I have several years experience working with financial data warehousing applications. My focus has been supporting Essbase applications. I am a Hyperion Certified Professional with Essbase, experienced in optimizing data loads, Essbase aggregations (calculations) and data extractions.
I have been responsible for supporting and enhancing Essbase applications linking ERP Financials and HR data into front-end budgeting/forecasting applications. I have worked on SAP Financials and HR environments connections and integrations with Essbase.
I have a thorough understanding of business processes and maintain strong communication and problem-solving skills.
Specialties: Hyperion Essbase 5 Certified Professional
SAP AC010 – Business Processes and Financial
Oracle Hyperion Planning 11 implementation Specialist (Certification)
Business Systems Analyst @ Ensure delivery of Oracle Hyperion Planning implementation From August 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Burbank, CaliforniaEssbase Administrator @ Developed disaster recovery plan around Control-M and Tivoli infrastructure
Implemented Oracle EPM 11.1.2.1 and 11.1.2.2 From November 2011 to Present (4 years) BerkeleyConsultant @ Essbase ASO model development, assignment completed in Phoenix, AZ From July 2011 to August 2011 (2 months) Piedmont, CAEssbase VBA Senior Consultant @ Lead Essbase infrastructure development for Custom Warner Bros. Spreadsheet applications that run in a MS Excel environment From March 2011 to July 2011 (5 months) Sr. Essbase Developer Consultant @ Analyze and Decide on Project deliverables to optimize Production Essbase models From November 2010 to March 2011 (5 months) Essbase Consultant @ Configure Essbase and Shared Services to use Secured Socket Layer connection making it possible to migrate from Native Directory to MS Active Directory From May 2010 to October 2010 (6 months) Essbase Consultant @ Evaluate Oracle Hyperion Applications, DRM and HFM. Continue support work for client in Ohio. From January 2010 to May 2010 (5 months) Essbase Consultant @ Manage system administration tasks. Evaluate client spreadsheet applications. From October 2009 to February 2010 (5 months) Sr. Business Systems Analyst @ Enhanced Clarity/Essbase system models/templates for budgeting and forecasting. Established feeds and loads linking SAP source systems.
• Administered Essbase and Oracle (i.e., repository) systems
• Designed and developed FTE hierarchy for reporting in project management and accounting Essbase applications
• Designed and developed validation routines for loading Actual values in Essbase
• Developed custom batch reporting via Email from Essbase to end-user community
• Designed and developed project management allocation routines in Essbase
• Designed and developed Spreadsheet application offering data input, for 100 users to enter project time
• Developed and tested Essbase Release 11
• Migrated Essbase version 6.5.6 to Release 11 and Clarity Systems version 5 to 6
Environment: Clarity Systems, Hyperion Essbase 6.5, Essbase 7.1, and Oracle Release 11, MYSQL, Oracle, MS-Excel, IIS, Tomcat, Windows 2000 Enterprise and Windows 2003 Server Editions From December 2006 to July 2009 (2 years 8 months) Independent Consultant @ Remote projects completed for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Florida and Local Insight Media, Denver Colorado
Augmented Essbase, shifting of data values by time periods using Perl
Provided issue resolutions while supporting Planning and System9 BI+ implementation
Environment: Apple Mac Pro (Intel EM64T), VMWare, Ubuntu Server, Windows Server 2008, Oracle Essbase Release 11, and Oracle Database Server Release 11 From December 2008 to May 2009 (6 months) Decision Support Specialist @ Reviewed and enhanced Essbase Applications to analyze merchandise returns for mail order and internet business. Supported and enhanced Essbase Applications for budgeting/forecasting and reporting financials to internal/external company sources.
• Analyzed system reporting requirements for end users
• Collected and analyzed management reporting requirements and developed input and reporting cubes with data flow from source systems
• Designed and implemented change requirements for reporting
• Developed custom batches for the dimension building and data loading using ESSCMD
• Designed and implemented A3 templates for enterprise budgeting solution
• Managed Tomcat server and Essbase Java API connections from A3 to Essbase Server
Environment: Hyperion Essbase 6, Tomcat, A3, MS-Excel Windows 2003 Server and IBM AIX From November 2000 to December 2006 (6 years 2 months) Data Warehouse Consultant @ Provided consulting services at Informix, in Menlo Park
• Designed and developed reporting solution for end-user business requirement
• Developed Ad-Hoc reports using Business Objects
• Developed dashboards using MetaCube and training for dashboard application which featured MetaCube From February 2000 to November 2000 (10 months) Data Warehouse Consultant @ Provided Essbase Business Objects consulting services at Blue Cross/Blue Shield in Chicago, IL; Budget Rent-a-Car in Lisle, IL; Superior Coffee in Elk Grove, IL; Havi International in Westchester, IL From December 1998 to February 2000 (1 year 3 months) Warehouse Consultant @ Provided consulting services at Informix, in Menlo Park
Designed and developed reporting solution for end-user business requirement
Developed Ad-Hoc reports using Business Objects
Developed dashboards using MetaCube and training for dashboard application which featured MetaCube
Environment: Informix, Informatica, MetaCube, and Business Objects From December 1998 to February 2000 (1 year 3 months)
BBA, Economics and Accounting @ Loyola University Chicago From 1992 to 1995 Oak Park and Riverforest Highschool Asif Sayeed is skilled in: Data Warehousing, Oracle, Essbase, Business Objects, OLAP, Hyperion Enterprise, ERP, Informatica, Business Process, Database Design, Analysis, SAP, Dashboard, Forecasting