Professional Summary:

 

·   Over 9 years of professional experience in the development and implementation of the business applications this includes SAP BW/BI and SAP BOBJ reporting.

·   Implemented multiple full life cycle implementations of SAP BW/BI following ASAP Methodologies  which involves Gap Analysis, Blue Printing, Realization, Data Extraction, Data Modeling, Data Loading, Production Support, Testing, Documentation, Requirement Analysis, End user Documentation, Reporting and Go-Live Check

·   Experience in Implementing SAP BW/BI projects for ISU Utilities, financial services, Oil & Energy, Pharmaceuticals, and Chemicals industries.

·   Experienced in OLTP extractions of SAP LO-Cockpit, FI Asset Accounting, FI-GL (New), FI- Special Purpose Ledger, FI-AP, FI-AR, SD, MM, COPA , Inventory, Generic extractions and non-SAP data extraction

·   Experience in Integrating and Extracting data into Business Objects environment from the SAP BW database system. Created WEB Intelligence Reports, Formatting reports (BOBJ), as per user requirements.

·   Expertise in SAP BW – Extraction, Data Modeling, Report development and Performance Tuning.

·   Highly experienced in Implementation, Upgrade, Maintenance and Support projects in SAP BI/BW environment.

·   Expertise in BI related ABAP programming which includes Start and End routine, enhancements and customer exits.

·   Have experience on BI Integrated planning tool

·   Expertise in Multi-Dimensional Data Modeling, Planning/Forecast using Extended Star Schema and design implementation.

·   Proficient in the BW system technical and functional upgrade from BW 3.5 to BI 7.0

·   Deployed cutover plans, activities and coordinated tasks with different process teams for successful SAP implementation project

·   Extracted data from Flat files, UD connect and DB Connect

·   Broadcasted reports with exceptions/pre-calculations using Information Broadcasting functions

·   Experience in Hierarchies, Authorizations, BW Statistics, Archiving, Process chains and Open hub.

·   Handled and resolved Production Support tickets per ticket priority and transported them into Quality and Production environments

·   Expertise in Reporting with Business Explorer using BEx Analyzer, BEx query Designer, Web Application Designer, Condition reporting, Exception highlighting, Queries using filters, Free Characteristics, Calculated Key Figures and Restricted Key Figures, Variables, Structures and RRI (Report to Report Interface),workbooks and Hierarchy design.

·   Created WEBI reports and Crystal reports and deployed them through Info view with BW universe as source and created Inventory accuracy Dash Boards using Xcelsius.

·   Extensively used Calculations, Variables, Prompts, and Sorted inputs, Drill down, Slice and Dice, Alerts for creating Business objects reports within WEBI and also created reports with Charts (Bar Chart, Pie Chart...etc) and Cross Tabs.

·   Precise knowledge in using BOBJ Enterprise Tool Set (Universe Designer, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius, Crystal Reports).

·   Created Interactive Metric Trends to gauge the performance of the key businesses and also created Dynamic Dashboard using Live Office as well as Query as a Web Service in separate projects.

·   Performed Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing at various levels.

·   Worked on Pre-calculated Web Templates and used Control Queries to increase the performance of the query and also worked on OLAP Cache.

·   Experience in creation and maintenance of Authorization Objects for Roles in reporting

·   In-depth knowledge on financial accounting, Procurement process and Production process.

·   Good communication and interpersonal skills, self-motivated starter, quick learner, team player.

 

 

 

 

Technical Expertise:

 

Data Warehouse: SAP BW 3.5, BI 7.4

ERP                 : SAP R/3 4.7, ECC6.0

Reporting Tools: Bex Query Designer, Analyzer, WAD, SAP BO 4.1, WEBI, Crystal, IDT and Dashboards.

Programming Languages     : C, ABAP/4

Databases                        :    Oracle-9i (SQL/PL/SQL)

Operating Systems   :   Windows XP/98/7.0/Vista/XP,UNIX

 

                                                                                                                                        

Client: Impax Laboratories    Chalfont    PA                             May 2013 – Present        

SAP BI/BOBJ Sr Consultant

Impax Laboratories, Inc. is a technology-based specialty Pharmaceutical company applying its formulation expertise and drug delivery technology to the development of controlled-release and specialty generics in addition to the development of branded products.

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

·   Involved in full life cycle implementation, which includes Analysis, Requirements gathering, Development, Testing, Reporting, Go-live and Post go-live support. 

·    Interacted with functional team, global users, Order to Cash, Procure to pay departments, to study their business process.

·   Created necessary generic DataSources on R/3 with delta functionality; worked on enhancing the extract structures based on the Client requirement and populated data to those particular enhanced fields by using User exits.

·   Activated standard Logistic DataSource content on R/3 for sales order items, header & item statuses, Deliveries, MM (Purchasing) & FICO (GL, AR & AP). 

·   Involved in Extraction, Transformation and Loading of Data (ETL) - preparing SAP R/3 for SAP BW and defining the loading strategies, initial and delta data loads via PSA; loading data from flat files, Scheduling and monitoring data loads

·   Designed Sales universes and made reports on various scenarios like the sale per region report, sales per product revenue and sales per sales person with the SAP BW integration to the SAP BO.

·   Extensively used Calculations, Prompts and Sorted inputs, Drill down, Slice and Dice, Alerts for creating WEBI reports.

·   Developed dynamic dashboards using Live Office which contain the complete details of the sales info for the Client to analyze the scenario and a stimulation model for the projected sales for the various products.

·   Using Crystal Report created Legal report in a specific format with insertion of Logo, Page Number and Creation Date as well as created other formatted reports using Cascading Parameter and Sorting Options.

·   Involved in Post-Production support which includes monitoring of process chains and data loads, rescheduling of process chains, debugging of start, and end routines.

·   Effective management and coordination of off-shore team members.

 

 

Environment: SAP BW 7.4, ECC 6.0, ABAP, BEx Query Designer and Analyzer, Web Intelligence, Universe Designer, Java Info View, MS-SQL, WEBI, Crystal Reports and Xcelsius

 

 

Client: Consumers Energy -SAP ISU Utilities          Jackson, Michigan                   Jan 2012 – April 2013                                               

SAP BI/BO Sr Consultant 

 

Consumers Energy is a public utility that provides natural gas and electricity to more than 6 million of Michigan's 10 million residents. It serves customers in all 68 of the state’s Lower Peninsula counties. It is a division of CMS Energy. Its headquarters is in Jackson.

 

 

Responsibilities

 

·   Gathered requirement form the Business users, analyzed report format and suggested the possible format to the users. 

·   Enhanced standard data sources to reach the client requirement. 

·   Activated the business content info cubes, info objects, Data store objects and multi providers.

·   Loaded the data to BI targets like Master Data info objects, info cube and data store objects.

·   Update the unit, currency and fiscal variant master data tables in SAP BI side. 

·   Reconciled data between ECC to BI data targets. 

·   Transported the business objects to BI QA as well as BI Prod as per BI landscape. 

·   Custom reports designed using restricted key figure, calculated key figure, selection and formula. 

·   Used the variables like characteristic, text and formula variables to achieve client requirement. 

·   Worked on customer exit variables like month to date, year to date, fiscal year to date and opening balance on previous year. 

·   Created the process chains for delta loads and schedule the jobs in background mode.

·   Created Universes over BEx queries and Info cubes of SAP BI using Universe Designer.

·   Developed Static Dashboard using different charts, Selectors, Containers and customized features having advanced properties within Xcelcius

·   Extensively Worked on Query as a Web Service to create Dynamic Dashboard within Xcelsius.

·   Worked on Crystal Report to create Section Based Report upon special format.

·   Involved with the BASIS and security consultants to create authorization roles and profiles as well as BW BASIS related tasks.

·   Resolved customer reported tickets providing high level of customer service to end users, business units and groups

 

Environment: SAP BW 7.4, ECC 6.0, ABAP, BEx Query Designer and Analyzer, Web Intelligence, Universe Designer, Java Info View, MS-SQL, WEBI, Crystal Reports and Xcelsius

 

 

Client:  Cameron    Houston   TX                                   Sept 2009 – Dec 2011                                                  

SAP BI Sr Consultant 

 

Cameron is a leading provider of flow equipment products, systems and services to worldwide oil, gas and process industries. Leveraging its global manufacturing, sales and service network, Cameron's 11 operating divisions work with drilling contractors, oil & gas producers, pipeline operators, refiners and other process owners to control, direct, adjust, process and measure pressures and flows.

 

 

Responsibilities

 

 

·   Involved in complete life cycle implementation of SAP BW in SD, MM and FI/CO modules.

·   Responsible for the preparation of logical and physical data models and the definition of the BI Architecture.

·   Performed LO, profitability (CO-PA) and Generic extraction throughout the project.

·   Experienced in G/L Accounting, Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis.

·   Created Info Objects, Info Sources and Source Systems to load data into Info Cubes using Transfer and Update rules.

·   Extensively used ABAP Conversion Routines in Transfer Rules and Update rules to load and update data into Data Targets.

·   Thoroughly analyzed Short Dump and Application Log reviews to debug errors.

·   Responsible for improving the performance by choosing appropriate query modules, and regularly tuning the data modules for info cube and queries besides relating aggregates and Indices.

·   Performed Delta Upload Management with OLTP extraction.

·   Performed various queries on FI on vender: overview, cust: DSO Analysis (current period, time line).

·   Performed end user training sessions in reporting scenarios, and documented the whole project

·   Involved in monitoring and production support.

·   Worked very well on High, Medium and Low Priority Tickets

·   Raising tickets to other resolution groups regarding performance of the system and data loads

·   Reload the data requests from PSA in case of data load failure

·   Involved in Roll Up data to aggregates and compression of the cubes

·   Monitoring of Info packages and analyzing the reasons for frequent failures of Info packages.

·   Actively Involved in Rectification of Load Failure errors like Master Data Loads, Transaction load

 

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0; SAP BI 7.3, ABAP, BEx Query Designer and Analyzer, Web Intelligence.

 

Client:  Bank of America      charlotte,   NC                                                                April 2008 – Aug 2009  

SAP BI Consultant 

 

Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individuals, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services.

 

Responsibilities

 

·   Setting-up of the extraction processes for the Finance Modules (FI-GL/AP/AR) using the standard as well as Generic extractors.

·   Data extraction from R/3 and legacy systems according to the client’s requirements.

·   Worked with BEX Query designer to build queries according to the client’s requirement using

·   Calculated Key Figures, Restricted Key Figures, Variables, Structures, and Query properties, Filters, Free Characteristics, Conditions and Exceptions.

·   Maintaining Reconciliation to verify the data in SAP R3 and SAP BW after the data loads

·   Involved in prioritized tickets regarding extractions, Performance Issues and also load failures

·   Designed and maintained Report-to-Report interface (RRI) 

·   Analyzed collective performance of various queries that are based on same Info Cube and improved the overall performance by creating suitable aggregates.

·   Automated the aggregates, rollups and change runs using process chains

·   Handled Various Post Production Support Issues related to Short Dumps, Data Loading, Monitoring, Database Space.

·   Educated users to use standard reports and provided detailed documentation on using different features of reports

 

Environment: SAP BI7.0, SAP ECC 6.0

 

 

 

Client:  BASF                                                                          July 2006 – March 2008                                           

SAP BI Consultant 

 

BASF is the largest chemical producer in the world and is headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

 

Responsibilities

 

·   Involved in writing technical specs for HR - Personal administration, time management and e-recruiting.

·   Designed simple to complex data flows as per the requirement using most of the BI objects (InfoObjects) and InfoProviders (Multiprovider, InfoCube, DSO etc.). Used ABAP for transforming some of the HR data to support report level calculations.

·   Designed BEx queries for HR Headcount and Turnover reporting. Reviewing the existing HR reports and calculations to work on re-designing them. Created cubes and DSO’s objects for petroleum business. Performed a system wide BEx query clean-up.

·   Installed Business Content Objects as per the client requirements.

·   Based on the Functional Specs created Technical specs.

·   Involved in changing the Existing data model of an Info Cube by adding new Characteristics and Key figures, involving the Re-initialization of Data Sources from SAP R/3.

·   Based on the client requirement, Extracted the data using LO - Cockpit for logistic data.

·   Involved enhanced the Sales, FI-AR and Delivery Data Sources according to the technical specifications.

·   Used ABAP Code to enhance fields from tables to the data sources using CMOD.

·   Used Standard BEx Reports for User requirements using Filters, Free Characteristics, Formulas, Selections, Structures, Calculated Key Figure, Restricted Key Figure and Used Variables.

·   Loaded and reconciled the data for the above flows with Data Targets, Reports and ECC Tables and RSA3

·   Involved in monitoring and production support.

 

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BI 7.0

 

Academic Profile:

 

MSc in Computer Science—University of Greenwich, UK