Name

SAP BODS/ HANA Consultant

SUMMARY:

Over 9+ years of experience in full SDLC/Agile Methodology of

software development.
Expert in BI Platform 4.0/Business Objects Enterprise, IDT, Web
Intelligence, Xcelsius, Crystal Reports, Explorer, Advance analysis for
Microsoft/OLAP, Integration Solutions (SAP Integration Kit), Portal
Integration kits, Data services (Data Integrator (BODI), Data
Quality).
Very good knowledge on SAP In-Memory database SAP HANA 1.0.
Data Migration Consultant with good expertise in SAP Data Migration
Framework/AIO Methodologies following full ETL processes to
ensure successful transition of data from legacy systems to SAP,
extraction, transformation and loading the data directly from and to
various systems like SAP ECC, SAP BW, SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, flat
files.
Worked extensively on integration of BODS with SAP and Non-SAP Data
Sources.
Sound knowledge on SLT technology to load the data into the HANA
database.
Strong experience in creating the Attribute views, Analytic views and
Calculation views to satisfy the reporting requirements.
Created the data services work flows to load the data into SAP HANA
from various sap and non-sap sources.
Involved in monitoring the data loads into HANA.

TECHNICAL SKILL SET:

Software Development Methodology:
Software Development Life Cycle
(SDLC), Agile
User Interface:
Visual studio, Java script
Programming Languages:
C, C++
Operating Systems:
MS-DOS, Windows XP/2000/NT/98,
UNIX
Databases:
Oracle 11g, SAP HANA 1.0, Teradata T12, DB2
ETL Tools:
SAP Business Objects Data Services 4.0/ XI
3.2 SP1 (Designer, Data Services Repository
Manager, Data Services Server Manager,
Management
Console),
Business
Objects
(Designer, Business Objects, Supervisor) 5.1,
Business Objects XI, Business Objects Data
Quality Management 12.0 /11.7, SAP BI
7.0/BW 3.5, Ab Initio 2.15
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from
Tamilnadu, India

Anna University,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
CLIENT:
APPLE SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
FEB 2012 TO PRESENT
ROLE:
SAP HANA/ BODS CONSULTANT
TECHNOLOGY STACK: (Oracle 11g, SAP Business Objects Data Services
4.0, SLT, SAP HANA 1.0, SUSE Linux)
BW Data Migration: As we are in a phase of introducing SAP HANA into the
Apple Inc, Initially I have involved extracting the real-time data from BW tables
into the HANA by using SAP LT(Landscape transformation).
Responsibilities:
Responsible to automate deployment of Java server.
Working on POC for SAP HANA on the BI info providers to provide
performance enhanced real time reporting during period closing.
HANA Center of Excellence.
HANA pipeline review.
HANA GTM strategy.
Project management assistance.
Shadowed & assisted HANA Solution Partners.
Involved in a POC (Proof of concept) discussion on SAP HANA and
gone through SAP HANA training.
Familiar with SAP in memory computing and HANA 1.0.
Spearheaded, planned, and executed 1st HANA installation.
Knew about the magic of HANA from official Sapphire Now Keynote
Presentation.
CLIENT:
FEDEX MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
JAN 2010 TO FEB 2012
ROLE:
SAP BODS CONSULTANT
TECHNOLOGY STACK:
(Ab Initio 2.15, SAP Business Objects Data
Services 4.0/ XI 3.2 SP1 (Designer, Repository Manager, Management
Console, Server Manager), Teradata, RHEL)
ESQI Claims timeliness: Solar Decommissioning: The main objective of the
Solar Decommissioning is used to convert the SQL Server integration services to
the Ab Initio Graphs.
FCIS Claims timeliness: The main objective of this project is used to measure the
performance
of
the
service
team,
how
effectively
closing
the
domestic/international claims for the Express, Ground and Freight. Based on this
FedEx calculate the payments for the losses and the damages to the shipments.
Responsibilities:
Involved in Preparation of high Level design documents and low Level
design documents.
Used SAP Data Services (3.2, 3.1) for migrating data from OLTP
databases, SAP R/3 to the Data Warehouse.

Developed and supported in Extraction, Transformation and Load

process (ETL) using Business Objects Data Services to populate the
tables in Data warehouse and Data marts.
Developed jobs to load the SAP R/3 tables into staging area and
developed transformations that
apply the business rules given by
the client and loaded the data into the target database.
Involved in Coding and developing the graphs.
Involved in Unit testing and peer to peer testing the graphs.
Maintaining the Query tracking sheet to communicate issues/queries
to client on daily basis.

Loblaws, Toronto, Canada

Sep
2005 to Dec 2009
BO / BO Data Services Consultant
Responsibilities:
Gathered requirements from functional users, extracting data, building
universes, designing reports and dashboards as per the business
requirements.
Installed Business Objects Data Services and assisted SAP BI Admin in
installing Data Quality Management Business Add-Ins (BAdIs). Also loaded
into each target client the supported countries on which Data Quality for
SAP can perform postal validation.
Created Data Integrator mappings to load the SAP ERP and R/3 tables to
Staging area then to SAP Business Warehouse and Rapid Marts (Sales,
Purchasing, Cost Center, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable).
Used parsing, correction, standardization, duplicate matching for
arranging information using Data Quality Management.
Created Data Integrator mappings to load the data warehouse, the
mappings involved extensive use of simple and complex transformations
like Key Generator, SQL Query Transform, Table Comparison, Case,
Validation, Merge, lookup etc in Data flows
Created Data Flows for dimension and fact tables and loaded the data into
targets in Data Warehouse, Created custom ABAP codes and used them as
Transformations to extract certain R/3 Cluster tables.
Designed Summary and Aggregation tables according to the functional
requirement specifications and loaded data to support reporting.
Used Web Services applications based on open standards (WSDL, SOAP,
and XML Schema primarily) to access SAP R/3 over an external Web.
Designing Universes for various business needs and resolved Chasm trap,
Fan traps using Contexts & Aliases.
Customized configuration of Business Objects Web Intelligence by fine
tuning and optimization for better performance.
Created Cardinalities, Joins, Contexts and Aliases for resolving Loops, Traps
and checked the Integrity of the Universe. Analyze all tables and created
various indexes to enhance query performance.
Created predefined conditions, prompts and custom hierarchies in the
process of building the universes
Involved in user training sessions for and assisting in UAT (User
Acceptance Testing).
Created open doc and parameterized and On-demand sub reports for
various business needs, reports scheduled for different file based /
schedule based events, distributed in email, PDF and HTML format.

Environment: Business Objects Data Services, Business Objects XI, Business

Objects Data Quality Management 12.0 /11.7, SAP BI 7.0/BW 3.5, Visual
Composer, SAP R/3 FICO and SD, SAP BI/BO integration kit, Oracle 10g, SQL
Server 2008.
DELL, Bangalore, India
2004 Aug 2005
Business Objects Report Developer

Jun

Responsibilities:
Involved in report requirement gathering.
Actively involved in the creation and modification of user/user groups and
maintained user profiles using Supervisor.
Designed and maintained Universes and exported them to the repository.
Created Classes and Objects (Measure, dimension and detail) in the
universe.
Used Designer Module to implement Universes, Joins between Tables, and
created prompts and queries, parsing of Universes, and created Contexts
and Alias Tables to remove cyclic dependencies.
Developed Complex Reports (Used multiple data providers, Union,
Intersection, minus and Master/Detail, cross tab, Charts).
Created reports using standard company templates. A few of them were
created based on the Department requirements.
Extensive use of Business Objects functionalities in formatting reports.
Created user Prompts, conditions and Filters to improve the report
generation. Also used Alerts to improve the readability of the report.
Creating the reports in Web Intelligence using WebI Java Report Panel.
Environment: Business Objects (Designer, Business Objects, Supervisor) 5.1,
ZABO, Oracle 8, Windows NT.