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KARISHMA PATEL KADIVAR

** ****** ****, **** *******, PA 19382

513-***-**** ********.*******@***.***

SUMMARY:

IT professional with 5 years of ERP implementation experience

* ***** ** ********* *xperience, which includes 1 year as a Technical Lead and analyst

1 year experience as a Business Application Analyst Intern at SAP America

Excellent decision making and problem solving skills

Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills in a global cross-cultural environment

On-going training for Application Associate - Project Management with SAP ERP 6 certification

EDUCATION:

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Graduating April 2013

Master of Business Administration in Information Systems; GPA 3.4/4.0

Top grades in IS Project Management, Operations Management, Leadership and Organization, and Accounting

Awarded graduate scholarship for MBA Case Competition

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India April 2007

Bachelor of Technology, major in Computer Science; 2nd in Class – Top 3% in the college

EXPERIENCE:

SAP America Inc., Newtown Square, PA, USA June 2012 – Present

Business Application Analyst Intern, Global IT – HR Mergers and Acquisition

Summary: Involved in the global roll out of SAP -Sybase HR integration for 24 countries

Responsibilities:

Developed excel tool to ensure forecast -to-actual program expenses did not deviate more than 2%

Involved in task prioritization, resource allocation and s tatus reporting of metrics initiatives

Led weekly calls to discuss the status of change requests and new enhancements

Performed configuration, customization and enhancement of SAP payroll and benefit modules

Analyzed new requirements and designed technical specifications to optimize existing custom reports

Provided technical support to develop change requests and new custom reports

Prepared test plans, coordinated the execution of integration and user testing

Developed training documentation and delivered training to HR team

Supported Go-Live and production for key HR enhancements

Trained business users and project managers to use SAP’s new budgeting, forecasting and project tracking tool

Intelligroup Asia Pvt. Ltd, H yderabad, India Aug 2008 – Sept 2011

SAP Technical Lead and Analyst

Led an offshore technical team of 5 in an SAP implementation project

Top Performer award for demonstrating outstanding leadership and technology manage ment skills

Identified business needs, performed GAP analysis, and recommended solutions

Performed project cost estimates, project timelines and milestones in conjunction with key stakeholders

Identified, supervised and monitored key resources to meet project objectives

Coordinated with functional consultants to analyze business requirements during blueprint phase

Negotiated interface design conflicts arising from customer needs

Designed feasible technical specifications for development team

Developed complex dynamic automated solutions using ABAP

Conducted impact analysis for change requests and provided technical insights to the team

Optimized reports up to 80% by performing data analysis and review using SAP’s performance optimizer

Developed test strategy to validate end-user functionality for inconsistency and integrity

Prepared end-user training materials and delivered training to the customer

Provided technical assistance to global cross -cultural customers to resolve issues post Go -Live

Led an offshore technical team of 15 in an SAP upgrade project

Sprint award for quality research and analysis to fix complex transaction issues

Aided pre-sales team during proposal of proprietary Upgrade Compatibility Tool

Trained team members on upgrade process and com patibility tool usage

Supervised and assigned tasks to team, monitored efforts, helped with analysis and technical issues

Tested upgraded system to list and track the programs and transactions with issues

Researched replacement functionality needed to res olve the issues

Analyzed and debugged complex transactions to fix missing code

SAP Technical Consultant

Designed technical specifications, developed complex ABAP objects and interfaces in MM, HR and FI

Acquired proficient knowledge of SAP Data Retention Tool to implement a custom extract report for customer

Delivered in-house training on SAP Data Retention Tool

Executed project delivery processes – code reviews and tuning, configuration management and deployment,

testing and documentation, batch job scheduling and monitoring, Go-Live and production support

Actively involved in imparting domain specific ABAP training

Received comprehensive training in SAP BI / BW and Business Objects Explorer

KARISHMA PATEL KADIVAR

17 School Lane, West Chester, PA 19382

513-***-**** ********.*******@***.***

Elevate IT Solutions, Bangalore, India June 2007 – July 2008

SAP Associate Consultant

Received ABAP programming training

Designed technical specification, developed dynamic automated reports, debug program to fix program errors,

documented test cases, production support

SKILLS AND STRENGTHS:

Business Domains: Consumer goods, manufacturing and publishing industries

Methodologies: knowledge of SDLC, Agile, SAP ASAP and PMBOK Project Management

Tools: MS SharePoint, SAP Solution manager, MS Project, MS Office Suite, MS excel with basic VBA

SAP Technologies: ABAP, RICEFS, ALV, BADI, User exist, BAPI, BI/ BW and BO explorer

Non SAP Technical skills: C, Java, HTML, SQL server, XML and Database design

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