Sap bw senior consultant

2015 - present
Zurich Insurance
SAP BW Senior Consultant
(Banking & Insurance-Barcelona, Spain)
Current main Zurich It focus is to become a data-driven organization (all decisions have to be justified by data)

	Internal Customer Single Point of Contact (SPOC)
	Project Management & Operations Support
	Stakeholders & Team Management
	Change, Incident & Problem Management (ITIL)
	SAP BW & BW4HANA Application analysis, migration, development (full cycle) & support (SAP base modules FI-CO -GL -many ledgers including the new IFRS-, AP, AR, AA, etc.-) that allows the company to report to a great deal of legal regulators (especially governments).

Some of my duties
	Work in the Barcelona Technological Delivery Centre (BCN TDC-most of the Application Team) in a very diverse/multi-cultural team (more than 48 nationalities). Around 90% of my work is done in English.
	SAP Senior BW Consultant for many internal financial customers all around the world. This very personal oriented service includes travelling to Zürich offices (Switzerland) 4 times/year to review service status (Finance plan/forecast/actuals -cost of the service-, SLAs, OLAs, customized KPIs, Incident & Change Management, Projects, BAU, plans for the future, etc.). 
o	That’s why I started to learn German until COVID situation changed company trip policy
	Team Lead/Project Manager/Data Architect for SAP BW & BW4Hana developments (among 2-10 people in charge).
o	Main focus on be a data driven company.
o	We started the SAP BW4Hana migration of all our Financial SAP BW Applications 2 years ago. We have a mix approach between brown and green field depending on the application characteristic. 
o	We keep the old and the new development running in parallel for long time in order to check figures during at least 1-year, to cover all casuistic. 
o	Considering the number of applications, we are currently in the middle of the migration path. We run the migration project and manage the posterior maintenance mode.
	Coach for my team (Subject Matter Experts -SMEs-)
o	Train/follow up/prepare them to get the level of service we provide and to be able to support the most applications they can (technical knowledge).
	Mentor for other employees outside of my department who requested me due to my references (I currently have 2 mentee)
	Reviewer of solution proposals/data modeler creator.
	Occasional trips to Bratislava (Slovak) TDC where most of the Platform Team is located.

Success Stories
	I led the Six Sigma/Zurich Lean Green Belt Project -1000 hs/12 people project/55 Business Units from all around the world- to get a strong reduction on SAP BWR server usability (and therefore a big increase in performance) with a deep/complete remodelling of previously Business Unit oriented (silos) data models with a semantically Partitioned Objects (SPO) + pruning techniques. 
o	Results: Before -> server usability 100% / After -> 50% (avg). 
o	Impact: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction, around 700K/year. 
	Strong reduction of Maintenance Team Costs due to Continuous Improvement Methodology implementation on Financial Hard Closes. Before 100 calls vs less than 20 calls after 1-year implementation, around 100K annually.
o	Lean Methodology + Continuous Improvement as a mindset are embed on my daily work.
	Creation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for ITIL Change & Release Management to adapt old corporative procedures to new way of working (Shared Platforms)
o	Participation in the Atlassian-Jira deployment project.
o	Deliver the new tool to all my diverse customers/casuistic.

2008 - 2015
Pepe Jeans SL
SAP BW Senior Consultant
(Retail & Wholesale-Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain)

	Project Management & Operations Support
	Change & Incident Management
	SAP BW Application analysis, development (full cycle) & support (ERP base modules FI, CO, SD, MM, etc.)

Some of my duties
	Company decided to replace old ERP with SAP. Complete data modelling/reporting redefinition with internal customers plus other stakeholder -> 2 years project, 3 people from SAP BW side. I started as a consultant, then I became the Team Lead.
	Afterwards, keep track of maintenance mode, besides small new projects.
	Occasional trips to Hackett offices located in London (England). 
o	Pepe Jeans is a Retail Corporation with many trade brands.

Success Stories
	Delivering (full cycle development) the whole reporting tool without impacting the business.
	Manage expectation to change from people very used to worked with the old ERP solution and not especially keen on new technologies (for example accessing KPI’s through mobile devices).
	Communication/getting agreement with all very diverse stakeholders.

2007 - 2008
Bearing Point
Business Intelligence Consultant
(Consultancy-Barcelona, Spain)

	Finance + Business Intelligence Application development & support.

Some of my duties
	Be part of  the Oracle Business Intelligence team who did the Danone’s monthly financial closings and deliver the figures all around the world.

2004 - 2007
Management Information Source (MINS)
Application Team Lead
(IT Consultancy firm-Barcelona, Spain)

	Business Intelligence Application development & support. 
	Pre-sales.

Some of my duties
MINS owned a column-based database (similar to current Hana technology) that help their customers to analyse their data in a quicker/better way than normal relational data bases.
	Visit potential customers to show the product (Demos).
	Creation of Functional Specifications & Probe of concepts (POCs) to help the team to develop the best possible application that satisfied customer requirements.
	External Customer Single Point of Contact (SPOC).
1999 - 2002
TechTel S.A.
Application Team Lead
(Telecommunications-Buenos Aires, Argentina)

	Business Intelligence Application Analysis, Development & Support

Some of my duties
Techtel was the biggest telecommunications company (after Telecom -France-/Telefónica -Spain-) when Argentina opened the telecommunication market (end of monopoly market). 
	Part of the “start-up” from the very beginning, in the IT department, doing a very variety of tasks.

Success Stories
	Developed the first Data Warehouse of the company (Oracle data base + PLSQL)

Escuela de Negocios Europea de Barcelona (ENEB) & Universidad Internacional Isabel I de Castilla -Spain
Master of Business Administration (MBA) – A (Cum Laude)
Coaching & PNL Specialist - A

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) -Spain
Master in Direction and Management of Information Systems and Technologies – A

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN) -Argentina
Information Systems Engineering 8/10
(homologated with Spanish bachelor’s degree “Superior Informatics Engineer”)