Prashanth Mally

   SAP BI-BO, HANA and BPC Sr.Consultant

214 500 6224      mally.prashanth@gmail.com             

Summary:

·               Have 15 years of IT Industry experience and 12 plus years in SAP BW/BI, BO, HANA and BPC Delivery, Consulting, Managing, and executing multiple projects.

·               Experienced in providing effective Implementation solutions, Support, Developing Prototypes, POC’s and Pilot Presentations.

·               Direct and manage project development from beginning to end

·               Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders

·               Develop full scale project plans and associated communication documents

·               Ensure that project meets it’s deliverables in the agreed schedule, as per the scope, within stipulated budget and as per the quality standards

·               Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion

·               Liaise with project stakeholders regularly

·               Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals

·               Draft and submit budget proposals and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary

·               Ensure project or service scope and deliverables are defined and agreed with by all the relevant parties

·               Ensure all project commitments are met and monitor and report the progress to Senior Project Manager, sponsor, client as well as the PMO in accordance with the reporting standards while ensuring that the project remains within scope

·               Diagnose and evaluate potential risks and issues throughout the project. Report regularly to the PMO and Senior Project Manager with regard to risks, and execute appropriate plans to contain them

·               Act as an escalation point for problems and complaints and manage compliance, contingency and risk situations within area of control

·               Monitor and manage resources (staff, suppliers and hardware and software) in a cost effective manner

·               Identify opportunities for cost reduction and action them

·               Responsible for managing the work of consultants, allocating and utilizing resources in an efficient manner and maintaining a co-operative, motivated and successful team.

·               Managing and leading the project team, deliverables in line with the project plan.

·               Managing co-ordination of the partners and working groups engaged in project work.

·               Detailed project planning and control including: Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan.

·               Experienced in handling Competency activities

·               Experience in Pre-Sales, Business Development and Delivery Management in the Current Organization

·               Excellent Technical/functional skills in BI

·               Experienced in Full life cycle implementations of Data warehouse (BI) projects

·               Experienced in handling Technical Upgrades

·               Hands-on support of BW including areas of Application Maintenance and Performance Tuning

·               Experience in working with various versions of SAP and BW the latest being ECC 6.0 and 7.1 respectively.

·               Has excellent communication and interpersonal skills with Problem solving abilities and effectiveness in working independently or as a team player.

·               Experience working at different geographical locations like UK and Kuwait.

 

Technical Skills:

Data warehouse : SAP BW 3.0C, 3.1C, 3.5, SAP BI 7.0, 7.3. BODS and HANA

Language            : C, C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, ABAP/4

ERP Packages: SAP ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, R/3 4.6, R/3 4.7, SRM 7.0.

SAP Modules         : SRM, SD, MM, FI/CO, HR, QM, PP, CRM, APO.

Reporting Tools   : BEx Reporting, WAD, BI BO 4.0, Business Objects (XI), Crystal Reports Enterprise.

Databases: SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, MySQL, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows family, UNIX

Technical responsibilities performed:

·               Involved in 9 life cycle implementation on SAP-BI project, 4 production supports and 1 BI 7 Upgrade project.

·               Involved in Project on SAP HANA studio

·               BPC NW with BW and BO Reporting TAG, Schneider, Gennum Projects

·               Effectively interact with business community to gather/develop functional and technical requirements and translate the requirements into functional spec robust analytics and reporting solutions

·               Business Planning and Consolidation System setup : AppSet, Application, Dimensions, Security Setup, Business Process Flows, Building dynamic hierarchies

·               Currency translation, validation rules, elimination rules setup, Development of Script logic and dimension logic

·               SAP  HANA  Data  Modeling  using  Attribute Views, Analytic Views and Calculation Views(both  Graphical  &  SQL script based) & SAP HANA Data Provisioning using  SAP  LT  Replication Server (SLT).

·               Creating Schemas, Manage Schema Mapping, Design the Information Models for HANA

·               Define and implement security

·               Have a strong understanding of dimensional modeling and data warehousing concepts and methodologies and leading full-lifecycle Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects

·               BW Extractors from the APO ( with Owens Corning), ERP system and working knowledge of SAP structures, object dependencies and tables in ECC environment

·               Research, analyze, design, develop, and deliver SAP BW/BI solutions that are appropriate for the business and technology strategies.

·               Review and analyze requirements for SAP BW/BI enhancement requests presented by business teams.

·               Design, implement and support complex ETL processes (SAP and non-SAP systems).

·               Participate in the development and support of reporting solutions including modifications, performance tuning, problem solving, debugging, and unit testing.

·               Provide support and maintenance of stages of the BI project lifecycle.

·               Create and maintain documentation, including standards, implementation plans, configuration, and procedural documents.

·               Build BW InfoCubes, DSO, extractor and update programs. Create and maintain DSO’s, InfoCubes & Multi-providers.

·               Identify and evaluate alternate technical solutions, providing recommendations in the use of new and/or existing technologies.

·               Collaborate with analysts, programmers, and designers in conceptualizing and developing BI/BW solutions.

·               Recommends the appropriate BI Tools (BEx, WebI, etc.) based on reporting needs.

·               Provide recommendations to software developers and technical staff to improve design, performance, and scalability.

·               Monitor BI and Reporting services.  Provide reports that include statistics, baselines, patterns, and issues.  Make recommendations for improvements and perform tuning accordingly.

·               Worked on SAP BO XI 3.x Universe Designer and Web Intelligence

·               Good Hands on experience in BI 7.x Modeling, Extraction, Real Time data acquisition, DTPs and Transformations.

·               Experience in LO-Cockpit and Generic extraction (Tables/View, Function Module Extraction) to extract data from R/3 systems.

·               Good knowledge of enhancing the standard Data source, writing the User exits codes, Appending of customized fields to the standard extract structure, Replicating in BW, Assigning info object in the Transfer Structure).

·               Worked on performance increase of info cubes by using technical content static’s cubes, Aggregates, partitioning, compressions.

·               Worked on Open Hubs, APD to extract the data for Inventory Sales forecast.

·               Worked on all kind of Transport activities (Transporting of info cubes, DSO, Queries etc) from BW – Dev to QA and BW-QA to BW-PROD.

·               Good experience in Process Chains which involved triggering of chains using events, ABAP Program etc.

·               Configured SMTP, SCOT settings for email alert for Process chains.

·               Worked on Bex analyzer. Designed queries using Bex Query Designer such as calculated key figures, Restricted key figures, Variables, Conditions and Exceptions.

·               Good experience in writing Bex Exit code based on the requirement.

·               Worked on BI 7.0 Web Application Designer, Created Web Template to publish reports in Portal,, performed activities like creating I views, Role Upload etc., Created Dash Reports based on requirement.

·               Worked in Information broadcasting to broadcast/schedule the weekly and daily report to different Users.

·               Continuous job monitoring using BW Monitor; Handling tickets which involve solving issues in the area of data Extraction from R/3 and Flat File, data staging and BEx reporting.

·               Worked on BI Upgrade project which involved pre upgrade and post upgrade activities.

·               Worked on EARS REMEDY as ticketing tool to support several clients.

·               Currently Project lead at Capgemini Consulting, leading a team of 12 consultants.

·               Possess good communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work in fast paced environment.

·               Best Employee for the Quarter 2’2008 Award in Birlasoft Ltd.

·               Outstanding Trainer Award for Quarter 1 ‘2009 for SAP BI training conducted for internal staff in Capgemini ltd.

 

Professional Experience:

 

Enterprize Solution, Chicago March 2014 to Till Date

Role: SAP BI Architect

 

Responsibilities:

·               Working on a complex application that address client/business requirement.

·               Cost Cutting edge and performance is equals to HANA but column level storage is super faster than the existing BW existing database.

·               Mission-critical and complex applications that address unique business requirements and bring individualized process innovation to market

·               Identified standard Data Targets and changed the existing structure to Store Data in Column level.

·               Worked on HANA SLT and Analytical,

·               Understood the business challenges and translated them into requirements and developed Analytics and Reporting Queries according to Business Requirements.

·               Converted the Functional Specifications to Technical Specification on BO DS, BO Web I, Bex

·               Developed the Reports that includes Shopping Cart Analysis, Procurement Detailed Report, Price variance Monitoring, Supplier Receiving Analysis, AP Ageing Report and Goods Received vs Invoiced

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules, BW/BI, HANA, BO and SQL Server

 

The Attachmate Group, Edison, NJ Jan 2013 to Feb 2014

Role: SAP BI Consultant

 

The Attachmate Group (TAG) is a privately held software holding company. Principal holdings include Attachmate, NetIQ, Novell and SUSE.

 

These companies deliver innovative solutions, quality products, and exceptional service to customers and partners in a manner that supports both their tactical and strategic business requirements; the purpose of which has an overarching goal of customer success and long-term customer loyalty.

 

Responsibilities:

 

SAP Blue Print Project, following end-to-end processes are in scope for this project: 

·               Contract to Cash (CTC)

·               Finance to Manage (FTM)

·               Procure to Pay (PTP)

·               Project Systems (PS)

·               Utilize standard functionality Business Content of the systems

·               Build a global platform enabled through SAP BI functionality

·               Legacy system database source and fields identify with SAP Data Source

·               Functional Specification for CTC, FTM, PTP and PS

·               Developed Business Process Flows to guide end-users through pre-defined sequential tasks that span across the different departments within the organization.

·               Created Dimension, Models, Hierarchy and security objects

·               Created Application Sets HEMAS for process Fixed Forecast Planning, Budgeting, Rolling Forecast, IFRS and Consolidation

·               Involved in data extraction and conversion between BPC and non-ERP systems with extractors and ETL tools.

·               Developed custom Process chains to support master data and transaction data loads from BI to BPC.

·               Created Package links to bundle more than one packages and to run sequentially.

·               Used Modeling functions such as Spread, Trend and weight to distribute the allocation to base members.

·               Worked on setting up Security and Audit settings to ensure user entitlements and access rights.

·               Worked exclusively on Work Status and integrating the Work States with Business Process Flows.

·               Configured drill-through functionality in Reports to see the underlying data from external databases.

·               Involved in SAP BPC implementation, configuration, and upgrade and environment management.

·               Maintained Document Types and Sub Types from Web Admin Tasks Action pane.

·               Cost Cutting edge and performance is equals to HANA but column level storage is super faster than the existing BW existing database.

·               Gather requirements and design infocubes, ODS Objects and Multi cubes.

·               Design Process Chains for daily extraction of data and maintenance for day-to-day schedule.

·               Involved in master data loading and transaction loading.

·               Design and develop master data for further analysis

·               Mapping data from source to target, create transformation,PSA and DTP

·               Export data to SAP R/3 to publish the reports for Bex Query design.

·               Map loads and integration with SAP ERP data.

·               BI error analysis and skills to debug.

·               Worked with SAP BW components including BW Administrator Workbench

·               Data extraction from flat files, DataSource, InfoObjects, DTP, PSA, InfoProvider, Multi Providers and Process chains.

·               Performed Business data modeling and analysis and have thorough understanding of relational data structures, Extended Star Schema and OLAP concepts.

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules, HANA and BPC

 

Client: Semtech, California May 2012 to Dec 2012

Role: SAP BI Architect

 

Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of high-quality analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products. We are dedicated to providing you with proprietary solutions and breakthrough technology in power management, circuit protection, timing and synchronization, touch interface, high-performance optical transport equipment (SerDes), high-reliability military products, low-power wireless RF, and digital sensor/signal conditioning ICs.

 

Responsibilities:

·               Freeze the requirement on CR’s and New Project Developments.

·               Developed various reports on Demand Planning and Supply Network

·               Have ability to work with cross-functional teams and individuals at various levels in global delivery model.

·               Leverage client satisfaction and client relationship to grow existing account

·               Monthly Manual Process Chain automated by creating BADI and Master Data Object

·               Develop and deliver performance plans and development plan.

·               Worked on APD, Open Hub and BEx Exits

 

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules, APO and BO

 

Coca Cola, Atlanta Oct 2011 to March 2012

Role: SAP BI Sr. Consultant

 

The Coca-Cola is one of the biggest suppliers of the beverages in the world. Responsible for the Coke owned bottlers business (CBO).

The company operates a franchised distribution system dating from 1889 where The Coca-Cola Company only produces syrup concentrate which is then sold to various bottlers throughout the world who hold an exclusive territory. The Coca-Cola Company owns its anchor bottler in North America, Coca-Cola Refreshments.

 

Responsibilities:

·               Cutover country releases for Global reporting templates design.

·               Estimation of Change requests and completing changes as per requirements.

·               Worked on WAD and BEx reporting.

·               Attending Weekly calls and updating the status on the tickets.

·               User support tickets handling and resolving tickets before SLA breach.

·               Analysis of issue related to reports in BW and doing changes as per requirement of client.

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules, CRM and BO

British Gas, London May 2010 to Aug 2011

Role: SAP BI Sr. Consultant

British Gas supplies gas and electricity to UK residential and business customers provides central heating and gas appliance installation and maintenance and low-carbon and energy efficient products and services.

Leading Energy Company – part of the Centrica group, one of the Top 30 companies in the FTSE100. With nearly 16 million Electricity and Gas customer accounts and approaching 9 million services relationships with business and residential customers.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·               Lead a team of 15 BI/BW Consultants which involves:

·               Assigning tickets (with help of Service Now) to BW Consultants.

·               Monitoring of existing work load.

·               Handling complex Changes and critical issues.

·               Providing checks to improve SLAs etc.

·               Presentations to clients to create more business.

·               Maintaining Known error data base to reduce known errors.

·               As part CR’s created Universe on BEx and Cube and Developed Web I reports.

·               Worked on APD to extract Sales forecast data for Inventory Analysis.

·               Performance tuning for various report using Multiprovider partitioning.

·               Worked on Snapshot scenario for Inventory Module.

·               Automation of various processes like Unit replication from R/3, Process chain email alerts, alert through information broadcasting etc.

·               Involved in Client issues and escalations

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules, BODS and BO

 

Schneider Electric, Germany April 2009 to April 2010

Role: Lead Consultant

Schneider Electric is a 100% subsidiary of Schneider Electric Industries SAS, a global specialist in energy management. With a strong force of over 5,000 employees, the company is well known for its unique vision, progressive management and above all, its exemplary Quality. Schneider Electric entered India in 1963 through a first joint venture with Tata group. In 1995 Schneider Electric established a 100% fully owned subsidiary Schneider Electric India Pvt. Ltd. In the year 2000 Schneider Electric further consolidated its position in the Indian market by acquiring S&S Switchgear and Crompton Greaves LV division. Year 2007 saw Critical Power & Cooling Solutions major APC – MGE ‘s acquisition by Schneider Electric.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·               Estimation of Change requests (CHR) and doing changes as per requirement.

·               Attending Weekly calls and updating the status on the tickets.

·               Governance call with other Service Provider (wipro), on CHR deliverables on support.

·               Resolution of issues by client related to the developed objects and make necessary changes to fix the bug if any.

·               Analysis of issue related to reports in BW and doing changes as per requirement of client.

·               Various tickets handled, issues raised by users.

·               Technical work on tickets are in Modeling changes in Multiprovider by identifying

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules and CRM

 

USIS, India Nov 2008 to Feb 2009

Role: Sr. Consultant

 

Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, USIS is the nation's leading security and information services provider, offering employment screening services, government security solutions, and risk management solutions to companies, government agencies and national security markets nationwide. In addition to a full suite of employment, drug & alcohol screening and due diligence products to serve commercial businesses of all sizes and types, USIS also provides program administration and background investigations to federal agencies and many other U.S. interests.

 

Responsibilities:

·               SAP BI Implementation Approach

·               Decided the landscape for SAP BI with Legacy Systems

·               Resource and Time Estimation

·               Business Blue Print on Requirement Gathering Template.

·               Functional Requirement Gathering Templates.

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules

 

Almarai, India, July 2007 to Sept 2008

Role: Manager - Upgradation

 

Almarai is the largest integrated dairy foods company in the world, with a reputation for quality that is unmatched within the gulf countries. Almarai began in 1976 under the leadership of HH Prince Sultan bin Mohammed bin Saud Al Kabeer, as it remains to this day.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·               Proposal, Project Plan and Time Estimation.

·               New Source system to Sand box connectivity.

·               Setup table for LO modules and Initialization in BI.

·               Gap analysis between existing and future versions

·               Find out the existing roles (Mainly in Prod) and analyze the impact of new security roles

·               Communicate to Business and User Group the impact of new security regime

·               Clean Change Log

·               Delete PSA data

·               PSA Inconsistency Directory  Clean up

·               SAP NW BI: Checking Inconsistent InfoObjects

·               Check DB statistics are up to date

·               Validity of BW object

·               All ODS data loads must be activated

·               All Transfer and Update rules should be active

·               All InfoCubes should be active

·               Multiproviders with  Compounding issue or inconsistent compounding

·               Test plan for authorization relevant security (Pick up main roles)

·               Find out the authorization required to do PDF Output Creation

·               Investigate usage of auth object BI_All authorization

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules

 

NEI,India Nov 2006 to July 2007

Role: Project Manager

 

NEI (National Engineering Industries) is a Ball Bearing Industry located in Jaipur, INDIA

 

Responsibilities:

·               Client visit and demonstrated SAP BI functionalities, advantages of SAP-BI Product and capabilities of Birlasoft BI consultants.

·               Prepaid Business Case study by taking inputs on their daily business.

·               Initial Business Reports Identified for NEI with MIS and Budget team.

·               Proposal to Client, Business Blue Print and SOW (Statement of Work).

·               Onsite and Client Project Manager along with Core team from the client side had daily meetings on reports gathering.

·               Suggested to client on BI Landscape.

·               Identified SAP Modules reports need to be developed at NEI (SD, MM, PP, FI-AA, AR, AP, GL and CO modules)

·               SAP BI IMG configuration.

·               Identified the Standard Objects and Customized objects need to be developed for the Project.

·               Segregated the work according to the module wise and assigned to the BI Consultant.

·               Activated the required standard Datasource (Master Data, Text, Hierarchies and Transaction Datasource RSA5 to RSA6) in R/3.

·               Assigned work to BI Technical team to write user exit for enhanced datasource.

·               Activated the Standard Business Content Objects and Reports.

·               Setup table loads for all LO Modules.

·               Design the data flow for Z DSO and Cube. 

·               Suggested to BI consultant, that few reports can be done through Workbook and Macro Reports.

·               Transported all required Objects from BI Dev to BI Prod.

·               Designed Process Chain for data loading.

·               Client presentation on Customized module reports to make them to see their business reports through SAP BI and the advantages of BI Reporting.

·               Core Team and End User Training on BI Reports.

·               Mentoring and Monitoring the daily activities and issues from Client and BI Consultants.

·               Discussed on Web Reporting and EP reports for their daily business.

·               Single Sign on had configured for EP to get connect Lotus Notes, SAP R/3 and SAP BI.

·               Module wise Reports Signoff from the Module Leads and Client Project Manager.

·               Customized Development reports and Object Documentation.Documentation Reviewed by Client Project Manager, Core Team and Module Leads and their signoff.

·               Project Sign off

·               Proposal for Support Project Contract.

·               SOW (Statement of Work) on supporting project along with Resource estimation.

·               Supporting Project Proposal Signoff.

·               Daily monitoring on Supporting Team

·               Checking on the requirements changes on reports and Data loads

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules

 

 

BASF, India Oct 2005 to Jul 2006

Role: Sr. Consultant

 

BASF is the world's leading chemical company maintaining business relationships with customers in more than 170 countries. It is one of the leading global producers of styrene’s, engineering plastics and polyurethane’s.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·               Lead the Project and Guiding to the Tech & Functional consultant to freeze the requirement.

·               Initially we started with few Financial Modules from SAP and EDW view and integrated/consolidated the data SAP BI.

·               Migration of EDW views to BW.

·               Attending the Tollgates for requirement gathering along with the Project Manager.

·               Modelling, Designing, Extraction and Loading.

·               Consulting to the clients and user to know more brief about their issues.

·               Involved in Transportation objects from Dev to QA and to Production Server.

·               Extraction Data as similar in EDW into BW through SAP R/3.

·               Handling the Tickets and discussion with client about the issues.

·               Handled the core/end user issues on reporting.

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules

 

 

GE, India July 2005 to Sept 2005

Role: Consultant

 

GE ERC has been in business for almost 100 years providing commercial, life and health, property and casualty reinsurance products and services. GE ERC had a well-established reinsurance business and was aggressively applying e-business processes to their existing business model.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·               Managed 8 team members on Extraction and Loading.

·               Issues handled on loading and Extraction.

·               Designing and Created AE (Account Engine) ODS and Cubes.

·               Designed Process Chain for FI-SL module.

·               Developed the customized reports.

·               Involved in Transportation objects from Dev to QA and to Production Server.

·               Generated Aggregates and rollups for Cubes and created indexes before and after loads.

 

Environment: SAP R/3 FI, FI-SL and CO

 

 

Owens Corning, India Nov 2004 to July 2005

Role: Consultant

 

Since Owens Corning was founded in 1938, the company has continued to grow as a market-leading innovator of glass fiber technology. Fortune 500 companies for more than 50 years, Owens Corning people redefine what is possible each day to deliver high-quality products and services to customers around the world.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·               Actively participated in Project Preparation, Business Blueprint Requirements Discussion and Realization.

·               Transferred the Application Component.

·               Activated the LO Cockpit Data Extraction for 02, 03, 04, 05, 11, 12 and 13.

·               Uploaded the Master and Text data into A-Pac BW.

·               Customized and extracted the data from FI and CO module.

·               Enhanced the QM module and written user-exists.

·               Transported all objects from Dev to QA and to Production BW.

·               Extracted the data from A-Pac R/3 and Loaded into the BW (US) for APO.

·               Designed and created ODS for Activities, Lead Management and Opportunities modules.

·               Designed 2nd level of ODS for CRM Module and written lookup code to load the data into the final cube.

·               Extracted data from CRM and Load into the A-Pac BW.

·               Generated Aggregates and rollups for Cubes and created indexes before and after loads.

·               Activated Required Templates and iView for EP (Enterprise Portal).

·               Activated required standard reports and did customized reports.

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules, APO and CRM

 

 

NACL, India May 2004 to Oct 2004

Role: Consultant

 

 

Nagarjuna Agrichem Ltd., Hyderabad (NACL) is a Nagarjuna Group Company with business interests in Agrochemicals manufacturing and retailing. The Annual turn over of the Organization is US $50 million.  

 

Responsibilities:

·               Actively participated in Project Preparation, Business Blueprint Requirements Discussion and Realization.

·               Transferred the Application Component.

·               Activated the LO Cockpit Data Extraction for 02, 03, 04, 05, 11, 12 and 13.

·               Suggested to ABAPer to write some exits for required Attributes, Text objects and Data Sources.

·               Updated the Application Specific setup of Statistical Data.

·               Replicated and maintained the data source from the source system Application Hierarchy in BW system.

·               Activated the Info-Objects for required applications using the Business Content.

·               Activated the required ODS and Cubes.

·               Designed and developed the ODS and Info-Cubes.

·               Uploaded the Master Data, Transactional Data and Hierarchical data into the SAP BW.

·               Created Transfer rules and Update rules for InfoSource, ODS and InfoCubes.

·               Developed and Designed the Process Chain for Delta and Full Uploads.

·               Created Bex “Z” reports for SD, MM, PP, FI and PCA.

·               Created reports in the areas of Finance (P & L Grouping Report), Inventory Management (Stock Reports) & Customer Receivables Ageing Report.

·               Sales Overview Reports (0SD_C03) for Sales Analysis, Contribution from Sales Offices, Sales Employees, etc

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules

Alghanim, Kuwait Dec 2003 to April 2004

Role: Consultant

 

Alghanim Industries has consistently maintained its position as a leading private sector trading and industrial group both in Kuwait and the GCC. It is a privately owned, professionally managed holding company. The executive management is composed of professionals with international education and experience in varying areas of expertise.

 

·               Activated Business Content for Retail, Inventory, Purchasing, Sales, Service and FI modules.

·               Created InfoCubes for CO-PA for Costing Based.

·               Created InfoCube for Gift Eligibility and MultiCube with Gift Eligibility and FI-GL for the Gift Eligibility accounting report.

·               Benchmarking report from Inventory, Purchase, Sales and Pricing Cube. Created a new cube for Pricing and MultiCube for these areas. This report is for Article Brand analysis and Pricing.

·               User exit for extending 0Material for Country of Origin.

·               Extraction processes used: LO Cockpit, LIS and Generic Extraction.

·               Extracted data from LIS Tables into ODS to Cube.

·               Ongoing requirements based on business needs.

·               Integration with Business Objects front-end with BW.

·               Completed training for Alghanim MIS team using all extraction processes till query creation. This team is responsible for all MIS activities.

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules and BO

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coke, India         Sept 2003 to Nov 2003

Role: consultant

 

The world's best-known brand! For over 120 years, we've been putting our secret formula into bottles. Now, we've put it all in one amazing place—the NEW World of Coca-Cola.

 

·               Daily Process Chains and Info Package Group Load monitoring.

·               Tickets on Data loads and Query changes.

·               Created new BEx reports on FI area.

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules

 

 

Orange, India Jan 2003 to Aug 2003

Role: Consultant

 

It's been just over 11 years since the company that believes in a brighter future was born. Today, Orange is one of the world's most recognizable brands and is still as passionate about tomorrow as we always have been.

 

·               By using Generic extraction extracted user defined (z tables) table’s data in to SAP-BIW.

·               Customized delta built up for the datasources.

·               V3 Updates controlled by pull/push principle from OLAP system Logistics Cockpit configuration and customization.

·               Extensive experiences in data design, data modeling, star schema and extended star schema.

·               Data extraction from R/3 and Flat file, Monitor settings.

·               The following reporting areas (Info Cube and ODS) were activated/modified BEx Analyzer and InfoSet Query: Sales Order, Sales Delivery, Sales Billing, COPA, Plant maintenance, Profit Center accounting, Cost center accounting, Materials Management through retail Info Cube, Customized Inventory, Purchasing, Accounts payable, Shipping Costing, and BW statistics Info cube Shipping costing with data combination from Shipment, Shipment costing, Purchasing, and account payable

 

Environment: SAP R/3 All Modules

 

Assignment Handled on Non-SAP

Period	Clients	Service Provider	Application	Role
Feb  2002 to October 2002	Standard Charted Bank	IT Solutions	D.W. (Informatica and Cognos)	Consultant
Oct 2001 to January-2002	Unique computing Inc	IT Solutions	D.W. (Informatica and B.O.)	Consultant
May 2000 to October-2001	LIC Development	Tulasi Solutions	Oracle	Programmer
Dec 1999 to March-2000	W.B Finlease Ltd.	Tulasi Solutions	Oracle	Programmer

 

 

Certifications:

ITIL V3 Certified

 

Trainings:

·               Have been trained on PMP, Prince 2.

·               Have been trained on core functional areas of SD, MM, FI/CO ,BPC, APO & CRM

·               Have been trained on SAP BO, Xcelsius and WebI

·               Have been trained on SAP HANA SP6 (Member for CoE initiations)

·               Have been trained on SAP at IT Solutions

·               Have been trained on Oracle SQL & PL SQL at CMC

 

As an ABAP Programmer:

·               Writing BDC programs for an enrollment process in Benefits module

·               Creating Reports in the Benefits module

 

Managerial Experience:Jul’06 – Feb’14

 

Competency Related:

·               Currently positioned as a BI Project Manager

·               Worked as a Technical Consultant and as a lead also.

·               3 years of People Management Skills

·               Involved in the Pre-Sales activities for the past 3 years

·               Participation in the Business Development Activities

·               Successful negotiations with Client for more business

·               Proactive involvement in pushing the company’s capabilities

·               Thought leadership towards the competency development.

·               Active trainings imparted to the Client on the New Dimension Technologies.

 

Project Management Related:

·               Co-ordination between the on-site and off-shore teams to solve the issues.

·               Handling the off-shore team providing them with the technical and functional specifications

·               Maintaining the documents relating to a project management such as Project Scope Statement, CMS, RAR, Budget control document, Quality documents among others

·               Developing project budgets, project schedule & risk response plan

·               Effective communication to the project stakeholders

·               Risk Mitigation activities to address issues such as attrition

·               Team building activities and resolving issues related to the team.

 

Pre-Sales Experience:

·               Capability presentations to the customers

·               Preparing and proposing solutions to RFP’s -Solution Approach, Resource Estimates & Deployment Plan

·               Providing solutions for Pro-active (Account Mining) and Reactive proposals

·               Preparing Presentation Decks for service offerings and assisting Sales teams

 

Tools Development:

·               Champion the Product RIFT which is aimed at the automation of the migration of the 3.x versions of BW to the latest 7.0 version at Birlasoft.

·               Champion the initiative of creating a BW Environment in SolMan and creating Dashboards for the CIO of the company and creating a service offering out of the same.

·               Worked extensively to provide the inputs from the BW for the tools UptimizerND – assessment tool which is helpful to create a time and labor estimate for a technical upgrade of a BW instance. This tool outputs reports which will help the upgrade team to assess the effort needed in terms of objects, inconsistencies and predicts the business value derived by doing an upgrade at Intelligroup.

 

 

***References available on request