Resume/C.V.

SAP BOBJ Consultant

Service Description
SAP BOBJ Consultant

Education
Missouri University of Science & technology
Masters in Business Information & Technology
2009 - 2010

Employment
Intuitive Surgicals
Sr SAP BW/BOBJ Developer
2012 - 2012
•Work on SAP Business Objects XI 3.2/4.0 (Universe Designer/IDT, Xcelsius, QAAWS, BIWS, Webi
Rich Client, Import Wizard, CMC, Info view etc.) and SAP BW Environments. •Work on Designing &
Developing several complex interactive Dashboards on top of Webi reports built using Bex Queries on
an OLAP Universe. •Design and Develop Complex Webi reports using Variables, Drill Downs,
Sections, breaks, and Merged Dimensions etc. •Used SAP BIWS to connect dashboards to SAP
Business Object Webi reports. •Used Complex Excel Logic's and functions to support data modeling
design required to dynamically display data on the dashboard. •Used SAP BW when needed to run
Reports and then validate data with respect to SAP Business Objects. •Design, Test and Validate
Reports and Dashboards based on requirements.
United Health Group
Sr SAP BOBJ Developer
2011 - 2012
• Worked on SAP Business Objects XI R2. Work involved using Tools Universe Designer, Web
Intelligence, QAAWS, Live Office, Info View, Xcelsius 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. •
Developed Xcelsius Dashboards for Kidney / Cancer / Women’s Health Projects using Universe
Designer and SQL Server 2008 as the Source Database. Used a Combination of Detail, Summary and
Derived Tables and simultaneously joins (Equi, Theta, and Outer), Cardinalities, and Contexts etc. to
create the Universe to work for the associated Project. • Created Universe Solving Traps and Contexts
with using best working principles. • Assigned @ BO Variable to implement User Level Security,
Assigned Hierarchies to facilitate Drill Down and Scope of Analysis Accordingly. • Used SQL Server
2008 excessively for Data Validation, Join Determination, Table Understanding, Metric Calculation,
Testing, Verification and Data/Requirement Understanding. • Worked on Gathering Requirements,
Understanding technical specifications as required by the Project guidelines, the Scope and
simultaneously developing universes, Reports and Dashboards. • Created User Groups, assigned Folder
level Security, and maintained BOBJ XI R2 environment based on project Requirements. • Used
Import Wizard to help Migrate Project Deliverables between Dev, QA and Production Environments. •
Had Performed Various BOBJ Admin Duties Ranging from Creating Users, Roles, Scaling Servers,
Scheduling Jobs etc. • Developed Webi Reports, Summary and Detail Reports, Using the Summary as
the source for the Xcelsius Dashboards and the Detail is linked through Open Docs to view the User
Selections from the Dashboard in Detail. • Developed Xcelsius Dashboards Using the Source as Webi
Reports, which were built on Universe, Imported the Webi Reports using Live Office. • Created
Dashboard User Interface Prototype for the different Projects based on User needs, Data Visualizations,
Charts, Dynamic Selections & Visibility, Tabs, Alerts, User Selection Components, Multiple Drill
Downs etc. as adequately required using Xcelsius 2008 Sp4. • Worked on Data Modeling, and Design
as per the requirements for building the dashboards in Microsoft Excel Using Excel Functions like
Vlookup, choose, nested if conditions etc. • Performed UAT and Handled various Issue resolution
through Ticketing activities as the POC for the 3 Projects that I have worked for UHG • Handled
Project Responsibility for Verifying Project Deliverables against Both Technical and Functional
Specifications. • Worked towards assisting any defects, Performance issues in relation to SAP Business
Objects Environment.
Pfizer New York
Sr SAP BO Developer
2011 - 2011
• Designed complex reports based on discussions with user groups and created various objects using
built-in @functions (like @prompt, @select, @where, and @aggregate), complex SQL queries and
joins. Thus Considering best business Practices using Web intelligence Rich Client. • Worked on
Performance improvements for the earlier created Xcelsius Dashboards. Followed Best Principles and
made some major workflow changes and successfully reduced Dashboard load time to 15 secs. •
Worked on SAP BOBJ EPM, Performance Manager for Dashboard framework. • Build Xcelsius
Dashboard Power 2 Learn using Live Office, & QAAWS Using Universe as the Source of data. Used
Flash Variables, Extremely Extensive Dynamic Visualizations, Chart and Map Drill Downs. • Used
Open Docs to allow users to move from the Dashboard to its related detailed Webi report. And also
from Webi reports to another reports using hyperlinks achieved through using OPEN Docs. • Used User
row level security for data in the Dashboard. Used BO User variables and also Flash variables such as
CELogon token to provide Token exchange since dashboard is deployed outside Info view. • Build
Webi Reports as per the Requirements for the Manager Dashboard, Using Context Operators, Query
Report Level Filter, Drill Downs, Variables etc. as required per the requirements. • Worked on SAP
BOBJ EPM, Performance Manager for Dashboard framework. • Used Info view excessively to test
Xcelsius Dashboards, Webi reports, in DEV, QA, UAT, and PROD Environments. • Provided
Architecture and Solutions Engineering regarding projects that were supposed to be implemented using
SAP Business Object Tools, Such as Universe Designer, Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, Xcelsius
2008, QAAWS, Live Office etc. accordingly to the architecture currently suitable for the client. •
Maintained Architecture for the BO XI R2 / 3.1 environments BO APAC, BO Emada for Canada, UK
and USA for Pfizer Organization. • Worked on Performance Enhancements for Xcelsius Projects built
by other teams, by looking into various aspects like Architecture, Design, Server Scalability and
Environment Load Handling. • Provided User Training, Project Support, and Guidance all through the
project. • Served as POC for BO Testing against Deliverables based on requirements and project
Specifications.
Baker Hughes
Sr SAP BW/BOBJ Developer
2011 - 2011
• Build Xcelsius Dashboards using SAP BICS Connector uses SAP BW Queries to get data from SAP
BW. Without the need of any BOBJ Platform to import data into excel sheet to serve as the input for the
dashboard. And Then Publishing these dashboards back on the SAP Portal since Dashboards made
through BICS Connector are not accessible from Info view. Involved in Projects Namely o OTD
Customer Dashboard, Webi Report & Universe. o OTD Supplier Dashboard, Webi Report & Universe.
o Shipment (Order Fulfillment) Universe & Webi Report Designing. o HS&E (Health Safety &
Environment) Webi reports & Dashboard Development. • Used Open Docs to allow users to move from
the Dashboard to its related detailed webi report. And also from Webi reports to another reports using
hyperlinks achieved through using OPEN Docs. • Worked on production support for solving issues
related to Universe, Webi reports & Dashboards. • Provided User Support, Training and Support for
Soft Project hand over to Production Environment. • Used Bex Queries all through the Project to build
OLAP Universes, and Webi Reports & Xcelsius Dashboards. • Worked on Bex Analyzer to test the
above mentioned Xcelsius Dashboards, Webi Reports & Universe, to verify & test the Consistency of
data all throughout the SAP BW & SAP BOBJ Platform. • Used Info view excessively to test webi
reports, verify CUID’s etc since the connection from dashboard to webi report etc have to be
maintained.
Open Text Corporation
Sr SAP BOBJ Developer
2010 - 2011
• Build Xcelsius Dashboards using SAP Web services created from SAP Net weaver. Without the need
of any BOBJ Platform to import data into excel sheet to serve as the input for the dashboard. • Various
SAP Functional Modules have been used as a source and ABAP programming to extract, aggregate and
deliver the data to Xcelsius using SAP Web services. • Highly Interactive Dashboard completely based
on dynamic user input and varying amount of information to analyze without limitations being
provided to the user. • Various other forms of dashboard development also performed including Data
from SAP BW through Bex Queries, Data from Universe using QAAWS, Data from Webi reports,
Crystal Reports using Live Office etc. • Dashboards Using Advanced Multiple Drills Down, Dynamic
Visibility, and Alert Features were designed to support Complex Requirement Scenario. • Designed
dashboard using best practices and advanced filtering techniques to dynamically filter and serve as the
source for the dashboard. • Optimized dashboard performance for speed of thought analysis even with
large data volumes and simultaneously allowed user customization on the fly. • Worked Extensively
with Flash Variables, web services and made Generic Dashboards to enhance Performance in Situation
to Decrease Load on the Parent Dashboard, and Designed Child Dashboards to Distribute Load among
Various Child Dashboards to Mitigate the Performance Issues • Used Complex excels functions and
logics to support data requirement. Ex: - Vlookup, hlookup, choose, Nested IF’s, Value, ISNumber,
ISNA, Match, Index etc to name a few. • Built Password Protected Dashboard and Created a Scenario
to Trigger Multiple Web Services on User Authentication. • Built Many Static Dashboard Models
during all my Work Requirement in due process to Create Generic Live Model Using Web Services,
Flash Variables etc. • Done extensive testing across various scenarios to see the dashboard working
across multiple complex and varying scenarios. • Used various Custom SAP functions exclusively for
Xcelsius to help in this process to additionally implement thousand separators and decimal Operators to
support various different number formats. • Performed Extensive UAT and Functional and Technical
Specification Testing following SAP Guidelines, Checklist and Standards.
Summary
• Over 6 years of experience in Information Technology with strong work experience as Business
Objects Developer.
• Extensive experience in Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Deployment and
maintenance of Business Intelligence applications.
• Expertise in Business Objects enterprise Products (Universe Designer, Desktop Intelligence,
Web Intelligence, Info View, CMS, CMC & CCM) and its deployment.
• Expertise in identification of Business and Data requirements and converting them into
conceptual and logical data models.
• Experience in creating Adhoc reporting ready universes using Business Objects Universe
Designer.
• Extensively used various features like Joins, Alias and Contexts in Universe designer to
overcome various traps (Chasm, Fan) and Loops.
• Excellent data-analysis skills and ability to translate specifications into a working Universe
and/or Report.
• Experience in building and retrieving data using Universes, Personal data files, and creating
complex ad-hoc Reports using the Business Objects suite applications.
• Extensively used advanced reporting functionalities such as Master Detailed, Drill, Filters,
Ranking, Sections, Graphs and Breaks.
• Installation and configuration of Xcelsius, QaaWS Client Server Modules and designing
complex reports and dashboards in monitoring business metrics.
• Hands-on experience in developing Analytical Dashboards using Xcelsius with QaaWS and
Live Office connectivity.
• Experienced in Training & Supporting end-user reporting needs using Business Objects.
• Strong database experience in using Oracle 10g/9i/8i, MS SQL Server 2008/2005, MS Access.
• Very good understanding of Data Warehousing Design Methodology, Data Warehouse
Concepts, Database design/architecture including both OLAP & OLTP data and complete
lifecycle of project from design to development and implementation.
• Exposure to Dimensional Data modeling- Star Schema modeling and Snowflake modeling.
• Participated in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC (Requirement Analysis,
Design, Development, Testing and Documentation).
• Possess excellent communication, decision-making, Problem Solving, Analytical, and
Interpersonal skills with result oriented dedication towards goals. Capable of working as a Team
Member or Individually with minimum supervision.
• Flexible and versatile to adapt to any new environment with a strong desire to keep pace with
latest technologies.
Technical Summary:
Business Objects Tools : Business Objects XI 3.1/3.0, XI R1/R2,6.5, Web Intelligence XI 3.1/3.0/XI
R2, Universe Designer XI 3.1/3.0,XI R2, Desktop Intelligence, InfoView, CMC, Import wizard, Report
Conversion Tool, Data Integrator 11.5/XI 3.0, Xcelsius 2008, Query as a Web Services(QaaWS), Live
Office.
Databases : Oracle 10g/9i/8i/8.0, MS SQL Server 2008/2005, MS Access, Siebel, Sybase, Teradata,
Informix.
Data warehousing : Star-Schema Modeling, Snowflakes Modeling, FACT, dimension tables.
Operating Systems : Windows Server 2003/2000/NT, Windows Vista/ XP/ME/98/95, DOS, UNIX.
Windows Utility : MS-Word, MS-Excel and MS-PowerPoint.
Programming Languages : SQL, PL/SQL, JAVA, HTML, C, C++, C#, .NET
Dimensional Data Modeling Tools : Dimensional data modeling using Erwin modeling (Erwin
4.1/4.0/3.5.5/3.5.2), Physical & Logical Data Modeling, multidimensional modeling, Snowflake
Schema/ Star Schema modeling (Normalization / De-Normalization Techniques), Erwin, Visio.
Query Tools : TOAD, SQL*PLUS, SQL*Loader, SQLNavigator.
Experience
Role: Sr.Business Objects developer Aug 2011 - Till date
Client: Confidential, VA
Inova Health Systems is a major health care provider in Northern Virginia. The Supply chain Data
Ware House receives data feeds from disparate clinical, financial, and operational information systems.
Business Objects suite is used to mine, analyze and report on this data to retrieve the key metrics
required to measure and thereby reduce costs, streamline operations and improve patient care by
management.
Responsibilities:
• Inventory, Accounts Payable and Purchase Orders were the different subject areas within the
data warehouse.
• Used advanced universe functionalities like Derived tables, Index Awareness, custom LOVs.
• Created custom hierarchies to aid in Drill-Through analysis of WebI documents and built
cascading prompts.
• Participated in the complete development lifecycle: analysis, design, build and test reports
• Created several complex Web Intelligence and Desktop Intelligence reports to help management
to track and monitor contract, commodity and price compliance.
• Created reports linking several universes for different subject areas like Purchase Orders,
Accounts Payable, Pharmacy and Inventory for seamless reporting.
• Created user Prompts, Conditions and Filters and used Alerts to improve the readability of the
report. Extensively used Calculations, Variables, User Objects in the creation of reports.
• Created User Prompts, Conditions and Filters to improve the quality of report generation.
• Scheduled Reports using scheduler Infoview as well as CMC.
• Key metrics ‘procure to pay cycle times’, ‘diversity spend’, ‘cash discounts captured and
missed’
spanning across different subject areas has been re-created using Xcelsius.
• Consolidation of reports by groups/regions and designing templates catering to the needs of
sourcing/financial analysts & material and cost specialists.
• Providing support for the users on application usage and conducting training walk through of
salient features of the application.
Environment: Oracle 10G, Business Objects XIR2, Web Intelligence and Infoview XI R2, Desktop
Intelligence, CMC, Import Wizard, Universe Designer, Java script, PL/SQL Developer, Windows 2003
advanced server.
Role: Sr.Business Objects Developer May 2010 – July 2011
Client:Confidential, VA
Capital One is a leading financial institution involved in personal and institutional lending, mortgages
and banking. The project scope is to design and build reports for decision support for personal and
institutional loan data. The reports are built from data received from various branches and offers
summarized view for optimized decision making
Responsibilities:
• Interacted with Business Users, Business owners to know their Business requirements in
 developing and modifying Universes and Reports accordingly.
• Involved in gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, functional
requirements and data specifications for Business Objects Universes and Reports.
• Working on the SQL tuning and optimization of the Business Objects reports.
• Applied security features of Business Objects like row level, report level & object level
security in the universe so as to make the sensitive data secure.
• Designed and maintained complex Universes, resolved loops by creating aliases and contexts.
• Exported the ad-hoc ready universes to the for making semantic layer available to the users.
• Extensively used the @functions and Aggregate Aware feature. Worked on back end views,
tables required by the business objects universes.
• Created and defined the Hierarchies for various reports based on the Business rule of the
Organization.
• Created Xcelsius dashboard for executive view covering selected KPI for the business function
• Created WSDLs using Query As a Web Service (QaaWS) from different Data sources.
• Migrated Xcelsius dashboards and deployed QaaWS to the new servers and fixed the hyperlinks
and excel spreadsheet to be compatible in new environment.
• Troubleshoot errors for reports, dashboards, and universes. Fixed them to work as per the
business needs.
• Created complex reports by linking data from multiple data providers, stored procedures and
functionalities like Union Queries, Drill Down, Master Detail, Custom Sorts etc.
• Extensively worked with Ranks, Alerter, filters, prompts, variables and calculation contexts in
designing reports.
• Built WebI reports Provided OLAP functionality and worked extensively with data
warehousing.
• Set up groups and users for Business Objects deployment.
• Created the Web Intelligence Report and used Events for Daily/Weekly /Monthly
Scheduling of the reports.
• Extensive testing and migrating the reports or objects from development to Production system.
• Developed testing scripts and test cases. Extensively tested Business Objects reports,
dashboards and other Business Objects Applications in new environment.
• Involved in performance testing of all the reports, which helped in analyzing its performance
before moving into production.
Environment: Business Objects XIR3.1, WebI, Xcelsius, Universe Designer, Oracle 8i/9i, PL/SQL,
Windows XP/7.
Role: Business Objects Developer Dec 2008 - Apr 2010
Client:Confidential, California
IHOP (International House of Pancakes) is a leading chain of restaurants with more than 1000 outlets
in USA and Canada. The data warehouse is developed to analyze Sales and financial data for both
franchise as well as company owned stores on a periodical basis.
Responsibilities:
• Involved in understanding the end-user requirements and business processes in creating and
designing universes, queries and reports.
• Designed Universes, incorporating all the business requirements.
• Implemented object level security universe to incorporate security for sensitive information.
• Worked in migration of universe and reports between environments.
• Designed universes, solved loops by creating aliases, contexts and resolved traps.
• Created complex variables, breaks, sorts, filter and conditions for various reports.
 • Created complex reports involving master/detail and cross-tab and Combined queries and sub-
queries
• Linked multiple data-providers and Used calculation contexts/extended contexts
• Coordinated with DBA and Business objects designer group in solving various technical issues.
• Created multiple contexts for catering different functional areas in a single user query.
• Used Aggregate awareness function of Business Objects to route the query objects through the
appropriate path while selecting from multiple contexts..
• Used prompts in the reporter as well as in the universe to create more interactive reports for
running different kind of campaigns.
• Extensively used scheduler for report scheduling and deployment
• Generated various report templates for standardizing the reports throughout the organization.
• Involved in end user training and documenting the procedures.
• Involved in developing the financial reports for the Financial services Dept and successfully
published the highly formatted reports and met with the end user requirements
• Resolved Year Ago Variance Calculation, Percentage Calculation in Cross Tab in Web I XI R2.
• Scheduled pre-canned reports through Scheduler for distribution and printing.
Environment: Business Objects XI3.1, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius 2008 Oracle 9i
Role: Business Objects developer Jan 2008 - Nov 2008
Client: Confidential, CA
Verizon operates the most reliable wireless network in the U.S., an extensive global Internet backbone
network and an advanced broadband network. The project involved using the Business Objects suite to
integrated solutions for reporting, planning, budgeting, analyzing of sales.
Responsibilities:
• Involved in gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, functional
requirements and data specifications for Business Objects Universes and Reports.
• Designed several universes and used various methods to optimize queries on database, universe
and reporting level.
• Worked towards optimal development of universes by removing loops through the use of aliases
and contexts.
• Creating Universe with number of Classes, many objects, Derived Tables using inner/outer and
equiv. joins as per requirement.
• Created and tested classes and objects to organize the universe.
• Exported the universes to the Repository to make resources available to the users.
• Created reports for various Portfolios using the Universes as the main data Providers.
• Created the reports using Business Objects functionality’s like Queries, Cross Tab, Master
Detail and Formulae’s etc.
• Applied drill-up and drill-down techniques in master detail reports for multi-dimensional
analysis of retrieved data.
• Extensively worked with Ranks, alerters, filters, prompts, variables and calculation contexts in
designing reports.
• Created Business Objects Repository while building Business Objects solution.
• Published and scheduled Business Objects Reports to users using Scheduler.
• Created Derived tables, Developed Stored Procedures, Packages and Triggers database using
PL/SQL.
Environment: Business Objects XIR2, Web Intelligence, Universe Designer, Oracle 8i/9i, Windows
NT.
Role: Business Objects developer Jan 2007– Dec 2007
Client: Confidential, Denver, CO
DCP Midstream segment is one of the nation's largest natural gas gatherers and processors, andone
ofthe largest natural gas liquids producersand NGL Services. The company changed its name from
Duke Energy Field Services. The purpose of this engagement is to upgrade the existing 6.5 business
objects environment to XIR2 and validate the converted reports and rebuild the reports.
Responsibilities:
• Information gathering - interacted with the end user to understand the requirement and business
logic
• Analyzed the existing OLTP system and designed and managed universes based on the
Business Requirements
• Designed, Developed and Maintained Universes by defining joins, cardinalities between
tables applying contexts and alias tables to remove cyclic dependencies
• Used @functions like @select, @where and @prompt function to create prompts which
helps the user to select the values dynamically
• Customized the list of values (LOV’s) which helps the end users to select the values.
• Created complex Condition Objects for easy reporting, Aggregate-Aware objects for better
performance
• Developed Business Objects Universes with classes, objects and condition objects and
developed hierarchies to support drill down reports.
• Created reports using Business Objects functionality like slice and dice drill down, cross tab,
master detail tables and formulas, etc.
• Created complex reports by linking data from multiple data providers, using free hand SQL
and functionalities like Combined Queries.
• Working on the SQL tuning and optimization of the Business Objects reports.
• Scheduling reports from the Broadcast Agent Server to only requested users.
• Worked extensively on Web Intelligence for any new requests and performance issues.
• Involved in installing Web Intelligence, creating users, user groups and categories
• Generated reports for web users using Web Intelligence and Info View.
• Created Web Intelligence documents and published them to corporate documents.
• Worked with Installation and configuration of Business Objects XI R2 using Tomcat and
Apache as Application and Web Servers.
• Migrating Business Objects 6.5.1 version reports to new version XIR2.
• Converted the existing full client reports to WebI reports using Report Conversion Tool.
• Imported existing users, groups, categories, WebI documents, connections, universes and
restrictions to BO XI environment using Import Wizard.
• Created reports using Desktop Intelligence and Web Intelligence in BO XI R2 environment.
• Synchronized queries from multiple data providers by linking the common dimensions using
merge dimensions option in Web XI R2.
• Extensive testing and migrating the reports or objects from development to Production system
Environment: Business Objects 6.5.1 (Supervisor, Designer, Reporter), Web Intelligence 2.x/6.x,
BCA, BOXI R2 (CMS, CCM, CMC,), Oracle 10g, PL/SQL, SQL Server 2000, Windows 2000, UNIX,
Crystal Reports XI/9.0, Crystal Xcelsius, PeopleSoft FMS 8.9.
Role: Business Objects Developer March 2006 –Dec 2006
Client: Confidential, Hyderabad, India.
Ananth Technologies provides electrical materials to both internal and external customers. They have
the Global material services for their customers. GMS acts as a distribution center by sourcing the
materials from the suppliers (internal and external) and shipping it to customers of Ananth
Technologies.
Responsibilities:
• Analysis of Business Objects environment, Universes, Reports.
• Add more groups and change the profile of users via supervisor.
• Developed Universe using Designer module in Business Objects.
• Developed and created classes with Dimension, Detail & Measure Objects and specified the
hierarchies.
• Specified the Joins and checked the cardinalities.
• Implemented User Objects in Reports.
• Created Condition in Universe.
• Ad-hoc reports were used for Business Objects user modules for various portfolios using the
Universes as the main Data providers.
• Resolved loops by creating Aliases and Context.
• Organized data in reports by using filters, sorting, ranking and highlighted data with alerts.
Environment : Business Objects 6.5, Web Intelligence, Oracle.
Education:
• Bachelors in Electronic and communication
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