Comprobase and Hyperion since 2004
HYPERION
│ QUALIFICATIONS │EXPERIENCE │HISTORY
Hyperion Planning
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Hyperion Financial Management
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Essbase
CapEx Planning
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WorkForce Planning
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Public Sector Planning
Financial Reporting ∥ Financial Data Quality Management ∥ Data Warehouse
R e c e n t P r o j e c t s & C l i e n t s
Hyperion assets of Comprobase have worked as relied upon contributors with the following companies fulfilling roles as Prime Contractor ⇀ Project Manager ⇀ Technical Lead ⇀ Functional Lead ⇀ Developer
DEPT of LABOR AARP NJVC VERISIGN
AAA PANASONIC QUANTA SERVICES AVON
JDS UNIPHASE LIGHTSQUARED METRO WASHINGTON NEUSTAR
ENVIRONMENTS
*Hyperion implementation performed for the companies above with Comprobase assets or as Comprobase as Prime
U.S. House of Representatives
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Washington, DC
║May 2014 to Present ║Sr. Project Manager
Scope:
The Hyperion Budget and Planning implementation is an enterprise solution able to provide a tool to support various ongoing US House of Representative (“House”) budget and planning processes. The delivery of the Hyperion Budget and Planning module will seek to eliminate manual processes and improve functionality with a best in class application that eliminates manual data load, forecast worksheet creation, dissemination and collection with effective automated data load tools in a universally designed, connected application and database.
Automation of processes for execution of hundreds of manually liked spreadsheets and
reports that manually distributed and consolidated by various analysts and business points of contacts.
Automation of data loads from the sources systems so data has to be extracted formatted and
validated manually in these projection and formulation Excel worksheets.
Replacement of Excel workbook being sent via email between reviewers and approvers with
notes and supporting documentation for the approval being stored in excel notes and in email etc.
Creation of audit of the communication and approvals in a single system across the entire
execution and formulation data sets.
Budget Formulation
o House Budget Justification Document o Sub-Committee Print
o Budget Formulation Templates and Exercises
Budget Execution (Forecasting) Activities
o Monthly Projections Reports
o Monthly and Quarterly Variance Reports o FTE Management Reports
Budget Execution Reporting
o Fiscal Year to Legislative Year Comparison Reports o Government Contributions Report
o Various Ad-Hoc Reports back to top ↑
American Red Cross
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Washington, DC
║Oct 2011 to Apr 2013 ║Sr. Project Manager
Scope:
Provided leadership and direction in all areas of this global multi-phase Hyperion Planning
implementation.
This included overall project plan creation, scope definition and maintenance, oversight and
participation in requirements gathering, gap analysis, build development, system testing, systems architecture and integration, training, deployment and post production support.
Responsible for System Integration (SI) vendor resources, independent contractors, as well
as the client resources to a successful roll out of the system and a smooth transition to internal Red Cross employees
Coordinated the identification, prioritization and resolution of project related issues with all
participating groups
Conducted steering committee meetings to update executive management on overall project
status and obtain executive level direction on critical project related issues that could potentially impact timely and budgetary project completion
Project cost budgeting, tracking and reporting to stakeholders and executive management
with on time and on budget delivery of a full budget solution. back to top ↑
Fannie Mae
║Washington DC ║Oct 2011- Present ║Hyperion Consultant Team Lead
Scope:
Implementation of Hyperion Planning application including Hyperion Reports, SmartView,
and Essbase v11.1.2.1
Participated in the requirements gathering efforts of the project for expense related
Planning processes
Drafted requirements documentation for Hyperion Planning applications and used
Requisite Pro to store and tag requirements for mapping to test cases in Quality Center
Developed test cases that were used in UAT
Drafted user acceptance test (UAT) plan documentation for Hyperion Planning and FDM
applications
Created, designed and formatted technical specification documentation, such as
architecture diagrams, process flows, and other processes needed to describe required system changes for development
Performed user acceptance testing (UAT) for various Hyperion Applications Updated, maintained and ran tests in Quality Center
Drafted and compiled final results summary documentation for UAT testing, including Test
Summary, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) created with BOXI Reports, Defect report from ClearQuest, Incident Report from Remedy, and the test Execution Report generated from Quality Center
Assessed business operations and processes to understand procedures, information flows
and handoffs, decisions, communications pathways and the like
Managed the defect capture, reporting and resolution process during UAT using IBM
Rational ClearQuest
Migrated Hyperion Planning artifacts from TEST to PROD using Life Cycle Management
(LCM) and performed validation and shake out in the PROD instance back to top ↑
Volkswagen Group of America
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Tysons Corner, VA ║Mar 2011 – Present ║Hyperion Conslt
Scope:
Worked extensively on Planning application for Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting,
Hyperion Financial Reports, and Webforms for Planning users
Collaborated in technical specification preparation
Created several web forms depending on the requirement in Hyperion Planning
SmartView and web using Workspace
Maintained data base for optimum performance for using Calculation Scripts and Business
Rules
Performed data migration from v9.3 to v11.1.1.3
Used Essbase to deliver meaningful insights for managing finance Conducted tests to analyze if the data is behaving as expected Integrating Hyperion with PeopleSoft Financials
Installation of Essbase Administration Services, Essbase Integration Services, Hyperion
Reports, Hyperion Analyzer and Hyperion Application Link in Windows environment
Deploying Hyperion Planning v11.1.1.3 in different environments
Developed reports for the regulatory purpose in Excel–Add in and Standard Reports in
Hyperion Reports
Process automation using ESSCMD and MaxL Scripts Generated different reports using Smart View
Developed load rules for loading specific type of data files
Supported users during User Acceptance Test (UAT) by troubleshooting and resolving
outstanding issues/problems faced by users
Created reports understanding and analyzing the Stored Procedures
Created reports using SQL Statements for DB2 database back to top ↑
Department of Labor
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Washington, DC ║Apr 2013 – Present ║Project Lead
Scope:
Provided leadership and direction in all areas of this Hyperion Essbase Reporting Application
implementation. This included overall project plan creation, scope definition and maintenance, oversight and participation in requirements gathering, gap analysis, build development, system testing, systems architecture and integration, training, deployment and post production support.
Responsible for project resources, independent contractors, as well as the client resources to
a successful roll out of the system and a smooth transition to internal Red Cross employees
Coordinated the identification, prioritization and resolution of project related issues with all
participating groups
Conducted steering committee meetings to update executive management on overall project
status and obtain executive level direction on critical project related issues that could potentially impact timely and budgetary project completion
Project cost budgeting, tracking and reporting to stakeholders and executive management
with on time and on budget delivery of a full budget solution.
Responsible for review and finalization of solution architecture with DOL senior management. Continue to work with senior and executive management to provide guidance on solution
AARP
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Washington, DC
║Sep 2011 to Jul 2012 ║Sr. Project Manager
Scope:
Worked as a technical lead for the implementation of Hyperion Planning and Reporting
application.
Designed and implemented 3 Year Strategic Plan and Annual planning for corporate
wide budgeting and quarterly forecasting for Expenses, Workforce, CapEx planning.
Organized design sessions to gather requirements from planning users. Created test
scripts and ran CRP and UAT sessions. Sourced data from JDE General Ledger and Fixed Assets module; PeopleSoft HR module. Created corporate allocation scripts.
Customized Workforce module to accommodate calculations based on specifications
from different Affiliates within AARP.
Created staging database (Oracle), tables, procedures for ODI interfaces. Ran ETLs to
populate the staging tables and updated Hyperion Planning through ODI. Developed ODI interfaces, packages and procedures to extract and load data and metadata from Oracle EBS 11g and fed into Planning and Essbase.
Converted manual processes to automated ODI interfaces. Created scenarios to run at
scheduled time through ODI agent. Created Forms, Calculations, Analytical Metrics, Business Rules, Security and Financial Reports during the course of implementation. Created migration scripts and migration strategy to move application across
environments.
Designed and created FDM interfaces to load to Essbase. Created load scripts and
validation rules in FDM. Created load locations, control tables, import formats, mapping tables. Created batch loading of files.
Key Objectives of consulting services provided were application design, architecture
design, business model, backup strategy, and admin document. back to top ↑
NJVC
║ Tysons Corner, VA ║Dec 2011 to Oct 2012 ║Sr. Hyperion Developer
Scope:
Implemented Oracle Hyperion 11.1.2.1; Planning, Public Sector Budgeting, FDM, ODI, and
Financial Reporting
Integrated to Oracle eBS r12
Developed drill-thru capabilities with FDM for vendor and project details for expenses and
revenue
Automated all revenue models to be calculated within Hyperion planning system
Calculates all the various indirect rates; Fringe, Company Overhead, Customer Overhead,
G&A, and Material & Purchasing rates
Public Sector Budgeting module facilitates budgeting and forecasting workforce and
VeriSign
║Herndon, VA ║Feb 2011 – Present ║Technical Hyperion Lead / Administrator
Scope:
Hyperion Technical Lead responsible for the upgrade from sophisticated environment of v9.3.1 to v11.1.2 for Hyperion Planning and Essbase EIS ASO Reporting cube
Defined the To-Be application architecture needed to support EIS and Planning
Installed in DEV and TEST the latest version of Hyperion components: Foundation Services, Planning, EAS, EIS, Financial Reporting Studio, ODI, in a distributed Windows and Linux environment
Exported EIS models and meta-outlines from v9.3.1
Imported EIS model and meta-outlines and validated the imports. Updated EIS models with the appropriate custom SQLs used in building the outlines for Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Trend cubes and loading data
Updated the Meta-outline for all drill through reports connections
Updated 20+ shell Scripts used to automate the metadata, data loads and reconciliations between the client enterprise EDW and Essbase ASO cubes for PandL, Balance Sheet and Trended reporting
Defined and designed the technical upgrade strategy for Hyperion Planning from v9.3.1 to v11.1.2
Converted 60+ HAL to ODI integrations for loading metadata and data into the new Planning
Reviewed and cleaned-up metadata in staging table process to clean-up the Hyperion Planning application
Rebuilt all forms in the new version of Hyperion Planning
Migrated security, Calculation Scripts, business rules, and reports to the new version of Hyperion Planning
Defined and executed conversion from the old Hyperion environment to v11.1.2 Planning cubes
Participated in CRP and UAT for both the EIS/Essbase and Planning upgrade work-streams Developed migration approaches and assisted the client where needed on the migration
from TEST to Production
Created training material and conducted training for application administrators
Provided post production support as needed back to top ↑
AAA Northern California Nevada Utah
║CA ║Dec 2011 to Present ║Sr. Hyperion Developer
Scope:
Support Hyperion production environment 24x7 for Budgeting, Forecast, 10 years budget Load metadata, data into Planning, Essbase
Run ODI interfaces, EPMA profiles to load metadata
Develop and migrate applications, artifacts across Dev, Test, Prod Backup the applications, artifacts on regular basis
Installation of Hyperion Application patches back to top ↑
Panasonic Avionics
║ Lake Forest, CA ║May 2011 – Feb 2012 ║Hyperion Planning / Essbase /
Workforce / CapEx Administrator
Scope:
Plan, Install, Configure, and Administer Hyperion v11.1.2; Hyperion Essbase and Hyperion
Planning Windows environment with both physical and virtual servers
Lead team through Development, Go-Live, Support and Maintenance tasks
Create/Maintain automation Scripts, and maintain responsibility for creating and updating
system documentation
Identify, implement and test patches and upgrades and maintain up-to-date
documentation of Hyperion-related configuration
Trouble-shoot and resolve process, functional and technical issues Create, modify and maintain BSO Essbase cubes in Essbase v11 Modify, Maintain and trouble shoot Hyperion Planning Applications Investigate issues in reports or cubes and provide root cause analysis
Train end-users on how to use the Workspace to complete their budgeting and forecasting
tasks
Set up, manage and maintain user security through Shared Services Migrate Planning and Essbase applications from one environment to other Develop Interfaces and Packages in ODI to load data into Essbase and Planning
applications
Recommend corrective actions for technical systems issues, taking into account user
needs and IT resources
Import and manipulate data from multiple disparate systems Flat files, Essbase, Oracle and
Excel sheets
Monitor application performance, availability, and utilization
Maintain Accounting structure and outline metadata for online reporting
Provide user support, security and other ad hoc requests back to top ↑
Quanta Services
║Houston, TX ║Jan 2011 – Feb 2011 ║Hyperion Administrator
Scope:
Reverted back to classic Planning application from running v11.1.1.3 of Hyperion Planning EPMA application
four new ODI packages for metadata and data loads pointing to new classic Planning application
Re-created batch Scripts for automating the overnight application data loads using ODI Re-created and modified few existing web forms and reports that had longer execution
times
Fine-tuned the Essbase database for data loads by modifying the cache sizes Assisted in restructuring the Planning security in shared services for Production and
Development environment (Group wise security setup)
Assisted in requirement gathering for a new Test environment that client planned upon having other than existing PROD and DEV
Documented the whole ODI data flow process for the new Planning application that was seeding data out of an ASO accounting cube back to top ↑
Avon
║Rye, NY ║ Aug 2011 - Nov 2011 ║Sr. Hyperion Developer Project Lead
Scope:
Installation and configuration of HFM, FDM, DRM, Essbase, Planning on multiple servers Migration of the FDM, HFM, DRM and Planning Applications from v9 to v11.1.2.1 and testing Configure Shared Services with MSAD
Migrate the Financial Reports from v9 to v11.1.2.1
Migrate the security for Hyperion Suite from v9 to v11.1.2.1 back to top ↑
JDS Uniphase
║Milpitas, CA ║May 2010 – Mar 2011 ║Hyperion Consultant
Scope:
Conducted high-level and detailed meetings with the various personnel in the Arrow Asia
from Senior Management CIO, Senior VP’s, Marketing and Sales Specialists to thoroughly understand their requirements and opinions and arrive at a comprehensive view of the Products and Services of Arrow Asia
Worked on Essbase Integration Services (Metadata workflow/filters/drill through reports
using Hybrid Analysis)
Developed and maintained Calc Scripts, MaxL Scripts, batch Scripts to automate data
load/Calculation
Designed and maintained Essbase Cubes, CapEx Planning, Workforce Planning, Planning Implemented Calculation engine that includes robust mathematical functions for
computing derived data, used Essbase functions and Calculation commands to develop the Calc Scripts deriving managing costs, increasing revenues and markdowns
Involved in Optimization and Performance tuning of Cubes/Outline/Data load/Calculations Created Web Analysis reports for the users for those reports where they wanted to use the
Drill down Functionality effectively and some Ad-hoc reporting
Data Analysis reports generation through Planning for Arrow Asia Executives, Prepared
Sales Reports which detail Price, Volume, company products and market Trends, and Expense Variances over prior periods in different markets
Support existing Supplier Services cube, Outline and Calc Script updating, scheduling
batch Scripts, problem identification, resolution and documentation back to top ↑
LightSquared
║Reston, VA ║Oct 2010 - Apr 2011 ║Administrator Planning / FR
Scope:
Involved in The requirements gathering, and had a role in creating the Design document
and LOE documentation
The project involved implementing a new budgeting cube for the existing General Ledger Installed Hyperion Shared Services, Essbase administration services (EAS), Hyperion
Planning, Workspace, Financial Reporting Studio, Web Analysis, for v11.1.1.3 over multiple servers. Also installed ODI and SQL
Wrote SQL Scripts to bring in data from Oracle EBS for GL and populate SQL staging tables
Used ODI to create dimensions and load data
Used the Oracle Project costing to bring in the projects data and created a budgeting cube Created numerous web forms to enter, update, analyze, print, and report on data
Created Task lists to ease the work of the users when working with the web forms Developed and maintained Web Forms, Task lists and Planning Units and managed
security for the same
Initiated, developed workforce Planning cube with metadata and data from oracle HR with
their existing employees
Created business rules to Add/Remove employees, plan departures, transfers, add/remove
benefits, plan TBH’s and budget the employee expenses
Created a number of new users in the native directory meeting with their security
standards, setup user and group level securities using shared services and implemented dimension level security
Created a number of Reports for their existing Application and for the new Planning
application as well
Created PandL variance reports, Expenses by departments-Activity-product-project in a
monthly-quarterly-yearly, using some complex FR functions, used UDA’s in the reports when needed
Created numerous Ad-hoc reports with Smart view
Prepared Training documents for the end-users and was responsible for their training, for
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
║Washington, DC ║Sep 2010 - Jul 2011 ║Sr.
Hyperion Developer
Scope:
Optimization of data forms, report Scripts, Calc Scripts, business rules Development of Financial Reports
Created the Shell Scripts to automate the build of outline using outline load utility Created shell Scripts and MaxL Scripts to load Actual and Budget data
Creating users groups and assign access permissions
Data reconciliation using Essbase spreadsheet add-in/Smart View Interacting with users for the enhancements
Performance Tuning of Database modifying the cache and Essbase.cfg file settings Installation and configuration of Hyperion Essbase, Planning, Scorecard, Financial Reports
in new Dev, Training, UAT, Dry Run, Prod environments
Migration of the Planning Application from Dev to different environments
Migration of Calc Scripts, Business rules, Task lists, Menus, Dataforms, Security using LCM
back to top ↑
Neustar
║Sterling, VA ║Jun 2010 - Oct 2010 ║Hyperion Planning / FR Reports/ Admin
Scope:
Requirements gathering, and had a role in creating the Design document
Implementing a new Project Budgeting cube. Worked closely with IT and Business and Functional consultants to finalize the Project Cube design
Installed Hyperion Shared Services, Analytic Administration Services (AAS), Hyperion Planning, WorkSpace, Financial Reporting Studio, Web Analysis for v9.2 in all the environments
Used HAL to create dimensions in the Planning application Created new dimensions to meet the application demands Created a Hyperion Planning Application to Forecast the Budget
Created a number of web forms to enter, update, analyze, print, and report on data Created Task lists to ease the work of the users when working with the web forms Developed and maintained Web Forms, Task lists and Planning Units and managed
security for the same
Developed a few complex Business Rules and attached them to the web forms Created a several Calculation Scripts
Created a number of new users in the native directory meeting with their security standards Setup user and group level securities using shared services
Created dimension level security for each of these users/Groups
Created multiple Reports for existing Application and for the new Planning application: PandL variance reports, Expenses by departments-Activity-product-project in a monthly-quarterly-yearly, using some complex FR functions, used UDA’s in the reports when needed
Created several Ad-hoc reports with SmartView
Created Web Analysis reports for the users for those reports where they wanted to use the Drill down Functionality effectively and some Ad-hoc reporting
Prepared profitability reports detailing price/volume trends and expense variance over previous periods by using Financial Reporting and Web Analysis
Prepared Training documents for the End-users and was responsible for their training, for administration and support
Created automated backups procedure for the application
Created an archive cube to save the data every week, from the Planning application to a standalone Essbase application for the reporting needs of the client and automated this
E N V I R O N M E N T S
Performance Management Applications Oracle Hyperion Analytics
Hyperion Planning & Budgeting Hyperion Essbase
11.1.2.2 11.1.2.1 11.1.2 11.1.2.2 11.1.2.1 11.1.1.3 11.1.1.3 11.1 9.3.1 11.1 9.3.1 9.2
9.3 9.2.0.2 7.1 7.1 7 6.5.4
3.5.1 3.3 6.5.1 6.2 6
Hyperion Financial Management Essbase Administration Services
11.1.2.2 11.1.2.1 11.1.1.3 11.1.2.2 11.1.2.1 11.1.1.3
11.1 9.3 11.1 9.3.1 9.3
WorkForce Planning / Public Sector Planning Essbase Integration Services
11.1.2.2 11.1.2.1 9.3.1 11.1.2.2 11.1.2.1 11.1.1.3
9.3 PS P&B 11.1.2.2 11.1 9.3.1 9.3
CapEx Planning Essbase Studio
11.1.2.1 11.1.1.1 9.3
Hyperion Business Rules
11.1.2.2 11.1.2.1 11.1.1.1
9.3.1 9.3 4.x ERP Integration Experience
3.x
PeopleSoft HR - Financials
Essbase Analytics Link for HFM
eBusiness Suite Financials Financial Management Analytics
Lawson Financials Calculation Manager
Data Management Integration Tools
Data Integration Management Fusion Edition Oracle Data Integrator
11.1.2.x 11.1.1.x 9.3.x 11.1.2.2 11.1.2.1 11.1.1.3 10.1.3.5 10.1.3 9.3.3
Financial Data Quality Management
11.1.2.x 11.1.1.x 9.3.x Informatica
8.6 8.5 8.1
Data Relationship Management 7.1.2 6.2 5.1
11.1.2.2 11.1.2.1 11.1.1.1
Analytic Services (Essbase) Data Integration Management
11.1.1.1 9.3.1 9.3 Application Manager
Foundation Analysis and Reporting
Enterprise PMA Hyperion Financial Reports
11.1.2.x 11.1.1.x 9.3.x 11.1.2.x 11.1.1.x 9.3.x
Hyperion Workspace Hyperion Financial Reporting Studio
11.1.2.x 11.1.1.x 9.3.x 11.1.2.x through 3.x
Hyperion Shared Services Hyperion Web Analysis
11.1.2.x 11.1.1.x 9.3.x 11.1.1.x 9.3.x 4.x
9.2.x
Hyperion Interactive Reporting
Hyperion Life Cycle Management 11.1.1.x 9.3.x 9.2.1
11.1.2.x 11.1.1.x 9.3.x
Hyperion Workspace
Hyperion Smart View 11.1.2.x 11.1.1.x 9.3.x
11.1.2.x 11.1.1.x 9.3.x
Database Operating Systems
11g 10g 9i Windows 2008 Windows 2003 XP Pro
8i MS SQL 2008 MS SQL 2005 2000 Pro Linux HP-UX 11.0
MS SQL 2000 IBM DB2 Solaris 9 Solaris 7 Solaris 2.6
AIX
Application Servers
OAS Web Logic 10.x Web Logic 9.x Languages
Web Logic 8.1 WebSphere 7 WebSphere 6.x MaxL ESSCMD SQL
WebSphere 5.x Tomcat Apache PL/SQL Shell Script Batch Script
Calc Script MDX XBRL
Graphic User Interface Tools
TOAD VMWARE MS-VISIO