Sap Developer
Resume:
Rama Karthigai
(Senior SAP Consultant / Solution Architect)
Mobile
addpwc@r.postjobfree.com
Location
Phoenix, AZ
Professional Summary
Rama Karthigai is a Senior SAP Lead Consultant/Architect with over 19 years of experience in SAP Implementations, for various industries from electronics, publishing house, Oil and Natural Gas, Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Utility and Service
Exposure to various SAP Business processes from SAP HR/HCM, Successfactors Employee Central, Finance, Logistics, Supply Chain Management and Customer Relationship Management
He has full project life cycle experience from analysis and design to go-live includes project planning, configuration, quality assurance, testing, post-implementation report development and user training, and he has implemented technical implementation and upgrade projects using Waterfall and Agile Methodologies.
Had participated in 7 End to End implementations & 5 Upgrade / Support projects.
SAP Certified Development Consultant in ABAP.
SAP Certified Solution Consultant in Human Resources with mySAP ERP 2005.
SAP Successfactors Employee Central implementation and integration with SAP on premise payroll integration.
Rich and varied experience in SAP HR modules on different roles from Technical Development consultant, Senior Development consultant to HR Solution Consultant / Solution Architect.
Had worked on Personnel Administration (PA), Payroll (PY), Time Management (PT), Organization Management (OM), Personnel Development (PD), Enterprise Compensation Management, Performance Management/Talent Management, ESS and MSS.
Experience in Successfactors Employee Central – Data models, Foundational objects, Metadata Framework (MDF) and its various integrations from SAP on premise solutions, full Cloud options and integrations with third party vendors.
Knowledge of Employee Central Payroll, S/4 HANA Business suite applications.
Experience in Business Workflows, Conversions, Interfaces, Reports, Enhancements, Forms, Batch Data Communication techniques and LSMW.
Expertise in ABAP / BSP/ HTML / Java Script / Web Dynpro ABAP developments, UI5, Fiori.
Expertise in HR Forms Workplace in developing Remuneration Statements & Adobe forms
Expertise in HR Master Data & Payroll Interfaces to Third Party Payroll Systems
Had worked on time data interface from Kronos Workforce central to SAP Time Management, through CATS tool.
Had worked on Kronos Workforce central / Interface Manager.
Detailed knowledge of the US Payroll processes and procedures.
Expertise in SAP US Payroll Calculation process including payroll cluster, retro-calculation, taxation, arrears, claims, etc.
Configuring SAP US Payroll which includes Wage types, Garnishments, Taxes, Payroll/Third-party Postings, Bank transfers, Off-cycle Workbench, BSI Tax Factory, Tax Reporter, HR process model etc.
Had managed development teams in SAP HR implementations, support and delivery
Technical Skills
Development Skills
SAP ABAP, Smartforms, PE51 forms, HRFORMS, SAP WebDynpro ABAP, BSP, HTMLB, Java Script, CSS, XML, UI5, Fiori, etc.
RDMS/Connectivity
Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, MYSQL, JDBC
Operating System
Unix, Windows
Others
Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, ITSM, HP Quality Center, Microsoft Visio and Rally
Professional Certification & Training
TABC40 ABAP Workbench – SIEMENS INDIA – 2001
SAP Certified Development Consultant in ABAP – JAN 2002
EP150 JAVA Development in Enterprise Portal – KDC San Francisco USA - SEP 2006
SAP Certified Solution Consultant in Human Resources with mySAP ERP 2005 - DEC 2007
HR280 Adobe Interactive Form & Processes in HCM – AUG 2008
NET310 Fundamentals of Web Dynpro for ABAP
HR410 US Payroll
HR400 Payroll Management
Work Experience
American Airlines 18 May 2015 to till date
Working as an Senior SAP Configuration Analyst/Architect
Key Duties:-
Support and Enhance the current SAP HR Payroll system.
SAP Payroll configuration & testing activities for the New Payroll system.
SAP Payroll process design and Enhancement.
Design and support of Successfactors Employee Central integration with SAP on premise payroll integration with Dell Boomi.
Successfactors Employee Central implementation
Support all interfaces to/from Payroll system
Address: 1621 W Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281
Starbucks Coffee Company 06 Aug 2012 to 01 Apr 2015
Worked as an Application Developer II
Key Duties:-
SAP HR Payroll system day-to-day support and enhancement activities
Payroll interfaces support activities
Address: 2401 Utah Ave S, Seattle, WA 98134
Leprino Foods Company 15 Jun 2009 to 31 Jul 2012
Worked as an SSI Developer
Key Duties:-
SAP HR Payroll Project business blueprint, implementation and post-go-live support
Payroll configuration and development activities
SAP HR/HCM development lead
Address: 1830 West 38th Avenue, Denver, CO 80211
IBM Global Business Services 02 Jun 2004 to 10 Jun 2009
Worked as SAP Technical Solution Consultant in HR
Key Duties:-
SAP HR/HCM configuration & development activities
SAP HR and Payroll projects business blueprint, configuration, implementation, development and support
Address: 3039 Cornwallis Rd Durham, NC 27709
Siemens Business Consulting Services 03 Sep 2002 to 31 May 2004
Worked as an Senior System Engineer
Key Duties:-
SAP Development on SAP HR/HCM Payroll and HR processes implementation
SAP HR Payroll testing
SAP HR ABAP trainer
Address: 130, Pandurang Budhkar Marg, Worli, Mumbai – 400018, India
SAP Project Experiences:
American Airlines Group
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Work: Supporting existing Payroll system, Implementation of SAP Successfactors and SAP HCM Payroll
Modules: Successfactors Employee Central, SAP HCM Payroll
Period: Aug 2015 to till date
Role: Senior SAP Configuration Analyst / Developer
Supporting/enhancement of existing legacy SAP Payroll system, for payroll runs, interface loads, and all issues.
Successfactors Employee Central implementation.
Design and support of Successfactors Employee Central integration with SAP on premise payroll integration with Dell Boomi.
SAP Payroll configuration & testing activities for the New Payroll system.
Design, develop, testing of Time interfaces from Workbrain system.
Design, develop, testing of Benefit & 401K interfaces to vendors.
Support of Payroll runs in new payroll system, fixing replication failures between EC and ECC system for payroll runs.
Off-Cycle work bench activities, Bank transfer, SAP Finance posting and reconciliation processes.
Supporting HR support packs and BSI tax factory updates. Tax reporter activities
Follow agile process for Production system support enhancement.
Use HPQC tool to record and work on testing defects.
Other important activities:
oPayroll business knowledge and process design skills.
oUS tax model maintenance for each tax updates.
oHandling of end-to-end payroll processes, payroll clusters, payroll runs, off-cycle, 3rd party remittance, benefits and garnishments and process models for payroll.
oCustom schemas and rules for 401K and overpayment processing.
oGathering requirements from business users with ability to articulate and recommend appropriate SAP options, to enhance current system processes or build new system processes.
oSAP Payroll functional application with a strong understanding of the integration points.
Involved in resolving production support tickets by analyzing the error and guiding the configuration team to resolve issues.
Starbucks Coffee Company
Seattle, WA USA
Work: Enhancing and Supporting SAP HR Systems and processes, Kronos workforce central and Implementation of HR Self Services ESS/MSS & BI.
SAP ECC 6.0
Modules: Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Time Management, Payroll, Benefits, ESS & MSS and Finance.
Period Aug 2012 to May 2015
Role: Senior Application Developer
Supporting/Enhancement of the existing SAP HR systems & processes.
Building of the Payroll/time interfaces from Kronos Workforce Central to SAP system.
Implementation of the HR Self Services ESS/MSS.
Supporting of the HR Payroll systems in the year activities
Developing/Configuring the Remuneration statement using SAP Forms workplace & Adobe forms
Design & Development of SAP Workflows for various HR processes.
Supporting the Benefits systems interfaces and open enrollment processes.
Supporting and adding new functionalities to the existing ESS Application using BSP/HTMLB/Java Script.
Payroll to Finance posting interfaces
Leprino Foods Company
Denver, CO USA
Work: SAP Implementation & Go-live and Post Go-live Support
Project Name: SSI Project
SAP ECC 6.0
Modules:
1.HR (Hire to Retire)- Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Time Management, Payroll, Benefits, Self Service & BW/BI
2.Finance (FI), Supply Chain Management and Customer Relationship Management - FI, MM, SD, PP, PM, WM, QM, etc.
Period Jun 2009 to July 2012
Role: Application Developer / SAP HR Technical Lead
Gap analysis from AS-IS processes to AS-TO BE process for the HR processes followed in Leprino Foods.
Had handled all the development activities and involved hands-on on the HR developments.
Had been involved in the ESS & MSS configuration for implementing the HR process of Leprino Foods Company.
Had developed the various format Remuneration statements with MICR Check for Salaried/Hourly and ESS using HR Forms Workplace and Adobe Forms.
Had been involved in design and development of HR Benefit Interfaces using the standard out-of-box IDoc and EDI to send the files to various vendors. Implicit enhancements used for translation/mapping and filtering out un-used IDoc segments.
Managing and auditing all the weekly HR interfaces (Inbound & Outbound).
Enhancement of CATS for custom fields to use that for the inbound time interface from KRONOS to SAP for Hourly employees.
Implementation of HR/HCM reporting through SAP BI/BW
Training of HR personnel’s in using the SAP HR processes and HR ABAP training for the legacy system programmers.
Managing the EHP5 upgrade development activities in the HR area.
Had developed prototype for implementing the SAP TDMS system to scramble HR Personnel data when migrating HR data from Production system to non-Production systems. The same prototype can also be used for the non-HR business area too.
Had implemented/maintained SAP Workflow for Travel expenses approval/Leave Request approval. Had also done runtime analysis for various other standard/custom workflows for issues.
Order to Cash - Report for Sales orders with duplicate purchase order.
Order to Cash - Adobe form development for Ocean Bill of Lading.
Order to Cash – Enhancement/User exit to determine Customer FOB and Default Shipping Plant in the sales order, which drive customer freight pricing conditions.
Order to Cash – Report for Weekly price information for various important customers, once the Friday market rates are available from the Chicago mercantile exchange.
Purchase order (ME21n) performance tuning.
Order to Cash – Smartform development for Quotation Form.
Forecast to Stock – Adobe form development for Certificate of Analysis on demand and /or after PGI of a customer delivery.
Order to Cash – Adobe form development for consolidated order confirmation.
Forecast to Stock – Custom form for Trailer & Forklift inspected via RF device.(When order or STO)
Order to Cash – Adobe form development for Quality certificate & Certification of Origin and Free sale.
Order to Cash – Adobe form development for Export Packing List.
Order to Cash – Report for Pallet Reconciliation.
Forecast to Stock – Form development for Transfer Order.
Order to Cash – Form for Sales order confirmation.
Order to Cash – User exit for processing of transfer structures SD-FI
Forecast to Stock – Query for Transfer orders by user.
On-Call support for any SAP technical issues for Human Resources (HR/HCM), Finance (FI), Supply Chain Management and Customer Relationship Management.
Bristol-Meyers Squibb
Princeton, NJ USA
Work: SAP HR Implementation & Global Roll-out
Project Name: BMS HR Transformation
SAP ECC 6.0
Modules: EDM, Payroll, Benefits, Enterprise Compensation Management, Performance Management
Period Dec 2008 to Jun 2009
Role: Senior Developer
Had handled the Payroll & Benefits Interfaces configuration and developments.
Had used Interface tool box for interfaces where some countries outsource their payroll or exporting payroll results to third-party vendor for Benefits.
Hands-on configuration of PU12 Interface Layout & File Layout.
PU12 Change-Validation setup for Interface layout, which need only changed data to be exported
Translation & data mapping are handled at the PU12 File Layout level using User Exits.
Had done the development work for Compensation & Performance management developments.
Celanese Corporation
Dallas, USA
Work: SAP HR Implementation & Global Roll-out
Project Name: Convergence HR
SAP ECC 6.0
Modules: ESS/MSS, Payroll, Enterprise Compensation Management, Performance Management with Objective Settings.
Period: Feb 2008 to Dec 2008
Role: Lead Developer / Technical Solution Architect
Had designed, configured & developed the HR Outsourcing Payroll Interface tool box for exporting of HR master data & Payroll Data to third party vendor (PU12).
For the development of all the specifications and nomenclature of the objects, International templates are followed, so that the process can implemented for various countries.
Had used the data migration tool LSMW to transfer data to Personnel administration & Benefits.
Expert techno-functional consulting of Performance management & Enterprise Compensation Management.
Had guided the developers in building all the enhancements for Performance management & Enterprise Compensation Management required for implementing process gaps.
Had managed all the developments efforts in the Project. Also managed & trained the necessary development resources.
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
San Francisco, USA
Work: SAP HR Implementation, Post Go-live Enhancement & Support
Project Name: HR Payroll Project
SAP R/3 Enterprise
Modules: Enterprise Compensation Management, Performance Management with Objective settings, ESS, MSS, Organization Management, Personnel Administration, Payroll, Time Management, Benefits, & other HR processes Interfaces; which is linked with SAP HR systems.
Period: Apr 2006 to Feb 2008
Role: Senior Developer / Technical Solution Architect
Had been part of the business blueprint & gap analysis.
Had been part of the IMG configuration setup of Enterprise Compensation Management & Performance Management.
Had developed and implemented a custom program for Budget modeling & funding.
Had developed all the Business Add-ins for the Performance Management with Objective settings.
Custom smartforms for the compensation review statement & Appraisal document.
Developed custom reports & PD field infotypes for both Enterprise Compensation Management & Performance management.
Supported all the existing SAP HR applications & its enhancements.
Helped out the off-shore development team.
Portal developments for Performance Management & Enterprise Compensation Management.
Involved in Design of Legacy interface for the Training and Events management.
Key involvement in the feasibility study of using the standard interface between Training & Events Management and Time Management.
T-Mobile USA Inc
Bellevue, USA
Work: Implementation
Project Name: ELCMP2 / MyWorkLife 2
SAP R/3 Enterprise
Modules: Enterprise Compensation Management & Performance Management and FI interfaces.
Period: October 2005 to March 2006.
Role: Lead Developer
Had developed BADIs for Compensation Management module.
Column enhancements for Compensation planning sheet.
SAP Smart form development for Compensation notices in R/3 & notices in PDF format for Portal.
Developed Custom reports & Custom tables for FI and Payroll data.
Georgia-Pacific Corporation Limited
Atlanta USA
Work: Offshore- Development & Maintenances
SAP R/3 (Release 4.7, Human Resources USA)
SAP R/3 (Release 4.6C, Logistics Modules)
Project: SAP ABAP Development & Maintenance
Modules: HR & Logistics Modules
Period: September 2004 to September 2005
Role: Technical Solution Architect
Had to manage of all the developments activities related to Human Resources module.
Had developed Conversion Program for converting the human resource data of an acquired entity to Georgia-Pacific’s SAP HR system.
Worked in US Benefits & Health data file review automation (EDI 834).
Created dialog program & Custom tables for manual maintenance of program variants.
Worked in validating IDoc received through EDI 210 from Vendors & had to sent e-mails if any error in the Inbound IDocs.
Worked on Screen enhancements for LM12 transaction for different RF device mobile data entry.
Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC)
INDIA
Work: Implementation
SAP R/3 (Release 4.6B, India version payroll)
Project Name: SHRAMIK-Payroll
Modules: HR- India Payroll
Period: April 2003 to May 2004
Role: Lead Developer
Has to take care of all the developments in SHRAMIK Payroll.
Created many customer infotypes.
Enhancement of SAP standard infotypes and list Screen enhancements.
According to the Client’s vast requirements for its 45,000 employees, nearly for all the standard infotypes extra check had been written.
Good knowledge of SAP payroll system, like payroll run, payroll control record, periods, accessing of payroll results from cluster files (PCL2 Payroll result).
Development of HR forms Pay slips.
Process flow implementation with in ONGC hierarchy, checks and programs for all the allowances, loans, HRA, etc.
Extensive creation of customer reports, module pools, tables, etc.
Had been part of the testing team.
TATA Infomedia Limited
Prabhadevi, Mumbai
INDIA
Work: Implementation
SAP R/3 (Release 4.6C)
Project Name: TIL
Modules: HR-Personnel Administration/Training and Event & Logistics and Finance
Period: January 2003 to March 2003
Role: Developer
Responsibility for the implementation of Personnel Administration.
Worked in user exit and screen exits, especially in writing extra checks for data entry in infotypes.
Created a customer infotype for personnel administration official letters.
Created dialog programs for business event notifications in Training and Event Management module.
Created reports, user Exits and enhancements in FI, SD, MM, PP, PM.
EPCOS India Limited
Nashik, INDIA
Work: Implementation & Global Roll-out
SAP R/3 (Release 4.6B)
Project name: MOVE
Modules: SD, MM, FI, PP & PM.
Period: October 2002 to December 2002
Role: Developer
Responsibility for SD and MM application objects, including development of Technical specifications, Enhancement Requests and realization of the same.
For the development of all the specifications and nomenclature of the objects, in the MOVE project, International templates are followed as prescribed by SAP AG Germany; for the integration of all EPCOS companies worldwide.
My responsibility is also for modification and enhancement of FI and PP application objects according to the international template and hence new naming conventions, logic changes, new pricing procedures, taxations and legal requirements of India has to be satisfied.
For additional information for the development, Siemens Information systems development standards have been referred. Extensively worked on layout sets and customer reports for CENVAT, Octroi, etc
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
Contact this candidate