SUMMARY:

• Senior Business Analyst for a progressive people oriented company where growth is emphasized.
• ALV Reporting including both function and class based methodologies.
• ABAP Objects
• DDIC components including Tables, Data Elements, Domains, Search Helps (Collective and Elementary), Lock Objects, Views (Database, Projection and Maintenance) and Structures.
• Dialog Programming including step - loops, table control, tab-strips, sub-screens and other GUI elements.
• SAP enhancement techniques including user exit, screen exits, menu exits, BTE, BADI’s and ECC 6.0 enhancement spots and implicit enhancement options.
• Function Module (including RFC) and search help exits as well as BW extractors using statics data definitions.
• BDC and Call Transaction methodologies.
• Use of SAP standard supplied program for data load and interfaces.
• Senior ABAP Technical Lead providing analytical and application programming support within the Client’s various SAP systems (and releases) to meet their Business requirements. Technical assistance provided for MM, SD, QM, PM and FI and CCS modules (limited).
• Key member of QA team(s) ensuring custom developed objects meet the department established ABAP Team standards.
• Responsible for researching, raising and reporting issues to SAP for missing or broken functionality within SAP objects (various SAP modules) and applying the recommended SAP solution(s) to the various components as required. Required interfacing with BASIS team members as well as interacting directly with SAP.
• As ABAP Technical Lead was often responsible for training and knowledge transfer on various ABAP techniques and functionality to other team members (consultants) and client employees. Maintained and enhanced EDI function modules as Business requirements changed.
• Experience in data conversion and migration from various legacy and SAP releases including conversion to Unicode.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

ABAP Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provided ABAP support to MM, SD, FI, PM and BW Functional Developers to meet or enhance business requirements. This involved design, testing, documentation as well as assisting the Functional Developer in choosing the best ABAP component(s).
• Designed, coded, tested and implemented inbound and outbound interface programs for processing of Concur Travel and Expense data. Outbound interface involved extracting SAP Employee HR Master Data and SAP FI Cost Objects (Cost Centers, G/L Accounts, Internal Orders and WBS) and mapping the data to the Concur Travel & Expense record formats. Inbound interface involved receiving the nightly transactions from Concur (flat file) and creating FI Invoices in SAP for Employee reimbursement. Process also included ALV reporting of errors and posting report for Company reconciliation and error recovery for failed postings.
• Designed, coded, tested and implemented outbound interface of SAP data to ARIBA. This task involved extracting Cost Objects (G/L Accounts, Cost Centers, Orders & WBS), MM data (Vendors, Materials, Material Groups), FI Invoices including LIV referencing a SES), User Id’s (including Name and email address), Pcard Invoices from Concur nightly file) and formatting the data to ARIBA record structures and preparing files for transmission as CSV.
• Key member for the global implementation project which involved converting master and transactional data for various MM And Purchasing functions for multiple SAP systems and releases as well as copying, converting and enhancing existing legacy system ABAP objects so they could be implemented into the global implementation system. This involved converting Outline Agreements with Pricing Conditions (both Quantity, Value and Service Based), Vendor Master including Partner Functions along with multiple Email and Faxing Address information, Source List and Info Records using BDC, Call Transaction (including error recovery) and standard SAP supplied data load programs. The process involved the extraction of data from the various systems, data scrubbing and translation using various Custom Cross Reference tables as well as assisting the Business and Functional Developer with tools to assist in error analysis and recovery.
• Enhanced SAP Material Master, Vendor and Purchasing screens to include custom fields required by the business.
• Enhanced SAP tables via append structures and SAP defined search help with custom append search helps.
• Created and enhanced custom search helps using search help exits.
• Implemented custom BADI implementation of SAP BADI’s to meet Business requirements when Purchase Orders are created and Requisitions converted to PO’s.
• Implemented various user exits and BTE’s to support business requirements or enhance where SAP functionality was limited. (I.e. Vendor Group Key modification via BTE allowed the Business to select values based on a custom table and popup screen.)
• Assisted the Team Lead for the Unicode conversion project.
• Assisted the BW Functional Developer by creating data extractor Function Modules for extracting data for loading in the BW system. This methodology utilized statics data definitions.
• Assisted in the QA process of ABAP components to ensure department standards and guidelines were adhered to. Recommended changes to improve performance where necessary. Also assisted in mentoring and advising other consultants on their assignments and design analysis.
• Interfaced with various external vendors when extracting or accepting data for internal or external interfaces.
• Assisted the Vendavo project by creating the PI ABAP objects for interfacing data between the 2 systems.
• Key Technical member during upgrade from SAP 4.5 system to ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0 including converting programs to Unicode .

Confidential

ABAP Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provided MM, QM and FI ABAP and Functional support when creating SAP data extracted from legacy system. This involved creating custom cross reference table and assisting the business in understanding the SAP definition for various Material Master data elements.
• Create ALV reports and train other consultants on using this technology vs. the standard ABAP “write” statements.
• Created custom dialog transactions to support the Business during data cleansing including table control and lock objects to ensure data integrity is maintained.

Confidential

ABAP Team member

Responsibilities:

• Lead member of the RICE team creating and enhancing programming components to meet Business Requirements.
• Assisted other consultants and groups on program design and analysis including mentoring other member as required.

Confidential

ABAP lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Create complex Custom Dialog transaction for catalog and pricing conditions including creating custom search helps to assist in data entry and lookup and creating lock objects to ensure data integrity is maintained as well as maintaining multiple table controls on screens where data segmenting was required.
• Load legacy data in SAP custom pricing tables using various SAP methodologies depending on the data clean up efforts. Utilized BDC, Call Transaction (with error recovery) as well as SAP standard supplied load programs and function modules.
• Train company employees (new to SAP) in ABAP and DDIC components as well as assisting them in with their program design and process flow to ensure program optimizes performance.

Confidential

ABAP Technical MM Lead

Responsibilities:

• Convert data from legacy system for loading into SAP. (material Master and Vendors).
• Provide additional MM and IM reports as defined by the business.
• Assist other team members in program performance and debugging s well as researching SAP OSS for missing functionality.
• Train team members on new technology (search helps) and the various options (collective and elementary).

Confidential

MM Functional Developer

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of MM, IM and Purchasing for 3.1h system.
• Prototype MM, IM and WM functionality for Business so decisions could be made on which SAP components were required. (I.e. Subcontracting and WM.)
• Worked with the ABAP team on the new design of Purchasing and Inventory Managements related documents.
• When transferred to the ABAP team became responsible for training new team members and conducting training foer the business on DDIC and advanced ABAP techniques (dialog programming).
• Designed, developed, tested and documented various RICE components which I was assigned as a member of the ABAP group.