Marilyn T. Andrus

314-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/marilynandrus adlm9q@r.postjobfree.com

Senior Sap Developer with extensive background in all SAP versions and functions for designing, developing, implementing and upgrading major financial applications. Known as the go-to person for resolving tough technical issues to improve company performance and spotting issues early before they become problems. Excellent at documenting processes and procedures. Mentors and trains others to ensure proper execution of tasks.

Professional Experience

MilliporeSigma (formerly Sigma-Aldrich) 1998 – 2020

MilliporeSigma, a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, has $1.9B in annual revenues and 10,000 employees.

Analyst, IT Technical Principal (2002-2020)

Designed and developed advanced business application programming (ABAP). Mentored developers in Europe and India. Conducted code reviews and assisted in escalated debugging issues. Interviewed and recommended prospective ABAP developers. Worked closely with finance, tax, sales, inventory and production planning users and functional analysts to obtain requirements. Handled SAP JIRA help desk tickets and reassigned functional personnel for resolution or developed technical specifications and reassigned to development team to solve the issue.

Designed and developed functionality in SAP ABAP for the inclusion of Corning Labware products, enabling Sigma-Aldrich to sell the products, accounting for $5.4M in increased sales.

Received company recognition as a team member in upgrading SAP to 4.6, then to SAP enterprise 4.7 for always having the job done before being asked.

Developed proof of concept and produced technical specifications to determine inventory values for a regional optimization project, saving the company $15M in consulting fees and providing an accurate accounting to significantly improve tax benefits year-over year.

Led the transition to a new credit card processor for the US and Canada, receiving vendor certification, saving transaction processing costs.

Solved a pricing issue by developing the technical specifications, coding and modifying the SAP ABAP programs, enabling customers to view all pricing information in a new platform.

Ensured flawless releases as a member of the change control team that reviewed items before release, determined their business impact, monitored go-live activities and resolved issues.

Senior ABAP Developer / Analyst (1998 – 2002)

Started at Sigma-Aldrich as a consultant in 1995 through the McKinley Group to install and implement American Software’s accounts receivable system. Hired in 1998. Maintained and supported most mainframe applications. Attended SAP classes in preparation of migrating mainframe systems to SAP. Worked with functional analysts and their documents to produce technical specifications for developers.

Delivered the technical specifications for a consolidated billing feature within the first six months, saving many high-dollar key customer relationships.

Assisted in migrating all mainframe applications to SAP, including invoice list, resulting in a single, standardized platform.

Designed and developed invoice lists in paper and electronic form using SAP development tool for the US, Canada, Japan and Australia, enabling summarized billing for several hundred customers.

Trained users on new billing feature, ensuring standardized learning and a smooth transition to the new tool.

Archived several AP, fixed assets and AR application files to CDs for historical data purposes, providing support for occasional litigation.

Archived sales data of orders from the legacy system that were not migrated to SAP, allowing for the decommissioning of the old ERP system.

Rewrote many assembler programs into COBOL counterparts, making it easier for developers to maintain.

Other Professional Experience

American Software Applications Analyst/Developer – The McKinley Group

Senior Programmer / Analyst – Simpson Paper Co.

Consultant – EPI Consulting

Education

Courses – SAP BC400 ABAP workbench; SAP BC460 SAPScript: Forms Design & Text Mgmt;

SAP BC410 Programming User Dialogs; SAP NET310 Fundamentals of ABAP Web Dynpr; SAP AC220 Special Ledger; SAP TAW10 ABAP ECC workbench; SAP E2E200 change control management; SAP SAH00E S/4 Hana Overview and Taxware Enterprise

Candidate, Woman’s External Degree program – St. Mary of the Woods

Math and Accounting courses – Purdue University

Technical Skills

Software: SAP R/3, SAP ECC6 (SD, FICO, CRM, COPA, EWM), SAP S/4 Hana, American Software

Applications: financials (AP, AR, GL, Special purpose ledger, invoice lists, COPA), Sales and distribution, Materials management, pricing

Languages: ABAP, COBOL, RPG, Assembler

Tools: All SAP development, debugging, and testing tools, BAPI’s (ex. BAPI-IDOC- INPUT1, BAPI-SALESORDER-CHANGE), BADI’s, enhancements activation and development (FI related to enhance CRM, TM, and UI interfaces), ABAP runtime analysis tool, RFC’s, SAPScript, Smartforms (checks, barcoded packing slips), SQVI, ALV reporting, Solman, SNOTE, DME, EDI, ALE, IDOCS, XML, FTP, MICR code, shell scripting, IBM JCL (DOS, OS), JIRA, Netweaver

External Interfaces: Taxware and Onesource tax interfaces, Paymentech and Elavon credit card authorization and settlement interfaces

Platforms: Unix, IBM mainframe

PC: Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint.

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