EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Over **+ years of cross industry international SAP Techno-Functional experience.

* *** ** *** *** ECC-ABAP implementations and 7 Upgrade/migration & Support projects.

Talented technical Project Manager with over 15 years of demonstrated expertise completing projects on time and within budget.

Adept at overseeing all facets of project lifecycle, including initiation and planning; change, risk, and issue management; and guiding QA teams.

Outstanding communication skills. Able to successfully build strong working relationships with coworkers and clientele, while ensuring cooperation among company departments.

Excellent multitasker; able to efficiently plan and prioritize projects.

Strong technical and business management skills.

An effective leader with proven abilities in recruiting, guiding and managing teams from scratch during the project phase; holding strong analytical, problem solving, interpersonal, excellent communication and coordination skills.

Actively participated in numerous successful SAP implementations, Maintenance and Support, Roll Out and Upgrade projects. Experience in coordinating with offshore teams.

Holding an Australian Permanent Resident visa and ITIL V3 and ISTQB certified.

CERTIFICATIONS

BrainBench Certified Programmer in:

ABAP ; Java 2 Programmer; E-Commerce Concepts Analyst

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in Installing, Configuring and Administering MS SQL Server 2000 (Microsoft Exam 070-228)

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified Professional.

Member of the Project Management Institute (PMI).

ISTQB certified Tester-Foundation Level (CTFL)

ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management.

Certified Business Intelligence Professional

Australian Computer Society, License 261111 (ICT Business Analyst)

Introduction to Big Data

Stepping up to Management Certificate from Harvard Business School.

Record of Achievement in openSAP course on SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA.

Record of Achievement in openSAP course on SAP BW/4HANA in a Nutshell.

Management Skills & Leadership Development Course - Master Certificate in Business Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Applications : SAP BW/BI - Finance, Real Estate (REFX), HR, BO Dashboards, Webi

Reports, NetWeaver BPC, HANA, EWM, FI-GL, AP/AR, COPA, OTC,

POSDM, MM, APO, R/3, GTS, EBP, SD, PP, QM/PM, ALV.

Programming Language: T-SQL, SQL.

BI and other Tools

Hyperion FDM, HP Quality Center, Tableau 9

Databases

MS SQL Server 2008R2/2012/2014, MySQL 5.x, Oracle 11g/12c,

Operating Systems

Windows 2008/2008R2/2012/2012R2, Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client Name: Deloitte. NOV 2016 – till date

Designation: SAP BW ABAP Lead Location: Glen Mills, PA

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, commonly referred to as Deloitte, is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in New York City in the United States.Deloitte is one of the "Big Four" and the largest professional services network in the world by revenue and number of professionals. Deloitte provides audit, tax, consulting, enterprise risk and financial advisory services with more than 244,400 professionals globally. This Project is related to the support and release for new company codes added to the DTTL firms.

Responsibilities:

Working on reports/queries in SAP FICO – GL, AP, and AR & Asset Management.

Working on integrating the GL Portal with the ECC system and extended for new company codes.

Developed/enhanced function modules for use in the BW routines with business rules maintained in custom tables for mappings.

Web Dynpro applications for Journal entry posting and approval workflow.

Worked on the Interest calculation reports.

Developed custom ADOBE forms for the OTBR email notifications to customers.

Fixed issues related to the automatic clearing of invoices through the Bank statement processing.

Worked on production support issues and tickets.

Client Name: Air Gas Inc. MAR 2016 – OCT 2016

Role: Senior Technical Project Manager Location: Philadelphia, PA

Data-Core Systems is located in Philadelphia and providing IT consulting services from last 28 years in SAP, Healthcare, Banking, Media and Manufacturing industries across USA. Air Gas Inc. located in Radnor Township, PA is largest American distributor of Industrial. Medical and specialty gases and hardgoods (welding and safety related products). This Project involved migration, support and enhancement of SAP BW reports related to Finance in SAP BW 7.4 version.

Responsibilities:

Oversee all technical aspects of SAP BW implementation, including overseeing creation of schedules, documents, and guides for contractors, vendors, and consultants.

Act as sole point of contact for end users during SAP BW upgrade, and troubleshoot problems. Document and report findings to facilitate problem resolution.

Coordinate all client policies and procedures specific to this project.

Manage multiple vendors and coordinate with end users and department heads on a day-to-day basis.

Create and maintain project schedule and act as liaison between all departments.

Client Name: Al-Hamra Real Estate Development LLC, UAE APR 2015 – FEB 2016

Role: Technical Project Manager

The Al-Hamra Group in Ras Al-Khaimah (RAK) is one of the largest real estate companies in the UAE. The primary objective of this project to provide mobile friendly reports and dashboards to the top management in finance, REFX,HR and facilities management using SAP BO dashboards and Webi reports. The project involves data extraction from ECC system and building custom extractors.

Responsibilities:

Played key role in creating documentation and technical guides for end users.

Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring that all errors were tracked and reported to development and management teams.

Acted as single point of contact for end users, business units, and Information Technology partners during integration of Integration testing, administering schedules and communicating risks.

Ran weekly meetings, helping to facilitate communication and maximize productivity.

Assisted with high level design prototyping resulting in successful project bid.

Environment: SAP ECC, SAP - BW/BPC, REFX, HR, BO reports, Webi Reports.

Client Name: Hydro Tasmania, Hobart, Australia NOV 2014 – MAR 2015

Role: Project Manager

Hydro Tasmania is a leader in hydropower development and renewable energy development and is Australia’s largest producer of renewable energy with assets worth around $5 billion. This project is a remedial project on SAP ECC & SAP BPC to improve business process and performance.

Responsibilities:

Liaison among departments and managers, acting as sole point of contact to integrate the SAP environment with minimal downtime.

Coordinated work of multiple teams mapping business processes to SAP functionalities.

Created and reported daily status of project, including ECC teams and BPC teams and resolution of problems during deployments.

Environment: SAP ECC, SAP – BW, BPC

Client Name: Australia Pacific LNG, Australia JUN 2014 – OCT 2014

Role: Technical Project Manager

The Australia Pacific LNG Project is a coal seam gas (CSG) to liquefied natural gas (LNG) project delivering a cleaner, greener sustainable energy source. Australia Pacific LNG is already the largest producer of CSG in Australia, supplying gas to power stations to produce lower emissions electricity; major industrial customers, homes and businesses in South East Queensland. This project is a remedial project on SAP BPC to improve business process and performance. This included various planning scenarios such as CAPEX planning, OPEX planning and man power planning.

Responsibilities:

Provide Project Leadership to six consultants for the SAP BPC implementation.

Worked with client functional and technical implementation teams, scoped the technical work, Master Data conversion, Regression testing, and Integration plans.

Designed the roll out strategy for the technical functional requirements on the project.

Gathered requirements and advised the business team regarding the solutions for the business.

Environment: SAP – Net weaver ECC, BPC 10.0, HANA BW 7.4

Employer: Globe Telecom, Philippines FEB 2014 – MAY 2014

Role: IT Manager

Globe Telecom commonly shortened as Globe, is a major provider of telecommunications services in the Philippines, supported by over 6,200 employees and nearly 1.05 million retailers, distributors, suppliers, and business partners nationwide. This Project is a strategic business process improvement project where SAP BPC 10.0 was implemented along with PCM module (Profitability and cost Management).

Responsibilities:

Requirements gathering, analysis and planning.

Working on SAP Netweaver BPC 10.0 Version and SAP BPC - BW integration work.

Unit testing and System integration testing of the application.

Co-ordination activities with different teams.

Environment: SAP – Net weaver ECC, BPC 10.0, HANA BW 7.4, PCM

Client Name: Neptune Orient Lines, Singapore JUL 2013 – JAN 2014

Role: ABAP Lead

Neptune Orient Lines Limited is a Singapore-based global container shipping company with about 6,000 staff across over 80 countries. Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) provides worldwide chartering services in the liquid and dry-bulk trades. This was one of the first BPC / BW on HANA projects in the APAC region. This project involves implementation of Budgeting, Planning & Consolidation using SAP BPC on HANA platform.

Responsibilities:

Working on SAP Netweaver BPC 10.0 Version

Blueprint support, development effort estimation.

Planning Application set up.

Master data on the fly creation and other functional logics.

Testing of Planning reports, input schedules and data loads from BI cubes.

Worked on BADI’s, maintaining master data and debugging.

Environment: SAP – Net weaver BPC 10.0, HANA BW 7.4

Client Name: Cyient FEB 2013 – JUN 2013

Role: ABAP Lead

Cyient (formerly Infotech Enterprises) is an Indian company focused on engineering, networks and operations. It has 12,000+ employees across 38 global locations as of March 2014. This project was a SAP BW & SAP BCS implementation and support project for financial consolidation and reporting.

Responsibilities:

Manage the deliverables of the Project in the areas such as Legal consolidation, Project profitability and costing Environment: SAP –BW/BI, CBS, HP Quality Center.

Prepared the SAP ABAP roadmap with recommendations.

Architecting the solution and coordinating the Development team in different geographies. Discussions with functional team / customer regarding requirement clarifications.

Go live, post Go live support

Proposal preparation for the project, Requirement collection, Estimation

Involved in Technical design document, Updated Functional specification documents.

Tested and monitored the performance with testing QA tools using HPQC.

Worked on Pre and post implementation steps for OSS notes, hot packs in multiple Scenarios.

Used SPAU (repository Objects) to identify the changes made by the OSS notes.

Also taken care of dictionary Object changes using SPDD.

Client Name: IGT, NV SEP 2012– JAN 2013

Role: ABAP Project Lead

International Game Technology (IGT) PLC is an American gaming and lottery systems company specializing in the design, development, manufacturing, sales and distribution of gaming machines, lottery systems, and network system products internationally, as well as online and mobile gaming solutions for regulated markets. Outside of the USA the company has been involved in online gaming since 2005.

Responsibilities:

Understanding GAP request specifications (GR) and design the High level Design Document (HLD), Technical Specification (TS) and Unit Test Plans (UTP).

Manage the deliverables of the Project in the areas of FI reporting.

Review and approval of the functional specifications for this project.

Responsible for Performance Tuning, Code Review for all developments and Unit Testing.

Ensuring quality process and coding guidelines and standards in the project by all team members

Created APD for a complex reporting requirement which involved complex v-lookups using ABAP routine.

Developed the currency translation reserve report which showed the CTR for all entities for a month.

As team lead, led 3 member team across different geographies. Held weekly status review meetings, performance review of team members and delegated tasks among team members.

Worked with BASIS on Pre and post implementation steps for OSS notes and hot packs.

Go live, post go live support.

Environment: SAP FI Reporting

Client Name: S C Johnson, JAN 2012 – AUG 2012

Role: SAP ABAP Coordinator

S. C. Johnson & Son (commonly referred to as S. C. Johnson, previously S. C. Johnson Wax and Johnson Wax), is an American privately held, global manufacturer of household cleaning supplies and other consumer chemicals based in Racine, Wisconsin. This was a SAP BPC 7.5 implementation Project.

Responsibilities:

Played a Lead role in the SAP BW – BPC integration Project for one of the world’s leading makers of household products and brands.

Actively involved in managing data extraction, transformation & loading of finance and costing data.

Providing technical solution for design & modeling of Info Providers, validation of data and transformation for BPC reporting with a team of two developers.

Environment: SAP - BW BPC 7.5

OTHER PROJECTS HANDLED

Client Name: Uniselect, Canada FEB 2010 – DEC 2011

Deloitte Role: SAP ABAP Lead

Uni-Select Canada - Canada's leader in the distribution of automotive parts, tools and equipment to the aftermarket. This is a SAP BW implementation project in Finance, Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), Sales & distribution and Point of sale data management (POSDM) modules.

Responsibilities:

Played a stellar role in the SAP BI implementation Project for one of the world’s Largest Automotive Distributors situated in North America.

Handled the functional areas of FI-GL, AP and AR, COPA, EWM, OTC and POSDM.

Environment: SAP- FI/GL, AP/AR, COPA, EWM, OTC and POSDM

Client Name: Wal-Mart, NV JUL 2009 – JAN 2010

Deloitte Role: SAP ABAP Senior Consultant / Lead

Walmart is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores and grocery stores. This project was SAP BW rollout for the APAC regions.

Responsibilities:

Worked in the areas of FI-GL, AP and AR.

Took various measures for technical development in these modules and provided technical solutions for design of reports, queries and work books.

Environment: SAP- FI/GL, AP/AR

Client Name: Estee Lauder JUN 2005 – JUN 2009

Deloitte Role: SAP ABAP Technical Lead & On-site Coordinator

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is an American manufacturer and marketer of prestige skincare, makeup, fragrance and hair care products.This Project was a pilot SAP ECC project followed by North American, South America, Europe and Asia Pacific rollouts for SAP supplier managed inventory and global sales orders systems.

Responsibilities:

Actively involved in the completion of the SAP BI implementation Project for one of the leading cosmetics manufacturer’s in USA and Fortune 500 Company.

Served as a SAP Tech Lead & coordinator BI and ABAP for the Demand to Bill Process & OTC process areas.

Handled developments in various modules like Materials Management, Production Planning, Quality Management and Demand Planning.

Environment: SAP- ECC, ABAP

Client Name: Grainger, IL JUN 2004 – MAY 2005

Deloitte Role: Sr. SAP Technical Specialist

W. W. Grainger, Inc. is a Fortune 500 industrial supply company founded in 1927 in Chicago. Grainger's catalog includes such offerings as motors, lighting, material handling, fasteners, plumbing, tools, and safety supplies. This Project was the implantation of a new SAP R/3 system for transaction processing, inventory management and Finance.

Responsibilities:

Worked on MM, APO, EBP, GTS areas in SAP.

Played a stellar role in developing EDI/Idoc interfaces outbound and inbound, BADI's, web form integration with catalogues, CVC's in APO, Smart Forms in GTS, enhancements in MM, etc.

Completed unit testing and code quality checks for all the development objects

Environment: SAP- MM, APO, EBP, GTS

Client Name: S C Johnson, WI JUN 2003 – MAY 2004

Deloitte Role : Sr. SAP Technical Specialist

S. C. Johnson & Son (commonly referred to as S. C. Johnson, previously S. C. Johnson Wax and Johnson Wax), is an American privately held, global manufacturer of household cleaning supplies and other consumer chemicals based in Racine, Wisconsin. This was a SAP R/3 implementation Project across all the core modules such as MM, SD, FI, PP, QM and PM.

Responsibilities:

Played a stellar role in serving as an on-site coordinator for one of leading Consumer Product Companies.

Prepared reports using ALV, interfaces, enhancements, conversions, Smart Forms and Badi’s in APO.

Developed objects for Inbound Interfaces for Standard Pricing and free goods, Outbound Interfaces for Product Master, List price, Freight cost report using ALV, Supplier delivery Performance report using ALV, Country specific Invoices using SAP Script & Smart Forms, RFC function modules for remote order entry, copy pricing from Info-records to Outline Agreements, Truck Optimization for Ware house management, BADI’s in APO, OSS Notes, etc.

Developed ABAP activities for the global implementation as well as for local roll-outs for the client.

Environment: SAP - MM, SD, FI, PP, QM and PM

Client Name: JTI FEB 2002 – MAY 2003

Deloitte Role : SAP Technical Consultant

JTI - Japan Tobacco International is the international tobacco division of Japan Tobacco, a leading international tobacco product manufacturer. This was a SAP R/3 implementation Project and rollout in turkey.

Responsibilities:

Spearheaded a project for one of the leading tobacco companies in the world.

Developed SAP scripts, BDC, conversions, enhancements and module pool programs for SAP Script for Shipping and Pre- Shipping Notifications, domestic invoice, enhancement for Lead-time calculation, bonded to clearance report, conversion for material valuation posting and dialog program for Leaf Blending Work Order Correction Global.

Environment: SAP - ECC

Client Name: Wrigley’s OCT 2000 – JAN 2002

Deloitte Role : SAP Technical Consultant

The William Wrigley Jr. Company is an American company and largest manufacturer and marketer of chewing gum in the world. This was a SAP R/3 implementation Project for Europe rollout.

Responsibilities:

Played a stellar role in working on reports using ALV, SAP scripts and interfaces in this project.

Proactively involved in developing objects include Bulk Powder (Big Bag) Weight Interface, Taylor-Bernard Outbound interface, Wrapping Averages Reports, Contracts Validity Report, SAP Script for Standard Invoice and Delivery Note.

Imparted training in ABAP to the client’s representative from India.

Environment: SAP ABAP

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