Aliya Shaikh, pre-sales executive

Aliya Shaikh

pre-sales executive

Edgematics Technologies LLC

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics & Telecommunication
Experience
4 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :4 years, 6 Months

pre-sales executive at Edgematics Technologies LLC
  • Qatar - Doha
  • October 2014 to November 2015

• Identify the correct set of products to satisfy prospect business requirements.
• Conduct detailed architectural discussions with clients and prospects.
• Create and apply repeatable counter strategies to competitive threats.
• Ensure customer buy in to the proposed solution.
• Provide technical justification to support the business rationale behind a sale.
• Advise on architectural configuration, Identification of additional technical opportunities within the customer base.
• Analysis and understanding of customer needs.
• Conduct Proof of Concepts.
• Provide technical support, troubleshooting, report design and monitoring of system usage.
• In-depth knowledge on Tableau Desktop, Tableau Reader and Tableau Server.
• Mastered the ability to design and deploy rich Graphic visualizations with Drill Down and Drop down menu option and Parameterized using Tableau.
• Preparing Dashboards using calculations, parameters in Tableau.
• Extensive knowledge in various reporting objects like Facts, Attributes, Hierarchies, Transformations, filters, prompts, Calculated fields, Sets, Groups, Parameters etc., in Tableau.
• Worked on the development of Dashboard reports for the Key Performance Indicators for the top management.
• End to end experience in designing and deploying data visualizations using Tableau.
• Expertise in Data Analysis.

Business Analyst at Colgate palmolive (India) Ltd
  • India - Mumbai
  • November 2006 to February 2010

As Technical analyst I was responsible for day to day load of the system.
• Monitoring the daily loads and fixing full and delta loads in case of failure. Involved in job monitoring via a web based process chain monitoring tool, keeping a track of failed chains and fixing them. Creating new process chains.
• Involved in fine tuning the system by creating aggregates which improves the reporting via the Active Performance Management (APMx). Having exposure to BW Accelerator.
• Performed ad-hoc check of the system to monitor and improve system performance by removing the bottleneck in the system via Active System Management system (ASM).
• Was responsible for attribute change run activity every weekend and post change run support and fix.
• Involved in the monthly maintenance of the BI system
• Involved in UAT during R/3 upgrade.
• Also been a part of BI database upgrade from oracle to DB2.

As Business Analyst I had been working on various application of Colgate Palmolive. Most extensively worked on P&L (Profit and Loss) and NVO (Non Variable overheads) relating to FICO, Flash Reporting (DFR) relating to Order and Invoice processing globally and SGA (Sales Growth Analysis).
• Involved in a new BW application Non Variable Overhead (NVO) rollout for the Asia - Pacific and Europe region. The application consumes the Cost Center Accounting information to generate various Cost Analysis reports with the objective of reducing fixed costs globally. Later as Phase II involved in NVO Enhancement in which the application was completely automated.
• Performance optimization of P&L and also modification in transfer rules, transfer structure, update rule enhancements to incorporate new business logic depending on new business requirement.
• Involved in the primary support for the above mentioned applications which are being used by Corporate and Business users within Colgate Palmolive.


• Involved in the Month end activity loading the Transaction data (Actual and Plan Data) from the monthly decks of P&L on the 1st calendar day of every month. Doing Ad-hoc loads on user’s requests since adjustments are made during month-end closing in COPA.

As a Business Objects Developer I have been a part of the BO implementation and Executive Dashboard phase-I creation.
• Creating of BW query based Universe using Universe designer and exporting the same to the BO server platform for making it available to users for report creation.
• Created WebI Reports showing the sales, profitability, growth of various Categories and Subcategories across the Subsidiaries in a particular Year, Quarter and Month
• Automated document Scheduling, Publishing and Distribution for WebI
• Integrating WebI to Xcelcius using Live Office and schedule the WebI to execute daily to refresh the Dashboard
• Comprehensive performance testing of Dashboards before releasing the same for UAT

I have constantly been rated above average and had been the highest performer for the year 2008-2009.

I have also been awarded with Customer Delight award for the year 2009-2010 for my magnificent support and also for my Business Process understanding and coordination with the power users.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics & Telecommunication
  • at MUMBAI UNIVERSITY
  • June 2006

Qualified with 1st class 61%

High school or equivalent, Science (PCMB)
  • at Mumbai University
  • May 2002

Specialties & Skills

SAP BI/BW
Technical Understanding
End User Training
End User Support
SAP BW/BI
Tableau

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Arabic
Beginner
Marathi
Expert
French
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Tableau 10.3 (Training)
Training Institute:
Intellipaat
Date Attended:
July 2019
Duration:
45 hours
• SAP Netweaver 2004s TBW10 BI- Enterprise Data Warehousing (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
April 2007
• SAP Netweaver 2004s TBW45 BI- Integrated Planning (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
April 2007
• SAP Netweaver 2004s TBW20 BI- Reporting & Query Design (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
April 2007