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Shawm
Marsh
Senior SAP BI/BW Consultant
Dedicated and Organized BI Consultant, 9 years in Business Intelligence, Data warehousing, OLAP and
Dimensional Modeling principles. Well versed in business process
re-engineering including business blueprinting, design and implementation,
resulting in strong combination of technical skills and honed business sense.
Rapid and flexible problem solver for IT and user issues with particular skill in listening to stakeholders, maintaining a
smooth and cordial environment with team members and management throughout,
even in the most demanding projects. Experience and Skills include SAP BW,
HANA, Business Objects reporting and ABAP programming and worked in capacity
of a Senior Project Lead/Consultant, onsite/offshore coordinator and a team
member, in a multicultural working environment. As a consultant, I can offer the following value: ·
9 years implementing BW solutions,
which includes experience with modules such as SD, MM, FI-CO, GTS, PTP
& APO, serving as a Functional Lead and Technical
Lead with oversight of client-side staff and other consultants. ·
End-to-end Lifecycle
implementation experience such
as Initial Preparation, Blueprinting, Realization, Final preparation, Go-Live
and Support. ·
Conduct high level review
sessions by liaising with business to derive and execute plans,
meet deadlines and standards. ·
Develop cutover plans
and activities and coordinate resources for go-live. ·
Develop and maintain a strategy
for transition of the BW system from Development
to Production Support. ·
Work with the training
and change management team to communicate the new processes to
the end users as a result of the BW implementation. ·
Experienced with 7.3
Upgrades, Implementations, Rollouts and Support projects. ·
Complex ABAP coding -
creating function modules, routines and enhancing user exits. ·
Open Hub interface to load data from BI to Flat files to load to an external
system. ·
Hands-on with provisioning,
sizing, tuning and troubleshooting underlying architectures. ·
Worked on Analysis
Authorization. ·
Experienced with Authorization
Variables, Authorization Objects, and Security on infocubes, Creation of
Roles and Users. ·
Created Events &
Transactions to trigger BPC Process Chains. ·
Good understanding on the
integration of BW with other tools such as BODS. ·
Proficient in Business Objects
(3.x and 4.1) reporting using Webi, Xcelsius and Crystal
Reports. ·
Good understanding of the
methodology of BW/BOBJ integration with SAP BW. ·
Experience in designing BO
Universe. ·
Good at writing views,
joins and stored procedures using SQL
and PL/SQL. ·
Worked on Data Modeling, Data
Provisioning and Reporting aspects in HANA 1.0. ·
Creation of HANA Attribute
views, Analytic views & Calculations views. ·
Setup and configuration of the Information
Modeler and Data Services for Metadata import. ·
Successfully led teams
in multiple projects and provide estimates, object deliverables
and allocate tasks. ·
Good at evaluating the current
business environment and recommend the best strategy and tools to support
business development. ·
Comfortable in large team
environments with multiple vendors. ·
Undertake workshops
and help users understand the flow/uses of BW. ·
Industry experience in FMCG,
Retail and Automobile.
EDUCATION ·
Bachelors in Computer Engineering - Anna University, Chennai, India. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Allergan, Inc. is a multi-specialty health care company focused on
discovering, developing and commercializing innovative pharmaceuticals,
biologics, medical devices and over-the-counter consumer products that enable
people to live life to its greatest potential
BW Consultant: ·
Determined business owners’ needs,
wrote designs, and worked with technical group. ·
Developed and provided a clear
understanding of the BW data model and strategies for data modeling. ·
Created the interface from APO to
BI to extract data from Demand and Supply Planning for comparison reports of
Plan and Actual Sales. ·
Extracted data from APO Planning
areas to Infocubes/DSO for Storage & Reporting purpose. ·
Created Views and Generic
datasources to fetch data from SAP R/3 & within APO. ·
Developed customized Infoobjects,
DSO Objects, Infocubes, Multiproviders, Remote Process Chains and Reports for
DP and SNP modules. ·
Created a data model in BW to
accommodate the Forecasting data from APO, Plan data from APO and actual data
from ECC. ·
Developed cutover plans and
activities and coordinated resources for go-live. ·
Loaded data from BW systems to the
SCM system and to the APO Planning book and used the actual sales data to
forecast for the next 24 months. ·
Developed reports like Forecast
Accuracy, Bias and Sales Forecast for Demand Planning (DP). ·
In Supply Network Planning (SNP),
comparison reports based on actual and forecast were developed for Capacity
Planning, Production Planning, Inventory Stock and Purchasing. ·
Created remote process chains to
load data from SCM system to BW and vice versa. ·
Provided support and transition of
the BW system from development to production support. ·
Played a pivotal role in
transportation of objects from Dev to Quality systems and to Production. ·
Coordinate and centralize
responsibility and accountability for the design, development, release, and
maintenance of the BW system. ·
Performed ABAP coding by writing
start, end, field and expert routines to complete design by keeping in mind
the load performance. ·
Worked extensively on Open Hub
Service, created Infospokes to distribute the data to other systems. ·
Provided support and transition of
the BW system from development to production support. BO Developer: ·
Created Universes using IDT and
connected to multiple datasources. ·
Built universes using tables from
ECC and data from BEx Reporting and created reports using Webi. ·
Created Webi reports by using
calculation contexts, variables, drill down, slice and dice, alerts etc. ·
Worked on Xcelsius, Live Office
and Business Explorer to design reports based on user requirement. ·
Developed Webi reports on SAP Bex
queries using BICS in Web Rich Client. ·
Created Webi and Crystal Reports
and deployed through BI Launch pad with Bex as source. HANA Developer: ·
Experience in Data Provisioning
techniques using SLT to perform real-time replication into HANA Loaded data
from tables in HANA database to BW data marts. ·
Migrated standard SAP models to
In-memory optimized models. ·
Experience
working on HANA Enterprise - Modeling including Attribute Views, Analytical
Views, Calculation Views, SQL scripting. ·
SAP ECC
Supply-Chain tables data migration (replication) via SLT for real-time
replication in HANA Studio and designed reports in BO using universe. ·
Prepared the Unit Test Scripts,
User Manuals and Technical design documents.
Westcon Group, Inc. is a value-added distributor of category-leading
unified communications, network infrastructure, data center and security
solutions with a global network of specialty resellers. The company goes to
market under the Comstor and Westcon brands. Our teams create unique programs
and provide exceptional financial and technical support to accelerate the
business of our partners. The project involved implementation on SAP BW on
HANA. Also there were requirements for building multiple BOBJ Executive
Dashboards and Reports using the latest BOBJ tool (Design Studio). BW Consultant: ·
Created
Functional Specs as per the initial business discussions and involved in
taking a sign off from the business. ·
Created
Technical Specs for documentation purpose, maintained naming conventions and
created Test Scripts for users to test during ITC ·
Created
different reports in Finance & Valuation reports and Daily COPA Income
Statements. ·
Created
workbooks with combined data from SAP and non-SAP systems. ·
Created Events,
and Transactions to trigger the events in a Process chain & Meta chains.
Also maintained a message and a distribution list for success/failure when
the chain is triggered. ·
Worked with
Analysis Authorizations by creating Authorization relevant variables and
adding them to new and existing queries. Analyzed Authorization issues
found during testing and worked with security team to resolve them. ·
Worked on APD’s
to extract master & transactional data as required by the business. ·
Worked on
routines, formulas where required to increase the performance. ·
Created Generic
Datasources where required based on Function Module, View to fulfill the
requirement. ·
Performed all
cutover activities. ·
Provided support
and resolved issues that occurred during data load services. ·
Handled change
request activities and production defects. ·
Handled
reporting on SAP Special ledgers for Local Statutory and IFRS Reporting. ·
For extending
financial reports to Latin countries, we performed an extensive exercise to
provide workbooks in both Local Currency and USD. ·
Involved in End
User Testing and Training. ·
Performed
support activities to help business users with data reconciliation and tool
training. ·
Coordinated
offshore team by assigning work and taking updates on duties. BO Administrator: ·
Used BICS connection
to develop reports based on the OLAP universe. ·
Used Promotion
Management to promote the content within the BO Landscape. ·
Created reports
using different BO functionalities such as combined queries, drill down,
crosstab, master detail and formulae. ·
Created Info
providers & BEx queries to simulate/validate results achieved from Design
Studio reports. Architected the Re-org of BW objects to maintain standards. ·
Created brakes,
filters at different levels of the reports and applied ranking in the Webi
reports. ·
Scheduled
reports and created alerts as requested by users. ·
Created and
documented Test Scripts for users to use during UAT. ·
Created Webi
& Crystal Reports based on the end user requirements and made changes to
existing queries based on ad-hoc changes. ·
Interacted with
the business team/users for any technical issues/fixes in the production
environment. ·
Gathered
Security requirements for the reports in different modules such as Finance,
Sales, Supply Chain and Service. ·
Performed volume
user testing to confirm the production system sizing to accommodate
additional users. ·
Troubleshoot the
issues related to the language text display in the reports – for Latin
countries. ·
Worked on
performance tuning of reports, Security Setup, Assign roles, User folder
security and other administration tasks.
Nestle world's leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company. Our
mission of "Good Food, Good Life" is to provide consumers with the
best tasting, most nutritious choices in a wide range of food and beverage
categories and eating occasions, from morning to night. For well over a century, our commitment to producing foods that
uniquely fulfill people's needs has been the secret ingredient in everything
we make. It's the right amount of heartiness in our STOUFFER'S® entrees, and
it's what makes our NESTLÉ® Hot Cocoa Mix so satisfying on a cold winter day
BI/BO Developer: ·
Created Universe, classes,
objects, prompts, predefined conditions, by retrieving data from sources and
defining necessary connections. ·
Created multi-source universe on
top of BW system to combine multiple data sources into a single universe,
presenting a single logical view to end users. ·
Developed cross tab reports,
sub-reports using Crystal Reports ·
Created reports using BO
Functionalities like Slice and Dice, Drill down, Crosstab and Formula using
Webi. ·
Performed indexing by creating
information spaces in Business Objects explorer. ·
Interacting with Business for
requirement gathering for POS Dashboard reports ·
Provided support and involved in
enhancements for SAP SD process area
Capital Group is one of the world’s largest investment management
organizations with assets of around one trillion USD under management. It
comprises a group of investment management companies, including Capital
Research and Management, American Funds, Capital Bank and Trust, Capital
Guardian, and Capital International. Worked on simultaneous projects at Capital Group by serving as an
onsite/offsite coordinator and lead a team of 4. Upgraded the BW system
from 3.5 to 7.0 and to 7.3 SP5 and oversaw the testing of business and
information 8 objectives and requirements.
·
Performed different kinds of
testing and identified bugs in the 7.3 system - raised and solved it along
with SAP. Implemented the BO project by integrating BO with BW and
generated multiple reports in Webi, Crystal Reports and Xcelsius. ·
Completed integration systems test
19.7% ahead of projected timeline.
BW Consultant: ·
Upgraded the system from 7.0 to
7.3 and migrated some of the existing 3.5 flows to 7.x. ·
Implemented the new Analysis
Authorization concept and migrated 3.x authorization concepts that were no
longer supported in the 7.3 systems. ·
Acted as one of the key person in
handling Security changes. ·
Involved in end-to-end testing
starting from ECC/POSDM/Flat file Extractions till Report testing. ·
Migrated BEx Reports and Web
Templates to 7.x and worked on I-views in Portal System. ·
Worked on queries involving
complex scenarios like exit variables, formulas, calculations and exception
aggregations. ·
Handled most of the front-end
issues, short dumps and worked in liaison with SAP on critical issues such as
metadata repository and Standard BADI issues. ·
Managed all the cutover activities
like flushing of queues, transports, security and authorization issues and
SAP note implementations. ·
Performed most of the pre and post
upgrade activities. ·
Created a track for all the UAT
issues, resolved them and updated the tracker on a regular basis to the
manager and the client, to keep in sync. ·
Provided support for high-priority
tickets post go-live. ·
Documented all the test cases from
end-to-end testing and updated it on a regular basis to the Client. BO Developer: ·
Worked on Webi Reports as part of
the BO project. ·
Used multiple queries, customer
sql, merging dimensions to create complex Webi reports. ·
Created user groups, assigned
folder level security, and used import wizard to help migrate project
deliverables between Dev, Quality and Production. ·
Worked on data modeling and design
and built dashboards, as per the requirement in Microsoft excel using
functions like lookups, formulas and conditions.
Epson is one of the
world’s largest manufacturers of computer printers, and information and
imaging related equipment. Epson America Inc. goal, through the Epson
TintaBlue Project, is to replace the existing legacy systems in the Latin
Countries with a standalone SAP system. As part of the team, I was involved
in creating multiple reports based on Finance and PTP and also during the process
took over additional responsibility of handling production issues and change
requests.
Performed the BW implementations, testing and maintenance in support
of business and information objectives and requirements and served as a
single point of contact for all IT groups and user communities.
· Involved in modifying Ztables and custom data source in
SAP BW for printer, inkjet, scanner and projector to load the flat file data
into data target. · modified ABAP Program For Uploading Flat File from ZTables · Modified start and end routine for data correction. · Responsible to support the issues with reports in
enterprise environments (Development, UAT, Test and Production) · Designed User security for all Business Objects
Applications and defined Custom Access levels · BI Data loads monitoring and fixing issues related to
daily load failures · Follow up with Control M team for Daily Job execution. · Resolving Data mismatch issue between BW and ECC system. · Modified SAP bex reports, universes and webi report for
printer, inkjet, scanner and projector transported the objects to the Quality
environment and unit test the system by working with various parties to
achieve a sound integration test.
Ingram Micro Inc. is the world’s largest technology distributor and a
leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. As a vital link in
the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability
opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs,
outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services and
product aggregation and distribution.
Resolved performance issues on load by modifying the existing data
structure at the backend and eliminating query bottleneck issues by 58%.
·
Identified the business
requirements with the help of existing documents and business needs. ·
Identified the end user
requirements (BEx Reports, Workbooks) and security requirements. ·
Interacted with management and
end-users to gather the requirements and conducted GAP analysis. ·
Identified list of pre delivered
business content to be activated by functional components, data sources, info
cubes, objects, queries, workbook and roles in SAP SD MM FI AND SCE. ·
Created many Proof of Concepts to
help understand the requirement with the Business and also to analyze the
performance issues in the design ·
Extracted data for various data
sources for SAP SD, MM and FI and SCM-WM, SCM-GTS, SCM-TM data from ECC GTS
and TM to BI ·
Created Functional Specifications
which drive Technical Specifications, Development, Data Mapping and Testing. ·
Identified list of pre delivered
business content to be activated by functional components, data sources, info
cubes, objects, queries, workbook and roles in SAP SD MM FI AND SCE. ·
Designed, developed and configured
BI objects for SAP SD MM AND FI SCM (WM,GTS&TM) as per the business
requirements ·
Configured data loading strategies
for master data, transactional data and delta uploads. ·
Configured and created DSO objects
to stage the data from different data sources and transferred the DSO
contents into various data targets and Info Cubes based on the requirement. ·
Worked extensively on the new
features of Netweaver BI 7.0 BEx Analyzer. Created queries using BI-
Reporting variables (using Offset values) for ITD (Inception to date), YTD
(Year to date) and MTD (Month to date) ·
Scheduled extractions on a weekly
basis using info packages. ·
Monitored process chain, made
changes to existing chains and created remote process chains connecting
multiple systems. ·
Optimized performance of queries
and reports by creating aggregates, compression and partitioning techniques. ·
Tailored transformations using
routines to meet requirements and improve load performance. ·
Enhanced the 0MAT_PLANT_ATTR and
0MATERIAL_ATTR data sources and populated the fields from MARA and MARC
tables. ·
Worked extensively in BEx
Analyzer- created queries, workbooks using variables for characteristics,
text and hierarchies, restricted and calculated key figures using formula
variables and navigational attributes. ·
Used currency translations for
reporting in user specific currencies- created different currency translation
types based on different types of exchange rates, budget exchange rate,
average monthly rate etc. ·
Worked on activation of the
business content for cost controlling and Cost Centre Infocubes. ·
Worked on Procurement - Order
items, schedule lines and Vendor evaluation system by extracting data from
R/3 tables such as EKPO, EKKP into cubes 0PUR_C01 and ODS 0PUR_O01. ·
Activated LO Cockpit, extract
structures and data sources in Sales Order Management to facilitate the data
extraction to BW also extended the extract structures by adding new fields
and populating them with the user/function exits. ·
Extracted data, initialized delta
for uploading of transaction data from ECC by V3 updates. ·
Worked with info package groups
and process chains for effective scheduling and automation of various data
load processes. ·
Performed unit testing, functional
unit testing and integration testing in dev and quality environments. ·
Created Conditions, Exceptions,
Structures and Variables to use them in BEx Reporting. ·
Worked in production support and
simultaneously worked on new developments within the project. ·
Involved SAP BI and BOBJ
integration ·
Installation of BOE XI 3.1 with
fix pack 3.5 & BOXI 4.0 on AIX 6.1 , 6 Physical Servers: 2 x Tomcat, 2 x
CMS, 2 x Job servers ·
Implemented Single Sign on (SSO) ·
Created super bex query and
universe on that. ·
Created webi vendor specific and
complex reports ·
Worked on SAP BO Data Services 3.1
and BO XI 4.0 ·
External Software Installed/
Configured on BODI Servers. ·
BODS used as an ETL reporting tool
in Ingram Micro’s IT landscape. All BI extracts/data feeds are created using
BODS. These extracts are provided to various external systems in the IT
Landscape ·
BODS Job Monitoring is through
CTRL-M. There is no confirmation message from CTRL-M on a successful ·
Job processed but if a Job fails
an automated e-mail is sent to the support team ·
Using 360 view designed security,
maintaining security profiles for users. ·
Installing & configuring
Xcelsius. ·
Integrated Business Objects with
SAP BW/BI with Portal Integration kit to publish the reports onto the
Enterprise using BW/R3 portal ·
Designed User security for all the
Application in Ingram and defined Super Users, Power Users, View Users and
Developers applied ·
Maintained Users and Groups
Security by creating AD groups and attaching it the folders on the
Enterprise. ·
Tested and implemented SMTP email
and FTP scheduling feature in Business Objects ·
Responsible to make sure Email,
FTP, Business Objects Inbox and Unmanaged Disk options of scheduling
are always up and running ·
Performed Performance tuning for
all the servers in CMC. ·
Maintain the repositories for
different environments like DEV, QA and ·
Regularly synchronized the QA, DEV
environments with Production reports
Lenovo is an
innovative, international technology company formed as a result of the
acquisition by the Lenovo Group of the IBM Personal Computing Division.
Lenovo is a global company with executive offices in Raleigh, North Carolina,
USA, Beijing, China, and Singapore. Its principal operations are in Beijing,
China, and Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, with an enterprise sales
organization worldwide. The company employs more than 19,000 people
worldwide.
·
Worked on query performance and
troubleshooting of reports using RSRT. ·
Involved in taking necessary
actions in order to correct info packages by way of doing Manual
Update, Reconstruction and Running info packages manually
depending on the case. ·
Involved in monitoring process
chain and checking the logs. ·
Maintaining customer posted
tickets and system-generated tickets. ·
Maintained documentation for each
and every error. ·
Maintained Reconciliation’s to
verify the data in SAP CRM and SAP BW are same or not after the data loads.
Maintaining Work History for all the tickets until it is closed down. To
communicate with the customer and operation desk who post the ticket. ·
Involved in escalating
high-prioritized tickets regarding extractions, performance issues and also
loads failures. ·
Involved in solving reporting
issues. ·
Involved in solving WAD reports. ·
Involved in taking necessary
actions in order to correct Variables as user requirement. ·
Involved in taking necessary
actions in order to correct calculated key figures and restricted key figures
as user requirement. ·
Involved in publishing new WAD
reports to Enterprise portal ·
Involved in assigning the roles to
the user in category wise. ·
Involved in solving the EP issues
linked with BI Reports ·
Created documentation of test plan,
test case and test protocols for developments in ECC and BW. ·
Created end user and super user
training documentation for the materials master data team. ·
Made changes to the existing
process chains by writing ABAP programs and automate the Process Chains. ·
Involved in performance tuning of
queries and fixed them by creating aggregates and checking the performance in
the query trace. ·
Implemented OSS Notes where
required and raised OSS Messages for issues that were not traceable. ·
Handled production support and
development of new design cycles simultaneously. ·
Developed routines at
transformation level and debugged coding where required. ·
Developed strategies for
nightly/weekly/monthly production data loads using process chains. ·
Created Sales Overview report,
Invoice Details, Purchase Order Changes, Procurement Report based on Vendor
Characteristics, and Vendor Evaluations. ·
Involved actively in supporting
the various issues addressed by the End-users and provided them with
appropriate solutions. ·
Transported objects from
Development-->Quality->Production. ·
Validated data consistency in
Reports with data in the PSA and RSA3. ·
Performed various production
support activities like ticket analysis report, resource utilization report
and timesheet maintenance of the support team ·
Increased the performance of
queries by maintaining Aggregates, deleting and creating indexes for the Info
providers to improve load and query performance respectively and maintaining
BW statistics cube. ·
Created batch processes and
scheduled load jobs in parallel process chain maintenance. ·
Published queries on the Web to
allow users to access them in the portal. ·
Followed Housekeeping principles
to keep the system in good shape. ·
Documented all support activities.
Lenovo is a global company
with executive offices in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, Beijing, China, and
Singapore. Its principal operations are in Beijing, China, and Raleigh, North
Carolina, USA, with an enterprise sales organization worldwide. The company
employs more than 19,000 people worldwide.
Provided 100% resolution of all open break/fix tickets in the support
activities.
·
Lenovo has implemented CRM modules
for tracking the Sales Opportunities and Activities and BI 7.0 for their
reporting. ·
Gathering requirements from the
Business Users and writing Technical specifications for all the Reports. ·
Used alerter, filters, sorts (both
custom and inbuilt) and rankings in the reports. ·
Used multiple data providers such
as universes and personal data files in generating reports. ·
Analyzed Data by working in Slice
and Dice Mode, Drill Mode, using hierarchies and also
formatting reports. ·
Created complex reports by linking
data from multiple sources, using different functionalities that included
using combined queries, master detail and cross tabs. ·
Some of the critical Activity
Reports included Calling Activity Summary and Calling Activity
Detailing reports ·
Activation of Standard Cubes like
Opportunities (0CRM_C04), CRM lead Management (0MKTG_C01). ·
Worked on enhancement for data
source 0CRM_SALES_ACT_1(added zlentask) ·
Responsibilities include creation
of both Opportunity reports and Activity reports. ·
Activation of standard ODS like
0CRM_SALES_ACT_1 (Activities) ·
Activation of Standard ODS like
CRM Opportunity Item, header, Monitor and ODS for Activities. ·
Worked on Enhancement for Data
Source 0CRM_OPPT_I (Added the Six Z Fields like zquantity,
zstatus, zprobability etc). ·
Activation of standard ODS like
0CRM_lead_I and 0CRM_lead_h ·
Created multiprovider for
0CRM_OPPT_H and 0CRM_OPPT_I ·
Worked on Generic Data Source
zcalendar, zlenweek, zprediction and zmatrix. ·
Created Process chain for
transaction data. ·
Created process chain for Master
data ·
Activated standard reports like
forward looking pipeline, FLP Extract reports, Bridge reports, Forecast
reports, Activities reports and business partner reports ·
Created detail Custom reports
using Opportunity item ODS. ·
Created Summary Custom reports
using Opportunities Cube. ·
Created a four variable for detail
reports ·
Created Business partner reports ·
Created WAD reports on standard
reports, detail reports and Summary reports |
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