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Project Title:

-Develop Analytics solution for Retail Industry

-Develop Analytics Solution for Health Care – Hospital facility

-Weblog analysis using HANA/Bigdata and SAP BO

-Decision Support System framework Using SAP BI/BW/BO

Employer

SUMTWO SOFTWARE (USA, Finland, India) – www.sumtwo.com

Date:

Jan 2011 to Present

Date:

Since Jan 2013

Technology:

SAP HANA, Hadoop BigData( HIVE, HDFS, MapReduce, Flume,PrestoDB) SAP EDW (BI 7.3, Business Objects , WebI, Universe, Dashboard,SAP BODS , SAP BO crystal reports enterprise, SAP Lumira)

Role:

Practice Head (Solution Architect, Technical Leadership and Client Engagement)

Project Description:

·   SAP HANA/ Microsoft BI stack - Retail Analytics & Health Care Analytics is an Advanced Analytics solution to extract business insight and business value information from source data (Structured & Unstructured) . SAP HANA 1.0 SP6 and Microsoft BI stack (SSIS, SSAS and SSRS) is used for data modeling and processing of structured data. The unstructured data is processed in Hadoop Mapreduce process and saved in HIVE tables.

The solution is also hosted in the Cloud for SaaS solution for small to medium sized clients.

·   Weblog analysis using HANA/Bigdata and SAP BO Fortigate Firewall log file data is extracted using flume into HDFS, Serialized using Python scripts and loaded to Hive. PrestoDB query language used to fetch data to front end .Net tools.

(Alternate solution) Loading data from database to HANA/Hadoop Hive (database on top of Hadoop).   Aggregate the data in HANA/Hadoop, put back aggregated data into oracle database for reporting purpose.  Involves 153 million records and upto 7 GB growth/month.

·   Decision Support System framework Using SAP HANA, SAP BW & SAP BO Build and Design a “Decision Support System” (DSS) framework that supports operational, tactical and strategic reporting needs.

Leverage the data warehouse for monitoring and improving the business performance and growth.

Develop a framework to facilitate “uniform reporting” across the organization. Overall create about 130 reports in SD, MM and FI modules leveraging existing SAP business content.

Responsibility

·   Responsible for full lifecycle planning and management of multiple IT/DW projects to ensure on-time, within budget, completion

·   Solution Architect, Overall technical leadership, Client Technical engagement.

·   End-to-End solution design using HANA/Hadoop and Microsoft BI Stack

·   Hands on technical support for

HANA – Data provisioning design and development (SLT & BODS), Modeling - Attribute/Analytical/Calculation View development, SQL script and User Management.

BI/BW -  Configuration of SAP R/3 Extractors including creation of generic extractors and enhancing existing extractors, Data Modeling, System design. Analyzing requirements and creating BW data models and BI reports to meet complex reporting needs.

BusinessObjects/LUMIRA – Dash board & Reporting requirements gathering and design/Development.

Business Objects (building universes, creating complex and Ad-Hoc reports)

Bigdata/Hadoop – Solution design and Testing

·   Track, manage and control all aspects of projects, tracking risks and issues, setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress against plans

·   Build and maintain working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in multiple projects

·   Prepare project status reports for upper management review

·   Coordinate across functions to drive project objectives

·   Identify and proactively resolve issues/conflicts within the project team including production support at times.

·   Communicate project status, progress on deliverables, and risks/issues to stakeholders and leadership in a timely manner

·   Defines project scope, goals and deliverables in support of business goals and work with senior leadership and stakeholders for approvals

·   Develop project plans, schedule and work breakdown structure for projects

·   Work with stakeholders to ensure project staffing and resource planning

Project Description:

Enterprise Data Warehousing and Reporting solution

Employer

State of Alabama USA – Department of Human Resources

Date:

Jan 2011 to Dec 2012

Technology:

SAP EDW (BI 7.0 /BW 3.5, Business Objects , WebI, Universe, OLAP-Multidimensional DB, SAP DI and DS ETL tools, SAP BO crystal reports enterprise), SQL server, DB2, Mainframe, VSAM, DB2 UDB, MS Access, Excel, XML, Microsoft SSIS, Windows Scripts

Role:

Data warehousing/Reporting technical Lead

Responsibility:

Management Role:

·   Responsible for full lifecycle planning and management of multiple IT/DW projects to ensure on-time, within budget, completion

·   Track, manage and control all aspects of projects, tracking risks and issues, setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress against plans

·   Build and maintain working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in multiple projects

·   Prepare project status reports for upper management review

·   Coordinate across functions to drive project objectives

·   Identify and proactively resolve issues/conflicts within the project team including production support at times.

·   Communicate project status, progress on deliverables, and risks/issues to stakeholders and leadership in a timely manner

·   Defines project scope, goals and deliverables in support of business goals and work with senior leadership and stakeholders for approvals

·   Develop project plans, schedule and work breakdown structure for projects

·   Work with stakeholders to ensure project staffing and resource planning

Technical  Role:

·   Assist architect team in Data modeling of Data Warehouse, staging and other data stores using both Dimensional modeling (star, snowflake, Cubes) as well as traditional 3rd normal form to meet the DW/BI needs.

·   Assist development team in ETL Architecture, and ETL Development (using BO Data services & SSIS) to load and transform large volumes of data and slowly changing dimension (SCD) data stores.

·   Provide assistance to develop SQL and stored procedures

·   Identify areas where aggregate data needs to be applied and performance improvement areas in EDW marts.

·   Architect solution to scale up from single Database servers to multiple machines, each offering local computation and storage.

·   Architect solution to interface with third party data store to exchange information (using ETL & windows scripts)

·   Responsible for team dealing with initial warehouse Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) and the daily batch warehouse refresh

·   Handle Operation Data Stores, Enterprise Data Warehouses and Data Marts    

·   Planning, Design, development, testing , Implementation of Data warehouse, ETL  and Crystal Reports solution

Project Description:

Enterprise level DW, Reporting and Web application – Maintenance and Enhancements

Employer

State of Alabama ,Deloitte Consulting Inc. - Joint team

Date:

Dec 2009  to Dec 2010

Technology:

Data warehousing SAP BI/BW, Generic EDW, ETL, Crystal reports, ETL,.Net, DB2, SQL Server,

Role:

Project Manager

Responsibility:

·   Responsible for full lifecycle planning and management of multiple IT/DW projects to ensure on-time, within budget, completion

·   Track, manage and control all aspects of projects, tracking risks and issues, setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress against plans

·   Build and maintain working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in multiple projects

·   Prepare project status reports for upper management review

·   Stake holder management

·   Overall responsibility for the project plan, resolve technical issues, timeline and budget;

·   Creating Project Plan, SOW and approval process

·   Contract Management, Invoice Management, Resource Loading & Releases

·   Providing the spending management metrics

·   Lead team of Developer and coordinate with SME, DBA and Infrastructure teams for full life cycle product development.

·   Plan, direct, and coordinate project activities from initiation through implementation and production support.

·   Conduct JAD, participate in requirements gathering, data analysis and modeling; work with IT technical and Functional team to design and implement BI solutions and tools;

·   Maintain issue reporting, tracking, escalation, and resolution procedures.

·   Vendor management –give inputs to RFP write-up, Contract terms finalization, performance evaluation and cost control.

·   Responsible for executive and overall project status reporting;

·   Communicates with all levels of management and to all stakeholders;

·   Establish a close partnership with key stakeholders (internal clients and other IT application teams);

·   Work with the SME for design and development of operational and analytical reports;

·   Coordinate system, user and stress testing, version control, configuration management and migration process.

·   Create controls to monitor progress

·   Team annual and periodic performance evaluation.

Project Description:

Development of Enterprise level .NET web application and Reports 

Employer

State of Alabama ,Deloitte Consulting Inc. - Joint team

Date:

Aug 2008 – Dec 2009

Technology:

SAP BW, SAP BO/DI, SSIS, BO Crystal reports, XML, BO Dash Boards, Visual studio, .NET web forms, SQL, DB2/SQL stored Procedures,  Windows batch scripts, Java script, Visual Source safe (VSS), Web services

Role:

Development and Module Lead

Responsibility:

·   Reports and Data mart design and development.

·   Design of Star Schema/MDM (FACTS and Dimension tables)

·   Participate in design, development and delivery of large ASP.NET, C#, Java script, WFC project consisting of 500+ screens and 1400+ tables in Database.

·   Experience in n-tiered web application development using Presentation layer, Business Layer and Data Access layer using ASP.NET, C# components, XML and Web services.

·   Develop test scripts and migrate using VSS and  Configuration Management tools

·   Team annual and periodic performance evaluation.

Project Description:

EDW / Data conversion and Migration from Mainframe to DB2 and SQL server

Employer

State of Alabama ,Deloitte Consulting Inc. - Joint team

Date:

May 2006 – Jul 2008

Technology:

SAP BO/ DI, DB2 UDB, DB2 Mainframe, Microsoft SSIS, Mainframe z/OS

Role:

Development and Module Lead

Responsibility:

·   Participation in source data analysis and data model design for new data loading processes

·   Develop new ETL processes, including extract, reports, transformation rules, load programs, and data construction pages.

·   Maps and documents transformation rules for data attributes from one or more source systems to target system or intermediate transformation files.

·   Develop ETL ,DB2 and SQL server Stored procedures and Scripts for ETL and interface

·   Assists programming staff in interpreting transformation rules from data mapping documentation

·   Writes specifications for data requirements of moderate to high complexity.

·   Assists support and/or project personnel in resolving moderately complex program problems.

·   Works with client and management to resolve issues and validate data requirements within their areas of responsibility.

·   Works as a subject matter expert for business analysis within their business domain.

·   Develops test plans to verify logic of new or modified programs.

·   Conducts quality assurance activities such as peer reviews.

·   Creates appropriate documentation in work assignments such as data dictionaries and data mapping documents.

·   Remains abreast of industry business trends, new products, and changes to regulatory requirements to maintain current skills and remain current with industry standards.

Project Description:

IT Application development

Client

Various

Date:

Jan 1997 – Apr 2006

Technology:

.Net and Mainframe

Role/Responsibility

Development Lead & Developer -  Application development and coding.

Employers:

·   Tech Nation software, South Dakota USA,  2003 – 2006

·   Satyam Computers Inc.  Vienna VA USA,     2001 – 2003

·   STS software Inc, Atlanta  GA USA,                1999 – 2001

·   Vetri Software, Chennai , India                       1997 – 1998