Sap Sales

SAP LEAD ABAP/* CONSULTANT

SUMMARY

** ***** ** ******** *** IT experience including 13 years of SAP ABAP

experience in FI, SD, MM, PS, PM, IS Retail, BIW and other Modules.

. Expertise in SAP-ABAP/4 includes Classical Reports, Interactive Reports,

BDC, SAP Scripts, Data Dictionary, ALE, EDI, IDOC Interfaces and also

installing and configuring SAP and its component systems like SAP

Workplace, BIW BBP/ CRM.

. Good functional knowledge in SD and working knowledge of SD, MM, FI/CO,

PP., SAP Retail

. Trained in SAP XI, SAP BIW and SAP NetWeaver.

. Good mix of managerial and technical skills.

. Experience in SAP Version 3.0 to ECC 6.0

. Experience in remote development processes and worked in close

association with many major clients in the US both from offshore and on-

site.

. Responsible for delivery schedules, for maintaining the quality standards

and for the overall communication with the client.

. Managed a huge development project with a team size of 35.

. Proven track record of leading large teams in the successful

implementation for many prestigious clients.

. Good Knowledge of SAP Workflow.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Oct 06 to till date VIP consulting (Formerly MYIT Group) Development

Manager

Feb '08 - till date - Brookshire Grocery Company, Tyler, TX

SAP ABAP Lead

. Lead consultant in designing and developing POS, WMS,FI interfaces

. Design and develop enhancements/BADI, Custom Reports.

. Responsible for managing the development team

. Manage Cutover activities

. Assign and Work on Post Go-live issues/Defects

. Knowledge transfer

June '07 - Feb '08 - Mass Mutual, Springfield, MA

SAP ABAP Lead

. Designed and build a process around transport management and

maintenance of Dual Landscapes.

. Developed reports and worked extensively in developing RFC function

modules

. Designed a solution for Test Bed preparation, selecting a sample of

production data and building a QA system for Business Acceptance

Testing.

. Responsible for managing the Landscapes and movement of developed

objects across the landscape.

. Resolving production defects in various areas.

. Develop and manage Custom ALE development

Oct '06 - June '07 - Schwan's Food

SAP ABAP Project Lead

. Worked extensively in design and development of Custom BIW extractors,

viz. BOM, Routing, Product Costing etc.,

. Developed/Modified User Exits in SD, MM, and PP modules BIW Master

Data Extractor Exits.

. Designed/Developed/Modified Custom Reports in SD, MM,PP Modules

. Designed/Developed/Modified Interfaces both inbound and outbound.

. Knowledge Sharing to Client.

. Created multiple RFC function modules for portal applications

Sept 2001 to Oct 2006 : Deloitte Consulting

Oct '05 - Oct '06 - Colorado Department of Transportation

SAP ABAP Project Lead

. Responsible for development activities and was the single point of

contact for the offshore team.

. Trained and assisted the client team in getting up to speed on

development and enabled them to maintain the system after go-live.

. Also had the responsibilities of scheduling and prioritizing the work

packets to have a successful go-live, designing the Interface and

Conversion strategy and Cut over activities.

. Used Solution Manager for the Object development life cycle during

Realization stage. It was also used to track defects during the

integration testing.

. Extensive development of objects in the areas of FI, SD, PS, MM and

PM(Plant maintenance) involving conversion programs(LSMW and ABAP

Programs), enhancements ( using BADI's, Function exits, User Exits,

Screen exits), Interfaces (Inbound and Outbound) and Workflows.

. Design Custom solutions for development and involved in prototyping of

solutions at on-site and later sent to offshore for full development.

. Has good knowledge of SD functionality and processes and has an ability

to understand and learn client's requirements.

. Played the role of Team lead and also techno-functional resource.

. Created RFC function modules in HR to be used by Portals.

. Spent about 50%+ time in development activities.

. Experience in SAP Workflow development

Jun '04 - Mar '05 - W. W.Grainger

SAP ABAP Project Lead

. Responsible for coordinating the day to day activities and deliverables.

. Primary responsibility was to manage, design and coordinate development

processes and issue Resolution and escalation following CMM Methodology.

. Coordinating conference call with PMOs to schedule resources as well as

new future plans related to deliverables.

. Responsible for running the project as per CMM methodology involving PMP,

SOW, Defect Prevention using Tools and Templates.

. Handling Process Changes to suit the project.

. Helping Team Members to cope up with new technology and SAP changes

version by version.

. Coordinating Recruitment and Training Activities

. Develop enhancements and Interfaces in areas of SD, MM and FI.

. Mentoring the developers of my organization and client team

. Designed custom solutions as per client requirements.

. Knowledge transfer to Client team developers

Oct '03 - Apr '04 - The Home Depot

SAP Technical Lead Consultant

. Responsible for coordinating and mentoring development activities onsite

and offshore in Hyderabad in the areas of Data Conversions, Reports,

Enhancements, Interfaces, Workflow etc.

. Primary responsibility was to design and develop Data conversion objects,

enhancements, reports and interfaces (both inbound and outbound) and

coordinate development offshore and on-site in areas of PS, FI, SD and

MM.

. Awarded 'EFI Key Contributor' for successful completion of tasks in time

and assisting other development team in completing the tasks. This

enabled the project to go live on time.

Apr '03 - Sep '03 - Indigo Books and Music

SAP Technical Lead Consultant

. Role on this project was an offshore development team lead, coordinating

day to day activities and deliverables.

. Primary responsibility was to design and develop Data conversions

objects, enhancements, IDoc interfaces and Enhancements (System

modifications and User Exits). This project is a three-tier development

model Viz., on-site, near to site and offshore.

. Designed and managed development of around 18+ objects.

Feb '02 - Sep '03 - Graybar Electric

SAP Technical Lead Consultant

. Responsible for coordinating and mentoring development activities of

onsite and offshore Hyderabad.

. Primary responsibility was design and development of reports (classical,

interactive using standard ABAP and ALV grid technology), interfaces,

conversions, user-exits and custom enhancements in programs and screen in

Sales and Distribution, Material management, Pricing, warehouse

management, ALE, Forecast and planning and some parts of Finance modules.

. There was also an off-shore team which was developing various objects.

Was coordinating the work by providing Functional specs, Issue

resolutions and Acceptance testing of delivered object.

. This project involved multiple enhancements in Sales and Distribution,

Credit management, Material Management and also extending IDoc segments

and developments of User exits and customer exits, BAPI for their

internet development and building interfaces with the legacy Mainframe

system

. Involved in modifying SAP standard reports and develop user-exits in APO.

. Responsible for phase 2 development and post production support.

Dec '01 - Mar '02 - AMO

SAP Technical Lead Consultant

. Provided onsite post implementation support for BHP-Billiton at Hague -

Netherlands.

. Changes of various ABAP technical objects, new developments, optimizing

of various reports and imparting knowledge transfer to developers.

Sep '01 - Nov '01 - Nestle

SAP Technical Lead Consultant

. Project for one of the Go-live implementations in the client's SAP 4.0B

system.

. Delivered objects as per schedule and in accordance with client's Quality

standards.

. Developed objects and coordinated with the offsite team. The objects

included ABAP reports, BDC, Sap Scripts, User Exits and IDOC.

April '00 to Aug 01 : Qwest Cyber Solutions

Oct '00 - Aug '01 - Officemax

Senior SAP Consultant (SAP 4.0B)

. Developed interface programs to download and map data from SAP to

STOREMAX (to which all the stores are connected for day to day

transactions), Performance tuning of interface programs and reduced the

processing time by about 50%.

. Involved in developing interfaces between SAP and CRC (Consolidate Return

Center) system.

. Modify/Enhance the SAP standard programs.

Apr '00 - Sep '00 - Qwest Cyber Solutions

Senior SAP Consultant

. Installation and Configuration of ITS, SAP R/3 4.6, SAP-Workplace 2.00,

SAP-BBP 2.0B

. OS Windows NT, Database: MSSQL 7X

. Modified the System and existing programs to suit the business

requirements, changed the existing data in the database, developed new

report programs in MM, CO.

. Modified and created Layout sets, applied OSS notes, CTS, ALE.

. Installation and configuration of SAP Workplace, SAP BBP/CRM, SAP BW,

ITS, WEB Studio, IIS, etc., for in-house and various clients.

. Work included System administration, Applying Hot patches, Support

patches etc.

. Developed interface between People Soft HRMS and SAP FI.

KPMG

. Installed SAP-Workplace 2.00, SAP-BBP 2.0B

Symbol Technologies

. Installed SAP-BW 2.0B

Chevron Corporation

. Developed ABAP/4 programs for data extraction and updated the user

defined tables in SAP-BW.

April 1998 to Oct 2000 Satyam Computer Services Ltd

Jun '99 - Oct '00 - GE Fanuc Automation

SAP Lead ABAP Consultant

. Development and implementation of IDocs for EDI interface 850 Purchase

Orders, 855 Purchase order confirmations, Purchase Orders Change,

Schedule agreements.

. IDocs were sent to GE Information systems for further process.

. Handled the ALE/EDI configuration for custom message types, partner

profiles, RFC ports/destinations and output determination.

. Extended the IDocs with custom segments, modified the user exists to

populate the IDOC segments, written new function modules for

Inbound/Outbound processing etc.

. Modified the System and existing programs to suit the business

requirements, change the existing data in database, and develop new

report programs in MM, CO.

. Modified and created Layout sets, applied OSS notes, CTS.

. Performance tuning

. Handled the SAP off-shore development team

Nov '98 - Mar '99 - The World Bank

SAP ABAP Consultant

. Developed reports and dialog programs in the areas of Loan Disbursement

procedures and Project evaluation functionalities as well as MM, CO, HR

modules

. Involved in the preparation of technical specifications and effort

estimation.

. Involved in design, development, unit testing and integration testing of

the programs developed.

. Involved in the code reviews and to see that they adhere to the Quality

Standards.

. Performance tuning

Sep '98 - Oct '98 - Waccamaw Corporation

SAP ABAP Consultant

. Data transfer in FI/CO and MM modules using Standard BDC techniques for

Vendor Master (Central) and Assert Master module and IDOCs (ARTMAS01) for

Article master data transfer.

Apr '98 - Aug '98 - Tractor Supply Company

SAP ABAP Consultant

. Developed reports in FI/CO, MM modules and SAP Scripts for Purchase order

and Check printing, GR note etc.

. Coordinate off-shore team

. Performance tuning

Jul '97 - Mar '98 - Geosoft Technologies

SAP ABAP Consultant

. Involved in the mapping of legacy master data to SAP master data and

developed batch Input programs for uploading the master data such as

Material master, Customer Master, Customer Material info. Records to SAP.

. Developed interface programs for Sales orders, Invoice entry from legacy

systems to SAP using the BDC and Call transaction methods.

. Developed outbound interfaces from SAP to other systems for Customer

orders, Invoices, Customer open items, Inventory etc.

. Developed various list and interactive report programs like Territory-

wise sales, shipping status of sales orders, SD to FI posted documents

etc.

. Extensively used the transaction development tools including Screen

Painter, Menu Painter, and Data dictionary and module pools for

developing on-line transactions.

. Modified the SAP Script layouts and programs for Order confirmation,

Delivery Note, Purchase Order using SAP Script tools like Layout set

maintenance, Standard text, etc.

NON SAP EXPERIENCE

Jun '93 - Jun '97 - Acme Fluoro Polymers Limited

Asst. Manager (Sales)

. Responsibilities included marketing of the industrial product and also in

charge of developing MIS.

. Also involved in developing Payroll System, Sales Order Processing System

in Oracle 7.0

EDUCATION

. Post Graduate in Management with specialization in Marketing and

Quantitative techniques for decision making

. Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics

TRAINING

SAP R/3 Courses Taken:

ABAP/4 - In house training given by Geosoft Technologies

BC350 SAP Workplace 2.11 installation and configuration

CA940 Roles and Authorizations

CA940 Given in-house training on Roles and Authorizations creating

KM210 Introduction to web content management

KM212 Knowledge warehouse 5.11 installation and configuration

SAP XI 3.0

R/3 Courses Taught:

. ABAP/4 Programming Given In-house training which includes both

theory and practical at Satyam Computer Services Ltd.

. BC350 Given in-house training on SAP Workplace 2.0 both theory and

practical

. Conducted training on Enhancements, System mod., and user exits

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