SUMMARY:

• Builds supportive teams that are defined by innovation, collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Determines budgetary requirements, the composition, roles and responsibilities for project teams.
• Demonstrates strong business acumen in financials, sales and distribution, cost accounting, profitability, human resources, Order to Cash, Health, Safety & Environment, Service Quality, and Customer Relationship Management.
• Possesses experience spearheading and managing large complex business intelligence and data warehouse projects.
• Defines and communicate strategies regarding client information delivery.
• Manages proposal preparation, budgets, staff deployment, process, time management.
• Articulates vision to leadership teams and C - Level executives.
• Demonstrates strong negotiating and consensus building abilities.
• Directs small and large teams, onshore and offshore. to deliver efficient and cost effective solutions.
• Support the sales team in Pre-sale and supporting the SMEs in development.
• Establishing customer and relationship with client to create new business opportunities.
• Possesses keen interest and knowledge in implementing and utilizing cutting-edge technologies.
• Exceptional relationship management expertise with stakeholders, software & service vendors
• Proactive thinker, known for designing efficient BI solutions suited for changing requirements, passion for taking initiatives those results in increasing profits and creating business value.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

SAP BI Strategist and Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall BI solutions delivery for the enterprise.
• Advisory to IT leadership and C-Level executives on Enterprise BI strategy and direction.
• Managed multiple concurrent BI projects with an overall budget of over $2 million USD from planning through execution.
• Mange and Direct teams of 10 to 30 individuals onshore and offshore to articulate design requirements and develop prototypes.
• Work closely with leadership to develop BI strategies, architecture and processes, aligning systems with overall goals of the enterprise.
• Interface directly with business and end users to collect and understand requirements, architect BI solutions by engaging Delivery, Data Management and ETL teams.
• Manage project planning, solution design and task delegation.
• Identify opportunities within business to increase BI adoption.
• Oversee budget, time and people to deliver projects on-time and on-budget.
• Oversaw effort that saved over $1 million by decommissioning or consolidating legacy BI systems and transitioned to more robust platforms like SAP BI which resulted in cost savings of over 15% of the BI operational budget for the client.
• Work closely with clients to integrate Database and BI systems of acquired.
• Support the sales team in Pre-sale and supporting the SMEs in development.
• Establishing customer and relationship with client to create new business opportunities.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

SAP BI Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked on various SAP BW and BOBJ projects to support different client.
• Involved in project planning activities and manage the execution of project.
• Involved in conducting workshop in gathering requirement and presenting the technical prototype as solution as per the SAP best practices.
• Created project roadmap for SAP BW team with dependencies and milestones.
• Directed a team of 16 employees, designed their time schedule and allotted weekly tasks.
• Implemented GTS, EWM and Transportation Management.
• Assisted in bridging between BW and BOBJ with Integration Kit and Data Federator.
• Assisted and made sure that best practices are followed for developing the reports and designing the universes on BW system.
• Implemented business reporting system in financials, sales and distribution, cost accounting, profitability Analysis, CRM, GTS, EWM, SPM and TM..
• Signed off reports on web using Web Intelligence and distributed them to different users.
• Implemented BW Accelerator (BWA) to speed up the response time of queries.
• Monitored the process of Indexing Cubes in scope and consistency check to analyze the response time of queries.
• Finalized the communication plan for UAT and signoff.
• Planned the test strategies, cut over plan and Go live support.
• Supported the project after go-live before handing over to production Support team.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

SAP BI Manager

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering and Scoping
• Lead workshop to gather the requirement.
• Created the Prototype and loaded data from legacy system.
• Finalized the requirement for Sales, AR and AP.
• Created the BI Project Roadmap with dependencies and milestones to be met by team.
• Lead the team of 12 onsite and offshore resources and assigned the duties.
• Finalized the strategy documents to guide the team members for the Architecture, Transports, naming Convention and presentation layer Strategy as per the best practices.
• Designed the Data flow to harmonize the master data in BI during ETL process.
• Assisted in developed POC for the Finance application as per SAP best practices.
• Designed Strategy for Application Sets, Dimensions, Applications, Application Logic, Loading Data, Developing Reports & Input Schedule
• Developed the Query spec and Object Matrix for global requirement to develop in BOBJ.
• Creating Universes on BW Queries and reports on Webi, Deski and Xcelsius.
• Assisted in Transporting development to BIQ and writing the Test Scripts and test cases.
• Leading unit and integration testing with testers and developers to fix the defects.
• Participated in cut-over activities, loaded data in Production and post go live support.
• Oversaw quality assurance of all custom applications and interfaces.

Confidential, Lexington, KY

SAP BI Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participated in workshop to gather requirement for PTP, OTC, CRM, and FI application.
• Designed the Functional Spec and signed off from the users.
• Finalized the Project Plan and list milestones as per the BI best practices
• Developed Functional Specifications to produce Webi Reports and Dashboards.
• Developed the scalable and robust Data Model to extract data in different phases.
• Lead team of 18 and assigned duties and taking day to day status of the FRICE items, which includes onsite and offshore team members.
• Transporting the development to BIQ and writing the Test Scripts and test cases.
• Created input schedules for Finance, Gross Margin and Headcount applications.
• Worked on Installing SAP Integration kit with BO to establish the bridge connection.
• Driven BOBJ project through Design, planning, migration, cutover implementation.
• Implemented Sectioning, Ranking, Filtering, Slice and Dice to develop BO reports.
• Created reports on web using Web Intelligence and distributed them to different users.
• Created Reports in BO after designing the universes on BW system.
• Developed Dashboards by using dashboard builder and Xcelsius.
• Created Business Process Flows and logic for foreign currency translation.
• Leading unit and integration testing with testers and developers to fix the defects.
• Participated in cutover activities, loaded data in Production and post go live support.
• Creating documentation for handing over to support team.

Confidential, Kenilworth NJ

SAP BI Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Gathering and Validation
• Designing the data Model for integrating data in BI from different source systems.
• Managing and assigning duties to onsite and offshore resources in terms of Work scheduling, design review, technical review.
• Presented management with different options of harmonization of data.
• Worked with Billing Condition, Sales and CRM extractor from different source systems.
• Involved in Query Spec, Object Matrix and functional spec.
• Created Process Chains and Queries as required by super users.
• Test Scripts and validating data.

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

SAP Architect

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from Solution Management to Develop the Product.
• Involved in complete Blue Printing, Development and roll-out of SP09.
• Ensured the BI Project Roadmap with dependencies and milestones are met by team.
• Ensure proper documentation flow between Palo Alto and Walldorf stakeholders.
• Finalized the reporting requirements for additional reports in BI.
• Designed the data model for extracting data from GRC application through UD Connect.
• Developed the Query spec, Object Matrix, Functional Spec for GRC.
• Worked on the Testing Scripts and testing the application.
• Helped in finalizing team and coordinated with onsite and Offshore team members.
• Involved in AT and MIT testing with team in Germany.

Confidential, WI

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering and Scoping
• Analyzed the AS-IS and TO-BE Models and created a prototype Data Model.
• Involved in Harmonization of the Data after pulling from different R/3 instances.
• Implemented CO-PA, CCA and PCA.
• Performance of Queries using Cache memory.
• Created Process Chains to load master and transactional data.
• Broadcasting of BEx queries to group of users.
• End-User .
• Prepared user Manuals and conducted user before going live.

Confidential, Austin TX

BW Lead

Responsibilities:

• Setting up the system landscape
• Requirement Gathering and Scoping
• Transfer of the Business Content from FI, MM, SD & CRM area to active version.
• Created a prototype to demonstrate the BW reporting features.
• Created Functional Design and Technical Specification documents.
• Supported SEM BPS in creating and loading the Transactional Cubes.
• Extracted Opportunities, Quotations and Leads for CRM Channel Management.
• Performed Generic extractions for vendor master to provide additional attributes.
• Created Process Chain to load Master Data and Transaction Data.
• Broadcasting BEx query views to the different group of users.
• Prepared user Manuals and conducted user before going live.
• Involved in successful roll-out, post go-live support and handover.

Confidential, Andover MA

BW Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering and Scoping
• BW Data Model and Queries to extract for CAERUS project.
• Exporting Data using Open Hub and InforSpoke methodology.
• Developed to integrate the data from six European countries.
• Created Queries.
• Resolved various change request from different users for new development and performance of existing reports. Secondary Data analysis and special standard price requirement
• Involved in successful roll-out, post go-live support and handover

Confidential, San Antonio TX

BW Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Validation and Prototyping.
• Reviewing the Data Models with developers and users.
• Responsible for Data Preparation in Source System and Involved in Extraction.
• Monitoring loads on daily basis.
• Created process Chains to load data for different modules.
• Transported the objects in the landscape.
• Created aggregates and MultiProviders for efficient use of data.

Confidential

QA BI Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Studied the Legacy system to map the requirement to BI.
• Finalizing the Functional and Technical Documents.
• Developed Query Spec, Object Matrix, Functional specs .
• Preparing of data from Legacy system and loading to BI.
• Testing the data model for Transformations and conversions.
• Writing the teat cases and test scripts.
• Creating Queries.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developing test plans and test scripts on the basis of Software Quality Standards.
• Tested opening of Account and Account Fulfillment as per the business Requirements.
• Generated Automation scripts Using Win Runner for Regression testing,
• Defect tracking and report using Test Director.