SALAH AL AMOODI, PMP

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Director, MANAGER & Senior Developer

Senior-level leader capable of helping organizations provide the best possible IT applications user experience for customers and end users.

Well-versed IT leader with high level of expertise in SAP, system implementations, and consulting across industries specializing in IT applications. Adept consultant and PMP-certified experienced in improving efficiencies and technologies within multiple business units, business lines or industries. Influential supervisor skilled at developing talent and managing responsibilities while achieving project milestones and fulfilling the IT vision, goals, and strategy. Analytical, competent manager of more than 30 onsite developers and successful ownership in handling 130+ combined offshore and onsite resources and over 18,000 custom development objects. Highly skilled senior developer - enhanced and developed various technical SAP objects including interfaces, reports, conversions, user exits, utilized the enhancement frame work and performed system modifications when needed. Created, implemented and automated quality controls for custom development. Currently enthusiastic, involved and eager to work with UI5 and Fiori developments - SAP technology for the future.

STRENGTHS AND COMPETENCIES

Quality Center Standards, Procedures, and Guidelines Standardization Innovative Thinking IT Management – Onsite and Offshore IT Development and System Implementations Project Management Microsoft products Implementation of SAP S/4HANA Fiori Apps trained ITIL ABAP Object-oriented ABAP Web Dynpro ABAP Scrum Master – Agile developments SAP ASAP SAP Activate PMP SAP BW SAP Workflow SAP ALE Object-oriented analysis and design Data modeling SAP enhancement framework Basic SAP BASIS Basic SAP Finance SAP IDOCs EDI DB application design DB2 application programming SQL

WORK EXPERIENCE

WARNER BROTHERS, Burbank, CA

SAP Development Director and Hands-On Manager, April 2007 – July 2016

Provided oversight for 130+ resources and 18,000+ custom development objects acquired since 2001. Maintain SAP outsourcing developments engagement, production support for Live-Site, and project management activities and support. Monitor vendor contract validations; teams; replacement of legacy applications; and IT continuous improvements. Managed technical project activities such as reporting, process re-engineering, IT strategy, future roadmaps, resource management and budgeting. Hands on technical manager reviewing and approving custom developments. Continuously improve development practices, procedures and guidelines to increase quality and reduce future changes and costs.

Improved quality of developments via numerous techniques and strategies, such as adding new process to track inspection results, track problem tickets, establish quarterly management reviews and issue credits for successful enhancements.

Analyze, debug and repair critical business related developments such as the accounting block enhancements, user exits and extensions.

Shortened the monthly and quarterly closing period by 40% by automating many tasks in the new FI closing cockpit application

Created unique, critical catalog of custom developments with ID tracking, flexible enough for retiring or upgrading upon retirement or replacement of a system.

Established new procedures, guidelines and standards for SAP and SAP Hana custom developments, such as SAPUI5, data modeling views, and Hana ABAP procedures. I start with SAP guidelines then I add or enrich these guidelines with missing standards, provide specific details and clarifications for developers to follow. The aim is to always follow SAP major guidelines to ensure that future system upgrades or enhancements are performed efficiently.

Enhanced quality and reduced potential future changes and costs by creating auto inspection user exits triggered during transport release to intercept potential code issues before their migration to production.

Used KPIs for tracking and monitoring and to negotiate SLAs and services from vendors.

Implemented Netweaver Gateway (central hub for oData for UI5/HTML5/Fiori apps) and established new model for Web and mobile services for handling related issues via standard methodology centralized in the Gateway system.

Improved change control process and implemented new Solution Manager Charm process by automating notifications for engaged teams, resolving conflicts via Solution Manager Cross System object locking (CSOL) and downgrade protection.

Worked with Basis and the security team to complete a data encryption project to encrypt file-based interface s.

Lead the SAP development outsourcing efforts and managed all development activities onsite and offshore. Visited offshore teams (in India) and established communication protocols, procedures and guidelines to ease transition and handoffs between offshore and onsite teams. Established transition of information procedures and tasks between teams who provided 24/7 development support. Reviewed and analyzed all development tickets and worked on their root cause analyses and fix recommendations.

SAP Development Manager and Technical Lead, April 2004 – April 2007

As a hands-on team leader, I led post-implementation and production support for all financial-related modules, such as GL, FI, CO, AP, and AR. Supervised 30+ SAP projects in Europe, Asia, and South America. Coordinated assessments and managed team of 12 internal WB developers and 22 offshore developers. Encouraged training and education. Developed proof of concept for new systems.

Provided on-demand, current status reports, including estimated hours and completion dates as well as current progress and identified potential critical areas, risks, or issues during the development cycles.

Managed the implementation and integration of third-party tools into SAP, such as Brazil MasterSaff, China GoldenAudit, and Turkey Fit e-Invoicing.

Created the development process flow chart along with automated controls, automated tracking systems and reporting.

Established and continually enhanced the functional and technical specification templates to ensure that developments and expected results are well understood. Enforced negative and positive unit tests documentation and execution. Established automated or manual reconciliation procedures or developments to ensure data accuracy.

Developed an estimation matrix to help project teams to easily document estimated effort, cost and completion dates for all type of RICEFW development needs such as interfaces, enhancements, workflow, conversions, forms and reports.

A major contributor during the implementation of Solution Manager 7.2. I helped the Basis team to define the new CHARM (system change management) process by identifying and implementing control handoff points and processes while releasing transports from one system to the other.

Advised the Basis team to turn on UPL and activate the Custom Code Management (CCM) console in SolMAn and established procedures, controls and reporting to monitor all critical programs or developments.

Worked with Basis and engaged the business blueprint tool in SolMan in which all critical programs and transactions are logged in the SolMan. This activity enabled us to measure the impact of future upgrades on the system before we implement the upgrades. As a result, the impact analyzer provided reports on impacted transactions or programs and provided estimated efforts to address these impacts.

Worked with Basis to convert SAP CRM to Hana CRM system. In this activity we analyzed all the developments that will need adjustments prior to perform the conversion to CRM Hana then I adjusted and managed the adjustments of these programs; for example by replacing obsolete code or select statements which will not function efficiently in a Hana system.

Worked with the security team to identify new roles for new system implementations, audited existing roles and adjusted their authorization, created reports on security roles usage and I also helped the security team in defining new development roles for SAP Hana system.

Researched and ensured sound and maintainable technical design and developments.

Partnered with remote developers and created effective procedures and methods, assuring efficiency and high quality.

Below are just a small sample of development objects I developed, supervised, designed, enhanced or modified:

oYear System ID Description

o2016 SRM EN9906 Add Goods Requested By Field & Custom SWA PO Type Field on Shopping Cart

o2016 ECC REP278 Purchasing Substitute Report

o2016 ECC/SRM EN0623 Transfer the 'External Ref' Field while distributing SRM Contracts to ECC

o2016 ECC EN0620 Custom program to create invoices in ECC specific transactions

Below are few of the development tasks that I engaged, supervised or implemented

oEvaluated code modifications and replaced them with implicit or explicit enhancement framework – to reduce future upgrade implementation and testing cost to bring them closer to SAP code.

oActivated and implemented custom code management work center in Solution Manager to retire obsolete and unused code, replaced clones with standard code, control and streamline custom developments, evaluate quality and performance of existing custom code

oUtilized Solution Manager Business Change Analyzer to evaluate the impact of future upgrades on the system before we implement the upgrade which allowed us to identify and estimate development and testing efforts required.

oHands-on New Technologies, Tools and Skills such as Fiori developments in Web IDE, performed sample developments and enhancement in Web Ide to layout our development procedures and guidelines for new technologies being rolled out by SAP.

oStarted building UI5 and Fiori prototype developments in preparation for future use.

oCompleted UI5 and Fiori development in the cloud training with SAP, certificate provided. Built Fiori applications as part of the training using multiple tools such as Web Ide, mock-up tools, Netweaver Gateway oData and Fiori enhancement framework.

oIdentify training required for our development team and engage the team in related development activities before they attend training

oMaintain and Execute the development quality checklist and update the Development Enhancement Process

oMaintain and validate ongoing development activities as a Technical Lead

oCreate New Development Guidelines for Hana ABAP procedures and reporting

oDevelopment Charms reviews and approvals

oReview, reject or approve development incidents root cause analysis in SNOW

oPerform Quality Audits on SAP Developments

oMaintain and Execute Code Inspector Process for development batches

oIdentify and resolve development conflicts arising from simultaneous developments

SAP Senior Developer, Oct 2001 – April 2004

Completed high complexity developments, interfaces, conversions, reports, and enhancements. Applied expertise by providing guidance to our teams, such as developers and business analysts.

Owned and met milestones on the 4-year Common Financial Initiative CFI SAP project, which successfully launched and led to multiple new initiatives and opportunities.

Enhanced SAP system with industry-specific requirements, including adding multiple fields into core modules (FI and MM), below is a sample of developments I performed

oExtended major SAP FI/CO/GL tables such as Bseg and Mseg and adjusted impacted transactions and programs to integrate these new fields into impacted business scenarios. A very complex and deeply integrated development which has impacted on most of SAP critical transaction in FI, AP, AR, MM, SD and PS modules.

oAdded user exits to various SAP code and remote function calls to adopt them to perform functions specific to Warner Bros.

oUtilized SAP field movements, substitutions and user exits to fulfill FI/GL/CO unique requirements.

oCreated numerous outbound and inbound interfaces utilizing flat files, xml, Idocs, BDC and LSMW. Also automated email notifications and logging to track all interfaces activities.

oWorked with functional and business owners to analyzed business gaps and either found SAP solutions for these gaps or developed SAP programs or RFCs to full fill the gaps requirement.

oAdvised functional analyst to replace some gaps with existing SAP programs or code with little modifications or enhancements thus reducing complexity while staying close to SAP standards.

oProvided recommendations during design phases and alerted functional analyst to potential gaps in their requirements and test cases. Recommended design changes and additional test cases to ensure overall understanding and expectations.

oWorked closely with various functional teams in debug mode to help them understand who the system works and together we were able clearly document development requirements, test cases and associated scripts.

oRecommended and implemented self-testing custom developments and associated test cases.

oAdded self-help and user guide to every custom development we created to ensure that all users have direct easy system access to execution instructions and expected results.

Debugged custom code as well as SAP code to address systems errors, end user complaint and functional analyst concerns for many SAP transactions and programs. In rare cases and with prior approval from management; I reluctantly had to perform Debug with Change in the production systems to adjust and correct live data which were necessary to complete monthly and quarterly financial closing and associated reports.

Replaced flat file based banking interfaces with DMEE (Data Medium Exchange Engine) for the FI/AP module thus enhancing our capabilities to adjust and modify these interfaces while minimizing cost of new modifications to existing programs as banks change their data structures, reduce overall cost related to bank-interface-developments and standardized banking related developments.

Trained four non-SAP developers on SAP development, they are currently SAP senior developers or technical leads.

Documented procedures for development cycles and quality-testing procedures as well as templates for functional specifications, technical specifications, and quality assurance check list.

Enhanced development process by adding procedures to trigger the engagement of cross-functional teams, such as the operating system unit (Basis) or the database administrators, to safeguard custom developments, performance, and quality.

Developed an online catalog for custom developments created an interface status logging and automated email notifications sent to interface business owners

Proficient in SAP developments and adjustments. Below are few samples of the development objects I completed, designed, enhanced or modified:

oFORM-00008 Purchasing Documents-General Output form

oEN00036 Derive MPM numbers from project WBS element master record

oCV00222 Profit Center Master Data conversion

oIN0040 JGL Inbound into SAP

oIN0214 Exchange Rate Interface from 3rd Party

oIN0263 Excel Journal Entry Upload to ECC

oREP-00431 Group MPM Reconciliation / Master Data Report

oFOR-00066 - Miscellaneous Receivable Credit Memo forms

oEN00113 - Group MPM Validations Enhancement

oEN00107 - Split Out of Group MPM

oEN00109 - Substitutions for By-Title Allocation

oEN00125 - SPL User Exits for special releases

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANCY, El Sequndo, CA. Nov 2000 – Aug 2001

SAP Senior Consultant; Senior Consultant

Strengthened SAP implementation projects across industries for major companies. Clients and projects include the following:

THQ

Handled post-production support for organization’s SAP-SD/GL/AP and e-Business.

Updated several ABAP reports to accept new company codes.

Customized a copy of SAP standard trial balance and balance sheets reports.

Developed a program to provide COMSHARE (an e-Business based budgeting and planning software) with SD and GL data.

Enhanced FTP based interfaces with an automated problem-resolutions program that detected and informed users (via inbox) about resolved and outstanding issues.

Provided troubleshooting to identify missing required data and repair an inbound interface, which supplied SAP with invoice data.

Identified inconsistent business processes and recommended resolutions and standardization to enhance sales management reporting.

Interviewed applicants on behalf of the client and developed a client-specific matrix to assist the client in hiring talented SAP technical developers. As a result:

oTHQ now has the mechanism to validate potential employees or contractors

oReduced costs associated with hiring unqualified contractors

oEstablished new procedures for overall contracted services

INFORMIX

Consulted on and completed SAP project implementation, analyzing, designing, mapping, and converting material master and customer master data.

KONAMI

Modified existing inbound SD interfaces with new requirements.

Assisted the user with the billing due list report and updated custom reports due to an upgrade to SAP 4.5B.

DELOITTE CONSULTING, Foster City, CA. Jan 1999 – Sep 2000

Senior Consultant

Clients: Pioneer (Electronics Industry), Department of Water (Government, DWR), DIRECTV (Entertainment Industry), HP (Manufacturing Industry) and Pacific Corp (Power & Utilities)

Performed custom developments (programs, RFCs, custom tables, and table maintenance) to enhance inbound ALE/IDOC interfaces error reporting and handling. Served as liaison to our remote development unit, which partially supported custom developments. Developed ABAP AR/AP postings reports, fixed assets acquisition and depreciation report, sales tax report and the material-to-plant extension program.

Enabled the user to customize ALE/IDOC messages.

Engaged in the development of a pilot program where HP-SAP configurable materials (BOM) were Web enabled.

Developed the SAP remote function modules (as an API) and procedures necessary to pass the information to a Visual Basic program.

Enhanced and updated Live-Interface (a mapping and conversion middleware) program that process account receivable invoices.

Implemented sales report custom enhancements.

Developed inbound interfaces for processing ALE/EDI Delivery-confirmations and goods movements.

Developed inbound and outbound Citibank checks data interfaces.

Conversion of Customer master, GL master, GL balances, and fixed assets master and transactional data.

Developed material stocks statistical report.

Developed specification documents, technical documentation, user documentation and training. As a result:

oA new template for technical requirement is established as a standard document

oUser documentation became a standard deliverable for all custom object developments

oTraining docs became standard deliverables for all custom object developments

EARLY CAREER

ARAMCO, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Feb 1989 – Aug 1998

SAP; Computer Applications

Spent about 11 years with the organization in technical capacities, with most recent position in the SAP group with the analysis and implementation team for 50,000 employees. Began career as a Computer Operator in Computer Applications and earned promotion to Developer and Senior Developer (COBOL systems AP/AR/GL/MM/SD). Highlighted achievements include:

Successfully mapped and converted vendor’s master data, AP&AR data, GL accounts, and cost centers.

Developed several inbound and outbound interfaces between SAP GL/AP/AR modules and an in-house legacy (COBOL) transportation system residing on an OS390 mainframe - ABAP/COBOL.

Created the following SAP ABAP reports: Capital Program Appropriation report, Project Planning Update report and the Monthly Project Update report.

Coordinated, tested and evaluated NFS (Network File System) as a tool to transfer data across two interfacing platforms (SunOS-UNIX) and (IBM OS390 MVS.)

Analyzed ALE, IDOC and EDI, and became fully skilled with R/3 4.5 Data Transfer Workbench – ABAP.

Created the 'Common Edit Module', which is used by many in-house applications as the default master data validation routine.

Migrated financial systems programs from Jobtrac to ENDEVOR software management tool.

Assisted in the Y2K data conversion analysis.

Resolved many after-hour trouble reports associated with financial applications systems.

EDUCATION

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, STANISLAUS, Turlock, CA April 1987 May 1992

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

CERTIFICATIONS

Completed: S/4 Hana installation and fundamentals (April 2016); ITIL Foundation (November 2013); Scrum Master (August 2013); Project Management Professional, PMP (January 2012); Business Information Warehouse (May 2001)

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