Project Manager Technical

RAVI KUMAR MAHALINGAM ***********@*****.***

Contact Number: +91-948**-*****

Professional Summary:

. Having 8.6 years of experience with design, development, maintenance

and support of applications as SAP Technical Consultant and Ten years

of experience in non-IT field

. Experience in 5 full life cycle SAP R/3 implementation project in

development of custom SAP applications, Upgrade project experience

including User acceptance testing and post Go-live support, Roll out

implementation and support projects as ABAP Technical Consultant

. Conversant with Siemens IT Solutions and Services, ISO 9001 and SEI CMM

quality procedures, while executing projects

. Good exposure to Net weaver technology and SRM

. Worked efficiently on SD, MM, FI, CO, QM, PLM, PP, PS and RE modules of

SAP, Web Dynpro Components, IS-RETAIL, SAP Solution Manager as ABAP

Technical consultant and as SRM Technical Consultant

. Good interaction with clients to ascertain their requirements, to carry

out analysis and design

. Supporting presales team for technical upgrade projects evaluating

objects in the client system and preparing effort estimation

. Been recognized for delivering quality and time line adhered projects

with excellent customer satisfaction ratings

Professional Experience:

. Working as Consultant in Atos IT Solutions and Services Pvt. Ltd,

(Formerly Siemens IT Solutions and Services Pvt. Ltd) Chennai since June

2008 to till date

. Worked as Sr. Software Engineer in S2 InfoTech Pvt. Ltd. (deployed in

Siemens Information Systems Ltd, Chennai) from May 2007 to May 2008

. Worked as Software Engineer in Coconut Softwares Pvt. Ltd. (Formerly CVS

IT Services Pvt. Ltd) Mumbai from March-2006 to April-2007

Academic Profile:

. Master of Engineering from Annamalai University with First class -

2000

. Bachelor of Engineering from University of Madras with First class -

1995

SAP Skills Summary

Division Skills

ABAP / HANA Data Dictionary Objects

Reporting - Classical, Interactive, ALV

SAP Scripts

Smart forms

Dialog programming

BAPI and Function modules

BADI (Business Add Ins)

User Exits and Implicit Enhancements

FI Validation / Substitutions / BTE

BDC, LSMW tool

ALE, IDOC

Webdynpro Component (ABAP)

Application Interface Framework (AIF)

SRM ABAP / GUI End

UPGRADE SPDD, SPAU, Custom Objects modification

and User Acceptance Testing and TQR

Milestones Achieved

. Handled technical team as Technical lead in RICEF projects, to analyze

Technical Impact and Effort estimation as an On-Site / Off shore

Coordinator

. Successfully delivered RICEF developments as offshore Project manager

. Conducted Interviews and managed to hire resources

. Extensively worked in multiple presales activities capturing the

effort estimation eventually turning them into successful sales win

for Siemens India

. Have worked closely with clients in identifying areas of improvements

with their systems on a technical front

. Having Five end to end implementation experience

. Taken initiatives to provide re-usable for common client requirements

to reduce technical efforts. These re-usable have been proven to

reduce a lot of manual intervention and hence user-friendly too

. Product development - Developed an upgrade assessment tool which will

be run at client system to extract the Basis system details and ABAP

technical details which would be used for effort estimation

SAP Experience:

Apr 2012 to date

SAP ECC 6.0 (EHP 7) Implementation for client ThyssenKrupp, Germany

Role: Onsite Coordinator / Technical Lead in Germany

. Analyse Technical Impact and Effort estimation of the solution provided

by the functional team

. Functional specification Intake which needs to be passed from onsite to

offshore team

. Preparing technical design that needs total onsite involvement with

functional consultant interaction and to provide onsite technical support

. Review and test the developments with all possible test cases of

technical specifications prepared by offshore team before passing on to

the customer

. As onsite technical consultant involving development activities,

supporting roll out development team in terms of technical solution and

accessing Solution Manager

. Support activities involving debugging, performance analysis, UAT

support, code review

Nov 2011 to March 2012

Technical upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0 conversion for client Siemens Brazil

Role: Offshore coordinator in India

. Handled SPDD / SPAU objects during upgrade

. Involved in work allocation as an offshore coordinator /technical quality

reviewer and identifying the problem finding efficient solution resolving

technical issues during realization phase

. Providing technical support to client during integration testing

Mar 2011 to Oct 2011

SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation for client Gatwick Airport Ltd, UK

Role: Project Manager, Offshore

. Involved in commercial activities, timesheet approval and billing from

the client

. Handling Interfaces, IDoc issues, Data migration objects and

development object delivery

. Monitoring resources with their developments and handling issues

. Coordinating with the client in closing integration testing issues and

provided them with daily closure status reports

Nov 2010 to Feb 2011

Technical upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0 conversion for client Siemens

Industry, Germany

Roll- Technical Lead, Offshore

. Organized client status reporting on daily basis

. Mentored and drove a team of 10 consultants new to upgrade during the

realization phase

. Daily reporting included object completed with development and quality

check which are ready for testing, issue logs from the team and

getting client's attention to any issues that was a show stopper with

delivering the objects.

. Defined scope of the project and ensured that the planned activates

were executed by the team

. Was involved in work allocation to both the development and quality

review team and monitoring their deliverables on a daily basis

Aug 2009 to Oct 2010

SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation for client Siemens Power Generation, Germany

Role: Technical lead for FI module, Onsite / Offshore

. Leading FICO Technical Team and responsible for developing critical

developments, code review and object delivery

. Coordinating with functional consultants at the time of integration

testing at onsite - Germany

. Developed dynamic ALV program to enable results recording to simulate

Standard transaction QE51N

Apr 2009 - July 2009

SAP Roll out Implementation ECC 6.0 for client John Deere, Pune

Role: Technical Consultant, Onsite

. Preparing Technical design and specifications for the reports in SD,

and a Module pool programming for Customer Registration

Feb 2009 to Mar 2009

SAP ECC 6.0 RICEF Proto type implementation for client Gulf News, Dubai

Role: Technical lead, Onsite

. Provided Technical Support for proto type Business Blueprint

Implementation phase

. Prepared Technical Specifications as per the functional specification

which will be developed during Realization phase for various modules

like MM, HCM, and PP

Oct 2008 to Feb 2009

SRM 5.0 Implementation for client Bhilai Steel Plant, India

Role: Technical Consultant, Onsite

. Involved on preparing Comparative Price Statement for Priced Bid

Calculation for Accepted vendors

. Developed a report for Creation of Purchase Order in R/3 from BID

finalized in SRM for Supplier Relationship Management module and

solving issues on critical objects.

. Prepared layouts for Bid Statements for Technical, Price bid and

Commercial bid. This statement will be generated in the system once

the Vendors Bids against an IFB is opened by authorized person(s) and

will be viewed by purchaser as well as Bidders.

. Developed a Quotation bid opening summary report for purchasers for

list of vendors to whom IFB are issued earlier.

Aug 2008 to Sep 2008

SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation for client Siemens Energy (ATLAS - PG), Germany

Role: Technical Consultant, Offshore

. Involved in development of layouts, Reports and implemented BADI and

also responsible for preparing technical documents and code review

documents as per the Siemens Quality standard

Feb 2008 to July 2008

Technical upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0 conversion for client FELDA,

Malaysia

Roll: Technical Consultant, Offshore

. Responsible in Analyzing programs and do necessary code modifications

required for up gradation. Worked extensively in upgrading the

standard SAP program (SPAU). Compared the standard SAP programs in

both the versions and made necessary changes in the Standard SAP

program to ensure that the customer changes are carried forward to

then new version. Have dealt with Programs, Data Elements, Tables,

Domains, Search Help, and Function Groups, Business Repository objects

. UAT and Post go live Support: Identifying the evolution of problem and

finding efficient solutions resolving technical issues and interacting

with client during integration testing and post go live

June 2007 to Jan 2008

SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation for Client MRF Ltd, Chennai

Roll: Technical lead, On Site

. Responsible for ABAP development activities, resolving technical

issues as one of the technical leads. Also, responsible for applying

OSS notes interacting with client to consolidate the requirement

. Provided ABAP training to the core team and effectively handled the

resources under me to reach the objective

. Developed Web Dynpro Component for C-Projects to generate Process

flow, FMEA and Control plan reports as per ISO format, which replaced

the software Aquapro.

. Responsible for preparing technical design and code review before

delivering to the customer as per the Siemens Quality standard

Oct 2006 to Apr 2007

SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation for Client for client Raymond Ltd, Mumbai

Roll: Technical Consultant, Onsite. Implementation Partner - SAP INDIA

. Developed a Commercial Invoice using smartform, which is used in foreign

trade, as a customs declaration provided by the company that is exporting

an item across international borders

. Developed a Proforma Invoice using smartform, which states a commitment

from the seller to sell goods to the buyer at specified prices and terms.

. Developed a screen program to input for Gross Wt and Auto Net Wt. Also

responsible for preparing technical specification from functional

specification, code review documents and Optimizing and analysis of ABAP

code.

July-2006 to Sep-2006

SAP ECC 5.0 Roll out Implementation for client Soma Textiles, Pune

Role: Team member, Onsite. Implementation Partner - Coconut Softwares Pvt.

Ltd

. Responsible for modifying Standard ARE1 (Application for removal of

excisable goods for export by (Air/Sea/Post/Land) layout as per the

client's requirement

. Responsible for modifying reports to display the Info Record of a vendor,

MRP report and to display details of orders missing in the billing and to

generate a Bank statement.

. Modified Purchase order for standard document type using SAP Script

. Created Module wise package, transaction codes and message class for the

developments

. Responsible for understanding the client requirements and preparing

Technical specifications and Development design

March 2006 to June-2006

SAP ECC 5.0 Roll out Implementation for client Pantaloons Retail (I) Pvt.

Ltd, Mumbai

Role: Team member, On Site

. Added new functionality in Standard Article Master Creation using

Field Exits. Modified local vendor payment information in the IDoc

file, Developed Bar Code report for Article and a report show up

valuated stock available in particular storage location. Also

developed BDC for uploading vendor details like pan number with

holding tax types and tax codes etc through FK02.

SAP Training

. Undergone SAP - ABAP Workbench training (Part time) from Sep'2005 to Feb'

2006

Other Experience

. Worked as Sr.Lecturer in Bharath Institute of Higher Education and

Research, Chennai from Oct'2003 to Feb'2006.

. Worked as Lecturer in Madha Engineering College, Chennai from Oct-2000 to

Sep-2003.

. Worked as Lecturer in E.V.P Engineering College, Chennai from June-1997

to Sep-1999.

. Was running own cotton fabric manufacturing firm named Sakthi Fashions at

Salem and hands on experience in management activities from Aug-1995 to

Mar-1997

Personal Details

Marital Status : Married

Date of birth : 30.06.1974

Passport : Available

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