CERTIFICATIONS

·               SAP Certified Application Associate (Edition 2013) - SAP HANA(C_HANAIMP131)

Coke, USA                                                             SAP HANA /ABAP HANA Developer    July 2014 – Till Date 

Project Description: Client wants to leverage existing HANA system in his landscape (already using for Enterprise reporting). Migration of data intensive reports from ECC system to HANA system and building SAPUI5 applications for Production Planning Operations

Role Description: As ABAP HANA developer, I am responsible for analyzing ECC reports and replicating required data to HANA via SLT system. Design and implement HANA Models/Scripts according ECC Report requirements. Design and implement stored procedures for SAPUI5 database operations.

Responsibilities:

·                                                                                                     Analyzed Data intensive reports to be migrated to HANA from ECC system and identified tables to be replicated

·                                                                                                     Participated in SLT Sizing and Configured SLT connection

·                                                                                                     Performed initial loads of  large transparent tables by using indices on logging tables and scheduling parallel jobs

·                                                                                                     Troubleshot SLT connection issues, analyzed performance considerations and sizing of replicated tables

·                                                                                                     Enhanced  source data by adding time stamp data in SLT using ABAP

·                                                                                                     Designed Data Models and created Attribute, Analytic and Calculation views for Inventory Management Reporting

·                                                                                                     Implemented required SAP Notes for Secondary Database connection for coordinated with SAP SLT team

·                                                                                                     Implemented ADBC calls from ECC to consume models exposed form HANA

·                                                                                                     Implemented procedures using SQLScript for Database operations of Product Movement (SAPUI5) application

·                                                                                                     Translated ABAP data processing logic into HANA Procedures to push data intensive operations to HANA

·                                                                                                     Performed Unit Testing, Stress Testing and documented result

Vodafone, USA                                                                                                            SAP HANA Developer   Dec 2013 – July 2014 

Shell Petroleum, USA                                                               SAP BI/HANA/ABAP Consultant               December 2012- June 2013

Project Description: Client is migrating existing BI solutions onto HANA

Role Description: Key member of team and took care of time critical objects, KT and documentation

Responsibilities:

●        Analyzed existing BW environment for issues related to readiness of environment for migration to HANA.

●        Extensively involved in Pre and Post Migration process and actively followed the defined steps.

●        Escalation handling (internal and external) while conducting the team meetings and periodic reviews with client teams.

●        Worked in Database Migration and HANA Studio Modeler.

●        Involved in architecture and framework of the BOBJ reports and Created and involved in BOBJ reports.

●        Involved in Architecting the entire BI-HANA solution with mixed approach data Flow design involving SAP ECC and other legacy systems as source systems and using BW powered by HANA as Enterprise Data warehousing application by utilizing existing extractors to load transactional data into DSO objects to formulate Analytical views, Attribute views and Calculation views (Using HANA Studio/Modeler Perspective) exposed to frontend layer implemented with SAP BO.

●        Estimation of user, resource requirements and create plans, timelines, milestones, user approvals, and proper documentation of all kind of specifications.

●        Good understanding in Database migration option (DMO) of the Software Update Manager (SUM)

●        Involved in gathering reporting requirements from Business users and documenting the same in form of FD’s. (Functional Specs)

●        Involved in migrating existing standard InfoCubes, DSO’s and SPO’s to HANA-Optimized InfoCubes, DSO’s and SPO’s respectively.

●        In order to improve the performance of data processing by creating complex SQL procedures in HANA and triggered the same from ABAP Programs.

●        Involved in consuming HANA models in BW by publishing them as Transient providers.

●        Exporting and Importing of HANA models using HANA Lifecycle management.

BMW NA, USA                                                                                         SAP BI/ABAP Developer   March 2010 – December 2012 

Project Description: Client with Multiple Heterogeneous Ordering, Warehouse, Logistic, Master data systems wants to use

SAP BI as one-stop-solution for its enterprise wide data reporting and planning requirements

Role Description: Due to a complex implementation structure with 100+ Source Systems and additional releases releasing every month. My primary role is to increase the confidence of the client on offshore team in handling the applications and increase the CSI of Key Users. Discussing issues with the clients and proposing new ideas for enhanced performance of the system, designing/developing new data flows and reports as per the client requirement. Coordinating with the off shore and bridging the gap between the client and the offshore team. Worked extensively on SAP ABAP, SAP BI BO

Responsibilities

●        Escalation handling (internal and external) while conducting the team meetings and periodic reviews with Client team.

●        Involved in designing & implementing many modeling techniques like (Reporting Date – Snapshot reporting), (Performance tuning in the Transformations – by using Start routine), (Reposting of wrong data for the Standard cubes with power loops), (Delete Overlapping selections data with DTP), (Mapping Tables & Administration Tables), (Inserting data into Info Cubes through ABAP/4 after loading), (Choosing the provider between Last day of the month & other days).

●        Estimation of user, resource requirements and timelines, milestones, user approvals, and proper documentation of all reports.

●        Good knowledge in APO process and demand planning extraction and modeling.

●        Involved in BPC activities like New GL allocation, assignments in planning and consolidation process.

●        Working knowledge of Extracting the data using DB connect as a Source system connection in BW 7.3.

●        Worked on Universes in BO reporting.

●        Worked with different types of Transformations like Direct assignment, Routine, Formula, Initial, Read Master Data and Constant.

●        Worked with Start Routine, End Routine, Expert Routine, Multiple Update Groups and also Temporary storage of standard DTP.

●        Extracted Data for FI using the following Business content extractors like – 0FI_GL_1, 0FI_GL_4, 0FI_AR_1, 0FI_AR_4, 0FI_AP_1 and 0FI_AP_4 and also enabling the Timestamp Delta mechanism with Coupled Extraction using the Timestamp Table – BWOM2_TIMEST and also using the control table BWIF_AEDAT in R/3 System.

●        Worked with monitoring the Temporary storage of standard DTP when data loading to Target.

●        Developed the Infosets with Inner join, Left outer join and Temporal Join with Derived Key date.

●        Worked with the users for defining the reporting needs and helped design/develop flexible queries and pre-calculated reports using BEx reporting features like variables, exception and conditions in Sales and Purchasing areas.

●        Created SAP BI reports which include Plan/Actual revenue comparison, Order and sales value by sales representatives and Vendor delivery efficiency.

●        Analyzed report performance for statistics and implemented proposals for aggregate creations and indexing, Tuned queries using Partitioning, Aggregates and Multi-providers.

●        Involved in Analyzing the Performance of the BEx queries and improving the query performance by analyzing the Cardinality of the Dimensions of the Info cube by using the Function Module - RSDEW_INFOCUBE_DESIGN.

●        Involved in reducing the Cardinality of the Dimension by Redesigning the Dimensions of an Info Cube, identified the Line Item Dimensions and also suggested for Partitioning as most of the time of the query is spent on DB time.

●        Involved in creating input ready queries and provided web based & excel based input layers for planning for Market, Regional & Central planners.

●        Extensive use of ABAP/4 for Transformations (Start Routine, End Routine, Expert routine), Dynamic file selection, Dynamic DTP Selections, Variable customer exit, Custom extractors.

●        Involved in implementing Update routines, Transfer Routines, Start Routines, End Routines and Expert Routines in order to implement the Business rules and also performed currency translation at the transformations by using the function modules CONVERT_TO_FOREIGN_CURRENCY, maintaining the exchange rates in TCURR tables in SAP BI by replicating all the Global setting for ECC 6.0.

●        Extensively involved in writing Variable Customer Exits –by using the Enhancement RSR00001 – Function Exit – EXIT_SAPLRRS0_001

●        Involved in customizing the Data Source / Extractors by using the enhancement RSAP0001 – by using different function exits / components – EXIT_SAPLRSAP_001 - EXIT_SAPLRSAP_002 - EXIT_SAPLRSAP_003

●        Proposed & implemented a BW based tool called “Inactive object Tracker” to stabilize the BW Systems.

●        Involved in Designing Info cubes, DSO objects and also the data flow for different source applications / interfaces

●        Extracted data from different source system based on different technology (Mainframes, Oracle databases, SAP R/3, Java) by using the Interfaces like (Myself Connection, SAP Connections, DB Connect)

●        Involved in building Demo objects for the End users and Power users to gather functional requirements and present the reporting Flexibility in SAP BW 7.3 by using all the BEx components like BEx Query Designer, BEx Analyzer, BEx WAD, BEx Report Designer, BEx Web Analyzer and Visual Composer.

●        Involved in Extracting Logistics Data (SD, MM (Purchasing & Inventory)) using LO extractors – With different update modes (Direct Delta, Queued Delta & Un-serialized V3 update).

●        Involved in building the Customized / Generic extractors using Function module and DB view.

●        Extensively worked with Performance tuning techniques Like –Analyzing the BW statistics by using the Technical content BEx Queries (Utilization OLAP report per query, Utilization OLAP report per Info Cube),

●        Involved in customizing the process chains by using the ABAP/4 program process types.

●        Involved in creating BEx workbooks (7.x) by using BEx Analyzer (Used BEx Macros)

●        Involved in creating web reports by using different web items and integrating them to EP.

●        Involved in creating Universe on top of BEx queries and published the universe to BOE and designed Webi reports and saved into Info view.

●        Involved in extracting data from SAP R/3 for Cost Center Accounting data by using custom extractors.

●        Involved in extracting Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Order & Invoices for analyzing the data based on the MG Departments & Buyers.

●        Implemented OSS notes for query failures

●        Created own Process types for implementing process chains.

●        Involved in performance Tuning aspects like Aggregation, Compression, partitioning, OLAP cache, indices, Line item dimension, Read mode of query, Repair of objects in RSRV to check the consistency in the entire Schema.

●        Involved in Working with advance modeling aspects like APD, Information broadcasting Visual composer, Reporting agent.

●        Involved in Debugging the Update rules and transfer rules.

Support activities:

●        Involved in providing L2, L3 & Maintenance support for BW-ABAP applications.

●        IM(Incident) tickets and Tivoli management tool used – BMC REMEDY Tool

●        Handled loading issues

●        Monitoring of Data loads using Process chains.

●        Monitoring of System and loading performance

●        Consistency checks and Data Validations

●        Deleting data in PSA to free the Tablespaces

●        Converting Info package Groups to Process chains

●        Ticket Handling of different priority

●        Suggested the process improvements by performing the structural changes in the process chains to provide permanent solutions.

●        Involved in Validated data consistency in reporting with Data Target against PSA after loading them to data targets.

●        Solved many Data Mismatch tickets by doing Back fills.

●        Involved in Debugging Update Routines, Start routines, Transfer Routines.

●        Involved in performing Production Support activities like Ticket Analysis report, Resource Utilization Report, Time sheet maintenance of the support team.

●        Involved in maintaining lot of documentation for all the Support Activities

ExxonMobil, USA                                                                                                 SAP BI/ABAP Developer   July 2009 – March 2010 

Project Description: The main area of focus in this project being developing a Common platform where some of the SCM and PLM areas like Purchasing, Inventory/Material management, Quality Management, Audit Management are identified in order to build some dashboard reports for the Business Users

Responsibilities

●        Involved from the stage of Inception to the Go-live and Production support

●        Involved in the architecting the solution from identifying the areas required for the dashboard building

●        Discussions with the Project board members, Basis and the Enterprise Portal teams, ECC Teams, Business Users in order to identify the landscape required, understand the requirements and put forth the solution

●        Design being the core of this project, lead the team with the design data flow, creation of Mapping documents between BI and ECC

●        Involved in the creation of Functional specification, Technical specification documents

●        Implemented SAP Best Practice methodology taking care of both present and future needs into consideration

●        Implemented Notifications, Inspection Lot from Quality Management module

●        Created Multiprovider based on the Notifications, Inspection Lot, Audit Management, Purchasing data infoprovider

●        Created Infocubes for Material Movement and Material Prices using standard datasources 2LIS_03_BF, 2LIS_03_BX, 0CO_PC_ACT_5

●        Extensive use of Hyperlinks functionality in WebI for implementing RRI or Jump functionality from Summary reports to the Detailed reports

●        Helped the Project in generating 500+ Technical work hours of development in enhancing the Data Warehousing System of the client and performance tuning.

●        Enabling the Live Cache and Broadcasting settings for the queries where the analysis of large amount of data is required by the key users.

●        Scheduling the jobs and checking the extractor jobs in R/3 system as well as BI/BW System.

●        Supporting of the Order to Delivery Quality Management Application which includes extraction of the data from SD, MM, WM and FICO systems into the back end BI system and then reporting the output in Crystal Reports.

●        Development of custom tools in ABAP to increase the stability of the SAP BI System.

●        Development of Inactive objects tracker in BW using ABAP to find out the inactive objects in production after the transports.

●        Worked together with the JAVA team in the development of a RFC Function Module which sends the current details of a Process chain whenever the chain is given as input to the function module. A monitoring dashboard has been designed in the Java front end.

O-I Owens-Illinois Inc                                                                                                                       SAP BI/ABAP    March 2008 – July 2009

Project Description: Client is implementing SAP BI as enterprise reporting solution

Role Description: Worked in analyzing the client manufacturing process line and designing the functional specifications/Technical specification documents in coordination with the Onsite team. Worked on multiple domains like ABAP, BI and APO. The project is an end to end big bang roll out implementation. Technically gained hands on experience on the following,

Responsibilities

●        Creating Info Objects, DSOs, Info Cubes (with efficient Star Schema), Multi Provider, and Process Chains.

●        Scheduling and monitoring data uploads and identifying and resolving issues related to the upload of data

●        Loading data SAP/Non-SAP source system.

●        Maintaining and creating transfer rules, Update rules and communication structures.

●        Creating Rules, Start routines, End routines and expert routines.

●        Loading and maintaining of Hierarchies.

●        Creating Enhancements on ECC depending on the client requirement.

●        Creating database views on ECC side and data extraction using generic extractors.

●        Appending extra fields to the database tables on the ECC side and created custom    enhancements to populate the data in the extract structure.

●        Implementing the LO extraction, CO-PA extraction.

●        Designing, implementing and extracting the Inventory management data from R/3. 

●        Creating ALV Reports on BW data in SAP APO.

●        Working in developing and enhancing of BO WebI Reports, SAP Netweaver Portal, Universe Designing and query designing.

●        Designing user defined Workbooks by changing the VB Code in the backend.

●        Creating and configuring roles in the BO from SAP.

●        Migrating the workflows from 3.X to 7.0.

●        Creating the Broadcasting settings in the queries.

●        Integration of the scheduling of instances in BO Reports with the process chains in BW.

●        Creating Openhubs

●        Activation of the standard content of the SAP BW system as per the client requirement and thereby reducing the implementation time for reports

Bacardi, USA                                                        SAP ABAP Developer             March 2007 – January 2008

Project Description: implementing roll-outs for various markets and supporting production environment

Role description: understand and Implement according to technical specifications, troubleshoot issues in production

Responsibilities:

·               Gained strong understanding of different business processes in SD, MM, FI,HCM modules

·               Extensively interacted with business users, functional consultants and clients continuously to provide high quality solutions to the change requests and analyzed impact of changes across modules/functional areas

·               Participated in project planning activities, monitored project milestones, and evaluated change requests approval process

·               Involved in analyzing function specifications and preparing technical specifications 

·               Resolved incidents in time to meet SLAs and strived in achieving highest client satisfaction(98%) across the account

·               Provided effort estimates for the change requests and guided technical team to effectively close the requests

·               Reduced first hand bugs by guiding the technical team towards better understanding of the business requirements

·               Proactively performed rigorous root cause analysis for the defects and strived towards providing quality fixes and thus reduced the over-all possible defects for the modules

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