Angela Ren

SAP BI/BO Consultant - Southwest Water Corporate

Edison, NJ - Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/Angela-Ren/65334989926b9064
angelaren.sap@gmx.com
Over 5 years of IT experience in SAP BusinessObject as BO Developer in different industries like
Telecommunication and Oil/Gas.
Professional experience in SAP BusinessObject XI R3/4.X (i.e. Universe Design Tool, Information Design
Tool, Web Intelligence, Dashboard, BI Launch Pad), Crystal Report 2011, Oracle Server 10g/11g, MS SQL
Server 2005/2008.
Experienced professional with exposure to SAP BW/BI system and SAP BW Data like InforObject, InfoCube,
InforProvider, and BEx Queries.
Expertise in creating the standard Universe consisting of Folders, Dimension, Measures, Filters, Cardinalities,
Joins, Cascading Prompts, Hierarchy, Aggregate Awareness and Index Awareness, and Checked Integrity in
Universe Designer.
Experience in resolving Loop and Trap problems with Context and Alias using in Universe.
Experienced in developing complex reports on SAP Data Sources and Relational Database, using free-hand
SQL, and functionalities like Combined Queries, Sub Queries in Web Intelligence and Crystal Report.
Extensively used BusinessObject reporting functionalities such as Master/Detail, Slice and Dice, Drilling
methodology, Filters, Ranking, Sections, and Breaks in Reporting tools.
Experienced in creating Repository session and defining Security files on different levels in Central
Management System.
Experienced in migrating connections, universes, reports between different versions and systems using
Import Wizard and Lifecycle Management Tool.
Experienced in generating complex and interactive reports in Dashboard and Crystal Report with various
components such as Spreadsheet Table, Map, Line Chart, Column Chart, Selectors, and Containers.
Solid database knowledge in Oracle 11g/10g, Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2005.
Excellent team player, interfacing across business and technical groups and ability to work independently
and highly motivated. Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts and applications.
Exceptionally motivated and skilled in effective time management and meeting user requirements with
uncompromising detail.

WORK EXPERIENCE

SAP BI/BO Consultant

Southwest Water Corporate - Sugar Land, TX - June 2013 to Present
(732) -597-5240
Southwest Water Corporation is a water utility company that helps communities struggling with utility
management challenges and system performance to deliver the best quality water possible. The project is a
Vehicle Tracker System to track their fleet vehicles and maintain vehicle information. The reporting tool is one
module of the system that generates reports for various combinations of selection criteria.
Responsibilities:
Participated in the whole SDLC including planning, analysis, designing, implementation, testing and
maintenance.

 Designed and developed Utility Universes with classes/folders, objects, defined Joins and Cardinalities
between tables in Universe Design Tool/ Information Design Tool.
Created Contexts and Aliases for resolving Loops and Traps, and synchronized problems in the SQL to
check context correctness and created Cascading Prompts to provide interactive and structural input selection
in the universe.
Applied Aggregate Awareness and Index Awareness on Universe tables to improve Query performance.
Converted universes from .UNV format to .UNX in Information Design Tool to improve previous version
compatibility.
Worked on BO User Administration by setting user accounts and groups using CMC within different priorities
to improve files security.
Created Security files for each published universe and reports, such as data security and object security, to
display/hide specific information for different privilege users and groups.
Developed Trip Detail reports with various reporting functionalities like Master/Details, Drilling, Section/Break,
Alerts, Variables, Prompts, and Hyperlink in Web Intelligence.
Developed Complex Interactive Analysis reports involving multiple queries providers to a single report, and
Reports with Input Controls etc.
Generated Xcelsius Dashboard based interactive reports by using Tab set, Trend Analyzer, Alerts and
multiple graph reports like pie, bar, column charts and published them to CMS repository in various formats
like PDF, HTML, EXCEL and WORD.
Responsible for scheduling weekly, monthly and quarterly reports to different users and servers. Created BO
Publications for report distribution, scheduled them based on Events, Calendar based and On-Demand
Environments:
SAP Business Objects BI 4.0, Central Management Console (CMC), Universe Design Tool, Information Design
Tool 4.0, Web Intelligence Rich Client, BI Launch Pad, Dashboard Designer 4.0, MS SQL Server 2008.

Business Objects Developer

AT&T WI-Fi Service - Dallas, TX - May 2012 to May 2013
AT&T Wi-Fi Services is the largest provider of mobile telephone and the largest provider of fixed telephone in
the United States. The project is about financial reporting development to provide enterprise information for
making economic decisions. Quarterly Earnings reports and Annual reports are developed to provide financial
analysis of various categories based on quarter and year.
Responsibilities:
Participated in requirement gathering, analysis and structuring of Business Intelligence objects reports based
on user requirements.
Involved in upgrading of Universes, Connections, WEBI Reports and Personal/Inbox documents from XI 3.1
to BI 4.0 using Upgrade Management Tool
Participated in unit and functional testing of the created reports. Migrated reports from development system
to production system using Import Wizard and Lifecycle Management Console.
Modified the existing OLAP Universes on SAP data (InfoCubes / BEx Queries) and Relational Universes on
Non-SAP data using the Information design Tool.
Modified the existing free characteristics, restricted key figures, calculated key figures and variables in BEx
Query Designer based on updated report requirements.
Designed interactive and analysis reports with various functionalities such as Master/Details, Slice/Dice, Drill
Down, Functions and Formulas.
Designed interactive reports for Quarterly Revenue, Service Revenue Comparison in different categories
with Pie Chart, Column Chat, Cross Tab, and Combination Chart in Dashboard and Crystal Report.

 Designed aggregated tables on the most frequently queried data for Monthly, Quarterly & Yearly based
reports to improve query performance in Universe and WEBI.
Exported reports into various formats like PDF, Flash, Excel, HTML and Word based on different financial
requirements.
Day to day communication with financial staff related new requirement, support and development
Environments:
Windows XP Server, SAP Business Objects XI 3.1 and BI 4.0 (Web Intelligence, Universe Design Tool, Import
Wizard, CMC), Oracle 11g, SAP BW, BI 4.0 Launch Pad, Xcelsius Dashboards 2008, Crystal Report 2011

SAP Report Developer

Verizon Communications - Irving, TX - October 2011 to April 2012
Verizon Communications Inc. is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wire line
communications services to various customers. The project is a financial project to provide financial analysis
including developing, designing quarterly statement for different categories, and designing annual reports in
Crystal Report based on analysis requirements.
Responsibilities:
Modified Universe by adding new objects and logically grouping them as classes using business names and
was responsible for its maintenance based on user requirement and data source changes.
Used designer functionalities (@select, @aggregate_aware, @where, and @prompt) while modifying classes
and objects.
Performed Integrity checks to detect loops, cardinality issues, Isolated tables and Isolated joins.
Defined hierarchies and generated Cascading LOV's on the basis of report requirements.
Designed Financial Summary and Service Sub-reports using multiple data providers, Merge Dimensions to
synchronize common objects, Union, Intersection, Minus, cross tab, and Charts.
Worked on Multi-Dimensional Analysis and developed reports on Scope of Analysis, Drill, Slice and Dice for
different level analysis in WEBI reports.
Extensively used Calculation, Breaks, Sections, Ranks and Alerts for improving WEBI reports interactivities.
Created and customized existing reports using cross-tab, sub-reports and charts by using Crystal reports
2011
Resolved Performance issues/Data issues in Reports
Interacted with end users and provided Production Support
Environments:

SAP BO Developer
CNPC BGP Inc - June 2010 to July 2011
BGP is one of the world's leading geophysical service companies, delivering a wide range of technologies,
services and equipment to the oil and gas industry worldwide. The project is a part of HSE (Health, Safety &
Environment) Management system to generate reports to monitor the activities status for each working group.
It includes improving the existing universe performance and developing various monthly dashboard reports.
Responsibilities:
Worked in Business requirements gathering, Designing, Developing, Testing, Deploying the Universe, and
Dashboards Reports.
Developed the Universes with a combination of detail, summary and Derived Tables and simultaneously
Joins such as Equi, Theta and Outer.
Modified Universes resolving Loops and Trap with Alias Tables and Contexts.

 Created various Web Intelligence reports specific formulae based on calculation contexts of the report.
Created all types of reports using different functionality like Cascading Prompts, Cascading LOVs, Formulae
and Grouping.
Created interactive and complex Dashboard Reports based on Data Visualizations, Charts, Dynamic
Selections & Visibility, Tabs, Alerts, User Selection Components, Multiple Drill Downs etc.
Modified database objects such as Tables, Views, and Constraints and data warehouse objects like fact
tables to improve data access and presentation performance.
Environments:

Report Developer
Richfit Information Technology Co - June 2009 to February 2010
Richfit is a dedicated IT service organization for petroleum industry. The purpose of Richfit is to help users
effectively save overall cost, and improve the level of enterprise information management. The project is a
Vehicle Management System to monitor the fleet vehicle status including tracking vehicle location, scheduling
vehicle events, and analyzing vehicle maintenance information.
Responsibilities:
Interacted with Business Users to know their business needs and effectively develop and modify Universes
and Reports.
Worked on Business Objects using Universe Design Tool and Dashboard reporting.
Maintained current BO Classes, Objects, Joins, and Cardinalities. Resolved loops and traps in Universes
using Table Aliases and Contexts.
Generated complex reports using Master/Detail, Slice and Dice, and Drill Down methodology, etc. and
Formatting Reports based on user requirements.
Created cross-tab reports using Web Intelligence by utilizing prompts and provided executive summary report
of Managers and representative performances to Directors as dashboards in Xcelsius bound to Query Browser
using prompts.
Designed intricate dashboards involving dynamic visibility by employing a variety of selectors and charts.
Environments:
SAP Business Objects XI 3.0, Universe Builder, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius Dashboard2008, Oracle 10g

LINKS
http://angelaren.sap@gmx.com

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Business Objects SAP BusinessObject XI R3/BI 4.X
Database System Oracle 10g/11g, MS SQL Server 2005/2008
Reporting Tool
Universe Design Tool, Information Design, Tool 4.X, Web Intelligence XI R3/4.X/ Xcelsius 2008/Dashboard
4.0, Crystal Report 2011
Language Java, SQL, JavaScript, HTML and CSS, UML
Database Tool SQL Developer

Methodology SDLC, Agile/Scrum Methodology

Exposure SAP BW/BI Data Warehouse Workbench, Central Management Console, BEx Query Designer, BEx
Analyzer