SAP ABAP and BI

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Around ** years of IT experience in various technologies focusing on Data warehousing, SAP BI/BW, SAP ABAP, knowledge of SAP HANA.

* ***** ** ****** ** technical leadership in programming using SAP ABAP 4.6 c

4 years of strong expertise in Data ware housing projects using SAP BI/BW

Actively involved in 5 end-to-end SAP life cycle implementations in the roles of team member and Leading team of 5 with strong data warehousing concepts background.

Demonstrated true sense of ownership in handling two upgrade projects and two support projects by providing strong 24X7 support for business continuity.

Involved in almost all the 5 stages of implementation cycle from initial prep till go live and support.

Technical Leadership in SAP ABAP skills below

Creation of Dictionary Objects and maintenance Views.

Creating typical Classical and Interactive reports.

Creating Interactive ALV reports.

Creating Smart forms and SAP Scripts

Inbound and Outbound Interfaces

Creating Adobe Forms

User Exits Enhancements

BDCs (Call Transaction and Session methods)

Module Pool Programming

Object Oriented programming

Knowledge on ABAP Workflow

Strong expertise in SAP BI/BW with skills below

Extensively worked on creating Info Objects, Info Sources, Transfer structures, Communication structures, Standard and Custom Info Cubes, Data Store Object (DSO) as part Realization phase of lifecycle implementation

Strong experience in performance tuning (Query and Load performance), partitioning.

Having precise expertise in understanding the R/3 and ECC 6.0 System and considerable experience in SAP BW/BI, documenting, design and Analysis of reports Using BEx Analyzer by building Queries using Filters, Variables, Structures, Restricted Key Figures, Calculated Key Figures, Conditions, Exceptions and Open Hub destination

Expertise in writing ABAP code in start / end routine and routines in transformations, function Module at R/3 for Generic Data source. Exhibited strong expertise while working on ABAP related changes in SAP BI system like Created Start Routine, Field routine,Created customer exit variables for Queries,User exits have been written to have data validations on Generic data sources.

Developed a Function Module at R/3 for Generic Data source to get the data.

Involved in debugging of the loads to analyze the issue when the load got failed or data was incorrect in targets. Strong ownership by leading team during support activities with zero down time for all business needs.

Knowledge on SAP HANA

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Excellent Team player, flexible, ability to perform under stress and work effectively in fast paced environments

Technical Summary

BW/BI

SAP BW 3.5, SAP BI 7.0, 7.1

SAP R/3 ECC

ECC 4.6/5.0/6.0

Languages

ABAP, SQL, C

Training

SAP HANA

Reporting tools

BEx, WAD

Hardware

HP-UX, Windows 2000/XP/7/Vista

Industries

Telecom, Petroleum, Retail

Awards

CI high performance award from IBM for British Petroleum Project

Project star award from Capgemini for Kellogg's Project

Certifications

SAP Certified Development Associate - ABAP with SAP NetWeaver 7.31

Work History

Project1

Client : Ericsson

Employer : IBM Sep 2013 to Jun 2015

Title/Role: Team Lead

Description:

This project is an implementation project with full cycle implementation from the scratch for Ericsson's telecommunications equipment and related services to mobile and fixed network operators globally. Over 1,000 networks in 140 countries utilize our network equipment and 40 percent of all mobile calls are made through our systems

Responsibilities:

Designed, developed and implemented enterprise-level Business Intelligence solutions to address ongoing business strategies based on business requirements, technology standards and service level agreements.

Worked closely with functional SMEs and architects to gather business requirements and converted them to technical specs.

Responsible in providing leadership, guidance, and mentoring for a team of 5 .

Responsible for new developments Enhancements and break fix of any developments in SAP BW.

Handled all the ABAP related changes throughout this project on need basis.

Handled code reviews, deliverables, defect tracking, change request tracking, Requirement traceability matrix preparation for all the objects

Provided multiple performance tuning solutions for this project.

Prepared all the checks and details for the quality audit of the project

Provided 24x7 production support as part of post-go live activity.

Project 2

Client : BP ( British Petroleum)

Employer : IBM Jul 2010 to Aug 2013

Title/Role: Sr.SAP BI and ABAP Consultant

Description:

This is support project. BP’s main activities are the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas; refining, marketing, supply and transportation; and the manufacture and marketing of petrochemicals.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for complete support activities after Team Lead, which includes Data loads, performance tuning, Loading issues, Enhancements on BI side as well as ABAP programming side.

Managed team of 3 guiding them and providing high level solutions, reviewing team member views on solutions and complex ABAP logics.

Delivered strong knowledge on ABAP routines, function modules and user exits as part of enhancements

Outstanding CI developed in BI systems which handles Junk characters while data load, which lead me project star award for my technical expertise.

Assigning the Development Requests to the ABAP Team and making sure that the Custom developments are as per Standards and with the quality.

Delivered high performance of commitment for the self and for the team throughout the project by adopting the challenges as per the change in the business pace in terms of Prioritizing the Requests, Resource planning for the given Business requirements.

Ensured 100% success rate for quarterly releases with outstanding end user facing solutions and collaborated UATs.

Exhibited expertise in almost all the components of SAP ABAP and SAP BI like RFCs, IDOCs, ALE Configuration, BAPI, Reports, BDC, LSMW, smart forms and User Exits .

Project 3

Client : Essar Oil (SAP Global Delivery Center, Bangalore)

Employer : Capgemini Feb 2010 to May 2010

Title/Role: Sr.SAP ABAP Consultant

Description:

SAP Upgrade project for the client Essar Oil carried out at SAP GDC. It is a multinational conglomerate and a leading global player in the sectors of Steel, Energy, Power, Communications, Shipping Ports & Logistics, and Construction.

Responsibilities:

Played higher role to upgrade from SAP R/3 4.6C to ECC6.0

Resolved SAPU and SPDD objects and UC Check syntax errors.

Applied OSS Notes during the Upgrade.

Making the programs Unicode check active

EPC and UC checks for various objects.

Performed SAMT and UCHCECK for Z Programs in ECC6.0

Project 4

Client : DET (SAP Global Delivery Center, Bangalore)

Employer : Capgemini Apr 2009 to Jan 2010

Title/Role: Sr.SAP ABAP Consultant

Description:

The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) delivers high quality, internationally competitive public education and training from early childhood (pre-school), through to the compulsory years of schooling (Kindergarten to Year 10), and senior secondary education leading to the award of the NSW Higher School Certificate (in Years 11 and 12).

Responsibilities:

Designed Technical Specifications.

New reports were developed in ECC ABAP as per business requirements.

Worked on Adobe forms

Preparation of Documentation for the developed Objects.

Performance tuning of some of the existing programs.

Preparing Technical Unit test cases.

Project 5

Client : Kellogg’s Reverse Engineering

Employer : Capgemini Oct 2008 to Mar 2009

Title/Role: Sr.SAP ABAP Consultant

Description:

Kellogg’s is an American multinational producer of breakfast foods, snack foods and crackers, with the corporate world headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

Kellogg is a Reverse Engineering Project. It involves Technical Specification Documentation of existing SAP programs in reports, user exits, sap scripts, and interface etc.

Responsibilities:

Creation of Technical Specification for the existing code

Preparing the deliverable documentation, processes documents and submit to the business.

Preparing Status Reports

Have been effectively guided other team members towards achieve the results in time.

Project 6

Client : NOV (National Oilwell Varco)

Employer : Capgemini Aug 2008 to Sep 2008

Title/Role: SAP ABAP Consultant

Description:

The SAP technical upgrade project is anticipated to better position of NOV to embark on future initiatives such as the eCatalog solution.

Responsibilities:

To upgrade NOV’s SAP R/3 4.6C landscape to the SAP ERP 6.0 version

Applied OSS Notes during the Upgrade.

Making the programs Unicode check active

EPC and UC checks for various objects.

Project 7

Client : Tenneco DC

Employer : Capgemini Feb 2008 to May 2008

Title/Role: SAP ABAP Consultant

Description:

Tenneco Automotive is the world’s largest producer and marketer of ride control and exhausts systems and products. Tenneco is a $4.4 billion global manufacturing company based in Lake Forest, Illinois with some 19,000 employees worldwide. The project was an Implementation.

Responsibilities:

Designed Technical Specifications.

Worked on Reports, Dialog programming.

Understanding the specifications provided by the functional consultants and interacting with the

Customers to get to know the exact requirements, suggest them the changes where required and

then develop the program as per the evolved specifications.

Preparation of Documentation for the developed Objects.

Performance tuning of some of the existing programs.

Reviewing Functional Specs and Tech Specs.

Coding and Code Review.

Preparing Technical Unit test cases.

Project 8

Client : Limited Brands

Employer : Capgemini Oct 2007 to Jan 2008

Title/Role: SAP ABAP Consultant

Description:

The Limited Brands is a specialty retailer focused on building a family of the world’s best fashion brands to create sustained growth of shareholder value. Limited brands is a specialty retailer focused on building a family of the world’s best fashion brands. They have approximately 4000 stores throughout the United States with 6 retail brands such as Bath & Body Works, Express, Limited Stores, Victoria’s Secret Beauty, Victoria’s Secret Direct, Victoria’s Secret Stores, and White Barn Candle Company.

Responsibilities:

Involved in identifying to fix the defects and Change Requests raised Dialog programming

Reviewing Functional Specs and Tech Specs.

Coding and Code Review.

Preparing Technical Unit test cases.

Project 9

Client : SHELL

Employer : IBM Apr 2007 to Jul 2007

Title/Role: SAP ABAP Consultant

Description:

Shell is a worldwide group of oil, gas and petrochemical companies with interests in biofuels, wind and solar power and hydrogen.

Responsibilities:

Worked on Reports, SAP Scripts and User Exits.

Enhancements for translating the text of En language to DE language

Developed User-Exit for the transfer of reservation data from R/3 to APO system

Reviewing Functional Specs and Tech Specs.

Coding and Code Review.

Preparing Technical Unit test cases

Project 10

Client : Spirit Aero systems

Employer : IBM Apr 2006 to Mar 2007

Title/Role: SAP ABAP Consultant

Description:

Spirit Aero Systems offers a full, diverse line of products and services for aerospace design, build, support, and spares/repair needs. The project is an implementation.

Responsibilities:

Worked on SAP Scripts, LSMW and Outbound interface

Preparing Technical Specifications.

Preparing Technical Unit test cases.

Receiving and validating the data.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) from Jawaharlal Technological University, India in the year July, 2004.

Kalyani Ala

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