Information Technology Sap

VINOD KUMAR KASINATHAN

Business Objects Administrator/ Developer

484-***-**** ********************@*****.*** Malvern, Pennsylvania VISA: L2 EAD

8+ years’ of experience in Information Technology,5+ years of experience in SAP Business Objects Administrator/Developer with progressive development and implementation projects and 2+ years in SAP Business Objects Testing.

Experience with Installing SAP Business Objects R3.X\4.0\4.1\4.2 versions on linux/windows and Administration of entire hardware and software products like Tomcat, and Apache (Clustered and Standalone environments) and testing BO application, Upgrading to different Service Packs/Fix Packs.

Effectively administered and supervised the Business Objects (SAP BI) environment by monitoring/granting permissions and rights to users for viewing, creating and publishing reports.

Experience in installing the BOE client Tools like Dashboard Design, Design Studio, Live Office.

Experience in installing BOE add on for SAP BO Mobile client service and design studio

Experience in Migration Tools.

Expertise in CMC, creating user, groups, creating access levels,setting up the top level folder and sub folder level securities for folder content, universes and connection list.

Experience in developing reports in WebIntelligence for Auditing.

Worked on HP to HPE Branding report development using Crystal and WebIntelligence reports.

Experience in shell scripting.

Good Knowledge in SAP HANA data modeling

Established track record for excellent customer support, recruiting of technical staff and mentoring.

Good Knowledge in creating dashboards using design studio.

Experience in creating Information space in Explorer.

Experience in working with US Clients.

Work Experience

CAPGEMINI- Bangalore, India

Senior Consultant (Business Objects Administrator)

Aug 2016 to Feb 2017

Job Responsibility

User, Content and Server management, security setup and administration

Importing users, groups, and reports using the Upgrade management tool from SAP 3.x to 4.1

Performed user management tasks using Central Management Console (CMC)

Created and Maintained Users, Groups, Folders, and Connections and Security Setup to them using Central management console (CMC).

Maintaining development, test and production environments.

Provided production support activities and user support.

Promoting the universe/reports between the environments.

Testing the reports, universes for validation after migration.

Part of recruitment and responsible for technical interviews.

KPIT- Bangalore, India

Senior Technical Consultant (Business Objects Administrator & Developer)

Product Group: Hewlett Packard (Support & Development)

Jan 2015 to July 2016

Job Responsibility

Installing BOE server 4.1 SP 4 in Linux machines.

Performance tuning the Job servers, web-application servers, and scaling the BOE enterprise etc.,

Migrating the content from SAP 3.x to 4.1 using Upgrade management tool.

Configuring Audit database and creating the reports as per requirement.

Promoting the content from DEV-ITG-PRO environment.

Migration/up-gradation of the BOE platforms from SAP 4.0 to 4.1 SP 4 Patch.

Defining the security for end user requirement.

Have good knowledge on security architecture defined the in the company.

Modifying the changes in crystal reports as per customer requirements for HP branding.

Worked as L3/L4 Support for customers.

Configured Business Objects enterprise for Windows AD/LDAP authentication and SAP integration.

Provided 24x7 production supports.

Conversion of Desktop Intelligence report to webintelligence reports using the Report Conversion Tool.

Developed shell script for updating the tns entries in all machines.

Creating the dashboards as per customer requirement in design studio.

Part of recruitment and responsible for technical interviews.

SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd.-Bangalore, India

Senior Quality Engineer

July 2009 to Jan 2015

Job Responsibility

Installing BOE server in windows and Unix platform.

Installing SAP Business objects Client App on IOS and testing the functionality.

Installing Mobile Service in Linux Server for to establishing the connectivity between the server and Mobile Client App.

Experience in installing the SAP BO Explorer in windows 2k8 server.

Involved in acceptance testing, UI testing, and functional testing of BOE, Universes, Webi, and OLAP Reports.

Configuring Hardware [Windows and UNIX] as per requirements.

Replicating customer environment for testing.

Setting up baselines for earlier releases for FP, SP Testing.

Installing Service packs and Fix packs.

Experience in installing SAP BODS in Windows BOE server for testing.

Test Case Authoring.

Reporting New Bugs in Business Objects using a defect –tracking tool IBM Clear Quest and JIRA tool.

Validating the bugs on daily basis.

Worked on configuring SAP HANA studio, adding new server, restarting the server, backup database.

Mentoring new joinees

Education

Sikkim Manipal University, Bangalore, India

Masters in Information Technology

Bangalore University, Bangalore, India

Bachelors in Computer Science

Skills

Business Objects Administration (5 years), Business Objects Reporting (Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence) (1 year), Business Objects Migration (3 years), Crystal Reports (1 year), ETL (BODS) (1 years) Business Objects Testing (2 years)

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinod-kumar-70592497/

Additional Information

Primary Skill Set:

• SAP Enterprise Products

• Reporting (Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, Crystal Reports and Design Studio)

• ETL (BODS)

Highlights of Skills:

• Business Intelligence

• Data Warehousing

• Methodologies like Agile, Scrum, Waterfall

• Customer Handling

• Product Implementation

• Process Improvement

• Migration

• Authentication

• Server Administration

• Sizing and Performance tuning

• Planning, Installation, Configured SAP BI 4.x on Windows Server 2008 R2,Linux and Unix

• SAP Business Objects 4.1, 4.0, 3.x and XIR2

• Security Setup

• Business Objects Clustering

• Multitenancy

• Auditing

• Publication

• Universe Development (UDT, IDT) and Reports Development

• Dashboards and Reporting (Webi, Crystal Report)

• Networking Concepts and Inter-networking Concepts such as firewalls, communication protocols, proxy servers

• Resourceful, creative, problem-solver

Additional Technical Skills

Technology : SAP BI, OLAP, Live Office.

Operating Systems :Windows 2012, […] Sun Solaris, Red hat Linux, SUSE Linux, AIX

Databases : Oracle, MS-SQL, SAP BW, DB2, MySQL, SAP HANA, SQL Anywhere

Programming Language: Core Java

Testing: Manual and automation testing

Business Objects Tools (Includes SAP BI4.x, XI3.1 and older version)

• Upgrade Management Tool, Life Cycle Management/Promotion Management,

• BI Launchpad, Web Intelligence Rich Client, Desktop Intelligence, Live Office, CMC, CCM, Infoview, Import Wizard, Information Design Tool, Universe Designer Dashboard Design, Design Studio.

• WEB/Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, IIS

SAP Business Objects Skills

BO Deployment

• Performed several n-tier deployments, configured Business Objects clusters on Windows and UNIX platform.

• Planned, Installed configured SAP BI 4.1 SP04 on Windows 2012 Server and Red hat Linux

• Deployment of BO on Tomcat and on Windows and UNIX platform.

• Configured Tomcat clusters.

• Performed split deployment on Apache Server.

• Configuring Business Objects CMS and Auditor database on Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, and MySQL

• Migration from Business Objects Classic products ( 5.5, 6.5), Crystal Enterprise (8.5, 9 and 10), Business Objects Enterprise XI R1 and R2 to SAP Business Objects XI 3.1 and SAP Business Objects BI 4.x.

• Promotions and migrations using LCM, UMT.

• Implemented mobility using SAP Business Objects Mobile.

BO Administration

• Created intuitive and logical organizational structure for clients to create Groups and Folders hierarchy.

• To map out content management strategy for the organization to create a security model.

• Capacity-planning, server sizing, performance tuning.

• Scheduling and publishing report jobs. Good knowledge of publication and report bursting.

• Good understanding of Multi-tenancy architecture.

BO Authentication

• Implemented SSO and manual with AD, LDAP and SAP authentication on all BO applications.

• Knowledge of third party authentication tools such as Site Minder.

Web Intelligence

• Working on testing and Maintenance of Web Intelligence and Desktop Intelligence Reports performance related issues, Reports on Bex queries, BICS connectivity. Performance issues related to Adaptive job Server and Web Intelligence processing Server and Adaptive Processing Server

• Created reports based on UNV as well as UNX

• Created the reports using Business Objects functionality's like Queries, Slice and Dice, Drill Down, Cross Tab, Master Detail and Formulae's etc.

• Organized data in the report Inserting Filters, Sorting, Ranking and highlighting data.

Xcelsius / Dashboard

• Good knowledge of Dashboard Design. Working on tools such as Live Office, Xcelsius, BI Widgets, QaaWS.

• Working on Open Document, Dashboard design server troubleshooting and performance tuning.

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