Arpita Sharan

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Professional Summary:

. 10+ years of experience in SAP with Professional Certification from

SAP for Implementation, Production Support, Enhancement and Upgrade

Projects.

> Extensive experience in requirement analysis, gap analysis,

technical design, performance tuning and code reviews,

release management, risk management, system readiness,

creating test scripts, facilitating UATs, project status

reporting, cutover management and project rollouts, etc.

> Extensive experience in cross-application B2B integration

between SAP and external systems like Apttus, SalesForce.com,

ARENA, Concur, MDF, Cloud Applications, Vertex and PR

Application System.

> Extensive experience as a SAP ABAP Development Lead in the

area of SAP-MM, SAP-SD, SAP-FI with BAPIs, BADIs, Customer

Enhancements, SAP WebDynpro, SAP Web-services, RICEFW

objects, ALEs and IDOCs, Workflows, BTEs, SAP-CRM 7.0,

Business Object Repository.

> Proficient in SAP GRC 10.0 for user provisioning, reporting,

access management etc.

> Extensive experience working with SAP Notes/ Upgrade

Activities (SPAU /SPDD) etc.

> Proficient in SAP BASIS for Transport Management, Role

Management, User access, etc.

> Introduced several process improvement experience within SAP

> Development Lead for SAP 6.0 EHP7 technical upgrade.

> In-depth Knowledge of Revenue Recognition, Quote-to-Cash,

Procure-to-pay cycles.

> Extensive experience working with SOAP services, Web Services

Security, SOAMANAGER

> Working knowledge of HANA data modelling.

> Developed the Revenue recognition program for Aruba

. Led a team of 5-8 developers for in-house projects.

> Managed schedules and assignments for the team

> Involved in LOE and budget estimations, scoping and risk

management for projects

> Extensive experience working with onsite-offshore teams.

> Extensive experience communicating with all levels of

individuals, including peers and executives

> Managed several development projects concurrently adhering to

tight schedules and budgets

> Involved in all stages of project management for in-house

projects

. In-depth experience in Data Analysis and Reporting.

. Extensive experience working with the Audit and SOX compliance team

(internal and external)

. Quote-to-Cash Certified Powered by APTTUS

. Completed 3 full life cycle implementations projects in different

roles ranging from technical reviews, and module consultant to

expert guidance in ABAP development

. Proficient in SAP CRM 7.0

. Experience in System Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and

Implementation using EDI translators like Liaison Soft share Delta

. Won several awards and recognitions during tenure at Aruba Networks

and Tata Steel

. Sun Certified JAVA programmer

. Domain Knowledge:

o Proficient in ABAP Programming for forms, reports, enhancements

and exits.

o Proficient in BDC, eCATT & LSMW data migration tools.

o Proficient in cross-application integration through SAP Web-

services, BORs, BAPI and BADIs.

o Proficient in Database Programming - PL/SQL, MS-SQL Server, DB/T-

SQL.

. Extensive experience in working through full project life cycle.

. Experience in BS7799 standard for Information Security and Six Sigma

Methodology for project management.

. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; worked with people

from diverse professional and national backgrounds.

. A self-starter and a quick learner, with strong analytical skills.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

. Aruba Neworks, Inc. Sunnyvale, SAP Development Lead (02/2011 -

Present)

. IBM - SAP ABAP Consultant (08/2010 - 01/2011)

. Aruba Networks, Sunnyvale - SAP ABAP Consultant

(07/2008 - 07/2010)

. MS Engineering (09/2005 - 06/2007)

. TATA Steel, Jamshedpur, India SAP ABAP Developer (04/2003 -

08/2005)

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

. Development Consultant SAP NetWeaver '04 - Application Development Focus

ABAP (Certification ID#: 000*******) - April 2008

. Quote-to-Cash Certified - Powered by APTTUS - August 2014

. Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4 (Certification ID#:

SUN324964) - May 2007

TECHNICAL SKILLS

. Programming Language: ABAP, Java, C, C++.

. ERP: SAP (SD, FI, MM, PS, CRM), SAP NetWeaver, SAP ECC 6.4 EHP7, HANA

. Database: SQL Server, PL/SQL

. Tools: Liaison Delta 5.0, BIRST

. Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix, Sun Solaris 5.8

. Application Software: MS Office 2003 (Word, Power Point, Excel, Front

Page).

. Processor: Intel 32 bit and 64 bit Processors, MIPS

. Project Management Tools: MS Projects

. Compliance/Quality Standards: SOX, ISO9000, BS7799, Malcom-Baldridge,

Six Sigma(DMAIC)

EDUCATION

. 2005-2007: MS in Engineering, Santa Clara University

GPA: 3.75/4

. 1998-2002: BS(Engineering), BITS, MESRA, India GPA:

3.84/4

References

. Available upon request

Note: For more information about projects please refer the additional

pages.

WORK/PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Organization : Aruba Networks Inc. (FEB'11 to Present)

Environnent : SAP R/3

Module : SD, MM, FI/CO, BASIS, GRC10.0

Role : SAP ABAP Development Lead (Full-time)

NATURE OF WORK:

. Design, Development and Implementation of Cross Application Initiatives

for integration with SAP

. Managed and led a team of 5-8 developers for all in-house projects.

. Requirement Analysis and System Design for all major in-house projects

. Worked on several FI reports for the organization like Org Balance Sheets

. Interface design for integration between several external applications to

SAP - Apttus, Salesforce.com, Cloud Application, Concur, MDF, PR Apps.

. Techno-functional analyst for in-house SD projects.

. Basis Backup for the organization - managed Basis alone for long periods

between transitions

. Strong experience in working with IDOCs - 850, 860, 855, 856, 810s, etc.

. Strong working knowledge of SD processes and integrations with MM, FI

modules

MY RESPONSIBILITIES:

. Designing complex system processes for projects in-house

. Interaction with End Users, Business Process Owners and SAP R/3

functional consultants for finalization of functional specifications and

report formats.

. Design of Technical specification and UTP & Code development and

optimization.

. Code Review and migration for all development objects

. User provisioning, Super-user Privilege management using SAP GRC 10.0

REPORTS/INTERFACES:

. Design and Development Lead for Quote-to-Cash interface with

Apttus/SalesForce.com

. Design and Development Lead for integration with Salesforce.com for

Service Contracts and Entitlements

. Design and Development Lead for integration with Trade Compliance

System(Amber Road), Expense Management System(Concur), HRM

System(Workday), Tax System(Vertex), etc

. Developed the organization Balance Sheet reports (Consolidating, Press

Release & 8-Quarter) in ECC

. Developed the Revenue Recognition Program for Aruba Finance.

. Design and Development Lead for integration with Aruba Cloud Applications

. Design and Development Lead for integration with Salesforce.com for

Customer Returns and ADVs

. Design and Development Lead for integration with a new third-party

shipping plant

. Developed several smart forms for Deliveries - pack/pick lists, invoices,

order confirmations, welcome letters etc.

. Worked on end-to-end SD/MM process including master data management,

order management, invoicing, etc.

. Configured MATMAS05 for new materials creation in SAP.

. In-depth knowledge on ORDERS, INVOIC, BOMMAT, DEBMAS, COND_A,

ORDRSP,ORDCHG, SHPORD IDoc types

. In-depth knowledge of SOAMANAGER

. Worked on several process improvements and integration projects with

reporting tool BIRST and other in-house apps.

. Worked on Aging Report in FI module to change the aging logic for

payments.

. Developed an email generation program to notify users whenever a set of

SKUs are booked in any order.

. Worked on Expense report in FI module to include error handling whenever

a data fails to upload.

. Developed a new report which showed the On-time delivery schedule.

. Created web-service to retrieve SAP Sales order information once the

PGI has been done.

. Created a CATT script for mass reversal of documents using FBRA.

. Enhancement changes to standard report KSB1.

. Automatic Pricing Conditions update for POs using worklists

. Interface program development for incoming orders from SFDC.

. Creating & Maintaining mappings for incoming and outgoing IDocs using

Laision Softshare Delta and Softshare ECS.

. Custom program development for Inventory Extracts based on MB52.

. Worked on creating and maintaining Phycisal Inventory documents.

. Creating extract programs for bookings, shipments and invoices

generated between a given set of dates.

. Creating WSDLs for getting SO details and Partner details related to

the Sales order.

. Custom program to update GRN in outgoing DELVRY05 and INVOIC02 IDocs.

. Day-to-day SD activities of processing IDocs / Orders/ Deliveries.

. Created BDCs and LSMWs to extend Vendors Customers and Materials in a

new company code.

. Created several BDCs programs to create sales orders and contracts in

SAP.

End-Client : KLA-Tencor (Nov '10 to Jan'11)

Environnent : SAP R/3

Module : PP

Role : ABAP Technical Consultant

Location : Milpitas, California.

Project: As part of the implementation of the Custom MRP - Inventory

Reduction project MRP in divisions needs to be modified dynamically to

consider GSS as an alternate source of supply if GSS has excess stock.

NATURE OF WORK:

. Developed custom program to record GSS available excess inventory in SAP

- As part of the implementation of the Custom MRP - Inventory Reduction

project GSS will provide available excess inventory data periodically.

This data needs to be stored in a custom table in SAP so that it is

accessible for other programs to read and update.

. Developed Custom program to create source-lists in divisions for the

parts on the excess inventory list - As part of the implementation of the

Custom MRP - Inventory Reduction project GSS will provide available

excess inventory data periodically. This data will be stored in a custom

table. To ensure transition of inventory from 1801 to mfg. divisions

these materials would need to have source lists in the mfg. divisions

with plant 1801 as the source.

. Implemented a BADI to read the excess inventory data from the custom

table whenever MRP runs and check for inventory in the GSS plant before

procurement - As part of the implementation of the Custom MRP - Inventory

Reduction project, the system should first check the custom table with

GSS excess information in SAP and then determine whether to create a

Purchase Requisition to procure from the external vendor or to procure

from GSS. At the end of the MRP run, the quantity in the table must be

reset to the original value.

. Created a custom table in SAP to store the data coming from the

Tactics/SPO system.

End-Client : KLA-Tencor (Aug '10 to Oct'10)

Environnent : SAP CRM 7.0, Web Dynpro.

Module : CRM

Role : ABAP Technical Consultant

Location : Milpitas, California.

Project: This enhancement to the current Sales-CRM system was to introduce

an ability to categorize forecasts for direct vs. indirect sales and the

ability to determine through search /reporting of those Forecasts with a

Second Shared BU.

NATURE OF WORK:

. Introduced custom fields using AET in CRM 7.0 to capture the Second

Shared BU.

. Two new fields based on PARTNER type data were added to introduce a

Sales type field and Sales rep details

. Enhancements were done to existing reports in Web Dynpro to include

these custom fields.

MY RESPONSIBILITIES:

. Understanding of the flow of the requirement from the Functional

specification

. Interaction with End Users, Business Process Owners and SAP R/3

functional consultants for finalization of functional specifications

and report formats.

. Design of Technical specifications.

. Code development and optimization and Unit Testing.

. Configuring the CRM middleware for the data transfer to and from R/3

systems.

BSP WD Components:

. Developed code snippets to provide an F4 help box for a business

object attribute displayed on a view on the CRM Web Client UI.

. Developed code snippets for the custom fields to be editable

conditionally.

. Developed code snippets to display values from database based on

selections.(server roundtrip)

. Worked on code snippets to generate Drop down list box for one of the

fields introduced.

. Integrated object components (Customer views) into the Account

Identification page of the Interaction Center WebClient UI.

. Worked on CL_CRM_BOL_QUERY_SERVICE to select business objects, Used

CL_CRM_BOL_ENTITY for implementing business objects, Used

IF_BOL_TRANSACTION_CONTEXT to control transaction behavior & Used

IF_BOL_BO_COL to provide collections to hold business objects.

. Developed the multi-edit program tool for Caerus users to update

multiple forecasts records simultaneously using CRM 7.0 and webDynpro.

. Configured the CRM middleware for the data transfer to and from R/3

systems.

Web Dynpro:

. Changed the custom ALV reports using Web Dynpro to include these

custom fields.

. Changed log generation reports to include the new fields.

. Modified a program for mass-editing to sales forecasts having the

new fields.

Organization : Aruba Networks Inc. (Jul'08 to Jul'10)

Environnent : SAP R/3

Module : SD, MM, FI/CO & CRM

Role : SAP ABAP Developer

Location : Sunnyvale, California.

NATURE OF WORK:

. Developed reports (ALV) and interfaces in SD, FI and MM module .

. Worked on designing ALE/IDOC interfaces for various systems to facilitate

data transfer.

. Worked on several BAPIs and other custom-developed function modules to

create web-services for integration between several applications external

to SAP.

MY RESPONSIBILITIES:

. Understanding of the flow from the Functional specification

. Interaction with End Users, Business Process Owners and SAP R/3

functional consultants for finalization of functional specifications

and report formats.

. Design of Technical specification and UTP & Code development and

optimization.

REPORTS/INTERFACES:

. Developed a report program automatically to create the GR for open POs

which is stored in the custom table.

. Developed a report program for getting a scheduled dump of the

customers and their payment-terms.

. Developed a report program to show all the control payments and listed

which are all deposits to the bank either in cash or in checks.

. Developed a interface program to loading of the Chart of Accounts

(general data and company code level data) into SAP from a local file.

. Developed many interactive ALV Grid Reports including various sales

orders and reconciliation.

. Developed an interactive report to display sales orders for particular

customer, items for particular order.

. Developed FI Shipment backlog report to get list of dollar value of

sales orders booked but not shipped in the given period of time.

. Developed an interface to upload corrected inbound invoices in XML

formats into SAP R/3 using standard SAP function modules

. Configured the pricing procedure at delivery with the required

condition type to determine freight.

ALE/IDOCS:

. Developed a custom program in Inbound IDOC user exit to send out

emails to specified list of users whenever there was an error in

processing the sales order IDOC.

. Developed an Interface to replicate the work orders from Legacy system

into SAP.

INTERFACES:

. Developed an RFC enabled custom function module to automate the

creating and updating of Purchase Orders from external Systems and

Applications used in the organization.

. Developed an RFC enabled function module to automatically generate an

XML output of the vendor master data on a real time basis - the

updated and new vendor data and/ or full dump of master data on-

demand.

. Created Web Interfaces for Create and Change Purchase Orders, Real-

time Vendor Master Data Extract for successful handshake between

various applications handling Purchase Requisitions.

ENHANCEMENTS/BADI:

. Implemented a BADI - ZBADIMP_MIRO_WT to add withholding tax info from

a Purchase order and make it editable by the user. The business

requirement was to have the visibility of 1441 Withholding Tax

information in Purchase Orders for US and to deduct Withholding Tax

amount at the time of Invoicing.

. Implemented an Enhancement to auto-confirm the date and time of vendor

master data updates.

. Developing enhancements using BADI and user exits that

created/changed/deleted Sales orders and Stock Transport Orders,

created/changed/deleted Deliveries, assigned/unassigned deliveries to

Shipments, changed Shipments, Posted Goods Issue and reversals, and

updating conditions on Sales Orders--depending on scenario

requirements.

. User exits to populate PO item #; an exit to move freight conditions

into an Idoc transportable field; an inbound Delivery user exit that

updated a custom table with vendor contact number.

. Sales Order user exits to check valid Ship-to partners; and an

outbound Idoc user exit that added an Idoc segment with pricing info

and Order Entry date.

DATABASE:

. Worked on the consolidation of Customer Master data by using stored

procedures in SQL Server 2008. This stored procedure consolidates the

different sites under organization heads and maps it with the customer

master DB. Using this approach we witnessed a 55% reduction of data.

. Worked as Data Analyst for Sales data on the Customer Master System

taking inputs from SalesForce.com, SAP, POS, Expandable and SalesLogix

Systems.

* 07/2006 - 8/2007: Research and Teaching Assistant, Santa Clara

University.

* 08/2005 - 06/2006 - Masters Student at Santa Clara University.

Organization : TATA STEEL (Apr '03 to Aug '05)

Environnent : SAP R/3

Module : PS, SD, MM and FI/CO

Role : SAP ABAP Developer

Location : Jamshedpur, India.

Nature of Work: Developed Reports (ALV, Classical, Interactive), Involved

in the development of interfaces (file, IDOC), Worked on User Exits, BAPI,

SAP Scripts, and Smart forms

KEY RESPONSIBILTIES:

. Writing technical specifications against functional specifications.

. Developing the technical specification into ABAP code

. Interacting with on site coordinator for clarification & suggestions.

DETAILS:

. Developed a bad debt report program which would list of receivable

amount in various aging buckets and risk category for each customer.

. Developed a RFC function module fetch sales details for the serial

number passed.

. Developed a report program to identify any open purchase orders

(STO's, Drop Ship, Standard, etc.) that are open and should be closed.

The purchase orders should be marked "delivery complete" and "final

invoice" (where applicable) if the criteria defined are met.

. Developed a report will be used to search for Quotations & Sales

Orders in SAP. The purpose was to see what Sales Documents are

available with a given set of characteristics - hence also which are

missing.

. Developed a BDC program to Create purchasing Info Records from legacy

system through ME11.

. Developed a report program for extracting the Bill of Materials from

R/3 to legacy system.

. Created commission report for the sales department sorted by sales

representative. The data is extracted from VBAK, VBAP, KONV, and MARA

tables.

. Created an Interactive Report for displaying vendor information. Based

on the selection made the corresponding Vendor Bank Details are listed

such that the line selected in the basic list was visible along with

the secondary list.

. Designed and coded a BDC program for Sales Orders that updated records

in the sales order screen or will create new sales orders depending on

the source data file from external systems using VA01 and VA02

transactions.

. Created reports in SD module such as sales order report, which covers

all organization levels, delivery status, invoice status, shipping

details and partner function details. The data was extracted from

VBAP, VBPA, VBAK, VBUP, VBFA, KNA1, LIPS, VBRP, MARA, VBEP and KONV

tables.

. Created report lists for the gross sales, credit returns, gross weight

for the customer for the current year and comparing the same with that

of the previous year for the same period. The data is selected from

KNVV, BKPF, BSEG and MARA.

. Implementation of BS7799 standard for Information Security at Tata

Steel:

. My responsibility included defining the process to be followed at ITS,

auditing various areas/domains for compliance to BS7799 standard and

conducting training covered under the scope of BS7799. Also

contributed to Business Continuity Planning process for ITS and IT

enabled services.

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