Rahul R. Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

• Extensively performed Business Requirement Document analysis, to map the requirements and documented the same• Prepared Design Playback and System Playback during the realization and development phase of the project by working closely with technical teams • Prepared templates for functional specification review, technical specification, and unit test cases• Developed test case for Integration and Functional testing (IT/FT) and successfully conducted UAT with Finance business teams• Good understanding of an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)environment with multiple source systems and variety of downstream reporting environments• Involved in SAP BW track related development ,related to Planning & Consolidation (BPC) project, Revenue recognition changes , and other projects in Finance business area• Extensively worked on SAP BEx queries and SAP Business Objects Reports (4.x) for data validation and business analysis. Created queries for Summary and Detailed level reporting • Project Management and Key responsibility of coordinating the efforts among multiple technical teams , worked as a liaison with Business teams for User Acceptance test and Sign off

Mountain View , Ca

•Senior Business Intelligence(BI) Practitioner with over 10 years of IT experience including 9 years in SAP BW/BI including 5+ years in Business Analysis and 3+ years in EPM technologies and Business Objects reporting.•Proficient in Data Warehouse Data Modeling with experience in various implementations of SAP BI/BW projects including requirement Gathering, Designing, development and delivering solution.•Good understanding of business process of Mfg/Hi-Tech domain to interpret business reporting needs and map functional requirements to possible technical solutions with SAP BI tools•Hands on experience with the complete SDLC of a project starting from Design realization to Cut-Over Activities and deployment of both SAP and Non-SAP related projects•Worked closely with project managers, developers, and focus groups to avoid redundancy, minimize expenditures, and improve overall synergy within organization•Well versed with Agile process management, participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum Stand Up, and Sprint Retrospective meetings•Worked as Functional analyst in multiples projects, ample Business Analysis experience in Supply Chain, Finance core areas in SAP ERP. Keen on understanding Business reporting goals and facilitating them with a feasible technological solution•Performed QA related activities related to process adherence, prepared Integration Test Cases,Functional Test case ,responsible for UAT and User trainings in multiple projects•Provided Pre-Sales Support on the SAP BPC, HANA and BW Products•Involved in RFP response from Bid Management and Service Line teams to Support Delivery teamsfor Existing Business or New Business•Conducted workshops and presentations to validate business requirements and solutions with the end user community

• Performed the role of SME to ensure successful delivery with an astute onsite-offshore model and effectively coordinated the activities involving multiple cross functional teams• Ensured strict SLA management for the team while tracking enhancement /upgrade issues or resolution of Incidents• As a part of Run program ,involved in system performance improvement activities. Concurrently worked on enhancements and proposed solutions for future developments• Acted as a liaison between business stakeholders and development team for critical reports from Finance (Corp FP&A) , Supply Chain and Procurement business areas• Prepared multiple Requirement Document for the various work streams for the given sources with SMEs• Assisted in the development of Project Impact and Process Control Plan documents• Business User training to ensure effective usage of reports , to maximize their achievement of business goals by identifying right KPIs• Responsible for SAP BWA (7.20) regular patch upgrades to ensure a smooth closure with Business Reporting via SAP BEx queries.• To facilitate users with timely business reports, was involved in job monitoring and scheduling for SAP BW and HANA loads• Involved in Data Modeling and creation of new report as per business requirement in SAP BW and SAP Business Objects (4.x) .• Key member of the strategy team which envisioned the migration of SAPBW to BW on HANA worked upon by multiple teams• Worked on Web Intelligence reports from SAP BW 7.0 source • Created Universe and enhanced some of the existing ones for better performance while pulling the data from BEx queries.• Implemented new Change Control process with executive team• Was actively involved in SAP Steering committee meetings for the betterment of existing Analytics landscape

Bangalore

•Rahul has worked extensively on SAP BW (3.x)/ SAP BI 7.0 with great exposure to development and Production support environment•Involved in more than 2 Full-Life Cycle implementation project•Key Member during technical upgrade of SAP BW 3.5 to SAP BW7.0 , responsible for regressionanalysis and testing of the existing data flows•Responsible for installing Business Content Sales overview cube, customized the cube according to the requirement, created several DSO Objects which acts as data staging•Configured data sources in R/3 by using LO cockpit, initialized setup tables•Schedule and implemented delta mechanism for periodic loads or reloading the history data•Responsible to provide value add by implementing performance improvement measures in existing SAP BW data flow •Created partition for faster loading, made new aggregates for a better reporting performance, data cleansing activity like PSA and New Data table flush for full loads.•Delivered multiple enhancements which involved development of new Datasources for ECC and other source system, created underlying BW objects including DSO, Data Transfer Process, Transformation (Rules and Routines) Info-cube and conversion techniques •Worked on Open Hub Services to extract data from BI to other system•Created different analytical reports using Free characteristics, Filters, rows, columns, restricted keyfigures(RKFs) ,Calculated Key Figures (CKFs) and Jump reports.•Worked on performance Issues like Creation of Aggregates, Rollup and Compressed the Info Cube to improve the query response.•Responsible for validating data consistency and send reconciliation reports to SMEs •Enabled report scheduling on different devices through REPORTING_AGENT. Creating ad hocreports on need basis•Involved in SLA management activities related to SLA report generation, time variance reports at endof every month

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

Higher, Secondary