Senior SAP ABAP Developer
Resume:
Larry R. Williams 804-***-****
Richmond, VA 23233
************@*****.***
SAP Software Engineer
High-Performance Applications Continuous Improvement Full-Lifecycle Configuration Management
With over 20 years of experience leading software development for both federal government and private industry, I am valued for driving quality and consistency throughout all phases of software development projects. Partnering with other developers, stakeholders, business analysts and quality engineers throughout the product lifecycle, I produce high-quality, user-friendly, scalable and easily maintained software.
Technical expertise is complemented by my strong business background, education and experience. These complementing disciplines have allowed me to have a deeper understanding of the stakeholder’s operational processes, priorities and concerns so as to provide significant added value to the completed solutions.
Technical proficiencies:
Object Oriented ABAP • Dynpro • Web Dynpro • SmartForms • SAPScript • Data Dictionary • BDC • BAdI • BAPI • RFC • ALV Reporting • ALE/IDE • User Exits • Interfaces
Techno-Functional Support of SAP Modules
SD (Order to Cash) • MM • PUR • CO • FI • WM • CRM/SRM • PM • HR • BW
Software Engineering Skills
Solutions Engineering
Testing & Optimization
Troubleshooting
Debugging
Strong understanding of functional areas
Business and technical experience
Methodical, organized and efficient code
Object-Oriented Methodologies
Professional Experience
SENIOR TECHNICAL CONSULTANT, 10/2002 to 10/2017 Sterncastle Consulting – Richmond, VA
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Senior ABAP Developer
Key contributor to the development and evaluation of business requirements in partnership with the stakeholders and business consultants.
Educated and assisted existing IBM and Customs employees in the development of SAP solutions to Customs requirements.
Delivered high quality, easily maintained reports, conversions (including BAPI, BDC and 'Call Transaction' methods), dialogue processes (Dynpro and Web Dynpro), interfaces and enhancements utilizing ABAP and ALV functionality.
Modified and enhanced CRM (SRM) portal objects using Web Dynpro.
Led and assisted team members in the troubleshooting and solution of critical technical issues as they arose. This effort required that I help evaluate the tradeoffs involved with the various technical options available.
SENIOR TECHNICAL CONSULTANT, 8/1998 to 8/2002 Modis Incorporated – Richmond, VA
Collaborated in a team-focused environment providing software solutions to diverse industry clients.
Philip Morris USA – Richmond, Virginia
Senior Technical Consultant
Developed online (web based) purchasing reports and transaction processes in SAP’s integrated R3 and EBP environments. Purchase Orders created by users online were communicated to R/3. Peripheral information such as requisitions and vendor master information was synchronized between the systems.
Acted as the Development Coordinator between the business areas and the technical resources.
Conceived and developed several critical UPI (Interface Development Suite) interfaces to communicate vendor payment information between PMUSA and Citibank in New York and Richmond. Also used UPI to synchronize master data with legacy systems on the mainframe and in SAP R/2.
Introduced ALV (ABAP List Viewer) capability in response to several complex cost accounting report requirements. ALV provided PM accountants with unprecedented flexibility in the manipulation, filtering and sorting of data in financial reports. Objects developed were used as the basis models for reports developed by other technical resources.
Pactiv Corporation – Chicago, Illinois
Technical Team Lead
Managed the ‘on time and on budget’ efforts of 10 technical contract resources.
Despite extremely tight budget considerations, I was one of only two technical resources to be requested by Pactiv to remain in support of the critical post implementation phase.
Coordinated development of objects requested by the business area with a concentration in the FI/CO, MM, SD, WM, and LES functional areas.
Developed transactions, reports, interfaces, SAP Scripts and RF (Radio Frequency - hand held scanner) applications in support of business requirements.
Resolved problem areas encountered during the development effort.
Partnered with the functional consultants and key business users to satisfy critical business operations.
Presented technical solutions and approach justification to the business leaders upon completion.
Philip Morris USA – Richmond, Virginia
Senior Technical Consultant
Acted as Development Coordinator within the technical development team on an extensive SD (OTC), MM implementation.
Assisted members of the technology team with problem solving and the establishment of technical standards.
Coordinated these efforts with business and technical resources to ensure efficient, accurate and reliable end products that met the established business requirements.
Assisted in the resolution of SAP technical problems as they arose through the implementation process.
Developed new reports and data conversion processes to integrate legacy systems into SAP.
Revised existing processes to enhance their capability and improve performance.
Incorporated inbound and outbound LiveInterface processes, tying in standard data conversion and ALE capability.
Halliburton Energy – Houston, Texas
Senior Technical Consultant
Resolved functional and technical issues arising from legacy data integration. This role extended beyond my immediate team as I was called on to assist other areas with less expertise or experience.
Met all critical time lines required to complete key legacy conversions despite frequent last minute changes in scope or approach by the client.
Coordinated with business units to define data and process requirements.
Developed ABAP processes to support the conversion and data reporting requirements. This effort required dialogue/transaction development, interactive report programming, interfaces utilizing calls to transactions, BDC’s and background processes as well as CATT’s, queries, and ALE processing.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER, 10/1993 to 7/1998 Reynolds Metals Company– Richmond, VA
Selected for my diverse technical background as well as my business education and experience to be part of Reynold Metal’s elite team of engineers tasked with the first corporate SAP implementation.
Worsley Alumina Pty – Collie, Western Australia
Development Team Lead
Partnered with SCS Australia as Development Team Lead in support of Worsley’s companywide on time and on budget implementation of SAP to replace the mainframe.
Led team in the development of high quality and flexible solutions to meeting business requirements and replace legacy systems.
Assisted and trained new developers taken from company talent.
In direct, on site, coordination with stakeholders developed highly involved and complex applications within SAP to manage warehouse material requests from the field. These processes integrated a number of MM operations and features to support the PM and PP modules.
Assisted in the resolution of SAP technical and development issues.
Actively contributed to the definition of business system development requirements.
Oversaw the complete and accurate conversion of material and plant management data from legacy systems.
Reynolds Metals USA – Richmond, Virginia
SAP ABAP Developer
Developed two of the most complex RMC interfaces involving plant production data and the interface to the corporate credit system with sales order information. Plant production required the extraction of over 250 fields, many accessible only through SAP configuration and classification features, in 14 separate files which were sent via FTF to plant AS/400s. Corporate Credit was an interactive process utilizing DTF to the mainframe corporate credit system. Using the DTF utility required my writing a C program on the UNIX to initiate this process.
Assisted in the resolution of SAP technical and development issues.
Assisted in the definition of business system development requirements.
Responsible for various legacy data conversions.
Education – Formal and Technical
Doctor of Philosophy – Computer Science Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Master of Sciences – Systems Management University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Bachelor of Arts – Political Science Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia
TECHNICAL TRAINING
Java programming language, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
C++ Programming, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
C Programming, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Integrated LAMP and WAMP application development, VCU, Richmond, VA
Assembly Language Programming, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
ABAP/4, SAP North East, Boston, Massachusetts
Advanced ABAP/4, SAP North East, Boston, Massachusetts
SAP Script, SAP North East, Boston, Massachusetts
Sales and Distribution Functional, Richmond, Virginia
Materials Management Functional, Richmond, Virginia
Plant Maintenance Functional Training, West Australia
ABAP/4 Transaction Development for SAP Version 4.0, SAP South East, Atlanta, Georgia
SAP Internet Application Development, SAP South East, Houston, Texas
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