Alok Bazaz
Email: *********@*****.***
Cell: 314-***-****
Objective: To obtain a position as a SAP Consultant in a challenging
environment that provides an opportunity to use my outstanding functional
and technical skills in making a positive contribution to the organization.
Education:
Master's of Science in Electrical Engineering
California State University, Northridge, CA Feb'04 - May'
06
Bachelor's of Engineering in Industrial Electronics
Aug' 98- July' 02
Bharati Vidya Peeth College Of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary:
> 6+ years of extensive experience in ERP Implementation, Maintenance
and Support in SAP HR Module
> Extensive experience in the functional configuration of SAP HR
Accelerated projects including Payroll, Time Management, Benefits,
Personnel Administration (PA), Organization Management, CATS.
> Expertise on up gradations of new releases.
> Experience in HR Forms.
> Expertise in US specific Schemas and Rule writing.
> Good working ability in Personnel Data, Customizing Procedures, User-
Interfaces, Fast Entry Actions.
> Knowledge of business processes analysis.
> Experience in the development of Business Process model, end user
training, and documentation.
> Capable of handling from Blueprint to Go-Live with Post Go-live
Including Production Stabilization, Maintenance and Support
> Experience in Upgrade from R/3 4.6C to R/3 4.7 and from R/3 4.7 to ECC
6.0
> Experience in BSI Upgrade
> Experience in ABAP.
Skills:
SAP R/3 : Version ECC 6.0, 5.0
R/3 4.7, 4.6C, 4.5B
Operating Systems : Windows 9X/NT/2000/XP, MS-DOS.
Programming Languages : C, C++
Databases : SQL, ORACLE, MS
Access.
MS Office : MS Word, Excel, Power
Point
Professional Experience:
AT&T
St Louis, MO
March'08- Present
SAP Payroll Consultant
Roles and Responsibilities: Responsible for SAP Payroll Configuration of e-
Link (World's Biggest SAP HR Payroll implementation of over 450,000
employees)
Involved in Project for the Merger of AT&T Mobility (Cingular) into SAP
Payroll /HR Systems.
Version: ECC 5.0
. Worked extensively on US taxes.
1. Responsible for the Tax Configuration
2. Worked on the Work Tax Override for the Non Management employees
who commute to different work locations spanning several tax
authorities as per the legal requirement.
3. Customization of Schema UTX0 for the Tax calculation.
4. Configuration and Maintenance of the New Tax types including tax
type 87 (NJ FLI) and tax type 84 (PA Local Service Tax).
5. Customization of Schema UAL0 for the proration of the Management
Employees
6. Worked on unit testing, integrated testing and User acceptance
testing of HRSP's.
7. Testing and Validation of TUB's
8. Upgrade of BSI Tax Factory to Cyclic 8.0.K
9. Worked on the FI and Third Party Remittance integration with
Payroll
10. Worked on automation for the tax calculation of International
Employees.
11. Configuration and taxability of the new Wage type for Stock
Appreciation Payout
12. Automated the process of withholding the taxes in the Retro
periods for the Local Tax Authorities (Counties, Cities and
School Districts).
13. Worked on setting of the Tax Models.
. Payroll, Third Party Remittance and Garnishment
1. Configuration of the Third Party remittance including the
Remittance rules for the new vendors
2. Worked on the remittance of the Tax and Garnishment Payments to
the Authorities.
3. Worked on Claims Processing and
4. Worked on the Benefits integration with Payroll
5. Configuration of Disposable model, Non Exempt rules and
adjustment Models for the Garnishment.
6. Wrote Personnel Calculation Rules to meet the requirements of the
Severance Payments.
7. Design of the Garnishment Answer and Notice Letters
8. Set up a new process model to define a sequence of steps in off
cycle payroll to meet the clients requirements
. Tax Reporter
1. Worked on the Tax reporter
2. Worked on the Year End Activities including running W-2, form 940,
941, Multiple worksite reports, SUI.
3. Worked on the Adjustments (YAWA, YANA, ADJT )on the Employees
results for the payments received outside of SAP
4. Created custom reports out of the Tax Reporter to meet the
Client's requirement
5. Worked on generating the W-2C's for the Employees whose wages were
corrected in the prior years.
6. Created a custom SAPSCRIPT for the custom forms to meet the
client's requirements.
. ABAP Experience
1. Wrote several Utility programs for the tax models, validation of
BSI and BTXRATE Unemployment rates.
2. Worked on new Interface from design phase to implementation
phase.
3. Created Custom Function in RPCALCU0 schema using ABAP programming
to meet the client's requirements.
Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG)
Newark, NJ Sep'06-Feb'08
SAP HR Consultant
. ECC 6.0 Upgrade:
1. Worked on Upgrade from R/3 4.7 and 4.6 to ECC 6.0
2. Tested and analyzed the new functionality delivered in ECC6.0 as
a part of the Upgrade.
3. Designed and documented functional and integration test scripts,
run tests and document results during upgrade to ECC 6.0
. Post Go Live Support- Payroll
1. Providing Year End Support for Tax Filing.
2. Used PU19 for making manual entries in T5UT1 table for missed data
in conversion.
3. Used Info type 221 for Payroll Result Adjustments for adjusting
the Payroll Results as a part of year end activities.
4. Configuration of the Calendar for 2007 and 2008 for payroll,
Postings and Month End Accruals.
5. Configuration of New Wage Types for Supplemental Payment and
assigning it to the Symbolic Accounts.
6. Configuration of new Garnishment rule and creating a new
Remittance rule for the Garnishments.
7. Wrote functional Specs for the program for the Third party vendor.
8. Resolved various issues pertaining to the Tax Reporter.
9. Worked in writing the Functional Specs for the custom Interface
for the Service Anniversary Awards.
10. Resolved the issues related to SUI Form, W-2 Form, and Form 941.
11. Responsible for maintaining the Unemployment Rates.
12. Analyzed the TUB's.
13. Involved in changing and testing the rates for Bargaining Units.
14. Configuration of the various customer processing classes for
differentiating various limits for different benefit plans.
15. Configuration of new PCR for Calculation of Shift Premium for
Different Union Employees.
16. Worked on the user exits.
17. Responsible for removing the Claims that were generated because of
overpayment.
18. Worked on ALE/IDOCS.
19. Involved in the Upgrade of BSI
20. Responsible for solving the tickets
. Time Management:
1. Configuration of New Work Schedule rules, by configuring new
Daily work schedule and Period Work Schedule for Rotating Shifts.
2. Modified function MOD in PCR (TMOD) to determine time wage type
selection rule group from table T510S.
3. Maintaining the Feature SCHKZ.
4. Maintain the Feature PINCH and VDSK1
5. Configured Attendance types, Absence types as per the client
requirements.
6. Configuration of Absence Quota and the rules for absence quota
Deduction.
7. Configuration of new time types for accruing the hours for the
Absence Quota.
8. Configuration of Time Transfer types.
9. Resolved various issues in CATS transfer to Payroll.
10. Configured different data entry profiles for the Cross
Application Time Sheet (CATS) for employees entering time data
into CATS.
11. Responsible for configuring Personnel Calculation Rules in Time
Schema.
12. Implemented various user parameters for Time sheet, customized data
entry screen, and customized reports to display time sheet data.
13. Configured new Attendance Quota for Bargained Employees which was
accrued based on the hours worked by the Employees.
14. Responsible for resolving the time tickets.
Shell Solar Industries, CA
June'05- April'06
Automation Engineer (Internship)
. Engineering support
1. Provide engineering support to the production department which
involves troubleshooting robots (FANUC 6-axes) for software and
electromechanical faults, designing fixtures for process
optimization and carrying out day to day manufacturing
activities.
. Equipment engineering
1. Involved in purchasing, installation, commissioning and releasing
the equipment to production of new equipment for automation of
the assembly of solar panels. The major duties included carrying
out SAT, FAT, creating work instructions (WI) / standard
operating procedures (SOP), training operators, creating
troubleshooting guides, creating PM documents and spare parts
from BOM.
Stellar Informatics
Delhi, India
Feb'03- Oct'03
. Payroll
1. Trained as SAP end user with basic configuration Knowledge.
2. Member of the Implementation team.
3. Maintain recurring payments/deductions and additional payments.
4. Assign processing classes to wage types.
5. Set up wage types for third-party remittance.
6. Define wage type permissibility per PS and ESG.
7. Define EE sub grouping, pay scale type and area, pay scale level
and ranges and assign pay scale type area to personnel area.
8. Define entry permissibility per info type and define wage type
characteristics.
. Time Management
1. Work Schedules, Time Recording (Substitutions, Absences, Absence,
Counting, Absence Quotas, Leave Entitlement, Overtime,
Availability, and Reaction to overlapping time info types -
Collision Checks).
2. Time Evaluation, CATS.
3. Bi-weekly payroll cycle support including trouble shooting for
CATS, time evaluation and payroll problems.
4. Worked on conversion of the time data/quotas from Legacy System to
SAP.
Honors and Awards
. Honors Student at California State University Northridge
Reference:
. Available on request