Damien - Business Analyst BUSINESS OBJECTS

Tamoil Geneva, Switzerland 2011 (3 months)
The client Tamoil is a major operator in the oil and energy industry, introduces its activities in the oil and energy sectors in Europe and Africa.
The project Settlement of a BI platform across several services
Roles Business Analysis, Design & Delivery
Tasks • Formalization of business requirements into functional specifications
• Translation of functional specifications into technical requirements
• Implementation of advanced reporting platform – back-end and front-end, based on SAP R3.
• Testing follow-up with business users
• Deployment
• Maintenance activities: support, performance optimization
Technologies QlikView SAP Connector, MS SQL Server

Merck-Serono Geneva, Switzerland 2011 (1 month)
The client Merck Serono is specialized in the treatment of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, infertility, endocrine and metabolic disorders, cardiovascular diseases and other conditions with unmet medical needs. Around the world, some 16,000 employees work to discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize Merck Serono’s prescription therapies, available in over 150 countries.
The project KPIs on Merck Export
Roles Design, Delivery, Maintenance
Tasks • Design and development of framework and reports
Technologies Cognos 8

HSBC Geneva, Switzerland 2011 (1 month)
The client Headquartered in London, HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. HSBC's international network comprises around 8,000 offices in 87 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa.
The project Client reporting for relationship Management
Roles Design, Delivery
Tasks • Qlikview application design
• Reports development
Technologies Qlikview



Nagravision, Kudelski Group
Lausanne, Switzerland 2010-2011 (6 months)
The client Nagravision in the evolving digital television market. Nagravision, a Kudelski Group company, has a long standing track record as a world leader in digital content security. This has formed the basis of its overall leadership in generating and securing service provider revenues for Pay TV services.
The projects Service & Sales BI reporting platform allowing to monitor the activity
Second and third level support for Nagravision Business Intelligence platform
Roles Oracle BI Manager and Support & Maintenance
Tasks • Analysis of reporting and analysis needs, proposition of solutions in terms of Business Intelligence.
• Development of new BI reports
• Update of the existing reports
• Maintenance and evolution of the BI repository (data model)
• Mapping of data to match with user’s needs.
• Responsible for the second and third level support
• Handling of Incident & Problem management
• Corrective & Preventive maintenance
Technologies • OBIEE (Answers, Dashboards, Repository), DAC, Informatica
• Oracle 10g

Givaudan Geneva, Switzerland 2010 (3 months)
The client Givaudan is one of the most respected companies in the fragrance and flavour industry. Its rich heritage dates back to 1796, making it the first company to establish itself as a creator of tastes and scents. In 2008, the company achieved sales of CHF 4,087 million, with a work force of 8772 employees and subsidiaries in 46 countries.
The project Migration from Cognos Impromptu to Cognos 8
Roles Migration
Tasks • Migration of a report set from Cognos Impromptu to Cognos 8
• Direct day-to-day follow-up with the global head of development Europe
• Definition of migration strategy
• Analysis of current reports
• Migration & Development of reports in Cognos 8 platform
• Non-regression testing
Technologies Cognos 8.3 (Report Studio, Query Studio, Framework Manager), Oracle, Cognos Impromptu

Givaudan Geneva, Switzerland 2009-2010 (1 year)
The client Previously presented.
The project Marketing & Sales reporting platform allowing to monitor sales opportunity processes
Roles Analysis & Delivery
Tasks • Development of new KPIs’ reports
• Migration of reports from DMR model to relational model
• Dev/Test deployment process documentation management
Technologies Cognos 8.3 (Report Studio, Query Studio, Framework Manager), Oracle 10g

Banque Cantonale Vaudoise Geneva, Switzerland 2008-2009 (18 months)
The client The BCV was founded over 160 years ago to serve the people of Vaud, and has kept a strong community focus to this day. They offer a full range of services, including personal banking, corporate banking, private banking and asset management. In addition the BCV engages trading activities in various financial markets
The project BCV Employee
Roles BI Business Analyst
Tasks • Maintenance and development of Reports for existing Business Objects universes.
• Analysis of Needs for the departments of the bank, proposition of solutions in terms of Business Intelligence.
• Support of users for the development of their Report requests.
• Participation in different projects: CRM, Credit...
This experience allowed me to get involved in a full-service bank and to have a deep view of the needs in term of reporting.
Technologies BO XI, BO6.5, SQL Server 2005, Qlikview

Synthesis Bank Geneva, Switzerland 2007 (2 months)
The client Saxo Bank is privately held with co-founders Kim Fournais and Lars Seier Christensen holding majority stakes. Private Equity firm General Atlantic bought a minority stake in June 2005. In September 2007 Saxo Bank announced acquisition of Synthesis Bank, a white label partner of Saxo Bank for four years. In November 2007 Saxo Bank announced a white label partnership with Citibank, its biggest deal so far. In January 2008, Espirito Santo, took a five percent stake in Saxo Bank, making Saxo Bank’s market value at 1.26 Billion EUR
The project Analysis of Reporting needs and recommendation of implementation
Roles Business Intelligence Analyst
Tasks • Study of needs and multidimensional analysis per Department (Marketing, Sales, Finance, Top Management)
• Definition of KPI’s per Department
• Definition of available dimensions for the DWH
• Proposition and Validation of Microsoft restitution tools
This project allowed me to get up to date on my understanding of the banking sector and to bring a complete analysis of needs to a structure in full development.
Technologies SQL Server 2005, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Excel


Mobistar Belgium and Orange Geneva, Switzerland 2007 (7 months)
The client Mobistar (Euronext: MOBB) is the second largest of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications operators. It competes with Proximus, owned by Belgian state owned telco Belgacom, and Base, a subsidiary of Dutch KPN.
The project Mobistar M&E - Measurement & Evaluation of Marketing Campaigns
Roles Developer, Integrator BI and CRM
Tasks International projects for measurement and evaluation of Marketing Campaigns:
• Development of an Access-Oracle Server application allowing for the management of campaigns and the upload and consolidation of financial information,
• Definition and put in place of Reports for monitoring and decision (universe, reports),
• Writing of technical documentation
These projects allowed me to acquire strong understanding of the telecommunications sector and of the CRM applications. They also allowed me to work with multicultural teams.
Technologies Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, et Business Objects 6, XI and Excelsius, MS Access, VBA.

Carrefour Lyon, France 2005-2006 (11 months)
The client Carrefour SA (Euronext: CA) is a French international hypermarket chain. Headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France Carrefour is the largest hypermarket chain in the world in terms of size, and the second largest retail group in the world in terms of revenue and third largest in profit after Wal-Mart and Tesco. Carrefour operates mainly in Europe, China, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and in the Dominican Republic, but also has shops in North Africa and other parts of Asia.
The project Steering of Project : Retalix Check-out systems
Roles Senior Consultant
Tasks Pre-analysis and steering of the implementation of a Check-out systems tool for the company Retalix : Functional analysis in the context of a changing of collection systems for the stores Carrefour and Shopi with as an objective the acquisition of an expertise on the Retalix collections in order to integrate it in the existing IT systems by identifying the functional evolutions to bring to respond to those needs expressed by the business.
• Acquisition and making of a directory of all the necessary documentation for the functional applicative and technical mastery for Retalix’s Check-out systems
• Put in place a test environment
• Monitor the study meetings with the Business
• Writing of functional specifications
• Numbering / figuring and planning of the solution implementation.
These various experiences with Carrefour allowed me to acquire solid knowledge in the area of mass distribution and to have a real experience of project management.
Technologies Retalix Check-out systems

Carrefour Lyon, France 2005-2006 (3 months)
The project Steering of project : Problem Management
Roles Senior Consultant
Tasks In the context of implementing « ITIL best practices » : Steering of a project with objective of instoring a real problem management and no longer a simple incident management for Caroline (back office champion) working in the area of Problem Management :
• Analysis of current incidents via incident management tools,
• Formulating the results
• Proposition of an action plan to anticipate incidents and how to put in place the means allowing these anticipations
These various experiences with Carrefour allowed me to acquire solid knowledge in the area of mass distribution and to have a real experience of project management.
Technologies Applix, Service Center.

Snecma Paris, France 2005 (10 months)
The client Snecma is a major French manufacturer of engines for commercial and military aircraft, and for space vehicles. The name is an acronym for Société Nationale d'Étude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation (in English, "National Company for the Design and Construction of Aviation Engines").In 2005, the Snecma group, which included Snecma (called Snecma Moteurs at this time), merged with SAGEM to form SAFRAN. Snecma is now a subsidiary of the SAFRAN Group and previous Snecma group subsidiaries have been reorganised within the wider group.
The project Implementation of a BI Cognos solution
Roles Business Intelligence Consultant
Tasks In the context of an implementation of decisional systems base for the company, Snecma Motors chose the solution Analytic Applications from Cognos, adapted for the ERP BAAN and commercialized by SSA Global. The goal was to improve the performance of the steering of the business and to optimize the production costs and the release of decisional information (offer an easy rapid and powerful access to information via multidimensional analysis, and to automate the production and allow a diffusion via the Web for reporting states), notably for the General Accounts and the Management Control.
• Feeding of a DataWareHouse, modeling and implementation of a database for the production of the indicator « Turnover » :
• Creation and update of Decision Stream flows,
• Creation of a cube model on PowerPlay Transformer and Generation of the cube on Unix,
• Development of reports on PowerPlay Web with an access to detail (drill through) developed on ReportStudio,
• Writing of technical specifications, user documents and training of users.
This project allowed me to acquire an excellent knowledge of all Cognos tools suite. From the ETL right to the final reports and passing by the definition and the carrying out of the analysis cubes for a client which did not possess an existing decisional system and where all was to be implemented and put in place. I equally had the chance to manage a team of junior consultants.
Technologies Cognos 7 (DecisionStream, PowerPlay Transformer, PowerPlay Web, FrameWorkManager, ReportNet (Report Studio)) - Oracle Server 9i - Windows/Unix AIX

Valeo France Paris, France 2004 (6 months)
The client The French Company of Ferodo was founded in 1923 in Saint-Ouen, a suburb of Paris. It first distributed brake linings and clutch facings under license of Ferodo UK. The society engaged in a diversification in the 1960’s by producing braking systems (1961), thermal systems (1962), electronical components (1963), and lightning systems (1970). In May 1980, the society was renamed Valeo, which means “I am well” in Latin.
The project Development of an analysis and monitoring tool of the order activity
Roles Business Intelligence Consultant
Tasks Definition and implementation of a Visual Basic tool for the monitoring and analysis of activity linked to a portfolio of Valeo orders. Automation of queues, controlling and output of documents (control and analysis states). Application deployed for the whole of the Group (200 sites, 350 users).
• Development of a VB interface allowing the input of data in Access and SQL Server.
• Extraction of data from the Access bases
• Creation of scripts for the update of an Essbase base from Access and SQL. Server data
This experience in the area of an automotive provider was highly valuable for me as I worked in a department which had a constant pressure and one in which demands in terms of development norms were very high.
Technologies Visual Basic, Access, SQL Server 2000, Essbase 6.5.4, Crystal Reports

Carrefour Paris, France 2004 (5 months)
The project Needs analysis and development of a reporting tool: TBSCH (Dashboard Supply Chain Hypers)
Roles Business Intelligence Consultant
Tasks Definition and development of an interface Essbase/Excel allowing notably the data entry of financial indicators, of repartition keys, and the ventilation and consolidation of data in order to generate provisional dashboards:
• Requirements analysis,
• Writing of manuals,
• Development and customization of an Excel interface allowing: entry/ consolidation/ restitution of financial information from Essbase.
These various experiences with Carrefour allowed me to acquire solid knowledge in the area of mass distribution and to have a real experience of project management.
Technologies Hyperion Essbase.v6.5.4, Essbase SpreadSheet Toolkit

Imprimerie Nationale Paris, France 2003 (6 months)
The client On 3 sites, Paris, Douai and Ivry, the group Imprimerie Nationale is one of the leading printers in France. With its 3 units, and nearly 540 employees and its machine park, the group Imprimerie Nationale posseses a flexibility and a rapidity which makes it particularly competitive. Whatever may be the importance of the printing demanded, the group Imprimerie Nationale is able to satisfy the most high demands thanks to its industrial and human potential .
The project Implementation of a reporting tool
Roles Business Intelligence Consultant
Tasks Project Reporting :
• Definition and development of budgetary management dashboards destined for the financial Management and allowing notably the entry of budgets, repartition keys and the restitution of results of accounts in function with different entities:
• Requirements analysis,
• Writing of manuals,
• Creation of an Essbase cube,
• Development and customization of an Excel interface allowing : the entry/restitution of financial information from Essbase and the entry/restitution of comments in SQL Server,
• Creation of Essbase scripts.
• This experience was highly rich from a technical point of view, the users having demands which were very specific with regards to native functions of the tool.
Technologies Hyperion Essbase v6.5.4, Essbase SpreadSheet Toolkit, SQL Server 2000

Crédit Lyonnais Paris, France 2002 (9 months)
The client LCL (Le Crédit Lyonnais) is a French bank. It is the retail banking network operating only in France spun off from Crédit Lyonnais when Crédit Agricole acquired the troubled banking group in 2003. The brand LCL replaced Crédit Lyonnais in 2005 in order to remove references to its recent history. It is owned by Crédit Agricole but operates as a separate entity.LCL serves about 6 million customers in 2000 branches in France (2005).
The project Development of a multidimensional base and of a reporting tool
Roles Business Intelligence Consultant
Tasks Project BANFI : Financial Analysis Base
• Creation of a multidimensional base and development of an Excel interface allowing to do financial analysis and to diffuse reports:
• Analysis of data conversion rules, carrying out the parameters for OSA and Express and development of conditional pre-load and post-load programs,
• Development and customization of an Excel Add in interface fed by a multidimensional base allowing the generation of reports and the quick diffusion and update of dashboards,
• Writing of technical documents,
• User training.
This first project in the banking domain allowed me to apprehend the consulting job and learn to manage a client relation, notably the understanding of their needs and their re-transcription in technical terms.
Technologies Oracle Express, Oracle Sales Analyser, VBA, Excel Add-in, Unix, Continuus.