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[pic] Name : Nitin Sood

Address : Desertosingel *59, Capelle aan den IJssel,

Netherlands

Phone : +31 6 16869900

E-mail : *********@*****.***

Professional Background

Nitin Sood is an experienced Managing Consultant with professional skills

and certifications in Business Intelligence, Analytics, Project Management

and Customer Service Management. Earned a Bachelor's degree in Commerce and

Business Administration and also certified in SAP HANA, SAP CRM, SAP Web

Intelligence, ITIL Foundation and Energy Industry Generalist.

Nitin is recognized as BI/ Data Management Consultant with deep expertise

and strengths in implementation and support of front-end BI reporting

application including Business Objects. Nitin is technically and

functionally proficient in Data Warehouse applications including SAP

Business Warehouse and SAP HANA. Through a combination of SAP BI and strong

business process analysis skills, successfully worked on technical and

functional side of SAP BI implementation projects.

Build excellent skills and proven success in Project Management and Service

Management. He is praised for facilitating project teams to implement

project management methodologies and to follow the client's Business

Application Management and Project Delivery Framework procedures and

standards.

Nitin performed in diverse roles including BI/ Data Management consultant,

Business Object consultant, Project Management support lead, Project

Management Officer, Project Lead Planner, Application Change Manager with

enterprise clients across industry, mainly with leading oil and gas

companies.

Superior communication and sales skills with experience interacting with

international and domestic clients, staff and executives. He demonstrates

high standards of professional behaviour in dealings with IT staff and

business executives. Strong motivated and performance driven with "can-do"

mentality. Possess strong inter-personal skills, especially in handling

contacts at all levels.

Key Skills and Competencies

Functional and/or technical SAP skills and competencies:

SAP Business Objects (BOBJ) 4.0

SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence Reporting -Webi XI 3.1, 4.0

SAP Business Objects-Universe Designer XI

SAP Business Objects-Dashboard 4.0

SAP Business Objects-Xcelsius

SAP-BW Front End-BEx Web Analyzer/ Report Designer

SAS Business Intelligence

SAP Business Warehouse 3.5, 7.0, 7.1, 7.3

Data Warehouse/Modeling

Extract Transform and Load (ETL)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

SharePoint 2010 Site Owner

Other skills:

Project Management Support & Governance

Business Analyst

Project Planning

IT Project Management Qualification

Project Delivery Framework (PDF)

ITIL Foundation

Scrum/Agile

Prince2

Service Management

Change Management & Stakeholder Management

Resource Management

Application Testing Methodologies

Project or Business Unit Cost Planning and Reporting

Earned value, SPI and CPI Reporting

SharePoint 2010

Microsoft Office ( Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project)

Soft skills:

Excellent communicator

Team building and build strong client relationships

Strong organisational and analytical skills

Self-confidence and committed

Languages:

English

Dutch

Hindi

Punjabi

Education

Bachelor in Commerce and Management Punjab State University

1996-1999

Certifications

Certified in SAP HANA 1.0 SP4

Certified SAP Web Intelligence 4.0

Certified SAP CRM

Certified ITIL Foundation

Certified Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite 11g Essentials

Certified Energy Industry

Certified Dutch NT2 level

Certified IELTS and TOEFL

Training

SAP Business Warehouse boot camp, Accenture

SAP HANA HA100 & HA300 Implementation and Modeling, SAP Netherlands

SAP Business Objects-Universe Designer XI, SAP Netherlands

SAP BO Web Intelligence Reporting 4.0 -Webi, SAP Netherlands

SAP BI - SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise BOCE10, SAP Netherlands

SAS Business Intelligence Application, SAS

Core Project Management Office School, Accenture

Qlikview Designer and Developer, Qlikview

Energy Industry Generalist, Accenture

Application Testing, Accenture

Application component solution design, Accenture

SAP CRM TCRM10 & TCRM20, SAP Customer Relationship Management

Fundamentals, SAP India

SAP BI TBW310 & BW305 SAP Data Warehousing, Elevate Consulting Service

SAP BW330, BW Modeling & Implementation, Elevate Consulting Service

SAP ABAP TAW10 & TAW12 Workbench Fundamentals & Concepts, Elevate

Consulting Service

SAP TSCM60 & TSCM62, SAP Supply Chain Management- SD Order fulfilment,

Elevate Consulting Service

Industry Experience

Energy, Oil & Gas

Management Consulting

Entertainment and Media

Retail

Professional Experiences

Accenture

Consultant (SAP BI)

January 2011-Present

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Specialized in implementing Enterprise solution for Data Management/ SAP

Business Intelligence frontend application tool. Oversaw business

requirements definition, design and implementation of SAP Business Objects

application and being part of Finance enterprise Reporting Solution

programs to implement management reporting platform.

As part of the Business Intelligence competence centre team in Accenture

assigned as a coach of new joiners and also responsible for business

development activities like identifying new opportunities and scheduling

resources on client side. Assigned in diverse roles that are related to

SAP BI implementation, SAP HANA, Business analysis, Data Management,

Project Management and Service Management.

Industry: Oil & Gas

Project: Enterprise Reporting Solution

Role and responsibility: Assigned as SAP BI Consultant for a large

information management program in order to implement and support adhoc

reports for an enterprise Financial and Management reporting platform

Gather and define functional requirements from end users and translated

these into functional specifications

Report Design

Translate functional specification into technical designs.

Involved in business meetings to discuss requirements, processes and

issues about timing deliverables completeness and solutions

Analyse new requirements and updated documentations including technical

and functional design

Assist in development and implementation of the SAP Business Warehouse

system based on SAP source systems. Involved in tasks like data modelling

and extracting and loading data from data sources from SAP and Non SAP

systems.

Design and develop BI reports in BEx Query Designer based on functional

specification

Design and develop a large range of Web Intelligence reports that was

developed in Business Objects tool.

Design and develop BO Webi Reports, Universe designer, Queries,

Analyse and develop Webi Reports; deploying through Info View, Service

Manager and Application Specialist

Made modification on existing reports and resolved issues.

Conduct system integration test, user acceptance test and finally prepare

handover documents for the application support department. Tested BI

reports (incl. system test and user acceptance test) based on business

requirements and functional definitions.

Coordinate technical defect and correct defects. changing existing Web

Intelligence reports

Implement and manage change tickets for the reporting team.

Implement change management procedures and processes and involve in change

process to do impact analysis.

Facilitate the reporting team and support team to follow client procedures

and guidelines.

Industry: Oil & Gas

Project: Enterprise Reporting Solution

Role and responsibility: Assigned as SAP HANA Consultant for a large

information management program in order to implement and support HANA

Proof of Concept for an enterprise Financial and Management reporting

platform.

Analyzed reports with performance issues.

Involved in business and Architecture discussions.

Worked closely with SAP Technical team on implementing the First

Customer's project on HANA.

Created Attribute, Analytical and Calculated views as per the requirement

needs.

Created procedures in HANA Database.

Worked on Data provisioning like SLT and DXC.

Implementation of SAP BW on top of SAP HANA with traditional databases as

source systems.

SAP BW on HANA and migrating standard SAP Models to In-memory optimized

models and Performance testing.

Loading data from tables in HANA Database to BW data marts.

Comparing report performances by comparing old BWA and new HANA imce.

Involved in business meetings to discuss requirements, processes and

issues about timing deliverables completeness and solutions

Industry: Oil & Gas

Project: Global Functions Finance Planning

Role and responsibility: Assigned as BI Consultant/ Project Planner Lead

with high level of planning experience and Project Management expertise.

For the finance department supported SAP/Non SAP projects that run with

the ability to execute better, faster and cheaper by implementing common

processes and practices.

Use SAP BO Dashboard reporting tool for high level cost analysis and SAP

backend system to get detailed level financial data.

Extract and provide ad hoc reports in form of Dashboards and Pivot charts

from SAP financial systems by using SAP transaction codes. Update new and

existing contactors master data in SAP backend.

Deliver and coordinate project planning support to the Finance Governance

Projects and several stakeholders including IT Managers, Project Managers,

Project Support Team, Operational team.

Create weekly "Earned Value Reports" from MS Project schedule. Prepare

weekly Dashboard template by using "Macro's" to populate KPIs like

schedule and costs data.

Take responsibility for new projects, guidance on processes/ standards and

PRT project-set up.

Deliver monthly/quarterly reports together with PM's for customers.

Finance focal point to provide accruals, Latest Estimates and solving

finance issues for projects.

Provide demand planning for projects, business analysis and application

portfolio management.

Provide detailed guidance on standard guidelines, best practices and

reporting methods, project management processes, procedures, tools and

techniques. Facilitate and support the overall Finance department

processes and ensure that good project control and governance is

maintained.

Maintain and communicate guidelines on Reporting and Time writing. Monitor

and report on time writing.

Industry: Oil & Gas

Project: Enterprise Request Management

Role and responsibility: Assigned as an Application Business Consultant

and being the linking pin between the functional owners of the

application, projects delivering changes and the support organization. For

a new program improve all aspects of My Request fulfilment (operations,

governance, process, catalogue and tooling) and work on Deski to Webi

migration project.

Provide functional expertise to set technical direction for projects and

manage issues, architecture, technical integration and technical service

levels for a number of different applications.

Define and design functional requirements to support business

requirements, participate in detailed design and code reviews, review

system performance and consumption issues, review test plans, and provide

technical guidance and support to others.

Acquire knowledge and support the My Request application, which is the

global IT request portal for Shell which is used by 150,000 users

globally.

Support reporting manager in BO migration project. Thus defining scope and

refining existing reports in current environment.

Assist in setting up new reporting requirements and functional and

technical analysis and give expertise advice.

Develop and deliver ad hoc Webi reports to business users.

Redefine a functional and technical design approach for each Release- and

ensuring all parties are involved in the approach

Work closely with onshore and offshore development team and work as a key

focal point between Business interface and 3rd party suppliers. Define

scope and requirements for new releases.

Industry: Oil & Gas

Project: IT Transformation Programme

Role and responsibility: Assigned as BI Project Manager for IT Service and

Operation. Involved in stakeholder communication & management, risk, issue

and governance process.

Gather requirements from different stakeholders and prioritizing the

scope. Maintaining and Planning budget for the project.

Manage portfolio and report about the status and progress of different

projects and work streams to governance bodies like Programme Team and

Steering Committee.

Create communication plan and re-structure governance plan so that project

can be governed in an efficient way.

Update Risk, Action log and Decision log on regular basis.

Mitigate actions on Risks and Issues were discussed with PM's and

communicated with high stake holders on weekly basis. Checking Milestone

plan and RAG status of projects on regular basis and report if any delays.

Identify solution with PM's for Return to Green status.

Update and deliver PPT slide packs to Programme Team and Stake holders on

weekly and Monthly basis.

Deliver and update project plan and summary reports, including cost

breakdown and summaries.

Engage with business stakeholders and manage their expectations.

Elevate Consultancy

Associate Consultant (SAP BI)

October 2008-December 2010

New Delhi, India

Assigned as BI developer for one of the leading garment manufacturer. The

project was based on a in major SAP BI/BW implementation for financial

reporting. Involved in the life-cycle SAP BI implementation project to

develop data warehouse system, data extraction and loading, data modeling,

building data objects, and data transport mechanism and created BI

reports.

Gather functional requirements and understanding business process.

Interviewing users to clarify requirements for implementation, develop new

reports based on SAP Business Content and also modifying existing reports.

Define requirements and translated into conceptual functional and

technical designs.

Estimation of work to implement new financial reports in the SAP BI

system.

Building and enhancing current reports.

Design and build ETLs, data warehouse system and BI reports.

Design and develop BI reports on requirement definitions and support with

testing reports.

Gathered requirements from functional users in Purchasing, inventory,

finance and sales for cross functional analysis.

Worked on Building and enhancing BI objects that include Info Objects,

Data Sources,Transformations, DTP, DSO, Info Cubes, Multi-providers, Info

set and Open Hub.

Worked in Data Modelling using BI Star Schema and Worked in Business

Explorer Analyzer for Reporting.

Customized and maintained Data Sources for the FICO, COPA Module.

Basic knowledge in ABAP/4 Data Dictionary, Editor, BDC, Reports and Smart

forms.

Worked on Generic Extraction of Table, Views and function Module

Implementing change requests and resolving issues.

Involved in managing of Info cube, which involves Info cube content,

performance issues like Indices, Statistics, compression of Info cube and

rolling up the data to the aggregates

Worked on ETL from Customer generated application specific generic

extractors LIS, LO, CO-PA and SAP BW/BI 7.0 content.

As part of Quality management standards to deliver the objects in quality

performed Unit testing and recorded the test results in unit test cases

documents in Quality Center Tool.

Worked on Performance Tuning Concepts like Compression, Aggregates,

Partitioning, Indices and Line item Dimension.

Worked on Creation of Info Packages, info package groups and Process

chain maintenance

Entertainment Circus motion pictures

Event Project Management

April 2002-September 2008

Mumbai, India

Involved as event project manager in various projects related to Media and

Entertainment industry across several countries in Asia. Transformation of

projects and programmes from inception through to realisation.

Understand clients requirements and manage expectations. On basis of

quotations making planning and quoting project costs. Satisfying client in

cost and delivery performance.

Create proposals for multi clients including estimations and project plan.

Coordinate major programs and projects.

Reproduce and postproduction planning and budgeting. Hire and allocate

resources to projects at various locations. Organise and arrange

interviews get involved in selection procedures.

Manage resources and perform post production activities including editing,

processing, dubbing etc. Finally with the client testing the film and

doing necessary changes if required.

Interact with various clients or stakeholders to identify and communicate

status, progress, risks and issues and build strong relationships

Nitin Engineers

Owner

January 1999-March 2002

Punjab, India

Joined family business in material for retail market and governments

projects. Responsibilities includes handling of all contracts, giving

labours and supply, including sales, marketing, material purchasing,

accounting, training/ hiring employee and customer services.

. Negotiate cost estimates with clients and maintained daily contact with

clients to purchase.

. Develop new distributors and managing existing business partners with

the objective to grow revenue and expand business

. Manage general ledger and profit & loss statements.

. Manage retails for sales and customer relationship management.

. Develop strong customer relations and ensured employees provided highest

standards of customer satisfaction and quality services. Generate

referrals and build personal relationships with each client and close

sales by signing contracts.

. Supervise employees and trained staffs. Scheduled, motivated and trained

staff.

Interest/ Hobby

Traveling

Sports (Football & Cricket)

Photography

Theatre artist

Networking

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