SUMMARY:

• 20 years of SAP experience on 28 implementations (14 Retail) evolving from version 2.2 to Netweaver ECC 7.4.
• Experience as a Technical Team Lead on 7 projects.
• Expert in interfacing SAP.
• A broad range of experience across industries and business processes, but especially: Retail, Order to Cash, and Procure to Pay. Specific technical experience applied within: Netweaver, BI, XI/PI/PO, EDI, SD, MM, PP, WM, and FICO modules; IDOC interface development, legacy data conversion, Workflow, Master Data, ALV and interactive reporting, Smartforms, pricing, ABAP Objects, retail promotions, POS interfaces, LSMW, BAPI's, BADI's, and BW/BI.
• Experience as a BI consultant and Team Lead. Experience as a SAP XI/PI consultant interfacing inbound and outbound via SOA, web services, EDI, ABAP proxy, idoc, file, and RFC. Experience configuring SLD and connecting SAP systems via RFC.
• Creating Confidential ’s with Java, worked extensively with xml, and familiar with all aspects of the IR, ID and SLD. Knowledge of X12 standards (810, 850, 855, 856, 860, 867, 875, 882, 846, and 824), and associated idoc message flows. SAP functional and configuration experience around EDI, POS, Physical Inventory, Accounts Payable, and various areas of sales and logistics.
• Over 30 years experience as an IT Consultant.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and training skills.

OBJECTIVE:

A key role as technical lead on a challenging SAP project.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

SAP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the RICEF requirements of the Base Pricing project.
• The project included a series of 29 transactional and master data interfaces to and from Revionics.
• Revionics is a third - party Pricing Optimization System.
• My activities included providing development direction and support; and working with functional and business leads throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure development objects complied with client standards and industry best practices.
• Ensured the timely delivery of all development objects.
• In particular, I was tasked with improving the performance of various interfaces resulting in approx. 80% improvement.
• Created and configured custom outbound idocs for pricing, cost and article attribute information.

Confidential, Tyler, TX

SAP Development Lead

Responsibilities:

• Along with my fulltime partner, I was responsible for the RICEF requirements of the PI (Perpetual Inventory) project. The PI project included 38 interfaces, 6 conversions, 4 enhancements, and 2 reports.
• The environment was ECC, BI, CRM, HANA, CAR, XI/PI, Retalix DDR (third - party Demand Driven Replenishment system by NCR), and Retalix IM (Inventory Management); the interface technology was web services, proxy, xml, RFC, and idoc.
• Assisted in designing the overall interface/conversion architecture and standardized functions, especially in regards to functions that interact with Retalix via web services.
• My activities included helping to build the development team, mentor offshore resources, provide ABAP and PI support during business hours, work with functional leads as they produced their requirements. Imported/exported PI objects via CTS for promotion of interface objects.
• Conducted code reviews to ensure work complied with client standards and industry best practices.
• Ensured the timely delivery of all development objects.
• I also took on the task to integrate SAP’s POSDM workbench with Retalix’s web services for the interfacing of POS sales, this facilitated a deep understanding of the inner workings of the POSWorkbench.

Confidential, Jackson, MI

SAP ABAP/EDI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed an invoice history interface to a supplier portal application.
• Developed a custom idoc interface for GDSN registration using custom idocs.
• Developed an interface to generate price catalog idocs (PRICAT02).
• Created an outbound 882 Direct Store Delivery idoc interface.
• Configured PI receiver rules and receiver determination so that inbound test idocs are routed to the test system.
• Fixed PI issues affecting European production operations.

Confidential, CA

SAP EDI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured EDI for Confidential ’s high volume customers, setting up inbound 850’s, and outbound 855’s, 810’s and 856’s.
• Coordinated across business and technical groups both internally and externally to bring each partner live.
• Provided production support for ongoing EDI issues.
• Advised and assisted in a custom IDoc solution for delivery notification’s (ASN’s) for a “marked-for” requirement from a global business partner.
• Created custom IDoc segments and specified user exit logic.
• Assisted in developing a solution to email notifications with HTML formatted data for 824’s, 860’s, and 864’s.

Confidential, Tyler, TX

SAP Retail Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Along with my fulltime partner, responsible for the RICEF requirements of the Distribution Center Replenishment ( Confidential ) Project.
• The Confidential project included 12 interfaces, 4 conversions, and 1 report. The environment was BI, ECC, Retalix (the third-party replenishment system), and PI; the interfaces were proxy, xml, RFC and idoc.
• Assisted in designing the overall interface/conversion architecture, including the delta process, standardized functions, and was integral in the decision to use PI as the integration environment.
• My activities included helping to interview and build the development team, estimate and plan workloads, mentor and coordinate offshore resources, provide ABAP and PI support during business hours, work with functional leads as they produced their requirements.
• Created Java Confidential ’s to streamline message mappings.
• Imported/exported PI objects via CTS for promotion of interface objects.
• Conducted code reviews to ensure work complied with client standards and industry best practices.
• Ensured the timely delivery of all development objects.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

SAP Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• After acquisition of a new brand, Confidential needed to convert customer related data to SAP.
• This involved configuring a division, determining active/valid sold-to records, validating and creating Parent, Chain and Buyer Hierarchy nodes, comparison of legacy sold-to to new data, copying of matching sold-to’s from existing to new division, conversion of payer’s, bill-to’s and non-matching sold-to’s via idoc interfaces, and creation of new credit, and invoice routing records.
• Updated custom order process to set reason codes based on division/product group.

Confidential, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

SAP PI / ABAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Member of an implementation team responsible for Confidential .
• Confidential was a complete SOA-based POS project with a custom web front-end, Enterprise Service middle, and an ECC back-end.
• I created an Appointment Scheduling enterprise service interface, a Physical Inventory adjustment service, a Store Information service, Vendor Sourcing service, Tender and Reverse Payment interfaces, and Daily Cash and Audit report interfaces.
• Created an ALV tree UI to maintain a custom Sales Hierarchy to be used for BI reporting.
• Assisted in solving EDI problems with order creation message flows through PI.
• Created retail pricing enhancements for promotions and especially Free Goods based on custom merchandise hierarchy dependency requirements.
• Created a Notification display service.

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

SAP Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Along with my fulltime counterpart in Ohio, I led a technical team in a project to move three divisions (Global Utility Systems Business (USB), Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC), and Operating & Maintenance (O&M)) from Microsoft Dynamics AX to SAP ECC 6.0.
• Responsible for all the RICEFW objects (30 Reports, 24 Interfaces, 19 Conversions, 11 Enhancements, 5 Forms, 2 Workflows) from blueprint through go-live support.
• Business processes involved were: Project Setup to Close (PSC), Source to Pay (STP), Record to Report (RTR), Order to Cash (OTC), and Engineer to Release (ETR).
• Tasks included estimating RICEFW effort, building a development team, gathering sufficient RICEFW requirement technical details, assigning RICEFW work, mentoring developers, assisting with any technical problems, conducting code reviews, facilitating daily SCRUM meetings and assuring all code and work was completed on schedule, complied with client standards and within industry best ractices.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA, and Frisco, TX

SAP PI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Member of a team of talented consultants who implemented the ‘ Confidential ’ and ‘Fusion’ projects resulting in an estimated savings of $2.5 million/mth.
• These projects required 30 new inbound and outbound interfaces to Confidential ’s 3PL’s (3rd Party Logistic) partners.
• These PI 7.1 interfaces were IDOC, proxy, file, and web-service based, utilizing SOAP and the ORDERS, ORDCHG, DESADV, WHSCON, ARTMAS, MBGMCR EDI idoc message types(and customized extensions).
• I took responsibility for configuration and development of the master data and all order related interfaces to/from a repair and remanufacture partner and supported (troubleshoot, monitor, fix) and supported many other interfaces inbound/outbound to another 3PL partner.
• I also created a proxy-based PI interface for the 'Returns Deletion' process that created order chg idocs, deleted deliveries via idoc and created debit memo's via proxy triggered BAPI’s.
• Confidential used Tibco as a layer of middleware but this was just a pass-through in XML format.

Confidential, Fayetteville, AR

Sr. SAP Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for developing a series of IDoc interfaces required for the migration of legacy plants to SAP plants.
• Responsibilities included: developing custom IDocs, EDI configuration, enhancements, and processing modules for the ‘redirect’ and ‘inter-company’ and ‘sales order’ data flows that created/changed/deleted sales orders, purchase orders and stock transport orders, created/changed/deleted deliveries, assigned/deassigned deliveries to shipments, created/changed shipments, created/assigned/unassigned handling units, posted goods receipt and goods issue and reversals of GR/GI --depending on scenario requirements.
• Created a QM exception report to email inconsistencies to managers. Created interactive reports that assisted in reconciling and controlling operations during the transition: the Shipping Cockpit system served as a user interface for shipping clerks that controls the maintenance of Sales Orders, Stock Transfer Orders, and their corresponding deliveries and shipments; the
• Reconciliation Cockpit system was a centralized interface used to reconcile received weights and quantities at non-SAP inventory managed plants; functions included: processing the differences by creating return Sales Orders, deliveries, batches, and posting goods issue etc., as well as writing-off the accumulated differences in special storage locations to cost centers; the
• Receiving Clerk Cockpit utilizes a series of drill-down ALV reports that enables a clerk to confirm transfer orders, post goods receipt, delete and/or unpack HU’s, cancel transfer orders, and reverse goods receipt.

Confidential, Portland, OR

SAP BI Technical Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting the SAP-side of a third-party.NET-based interfacing product (iNet.BI) that connects SAP BI (and R/3) to Microsoft SQL server and Microsoft BI platforms and tools.
• Developed a program that extracts delta data from infocubes without using the open hub.
• Trained clients on implementing the interface.
• Customized client’s Z-reports in order to use as extractors. Developed a report to interface security authorization objects for use in Microsoft environments (SSAS).
• Redesigned a SAP BAPI that returns members of a dimension in order to improve efficiency.

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

SAP Retail Interface Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of interfacing R3 and BW to Teradata’s Demand Chain Management System via PI, using EDI message IDoc’s, ABAP proxies, and files.
• Worked with the data integration team in designing, planning, and implementing a series of 44 ABAP interfaces, 7 of which are used as common data for other systems including Confidential legacy systems, Red Prairie WMS, and the web-based Blue Martini.
• Created custom update rules in BW.
• Created an idoc trigger system to initiate and control R3 jobs.
• The Netweaver PI/XI Seeburger adapter was used as the EDI translator.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

SAP BW Team Lead / SAP Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• · During Insight’s transition and cutover from 4.6C to Netweaver ECC 5.0, I moved from technical team lead to BW team lead.
• As Technical Team Lead, I was involved is all aspects of development, maintenance, and configuration of EDI related interfaces: 810, 850, 855, 856, 867, 846, and 824’s inbound and outbound via IDocs. Assisted with the successful EDI translator migration from TLE to Seeburger BIS Application Suite.
• Created a series of ABAP programs for an interface to automate the creation and processing of Service Notifications in the PM module.
• Implemented upgrades and service packs.
• Designed and developed a workflow featuring dialog-based IDoc data display for inbound Sales Orders.
• Co-developed a workflow process for AP and inbound Invoices. Mentored developers on many technical issues.
• Responsible for management of weekly ‘Make Live Plan’ for presentation and approval by the Implementation Management team.
• Designed and developed a workflow prototype process for transport approval and release.
• Responsible for technical review and approval of development related transports. Led a project that identifies and reassigns Account Managers to new clients that featured a web UI, and a complex approval algorithm.
• Built a workflow for automated handling of exceptions in the sales order creation process.
• As BW team lead, I was responsible for all aspects of data loading, modeling, spoking, and reporting in our BI and data-staging (SQL-based) environments.
• Configured and mapped XI for Invoice IDoc translation for transition between 4.6C and Netweaver ECC 5.0 systems.
• Technical team lead on the Zilliant interface (a proprietary pricing system) prototype.
• This interface used XI out of BI to directly update SQL tables via the JDBC adapter.
• Created an XI interface, named Demand Forecast, from BI to our external sourcing system in XML format.
• Created an XML XI interface for automated extraction and FTPing of active material data.
• Created an XI interface, called Web relevancy, to map and FTP material list files for reporting on our sales website in XML.
• Setup the extraction of historical data to BW and decoded master and transactional data into new standard.