Ashish Dave
**** ********** ****** ***. **** Mississauga, Ontario L5B 1N2
Tel: 905-***-****, email: *******@*****.*** (preferred)
OBJECTIVE
Career as SAP Business Objects Administrator
SUMMARY
Total 15+ years of experience in IT support industry of which currently 3+
years as Business Objects Administrator
SKILLS
Business Objects 4.x and 3.x.
Other Busines Applications Administration:
RCM (Reconciliation), ImageMark and NetQ
Application Life Cycle Management:
STAT, Serena Version Manager and Serena Mover
Subversion
Application Performance Testing:
JMeter
Methodologies:
Business System Analysis, LEAN, TQM, SDLC, Agile Methodology
Databases:
Oracle 8, 9i and 10G
Hadoop 1.0/2.0 Administration
MongoDB Administration
Operating Systems:
RedHat Entperpse Server 5.x and 6.x
Solaris 9/10
Ubuntu Server
OpenStack
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
October 2013 to Present SatCan Infotech, Brampton
Ontario
Position: Sr. Consultant
Duties: Business Objects 4.0 Administration
Project: Telecom/Banking Project
Duties:
SAP business objects administration
User administration (CMC)
- Administer and configure business objects as per change management (CMC)
- Troubleshooting reports issues, response time issues, availability and
upstream
dependencies, utilizing management console for monitoring, requesting
start and stop
servers as required from infrastructure team.
- Code Promotion using Promotion Manager
- Tested migrating reports from version 2.x to 4.x
- Coordinate with testing and production migration porcess
- Interact with stake holders for availibility of reports and reports life
cycle
- Documents all business objects data and Meta data
- Security
- Ensure compliance with Audit standards
- Coordinate with the AD team for code and universe promotion
- Vendor Management - open case with SAP for resolving higher level issues
- SLA Compliance
August 2013 to October 2013 CIBC Application Support Analyst:
Project: GlobalOne (Sun Guard Product) Business Objects Upgrade and
Administration:
Business Objects is packaged with GlobalOne application as reporting tool
by Sun Gard. This was time critical live trading environment where very
mission critical reports were generated before during and after trading
hours.
Plan and coordinate with Sun Guard for implementing upgrade of GlobalOne,
including participating in testing, process mapping, requirements
management, beta testing and Business Objects upgrade from version 2.x to
3.x (GlobalOne managed).
Vendor management
Manage consultant team upgrading GlobalOne
Planned and tested moving reports from Business Objects Version 2.0 to 3.1
Business Objects Administration:
- Prioritizing critical treading desk reports before the opening of
the Stock Market
- Monitor and trouble shoot critical reports being generated during live
trading hours
- User administration
- Managing reports life cycle
- Security
- Audit compliance
- SLA Compliance
- Coordinate with the AD team for promoting universe code etc.
February 2013 to July 2013 Groundswell Group, Calgary
Alberta
Position: Sr. Consultant
Client: AESO (Alberta Electric System Operator)
Projects: SAP Business Objects Administration
Duties:
Planned, Analyzed and implemented Business Objects reports and universe
promotion process, by coordinating with the AD team, EDW team and Business
Trouble shooting Business Objects reports issues, performance issues and
other infrastructure related issues
Coordinate with business stake holders for reports related changes and
issues in Business Objects
Ensure reports availability and coordinate start and shutdown of Business
Objects server during infrastructure changes and upgrades as per change
tickets
Support and troubleshoot feeds from TIBCO and EDW for generating Wind Power
Forecast reports
Performed Server Management Tasks, using Central Configuration Manager
(CCM) and Central Management Console (CMC)
Jboss administration on OpenStack Cloud (10%)
December 2011 to January 2013 INTRIA (CIBC),
Mississauga
Position: Contractor
Duties: Intria Command Centre - Business Objects Administrator
Intria is as subsidiary of CIBC Bank, handling currency and cheque
processing. The environment had multiple applications for currency, cheque
processing and electronic statements generation. Reporting was handled by
Business Objects, following support tasks were performed:
Troubleshoot Business Objects user and serer issues
Monitoring and Managing Business Objects security and access privileges
Assist end users with access and data issues
Perform root cause analysis and following up on action item.
Manage the promotion of SAP BI artifacts (Crystal, Web Intelligence, and
Dashboard reports) through the Development, Integration, and Production
environment.
Define and maintain SAP BI Platform groups and folders
Support and maintain the SAP BI Platform physical servers
Ensure stringent Audit and SLA compliance
August 2011 to December 2011 TD Securities, Toronto
Ontario
Position: Business System Analyst (Contractor)
System Background: RCM is used by TD Securities performing reconciliation
of cash transactions between TD Securities and other financial institutions
world wide. On the retail banking side it used for drafts issued or
presented.
Duties:
Support Reconciliation team on RCM (Fiserv product)/RCM Reports
Administrator:
RCM reports server administrator
Implementing changes as per recommendation from business users mainly
adding new accounts, absorbing fallout's, moving accounts and editing OSI,
Recon and Escalation scripts to generate necessary reports applying
business rules.
Troubleshooting external feeds issues feeding into RCM from external
sources via ebx amilbox and host jobs
Implementing projects as assigned.
RCM User administration and \
Created Back up Policy document, Incident Management document and process
flow document for RCM Audit process.
Prepare BRDs and/or Assist in preparation of BRDs.
January 24 to March 30 CIBC Bank Toronto
Position: Sr. Technical Analyst
Duties: Unix Support
Following tasks were performed:
Attending to alerts, taking corrective action for seamless functioning of
Unix infrastructure, databases and applications
Vendor Management and SLA tracking
Auctioning IMAC requests, change tickets
Creating Incidents and managing the life cycle of incidents.
Participating in Bridges as and when required
Special projects
June 2010 to January 15, 2011 Keane Systems, Halifax
Nova Scotia
Client: Morgan Stanley
Position: Business System Analyst
Job Description:
Morgan Stanley was developing an application in Enterprise Intelligence.
The goal was to optimize IT resource utilization, leveraging technologies
like data warehousing and capability of NetIQ . Following tasks were
performed as a Business Analyst:
Work on all aspects of Project Life Cycle including: Project
Definition/Direction, Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Implementation and
Document Preparation
Work with the AD teams in near shore and off shore locations through out
the entire application life cycle
Use of Agile Model
Develop Functional Specifications, Process flows, Use cases and other SDLC
components
Responsible for managing relationships with the stakeholders, senior
management and project managers
Communicating regular updates to stakeholders and project focal senior
management on the achievement of milestones, deviations and other special
requests
January 2008 to May 2009 Kelly Services
Client: IBM
Project: Franklin Templeton
Position: Source Code Migration Business Analyst (Contractor):
Analysis and Operational Functions:
Directly responsible and answerable to IBM Management and that of the
client, Franklin Tempelton's senior management. Perform need analysis and
requirement gathering for tasks related to the Source Code Migration Team.
Analyzed, designed and suggest changes of existing processes to the team
as well as to the Management, to accommodate changes in business needs or
to accommodate special business requirements.
Worked with the testing team to ensure appropriate testing methodologies
are followed. Also assisted in preparing Pilot Plan.
Performed Root Cause Analysis in the event of performance deviation,
failure or to handle some exception.
Performed research on JAD (Joint Application Design/Development), for
future implementation within the environment. Assisted in ITIL
methodologies implementation.
Maintained and extracted performance statistics as a part of corporate
Business Intelligence and perform Knowledge Management tasks.
Coordinate with teams in Canada, United States and off shore teams for
performing critical migrations such as monthly releases and migration of
large number of files, requiring special migration window and tasks.
Participate in meetings with the client senior management to update
ongoing tasks, special projects and out of the ordinary situations.
Conduct Source Code Migration team meetings.
Manage migration windows.
Ensure that all pre-migration requirements are completed. Also ensure post
migration tasks are completed including updating of incident management
system as per the task performed.
And that all exceptions and errors are properly documented in the incident
management system and on appropriate location and per process.
Update client databases as per process.
Ensure that all tasks are preformed as per the SLA with the client, and
ensure that all migration windows are exactly implemented as per the start
and end time of the migration window.
QUALIFICATIONS
MBA, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland USA 1992
Master of Commerce, M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, India 1989
Bachelors of Commerce, M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, India 1987