SYED

SAP HANA/BI/BPC Consultant

[email protected] 734-367-4333

SUMMARY

 Having 8 Years of professional experience in Design, Development and Implementation with

SAP HANA 1.0, SAP BW 7.5 on HANA, and SAP BW 7.4 with BPC 10.1.
 Worked on multiple full life cycle implementations for different modules in SAP BI/BW and SAP HANA, which
involves Requirement analysis, Development, Testing, Documentation, Data extraction, Data modeling, Data
loading, Reporting and Production Support.
 Experience in requirement gathering by conducting BBP workshops with different Client clusters.
 Experience in understanding business requirements and defining functional specifications documents
 Experience in design, development and implementation of BW/BI solution.
 Native Hana modelling, creating Calculation views and Attribute views.
 Well versed with Hana optimized BW objects like ADSO, Cube, Virtual provider, Composite Provider.
 Mixed Modelling with Hana views and Hana optimized BW objects.
 Data provisioning into SAP Hana with SDI, SLT.
 Worked on postproduction support BW 7.4, which involves Info Cube management using Compression, Rollup,
and Reconstruction, Indexes, Partitioning and performance tuning using Aggregates/ Multi providers.
 BW Reporting – Worked on BEx Analyzer, Query Designer, Webi/Analysis for office in building reports.
 Good Knowledge of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Application in creating input, reports and various
data models
 Hands on experience in developing functional models like CAPEX, Headcount planning and Department Spend.
 Experience in, master data and transactional data automation from BI to BPC.
 Good experience in Building input schedules, Reports.
 Automating month end process using Business process flows to facilitate users to close the month end reporting.
 Good understanding on Script Logics, EPM functions, Transformation files, conversion Files and DM packages

TECHNICAL SKILLS

 Data Warehousing (OLAP): SAP BW/BI 7.4/7.5, BW Modeling tools 1.15.

 ERP Packages: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0.
 EPM: SAP BPC10.1
 Database: SAP HANA 1.0 SPS12, S4Hana, Business Objects 4.1, 4.0, SAP Data services 4.2 Oracle.
 SAP Functional: SD, MM, FI/CO, HR.
 Reporting Tools: BEX Analyzer, BEX Query Designer, Web Application Designer
 Business Objects: Web Intelligence Reports, Analysis Office, IDT, Dashboards, Design Studio.
 Other Tools: HP ALM

EDUCATION

 BW362 BW Powered by SAP HANA (SAP CANADA)

 Post Graduate Diploma IT, Humber College, Toronto, Ontario.
 Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) JNT University, India.

PROFFESIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

 SAP Certified BPC 10.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fujitsu - The Beer Store, Shallowater, TX June 2016- Present

SAP BW/BI Consultant

Project:
The Beer Store - Looking for a more efficient way to manage operations across its stores, including point-of-sale and supply-
chain management, The Beer Store chose the SAP ERP application to run on SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP
Sybase ASE). The Beer Store has implemented core software such as the SAP ERP Financials solution on phased rollout basis
for SAP SD, MM, Retail, OTC and has deployed the SAP Net Weaver Business Warehouse application and SAP Business
Objects business intelligence solutions to meet all the business intelligence requirements.

Responsibilities:

Phase I – Finance

 Worked as BW Consultant for Phase I – ECC Finance Go Live.

 Liaised BW development with near shore and off shore developers.
 Coordinated with BODS, PIPO teams for legacy and People Soft data loads to BW.
 Worked extensively with business analysts and business Users for successful completion of Integration Testing
(IT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with sign off.
 Trained Business user in Query Designer and Bex Analyzer reporting tool.
 Adhered to project time line with BW mock cut over and Pre - Go Live activities.
 Improved Query performance using Data Base partitioning for Cube.
 Handled ITSM Tickets, Change Requests for Post Go Live Support.
 Monitored Master and Transaction data loads.

Phase II - SD, MM, FI, COPA

 Designed and Modeled BW backend development following the SAP Best Practice with LSA+ modeling
methodology
 Worked on BW reports requirement gathering with business counter parts.
 Build the LSA+ architecture with corporate memory, acquisition, propagation, reporting layers
 Worked on FIGL, COPA, SD, and custom extractors for BW.
 Post Go-live support as per hyper care agreement.
 Trained Business users on Bex reporting tool and query designer tool.
 Worked on ABAP routines such as Start Routines, End Routines, and Field Routines.
 Worked on Customer Exit Variable, lookups based on Data store objects.
 Data source enhancements for Master and Transaction data extractors.
 Reporting tools Bex and Webi.
 Scheduled Webi reports and broadcasted reports.
 Extensively used Query designer to build queries
 Conducted precise testing with all data from different data sources
 Create detailed Architecture documentation
 Created FUT Documents.
 Liaised data creation and unit testing for the data flow wherever required.
 Provide detailed testing procedures by creating testing scenarios for HP ALM.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0; SAP BI 7.4 and Business Objects 4.2

Fujitsu Consulting Canada– Contour Global Jul 2015 – May 2016

SAP BW/BPC Consultant

Project:
Contour Global L.P- owns and operates power generation business. The Company develops and generates power through
thermal generation which includes sources of fuel such as natural gas and coal. SAP EPM BPC Suite of tool used for Financial
Planning and Budgeting and Consolidation application.

Responsibilities:

 Handled the tickets of priority 1, 2 and 3 by following (SOP) Standard Operating Procedures and met the (SLA’s)
Service Level Agreement;
 Supported the client by providing long-term solutions to the tickets by doing Root Cause Analysis;
  Actively involved in monitoring of Daily Actual data, budget, forecast loads from BI and Periodic BPC model;
 Actively involved in rectification of Load Failure errors like Master Data Loads, Transaction Loads;
 Maintain list of all the activities for all the tickets until it is closed;
 Created Process Chains, Scheduled and monitored them periodically;
 Involved in escalating prioritized tickets regarding extractions, performances issues and load failures;
 Handled EPM Add-in Excel issues;
 Executing Forecast, Budget and Consolidation Data manager packages including Fx restatement for reporting
purposes;
 Flat file uploads;
 Creating new BPC users and updated Data Access profiles;
 Resolved customer reported tickets through email and Lync;
 Worked on Various reporting requirements;
 Created different Ad-hoc reports on EPM for the user.
 Debugging Data issues on reports

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0; SAP BI 7.4 and BPC 10.0.

Silicon Technologies Canada– Kingston Communication Jan 2015 – June 2015

Associate BW/BPC Consultant

Project:
KCOM Group, formerly known as Kingston Communications, is a UK communications and IT services provider. Its
headquarters is in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, where subsidiary business unit KC serves local residents and
businesses with Internet and telephony services.

Responsibilities:

 Requirement gathering and preparing FSD for the BPC planning cycle
 Setting up extractors (CCA/GL/HR) for pulling data from SAP R/3 to BI
 Enhancement of BW Master and Transaction data extractors
 Defined Data manager packages for loading Master and Transaction data from BW to BPC
 Developed Financial Planning and forecasting models, evaluation of Plan/Forecast results and developing reports
 CAPEX planning and forecasting Input schedules
 Setting up security profiles and work status in BPC
 Worked in Created multiple DM packages for user and Admin and have enhanced the script logic tasks and
prompts to the DM
 Provided BPC access for Users
 setting up Inter-company/ Legal Consolidation/ elimination business rules in BPC 10.0
 Created Script Logic for currency conversions and Intercompany eliminations
 Input schedules for entering the exchange rate for standard and historical rates

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0; SAP BI 7.3 and BPC 10.0

Silicon Technologies Canada – Little Fuse Inc Aug 2013 – Nov 2014
BI Consultant

Project:
Little fuse Inc is a multinational electronic manufacturing company. The company primarily produces circuit protection products
but also manufactures a variety of electronic switches and automotive sensors.

Responsibilities:

 Designed BW backend solution as per requirements of Functional Specification Document, including Cubes, DSO,
loaded targets from BI extractor data sources and Manual maintenance of master data and Data Load error
debugging and in Process chains;
 Responsible for Master data and hierarchy maintenance;
 Created Info Cubes, Info Sources, update rules, Data Sources and replicated Data Sources;
 Designed queries, workbooks from Info Cubes;
  Created Communication structures, transfer structures, transfer rules & update rules for the info cubes and the
ODS;
 Installation of Business Contents objects as per Business Requirements;
 Involved in extracting data from SAP R/3 using LO Extractors;
 Created characteristic and key figure Info Objects from the Standard Content, customer defined and loaded into
Info objects, ODS objects, Info Cubes, Created Info Packages, scheduling and monitoring;
 Transported the developed BW objects to quality and production;
 Actively involved in monitoring the data transfer from source system into BW;
 Support, Optimization and revamping of scheduling and monitoring the system;
 Problem resolving related to data loading and query performance;
 Involved in creation of reports using Query Designer such that by using Conditions, Exceptions, Free
Characteristics, Restricted Key figures, calculated key figures, user entry Input Variable and formula Variables;
 Designed Process Chains for Master and Transaction Data;
 Involved in the Integration testing in quality of Objects; and
 Transportation of objects to Quality servers and production Server using STMS.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0; SAP BI 7.3

Silicon Technologies Canada -Broadcom Inc Oct 2010 – June 2013

Associate BI Consultant

Project:
Broadcom Corporation is an American fables semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business.
The company is headquartered in Irvine, in 1998, Broadcom became a public company on the NASDAQ exchange (ticker symbol:
BRCM).

Responsibilities:
 Post Implementation Support & Maintenance
 Enhancements of transfer rules, update rules and Transformations
 Configuration of Info packages and Data Transfer Processes
 Extraction of transaction data from R/3, loading from flat files to BW
 Extracted data from SD Module to BI using sales order header, sales order item data sources using LO Cockpit
after customizing.
 Performed various tasks such as deletion of set up tables (LBWE), set up extraction, extraction checker, replication
of data sources, and creating the Info package for the delta initialization and delta upload.
 Responsible for job schedules for loading data and monitoring data loads to run periodic loads
 Using BEX analyzer and Bex Designer for Development of flexible queries using filters, navigational attributes in
BEX analyzer to facilitate data analysis.
 Creation of custom variants that allow users to choose report type based on variant conditions like sales division,
sold-to-party and sales representatives
 Creation of Multi providers to enhance the reporting base
 Have knowledge on Partitioning of Info cubes, created and Deleted Indexes, maintained Aggregates, Rollup,
Compressions to improve query performance and loading Performance
 Responsible for weekly transport deployments to production box.
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0; SAP BI 7.0

References available upon request.