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Projekte

2023 ? 2024: Financial Reports, Forecasting (PowerBI, Azure, S/4 Hana)


Customer: Ricola


Tasks:

  • Financial reporting on Ricola EBIT, COGS & margins to monitor growth and profitability in more than 45 countries in Europe, Asia and America. PowerBI, Fabric, Dataflows, Azure Blob Storage, SAP S/4 Hana & custom extract from exotic ERP
  • Forecasting solution from scratch. Country managers can report market trends online, enabling Ricola to scale production to forecasted demand, adapting processes & pricing when appropriate. PowerBI, PowerON, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics

2019 ? 2022: SAP Analytics Cloud & SAP HANA


Role: Cloud BI Architect, Data Engineer (SAC, BW/4Hana)

Customer: PAX


Tasks:

  • Lead developer on SAP Analytics Cloud & SAP HANA
  • Set up code & release management processes, setup operational processes.
  • Advocated and rolled out SAP Analytics Cloud to Business Users, BI devs and ops team.
  • Major contributions to the BI strategy & Move2Cloud (Switch to PaaS), resulting in savings of 2 Mio CHF / year.
  • Started move to Microsoft Synapse Analytics.
  • Over one year, improve deliverable quality (72% lesser bugs) and velocity (52% more objects per developer per scrum sprint) of an existing BI team

08/2018 ? 12/2018: Setup 4 fully functional reporting platforms


Role: BI Architect

Customer: Various customers


Tasks:

  • Setup 4 fully functional reporting platforms from scratch to assess benefits of Cloud BI, Predictive Analytics, Self-Service BI, Virtual DataMarts Vs Classic ETL, Use cases for Data Lakes


Skills:

Classic: Talend, PowerBI, Tableau, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hadoop | SAP: SAP S/4Hana, Hybris C4C, Embedded analytics & Cloud

2015 ? 2018: Datavault, Design Studio, Power BI, Tableau, SSIS, Lumira


Role: BI Expert, PM & Application manager

Customer: Nespresso


Tasks:

  • Lead developer on SAP BO WEBI, Datavault, Design Studio, Power BI, Tableau, SSIS, Lumira, SAP BW, Oracle PL/SQL, SAP HANA
  • Over 6 months, recovered a failing application from 68% availability to 99.9+ %
  • Trained, coached or managed 100+ persons.

01/2017 ? 07/2018: Take end-to-end accountability for the BI applications in my scope


Role: BI Stream lead

Customer: Nespresso & Nestlé


Tasks:

  • Setup ways of working and standard development processes with near- and off-shore development team
  • Take end-to-end accountability for the BI applications in my scope
  • Coach new developers, improve sustainability of applications, reduce Total Cost of Ownership
  • Act as a senior BI specialist / SAP BO developer on several small projects
  • Ensure the applications built are compliant with the new obligations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • Lead two project to set Nespresso BI in conformity with GDPR: Customer Consent (Opt-In) and Customer deletion
  • Senior BI expert on SAP BO WEBI, Design Studio, Lumira, SAP ECC (as a source), Oracle, SAP HANA, SSIS, Power BI


Skills:

Backend : SAP ECC, Oracle, SAP HANA, PL/SQL ETL, SSIS, ODI | Front-End : SAP BO WEBI, Design Studio, Lumira, Power BI

01/2015 ? 12/2016: Manage interaction with SAP BO platform


Role: SAP BO expert & PM

Customer: Nespresso


Tasks:

  • Take charge of Nespresso?s onboarding on SAP BO
  • Manage interaction with SAP BO platform (managed by Nestlé)
  • Manage several small datawarehouse project
  • Coach Nespresso SAP BO developers
  • Act as a senior SAP BO developer on several small projects
  • Senior Developer on SAP BO WEBI, Design Studio, Lumira


Skills:

Backend : SAP ECC, Oracle, SAP HANA | Front-End : SAP BO WEBI, Design Studio, Lumira

07/2014 ? 12/2014: Help SICPA integrate BODS in their global datawarehouse roadmap


Role: BA & SAP BODS Architect

Customer: SICPA


Tasks:

  • Gather business requirements to propose an appropriate way forward. Budget was constrained, scope was tweaked to fit
  • Help SICPA integrate BODS in their global datawarehouse roadmap
  • Advise the SICPA DWH architect, coach key developers


Skills:

SAP ECC, SAP BODS

08/2013 ? 10/2014: Review server installation performed


Role: SAP BODS Architect

Customer: Bacardi


Tasks:

  • Gather business requirements, provide estimation of effort and total price
  • Review server installation performed by IBM, tune up server settings and installation, debug functionalities issues
  • Prepare environment for usage by a large development team.
  • Create initial transfer jobs, WorkFlows & DataFlows
  • Embed into the existing organization and processes


Skills:

SAP ECC, SAP BW, SAP APO, SAP BODS

08/2013 ? 03/2014: Install server components


Role: BA & SAP BO Architect

Customer: DSM


Tasks:

  • Gather business requirements, review with technical teams for feasibility & effort estimate. Provide scenarios with associated price tag. Prepare technical specifications
  • Install server components, tune up server settings and installation, debug functionalities issues
  • Create 12 highly complex reports to meet immediate needs, Available both on laptop and on mobile devices


Skills:

SAP BI / BW, SAP BO WEBI, Dashboard (XCelsius), BO Mobile

07/2012 ? 11/2014: Turnaround a failing SAP BW project


Role: BW Project Manager

Customer: Sunstar


Tasks:

  • Turnaround a failing SAP BW project
  • Delivered remaining 60% of original scope in 40% of original budget thanks to tight but collaborative project management
  • Lead developer on SAP BO WEBI, BW, SQL Server


Skills:

SAP BI / BW, SAP BO, BusinessObjects, Information Design Tool

01/2010 ? 07/2012: scope, budget, relation with stakeholders and suppliers


Role: Project Manager

Customer: Crédit Suisse


Tasks:

  • In charge of 7+ Mio CHF over 2.5 years, spanning 3 releases of Credit Suisse?s core datawarehouse based on Oracle, Informatica & OBIEE
  • Manage 13+ FTE, scope, budget, relation with stakeholders and suppliers


Skills:

Informatica, Oracle, Essbase

01/2009 ? 09/2009: move BI platform to the SAP BO suite


Role: BO / BI Architect

Customer: Novartis


Tasks:

  • Novartis took the strategic decision to move their BI platform to the SAP BO suite
  • As a BO expert, ramped up the Novartis BI team, both On-Shore in Nyon and off-shore in India

Skills:

SAP BW 7.0, Oracle, Business Objects XI, XCelsius, Webi

2003 ? 2009: Implemented or coordinated over 18 projects


Role: BI Expert & Project Manager

Customer: Various


Tasks:

  • Implemented or coordinated over 18 projects in 5 countries
  • Lead developer on SAP BO WEBI, Data Services, SSIS, Oracle

1996 ? 2003: Business Intelligence and Agile applications


Role: IT consultant

Customer: Ernst & Young Consulting, PwC


Tasks:

  • IT consultant, specialized in Business Intelligence and Agile applications
  • Setup 15 application from scratch for prestigious customers
  • Promoted to assistant manager for a team managing such applications.

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

1998

Université Catholique Louvain

BSc IT & Management

cum magna laude

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

MS Power BI S/4HANA Künstliche Intelligenz SAP HANA Azure MS Azure SQL Database Forecasting Business Intelligence Datawarehouse Data Lake Oracle SAP Analytics Cloud DevOps

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile

  • 15+ years of experience.
  • Strong IT and BI methodology, learned with global consulting.
  • Cover all phases of an IT project : Strategy, Project & requirements management, BI development, coaching of BI development teams, SLA & SLO with consumers and suppliers.


Key Skillset

  • Team & Project management including On- and Off-shore teams, Project Management with PMI, Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, CMMI, Applications management, SLA & SLO with suppliers and consumers.
  • Business Intelligence Expert crafting solutions from platform architecture to actionable KPIs in gorgeous reports. Fluent in tech (AI, Predictive Analytics, Azure, Lakehouse), DB modelling (Star-Schema, Snowflake, Datavault) & methodology (Ralph Kimball, Bill Inmon)
  • Business Analyst strong in gathering business requirements using Jira & Confluence, UML, ITIL, Business Process Modelling & Analysis, Training & education, Facilitated sessions leader, SOX, cGXP, GDPR
  • SAP Analytics Cloud, Hana Studio, BW/4Hana, S/4Hana, Migration Cockpit, Embedded Analytics, Cloud Foundry, Business Objects Data Services, BEX query, SAP R/3, Abap, ...
  • Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Dataflows, DevOps, Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure Machine Learning, PowerOn ...
  • Snowflake, Tableau, SSIS, Talend
  • Lakehouse, Oracle, SQL Server, Spark, Hadoop, VORA, ?
  • PL/SQL, Python, R, PowerShell, Unix Shell, Java, C, C#, ?

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Schweiz
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

2023 ? 2024: Financial Reports, Forecasting (PowerBI, Azure, S/4 Hana)


Customer: Ricola


Tasks:

  • Financial reporting on Ricola EBIT, COGS & margins to monitor growth and profitability in more than 45 countries in Europe, Asia and America. PowerBI, Fabric, Dataflows, Azure Blob Storage, SAP S/4 Hana & custom extract from exotic ERP
  • Forecasting solution from scratch. Country managers can report market trends online, enabling Ricola to scale production to forecasted demand, adapting processes & pricing when appropriate. PowerBI, PowerON, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics

2019 ? 2022: SAP Analytics Cloud & SAP HANA


Role: Cloud BI Architect, Data Engineer (SAC, BW/4Hana)

Customer: PAX


Tasks:

  • Lead developer on SAP Analytics Cloud & SAP HANA
  • Set up code & release management processes, setup operational processes.
  • Advocated and rolled out SAP Analytics Cloud to Business Users, BI devs and ops team.
  • Major contributions to the BI strategy & Move2Cloud (Switch to PaaS), resulting in savings of 2 Mio CHF / year.
  • Started move to Microsoft Synapse Analytics.
  • Over one year, improve deliverable quality (72% lesser bugs) and velocity (52% more objects per developer per scrum sprint) of an existing BI team

08/2018 ? 12/2018: Setup 4 fully functional reporting platforms


Role: BI Architect

Customer: Various customers


Tasks:

  • Setup 4 fully functional reporting platforms from scratch to assess benefits of Cloud BI, Predictive Analytics, Self-Service BI, Virtual DataMarts Vs Classic ETL, Use cases for Data Lakes


Skills:

Classic: Talend, PowerBI, Tableau, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hadoop | SAP: SAP S/4Hana, Hybris C4C, Embedded analytics & Cloud

2015 ? 2018: Datavault, Design Studio, Power BI, Tableau, SSIS, Lumira


Role: BI Expert, PM & Application manager

Customer: Nespresso


Tasks:

  • Lead developer on SAP BO WEBI, Datavault, Design Studio, Power BI, Tableau, SSIS, Lumira, SAP BW, Oracle PL/SQL, SAP HANA
  • Over 6 months, recovered a failing application from 68% availability to 99.9+ %
  • Trained, coached or managed 100+ persons.

01/2017 ? 07/2018: Take end-to-end accountability for the BI applications in my scope


Role: BI Stream lead

Customer: Nespresso & Nestlé


Tasks:

  • Setup ways of working and standard development processes with near- and off-shore development team
  • Take end-to-end accountability for the BI applications in my scope
  • Coach new developers, improve sustainability of applications, reduce Total Cost of Ownership
  • Act as a senior BI specialist / SAP BO developer on several small projects
  • Ensure the applications built are compliant with the new obligations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • Lead two project to set Nespresso BI in conformity with GDPR: Customer Consent (Opt-In) and Customer deletion
  • Senior BI expert on SAP BO WEBI, Design Studio, Lumira, SAP ECC (as a source), Oracle, SAP HANA, SSIS, Power BI


Skills:

Backend : SAP ECC, Oracle, SAP HANA, PL/SQL ETL, SSIS, ODI | Front-End : SAP BO WEBI, Design Studio, Lumira, Power BI

01/2015 ? 12/2016: Manage interaction with SAP BO platform


Role: SAP BO expert & PM

Customer: Nespresso


Tasks:

  • Take charge of Nespresso?s onboarding on SAP BO
  • Manage interaction with SAP BO platform (managed by Nestlé)
  • Manage several small datawarehouse project
  • Coach Nespresso SAP BO developers
  • Act as a senior SAP BO developer on several small projects
  • Senior Developer on SAP BO WEBI, Design Studio, Lumira


Skills:

Backend : SAP ECC, Oracle, SAP HANA | Front-End : SAP BO WEBI, Design Studio, Lumira

07/2014 ? 12/2014: Help SICPA integrate BODS in their global datawarehouse roadmap


Role: BA & SAP BODS Architect

Customer: SICPA


Tasks:

  • Gather business requirements to propose an appropriate way forward. Budget was constrained, scope was tweaked to fit
  • Help SICPA integrate BODS in their global datawarehouse roadmap
  • Advise the SICPA DWH architect, coach key developers


Skills:

SAP ECC, SAP BODS

08/2013 ? 10/2014: Review server installation performed


Role: SAP BODS Architect

Customer: Bacardi


Tasks:

  • Gather business requirements, provide estimation of effort and total price
  • Review server installation performed by IBM, tune up server settings and installation, debug functionalities issues
  • Prepare environment for usage by a large development team.
  • Create initial transfer jobs, WorkFlows & DataFlows
  • Embed into the existing organization and processes


Skills:

SAP ECC, SAP BW, SAP APO, SAP BODS

08/2013 ? 03/2014: Install server components


Role: BA & SAP BO Architect

Customer: DSM


Tasks:

  • Gather business requirements, review with technical teams for feasibility & effort estimate. Provide scenarios with associated price tag. Prepare technical specifications
  • Install server components, tune up server settings and installation, debug functionalities issues
  • Create 12 highly complex reports to meet immediate needs, Available both on laptop and on mobile devices


Skills:

SAP BI / BW, SAP BO WEBI, Dashboard (XCelsius), BO Mobile

07/2012 ? 11/2014: Turnaround a failing SAP BW project


Role: BW Project Manager

Customer: Sunstar


Tasks:

  • Turnaround a failing SAP BW project
  • Delivered remaining 60% of original scope in 40% of original budget thanks to tight but collaborative project management
  • Lead developer on SAP BO WEBI, BW, SQL Server


Skills:

SAP BI / BW, SAP BO, BusinessObjects, Information Design Tool

01/2010 ? 07/2012: scope, budget, relation with stakeholders and suppliers


Role: Project Manager

Customer: Crédit Suisse


Tasks:

  • In charge of 7+ Mio CHF over 2.5 years, spanning 3 releases of Credit Suisse?s core datawarehouse based on Oracle, Informatica & OBIEE
  • Manage 13+ FTE, scope, budget, relation with stakeholders and suppliers


Skills:

Informatica, Oracle, Essbase

01/2009 ? 09/2009: move BI platform to the SAP BO suite


Role: BO / BI Architect

Customer: Novartis


Tasks:

  • Novartis took the strategic decision to move their BI platform to the SAP BO suite
  • As a BO expert, ramped up the Novartis BI team, both On-Shore in Nyon and off-shore in India

Skills:

SAP BW 7.0, Oracle, Business Objects XI, XCelsius, Webi

2003 ? 2009: Implemented or coordinated over 18 projects


Role: BI Expert & Project Manager

Customer: Various


Tasks:

  • Implemented or coordinated over 18 projects in 5 countries
  • Lead developer on SAP BO WEBI, Data Services, SSIS, Oracle

1996 ? 2003: Business Intelligence and Agile applications


Role: IT consultant

Customer: Ernst & Young Consulting, PwC


Tasks:

  • IT consultant, specialized in Business Intelligence and Agile applications
  • Setup 15 application from scratch for prestigious customers
  • Promoted to assistant manager for a team managing such applications.

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

1998

Université Catholique Louvain

BSc IT & Management

cum magna laude

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

MS Power BI S/4HANA Künstliche Intelligenz SAP HANA Azure MS Azure SQL Database Forecasting Business Intelligence Datawarehouse Data Lake Oracle SAP Analytics Cloud DevOps

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile

  • 15+ years of experience.
  • Strong IT and BI methodology, learned with global consulting.
  • Cover all phases of an IT project : Strategy, Project & requirements management, BI development, coaching of BI development teams, SLA & SLO with consumers and suppliers.


Key Skillset

  • Team & Project management including On- and Off-shore teams, Project Management with PMI, Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, CMMI, Applications management, SLA & SLO with suppliers and consumers.
  • Business Intelligence Expert crafting solutions from platform architecture to actionable KPIs in gorgeous reports. Fluent in tech (AI, Predictive Analytics, Azure, Lakehouse), DB modelling (Star-Schema, Snowflake, Datavault) & methodology (Ralph Kimball, Bill Inmon)
  • Business Analyst strong in gathering business requirements using Jira & Confluence, UML, ITIL, Business Process Modelling & Analysis, Training & education, Facilitated sessions leader, SOX, cGXP, GDPR
  • SAP Analytics Cloud, Hana Studio, BW/4Hana, S/4Hana, Migration Cockpit, Embedded Analytics, Cloud Foundry, Business Objects Data Services, BEX query, SAP R/3, Abap, ...
  • Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Dataflows, DevOps, Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure Machine Learning, PowerOn ...
  • Snowflake, Tableau, SSIS, Talend
  • Lakehouse, Oracle, SQL Server, Spark, Hadoop, VORA, ?
  • PL/SQL, Python, R, PowerShell, Unix Shell, Java, C, C#, ?

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