MBA, Software Engineer
Candidate: 472009
(Sr. SAP BW / BI / BOBJ - Architect / Lead / Project Manager / Developer)
IDEAL JOB: SAP BW consultant, Business Objects Webi Reports, xCelsius Dashboard Design & Development and/or Project Management, Travel during the week, home on weekends. I like problems that no one else has been able to solve and even though I can easily manage a project, I also like to do software development to keep my skills sharp.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
Name of Consultant |
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Skills – Architect Level - Team Lead - Developer - Project Planning - Project Management |
I am thoroughly experienced working with all parts of SAP BW, Business Objects and Crystal Reports on versions 3.x, 4.x & 7.x
Managing a software development project and doing work at the same time. Requirements Gathering / Definition Customer Interface between end users and developers Customer Education
SAP BW 3.5, 7.0, 7.3 /SAP Business Objects 3.5, 4.0 Business Objects Dashboard design and realization Universes, Web Intelligence (Webi Reports) xCelsius Dashboards Crystal Reports BW Query, Bex, WAD, SAP Authorizations, ABAP programming ETL Custom Data Extraction Real Time Embedded Software (Automotive Engine) Unix Admin, Factory Maintenance I follow PMP Processes, SAP ASAP, Kimbal, Waterfall Process and my own best practices I have created along the way |
SAPProjects |
14 |
Total Software Projects |
144 |
Software Development Cycles |
Over 2500 |
Years Software Experience |
34 years software programming/development experience |
Years SAP Experience |
8 |
Global Project Experience |
Yes (128 global projects) |
Project Management Experience |
Yes |
Present Location |
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Visa Status |
U.S. Citizen / Japan Work Visa |
Security Clearance Status |
Active (PPT) |
Availability |
2 week notice |
Rate + Expenses |
Negotiable |
Relocation |
Willing to Travel 100 % or Relocate depending on duration |
Industries worked with |
Medical Device Maker, Manufacturing, Food, Retail, Telecom, U.S. Military, U.S. Govt., Public Sector, PC Design and Manufacturing, Automotive |
Quality Systems Compliances |
FDA, MDD, AIMDD, CMDR, MHLW, ISO-9000, DQS |
Languages |
English – Native Japanese – Intermediate |
Formal Education |
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering |
EXPERIENCE DETAILS:
1/2013 – 5/2013 Position: SAP BW / BI SOFTWARE teST lEAD / Coordinator
Customer:
Project: BW Ops Remediation Project
Client Name |
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Functional Role |
Formal Software Testing
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Industry |
Medical Device Manufacturing |
Roles |
Formal Test Script Developer Formal Test Script Execution Problem Reporting |
Metrics (KPI’s) |
Developed 3 Score Metrics to assess quality of development |
SAPSub-Projects |
none |
Team Size |
2 testers plus Manager, 1 developer |
Start Date |
1/2013 |
End Date |
5/2013 |
Location 1 |
Boston Massachusetts |
Location 2 |
India |
Security Clearance Required |
No |
SAP Tools |
SAP BW 731, BEx Query Designer, BEx Analyzer, Microsoft Word, FDA Compliance Training to CFR 21 Part 11 regulations |
Responsibility: Information Systems (IS) Group
- Consult with the Manager of Information Systems Group to understand Testing Requirement
- Received required internal FDA compliance training in CFR 21 Part 11 Regulations Compliance
- Reviewed Past Project Testing Materials for ideas
- Reviewed Customer Requirements Documentation and created Testing Trace Matrix to map test cases to individual requirements
- Received Log on Id’s to customers SAP BW Systems version 731
- Discovered the BW Developer had no system design documentation
- Reverse engineered existing SAP BW System landscape and used VISIO to create a system wide Architecture Drawing detailed enough to reveal development errors and issues. The drawing was said to be the “Best Thing we have ever seen around here”. The drawing came in handy later on when the developer was trying to solve critical design issues.
- Created a reusable format Test Script Template that was FDA Regulation CFR Title 21 Part 11 compliant. Some individual test scripts had over 200 test steps. 100+ test steps was average.
- Developed over 30 Test Scripts covering 3 functional business areas: Labor Efficiency, Scrap and Yield, Inventory.
- Conducted numerous informal passes of each Test Script. Bugs and Issues found with the development was reported to the IS Manager and decisions were made as to what priority the developer should give to fixing each issue found through my testing.
- Continued to work with the Manager and BW Developer and Co-Tester to continuously refine the triangle of Requirements, Development and Test Scripts through feedback.
- A Significant Improvement in SAP BW System quality was achieved through use of my formal test scripts.
- Due to the level or issues found, had to be detail oriented in the most meticulous way.
- Discovered other benefits of using a formal test script to evaluate Quality on multiple dimensions a person might be interested in measuring. Test Scripts are useful objective tools.
- Finished the project after several Formal Rounds of Testing and all test scripts PASSED with no issues found.
- Critical to the success of formal testing was the fact I was an experienced BW Developer writing the test scripts to check the work of a junior and offshore BW Developer.
Other Ways I helped the Customer: SAP BW Design/Development, Unix Scripting, SQL, ABAP programming
- Used my past SAP BW Developer and Software Engineering Experience to help the customer overcome several technical obstacles beyond my tester role.
- Customer was stuck on how to interface the BW system with the source system data. Recommended a Direct Connection. This was rejected by the source system owner. So then provided my Unix Scripting Expertise to advise customer on how an existing Unix Script was functioning and what customer would need to do to modify their unix script to pull data from the source system for this particular project.
- Used my knowledge of SQL programming and ABAP programming to read some 10 year old software routines and to explain to the customer and BW Developer what the routines were doing. A typical question is “How is this report generating this data”? So I would read the software, map it out, and then explain to the customer what it was doing. This helped overcome several technical points critical to project success.
- In BEx Query, there were several Logic Statements (AND, OR) that the developer did not understand and could not develop. So used my software engineering experience to point the problem out to the developer and second to design a solution in Query Designer for the developer that would actually implement the required Logic. Later on in testing, added Tests for the correct implementation of the logic.
- It’s quite possible that without me stepping in to offer advise outside the tester role that the project could have stalled or failed at least twice. I can say that the end users would not have been happy with the output they would have received otherwise.
4/2012 – 7/2012 Position: Project Manager
Customer:
Project: BTIMS Project (Business Telephone, Internet, Mobile Apps)
Client Name |
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Functional Role |
Project Manager
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Industry |
Telephony, Internet, Mobile App Development |
Roles |
Project Manager Responsible for Delivery |
SAP Sub-Projects |
none |
Team Size |
1 |
Start Date |
4/2012 |
End Date |
7/2012 |
Location 1 |
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Location 2 |
none |
Security Clearance Required |
No |
Tools |
Project Management PMP processes |
Responsibility: Project Manager, Internal Projects
- Identify problems with existing Consulting Kit solution
- Wrote Project Charter and pitched the project to the company President for approval.
- Project was approved with additional constraints added.
- Identified all stakeholders.
- Gathered Requirements from all Stakeholders
- Wrote the Scope Management Plan
- Performed Market Research from all National Telecom Providers
- Created a Work Breakdown Structure, WBS Dictionary and Activity List
- Created a Vendor Evaluation sheet based on the WBS Structure.
- Several rounds of visits to all Telecom providers in local area. Had each vendor to give me product, system and service demonstrations. Answer questions.
- Evaluated Vendors identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each vendor based on how close to and how many of each of our requirements they each could meet.
- Discussed findings with stakeholders.
- Scored each vendor to come up with an objective evaluation of each.
- Based on vendor data, put a time and cost estimate to the WBS.
- Used Critical Path methods of forward and backward pass to develop a budget and timeline for the project.
- Pitched the budget to the President for formal project approval and financial commitment.
- Received Budget Approval for the life of the 2 year vendor contract as well as signature authority to sign contracts with vendors.
- Selected the best vendor. No vendor could meet 100% of our stakeholder requirements. However only 1 vendor could meet all but 1 of our requirements related to signal. It was later found that we actually could get a signal in this particular location. So 100% of our requirements were actually met.
- Signed Contracts with vendors.
- Purchased and configured Smart Phones, Hot Spots and iPads.
- Set up Management Dashboards on Vendor websites.
- Set up Auto-billing
- Registered Devices in asset tracking system and mailed each device to the assigned user.
- To date, I have heard no complaints on our service. A highly successful project.
3/2011 – 3/2012 Position: SAP BW / BI & SAP Business Objects Consultant
Customer:
Project: Olympus Project – Webi, xCelsius Business Warehouse requirements
Client Name |
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Functional Role |
Customer Facing Requirements Gathering and Documentation Customer Education of Software Project Management Customer Education of Software Design Methodology Customer Education of Requirements Definitions Customer Education of Waterfall Process Development Methodology Advocate for the Customer when developers said something was impossible Assist customer with Requirements definitions of: Management Scorecards, Management Dashboards, Webi Reports, xCelsius Dashboards, BEx Queries, HANA education |
Industry |
IS- Retail; PC Laptop, Desktop, Workstation Makers, Customer Service Center, New Product Development Group, Mature Market Sales Organization. |
Roles |
Customer Requirements Interface Handle all BW requirements related questions for Service Group, Product Group, Mature Group and communicate those to China development team |
Metrics (KPI’s) |
Several Thousand |
SAPSub-Projects |
Olympus Release, Wave 1, Wave 2, Victory Release |
Team Size |
Over 100 BW developers in China |
Start Date |
3/2011 |
End Date |
3/2012 |
Location 1 |
Raleigh North Carolina |
Location 2 |
Beijing China |
Security Clearance Required |
No |
SAP Tools |
SAP BW 3.5 & 7.0, Web Intelligence 3.5 & 4.0, SAP CRM, SAP Plant Maintenance, HANA |
Responsibility #1: Service Group Business Unit ( 7 business processes - Call Center, Depot & Parts, Field Service, Logistics, Service Marketing, E2E)
- Assist Department Head in understanding the capabilities and limitations of SAP Business Warehouse, xCelsius and Web Intelligence
- Assist customer in developing departmental reporting requirements
- Assist customer in the requirements gathering process, documenting those requirements and discussing BU requirements one-on-one with the China development team members
- Assist customer in formulating and developing test scripts for the delivered software
- Assist customer in hand-on testing of delivered software (SAP Webi Reports)
- Tested software deliveries for conformance to requirements and for bugs and errors
- Assist customer in trouble shooting errors and differences between source data in SAP CRM system and SAP BW system and SAP Webi Reports.
- Assist customer in logging bugs and defects in Mercury quality system for correction.
- Performed Cross BU alignment and resolution on interdepartmental software issues
Responsibility #2: Product Group Business Unit (PC, Workstations, Servers, Peripherals )
- Assist customer in understanding the capabilities and limitations of SAP Business Warehouse, xCelsius and Web Intelligence
- Performed Cross BU alignment and resolution on interdepartmental software issues
- Assist customer in developing departmental reporting requirements
- Attended weekly and daily conference calls with Beijing Development team to resolve team questions and to clarify software requirements
- Tested software deliveries for conformance to requirements and for bugs and errors
- Created training Powerpoints and gave training webinars on SAP Business Objects
- Customer wanted to know if it was possible to collect sales data on each unit sold rather than being summarized in bulk at the country level? I advised customer it was quite possible to collect transactional level sales data on each unit sold using SAP BW. Assisted customer to develop a list of 75 attributes and features that the end customer can see and are aware of such as hard drive size, color, etc. Used my management consulting hat to assist customer to create requirement specifications for the sale-by-sale attributes reports providing drill down and summary level reporting on specific products or product families. This was new information never before available to this customer. This allowed the customer to know what products were hot sellers and in which markets and what products to drop from the product line or which hot selling products to offer in new markets. This was information and a capability never before possible to this customer.
- Developed some best practices for the best way to create xCelsius Dashboards
- Developed some best practices for how to convert dashboard formats between xCelsius and Webi reports
- Developed a best practice for Requirements Gathering and Specification for xCelsius Dashboards and Webi Reports. My techniques reduced the requirements gathering process from typically a 2 month process with this customer to a 3 week process (a 5 week reduction).
Responsibility #3: Mature Group Business Unit (i.e. North America, Canada)
- Performed Cross BU alignment and resolution on interdepartmental software issues
- Read software specifications and Created Test Director test plans for upcoming Mature Group software release
- Advised customer what was possible or not possible for SAP BW & Business Objects
Responsibility #4: RSD group
- Attend daily and weekly conference calls
- Perform Cross BU alignment to resolve issues
- Created training material
- Trained co-workers
- Created internal Microsoft Access Cross BU KPI Database. The Customer’s Internal development team in China had actually implemented over 42,000 different KPI’s. Many of them were repeats of the same thing with slight variations in definitions. The question is how do you get a handle on 42,000 KPI’s for 1 company? I inventoried all the requirements documentation, all the Webi Universes, all the Webi Reports, all the embedded formulas within the delivered Webi Reports and I created an Access Database called the Cross BU KPI Database. I also used 1 intern to help me gather this information. The database allows people to search for a particular KPI, identify all the different variations of that KPI, identify all the different reports each KPI was located in, identify which BU owned that report as well as gave end users the ability to update descriptions for any given KPI. The database allowed me to upload information in bulk or 1 KPI at a time. The database also allowed Developers to identify which reports would be affected by changes to any particular KPI.
- This customer did not have a project folder which is a basic element of any project. Because of this the customer was suffering from information hiding and had a terrible time keeping all team members updated and almost no one had the latest revision of any documentation. So I made a preliminary list of folders I recommend the customer should have in a project folder. I also asked every team member what folders they though they needed or would like to see. I then organized the folder list into logical software releases. I then identified a globally visible publicly available internal database. I then asked my intern to create all the different project folders on my list in the order as I had it. The next task was to load a critical mass of project documentation into the project folder. This is still ongoing even though I am not there anymore.
7/2011 – 9/2011 Position: SAP BI/BW Reporting Education
Customer:
Project: GFEBS – General Funds Enterprise Business Systems Go-Live Project
Client Name |
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Product |
BI Reporting – End user education and training |
Industry |
U.S. Military, Public Sector |
Roles |
SAP BI Reporting Training |
Metrics |
none |
SAPSub-Projects |
none |
Team Size |
2 |
Start Date |
7/2011 |
End Date |
9/2011 |
Location 1 |
St. Augustine Florida |
Security Clearance Required |
Yes, PPT |
The Customer will go live with GFEBS (gee-febs) September 2011. The users are all new SAP users and they wanted me to give them training on how to work with the BI reports.
Responsibility #1: SAP Business Warehouse Intelligence Reporting Training
- Developed user requested presentation / Training materials to help the end users to get up to speed as quickly as possible with the BI reports.
- Presented the end user training in a classroom setting.
- Worked one-on-one with end users to get them up to speed on their BI reports
- Developed a “Cheat Sheet” of the various 200 or so BI reports delivered for GFEBS. The cheat sheet has quick links to the actual report as well as a quick synopsis of each report.
- BI Reporting Cheat Sheet is useful as a quick desk reference guide to help customer locate the right report quickly and launch it without having to spend time sorting through the GFEBS to find a suitable BI Report which could take a long time.
4/2010 – 10/2010 Position: SAP BW / BI & SAP Business Objects Consultant
Customer:
Project: Business Objects – Management Dashboard Project
Client Name |
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Product |
Business Objects – Management Dashboard |
Industry |
IS- Retail; Grocery Food Retail, Mfg., Warehouse Distribution |
Roles |
Project Lead Design Standards – Design lead SAP Business Warehouse 3.5 / Business Intelligence 7.0 – Design Lead Business Objects – Design Lead Web Intelligence – Design Lead CrystalReports – Design Lead BW BEx Query – Design Lead, ABAP – Design Lead ETL Custom Data Extraction – Design Lead Inventory Business Content – Lead |
Metrics |
Sales, Inventory, MRP Control |
SAP Sub-Projects |
3 |
Team Size |
5 |
Start Date |
4/2010 |
End Date |
10/2010 |
Location 1 |
Huntsville, Alabama |
Location 2 |
Remote |
Security Clearance Required |
no |
Grace Kennedy Jamaica, is the largest grocery store chain in Jamaica with a multi-national distribution chain. Customer needed a Business Objects Management Dashboard to automate and cut cost of reporting day-to-day operating activity and this is what my team proposed, designed, developed and successfully delivered.
A Business Intelligence - Business Objects management dashboard requires understanding of the customer’s business, the metrics the customer uses to manage their business and the customer’s ERP systems. These 3 areas of understanding are combined in a graphic form and presented to management in semi-real time using Business Objects, Live Office, Crystal Reports, BW BEx Query and a BW/BI data warehouse.
Responsibility #1: SAP Business Warehouse Intelligence / Business Objects Dashboard (Project Manager / Lead).
- Got customer requirements, designed initial Business Warehouse solution, Business Objects dashboard, did final R/3 to BOBJ dashboard data validation.
- Set standards for design, naming conventions, and made final decisions considering the alternatives.
- When junior team members did not know how to do something, I taught them how, then monitored them while they built the BW 3.5 back-end objects, ETL/DTL custom extractors, ODS’, Cubes, Multi-providers and Process Chains for SD, MM, Inventory and MRP Management dashboards.
- Led weekly team meeting with customer and client.
- Tracked, managed implementation schedule with customers.
Responsibility #2: Business Objects Dashboard (Design / Developer / Lead)
- Dashboard layout and design, graphic chart selection.
- Data selection controls
- Chart selection controls
- Set up parameter passing
- Drove requirements for Crystal Report feeds.
- Personally built Crystal Reports to pass data from BW/BI BEx Query to xCelsius.
- Pulled R/3 data, conducted Dashboard Data validation
- Ensured that theSAPIntegration Kit with MDX driver was installed correctly
- Ensured the entire tool chain was up and running properly and working.
Responsibility #3: Crystal Reports (Design / Developer / Lead)
- Converted customer requirements into BI / BOBJ dashboard prototypes.
- Converted BOBJ dashboard requirements into Crystal Reports.
- Designed, built and tested Crystal Reports.
- Validated Crystal Reports against BW / BI data
- Validated BW / BI data against R/3 data to ensure data accuracy.
- Drove requirements forSAPBW BEx Query designer.
- Created, Built, Tested, Debugged SAP BW Queries
Responsibility #4: SAP BW BEx Query designer (Design / Developer / Lead)
- Converted Crystal Reports requirements into SAPBW queries.
- Designed, built and tested BW queries.
- Validated BW / BW BEx Query results against R/3 to ensure data accuracy.
Responsibility #5: SAP BW data warehouse (Design / Developer / Lead)
- Installed Business Content for: Sales, Inventory, MRP.
- Learned from customer how to use the R/3 tools for Sales, Inventory Control and MRP.
- Continued development ofSAPBW data warehouse for Inventory and MRP Controller.
- Developed naming strategies Inventory and MRP controller objects, BW Queries, Crystal Reports and Business Objects.
- Built BW Objects, Tables, Cubes, DataSources, and Process Chains.
- Wrote Custom Datasource Extractors, Update rules and Transfer Rules using ABAP
- Froze system during weekend, loaded Inventory data (took 10 hours), loaded historical Inventory data using flat files which I created from R/3 downloads.
9/2009 – 12/2009 Position: SAP BW Consultant
Customer:
Project: Business Intelligence - Business Objects Management Dashboard Project
Client Name |
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Product |
Business Objects - Management Dashboard |
Industry |
IS- Retail; Grocery Food Retail, Mfg., Warehouse Distribution |
Roles |
SAPBW 3.5 – Lead SAP BI 7.0 - Lead BI BEx Query – Design Lead / Trainer ABAP – Lead ETL/DTL Custom Data Extraction – Lead Sales Business Content – Lead Basis - Support |
Metrics |
Sales |
SAPSub-Projects |
1 |
Team Size |
3 |
Start Date |
9/2009 |
End Date |
12/2009 |
Location 1 |
HuntsvilleAlabama |
Location 2 |
Remote |
Security Clearance Required |
no |
Responsibility #1: Develop SAP BW Data Warehouse for IS-Retail.
- Developed initialSAPBW 3.5 Sales Data Warehouse
- Developed system wide object naming strategy.
- Built all BW Objects, Tables, Cubes, DataSources, InfoPackages and Process Chains
- Wrote custom ABAP functions for populating fields in custom DataSources
- Loaded data into SAP BW / BI data warehouse
Responsibility #2: Basis support .
Their Basis person was weak and not up to the job. To save the project, I spent 3 weeks in October troubleshooting BW problems that were BASIS or Unix issues. So after troubleshooting the problems and determining the BASIS fix myself, I informed the BASIS person step-by-step how to fix the problems. This was not my job but if I did not do that, the project would have failed in October. Instead I was able to finish the project successfully and make happy customers.
- Troubleshoot and fix EDI Partner issues
- Troubleshoot and fix IDOC message passing problems
- Teach Basis person how to do Transports.
7/27/2009 – 8/14/2009 Position: SAP BW 3.5 & BI 7.0 Consultant
Project: Special Projects
Security Clearance: Active Government Security Clearance
Client Name |
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Product 1 |
SAPBI 7.0 Report Conversion |
Product 2 |
Site Visitor Tracking and Reporting |
Product 3 |
SAPBW/FI Report Demo Project |
Product 4 |
SAPBW 3.5 andSAPBW 7.0 Training |
Industry |
National Security - Nuclear |
Roles |
SAPBW 3.5 toSAPBI 7.0 Report Conversion BW BEx Query – Lead ABAP – Lead ETL/DTL Custom Data Extraction – Lead |
Metrics |
Report Conversion, Visitor Tracking |
SAPSub-Projects |
1 |
Team Size |
3 |
Start Date |
7/27/2009 |
End Date |
8/14/2009 |
Location 1 |
|
Security Clearance Required |
Yes |
Responsibility #1: Report Conversion
- ConvertedSAPBW 3.5 Reports toSAPBI 7.0 Reports
Responsibility #2: Visitor Tracking and Reporting
- Reporting forPAS(Visitor Management System)
- Developed a reporting strategy that involved doing math and calculations on dates
- Developed a custom ABAP extract function to pull 189 different tracking dates from the source system and assigned these dates to both Key Figures and Characteristics
- Built Characteristics, Key Figures, DSO’s, InfoSets, Multi-providers, and Queries
- Programmed Report Designer 7.0, using mathematical operators (not a normal capability).
- Developed several end-user reports based around these dates
Responsibility #3: SAP BW – FI/CO Report Demo Project
- BI/BW Demo for Core Finance
- Architected, Implemented and Presented a BW reporting solution for Core Finance
- Extracted data from home built financial reporting system
- Developed a BW FI data warehouse for the Demo
- Developed BI 7.0 Reports as a Demonstration Project for the CUSTOMER Finance team.
Responsibility #4: SAP BW Training
- Gave one-on-oneSAPBW Training to CUSTOMER Staff
- Got them up to speed on how to write their own BW / BI Queries on BEx.
9/24/2008 – 4/17/2009 Position: SAP BW Consultant
Project: (Core Financial)
Security Clearance: Active
Client Name |
|
Product 1 |
US Government Travel Manager |
Product 2 |
|
Product 3 |
Core FinancialSAPBW Data Warehouse Maintenance |
Product 4 |
Agency Wide Functional And Technical Data Model |
Industry |
National Security – Nuclear |
Roles |
SAPBW 3.5 &SAPBW 7.0 Report Development Problem Investigation and Fix Reverse Engineer Legacy System Data Model Design / Development |
Metrics |
Finance |
Team Size |
178 |
Start Date |
9/24/2008 |
End Date |
4/17/2009 |
Location 1 |
HuntsvilleAlabama |
Security Clearance Required |
Yes |
Responsibilities: SAP BW 3.5 & 7.0 Consultant
- Active Government Security Clearance
- US Government Travel Manager
- Investigated and fixed end user reporting complaints
- Travel
- Investigated and fixed end user reporting complaints
- Reverse engineered the current system, recommended multiple design improvements
- Developed and Presented a complete end-to-end integrated design solution for FedTraveler.com
- Core FinancialSAPBW Data Warehouse
- I supportedSAPBW Reporting and Issue resolution for the following Core Financial areas:
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Historical Reimbursable Reports
- Budget Execution
- Budget Document Detail
- Funds Distribution
- Plan vs Actual
- PY Budget Structure
- Cost Management
- Cost Management
- Full Cost
- Contractor Reported Cost
- Cost Over Obligations/Downward Adjustments
- Cost Pool Reconciliation
- Historical Labor Reports
- General Ledger
- Official Labor
- Purchasing
- Travel
- Standard Management Queries & Reports
- SAPBW Data Model
- Reverse Engineered CustomersSAPBW Core Financial Legacy System.
- Analyzed and Drew in minute detail CustomersSAPBW Data Model and associated ABAP software.
- Delivered Customers first and only Agency Wide Technical and Functional Data Model Drawings.
- My Data Model Drawings have had many positive effects:
- Reduced End User complaint investigation response time significantly; typically from 1 week to a few hours.
- Provided all otherSAPBW developers with a clear view, for the first time, of the completeSAPBW Architecture which had been developed ad-hoc over the years.
- Provided a blueprint for Customer's SAPBW Data Warehouse upgrade project
- Indicated where efficiency improvements can be made.
- ReducedSAPBW development time by several months resulting in customer savings.
7/9/2007 – 5/30/2008 Position: Sr. SAP BW PM
Project: Govt. ERP Project
Client Name |
|
Product 1 |
SAPBW Data Validation Project Manager |
Product 2 |
SAPPS (Project Systems) Data Extraction |
Product 3 |
Legacy SystemSAPBW Production Support |
Product 4 |
SAPBW Trainer |
Industry |
Military |
Roles |
SAPBW 3.5 toSAPBW 7.0 Report Conversion BW / BI BEx Query – Lead ABAP – Lead ETL Custom Data Extraction – Lead APD: Analysis Process Designer – Expert Level |
Metrics |
AM: Asset Management; CO: Controlling; FI: Finance; FM: Funds Management; GL: General Ledger; MM: Materials Management (PO, PR); PS: Project Systems; SD: Sales and Distribution; TM: Travel Management; WFM: Work Force Management |
SAPSub-Projects |
4 |
Team Size |
7 |
Start Date |
7/9/2007 |
End Date |
5/30/2008 |
Location 1 |
San Diego, California |
Security Clearance Required |
Yes |
Responsibility #1: SAP BW Data Validation PROJECT MANAGER
- Data Migration Validation,
- Built Migration Extract Files to keep the U.S. Customer’s San DiegoSAPBW Legacy Production System running and functional.
- Led a team of 7 BW consultants responsible for testing every record of every field of every file from every Customer base (5) involved in the Customer ERP common system migration project, approximately 10,000 data objects.
- Developed BW processes which achieved a high degree of standardization, repeatability and scalability which was important for this project and a significant level of data quality and customer satisfaction.
- Developed BW, APD and ABAP data quality assurance processes that assure 100% data quality, a key military specification.
- Customer expressed deep appreciation for the results achieved
- As part of my BW Data Validation Project Manager role, I wrote 4 white papers:
- BW Data Validation Architecture
- BW Naming Standards
- BW Data Validation Process Chain Architecture
- BW Data Validation Automation
- Developed BW Architecture and Naming Standards for: Scalability, Traceability, Audibility, Self-Managing, Self-Documenting, and Simplicity
- Designed BW Architecture Design which can scale to any dimension (Vertically or Horizontally) and is currently scaled to 5 Customer Bases, 11 functional areas, over ten-thousand data objects, 310 APD data validation models and approximately 108 process chains and is infinitely expandable.
- I designed and builtSAPBW back-ends & front-end queries for the following 10 functional areas:
- AM: Asset Management (AM)
- CO: Controlling (CO)
- FI: Finance (FI)
- FM: Funds Management (FM)
- GL: General Ledger (GL)
- MM: Materials Management (MM)
- PS: Process Systems (PS)
- SD: Sales and Distribution (SD)
- TM: Travel (TM)
- WFM: Work Force Management (WFM)
- Wrote ABAP test routines for over ten-thousand data objects
- Architected and implemented process chains for automating the data validation BW processes, scripts and reporting queries.
- Developed automated object naming tool which cut out 99% of the naming effort and freed up significant additional development time.
Responsibility #2: Build Data Extract Files
- Developed data file extraction routines to extract R/3 Project Systems data using InfoSpokes.
Responsibility #3: Local BW Production System Support
- Responsible for the existing San Diego Customer Base’sSAPBW production legacy system. This is the current local BW system that is to be replaced after the Customer ERP project “Go-Live”.
- Optimized memory management which freed up around 340 Gig of memory space. This increased system up-time toward 99.999%.
- Responsible for Year End Closing and Fiscal Year Change Over
Responsibility #4: Local BW Trainer
- Redesigned the BW Architecture to be easy to understand.
1/2/2007 – 2/9/2007 Position: SAP BW / SAP HR - contractor
Project: ISIS / ECC 5.0 BW HR Upgrade Project
Client Name |
|
Product 1 |
SupportSAPr/3 4.6C toECC5.0 upgrade |
Product 2 |
SAPBW 3.5 to BI 7.0 Upgrade |
Product 3 |
SAPHR: Human Resources Custom Reporting |
Industry |
Telephony |
Roles |
SAPBW 3.5 toSAPBW 7.0 Report Conversion BW BI BEx Query – Lead |
Sub-Projects |
3 |
Team Size |
1 |
Start Date |
1/2/2007 |
End Date |
2/9/2007 |
Location 1 |
PhoenixArizona |
Location 2 |
ChicagoIllinois |
Security Clearance Required |
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- SAPR/3 4.6C toECC5.0 upgrade (23 countries).
- SAPBW 3.5 to BI 7.0 upgrade.
- BuiltSAPBW back-ends & queries for the following functional areas:
- HR: Human Resources (HR)
- Mastered theSAPHR module andSAPHR –SAPBW interfaces.
- Implemented Generic Extractors. Maintained the communication structure and transfer rules, InfoSources and InfoProviders. Built ODS objects, InfoSets, InfoCubes, Characteristics and Key Figures. Optimized BW data loading.
- Designed and implemented HR reports for Benefits, Health Insurance, 401K savings plan and others.
- Published reports to the Portal.
- Provided technical trouble shooting on outstanding R/3 to BW Heat Tickets.
10/2004 -8/2006 Position: IT Software development, business operations support
- Cut unnecessary operating costs by 90%
- Grew customer base 30% in 2 months
- Installed and configured and successfully launched a Customer Invoicing/Collection system for www.NetworkVista.com.
- Named VP Marketing and Sales February 2006.
- Provided remote overnight Help Desk customer support
- BuiltSAPPortal Server –AMDAthlon 64x2, 3-GIGRam, 70 GIGx2 - Dual Raid HD Arrays, CD-ROM, Floppy Disk, Microsoft Windows 2003 for Small Business OS, MY SQL, Java SDK 1.3.1,SAPEP 5.0.
12/2003-10/2004 Position: BUSINESS PLANNING CONSULTANT
- Completed 7 Business Plan projects covering 11 distinct industries with this Business Broker.
- Licensed Real Estate Salesperson - State ofIndiana- 8/2006
11/1991-11/2003 Delphi Delco Electronic Systems, Japan
Position #1: SAP VEGA PROJECT ABAP DEVELOPER
- ABAP developer on the DelphiSAPVEGA Project
Position #2: Real Time Embedded Software Engineer (Car Engine)
- 12 years experience real time embedded software engineer, project manager, Unix Administrator.
- Over 120 end-to-end real time embedded software projects completed.
- Real Time engine control for 4, 6, 8 cylinder gasoline and diesel engines in Automatic and Manual transmission configurations.
- Managed / Balanced / Handled 4 to 6 simultaneous software projects in any given year.
- Worked in 8 bit and 32 bit assembly language and ANSI C and C/C++.
- Wrote the engine control software for the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 6.6L Dmax diesel engine software. The Chevrolet Silverado was the #1 selling vehicle in North America in 2003 the last year I worked on this software that was over 500,000 lines of code long.
- Worked in global software automotive projects for 12 years with teams in Japan, Indiana, Luxembourg, Korea, Singapore, Melbourne Australia and China.
Position #3: Lead Internal Auditor
- Supervised 3 employees
- Conducted approximately 120 Software Quality Assurance Process Audits
- Licensed Internal Auditor – Lloyd’s registry of quality assurance.
Position #4: Sun and Unix system and Unix tools administrator
- Achieved 100% uptime availability for 12 years 24X7x365
Position #5: Software Sales
- Repackaged what had formerly been given away as packaged services
- Achieved incremental revenues of approximately $90,000,000.00 on a company wide basis.
Position #6: New Employee Trainer
- Trained 15 International Service Personnel
- Developed extensive On-The-Job structured training manuals
- I’m a pretty creative engineer.
10/1990-11/1991 General Motors Corp.
Position: Assistant Chief Power House Engineer
- Supervised 12 unionized Powerhouse Repairmen and Boiler Firemen.
- Ensured the safety of the powerhouse
- Responsible for generating and providing critical utility services vital to the plant
- Licensed Stationary Engineer
05/1985-10/1990 General Motors Corp.
Position: Plant Maintenance Supervisor
- Supervised 33 unionized maintenance and preventive maintenance skilled trade workers daily. These were my own daily people. The whole maintenance dept. had over 400 maintenance personnel all of whom I supervised from time to time over the years.
- Supervised over 100 production employees on the car Head Rest production line periodically for several years.
- Responsible for ensuring 100% production capability of all machines at all times throughout the factory.
- Strong background in automotive industrial process automation.
- Project Manager on $30+ multimillion dollar in-house production line construction projects within and outside this factory.
technical SAP SKILLS:
SAPBusiness Warehouse,
SAPAPD(Analysis process designer),
SAPIntegrated Planning,
SAPABAP,
Business Process Design,
DataWarehouse Design,
DataModeling,
DataExtraction,
ODS Objects, InfoCubes, MultiProviders, Characteristics,KeyFigures, MasterData,
DataMart,
OpenHUB,
Infospoke,
BEx Query,
WebEnabled Queries,
Portal PUBLISHING,
BEx Broadcaster,
Mobile Devices,
User Security,
User Authorizations,
gisMAPINTEGRATION
dATARECONCILLIATION
Assembly,ANSIC, C/C++, UNIX, LINUX, SQL, UNIX SCRIPT, Certified Internal Auditor,
SAPBW, BPS, ABAP,APD, HR, PS, Netweaver, Business Objects, XCELSIUS, IBM Cognos 8, CRYSTALREPORTS, MAYA, MEL
EDUCATION: Temple University Japan Graduated in 2000
Masters of Business Administration (MBA)
Indiana Institute of Technology Graduated in 1985
Bachelor of Science Engineering
PROFESSIONAL SAP CERTIFICATION/TRAINING:
SAP FORMAL TRAINING
SAP BW ACADEMY – SAP Thailand (Sept - Oct 2006, June 2007)
TBW10 – Data Warehousing
TBW20 – Business Information Warehouse Reporting & Analysis
TBW30 –SAPBusiness Intelligence (SAPBI) Data Staging & Extraction
TBW40 – Business Information Warehouse Modeling and Authorizations
TBW45 – Business Planning and Simulation
BW305 – BI –EnterpriseReporting, Query & Analysis
BW310 – BI – Data Warehousing – Netweaver
BW365 –SAPBI – User Management & Authorizations
DBW70P –SAPNetweaver BI Integrated Planning
DBW70R –SAPBI –EnterpriseReporting, Query, & Analysis, Delta 3.x -> BI
SAP ABAP COURSES TAKEN AT DELPHI
BC430 - ABAP Dictionary
BC425 - Enhancements and Modification
BC406 - Advanced Techniques of List Processing
BC405 - Techniques of List Creation
BC400 - Introduction to the ABAP Workbench
SAPScript
ABAP Objects
Software Development forSAPR/3 – Data Dictionary, ABAP/4, Interfaces
Six Sigma Green Belt Training
Working towardPMIProject Manager Professional Certification
ISO-9000 Certified Internal Auditor, Lead Internal Auditor – Since 1999
PROJECT MANAGEMENT RELATED TRAINING
PMP
Prince2
PMBOK
ASAP
CERTIFICATIONS
Licensed - Real Estate Salesperson (State ofIndiana) 8/2006
Licensed - State ofIndianaStationary Engineer no: 199101
Certified - Japanese Language Proficiency Level 2
Certified –DelphiBusiness Systems Internal Auditor
Certified - Lead Internal Auditor,ISO9000:1994
Certified - Lloyd’s Registry of Quality Assurance Certificate (1997-Present)
Certified –SAPBW 3.5 Certificate
Certified –SAPBPS Certificate
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