Sreekanth Peram               SAP Certified HANA Consultant

801-231-9901                                                                                                           kanth.hana@gmail.com

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Career Summary:

Currently working for Infosys Ltd with 9.5 years of SAP HANA SP7, SAP Business Objects 3.x/4.0, SAP BW, ABAP, XI with two Full Life Cycle Implementation experience, Two Upgrade, One Data Migration and Three Support Projects with a mixed blend of technology and management skills, Mentored, managed and lead IT teams across countries from India, Australia and USA.

 

·   SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP HANA [C_HANAIMP141]: Certificate id – 0006845780.

·   Involved in all phases of implementation from Business Blueprinting, Solution Designing, Data Modeling, ETL, Report Designing and Development, Production Deployment/Support and End-User Training.

·   Experience in BOBI 4.0 & BI Launch pad 4.0.

·   Experience in creating Xcelsius Dashboard using live office & Web service.

·   Migrated 30 millions of records from Mainframe to SAP in Data Migration Project.

·   Having exposure in MM, SD, PP, PM, HR and FICO modules.

·   Worked extensively in Retail and Banking domains.

                SAP HANA

·   Experience in HANA Information Model design: Attribute View, Analytic View and Calculation Views as per the Business requirement.

·   Experience with connecting SAP HANA Analytical Views, calculation views to BOBJ.

·   Created Universes on top of HANA calculation views and developed the Webi reports and dashboards using IDT.

·   Experience in creating Analytic Privileges.

·   Experience in User management in SAP HANA.

·   Experience in SAP BW on HANA.

·   Experience in Data Provisioning using SLT, BODS and DXC.

                 SAP BOBJ 4.0

·   Expertise in Dashboards Design/Xcelsius, Web Intelligence.

·   Dashboards Design using WSDL links, and Query Browser (OLAP).

·   Organizing, Publishing & Scheduling Reports from BI Launch Pad.

·   Experienced in creating BICS-OLAP Connections, Data Foundation Layer, Business Foundation Layer, and Multi-Sourced Universe with IDT.

·   Excellent knowledge in Report Publications and Scheduling.

·   Experience in BOBJ Upgrade from 3.1 to 4.0.

·   Ability to work on CMC, user security, OLAP connections.

·   Debug issues related to report performance.

·   Extensively use of Business Objects reporting functionality such as Master Detailed, Dynamic Filter, Slice and Dice, Drilling methodology, Ranking, Sections, Input Controls, Graphs, Breaks, and highly formatted reports with cross tabs tables.

·   Creating an Xcelsius dashboard using Live Office as a data source.

·   Creating an Xcelsius dashboard using SAP BW direct connectivity.

·   Proficient in reporting tools like SAP BO XI R3.1 - Universe & Webi.

·   Deploying the universes and reports using import wizard.

·   Experience in Converting the Deski reports to Webi using RCT.

·   Experience in Creating Universe on top of SAP BEx query, Infocube, Mutliproviders.

·   Exposure in installation, configuration, migration and administration of Business Objects XI R3 using CCM, CMC and Infoview.

·   Good exposure in designing and building Universes by selecting and joining tables, setting cardinalities and resolving loops by using aliases and contexts.

                SAP BW

·   BW Extraction – FI -AP, AR, GL, HR (LSO, ERC, PA, OM, PD, Benefits, Payroll), SD-LO-Cockpit, Extractions from ECC. Generic Extractors based on Tables, Views & Function Modules.

·   Experience in building complex BEx queries and user exit variables.

·   Experience in SAP Production support.

·   BI Reporting & Analysis – Ad-hoc Queries, Query Designer, BEx Analyzer.

·   BW Operations – Data load management, Job scheduling, Loading (Full /Delta Up-Load), Process Chain Monitoring, Data Reconciliation.

·   Expertise in preparing of user manual/guides and conducting various workshops for user training

 

Other Technologies:

·   Working knowledge of UNIX.

·   Hands on experience in SAP XI-SLD, XI-ID, XI-IR, XI-RWB.

·   Experience on File, IDOC, SOAP, RFC, JDBC, HTTP adapters in SAP XI. 

·   Experience in ALE, IDOC, BAPI and BDC.

·   Knowledge on SAP BPC legal financial consolidation.

·   Knowledge on SAP APO and SAP SCM.

·   Knowledge on Agile SAP.

·   Proficient in generation of SAP ABAP ALV Reports.

·   Exposure to Database using Oracle, MS SQL Server.

·   Experience in building and maintaining SQL Stored procedures.

                 Trainings:

·   Trained on SAP HANA Live and SAP Smart Business

·   Trained on SAP Lumira and Predictive Analysis.

·   Trained on SAP BODS.

·   Knowledge on RDS.

·   Attended 3 weeks training program in Lean Manufacturing at Gabriel India Ltd Hosur.

·   Attended Post graduate Industrial internship in Ashok Leyland Plant at Hosur, T.N.

·   Attended two weeks training program in               composites at IIT Kanpur.

·   Participated and completed courses - BI 4 Platform Innovation and Implementation and SAP's UX Strategy through openSAP Course.

·   Participated Courses: Introduction to SAP HANA, Introduction to Software development on SAP HANA and Rapid deployment of SAP Solutions in openSAP.

 

Database(s)	SAP HANA SP7, ORACLE 9i/10g,
ETL Tools	SAP BODS
BOBJ Tools/Modules	Business Objects XI R3.1/4.0 Web Intelligence, QAAWS, Live Office, Admin Tools including CMC, CMS, IDT, UDT.
Reporting Tools	Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Dashboards
Scheduling Tools	Redwood, Control M
Programming Languages	SAP ABAP
Middleware Tools	SAP XI 3.0
Operating System	UNIX, Windows 95/98/2000 /NT/XP, Sun Solaris 6.x/7.x

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

American Express, SLC, UT                                                                             May2013 – Present

 

Amex is founded in 1850 and is best known for Credit card, charge card and Traveler’s cheque businesses.  Amex cards accounts for approximately 24% of the total dollar volume of credit card transactions in US.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·   Developed multiple reports and dashboards using Webi4, BO Dashboard (Xcelsius).

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

·   Loading data into table definitions, suspending data loads, resuming data loads.

·   Created attribute views, analytic views, calculation views Graphical and SQL script based.

·   BO 4.0 Reporting over HANA.

·   Setting up Custom access levels and security in BOBJ CMC.

·   Created BO Users and assigned required access to users in CMC.

·   Created new Audit reports for the client requirement.

·   Experience in BOBJ Upgrade from 3.1 to 4.0.

·   Very comfortable in interacting with customers and technical teams. Strong analytical & problem solving skills.

·   Vast experience in executing, leading Production support projects in SLA models.

·   Building new SLA models and strategic meetings with business partners.

·   Experience in working with various teams for GAP analysis of requirements and project Assessment.

·   Responsible for Resource planning, estimation and pipeline projects prioritization.

·   Involved in Project Kick-off, Release Management & Status meetings to discuss testing status, configuration management, deadlines and all QA related aspects.

·   Experience in onsite-offshore model.

·   Strong in requirements gathering from users and preparing specifications.

 

Technologies and Tools: SAP BOBJ 3.1/4.0, SAP HANA 1.0 SP7, CMC, RCT.

 

BNSF Railways, Fort Worth, TX                                                                   May 2012 – Apr2013

 

BNSF has 43,000 employees, 32,500 miles of track, and 7,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that provide high-speed links between the western and eastern United States.

Responsibilities:

 

·   Manage client expectations, status reporting, and feasibility for new requirements.

·   Interacted with various internal business users & stakeholders to implement BW/BOBJ reporting projects from initial scope definition through analysis, design, implementation and On-going support.

·   Experience in working with IT teams and coordination with various business parties like other Technology team, third party vendors and offshore onsite teams.

 

               SAP BOBJ – Dashboards 4.0, Web Intelligence, Crystal reports

 

·   Designed and developed complex Webi reports

·   Building Crystal report for displaying master and transaction data, using Group headers and sub-queries in the main report.

·   Building Webi reports using Hyperlinks to detailed Charts.

·   Responsible for all BOBJ scheduling for various Business depts. For Month end, quarterly and yearly activities.

·   Ability to create parent /child dashboards using flash variables.

·   Experience working with Dynamic visibility and Dashboards components like Canvas, Selectors and Charts.

·   Building alerts in dashboards using % and value based alerts.

·   Responsible for monitoring of around 200 interfaces and batch jobs of FI and HR modules through Redwood tool.

·   Experience in onsite-offshore model.

·   Knowledge on SAP HANA studio, creating universes on Analytic Views and using it in SAP BOBJ.

 

Technologies and Tools: SAP BOBJ 4.0, Solution Manager, HPQC, Redwood.

 

NAB Australia                                                                                 July 2009 – Feb 2012                                    

                                   

National Australia Bank (NAB) is a financial services organization with over 40,000 staff, operating more than 1,800 branches and service centers, and responsible to more than 460,000 shareholders. Worked in a project to migrate NAB’s General Ledger from Millennium to SAP and in enhancements to the current system.

 

                Data Migration

 

·   Migrated around 30 millions of records from Millennium Mainframe system to SAP R3 system using LSMW with IDocs approach.

·   Developed several LSMWs for uploading transaction data and uploaded 36 months of historic data.

·   Helped audit team in Reconciliation of GL Accounts

·   Experience in Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, Performance testing, Regression Testing                                                                                           

·   Worked on Report programming, IDOCs, Enhancements, LSMW, and Data Dictionary.

 

                SAP R3 Upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 5.0

 

·   Worked on transaction codes: SPDD, SPAU, and UCCHECK.

·   SIT and Preparation of Cutover activities in upgrade project which includes FI, HR, and MM Modules.

·   Used HP Quality Centre for defect management, test cases and results upload.

·   Worked as SAP technical consultant.

·   Worked in removing various syntax errors from SAP standard programs and custom programs.

·   Provided solutions by applying OSS notes to some functional issues, which aroused due to up gradation.

 

                SAP BW

·   Experience in Modelling, Scheduling, and Monitoring in SAP BW. 

·   Experience in improving query performance using Query Cache, RSRT debug and defining aggregates.

·   Developing Info objects, DSO,  Infocube,  Mutliproviders and BEx queries using Query Designer

·   Extracted data for various data sources FI-GL, FI-AP, and FI-AR data from R/3 to BI.

·   Worked with CKF and RKF for BEx reporting.

·   Worked with CMOD code for master and transaction data.

·   Experience in debugging issues on IDOCs and daily load failures.

·   Worked in workflow monitoring, BW Data load monitoring, Batch jobs monitoring through Control M.

 

Technologies and Tools: SAP BW3.5, SAP R3 4.6C, ECC 5.0, Control M.

 

SCE, CA                                                                              July 2008 – Jun 2009

 

Southern California Edison (SCE) is one of the largest electric utilities in California, serving more than 14 million people in a 50,000 square-mile area of central, coastal and Southern California, excluding the City of Los Angeles and certain other cities.  Based in Rosemead, California, the utility has been providing electric service in the region for more than 120 years. SCE's service territory includes more than 180 cities. 

Responsibilities:

 

·   Involved in development of Inbound and Outbound interfaces with XI as middleware.

·   Worked on enhancing standard transactions using User-Exits, Screen Exits and Enhancement Points.

·   Worked on IDOC Type HRMD_A to distribute employee master data.

·   Have developed a report to extract all the qualifications completed and pending for completion by the employees.

·   Have a worked on a report to extract Employee appraisal data.

·   Worked extensively on Module Pool Programming and Report programming.

·   Have worked on Smart form to generate purchase order and Work order.

·   Task Planning, Client interfacing and Work estimation.

·   Involved in the end-to-end implementation of On boarding and off boarding process

·   Involved in preparation of Technical Design Specification Document, coding and Testing.

·   Performed code and document reviews and mentored developers to understand the development process.

·   Developed and fixed defects for workflows in HR, MM, PM modules.

·   Enhanced standard Business Objects and created custom business objects to meet the requirement.

 

Technologies and Tools: SAP Netweaver 7.0, ECC 6.0

 

PSEG, NJ                                                                                 Dec 2007 – June 2008

 

Public Service Enterprise Group is a regulated, publicly owned gas and electric utility company in the state of New Jersey, United States. It is New Jersey's oldest and largest investor owned utility. The company's headquarters is in Newark. This project involves Support of SAP ERP for modules include Human Resources, Finance, Plant maintenance and Material Management. 

Responsibilities:

·   Enhanced BAPI to display/Change employee Personal data as part of ESS.

·   Involved in development and testing and fixing tickets based on priority.

·   Worked on user exits of IDocs like MATMAS, DESADV, ORDERS, and ORDRSP to develop business logic.

·   Extended IDocs and added new segments to the several IDocs.

·   Worked on Report programming and BDC.

·   Technical documentation

·   Code Review

·   Used Mercury Quality Center for testing and defect tracking. Uploaded test cases and screen shots.

·   Was an active member of team and handled an initiative to conduct biweekly meeting.

 

Technologies and Tools: SAP Net weaver 7.0, ECC 6.0

 

 

 

 

 

AVON Tech, India                                                                                             Apr 2007 – Nov 2007

 

SAP XI certification for Flexware Product and various XI Integrations & maintenance for the Flexware product.

Flexware Overview: Flexware mobile computing platform allows the mobile people to keep in touch with enterprise back end applications (SAP, BAAN, ORACLE etc.) to seamless by transact business effortlessly.  The ability to conveniently access mission-critical information from the enterprise while you’re on the road, with a customer, or in a remote office location is essential to business success and profitability.

Design, Development & Monitoring for the following interfaces for Flexware product.

Interface1: IDOC to File

Interface2:  IDOC to SOAP (Flexware),

Interface3:  SOAP to JDBC (Stored-Procedures SQLSERVER).

Responsibilities:

·   Created & imported software component versions in XI and assigned business specific namespaces to components in Integration Repository. Assigned development software component version to Business system in SLD and also Created Business services in SLD.

·   Created namespaces for IDoc to file, IDoc to Soap, SOAP-to-JDBC.

·   Created source and target data structure (target Data Type) according to the required fields.

·   Created Message types and Message interfaces for target system in the integration objects.

·   Created the message mappings, interface mappings in mapping objects.

·   Created corresponding configuration objects (sender agreement & channel not needed for IDoc scenario's) for these scenario's and activated.

·   Monitoring & error handling these IDocs through SM59, SM58, SXI_MONITOR, IDX5.

Done SOAP-to-RFC (SAP) Integrations for Flexware product and Certified by SAP ICC.

 

·   Created Product name, software component name & version for the Flexware product.

·   Created client for the technical system that is called business system. Imported following BAPI’S into the Integration Repository :

·   BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT1,

·   BAPI_MATERIAL_GET_DETAIL, and

·   BAPI_GL_ACC_GETDETAIL.

·   Created three Namespaces in the software component version and created corresponding interface objects (data types, message types, message interfaces), mapping objects (message mapping, Interface mapping objects (message mapping, Interface mapping) and integration scenarios (application components and actions).

·   Created corresponding configuration objects (sender communication channel, receiver communication channel in the business system, sender agreement, receiver determination, and interface determination and receiver agreement) for the above scenarios.

·   Generated corresponding WSDL files for the three scenarios.

·   Using these WSDL files Flexware successfully communicates the SAP system.

 

Technologies and Tools: SAP XI 3.0, ECC 5.0