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Sohel Ahmed Syed
Flat #402, Shivshankar 2,
Near Suraj hospital,
Sanpada, Mumbai - 400705
Maharashtra, India
Contact Number: +91 9028921931
Email: [email protected]
Performance driven SAP Business Objects Architect, Administrator with 5+ years of industry experience. Strong
track record of implementing and supporting short/long-term projects. Experience in implementing, Managing,
Analyzing, Performance Tuning, Designing, Migrating Windows, Unix based SAP Business Objects platforms.
Having expertise on planning and implement end to end SAP BO solution for small/medium/large enterprises.
Adaptable to new technologies, knowledgeable, pro-active, loyal and faithful; both as a leader and team player
who lives by the rule of integrity.
Professional Experience
L&T Infotech — Mumbai, November ‘13 to Present
Designation: Team Lead
Project: Global Reporting Improvement
Client: Chevron Corporation
Role: SAP Business Objects Architect
Project Objective: Migrate Analytics environments from SAP Business Objects XI 3.1 to SAP Business Objects BI
4.1 platform as a foundation technology for reporting and analytics which would be in use by the Chevron
employees globally, and upgrading BMC Analytics from 7.6 to 8.1. Design and implement the SAP BO Solution,
Implement new server architecture and sizing for better performance and new governance and security
structure.
User base: 68000 viewers, 1000 report developers, 40 Chevron BU’s, 30000+ Webi Reports.
Team Size: 6
Roles and Responsibilities:
 Create the architecture, deployment and migration plans.
 Involve in discussions with the client leadership team to gather the requirements and their expectations.
 Implement the new governance and security structure.
 Creating documentation for each phases of the project and get reviewed and sign off from the client
leadership team.
 Creating roadmap for the analytics and integration of different solutions.
 Analyze the existing environment to find the gaps and improvement areas and to plan the new
environment accordingly.
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Discussion and negotiations with SAP for the purchase of extra CPU licenses.
Create new systems on SAP Service Marketplace for the new environment and request license keys.
Propose hardware and software requirements based on the sizing calculations.
Get an approval for the new server hardware requests and assist server provisioning team for the
review.
Get in touch with the DB team for the provisioning of the new database requirements for reporting DB,
CMS and audit DB.
Communicate with the users and the champions with the progress of the upgrade.
Developed internal website to share the training materials, videos and interactive tutorials with the
users to get familiar with the new version.
Meeting with the analytics team leads of all 40 BU’s to introduce them with the new version, features,
governance, migration process, change freeze announcement and to share what is required from them
before and after the migration.
Working with the network team to configure F5 loadbalancer, DNS alias for the URLs, finalize load
balancing methodology, Firewall exceptions, SSL configuration, network communication testing,
dependencies in configuring Windows AD SSO.
Deploy the solution in Sandbox environment and present POC.
Implemented Test and Production and DR BI4.1 SP04 environment clustered and distributed on
Windows 2008 R2 with MSSQL as the reporting and CMS databases, Tomcat as the web application
server, F5 load balancer, Windows AD Kerberos SSO, SSL, Client tools SSO, deployed audit universe,
configured monitoring, BI Launchpad customization, Security, migration of reports and universes from
3.1 environment, upgrading BMC analytics from 7.6 to 8.1, LCM.
Sizing the new environment as per the sizing calculations and best practices to gain better performance.
Planning and executing backup and restore procedure.
Assigning the project tasks within the team.
Post upgrading BMC Analytics work with the universe developer to implement all the changes in the
objects previously performed in 7.6 universe and assign the testing tasks to the team.
Post deployment completion developed test script to document and test all the workflows.
Used Apache jmeter for the automated testing.
Regression performance testing of web application server and intelligence tier.
Handover the servers for UAT, maintain test scripts and resolve the reported issues.
Post successful UAT promote the production environment and get it ready for Go-live.
Handover the production server for go-live, closely monitor to confirm everything is up to the mark.
Post successfully go live handover the servers for operations.
Project: Chevron Analytics Operations
Client: Chevron Corporation
Role: SAP Business Objects Administrator
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Having the ownership of all 14 BO 3.1 servers including sandbox, Test, Production, DR.
Monitoring the servers for any issues.
Implementing and coordinating changes based on ITIL process.
Assigning the user reported issues within the team.
Working on problems and priority one issues and providing RCA
Developed a web based java application and integrated many useful scripts in it for day to day
administration purpose and to analyze load on the server.
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Performing weekly maintenance of the servers.
Providing on call support.
Educating users for reporting best practices.
Controlling the developer licenses on the server by distributing specific number of developer licenses
within all 40 BU’s of Chevron.
Involving in discussion with the reporting teams to gather their requirement and assist universe
developer to implement those changes in the universe.
Integrating SAP BO with different tools as per business requirements.
Arranging weekly status meeting with the team to identify the issues in the environment and their ticket
status.
Assigning consulting requests for new report development within team.
Maintaining and upgrading the standard reports which every BU can consume.
Monthly cleanup of environment with unused instances / reports.
Maintaining incremental and full backups of the reports and universes.
Restoring accidently deleted reports.
KPIT Technologies Limited — Pune, April ‘10 to November ‘13
Profile: Senior SAP Engineer.
 Client: SAP AG
Roles and Responsibilities:
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Understanding the client’s requirement, involving in discussions with client team and Onsite
coordinator.
Replicating the client’s environment under a test domain virtually to analyze pre deployment challenges
and planning the required environment for actual deployment.
Implementation of new Windows and Unix based Business Objects technologies for large and small IT
companies.
Clustering and Un-clustering different BOE servers.
Configuring Distributed and Clustered environments
Troubleshoot issues related to installation, deployment, web server configuration, scheduling,
authentication, rights management, and performance tuning.
Performance related issues on Business objects XI R2/3.1/4.0 servers.
Post deployment consultation in technical and functional issues.
Mentoring and assisting the team for optimum performance towards individual’s contribution.
Arranging trainings for the team on new technologies.
Documenting the issues and their resolution, new techniques to achieve the complex workflows based
on own investigation.
Configuring different types of Authentication like WinAD, LDAP, SAP.
SAP Business Objects integration with SAP systems.
Working on Priority one situations like Production system down or Go-Live date affecting situations.
To work on production weekend on call support, technical escalations.
As a part of my work, I have worked on projects related to planning and setting up SAP BusinessObjects
Environments for clients. I was also involved in Migration Projects from previous SAP BusinessObjects releases
to the latest ones.
Project 1: OfficeMax Inc (Feb 2011 - July 2011)
 Implemented SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 for their Finance and Marketing division. Consists of five
nodes clustered / distributed environment with three intelligence tier, two processing tier, web tier. Used
Oracle 10 g as system database and Tomcat 5.5 as Web Application Server.
 Configured Windows AD authentication and SSO.
 Migration of reports, users, universes, publications, dashboards from SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2.
 Testing of Universes, reports, dashboards after migration.
 Performance tuning.
 Designed 5 Performance Management dashboards.
 Installed and configured SAP remote support component.
 Provided training to the end users on InfoView, Web Intelligence.
Project 2: EMC Corporation (Nov 2011 - March 2012)
 Implementation of clustered SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise BI 4.0.
 Performed sizing of the environment.
 Integration of SAP BO BI 4.0 with SAP BW system. Importing users, roles from SAP system.
 Testing of reports, universes developed by the designers.
 Setting up report schedules for daily, weekly, monthly recurrence.
 Performed user security, created Access Levels and assigned to the principals.
 Customizing the applications Central Management Console, BI Launchpad.
 Promotion of jobs from using LCM.
 Designed 20 Publications based on profile values for static and dynamic recipients.
 Translated reports into various languages using Translation Manager Tool.
Project 3: PEPSI BOTTLING GROUP, INC (Jan 2013 - June 2013)
 Installation and configuration of BI 4.0 on QA, DEV and Production environments.
 Installation and testing of Service packs and Patches.
 Production environment consisting of 7 nodes,3 Intelligence, web tiers on Windows environment, 4
Processing tiers consists of Web intelligence and Crystal Reports servers.
 Installed and configured SAP Business Objects Explorer, Mobile for iOS.
 Migration and testing of reports, universes, users, publications etc using UMT from 3.1 SP5 environment.
 Promotion of reports, universes from Dev to QA then Prod.
 Performed BI 4.0 Sizing.
 Successfully Implemented Production DR environment utilizing QA as the DR environment using parallel
clustering concept.
 Configured Windows AD Authentication.
Technical Vitae
Business Intelligence tools: SAP BusinessObjects release XI R2, XI 3.x, BI 4.x, Crystal Reports (XI R2, 2008, 2011),
Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, SAP Business Objects Explorer, SAP Business Objects Mobile,
Multitenancy management tool, Universe Designer, Auditor, Performance Management and Dashboard
Management, Xcelsius, QAAWS, Publication, Query Builder, LCM, Import Wizard (UMT), Xcelsius, Translation
Manager, SAP RSC, SAP Predictive Analysis
Languages: SQL, HTML
Databases: Oracle 10g/11g, SQL Server 2005/2008/2012, IBM DB2, MySQL, SQL Anywhere.
Web Application Servers: Apache Tomcat 5.5/6.0/7.0, IIS 6.0/7.0, Weblogic 8.0, Websphere 6.
Operating Systems: Windows Unix, DOS.
Networks: HTTP, FTP, SMTP, DNS
Monitoring Tools: SAP RSC, IBM Tivoli.
Misc tools: Putty, Toad, VMware workstation, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop.
Remote Support tools: Webex, Netviewer, SAP PGI connect
Network Engineer at R-tech Computers — (July 2009 - March 2010)
To look after overall Network related issues, installation of LAN, Network printers, SAN drive.
Education
Qualification
B.E (Electronics and
Telecommunication)
Diploma in
Electronics and
Telecommunication
SSC
School/College
Board/University
MGM’s College of
Engineering, Nanded
GPV, Nanded
MUBPS
Certification:
 SAP Certified Associate
Participant ID: 011214838
 SAP Certified BI Roadmap expert.
Participant ID: C5146859
 MCSA – SQL Server 2012
Certification ID: 11108343
Grade/Percentage
SRTM University
Year of
Passing
2009
MSBTE
2006
First Class
Latur Board
2000
First Class
First Class
Achievements:
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SAP KCS (Knowledge Centered Support) Coach and have published hundreds of SAP notes.
Listed in top 12 leader board in BI Platform community on SCN. Published a couple of blogs.
Member of the Pilot batch, Ramp up team of SAP BI 4.0, 4.1.
Performed testing of SAP BI 4.0 FP03, BI 4.1 and worked with the SAP Dev team to resolve bugs.
Honors and Rewards:
 Nov 2010: Emerging Star of KPIT award
 Jan 2011: Rookie of KPIT Award (For demonstrating willingness to take on new tasks/challenges & taking
active part in knowledge sharing and building).
 March 2011: Quality Champion Award.
 July 2011: Delighted Customer Award.
 Two times SAP Top Talent Award winner.
 Received award “Valuable contribution to SAP team” from Andreas Heckmann (SAP AGS Head), Pawan
Sharma (President, Head of KPIT Cummins IES)
 Wow’ Award for overall performance.
Personal Details:
Gender
Marital Status
Date of birth
Languages known
Nationality
Passport no
Place of issue
Date of Issue
Date of Expiry
Male:
Married
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1st January
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1985
English,
: Urdu, Hindi, Marathi and Arabic
Indian
H0359024
Nagpur
22/08/2008
21/08/2018
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