Ravikanth Tunuguntla

SAP ABAP Consultant

San Francisco, CA

acd2mh@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: 972-***-****

Senior SAP ABAP Consultant with Infosys Ltd., (Currently on H1B)

Dec 2003 to present

About 11 years’ experience that includes 10 years of IT experience in SAP ABAP

• Expertise in all traditional SAP ABAP concepts like Data Dictionary objects, Programs, Conversions,

Interfaces, Standard modifications, User Exits, Badis, Smart forms, SAP Scripts, Workflows etc.,

• Expertise in developing ALE/IDOC interfaces

• Worked in new technologies like Web Dynpro ABAP, Adobe Forms, ABAP OO and Enhancement Framework

• Developed Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flex with backend logic in SAP

• Worked in complex Upgrade projects that involved upgrading SAP 4.6c MDMP with ITS (4 Code Pages with

23 languages) to SAP ECC 6.0 Unicode

• Certified SAP Enterprise Portal Development Consultant

• Worked across various functional areas like FI/CO, SD, MM, PM & HR. Have good understanding of Output

Control, Pricing Procedures, Copy Routines, LIS tables, Validations & Substitutions, Payment runs, MRP

Run, Requisition Release Strategy & Workflow, PM Technical Objects, Maintenance Plan and processing, HR

Compensation module, Organization Structure, Performance Appraisals etc.,

• Designed and developed various utility tools for assisting Upgrades and Project Management

• Experience working in different SAP systems like SRM, PPM, cFolders etc.,

• Worked in different kind of projects like Development, Roll Outs, Upgrade, Production Support and

Maintenance projects

• Expertise in requirements gathering, feasibility study, prototype development, application design,

development, testing and cutover activities

• Experience working in different kind of proposals

I passionately track new technological trends and follow SAP HANA, SAP Mobile Platform in particular. I

completed “Introduction to Software Development on SAP HANA” (passed with 96%) & “Introduction to Mobile

Solution Development” (passed with 53%) courses from openSAP.com. I am very enthusiastic to learn more and

work on them.

Project Experiences

Client: Pacific Gas & Electric, USA

Dates: May 2013 to till date

Position: Technical Architect

Key contributions:

• Designed a wrapper program to automate the DPPM (custom inspection metrics report) report as per the

clients needs. The wrapper program launches the DPPM report multiple times in parallel mode, extracts

results from each job and collates them. Lastly it prepares a formatted mutli sheet excel with the required

statistics and emails it to the users.

• Designed transactions for QSL Audit Management. PGE frequently audits manufacturer locations that

supplies materials to them. The location data and audit information were managed using excels. The QSL

Audit project replaces this by providing transactions for managing location data (create, change, update &

upload) and managing Audit data. Multiple audits can be created for a single location and the user can

navigate between audits within the transaction. User can maintain comments, attach documents, create

MPRs (notifications), view linked MPRs and location data within the audit transaction.

• Designed workflow for MPR (Quality Notification) task reassignment. The workflow routes the task added to

the notification (by the engineer) to the supervisor and notifies the engineer on completion. The workflow is

designed to work from both the QM transactions and the custom Webdynrpos (designed for MPRs). The

custom WDA is enhanced to display the reassignment task if available. The WDA is enhanced to allow

edit/display/hide the new view based on user roles and current notification status.

• Enhanced the performance of DPPM (custom inspection metrics report) report by redesigning the data

fetching logic. The job now takes 1 minute (down from earlier 60 mins) for a 30 day period.

• Designed and developed the solution to create Purchase requisitions from Work Orders and routing the PR

approvals using release strategy. The release strategy workflow works gets triggered during PR save and

gets completed once all the approvers for that release strategy approves it item. Also did enhancements to

link documents in Work orders to PR items

• Designed a complete end to end Webdypnro ABAP application to manage Supplier Score cards. The

dashboard developed in WDA generates score cards and sends it to suppliers. The returned scores are

uploaded through the dashboard and displayed to user in editable table. The user can then edit the scores

and freeze them

• Designed an interactive offline adobe form for Supplier Score Card. The form gets generated in SAP and is

sent to supplier as an email attachment. The supplier fills up the ratings and sends it back. The received form

is processed in SAP and ratings are uploaded into the system.

• Designed and developed dialog module for creating Customers and Customer Contacts

• Enhanced existing custom transactions to add new functionality

• Developed reports to delink projects and to regenerate security codes

• Lead offshore team in managing and designing technical solutions for various client projects (From May 2013

to Aug 2013)

Client: Baker Hughes, USA

Dates: April 2013 to May 2013

Position: Technical Architect

Key contributions:

• Worked in AP Notification Workflow project offshore team. The project started with a one line requirement of

automating all the approval steps in notification workflow with a single click of button in Outlook email.

• Within short duration understood all the workflows involved in Notification approval process (with no

documentation available) and defined the scope, exceptions of the project. Designed and developed the

complete solution within the 3 weeks’ timeline. Though the go-live got delayed, the entire solution was in

place within the original timeline. This was in addition to my regular work in other project.

Client: Southern California Electric, USA

Dates: June 2010 to April 2013

Position: Technical Architect/Project Manager

Key contributions:

• Designed technical solutions for various complex processes in PM, HR, SAP PPM & SAP SRM modules

• Designed the applications for Greensheet project. The project involved in routing the SAP Vehicle Repair

Notifications for processing to various teams and bringing the notification to completion. The workflow gets

triggered on notification creation and is completed upon closure of all the notification tasks. The approval step

in the workflow has 3 options (Approve, Reject, Pending) with deadline monitoring activated. The Pending

option switches off the deadline monitoring for all the agents and gets activated when one of the agents acts

on the workitem.

• Lead the E1P1 project that involved in enhancing the existing Notification and WO flow between different

systems for E1P1 (priority 1) notifications

• Designed the Routing framework in WDA for Work Order Collaboration for SUS project. The routing WDA

component is reusable and is incorporated in 4 other existing WDAs. The routing WDA is highly generic and

generates action buttons and UIs based on the parent WDA component. Events are generated for user

actions and are handled in the parent WDA component.

• Designed the Smart Intake application that involved developing RIA in Flex for Injury Management. The

transactional data is stored and retrieved from SAP

• Designed the applications for RSMIP project – an Enterprise Compensation Management project that

involved developing custom objects for Eligibility, Budgeting and Compensation Dashboard

• Designed the backend logic for Personal Development Plan (PDP) project. PDP has frontend in Flex calling

RFCs/Webservices in SAP. Also converted the existing PDP Smartform to Adobeform to achieve the RTF

feature. The solution involved in converting and formatting the text as per XHTML standards

• Designed a workflow for notification task approval. A notification tasks can only be completed based on a

custom table entries. The workflow has a loop within which it seeks for approval, for each loop pass the WF

determines the next set of agents and exits once all the approvers approve it. Upon on successful completion

the notification task is updated.

• Designed Need Dashboard ABAP Web Dynpro application in PPM system that manages Need

creation/update/submission. Needs upon submission goes through an approval workflow and upon final

approval gets created as a PPM item.

• Created custom adobe forms for Need sheet, Project & Portfolio summary in PPM system. The summary also

prints questionnaire data from the project item. The layout adapts based on answer type for each question

(answers can be in form of checkboxes, radio buttons, long texts etc)

• Modified standard Web Dynpro to enhance the PPM item screens to include custom text fields. These text

fields are dynamic and depend on portfolio type

• Designed adobe form for to display Supplier Routing data in SUS (SRM system). The adobe form is

completely dynamic in nature. It reads the dynamic table (table can have any number of columns depending

on configuration) meta data from the context and generates the table for display using XFA object model

• Setup ALE model to distribute business partner data from SAP to PPM system.

• Setup partner profile and ALE model to distribute HR data (time and leave data) to other SAP systems

• Extended the standard Idoc type to add new custom fields

• Developed a WDA component with FPM for offboarding application. The application gathers data of an

employee for offboarding through a 3 step process. The application also have features to upload excel

documents that are attached to the employee record

• Lead the technical team in various projects like NERC, Disability, Smart Intake Phase 2, Open Text, Master

Management Systems, Greensheet Phase 2, Phase 3, Onboarding & Offboarding etc.

Client: AstraZeneca, UK

Dates: Aug 2008 to May 2010

Position: Project Manager/Technical Lead

Key contributions:

• Worked in a Roll out for extending the clients SAP EBS system to their Greece & Turkey markets

• Designed the Automatic Check processing application that drastically minimized the need for manual

intervention in check processing there by saving lot of time and effort for the client

• Designed the architecture for Digital Printing for SD documents in compliance with Turkey’s laws

• Took bottom line responsibility for design and quality of all technical objects developed from Offshore

• Developed new pricing requirements and formulas for Greece and Turkey roll outs

• Developed new and modified existing requirements for determining output procedure in Delivery documents

• Developed custom routines to be used in GGB0 transaction for Greece specific Validations

• Copied standard payment run program and created a new payment run program with custom logic on

including/excluding billing documents

• Worked in EBS upgrade project that involved in upgrading client’s SAP 4.6c MDMP system to SAP ECC 6.0

Unicode

• Involved in all technical activities from project preparation to post Go-Live support

• Performed SPDD, SPAU & Unicode Adjustments

• Involved in Vocabulary activities like SPUM4 scans, Vocabulary tagging and SPUMG scans

• Migrated custom Internet Services from Standalone ITS to Integrated ITS

• Migrated many banking interfaces (sharing posting data) to Unicode

• Worked with client and SAP’s Upgrade Coach teams to ensure process adherence. Coordinated with client

and offshore teams for compliance with clients processes

• Prepared and performed cutover activities. Also did the post Go-Live support activities

• Resolved many Unicode issues in Idocs (file port type). The client needs to send banking data in Unicode or

non-Unicode format based on the country. Created multiple message types for each country that use the

appropriate Unicode setting to create the Idocs

• Worked in Porrino upgrade (Spain system of the client) that involved upgrading SAP 4.7 to SAP ECC 6.0

Unicode. Performed all technical activities like SPDD, SPAU, Unicode adjustments and cutover activities

• Enhanced existing ALE/IDOC banking interfaces to HSBC, Citibanks via Gentran to consider Greece/Turkey

specific fields and data masking

Client: Center for Upgrade Excellence, Infosys

Dates: Apr 2007 to Jul 2008

Position: Technical Analyst

Key contributions:

• The project was internal to Infosys and involved in designing, developing & maintaining Upgrade tools that

are used for Upgrade Assessment and Execution

• The team also supported various Upgrade Projects within Infosys

• Enhanced the Assessment Tool by adding features to identify Unicode, Security, SPAU, SPDD, FM & DE

issues

• Designed and developed Fast Track Tool that helps auto fixing Upgrade issues

• Developed GUIXT script for custom Security tool. The script hides buttons based on the log on user

• Provided technical estimates for various upgrade proposals using Infosys upgrade tools

Client: SRM Implementation for Airliquide, France

Dates: Dec 2006 to Mar 2007

Position: Technical Analyst

Key contributions:

• This was a SRM implementation project that involved in utilizing the standard Shopping Cart to Invoice

process

• Enhanced standard screens (Shopping Cart, Purchase Order) to add new fields and adjust the functionality

as per client’s processes

• Developed 3 Level Approval workflow for Shopping Cart

Client: Chorus Rollout and Support for Airliquide, France

Dates: Apr 2005 to Nov 2006

Position: Software Engineer

Key contributions:

• The project involved in moving the medical gas processes from main SAP system to Chorus system

• Adjusted the Invoice, Delivery print programs and Script layouts as per Chorus business requirements

• Enhanced CSB applications for new processes

• Developed numerous Idocs interfaces & custom programs

• Resolved high priority tickets

• Created/Extended IDOC types, set up partner profile settings to exchange Sales Order, Delivery and

Invoicing data to other systems

• Implemented many user exits in Idoc inbound and outbound processing

• Created custom Idoc types, message type and partner profiles to transfer CSB data to other SAP systems.

Set up ALE settings to transfer CSB data to clients other SAP system

• Trouble shouted many Idoc issues in production

• Developed routines for sales order output types that send sales data through an Idoc to 3 rd party systems

• Developed pricing formulas for sales order to allow custom determination of condition values based on the

entries in custom tables

• Developed requirements for sales order, delivery, invoicing documents to switch off/on condition types based

on custom requirements

• Developed routines that are used for data transfer between order, delivery and invoicing documents

• Developed a program to upload condition records for Chorus system as a part of initial data load. The

program reads data from flat file and custom tables to create condition records

• Implemented exits to split the delivery document into multiple invoice documents based on custom

requirements

• Developed many SAP Scripts and Smart forms for Delivery & Invoicing documents

• Enhanced the existing print programs and scripts to include logic for Chorus customers

Client: Development for DHL, US

Dates: Apr 2004 to Mar 2005

Position: Software Engineer

Key contributions:

• A Release project aimed at developing objects for bridging standard gaps

• Developed Withholding tax reports for Venezuela, Peru & US

• Developed interface to read data from flat file and post SD invoices

• Developed Smartform for Cheque printing

• Developed interface for Electronic Bank Statement

• Developed LSMWs for migrating Finance, Material data from legacy systems to SAP system

Joined Infosys in Dec 2003 and undergone comprehensive Entry level (C, Java, RDBMS, PL/SQL, Programming

concepts, Software methodologies, Quality control etc.,) and SAP ABAP training for 3.5 months

Education: Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering (2002) from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological

University Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India

Prior to Infosys, I worked as an Insurance Trainee in Claims Department for 9 months in TATA-AIG, Hyderabad

India.

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