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Resume:
Saima H. Sultana
*************@*****.*** Cell: 773-***-****
Lawful Permanent Resident in USA
Summary
A techno-functional SAP professional with a blend of business expertise,
academic background, and technical proficiency
. Over Thirteen years of industry experience in a versatile, international
SAP implementation environment ( London, India, China, France, South
America, etc.)
. Sufficient knowledge on Leading SAP Projects
. Extensive knowledge of leading and functioning 5 full-cycle SAP projects
. Extensive knowledge on Foreign currency, European tax, Foreign business
processes
. Extensive knowledge of Agile approach
. Extensive knowledge on Project Management
. Extensive knowledge of SRM approval Workflow
. Extensive knowledge of FICO module functionality
. Extensive knowledge of SRM 5 and 7.0 MM and ERP functionality
. Extensive knowledge of SRM 7.0 upgrade,
o Extensive knowledge of ECC 6.0 Purchase requisition approval workflow
. Extensive knowledge of ECC 6.0 Web Dynpro component
. Sufficient knowledge on ABAP debugging
. Extensive knowledge of agile/iterative methodologies
. Efficiently networked with the users to understand business processes
for system GAP analysis and proposed short and long term business
solutions
. Have a strong knowledge of business processes across all finance
applications - from bringing the raw materials in the door, to shipping
the final product, to sales reporting with major strengths in Finance
areas including: material/product master, procurement, asset accounting,
Project Accounting, SRM, Workflow, and custom reporting
. As a team member developed proficiency in business blue print
documentation, customization, and configuration and an in-depth
understanding of business processes related to SAP Financials modules (
FI-AP, FI-MM, FI-PS FI-AS) and the related MM and CO integration (CCA,
PCA) and Project Systems
. Excellent communication skills developed through corporate training on
people skills such as Decision-Making, General Management, Team Building
and Negotiations
. Excellent interpersonal skills with problem solving abilities, effective
in working independently and an exceptional team player.
. Able to develop innovative and appropriate solutions to business and
technical problems across a wide spectrum of environments and manage them
to completion
. Strong functional and technical IT skills such as SAP ABAP debugging
. Strong configuration skills in SAP SPRO
. Able to easily adapt to technology changes such as mainframe to SAP
client server and migration to SAP ERP from other legacy ERP systems
(PeopleSoft and Oracle)
. Proven ability in process improvement and in providing exceptional
customer service such as:
o SAP system was not validating vendor master records prior to saving
when creating the master record. Researched and provided new
functionality to domestic and international sites which reduced errors
within vendor master records. Used a an user exit called USER EXIT
EXIT_SAPMF02K_001 to populate the SAP fields in LFB1 and LFA1 tables
using one of SAP main programs: SAPMF02K. This user exit is for
"Checks Prior to Savings" by finding the global variable (T-LFB1) from
the main program "SAPMF02k". This enhancement significantly reduced
user time to create vendor master records and reduced errors by no
longer requiring manual user validation prior to saving vendors.
. Followed IT SOX procedures for writing system documentation, accessing
live production environments, and master data change coordination.
. Attention to detail and ability to prioritize multiple tasks
. Contributed to SAP ERP version upgrade activities
. Strong in analyzing business specifications and expertise in developing
Test Plans, Test Procedures and Test Cases.
. Unit Tested FICO and MM functionality and performed issue resolution
during User Acceptance Testing for these modules.
Education
DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
Master of Science in Information Systems
June, 2003
DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
Bachelor of Science in Accounting
June, 1998
Oracle Certification Courses
Oracle Basic Database 1 - Basic database programming
Oracle Basic Database 2 - Intermediate database programming
Oracle DBA 1 - Basic database programming
Oracle DBA 2 - Intermediate database programming
Other Training Courses
SRM 7.0 training with SAP
AdvanceSoft International in-house SAP ABAP programming training
AdvanceSoft International in-house SAP functional training on MM and FICO
(FI-GL, CO-CCA) modules
Functional and Technical Skills
SAP Technical experience with system performance tuning
SAP functional maintenance and support of tables and configuration
SAP technical maintenance of standard and customized programs
PC Skills
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Access, Outlook)
Windows XP
Internet Skills
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
Microsoft NetMeeting 2.0
Professional Experience
Thomson Reuters
July 2006 - Present
Eagan, MN
Lead System Analyst
Environment: SAP 6.0, SRM 5 and 7
Lead Functional, Solution Architect and Project Manager Responsibilities
. FICO
o Responsible for integration with MM module
o Responsible for purchasing, material management requirement
gathering, configuration and testing.
. FICO - Cost and Profit Center Accounting Configuration
o Configured various cost and profit center configuration such as
assigning CC to Profit center, creating cost element attributes,
defining cost center groups, etc
o Configured various profit center set up such as creating a
profit center and account groups, assigning profit center in
cost center
. FICO - General Ledger Configuration
o Configured various General Ledgers steps for various finance
projects such as creating G/L account
. SD
o Configured, tested and gathered requirements in Sales and
Distribution area. Knowledge almost all areas of SD module
. PP
o Responsible MRP projects including MRP runs for manufacturing
. MM
o Responsible for purchasing workflow, purchase order and
purchase requisition configuration, bug fixes, design,
requirement gathering, and writing specifications.
. PS
o Responsible for project system functionalities
. FI-AM
o Responsible for asset module functionalities including
configuration and testing
. Project Management Responsibilities
o Responsible for managing SAP projects. Able to maintain project
manager responsibilities for several projects. Provided project
status, maintain deadlines, etc. Maintained agile approach for
several projects
. Functional Lead Responsibilities
o Delivered solutions for 100+ SAP projects, provided status
report to management, assigned work assignments and responsible
for overall quality of deliverables
. Solution Architect
o Responsible to review all Finance technical solutions before
and after implementations
. SRM 5.0 and 7.0
o SAP SRM senior system analyst responsible for gathering
requirements, design of SRM enhancements, implementation and
configuration, Testing and production support for various
clients in a multi-tenant SAP SRM Hosted solution
o Responsible for gathering requirements, design of SRM
enhancements, implementation and configuration, Testing and
production support for various clients in a multi-tenant SAP SRM
Hosted solution
o Responsible for the design and implementation of a Global Roll-
out of SAP SRM 5. Self-Service Procurement scenario was
implemented and included external catalogs and punchout catalogs
. SRM Approval Workflow
o Responsible for SAP SRM approval workflow maintenance.
Ongoing workflow design decisions and maintenance
. SRM 7.0 Upgrade
o Worked on SRM upgrade 7.0. Managed responsibilities from the SRM
senior analyst responsibilities including POWL configuration,
setting for Organizational plan within SRM: Create or change Org
units, Maintain attributes of Org units, Define purchasing
organizations and purchasing groups
o Business configurations like setting up of organization
structure with relevant attributes, creation of product
categories and replication of vendors from R/3 with maintenance
of their Business Partner data
o Configuring POWL queries for different set of users
. SRM and ARIBA Catalog
o Configuration and tested ARIBA catalog for SRM 7.0
. ECC 4.6c and 6.0
o Responsible for deploying SAP ERP system version 6.0
o Finance functional team member responsible for business
blueprinting and writing functional specifications for FICO and
MM business requirements for Thomson Reuters project lead
review/approval
o Performed gap analysis interacting with business users to design
and implement appropriate solutions for process and system
functionality gaps
o Analyzed potential functional and technical solution
alternatives and reviewed solutions with project team to meet
business needs
o Functional lead for the development process of each interface,
and was responsible
for complete testing and submitting of jobs for schedule set up
o Used computer applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel to
write the functional and specifications
o Responsible for SAP Purchase requisition approval workflow
maintenance. Ongoing workflow design decisions and maintenance.
Single point of contact for FI-CO and Workflow issue tickets
o Responsible for Production planning configuration including
deactivate workflow on MRP requisitions, MRP configuration etc.
o Responsible for HR projects such as data conversion and
configuration
Technical Responsibilities
. LSMW (Data Conversion)
o Wrote FI technical design specifications for custom programs
such as various SAP LSMWs (Legacy System Migration Workbench)
for master data loads: assets, projects, purchase orders,
vendors, HR employees, material masters, Cost and profit centers
and PO output records
o Assisted developers in writing technical specifications for SAP
ABAP objects needed per business requirements
. Data Upload Experience
o Conversion team member in charge of conversion load for G/L
accounts, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, purchase orders,
material masters, Fixed Assets, other master data - utilized
existing and new LSMW's
Configuration Responsibilities
. Purchase Order Configuration
o Developed and deployed new processes and configuration to meet
business needs
Configured purchase order in SPRO Transaction such as Created
plant codes and assigned to the company codes and purchasing
organization, Assigned initial period for materials to plants
and set the tax indicator for plants, Created purchasing groups
and assigned printing device to the purchasing groups
o Created condition records for automatic print output
o Modified purchase order layout based on the business
requirement.
. Accounts Payable Configuration (FI-AP)
o Configured FBZP steps for various banking projects
o Implemented a streamlined global banking and liquidity
structure
. Asset Accounting Configuration (FI-AA)
o Configured various asset configuration steps for various
projects such as define depreciation area, asset class, assign
chart of depreciation area to company code
. Material Master Configuration (MM)
o Configured various Material Masters steps for various projects
such as defining output format of material number, maintain
field selection for data screens, defining number ranges for
each material group, creating material characteristics and
assigned it to material class
. FICO - Cost and Profit Center Accounting Configuration
o Configured various cost and profit center configuration such as
assigning CC to Profit center, creating cost element attributes,
defining cost center groups, etc
o Configured various profit center set up such as creating a
profit center and account groups, assigning profit center in
cost center
. FICO - General Ledger Configuration
o Configured various General Ledgers steps for various finance
projects such as creating G/L account
. SAP HR Module Configuration and Data upload
o Configured various HR configuration steps to set up personal
records for employees in TR
o Assisted to resolve employee data upload from Peoplesoft to ECC
6.0 and SRM to SAP
. Interface Experience
o Designed functional and technical specifications for system
interfaces
o Worked on asset, project, SRM to SAP interfaces. Responsible for
interface between 3rd party tool to create project and assign
those project numbers in SAP asset module.
o Resolved IDOC errors related to interface
o Responsible for SRM to SAP IDOC error bug fixes
. ABAP Debugging Skill (SAP Developer)
o Able to debug ABAP programs and indentify defect in the code
o Able to read and understand ABAP logic
. Web Dynpro
o Responsible for Web Dynpro projects. Designed and delivered
multiple projects using Web Dynpro components. Implemented a web
portal using web dynpro tools and delivered many functionalities
related to assets, projects and SRM
o Used agile/iterative methodologies for the project
. Unit Testing Responsibilities
o Identification and execution of appropriate test scenarios
o Developed test scenarios (screen-shots), created test data
(description of expected result and actual result) for unit
testing
o Team member in development of test procedures for unit testing
and test cases according to business requirements
o Involved as a team member in unit testing existing LSMW's
o Performed integration testing and regression testing for
interfaces, custom reports, functional configuration
QA and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Responsibilities
o Interacted with business analysts to design and implement user
test cases for QA and UAT
o Provided support for User Acceptance Testing handling multiple
priorities - Resolved tickets for QA and UAT simultaneously and
provided training to the business user during UAT
o Participated in weekly meetings to resolve technical issues
identified during the testing process
Hypercare Support Responsibilities (Post Go-live)
o Provided post go-live functional support to the business users
as liaison between user and technical teams
o Provided production support for major custom enhancements to FI
and MM applications
o Support included review of the existing enhancements and process
improvement.
o Primarily responsible for daily post go-live support of the SAP
FICO and MM module issues
Wells Fargo, San Francisco, CA
Implementer: Bearing Point
Jan 2006 - April 2006
Environment: SAP 4.5B, 4.7 ABAP/4, Finance, Project System, Real Estate
ABAP Programmer
Upgrade from 4.5 to 4.7
FI-Reports
o Created a report where it will display customer's real estate
contract detail
Used BAPI_RE_CN_GET_DETAIL and BAPI_RE_BE_GET_DETAIL
To get contract's business entity lease manager and business
requirement
Details
o Extracted data from Bsik, Bsak and Bseg in order to provide
vendor entries by
PC and GL account. Wrote a report where it will display
the GL balances
o Wrote a report where it will display generated project related
information
That combines project, purchasing, invoice and payment into
one report. Converted
various SAP Standard reports into ALV reports.
Project System and MM Data Upload
o Resolved few defects in Purchase Order Upload program.
o Resolved one defects in the Project System Upload program.
Project System - Interface
o Wrote a report where it will display project system structures,
Budget, Plan
And actual of each project system structure. This report also
download
The data as a .txt file and sends e-mail to person responsible
for Project
Report
Lanxess Corporation, Pittsburg, PA Jan 2004
- Dec 2005
Environment: SAP 4.6B, ABAP/4, FI
ABAP Programer
FI-Reports
Wrote a report to calculate monthly discount paid by customers. Then
calculate late discount days and compare those days with bank clear date.
FI - LOCKBOX PAYMENTS
(Automated Pay Run)
Wrote a report where it will extract all the payment proposals, run the
payment proposals in F110 transaction code by BDC session and then delete
the proposals and update REGUV table.
Payment History Report (LOCKBOX AND EBS AND CHEKS)
Written three reports where it will display all the checks came through
lockboxes, display any alternate payers and also customers any residuals or
credit memo.
CO
Uploaded and Creation/Change of Cost Center Master Data Records from an
Excel-Sheet (CSV-Format) into SAP. Cost center outbound interface to
Maximo (Legacy System). The extract program retrieves the required fields
from the cost center table CSKS and interfaced to Maximo through MQ Series.
(putMQ.ksh)
interface files.
Functional Responsibilities
o Finance functional team member responsible for business blue
printing and writing functional specification for FICO and MM
business requirements
o Team member participating in defining and writing functional
specifications for Procurement, MM, and FICO for project lead
review/approval
o Performed gap analysis interacting with business users to
design and implement appropriate solutions for process and
system gaps
o Analyzed potential alternatives and reviewed technology
solutions with project team to meet business needs
o Assisted in the development of code/development specifications
o Designed and created functional and technical specifications
for system interfaces
o Functional lead for the development process of each interface,
and was responsible for complete testing and submitting the
jobs for schedule set up
o Used computer applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel to
write the functional specifications
Technical Responsibilities
o Participated in technical design specification for a technical
report to display customer's real estate contract detail. Used
BAPI_RE_CN_GET_DETAIL and BAPI_RE_BE_GET_DETAIL to get
contract's business entity lease manager and business
requirement details
o Assisted developer to write technical specifications for ABAP
objects needed per business requirements
o Wrote a program to calculate the total contract days and
remaining contract days and used ALV for output
o Participated in technical discussions and provided input to
write a report to display
the FI-GL balances and a report to display
overall project related information that
combines project status, purchasing, invoice, and
payment information into one
report
o Wrote a report to display project system structures, and
budget, plan and actual values of each project system structure
- this report also downloaded the data as a .txt file and sent
an e-mail to person responsible for the project reporting
Identification and execution of appropriate test
o Developed test scenarios (screen-shots), created test data
(description of expected result and actual result) for unit
testing.
o Involved as a team member in FI - Testing:
o Performed integration testing and regression testing. Provided
support for User Acceptance testing. Provided production
support and system enhancements to SAP FI/CO users. Team
member in development of test procedures and test cases
according to business requirements
o Interacted with business analysts for designing and
implementation of user cases and test plans
o Provided post go-live support to the user
Business users and technical audiences
o Provided functional support by being the liaison between
users and technical teams.
KLA-Tencor, Milpitas, CA
Nov 2004- March 2005
Role: SAP ABAP Consultant
Environment: SAP 4.6C, ABAP/4, GTS, SD, MM, FI, SCM
Technical Specifications
Wrote Technical specifications for all the objects below.
FI-AP
Written a technical specification and written a program where it will
display purchase history for one time vendor and displayed the output by
using the ALV.
MM
Written a Manager's summary report where it will display quarterly actual
verses target Inventory stock and output displayed by using the ALV.
Written a Work in Process program where it will display cost analysis
report by plant and company code and output is also displayed by using
custom ALV.
SM
Written a program to calculate the total contract days and remaining
contract days and used ALV for output.
User Exits:
Added 3 fields in transaction code KSB1 and KSB2 by using the
EXIT_SAPLKAEP_003 and EXIT_SAPLKAEP_001 and extended the structure for
these user exits.
SAP GTS (Global Trade Services) SAP Export Module
Written a program to display the current status of the Export and Import
shipment.
Perrigo, Allegan, MI
Oct 2004- Nov 2004
Role: SAP ABAP Consultant
Environment: SAP 4.6C, ABAP/4, PP, QM, SD, MM, Microsoft XP
FIAP / Dialog Programming
Added 10 different custom fields in Transaction code XK01 to update vendor
master Data.
PP
Written a program where it will show Inventory Total in Demand minus
available quantity.
PP (Interface Programming)
Written a program in Form select_material: removing (set to comment) the
join to table dbvb (Planning File Entry, MRP Area) in select statement.
PP-BOM
Written a program to load the PP-BOM data from the tab delimited file to
the Legacy System Hospira.
User Exit (QM)
Written a code in the User Exit which will trigger during the creation of
Sample record for MB31, MB01. Every creation of new Goods Receipt the
Sample record will be created for these Transaction code.
Validations
Revised and written ABAP Report requirements and Functional Verifications
for FDA regulations.
Abbott Laboratories, Lincolnshire, IL
Aug 2004 - Sept 2004
Role: SAP ABAP Developer
Environment: SAP 4.6C, ABAP/4, FI/CO, SD, MM, Windows 2000
FICO/Enhancements/User-Exits
Used a USER EXIT EXIT_SAPMF02k_001 to populate the SAP fields in LFB1 and
LFA1 tables using the enhancement SAPMF02k. This user exit is only for
"Checks Prior to Savings" but by finding the global variable (T-LFB1) from
the main program "SAPMF02k" of the enhancement SAPMF02k; this user exit is
used to change input parameters.
Encapsulation
Encapsulated conditions from main program by adding functionality in custom
transactions called "ZBAFI". For encapsulation the main program called
custom created function module 'ZBAFI_GET_USEREXITS' is used and routine is
only called to hide conditions from Brazil office.
Test
Developed LLD (Psuedocode of code), test scenarios (screen-shots),
Migration Form and created test data (description of expected result and
actual result) for unit testing.
FDA Regulations
Received training from ABBOTT for FDA (21 CFR Part 11- Introduction).
Created and reviewed ABAP report and the reports comply with Food and Drug
Administration rules (CIT GXP and 21 CFR Part 11-Introductions). Developed
few technical specifications for FIAP module based on FDA Part 11 rules.
Code Review
Reviewed two ABAP reports for a Junior Programmer
.
The Walt Disney Company, Burbank, CA
June2001 -July 2004
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries, is a diversified
worldwide entertainment company with operations in five business segments:
Media Networks, Studio Entertainment, Parks & Resorts, Consumer Products
and the Internet Group (formerly known as GO.com).
Role: SAP ABAP Developer
Environment: SAP 4.6C, ABAP/4, HR, FI/CO, SD, Windows 2000, Oracle 9i
MM - Reports
Designed report to compare standard cost to new Quote: Mbew, Makt, Mara
tables were used with ALV features using function REUSE_ALV_LIST_DISPLAY
Enhancements
Programmed in sales order user exits in SAPMV45A (MV45AFZZ) using
userexit_save document to store the original goods issue date and delivery
dates when they are changed. Created a separate function module and used it
in the user exit for SD module.
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