Sri Kamana
Present Address:
Cell Phone: 630-***-****
Alternate: 630-***-****
Streamwood, IL, United States of America 60107
Email: aceeby@r.postjobfree.com,
Objective: To engage clients and provide SAP Business Analytics thought leadership
Summary: Global Practice Director DW/BI, Bristlecone Inc (Part of Mahindra & Mahindra). Senior
Manager, Accenture Certified Solution Architect, belonging to SAP Analytics Practice, North America Data
Warehouse & Business Intelligence (HANA/BOBJ/BW) Technology Growth Platform Practice. Extremely
Hands On & Deep technically & a thought leader with a passion to help companies revitalize their
business with SAP BI technology. Global Program Delivery & Sales Experience Including Big Bang
Implementations across multiple countries & played the roles such as Program Delivery Lead, BI Solution
Architect, BI Quality Assurance Director for 100+ million Diamond Clients. Responsible for repeat
business and BI footprint via relationship management & value proposals
Education:
• MS, Masters in CIS, Alabama A & M University, 4.0 GPA, Presidents Honor Roll (1997-1999)
• MPM (IT), Masters In IT Project Mgt. - George Washington University, Business School (2007)
• MBA, Masters in Business Administration, JNT University, Business School (1993-1995)
Total IT Work Experience: 18+ years. Total SAP BI Experience: 15+ years
Total (BW/BI/BOBJ) Full Life Cycle Implementations: 10+ years
Total Global Roll Out Life Cycle Implementations: 7 years
HANA Implementation Experience: 4
(2 full life cycle implementations on HP HANA Server Proliant DL580 G7, 512gig DB & BOBJ 4.0)
(1 full life cycle implementation on CISCO HANA Server UCS 5108/B200 M2 & BOBJ 4.0)
Full Sales Cycle Experience including Solution Architecting and Estimation Modeling:
BI/BW/BOBJ: 9+ years, HANA: 3+
SAP BI Direct (New) & Indirect (Managed and Service) Yearly Revenue P&L Handled: 10-12 Million
Industries Served: Life sciences, Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals, Publishing, Telecommunications,
Pharma & Chemicals, Manufacturing, Retail, Computer Peripherals, Software and IT, Financial
Investments Consumer Packaged Goods, Public Organizations (Department of revenue), Agriculture
Work Legal Status: U.S Citizen
Travel: 100% (Domestic and International), Travelled Extensively for BI Implementations for rollouts
across all the 4 regions (EU, APAC, LATAM and NA). Extensive exposure to HANA Sales life cycle and
solution architecture for RFP’s and RFI’s during engagements
Software Quality Certificate:
Awarded 6 SIGMA Industry Standard Software Quality Green Belt
Project, Program and Change Management Methodologies Expertise:
MGATES, RAD, Waterfall, AGILE, ASAP, Cognizant 2.0. Accenture Sales Management for Partners,
Accenture’s Proven ADM methodology, BW, BI & HANA Estimation tools, BI Center of Excellence
programs
Mega Process Areas Exposure:
OTC, P2P, P2M, PLTP, GATP, FTM, R2R, I2S, SHE, SAP CRM & SAP APO
Major Process Areas Exposure:
PP, Procurement, Inventory Management, storage and Transportation, COPA, FICO, SD, HR
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Technical Skill Set:
• Excellent Senior Management, PMO experience, Team Building and Communication Skills.
• SAP HANA 1.x, sales life cycle, solution architecture, Several Integration Scenario experiences for
POC and POV
• Business Warehousing (BW) Skills: SAP Data Architecting, Modeling & Reporting with BW 3.5 and
SAP Netweaver2004s (SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0). ERP Skills Extensive exposure: SAP R/3 (ECC 6.0),
APO, BPS
• SAP Reporting Tools:, BOBJ 3.x and 4.0
• Extensive experience with SAP BIA/BWA
• Programming Languages: ABAP, C, C++, JAVA, PL/SQL, SQL PLUS
• OOD Methodologies: Booch, Rambaugh, UML. OOD Tools: Rational Rose 85 & 2000.
• Operating Systems: MS DOS, MS WINDOWS 2000/NT/98/95, UNIX
• RDBMS/Database: Oracle, SQL Server, Microsoft Access 97 and 2000
• Oracle Tools: Developer 2000(Forms 4.5, Reports 2.0)
• Debuggers: ddd, gdb, Single Step In Circuit Trace 32 Lauterbach debugger
Certificate/Training @ Q-School, Accenture llc:
Mandatory Partner Training – Sales Cycle Management, Negotiations, Relationship Management,
Accenture Certified BI Solution Architect Training via Accenture Delivery Methodology (ADM)
HANA 1.0 Certified (2012)
Certificate/Training @ Nalco University, Naperville, IL:
PMI – Executive Leadership Workshops
TechEd 08, Presenter, Generic Dashboards. Also Presented at Gartner, Chicago 08
Certified BW Solutions Architect.3.x and 7.0
Certificate Training @ Motorola University Schaumburg, IL, Motorola Inc:
Clearcase (UNIX/NT), DDTS, JAVA (Application
Programming), Rational Rose (OOD - Design Tools), Advanced Technology & Software Operations
Process Training, FAGAN (Software Code Inspections), PMI-Project Management Certificate Courses
Employment History & Primary Clients Engagement History:
Retail Independent Consultant, Feb 2014 – May 2014
Roadmap, Integration & Strategy (BW on BIA) to (BW on HANA) to (Full HANA Migration)
Functional Components: (Traversity/Micros) POSDM (BI), Inventory, Procurement, Old GL, Space
Planning, WM, Store Operations, Member Points System
Technical Landscape: BW 7.3, Data Services recently upgraded to 4.1, BOBJ 4.1 SP2, BW On HANA
Rev 69 (IBM Blades)
Bristlecone Inc: Global Practice Director DW/BI, April 2013 – Jan 2014
Bristlecone Inc: Independent Consultant DW/BI, Jan 2013 – April 2013
• Manage the overall DW/BI practice for program delivery & client partnerships globally
• Responsible for overall client satisfactions & effective mining
• Responsible for building overall IP for Data & IM, with focus in SAP HANA
• Responsible for increasing footprint via effective pre-sales and support to the Global Field
Operations, creating GTM for offerings and account planning for net new and via active mining
• Target 12 Million Net New Bookings Globally for DW (Accomplished 120% of revenues)
Accenture llc: Senior Manager (BI Solution Architect), April 2011-Dec 2012
o CF Industries (Tera Acquisition), IL, USA
o EMC2, MA, USA (Big Bang SAP Implementation)
o PA Department of Revenue. PHL, USA
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o DuPont (Danisco Merger as 14 SBU). PHL, USA
o Alcatel Lucent. NJ USA (Big Bang SAP Implementation)
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W hirlpool Corp (Embraco Merger). MI, USA
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Please note: As a Certified BI Solution Architect, I support a lot more companies, for BI/BOBJ/HANA -
RF(P/Q/I) & Managing the Pre/Post Sales Life Cycle.
Responsible for 10-12 Million Revenues year over year as Client Delivery Track Lead
Accenture SAP Analytics Center of excellence & Chicago Innovation Center Contributions:
• Accenture BI Center of excellence development of HANA sales materials
• Hana/BOBJ/BW/BI In-House Training Material
• Instructor for BI/BW/HANA/BOBJ Q-School training to Accenture analysts/consultants/Managers
• Participation in HANA road shows, building industry solutions - POC’s and POV’s at COE’s
• HANA early adoption, LSA++ case study development
• HANA – Scenarios (HANA-BW, HANA–ECC) training
• Instructor for Senior Leader Mentorship to Accenture Managers at Q-School
• Several Contributions to develop knowledge training materials for BI capability leads for
ASUG/SAPPHIRE/Reporting Analytics conferences
Cognizant Technology Solutions: Senior Manager (BI Solution Architect), Sept 2009-April 2011
• Loblaw. ON, Canada (Big Bang SAP Implementation)
• CIBA VISION. GA, USA (Implemented Sales and Distribution, FICO and P2P) Modules in BI
• Putnam Investments. MA, USA
• AstraZeneca. DE, USA (Responsible for selling (7 Million) Industry first US Aggregate Spend
Analytics & implementing the solution using DW/Applications)
• Autodesk. CA, USA
SAP BI Solution Architect, Jan 2009-Aug 2009
• The Home Depot. GA, USA
• Lexmark Inc. KY, USA
Nalco Inc: Global BW Manager, Sept 2007-Jan 2009
Motorola Inc: Senior SAP Operations Manager, Jan 2000-Aug 2007
Older Employment History
• Tata Donnelley Limited: (R R Donnelly & Sons) IL USA, Jan 1996-Dec 1996
• Sterling Holiday Resorts: Jan 1991-Dec 1992
• OMC Computers Ltd: Jan 1990-Dec 1991
Roles Played (SAP Analytics-HANA/BOBJ/BW/BI):
• Global Practice Director (Technology and Data Integration)
• BI Program Delivery Lead - PMO Office
• BI Program Manager - PMO Office
• BI Sales Account Director - PMO Office
• BI QA Account Director - PMO Office
• BI Solution Architect
• BI Level 1 Escalation Developer
• BI/BOBJ Senior Developer
• BI/BOBJ Developer
• BI Business Analyst
Availability to Discuss Transition: Immediate
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