ZAFAR JAFFARY SYED Email: zjaffary@hotmail.com Cell# 908-418-4703

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY       

·   7+ years of experience in Business Objects XI R2 , XI R3, SAP BI 4.0,SAP BI 4.1,SAP BODS XI 3.2, SAP BODS 4.0,4.1,4.2 ·   3+ Years of experience SAP HANA(SP3- SP8) ·   5+ Years of Experience in ABAP/4 ·   Managing requirements, Scope and Risks throughout the project lifecycle. ·   Strong organizational and leadership skills and experience working with onshore-offshore development teams. ·   Experience managing multiple projects at the same time. ·   Good record of delivering simultaneous large-scale, mission-critical projects on time and within budget and with the required quality. ·   Work with all the stakeholders to plan and schedule project goals, milestones and deliverables. ·   Ability to assess team competencies and assign the right people to the right tasks to achieve project goals. ·   Good knowledge of multiple IT business related processes and functional module.   SAP HANA: ·   Lead full cycle SAP HANA sizing and pre-procurement planning. ·   Design and build Data load using Business Object Data services (BODS) and mix of SLT. ·   Designed, created, implemented, and tested data flows, workflows, scripts, and jobs  using different types of transforms to load the data from different  non sap sources to SAP HANA using BODS 4.2 ·   Proficient in Using Merge Transforms, Date Generation Transforms, SQL Transforms, Pivot Transforms, Reverse Pivot, Match Transform, Match Results Transform, Case Transforms, Validation Transforms, Table Comparison Transform, History Preservation Transform, Map operation Transform with Insert, Map Operation transform with Updates in BODS Data Flow to load the data to SAP HANA from SAP and non sap source system. ·   Experience in setting up and configuration of SLT, transformations in SLT, ABAP includes in SLT transformations, selective Data replication, Extension of Target Table Structures. ·   Embedded all the calculation in HANA Analytical View and Calculation View. ·   Designed and created Attribute Views, Analytical Views, Calculation Views for FI scenarios, COPA scenarios, Sales Scenarios, Purchasing Scenarios and Marketing Scenarios ·   Experience in DXC to load the data to SAP HANA Using SAP provided Business Content Extractor ·   Worked with exiting BI team to integrate What if reports using native HANA, Webi4 and Dashboard. ·   Design and Build multiple universes for information model consumption. ·   Leverage SAP SLT and Business Object Data Services (BODS) to acquire the data Into SAP HANA Data Mart (Native and BW on HANA).   SAP BOBJ: ·   Implemented 4 Full Life Cycle projects, which includes requirement gathering, confirmation & acknowledgement, planning, designing, development, test and Roll-Out / Go Live. ·   Excellent understanding & work Experience of building Complex Universe(s) of Normalized & De-Normalized schemas using Information Design Tool (IDT). ·   Developed multi-data source challenging reports by merging data from multiple Data Sources using Web Intelligence (WEBI). ·   Designed & developed cross tab reports, reports with sub reports (linked & unlinked) and charts using Crystal Reports. ·   Experience in BO 4.0,4.1 including  Crystal Reports 2011, Crystal Reports for Enterprise, Dash Board Design, Information Design Tool, BI Launch Pad, Web intelligence Rich Client, Universe Designer Tool, BO Explorer, Analysis Edition for OLAP,BI workspace, BO widgets, managing Central Management Console (CMC), Upgrading CMS using Upgrade management Tool. ·   Worked with LCM (Life Cycle Management Console) to Transport the Objects In System Landscape (Dev, QA and Prod). ·   Experience in Upgrading BO XI, 3.0, 3.1, to BO 4.0, BI4.1 using Upgrade Management Tool. ·   Experience in migrating .UNV universes to .UNX universes using Information Design Tool. ·   Experience in exploring the data using Information Spaces in BO explorer 4.0. ·   Enhanced Performance of BOBJ REPORTS. ·   Designed Web Reports Using Be Queries (BICS Connection). ·   Experience with using SAP ECC and BW as source and target with SAP Data Services ·   Experience in Designing Data Flows (ETL) in BODS 4.0 as SAP BW 7.3 as Source and Target using Different Transforms. ·   And ensure all applications & reporting solutions are clearly integrated and synchronized.   Functional Exposure ·   Finance & Accounting: AP, AR, AA, GL Accounting, Asset Accounting FI Integration with MM & SD, PS. ·   Controlling: Cost Center & Cost Element Accounting, Internal orders, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis. ·   Sales and Distribution (SD):  Pricing & conditions, Billing, Shipping & Delivery, Sales, Sales Documents, Order Types, Consignment, Debit & Credit, Inquiry, Quotation, Contracts, Product Proposal, Returns, Item Categories, Schedule Lines, Order Reasons, Order Entry Controls, Delivery Blocks, Billing Blocks, Incoterms, Material Determination, Customer Information Records, Mass Order Changes. ·   Materials Management (MM): Consumption based planning, Purchasing: Source determination, Optimized purchasing, LIS, MRP, BOM, Inventory Management: GR, stock transfers, consignment, subcontracting and Material valuation. ·   Human Resource (HR): Personnel Administration, Compensation management, Benefits, Payroll, Training & Event Management. ·   SAP SCM (APO) Demand Planning: Interactive Planning, Forecasting, Lifecycle Planning. ·   SAP SCM (APO)  Supply Network Planning (SNP): Supply chain Modeling & Planning, Capacity check, APO Product master, APO resource master, Planning Areas, Planning books, Macros and alerts, SNP Heuristics.   Technical Skills ·   SAP HANA: HANA 1.X (SP3-SP8). ·   BW Versions: 3.0B, 3.1, 3.5 & BI 7.0, BW 7.3, BW 7.4. ·   SAP R3 Versions: 4.0B, 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7 & SAP ERP (ECC 6.0). ·   ETL : BODS 4.0,4.1,4.2,XI 3.2 ·   ABAP/4 : Data Dictionary, Routines, Function modules, User Exits(CMOD, SMOD), SAP Query, Info Sets, OLTP Reports, Classical and Interactive reports. ·   BI : DW Workbench, DTP, DSO, Transformation, new PSA, BI Accelerator ·   Reporting : Business Objects Enterprise BO XI R2/R3,BO 4.0,BI launch Pad, Web Intelligence (Web I 4.0), Information Design Tool, Dashboard Design ,BO Explorer, Desktop Intelligence (Desk I), BEX Analyzer, WAD, Visual Composer, BI Accelerator,  MS Excel, Business Objects,  Xcelsius 4.0,  Crystal Reports 2008/20011,  Dashboard manager. ·   Database: SQL Server 2000, Oracle 8i/9i/10g. ·   Web Technologies: Java, HTML, Java Script, CSS, DHTML, XML.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE   SAPHANA 1.0 SP3-SP8 SAP BOBJ 4.1/4.0/ XIR3   SAP BW 7.3/7.4   Universe Design(IDT)   WEB Intelligence   Crystal Reports   BO Design Studio   Dashboard (Xcelsius)     Business Objects Explorer   Lumira   CMC – Central Management Console   LCM – Life Cycle Manager   SQL   Oracle   SQL Server

WORK EXPERIENCE
 

SANOFI PASTURE, NJ, US	JULY 2012 TO PRESENT
SAP HANA ,BO-BI BODS Consultant

 

ENVIRONMENT : SAP HANA 1.0  SP7 ,SAP BW 7.3, 7.4, Business Objects Enterprise (BOE) BI 4.0, BODS 4.2, Crystal Reports 2011, Dash Board Design, ECC 6.0,  ABAP/4, BEX Analyzer / Query Designer.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·               Successfully completed the SAP HANA and BODS on HANA POC for technical evaluation and value proposition.

·               Design and integrated exiting BODS and SAP SLT with HANA.

·               Develop ETL Jobs with very heavy transformations for data acquisition from SAP ECC and Non SAP systems.

·               HANA information model design and build which includes Package, Attribute View, Analytic View, Calculation View and Schemas.

·               Design SAP HANA data model (information Views) for report consumption with time dimensions.

·               Developing reports on Calculation View / Analytic View using Webi3 and Webi4/ Explorer.

·               Worked with SAP BO, BI, Basis, and R/3 teams and involved in providing integrated solutions.

·               Prepared Road Map of Complete Upgrade Process of BO XI 3.1 TO BI 4.0.

·               Developed complex ETL Jobs with very heavy transformation logic for data acquisition from SAP ECC and Non SAP systems.

·               Designed and developed Sales and Inventory reports like Vendor Procurement Analysis, Customer Overview Analysis and Top Customer profits.

·               Designed and developed Financial reports (Consolidated balance sheet Analysis, Consolidated income statement report, Monthly Comparison Balance sheet and Income statement Analysis, Expense Reports for QTD and YTD)

·               Designed and Developed Financial (AP, AR, GL, Asset Accounting) data models and Reporting.

·               Designed data mode and reporting to Merge Data from Asset Accounting to the G/L data. Developed WEBI Merge reports to display data from the Assets and G/L data.

·               Developed ODS (Data staging layer) for the Logistics (Purchasing, Inventory Controlling, Plant Maintenance, Quality Management, Sales and Distribution) data sources.

·               Extensively carried out LO Data extraction involving maintaining and activating the data sources, filling the setup tables and executing the V3 jobs.

·               Experience in using PLATFORM, DATA INTEGRATOR transforms of BODS 4.2 to load the data to SAP HANA.

·               Build SAP FI, SD data to build information model for user consumption (Attribute View, Analytical View, and Calculation View.

·               Build multiple universes for reporting data mining needs.

·               Build multiple reports and dashboard using Webi4, BO Dashboard (Xcelsius), Crystal Report, BEX reporting and
SAP Lumira.

·               Worked with SAP BW and BOBJ Business users and involved in requirement gathering, analysis and creation of best practice architecture.

·               Worked with BO administrators in Complete Up gradation of BO XI 3.1 CMS to BI 4.0 CMS using Upgrade Management tool.

·               Upgraded UNV universes to UNX universes using Information Design Tool, Resolved the issues in the Migration Process.

·               Designed .UNX universes using information Design Tool on various source systems including BW 7.3
(As relational source).

·               Designed Multi Resource Enabled universes using Information Designed Tool.

·               Created complicated WEBI /Crystal reports including graphical reports, formula base and well formatted reports according user requirements

·               Reports Developed in this Project :Customer Black log Summary  Report, Customer Touches , Billing Summary, Opportunity Summary , Sales summary, New Customer Mix / Growth, Expense Reports for

QTD and YTD, P&L analytics on monthly, quarterly, year to date basis.

·               Designed the Data Flows in SAP BO DS 4.0(ETL) using various Transforms For data loading.

·               Created queries and reports, Web Intelligence (Web I) documents in BI Launch Pad, and created Web Intelligence (Web I) reports on top of the Universes created using the Designer.

·               Created Dashboards and Scorecards integrating reports using Business Objects dashboard manager

·               Worked with SAP BASIS team in regards to moving Transport Requests and worked with SAP SECURITY team in providing authorizations for Users by assigning specific Roles.

·               Provided Training to BOBJ – BI Business Users, team members and created end-user training material and documentation.

 

 

 

 

 

DETROIT ENERGY, MI, US	NOV 2010 – MAY 2012
SAP BOBI/BODS Consultant

 

ENVIRONMENT : SAP BW 7.0, BW 7.3, SAP BW 3.5, SAP R/3 4.7, SAP ECC 6.0,   ABAP/4, FI CO, Business Objects 3.1, SAP BO BI 4.0, SAP BODS ,3.2,4.0, Crystal Reports, Xcelsius, Oracle 10G

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·               Worked with SAP BW and BOBJ Business users and involved in requirement gathering, analysis and creation of best practice architecture.

·               Involved in designing, developing, testing Front End Solutions, BW queries as needed by users, also designed and developed web reports using Web Application Designer (WAD) and exported Business Explorer (BEX) reports to web pages.

·               Involved in Realization, Final Preparation, Go-Live and Post Implementation, developed production support plan and resolved production support issues.

·               Created Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Solution Documents with the BW team that will guide the production support team when issues occur.

·               Used DB relevant techniques and maximized DB performance, data modeling techniques and maximized query performance.

·               Involved in installation, configuration of BO tools and SAP BI integration with SAP Business Objects using SAP Integration Kit.

·               Worked with BO administrators in Complete Up gradation of BO XI 3.1 CMS to BI 4.0 CMS using Upgrade Management tool.

·               Upgraded UNV universes to UNX universes using Information Design Tool, Resolved the issues in the Migration Process.

·               Designed .UNX universes using information Design Tool on various source systems including BW 7.3
(As relational source).

·               Designed Multi Resource Enabled universes using Information Designed Tool.

·               Created complicated WEBI /Crystal reports including graphical reports, formula base and well formatted reports according user requirements

·               Designed data models as per the System landscape, created Functional and technical BW specifications, considered proper data modeling techniques and data management strategies and created Technical BW Specifications for BW Objects.

·               Scheduled Crystal Reports in CMC on Daily, Monthly, Weekly basis.

·               Widely used Drill mode and Slice and Dice techniques to modify the reports in accordance with user’s analysis needs.

·               Developed Complex Reports (Used multiple data providers, Union, Intersection, minus and Master/Detail,
Cross tab, Charts.
 

HENKEL DIAL   AZ, US	Oct 2008– AUG 2010
Application Development Specialist SAP BOBI

 

ENVIRONMENT : SAP BI 7.0, SAP BW 3.5, SAP BO XI R2, SAP ECC 6.0, APO, MM, PP, SD, FI CO.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·               Analyzed current model and evaluate performance in loading and reports execution.

·               Optimized data load and reporting performance.

·               Created OLAP Universes using BOE XI R2- Universe Designer on top of SAP BI queries and Info Cubes / Multi Providers; created/modified classes, objects, dimensions, measures and details.

·               Created RDBMS Universes using Designer, worked with tables, fields and joins, involved in resolving loops by creating aliases and contexts.

·               Provided Training to BOBJ – Business Users, team members and created end-user training material and documentation.

·               Designed the Data Flows in SAP BO DS XI3.2 .0(ETL) using various Transforms For data loading.

·               Created queries and reports, Web Intelligence (Web I) documents in BI Launch Pad, and created Web Intelligence (Web I) reports on top of the Universes created using the Designer.

·               Created Dashboards and Scorecards integrating reports using Business Objects dashboard manager

·               Worked with SAP BASIS team in regards to moving Transport Requests and worked with SAP SECURITY team in providing authorizations for Users by assigning specific Roles.

 

CHRYSLER, MI, US	APR 2007 – SEP 2008
SAP BO Consultant

 

ENVIRONMENT : SAP BW7.0, ECC 6.0 (SD), ORACLE, BO XI R2.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·               Created OLAP Universes using BOE XI R2- Universe Designer on top of SAP BI queries and Info Cubes / Multi Providers; created/modified classes, objects, dimensions, measures and details.

·               Created RDBMS Universes using Designer, worked with tables, fields and joins, involved in resolving loops by creating aliases and contexts.

·               Used Query as a Web Service (QAWS), MS Live Office connector and built XCelsius Dashboards and used Crystal XCelsius to create visualization for excel data.

·               Created queries and reports, Web Intelligence (Web I) documents in Info View and created Web Intelligence (Web I) reports on top of the Universes created using the Designer.

·               Utilized/managed various components of Business Objects Enterprise (BOE) XI R2 - Web Intelligence Rich Client, Central Configuration Manager (CCM), Central Management Server (CMS), and Crystal Reports.

·               Worked with SAP Basis and BI teams and involved in upgrading the SAP BI support package to SP21, installed Business Objects Enterprise XI R2 (SP2) Integration for SAP Solutions.

·               Created/Edited queries and reports in BOBJ - Info View for multidimensional analysis and trained users on drill-down, cross-tab, master detail, slicing and dicing, ad-hoc reports by Web Intelligence (Web I),  scheduling and publishing (to BO Inbox, email, FTP, ..) in multiple formats (html, pdf, xls..).

·               Created Crystal Reports from multiple sources and functionalities like slice & dice, drill down.

·               Created Dashboards and Scorecards integrating reports using Business Objects dashboard manager.

·               Provided Training to BOBJ – Business Users, team members and created end-user training material and documentation.

 

Home Trust Company Canada Toronto	JUN 2003 – MAR 2007
ABAP Developer

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

•         Worked on designing, coding, testing, documentation and implementation of SAP application programs reporting needs to meet business requirements this role includes ongoing project-based development work, as well as day to day support of existing applications in the Production environment

·               Developed and interpreted functional and technical designs for reporting needs to meet business requirements.

·               Worked on Classical and Interactive reports, Dialog programming, Module pool programming,

·               Experienced in Data Conversions and Data Uploads from legacy systems to SAP systems using BDC and LSMW.

·               Excellent working experience of ABAP Components such as Dictionary, Table control, Screen Painter, Menu Painter, ABAP Query, and ALV Reports.

·               Data dictionary maintenance: tables, structures, domain, data element, views, lock objects.

·               Worked on ABAP OO development, Interfaces using BAPI, ALE/IDoc, BAPIs

 

ADVANTEX MARKETING INTL INC, ON, CA	MAY 2000 – APR 2003
Application Developer

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

Designed user interface to build robustly interactive user interface screens using Dynamic HTML, Cascading

Style Sheets (CSS), maintaining reusable UI components, which are further used in the application.

·               Worked with the production team (Java and JSP developers) to help in a smooth integration of JSP code in to the HTML screens. User Interface Documentation and signoffs

·               Conducted usability testing and user interviews on working prototype that resulted in key improvements.

·               Created the UI Navigation Sitemap using Visio.

·               Perform functionality, usability and regression testing of Applications

·               Worked on SAP implementation with development team

·               Developed ALV reports , smart forms

·               Extensively worked on ABAP components such as data dictionary, BAPI, LSMW, BDC

 

FIBRECARE SPECIALTIES, KAR, PAK	FEB 1996 – JAN 2000
Oracle Developer

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

       To understand the objectives, activities, procedures, rules and standard of work

•To identify existing problems & its best solution of Dinex applications.

•Created Database Object like table, Tablespace, user, index, sequence and procedure.

•Building New Forms, Reports and PLSQL development in Developer-2000.

•Creating Forms objects like Data blocks, Canvases, Windows, Lov, Record Group, Visual Attribute, Alerts

       and Object group as per Form Functionality.

•Writing all types of form, block, item level triggers and program unit according to forms functionality.

• Carry out system test according to program specification with real data to ensure functionality, productivity &

       Correctness of overall system performance

•Support & maintenance for upgrade of system due to changing nature of department work.

•Uploading data through SQL Loader.

 

Education

·                           Bachelor of commerce (B.com)                                                                                    1992                                                                     

      University of Karachi, Karachi Pakistan

 

SAP Technical Training

·                           HA100 - SAP HANA Introduction

·                           HA300 - SAP HANA Implementation and Modeling

·                           BOU310 - BOBJ XI Universe Design

·                           BO100 - Integrating SAP BW with BI Solutions

·                           BOID10 - Information Design Tool

·                           BOID20 -  Adv. Use of Information Design Tool

·                           BOW310 - Interactive Analysis Report Design

·                           BOW32 - BOBJ Webi Advanced Report Design

·                           BOCE10 – Crystal Reports Fundamentals of Report Design

·                           BOC320 – Crystal Reports Business Reporting & Report Processing

·                           BOX310 – BOBJ Dashboard 4

·                           SAPTEC - Fundamentals of SAP Net Weaver AS                                                       

·                           BC400 - ABAP Workbench Foundations                                                                     

·                           BC401 - ABAP Objects                                                                                                 

·                           BC405 - Programming ABAP Reports                                                                     

·                           BC430 – ABAP dictionary                                                                                   

·                           BC480 - PDF-Based Print Forms                                                                     

·                           BC410 - Developing Screen-Based User Dialogs                                                       

·                           ITIL V3 Foundation                                                                                                                2011

 

Certification & Diploma

SAP Certified Development Associate – ABAP with SAP Net Weaver 7.0
Certificate ID: 0012022591

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) Developer Track

      •    Introduction to Oracle SQL & PL/SQL
      •    Developer-2000 Build Forms I, II

New Pakistan Technical Computer Institute, Karachi Pakistan

      •    Two Year Diploma in computer science - 1994

 

Training

Technovel Karachi Pakistan

      •   Six months training in Oracle Developer 2000  1996