Rajesh D

                          

Summary:

·   Certified Sr. SAP BI Lead Consultant with 11 years of IT Experience in SAP Business Information Warehouse, Business Objects and HANA (SAP BI/BW, BO and HANA).

·   Extensive experience in IS Retail, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, IS-Utilities and Supply chain management domains.

·   Excellent professional experience in Software Development Life Cycle that includes requirement gathering, design, project implementation, system test, user support and training.

·   Involved in full life-cycle implementations of multiple SAP BI/BW,BO and HANA projects using ASAP methodology

·   In depth technical experience in SAP BI/BW, BO, HANA and good functional knowledge in MM, SD, FI, PP, HR and QM Modules.

·   Good experience in HP Application Lifecycle Management(HPQC)

·   Extensive experience in designing Info Cubes,DSO’s, Semantically Partitioned Info cubes & DSO’s, Multi-Providers, Hybrid Providers, Transformations and DTP’s .

·   Experience in writing start, end and expert Routines at transformations and User Exits at queries using ABAP.

·   Good experience in LO Cockpit, CO-PA and function module extraction.

·   Extensively worked on BW Technical, Functional Upgrade projects (BW3.5 to BI7 and BI7.0 to BI7.31).

·   Experience in Business Objects reporting functionalities such BI Launch Pad ,Explorer, Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, Analysis edition for OLAP, Analysis edition for MS office and Dashboard Designer

·   Experience in creating universes using information design tool and also connecting to multiple data sources.

·   Extensively worked on BOBJ Technical, Functional Upgrade projects (BO3.1 to BO4.0 and BO4.0 to BO4.1).

·   Experience in SAP HANA that includes Architecture, Data Provisioning, Modeling and Reporting.

·   Good experience in Creating Attribute, Analytic, and Calculation views in SAP HANA Studio.

·   Experience in analyzing business needs to build a single best practice solution.

·   Good in integrated understanding of the various aspects of business processes.

·   Good interpersonal, analytical and technical skills.

 

Technical Skills:

       ERP:    SAP R/3

        Business Intelligence Tools :    SAP BW3.5/7.0/7.3/7.4, Bex Analyzer, Bex Query   

                                                                      Designer, BO3.1/4.0/4.1 and HANA1.0

        Languages             :    ABAP/4.

        Operating System             :    UNIX, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000.

       Client Tools:    Visual basic. Visual Interdev.

        RDBMS             :    Oracle 8i, D2K.

 

eBay Inc.                                                                                                            Feb’15 to Till Date

SAP BW/BO and HANA Lead Consultant                           

Responsibilities:

·   Working extensively on eBay, PayPal SAP BW, BO and HANA Servers Split project.

·   Preparing the Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test cases for Unit, Regression, User Acceptance and Performance Testing based on business requirements in HP Application Lifecycle Management (HPQC)

·   Extensively using HP Application Lifecycle Management to track the completion status of test cases/test scripts.

·   Consolidating the work logs & Service requests/defects raised through HPQC and assigning them to the team members and also continuously monitor their timely closure.

·   Monitoring the Process chains and making sure to complete the data loads through Process chains to start the testing.

·   Preparing status report as per the project guidelines and providing the status report to client and to the internal stakeholders on a daily basis.

 

Marks and Spencer’s                                                                                          Jan’14 to Feb’15 Sr.SAP BW/BO Consultant                           

Responsibilities:

·   Onshore Team Lead for production Support and BI architect for SAP BW on HANA Implementation project and Enhancements

·   Interacted with management and business Decision-makers to identify business requirements. Documented the reporting needs of the Business Service and disseminate those requirements into a data warehouse strategy resulting in both operational and analytical reporting.

·   Responsible for analyzing the scope of Requirement and the Impact analysis for all major enhancements & incidents.

·   Prepared functional and technical specifications based on the business requirements.

·   Attended MIM (Major incident Management) calls and meetings to update the status of the major incidents.

·   Created Info Cubes,DSO’s, Semantically Partitioned Info cubes & DSO’s, Multi-Providers, Hybrid Providers, Transformations and DTP’s

·   Used Restricted and Calculated Key Figures, Virtual Key Figures, Formulas, Variables, Replacement path Variables, Customer Exit Variables, User entry Variables in the Query Designer.

·   Involved in developing, designing and maintaining new and existing universes by creating joins and cardinalities.

·   Created universes using information design tool 4.0 by connecting multiple data sources with Classes, Objects and Condition Objects.

·   Created Aliases and Contexts to resolve the Loops and Traps (fan traps and chasm traps).

·   Modified BW queries to generate WEBI reports using BI Launch Pad in BO to meet user requirements.

·   Developed WEBI reports on SAP BEx Queries using BICS in Webi Rich client.

·   Created Daily and monthly summary reports in WEBI 4.0 for the different domains like Finance, Marketing and HR.

·   Used Variables, User defined objects, Scope of analysis, Drill mode, Slice and dice mode, Prompts, and Conditions to make reports accurate and easier for analysis.

·   Created WEBI & Crystal reports and deployed them through BI Launch Pad with Bex as source.

·   Created complex dashboards on BEx  Queries using Query Browser in Dash board designer 4.0

·   Exclusively used QAAWS and Live Office to import data to spreadsheet and develop visually rich dashboards.

·   Worked on optimizing the performance of the dashboards. Reduced the dashboard loading time by scheduling the backed source WEBI reports and by selecting the filter option changing with refresh on trigger option to pick from the latest instance.

·   Created Dynamic Dashboards using SAP BI data/ BEx Queries. Have Valuable Knowledge on Xcelsius Dashboard Components like Charts, Selectors (Filters, label Based menus), Tab Sets, Canvas Containers.

·   Worked on development of Dashboard reports for the Key Performance Indicators for the top management.

·   Good understanding and experience of various components of SAP HANA.

·   Created Attribute, Analytic, and Calculation views in SAP HANA Studio.

·   Extensively Worked on SAP HANA Data Provisioning using SAP LT Replication Server (SLT).

·   Created Schemas, table definitions, Attributes, Measures & Hierarchies in HANA.

·   Good Knowledge in SAP HANA security including User Management, Roles and Privileges.

·   Strong knowledge on data flows & workflows using BODS.

·   Responsible for preparing test plans, test scripts, perform functional and quality review, integration testing and facilitate User Acceptance testing for all major enhancements.

·   Used HP Application Lifecycle Management(HPQC) tool to capture the different phases of testing results

·   Accountable for meeting Internal and external quality standards and process.

·   Responsible for various performance optimizations in production system such as data load optimization, report performance, Space maintenance.

·   Best Contributor award from organization Management for handling the support and brought the support to steady state within 2 months.

 

The Home Deport, Atlanta, GA                                                                         April ‘11 to Jan’14

SAP HANA Certified BW/BO Consultant

Responsibilities:

·   Played BI lead role for the complete full life cycle BI Implementation which includes, gathering requirements, , design specification, Modelling, data extraction, reporting, unit testing, and user acceptance testing, documentation and maintenance.

·   Worked with several users to gather requirements and transformed them into a data model.

·   Developed various deliverables like Functional and Technical specs, Data mapping and Data flow documents, Gaap & Impact analysis documents, Step by step solution and Transport sequence.

·   Displayed excellence in understanding client specific implementation processes and client specific tools and working single handedly in identifying and resolving the issues.

·   Extracted the data from ECC, POSDM and GTS systems to BI and used to send the detailed status mails to the end-users

·   Created universe, designing the report in WEBI and making Crystal Reports, Dashboards using Xcelcious (Dashboard Designer).

·   Extensively worked on BO3.1 to BO4.0 technical and functional upgrade projects and delivered successfully without any issues.

·   Developed WEBI report/dashboards/Universes (using IDT) in BI4 Environment.

·   Worked on BOBJ Security Testing, as a part of testing Basis & Security teams has granted the access for different end users as per my inputs and document.

·   Efficiently worked on advanced analysis for web and advanced analysis for excel and on HANA POC

·   Successfully created Data Flow Model from BI to HANA and from HANA to BO as a part of HANA POC.

·   Contributed significantly in all life cycles of the project for delivering good support to the clients, by effectively coordinating with Client IT Team / Business Team/ Onsite-Offshore Team as well as improving the quality of the application and optimizing results for end-customers.

·   Won Certificate of Excellence Award from VP, IT Director, The Home Depot Canada Retails Operations for the dash board designed to see the scorecard details by using BOBJ Tools.

·   Sound knowledge about all Data Warehouse Tools which are introduced from SAP Family.

·   Monitoring the process chains, executing the Monday Morning Reports and sending them to the specified end users.

·   Conducting and monitoring weekly performance tuning activities, comparing BI Data with R/3 and sending the reconciliation report to the business on daily basis

 

Ashok Leyland, India                                                                                        Aug’10 to April’11

Sr. SAP BW/BO Consultant

Responsibilities:

·   Played BI architect role for the complete full life cycle BI Implementation which includes, gathering requirements, analysis, data modelling, design specification, development, data extraction, reporting, unit testing, trouble-shooting, integration and user acceptance testing, documentation and maintenance.

·   Interacted and prepared the functional specification document by gathering the requirements from business users.

·   After proper sign off from the business users started developing the objects as per the FS and prepared the technical specification document.

·   As part of development, installed standard SAP BI content info Cubes, data store Object, Info objects, Queries and web templates.

·   Created and activated Info Cubes, Info Sources, Multi-Providers, Transfer structures, Transfer rules, Communication structures, Update Rules (both ODS and Info Cube level) and conversion techniques.

·   Performed various tuning techniques (aggregates and partitioning) to optimize the query performance

·   Extensively used LO extract structures and data sources in material management to facilitate the data extraction to BW.

·   Worked extensively on standard and custom defined Business Content and LO extractors.

·   Generated view generic data source in R/3 and extracted the data as a Full load

·   Generated Master data Generic data source for Shipment notification and loaded the data to BI as a full load.

·   Created the DSO for Deliveries data to track the status of the Delivery.

·   Created ODS for incoming sales orders according to sales organization.

·   Developed flexible queries using filters, navigational attributes, variables, calculated key figures, restricted key figures in BEx analyzer to facilitate data analysis in a drill down or summarized way to give detailed level of information.

·   Worked on RRI jump queries

·   Created process chains and transported across the landscape.

·   Collected all the development system objects into Transports and moved them to all the systems in the landscape.

·   Developed Universe using Designer module in Business Objects.

·   Developed and created classes with Dimension, Detail & Measure Objects and specified the hierarchies in Universe.

·   Created user defined @prompts and complex conditions at Universe level for better performance.

·   Created Reports using all the BO functions like Drill Down, Prompts, Dimensional and Measure variables to show accurate Results.

·   Deployed Business Objects Universes and Reports in a Secure Environment from One Server to Other Servers using Import Wizard.

·   Created Xcelsius Dashboards for Sales and Product level data based on Product Age & Usage using various components of Xcelsius.

·   Created KPI’s using Xcelcious.

·   Experienced in developing complex reports using Business Objects Webi Rich Client & Crystal Reports Enterprise having Parameter/Formula Fields and Selection Formulas, Grouping and Sub reports.

ModusLink, Singapore                                                                                      Feb’09 to June’10

Sr. SAP BW Consultant

Responsibilities:

·   Worked extensively on Administration workbench. Customized Info Objects, Info Sources and Info Cubes.

·   Upload master and transactional data from Flat files and SAP R/3 as the OLTP source.

·   Maintained Data Source, Info source, Communication Structure, Transfer Structures.

·   Maintained Transfer rules, Update rules, Info Packages and Info Package groups and scheduling the Info packages.

·   Checked for data Consistency and modified the data in PSA before loading them to data targets.

·   Resolved data load issues.

·   Worked on selective deletion and selective loading in production client.

·   Performed Basic functionality testing, Regression testing, and Query testing.

·   Created communication, transfer structures, transfer rules, update rules and Plan conversion techniques (Enhancements and Routines).

·   Designed making extensive use of ODS capabilities and update rules keeping query performance in view.

·   Worked on BEx Query Designer in designing queries using filters, variables, navigational attributes and structures to facilitate flexible, detailed drill down data analysis to required level of information.

 

Arm strong, Lancaster, PA                                                                                May’08 to Feb ’09

SAP BW Consultant

Responsibilities:

·   Designed Multi Dimensional Data Info Cubes, Multi Providers, Operational Data Store (ODS), Aggregates, Info Objects, Data Sources, Info Providers, Transformations and DTP’s.

·   Handled LO cockpit, loaded data from SAP R/3 to BW by initializing delta update by filling the setup tables and extracted data from custom table using generic extraction

·   Filled up the setup tables to facilitate init loads into the BW System and involved in reinitializing without downtime by using init without data transfers

·   Gathered signoff from the users to move the AWB Objects and Queries into the Production Systems and generated different types of Multi Provider Reports as per client’s requirements

·   Designed flexible queries using Filters, Variables, Exceptions, Conditions, restricted key figures and calculated key figures in BEx analyzer to facilitate data analysis in a drill down or in a summarized way

·   Coordinated different variables in BW reporting using different processing types, inserted several queries in the same workbook and copied queries from one cube to another

·   Used the RRI functionality for jumping target to view the detailed report based on the available report and tested the queries in various servers like Development, Acceptance and Quality

·   Transported queries and workbooks from development to acceptance and quality, arranged monitored the data loads in acceptance and quality servers and created process chains for Master Data and Transaction data loads

·   Designed document for process chains and used Mercury Quality tool for project tracking and defect resolution activities

·   Implicated QA Process after development before delivering the objects to the MI team and resolved defects arising at acceptance and quality systems

·   Actively involved in writing the Technical Specifications for the objects, performed end-to-end testing of the cluster and prepared an E2E testing document

·   Gathered & transported objects throughout BW System Landscape with Rev Trac Transport tool and involved  in developing & enhancing R/3, BW and query objects

·   Monitoring the process chains, executing the Monday Morning Reports and sending them to the specified end users.

·   Conducting and monitoring weekly performance tuning activities, comparing BI Data with R/3 and sending the reconciliation report to the business on daily basis.

 

Shell Oil and Gas, Houston, TX                                                                        Mar’04 to April’08

SAP BW Consultant

Responsibilities:

·   Involved in the design, development of Multi dimensional Data Models, Info Cubes, MultiProviders, Operational Data Store (ODS), Aggregates, Info Objects, Data Sources, Info Sources, Info Providers, Transfer rules, Update rules, generic data sources.

·   Worked extensively on LO Cockpit and loaded data from SAP R/3 to BW by initializing of delta update by filling the setup tables.

·   Extracting data from custom table using Generic Extraction.

·   Involved in reinitializing without downtime by using init without data transfers.

·   Getting the signoff from the users to move the AWB objects and queries into the Production systems.

·   Developed flexible queries using Filters, Variables, Exceptions, Conditions, restricted key figures and calculated key figures in BEx analyzer to facilitate data analysis in a drill down or summarized way to give detailed levels of information.

·   Testing the queries in various servers like Development, Acceptance and Quality.

·   Transporting the Queries and workbooks From Development to Acceptance and Quality.

·   Scheduling and Monitoring the Data loads in Acceptance and Quality Servers.

·   Created Process chains for Master data and Transaction data loads and Prepared the Design document for the same

·   Involved on BW3.5 to BI 7.0 Functional upgrade.

·   Used Mercury Quality tool for project tracking and defect resolution activities.

·   Involved in QA Process after development before delivering the objects to the MI team.

·   Worked on HPQC, created test plans, test scripts and test reports

·   Resolving defects arising at Acceptance and Quality systems.

·   Involved in writing the Technical Specifications for the Objects.

·   Collected & transported objects throughout BW system Landscape with RevTrac Transport tool.

Education

Ø       B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Ø       SAP HANA Certified