Sri Kamana

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Email: acb9ym@r.postjobfree.com,

Objective: To engage clients and provide SAP Business Analytics thought leadership

Summary: Independent Consultant And Global Practice Director @ 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 Computer and Information Science, Alabama A & M University, 4.0 GPA,

Presidents Honor Roll

• MPM (IT), Masters In IT Project Management - George Washington University, Business School

• MBA, Masters in Business Administration, JNT University, Business School

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:

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PP, Procurement, Inventory Management, storage and Transportation, COPA, FICO, SD, HR

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:

Bristlecone Inc: Independent Advisor Consultant DW/BI(Current)

• 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 Field Operations

Accenture llc: Senior Manager (BI Solution Architect), April 2011-Dec 2013

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)

o Whirlpool Corp (Embraco Merger). MI, USA

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.

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

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Participation in HANA road shows, building industry solutions - POC’s and POV’s at COE’s

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HANA early adoption, LSA++ case study development

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HANA – Scenarios (HANA-BW, HANA–ECC) training

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Instructor for Senior Leader Mentorship to Accenture Managers at Q-School

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Several Contributions to develop knowledge training materials for BI capability leads for

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ASUG/SAPPHIRE/Reporting Analytics conferences

Cognizant Technology Solutions: Senior Manager (BI Solution Architect), Aug 2009-April 2011

• Loblaw. ON, Canada (Big Bang SAP Implementation)

• CIBA VISION. GA, USA

• Putnam Investments. MA, USA

• AstraZeneca. DE, USA

• 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(Independent Consultant) – IM, Data & TDI

• 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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