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Edison, Panasonic, Ericsson, Domtar, Unilever, Servomax, Hindustan Times

Left to Right:  Timothy Higley,  Anjeel, Michael Grooms Novesky, Jagat, Jess Album

Manik, Vamsi, Anjeel - 2007

Ericsson Onsite Team - 2006

Hens, Sadiq, Bhuwan, Balander, Gangs, Rajeev

(L to R) Manish, Mayank, Bhuwan, Ankur, Anand

(L to R) Sadiq, Sanjiv, Bhuwan

Ericsson BW - Offshore Team - 2005

Unilever - Port Sunlight Office - UK - 2004

Anjeel, Vamsi, Ishak, Venkatesh Dhanapalan

 

Lever office - Port Sunlight - 2004

Servomax Team - ISG Novasoft - 2002

 

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SELECTED EXPERIENCES (Beginning with most recent project)

SAP Work Experience

 

7. EDISON –Milano, Italy

Period:                             January 2009 till date

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6. PANASONIC FSOII- BI –Secacus, New Jersey, USA

Period:                             January  ’08 till January 2009

Role:                                Sr. BW Consultant / Onsite Coordinator / Technical Delivery Manager

Environment:                     BW 7.0/3.5, SD, MM, FI, CO (ECC 6.0)

 

· Understanding and Managing the Delivery Responsibilities of the overall Implementation Scope and Project Planning with IBM Geo and IBM GD Teams

· Effort Estimation and Project Cost Management working with IBM Geo Team and representing IBM India GD working with Offshore Project Management

· Participation in Business blueprint and Requirement Gathering Discussions with End Customer, and transforming to Technical Designs in close coordination with Onsite Architects, Managing Consultants, SAP and Offshore team.

· Functional feasibility analysis, for the Panasonic Implementation project, and translating the Specifications to the Offshore Team

· Technical Set up of BI Accelerator, Setup of Dev, Quality and Production Environments

· Responsible for the deliverables for Datasource development, Enhancements, design and development of end to end BI solution, Process chains, and report development.

· Managing Problem tickets during the support phase after Go-live and ensure Smooth Go-Live and Transition to Sustain

· Managing Project Metrics like Object Development/Delivery, Cost, Utilization

· Team Management in terms of Training/Mentoring and Delivery Management with Status and Escalation Reports, Change Management, and Weekly Conference Calls with End Customer and IBM Teams

 

5. ERICSSON BW SUPPORT –Stockholm, Sweden

Period:                             Dec ’05 till January 2008

Role:                                Sr. BW Consultant / Data Architect Managing Delivery of

                                      BI Rollouts

Environment:                     BW 7.0/3.5, FI-CO, PS,

 

· Started off as a Team Lead in Ericsson and grew to managing Delivery of BI Roll-outs (Enhancements) with AD Team along with Onsite Architect

· Performed the role of a Lead Architect (Shadowing) and managed Estimation, Resource Management and Delivery from Offshore for the BI Roll-outs in different phases of the Project

· As  Sr. Business warehouse Consultant core responsibility was Preparation of Data flows, functional feasibility analysis, Post go live support, Preparation of cutover activities, System configuration checks, Quality Assurance to improve performance of the system,

· New solution handovers in Controlling and Profitability analyses (internal accounting, budgeting and management reporting on financial performance), General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts payables and Project systems.

· Prepare and plan for Post production roles (once the development was completed), Knowledge transfer issues & trainings. Disseminate knowledge to the offshore team.

· Preparing System Volume Testing, Regression test cases to check the parameters with production server. 

· Single Point of Contact / Offshore Financial Reporting Lead for Ericsson, (to ensure timely and accurate period end closing of financial books of accounts).

· Enhancement Coordinator for (small enhancements that are required either to tweak the performance or additional reporting needs that cannot be fulfilled without additional code)

· BW 7x Upgrade Offshore Coordinator. (Eriscsson business warehouse was upgraded from version 3.5 to 7x during 2006-7)

· Development of Process Chains for Automated Scheduling of all Data Loading Jobs

· Customer Interaction, ticket resolution / Issue tracking

· Resource allocation and Tracking for offshore Finance Team mates.

 

4. DOMTAR – (Montreal,  Canada) -  BW IMPLEMENTATION –

Period:                             October - December ‘05

Role:                                Team Lead – Sr. BW Consultant

Environment:                     BW 3.1B, CRM, SCM, APO, FI-CO, R/3 4.7

 

· This 6 weeks implementation work involved developing Customer facing Key performance Indicators, which provide measures on the efficiency of supply chain management activities within the papers division at Domtar. For each KPI, we provided definition, level of analysis, period of analysis, layout, calculation method (manual), target support, reference, assumptions, and issues.

· The Key Performance Indicators that were developed were as under on the basis of the number of times an existing order / delivery/ invoice were changed during its lifecycle.

  • Performance to Commit Date – This key performance indicator was called ‘Produce to commitment’ which measures capacity to meet commitment start of production, as initially promised at Order Entry time, according to plan. This measure is taken indirectly by measuring the number of times the delivery date was changed on sales order and capturing this at the reporting level.

  • Perfect Order Fulfillment – This key performance indicator was called ‘Order Accuracy’ which is a measure of how sales orders were entered error-free.  The minimum times the created order is changed shows the accuracy of its creation.

  • Perfect Order Fulfillment – This key performance indicator was called ‘Picking Accuracy’ which is a measure of how deliveries were picked correctly.  It is similar to above, however in this case we are capturing the number of times delivery order is changed.

  • Perfect Order Fulfillment – This key performance indicator was called ‘Invoice Accuracy’ which is a measure of how invoice were done correctly and no credit were brought on them.

3. UNILEVER Application Support Group (ASG) –Port Sunlight, U.K.

Period:                             Dec ’04 to October ‘05

Role:                                Offshore Team lead – Sr. BW Consultant

Environment:                     BW 3.0B, SCM, ESAP – SU/MI, CL, FI-CO, APO, R/3 4.6c

 

· Onsite/ Offshore Coordinator for Global Data Warehouse Team.

· Project for Reconstruction of Delta Queues for LO & Extraction in coordination with SAP, Germany.

· Development of Process Chains for Automated Scheduling for the new projects.

· Performance Tuning Activities in coordination with SAP, Germany.

· Monitoring and Corrective actions in Business Warehouse

· Responsibility of Promote to Production migrations.

· Ticket Handling / Issue Tracking for Global Support.

 

2 . Servomex Group Limited, Crowborough, East Sussex, U.K.

Period:                             Sept ’04 to Dec ‘04

Role:                                SAP BW Consultant

Environment:                     BIW 3.0b, R/3 4.6c SD, MM, PP.

Servomex' Gas Analysis Solutions are used worldwide to meet the key objectives of improving plant efficiency, increasing product quality, maintaining plant and process safety and helping companies to comply with environmental legislation.

 

·  Created Master data InfoSources for uploading attributes, texts, and hierarchies from SAP R/3 system

·  Involved in escalating prioritized tickets regarding extractions, performance issues and load failures.

·  Monitoring of daily loads and analyzing the reasons for frequent load failures

·  Maintaining Reconciliation’s to verify the data in SAP R3 with SAP BW

·  Maintaining the queue - related to system generated tickets and customer generated tickets.

·  Maintaining the Work History for all the tickets until it is closed down.

 

1. SAP R/3 Hindustan Times Media Ltd Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi – India

Period:                   Dec ’03 to Aug ‘04

Role:                      SAP BW / Media Consultant

Environment:           SAP BW 2.1c; IS Media M/AM 4.62; MM, FI/CO, PPI, PAM**

 

Hindustan Times has Four Editions for the English Publication, Three Editions for the Hindi Publication.  The Issues are generated for the various editions, and this is done automatically, on the basis of a generation rules and triggers in the system.  The various Editions and their prints are currently being published across Twelve Printing Locations.

 

·  Worked with Business Content as well as creating Info sources, Info Objects, Info cubes , ODS Objects, Transfer/Update Rules.

·  Extensively involved in setting up of procedures for extracting data from SAP IS Media - Extracted Logistic Data like Customer, Sales Order, Delivery and Billing from SAP R/3.

·  Setup Flat File extractions for legacy data,  Assigning Data Sources to the Info Source, Defining Transfer Structures, and Metadata maintenance for the Info Source and Source System. Configuring Metadata in the Administration Workbench for replication and Updating of Data Source from the Source System.

·  Involved in Creating and Maintaining Info Cubes, Operational Data Store, Data Sources, Transfer Structures, Communication Structures, Transfer Rules and Update Rules, Info Packages.

·  Involved with PSA in Monitoring the Data Transfer from Source Systems into BW.  For Flat file extraction, did Partitioning of the PSA, setting the frequencies of Info-IDocs, adjusting data packet sizes and number of records to be moved.

 
 
 

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