Ramesh Pagidala

Lead Consultant
 : +91- 9866877617
:prambw@gmail.com

Professional Summary:

 Have 9.2 years of IT experience on SAP BW which includes around 4 years of HANA(BW on HANA and
Native HANA) development
 Certified Scrum Master with 2+ years of experience in delivering software solutions and excellent
understanding of development concepts and SDLC methodologies.
 Good exposure on HANA SDI (Smart Data Integration), System Landscape Transformation (SLT) to replicate
the data into HANA DB.
 Have good knowledge on other Business Intelligence systems such as SAP Business objects (SAP BO/BI),
Lumira, Analysis for office,ABAP, MSBI, Tableau and SQL
 Have one year UK onsite experience as onsite lead/Scrum Master - Managed the track of 10 resources
including onsite and offshore, Interacting with the client/End User to get the requirements and working closely
with the client to complete the requirement successfully.
 Has knowledge on Project Management processes. Performed StakeholdBIBer management, Estimation,
Project tracking, Invoicing, Staffing, Change Management, Demand management and Resourcing activities.

Techno Exposure:
 Enterprise HANA & BW on HANAModelling :
 Experienced in SAP HANA implementation, SAP System Landscape transformation (SLT) and SAP
HANA data modelling using Attribute View, Analytic View and Calculation Views
 Experienced in importing SAP BW Models in SAP HANA, Converting the standard DSO into HANA
Optimized DSO, Standard Info Cube into HANA optimized Info cube using migration tool.
 Understanding of SAP In-Memory Computing Architecture, Column store, Row store Tables in SAP
HANA studio
 Created HANA modelling scenarios and activities such as adding a system, creating Schemas and
content models, attributes and measures, hierarchies
 Importing the BW Models in to HANA using HANA Studio.
 Consuming the HANA Models in BW by creating the Transient Providers and virtual Providers.
 Worked on Advance DSO, Composite Provider and Open ODS View for development.
 SAP BW Modelling:
 Involved in designing and creating the respective Info Objects, Info cubes, DSO’s, Info Sets, Multi
providers, Data Sources, Transformation, DTP, Info Packages, Process Chains, Transformations, Data
Transfer Process (DTP)
 Installing BI Content objects for various Functional areas etc.
 Involved in determining the data flow for the business requirements extraction and reporting, and
translated these requirements into Dimensional Data Models in BW for Warehouse Implementation.
 Used both initializations with delta update and Full update methods depending on the business
requirement.
 Activating and Replicating Standard Data source including Transaction and Master Data. Enhancing
Standard data source using CMOD, Generic Data source using Table, View and Function Module.
  Scheduling process chain using Events and direct Scheduling as well, Process Chain maintenance.
 Scheduled and automated data loads from R/3 to BW, 3rd party systems to BW and also from flat files to
BW and optimized the load performance by data selections and number of Info Packages.
 Aggregates, Compression, OLAP Caches, Indexes, BW Stats.
 Extensively worked on improving the performance of queries by creating aggregates and compressions
on Info Cubes.
 Created various queries and extensively worked on Query Builder objects viz. filters, Structures,
Exceptions, Free Characteristics, Restricted Key Figures, calculated key figures, Variables, Offsets and
Query Variants.
 Experienced in BO Reporting for various modules using WEBI, Lumira, Analysis for office tools etc.

 Created WEBI reports using Bex queries and HANA Views as source.

 SAP BW-ABAP Knowledge

 ABAP code tuning for Function modules, classes, Start routines, end routines and transformation routines.
 Effective Debugging
 Worked on Data Dictionary objects like tables, structures, views and Search help.
 Data Interfacing using BDC and BAPI.
 Knowledge on Enhancements Customer Exits and BADI, ALE/ IDOC.
Professional Experience:

 Worked as Lead consultant in HCL Technologies from Apr 2020 to July 2020
 Worked as Consultant with Deloitte from Nov 2018 to Apr 2020
 Worked as Senior Consultant with Virtusa from December 2017 to Oct 2018
 Worked as Technology Lead with Infosys from September 2011 to Oct 2017
 Worked as SAP Consultant with EOK Technologies Inc from September 2008 to April 2009

Technical Competency:

Languages SAP ABAP, Native SQL

ERP SAP R/3 4.7 EE , ECC 6.0
Data Warehouse Tools SAP BW/4HANA, SAP BW 7.3, BW 7.4, BW 7.5, MSBI
Reporting Tools Bex Suite, WAD, Business Objects Design Studio, Analysis Office, Tableau
Tools HANA Studio, Remedy and JIRA
RDBMS SAP HANA 1.0, 2.0, Oracle 9i and MS SQL

Acadamic Qualification:
 B.tech in Computer Sceience and Engineering (2006) from JNTU, Hyderabad.

Project Summary

Project # 1

Project Disney Corporate Master

Scope SAP BW 3.x, SAP BOBJ(BI 4.0) Cognos and DB2
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 Role/Designation BW Consultant
Business Sector Entertainment
Project Duration Apr 2020 to Jul 2020

Roles and Responsibilities

⮚ Worked in support and enhancement of BW 3.x environment

⮚ Monitoring the process chains and running the reconciliation report
⮚ Created a Payroll reconciliation custom-report to validate ECC wage type report amounts with PY_CO5
cube’s data.

Project # 2

Project Georgia-Pacific
Scope Enterprise HANA, SAP BW, S/4 HANA, SAP BOBJ(BI 4.0) and Tableau
Role/Designation SAP HANA Consultant
Business Sector Manufacturing
Project Duration Sep 2019 to Apr 2020

Roles and Responsibilities

⮚ Its SAP HANA Implementation and Support(Previous phases) project which involves S/4 HANA, SAP BW as
source systems.
⮚ Working with large data volumes including structured and unstructured data
⮚ Developing SAP HANA information models such as Procedure and Hana Views with graphical and SQL
Scripting
⮚ Providing HANA models to BOBJ and Tableau dashboards.
⮚ Working on client requested changes on a weekly sprint, as part of HANA support team
⮚ Involved in requirement gathering and workshops, Cut-over activities.

Project # 3

Project VMware
Scope Enterprise HANA, SAP BOBJ and Tableau
Role/Designation SAP HANA Consultant
Business Sector Sales
Project Duration Nov 2018 to Aug 2019

Roles and Responsibilities

⮚ Create, enforce, and adhere to HANA development standards.

⮚ Worked with large data volumes including structured and unstructured data using SLT replication method
⮚ Developed SAP HANA information models such as Procedure and Hana Views with graphical and SQL
Scripting
⮚ Provided HANA models to BOBJ and Tableau dashboards.
⮚ Understanding the business challenges and translating them into requirements and developed Analytics and
Reporting Queries according to Business Requirements
⮚ Worked on client requested changes on a weekly sprint, as part of HANA support team
⮚ Involved in requirement gathering and workshops, Cut-over activities, Go-Live and Support.
⮚ Worked collaboratively with project managers, SAP Offshore Consultants and partner consultants to develop
consulting and project methodology, techniques, tools, and solutions.

Project # 4

Project NYL(US based Insurance Company)

Scope SAP BW on HANA, Native HANA, SAP Lumira, Analysis office, SAP ABAP and SAP BO
Role/Designation Senior Consultant
Business Sector Insurance
Project Duration Feb 2018 to Aug 2018

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Roles and Responsibilities

 Lead a team of 3 members working on BW/HANA and Native HANA implementation for Insurance module.
 Worked with the onsite counterpart to get the requirements and created architectural designs.
 Involved in complete technical analysis to implement as per architectural design.
 Worked on SAP Insurance Analyzer and creating reports with BW-HANA models.
 Performed data modeling and developed calculations views for the Master data and transactional data in
HANA Studio.
 Exposed HANA Models into BW through ADSO and also exposed BW Models into HANA Modeller through
genereated views.
 Handled dual flow of data ( Source to BW & BW to ECC) and developed Analysis office reports & WEBI
reports on bex queries.
 Created SDA tables to bring data from BW to ECC and created HANA views on SDA tables.
 Worked on performance optimization and effectively used the push down mechanism to excute the logics in
HANA DB level.
 Moved the HANA Flows from one nevironment to other using ABAP Synchronization (SCTS_HTA)

Project # 5

Project Charles Schwab

Scope MSBI
Role/Designation Project Manager/Scrum Master
Client/Business Sector Banking
Project Duration Oct 2016 to Oct 2017

Roles and Responsibilities

 Worked as a Scrum master/Manager with a scrum team of 10 members working on MSBI project.
 Liaise with different business and technical stakeholders in order to understand the business, functional and
non-functional requirements.
 Involved in complete technical analysis to implement as per architectural design.
 Facilitate to involve the right teams to drive effort estimation for new projects.
 Handling client communication and maintain good working relationship with client.
 Perform risk management, quality management, resource management and communication management for
the account.
 Handling escalations and drive to get resolutions
 Updating and presenting project metrics to senior management and client.
 Makerecommendations for performance ratings, hike and promotions for direct subordinates.Facilitate Daily
Scrum, sprint plammimg, sprint demo and sprint retro meeting.
 Coaching the team on Agile principles and processes.
 Track and remove internal & external impediments for the scrum team.
 Facilitate the grooming sessions with Product Owner to build product backlog.
 Facilitate and plan for the Go-live activities.a
 Track and report Scrum team velocity.

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Project # 6

Project Airbus SAS

Scope SAP BW on HANA, Native HANA, SAP ABAP and SAP BO
Role/Designation Technology Lead
Client/Business Sector Manufacturing
Project Duration Jan 2016 to Sep 2016

Roles and Responsibilities

 Lead a team of 8 members working on BW/HANA implementation for Account controlling module.
 Workedatclient to get the requirements and created architectural designs using the business requirement
dossier.
 Liaise with different business and technical stakeholders in order to understand the business, functional and
non-functional requirements.
 Involved in complete technical analysis to implement as per architectural design.
 Primary contact from Offshore for all BW/HANA related development as a track lead.
 Extracted FI and CO data from SAP CO (COEP, COBK, COEPB) and FI (GLT0) tables through SLT.
 Created HANA views to maintain the data in BW system using open ODS.
 Created composite provider (RSLIMOBW), Advance DSO inside HANA Studio for development scenarios to
achieve better performance in data analytics and reporting.
 Created BW data sources using the HANA calculated views.
 Performed data modeling and developed Analytical views for the transactional data, Attribute views for the
master data, and the calculation views as final model in HANA Studio.
 Delivered the reports to user using SAP Business Objects Analysis (edition for Microsoft Office) which helps
users to gain insight into business data and make intelligent decisions that impact corporate performance.
 Created Business Objects (BO) webi reports using Bex queries and HANA Views as source.
 Delivered the Bex queries as per business requirement and users can able to download the data as excel
files.
 Create Technical Specification, Data Flow and design documents as per the requirements and keeping them
up to date with any changes.
 Conduct status update call and report status on the project progress to all the stakeholders.

Project # 7

Project Microsoft
Scope MSBI
Role/Designation Scrum Master/Onsite Lead - UK
Client/Business Sector Consulting Services (MCS)
Project Duration Jan 2015 to Jan 2016

Roles and Responsibilities

 Worked as a Scrum master with a scrum team of 10 members working on MSBI maintennace and supporrt for
MCS(Microsoft Consulting Services)
 Handled the transition of the project from other vendor and made sure to run the project without any issues
post transition.
 Workedatclient to get the requirements and created architectural designs using the business requirement
dossier.
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  Liaise with different business and technical stakeholders in order to understand the business, functional and
non-functional requirements.
 Involved in complete technical analysis to implement as per architectural design.
 Facilitate Daily Scrum, sprint plammimg, sprint demo and sprint retro meeting.
 Coaching the team on Agile principles and processes.
 Track and remove internal & external impediments for the scrum team.
 Facilitate the grooming sessions with Product Owner to build product backlog.
 Facilitate and plan for the Go-live activities.a
 Track and report Scrum team velocity.

Project # 8

Project Harley Davidson – HCM

Scope SAP BW, SAP ABAP, SAP BO(WEBI) and Datastage
Role/Designation Technology Lead
Client/Business Sector Manufacturing
Project Duration June 2013 to Dec 2014

Roles and Responsibilities

 Lead a team to do the end to end BW implementation for HCM module and Worked with BO team while
integrating BO-BW. Primary contact from Offshore for all BW related development/production support and
worked closely with onsite managers.
 Extracted HR and Payroll data from the sources ECC and People soft using Data stage as ETL (Push
Mechanism) and delivered the Bex queries which supports BOBJ universes..
 Created Business Objects (BO) webi reports using Bex queries as source.
 Worked with the users to get the requirements, performed gap analysis, created functional, architectural
designs, reviewed Data Modeling designs with functional team
 Participating and finalizing the functional requirements from the business users, responsible in converting the
functional requirements to technical designs
 Successfully implemented Payroll and HR Modules by developing custom function module extractors, used
ABAP routines in transformations
 Implemented the security for all the reports as per the user requirement using classical approach of
authorizations using RSSM on HR reports by restricting the user access on specific charestrericts.
 Worked with various standard as well as custom BI/BW objects for FI, CO, HR and Payroll of ECC.
 Worked on customization and enhanced the extract structure to support business needs
 Designed and developed various Datatargets and Infoproviders like DSO, Infocubes, Infoobjects,
Multiproviders and Infosets using Admn workbench (EDW, RSA1)
 Developed various transformations to cleanse the data and enhance the master and transaction data using
Formula Builder and start and transfer routines with ABAP4 to suit the business requirements
 Populated various data targets like Infoobjects , DSO and Infocubes, with Master data and Transactional data
from ECC 6.0, legacy systems using flat file interface via Data Staging area (PSA)
 Debugging the Extractor checker, Start routines and End routines

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  Performed the tuning to improve the query as well as the loading performance. Created and refreshed the
BWA indexes as well as DB stats. Evaluated statistical performance and provided recommendations for
optimization. Improved data load and query performance by doing compression, aggregates, and partitioning.
 Created DTPs, Infopackages for Full, Initial, Early init, Delta and Full repair loads for both Master data and
Transaction data
 Created process chains using various process to automate data loading, activation of DSO, compression,
drop and create indexes, init fills, roll up, attribute change run and DBstats etc., and performed huge data
loads into DSO and Infocubes from ECC as well as the legacy systems
 Involved in SLA(Service level agreement) based Production support (on call) by monitoring the daily loads,
troubleshooting the issues & fixing the errors
 Developed Queries to access data from various BW Infoproviders like DSO, Infocubes, Infoobjects,
Multiproviders and Infosets using BEx query designer
 Created Jump queries using RRI(report to report interface), Restricted Key Figures, Calculated key Figures,
Filters, Conditions, Variables and Structures
 Collecting and Releasing transports (BW and BEx). Worked with basis team for space related issues,
establishing RFC connections to various source systems, applying required notes, moving objects from
development box to QA and Production,.
 Reconciliation of BI reports with the ECC & legacy data as wells as the reports
 Extracted data from source tables into HANA DB through SLT.
 Created HANA views to maintain the data in BW system using open ODS.
 Created BW data sources using the HANA views.
 Created the Analysis office reports using Bex queries.

Project # 9

Project RIO TINTO

Scope SAP BW, SAP ABAP and SAP BO(WEBI)
Role/Designation Technology Analyst
Client/Business Sector Manufacturing
Project Duration Jan 2012 to Jun 2013

Roles and Responsibilities

 Played the BI/BW Senior developer role for the project, which includes gathering requirements, analysis, data
modeling, design specification, development, data extraction, reporting, conversion of the existing models to
enhanced model with additional features right from planning to execution as wells as the unit testing, trouble-
shooting, integration and user acceptance testing, documentation, training and transition
 Primary contact from Offshore for all Complex and Urgent changes, which are classified under P1 & P2
service calls as per SLA.
 Key role played in the Business objects reporting requirements, design sessions and the Gaap analysis
 Designed the new BW model to satisfy the old features as well as enhanced features and integrate with front
end like CRM planner and Business objects as well as the source systems CRM, ECC, legacy BW and Flat
files
 Developed various documents like Data flow, Data mapping, Data dictionary, Functional and Technical specs
to support the enhanced design
 Done the changes in reports(like creating conditions, adding new fields, changing RKF&CKF etc) using query
designer to change the functionality as required by the users.
 Changed the WAD(Web application designer) reports to align the graph structure for the desired Product
group values.
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  Created WEBI reports as per user requirements, using bex queries as source by allowing external access.
 Created various BW backend objects which includes info cubes , DSOs, Datasources, Infosources,
Transformations, DTPs, Open hub spokes and Process chains
 Developed ABAP code in the end routines and start routines of the Transformation to satisfy the existing BPS
functions and latest business needs
 Did the Master data manipulations as part of service calls.
 Roll up data from info cubes to aggregates, edit and maintain the aggregates.
 Involved in Info Cubes maintenance and Performance Tuning issues like Creation of Aggregates, Partitioning
Data Targets and Compression etc.
 Supported the monitoring team to resolve the errors in the data loads.
 Used the service now to communicate the status as well as issues to the team members and business owners
 Created various transports, collected the required objects and migrated to the target systems
 Developed, conducted and presented various training to the users as well as the project members

Project # 10

Project CISCO
Scope SAP BI/BO
Role Technology Lead
Client Manufacturing
Project Duration Sep 2011-Jan 2012

Roles and Responsibilities

 Responsibilities includes gathering requirements, analysis, data modeling, design specification, development,
data extraction, reporting, Redesigning the existing models as wells as the Reporting structures, Unit testing,
trouble-shooting, integration and user acceptance testing, documentation, training and maintenance.
 Created Webi and desktop reports on data coming from different databases using the BOBJ universe.
 Worked on Data Virtualization layer which is intermediate between actual databases and universe in the
scenarios of extracting data from multiple data bases.
 Enhanced the existing reports and done thorough testing to ensure the integrity and correctness.
 Learned Business Objects (BO) & Data Virtualization (DV) Layer technologies quickly, and became excellent
team player by meeting the tight deadlines of deployment under pressure.

Project # 11

Project Investools
Scope SAP BW/ABAP
Role SAP Consultant
Client Public sector
Project Duration Sep 2008-Apr 2009

Roles and Responsibilities

 Created various BW backend objects which includes info cubes , DSOs, Datasources, Infosources,
Transformations, DTPs, Open hub spokes and Process chains
 Developed ABAP code in the end routines and start routines of the Transformation to satisfy the existing BPS
functions and latest business needs
 Did the Master data manipulations as part of service calls.

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  Roll up data from info cubes to aggregates, edit and maintain the aggregates.
 Involved in Info Cubes maintenance and Performance Tuning issues like Creation of Aggregates, Partitioning
Data Targets and Compression etc.
 Monitered the daily data load process chains and resolved the data load errors.
 Done the changes in reports(like creating conditions, adding new fields, changing RKF&CKF etc) using query
designer to change the functionality as required by the users.
 Changed the WAD(Web application designer) reports to align the graph structure for the desired Product
group values.
 Created various transports, collected the required objects and migrated to the target systems

SKILLS:Agile, Scrum Master, SAP BW on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, SAP BW 7.4/7.3/7.0, BWA, SAP
Business Objects, SAP HANA, Business Explorer (BEx), BEx Analyzer.