This document provides a summary of Pradeep Ketolira's professional experience including 9 years of experience in SAP Business Warehouse (BW) and Business Intelligence (BI). He has extensive experience in building SAP BW and BI components, developing dashboards and reports, and has participated in 5 project implementations. He is certified in SAP BW and HANA with expertise in data warehousing, business intelligence, and industries including oil and gas, chemicals, energy, retail, manufacturing, and agriculture.
I am Murali.Below is a short summary on my professional experience,
Total years of experience - 13 (Releavant BO experience - 10 Years)
Technologies/Tools worked on : SAP BO 4.x - XI R2,BO Admin, Xcelsius Dashboard designing, Crystal Reports, SAP Design Studio, SAP BW 7,Unix,Oracle 10G PL/SQL, SQL Server and Microsoft Technologies(VB,ASP and VB.Net).
I am interested to take up new roles on different aspects in BO domain.
I am Murali.Below is a short summary on my professional experience,
Total years of experience - 13 (Releavant BO experience - 10 Years)
Technologies/Tools worked on : SAP BO 4.x - XI R2,BO Admin, Xcelsius Dashboard designing, Crystal Reports, SAP Design Studio, SAP BW 7,Unix,Oracle 10G PL/SQL, SQL Server and Microsoft Technologies(VB,ASP and VB.Net).
I am interested to take up new roles on different aspects in BO domain.
1. Pradeep Ketolira pradeep.kj1@gmail.com
Summary:
9 years of SAP experience with Business Warehouse(BW)/Business Intelligence
(BI)
SAP certified in BW and HANA (Implementation & Modeling)
Experience in 5 project implementations, 2 support projects, 2 development and
enhancement projects
Expert knowledge of data warehousing and business intelligence concepts
Industry background in Oil and Gas, Chemicals, Energy, Retail, Manufacturing
and Agricare
Experience Summary:
Experience in building SAP BI components like DSO, Infoset, Process chain,
Openhub destination, and Generic Extractor creation, ETL, BEx Designer, BEx
Analyzer and WAD.
Excellent experience in building SAP BW components like InfoCubes, Multi-
providers, InfoSources, InfoObjects, ODS objects, Update rules and Transfer
rules.
Experience in Business Content Extractor for CO-PA, CCA, FI-GL, PS, PP & LO-
Cockpit for SD & MM, Generic Extractor creation, design of data transformation in
the standard SAP-BW functionality
Worked in Integrated Planning base on the change request and new requirement.
Developed KPI Dashboards using Dashboard 4.x (Xcelsius), Design Studio1.5 and
operational report in Web-Intelligence in BOBJ4.x
Worked on Routines, Dadasource enhancement, Functional Modules and Reports
in ABAP
Experience in building Input Template and reports in BPC10
Involved in pre-sales activities like prototype development, preparing
presentation slides and understanding initial requirement for proposal.
Capable of working in a group as well as independently with excellent
communication skills.
Provided SAP BW product training to Behnmeyer internal IT team.
Good knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL
Professional Certifications:
SAP HANA Certified - C_HANAIMP142 (SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP
HANA SP8) completed in the year 2015.
SAP BW Certified – C_TBW45_70 (Business Intelligence with SAP NetWeaver 7.0)
completed in the year 2011.
ITIL V3 Foundation completed in the year 2011.
Technical Skills:
Data Warehouse: SAP BW7.3, SAP BI7, SAP BW3.5, SAP BW3.0
Business Intelligence: Business Explorer, Business Object 4.0/4.1, Business
Object (6.5 & 5.1) , Hyperion
ERP: SAP 4.5, ECC6
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7, XP and Vista
2. Professional Experience:
Working as Sr SAP BI Consultant with StoneApple (A Hitachi Consulting
Company), Malaysia from Jan’08 - Till Date.
Worked as Sr Associate for Hewlett-Packard, Bangalore from Mar’05 –
Dec’07.
Worked as Sales Officer for Nandi Toyota, Bangalore from Oct’03 to Oct’04
SAP BI Lead Consultant – Wasco (BW/BOBJ Implementation)
(July 2014 – Current)
Gathered Business Requirements and Conducted Gap Analysis to install Business
Content. Designed & Developed custom DataSource, InfoSource, Extractor,
InfoCube and ODS to fulfil user requirements.
Configured and activated Business content according to the requirement based on
the Application areas. Extracted data from data source 2LIS_03_BX, 2LIS_03_BF,
2LIS_03_UM to extract an opening stock balance, material movements and
valuated revaluations in Financial Accounting.
Activation and Enhancement of standard data sources related to PS, PP, FI-CO,
AR and AP modules.
Used ABAP for transformation routines, Datasource customization and created
generic datasources using functional models.
Designing and developed interactive dashboard visualisations and reports using
SAP Business Objects Design Studio.
Created Web Intelligence reports with multiple data providers and synchronized
the data using the merge dimensions option.
Responsible for designing Universe by creating the Business Objects Data Model,
selecting/joining tables, indicating cardinalities, creating aliases to resolve the
loops, subdividing into contexts and creating the Objects like Dimensions, Details
and Measures, which are grouped into Classes and Checked the Integrity of the
Universes.
Independently handle post go-live support and issues.
SAP BI Consultant – JTB Singapore (BOBJ Implementation)
(June 2014 – July 2014)
Experience in creating universes using information design tool 4.1 using BODS
connecting to SQL Server Database.
Involved in developing, designing and maintaining new and existing universes by
creating joins and cardinalities responsible for creation of the universe with
Classes, Objects and Condition Objects.
Created monthly and summary reports in WEBI 4.1 for the different domains like
Finance, Marketing and HR domains.
Used Variables, User defined objects, Scope of analysis, Drill mode, Slice and dice
mode, Prompts, and Conditions to make reports accurate and easier for analysis.
Defined user security model, define users, groups, and Role based user, Universe
Security and Administration.
3. SAP BI Lead Consultant – Behn Meyer (BW/BOBJ/BPC Implementation)
(June 2012 – April 2014)
Requirement gathering, Business Blueprint for ETL and architecture of SD, MM &
Finance module which involved AR, AP & General Ledger
Designed simple to complex data flows as per the requirement using most of the
BI objects (Infoobjects) and infoproviders (Multiprovider, Infocube, DSO etc.).
Created generic data source for custom requirement and enhanced data sources
as required.
Extensively worked on Query Designer to create Queries using Restricted Key
Figures, Calculated Key Figures, Variables and filters.
Worked on Currency conversion, Unit conversion and Authorization.
Unit Testing, Integrated testing and System testing for all modules.
Involved in creating Universe, Classes, Measure Objects, Dimension Objects, and
Detail Objects and applied Hierarchies based on Business logic.
Created Web Intelligence reports with multiple data providers and synchronized
the data using the merge dimensions option.
Created Complex Reports by using functionalities like Slice and Dice, Drill Down,
Master Detail in the Web Intelligence tool.
Used Prompts, Conditions to restrict the data returned by Query and used Filters
to restrict the unwanted data to be displayed on the report.
Created complex Webi reports with Input Controls.
Designed Highly Interactive Dashboards (Xcelsius) Using Advanced Multiple Drills
Down, Dynamic Visibility and advanced filtering techniques.
QaaWS to connect to the WebI Universe and to bring the data into Dashboard.
Involved in development of Cube and DSO for BPC Consolidation and Complex
Budgeting requirement.
Worked with BPC team in building Input Templates and reports
Independently handle post go-live support and issues for Dashboard, Webi
Universe and BW and for some extend BPC Input templates.
Provided SAP BW product training to Behnmeyer internal IT team
Pre-Sales Consultant – Stone Apple
(January 2012 – May 2012)
Worked on development of prototype development for BPC 10 for Behn Meyer
client.
Involved in study of existing report and initial requirement gathering for
Dashboard and Operational report for Behn Meyer client.
Involved in initial requirement gathering for Dashboard for WASCO client.
Worked on initial presentation of BOBJ 4 for client Abex.
Self-training on BPC10 and BOBJ4.
Sr. SAP BI Consultant – BAT GSD (BI/BW Support, Enhancement and
Implementation)
(March 2009 – December 2011)
SAP BI Solution Center ASPAC Region (Development and Enhancement)
Working on change request and involved in Impact assignment on issue.
4. Involved in end to end developed of change requests, UAT and knowledge
transfer to support team.
Worked on development of backend objects (e.g. Infocube, DSO, Transformation,
DTP, InfoPackage and Infosource).
Extensively worked on Bex WAD in creating Dashboard reports, Reconciliation
reports and customized reports.
Worked on Workbook, Query designer and Report designer.
Worked on Planning Modeler and Real-Time Infocubes, Aggregation level, Filter,
Planning Functions, Data Slice, Planning Sequences as per the change request.
Worked on Input Ready Queries for entering manual plan data.
Worked on FICO, LO and APO data flow changes as per the change request and
reload of historical data.
Worked ABAP transformation routines to update the data from mapping table
while data load.
Worked on Knowledge transfer document preparation and UAT script for users.
Involved in cutover activity and post go-live support.
APO BI/Demand Planning (VMI AUSG Project) – (Implementation)
Involved in requirement gathering and interaction with User to understand more
on requirement.
Involved in Business Blue print preparation based on the requirement gathering
seminar and approval from User on Blue print.
Worked on creation of CUBE and ETL for Forecast data from R/3 using generic
extraction.
Worked on Installation of BI Content for standard objects and reports.
Worked on transformation routines to modify the weekly data in days.
Involved in uploading the Forecast data using InfoCUBE to Demand Planning and
CVC creation.
Created end to end process chain loading forecast data from R/3 to InfoCUBE and
automatic CVC creation and load from CUBE to planning area.
Worked in creating background roll over job for New Net Requirement or New
Gross Requirement into Net Requirement or Gross Requirement and DP release to
SNP.
Worked on creating forecast report on DP and SNP.
Involved in User Training and Knowledge transfer to support team.
Involved in coordinating on Project cutover activity, Project Plan update and
scheduling knowledge transfer to support team and documentation.
Involved in Dry run and post go-live support to convert SKUs to move from MTO
to MTS model and issue handling.
BI (Finance -17 Project) – (Support)
Monitoring daily process chain and handing the error during data load from CO-
PA, CCA and FI-GL Data Sources.
Reconciliation of data between BI and SAP R/3 system and working towards
resolving the issue if it falls under support scope or escalating the finding to
solution team.
Worked on WAD and Query for cosmetic changes and new report requirement.
Loading HFM account mapping and Currency exchange rate data though Flatfile
on regular basis.
Worked on debugging functional module and transformation routines.
Worked on supporting Integrated Planning, Analysis Process Designer and
Broadcasting.
Worked on changing or modifying the process chain as per the new requirements.
5. SRM BW – (Enhancement and Support)
Customized Generic and LO Data Sources as per new BR.
Worked on process chains creation and Scheduling and Monitoring on daily basis.
Reconciliation of data between BW, SAP R/3 and SRM and also worked on issue
raised during UAT.
Involved in installation of Business Content.
Loading flat file as per the user request and also worked on automating the
process using process chain.
Changes have done on CUBE and ODS as per the new BR requirement and ETL
form end to end.
Worked on Transfer rules and Update rules as per the new BR changes and
worked on Start Routines and Routines and also debugging.
Changes are done on existing queries and created new variables as per new BR
requirement.
Involved in Transporting objects and error handling during transports.
Worked on User training on the new features and prepared user guide manuals.
Knowledge transfer to support team on the enhancements.
SAP BI Consultant – Motorola (BI HR Implementation)
(January 2008 – February 2009)
Involved in Creation of DSO, Infocube, Infoset and Multiprovider and also
worked on DTP and Transformation for PA&OM Infotypes.
Worked extensively on BEx designer for building queries. Created queries
using filters, calculated keyfigure, restricted keyfigure, conditions and variables
and also worked on RRI.
Involved in SAP BI Content installation.
Worked on creation of query variables for using process type customer exit,
sap exit, hierarchy node variables, user entry and loaded conditions.
Familiar BEx Analyzer properties in changing and adding fields and also
filtering report at report level.
Scheduling Monthly and Weekly report using BEx Broadcasting and sending it
thought email.
Worked on creation of OpenHub Destination and Process chain.
Worked on ECC infoset query creation.
Involved in Generic extraction creation and extracting data from HR Module.
Involved in the preparation of the functional spec documents for reports and
end user documentation.
Working on production support and changing the data modeling as per new
report requirement.
Worked on WAD to create MSS and ESS report, to include more than one
query in single web template.
Worked on daily data load issue and modifying if required.
Sr. Associate – Hewlett-Packard Bangalore
(March 2005 – December 2007)
Sr. Associate – HP (Production Support)
6. Extensively involved in Production Support like daily load Monitoring and
Preventive Maintenance of the load Failures.
Uploaded master data and transactional data from SAP R/3 via data staging to
PSA, ODS and Info cubes.
Monitoring the errors and handling them manually when needed.
Validated data consistency in reporting with Data Targets against PSA and
Source System after loading data from Source System.
Developed Reports based on the InfoCubes, Multi-providers, Infoset and ODS
objects as per the customers new requirement.
Maintaining the work history for all the tickets until it closed down.
Associate – Hewlett-Packard (Sales Reporting)
Generating Forecast (Funnel) and Pipeline report for Corporate and Enterprise
Accounts
Generating Reports for Corporate and Enterprise Account Teams from C360
database Using BO Tool (6.5 version)
Retrieving reports from SAP BW.
Issue resolution for Client Business Managers & their Account Teams with regard
to Sales Compensation
Educating Enterprise Account Managers, Regional Account Managers, Global
Account Managers and CBMs on COBRA tools.
Virtual Team Lead for 4 FTE
Single point of contact – North America for the Nortel Order Tracking Process and
compensation.
Training new resources and certifying them after successful completion of training
& tests
Sales Officer – Nandi Toyota
(October 2003 – October 2004)
Selling Toyota cars to Corporate and Individual customer.
Training new resources on product knowledge and sales.
Preparing quarterly performance report for Nandi Toyota.
Sales reporting for all the products for each month to management.
Tracking individual sales rep. and team performance.
EDUCAION:
PGD in Marketing & Advertising (Fulltime) from Bhavan’s Rajendra Prasad
Institute of Communication & Management 2002 - 2003
Bachelor of Business Management (Fulltime) from Bangalore University in the
1999 - 2002
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Date of Birth : 15th March 1981
Nationality : Indian
Marital Status : Married
Languages : English, Hindi & Kannada
Contact : +6017-2857564 (Malaysia #)