property and casualty insurance market.

 

Role: SAP BI/BO Consultant

Environment: SAP BW 7.3, ECC 6.0, ABAP/4, SD, MM, Inventory Management, Production Planning, BEx Query Designer, WAD, BO and EP

Responsibilities:

·               Activated and utilized the business content according to the functional requirements.

·               Extensively worked with commitments, budgets and actual for the PM reports .

·               Involved in extracting the data from 3FI-GL data source to BW.

·               Involved in the new change requests for the existing reports  and creation of new reports.

·               Updating  the new hierarchy orders as per the business requirements .

·               Created Transformations, Data Transfer Process (DTP) to schedule data within BI 7.3 from one object to another object.

·               Involved in extracting data from FI-AP,AR,GL to BW.

·               Worked in business intelligence concepts including Extract Transform and Load (ETL), report delivery strategies, dashboards, master data management, data architecting, analytics, data warehousing , metadata management.

·               Created DSO to stage data before transferring contents to other data targets using Data Transfer Process (DTP).

·               Automating the reports to specific users based on the authorizations.

·               Worked in Design, development and production support, with extensive experience in SAP BW - Data Modeling, Report development and expertise in Performance tuning.

·               Worked in Hybrid, Transient info providers, BWA objects, Semantically-partitioned objects,Transient and Composite Info providers.

·               Monitoring the process chain loads for the  data targets.

·               Customized LO Cockpit structures and set the extraction process using LO cockpit.

·               Extracted data through generic extraction.

·               Expertise in Performance Tuning of BW Systems. Evaluated statistical performance and improved data load and query performance using Compression, Aggregates and Partitioning techniques. Good understanding on OLAP performance using BW Statistics.

·               Involved in creating Multi Providers based on the requirements and reporting on them using Bex.

·               Performed Data Load Tuning by analyzing and adjusting Aggregates, Indexes, Compression, and Partitioning.

·               Extensively worked source system analysis, identifies key data issues and performed data profiling, Performs fit gap analysis for both functional and technical requirements.

·               Involved in leading the Cutover, rollout and configuration Management, which involved conducting technical meetings and analysis.

·               Data load and query performance Compression, creating Aggregates using BEX Query Designer, BEx Analyzer for building Queries and Workbooks.

·               Worked on the house keeping activities of BW servers along with the BASIS team.

·               Involved in writing Start Routine for transformations and End Routine in Transformations.

·               Involved in creating Customer exits for the reports using ABAP.

·               Development of Process Chains for Automated Scheduling of all Data Loading Jobs

·               Extensively used BEx Query designer to build queries and workbooks on Info Cubes, ODS and MultiProviders. Created Free Characteristics & restricted key figures to improve the query performance.

·               Created Web reports using Web Application Designer (WAD) to access the reports.

·               Enhancing the Datasource and Using the Enhancement RSAP0001 to fill the data into the enhanced Fields.

·               Used RRI jump queries using the transaction RSBBS for Queries from summarized InfoCube to detail DSO data.

·               Used BEx-Business Query Designer to create Reports. Used Calculated Key Figures, Restricted Key Figures, Variables, Exceptions, Conditions and Report to Report Interface

·               Worked in requirement gathering, analysis of requirement, designing the models, build the reports as well as Testing and deploy the Solution.

·               Worked on BW upgrade

·               Worked on Information Broad casting for the reports.

 

Business Objects Reporting

 

Universe Design

·               Created Universe on SAP Cubes, MultiProviders, BW Queries and exporting the universe to CMC

·               Used functions like CustomHierarchy, DelegateSearch, CascadingListofValues, and Hiding Objects

Web Intelligence & Web Intelligence Rich Client

 

·               Creating OLAP Universe and resoling the loops by using aliases or contexts

·               Created reports on Cube universe, Query Universe

·               Used filters for filtering on Dimensions, Measures

·               Used Prompts on the filtered objects

·               Worked with Tables & Charts

·               Used variable for creating formulas (like calculated Key figures  & Restricted Key figures in SAP)

 

Fresenius Medical Care, Concord, CA                                                                            Oct 2011 to May 2012

 

Description : Fresenius Medical Care is the world's largest integrated provider of products and services for individuals undergoing dialysis because of chronic kidney failure, a condition that affects more than 2.5 million individuals worldwide. Through its network of 3,335 dialysis clinics in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Africa, Fresenius Medical Care provides dialysis treatments for 280,942 patients around the globe. Fresenius Medical Care is also the world's leading provider of dialysis products such as hemodialysis machines, dialyzers and related disposable products. 

 

Role: SAP BI Consultant

Environment  : SAP BW 7.0, SAP ERP 6.0, CRM, SD, MM SAP Business Explorer

 

Responsibilities:

·               Worked extensively on Data Warehouse Work Bench (DWB).

·               Activated and utilized the business content according to the functional requirements.

·               Extensively worked with Accounts Payable data sources for extraction and loading of data from FI to BW.

·               Involved in extracting the data from 3FI_GL datasources to BW.

·               Created Transformations, Data Transfer Process (DTP) to schedule data within BI 7.0 from one object to another object.

·               Created DSO to stage data before transferring contents to other data targets using Data Transfer Process (DTP).

·               Customized LO Cockpit structures and set the extraction process using LO cockpit.

·               Extracted data through generic extraction.

·               Involved in creating Multi Providers based on the requirements and reporting on them using BEx.

·               Performed Data Load Tuning by analyzing and adjusting Aggregates, Indexes, Compression, and Partitioning.

·               Development of Process Chains for Automated Scheduling of all Data Loading Jobs

·               Extensively used BEx Query designer to build queries and workbooks on Info Cubes, ODS and MultiProviders. Created Free Characteristics & restricted key figures to improve the query performance.

·               Created Web reports using Web Application Designer (WAD) to access the reports.

·               Enhancing the Datasource and Using the Enhancement RSAP0001 to fill the data into the enhanced Fields.

·               Used RRI jump queries using the transaction RSBBS for Queries from summarized InfoCube to detail DSO data.

·               Used BEx-Business Query Designer to cerate Reports. Used Calculated Key Figures, Restricted Key Figures, Variables, Exceptions, Conditions and Report to Report Interface.

·               Worked on purchasing data sources to extract data to BW.

·               Worked with Open Hub Extractors for data extraction.

·               Worked on extracting data from HCM to BI.

 

Johnson & Johnson, Palm Beach, FL             July 2010 to Sep 2011

 

Description : Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturer  with annual revenue of 73 billion.

 

Role: SAP BI Consultant

Duration: July 2010 to Sep 2011

Environment: SAP BW 3.5, BW 7.0,SAP ERP 5.0, SD, HR, FICO, BEx Query Designer, Web Application Designer.

Responsibilities:

·            Worked on administration workbench, customized info-objects, info sources and infocubes.

·            Created and maintained data sources at R/3 source system and extracted data in to infocubes after

         creating transfer rules, info packages and update rules.

·            Installed relevant Business Content Objects and worked with Info Cubes like Customer, Deliveries, Sales Overview, Delivery Services and Info Sources like Customer, Sales Order, Delivery, Billing, and Sales Order/Delivery.

·            Generated a report by using multiprovider.

·            Created transport request for transporting queries, and putting the request in release state for transporting

to target system.

·            Used ODS to stage the data before transferring the ODS contents to the Info Cube. Done ODS reporting to give details of delivery items and schedule line items.

·            Configured the use of restricted key figures, variables, exceptions and calculated key figures in queries.

·            Created Variables for BW Queries.

·            Involved with FI extractors to get the data to BI.

·            Created CO-PA data sources and extracted data to BI.

·            Involved in writing Customer exits (ABAP, Function Module) based on the user requirements for the reports

·            Involved in writing Start Routine at the transformation level for data staging.

·            Worked in analysis authorization concepts.

·            Worked with vistex data extraction to SAP BW.

·            Extracted  data from HR  like PY,PA,ESS  data sources to BW.

·            Worked extensively on BEx Query Designer. Developed flexible queries using filters, navigational attributes in BEx Analyzer to facilitate data analysis in a drill down or summarized way to give detailed levels of information.

·            Worked on standard and custom defined LO Extractors. Installed relevant SAP business content.Used LO structures   

for extracting sales order, delivery billing information.

 

 

Welsh Water      March 2009 to June 2010

 

Description : Welsh water is  a company which supplies drinking water and wastewater services .It supplies water, sewerage and trade effluent services to home's, offices and businesses in Wales and parts of England.

 

Role: SAP BI Associate Consultant

Environment: SAP BW 7.0, SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7, SD, HR, FICO, BEx Query Designer, Web Application Designer

Responsibilities:

·         In Sales the Sales item level and schedule line level data is extracted from BW standard Data Sources and data is loaded initially into ODS and then subsequently loaded into the respective Cubes, Scheduled jobs using Process Chains

·         Maintained Aggregates, Rollup and Compression on Info Cubes as part of the Info Cube Management.

·         Involved in Creation of Reports with Info Cubes and ODS Objects related to SD.

·         With the help of process chains loaded the master and transactional data.

·         Monitored the Roll Ups and Compression of the InfoCube

·         Monitored the packages and analyzed the reasons for frequent failures of Info packages.

·         Data loading was monitored and failed data packets were analyzed and if possible manually edited in PSA   and reloaded to ODS.

·         Involved in escalating high-prioritized tickets regarding extractions, Performance Issues and also load failures.

·         Maintained the Hierarchy as per the business requirement.

·         Extracted  data from HCM  like PY,PA,ESS  data sources to BW.

 

J C Bamford Excavators Limited (JCB),Singapore                                                           June 2006  to February 2009

 

Description : J.C. Bamford Excavators Limited, universally known as JCB, is a British multinational corporation, with headquarters in Rocester, Staffordshire, manufacturing equipment for construction, demolition and agriculture. It is the world's third-largest construction equipment manufacturer.

 

Role: SAP BI Associate Consultant

Duration: October 2006 to Feb 2009

Environment             :  SAP BW 7.0, SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7, SD, HR, FICO,MM,Inventory, BEx Query Designer, Web Application Designer

Responsibilities:

·               Worked extensively on LO-COCKPIT for Loading data into the Standard Cubes.

·               Monitoring the Roll-ups and Compressions while loading the data into the Info cubes.

·               Base work for the performance tuning which includes fact table partitioning, PSA partitioning.

·               Scheduled the data packet size in SAP R/3 according the business requirements.

·               Scheduled and monitored periodic data loads from R/3 to BW.

·               Monitoring the errors and handling them manually when needed.

·               Extensively worked on Design and Development of Cubes, ODS objects, Info objects, Multiproviders, Datasources and Infosets for reporting on Sales Order Data, Purchase Contracts, and inventory management

·               Involved in Partitioning and un partitioning cubes to improve performance.

·               Developed web based queries for the users within the intranet, used HTML for customizing the reports.

·               Extensively worked on fine-tuning of the reports, used various tuning techniques which include building aggregates, Routines, Function modules and also data distribution.

·               Developed flexible queries using navigational attributes, variables, calculated key figures, restricted key figures in BEx analyzer to facilitate data analysis in a drill down or summarized way to give detailed level of information.

·               Worked with vistex data extraction to SAP BW.

·               Used ODS to stage the data before transferring the ODS contents to the Info cubes.

·               Developed ODS report to give details of delivery items and schedule line items.

·               Worked on Bw upgrade BW 3.X to BI 7.0.

·               Changing of existing queries to suit the client requirements.

Professional Training:

 

·               ADM315 - Workload Analysis

·               HA100,HA300 –HANA

·               Attended PMI training for PMP Methodology.

·               SAP TechEd

·               Attended professional training on Presentation Dynamics