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Marcus Raath

SAP ABAP consultant CRM at Britehouse SAP Specialist Division

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Summary

I have been developing on the SAP platform for the last 11 years. Prior to this i developed mainframe

systems using Natural Adabas for 2 years.

SAP technical skills include ABAP programming, Workflow development and customization,

Javascript

programming, Business Server Pages (BSP) development,

Web Dynpro for abap development and java programming.

SAP functional areas i have worked in includes Human Resource Management and Payroll (HR),

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Material Management (MM).

I have worked in the following industries:

Petro Chemical, Public Sector, Banking, Mining, IT Services, Mobile Communications.

My goal is to provide quality information systems development skills on the SAP Netweaver platform,

with particular focus on business process management management, the application of Java and

ABAP web frameworks for web application development, SAP Business Objects and SAP Process

Integration using SAP XI.

Specialties

I work as a Developer Consultant in the ERP systems market using SAP.

Specializing in SAP ABAP development (incl. RICEF - Reports, Interfaces, Conversions,

Enhancements and Forms ).

Extensive SAP experience as a technical consultant on HR/Payroll, Workflow ( HR and MM ) and

CRM Webclient programming.

Experience

SAP ABAP consultant CRM at Britehouse SAP Specialist Division

April 2009 - Present (10 months)

Working on CRM 7 project at City of Cape Town.

Responsible for development and enhancement om SAP CRM 7,

Custom BSP and WebDynpro development and

eRecruitment enhancement.

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GijmaAST Senior Technical Consultant - HR ABAP Developer at Exxaro Resources

October 2008 - July 2009 (10 months)

HR programmer for Exxarro Mining,

SAP EHS development at SASOL

GijmaAST Senior Technical Consultant - SAP Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

Developer at Vodacom

October 2008 - April 2009 (7 months)

SAP ECM enhancement and troubleshooting

Business Connexion Senior Technical Consultant at Sasol Synfuels

November 2006 - October 2008 (2 years)

Responsible for general ABAP, Workflow and CRM upgrade

SAP HR interface Consultant at Csiper Consulting (Johannesburg, South Africa)

February 2006 - November 2006 (10 months)

Developed an interface to supply data from SAP HR to eTrust system from Computer Associates.

Cipher Workflow Developer - Workflow development and support Consultant at arivia.kom

February 2006 - November 2006 (10 months)

Customised SAP MM for procurement workflows.

Developed workflows for pre procurement Quotations process and for SAP requisitions and

ordering.

Pecaso Technical Consultant - E-Recruitment Developer at Halifax Bank of Scotland

April 2005 - February 2006 (11 months)

Bespoke BSP development and enhancement of the standard eRecruitment application. This

project involved extensive development using the MVC paradigm. Application functionality is

implemented as abap objects using MVC pattern. Database is based on SAP infotypes in

organisational management. Front-end used was SAP portal and extensive configuration to

integrate to portal.

SAP application Areas: • Personnel development (PD)

• Personnel administration (PA) and PD reporting

• eRecruiting – object oriented development using MVC framework and BSP

• Portal integration – (user interface for eRecruitment)

Environment WAS 640 Team size – 2

Pecaso Technical Consultant - ESS and MSS Consultant at WESTLAND HELICOPTERS

April 2005 - February 2006 (11 months)

Configuration and enhancement of ESS and MSS

SAP application Areas:

• PD

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• PA and PD reporting

• Workflow – Vacancy application notification for management

• Portal integration – (user interface for ESS and MSS)

Portal content development (Iview development and service configuration)

Environment SAP 46c Team size – 1

HR ABAP Developer at BRITISH GAS

April 2005 - February 2006 (11 months)

Abap enhancements to MSS services

SAP application Areas:

• PA – enhancements via user exits

•Bespoke reporting

Environment SAP 46c Team size – 2

HR ABAP Developer at Barclays Capital

July 2004 - December 2004 (6 months)

All development regarding Payroll Interfaces.

The client had various external and internal interfaces from their payroll system.

These interfaces had to be implemented in SAP. Interfaces included pensions and payments.

SAP application Areas:

• PA and PD reporting

• User Exits (PA – infotype specific)

• Payroll Clusters reporting

• Bespoke Interfaces.

Environment

SAP R/3 4.7

Team size - 6

HR ABAP Developer (Technical team lead) at Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemicals

February 2004 - July 2004 (6 months)

All development regarding payments and postings to FI.

Was responsible for a team of junior developers.

Some workflow development.

The client has a bespoke payment solution through which all payments are made.

The process of making payroll payments involved routing the payment data via a workflow process

to ensure payment instructions were correct, valid and authorised. The payment solution enabled 2

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way communication on the success and failure of payment instructions. This enabled effective

communication and response, via workflow, to the success or failures of the process.

• PA and PD reporting

• PD infotypes (workflow related)

• User Exits (PA – infotype specific)

• Payroll Clusters reporting (PCL2)

• Bespoke Interfaces

Environment

SAP R/3 4.7

Team size – 8

HR ABAP Developer at Eskom

October 2003 - December 2003 (3 months)

• Developed new EIS type statistics report for management and external reporting

• Developed new infotypes to cater for statistical data relevant to the reports

SAP application Areas:

• PA Infotypes reporting

• User Exits (PA – infotype specific)

• Payroll Clusters reporting (PCL2)

Environment

SAP R/3 4.6

Team size - 2

HR ABAP Developer at CSC DENMARK

June 2003 - July 2003 (2 months)

SHIFT PLANNING UPGRADE (CATS)

The client needed to make changes to the file based shift-planning interface to include a direct

update of the CATS database.

SAP application Areas:

• PA Infotypes reporting

Environment

SAP R/3

Team size – 5

ATOS Origin ABAP Consultant - HR/FI ABAP Developer at SAMREF

December 2002 - December 2002

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Problem solving and enhancement implementation.

This involved fixing problem reports.

SAP application Areas:

• Bespoke Interface

• User Exits (PA – infotype specific)

• PA reporting

Environment

SAP R/3

Team size - 5

HR ABAP Developer at North West Health Board (Sligo, Ireland)

February 2002 - December 2002 (11 months)

Lead HR Abap developer on a national implementation for the North Western Health Board.

This was a full payroll implementation and required the organisation of work tasks, bespoke report

development, user exit implementation for various infotypes and pension and payment interfaces.

SAP application Areas:

• PA and PD reporting

• User Exits (PA – infotype specific)

• Payroll Clusters reporting (PCL2)

• Bespoke Interfaces

Environment

SAP R/3

Team size - 5

HR ABAP Developer at Hyder

May 2001 - August 2001 (4 months)

• Development of bespoke reports and interfaces within the public sector

• All interface developments with public sector legacy systems

• New report requirements analysis and development

ABAP Developer at Alaris Medical Systems

April 2001 - April 2001

• This involved Support and maintenance for their go live phase. The modules implemented and

which he supported are SD, MM, PP, FI AND CO

• Solve their Sapscript problems and as well as maintain abap programs within these modules

SAP application Areas:

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• Sapscript

• Bespoke Interfaces

• SD and FI reporting

Environment

SAP R/3

Team Size – 5

Epiuse ABAP Consultant - Core Functionality Developer at Allegiance Systems (Melbourne,

Australia)

August 2000 - December 2000 (5 months)

• Developed a Pay slip application for their SAP template. This involved extensive use of Sapscript

and smartforms as well. In addition he developed many reports and bespoke function modules. The

development team was responsible for specifying and developing the template functionality. This

template encapsulated the functionality that new clients would use as a base system for their

implementation

• He was responsible for the development of a data synchronization tool (using RFC and the file

system), that enables allegiance to transfer PA data between their SAP client configurations. Pay

slip data was stored in cluster tables

SAP application Areas:

• PA Infotypes reporting

• User Exits (PA – infotype specific)

• Payroll Clusters reporting (PCL2)

• Sapscript and Smartform

Environment

SAP R/3

Team size - 20

Epiuse ABAP Consultant - HR ABAP Developer at CSC (Cape Town, South Africa)

January 2000 - July 2000 (7 months)

• This was a full payroll implementation. He provided general ABAP support, creating dialogues and

list reports

• He developed a data migration program for upload of HR Master data from legacy system. He

was responsible for development of interfaces to third parties (incoming and outgoing), including a

bank transfer interface to pay salaries and third party payments

SAP application Areas:

• Payroll Clusters reporting (PCL2)

• Bespoke Interfaces

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• PA and PD reporting

Environment

SAP R/3 4.6C

Epiuse ABAP Consultant - HR ABAP Developer at Nedcor Investment Bank (Cape Town, South

Africa)

October 1999 - December 1999 (3 months)

• Developed a salary review application. This application used PD data to control a line manager’s

access to only the employees he was responsible for and allowed for the planning and update of

the relevant info types for implementation of a salary increase. This was a dialogue application,

enabling the line managers to capture their employee salary review information. This information

was then used to update the relevant infotypes via the BDC mechanism

• Various abap reports where also created for managers to view data captured for their line of

responsibility

• Additionally various transparent tables were created to store the application data

SAP application Areas:

• Payroll Clusters reporting (PCL2)

• Pa and PD reporting

• Custom application development

Environment

SAP R/3 4.5B

Team Size – 5

Epiuse ABAP Consultant - HR ABAP Developer at Vodacom (Johannesburg, South Africa)

August 1999 - October 1999 (3 months)

• He was responsible for fixing Vodacom's Payroll reports to retrieve payroll results correctly, in

terms of retroactive accounting

• The upgrade required their custom reports to be amended to access the results

SAP application Areas:

• Payroll Clusters reporting (PCL2)

• Pa reporting

Environment

SAP R/3 4.5B

Epiuse ABAP Consultant - HR ABAP Developer at Rossing Uranium Limited (Rio Tinto) -

Namibia

January 1999 - July 1999 (7 months)

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• Implemented PCP solution and developed additional functionality that allows a line manager to

create a Human Resources budget for the positions in their line and integrate this plan with the

overall budget for the company. This application was created as a dialog application

• Various interactive list reports were also created for the line managers to view the HR budget for

their line of responsibility

• The application was integrated with the SAP standard PCP solution in order to provide a

mechanism to transfer budget costs to the CO module

• Additionally various transparent tables were created to store the application data

SAP application Areas:

• Payroll Clusters reporting (PCL2)

• Pa reporting

• Custom application development (Personnel Cost Planning enhancement)

• Integration to CO

Environment:

SAP R/3 3.1 H

Education

University of KwaZulu-Natal

BCOMM, Business Administration, Marketing and Information Sytems, 1992 - 1995

Honors and Awards

BCOM(UND) South Afica

Interests

Web Application Development using:

- SAP

- Java/J2EE

- Hibernate

- JSF

- AJAX

- Filemaker

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