LATA LAKHUJA
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professional Development/Parental Leave, Dallas, Tx 2018-Present
Completing Certification in SAP Analytics Cloud, estimated completion 10/2020
Organized Fund-Raising Activities for local charity with Mom’s League
Volunteered with Meals on Wheels to help them eliminate elderly isolation
Consulted IT department of Make-A-Wish in implementing an IT solution
Adapted to a new country and now fully capable and committed to return to work force full time
Accenture, Pune, India 2015 – 2018
Application Development Team Lead
Enterprise Metrics and analytics Reporting Lead
Managed a technical development team of 4 by setting clear Goals and Expectations, allocating Resources, creating Project Plans to successfully meet Customer Expectations resulting in excellent Customer Satisfaction Ratings
Collaborated with Stakeholders, and interviewed End Users to understand Business Requirements, conducted Gap Analysis to deliver Design Specification Document
Analyzed existing reporting framework and conducted iterative review workshops to finalize the scope for the project
Designed and implemented Monitored Analyzed Detail (MAD) framework using SAP Lumira to meet Cross-Functional Reporting Requirements of Users ranging from Line Manager to Senior Executives
Architected the solution to provide various features (different category employed multiple dimension filters in dashboard for ease of use, Navigation panels to slice and dice the data) for users based on the requirement
Modeled Universe on top of HANA views which enabled Business Users to access large amount of Organizational Data, that reduced reporting time by 50%
Created 7 universes for different lines of business such as Inventory, Daily Sales, and Management P&L
Developed Semantic Layer that provided Power Users with Self-Service reporting capabilities in SAP Web Intelligence and Lumira, leading to increase in efficiency by 15%
Interacted effectively with power users for providing trainings, connection details and troubleshooting issues related to Lumira and Web Intelligence
Recognized the need of Parallel Processing, Load in Script and Materialized Views and proactively leveraged it to improve Click to Response time by 20%
Strategized the use of data sources within several tabs of a dashboard to improve performance, and employed custom CSS for enterprise branding
Cybage Software, Pune, India 2015 – 2015
Senior Software Engineer
Reporting Portal for world’s largest Distributor of IT product and services Reporting Lead
Communicated with Cross-Cultural Operation Users and Sponsors to gather Business Requirements, analyzed and defined Data Requirements leading to 100% Customer Satisfaction
Designed an Integrated Reporting Portal with SAP UI5 like look and feel, encompassing Reports from various Departments such as Sales, Marketing, Purchase, Finance and Credit
Developed complex landing page of portal had tiles for various Key Performance Indicator (KPI), comparing actual and budget along with alerts, and a drill down to next-level and yearly trend
Supported all phases of Software Development Lifecycle by implementing Mobile Device Compatible Reports and Dashboards using SAP Lumira that accelerated Executive Management decision making by 25%, Reports and Dashboards were made available on SAP MobI app for users to consume
Wipro Technologies, Pune, India 2012 – 2015
Project Engineer
Operational & Strategic Decision Support System for Telecom Service Provider Reporting Specialist
Designed Web Intelligence reports with various features such as Breaks, Rank, Variables, Alerts formula filters and Query prompt
Employed various functionalities of SAP Dashboards (Alerts, Dynamic Visibility, GeoMap etc.) to make dashboard highly interactive and meet the complex user requirements
Developed 25 SAP Dashboards with features encompassing what-if analysis and multiple drill downs, that improved Executive’s productivity by 36%
HANA Modeling and Reporting for UK’s Insurance Provider HANA Modeler
Interacted actively with Business and Domain Specialists to gather requirements and translate it into an efficient and scalable architecture to support current and future business needs
Modelled HANA views, read files in CSV format and loaded data into HANA tables, using business user defined attribute mapping sheets
Developed universe on top of HANA views and consumed it for reporting that improved the performance by 20%
Smart Rail for SAP DemoJam Software Developer
Engineered an In-house solution “Smart Rail”, that employed Data Discovery Capabilities of SAP Lumira powered by SAP HANA and Predictive Analytics, which was finalist in SAP DemoJam
Architected and built Predictive engine using SAP Dashboards which assisted in planning for number of coaches based on predictive analysis
Partnered with SAP and conceptualized Custom Visualizations, using Common Visualization Object Modeler Software Development Kit (CVOM SDK), that are available for purchase on SAP EStore
Employed the visualization created in custom solution and successfully integrated it into Lumira and BI Launchpad
Mentored and trained 9 Associates on SAP BusinessObjects suite of tools such as SAP Dashboards, Web Intelligence and Lumira, leading to reduction in Client Project Onboarding Time by 30%
TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITIES
Tools: SAP BusinessObjects 4.2 (Design Studio, Lumira, Dashboards, Information Design Tool, Web Intelligence, Analysis for office, Explorer)
Databases: SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, MySQL
Languages: C, C++, ASP, HTML, CSS, C#
EDUCATION
Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University, Noida, India 2008-2012
Bachelor of Technology, Major- Information Technology
Vice President – Software Engineering club, Ranked 2nd in class of 70
Class Representative, Organized various events from Strategy through execution in Amity Youth Festival
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Awards: Developing Trust based relationship, Feather in The Cap, Best Trainee Award
Events: Firm wide Employee engagement events; Conducted various training; Part of recruitment panel
Volunteered: Passionate volunteer with Art of Living for community welfare; Literacy Volunteer for Children