SAP Business Objects Consultant (Administration,Deployment,Migration)

Suraj Chandrakar

Professional Summary

. * YEARS OF SAP BUSINESS OBJECTS & IT INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE ENCOMPASSING

A WIDE RANGE OF SKILL SET, ROLES AND INDUSTRY VERTICALS.

. Extensive experience with consulting, sizing, analysis, deployment and

implementation of BO software applications including SAP BI

applications integration.

. Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to

technical requirements and architecture.

. Strong database, operating system and networking concept.

. Experience in leading and managing teams. Handled multiple roles -

Project Lead, BO Administrator, and Technical Architect.

. Executed software projects for Pharmaceutical and Life science

Industries.

. Wide knowledge in SAP BO administration including all supporting third

party applications.

. Work on new ideas and application innovations/renovations within SAP

BO.

. Conduct trainings on new dimension technologies within the

organization.

. Have good hands-on experience in analysis, design and development of

Business Applications.

. Have been part of designing technical architecture for custom

developments.

. Good team orientation and Leadership qualities.

. Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick

learner, team player.

Technical Summary

BI ENTERPRISE: BO 6.5, BOXI R1/R2, BO 3.0/3.1, SAP BI 4.0/4.1,

CRYSTAL ENTERPRISE

BO Tools: SAP BO Data Services, Web Intelligence Rich Client,

Desktop Intelligence, Import Wizard,

Upgrade Management, Promotion Management, CMC, BI

Launchpad, InfoBurst, IDT, UDT

RDBMS: SAP HANA, SAP BW, Oracle 8.1, MS-SQL Server 6.5/7.0,

Progress 6.3, MS Access 2000

O/S: Windows 2008 Server, Lunx/UNIX

MW Tools: Apache Tomcat, Web Logic, Web Sphere

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

. BACHELOR OF COMPUTER APPLICATION - 2003, MCRPV UNIVERSITY, BHOPAL,

INDIA

. Master OF Computer Application - 2006 IIMS, University of Pune, India

Professional Experience

FROM MAY 2014 TO TILL DATE WITH MEDTRONIC, MINNEAPOLIS, MN AS APPLICATION

ARCHITECT (SAP BO)

Project Experience Highlights

1. Project Name : BOBJ 4.1 Migration

End User or Client : All business users

Domain : Life Science

Skill/Tools : SAP BI 4.0/4.1, SAP HANA,

SAP Data Services, SAP BW

OLAP Analysis, Web Intelligence

Role/ Responsibility : BI Architect /

Infrastructure Support

Description : SAP BI 4.0 to 4.1

Migration & BO Administration / Support

Business Client: Medtronic Internal Users

Project Life: Analysis, Planning, Estimation, Deployment, Implementation,

Migration and Post production support for BI 4.1, this migration was affect

59,000 BO users.

Key Deliverables:

> Responsible for leading a project team in delivering solution to our

customer in the Life Science sector.

> Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to

varying business requirements

> Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control,

aspects of the project.

> Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the

customer. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular

project status to the customer.

> Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design

documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts

including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of

the results.

> Utilize in-depth knowledge of functional and Technical experience in SAP

BO and other leading-edge products and technology in conjunction with

industry and business skills to deliver solutions to customer.

> Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and

audit to ensure team meets quality goals.

> Environment: SAP BI 4.0, BO 3.1, Windows 2008 R2 and UNIX, Tomcat 5.5

> Created Web Intelligence Report for Auditing with complex query to

retrieve user activities.

> Integrate SAP BW with SAP BI4.1 along with SSO.

> Manage OLAP cube connection for OLAP Analysis Dashboard design.

> Establish JDBC and ODBC database connection for SAP HANA reporting

database.

> Used Promotion Management tool (LCM) for migration.

Attainments:

> Documented current BI 4.1 migration and support model to extend the

understanding of BI requirement.

> Successfully conducted online BI 4.1 corporate training for ten thousand

users.

> Received Appreciation from client and printed on monthly life since new

letter.

From June 2013 to May 2014 with Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), Princeton, NJ,

as BO Administrator

Project Experience Highlights

1. Project Name : BMS BI Advancement Project

End User or Client : Sales & Marketing

Domain : Life Science

Skill/Tools : BO 3.1 SP3, Web

Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, SAP BW

Role/ Responsibility : Infrastructure

Support / Team Member

Description : Upgrade from BOXIR2 to

BO3.1 SP3 environment

2. Project Name : BMS BI 4.0 IS Upgrade Project

End User or Client : V2P

Domain : Life Science

Skill/Tools : SAP BI 4.0, SAP BW, SAP

Data Services, Web Intelligence

Role/ Responsibility : Infrastructure

Support / Team Member

Description : Upgrade from BO 3.1 to

BI4 environment

Business Client: BMS Users & their clients

Project Life: Analysis, Planning, Estimation, Deployment, Implementation,

Migration and Post production support for BI 4, approximately 16 servers

needs to upgrade from BO 3.1 to BI 4.

Key Deliverables:

> Work with internal team and handle Escalation, Project Planning, Finding

new scope and opportunities for business.

> Handling BO team and assigning task to team members, advising them best

way to achieve given task.

> Managing to run all daily, weekly, and monthly publication, load task to

ETL tool to set row level setting and achieve given security module for

BO.

> Creating Security module for new product line and new business unit as

well new group of users.

> Reviewing Daily tickets created in REMEDY for BO group and tracking all

task.

> Integrated SAP BW with SAP BI 4.0 for SSO and create DB connection for

Reporting.

> Create new Schedule and Publication as per business requirement and

manage BO securities in XI3.0

> For migration or upgrade project we Integrate Infoburst, LDAP and BW with

BI 4.

Project Deliverables:

> Migration BO 3.1 to BI 4 on 16 VM servers with Windows 2008.

> Analyzing on BO 4.0 feasibility and other areas.

> Created basic run diagram of whole deployment.

> Successfully implementation of whole BI 4 on Sandbox, Development box,

System Test box and Production box.

Skills Set

Product: Business Objects Enterprise XI R2/ BO 3.1/BI 4, InfoBurst,

WRC

OS: Microsoft Windows 2008 Server

Database: Oracle 11g, SAP BW

CRM Tool: Vitalize

Web Server: Tomcat

Application Server: IIS, Web Sphere, Web Logic, Oracle App

Attainments:

> Received appreciation from Client "I just wanted to send you a quick note

regarding the overall performance for Suraj. During my time at BMS I

have had the pleasure to work with many resources and I would have to say

that Suraj has been one of the best. His overall knowledge skill set and

dedication is very hard to find in today's IT world. He is always

willing to pitch in and help with anything that I might throw at him. His

overall communication skills are outstanding much like his business

skills and his overall can do attitude is always appreciated. I

personally sleep better knowing that our off shore team is willing to do

anything I ask of them and are very senior level in talent. I very much

appreciate everything that Suraj's brings to the office and our overall

support model for Business Objects is outstanding. We are lucky to have

Suraj on our team and his efforts don't go unappreciated."

From Oct 2010 to June 2013 with MPAHSIS an HP Company PUNE INDIA, as

Principal Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Project Experience Highlights

1. Project Name : CE BOE Upgrade Project

End User or Client : Remedy & e-Setup &

Domain : Life Science

Skill/Tools : BO 3.1

Role/ Responsibility : Infrastructure

Support / Team Member

Start Date : 23-July-2012

End Date : 22-Nov-2012

Description : Upgrade from CE 10 to

BO3.1 environment

2. Project Name : Canada BI Reporting Project

End User or Client : Canada Viva

Domain : Life Science

Skill/Tools : BO 3.1 +SP 5 + FP 5.3

Role/ Responsibility : Infrastructure

Support / Team Member

Start Date : 12-Dec-2012

End Date : 13-May-2013

Description : Building new environment

for Canada BI environment

Business Client: HP Users

Project Life: Analysis, Planning, Estimation, Deployment, Implementation,

Migration and Post production support for BO 3.0 / BI 4

Key Deliverables:

> We as a offshore team manage 64 Business Objects server instances.

> Creating Security module for new product line and new business unit as

well new group of users.

> Reviewing Daily tickets created in REMEDY for BO group and tracking all

task.

> Create new Schedule and Publication as per business requirement and

manage BO securities in XI3.0

> Work with internal team and handle Escalation, Project Planning, Finding

new scope and opportunities for business.

> Handling BO team and assigning task to team members, advising them best

way to achieve given task.

> Managing to run all daily, weekly, and monthly publication, load task to

ETL tool to set row level setting and achieve given security module for

BO.

> For migration or upgrade project we Integrate LDAP and BW with BI 4.

Project Deliverables:

> Created basic run diagram of whole deployment.

> Successfully implementation of whole BI 4 on Sandbox, Development box,

System Test box and Production box.

> Migration BO 3.1 to BI 4 on 16 VM servers with Windows 2008.

> Analyzing on BO 4.0 feasibility and other areas.

Skills Set

Product: Business Objects Enterprise XI R2/ BO 3.1/BI 4,

OS: Microsoft Windows 2008 Server

Database: Oracle

CRM Tool: BMC Remedy

Web Server: Tomcat

Application Server: Web Logic, Oracle App

Attainments:

> Documented current BI 4 migration and support model to extend the

understanding of BI requirement.

> Successfully On board two resources after Product training given by me.

From June 2009 to October 2010 with Helios & Matheson Information

Technology Ltd. MUMBAI INDIA, as Sr. Business Objects Administrator

(Offshore BO Lead)

Business Client: St. Jude Medical

Project Life: BOXIR2 to BOXI3.0 Migration [completed], Post production

support for BOXI3.0 and Working in migration from 3.0 to 3.1

Key Deliverables:

> Handling Offshore BO team and assigning task to team members, advising

them best way to achieve given task.

> Managing to run all daily, weekly, and monthly publication, load task to

ETL tool to set row level setting and achieve given security module for

BO.

> Creating Security module for new product line and new business unit as

well new group of users.

> Reviewing Daily tickets created in REMEDY for BO group and tracking all

task.

> Create new Schedule and Publication as per business requirement and

manage BO securities in XI3.0

Skills Set

Product: Business Objects Enterprise XI R1/R2/R3.0/R3.1, Data Stage

OS: Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

Database: MS SQL 2005,

ETL Tool: Data Stage

CRM Tool: BMC Remedy

Web Server: Tomcat

Application Server: IIS, Web Sphere, Web Logic, Oracle App

Attainments:

> Documented current BO Offshore support model to extend the understanding

of BI requirement.

> Handle Business functional module to provide high priority report

(product hierarchy) to top management.

From February 2007 to June 2009 with KPIT Cummins InfoSystems Pvt.Ltd. PUNE

INDIA, as Sr. Engineer

Project: SAP Production Support

Project Life: Support Business Objects post production enhancement and

configuration

Key Deliverables:

> Executing deployment, configuration, migration, maintains &

troubleshooting Business Objects Products.

> Managing Servers (all listed servers under Central Configuration

Manager), working with Infoview and CMC (Central Management Console).

> Performing CE10/XIR1/XIR2 to XIR2/R3.0/R3.1 migration with Import Wizard

as well as Manual Migration.

> Providing Best Practices for Deployment Business Objects Enterprise

XIR1/R2/R3.0/R3.1, Crystal Report Server XIR1/R2.

> Developing, designing and troubleshooting Web Intelligence Report,

Desktop Intelligence Report and Universe as per client requirement.

> Supervising deployment and product updates (Service Pack, Critical Hot

Fix, Monthly Hot Fix, LA Fix & Fix Packs).

Skills Set

Product: Business Objects Enterprise XI R1/R2/R3.0/R3.1, Business

Objects Data Integrator Crystal Enterprise 10, Crystal

Report Designer 10/XI R1/R2/2008, Web Intelligence XI

R1/R2/R3.0/R3.1, Desktop Intelligence XI R1/R2/R3.0/R3.1,

Business View Manager, Import Wizard, Query Builder, Life

Cycle Manager (LCM).

OS: Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, RedHat entreprise Linux, UNIX /AIX /

HP/ SUN SOLARIS environnement.

Database: MySQL, MS SQL 2000, Oracle 10g, Informix

Web Server: Tomcat

Application Server: IIS, Web Sphere, Web Logic, Oracle App

Attainments:

> Successfully conducted Training in BOXI3.0/3.1 & UNIX environment related

to Business Objects deployment.

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