INTRODUCTION

I am a versatile SAP BI consultant with 3 years of experience in SAP BI/BW.

I am experienced in requirement gathering, gap analysis, implementation, design, production support and have played the roles of Team member, Onsite Team Lead, Onsite Co-coordinator and Solutions architect. My core areas of skill are design/development and production support using SAP BI. Currently, I am the technical lead for the P&G COPA- BW reporting project and I am in the process of analyzing and identifying the gaps in the P&G Capital Management- BW reporting solution. I have been Onsite for the last 1.5 years in United Kingdom and Singapore.

Employer Patni Computer Systems Limited, IndiaDesignation Senior Software EngineerDate of Employment August 2005 till date

SAP BW/BI EXPERTISE

Technical Areas Expertise in BI 7.0 – Worked in BI 7.0 for 2 years SAP BW 3.5, SAP BW 3.0, SAP R/3 4.6C, ECC 6.0 SAP Administrator Workbench. Info Cube / DSO / Multiprovider /Info set Modeling. Expertise in BEx Queries, WAD. User Exits and Function Modules Process Chains, Infospokes. Logistics extract, COPA Transports

General Areas Blue printing and quoting for efforts required. Designing the backend architecture for reporting requirement and doing an end-to-end

implementation of it. Front end reporting using BEx Query Designer, BEx Web, Analyzer and Web

Application Designer Linking up BI systems with other SAP systems either as a fresh start or after source

system copy back. Hyper care after Go live and production support

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Currently playing the role of BW Specialist in the COPA – BW enhancements and Capital Management BI Reporting reimplementation for Procter & Gamble , Singapore

Have blue printed and data modeled a reporting solutions in BI 7.0 out of ECC 6.0, SRM 5.0 and Workflow (Vendors and PO’s) for East Sussex County Council , UK

Have done Business content Installation in BI 7.0 for HR , Project systems – Worcestershire County Council & East Sussex County Council respectively

Have done an assessment of BI landscape for due diligence pending transition to support for Bedfordshire County Council , United Kingdom.

Served as a Single point 1st level Contact for BW 3.5 & BI 7.0 Production Support for Bose Music Systems and Serco Solutions respectively.

Have been involved in Sales Reporting Implementation for Harman Crown, USA. Have conducted workshops with End users on BI functionality and features at

GESeaco , London, United Kingdom Was awarded Valuable contributor award for Q2 2007 for various BI

Implementation project that I carried out for Serco Solutions customers Was awarded the Valuable Contributor Award for Service Excellence in Q1 2007

for BOSE Production Support and Development in BOSE Supply chain management project

Was awarded with Letter Of Appreciation for Q3 2006 for my achievements in Bose world wide Supply chain project for developing data flow diagrams in MS Visio

PROJECTS Project P&G COPA-BW Enhancement & Capital Management –BW

Reporting gap analysis and enhancement Type Implementation & Production SupportPlatform SAP – BI 7.0, BW 3.5 BW 3.0cClient Procter & Gamble Duration May 2008 to dateLocation of Work SingaporeRole BW Specialist

Client Description: Multinational manufacturer of product ranges including personal care, household cleaning, laundry detergents, prescription drugs and disposable nappies.

P&G has implemented SAP COPA and Capital Management amongst the various SAP modulesand report out of BI 7.0. The BI 7.0 box is loaded from 5 Regional boxes. The data from BI 7.0 box is then transferred by means of Infospokes via CSV files to the Atomic Data warehouse.

Responsibilities

P&G COPA – BW Reporting1) Enhancement of the existing COPA-BW reporting solution to report on extra fields in the

Operating Concern and end to end implementation of the changes.2) Production Support – Managing deltas that get loaded everyday into the BI 7.0 box from

5 Regional boxes.3) Infospokes – Monitoring and supporting delta Infospokes to output data weekly via CSV

files to an external warehouse.

P&G Capital Management Reporting1) Analyzing the existing design 2) GAP Analysis3) Designing and remodeling the solution as per Business requirement.4) Development of Back-end objects (Multi Cube, Cube, Aggregates, ODS, Info Sources,

Info Packages, Update Rules, User Exits, Data Sources). 5) Testing and implementing the solution6) Development of user exits for reporting purpose.

7) Identifying Unit Test Cases8) Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing9) Development of Process Chains for automation purpose.10) Reconciliation activity

Project Serco Solutions BI Consultant.Type Implementation & Production SupportPlatform SAP – BI 7.0, BW 3.5 BW 3.0cClient Serco Solutions, United KingdomDuration Feb 2007 to April 2008Location of Work United KingdomRole Onsite Team Lead / Solutions Architect

Client Description:

Serco Solutions is one of UK’s top service companies that think innovatively to help governments improve services across many areas of public life, from justice to healthcare, education to defence. They have their SAP Consultants extending their technical expertise across various platforms.

Projects worked in Serco Solutions:

1. East Sussex County Council

BI- SRM Solution- Modelled and designed a SRM Reporting Solution in BI 7.0 that draws data from both ECC 6.0 and SRM 4.0 .The solution incorporates workflow reporting in BI to report on both Vendor and PO WF data.

Project Systems Reporting Solution - Designed a bespoke solution to report on Virtual Key Figures.

2. Worcestershire County Council (WCC)HR Implementation - Designed an HR Solution in BI 7.0 environment to meet the WCC Reporting requirement across areas of Appraisals, Extended HR, Time and Extended Payroll. This mainly involved installation and bespoking BI content.

3. London Borough of Enfield (LBE) – Supporting Two people Implementation- Designed a purchasing solution for LBE that revolves around master data management in BW 3.5.

4. Bedfordshire County Council – Due Diligence - Performed an assessment of BI landscape and submitted an assessment report raising all the non compliances

5. Production Support Activities in Serco Solution

Linking BW/BI and R/3 after system Refresh/copy back in either BI, R/3 or both

Support Pack application and testing for Serco Solutions Various Customers

Changing logical system names to realign out of line landscapes

Other usual production support activities – Daily, Weekly Monitoring Process chains and resolving data load failures then and there.

Worked on SLA to solve both Incidents ( Failures ) and Service Requests ( Enhancement tasks )

Analysis and data reconsilation between R/3 and BI

Project GE SeaCoType Assessment / WorkshopPlatform SAP – BI 7.0, BW 3.5 BW 3.0cClient GE SeaCo, United KingdomLocation of Work United KingdomRole Solutions Architect

Client DescriptionGE SeaCo is the world's largest container lessor, with a fleet of almost 1 million TEU, and offers the widest range of container equipment in the industry.

GE SeaCo had implemented a complex SAP solution that has some customizations. While the phase 1 of this implementation was just complete and in a stabilization phase, there was a need to generate some urgent reports for the business in the areas of Finance, Customer (SAP CRM).The initial work package was for 23 reports of varying degrees of complexity both within SAP BI and ABAP, cube changes, and different styles of reports.

Responsibilities: Interacted with the key business users and analyzed the existing functionality for its

reporting requirement. Conducted a two-day workshop with the Senior Executives of GESeaco on BI and its

functionalities. Designed a customized functional requirement gathering template as an outcome of the

workshop

Project BOSE BW Support.Platform SAP – BW 3.5Client The Bose Corporation, Framingham USADuration June 2006 to Feb 2007Role Team Member

Client Description: BOSE Corporation is a Privately Held Company having offices globally. Bose Corporation is involved in Research and Development and Manufacturing and Marketing of world class Speakers and Sound System Products. Bose has implemented several modules in SAP BW, including reporting in BEX.

Responsibilities: Single point production support from offshore Monitoring the daily, weekly, monthly and on demand loads Providing daily Production Support from Offshore (Approximately 200 Daily Jobs to

monitor and send the status sheets daily)

Maintaining the Log sheets updated on a daily and weekly basis online Working on the enhancement tickets which are done on a regular basis to keep the system

updated and error free

Project Crown Sales ReportingPlatform SAP BW 3.5Project Type DevelopmentDuration March 2006 to June 2006Client Harman International, USA (Crown)Role SAP BW Consultant. Offshore Team member

Client Description: Harman International makes audio and video products, which are well known for excellent design, innovation, advanced technology and fine craftsmanship.The project scope included implementing Reporting for Sales, Marketing and Finance in SAP BW for analysis and comparing of actual data with the plan data. History data from Mapics was migrated into BW via flat files and corresponding conversions were carried out.

Responsibilities: GAP Analysis. Development of Back-end objects (Multi Cube, Cube, Aggregates, ODS, Info Sources,

Info Packages, Update Rules, User Exits, Data Sources). Responsible for creation of BEx reports, work books and web templates. Implementing and Testing the solution. Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing. Development of Process Chains for automation purpose and reconciliation activity.

OTHER NON PROJECT RELATED ACTIVITIES

In addition to the above project related activities, I have also Conducted interviews for BW resources and aided in recruitment. Conducted BW trainings and mentored resources. Was involved in Pre-Sales activities like User presentations.

ACADEMIC RECORD

Course Institution Board/UniversityYear of

completionMarks /%

CGPA

X Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Chennai

CBSE 1999 88.6

XII VanaVani Higher secondary school. IIT Madras

Tamil Nadu State Board

2001 95.6

B.E PSG College of Technology,Coimbatore.

Anna University 2005 7.9