SUMMARY:

• I have more than 17 years of experience with different industries
• Manage business operations in IT applications related to SAP and EDI processing / interfaces.
• Responsible for development and ongoing maintenance / enhancements of SAP development objects, and EDI tools such as IBM B2B Sterling Integrator / BizTalk / SAP PI / Open Text GXS business processes and EDI transactions.
• Collaborate with Shared Services group to ensure SLAs are adhered to in all aspects of project delivery.
• Play a stellar role in the development of IT roadmaps and plans.
• Implement policies and procedures pertaining to business applications
• Developed many implementation and integration projects in SAP and EDI along with other general projects within different industries
• Handle resource management , and define and assign individual responsibilities
• Handle multiple projects, EDI trading partner implementations and timelines
• Implement and monitor a comprehensive set of SLA’ s in order to measure business value, operational excellence and service quality
• Experience in working simultaneously in multiple projec ts that include multiple technical teams ( offshore/onsite, and multiple locations in onsite and multiple locations in offshore), team leads; projects that include different geographical locations; and that involve complex business requirements, and include such stakeholders as client’s business personals, internal management and client’s customers such as 3PL, plants, warehouses, venders and suppliers etcetera
• Review trading partner requirements, mapping, and interfaces to business applications
• Have extensive SAP and EDI implementation and support experience in different area of SAP such as Application Link Enabling (ALE), Remote Function Calls (RFC), T - RFCs, Object Linking and Embedding, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Database Interface & Platforms, Front End Services, ABAP Workbench, Controls and Control Framework, Business Mgmt., Middleware, BADIs, BAPIs, IDoc, EDI, LUWs, Module Pool programming, ABAP objects, OOPS, Workflow, ALV reporting, Classical and interactive reporting, Unicode conversion, logical database, SAP Scripts, Smart forms, LSMW, Output processing’s, User-exits and customer exits, change pointers, workflow; and different functional areas of SAP such as SAP SD-OTC, EDI, XI; and have knowledge of other functional areas of SAP such as SAP BI, HCM, MM, PP, EHS, PLM, and FI
• Have hands on experience in different functional/technical areas of SAP; especially SAP-SD area that includes Order Management with various Sales Order types such as standard order, cash order, rush order, inbound and outbound deliveries, and billings. Detailed technical knowledge of partner profiles setup, output type setup, CMIR set up, EDPAR and EDSDC tables, IDoc types (custom / extended), MDM setup, and Integration with other modules like MM, WM and FICO.
• Handled support project that involved resolving day to day issues such as transaction level Issues, Master Data Level (Master Grid/Sales Grid) Issues, Customization/ Configuration level Issues, involved in developing and testing new Scenarios, involved in New ABAP Developments (Creation of Functional Specifications), Modification of Existing Reports/ Forms, testing the n ew Reports, conducting Training Programs, End User Training, Documentation and support.
• I have extensive technical and functional experience in development and support of different B2B tools such as BizTalk, and IBM B2B Sterling Integrator tools and technologies (formerly known as Gentran Integration Suite) such as Map editor, BPM, BPML, X-Path, XSLT, XML, FTP, SFTP, AS2, System applications, administration and performance tuning, different types of reports, custom tables, code lists, envelopes, schedules, secured host keys configurations, import and exports, complete knowledge of data definition libraries, extended libraries, standard and extended rules, user-exits, user accounts and roles assignment, resource management, service and adaptors configurations; different standards such as X12, UCS, EDIFACT, OAGIS, Rosetta Net, Tradacoms, XML, excel sheets and proprietary flat file format with different transactions in X12 such as 204, 210, 214, 219, 301, 310, 315, 601, 810, 812, 820, 824, 832, 846, 850, 852, 855, 856, 860, 865, 867, 875, 879, 880, 888, 940, 943, 944, 945, 947, 997 and many more and equivalent in EDIFACT, OAGIS, Rosetta Net and in flat files.
• Strong foundation in key/core areas of technology (SAP ERP, Netweaver and integration technologies) and demonstrated ability to learn and apply new technologies to meet the changing needs of the business
• Conduct testing with trading partners and integrates new customers into EDI processes per implementation standards.
• Communicate with users and management on system and process capabilities as well as system and program design of new applications or integration of EDI into existing applications.
• Manage daily transactions in B2B Integrator and SAP to ensure customer compliance with EDI standards, resolves error messages and takes action to meet trading partner EDI compliance requirements.
• Maintain existing trading partner profiles and mappings while working with internal customer demands and interface applications.
• Train and educate groups and/or individuals on use and utilization of systems & business processes associated EDI / electronic commerce.
• Research and understand new technologies with vendors, techniques and trading partner initiatives; determines benefits to company and develops best practices that can be integrated and supported.
• Evaluate and recommend new electronic commerce software and/or upgrades.
• I have strong in depth knowledge of business environment which has 3PLs, logistics (ground and ocean - domestic or international), warehouses , plants , trading partners, suppliers, customers and customs all involved at the same time.

CAREER PROGRESSION:

Confidential

Solution Architect / Account Manager

Responsibilities:

• Primarily r esponsible for managing the account and m anage multi-million dollars’ programs that include AMS and development projects from operations management stand point on SAP ERP and E-commerce platforms .
• Besides Confidential, I manage Trumpf Medical (for Europe region), another sister company, both under the ownership of Confidential .
• Play a stellar role in the planning IT roadmaps and executing them . Handle engagement requirement prioritization, give presentations to C-Group executives and different stakeholders, content and deliver to the audience, as required.

Confidential, Redmond

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implement multiple projects simultaneously for different accounts that include implementation projects primarily on EDI and SAP platform, in conjunction with other platforms.
• Work with multiple managers and teams from different departments at different locations to understand/define the scope and deliverables requirements so that the objectives could be achieved with minimum changes/development .
• Keep close communication with consulting partners and investigate possible technology solutions
• Work with multiple trading partners such as manufacturer, Logistics, third party logistics, and transportation management hub, and stakeholders from different business units, geographical locations, teams: teams from internal and various external vendors.

Confidential, San Diego

Responsibilities:

• Implemented SAP 6.0 ECC and EDI GIS 4.3/5.0/5.1/5.2 (now known as IBM B2B Sterling Integrator), and done many other integration, maintenance and upgrade projects for the US and Canada along with other internal projects
• Developed the whole Global Transportation Management System (Global TMS) implementation project using third party application and integrated all the different plants, warehouse locations and corporate, and integrated to SAP, EDI, FI and BI a pplications .
• Worked with multiple managers and sub teams from different departments at different locations to understand the scope and deliverables requirements so that the objectives could be achieved with minimum changes/development
• Kept close communication with consulting partners and investigated possible technology alternatives and delivery of solutions
• Solely designed and developed the whole system architecture to implement the newly acquired organization, the architecture so robust and flexible enough to accommodate further developments and acquisitions as easy as few clicks.

Confidential, Thousand Oaks

Responsibilities:

• Handled the roll out project of SAP 4.7 and implementation and integration of GIS 4.2 for US, Canada and Australia and maintenance for Europe region
• Adhere to the comprehensive set of SLA’ s in order to measure business value, operational excellence and service quality
• Identified opportunities for improvement and made suggestions for changes
• Provided clear and consistent communication of project status both with internal IT teams and with Business Stakeholders
• Maintained existing trading partner profiles and mappings while working with internal customer demands and interface applications.
• Designed and developed all the development objects included in the roll up project.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handled multiple projects of main tenance and support f or Confidential for US and Canada, UMG and Confidential International, which include Europe, Asia Pacific and Australia , in SAP 4.6C and GIS 4.1
• Minimized exposure of risks (external or internal) on projects
• Resolution of cross-modules issues with different teams such as Materials Management, Production Planning, Warehouse Management, BI/BW and CRM
• Provided production support activities as per Service Level Agreements.
• Managed and set business expectations by getting continuous feedback
• Reviewed deliverables prepared by team before passing to stakeholders
• Continuous interaction with the business users and project team members to gather requirement and identified further risks and improvement opportunities

Confidential, San Ramon

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience in using SAP standard info-types and in creating custom info-types.
• Ensured that project documents were complete, current, and stored appropriately
• Managed project assumption and protect the project from negative risks
• Identified and defined all the management plans and validated them from time to time if all the processes met the ultimate objective of the project as a whole
• Developed/configured custom routines, condition types, access sequences
• Worked on hands on development in different areas such as ALE, RFC, EDI, Front End Services, ABAP Workbench, Controls and Control Framework, BADIs, BAPIs, IDoc (custom IDocs and extended IDocs), LUWs, Module Pool programming, ABAP objects, OOPS, ALVs and different types of reports, Unicode conversion, logical database, Smart forms, LSMW, Output processing’s, User-exits and customer exits, change pointers, workflow
• Implemented intense and highly complex project in module pool, LUWs, OOPS, ALV with classes and other ABAP development objects.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team for SAP 4.7 implementation project
• This implementation included development in different SAP functionalities such as SD-OTC, PP, MM, EDI, and FI
• Hands-on configuration in SAP-SD order to cash with understanding of cross-functional applications of PP, MM and EDI.
• Worked on hands on development in different areas such as ALE, RFC, EDI, Front End Services, ABAP Workbench, Controls and Control Framework, BADIs, BAPIs, IDoc (custom IDocs and extended IDocs), LUWs, Module Pool programming, ABAP objects, OOPS, ALVs and different types of reports
• Resolution of cross-modules issues with different teams like Materials Management, Production Planning, Warehouse Management, BI/BW and CRM