Rakesh
******.*****@*****.***
BO Consultant
Cell: 956-***-****
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
. 9 years of experience in IT industry and with strong background in
Analysis, Design and Development in the field of Database, Data Warehouse
and implementation of Business Objects for BI applications.
. 8 years of experience in Reporting tool SAP-Business Objects XI
4.0/3.1/XI R-2/6.5
. Involved in the full System Development Life Cycle (Analysis,
Development, Deployment, Testing And Documentation)
. Experienced in planning, organizing, rescheduling and managing Business
Objects.
. Expertise in Installation administration and migration of business
objects BO-XI R-2/BO-XI 3.1/4.0 .
. Expertise in Business objects upgrade and migration from BO-XI R-2 to BO
3.1/BO 4.0.
. Expertise in migrating the report and universe from Dev, Test and
Production environment using import wizard.
. Expertise in creating report in BOBJ-WEBI,BOBJ-DESKI and BOBJ-Rich client
. Expertise in backup and recovery of business object environment using
BIAR file.
. Expertise in Designing, Developing and managing the complex universes.
. Expertise in creating universe on SAP BW source.
. Expertise in dimensional modeling and data modeling experience.
. Expertise in understanding the ETL process and dataflow of data
warehouse
. Highly skilled in creating Adhoc/Canned Reports, Complex Reports using
predefined conditions.
. Worked on Business Objects functionalities like Queries, Slice and Dice,
Drill Down, @Functions, Custom sorts, Cross Tab, Master Detail and
Formulae.
. Worked on desktop and WEBI reports.
. Worked in creating hyperlinks and passing values between summary and
detail reports.
. Worked in creating views and metalized views for implementing the
different securities.
. Experience in deployment of Business Objects & Web Intelligence on
Various Sources Oracle, MS SQL Server 2005 /2008 and MS-Access.
. Extensive experience in interacting with users for requirement gathering,
analyzing and Software Design Specifications.
. Excellent Interpersonal Skills and self-starter, capable of working
independently.
. Excellent troubleshooting skills, Analytical, problem solving and
quantitative skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
BO Client Server Tools: Business Objects 4.0/3.1/XIR2/6.5/5.1
Reporter, Designer, Supervisor, and Web
Intelligence, Crystal 2008, Xcelsius
ETL: Informatica 7.1/8,BODS, SSIS.
Databases: Oracle 11g/10, MS SQL Server 2005/2008
Languages: JAVA,MICROSOFT.NET, ASP, COBOL, C, C++, XML, Visual Basic,
HTML
Data Warehousing: Star Schema, Snow Flake, Data Modeling
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Newmont Mining Corporation, Greenwood Vlg, CO
Nov 2011-
Till Date
Business Objects Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Interacted with Business Users and Business Owners to know their
Business views in developing and modifying Universes and Reports
accordingly.
. Involved in gathering, analyzing, and documenting business
requirements, functional requirements and data specifications for
Business Objects Universes and Reports.
. Design and Development of Business Objects Universes, which suits
the standard, analytical and ad-hoc reporting requirements of the
Business Objects users.
. Involved in the gathering requirements of universe and report
design.
. Created the class and objects of the universe and according to the
user requirement.
. Did the analysis on SAP Bex quires and created universe on Bex
quires.
. Installed and deployed the business object 3.1 software in Dev,test
and production environments.
. apply the different levels of group and folder level security.
. apply the security for sub groups by breaking inheritance and
disabling the inheritance.
. involved in maintenance of Business objects servers and on call
support 24/7
. Involved the priority ticket environment and support eh user and
developer.
. Created reports on Bex-quries universes.
. Created the user objects and predefined conditions.
. Created Aliases and Contexts for resolving Loops and checked the
Integrity of the Universe.
. Created hyperlinks in summary reports to navigate to detail report
. Created the custom hierarchies for drill down and drill up.
. created the derived tables in the universe to avoid the creation of
views at database level
. Created different error messages and block the popup by using dummy
objects.
. Created the WEBI reports on universe.
. Created the desktop reports using desktop intelligence for Users.
. Exported the reports in to PDF & Excel formats.
. Designed and document the test cases for testing team.
Environment: Business Objects3.1/4.0, WEBI, Designer, Infoview, SQL,
PL/SQL, Oracle11, DB2 and Windows 2008,SAP BW.
People's United Bank, Bridgeport, CT
Feb 2010-Nov 2011
Business Objects Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Involved in gathering the user requirements and created the mockups
. Created Users and roles, granted privileges to role and roles to
users according to user level to access data to enforce object
level security.
. Implemented Row & Object level security for different user group
requirements.
. Created initial Classes & Objects, qualification for the Universes
in both on/off line modes.
. Defined Aliases and Contexts to resolve the join issues in the
Universe.
. Solved the issues during designing such as loops, Cartesian product
due to fan trap and chasm traps.
. Exported the universes to the Repository for making resources
available to the users.
. Created reports for various Portfolios using the Universes as the
main data Providers.
. Created the reports using Business Objects functionalities like
Queries, Slice and Dice, Drill down, @Functions, Cross Tab,
Master/Detail and Formulas etc.
. Built full client and WebI reports, according to end user
requirements.
. Created user Prompts, conditions, and filters for various reports
to specify the reporting parameters as per business requirements.
. Coding and testing of new reports and mocking up data as necessary.
. Experience in design of data models (3NF, Star Schema, Snow flake
schema) and implementation of enterprise data warehouse, data mart
and OLAP solution.
. Experience in design of BI process documents, technical
specification, templates, standards and best practices.
. Created the new Views and Aggregate tables for report performance.
. Extensive testing and migrating the reports or objects from
development to Production system.
. Automated the reports for refreshing the data every month and
quarter details.
. Responsible for giving Business Objects classes for the entire
staff that was using reports.
. Hide objects for different users to maintain data availability
based on Business requirements.
. Trained user community in basic and advanced Business Objects
reporting skills.
. Analyzed all tables and created various indexes to enhance query
performance and written hints in query for tuning the query
.
Environment: Business Objects3.1, Data Modeling (3NF/OLTP, Star Schema,
DWH/BI, etc.), WEBI, DESKI, Designer, Infoview, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL server
2008 Oracle 11,DB2 and Windows 2008.
FreePort McMoran Copper and Gold Inc. Phoenix, AZ
AuG 2008 - Feb 2010
Business Objects Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Involved in Full life cycle design and development of Business
Objects reporting Applications.
. Interacted with end users regularly for initial requirements
gathering.
. Presentation of the advanced features of Business Objects to end-
users to enable them to develop queries and reports easily.
. Involved in the development and implementation of ad-hoc reporting
system using Business Objects.
. Tasks involved were report development, modifying Universes to suit
the Business Requirements.
. Applied security features of Business Objects like row level,
report level & object level security in the universe so as to make
the sensitive data secure.
. Designed and created Universes using Designer module. Created
Contexts and Aliases for resolving Loops in the Universes.
. Generated number of reports on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
using Business Objects Report module.
. The reports were generated using Business Objects functionality
such as Slice and Dice, Drill Down,
Master/detail, Prompts and Formulas
. Extensively used Calculations, Variables, Breaks, Sorting, and
Alerts for creating Business Objects reports.
. Implemented various @Functions like @Prompt (for user defined
queries), @Where (For creating conditional filters), and @Select.
. Generated and published web reports in InfoView using Web
Intelligence and scheduled Business Objects Reports through Broad
Cast Agent.
. Worked along with the testing team to derive test cases for
efficient Data reporting.
.
Environment: Business Objects3.1, WEBI, DESKI,Designer, Infoview,
SQL,Oracle 10,DB2 and Windows 2003.
PLANTRONICS INC,SANTA CRUZ,CA April
2007 - Aug 2008
Business Objects Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Studied the existing business rules and understood the client's new
reporting requirements by interacting with the Business managers
and users.
. Involved in designing universes and objects by retrieving the data
from various data sources and defining the necessary connections.
. Created new reports from the scratch for new requirements and
modified some of the existing reports in three different Universes.
. Created new Attributes, Filters and Complex measure objects in the
Universe.
. Provided support to the Web Users and Full client users for any
specific or performance issues related to the reports.
. Resolved Loops, Fan traps and Chasm traps with Aliases and
Contexts.
. Creating Measure objects and hierarchies to enable drill down
functionality in the reports.
. Created custom LOV's and Hierarchies for easy user selection drill
down purposes.
. Exported the Universe/Reports to the Repository/Broadcast Agent for
automation.
. Worked on the SQL tuning and optimization of the Business Objects
reports
. Worked with multiple Data providers in a report and added slice and
dice capabilities.
. Extensively used various techniques Sectioning, Ranking, and
Filtering to develop the reports.
. Developed Cross-Tab and Drill Down reports.
. Used Broadcast Agent to schedule the reports.
. Formatted the Reports as per the Users requirements using all the
facilities in Business Objects, which allows the users to analyze
the data.
. Exported the reports in to PDF, Excel and Word formats.
. Worked with other team members in US through net meeting and
teleconferencing
. Extensive testing and migrating the reports or objects from Test to
Production system.
. Worked along with the testing team to derive test cases for
efficient Data reporting.
. Conducted the Unit testing and prepared the testing document and
creating the error log document.
. Performed the knowledge transfer to other team members. Provided
application and user on-call support
Environment: Business ObjectsXIr2, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, and Windows NT
Zales Corporation, TX
Feb 2005 - Feb 2007
Business Objects Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Interacted with end-users and business analysts to identify and
develop business Requirements and transform it into technical
requirements and ultimately responsible for delivering the
solution.
. Created new classes & User Objects in designing the Universes
. Designed, developed and managed Universes in the Designer for
report generation.
. Analyzed and defined requirement analysis for Business Objects
Reporting.
. Defined Aliases and Contexts to resolve the join problems in the
Universes.
. Created reports using Business Objects suite functionality like
Slice and Dice, Drill down function and formulas.
. Created Hierarchies and predefined conditions using Business
Objects.
. Extensively used Calculations, Break points, Drill down, Slice and
Dice, Alerts for creating Business Objects reports.
. Created complex reports using user-defined functions, condition
objects and aggregate awareness functions for SQL enhancement.
. Formatted the reports as per the business requirements.
. Created User conditions, Filters to improve report generation &
readability of report and displayed the summary of data by creating
Charts.
. Created reports using Oracle/MS SQL Server databases and personal
data file providers.
Environment: Business Objects 6.5/XIr2, MS SQL Server, Oracle 8.1.3, Web
Intelligence, Windows 2000/NT, SQL, PL/SQL.