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An experienced Business Objects Senior Consultant who has been working for Business Objects (an SAP company) since March 2000.
It has an initial 5 years of technical support background which exposed him to a great deal of technologies and platforms.
He installed / configured & troubleshooted several web servers/application servers/databases as well as Business Objects and several other applications on both UNIX and Windows.
He moved to consultancy in April 2005 where he has been highly recognised by customers on several high profile projects. He has developed excellent business analysis skills.
This, coupled with his technical background makes him a secure asset for Business Intelligence projects
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| Hourly Rate / Cost: | £61.11 per hour |
| Daily Rate / Cost: | £458.33 per day |
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| Seller ID: | 316835 |
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Last updated: 23rd Jan 2009
Business Objects Senior Consultant.
9 years of experience with Business Objects UK (an SAP company)
Consultancy Project experience:
• Prison Service (Minister of Justice Home Office) – London (Since December 2005 – on going. XIR2 development).
• Security Clearance B(ce) from 05/12/2005 to 01-12-2015 released by DSU (Department Security Unit).
Creating universes and reports sourced from both the National Offender Management Service system (NOMS) and a data warehouse. Gathering preliminary business requirements. Dealing with prison data application experts to gain in depth knowledge of both data mapping and business rules. Developing, testing to deliver high quality Web intelligence reports in XI R2. Raising and fixing defects.
• Tubelines – London (4 months BO 6.5.x development)
Universe and report development for a pilot project which was eventually promoted to final accepted solution.
Preliminary business analysis to gather the requirements. Installing & configuring the software.
Delivery of requested universes and reports. Fixing outstanding issues.
• NHS – London (6 months BO 6.5 development)
Universe & report development. Installation, administration of Web intelligence (Windows IIS) /BCA. Scheduled reports to run automatically.
• GE Equipment Services Europe company – Sale (Manchester), UK (15 days Architecture)
Installation and configuration of Web intelligence and Application Foundation 6.51 and Auditor on UNIX (Solaris 9).
Migration of a customized web intelligence and AF application deployment into version 6.5.
• EDS– Swansea, UK (10 days Architecture)
Installed/deployed Business Objects XIR2. Migrated the content of an existing development environment into XIR2. Fixed several Business Objects Performance Manager problems
• IBM Defra – U.K. (10 days Architecture)
Worked to deploy Web intelligence and Broadcast agent (installation and configuration) on a UNIX, AIX server. Tested system stability. Broadcast agent proof of concept to the customer.
Involved in consultancy engagements with many other customers like BP, Toyota, Shell, Marks & Spencer, British Telecom and several others.
Previous experience in Business Objects Technical Support as a Principle Support Engineer in the Premium team.
• Solving / Reproducing / Escalating Business Objects products critical cases
• Identifying, creating, and validating knowledge base articles and white papers
• Bug creation, technical escalation to the development team
• Mentoring new hires on Business Objects products
Employment History
(Mar 2000 to Jan 2009)
Business Objects Senior Consultant
Maidenhead(Jun 2000 to Nov 2000)
Software Engineer
SouthampthonProfessional Qualifications
Education/Training & Certifications
- ‘BO XI 3.0 New Features’ Certification (July 2008)
- ‘BOCP XIR2’ Certification (December 2006)
Data Integrator 6.x / R2 training
Business Objects Reporter/Designer/ Supervisor
WebIntelligence Document Agent Server 4.x; Broadcast Agent Server 5.x
Business Objects SDK exposure, VBA Programming language.
‘HP Quality Canter’ Testing Managing Application.
C-NOMIS Prisoner Management Application
Education
(Sep 1992 to Sep )
( to 1998)
Universita' degli studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'
Dottore in Electronics Engineering
Business Objects Senior Consultant
Personal Profile
• Highly self-motivated and enthusiastic person. Involved in high profile challenging projects. Excellent communication skills.
• Business Objects Senior Consultant.
• Experience on both long and short-term projects on a wide range of different size engagements: HR (OTL), Government (Prison Service), National Health Service, Finance and so forth.
• Universe & report development, Administration, high-level software architecture.
• Closely involved with all stages of the project life cycle, from project management, business analysis, development, testing, troubleshooting, installation and implementation.
Employment History
Since March 2000-ongoing Business Objects an SAP company: Maidenhead (Berkshire)
Job title: Business Objects Senior Consultant. March 2005 - ongoing
Job title: Principle Support Engineer: March 2000-March 2005.
Finding solutions to problems occurred while using Business Objects
Installations/configurations (both on Windows & UNIX). Troubleshooting
universes/reports/architecture. Writing/validating technical articles & KBs
Consultancy Project experience:
• Prison Service (Minister of Justice Home Office) – London (Since December 2005 – on going. XIR2 development).
• Security Clearance B(ce) from 05/12/2005 to 01-12-2015 released by DSU (Department Security Unit).
Creating universes and reports sourced from both the National Offender Management Service system (NOMS) and a data warehouse. Gathering preliminary business requirements. Dealing with prison data application experts to gain in depth knowledge of both data mapping and business rules. Developing, testing to deliver high quality Web intelligence reports in XI R2. Raising and fixing defects.
• Tubelines – London (4 months BO 6.5.x development)
Universe and report development for a pilot project which was eventually promoted to final accepted solution.
Preliminary business analysis to gather the requirements. Installing & configuring the software.
Delivery of requested universes and reports. Fixing outstanding issues.
• NHS – London (6 months BO 6.5 development)
Universe & report development. Installation, administration of Web intelligence (Windows IIS) /BCA. Scheduled reports to run automatically.
• GE Equipment Services Europe company – Sale (Manchester), UK (15 days Architecture)
Installation and configuration of Web intelligence and Application Foundation 6.51 and Auditor on UNIX (Solaris 9).
Migration of a customized web intelligence and AF application deployment into version 6.5.
• EDS– Swansea, UK (10 days Architecture)
Installed/deployed Business Objects XIR2. Migrated the content of an existing development environment into XIR2. Fixed several Business Objects Performance Manager problems
• IBM Defra – U.K. (10 days Architecture)
Worked to deploy Web intelligence and Broadcast agent (installation and configuration) on a UNIX, AIX server. Tested system stability. Broadcast agent proof of concept to the customer.
Involved in consultancy engagements with many other customers like BP, Toyota, Shell, Marks & Spencer, British Telecom and several others.
Previous experience in Business Objects Technical Support as a Principle Support Engineer in the Premium team.
• Solving / Reproducing / Escalating Business Objects products critical cases
• Identifying, creating, and validating knowledge base articles and white papers
• Bug creation, technical escalation to the development team
• Mentoring new hires on Business Objects products
August 1999-November 1999 (Contract) Tardis Mobile: Southampton
Job title: Software Engineer:
Programming E-PROM in C language
Education/Training & Certifications
‘BO XI 3.0 New Features’ Certification (July 2008)
‘BOCP XIR2’ Certification (December 2006)
Data Integrator 6.x / R2 training
Business Objects Reporter/Designer/ Supervisor
WebIntelligence Document Agent Server 4.x; Broadcast Agent Server 5.x
Business Objects SDK exposure, VBA Programming language.
‘HP Quality Canter’ Testing Managing Application.
C-NOMIS Prisoner Management Application.
Awarded High University Degree as a ‘Dottore in Electronics’ achieved in ‘La Sapienza’ University (Rome).
Technical & Business Skills
Business Objects
• Universe/report development, Testing, Architecture, Installation, Configuration, Administration, Migration
• Business Objects Designer / Reporter/ Supervisor XIR2, 6.x, 5.x, 4.x
• Web Intelligence XIR2, 6.x, 5.x. Broadcast Agent 6.x, 5.x.
• Broadcast Agent Publisher 6.x, 5.x.
• Data Integrator XIR2, 6.x. (basic working knowledge)
• Application Foundation (working knowledge)
Database, Data Warehouse
• Oracle 10g, 9.x, 8.x.
• MS SQL Server
• Concept of data warehouse.
Programming (working knowledge)
• Visual Basic
• VBA Script
• HTML
• Java script
• ASP (VBScript)
Internet Technologies
• Internet Information Server
• Netscape Enterprise Server IPlanet Server / Sun ONE )
• Tomcat (version 4 / 5). Apache Server (1.3.27 / 2.0.46)
Languages spoken/written
English (fluent)
Italian (native)
German (basic)
