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Resume Headline: Wasim Rafiq - SAP BW/BI/ABAP Technical Lead Architect

Resume Value: tgkew3qw57y3vetm   

  

 

 

Wasim R
Senior SAP BW/ABAP/HANA Consultant
wasimbw1@gmail.com

Phone:650-550-9917

                                  Certified SAP  BI (7.0)

                                 Certified SAP HANA 1.0

 

SUMMARY

 

·   8 years of back-end and front-end (End-to-End) techno-functional development/implementation & support experience in SAP BW/ABAP

·   ABAP Development experience with the following modules: MM/PS/PP/SD/SCM/FI/CO and HR

·   Experience with BW-IP support, development and customization

·   12 years of experience in SAP with total 14 years of IT Industry experience.

·   Implemented SAP BW/BI through 4 full lifecycles in 7 years of experience in multi-industry global rollouts of SAP BW version 3.x and SAP BI 7.0,BW 7.3/BO 4.0 and BW 7.4/BO4.1 configuration.

·   ERP Systems: SAP ECC 6.0 and 5.0, R/3 Enterprise 4.7 and 4.6C (FI/CO, SD, MM, PM, PP,  SCM (Supply Chain), HR, CRM, IP)

·   Understand BI/DW framework.

·   5 years of hands-on experience in Business Processes Analysis/Re-engineering, Design, Development and Configuration of SAP MM/PP/SD/SCM/FI/CO/HR modules.

·   As Lead/Solution Architect, provided governance and leadership in defining and implementing global rollup strategy of BW/BI with Enterprise Portal and Team Building with Budgeting Accountability.

·   Experienced in BW/BI implementation (ASAP/WRICEF methodology) including Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), Data Modeling with Key Performance Indicators (KPI Matrix), ETL & Reporting.

·   Hold BW Certification and hands-on expertise in all phases of SAP BW/BI project lifecycles including Analysis, Architecture, Design, Development, Data Extraction, Staging and Storage, Transformation, Presentation, Testing, Cutover/Go-Live Planning, User Training, Knowledge Transfer, Deployment, Production Support, Change Control, and Change Management.

·   Currently focusing in SAP Business Intelligence (BW 7.4 and Business Objects Enterprise 4.1) Sap HANA.

 

Technical Skills

 

·   BI (Reporting and Analysis) Tools: Business Explorer (BEx) Query Designer, Web Application Designer, BEx Analyzer, Web Analyzer, BEx Report Designer, BO(Webi),Crystal Report,Xelcus Dashboard and Design Studio Etc.

·   Data Warehouses: SAP BI 7.0 (NetWeaver 2004s), SAP BW 3.5, 7.3,7.4.

·   Reporting Tool:Business Object (30.0,4.0,4.1) Webi.Crystal Report.Dashboard.Analysis office and DESING STUDION

·   End-to-end SAP Business Objects implementation experience in Business Objects Enterprise BW 7.4.

·   Developed SAP training material and trained End-users world-wide.

·   Experience working with KPI Dashboard for FIRE Protection,logistic PM,Medical to collect analytical requirements.

·   Deliverable included analysis, functional mapping, gap analysis, functional specification, Test Cases and user acceptance tests.

·   Deep understanding of Queries, Reporting, and Dash Board Reporting tools – Query Designer, BEx Analyzer, WAD, Report Designer, Web Intelligence (WebI), Crystal Reports, Query as a Web Services.

·   Extensively built and customized Info Objects, Info Sources, Data Sources, Transformations, Info Packages, DTPSs, DSOs/ ODS, Info Cubes on Data warehouse / Enterprise Warehouse to meet clients need and improve performance.

·   Configured and implemented BW reporting using BEx analyzer/browser an0d Improved queries and reporting performance.

·   Extensive hands-on end user training experience.

·   Software Skills: Business Objects 3.x and 4.0, SAP BW 3.1C/3.0B/2.1C, /4. , IP, BW / BI, BEx Analyzer, Web Report, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Xcelsius, Design Studio, logical data modeling, A tools and techniques, data governance, data quality.etc

·   Knowledge of HANA Modeling including Data Provisining, Reporting,Data Modeling, Creating Analytics Views, Attribute views, Calculated View etc.

·   Knowledge of HANA using Data service to create the Modeling to extract the data in HANA.

 

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 

 

Feb-2014 to March-2015

SBM SAUDIA ARABIA                                        

Client: Saudi Electricity (AL-Khobar)                                              SAP BW/BI/ABAP Technical Lead/Architect                                                                                

Project: BW/BO/ABAP (MM-Dashboard Project)

 

Responsibilities:

         Enhancements to standard SAP programs. The enhancements involved the addition of custom screens to existing SAP transactions and utilization of SAP user-exits.

         Created Function module in ABAP and created views to extract data.

         As SAP BI Solution Architect leading global BW project management/implementation, QA testing, offshore coordination and production support with hands-on technical and functional expertise on Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and Enterprise Reporting & Analysis.

         Gathering/analysis of business requirements for operational & analytical reports in MM.

         Lead experience with Upgrade rollout strategy and hands-on involvement in SAP BW 7.0 - BI 7.4 ( release and support packages, upgrade lifecycle, and resolving upgrading issues.

         Worked in BW/ABAP extracting data from customized MM tables.

         Worked on BI 7.0 Data Warehousing Workbench: designing functional/physical data model, backend configuration, testing, cutover/go-live planning, production support of InfoObjects, InfoCubes, Data- Store Object (DSO), MultiProviders.

         Extracting master data/transactional data with Transformation Rules (ABAP routines); working on BI 7.0 Real-Time Data Warehousing, Transports, and Process Chains.

         Query performance analysis and optimization/tuning through data model, query definition, Aggregates,) indices, OLAP Cache, Database Statistics, & Key figures, time-dependent master data.

         Query development in BEx Query Designer with filters, free characteristics, formulas, selections (restricting), reusable objects like calculated (CKF)/restricted (RKF) key figures, structures, hierarchies,variables (characteristic/hierarchy node/text/formula/SAP exit/customer exit), constants selections, document links, and display in Webi,Dashboard.

         Participated in BW systems architecture, building, validation, transports, troubleshooting errors, BW Statistics analysis, user Management, security authorizations (BW Basis), administration, performance optimization & tuning of BW objects/structures in Development, QA and Production environments.

         Worked on creating customized extractors for MM and created data flow in BW For the Dashboard Report.

         Assist and Involved in creating of extractor for Material change doc to fulfill the report requirement.

         Assist and involved in creating of extractor for Inventory Reservation and created Dashboard for Logistic. Inventory and Purchasing for MM as per user requirement.

         Extensively Involved in BO-BI Administration including authorization performance etc.

         Extensively Involved in BO-Performance management to ensure the reduce the reporting time for the large data.

         Worked on Logistic Extraction to extract the data in BW for the Inventory Movement.

         Assist and involved in creation of Webi Reports,Dahsboards and crystal Reports for MM data.

         Created Data Flow in Data service extract data from ECC and Imported into Hana Studio.

         Managed meetings with client MM to meet their business requirement.

         Provide consultancy in development of future Customer enhancements and developments.

         Involved in Transportation of BW objects into Production verified and Testing.

         Assist resolving issues during Transport Webi Reports and BW Objects from Development to QA.

         Involved in Cut over activities during go live.

         Worked closely with End user after go live support to resolve their issues and bugs.

         Assist with technical documentation and procedures.

 

Technical Environment  
            Sap ECC6.0, SAP BI7.4, BO 4.1.

                                                                     

 

JAN-2013 to Jan 2014.

SBM SAUDIA ARABIA                                        

Client: Saudi Aramco (AL-Khobar)                                                                                        Senior BW/BO / ABAP Development Consultant                                                                               

Project: BW/BO (KPI For Performance Management)/EHS

Environmental Health and Safety (EPD/EHS Project)

Fire Protection Department (FRPD) KPI.

 

Responsibilities:

         Involved in all phases of project from Blueprinting, Requirement gathering, test cases, Process maps, Upgrade, Configuration, Development, Integration Testing, Cutover, and Training to Go Live.

         Gather the requirements Analyze, Design and develop SAP BW objects in EHS and Fire Protection environment.

         Gathered Requirement from EHS Team for their reporting needs.

         Developed Waste Managemet, Waste Manifest Reports,Ground Water,Waste Water Reports.

         Created Web Planning Layouts in BI-IP using Input Ready Query and Web Application Designer

         Created Real time Cube and then created input ready query.

         Use planning layouts to update the data and verify the query

         Worked on creating customized extractors in ABAP through Function module for MM and created data flow in BW For the Dashboard Report.

         Created Extractor for Material change doc using ABAP function module to fulfill the report requirement.

         Created Extractor for Inventory Reservation extractor using ABAP Function module and created Dashboard as per user requirement.

         Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) and BI tools have been used in the projects on loading the data and maintain the data for reporting and STAR Schema, also used to manage the data and testing with the data ware housing system. 

         Prepare business blueprint, Project Proposal.

         Involved and created Real time cubes for their planning data.

         Created dataflow for the planned Ground water report in EHS.

         Created Input ready queries against the aggregation level.

         Involved and worked on Re-post Transaction to update real time data.

         Involved in analysis, detailed design, development, testing.

         Analyze and model customer’s information needs.

         Extensively Involved in Performance Management activity.

         Develop Data Warehousing model(s) to meet the customer’s information.

         Investigate and implement SAP bug-fixes & transports.

         Managed meetings with client (EHS) to meet their business requirement.

         Provide consultancy in development of future Customer enhancements and developments.

         Extensively involved in data extraction from R/3 EHS.

         Installed and configured BO 4.0 and integrated with BW to be able to access BW Query.

         Create Extraction, Data flow for the KPI in BW7.3.

         Create, scheduled and monitored data loads using process chains.

         Created data flow for the Fire protection KPI’S.

         Enhanced Extractors for EHS data in BW.

         Involved integration and Unit testing to validate the data for Frps Department for ARAMCO

         Created SAP queries for Business Objects Web Intelligence reporting.

         Created Webi Report using charts, Graphs.

         Publish Reports to the administrator level, Department level.

         Created Technical documents (HLD’S) for the EHS and Fire Department.

         Created Test script for the users and verify the result.

 

Technical Environment  
            Sap ECC6.0, SAP BI7.3, BO 4.1,HTML 5.0.

 

 

June 2011 – December 2012                                                                                                  IBM Canada Calgary, AB

Client:  Suncor Oil and Energy -

 

Project: Business Objects Governance and Sustainment (SCM)                                    Senior SAP BW/BO/Hana Consultant

 

Responsibilities:

         Involved in all phases of project from Blueprinting, Requirement gathering, test cases, Process maps, Upgrade, Configuration, Development, Integration Testing, Cutover, and Training to Go Live.

         Managed a team of three consultants and coordinated with Business.

         Designed and build dashboard for executive using SAP Business Objects Dashboards 4.0  with BW data source.

         Held meeting and discussed the requirement with client closely.

         Worked with the team to meet the project dead line.

         Created functional document for Business Objects technical development.

         Extensively worked with business to do the Gap analysis.

         Worked with the business to define and document the requirements for the metrics associated with the Delivery on Time for Services (DOTS) and Payment on Time (POT) activities.

         Provided technical support during the User Acceptance Testing phase of the project.

         Experienced working with CRM,HR Module.

         Created ODS objects and loaded data into ODS for data staging in BW.

         Involved in Designing in Multi cubes, ODS Structure.

          Actively involved in Data extraction from ODS Structure and through Flat Files.

         Developed Generic extractors and developed specifications for custom extractors

         Worked in BW to analyze data, created query for BO 4.0 using BICS Connection.

         Created Reports Using Web Intelligence.

         Used filters and conditions in reports.

         Used Context Analysis in the reports which give opportunity to End users to drill down the data.

         Used merged dimensions in the report.

         Tested and analyzed the report.

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

         Created Technical specification and standard modeling document for HANA.

         Create analytic view and calculation in Hana Modeler.

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

         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.

         Held meetings with BW/BI developers in generating optimized data from the SAP / DSOs and OLAP cubes.

         Extensively worked with Desktop Intelligence Document.

         Extensively worked with Financial Reports and Queries.

         Followed the best practices in generation of the reports.

         Used functions in the reports.

         Used Open Document functionality to link reports.

         Analyzed business requirements and use Business Objects Dashboard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Clients: Suncor Oil and Energy                                                                                 Senior SAP BW/BO Consultant         

  Plain Midstream Oil and Energy                                                                              Operation/Support

 

Responsibilities:

         Managed 4-5 people of team to support our client Plain midstream.

         Involved daily Queue Monitoring for the ticket in support for BW.

         Assist the other team members to support the client for BW/BO.

         Worked and Involved on daily Support tickets.

         Worked extensively with Administrator Workbench.

         Worked with Monitoring the Uploads and Status of the uploads.

         Worked on Data Modeling for custom Info cubes in Purchasing and Sales.

         Modified standard and created custom Info Source/Data Source, ODS, and Info Cubes a(Standard and MultiCube).

         Created and Activated Communication Structure, Transfer Structure, Transfer Routine, Update Rules (both ODS and Info Cube level). Built and loaded cubes. Validated results

         Involved Info Package Management for data loads (Daily Job Monitoring) via IDoc or PSA, Flat file creation/load PSA.

         Worked on enhancements of standard data sources.

         Developed strategies for nightly/weekly/monthly production data loads using info package groups, events and scheduler.

         Developed Documentation on Business Explorer and Reporting for the End User.

 

Technical Environment  

      SAP ECC6.0, SAP BI7.0,3.1/ABAP,CRM,

 

March 2007 – June 2011                                                                             Aware base Inc. Edmonton, AB, CANADA

Client: Department of National Defense (Air Force Canada)              SAP BW/BusinesObjects/ABAPConsultant                                                                                                

 

Responsibilities:

         Met Client in Ottawa to get business requirement.

         Designed the data flow for better performance.

         Performed Data Analysis extracted from different legacy systems.

         Validated the data to use in BI and move data to DND system.

         Created Customized Objects, Info Cubes, and DSOs.

         Created Transformation, Info Package and Data Transfer Process to load data.

         Wrote Routines, ABAP code and formulas to dice and slice the data at Transformation level.

         Loaded data from multiple sources.

         Used DSO to store all master data and transaction data.

         Created Open Hub to transfer Data to PI / XI for validation and analysis.

         Created process chains to load data.

         Created Transport for all changes to QA for UAT.

         Monitored Process Chain on regular basis Add columns and change formula calculation in queries for periodical basis.

         Ran five reports on daily basis.

         Created multi block Web Intelligence Document and use local and global filters.

         Created and modify existing Universes according to business need.

         Prepared document according to version for changes made in the BI Objects.

         Used bars, charts and gages to display data in a logical format.

         Attended weekly meeting and update the Project Manager.

         Updated the client for Reports update.

         Updated End User for any major change in Airplanes Data related to NATO and DND.

         Used Solution Manager to keep track of all development work.

 

 

                                                                                                                                          SAP ABAP Developer

September  2002– June 2007                                                                                      Bizsquad Toronto, ON

Client: Shell Netherlands Chemo SICL    

 

Responsibilities:

         Developed the program automates the Invoice in the Background when Post Goods Issue is created.

         Provided design, development and testing of custom ABAP/4 programs in the area of the FI, SD, MM, & PS   modules of the SAP R/3 system (Version 4.06C).

         Monitored the life cycle of change requests for the SAP system.

         Developed batch input sessions and interactive reports.

         Designed, developed and implemented a dynamic interface system between SAP & legacy systems.

         Conversion of customized ABAP/4 programs based on upgrades to release & program updates.

         Integration test changes to custom ABAP/4 programs.

         Developed multiple inbound and outbound interfaces to the 30 legacy systems.

         Enhancements to standard SAP programs. The enhancements involved the addition of custom screens to existing SAP transactions and utilization of SAP user-exits.

         Supported production environment and solved any upcoming issue related to the production environment.

         Responsible for production system supports.

         Provided design & development of all the new business requirements.

         Involved in Transporting data from sap bi/DEV to QA and QA to PRODUCTION.

 

Technical Environment

     SAP 4.6,4.7, Oracle 9i, SQLServer, Windows.

 

SQL Developer

 

Responsibilities:

         Two years’ experience in SQL server programming and visual basic. Environment: Oracle, DOS,

         Windows NT.

         During this time implemented some projects and also worked on databases.

         Developed excellent oral and written communication skills, and highly effective, analytical and problem- solving skills.

 

EDUCATION

 

SAP HANA Certified Application Associates (IBM/SAP CANADA)                                                       Dec-19-2012

SAP HANA 1.0 (SAP CANADA)                                                                                                                  May 29 - May 30-2012

SAP BW Certified Application Associates(SAP CANADA)                                                                    May-2012
MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional)                                                                                                February 2001
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science(BCS)                                                                                     1997-2000
 

 



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SAP BW/BI/ABAP Technical Lead Architect

Saudi Electricity

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Current Career Level:

Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff)

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

 

 

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Target Job Title:

SAP BW/BI/ABAP Technical Lead Architect

 

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·         Enterprise Software Implementation & Consulting

 

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US-TX-Dallas