KALAIGNAR THANGARAJU

#* ********* *** ****, ***** Falls, VA 22066,

Tel: 1-210-***-****

E-mail: acuj0a@r.postjobfree.com

Total 14+ years professional experience including SAP-BI, BPC, HANA, BOBJ, Cloud Computing SaaS & PaaS, Web Technologies, Mainframe Technologies and Datacenter setup. Hands-on full-cycle implementations experience in SAP Modules - BI, BPC, HANA and Strong Cross Functional knowledge in other modules SD, MM, CRM, COPA and FI etc. Extensive work experience in Manufacturing domain, with material management, sales and accounting. Also worked in HealthCare, FMCG and Finance domain. Very well versed in Onsite and Offshore delivery model. Outstanding leadership skills along with strong Interpersonal Communication, Customer Management and Risk Management skills. A fast learner with a positive attitude and flair for innovative ideas.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

International exposure in ERP consulting and strategic business assignments.

Sound Knowledge in SAP HANA data modeling using Attribute View, Analytic View, Calculation View and used CE Functions

Involved in HANA-SSA (Source System Analysis), Real time Data provisioning, Loading: Real time & Batch jobs

Used SAP BW/Oracle as source and HANA as target with SAP Data Services as the Integrator.

Developed Jobs in SAP Business Objects Data services which carry out ETL between BW/Oracle and HANA.

Sound knowledge and experienced in user management and security in HANA giving privileges to _SYS_BIC, _SYS_REPRO and _SYS_BI_CP_ALL Analytic privileges and implemented Kerberos and SAML

Experienced in loading data from tables in HANA Database to BW data marts

Experienced in implementing SAP BW and SAP BO reporting on the top of SAP HANA

Created Universes on top of HANA calculation views and developed the WEBI reports and dashboards using IDT (Information design tool).

Configuration and competency team building experience in SAP BI, BPC and HANA Modules.

Involved in 8 full life cycle implementation in SAP BI module.

Good SAP BI End-to-End implementation knowledge in SAP ECC 6.0, SD, MM, CRM, HCM, FI, COPA and non-SAP systems.

Identified key BW business processes, mapped requirements to SAP, and identified gaps to be addressed during the design stage. Wrote handbook about the methodology to use for documentation of Processes in analysis and design phase.

Involved in SAP BI testing for modules SD, MM, CRM, FI, COPA and non-SAP systems

Involved in Setup table activities, Business content installation, Generic Data sources, integration with non-SAP source systems such as ORACLE, DB2, building complex Hierarchies, master data, Transaction data etc.

Involved in Process Chain monitoring and production supports

Implementation of SAP BPC for Sales and Sourcing modules.

Generated reports using BEx, WEBI, OLAP, Crystal and Dashboard Reports

Proficient in technologies like Cloud Computing, SaaS, PaaS, Web Technologies, Mainframe Technologies and Datacenter setup.

Managing Knowledge sharing program to build more resources across the modules.

EDUCATION

Obtained a first class Degree in Bachelor of Engineering specialized in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

METHODOLOGIES

Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall, iSAP

SAP

BI, BOBJ, HANA, BPC, SD, ABAP, FICO

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

OO Analysis and Design, Database Design, UML

WEB TECHNOLOGIES

ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, J2EE, JSP, EJB, IBM WebSphere, Java, Oracle Pro*C, Cold Fusion, PHP, AJAX, Crystal Reports, Linux Shell Scripting

MAINFRAME

TECHNOLOGIES

COBOL, CICIS, IMS/DC, JCL, REXX, Panels, Mainframe tools like EXPEDITER/TSO, MHTRAN-2, SMARTTEST, QUIKJOB, MF-REVOLVE, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN. BMC Tool for DB2 and IMS/DB reorg.

TOOLS

Visual Studio 2008, Eclipse, SOFIA Framework, SPRING, Tungsten for MYSQL replication, YOG, Toad

DATABASE

MYSQL, ORACLE, MS-SQL, IMS-DB, DB2, VSAM, MS -ACCESS, SYBASE

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Windows 2012 R2 Server, RHEL5, SUN Solaris 10, Ubuntu Server 12.04, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP HANA Technical Lead Consultant April 2015 – Jan 2016

Flowserve

Responsibilities:

As a Technical delivery lead collaborating with Business Sales, QC and Business Development teams.

Involved in Business Blue print phase, documented AS_IS process.

Involved in HANA-SSA (Source System Analysis), Real time Data provisioning, Loading: Real time & Batch jobs.

Involved in SAP HANA data modeling using Attribute View, Analytic View and Calculation view.

Used SAP BW/Oracle as source and HANA as target with SAP Data Services as the Integrator.

Developed Jobs in SAP Business Objects Data services which carry out ETL between BW/Oracle and HANA.

Configured user management and security in HANA giving privileges to _SYS_BIC, _SYS_REPRO and _SYS_BI_CP_ALL Analytic privileges and implemented Kerberos and SAML.

Loading data from tables in HANA Database to BW data marts. Generated reports using BEx, WEBI and OLAP.

SAP HANA Technical Lead Consultant June 2014 – March 2015

SAB Miller

Responsibilities:

As a Technical delivery lead Involved in Business Blue print phase, documented AS_IS process.

Involved in HANA-SSA (Source System Analysis), Real time Data provisioning, Loading: Real time & Batch jobs.

Involved in SAP HANA data modeling using Attribute View, Analytic View, Calculation view and used CE Functions.

Configured user management and security in HANA.

Created Universes on top of HANA calculation views and developed the WEBI reports and dashboards using IDT (Information design tool).

SAP BW/BPC Lead Consultant Feb 2014 – May 2014

Farmers Insurance

Responsibilities:

As a Technical Lead Consultant collaborating with Business Sales, QC and Business Development teams.

Involved in feasibility study, Testing, reviewer, EPM Function Conversion review, User Exit, Transfer Rules, Process Chain Review and Test Scripts preparations.

Generated short term and long term planning reports – Actual Vs Plan. Involved EPM report testing.

Validated all EPM functions and calculation.

Involved in load test for reports and validated data against production version.

Involved in data loading to Info-objects.

SAP COPA/BW Implementation Lead Sep 2013 – Jan 2014

Tata Global Beverages

Responsibilities:

As an Implementation Lead Identified key BW business processes, mapped requirements to SAP, and identified gaps to be addressed during the design stage.

Wrote handbook about the methodology to use for documentation of Processes in analysis and design phase.

Involved in Client requirements gathering.

Used iSAP (Integrated with Unified Project Management UPM) methodology.

Determined costs estimation, timeline, funding, resource requirements and business objectives.

Risk identification, analysis and response planning.

Managed SAP implementations with several modules in all phases.

Steering group meetings with project stakeholders.

Involved in Info-objects building, installed business content, ETL process, ABAP code for transformations, hierarchy configuration and process chain.

Generated BEx Profitability report – Actual Vs Plan, Inventory Actualization, report similar to KE5A t-code.

SAP Tech Lead Dec 2005 – Jul 2013

Yazaki US Corporation, Inc

Responsibilities:

Managing complete ERP business covering implementation, AMC, enhancement, Solution, Business Strategy and client facing with large team size.

ERP scope includes SAP modules, BI, Solman, Business Object, Main Frame & many interfaces.

Managing implementation of SAP BI for SD, MM, HCM, FI, COPA and non-SAP systems.

Managing project blueprint, realization, cutover phase, data migration and supporting for Parallel run.

Managing SAP SD projects during Blue print phase.

Preparation of high level and WBS project plan including project phases and time line for each phases. Successful completion of POC projects.

Pre project preparation including modeling-proof of concept and client facing. Resource planning, team building and managing all type of resources across SAP BI and SD modules.

Project Risk Management - Actively involved in streamlining critical situations and start up phases.

Managing Knowledge sharing program to build more resources across the modules.

BI Analyst Feb 2004 – Nov 2005

Ford Detroit

The Project Orange is a Visteon and Ford Motor Company IT separation. Modules are identified that are used by Visteon. Once the module is identified all the data is moved to Visteon using Share DASD.

Responsibilities:

Creating BI Objects, Reports in BEx, Dashboard, WEBI, OLAP and Crystal Reports, Process Chains, Setup table activities etc.

Preparing quality process and predefined project templates including RICEF, test cases, test scenarios, test data for all phases of testing with timeline and user manual.

Driving Knowledge sharing program and conducting BI FastTrack training.

FICO Technical Consultant April 2003 – Jan 2004

Ford Detroit

Ford Motor Company uses NASA (North America Sales and Accounting) system for invoicing and pre-releasing of Ford cars. The primary function of NASA system is to sell Ford cars to the dealers and collect money back.

Responsibilities:

Involved in SPRO Configuration and Assignment, Setup Payment Program, Reviewed Vendor Account Balance and Individual line Items, Created Tolerance Groups for Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable, Configured Automatic Postings for Goods Movement, Reviewed Balance Sheet, Income Statements and Cash Flow Statements.

Involved in Testing, Test case preparation, training, go-live support and post implementation.

Focal point for FICO Configuration Change Management control and Quality Management.

ABAP Programmer Jan 2003 – March 2003

Ford Detroit

Ford Motor Company uses MS3 system to maintain parts supplies to Ford's Auto Assembly plants. When new model year cars are to be built, MS3 will load parts to those plants and maintain enough parts in the plant to build a projected number of vehicles. The scope of this project is to add logic for the decommissioned plant.

Responsibilities:

Logic is added to identify decommissioned plant and by pass the processing.

Understanding existing system, Programming for various aspects using ABAP/4 and various other methodologies, which includes Database, Dynamic, sub-screens programming, ABAP Objects, Exceptions handling etc.

Creating Dynpro, WebDynpro, Business Server Pages (BSP), HTMLB and MVC Pattern.

Involved in implementation stages ABAP/4 areas, Data Configuration, Data Migration and Debugging.

Web Programmer June 2001 – Dec 2002

Ford Detroit

Responsibilities:

Ford Motor Company uses COPAC (Centralized Outbound Payment Authorization and Control) system for tracking vehicles shipped from Plant to the dealer across several ramps.

The primary function of the system is to maintain the vehicle shipping information.

The scope of this project is to Expand Plant Code from one byte to three bytes by adding first two byte of WMI (World Manufacturing Indicator) and two bytes of COPAC code.

By making use of this expanded value, the system can be accommodating more number of plants

Onsite Offshore coordinator Jun 2000 – May 2001

Caterpillar Peoria IL

Responsibilities:

Workers Compensation / Disability (WCWD) - Phase 2 project is a Web enabling of the IMS application developed as part of the Phase 1 of the project. Developing a 3-Tier web-based intranet application.

Factory and Warranty Returns System is a web-based application on the Caterpillar Automotive Intranet to support both commercials and quality warranty management.

Caterpillar’s Materials Management System (CMMS) - The primary function of the system is to maintain the parts information and tracking materials. The scope of this project is to Expand Container number from 9 bytes to 27 bytes by adding Container Prefix, Suffix and Control to give more description to the materials. By making use of this expanded value materials can easily be tracked and huge loss to Caterpillar is avoided.

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