SAP Analyst
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Hoffman Estates, IL 60169
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Santosh H N
Profile
• 8 years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill sets, roles and industry verticals.
• 3 years of SAP Functional Materials Management experience.
• Throughout knowledge of implementing and managing SAP applications
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate business goals and objectives in an effective way
• In-depth knowledge of ASAP methodologies
• Extensive knowledge of implementing and configuring SAP MM modules in complex business environments
• Ability to troubleshoot and recommend suggestions to resolve conflicts between business requirements and standard system functionality
• Highly skilled in SAP Supply Chain Management and Material Management.
Education:
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication Engineering - 2002, Visveswaraiah Technological University (VIT, Bangalore), India.
SAP MM Experience
General Skill Set
Competency: SAP Materials Management SAP ECC 6.0
- Hands-on Configuration experience in SAP Materials Management (MM)
- Played the role of SAP MM Subject Matter Expert for IBM's 'High Performance Process Excellence project
- Excellent Communication & Client facing skills
- Rich experience in full implementation cycle involving and conversion projects.
- Project implementation using ASAP.
- Business blue printings - Requirement definitions, system/process mapping & solution design
- Gap Analysis, workarounds & technical development specifications
- Design, development and testing of functional specs for RICEFW objects
- Cut-over activities including knowledge transfer & Train-The-Trainer Planning
- Site readiness and Deployment Planning
- Quality Assurance and Peer Reviews
- Excellent skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
- Extensive documentation skills for RICEF
- Sound experience in On-Shore/Off-Shore model in Implementation and Upgrade Projects
- Experienced in leading implementation, upgrade and post go-live support teams.
Professional Experience
September ‘08 – April 09, IBM India Pvt. Ltd, Chicago, USA
SAP Consultant.
Project Description:
The client Bridgestone Americas (BSAM) and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand tires to address the needs of a broad range of customers, including consumers, automotive and commercial vehicle original equipment manufacturers, and those in the agricultural, forestry and mining industries.
The scope of this project is the implementation of SAP for only the Commercial Tire Division of Bridgestone. COPS is the legacy system (Mainframe System) in which the purchase orders, Open Stock Transport Orders (STOs), Purchase Info Record and Vendor Master resides. Before go-live, during the cutover weekend, the above must be captured in the system through this conversion activity.
My roles and responsibilities are as follows:
• Worked on integration of Business requirements into SAP Best Business practices.
• Lead analysis sessions, gather requirements and write specification and functional design documents for conversion projects.
• Creating Data Mapping, Translation and Transformation from the conversion project.
• Familiar with Migration of Data with LSMW.
• Setting up screen layouts for purchasing documents like Request for Quotation, Quotation, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order etc.
• Interacting with other teams such as Middleware in creating the source file to target system.
• Preparing and Conduction String testing as part of the project.
• Providing Operational Support once the project is live.
April ‘09 – Till date, IBM India Pvt. Ltd, Chicago, USA
SAP Consultant.
Project Description:
Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT) is a leading global supplier of tooling, engineered components and advanced materials that are consumed in production processes. We provide customers with a broad range of technologically advanced tools, tooling systems and engineering services. Our products use highly complex metallurgy and materials science in tungsten carbide powders, high-speed steels, ceramics, industrial diamond and other materials that are particularly resistant to heat, abrasion, pressure and wear.
My roles and responsibilities are as follows:
• Worked on integration of Business requirements into SAP Best Business practices.
• Configured MM Organizational Structure for plants at multiple locations.
• Baseline configuration of creation and assignment of Plants to Company Code, Storage Locations to Plants.
• Apart from the standard movement types, for the interface programs, new movement types were created.
• Worked on setting up Split valuation, Release Strategy for Purchase requisition, Batch management.
• Worked on purchase requisition, source of supply, vendor selection, quota, RFQ, Quotation, Purchase order, purchasing groups, terms of payments, source list requirements.
• Customized material types and assigned number ranges for the material types.
• Setting up screen layouts for purchasing documents like Request for Quotation, Quotation, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order etc.
• Automatic determination of GL accounts, mapping valuation classes to GL accounts.
• Worked on setting up tolerances, purchase value keys.
• Worked on defining Pricing Procedures and determining pricing procedures.
• Provided Technical/Functional specifications for reports and guided ABAP developers.
• Involved deeply with client interaction
Mainframe Experience:
Skill Set
Technology/Environment: Mainframe, Powerbuilder, Magna
Functional Modules: Telecom, Insurance and Health.
RDBMS: DB2. IMSDB
Languages: COBOL, JCL
O/S: Windows NT/2000, IBM OS-390
Mainframe Tools: ENDEVOR, FILE-MASTER, FILE-AID, QMF, SPUFI, SDSF, XPEDITOR.
Mainframe Utilities: TSO/ISPF, CICS, VSAM.
Processes: IBM’s QMS (Quality Management System).
• Six years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill sets, roles and industry verticals.
• Extensive experience in Analysis and Design, Development, Defect Prevention activities, Quality Control, and Coding Standards Maintenance activities.
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture/design.
• Strong database skills and development knowledge
• Executed software projects for Telecom, Insurance and Healthcare Services industry.
• Excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.
• Enthusiastic to learn new technologies with good participation
May ‘08 – September’08, IBM India Pvt. Ltd at Client location, Chicago, USA
Senior System Engineer & Onsite coordinator
The client, Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) is a non-investor-owned mutual insurance company that operates through its Blue Cross and Blue Shield divisions in Illinois, Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, and several subsidiaries to offer a variety of health and life insurance products and related services to employers and individuals.
My roles and responsibilities are as follows:
Work with Business Analyst in translating business requirements into Functional Requirements Document and to Detailed Design Documents
Lead analysis sessions, gather requirements and write specification and functional design documents for enhancements and customization; Analyze product impact.
Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
Utilize in-depth knowledge of functional and Technical experience in BARS and STOPLOSS and technology in conjunction with industry and business skills to deliver solutions to customer.
Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.
Establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
Involve in Production Support and maintenance for the customer.
Key projects handled so far – Monthly Claims on Portal, Home Hospital Exclusion, STfP and ICD-10.
Dec ‘06 – May ‘08, IBM India Pvt. Ltd at Bangalore, India
System Engineer
As a System Engineer, I was responsible for Analysis, design, development and implementation for all the projects in HealthCare Service Corporation (HCSC). Responsibilities also include ensuring process adherence in the project and implementing process improvements and quality initiatives.
My roles and responsibilities are as follows:
Understanding the requirements sent by onsite and analyzing all the impacted elements at the high level.
Preparing the low level design for all the impacted modules which include the pseudo code and creating of unit test plan as per the quality standards followed in the organization.
Establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
Involve in Production Support and maintenance for the customer.
Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the team members and regular project status to the offshore Managers/customer.
Establish Quality in all deliverables and follow all the organizational quality processes.
Key projects handled so far – MSP VDSA Phase II, CMS Shutdown.
Environment: Mainframe - IBM OS-390 and MVS, Windows NT/2000, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, and MVS, Endevor, File-Master, VSAM, GDG, PowerBuilder, Magna and SPUFI.
Mar ‘06– Dec ‘06, Software Engineer/Module Leader, Verizon Data Services India Private limited, Hyderabad, India
As a Module Lead/Team member responsible for interaction with the customers, gathering requirements, preparing high level design, coding and unit testing, and conducting reviews for Verizon.
Verizon Data Service is a Fortune – 50 company based in the United States. It was formerly known as Bell Atlantic Corporation, which was incorporated in 1983 under the laws of the State of Delaware. It is one of the leading providers of communications services in the US. NPD billing system deals with billing of retail and wholesale customers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware regions.
My roles and responsibilities were as follows:
Interacted with the Onsite Coordinators and RAD team to analyze the User requirements, identify and resolve issues, and to make enhancements to the systems.
Extensively worked for Revenue Reports module, handled many Work Requests which mainly required strong logical skills and Good technical skills.
Coding, Preparing Unit test plans, Unit test cases and Unit test reports.
Perform Lead Programmer duties for upgrade projects.
Communicate activities/progress to project managers and on-shore leads.
Involved in the creation of detailed Test Plans, Unit testing, System Integration Testing, and Deployment.
Environment: Mainframe - IBM OS-390,MVS, COBOL, Assembler, IMSDB, JCL, TSO/ISPF, Endevor, Insysn.
Jan ‘04 – Mar ‘06, Team Member /Developer, Satyam Computer Services Limited, Hyderabad, India
As a Developer responsible for analysis, coding and unit testing for GE Employers Reinsurance Corporation (GE ERC).
GE Employers Reinsurance Corporation (GE ERC) is a diverse reinsurance and commercial insurance business entity. GE ERC, located in Overland Park, Kansas, USA, is a world leader in risk management solutions providing risk transfer to insurance companies.
My roles and responsibilities were as follows:
Detailed analysis of the larger batch/online programs to get the different functionalities.
Interacted with the Client representatives and Onsite Coordinators to analyze the User requirements, identify and resolve issues, and to make enhancements to the systems.
Extensively worked for Finance and TRAC module, handled many Work Requests which mainly required strong logical skills and Good technical skills.
Preparation of design and technical specifications.
Involved in all phases of development including Analysis, Design, Conversion, Programming, and Testing of COBOL batch and ERC online programs
Providing end user production support. Communicating with the Business partners and solving the issues raised by them through HELP_DESK.
Environment: Mainframe - IBM OS-390 and MVS, COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, XPEDITOR, FILE-AID.
Training:
SAP Functional Training on Materials Management Training at IBM
Mainframe Application Programming at Maples ESM TechnoloLTD.
Six Sigma Program (E-learning) at Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
IBM certified Database Associate DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family at IBM
IBM Certified Application Developer -- DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family at IBM
America’s Healthcare Management: An Introduction (AHM 250) at IBM
Achievements:
• Received a ‘Certificate of Appreciation’ from senior HCSC management, for my contribution in CMS Shutdown Project.
• Received ‘BRAVO AWARD’ for exceptional performance in CMS Shutdown project – IBM.
• Received ‘Pursuit of Excellence’ for exceptional performance in Finance and HR module – Satyam.
• Received ‘Above and Beyond(A & B) – “PAT ON BACK”’ for exceptional performance in Revenue Report Module – Verizon
References: Available upon request
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