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Laxmi Narasimha Rao, Bhamidi

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Experience Summary: SAP HCM certified consultant having 18.8 years of work

experience with 10.8 years in SAP-HCM Functional Area (4.0B / 4.6C /ECC /

ESS / MSS - 6.0 versions/ Time & expense, Mobility) including 4

implementations, 1 upgrade and 4 Production support Projects. Has

experience in implementation of ALL Major HR Sub-Modules like ESS, MSS, PA,

PD, Org, Benefits, Payroll, Training& Event Management, and Travel

Management.

HR Functional Experience:

. Implementation experience includes Business Requirement analysis,

mapping client's business process to SAP processes, GAP analysis,

Configuration, Prototyping, Testing, Training, Documentation and Post

Go-Live Support.

. Integrated various Components with Performance Mgt like OM, PA, PD,

(Compensation)

. Proven ability of implementing the best techniques in Benefits (BN),

ESS, MSS, Nakisa, Personnel Administration (PA), Organizational

Management (OM) and Compensation Management.

. Involved in 4 Life Cycle implementations which includes analyzing,

preparing conceptual designs and blue print for the project as Project

Functional consultant.

. Worked on FPM framework to design ESS time and expense applications on

portal.

. Data Migration and conceptual design for master data transformation in

OM, PA, TM. BN areas information from legacy system to SAP &

Validation of data integrity and good experience in working with LSMW

(Batch input recording).

. Used Parallel Testing in Payroll Log to compare results in Legacy

system with SAP System. Involved in Payroll support and maintenance

activities, TUBS, third party remittance activties

. Experience in testing using TDMS, Solution Manager, HP/Mercury Quick

Test Professional (QTP) and reporting testing results using Test

Director.

Technical:

. Technical Expertise includes ABAP/4, BDC programming.

. LSMW, SAP script, Smart forms

. EDI/Idols, Workflow, User Exits, and BAPI

. Experience in Interactive reporting and ALV reporting

. Integration testing, Stress testing, Regression testing and Functional

testing before go-live

Education:

1. Master Diploma in Business Administration from Symbiosis Institute of

Management Studies, Pune, India completed in Dec 1996.

2. Masters in Public & Personnel Management from Osmania University

completed in Jun 1996.

Courses Attended:

Year Title Location Organized by

Jan 2005 SAP - INDIA PAYROLL BANGALORE SAP INDIA

MAY 2008 SAP - Travel CHENNAI SAP INDIA

management

Certifications:

Certification Date

SAP: ECC 5.0 SAP HCM JULY 07

.

Assignments:

10 SAP Roles out Project Mar 12 - Mar 13, Montvale, NJ:

Modules: SKY Mobile - time, ESS, ESS -Time and Expenses

Client KPMG, Woodcliff Lake, NJ.

SAP Mobile project - sky technologies: Time sheet entry, expense (travel

management), CRM - notifications / approval with SAP W/flow. Worked as

Tracked lead for SAP HCM, time, Expenses implementation project for

Netherlands (Sep 12 to Jan 2013). End to end configuration of SAP PA, Time

& Expenses for Netherlands, and Customization of expenses, mileage reports

and posting. Global template project SAP HCM, time, Expenses implementation

project. Worked on FPM Design and development for time and expense modules

and UWL.

Benefits: business blue print, solution design and implementation.

Configured Benefits structure, Cost variants and rules, Payroll integration

custom program development. Configured Health, dental and life insurance

benefits. Development of inbound interface with Cigna, 401K service

providers. Support of benefits module to start from Oct-2013.

09 SAP Support Project Apr 11 - Mar 12, Houston, TX:

Modules: PA, OM, Benefits, Payroll

Client: McDermott

Role: Onsite Program Manager / HCM Consultant: Managed global teams based

in Singapore and USA handling 5 payrolls (Australia, Indonesia, Singapore,

US & Canada). Organized and attended two weeks knowledge transition session

in Singapore. Lift and shift Project coordination - server setup, DR setup

and offshore UNIX & Basis support. Onsite - offshore coordination, new

estimations, project planning, RFCs, new proposals, reports and change

management process. Mentoring junior team members, Hiring, appraising team

members

ESS/MSS: Configured Expense, time sheet on Portal supported by UWL

notifications and alerts. Expense configuration included expense types (air

tickets, hotel expenses, and taxi/public transport, and training and

refreshment charges).

US / CA / Singapore SAP Benefits business blue print, solution design and

implementation. Configured Benefits structure, Cost variants and rules,

Payroll integration.

PA: New employee structure design, development and configuration. Developed

integration programs between SAP and 3rd Party systems

Payroll Support: Supported the Payroll team to execute monthly, by weekly

and weekly reports. Involved in Payroll support and maintenance activities,

TUBS, third party remittance activities.

08 SAP HCM-PD Implementation Project Nov 08 - Mar 11, Waterloo, Canada:

Client: RIM (Research in Motion)

Modules: MSS- Appraisal, ESS-time sheet, Support - PA, OM, Time, PoC- TDMS,

Solman, TAO, HPQC

ESS Expense: Configured expense schema, trip variant for Canada (07), local

mileage and trip receipts. Designed ESS expense portal layout, POWL query

reporting. Developed custom Expense report providing details of Employee,

trip location, receipts, internal order or sales order details and totals.

Step Progression project was implemented to automate appraisal process

using custom appraisal template on MSS. Documented the blue print,

functional specs. Configured and customized IT0033 to store ratings and

status of the appraisal (draft, save, submitted). The functionality was

supported by WDA functions and the appraisals comments were stored in

IT0033 (Notes screen for each entry).

Subsequently supported the step progression application, led the HR team to

support and implement PA, OM, and Time. UI was developed using FPM based

design for easy navigation. Led the ESS time sheet application project team

and involved in configuration of CATS profile, ESS CATS, LPD_CUST.

07 SAP Upgrade Project Apr 08 - Nov 08, Gandhi Nagar, India:

Client: GSPC, Ahmadabad

Modules: PA, OM, Time, Payroll, ESS (including Travel expenses, custom-

UWL)

This Project was intended for Functional Upgrade of SAP version from 4.7C

to ECC 6.0 (My SAP ERP 2005). Technical upgrade was implemented in April -

2008. The upgrade includes splitting of Companies into three (GSPC, GSEG &

GSPL) and provide separate Chart of Accounts.

I was involved in demonstration of ECC 6.0 - HCM Modules features to the

client and highlight the delta changes over 4.7. Documented business blue

prints and gap analysis documents. Involved my team to document

configuration, functional specs. Provided Solution and design of HR

administration processes, appraisals, Travel planning, travel booking,

policy compliances and expense claims, auditing and archiving of expenses.

Worked during the realization, data migration and go-live phases.

06 SAP support Project Dec 07 - Mar 08, Hyderabad India:

Client: Tata Tele Services

Modules: PA, OM, ESS -Time and Expenses

I Worked as Team lead Tata Internal SAP Support Project (Hyderabad/

Mumbai). Involved in support and enhancements of PA, Time, and ESS modules

and mentoring the teams (Functional and ABAP). As SAP-CoE Lead involved in

RFP preparations, system sanity checks, estimations and workshops for key

clients of TCS. Developed the SAP HCM knowledge base, Assets for TCS.

Involved in training the teams in ESS/MSS / Webdynpro applications and

Competency development. As DUET CoE Lead involved in developing prototypes

for ESS - Travel & leave applications on MS outlook and worked for new

proposals for Indian (HIRCO) and International clients (Warner Brothers,

IUCN, etc)

05 SAP Upgrade Project May 07 - Nov 07, Houston TX:

Client: Halliburton

Modules: ESS, MSS, Adobe Forms, Workflow

Halliburton was SAP Competency Center including 16 SAP Payrolls, PA, OM,

Benefits, time, ESS & MSS (in addition other SAP modules like SD, MM).

Halliburton has intended to upgrade for a SAP Technical & Functional

Upgrade from 4.6c to my SAP ERP 2005 (including Enhancement Package -1).

Payroll Support: Supported the Payroll team to execute monthly, by weekly

and weekly reports. Involved in Payroll support and maintenance activities,

TUBS, third party remittance activities.

The technical scope is to 1. Perform Unicode Conversion 2. SPAU & SPDD

adaptation 3. Net-Weaver & EP 4. Migration from ITS to EP 5. Identification

of obsolete Include programs, Programs and Tcodes across all the Major

modules.

I was involved in migration of functionalities from ITS server to ESS / MSS

Business package and implementation of ESS Work-sets Employee Search,

Benefits, Career & Job, Working Time, Personal information, Travel &

Expenses. The MSS work-sets included Employee info, EE working time, Comp

Mngt, HCM Processes and Forms, PCRs, Recruiting, Organization, MSS Budget-

Critical Variances / Critical Postings, Equipment.

Designed, configured the w/flow for specific ESS / MSS applications like W-

2 form Leave, Travel and Adobe PCRs for HR Actions (Hire, rehire,

promotion, termination, employee data change). Travel planning, travel

booking, policy compliances, claims, auditing and archiving of expenses.

Configured and implemented OM enhancements in the Upgrade system including

Customization of new evaluation paths for upgrade, Created new custom

relationships, User exits in T77SO & Status vector maintenance, Maintained

Integration switches.

03 SAP Implementation Project Nov 2006 to April 2007, San Jose California:

Client: Adobe

Environment SAP ECC- ESS, MSS, Adobe forms, UWL. Adobe, San Jose,

California had intended to migrating Adobe Forms to SAP system using SAP

data and workflow process. Project role was onsite Project lead and HR

ESS/MSS consultant reported by 10 resources from Pune, India. The Project

includes configuration of Standard ESS / MSS applications and custom Adobe

Forms were developed on the Enterprise Portal developed by using Webdynpro

applications. Migration of Adobe Forms from Adobe Forms Manager System to

SAP with front end as EP in ECC 6.0 environment

. Architecture: Migration from Net-weaver /NWDS to WDA custom forms

. Configure and customize UWL, MSS, ESS

. Implementation of MSS package including configuration of PCRs, Bonus,

and applications like Performance Appraisal.

. Implementation of ESS package including Leave, Attendance,

Professional Time sheet, Travel Authorization and Expense Report.

. Workflow configuration for Standard applications and custom forms.

. Configure and customize ISRs (hire, rehire, promotion, transfer,

termination, data changes actions), Notifications, Task Visualization,

Home Page N/work

02 SAP Implementation and support Project, Bangalore, Indianapolis (IN):

Client: Eli- Lilly

Environment SAP 4.6C, ECC- ESS, PA, OM, PD, E-Recruitment, Time. Client

was a US Pharma Major based in Indianapolis, IN and the Project name was

GBIP - SAP PROGRAM.

GBIP - Global Business Integration Program was intended to streamline the

business process across all the member affiliates in various countries and

operate them on a single platform. The GBIP program includes support, Roll-

outs and enhancements as per the defined roadmap for the overall program

execution.

Offshore: Mar '03 to May '05- Bangalore, India

Onsite: May '05 to Oct '06 - Indianapolis, IN, USA

Position : Project Lead & SAP HR Lead Consultant

Responsibilities The 3.5 years of Project includes projects and Production

support activities. I was also involved in Onsite - Offshore coordination,

SLA compliance, Team development and Project coordination activities.

A. PA, PD & Recruitment Module Lead:

ESS: Implemented and supported the Work-sets of "Life & Events" &

Personnel Information. (Homepage framework, self - services and

workflow configuration)

Worked on global design of Recruiting, on boarding of employees.

Designed E-Recruitment process for internal Positions called as

Position posting and custom program for Hiring Contractors in SAP-

affiliates and Non-SAP affiliates.

Supported SAP Staffing / Recruitment interfaces with third party

recruitment tools like People-Click, HRP systems

Supported PA & OM modules for support, enhancements and roll - out

projects

Customization in OM: 3rd Party Org publisher interface support,

Customization of evaluation paths Objects & relationships, User exits

in T77SO, Status vector maintenance Maintain Integration switches &

master data upload. Configured PD scales, qualifications, appraisals

to store data in IT 24 and 25 respectively.

B. Benefits: Only infotypes like 167, 168, 170 were maintained as master

data. IT 0015 was enabled for specific wage types to deduct benefit

premium and processed through US Payroll

C. Designed interface between the R/3 and the recruitment Web server

including Mercator Mapping, Router ID creation. Designed the User

friendly layout on the intranet.

D. SPAIN TIME Implementation & support: I was team member of the Spain-

Time Implementation Project (July-2003 to Dec-2003). I was involved in

Holiday calendar creation, Work-schedules planning and customization,

Edited Schema and PCRs for time evaluation and posting time data to

Payroll. Customized RPTQTA00 report to generate Absence quotas.

E. Training & Development: I was involved in the support of Front end ITS

based custom interface for Training and development activities. For

the back end system, supported the configuration, customization and

ABAP development of the Function Modules / interfaces with ITS system.

F. Payroll Support: Configured US Payroll - wage types, symbolic accounts

to wage types, PU12 posting of Gross payroll, third party bank

interface, Insurance and metlife deductions. Also involved in annual

maintenance of PY like HRSPs, TUBS.

01 SAP HCM Implementation Project (Sep 2002 to Mar 2003, India):

Client: ISPAT STEEL

Modules: SAP 4.6C - PA, OM, PD, e-recruitment, Benefits, ESS

Worked as SAP HCM Consultant for 'Steel Symphony' Project for ISPAT Steel,

Dolvi, Maharashtra, India.

SAP HR in Steel Symphony: A common HR Business process outlined for both

the units of IIL (I spat India Ltd) at Dolvi and Kalmeshwar work-schedule

for six days per week / 3 shifts configured to assign the employee groups

accordingly. The system is designed anticipating the future implementation

of Payroll (India version), ESS & workflow. The e-Recruitment process was

developed to vacancy, Advertisement and Applicant data maintenance.

PA/ OM/ Benefits: Worked on blue print, design and blue print of PA/OM and

benefits modules along with ESS. For Benefits configured health, dental and

life insurance through service provider (LIC of India).

Benefits data was downloaded and manually sent through email to service

provider.

The project followed standard SAP ASAP methodology. Documented blue print,

gap analysis, configuration and functional specs documents. Worked with

development team to build data conversion, upload and day to day reports

for head count, vacancy positions. Uploaded employee master, Org structure

in UAT and Production systems. I conducted end user training in SAP HR

transactions / reporting.

HR Domain Experience:

Employer: New Delhi Public Sector Company, New Delhi, India

. Worked as HR executive from Aug 1994 to Aug 2002. Involved in all the HR

activities viz Recruitment, appraisal, Payroll. Training includes, TNI,

designing training manuals, training methods and finally preparing

monthly / annual training schedules.

. HRIT: Developed HRMS system to capture employer master in windows system.

Uploaded data using VB connected MS Access database. Generated daily

report for short listing of the employees for annual increments and

promotions.

. Recruitment: Manually maintained applicant master data, short-listing of

profiles, and evaluation of interview results and final selection process

of the short listed candidates.

. Compensation: Based on Company policies performed pay fixation giving

weight-age to the experience and qualifications and assigning the

compensation / benefit package.

. Training and Development: Annual Training needs identification process

(TNI), training schedule preparation with training & evaluation

methodology, conduct training and feedback process for Electrical

engineers and linemen.

. Performance appraisal system mapped on Sybase with employee login for

self appraisal and further rating by the HODs.

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