1. Mirza S. A. Beg
Mobile: 949-292-4170, E-Mail: msbeg1@yahoo.com, Clearance: Secret (Active)
Summary of Experience
I have 16 plus years of experience in SAP BI/BW (Business Intelligence / Business
warehousing), SAP BO(Business Objects) and SAP MM (Material Management).
• SAP BI Expert with 7 plus years of strong experience in Advanced Implementation
Techniques & Supporting SAP
• Functional areas of implementation include SD, FI/CO, MM, PP, HR, PS, and IS Utilities
• Strong experience in SAP BW involving implementation, configuration, acceptance testing,
documentation of end user manuals and Support
• Expertise includes 4 full life cycle implementations, roll outs, testing and maintenance support
in SAP BW and SAP ECC
• Experience in Business Objects 4.0 & 4.1
• Expertise in designing and building BI Infrastructure including Info Cubes, ODS/DSO and
MultiProviders
• Expertise in ABAP/4 Programming related to SAP BW - creating/coding
Transformations/Update Rules, Start Routines, End Routines, Expert Routines, Function
Modules, coding User Exits, creating custom Data Sources etc
• Strong Production Support Experience including load monitoring, troubleshooting &
performance tuning
• Experience in Requirement gathering, Understanding Business requirements and developing
Technical Specifications
• Hands On Experience in SAP NetWeaver2004s Upgrade
• Expertise in BI Front End tools using Web Application Designer, Query Designer & SAP
Enterprise Portal
• Experience in Performance Tuning including Aggregates, Partitioning, Indexing, Filling OLAP
Cache through Broadcasting & BI Accelerator
• Experience with implementing/enhancing Reports related to FI-GL, FI-AR, CO-PA
• Experience in SAP ABAP/4 programming related BW development
• Experienced in debugging & trouble-shooting ABAP code, SQL Trace, Run Time Analysis &
coordinated Escalations to SAP through OSS Notes
• Experience working closely with Security Team to develop proper Authorizations across the
system for diverse Users
• Experience in conducting User Training including BEx Ad-hoc Reports & Dashboard
Trainings and preparing User Training Manuals
• Experience in Universe design (using IDT / UDT) - modifications and maintenance
(OLAP/Relational)
• Experience in Web intelligence reports designer.
• Experience in Dashboard designs (Dynamic)
• Experience in Connections (Parameters), variables, formulas, filters, hierarchies, Breaks, and
Ranking
Professional Experience
EDC/MTC/GFEBS-SA – BW Consultant Dec 2014 -
Present
McLean, VA
GFEBS-SA (General Fund Enterprise Business System Sensitive Activities) is a Web-enabled enterprise
resource planning (ERP) Financial system hat standardizes streamlines and shares critical data across
the United States of Army for sensitive activities.
The current GFEBS Main BI landscape is used as the base template for this project as an extension for
the sensitive activities. The GFEBS-SA ERP system is to be kept in sync with GFEBS Main in the future.
Many interfaces will be built between the two systems to flow data in each direction. GFEBS-SA are to
provide users with the information required by the users to fulfill their daily tasks within their business.
2. Responsibilities:
• Conduct workshops with user community PMO, Users, GFEBS-Main collect and verify requirements
• Perform business content check for the project requirements
• Create business documents, technical specifications and functional specification documents for RICEF
objects including data models, reports and interfaces
• Worked with Business Users for validation of Reports and interfaces
• Work with Security Team for the data partitioning analysis
• Work with BASIS Team to establish the BI landscape
• Develop Logical Data Model
• Activate all BI contents and establish connectivity with source system(s)
• Develop BEx queries/reports
TCS/SCE – BW/BO/HANA BI Lead Jul 2014 – Dec
2014 Irwindale, CA
Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is
the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California.
TCS Newly acquired the operations and support and build responsibilities form Infosys. The project
included the knowledge transfer from Infosys to provide sustainment and build support to SCE.
Responsible to support all activities within BI (Business Intelligence) landscape SAP and non-SAP (BW
powered by HANA, Native HANA, Teradata, DB2, SQL, and AIX) platform at SCE
Responsibilities:
• Manage resources onsite and offshore for all BI activities
• Conduct workshops for knowledge transfer with PMO and Infosys
• Managed weekly/Monthly Maintenance and Enhancement meeting with the BI functional and
technical teams to ensure timely delivery of business requests
• Manage Batch jobs for BI Process Chains as part of the production support activities
• Maintain data models
• Worked with SCE and Infosys for financial month end closing activities
• Worked with SCE and Infosys for IP (Integrated Planning) activities in finanace
• Identify and analyze key business issues and provide input for streamlining the business process
• Supported QA and Post Go Live activities, ensuring the functional enhancements are working as
designed, train and educate the user on enhancements for all releases with Infosys and SCE
• Work with Web intelligence reports and Crystal Reports
• Create Adhoc queries to support business requirements
Roche/Genentech – BW Analyst/Developer Jan 2013 – Jun
2014
South San Francisco, CA
Genentech is a leader in Biotechnology. Being the Pioneer of the Industry, Genentech has produced &
continue to produce effective products for treating life-threatening medical conditions.
Global S2P (Source to Pay) project: The landscape included multiple systems (Ariba 8.2, Ariba 9R1,
SRM, ECC, and Legacy Systems) with multiple SAP instances of Ariba, ECC & BW to deliver the solution.
Projects required collaboration with multiple project teams in Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific and
North America for a Global solution.
Responsibilities:
• Worked with Business/Super Users to understand the requirements & design/enhance
Reports/Dashboards
• Develop changes for new requirements
• Co-ordinate with on-site & off-shore team for development/maintenance activities including
Knowledge Transfer, assigning the Tasks, etc
• Performance Improvement Activities including Index creation, optimizing code in transformations
• End-to-end activities from Requirement gathering to doing knowledge Transfer to off-shore team for
the maintenance of the Reports
• Worked on the documentation/Knowledge Transfer to the Offshore team
3. • Prepared Functional Specs, Technical Specs, Design, Unit Test, KT Documents
• Worked on creating the MWBE Dashboards in the Design Studio 1.4 SP2
• Worked on the P2P Solution Design Framework for the build of 5 Dashboards in Design Studio with
SAP Standard Best Practices.
• Worked on the Drill down of data selection by passing the values from the Crosstab to the Line
Chart.
• Created the Rolling YTD Dashboard for the PO Amount and Count for the Buyer Intervention and
Catalog Spend to be dynamic based on the user entry in the variable.
• Created Q1 - Q2 Quarterly Global Spend Dashboards by Vendor, Material Group and EC Members.
• Designed and built various Bex Queries for the Components and added as Datasource in Design
Studio.
• Worked on creating Adhoc Queries for the Business Users in BEx on Request basis by using various
functions such as Conditions, Exceptions, CKF and Variables.
• Worked on HP ALM by creating Testing Scenario's in Test Plan and Test Labs.
• Built custom BEx Queries based on Total Spend Summary by Posting Date, PO Summary Report.
• Built two Dashboards based on Spend Analysis by Material Group and Vendor.
* Special Project *
Global Reporting Solution (Single Source of Truth) for all Global Roche Business users including AP
Inquiry and Total Spend reports
• Worked closely with the Latin America and Asia Pacific business users to gather functional
requirements
• Created Functional and technical specifications for the BW technical team
• Performed extensive gap analysis and testing between the legacy reports and the new reporting
solutions
• Lead/Develop changes for new requirements
• Co-ordinate with on-site & off-shore team for development/maintenance activities including
Knowledge Transfer, assigning the Tasks, etc
• Post go-live user training and operational support
Intrigo Systems/Semtech - BI/BW Consultant May 2012 –
Nov 2012
Camarillo, CA
Semtech Corporation is a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors. The company sells
proprietary solutions and breakthrough technology in power management, protection, advanced
communications, human interface, test & measurement, as well as wireless and sensing products
A new SAP implementation project: Lead BI reporting architecture on SAP NetWeaver 7.3 BI
platform. Data sources included APO, ECC and Legacy systems. Following deliverables were completed
during the project
Responsibilities:
• Defined the BI Strategy
• Laid out the BI Project Plan
• Developed roadmaps and objectives using ASAP methodology
• Conducted workshops to identify requirements and complete the RICEFW list for reporting
• Activated Data Sources and standard BI Contents and created Z objects in following FI areas:
FI/GL
FI/AP
FI/AR
Cost Accounting
Product Costing
P&A
CO-PA
• Created custom PS contents for reporting
4. eBay - BI/SRM Functional Analyst April 2012 – May
2012
San Jose, CA
eBay Inc. is an American multinational corporation and e-commerce company, providing consumer to
consumer & business to consumer sales services via Internet.
Reporting requirement Blueprint Phase: Requirement was to complete the Blueprint phase for
SRM/BI reporting requirement.
Responsibilities:
• Identified and completed the RICEFW list for reporting requirements in the areas of Procurement and
Finance (Standards and custom development)
• Worked with the user community to identify the reporting requirements and documented the
requirements
• Worked with the Technical Team to identify the standard contents to be activated for the reporting
requirement
• Completed Functional and Technical documents for each RICEFW item
• Provided progress status to Project management on a weekly basis
Accenture/GFEBS Mar 2012 – Apr
2012
Kingstowne, VA
GFEBS (General Fund Enterprise Business System) is a Web-based enterprise resource planning (ERP)
system for the United States Army.
Responsibilities:
• Develop ad-hoc reports for the GFEBS users and support sustainment team for BI Production
• Identify the matrix and the KPIs and develop queries/reports off of the RICEFW list
• Develop functional document, technical documents, unit test document, integration test document
and user acceptance test documents.
• Work with the user community to identify the reporting requirements and document the
requirements.
CACI/TEWLS (Theater Enterprise Wide Logistics System) - BW Lead Aug 2009 –
Mar 2012
Frederick, MD
TEWLS stands for Theater Enterprise-Wide Logistics System and that replaced the TAMMIS (Theater
Army Medical Management Information System) system in USAMMCE. TEWLS is based on SAP software,
and integrates multiple business processes, i.e. Inventory Management, Warehouse Management,
Kitting, Financial Management, etc., across the Enterprise or organized business activities into a single
Master Database.
Assumed the responsibility to take over the BI development from SAP Germany to support TEWLS
reporting requirements in , located in the US, Germany, Korea and Qatar.
Responsibilities:
• Worked with Business Users for validation of Reports after the changes due to the system upgrade
• End-to-end activities from Requirement gathering to doing knowledge Transfer to off-shore team
for the maintenance of the Reports
• Worked with Business/Super Users to understand the requirements & design/enhance
Reports/Queries
• Co-ordinate with on-site & off-shore super users for development/maintenance activities including
Knowledge Transfer, assigning the Tasks, etc
• Create Function Modules, code User Exits
• Made changes to the process chain objects to improve load time
• Made change to the InfoCube dimensions to improve the performance
• Eliminated InfoSet and changed the SD data model to improve performance
• Managed the process chain and related issues on a daily basis
5. • Made changed and develop new object to support the user requirement
• Worked on break/fix tickets for each support release.
• Completed integration system tests impacted by systems upgrade.
• Conducted BI front end training in classroom setting and over DCO at all user locations.
• Created SD, FI and WM reports
• Created and maintained action items in SolMan (Solution Manager)
• Trained key personnel on Business Objects
RJT Compuquest/SAP Labs (Internal) - BI Consultant Jun 2008 – Aug
2009
Costa Mesa, CA
RJT Compuquest, Inc. is an ERP and IT consulting services provider located in Southern California.
RJT was a ramp up partner with SAP Lab. My role was to work with SAP Lab’s developers to develop
SSA (SAP Spend Analytics, version 2.0) solution.
SAP Lab Project
Responsibilities:
• At RJT I worked with the BAIS Team to install the Adobe Flex and the BI 7.0 SSA components on a
local system
• Activated the Business Contents for the Spend Analytics data model.
• Loaded customer data (Master data and transaction data)
• Tested and identified issues with the software/data model and worked with SAP labs Team to
resolve the issues
• Prepared the live Demo for SAP Labs Marketing Team to present to the client
Yamaha Motors USA Project
Responsibilities:
• Worked with RJT and Yamaha Motors USA BW Teams stabilized the project plan and finalize BI
Scope.
• Activated Business Contents, Created InfObjects, Data Store Objects, InfoCubes, and MultiProviders
and created custom data sources to support BI Team.
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - BW Lead Jan 2006 – Jun
2008
Corona, CA
Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. Is Now Actavis, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops,
manufactures and distributes generic, brand and biosimilar products. The Company has global
headquarters in Parsippany, NJ and international headquarters in Zug, Switzerland.
I was responsible for managing contractors and their deliverables for the BW Team.
Responsibilities:
• Worked with the Comptroller, Marketing Directors, Operations Directors, SMEs and the end users to
provide Bi support with production through enhancements and new development of reports for
the Watson Enterprise in FI/GL, FI/AP, FI/AR, MM, & SD areas
• Managed Process Chain on a daily basis and fixed any related issues
• Developed various ad-hoc reports for the enterprise
• Create Function Modules, code User Exits
• Made changed and develop new object to support the user requirement
• Worked on break/fix tickets for each support release.
• Completed integration system tests impacted by systems upgrade.
• Conducted BI front end training in classroom setting and over DCO at all user locations.
• Created SD, FI and WM reports
• Held workshops, developed documentation, provided training and end-user support.
6. • Conducted classroom and web conference training classes and produced reusable training
deliverables.
Deloitte Consulting, Inc. - Senior MM Consultant Feb 2005 – Jan
2006
Costa Mesa, CA
Client: Colorado Department of Transportation
• Provided support to the MM/IM Consulting team during the Business Blueprint Phase.
• Identified business processes from the workshops and finalized the list movements and accounts to
be configured as part of the Automatic Account Assignment.
• Identified and compiled a list of transactions for the Physical Inventory to be considered for the
project implementation.
• Completed data mappings and documented the master data conversion requirements for the MM
module.
Client: Raytheon Missile Systems - Tucson, AZ – MM/Purchasing Consultant
Provided support to the MM/Procurement Team as an integrator consultant.
• Key achievements are as following:
• Developed training materials for Purchasing and Inventory Management modules.
• Acted as an Integration Lead to complete “go-live” effort across all teams with scenario consisting
458 steps among Manufacturing, Production Planning, Service Management, Finance, GPD group,
Purchasing, Inventory Management, Warehouse Management and Sales and Distribution for the
Integration test Cycles.
• Provided post go-live, hands on support in the Warehouse Management with RF functionality over
multiple locations at RMS.
IBM/NASA – Senior MM Consultant Mar 2004 – Feb
2005
Huntsville AL
Client: Clark County - Las Vegas, NV – MM Functional Consultant
Provided support to the MM/IM Team as an integrator consultant. The Clark County project included
the Clark County Government, Department of Aviation, University Medical Center, Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police Department, Regional Transportation Commission, and the Regional Flood Control
District.
CSC - Computer Scientist Apr 2003 – Mar
2004
Huntsville, AL
Client: NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville AL – SAP MM/Purchasing Team Member
During fifteen months at NASA I was responsible sustainment support Procurement Team first with CSC
and later IBM for the same project. The work was distributed in Problem Fixes, Configuration Changes,
Master Data maintenance, Release Strategy maintenance, Workflow’ Business Process Re-engineering,
and supporting the interface activities within Procure to Pay Process at NASA
SAP Markets, Inc./Steelcase Inc. - Senior SAP Consultant Mar 2001 – Jan
2003 Palo Alto CA
Client: - Steelcase Inc., Grand Rapids, MI – BW Team Lead
Responsibilities included setting up the standards for Steelcase Analytics/BW requirements in SRM and
Portal environment.
Key achievements are as following:
• Successfully managed the Ramp up BW 3.0B FCS (First Customer Ship) project, implementation
• I worked with the SAP BI Development Teams in Palo Alto and Germany to implement the solution.
• I managed timeline, Scope, Deliverables, and the Budget within the SRM project.
• I managed the subcontractors who were responsible to support the BW development.
• The BW deliverables included the data extraction from multiple Sources including R/3, BW (2.0B),
and SRM/EBP to BW (3.0B).
7. • I managed the project scope for BW repots in the FI and MM areas in the first phase of the project.
• The project was successfully completed in time and under budget
SAP America, Inc. Senior MM Consultant Sep 1998 –
Dec 2000
Irvine, CA
Client: MGM – Santa Monica, CA – MM Functional Consultant
Key achievements are as following:
• Provided support to Purchasing and Inventory Management with daily issues and issues relating to
Consignment related Movement Types.
• Helped implementing the “Reorder Point Planning” for a specific movie release Planning.
• Documented Automatic Account Assignment procedure and Movement Types configured at MGM.
• Provided support with daily production related issues.
• Provided end-user training in the areas mentioned above.
Client: Horiba International, Irvine CA MM Consultant
During nine months project at Horiba International, my responsibilities included the requirement
analysis, specification, configuration, testing, documentation, and training for the entire MM (Procure to
Pay) module. The project included the MM integration to PP, SD, FI, SM, and PS modules.
The INC group, Inc. White Plains, NY – MM Consultant Jan 1998 – Sep
1998
Client: New York Power Authority - White Plains, NY – MM Lead
During a nine months project at NYPA, my responsibility was to ensure a successful completion of the
SAP MM module. The project included the MM integration to SD, FI, and PS modules within R/3
environment. In addition, MM integration to legacy (PM system) that required translation and interface
to provide visibility of various objects and other pertinent information to Plant Maintenance and
Engineering.
Ernst & Young - Chicago, IL - Manager, MC-IT Mar 1997 – Jan
1998
Job responsibilities included facilitating the implementation and support of SAP products by providing
expert product knowledge and consulting skills to high profile accounts.
Mentored and advised the training and career paths of new and inexperienced consultants.
Client: Oklahoma Gas & Electric - Oklahoma City OK – MM Lead
During six months project at OG&E I provided the post implementation support.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, Roosevelt University, Chicago IL