SAP Solution Architect

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

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

* **** ***** ** ******* experience across various customer locations in SAP BW with ABAP in the USA.

Rich and cross-cultural experience in Full Life Cycle Implementation of SAP EPM / BPC, SAP BW / BI on HANA & ABAP Development / SAP Solution Architecture and Project Execution.

Over 8 Years of strong domain / industrial experience in MM in areas such as Materials Procurement, Inventory Management and Stores Management.

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

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

Spearheading the SAP BW – BPC integration Project, facilitating the clients with technical solutions for design and development of the desired application.

Sound knowledge of SAP functional testing, designing test scenarios, and SAP testing life cycle.

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

CERTIFICATIONS

BrainBench Certified Programmer in:

oABAP

oJava 2 Programmer

oE-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

TRAININGS ATTENDED

SAP ABAP Training in Jan’ 00.

SAP Business Workflow in Mar’ 04 from SAP AG.

SAP HANA 2.0 in Jan’ 12.

Hyperion FDM in Feb’ 12.

SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA OpenSAP in December 2014

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Applications : SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, BW 7.3, BPC 10.0, SAP ABAP, SCM & SOLUTION MANAGER.

SAP EXPERTISE

Expertise in SAP BW with ABAP Implementations – Requirement gathering, BW configurations,

Well versed with MM, SD, FI, EWM and QM modules and design and development, testing and support of analysis of solutions, BW Objects, custom extractors, data modeling, ETL, BI Content, Queries and BEx Reports.

Deft in SAP Life Cycle involving analysis, design, development, testing, migration, debugging and run time analysis; in-depth understanding of mapping client’s requirements, custom designing SAP solutions & troubleshooting for complex Information Systems Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Employer: Data-Core Systems May 2016 – till date Designation: SAP BW Senior Consultant 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.

Working on internal projects on SAP BW with ABAP. Working on POC’S for customer solutions and scenarios. SAP BW and SAP BPC integration scenarios and solutions.

Client Name: Al-Hamra Real Estate Development LLC MAR 2015 – APR 2016

Employer : BackOffice Associates (CPM Consulting)

Designation: SAP BW Solution Architect Location: RAK, UAE

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 building data models in SAP BW 7.3 version.

Responsibilities:

Worked as SAP BW Solution Architect for the SAP BPC Implementation project.

Working on SAP Netweaver BW 7.3 version.

Requirement gathering and high level design prototyping.

BPC – BW integration and identifying the sources of data.

Working on the Real Estate module REFX, HR, Finance and Plant Maintenance.

Client Name: Hydro Tasmania NOV 2014 – FEB 2015

Employer : BackOffice Associates (CPM Consulting)

Designation: SAP BW Principal Consultant / Lead Location: Hobart, Australia

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 BPC to improve business process and performance.

Responsibilities:

Working on SAP Netweaver BW 7.3 version.

Requirement gathering and high level design prototyping.

BPC – BW integration and identifying the sources of data.

BPC Master data validations using ABAP Web Dynpro.

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

Employer : BackOffice Associates (CPM Consulting)

Designation: SAP ABAP Principal Consultant Location: Offshore, India

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:

Working on SAP Netweaver BPC 10.0 Version.

Handling complex unit conversions through BADIs

Revenue forecast for Oil and Gas sector using BPC Models.

Employer: Globe Telecom, Philippines FEB 2014 – MAY 2014

Employer: BackOffice Associates (CPM Consulting)

Designation: SAP BPC / EPM Consultant Location: Manila, Philippines

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:

Working on SAP Netweaver BPC 10.0 Version.

SAP BPC - BW integration work.

Handled SAP BW & BPC Transports to Production.

PCM BPC Data bridge and DB2 connections with SAP BW/BI systems

Maintaining security in BPC – Users, Teams, task profiles and data access profiles.

PCM BPC integration using DB Connect Data Bridge and Model Builder.

SAP BW modelling, data loads, transformation of data and validations.

Client Name: Neptune Orient Lines, Singapore JUL 2013 – JAN 2014 Employer: Employer: BackOffice Associates (CPM Consulting)

Designation: SAP BW / BI Lead Location: Offshore, India

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 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.

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

Client Name: Cyient (Formerly Infotech Enterprises), India FEB 2013 – JUN 2013 Employer: Tatvaset IT Architects Location: Hyderabad, India. Designation: BW / BI 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 and MIS reports.

Prepared the SAP BW / BI roadmap with recommendations.

Worked on modeling, reporting and data loading in SAP BW / BI.

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.

Client Name: IGT, NV (Offshore) NOV 2012– JAN 2013 Employer: Tatvaset IT Architects Location: Hyderabad, India. Designation: BW / BI 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.

Client Name: S C Johnson, WI JAN 2012 – AUG 2012 Employer: Deloitte Location: Hyderabad, India. Designation: SAP BI Co-ordinator

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. It has operations in 72 countries and its brands are sold in over 110.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.

Client Name: Uniselect, Canada FEB 2010 – DEC 2011 Employer: Deloitte Location: Hyderabad, India. Designation: SAP BI 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.

Ensured BI technical development work in these modules and facilitated technical solutions for design of reports, queries and workbooks.

Proficiently reviewed and approved the functional specifications for this project with a team of three developers.

Installed and activated the ECC (MM Inventory Management) transactional Data Sources 3LIS_03_BX and 3LIS_03_BF for stock Initialization and material movements to support the business needs.

Also worked on enhancing the purchasing Data extractor 2LIS_02_HDR to add the 2LIS_02_HDR 2LIS_02_HDR payment terms as per business requirements.

Client Name: Wal-Mart, NV JUL 2009 – FEB 2010 Employer: Deloitte Location: Hyderabad, India. Designation: SAP BI 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:

Handled the SAP BI implementation Project for one of the largest Fortune 500 public corporations having a large chain of department stores.

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.

Client Name: Estee Lauder JUN 2005 – JUN 2009 Employer: Deloitte Location: Melville, New York. Designation: SAP BW 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. The company owns a diverse portfolio of labels, distributed internationally in up-market department stores, and has its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. 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 Technical Lead and coordinator BI and ABAP for the Demand to Bill Process area.

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

Participated as a SAP BI and ABAP technical development work in these modules and provided technical solutions for complex reports, data source enhancements, process chains; data loads, queries, complex interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms and ABAP reports.

Client Name: Grainger, IL JUN 2004 – JUN 2005 Employer: Deloitte Location: Lake Forest, IL. Designation: 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:

Handled the SAP implementation project for one of the leading broad line supplier of facilities maintenance products serving businesses and institutions throughout North America.

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.

Client Name: S C Johnson, WI JUN 2003 – MAY 2004 Employer: Deloitte Location: Racine, WI. Designation: 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. It has operations in 72 countries and its brands are sold in over 110.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 on a Project for one of leading Consumer Product Companies.

Actively participated in creating innovative cleaning products in USA.

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.

Client Name: JTI FEB 2002 – MAY 2003 Employer: Deloitte Location: Hyderabad, India. Designation: SAP Technical Consultant

JTI - Japan Tobacco International is the international tobacco division of Japan Tobacco, a leading international tobacco product manufacturer. The company is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and sells its brands in 120 countries. 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.

Client Name: Wrigley’s OCT 2001 – JAN 2002 Employer: Deloitte Location: Hyderabad, India. Designation: SAP Technical Consultant

The William Wrigley Jr. Company is an American company headquartered in the GIC (Global Innovation Center) in Goose Island, Chicago, Illinois. It is by far the 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.

Client Name: Sanmar Group of Companies JAN 2001 – SEP 2001 Employer: MAARS Software International Limited/SISL Location: Chennai, India. Designation: SAP Technical Consultant

The Sanmar Group is a Rs.45 Billion business conglomerate that has presence in Chemicals, Shipping, Engineering and metals. This was the SAP implementation project for all the Engineering Technology product divisions.

Responsibilities:

Served as a key technical contact person for the client and was responsible for handling all technical issues on behalf of the Implementation Partner Siemens Information Systems Ltd. (SISL).

Designed and developed major reports, BDC, interfaces and Module pool programs.

Involved in one-time data transfer from legacy systems to a complete module to support all imports.

Developed crucial module pool programs like enhancement for computing the import duties and for difference in exchange rate for import consumption.

Developed several interactive reports for freight bill processing for stock transfer to depots and for determining penalties for delay, shortages in the received quantity and posting to the relevant account.

Client Name: Saint Gobain Glass, India APR 2000 – DEC 2000 Employer: MAARS Software International Limited/PWC Location: Chennai, India. Designation: SAP Technical Consultant

Saint-Gobain is a the world leader in the habitat and construction market, designs, manufactures and distributes high-performance and building materials providing innovative solutions to meet the challenges of growth, energy efficiency and environmental protection. With 2015 sales of €39.6 billion, Saint-Gobain operates in 66 countries and has more than 170,000 employees

Responsibilities:

Served as a key technical contact person for the client and was responsible for handling all Developed several enhancements to the standard SAP programs in the QM & MM module (enhancements were used for user validation in results recording and external order numbering for exports POs.

Developed maintenance views, queries, search helps and function modules.

Modified and developed SAP Scripts, print programs and reports using ALV.

Awards and Achievements

Service Recognition award from Deloitte for completing ten years of service.

Team terrific award from Deloitte for contribution on Uni-Select Project.

Received letter of appreciation from S C Johnson for successful SAP implementation.

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management from IGNOU, New Delhi in 1995.

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Gulbarga University, Gulbarga in 1992 with First Division Marks.

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