Objective
To help clients design, develop & maintain IT applications meeting the business requirements within the given budget by leveraging on my expertise & experience and adopting industry best practices.

Profile

• SAP Technical Consultant with over 8 years of experience in design and development of SAP objects for varied multinational clients which includes four full life cycles.
• SAP Certified XI Development Consultant with over 6 years of experience including five implementations, including on SAP PI 7.1.
• Strong expertise as team lead in designing, developing and configuring end-to-end A2A & B2B XI interfaces with robust error handling mechanism using alert configuration & email messages.
• Highly proficient in designing interfaces involving BPM, multi-mapping, graphical, XSLT, JAVA, ABAP mapping, mapping lookups, adv UDFs, ABAP proxies, web services, UDDI & various adapters such as JDBC, JMS, SOAP, Mail, CIDX, RFC, IDOC, File, HTTP etc
• Well versed with architecting, sizing and tuning the SAP XI server and designing SLD strategy, configuration of SLD & XI system – Integration Engine, Exchange profile, Runtime workbench, Managing Queues, Queue Prioritization, Message Scheduling and Archiving, configuration of Visual Admin and Config tool.
• Strong expertise with EDI ANSI X12 and EDIFACT messages and corresponding IDOC types.
• Sound knowledge of transports using File system & CMS – transport targets, track definition, subset assembly etc
• Well acquainted with usage of Adapter Message Attributes, Module development, Party communication, Value Mappings, Enhanced Receiver & Interface determination.
• Rich experience in preparing SAP XI Development & Naming Standards, ABAP Mapping wrapper classes, custom monitoring tool SAP PI Dashboard (content based search, resend of failed messages including in Asynch-Synch scenarios)
• Extensive experience in XI troubleshooting, debugging and bug fixing.
• Experience in implementing SAP MDM scenarios - MDC, MDH & CMDM using XI content.
• Rich experience in ABAP technologies which include Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, SAP Scripts, Smartforms, Dialog Programming, ALE/EDI, BADI, and BTE.
• Strong experience as onsite lead coordinating development and delivery of SAP objects with off-shore teams.
• Good working knowledge in SD, FI and MM modules.

Work experience

• Working as Senior Consultant at Confidential,since May, 2007
• Worked as Senior Consultant at Confidential,from Nov 2005 to Apr 2007.
• Worked as Senior Analyst at Confidential,from Nov 2002 to Oct, 2005.

Software Skills

• SAP NetWeaver : SAP XI – SLD Configuration, Mappings (Graphical, XSLT, ABAP & Multi-mapping),

Business Scenarios, BPM, Adapters (JDBC, SOAP, Mail, CIDX, RFC, ABAP Proxies), Mapping lookups, Alert Management and Runtime Workbench. CMS, Archiving, Visual Admin, SLD & XI configuration.

• ERP Competencies : SAP/ABAP 4.7 - Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements,

ALE/EDI, SAP Scripts, Dialog Programs, LSMW, ALV, BADI and BTE.

• Programming Skills: C, JAVA/J2EE, PERL, SQL and HTML.
• Operating Systems : Windows 9X, 2000, XP & Linux.

Education
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering

Projects
Confidential,since Sep’10
Confidential, Role: SAP PI Consultant
Scope: To integrate NforcePro modules with enterprise applications such as SAP R/3 & ECC using SAP PI. Implementation of A2A interfaces using File, IDOC, RFC, SOAP, Mail, JMS & HTTP adapters.
Responsibilities:

• To develop web services and Custom BAPIs for several process controls to perform real time and automatic monitoring of the SAP transactions and master data changes.
• To analyze the requirements, estimate the effort, design & implement nterfaces
• To design, implement & test A2A interfaces
• To support during integration testing and production issue troubleshooting

Key Objects designed and developed
Payments – Payments made in SAP are retrieved and processed in the same order. A file as per the required format is sent to NforcePro.
Credit Memos– an asynch IDOC to File interface; Credit memo IDOCs are received and formatted the required file format and sent to NforcePro.

Confidential,May’10 to June’10
Client: Confidential,
Role: SAP PI Consultant
Scope: Redesigning Legal Entity Consolidation interfaces with new features of SAP PI 7.1 that were originally designed using SAP XI 3.0. Design and Implementation of interfaces in SAP PI 7.1 resulting form Peoplesoft to SAP HR migration. Implementation of A2A & B2B interfaces using File, IDOC, RFC, SOAP, Mail, Seeburger & HTTP adapters.
Responsibilities:

• To analyze the current interface implementation using XI 3.0 and redesign & implement it using new features of PI 7.1
• To analyze the requirements, estimate the effort, design & implement HR interfaces
• To design, implement & test A2A & B2B interfaces
• To support during integration testing and production issue troubleshooting

Key Objects designed and developed
Bank Pay File Duplicate Check – Performing a duplicate check on the Bank Payment file before sending the EDI ANSI X12 820. Custom Data dictionary table and graphical RFC lookup is used. Mail is sent in case of duplicate files.
Replacing Asynch/Synch BPM w/ Adapter Modules – an Asynch/Synch BPM making RFC calls is transformed to use Adapter Modules & graphical RFC lookup.
PRA Owner – an A2A interface involving SAP ECC and BATOOL.
Confidential,Feb 2009 to April 2010
Client: Confidential, Role: SAP PI Development Lead
Scope: Replacing WLI (Web Logic Integrator) that has been used as middleware for VZT Supply Chain ERP with SAP PI 7.0. Integrating SAP R/3 4.7 and various SAP & non-SAP internal/external systems with SAP PI as middleware. Implementation of A2A & B2B interfaces using File, IDOC, RFC, SOAP, Mail, AS2 & HTTP adapters.
Responsibilities:

• To analyze the current WLI implementation, perform feasibility analysis (for using SAP PI as middleware) and identify “gaps”.
• To analyze the requirements, estimate the effort and help prepare the project plan, to delegate the work and review it.
• To design & configure A2A & B2B interfaces and to guide the other team members with development & testing
• To coordinate with functional & basis team in system configuration requirements gathering and delivery & testing of the interfaces working with VZ off-shore team
• To support during integration testing and production issue troubleshooting

Key objects designed and developed
SAP PI Dashboard – a custom monitoring tool with features such as primary & secondary object no based search, resending of messages in Asynch-Synch scenarios by reposting the payload to the Integration Server, display of message details.
Goods Movement Update – an Asynch-Synch interface between SAP R/3 & CPEM web service system.
Purchase Orders – an A2A interface involving SAP R/3 and COEP system.

Confidential, May 2008 to Jan 2009
Client: Confidential, Role: SAP XI Development Lead

Scope: Release 2 (International rollout) - Integrating SAP ECC 6.0 and various SAP & non-SAP internal & external systems with SAP PI 7.0 as middleware. Implementation of A2A & B2B interfaces using File, IDOC, RFC, SOAP, Mail & HTTP adapters.
Responsibilities:

• To analyze the requirements, estimate the effort, to delegate the work and review it.
• To design & configure A2A & B2B interfaces and to guide the other team members with development & testing
• To coordinate with functional & basis team in system configuration requirements gathering and delivery & testing of the interfaces working with VZ off-shore team
• To support during integration testing and production issue troubleshooting

Key objects designed and developed
SAFE Encryption – an interface involving web service system & partner banks to encrypt sensitive data like Credit Card No, Bank Acc No, & SSN
Shipment & Delivery – a B2B interface with a logistics partner, CTDI.
Purchase Orders – a B2B EDI ANSI X12 interface with Vendors for Purchase Orders (850).
Confidential,May 2007 to Apr 2008
Client: Confidential, Role: SAP XI Development Lead
Scope: Integrating SAP R/3 & various non-SAP internal systems with SAP XI 3.0 as middleware. Implementation of A2A interface scenarios with other internal systems using JDBC, SOAP, File adapters.
Responsibilities:

• To analyze the requirements, estimate the effort, to delegate the work and review it.
• To design & configure A2A interface scenarios and to guide the other team members with development
• To coordinate with functional team in requirements gathering and delivery & testing of the interfaces
• To support during integration testing and production issue troubleshooting

Key objects designed and developed
Demographic Data – an interface involving JDBC partner systems.
Route Data – an interface with WasteRoute web application as sender & MAS application system as receiver.
Local Payments – an interface which is triggered using a batch program from the user desktop that FTPs the local payment data to SAP XI.

Confidential, Nov 2006 to Apr 2007
Client: Confidential, Role: SAP XI Development Lead & Transport admin
Scope: Implementation SAP XI 3.0 with SAP R/3 and other internal systems and business partners. Implementation of A2A scenarios with other internal systems and B2B scenarios with Elemica & EDI business partners using CIDX & EDI adapters.
Responsibilities:

• SLD configuration – System Catalog, Software Catalog, Content Maintenance
• To analyze the requirements, estimate the effort, to delegate the work and review it.
• To design & configure A2A & B2B interface scenarios,
• To manage transports using CMS
• To support in performance tuning and defining message archiving strategy
• To support during integration testing and troubleshooting

Key objects designed and developed
Order Create – a B2B interface with ELEMICA business partner using Chem. eStandards messages. Chem.
Invoice – a B2B interface with ELEMICA business partner using chem eStandards messages.
EDI 855, 856 & 997 – a B2B interface with EDI business partner involving EDI envelope with EDI ANSI X12 855, 856 997 messages.

Confidential, Sep to Oct, 2006
Client: Confidential, Role: SAP XI Development Consultant & ALE configurator
Scope: Implementation SAP MDM 5.5 consolidating the data from SAP R/3 through SAP XI 3.0. Realization of MDM scenarios – Master Data Consolidation, Master Data Harmonization & Central Master Data Management by transferring/synchronizing master data for Materials, Customers & Vendors through SAP XI.
Responsibilities:

• MDM System landscaping, SLD configuration – Technical & Business systems, Software Products & Components
• To design & develop A2A integration scenarios
• ALE configuration in SAP R/3
• To support during integration testing and troubleshooting

Key objects designed and developed
Customer Master Consolidation – an A2A interface with transferring customer master data using CREMDM IDOC through XI and writing to the MDM file system using receiver file adapter.
Material Master Consolidation – Material data transfer using MATMAS IDOCs.
Vendor Master Harmonization – Vendor data including address information maintained in MDM is synchronized with SAP R/3.
Confidential, Aug 2006
Client: Confidential, Role: SAP XI Architect
Scope: Certifying SAP XI as the choice of middleware in Cemex Enterprise landscape involving SAP R/3, MDM, SRM, Enterprise Portals and JDE One World.
Responsibilities: To perform feasibility & use case analysis and design POC for XI.
Key Deliverables

• Business case supporting SAP XI as the choice of middleware
• Analysis highlighting the value addition XI brings with it in terms of pre-delivered content in the context of MDM.
• Identify and define the areas for POC for XI
• Use case analysis and documentation.

Confidential, April to July, 2006
Client: Confidential, Role: SAP XI Architect
Scope: Setting up SAP XI infrastructure and building interface prototypes to show case the capabilities of XI in the context of Hospira system landscape – R/3, BW and APO.
Responsibilities

• To analyze and define SLD strategy and SLD configuration
• Setting up XI infrastructure and system configuration
• Designing and developing A2A interface prototypes
• Mentoring client personnel

Objects designed and developed

On-request Material data fetch- a web service is designed to provide the material master data given certain parameters such as material number, group, sales org etc.
On-request Customer data fetch - a web service to provide the customer data on request is developed with request parameters such as customer number, account group etc.

Confidential, Nov 2005 to Jan 2006
Client: Confidential, Role: SAP XI Consultant
Scope: To extend the BearingPoint’s implementation methodology ProvenCourse for SAP to SAP XI and develop sample deliverables and to design prototypes for client proposals and demonstration.
Responsibilities

• Developing XI implementation methodology, ProvenCourse for SAP XI
• Developing sample deliverables – Functional &Tech specs, Mapping & Unit-test document
• Developing prototype for client proposal and demo

Key Deliverables

• Implementation methodology - Proven Course for SAP XI
• Best practices documentation
• Sample Functional Specification, Technical Specification, Mapping spreadsheet and Unit-test document for SAP XI interface objects
• PO/GR match – POs sent from File-based application system with non-SAP PO numbers are sent to R/3 to create POs. PO numbers are obtained and mapped to non-SAP numbers using value mapping in XI. When GRs referring to non-SAP PO numbers are sent from file-based application system, SAP PO numbers are read from value mapping and replaced in GR. BPM, file & IDOC adapter, IDOC acknowledgements are used. Alerts are triggered in case of processing exceptions.

Confidential, Nov, 2004 to Oct, 2005
Client: Confidential, Role: Process lead, XI core team member and PDPG member

Scope: SAP R/3 implementation and integration (with the existing non-SAP systems) project for Order-to-Cash business process. For integrating SAP R/3 with third party systems, SAP NetWeaver XI 3.0 is used as middleware. SAP R/3 modules implemented are SD, MM and FI.

Responsibilities:

• To design, develop objects confirming to quality standards and to deliver them on time.
• To coordinate and review the design and development of objects assigned to my team segment
• To coordinate the development of XI objects, identify bottlenecks/issues and work closely onsite team in resolving them.
• To perform the Defect Prevention analysis and come up with corrective actions.
• To support during integration testing and data cutover phases with quick turnaround time

Key objects designed and developed

Product Master – a MM outbound interface which transfers standard and custom material master data from SAP R/3 to Oracle Data Warehousing system.

Item Maintenance – a MM outbound interface which transfers standard and custom material master data from SAP R/3 to two third party file systems.

USDA price upload – a SD Inbound interface which reads a file on third party application system and creates pricing condition records in SAP R/3.

Lockbox consolidation – a FI inbound interface program which is used to consolidate customer remittance IDOC and Bank Cash IDOC before processing using SAP lockbox functionality.

Sales Responsibility Determination – a SD dialog program which is used for maintaining customers assigned to a broker.

Inventory and Pending Order Status – a MM report program which is used as status report for available inventory and pending orders.

Confidential, May, 2004 to Oct, 2004
Client: Confidential, Role: Process lead and PDPG member

Scope: Implementation of SAP R/3 Enterprise edition which is a part of city’s Enterprise Resource Management project. SAP R/3 modules implemented were SD, MM, HR, FI and payroll. Different types of objects developed were SAP Scripts, Reports, Enhancements, User-exits, Interfaces and conversions.

Responsibilities:

• To design, develop objects confirming to quality standards and to deliver them on time.
• To coordinate and review the design and development of objects assigned to my team segment
• To perform the Defect Prevention analysis and come up with corrective actions.
• To support during integration testing and data cutover phases with quick turnaround time.

Key objects designed & developed

Broadcast & Individual paycheck message – an PR inbound interface program which is used to maintain broadcast and individual messages on the employees\' check or direct deposit remuneration statements using Infotype 0128.

Pick List Report – a MM report program which prints the Material Reservation Delivery sheet that contains Goods recipient, reservation number and information about items in the reservation.

Fund balance update & Investment Income Distribution – an FI inbound interface program which is used to update SAP and Legacy fund balances and calculate daily average cash balances for pooled investments’ participants and distribute income/expenses based on their participation ratio.

Confidential, Hyderabad March, 2004 to April, 2004
Client: Japan Tobacco International
Role: Developer and Reviewer

Scope: SAP R/3 4.6c implementation rollout for units in Germany. R/3 modules implemented were SD, MM, PP, and Finance & Controlling. Different types of objects developed were SAP Scripts, Reports, Enhancements, User-exits, Interfaces and conversions.

Responsibilities:

• To design, develop objects confirming to quality standards and to deliver them on time.
• To review and test objects developed by other team members.
• To coordinate with onsite counter parts and ensure timely resolution of issues.

Objects designed & developed

Billing Invoice for Tanzania, Ukraine and Estonia – a SD SAP Script which is an itemized list of goods shipped or services rendered, stating quantities, prices, shipping charges etc.

Billing Invoice for Taiwan – a SD SAP Script which is an itemized list of goods shipped or services rendered, stating quantities, prices, shipping charges etc.