Alex Palley Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

My consultant roles have ranged from lead HANA developer / HANA Architect to business analyst. I have team and project management experience and have been advising clients on BI Strategy, tool selection and organisation structures for CoEs and BICCs. The Appointment Group (TAG) London UKConsultantRequirements Gathering♣ Document current systems and processes supporting business♣ Work with business stakeholders to define requirements for operational application… Show more My consultant roles have ranged from lead HANA developer / HANA Architect to business analyst. I have team and project management experience and have been advising clients on BI Strategy, tool selection and organisation structures for CoEs and BICCs. The Appointment Group (TAG) London UKConsultantRequirements Gathering♣ Document current systems and processes supporting business♣ Work with business stakeholders to define requirements for operational application re-build♣ Review and recommend off the shelf software packages for integration♣ Work with board to define internal KPIs and dashboards♣ Gather requirements for Customer dashboards♣ Review current state of Business Objects usage and platform deploymentMobile Mini Inc, Phoenix USASAP HANA BI ArchitectBusiness Suite on HANA Reporting♣ Define standards and methodology for building native HANA solution♣ Manage team of developers to implement designed solutions♣ Work with business stakeholders and executive team to define requirements♣ Create calculation views on ECC 6 data from SAP modules FI/CO, AA, SD, MM♣ Lead unit tester and UAT coordinator♣ Create data models and stored procedures to load historical snapshots♣ Build time dependency for historical analysis out of ECC standard tables♣ Build universes and Web Intelligence Reports♣ Deliver training sessions to internal development team on HANA development Show less

London, United Kingdom

Co.ideate is a world-class digital transformation consultancy, helping private equity firms and financial sponsors assess and modernise core technology assets to drive operational efficiency and achieve EBITDA expansion by means of technology transformation in their portfolio companies.Alex works with portfolio managers and their boards, using his experience to design solutions whilst ensuring client teams are fully engaged in the transformation process.

London, United Kingdom

Consultant performing a variety of roles for our customers ranging from being a member of the Business Objects Centre of Excellence at Shell to Project Manager at Burberry.Shell Downstream MI Native HANA BO Lead- Create and maintain data flows in BODS from various sources in and out of HANA- Troubleshoot technical and performance issues in BI4.0- Create HANA stored procedures to load data into custom data marts- Create and maintain HANA views for reporting and Fiori… Show more Consultant performing a variety of roles for our customers ranging from being a member of the Business Objects Centre of Excellence at Shell to Project Manager at Burberry.Shell Downstream MI Native HANA BO Lead- Create and maintain data flows in BODS from various sources in and out of HANA- Troubleshoot technical and performance issues in BI4.0- Create HANA stored procedures to load data into custom data marts- Create and maintain HANA views for reporting and Fiori applications- Design and maintain data models for applications- Advise on general best practices for content design and platform administrationShell Downstream MI BI4.0 Implementation BO Lead- Integration of SAP BI4.0 and SAP BW- Migration of existing BW reports into BI4.0- Performance monitoring and troubleshooting- Security and content administration- Advise on general best practices Shell CoE- Quality Assurance for promoted content to shared BOXI 3.1 platform- Advise on general best practices for content design and platform administration- Provide support to project teams on reporting and administration - Performance tracing and tuning on BI content Burberry Revenue Reporting- Manage project extracting global sales data from BPC/POS/BW- Technical lead on Business Objects dashboards/webi/Advanced Analytics delivery- Troubleshoot and work around technical issues with SAP BI4.0 and BW integration- Liaise and communicate with all levels of business personnel Show less

Business analysis for Cemex EMEA BI projects.Design and develop mappings for ETL processes from SAP R/3.Modify and complement star schema data models.Create web intelligence reports.Create universes on SAP BW / Oracle 11g data models.

Lead business analysis for Cemex UK end to end SAP BI project.Design mappings for ETL processes from SAP R/3.Modify and complement existing star schema data models.Create web intelligence reports and Xcelsius dashboards.Create universes on SAP BW / Oracle 11g data models.

Size, design and deploy BOE architecture for 5000+ users with SSOImplement security model for delegated administration.Manage new project integration and daily administration of platform.Provide expertise to various projects and support of internal issues.

Design and modify universes for telecom monitoring projects.Design Business Objects full client/web intelligence reports. Participate in QA, fix bugs discovered during process.Mentor colleagues to take over role upon contract termination.Install and configure Business Objects test environments for various projects.

Design universe to be used by Private & Merchant Banking Division global reporting project.Design Business Objects full client reports. Participate in testing and quality assurance of content.Provide assistance to technical architect in designing solution for Release 1 and subsequent releases of project roll out.

Provide product and technical support to top tier and key Business Objects customers across entire Enterprise reporting product suite.Administer complex technical environments for the authentication functional team. Multiple Active Directory domains, LDAP servers, Business Objects Enterprise servers/clients, Web/Application servers on multiple platforms.Configure customer environments remotely through web based sessions. Aid development of Business Objects Deski, Webi and… Show more Provide product and technical support to top tier and key Business Objects customers across entire Enterprise reporting product suite.Administer complex technical environments for the authentication functional team. Multiple Active Directory domains, LDAP servers, Business Objects Enterprise servers/clients, Web/Application servers on multiple platforms.Configure customer environments remotely through web based sessions. Aid development of Business Objects Deski, Webi and Crystal reports for customers. Assist on site consultants with deployments, configurations and POCs.Advise customers/partners on best practices for BO content / platform deployment. Author White Papers for advanced authentication configurations. Provide mentoring, technical training and workshops for new starters and other engineers. (Crystal Reports, Business Objects Enterprise & Authentication).Assist in definition/refining of scope for new product release courses, partnering with Education Department Course developer. Show less

Develop reports based on Sybase stored procedures for all levels of organisation.

Bsc 2.1, Business Computing Systems

A Levels, French, Spanish, Maths, It