Senior Analytics Consultant

• Jan 2023 - Present

SAP HANA/BW BI Consulant

• Jan 2020 - Jan 2023

Pick ’n Pay has a mature SaaS cloud-based SAP environment with large churn of data. SAP Business Objects/ SAP Analytics Cloud is used on BW4HANA to produce reports. Streamlining processing time is the key requirement for this customer on BW4HANA to minimize impact on Investment infrastructure (memory used, RSRT and model evaluation). New methods to present and process their visualizations. Pick ’n Pay has a mature SaaS cloud-based SAP environment with large churn of data. SAP Business Objects/ SAP Analytics Cloud is used on BW4HANA to produce reports. Streamlining processing time is the key requirement for this customer on BW4HANA to minimize impact on Investment infrastructure (memory used, RSRT and model evaluation). New methods to present and process their visualizations.

SAP HANA Consultant

• Oct 2017 - Jan 2020

Part of a HANA BI team, developing HANA views, assisting to provide solutions for HANA 2 Multi-Tier (SAP ECC S4 HANA, SAP BW, HANA Native EDW), Dynamic Tiering (Multi-Temperature Data Management), Transportation of SAP HANA, SAP BW, SAP BusinessObjects and SAP Data services Content using the SAP CTS Mechanism. Mediclinic has Unique environment where Transactional data is held in the SAP BW tenant due to size and licensing and time dependent Master data in HANA Native tenant orchestrated as HANA views. Migration of Content from SAP BusinessObjects 4.2, Lumira 2 and Analysis for Office to SAP Analytics Cloud, Helping drive a solution of multi country data incorporating GDPR compliance.

SAP HANA BI Conlultant

• May 2017 - Oct 2017

CTRG is a joint venture between Sasol Energy and Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) where a 175 MW capacity gas to power plant on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. The requirement was to have SAP ECC on SAP HANA for Materials Management, EHS, FICO, HCM and Plant Maintenance. Our Focus was to implement HANA live views to incorporate Operational Reporting and a holistic Dashboard. CTRG is a joint venture between Sasol Energy and Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) where a 175 MW capacity gas to power plant on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. The requirement was to have SAP ECC on SAP HANA for Materials Management, EHS, FICO, HCM and Plant Maintenance. Our Focus was to implement HANA live views to incorporate Operational Reporting and a holistic Dashboard.

SAP HANA BI Consultant

• Dec 2016 - May 2017

Part of a team of 3 developing HANA views to provide a solution to Mobile mini. SAP HANA incorporated SAP ECC and our Agile Data warehouse. Quick turnaround times proved that we could supply data needed for the tight project plan allowing delivery of an Executive Dashboard and to supply data to several existing Web Intelligence Reports to be converted to HANA from a Non- SAP Source. Part of a team of 3 developing HANA views to provide a solution to Mobile mini. SAP HANA incorporated SAP ECC and our Agile Data warehouse. Quick turnaround times proved that we could supply data needed for the tight project plan allowing delivery of an Executive Dashboard and to supply data to several existing Web Intelligence Reports to be converted to HANA from a Non- SAP Source.

SAP HANA BI Consultant

• 2014 - 2016

Visualization Leading SAP visualization for Shoprite using SAP Design Studio, Lumia. Involved in Model, BEx Query, Transports, SBO’s. SAP HANA Aiding in advise on redevelopment of existing and new BW on HANA models in conjunction with BW Functional Content Expert to refine model to take advantage of SAP HANA technology. Considering Exception Aggregation when using HANA Content (HANA views) and New BW content (ADSO, Composite Providers and ODS Views.) Visualization Leading SAP visualization for Shoprite using SAP Design Studio, Lumia. Involved in Model, BEx Query, Transports, SBO’s. SAP HANA Aiding in advise on redevelopment of existing and new BW on HANA models in conjunction with BW Functional Content Expert to refine model to take advantage of SAP HANA technology. Considering Exception Aggregation when using HANA Content (HANA views) and New BW content (ADSO, Composite Providers and ODS Views.)

Consultant – BI Services, Business Analytical Services

• Jan 2011 - Apr 2014

Advise customers on the Business Objects Suite. Advise customers on the Business Objects Suite.

SAP Businesss Objects Consultant

• Jan 2009 - Dec 2010

SAP Business Obejcts Consultant SAP Business Obejcts Consultant

Business Objects Consultant

• 2008 - 2009

Advise/ Consulting on Business Obejcts Suite Advise/ Consulting on Business Obejcts Suite

Business Objects SAP Consultant

• Jun 2008 - Dec 2008

SAP Business Objects Integration Champion Business Objects Consulant

Senior Consultant/ Pre Sales Consultant

• Jul 2005 - Jun 2008

Roles : Pre-Sales• Respond to RFIs/RFPs• Deliver Proof of Concepts• Architectural discussions with clients• Create technical documentation.• Plan and deliver technical sessions Consulting• Project Management • Architectural discussions and proposals• Installation and configuration of Enterprise, Dashboards, Data Integrator, Data Federator, Data Insight, and Metadata Manager, as well as content creation where appropriate.• Administration• BI competency centre documentation and deployment

Consultant

• 1999 - 2008

Technical advise / Presentations on Business Objects Suite

Associate to Senior Support Engineer

• Sep 2000 - Jan 2003

• Server products support, primarily WebIntelligence and Broadcast Agent• Advise on custom architecture deployments• Resolve architectural, database connectivity, and web/application server issues

Consultant

• 2005 - 2007

Supporting the Business Objects Suite

Business Objects Support, Specialist Consultant

• Feb 2003 - Jun 2005

• Support all Business Objects products, specialising in server products• Consult with and assist SWAT Team• Respond to RFIs/RFPs