GENERAL

· ** years of IT experience including *4 years of SAP R/3 experience in 11 different projects comprising full cycle implementations, upgrades, post implementation support and outsourcing engagements.

· 13 years of HR Transformation and SAP HCM experience including Program Management for large global organization.

· Varied experience on challenging SAP implementations for clients in different industries including Energy (Oil and Gas), Food, Manufacturing, Technology, High-tech (Semiconductor), Banking, Investment, Retail.

· As a business consultant helped customers in process mapping, identifying and executing enhancements to standard SAP functionality/processes, efficient HR service delivery, organizational change management and master data management.

· Project Management skills include project planning, estimation, budgeting and providing leadership to teams of various sizes including functional and technical resources in different locations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

OIL SERVICE INDUSTRY, Houston, TX 2007-till date

BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYST/ PROJECT MANAGER

It is a major oilfield service company that provides oil and natural gas industry products and services for drilling, formation evaluation, completion and production and operates in over 90 countries worldwide.

Worked as a Program manager level for the following key projects:

Employee Self Service and Manager Self Service via SAP Enterprise Portal and ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

· Managed this key project, which includes global rollout of self service applications for employees, managers and HR service centers using SAP HCM Processes and Forms and SAP workflow. Some of the key ESS applications include country specific personal data and address services. Key MSS applications include different PA actions like Hire, Rehire, Position/Location change, Transfer, Termination etc.

· Involved in designing the customized solution and creating and managing project plan and resources.

· As a project manager from customer side, responsible for communications with key stakeholders including C level executives.

SAP HR Reimplementation

Responsibilities:

· Redesigned Enterprise, Personnel and Organizational structure globally to leverage SAP best practice and make the foundation for global ESS/MSS rollout.

· Actively involved in leading data conversion strategy, configuration within Personnel Administration and Organizational Management modules, unit testing and integration testing, Cut-over and Go Live activities.

· Helped divisions to identify standard Organizational Management reports to improve local and global reporting requirements.

· Helped to leverage the basic functionality of the OrgPublisher tool by extracting additional information for better reports and visibility of data in organizational management.

· Designed different custom OM objects and custom relationships to be integrated with Organization and Staffing interface for structural maintenance.

· Helped to build custom functionality in SAP to allow the grouping of jobs like job function, job super function, job family etc in different hierarchical categories based on the duties and responsibilities of the job.

· Designed interface to store different job descriptions like job duties, skills, education into SAP from custom web application.

· Designed outbound interface to start sending I9 information from SAP to TALX needed for employment verification and audit compliance.

· Lead the project to send custom notification messages to managers, HR Supports and the employees for various PA actions being completed in SAP.

· Guided client to upgrade its transmission services for Payroll ACH files from dial-up to JPMorgan ACCESS Payables Web Services (PWS).

· Designed the best suitable option for client to email password protected payment advices in PDF format to US payroll employees.

Payroll Outsourcing with NorthgateArinso

· Managed this outsourcing project to leverage SAP payroll processes for various non SAP paid countries with a focus on cost effective HR service delivery.

SAP Upgrade (4.7 to ECC 6.0)

Responsibilities:

· Managed the total configuration support for the upgrade of HR module including enhancing business processes to suit current business needs.

· Led the ECC 6.0 upgrade testing scenarios for HCM master data, Org Management, Personal Administration and Payroll.

FUJITSU CONSULTING 1998-2007

PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT

FUJITSU PROJECTS:

Project Lead

Tyco Electronics, Harrisburg, PA

Modules: HR (PA, OM, Payroll, Compensation, Benefits)

June '06 - Jan '07

It is an HR/Payroll integration project between Tyco and M/A Com using ASAP methodology. It was required to migrate SAP HR functionality for US employees from M/A Com SAP instance and integrate/consolidate with the Tyco SAP HR instance, while the ERP functionality is maintained in M/A Com.

Responsibilities:

· Conducted PA, OM workshops with users for gathering of Blueprint requirements and conversion data.

· Directed Blueprint (As-Is and To-be) activities in the areas of Personnel Administration, Organizational Management for the M/A Com integration project.

· Mapped Enterprise and Personnel Structure between Tyco and M/A Com instances and created new company codes, personal area, subareas.

· Designed the changes to all the existing PA actions to accommodate M/A Com employees.

· Supervised data conversion activities for all M/A Com employees into TYCO instance.

· Designed the detailed ALE architecture including data mappings for HR master data transfer between two different instances using change pointers.

· Mapped different date types, communication types, statistics and PA administrators (Personal, Time and Payroll).

· Created detailed unit testing and integration testing scenarios in PA, PD, Time and Payroll.

· Led the ALE testing scenarios of HR master data from TYCO to M/A Com instance and the financial master data from M/A Com to TYCO instance.

· Prepared cut over plan and designed post go-live support activities after M/A Com integration.

· Led the full cycle activation process in compensation for merit, bonus and lump sum plans.

· Responsible for various project management duties including managing onsite, offsite and off-shore resources effectively, conducting meetings, assigning work among team members.

· Prepared configuration documents and user training materials.

· Developed end user training program for HR Reporting and Ad-Hoc Reporting.

· Performed quality assurance of the new configurations and performance of the SAP HR system prior to go-live.

Functional Team Lead/Project Manager

Burger King Corporation, Miami, FL

Modules: HR (Master Data, Org Management, Payroll, Compensation, Benefits, ESS, MSS, Portal)

Feb ’02 – June ‘06

It started as an upgrade project from SAP 3.1 I to SAP 4.6 C system for Burger King Corporation.

After go-live it becomes a lead support role for new projects mainly for enhancement of the system.

Responsibilities:

· Directed the construction of Org structure including Org Units, Jobs and Positions.

· Worked with Org Publisher software to customize org chart based on client requirements.

· Lead the configuration for the Organizational Management including the creation of OM actions to create different PD objects.

· Involved in PA-PD integration activities including feature change, running utility programs, creating holder relationships.

· Performed legal entity configuration changes in Personnel Administration including new Personnel Areas and Subareas.

· Configured different PA actions like ‘New Hire’, ‘Change Of Position’, ‘Change Of Pay’, ‘Termination’, ‘Rehire’ etc for inbound master data and time interface coming from POS system to load master data and times for restaurant employees into SAP.

· Supported COBRA administration including customized COBRA letters.

· Worked with different compensation components, guidelines, eligibility, adjustment types, budgeting,

· user exits and compensation adjustment workflow in compensation management.

· Changed column headings for compensation adjustment iview using Object and Data Provider in MSS configuration.

· Developed end user training program for Personnel Administration, including Personnel Actions, OM actions, Maintain Master Data, Benefits open enrollment using ESS, Compensation adjustment using MSS.

· Led initiatives for unit testing and integration testing of PA, OM, Benefits and Payroll.

· Coordinated with off-shore for development of technical specification and custom programs.

· Designed interfaces between SAP and OBLIX to help SAP user creation process automatically.

· Designed custom workflow templates to be triggered by events raised by changes to HR master data.

· Designed compensation custom reports, user exits and RFC function modules to be executed from SAP R/3 as well as SAP Enterprise Portal.

· Designed functional specifications for new interfaces, reports, additional conversion programs based on user specification.

· Worked on customization of DME and check printing programs for payroll.

· Designed custom code specification in W2 user exit for Tax Reporter and for custom benefits cost calculation.

· Created custom payroll functions and incorporated into custom payroll schema.

· Designed different customized payroll forms using HR form editor.

Senior HR Consultant

Chevron Texaco, San Ramon, CA

Modules: HR

July ’01 – Feb ‘02

· This is the US SAP HR implementation of the merger of Chevron and Texaco.

· It consists of conversion of PA, PD, Master Data, Pay-time and Benefits modules of both current and historical data and interfaces.

· Preparing functional and technical specifications from functional documents for HR conversions, interfaces.

· Designing data conversion/interfaces in HR from TIPPS (Texaco legacy system) to SAP R/3 (Version 4.6B)

· Performance tuning of complex ABAP programs needed for conversion.

Senior HR Consultant

UMB Bank, Kansas City, MO

Modules: HR

June ’01 – July ‘01

· Working on outbound payroll interface to send the changed information relevant for payroll from SAP to ADP in each pay period.

· Working on inbound leave calculation interface to update the year to date leave data and current leave taken, leave allowed in custom infotype 'Paid time off' from ADP YTD input file in each pay period.

· Configuring the cluster PCL4 for different PA infoypes to capture the changes as a short-term document and creating a template program for the outbound interfaces using PCl4 changed data.

· Conducting in-house SAP HR training for the users.

Senior HR Consultant

StorageTek, Louisville, CO

Modules: HR

March ’01 – June ‘01

· Designing conversion activity for onetime upload of Medical Plan History for HIPAA requirements.

· Creating custom infotype for Tuition Reimbursement to capture various fields for Pre-Approval info, Claim info and total taxable/nontaxable amounts. The amounts are automatically saved in

infotype 15(onetime payments ) so that payments is included in next paycheck.

· Designing conversion program for onetime upload of Tuition Reimbursement custom infotype and loading pre-approval and claims information for different courses taken.

· Creating Tuition Reimbursement commitment report spec to display the year to date Tuition Reimbursement claims for employees and calculating commitment end date and commitment owed on a specific date as employees who get reimbursed more than a specific amount in a year, are committed to the company for one and half year from the course end date.

HR Team Lead

Cirrus Logic, Austin, TX

Modules: HR (PA, OM, ESS)

December ‘99 – March ’01

· Prepared training content and facilitated education on personal administration and org management.

· Designing payroll interface (outbound) to send payroll data to Probusiness from SAP on Biweekly basis and scheduling background job to automate the process.

· Creating outbound benefits interfaces for health and life insurance plans and creating text files for different benefits providers, based on their specifications.

· Incorporating COBRA changes to the applicable benefits interfaces and creating interface files for any qualifying events for COBRA considering both employee and their dependents and sent it to the third party responsible for COBRAs.

· Customized layoutset for “Benefits Confirmation letter”.

· Working on creating and updating of vendor accounts in Accounts Payable side for the employees relevant for travel reimbursement.

· Customizing standard report “RHSTRU00” to include expiration date for the qualifications attached to the employees and displayed short names for the qualification abbreviations

· Supported benefits open enrollment.

· Supporting ESS including program changes, HTML template modifications based on requirement

· Maintained configuration documents and assisted in preparation of business procedure documents.

· Developed end user training program for Recruitment including Applicant Actions, Vacancy Assignments, transferring Applicant data to Personal administration.

PA/OM Team Lead

Cirrus Logic, Fremont, CA

Modules: HR

January ’99 - August ’99

· After this project Cirrus Logic, Fremont became the first company in North America to go live on SAP Human Resources and Travel Management version 4.5B.

· Developed process flows, identified and resolved technical gaps.

· Developed business blueprint for Personal Administration, Org Management.

· Working on designing data conversion steps in HR from legacy system to SAP R/3 (Version 4.5B)

· Prepared data load templates, business process documents, test cases, data load templates.

· Worked in Recruitment configuration related to Applicant Administration, Vacancies and Advertisements.

· Designed HR enterprise and personnel structure.

· Provided post go-live support to client including end user training, configuration documents.

· Designing employee progress report to list the training programs the employee must complete to be certified according to standards set by ISO 9002.

· Created custom infotypes in PA and Recruitment.

Senior HR Consultant

Dyno Nobel Inc. Salt Lake City, UT

Modules: HR

April ‘98 – January ‘99

· Working on periodic and year-to-date time management reports to show approved straight time and overtime hours, retrieving hours from table ZES of time management cluster B2 of database PCL2 for different time types.

· Designing leave discrepancy report to show deviation between infotype 2001 (unlocked absences) and Infotype 5 (Leave entitlement) requested hours and these discrepancies were then removed by manual locking and unlocking of time data

· Creating employee periodic and quarterly text files to show federal, state and different city taxable amounts and tax deducted and then sending files to ADP for automatic tax processing

· Working on different quarterly tax reports for several states for different requirements.

Senior HR Consultant

Janus Funds. Denver, CO

Modules: HR

March ‘98 – April ‘98

· Preparing technical specifications from functional documents, data conversion and documentation

· Performing data mapping of fields from existing systems such as Ensemble, Benesoft and FoxPro databases to HR info types fields

· Creating special customer defined infotype for the conversion data.

MINDWARE 1995-1998

SOFTWARE CONSULTANT

MINDWARE PROJECTS:

HR Consultant

Rubbermaid. Wooster, OH

Modules: HR

August ‘97 – January ‘98

· Studying existing Payroll Journal and customizing depending upon client specification.

· Adding different wage types and showing current, month-to-date, quarter-to-date, and year-to-date values using IMG Forms tool.

· Studying existing remuneration statement and modifying depending upon client specification.

· Creating payroll form using IMG HR forms tool.

Programmer Analyst

NTT. Japan, Calcutta, & India

Modules: FI

January ‘97 - August ‘97

· Generating reports for the G/L portion of the FI module using SAP ABAP/4.

SAP R/3 ABAP/4 Training Program and sample project on airlines

Development of Prototypes of Airline Reservation System and Billing Information System

July ‘96 – January ‘97

· Building prototype of an airline reservation system based on the BC model for a domestic carrier in India

International Software Development and Consulting Corporation

Pharmacy Module for an Integrated Health-Care System Package, Personnel Information System and Project Cost and Time Sheet Management System

Nov ‘95 – July ‘96

· Dealing with issues and returns of drugs for both in-patients and outpatients of a hospital

· Designing screen layout designing, coding of programs both at front end and back end, testing, and documenting.

PUBLICATION

· Article on 'Customize the Object Manager in the Organization and Staffing Interface' at ‘HREXPERTONLINE.COM’.

CERTIFICATION

Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified through Project Management Institute (PMI), 2010

SAP TRAINING PROGRAM- SAP AMERICA

· HR255: Employee Self-Service & Manager Self-Service, Oct ’08

· HR400: Payroll Configuration, June ’07

· HR410: US Payroll, June ’06

· BC401: ABAP Objects, Sep ’04

· BC601: Build and Use SAP Business Workflow, Sep ’01

· BC440: Developed Internet Application Components, July ’99

EDUCATION

Master of Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Jadavpur University, India.

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