SANDRA K NEWTON

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Calgary, AB T2W 3R5

403-***-****

abjy10@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE

Ms. Newton has over 20 years of computer experience including over 15 years

of SAP experience in the oil and gas, public and private sectors. She has

been involved in various projects in Canada and overseas, and she has a

large technical and functional expertise in various SAP R/3 applications,

languages and packages, system software, and methodologies. Her

application experience consists of Personnel/Payroll, Accounting, Banking

and Inventory Systems.

EXPERIENCE

2010 - present SAP ABAP Consultant

1172728 Alberta Ltd.

2006 to 2009 SAP HR Consultant

Arinso Canada

2005 - 2006 SAP ABAP Consultant

1172728 Alberta Ltd.

1997 - 2005 SAP HR System Support

SAP InterfaceSupport

Nova Chemicals Ltd.

1996 - 1997 Consultant

NewMar Enterprises

1993 - 1994 SAP Consultant

BHP Information Technology

1986 - 1993 Senior Systems Analyst

Systemhouse

EDUCATION

2009 ABAP Certified (C_TAW12_04)

2009 Reliability Status Security Screening Certificate

1976- 1984 Data Processing Certificate

Administration Certificate

University of Regina

University of Alberta

1975- 1976 Computer Programming Diploma

Herzing Institutes, Winnipeg

1172728 Alberta Ltd SAP HR ABAP Consultant

Feb. 2010 - present Husky Energy

Mar. 2012 -Mar. 2014

Within SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 EHP4, she provided custom ABAP

development for the LSO module. This included WorkFlow

development, BSP development, Badis, Enhancement spot

customization for the portal, defined Smart Forms for LSO

Correspondence, and gained thorough knowledge of Email

notifications from the UWL on the portal. She also

developed custom dataloads for transferring legacy data

to Appraisals, maintained Adobe forms, and maintained

ABAP ALV Grid reports.

As part of the Vanilla Sky upgrade to ECC 6.0 EHP6, she

developed Floor Plan Manager changes for ESS / MSS for

the portal, reviewed documentation for change requests,

functional specifications and provided technical

consultancy to offshore resources. She provided some

consultancy with Appraisal template configuration and

Compensation management configuration.

BC Hydro Aug. 2011 -

Nov. 2011

Within SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 EHP4, she provided WorkFlow

development for the HR PA module and generated POWL

queries for the E-recruiting ver 604 portal using ABAP OO

coding and Badi user exits. She was responsible for

configuring email notifications of UWL work items on the

portal, provided ABAP ALV Grid reports with payroll data,

maintained Badi Enhancement spots and ABAP Web Dynpro

apps.

TransCanada Pipelines Nov. 2010 - July

2011

Within SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, she provided gained knowledge of

LSO subsystem within SAP HR by providing custom ABAP

dataload programs to upload EXCEL files to SAP HR OM

environment, and developed custom ALV grid reports using

ABAP OO. She gained some workflow and BSP knowledge of

LSO subsystem.

SAP PS Workflow Consultant

Telus Sept 2010 -

Nov. 2010

Provided customization of workflows within Project

Systems module along with ABAP customization of dialog

modules for Telus SAP 4.7 environment

Developed customized BADI user exits and Business Objects

within the PS module

Provided test scripts, facilitated demos of functionality

changes and documentation of technical specifications.

SAP HR ABAP Consultant

Suncor Feb. 2010 -

July 2010

Within SAP R/3 4.7 Enterprise and ECC 6.0, she provided

ABAP support for maintaining custom HR interface modules

for payroll cluster extraction using HR macros and

generated ALV Grids / RFC Functions calls for various

benefit providers, as part of the transfer from PetroCan

to Suncor systems. It included some customization with

user exits within the Benefit and Pensions subsystems

(Sunlife and Morneau Sobeco) and customization with Org

Publisher. She received Livelink training and provided

documentation of technical specifications.

Arinso Canada SAP HR Consultant

Apr. 2006 - Apr. 2009 Agrium

Aug. 2008 - Jan. 2009

As part of merging an U.S. acquisition within SAP payroll

on ECC 6.0, Sandra was primarily involved in custom

development of interfaces to external U.S. vendors. She

developed customer user exits for dynamic actions within

PA. She was involved in user and vendor interviews with

SEI and TALX for defining Business Requirement and

interface specifications. She developed a number of

custom payroll reports using ABAP OO, ALV grids and BDCs

for garnishments, reporting of periodic US taxes, SEI

extraction, TALX extraction, and extraction of payroll

financial information to interface with PeopleSoft

systems. She provided test scripts for Acceptance

testing, and warranty support after implementation.

GMAC, Canada Apr.

2008 - June 2008

As part of data load interfaces from Peoplesoft to SAP

ECC 6.0, Sandra tested Arinso euHReka system processes

for Brazil and Mexico infotypes. She developed custom

user exits for Brazil infotype uploads. Sandra modified

a custom program to transfer extract SAP batch jobs to

transfer to multiple environments. She modified the

batch job processes for Mexico payroll process and

generated batch jobs for Brazil payroll processes. She

was involved in multiple cycles of payroll integration

tests.

Shell Canada

Jan. 2008 - Mar. 2008

Interface support on SAP 4.6c was required for Canada

payroll conversion from Peoplesoft to SAP. She modified

and unit tested a number of interface programs to extract

payroll data for creation of IDOCs to external servers.

She provided documentation of specifications on the

Livelink system.

GMAC, Canada Nov.

2007 - Dec. 2007

For the Canada payroll conversion from Peoplesoft to SAP

ECC 6.0, Sandra tested data load processes of Arinso

euHReka system. She developed custom user exits for

Mexican infotype uploads. Sandra developed a number of

custom programs to assist in event driven payroll

processing and extraction of data for FICO data.

Scotiabank Sept.

2007 - Oct. 2007

Scotiabank required payroll conversion from their custom

COBOL processes to SAP ECC 6.0. Sandra was involved in

user interviews to define business requirements for

interfaces with Scotiabank's systems. Part of

investigation required testing of data load interfaces

using Arinso euHReka processes. Sandra also investigated

usage of Smartforms for pay slips and technical options

to produce PDF forms.

Intrawest

Apr. 2007 - June 2007

Intrawest required payroll conversion of Steamboat

acquisition to SAP 4.7 on MSSQL. Sandra created the

custom dataload program, by merging a number of EXCEL

spread sheets, for uploading via Data Transfer Toolbox.

She also created a number of CATT scripts to upload

Appraisals and Qualifications data. She also modified

SAP ZDTT (Data Transfer Toolbox transaction) to correct

IT006 foreign address BDC session.

Mammoet, Canada Apr. 2007 -

Apr. 2007

Sandra provided remote support via Hoblink to Mammoet for

data conversion / migration for Canadian HR

implementation to the global landscape. She prepared

numerous LSMW scripts for data loads for various HR

infotypes. She also prepared cutover activities for data

conversion / migration

Colt Engineering

Apr. 2006 - Feb. 2007

Colt Engineering needed a solution to merge multiple HR

systems into one central system. Sandra was involved in

the blue-printing process for defining this to SAP ECC

6.0 environment. She performed initial data cleansing

and merging of several MS Access databases and Excel

spreadsheets from several sources, requiring knowledge of

VB macros to load data via Data Transfer Toolbox 6.0.

She also configured, unit tested E-Recruiting 6.0 on a

separate instance environment, which also included

configuration of IDOC interfaces between ECC 6.0 and E-

recruiting 6.0. She developed customized BSP for E-

recruiting which required ABAP OO and BSP knowledge.

Some workflow knowledge was gained.

1172728 Alberta Ltd SAP ABAP Consultant

Aug. 2005 - Apr. 2006 IBM

Aug. 2005 - Apr 2006

Within SAP R/3 4.7 Enterprise, she provided ABAP support

for maintaining HR and FI/CO ALV grid reports, as well as

analysis for various customization requests. She

performed some customization with BADI, user exits,

performed workflow diagnostics and SAPScript support for

MM and HR modules. She gained some knowledge of the BW

module, HR Payroll and Compensation Management through

ABAP customization.

Nova Chemicals Ltd SAP HR System Support July

2003 - April 2005

Sept 1997 - Apr. 2005 Sandra's role within the HR support included

development and support of custom HR subsystems and

interfaces to external benefit vendors such as Mercer,

and ADP. She was involved in 4.6B to 4.7 upgrade. She

provided Archiving support as needed. She has a strong

understanding of the ABAP workbench tools including OO

programming techniques, ALV grids, HR macros, BDC and RFC

coding, maintaining custom dynpros and user exits.

SAP Interface Support Sept.

1997 - July 2003

Sandra's role included UNIX support for MIMI and LIMS

interfaces, and ensured CLM dataloads for SAP-IT. She

was involved in 2.2D to 3.1H upgrade as well as 4.6B

upgrade, along with several support pack upgrades. She

provided supplementary support to applications by

maintaining custom dynpros, resolving data integrity

issues through OSS note application and SAPNET problem

messages, tracing, debugging and developing ABAP programs

as needed in various module areas. She gained a strong

knowledge of PM along with general knowledge of the SD,

MM, PS, FI/CO modules. Part of her responsibilities

covered scheduling and monitoring production batch jobs.

StarDot Consulting Consultant

Jan. 1996 - Sept. 1997 Nova Chemicals

Jan. 1997 - Sept. 1997

SAP Interface Support

Within SAP R/3 2.2D, she performed ABAP code reviews to

ensure Nova standards and system performance. She

applied OSS notes using SNOTE, diagnosed problems from

ABAP abends and advised users of solutions on various

modules within SAP, notably PM. This required defining

some user requirements, designed and developed numerous

ABAP programs including unit testing, and acceptance

testing.

Husky Oil May 1996 - Nov.

1996

SAP R/3 Financials

As part of implementation of SAP R/3 v3.0C financials /

ISOil V2 on a UNIX platform, she performed data load

activities within General Ledger, Assets, Joint Ventures

and Projects. This required defining user requirements,

designed and developed ABAP BDC programs, provided unit

testing, process flow documentation and involvement of

acceptance testing. Data load activities also required

MS ACCESS programming, and working knowledge of MS WORD

6.0 and EXCEL products.

Credit Union Central Jan. 1996 - Apr.

1996

Credit Union Payment System

As part of the transfer of chequing services from Sask.

to Alberta Credit Union required analyzing batch COBOL /

VSAM software to incorporate Sask. chequing and statement

services. She performed coding, design and development

of TSO CLISTS, unit testing and maintenance of existing

COBOL II modules using TSO/ISPF as well as participated

in testing 3890 cheque sorting equipment and acceptance

testing.

BHP Information SAP Consultant

Technology BHP Wollongong Steel Mill (Australia) July 1994 -

Sept. 1994

Oct. 1993 - Sept. 1994 New Steel Technology Project

Within SAP R3 version 1.2E, performed financial system

configuration on UNIX platform for the following modules:

G/L, G/L Reporting, Cost Accounting, Accounts Payable.

Other project activities included providing user training

for G/L, Accounts Payable, performing system testing with

Materials, Purchasing and wrote documentation on system

configuration and system test plans.

CALTEX (Australia) Oct.

1993 - June 1994

SAP Application Support

Within SAP R2 v4.4D, performed SAP Archiving for RF, RK

and RM modules which required system test plans,

implementation plans and DASD requirements as required by

CALTEX methodologies.

She performed various SAP support tasks such as providing

time estimates for work requests, performing analysis and

development of these work requests using ABAP workbench

tools. She provided support of the production online and

batch SAP system, monitored the SAP environment (DASD

usage) and advised teams of required action e.g. reorgs,

and gave technical / functional support to the help

desks. She also did various enhancements such as GL

validations, substitutions and user exits.

Systemhouse Senior Systems Analyst

Feb. 1990 - May 1993 Credit Union

Mar. 1993 - May 1993

Credit Union Electronic Transmission System

Performed as a Team Leader in charge of 4 other

programmers, by delegating tasks and reported work

progress status to Project Manager. Also performed

coding, unit testing of modules using TSO/ISPF with COBOL

II and CICS/VS command code V6, as well performed system

on-line and batch testing.

Husky Oil BPU Sept.

1992 - Mar. 1993

SAP General Ledger Component

Commissioning of the Bi-Provincial Upgrade required a

suite of SAP modules. She participated in the General

Ledger using the SILC Methodology, by defining the

process flow diagrams, generated the system

specifications and documented the operating procedures.

Within the Amdahl 5870 MVS/XA OS/JES2 environment

performed the construction within SAP R/2 4.3C by

populating tables, defining and developing ABAP interface

programs using TSO/ISPF, documenting and executing unit

test cases. Also prepared and conducted user training

sessions.

Applications: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 / 4.7 / 4.6B HR System Support, Data

Transfer Toolbox 6.0

SAP R3 ECC 6.0 E-Recruiting 6.0, LSO, LSMW, OM / PA, PY

SAP R3 Assets, Projects, Joint Operating Agreements,

General Ledger, BW

SAP R3 Plant Maintenance, Materials Management. Sales

and Distribution

SAP R3 Financials Configuration

SAP R3/R2 Archiving

SAP R2 General Ledger & Reporting

Oil & Gas Mineral Revenue Systems

Texaco Inventory

Payroll/Personnel

Term/Time Deposit

MSA General Ledger

Software Package Installations

Recent Courses: SAPEP SAP NetWeaver Portal - Fundamentals

BIT610 Sap Workflow Programming

HR2014 Sap Insider of HR

NET313 Floor Plan Manager ABAP WebDynpro

NET310 Fundamentals of ABAP WebDynpro

BC601 Workflow Configuration

BC425 Enhancements and Modifications

BC401 ABAP Objects

BC412 Dialog Programming with EnjoySAPDialog

BC315 Workload Analysis

WT520 ABAP/4 Performance Tuning

CA930 Creating Layout Sets using SAPscript

CA320 Document Management

Software: Languages & Packages System Software

SAP HR, Workflow Oracle

SAP G/L, A/P, Fixed Assets TSO/ISPF

SAP Projects, Extended G/L ADR/DATACOM

SAP Plant Maintenance IMS DB

SAP Material Management IDMS

SAP Sales and Distribution VSAM

SAP - Industrial Transportation IBM Utilities

SAP Cost Accounting IBM OS/DOS JCL

SAP/IS Oil Joint Ventures CICS/VS Macro

ABAP/4, ABAP Objects, BSP CICS/VS Command

SAP LSMW / SNOTE IBM DMS/VS V1

COBOL II

MARK IV Windows 2010, XP / 2003 / 2000

/ 98

INTERTEST

DATAVANTAGE MS EXCEL / MS ACCESS / MS

WORD

XPEDITER

IDD

DMLO PROFS

OLM, OLQ SAS/FSP V6

ADR/RDF ADR/IDEAL WordPerfect PC & MVS 5.1

Infopac UNIX

RPG II SCRIPT/VS

PL/1 Systems Architect Case Tool

Methodologies: Systemhouse SILC Synergy

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