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Raghavendranath Garlapati

Senior Consultant

USA

adir4z@r.postjobfree.com - +1-414-***-****

Around 15+ years of experience in System analysis, Design and Development of software solutions for business applications and ERP applications in SAP Fiori, UI5, SAP Enterprise Portal, Knowledge Management&TREX, Webdynpro (ABAP and JAVA) UI Development, Composite Application Framework, XML Form Builder, ESS/MSS Portal Customization skills for SAP modules.

Experience in SAP Release management and change management. Experience in handling transports moving from Dev to QA to Production.

Demonstrated experience with implementations, rollouts, production support, and upgrade projects; and experienced in understanding the business requirements and the legacy systems to map the requirements onto SAP.

Having experience in conducting project status review meetings to meet project deadlines.

Experience in handling cutovers related to projects having five system landscape from project dev to production system.

Worked on Release Management activities like Starting from Creation of phase cycles for the projects and handling calls and follow up on production releases.

Plan and execute SAP Weekly release changes, Minor and Major releases.

Worked on Webdynpro. Experience with the design and development of Webdynpro (ABAP and JAVA) applications.

Experience in OData service for consumption for UI5 applications.

Expertise in SAP Portal, SAP Fiori, UI5 and SAP Screen Personas development and deployment.

Developed a custom UI5 application to integrate in Fiori.

Had experience in integrating Fiori applications to Mobile Fiori Client.

Created new tiles and integrated the UI5 application in the Launchpad using LPD_CUST.

Implementation experience of SAP for across various industries like Energy, Utilities and Services.

Experienced in 5 full life-cycle implementations and experienced in successfully working directly with users to troubleshoot issues, participating in technical meetings, conducting user training, and providing support for production systems

Effective Team Leader with excellent work/time management skills and cross functional awareness

Proficient & expertise in gathering requirements and developing Technical Design

Experienced in planning, execution and control of project milestones.

Can work in a self-directed environment and be committed to results

Developing user manuals and detailed knowledge transfer documents for Post Implementation Support through Help-Desk

Experience in Customizing ESS/MSS applications.

Creation of System objects.

Expertise in developing the portal application using KM APIs.

Experience in integrating BI reports into Portal.

Creation of Theme, Framework Page, Desktop Rules based on users.

Transporting the portal content in the landscape.

Experience in upgrading/Migration of portal.

Custom applications of HR modules designed and hosted on the portal.

Importing Adaptive RFC models, which are used to connect SAP R/3 from WDP Project.

Configuring JCo Destinations for connection to R/3 System.

Configuring Systems Landscape Directories

Role Distribution from portal to SAP R/3, Role upload from SAP R/3 to Portal.

Knowledge about ABAP, BW Concepts.

Knowledge of SAP Netweaver Architecture.

Responsible for testing & certifying the modules after customization.

Hands on experience in Web IDE, Eclipse and NetWeaver Development Studio IDE’s.

Debugging code and fixing bugs.

Familiarity with SAP Solution Manager and Knowledge Management Processes.

Release and Change Management Experience : Working in cutover activities, planning quarterly releases, creating change requests for go-live, reviewing the changes whether testing evidence and approvals in place, checking sequence/dependency instructions while moving the transports across the landscape. Conducting CAB meeting and reviewing the weekly release changes, moving the changes to production via charm /QGM as per the defined process. Working with different project PMO’s and PM’s by status review meetings and analyzing the risk. Planning all quarterly releases which include minor and major changes.

Wiorking with Basis during upgrade activities. Maintaining release plan and scheduler for all the releases. Debugging and resolving transport related issues by coordinating with Basis team.

Solution manager configuration, creating change control landscape and also change cycles for Charm and QGM.

Having experience on 5 system landscape(Project Dev, Project QA, Support Dev, Support QA, Prod).

Experience on Downgrade protection and retrofit. Issue resolution during downgrade conflicts before moving the changes to production.

Scheduling auto import jobs for QA systems at regular intervals.

Resolving day to day solution manager problems and also issues related to Charm and QGM for end users.

Having experience in conducting weekly release meetings starting from creating target releases, reviewing the changes, conducting CAB meetings, creating service now change request and getting business approvals, and moving the changes to production with the help ok task list import.

Creating change cycles for each release and advancing charm and QGM scenarios for smooth transport mechanism.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Consultant(SAP EP/Fiori Consultant)

Infosys - December 2015 to Present

It involves supporting various SAP Applications and environments such as Supply chain management, Sales and Purchasing, Finance & Controlling, Manufacturing system and Human Capital Management systems at Harley Davidson. Standard and regular application support and maintenance activities involved are: Incident management, Service Request management, Problem management. Apart from the mentioned activities the project also involves Interface Monitoring, Minor Enhancements, Change and Release Management, Support of Business Events such as Model Year Launces, Dealer Shows. Minor enhancements, Small size projects, Kernel and Support Pack Upgrades are also in the scope of this engagement.

Key Responsibilities

Support User interface in Webdynpro JAVA/ABAP and integrating the application in SAP Enterprise Portal.

Invloves in design, build, unit testing and Go-live phases.

Offshore cooridinationand closely working with client for day to day support and release management activities.

Responsible for ensuring SLA's. Support in incident, Service Request, Problem Management, Change Management and coordination with cross functional teams to ensure quality and maintain SLA's.

Conducting SAP Board review meeting, reviewing the weekly defects that are moving to production Supporting on cutover activities.

Working on SAP Release and Change Management Process.

Give inputs in solution design based on areas of expertise, conduct solution/product demonstration and POC/proof of technology workshops like SAP UI5/Fiori and Solution Manager..

Prepare effort estimates which suite the customer budgetary requirements and to deliver a proposal acceptable to the customer.

Work on 'Go Live' activities as per the Implementation Plan and manage any issues that may arise

Respond to the issues assigned, conduct analysis, suggest / implement work-around, and close the assigned issues as per the agreed timelines / SLA

Attending meeting with offshore and onsite team.

Estimating and evaluating the new work.

Preparing the resource Plan and Technical Design documentation.

Technology Environment: SAP EP 7.3, Webdynpro ABAP and JAVA, UI5, SolMAN, HPQC

SAP Enterprise Portal/UI5 Consultant

Infosys Technologies Limited - January 2011 to Present

Senior Consultant

Infosys Technologies Limited - September 2014 to October 2015

SCE plans to implement Facility Management System to streamline business process, overcome the limitations with existing applications and improvement initiatives to meet organizational goals.

The objective of this project is to develop an application for corrective maintenance, Onboarding/Off-Boarding, move request applications in Webdynpro ABAP UI and UI5 technology.

Key Responsibilities

Implement PoC to meet the business needs with SAP UI5/Fiori.

Implemented SAP Fiori Launchpad in SAP Portal

Understand the requirements (both functional and Technical) by going through the specifications and inputs from Business Analysts.

Develops a proposal by owning parts of the proposal document, give inputs based on secondary research.

Give inputs in solution design based on areas of expertise, conduct solution/product demonstration and POC/proof of technology workshops.

Prepare effort estimates which suite the customer budgetary requirements and to deliver a proposal acceptable to the customer.

Work on 'Go Live' activities as per the Implementation Plan and manage any issues that may arise

Respond to the issues assigned, conduct analysis, suggest / implement work-around, and close the assigned issues as per the agreed timelines / SLA

Attending meeting with offshore and onsite team.

All team lead activities

Working on Webdynpro ABAP using Floor plan manager as part of the team.

Estimating and evaluating the new work.

Preparing the resource Plan and Technical Design documentation.

Technology Environment: SAP EP 7.3, Webdynpro ABAP and JAVA, UI5.

Technical Lead

ORPIC - May 2013 to July 2014

ORPIC Enterprise Portal is implemented for their complete ESS (Employee Self Service) and MSS (Manager Self Service) activities. SAP Enterprise Portal provides a user interface for raising the leave and travel requests, for updating the personal information, for downloading the pay slips etc

Key Responsibilities

Taking knowledge Transfer from the SAP Enterprise Portal counterpart.

Preparing application Information document.

Supporting Day to day incidents within the SLA.

Customizing ESS/MSS applications in Webdynpro based on client requirement.

Customizing UWL Configurations.

Creating Portal objects and working on SAP Enterprise Portal transports.

Integration of BI/BW reports in SAP Enterprise Portal.

Technology Environment: SAP Enterprise Portal 7.3, Webdynpro

SAP EP Lead

PWC Journal Entry Process - July 2012 to April 2013

The objective of this project is to prepare a new comprehensive, more intuitive and optimized design, keeping the functionality as far as possible unchanged from current. Old Journal entry process is currently running as Lotus notes application and is only semi-automated. Current users of the application face a lot of issues during the entire process of submitting the request and getting it approved. The new application which was developed in Webdynpro JAVA is streamlined and automated most of the process.

Key Responsibilities

Understand the requirements (both functional and Technical) by going through the specifications and inputs from Business Analysts.

Develops a proposal by owning parts of the proposal document, give inputs based on secondary research.

Give inputs in solution design based on areas of expertise, conduct solution/product demonstration and POC/proof of technology workshops.

Prepare effort estimates which suite the customer budgetary requirements and to deliver a proposal acceptable to the customer.

Work on 'Go Live' activities as per the Implementation Plan and manage any issues that may arise

Respond to the issues assigned, conduct analysis, suggest / implement work-around, and close the assigned issues as per the agreed timelines / SLA

Attending meeting with offshore and onsite team.

All team lead activities

Working on Webdynpro Java as part of the team.

Estimating and evaluating the new work.

Preparing the resource Plan and Technical Design documentation.

Technology Environment: SAP EP 7.0

Technical Lead

Baker Hughes POWER - January 2011 to June 2012

This project involves providing implementation, production support and maintenance services. The work also would involve developing enhancements to existing functionality, rollouts and implementation. This SAP program includes the following the key projects 1) SAP Solution Implementation 2) Production Support

&Maintenance 3) Rollouts This is an end-to-end application development project involving requirements elaboration, design, build, testing, implementation and support. A prototype will be developed as a part of this

effort to proof out the proposed solution. As SAP Enterprise Portal Consultant he involved in the following activities: 1. Understand business requirements 2. Specification and review of Technical Specifications for solutions.3. Development of solutions in SAP 4. Testing of solutions 5. Deployment of Solutions

Key Responsibilities

Understand the requirements (both functional and non-functional) by going through the specifications and inputs from Business Analysts.

Develops a proposal by owning parts of the proposal document, give inputs based on secondary research.

Give inputs in solution design based on areas of expertise, conduct solution/product demonstration and POC/proof of technology workshops.

Prepare effort estimates which suite the customer budgetary requirements and to deliver a proposal acceptable to the customer.

Work on 'Go Live' activities as per the Implementation Plan and manage any issues that may arise

Respond to the issues assigned, conduct analysis, suggest / implement work-around, and close the assigned issues as per the agreed timelines / SLA

Weekly meeting with offshore and onsite team.

All team lead activities

Working on Webdynpro Java as part of the team.

Estimating and evaluating the new work.

Preparing the resource Plan and Design documentation.

Involved in migration of CE 7.1 to CE 7.2

Technology Environment: Composite Environment (CE 7.1 & CE 7.2)

Senior Portal Consultant

Yara International - July 2009 to January 2011

As a Senior Consultant,

Coordinate with the team and basis team.

Giving overall weekly report to my Manager about the portal activities.

Implemented Webpage composer pages. These pages gives more look and feel and flexible while we access internet.

ICE Online Transfer: KM Content will automatically refresh from production to test and dev systems. This is a very good feature that I suggested to client.

Lotus Notes Integration: As client is using Lotus Notes, we integrated lotus notes with current portal system. So users can send mails directly from the portal.

KM Subscription: This is a very good feature that I suggested to client and they agreed to implement. This feature helps the super users to get email notifications on every event like delete, modify and creation of documents on a particular folder.

Apart from the above activities we daily support the client on day-to-day issues like error in search, customization of par files etc.

Logon page is customized as per the client requirement.

Create new pages and iviews for any new section as per client requirement.

Developed new layout set for displaying the news as per the client requirement.

Senior SAP Enterprise Portal Consultant

IBM India Pvt Limited - August 2006 to January 2011

SAP Consultant

Yara International - July 2007 to December 2010

It is a Yara International Transition Project. Yara has selected IBM to be the new global IS service provider. The proposed scopes of services with IBM are Global Service Desk, Site IT Services, Hosting (Central and distributed), Wide Area Network, Application maintenance, Application Development and security services.

Team Size: 3

Position: Portal Consultant

senior portal consultant I implemented below tasks

Yara International - July 2008 to June 2009

Collaboration rooms: Used for sharing the content among the teams

XML Templates: developed xml templates which are used to publish articles and news by super users. Super users can directly use these templates and publish the news without the support of developers

Quick Polls: Implemented quick polls for the client where organization needs some review of their employees. We can post question in the form of polls and get the feedback with the help of poll results.

Taxonomies: Implemented taxonomies for classifying the documents and filtering the documents. These taxonomies are very useful for filtering the documents from thousands of documents.

Web trend Integration: Web trends are integrated with portal. This is very much useful to the client for monitoring the pages iviews and also upto minute news. Based on this client can identify what pages and iviews users are mostly interested and which content is not visiting.

Page Layout: Developed new page layouts as per client requirement. This requires NWDS. We need to create Par files.

Apart from the above activities we continuously support on daily support tickets and resolve the issue before the due date.

Manager

Yara International - July 2007 to January 2008

Yara has selected IBM for supporting their intranet portal. I traveled couple of times to Norway for business

discussions with client.

My Responsibilities are

Estimated the resources required for supporting the current portal system. Traveled to Norway for understanding the system landscape and the number of users using the resources. Based on the tickets and the areas in the portal, I estimated the resource.

Prepared the Joint Verification Report as a start and reporting to my Manager.

Went to Norway for taking Knowledge Transfer and prepared a detailed documentation on the system landscape.

Understanding the current portal system and its components

Coordination in migrating the portal servers and all its dependencies like LDAP etc

Coordination with Network team for enabling the portal and infrastructure.

Specific Responsibility:

As a SAP Enterprise Portal consultant to support team Raghavendra has involved in following area:

•Went to onsite for meetings and business discussions with client (Yara/HISP).

•Prepared Joint Verification Report which is accepted by IBM and client in the first phase.

•Went to onsite for Knowledge Transfer and Migration of servers to IBM Environment.

•Supporting from offshore.

•Content Migration from EP 6.0 to EP 7.0 manually.

•Portal admin activities like monitoring portal activity reports, maintaining collaboration rooms, transporting the content from dev to quality and from quality to Prod etc

•Creating XML Templates using XML Form Builder.

•Creating Taxonomies

•Working on Knowledge Management and TREX and supporting from offshore.

•Worked on Quick polls and Image Maps.

•Worked on webtrend Integration in portal

•Worked on Page Layouts.

•Worked on Web Page Composer for developing web pages.

•Configured and implemented KM Content ICE online transfer.

•Integration of Lotus Notes with Portal

•Implemented KM Subscription Notification

Trainings and Certificates

•Top contributor and a member in the Community Hall of Fame in SAP EP and Knowledge Management in current (Aug-2008 to July-2009 and Aug-2009 to July-2010) contest in SAP Developer Network.

•He is also having 4100 Points in SDN (SAP Developer Network). He also received 'Certificate of Appreciation' from SAP in both Enterprise Portal and Knowledge Management.

•Attended Advanced Webdynpro workshop in SAP Labs Bangalore.

•Attended EP200 (Portal System Administrator) workshop from SAP Labs.

•Published one article on SAP KM Subscription and one blog on XML template in SAP Enterprise Portal in SAP Developer Network Community.

•Completed certification from open SAP on 'Developing Web Apps with SAP Ui5' and received 'record of achievement' from SAP with 98% score.

•Completed certification in SAP Screen Personas in open SAP

•Completed Certification in Building Portal sites on SAP Cloud Platform

•Completed Certification on Developing Java based apps in SAP Cloud Platform.

Technical Environment: SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0, 7.0

SAP Portal Consultant

IBM India Pvt Limited - April 2007 to May 2007

It is an IBM Internal Project. NPDI is the most important process for many companies and is responsible for the revenues and margins that a company can achieve and its ultimate value. NPDI starts with the identification of an opportunity and ends with the successful launch of the product. In between there are many activities to define the requirements, develop and test a product concept, fully define and develop the product, source for suppliers involved, plan the marketing and supply chain, and prepare marketing programs Specific Responsibility:

As a Team member support team Raghavendra has involved in following area:

•Developing Transaction IViews, Pages, Worksets and Roles using the standard transaction codes for Custom Engineering Change Management (ECM) form.

•Developing Transaction IViews, Pages, Worksets and Roles using the standard transaction codes for Custom Document Management System (DMS) and Material Management.

•Created views, pages, roles and assigning those roles to corresponding users.

Technical Environment: SAP Enterprise Portal 7.0

Senior Software Engineer

Patni Computer Systems - April 2006 to July 2006

Senior Software Engineer

Patni Computer Systems - April 2006 to July 2006

It is a Patni Internal project which got certified from SAP Labs. Inventory Optimizer is a Composite application framework, which was developed in CAF GP (Guided Procedure). The main objective is to identify slow moving inventory based on Future Forecast rather than past material movements and non-performing SKU's based on profitability thresholds. Inventory Optimizer has been catered for two different audiences; one for officers who uses system and raise request and another is for manager who will approve the requests have risen. Specific Responsibility:

As a Team member of 4 support team Raghavendra has involved in following area:

•Developing Development Component (GP Interface) WebDynpro IViews using SAP NWDS7.00 as a Development Tool and SAP Web Application Server 7.0 as Application Server.

•Created a process in CAF GP(Guided Procedure), which involves creating callable objects, actions and blocks.

•Created users, views, pages, roles and assigning those roles to corresponding users.

Technical Environment: SAP Enterprise Portal/ SAP Net Weaver Developer Studio 7.0.0.

Senior Software Engineer

Saudi Aramco Vendor and Supplier Portal - August 2005 to April 2006

A Growing number of internet-based applications have been deployed to facilitate business communication

between Saudi Aramco and its business partners. The main objective of the supplier portal is to provide

suppliers with secure, unified web based access to view and update information related to their business

processes. Suppliers are defined as all the external entities that provide materials to support Saudi Aramco

operations and represented by the Material Supplies Department. My SAP Portal Design Team proposes to

implement the Saudi Aramco Supplier Portal using a phased approach to attain the following key components

of the project scope.

Scope:

•Supplier Login Page: Provide Suppliers with login capabilities from the web.

•Help and Support Model: Provide Suppliers with 24/7 support to log and resolve supplier's inquiries.

•Display purchasing documents related information: This will provide suppliers with a feature to view/download Acknowledged PO's, Not Acknowledged PO's, Change Orders, Material Delivery Document (MDD) and RFQ's

•Search: Provide Suppliers with powerful search feature to search for all purchasing documents related to the logged in supplier.

Specific Responsibility:

•Developing WebDynpro IViews and deploying them in WAS Server

•customizing the webdynpro Iviews in Portal.

•Development of portal content like iviews, pages for the above scenarios.

Technical Environment:

SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Net weaver Developer Studio.

Software Engineer

Motorola India Pvt Ltd - September 2004 to March 2006

Software Engineer

McCormick Time Entry System - January 2005 to July 2005

The new system should capture Time/Efforts of GBS personnel and resources working on various projects and give ability to bill the customers (Project sponsors-Business units/functions). This would also help in meting the documentation requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley. The transactions of entering efforts (hours), maintenance of data (resources, projects) and administrative functions need to be web enabled. Access should be maintained via McCormick Portal Application.

Specific Responsibility:

•Developing WebDynpro IViews and deploying them in WAS Server

•customizing the webdynpro Iviews in Portal.

•Development of portal content like iviews, pages for the above scenarios

Technical Environment:

SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Net weaver Developer Studio.

Non-SAP Work Experience

Software Engineer

E-Sourcing Portal - October 2004 to December 2004

This is a Portal based Application (Patni internal Project). Portal Captures resource requirements from different Sales/Account/Practice Managers. This requirement sent to vendors who upload candidate resumes online. The portal then racks the resume processing providing alerts, inputs and update windows t various stages. Also have analytical reports to help managers to monitor and analyze performance. This portal can be accessed through internet from any part of the world. Hence consultants (vendors) and recruitment team of Patni can access the following features through web.

•Vendors can upload resumes by using this portal.

•They can see the status of candidates, whose resume has forwarded by them.

•Recruitment team can check this resume repository for selecting candidates as and when required.

•If a candidate is selected/rejected then an auto-generated mail goes to respective vendor and patni recruitment team.

Raghavendra has the responsibility in doing analysis of the requirements and creation of the requirement analysis documents, creating design specifications, developing code and installation and configuration of servers.

Amarta Lifes and Pensions (sept'04 to Oct'04)

Team Size: 5

Position: SoftwareEngineer

Liberata is one of the major insurance BPO of UK. It has an existing UNIX and Informix based system named Amarta that is used to maintain the data of its clients regarding insurance policies. The system also performs a number of complex calculations in life, pension and other policies. Study of the Amarta System involved understanding the details of Insurance and Life Policies. It also involved an intensive study to understand the existing test cases provided by Liberata.

Raghavendra was involved in study of Amarta System and the Amarta UI Process, study of Informix 4GL Environment and documentation of the knowledge gained from the study.

Event Correlation Services Using XML (Jan'04 to Aug'04)

Today's severe, practical problem of network, systems and application management is the inappropriate management events. If a problem in the managed system occurs, e.g., a fault or a performance bottleneck, the administrator often is flooded by a burst of more or less meaningless events indicating some symptoms of the problem. The aim of the event correlation service developed is to reduce the number and enrich the meaning of the events. Ideally the event correlator is able to condense the received events to a single event directly indicating the problem in the managed system.

•Study of Core Java, Java Swing and XML.

•Study of Network Management System.

•Designed and developed front-end using Java Swing. •Developed Business logic through java and XML.

Trainee

- January 2004 to August 2004

EDUCATION

Master of Technology in MTech

NIT Warangal-Deemed University - Warangal, Andhra Pradesh 2002 to 2004

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering

S.R.K.R Engineering College - Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh 1998 to 2002

Board of Intermediate Education in Jagarlamudi Kuppu Swamy Chowdary College - Guntur, Andhra

Pradesh

Secondary School Certificate

Luthern English Medium School - Guntur, Andhra Pradesh 1

SKILLS

SAP Portal (10+ years), Webdynprop JAVA (9 years), WEbdynpro ABPA (4 years), SAP UI5 (2 years), Fiori (1 year)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

SAP Skills

•Expertise in both SAP Enterprise Portal Development and Administration (application level).

•Having knowledge on MVC Architecture.

•Expertise on Advanced Webdynpro JAVA programming with Floor plan Manager.

•Expertise on Webdynpro ABAP programming which includes Floor Plan Manager.

•Experienced in creating iviews, pages, worksets and roles in SAP Enterprise Portal.

•Experienced in customizing SAP Portal Logon Page Customization, Masthead page customization.

•Experienced in developing the new page layouts in portal.

•Having knowledge on SAP UI5 and Netweaver Gateway and developed one prototype on SAP UI5 development.

•Experienced in creating XML templates using XML Form Builder which will be used in publishing news like content in SAP Enterprise Portal.

•Experienced in creating Knowledge Management repositories, KM iviews, KM Layouts and KM Search iviews in Enterprise Portal.

•Experienced in creating KM Subscriptions and Configuring KM permissions, KM Archiving etc.

•Experienced in webpage composer for displaying the KM content in SAP Enterprise Portal.

•Experience in Portal transports (using CTS+ and normal) like Portal object transports, KM transports (ICE transport), CM transport, Webdynpro transports.

•Worked on ESS/MSS Customization with respect to Webdynpro and Portal changes. ESS/MSS Portal iView customization, Universal worklist

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