Mariano (P.) Filiberto
SAP Business Intelligence Solution Architect / Team Lead Core Program
Experience
SAP Business Intelligence Solution Architect / Team Lead Core Program
Heineken
- Definition of the architectural standards, principles, and policies to assure performance, capacity, scalability, maintainability, and safety as per Heineken standards.
- Drive architectural decisions for the product and get aligned by design approval team.
- Represent architectural point of view for a solution, combining and aligning many different solutions, product developments, and data integration patterns to a common and shared technical direction.
- Providing support on nonfunctional requirement assessments.
- Technical lead for the BW development team with first wave of development and ongoing POCs (Azure integration, SAP Datasphere).
- Support BW and SAC team leaders in backlog management (functional and technical items) to ensure operations.
- Project planning alignment with project management and Heineken leads to ensuring process adherence and deliverables.
- Manage dependencies and road blockers (business requirements, BW and SAC developments, integration patterns, technology components).
SAP Solution Architect
Yamaha Motor Europe
- Support the Finance workstream: tool evaluation (SAP S/4 Group Reporting, One Stream, CCH Tagetik).
- Support the Analytics workstream on the new analytic platform to support the business.
- Provided strategy, roadmap, architecture, required infrastructure and detailed implementation project plan.
- Onboarded the offshore team located in India and making them main partners for the deployment (DevOps).
Business Intelligence Solution Architect
Heineken International
- Act as engagement lead and ambassador on several Heineken Operational Companies (OpCo) and business central functions to onboard them to the central analytic platform solution (B1).
- Align with business (C-Level) and local partners the strategy and steps for the onboarding and lead them during the complete project delivery until they became fully operational in the new data platform.
- Gather requirements and define tasks and activities to the different partners that support the central analytic platform, working with several Agile and DevOps teams.
- Defined integration patterns from different source solutions to the new central analytic platform (B1): a multilayer analytic solution implemented on AWS with SAP HANA, SAP SLT/SDI replication technology, SAP SDA, SAP BODS, SAP Data Intelligence, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Business Objects, SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI and Qlik.
- Onboarding of the following OpCos, solutions, and programs to the new central analytical platform:
- BASE Program: ingestions patterns for JD Edwards, Navision ERPs and for flat files using SAP HANA XSA framework.
- B2B Global Cloud solution: integrations of several B2B OpCo solutions -> Virto (14), DDE (12) and SEM (5).
- Mexico: lift and shift migration of the on-premises BW solution to the B1 platform.
- Indonesia and Greece: ingestion of SAP ERP data and local B2B solutions; migration to BW4/HANA.
- Data Prime Program: extension of the Heineken central analytical platform by adding a full Microsoft Azure stack and additional SAP components.
- Onboarding and deployment across several OpCos: Mexico, Spain, Austria, New Zealand, Greece and Portugal.
- SAP Analytics Cloud: define and set up a shared SAC global platform for all the OpCos to support corporate and self BI capabilities; and enable mobile capabilities as well.
- SAP Data Intelligence: POC, guidelines, templates and deployment across several OpCos.
- SAP Datawarehouse Cloud: define scope for POC.
SAP BW Lead
Accenture
- Onboarded/offloaded resources based on development requirements within the project scope.
- Defined architecture and roadmap for the analytic solution (BW on HANA, Business Objects 4.x and Analysis for Office).
- Built solutions to support operational and analytics reporting for Portfolio and Project Management (PPM), Procurement, Logistics and Finance, following SAP LSA++ architecture and leveraging Business Content.
Solution Architect
Carsol Europe
- Analyzed the current reporting solution and provided a proposal with improvements on the existing reporting solution, including an execution roadmap.
- Evaluated SAP Business One on HANA (cloud vs on-premises) based on new business requirements from Europe and Headquarters in South America.
Sabbatical
- Quality time spent with the family.
Business Intelligence Manager and Solution Architect – Europe
BOSE
- Reduced by 80% the time required for the financial month end close in Europe by implementing standard tooling, processes and architecture (SAP SEM-BCS).
- Increased the capability for launching new campaigns and doing follow up activities by using in-memory technology for data selections to support the CRM segmentation processes (99% time response improvement).
- Implemented analytical capabilities for product life cycle management and marketing permissions.
- Redesigned the CRM analytics for campaign management, sales and marketing activities as a consequence of adding and improving processes, adding new sources of data and fulfilling legal requirements around customer data protection and EU data protection regulations.
- Implemented analytical solution with daily sales targets derived from the financial budget to allow data driven business decisions on a daily and weekly basis, serving as a data foundation for short, mid and long-term business decisions.
- Supported the deployment of the dealer portal across the European dealer network by implementing analytics and metrics to monitor portal adoption and usage.
- Improved the automated sales reporting solution based on business feedback.
- Developed and implemented a solution for capturing and analyzing sell-through data to enable sales and stock insights, support quick commercial decisions and facilitate stock optimization.
- Increased the business intelligence footprint and adoption in Europe by 300% (active users) and 350% (passive users).
- Led and coached a team of 7 FTEs (onshore and offshore) with budget responsibility > €1 million.
- Implemented SAP Layered Scalable Architecture framework (LSA).
- Conducted POC for SAP BusinessObjects: SAP Dashboards, Web Intelligence, Explorer, Design Studio, Analysis for Office, SAP Lumira.
- European member of the team responsible for upgrading the global SAP BW system to version 7.4 on HANA.
- Contributed to the definition of a data framework and architecture for BOSE Corporation.
Business Intelligence Team Lead – Europe
BOSE
- Implemented profit center analytics and a solution to support the European budget and forecast processes, providing detailed analytics and insights with costs vs budgets and quarterly forecast comparisons.
- Increased YOY sales by 3.5% by implementing a broadcasting reporting solution to track sales vs targets at dealer level, optimizing visit plans and reducing costs and time.
- Implemented analytics for call center and customer database growth, email response, email campaign results and segmentation to support targeted email campaigns.
- Implemented repairs analytics to shorten customer repair time, optimize repair process costs and spot production issues.
- Improved time response of reporting areas by 80% through SAP in-memory technology.
- Defined the European strategy and roadmap for the implementation of new BI tooling offering and improved analytical performance by investing in BusinessObjects 4.0 and SAP in-memory technology (SAP BWA).
- Led and coached a team of 5 FTEs with budget responsibility.
Business Intelligence Application Manager
Hunkemoller
- Improved time response for reports and analytics around stock by 87% by redesigning the data warehouse stock model, deleting 80% of the data.
- Facilitated improvement of store traffic by developing a new analytical model integrating CRM loyalty program and marketing campaigns data with sales and stock data.
- Implemented analytics on store visitors and mystery shopper data to enable monitoring and decisions on store execution using standard retail KPIs.
- Defined strategy and roadmap to implement NetWeaver 2004s / BW 7.0 including usage of SAP in-memory technology.
- Led a team of 3 FTEs.
Senior BI Consultant
Rond Consulting
- Defined blueprint, architecture and change management plan for the implementation of SAP NetWeaver 2004s / BW 7.0 / Portal at Random House Mondadori in Spain.
Business Intelligence Manager
Johnson Controls Inc.
- Managed SAP BI global template and architecture for the Building Efficiency business unit.
- Governed SAP BW global and regional templates.
- Provided guidance, coaching and support for regional BW teams in America and Asia.
- Led developments, enhancements and roll out of templates with the SAP global architecture team, regional teams, business process owners and key users.
- Implemented offshore model for BW requirements with Infosys in India.
- Supported SOX, external and internal audit requirements.
- Reduced by 70% the time required for user maintenance by implementing SAP VIRSA role security model.
- Defined steps and procedures for disaster recovery.
- Rolled out the global SAP BW template and the Asian regional template in Hong Kong.
- Conducted GAP analysis for implementation of the global SAP BW template in Spain.
Business Intelligence Team Lead
Johnson Controls Inc.
- Conducted proof of concept for sales planning processes using SAP BPS.
- Supported EMEA and Asia analytics requirements.
- Rolled out the global BW template and the Asian regional template in Singapore.
- Deployed a BW web dashboard based on data sourced from SAP Project System module.
- Led and coached the BW US team (2 FTEs).
Business Intelligence Senior Analyst
Johnson Controls Inc.
- Rolled out the BW global template in Wuxi, China.
- Implemented a reporting solution to support the global purchasing process (MM-PUR).
- Upgraded the BW system and extraction component, migrating from BEX Excel to BEX Web Front End.
- Improved system availability 24/7 by implementing a new time zone based architecture for SAP BW, a predecessor of LSA.
- Rolled out the new SAP BW global and American regional templates in the US and Mexico, replacing Cognos and integrating sales information from Nextrend.
- Implemented “go to details” capability using SAP report to report interface to speed solution acceptance.
- Reduced support for interfaces to SAP BW by 90% by implementing SAP XI middleware.
Project Leader / Senior Analyst
Loma Negra
- Implemented SAP BW: data extraction from SAP R/3 SD, COPA and external sources; development of update rules, ODS, cubes, queries, web front end, and RRI.
- Conducted proof of concept with models built on SAP BW and Oracle BI tools for BI tool selection.
- Implemented I2 supply chain modules (DP, SCP, DF) with SAP R/3 integration and ADW; implemented SAP Business Connector for external logistics services.
- Implemented SAP R/3 for account payables and treasury.
- Optimized accounts payable process using ARIS toolset.
- Designed, developed and implemented a data warehouse on AS/400 platform for sales & marketing; managed ETL between AS/400, SAP R/3 and Pilot Software.
Junior Analyst
Loma Negra
- Developed and implemented HR corporate module (Genexus/Oracle database).
- Developed and implemented sales module to support the export channel on AS/400.
- Developed dashboards for board of directors and managers (Forest & Trees).
- Developed an account receivables dashboard (Forest & Trees).
Consultant
Consultancy
- Implemented workflow and dashboarding solutions.
Summary
Business Intelligence professional with 10+ years of experience across different leadership roles. Strong commercial and financial orientation. My business expertise and multicultural experience was gained by working across automotive, consumer electronics, fashion apparel, retail, FMCG, publishing, building materials, industrial solutions and manufacturing businesses and multinational companies (Fortune 500). Leading teams with mixed set ups and participating in several international rollouts across Asia, Europe and America. Contributed to several Business transformation programs, business strategies and goals across Sales, Marketing, Logistic, Manufacturing and Financial areas by defining and implementing different Business Intelligence Solutions, Strategies, Architectures, Roadmaps, Templates and Governance models at global and regional scale. Encourage a working together attitude with business and technical teams, promoting team collaboration and knowledge sharing to improve people, processes and business results through analytics. Contributor of Agile and DevOps adoptions.
Skills
- Work Together With Business Teams Across Sales, Marketing, Logistic, Manufacturing And Financial Areas To Build Analytics Solutions And Improve Processes That Support Their Strategies And Needs Using Data Driven Decisions To Achieve Business Success (10+).
- Driven By Business Strategy, Define Analytics Strategies, Architectures And Roadmaps; Process Improvements (10+).
- Leadership; People And Team Management, Coaching And Mentoring, Stakeholder Management (10+).
- Budget, Project Management. Client Relationship (7+).
- Implementation / Roll Outs / Change Management / User Trainings (10+).
- Sap Tooling And Processes (10+): Sap Analytics Cloud (+1), Sap Bw/4hana (4+), Sap Business Warehouse (10+); Sap In-memory Technology Bwa / Hana (10+); Sap Business Objects 4.x (6+); Sap Data Intelligence (+2), Sap Data Services (+3), Sap Sales And Distribution, Production Planning, Material Management And Purchasing (3+); Sap General Ledger, Account Payable And Treasury (2+), Sap Sem Finance Consolidation (2+), Sap Crm (2+).
- Data Warehouse: Solution Architect, Extract, Transform And Load Processes; Data Staging And Modeling, Reporting (10+).
- I2 Supply Chain Tooling And Processes: Demand And Supply Chain Planning, Demand Fulfillment, Middleware To Sap R3, Active Data Warehouse. (3+).
Languages
Education
UCEMA University
Master in Business Administration · Business Administration · Argentina
Buenos Aires University (U.B.A.)
B.S. · Information Systems · Argentina
Certifications & licenses
SAP Introduction To SAP Datasphere
Open SAP
SAP Master Data Integration In The Intelligent Enterprise
Open SAP
SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
Open SAP
SAP DWCBW1_11 – SAP Datawarehouse Cloud – SAP BW Bridge – SAP Business Warehouse Powered By SAP HANA (update)
Open SAP
SAP Analytics Cloud – Become An Augmented BI Expert
Open SAP
Databases
Open SAP
HA300E_10 SAP HANA Implementation And Modeling
SAP Education
SAP Hybris Solutions
Open SAP
Implementation Of SAP Business Objects Cloud
Open SAP
Working With Calculation Views In SAP HANA Cloud
Open SAP
SAP Cloud For Customers
Open SAP
SAP Business Warehouse Powered By SAP HANA
Open SAP
Agile - Product Owner
Incrementor
Agile - Scrum Training
Incrementor
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