Vivek Agrawal

1-630-272-7201

 

SUMMARY:

 

·   Proven IT consultant with 7.5 years of experience in SAP BI/BO/HANA, having implemented projects in the consumer products, high-tech, healthcare, and manufacturing industry. Worked on several full life-cycle implementations, from blueprint, prototype, design/configuration and testing to go-live and maintenance.

·   3.5 years of experience with SAP HANA (up to SP08) data modeling for creation of complex Analytic and Calculation Views.  Executed three full life-cycle implementations in SAP HANA1.0.

·   Experience with Data Provisioning from SAP ECC, SAP BW and non-SAP sources via SLT, BODS and DXC.

·   Knowledge of HANA security including User Management, Roles and Analytic Privileges.

·   Created custom schema, non-ECC tables and SQL queries in SAP HANA.

·   Developed Dashboards using SAP Design Studio, Lumira and Tableau to effectively represent KPI’s and visually accentuate critical business controls based on the Customer needs.

·   Built Universes and Reports using WebI, Live Office, Xcelsius, MS Analysis for OLAP, Crystal Report.

·   Developed custom applications using SAP UI5, oData, XSJS, HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.

·   Experience with HANA Live and Virtual Data Mart (VDM). Built custom applications using VDMs.

·   Expertise in gathering, analyzing and documenting business requirements, functional requirements, and data specifications for Business Objects Universes and Reports.

·   Expertise in creating reports with features like Drill down, Slice and Dice, Ranking, Alerts, Section and Grouping.  Hands-on in broadcasting/publishing reports to the Enterprise Portals, Portal integration and Web Analyzer.

·   4.5 years of experience in SAP BI 3.5x/7.0 having worked on extractions from SAP and non-SAP sources, developing SAP BW Objects, Extended Star Schema modeling; expert knowledge of data warehousing concepts.

·   Good understanding of business process flow in SAP Modules like SD, MM, PP, FI/CO modules.

·   Developed reports in the FI/CO modules with concentration in GL Accounts (both AP/AR).

·   Experience with SAP BW administration using the BW Administrator Workbench, installing Standard Business Content objects, Customizing Business Content objects, Custom data warehouse development, managing ETL jobs, automation of BW jobs, Process Chains Creation & Maintenance, troubleshooting failed processes.

·   Thorough understanding of installation, configuration and customization of BW objects including Info Cubes, DSO, Multitudes, Info Objects, Info Sources, Info Packages, Transfer Rules, Update Rules, Process Chains, ETL jobs, Data sources, DTP, Transformations, Real-Time Data Acquisition, BEx Analyzer, Web application designer.

·   Extractions: LO, FI, CO-PA, Master data extraction, Generic Extraction, Delta management, Business Content (Installation & Enhancement), extraction using DB connect.

·   Hands on experience in Production Support including Process Chains maintenance, Data load monitoring and fixing the failed loads. Work experience on data cleansing &modeling, and performance tuning and aggregates.

·   Overall 26 years of experience with 10 years as Principal Consultant/Program Manager with engineering firms. Managed clients across the world using globally distributed resources on concurrent projects.

·   Quick learner with excellent organization, interpersonal and communication skills.

 

Technical Skills:

 

Data Warehouse:  SAP BW 3.5, 3.1C and SAP BI 7.0, BW 7.3 & BW 7.4

ERP:  SAP ECC 6.0, R/3 4.6C/ 4.6B/ 4.5B

Programming Languages              : JavaScript, SQL, HTML, CSS
OLAP reporting tools              : SAP Business Explorer (BEx) Analyzer, BEx Browser, BO/BI
Database              : MS Access, SAP HANA, MS SQL
Operating Systems              : Windows 95/98/2000/XP and Windows/NT
Other Tools              : Visio, MS Office

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

 

Client: Caterpillar, Inc., East Peoria, ILSep 2014 – Till Now

Role:  SAP HANA Solution Architect / Technical Analyst

 

Description:

Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. With $55 billion in annual revenues, the company operates through three product segments – Resource Industries, Construction Industries and Energy & Transportation - and also provides financing and related services. Customers turn to Caterpillar to help them develop infrastructure, energy and natural resource assets.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·   Leadership role with assisting implementation of SAP HANA at Caterpillar. The role includes developing best practices and guidelines for SAP HANA implementation; assisting the Caterpillar team with schema setup and hierarchy, coordinating with SAP to assure implementation of a leading-edge HANA environment; and interacting with US and Asia team on HANA project development.

·   Participate in solution approach calls with Business Analysts to do impact analysis for Modeling, Data Migration and give necessary solution inputs.

·   Attend Business Requirements call, Translate Business Requirements and KPI (Key Performance Indicator) in to HANA models and views.

·   Prepare Data Model Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams review Design with Development, Testing & Business Team and get the approval.

·   Experience working with multi-schema, multi-instance HANA environment. Work with Basis group to migrate HANA models and objects from development to pre-production to QA and production.

·   Create custom SQL Procedures and automated Procedure calls using HANA XS Admin (similar to Cron).

·   Customize VDMs (Virtual Data Marts) for rapid deployment of SAP HANA models within the various divisions. Experience with HANA Live browser.

·   Built dashboards using SAP Design Studio1.4, Lumira and Tableau.

·   Develop custom applications on SAP UI5 utilizing Eclipse, oData, HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.

·   Conduct UAT sessions with the Business, Functional Walkthroughs, Report Unit Testing, Validation of Data in BObj vs ECC, Integration Testing, and System Testing.

·   Support Production Environment and help users by troubleshooting, solving or giving work around of production issues. Trained SUG (Super Users Group) on the use of VDMs and reports.

 

Environment: SAP HANA1.0 SP8, BOBJ4.1, SAP UI5

 

 

Client: Johnson Control, Inc., Milwaukee, WISep 2013 – Aug 2014

Role:  SAP HANA Consultant

 

Description:

Johnson Controls is a global diversified technology and industrial leader serving customers around the world. The company creates quality products, services and solutions to optimize energy and operational efficiencies for buildings;
lead automotive batteries and advanced batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles; and automobile interior systems.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·   Created HANA modeling scenarios and activities such as adding a system, creating schemas and content models, attributes and measures, hierarchies.

·   Created Summary and Aggregation tables based on functional requirement specifications.

·   Created Dimensional Data Models from Operational Data Sources.

·   Developed Jobs, Workflows and Data Flows according to specifications and implemented their business logic.

·   Developed Data Flows for dimension and fact tables, and loaded the data into targets in Data Warehouse.

·   Created scheduled batch jobs for processing flat files, XML files, XSD, DTD's as source as well as Target.

·   Made use of global variables, Local Variables and Parameters between Work flow and Data flow as per business requirements.

·   Created Web intelligent reports on the relation universe which was created using Information Design Tool (IDT).

·   Built Cross Table, Column and Stacked Charts according to functional requirement provided by business users.

·   Created report filters in the UDT (Universe Design Tool) to improve WebI report performance.

·   Worked on Performance tuning of WebI and BEx reports by using Query Stripping, BI Indexes, BI statistics, Aggregates, and Partitioning of Info cube.

·   Daily monitoring and maintenance of SAP HANA nodes in the production and in the development environments.

 

Environment: SAP HANA, WebI, SAP BW

 

 

Client: Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Plano, TXApr 2013 – Sep 2013

Role:  SAP HANA Consultant

 

Description:

Dr. Pepper Snapple Group is the No.1 flavored carbonated soft drink (CSD) company in the Americas and a leading innovator and marketer of functional/non-carbonated beverages. DPS serves consumers throughout North America via a broad and flexible route to market.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·   Decided on extract strategy for new development in the HANA landscape.

·   Selected applications (cubes and DSOs) targeted for HANA Optimization.

·   Created Users, Roles, Privileges, Packages, Schemas as part of HANA Security and Development.

·   Designed, developed and debugged Information Models (Attribute, Analytic and Calculation Views) to model data for reporting team.

·   Designed and Debugged ETL process to extract data from Sources systems (SQL Server, XML and Flat Files).

·   Transform as per business requirements and load the data into SAP HANA database using SAP BODS and SLT.

·   Developed Attribute, Analytic and Calculation views for Sales, Inventory and Finance tables replicated from ECC to HANA via SLT.

·   Analytic View for GL accounting to build a WebI report for FAGL data.

·   Calculation view for Stock Overview to build a BO Explorer for Inventory Stock overview.

·   Analytic view for Sales Order Analysis to build multiple WebI reports and dashboard for Open Sales Order analysis.

·   Developed multiple attribute views for use in analytic views to avoid using physical tables and improve performance.

 

Environment: SAP HANA, ECC

 

 

Client:  Fujitsu America, Naperville, ILSep 2012 – Apr 2013

Role: SAP BW/HANA Consultant

 

Description:

Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communications technology company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. The business model encompasses the development, manufacture, sales and maintenance of the high-quality products and electronic devices that make these services possible.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·   Using SAP Business Object data services 4.0, replicated data from both ECC and the Flat files into the SPA HANA.

·   Also used trigger base SLT replication for ECC initial load and replication of ECC data.

·   Created Attribute views, Analytical views, and Calculation views.

·   Created  IDT (Information Design Tool) connection to build WebI reports on top of BEx Queries through BICS

·   Created Analytical privileges to control the data for the various business requirements.

·   Applied security and administration by creating the users and roles for the organizational level visibility.

·   Worked on Smithfield Foods Healthcare SQL database migration into SAP BW System using FTP Process.

·   Designed Flat file Data sources, DSO and Info cubes for Medco and Catamaran Data Providers.

·   Recognized Master data and Transaction data flows which are coming from single Flat file.

·   Created authorization relevant info objects to setup security design for all Smithfield Foods IOC (Independent of Companies) and imported all the way to Business Objects system.

·   Worked on Performance tuning of WebI and BEx reports by using Query Stripping, BI Indexes, BI statistics, Aggregates, Partitioning of Info cube and also OLAP based Cache.

·   Built BEx queries based on reporting needs utilizing CKFs, RKFs and variable selection functionalities.

·   Created IDT (Information Design Tool) connection to build WebI reports on top of BEx Queries through BICS.

 

Environment:  SAP HANA, ECC, BI 7.3, BO 4.0, Microsoft SQL 2008

 

 

Client: Johnson and JohnsonMar 2012 – Aug 2012

Role:  SAP BW Developer

 

Description:

J&J is engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the health care field. The Consumer segment includes a range of products used in the baby care, skin care, oral care, wound care and women’s health care fields, as well as nutritional and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products, and wellness and prevention platforms.

 

Responsibilities:

·   Design and maintain Info objects, Info Cubes, DSO, Multiproviders and Infosets in SAP Netweaver BW 7.3.

·   Design of Queries using restricted key figures, calculated key figures, Variables, Filter, Free Characteristics.

·   Creation of workbooks and web reports.

·   Unit Testing.

·   SAP HANA data modeling with HANA Studio for creation of Attribute View, Analytic View, and Calculation View.

·   Extraction of data from Excel, external database, SAP BW, and SAP ECC to HANA Data Base.

·   SAP ECC table data model and analysis.

·   Involved in replication of data from the database to SAP HANA using SAP Business Objects Data Services.

·   Selection of POC queries.

·   Created Procedures; Table types and used them in defining procedures.

·   Created reports using Webi for interactive analysis, formatted reports for enterprise reporting using Crystal Reports.

·   Created BEx reports for search and exploration.

·   Created reports with SAP BO using OLAP tools.

 

Environment:  SAP HANA, SAP BW 7.3/7.0, SAP BO, SAP-R/3

 

 

Client: Citrix Systems, Santa Clara, CAAug 2011 – Feb 2012

Role:  BW BOBJ Developer

Reporting Tool:  Xcelsius 2008, Crystal Reports 2008

 

Description:

Citrix provides the ability to embrace consumerization using virtualization, networking, collaboration and cloud technologies. It provides services to clients who value diligence, resourcefulness and creativity in a partner. They offer clients the accessibility and support of a local firm with the stability and resources of a multi-national organization.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·   Project involving development of the Dashboards and loading the data into the various info providers for the requirement and generating the BEx Queries.

·   Integrated with the team and end-users to get to understand the Business requirements.

·   Primary duties included production support for different SAP applications.

·   Involved in the development and Configuration of SAP Business Intelligence, SAP HANA and SAP Solution Manager.

·   Designed E2E forecasting process using BPC.

·   Created Business Objects reports, Queries with constant interaction with the end users. Trained end users in understanding the reports. Functionalities such as Slice and Dice, Drill mode and Ranking were used for Multidimensional Formatting.

·   Involved in creation of Reports, Formatting reports, generation of charts, as per user requirements.

·   Developed Xcelsius presentations/visualizations for profitability Analysis, Distributor Sales Analysis, Monthly Sales Analysis, Forecasted Sales What if Analysis.

·   Created web services to include vendor balance and customer payments, profit and loss statements.

·   Developed dashboards which get 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.

·   Enhanced LO Structure to include additional fields using user exits

·   Developed ODS object to load Sales Order Data using the LO structures

·   Activated Sale cubes, purchasing cubes from Business Content

·   Tested developed objects before sending to production

·   Developed queries against the Info cubes and ODS objects using BEx Analyzer and ad-hoc reporting.

·   Used different reporting tools – data reports, active reports, and crystal reports in generating complex reports.

·   Involved in Weekend, Month End and Year End Support.

·   Involved in Open Hub, DBCONNECT and BPS.

·   Created aggregates on various cubes to improve the queries performance.

·   Created Start routines, Transfer Routines and Update rules to meet various functionalities.

·   Supported Existing FI& PA Applications.

·   Worked closely with BASIS team on configuration issues, OSS notes and works around.

 

Environment: ECC 6.0 NWP, SAP BW 7.0, SAP BO 4.0

Client: AETNA, Inc., New York, NYNov 2010 – July 2011

Role: SAP BI Consultant

Reporting Tools: BEx Query Designer, Report Designer, Web intelligence and Web Analyzer

 

Responsibilities:

 

·   Involved in the business requirements (Reports and Data Analyses) gathering exercise (Business Blueprint phase). Also helped team to distinguish between SAP R/3 Reports and BW Reports.

·   Assisted team in using ASAP methodology for all phases of BI implementation.

·   Modeled and developed custom DSOs, info cubes and multi cube in order to fulfill the business requirements.

·   Involved in creating Info cubes, DSOs, Multi providers, Info sets, Info sources, Info packages, Update rules, Queries, Info spokes, and Process Chains.

·   Created reports in WebI Rich Client as per Business requirements.

·   Created trend reports with charts and drill down on charts.

·   Query development in BEx Query Designer with filters, free characteristics, formulas, selections (restricting), reusable objects like calculated (CKF)/restricted (RKF) key figures, conditions, exceptions, cells calculation, variables and display in BEx Analyzer/ Report Designer.

 

Environment: SAP BI 7.0 (NW2004s), BW 3.5

 

 

Client: RTI International Metal Inc., Canton, OHMay 2009– Oct 2010

Role: SAP BW Consultant

Type:  Development

Areas: FI, COPA

 

Description:

RTI International Metals is largest producers of titanium. RTI manufactures and distributes titanium, engineered systems for aerospace, industrial, defense, and consumer applications for customers around the world.

 

Responsibilities: 

 

·   Actively involved in the complete life cycle implementation of SAP BW.

·   Involved extensively in developing the project plan, in blue printing the statement of works for the different sources, documenting the Info provider manual.

·   Implemented ODS, infoproviders and multi-providers to support sales analysis reporting requirements.

·   Developed process chains to automate the initialization and delta updating of all data.

·   Created source system and data sources to extract historical data from flat file.

·   Worked in the design of physical and logical data modeling.

·   Created master data Info Sources for uploading master data and hierarchies.

·   Created and activated FI cubes, activated and customized profit center accounting cubes, accounts payable cubes and accounts receivable cubes, designed star schema structures for customized cubes and published management cockpit information reports with web interfacing.

·   Actively involved in Data source enhancements, generic extractors, user Exits and customized delta built up for the data sources, V3 Updates, controlled by pull/push principle from OLAP system.

·   Worked extensively on generic extraction in COPA.

·   Created Extract Structure, Transfer Structure, Replication of Data Sources. Actively involved in ETL activities like Transfer Rules for Communication structure and later by defining Update rules.

·   Enhanced the Info cubes by adding custom Info Objects to reflect modified R3 business process. Created several custom info Sources & Info Objects in BW and mapped them with R/3 fields using transfer rules and extractors.

·   Actively involved in extracting required data from the Data Source of PSA to ODS.

·   Used BEx Analyzer to build queries, queries with maps and charts, and worksheets to access BW data targets.

·   Defined and modeled queries to satisfy business analysis.

 

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6, BW 3.1c, 3.5, BEx Analyzer

 

 

Client:  SITACORP, NJJan 2008– April 2009

Role:  SAP BI BO Consultant

Type: Development

 

Description:

SITA CORP is a world-class, global business transformation consulting firm providing products and services in information technology and business functions. SITA CORP specializes in consulting, managed services, enterprise information management and enterprise mobile communications.

 

Responsibilities: 

 

·   Gathering/assessing of business requirements (functional specifications and technical specifications) and designing star schema for the requirements for operational & analytical reports in FI, CRM etc.

·   Working on BI 7.0 Data Warehousing Workbench: designing functional/physical data model, backend configuration, testing, cutover/go-live planning, production support of Info Objects, Info Cubes, Data-Store Objects (DSO/ODS), Multi providers, Info sets, Open Hub Services, Info spokes and Process Chains.

·   Developed Multi Dimension Models by consolidating business objects (BO).

·   Developed jobs using Business Objects Data Integrator XI designer to extract data from source databases and flat files into staging area.

·   Developed various Charts and Graphs like Bar Chart (Side by Side, Stacked), Line graphs, Pie Charts by using Chart expert of Crystal Reports.

·   Extracting master data / transactional data in BI landscape (data from both SAP R/3 and external source systems) with customs extractors, modifications/ enhancement (user-exit) of business content extractors, generic extractors, and master data extractors, transformation rules (ABAP/4 routines), transports and process chains.

·   Reconciled and validated data targets like Info cubes and ODS objects with R/3 and BW data analysis.

·   Developing complex queries in BEx Analyzer and publishing the queries to Enterprise Portal.

·   Query development in BEx Query Designer with filters, free characteristics, formulas, selections (restricting), reusable objects like calculated (CKF)/restricted (RKF) key figures, conditions, exceptions, cells calculation, variables and display in BEx Analyzer/ Report Designer.

 

Environment: BEx Query Designer, Report Designer, Web Analyzer, and Web Application Designer

 

 

EDUCATION

MS, Environmental Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, 1990

BS, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, 1987

Professional Engineer (PE), Utah

 

 

PERSONAL DETAILS

US citizen

Location: suburb of Chicago, IL

Languages Known: English, Hindi