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Senior BOBJ Analsyst @ itelligence From 2012 to 2013 (1 year) Senior BOBJ Analsyst @ itelligence From 2012 to 2013 (1 year) Programmer @ BellSouth Worked with Crystal Reports 7. 0 and maintained web pages and servers for accessing Crystal Reports. From 1999 to 1999 (less than a year) Programmer @ THWT Software Worked with Visual Basic 5.0 SQL Server 6.5 and Crystal Reports 4.5 From 1997 to 1999 (2 years) BOBJ/Hana Architect @ Resolve Tech Solutions Provide Business Objects and SAP HANA leadership, training and technical consulting.Selected Project Successes:* USDA Leadership: Provide strategic and tactical direction for the implementation of the Financial Management Modernization Initiative (FMMI). Wrote the implementation strategy document for the Information Steward. Produced policies and procedures for Version Management and Promotion Management applications within the BI 4.0 Platform. Served as the Business Intelligence Platform 4.0 administrator representing SAP NS2. Performed critical tasks during the upgrade from BOE XI 3.1 to BI Platform 4.0 that were missed by other vendor’s team. Additionally worked with HANA reports in WebI and updated the HANA-sourced Universes to apply row-level security. Owned the process of converting 17 Crystal 2008 reports to Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0. * U.S. Navy Support Consulting & Training: Rebuilt, tuned, configured and optimized corrupted BI Platform 4.0 and Data Services 4.1 environment. Increased server stability and performance, a key contributor to the proof of concept success. Trained novice/seasoned developers on Data Services 4.1 SP1. Greater New Orleans AreaPrincipal Consultant/Project Manager @ Sparta Consulting Inc Provided project management and BI consulting. Worked with salespeople and practice managers to create several Statements of Work, SOW, and Letters of Engagement for new projects. Served as a sales engineer on sales calls. Selected Project Successes:* Sempra Project Management: Project managed 4 onshore/offshore developers to complete 7 Xcelsius Dashboards and 26 WebI Reports over a 14 week period. Managed workflow, provided status updates to client about the issue and the risks involved in populating necessary data into the BW 7.1 a back-end.* Maines Food Service Team Lead: BusinessObjects Lead with on-site and off-shore resources through an SAP implementation and go-live. Assigned work for Xcelsius Dashboards to off-shore resources and provided technical leadership to team to help solve data load and calculation issues with InfoCubes and MultiProviders.* Animal Health, Training: Trained client on the BI 4.0 platform architecture, troubleshooting and resolving various outage, migration, mobility, security real-time folder and capacity planning issues real-time.. From 2011 to 2012 (1 year) Greater Atlanta AreaSenior Consultant @ The Glenture Group, LLC Recruited by a former colleague to expand the consulting practice to include Business Objects. Managed Data Services installations and configurations; set up Local Repositories for each developer and both Central and Profiler repositories for each environment. Integrated Data Services with the BPC Data Manager. Defined and enforced Business validation rules and Audit functions based on Data Governance requirements. Selected Project Successes: * American Family Insurance Project Management: Project managed a team of 5 in the on-time, within-budget delivery of a complex dashboard that tracked sales data. Led the creation of a dashboard using Xcelsius 2008 to measure agency performance. Integrated the dashboard with Query as a Web Service (QAAWS), Active Directory authentication and database security. Coached a struggling client employee in a supportive environment into a confident and fully-contributing team member. * Valley National Bank Project Management: Managed the SAP Data Services component. Loaded and transformed flat files exported from a Miser Financial system into the BPC application. From 2010 to 2011 (1 year) Consultant @ DecisionFirst Technologies Provided project management, training and BI technical consulting onsite for major clients nationwide. Studied Data Services and enhanced documentation expertise. Selected Project Successes: * IMERYS Project Management: Managed the full life cycle and on-time delivery of the setup and configuration of a Business Objects Enterprise XI R2 environment. Configured and demonstrated Active Directory authentication with single sign-on to Business Objects Enterprise InfoView. Migrated from legacy Crystal Enterprise 9 environment; provided disaster recovery support and planning.* International Meal Corp Project Management: Managed a team of 4 in the on-time delivery, within budget delivery of the design and specifications of 30 different Crystal reports and Universe. * Vanderbilt University: Rebuilt/stabilized Business Objects Enterprise XI R2 servers eliminating downtime.* Training: Delivered 2 public training classes on Crystal Reports Design at Nashville State Community College. Delivered training classes on Web Intelligence 3.1 and Xcelsius 2008 at Mississippi Department of Education. From 2008 to 2009 (1 year) Senior Consultant @ Consultancy by Kingfisher Performed installations of BO Edge XI R2 and both Data Services Edge installations and configurations. Trained development team on Crystal Reports XI R2 interface. Key contributor to the SAP strategic alliance with Revenue Solutions with inclusion in their RFP with a $250K bid for BusinessObjects software licensing submitted to the Georgia Department of Revenue. Selected Project Successes:* Robart Project Management: Project managed the full life cycle of the installation and setup of the Crystal Decisions environment (currently BusinessObjects Edge) in the development of a logistical solution to track freight and shipping costs. Created Crystal Reports, Universes, WebI Reports and SQL Server Integration Services packages to import flat files from external vendor. For Star Schema database, created/designed Fact and Dimensional tables, along with Stored Procedures for populating and reloading data. From 2007 to 2008 (1 year) BI Consultant @ ALx Enterprises, Inc. Selected Project Successes:* Riceland & Sypress Electronics Project Management: Maintained P&L accountability for projects; created SOW, calculated costs/labor, determined pricing and managed billing. * Tennessee Farmers Life: Developed tracking application for agents’ submission of applications/premiums From 2006 to 2007 (1 year) Greater Atlanta AreaSenior Analyst @ MCIC Vermont, Inc. Provided onsite BI consulting, project management and technical leadership for clients in multiple industries.Selected Project Successes:* Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC): Migrated a prepackaged CSC RiskMaster Universe from Business Objects Enterprise 6.5 to Business Objects XI Release 2. Tweaked and recoded the Universe in order to provide measures for the KPI Reports developed in Web Intelligence.* MCIC Vermont: Delivered presentation to CIO with demonstrations of Business Enterprise XI technology and prototype KPI Report prototypes to assist executive leadership with critical business decisions. From 2005 to 2006 (1 year) Greater Atlanta AreaSenior Consultant @ Business Objects Member of the SAP practice integrating SAP BW and Crystal Enterprise (now BusinessObjects Enterprise). Additionally performed upgrades at customer sites from Seagate Info to Crystal Enterprise and Crystal Enterprise upgrades to current versions. Assisted management with responding to RFP’s by calculating labor, creating SOW, and Letters of Engagement. Selected Project Successes:* VA Project Management: Led the proof of concept of Crystal reports; used DTS to load flat files to server. * Training: Trained numerous clients on Crystal Reports with SAP R/3 and BW. Provided mentoring and advanced training with Crystal Enterprise installations on all aspects of the system. * Best Buy: Crafted an innovative solution using SQL Command Objects to replace MicroStrategy reports with BusinessObjects XI Crystal. Consolidated 300 reports into less than 30 dynamic templates without loss of critical content, exceeding clients’ expectations and delivering this high-profile project ahead of schedule. * The Coca-Cola Company: Audited Crystal Enterprise 9.0 and 10.0 servers and identified configuration changes to remediate performance problems. Performed architectural sizing to create a BI Center for structural changes to delineate Crystal Enterprise and web application server Administration responsibilities. * Aetna: Wrote reports using complex stored procedures; reduced report volume and increased production. From 2000 to 2005 (5 years) Greater Atlanta Area