Sowmini Arun

Background

About Sowmini Arun

11 years of extensive industry experience in software design and development on a variety of technologies including SAP BI, SAP Portals, java.Net, Oracle and SQL server. • 6 years of expertise in SAP Business Intelligence.(SAP BI). • SAP Certified Portal Consultant. • Technical Lead Role for BW 3.5 to BI 7.0 technical and functional upgrade project. Responsibilities include coordinating and performing pre-upgrade, post upgrade, report migration and developing the IDL layer for Sales and Distribution and Purchasing modules. • Proven technical lead with expertise managing and mentoring small to moderate sized development groups. • Have been a key member in implementing full life cycle BI Project Implementations in Purchasing, Sales and Distribution and Inventory Management and have good working knowledge of LO Cockpit extractors and generic extractors and Integrated Planning. • Worked extensively in Finance with General Ledger and Accounts Payable extractors. Expertise in the different areas of a project including requirements gathering, gap analysis, design, data modeling, process chains, unit testing, transports. • Good knowledge in broadcasting reports via email and to Portal. • Highly experienced in cross-platform web development including design of both front and back-end web architectures with internationalization. • Strong Organizational, Interpersonal and exceptional Customer Service skills. • Recognized as a self-directed team player, thriving in nimble early stage project environments. • Creative problem solver with the ability to rapidly analyze challenges, applying strategic thinking to tactical concerns. • Extensive and unique experience identifying new problem spaces, scoping, designing and delivering new solutions. • Advocate of Software Development Process in an organization and familiar with practices like CMM standards. Specialties: SAP BI/BW