Customer Success Engineer

• Nov 2021 - Present

Senior Consultant

• Jan 2013 - Oct 2021

Latest work: - Data engineering Azure-based EDW solution: extraction and transformation with Databricks and Azure Data Factory, storage in Delta Lake, Azure SQL, ADLS, Synapse; - enhancement of incoming IOT data flows using Azure Functions; - internal team lead; - Solution design (contributed) and implementation of sales prediction functionality based on HANA Predictive Library (PAL) and integrated into SAP BW Integrated Planning; - IoT scenarios prototyping with TI Sensortag on Azure cloud and MapR, see "Publications"; - Vast amount of HANA modelling tightly integrated with BW virtual infoproviders to achieve real-time reporting on ECC data,; - BPC projects, classic and embedded: implementation of data acquisition via HANA views and custom logic development in ABAP and WebDynpro, AMDP-based Planning Functions with HANA SQLScript - Finance reporting stream in a large greenfield SAP ECC/BW implementation, - Integrated Planning solution design and development,

SAP BW and BO Senior Consultant

• Jun 2009 - Jan 2013

Various projects in SAP BW, Data Services and HANA consulting area, with large infrastructure services, retail, manufacturing and FMCG companies:- implementation of HANA data models and data delivery to from BW HANA via Data Services;- integration of new/acquired divisions into a retail company's corporate reporting;- implementation of Data Services solution for data delivery from Salesforce CRM to BW;- continuous improvement of Innogence's proprietary BW-based software package for data reconciliation, pre-sales preparation, leading and facilitating reconciliation solution implementations;- solution design for cost allocations with Integrated Planning;- full cycle solution development for Integrated Planning (web-enabled input layouts, data warehousing, ABAP and FOX planning functions);- expert assessment of BW developments;- unstructured data warehousing research with results posted in blogs:1. http://scn.sap.com/community/data-services/blog/2012/07/17/jsonadapter-for-data-services-helps-to-bring-unstructured-text-data-into-sap-ecosystem2. http://scn.sap.com/community/data-services/blog/2012/07/27/on-using-data-services-for-twitter-data-sentiment-analysis3. http://scn.sap.com/community/data-services/blog/2012/07/31/using-sap-bo-data-services-text-data-processing-for-entities-extraction-from-rss-feeds

SAP BW Consultant

• Jun 2007 - Jun 2009

Various projects in SAP BI Consulting area, with large infrastructure services and retail companies:- implementation of Project System reporting (ETL, deeply customised workbooks);- development of BCS reporting suite (BEx workbooks, customer exit reporting variables, Web Application Designer);- solution design for formatted reports automated distribution (BW Broadcaster, Enterprise Reports Designer, custom ABAP programming to satisfy complex business requirements);- BW technical contact for mass data conversions;- various BW support for FI/PS areas.

BW Support technical lead

• Sep 2005 - Jun 2007

Managed 3rd level support of the global SAP BW implementation, resolving design and performance issues of BW data models and queries, as well as data load issues and data reconciliation, and a team of 3 BW analysts, participated in BW v.3.x->7 upgrade.

Business Systems Analyst

• Jun 2002 - Sep 2005

Technical Lead for projects on SAP SRM / CRM environments, including SAM SRM implementations Austria, Belgium & Netherlands, and SAP CRM implementations in UK, USA, Sweden, & Finland. Template production support of SAP R/3 and SAP SRM implementations across European region.

Business Systems Technical Specialist

• Jun 1999 - May 2002

From IT helpdesk to intranet web development, external webhosting support.

Research Intern

• Aug 1997 - May 1999

Plant ecology studies using georeferenced data. Satellite and aerial photography data interpretation. Digital maps preparation for scientific and commercial use. Plant ecology studies using georeferenced data. Satellite and aerial photography data interpretation. Digital maps preparation for scientific and commercial use.