Bilash Biswas

Cell: *-***-*-BILASH

Email: abkmfv@r.postjobfree.com

SAP ERP HCM CONSULTANT

SUMMARY

12+ years of working experience including 10 years in SAP HR.

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One of the founding developers of mySAP HR e-Recruiting at SAP AG in

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Walldorf, Germany.

Positions Held: Senior Program Manager, Senior Consultant, Solution Architect,

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Application Developer at SAP AG (Germany).

Core competence: SAP HR E-Recruiting.

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SAP HR e-Recruiting, SAP HR Enterprise Compensation Management,

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Performance Management, BSPs, ALE and SAP web integration technologies.

Other competencies: Solution architecture, ABAP workbench, SAP Enterprise

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Portal.

Challenging consultant roles have included firefighting “very high” SAP HR

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issues, audit, training and handholding during project takeover and maintenance,

documenting best practices.

Contemporary with the development team who founded SAP HR products like

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SAP Workforce management, Concurrent Employment, MBO.

Provided training on SAP HR e-Recruiting v600, Netweaver, XI, XML and BSP.

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Conducted SAP Academy Netweaver trainings for SAP Solution Consultants at

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SAP Singapore, SAP Malaysia, SAP Thailand, SAP Indonesia and SAP India.

Ability to clearly articulate suggestions, solutions, ideas, and vision to all levels of

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customers and internal management.

Graduated from Ivy League Engineering School in India, IIT Kharagpur in 1997.

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SKILLS

SAP Technologies: SAP HCM e-Recruiting, ALE, Web-dynpro, SAP HCM

Enterprise Compensation Mgmt, Performance Management,

SAP Enterprise Portals, BSP, Business Package integration.

ERP Applications: SAP ECC 600, SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7, SAP R/3 4.6C

IDE: SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, ABAP Workbench.

Languages: ABAP, ABAP OO, Java 2.0, MVC programming ABAP OO.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN DETAIL

Current Employer: <to be disclosed later> Aug 2008 to Present

Aug’08 – Ongoing

Client: Major Software Corporation, Redmond, WA

Consultant, SAP HR E-Recruiting 600, EhP4

Upgrade to EhP4 SP05/SP06.

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Implementation and worldwide rollout of E-Recruiting at Microsoft for its US

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operations as a part of the NGS program.

E-Recruiting upgrade from EhP3 to EhP4 - a major change in the UI from BSP to

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web-dynpro.

Led deployment of 7+ quarterly releases of E-Recruiting within Microsoft.

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Candidate and requisition conversion from legacy to E-Recruiting.

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Support and coordinate POWL-based development with EhP4.

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Coordinate with development, project, business, cross-teams (Business, SD,

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Staffing, Biztalk, HRIT, ICOE) and support within E-Recruiting.

Involved in SIT, BPRT, UAT, E2E.

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Troubleshoot T-Rex and technical issues with BASIS.

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Support post-implementation service tickets and coordinate with Line 1.

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Employer: VIP Consulting Inc Nov 2005 to Aug 2008

May’08 – Aug ‘08

Client: A premier packaging corporation, Plymouth, MI

Consultant, SAP HR E-Recruiting 600

Lead the E-Recruiting process re-engineering effort with major changes in UI.

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Complete shift from BSP based UI to htmlb UI for basic roles on shop floor.

Jobs at a branch - search functionality implementation. Previously wrong

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configuration which never worked.

Functionality merge – although on v600, the business wanted some functionality

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from v300. Led the custom development for both versions to co-exist.

BASIS performance – candidate resume view performance issues.

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New UI based on html and htmlb which interfaces with standard E-Recruiting

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logic. The framework of e-Recruiting is based on UI being separate from

Business Logic. So, it is technically possible to customize the UI to have a html

page and not just the standard provided UI.

Fixed location-based search as the entry point at walk-in kiosks. Table-based

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search and not TREX-based free-text search.

Ongoing documentation and education to the business and development team

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on BSP development methodology and troubleshooting.

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June ‘07 – Apr ‘08

Client: A State government subsidiary, Olympia, WA

Functional Consultant, SAP HR E-Recruiting 600

E-Recruiting 600 SP5-9 implementation.

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SAP HR Upgrade to ECC 600.

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Co-functional responsibility in the project and coordinating with the development,

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testing, security and BASIS teams.

Functional Design Documents on implementation of SP5-9, ALE implementation,

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concurrent employment in e-Recruiting, hiring and separation remediation.

Re-implement the ALE effort including concept to commissioning of change

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pointer implementation including setup of ALE distribution model.

Monitor and functionally resolve end-customer (jobseeker and recruiter) issues.

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Author test cases and coordinate with the testing team for unit, integration and

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stress testing.

Coordinate the development effort with functional designs and correction of

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certification implementation, password replication error, BSP, smartform,

workflow issues.

Functional system validation following system down and T-Rex escalation.

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Client build and cutover for Training system ET0.

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Training – Trained the e-Recruiting supervisor and team members on the job for

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takeover. This was an ongoing effort and more than just a KT.

Feb ‘07 – Feb ‘07

Client: Major utility corporation in Akron, OH

Consultant, SAP ECM

ESS workshop – for Blueprint phase.

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Effort estimation for ECM and e-Recruit implementation. Phased implementation

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from Manager’s Desktop to ESS/MSS.

Audit the existing ECM and ESS implementation.

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Code review of previous development effort and enhancements and its

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significance in the new implementation.

Upload PCP values as a test run using the Comp to PCP interface. This report

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returns data from the PCP application (cost items from a cost plan) which can

then be used for budget planning in ECM.

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Jan ‘07 – Jan ‘07

Client: Entertainment technology major in Tewksbury, MA

Consultant, SAP ECM

Business Package for ECM was imported but never worked at Avid. Fixed this.

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Interface in-house performance management to interface with ECM. Import

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values from Performance Management into ECM.

Blueprint and estimate custom requirement of previewing final package before

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submitting the values to ECM.

Coordinate with the SAP portal team for custom development of business

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package for ECM and custom change views of the .PAR file.

Enhancement – BADIs to incorporate custom iView changes and functionality.

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Dec ‘06 – Dec ‘06

Client: Leading GIS Software firm in Redlands, CA

Consultant, SAP E-Recruiting 3.0

Flexibilization – Fields hiding and showing as a customizing task

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Search criteria – workaround to jump to the results page without going through

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the search criteria page.

OTR text buffer. Changes in OTR texts were not reflecting immediately coz of

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OTR buffering time.

Education and training – Educate the technical team with concepts of BSPs and

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MVC architecture and help them understand how e-recruiting is built and put

together.

Jun ‘06 – Nov ‘06

Client: School District in Los Angeles, CA

Consultant, SAP E-Recruiting 3.0

Configuration responsibility and troubleshooting for e-Recruiting v 300 and

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technical support (with the onsite eR project team).

Prepare Functional Specs and validate Technical Specs.

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Educate Project Team and help develop BPPs.

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Client build and cutover for Training, Q and Production servers.

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Support and guide development of smartforms, workflows, BSPs

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Flexibilization – container sequences, BSPs

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TREX – issue resolution

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Troubleshooting – in all areas across dev, security and configuration silos.

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Architect the ALE effort and custom design e-Recruit for Concurrent Employment

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and external candidate hire in HR (PA48).

Qualifications Catalog and its integration in e-Recruiting.

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Testing – unit and functional testing and validating transport to Q system.

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Apr ‘06 – May ‘06

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Client: Pharmaceutical major in Thousand Oaks, CA

Lead Configuration Consultant, SAP E-Recruiting 6.0

Architect and implement SAP E-Recruiting v 6.0

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Blue-printing and effort estimation for custom development.

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Complete configuration responsibility for e-Recruiting v 6.0 and technical support.

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Evaluate product versus integration with partner products and integration.

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Educate team including top management (VP) and senior management.

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Nov ‘05 – Mar ‘06

Client: Telecom Major, Bellevue, WA

Consultant, SAP ECM

ECM Compensation Administration custom development to enable customer-

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defined guideline evaluation for performance adjustment and quarterly bonus.

ECM Configuration.

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BADI for performance adjustment proration for new hires.

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Migrate current guideline calculations from legacy system to SAP Enterprise

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Compensation Management. Additional functionalities built on it to enable

quarterly bonus.

Integrate existing performance management to interface with ECM. Use values

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from Performance Management into ECM to calculate quarterly bonus.

Nov ‘05 – Nov ‘05

Client: Oil & Gas major, Houston, TX

Consultant, SAP e-Recruiting

Blueprinting and design customer requirements & development requests to

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integrate CE and repatriation at the customer location.

Integration of both internal and external candidates in the e-Recruiting model of

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the customer.

Re-design e-R (custom development) to enable external applicant processing

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viz., withdrawn employee and external applicant and re-hires.

Jul ‘05 – Nov ‘05

Client: Oil & Gas major, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Consultant, SAP e-Recruiting and Netweaver

Involved with the architecture and implementation of SAP E-Recruiting v 3.0

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Integration strategy of e-Recruiting with backend, portals, ESS/MSS and decide

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on the portal deployment strategy.

Design customer requirements & development requests.

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Educate Project Management, end users and train developers.

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Employer: SAP May 2000 to Aug. 2005

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Jul 2004 – Jul 2005

Client: SAP Subsidiaries in EMEA, UK, Americas

Solution Architect, SAP Netweaver

Drive and deliver on all Business Development projects with clear focus to

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establish SAP Netweaver as the primary integration and application platform, for

example ROI /TCO related research.

Produce and communicate related sales supporting material i.e. NW reference

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customer overview to the field.

Document business requirements, and collaborate with technical resources to

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develop, scope, and project plan the proposed approach.

Building teams in new demand areas like Web-Dynpro by identifying resources

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and trainings.

Pipeline development, Dashboard maintenance, prospecting, and deal closing,

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help in sales talk and presentations in coordination with the CEMs.

Identify risks, including resource requirements and gaps. Raise resource and

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budgetary concerns to the Senior Program Manager for resolution.

Coordinate the implementation of PoC and demo scenarios that prove that

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NetWeaver adds value to SAP Business Applications with focus on Netweaver.

Educate Customers/CEMs and address the business benefits of Netweaver.

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Feb 2005 – Apr 2005

Client: Cadence Design Systems, USA (Remote Consulting)

Lead Technology Consultant, Netweaver Enterprise Portals

Modify EBP Shop screen (UI and backend) to customer requirements.

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Peoplesoft interface changes – enhance user load program for Peoplesoft users

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so as to delete all inactive users.

Create Portal Home Page.

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Modify Shopping Cart Printout (using Smartforms) to display customized fields.

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Change standard logic to enable Cost Distribution against more than one cost

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center.

Jan 2004 – Jul 2004

Client: Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, New Delhi

SAP Enterprise Portal Consultant, Netweaver Enterprise Portals

Entire Implementation of EP 5.0 SP 5 from scratch and patch updations on

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regular basis.

Roll-out to Western Offshore and Western Onshore regions.

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Documentation and onsite end-user trainings.

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Migration of the installation to a HP Landscape.

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Jan 2004 – Jul 2004

Client: Hero Honda Motors Limited, Gurgaon

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Technology Consultant, Netweaver Enterprise Portals

Firefighting at customer location on obstacles faced by implementation partners.

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Configured the functioning of the SAP J2EE Engine 6.20.

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Configured Microsoft ADS as the UME.

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Educating and creating awareness to customer regarding Netweaver and the

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advantages of migrating to Netweaver.

On-time delivery of the project.

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Jul 2003 – Dec 2003

SAP Labs Internal Development

Senior Application developer, SAP xRPM

SAP xRPM

Provided advance knowledge of the use of SAP XI 2.0

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Showcasing the use of SAP XI 2.0 in xRPM to the internal HCM team.

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Demonstrated steps involved in mapping, routing and XSLT transformation in the XI

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Repository.

Configuration of the XI directory.

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Used class-based proxy programming.

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Dec 2002 – Jun 2003

Client: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, USA (Remote Consulting)

Technology Consultant, Human Capital Management

ESS Development

• Responsible for ESS Scenarios for Qualification Catalog and leave scenarios

viz., PZ31, PZ32, and PZ50.

• Replacement of Java Applet with section 508 –compliant ALV tree control.

• Responsible for removing incompatibilities of the java applet with some browser

versions.

• Responsible for down-porting from Release 4.7 to 4.6 C.

• Responsible for the Test Case Preparation for the above solutions for various

browser types and versions.

• Responsible for Solution Support and Enhancement during Integration Testing

and User Acceptance test.

• The solution is now a part of the standard delivery package of SAP 4.6C and

above.

Jul 2001 – Nov 2002

SAP AG, Walldorf

Application Developer, mySAP HCM e-Recruiting

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mySAP HR e-Recruiting core Development Team

• Member of the core HCM NAD e-Recruiting team at SAP AG, Walldorf.

• Completely responsible for the Talent Warehouse candidate entry – login,

registration, and other security aspects there-in. Customized the BSP Application

<system> for login use in the e-Recruiting scenario. Developed the concept

behind registration of candidates during different application procedures namely,

unsolicited applications, candidates as referred by a Talent Consultant, internal

and external candidates.

• Ensuring that different candidates have different user roles (and hence

authorization) in the candidate pool.

• Responsible for front-end development using BSPs and htmlb (html business).

The MVC concept was utilized extensively in development of the UI.

• Responsible for Solution Support and Enhancement during Integration Testing

and User Acceptance test.

Dec 2000 – Jul 2001

SAP AG, Walldorf

Application Developer, mySAP HCM e-Recruiting

Career Portal

• Member of the core HCM NAD e-Recruiting team at SAP AG.

• Responsible for import of data from HR Master Data to the Internal Career

Portal’s database using ALE.

• All employees of SAP AG are entered in the Career Portal as candidates. BADI

(exit) used for the same. The BADI is activated the first time which starts the ALE

process of import of employees as internal candidates in e-Recruiting.

• Organization management – responsible to ensure the existence of dual roles of

a manager – being a candidate (searching for a job) as well as part of a recruiter

(searching for other candidates) internally. Assignment of position (like manager)

to a candidate in the pool depending on the org man rules in the Organization

manager (A012 relationship in the Master Data).

• Defining positions and the various rules associated.

• Configured the SAP BC for communicating with third party job portals viz.,

Monster.com (London) and Stepstone (Brussels). Used the SAP BC for posting

XML document of a job posting created by a recruitment manager to a job board

over various internet ports namely http, ftp, and smtp ports.

• Internal training to HCM team on the use of SAP BC.

• Responsible for the Test Case Preparation for the above solutions for various

browser types and versions.

• Responsible for Solution Support and Enhancement during Integration Testing

and User Acceptance test.

May 2000 – Nov 2000

SAP Labs, Bangalore, India

Intern, HCM

WAP-enablement

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Developed a working model of WAP-enabled SAP HR.

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Responsible for Specification, Design, development and setting up the IT

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landscape.

Responsible for the Prototype Development and Demo presentation to the VP,

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GBU HCM, SAP.

Responsible for the Test Case Preparation for the above solutions.

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Final presentation to the VP, HCM.

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ENGINEERS’ INDIA LTD, New Delhi, India July 1997 to Jun 1999

Design Engineer/ On-site Oil Consultant

Was responsible for the design and Analysis of Piping stress and layout for

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projects for Refineries and other Downstream Oil sector. Also responsible for

implementation and consulting at Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd, LPG Usar GAIL,

Mathura Refineries, Cochin Refineries Ltd and Mangalore Refineries Ltd.

EDUCATION

MS in Information Technology from Indian Institute of Information Technology

BTech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. (1993-1997)

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