Senior SAP ABAP Developer / Technical Architect / 36+ yrs.

Location:

Bluff City, TN

Salary:

negotiable

Posted:

June 02, 2026

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Summary

Principal Level Technical Information Professional with 38+ years overall IT and 36+ years of experience in SAP Business Technology Solutions. Around 30 years of consulting experience including multiple international large global projects as well as localized implementation projects including several Blueprint phases throughout Germany and the United States (since 1996). Worked in different environments of SAP R2/R3, ECC, S/4 HANA & CRM, ABAP Development Frameworks and Architectures with a wide range of industry experience across several traditional SAP modules like FI, SD, MM, PP, QM as well as industry specific solution modules like IS-RETAIL and IS-AS and their related business processes. Has been constantly exposed to multi-national team cultures with both on and offshore teams. Levels of responsibility ranging from ABAP developer to technical architectural designer, onshore / offshore coordinator and technical development team leadership.

Professional Achievements

Completed 46 projects / engagements with 12 full life cycle implementations. 11 RICEF & PWRICEF software development life cycle (SDLC) & End-to-End implementations and 21 pre & post go-live technical support engagements and scoping projects including 4 Blueprint full life cycle projects.

Accomplishment Examples

Goodyear, Phoenix R2 Project 1996-1997:

-As the Technical Sr. SAP R2 ABAP Consultant, I successfully developed & delivered up to go-live a complex component of this project called “Compound Specification System” as part of the overall totally custom developed “Tire Specification System Frontend”. This bolt-on application allowed the Tire Engineers to compose chemical mixtures comprised of raw materials and semi-finished products (BOMs) based on specific formula required ratios and allowed variances. This matrix like application also offered functionality to navigate to material classification- /, BOMs, -/ Routings -/ and work centers changes without the need to change the transaction.

Boewe Bell & Howell, myBBH CRM 5.0 Project 2007-2008:

-As the Technical Sr. SAP CRM ABAP Consultant, I successfully developed & delivered including go-live the Messaging & Paging Escalation system process called “PECSYS” (Paging Escalation & Communication System)

-A complex custom solution to accommodate BB&H’s vision to automatically trigger some communi- cation to their field service technician’s Black Berry and/or RPA/RPM (Antenna software) Pager Service devices requesting an ETA once a Product Service Order has been created in CRM by the Customer Service Center.

Lockheed Martin, 1LMX Project 2023-2025:

-As the Technical Sr. SAP S/4 HANA ABAP Consultant, I successfully developed & delivered including UAT (User Acceptance Test) around ~15 SAP Fiori UI5 RAP (ABAP Restful Application Model) Applications built with OData V2 & V4 services used in the Fiori Launchpad (CDS Views on Released and Custom APIs)

Skill Areas

Technical:

-In SAP R/2 Rel. 4.1x, 4.3x, 5.0x, 6.1G / Modules: RS, RA, RF, RM-MAT /- PPS

oAssembler -/ Cobol programming, User Accounts Administration, System Administration, Basis, Tuning, DB Reorganizations, Archiving, etc.

-In SAP R/3 Rel. 2.2x, 3.0x, 3.1x, 4.0B, 4.5B, 4.6x, 4.7, SAP ECC 5.0 & 6.0

oPrimary modules: FI, SD, MM, MM-IM, HR (Mini Master & T&E Integration) into FI & CO, IS-Retail and Flexible Real Estate (REFX)

oSecondary modules: AFS, WM, QM, PP, PS (WBS, RRB), RF, IS-AS, EH&S

-S/4 HANA (1909):

oCode Remediation during Data Base Conversion project before HANA DB Migration & Enhancement Pack Upgrade

oProduction system support in existing as well as newly required and specified business functionality, modifying existing / developing new technical objects like e.g. Custom ALV Reports, Adobe Designer (Forms / Interfaces, Java Script), IDOC custom extensions, Proxy interfaces via output conditions trigger processes, Eclipse IDE 11.0 Tool, CDS Views, etc.

-S/4 HANA (2023):

oGREENFIELD NS2 Implementation with the latest cutting-edge versions of the Eclipse & BTP BAS Tool, RAP (ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model) for Fiori UI Application Development & Fiori Apps with Element Enrichments / Annotations, CDS Views, Released and Custom APIs, Meta Data Extensions, Behavior / Service Definitions, OData Service Bindings, Clean Core concept, ATC, Eclipse IDE 2024-03, Fiori Launchpad Tile creation, SAP AIF (Application Interface Framework) Monitor Tool Configuration for In- / Outbound Proxy Interfaces, Generative AI ABAP Assistant (Gtp-4o mini & Llama 3.3), etc.

-CRM 5.0 SM (Service Management) & WFM (Work Force Management)

-Overall SAP: Custom Frontend & Bolt-On Design Development within the new Development Framework, ABAP/4, ABAP OO (Object Oriented) & ABAP on HANA Development, BF-BTEs (Business Framework – Business Transaction Events), EEWB (Easy Enhancement Workbench), LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench), VFOM Environment, Interfaces (Flat Files, Proxy & IDOCS & Extensions,External RFCs), SPROXY & SXMB_MONI (Integration Engine Monitor), BADIs, BAPIs, Enterprise Services (Proxies & Web Service Consumption), ICF (Internet Communication Framework), Implicit / Explicit Enhancement Implementations (new enhancement switch framework), basic Workflow, XSLT Transformation, Menu -/ Screen Painter, Area menus, BDC (Batch input) Session Development, Call Transactions, Dialog Module Pools, Custom ALV / SALV Development, List & Interactive Reporting, SAP Standard Core Mods, Applying & Review of OSS Notes, DDIC, Data Conversions, SAP Script & Smartforms, Adobe Forms / Interfaces, Problem Analysis, Performance Tuning, Data Migration & Modelling, Job stream scheduling, CTS (Change and Transport System), Solution Manager ChaRM (Change Request Management) & Focus Build Tool, etc.

Middle Ware:

-BTP, SAP PI/PO, IBM ESB WebSphere Broker, SDA middle ware for Black Berry devices & RPA/RPM (Antenna software) Pager Service Devices, Flat file based via AL11 and BOOMI Platform

Methodologies:

-SAP Activate, Agile, JIRA and Confluence, Sprints and Lightning scrums

-ASAP (Accelerated SAP)

-Industry & SAP “Best Practice” as well as Business Process driven implementations and Strategies

Industries:

Cloud Technology Products & Services & Consulting Service

oDeloitte Consulting LLP (FTE) 2023-todate 2 years

oVirtustream, Atlanta, GA 202*-****-** months

oDeloitte Services LP (remote) 2021-2022 6 months

oIBM, Littleton, MA 2020 2 months

oVirtustream, Atlanta, GA (FTE) 018-2019 16 months

Agriculture, Food / Beverage & Consumer Products, Apparel Catalog business /e-Commerce, Retail, Apparel Footwear & Sports

oLuxottica (remote) 202*-****-** months

oSysco Corporation, Houston, TX 2013 3 months

oTBC Corp (Tire Kingdom), Juno Beach, FL 2012-2013 9 months

oAnn Taylor Inc., New York City, NY 2011-2012 5 months

oUlta Inc., Bolingbrook, IL 2011 2 months

oThe Jones Group, Bristol, PA 2011 4 months

oBrown Shoe, St. Louis, MO 2010 2.5 Months

oHannover Direct, Inc., Weehawken, Nj 2010 6 weeks

oDuda & Sons, Inc. Oviedo, FL 2006-2007 9 months

oHillyard, Inc., St. Joseph, MO 2002-2003 8 months

Automotive & Automotive Suppliers, Aviation, Aerospace & Defense

oLockheed Martin Corp. (remote) 2023-2025 2 years

oHoriba International Corp., Irvine, CA 2005-2006 7 months

oMercedes Benz US, Inc., Vance, AL 2004 6 months

oDeutsche Airbus AG, Speyer, Germany 1989-1991 2 years

Chemical & Oil

oOrion Engineered Carbons, Houston, TX 2017 2 months

oDelek US / Mapco, Brentwood, TN 2012 5 weeks

oOlin Corporation, Charleston, TN 2002 4 months

oInfineum Usa, Linden, NJ 2001-2002 9 months

o(Joint venture between Shell and Exxon Chemicals)

oCognis Corporation, Cincinnati, OH 2001 4 months

oEastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN 2000-2001 6 months

oHenkel Ecolab GmbH, Duesseldorf, Germany 199*-****-** months

oHuels Silicone GmbH, Dresden, Germany 1997-1998 7 months

oGoodyear Tire & Rubber, Akron, OH 199*-****-** months

High-Tech, Energy, Medical Devices Manufacturing & Life Sciences Sector

oBecton & Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ 2009 4 months

oAreva Nuclear Power Inc., Lynchburg, VA 2006 4+ months

oKyocera America, Inc., San Diego, CA 2005-2006 9 months

oPalm Inc. (palmOne Inc.), Sunnyvale, CA 2005 1 month

oPalm Inc., Santa Clara, CA 2003 5 months

Manufacture (Discrete & Repetitive)

oConstellium, Muscle Shoals, AL 2013-2017 3 yrs 10 moths

oNavman Wireless Holdings LP, Glenview, IL 2010 5 months

oBoewe Bell + Howell, Durham, NC 200*-****-** months

oFreudenberg Nonwoven. Group, Durham, NC 2000 5 months

oCalcomp Technology Europe, Neuss, Germany 1998 4 months

oNolte Moebel GmbH, Germersheim, Germany 1991-1995 3 yrs 9 moths

Media Services & Advertising

oAmercian Greetings Corp., Cleveland, OH 2009 2 weeks

oPhiladelphya Newspress, Philadelphia, PA 2005 2 weeks

oInterpublic Group, New York City, NY 2004-2005 6.5 months

Real Estate

oWalmart Corporate, Bentonville, AR 2012 5 months

Communication & Financial Services, Software & Insurance

oAlaska Communications, Anchorage, AK 2018 2 months

oSyncada, LLC, Memphis, TN 2010-2011 3 months

oClico (Trinidat) Ltd., Chaguanas, Trinidad 2007 2 weeks

oSabrix Inc., Lake Oswego, OR 2004 3 months

oPricewaterhouse Coopers LLP, Tampa, FL 2004 3 months

oAutodesk Inc.,San Rafael, CA 2000 5 months

oBsi Business Solutions Inc.Ft. Myers, FL 1999-2000 8 months

oMbg-Is mbH, Duesseldorf, Germany 1996 7 months

Languages

·German (native)

·English (fluent in speech & writing)

Education

·Master’s Degree, Business Analysis IT & Computer Science

BFW Heidelberg, Germany from 11/1987 - 10/1989

Certifications / Training Courses

·SAP Learning Hub

·Discovering SAP Business AI!

·January 2025

·openSAP course

·SAP Translation Hub in a Nutshell

·February 2018

·openSAP course

·SAP Screen Personas 3.0 Introduction

·March 2017

·openSAP course

·Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA

·February 2018

·openSAP course

·How to Best Leverage SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Your Company

·June/July 2017

·SAP ECC Course

·SMI410 Solution Manager Rel. 4.0

·in Orlando, FL 2007

·SAP R/3 Course

·SAP ASAP Methodology

·Ratingen, Germany 1999

·SAP R/3 Course

·CA110 (SAP Script I)

·CA120 (SAP Script II)

·Walldorf, Germany 1995

·SAP R/2 Course

·RS010, RS505, RS510, RS520 (Technical)

·RM010, RM110, RM120, RM410 (MM)

·Walldorf, Germany 1995

Employment History

Organization

Industry

From

Role

Deloitte Consulting LLP

·Lockheed Martin project

SAP Consulting

2023

2025

Technical Delivery Master 1 / Senior SAP Application Developer

Global Source IT

·Luxottica project

Recruitment Organization

2022

2023

Senior SAP Application Developer

BG Staffing Inc.

·Deloitte Services LP project

Recruitment Organization

2021

2022

Senior SAP Application Developer

Advantage xPO

·Virtustream (DELL) project

Recruitment Organization

2021

2022

Senior SAP Application Developer

ARTECH Information Systems LLC

·IBM project

Recruitment Organization

2020

Senior SAP Application Developer

Virtustream (DELL Technologies)

Cloud Technology & Services

2018

2019

Senior Adviser, Data Science

NTT DATA Inc.

IT Consulting

2013

2018

Sr. Principal SAP Consultant

Optimal Solutions Inc. (acquired by NTT DATA)

IT Consulting

2013

2014

Sr. Principal SAP Consultant

Cognizant Technology Solutions

IT Consulting

2011

2013

Consultant Manager – ERP

Zaffera (acquired by Cognizant)

IT Consulting

2011

Sr. Technical SAP Lead

CIBER Inc.

IT Consulting

2010

2011

Sr. Technical SAP Lead

Capgemini US LLC

IT Consulting

2007

2009

Sr. Technical SAP Lead

KANBAY International, Inc. (acquired by Capgemini)

IT Consulting

2006

2007

Sr. Technical SAP Lead

Adjoined Consulting (acquired by KANBAY)

2006

Sr. Technical SAP Lead

Self-Employed

SAP Consulting

1999

2006

Sr. Technical SAP ABAP Developer

MBG-IT mbH

IT Consulting

1995

1999

Sr. Technical SAP ABAP Developer

Nolte Möbel GmbH

Furniture

1991

1995

Techn. SAP Team Lead &

System Administration

Deutsche Airbus AG

Aerospace

1989

1991

Jr. SAP Developer/Programmer

Work / Project Project History

Deloitte Services LP Oct 2023 – Oct 2025

Lockheed Martin Corporation Oct 2023 – Oct 2025

Sr. Application Developer Consultant

Aerospace & Defense Industry

Government Regulated 1LMX ECC 6.0 to S/4 HANA Digital Transformation Project Initiative - Global multi-year and multi Division Release Greenfield Implementation on a NS2 S4/HANA 2023 Private Cloud & on Premise Platform with a wide range of external legacy systems as well as integrated SAP Applications like MDG, Concur, Cognitus, GRC & Ariba, etc.

Member of Deloitte’s Technical Development Team in the work stream group SCM-SQM (Supply Chain Supplier Quality Management) & OTC-CAB (Order to Cash / Contract & Billing) with an Agile Methodology driven project Environment using cutting edge Technology elements like “Generative AI ABAP Development Assistant”, BTP platform, BAS & Gitlab

Responsible for assigned RICEF object development, unit test and documentation based on functional business requirements driven by the architectural Solution Design Deliverables

Those development objects included:

oExtensive Development of SAP RAP (ABAP Restful Application Model) artifacts for business objects built with OData V2 & V4 services, used in Fiori Launchpad Apps (CDS Views on Released and Custom APIs / Consumption View Entities, Meta Data Extensions, Behavior / Service Definitions and Published OData Service Bindings) using the lates Eclipse IDE 2024-03 Tool as well as BAS Fiori UI enrichments with annotations

oIn- & Outbound Proxy interfaces to synchronize data changes with external legacy applications like MES

oOn Premise Backend Enhancement Implementations to close functional gaps

Global Source IT Sep 2022 – Jul 2023

Luxottica Sep 2022 – Jul 2023

Sr. Application Developer Consultant

Eye Ware Retail Industry

Existing global multi-lingual S4 HANA 1909 on-Premise environment with Fiori UI 6.0 (SP01 02/2020)

Member of Luxottica’s internal North America global SAP IT development support team for their existing operational FMS ( Fashion Management System) & CAR (Customer Activity Repository linked to POS System)

Agile Methodology driven project Environment

Responsible for all assigned RICEF ABAP objects Development, Technical Unit Test, Break Fix Support before and after “go-live” as well as Technical Documentations

Those development objects included:

oChanging existing or creating new Proxy & Flat File interface objects as well as modifying existing IDOC interface objects (including custom segment data) triggered by configured Output Types in SAP’s Output Condition Controls environment (NACE) and exchanging data via SAP PI in order to support the inbound and outbound OTC (Order-to-Cash) business processes for Sales /-, Return /- and Exchange Orders, Replenishment Purchase Order creation Details and Status update details from / to Vendors and to Suppliers

oCreating new custom objects like DDIC objects and ALV OO Reports such as ‘Billing Tax Data Report’ and ‘Vendor Lot Recall Report’

oApplying changes to Output Forms like Smartforms & Adobe PDF Forms & Interfaces (on ADOBE Lifecycle Designer 9.8)

BG Staffing Inc. Oct 2021 – Apr 2022

Deloitte Services LP Oct 2021 – Apr 2022

Sr. Application Developer Consultant

Global IT & Consulting Services Industry

Existing global multi-lingual SAP ECC 6.0 / S4 HANA environment (with an ECC landscape running FI/CO, SD/RRB, PS, HCM, Concur, GRC, etc.) & HANA landscape running Success Factor, Ariba, Hybris (planned), GRC, etc.

Member of Deloitte’s internal global SAP IT development support team for their existing operational SAP systems

Agile Methodology driven project Environment

Responsible for assigned technical development objects, unit test and documentation based on functional Business requirement in form of Change Requests

Those development objects included:

oApplying technical changes to the Italian Electronic invoices based on the legal / fiscal requirement from the Italian regulatory Authority

The requirement was that for both, FI manual Invoices and SD Engagement Invoices must always include all the amounts in currency EUR (IDOC Extension user exit FM ‘EXIT_SAPLVEDF_002’/ Custom segments, ‘ZE1EDS01’, ‘ZE1EDP01’ and ‘ZE1EDP04’)

oApplying significant technical changes to multiple outputs of Adobe Forms and their interfaces

in particular to the SD Billing Request, Proforma Invoice and Final Invoice documents for the US

The requirement outlined an additional table output in each document detailing Project Engagement Role information and allocated billable time and invoice amount details per chosen time period

oApplying additional SQL changes in custom CDS Views by using the Eclipse Tool

Advantage xPO Jan 2021 – May 2022

Virtustream (a DELL Technologies company), Atlanta, GA Jan 2021 – May 2022

Sr. Application Developer Consultant

Global IT & Cloud Services and Products Industry

Existing global SAP ECC 6.0 / EHP7 environment with a landscape running FI/CO, SABRIX, SD, MM, PS, HR, etc.

Continuation as contractor of the pre-existing development work at Virtustream started in 2018 / 2019

Responsible for the technical analysis, development, performance tuning, creation of technical specifications, unit test as well as “go-live” support for Virtustream’s global initiatives related to the “Billing Automation Process of Cloud Platform Consumption & non-Consumption Data” as well as “Entitlement Details Data Exchange” via BOOMI middleware

Key goals were to minimize all sales organizational data entry errors based on human interference, to maximize the data integrity during all data exchanges via the BOOMI middleware platform and to achieve the highest possible data quality leading up to the correctness of customer invoices during the billing process as well as the financial reporting of all produced backoffice data

Responsible for the actual SAP ABAP development, technical unit test, documentation, and break fixes before and after go-live of all supporting RICEF ABAP objects, engineered based on the functional requirement documentation provided by the SAP Architect

Those Billing Automation development objects included:

oABAP OO ALV & SALV technology report transactions supported by a highly complex custom object collection (including custom function modules, menu - and screens painter screens as well as DDIC objects like e.g. table type and table maintenance objects, line types, domains, data elements):

Complex sales & billing process control table maintenance cockpit for header, item, minimum commit, band price, µVM reserve and tier pricing configuration

Billing detail data preparation table maintenance transaction with spread sheet file upload or direct data base pull capability for consumption / non-consumption data record

Consumption & non-consumption BOOMI raw data maintenance transaction

Sales order staging detail spread sheet file upload & maintenance

Billing order(s) / billing plan(s) creation transaction for existing billing preparation data details

Invoice list processing with reprint function for selected invoices resulting in a PDF file output creation; the object got configured via SAP’s output determination process for an ‘external sent’ function to a protected application server folder destination for later pickup (visible to customers on the self-service portal)

Revenue accrual process report transaction detailing booking order information, invoice document details and consumption / non-consumption data as individual or accrued output ALV report grids

All relevant report transactions which required a result e-mail to the user in form of an EXCEL spread sheet with details of success and error processing have been equipped with this functionality

oExposed RFC Function Modules to support the inbound / outbound processes of data exchanges between the DELL’s BOOMI middleware for:

Inbound Cloud Service Virtual Machine consumption & non-consumption sales order / billing details raw data collected on the cloud platform metering software, pre-processed and compressed to make the information suitable for the subsequent SAP back office processing into sales and finance

Inbound sales order details to be stored in a staging environment for further processing in SAP

Outbound sales order details / changes to support the Entitlement information held outside of SAP

ARTECH Feb 2020 – Apr 2020

IBM, Littleton, MA Feb 2020 – Apr 2020

Sr. Application Developer Consultant

Global IT & Cloud Services and Products Industry

Member of IBM’s DSW (Distributed Software) SAP team in a newly created squad sub-team to support the “Red Hat Entitlement Project” roll out

The SAP environment is surrounding the solutions for the “Order-To-Cash (OTC) / Quote-To-Cash (QTC)” business requirements were SAP SD FSB (Flexible Solutions Billing) & the Convergent Charging (CC) module including Contracts, Quotes, Charge Agreements, Subscription Agreements, BITs, Parked Invoices and Legal Invoices

Responsible for the development, technical unit test, documentation, and break fixes of assigned ABAP development objects related to the “Red Hat Entitlement Project”

Unfortunately, the economic impact of COVID-19 cut this assignment short due to project roll-offs of contractors by the client

Virtustream (a DELL Technologies company) Jun 2018 – Oct 2019

Sr. Adviser Data Science / Sr. Technical Development Analyst, ABAP Developer & Architect

Cloud Technology & Services Industry

Existing global SAP ECC 6.0 / EHP7 environment with a landscape running FI/CO, SABRIX, SD, MM, PS, HR, etc.

Responsible for the development, technical unit test, documentation and break fixes before and after go-live of all supporting RICEF ABAP objects, engineered based on the functional requirement documentation provided by the SAP Architect