SUMMARY:

• I have been working in the IT industry for 26 years and with SAP for 20 years obtaining 3 SAP s: ABAP for HANA, ABAP Netweaver 7.02 and FI/CO.
• This has proven to be an invaluable combination providing a good understanding of the both the functional and technical areas of SAP that has allowed me to perform a dual functional and technical role
• I have worked on diverse projects during my career where I have performed a variety of roles including ABAP team lead, SAP data conversion lead, data rollout and cutover, work planning, business analysis, design, programming, testing, quality assurance, documentation and post implementation support.

RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

ABAP Team Lead, SAP MDG S/4 HANA

Responsibilities:

• In preparation for this project, completed ABAP for HANA and exam,
• Work planning for the ABAP team for all RICEF objects. This included populating the master RICEF list for the project as part of the blueprint phase, meeting with functional team and solution management to firm up scope and requirements, providing the ABAP estimates for each RICEF, categorize each requirement as it relates to RICEF and control the scope of the RICEF work,
• Creating technical specifications, designing and developing ABAP data conversions, interfaces, reports, screens, user exits, implicit and explicit enhancements,
• Designing and developing data conversion programs related to the material master, inventory balance data loading, open transactions etc,
• Creating cutover plan for the data conversion tasks related to the project,
• Modification of custom ABAP classes created for the material master. Adding new functionality to these classes such as new methods, attributes and data types using type pools,
• Unit and Functional testing ABAP code. P erformance & volume testing as well as go - live simulation
• Design in S/4 HANA and utilizing CDS views and AMDP where applicable.

Confidential

ABAP / Web Dynpro Programmer, ALE /IDOC - Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Responding to any trouble ticket assigned from the helpdesk, debugging problems to determine solution, providing ABAP level of effort estimates to fix problems,
• Opening messages with SAP to allow them into the system to review problems,
• Modifying user exits and implicit enhancements,
• Applying OSS notes using SNOTE,
• Modification of custom Webdynpro components used in PM and MM,
• Monitoring batch schedule, daily short dumps, RFC communications between 18 SAP systems linked via ALE/idoc and SAP PDR,
• Modifications of SAPSCRIPT and ADOBE printing programs and forms,
• Creation/modification of ALV reports using ALV object model
• Maintenance and review of the entire ALE model that supports data synchronization between 18 SAP systems, Performance tuning the ALE model, modifying the ALE model via WE20 and BD64
• Creation/modification of idoc archiving jobs and BDCP2 archiving jobs,
• Overall performance tuning of batch jobs and online transactions

Confidential

Senior ABAP Programmer - Rollout & Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Executing data loading for high volume conversions on a weekly basis,
• Performing multiple rollouts per week in some cases ( multiple ships and bases),
• Performance tuning high volume conversions. Determining when to run, what severs to run on and how much data to run in each job as to gain maximum efficiency meet deadlines,
• Conducting performance & volume testing as part of weekly rollout simulations in production clone systems,
• Designing new programs to improve the rollout process specifically related to the WM, PS, FI/CO, MM modules including: inbound interface programs to clean and filter inbound data from MIMS and utility programs to merge and split files,

Confidential

ABAP Lead

Responsibilities:

• Work planning for the ABAP team for all RICEF objects. This included populating the master RICEF list for the project as part of the blueprint phase, meeting with functional team and solution management to firm up scope and requirements, providing the ABAP estimates for each RICEF, categorize each requirement as it relates to RICEF and control the scope of the RICEF work,
• Adding to the overall material master conversion design and extension by integrating new requirements for warehouse management (WM) as it relates to the warehouse views on the material master and the bin master,
• Creating technical specifications, designing and developing ABAP data conversions, interfaces, reports, screens, user exits, implicit and explicit enhancements,
• Designing and developing data conversion programs related to the material master, inventory balance data loading, bin master loading for WM and stock loading,, project stock loading to WBS and MSPR table,
• Creating cutover plan for the data conversion tasks related to the project,
• Modification of custom ABAP classes created for the material master. Adding new functionality to these classes such as new methods, attributes and data types using type pools,
• Creating new ABAP classes, methods and attributes to support custom cross tables used at Confidential,
• Executing SPDD, SPAU and SPAU ENH adjustment work related to the 604 upgrade
• Fixing ABAP programs impacted by the upgrade to ECC 604
• Using Solman for documentation, problem management and change requests,
• Retrofitting transports within the 5 system landscape at Confidential
• Unit and Functional testing ABAP code. P erformance & volume testing as well as go-live simulation
• Using the ABAP debugger for all corrections and analysis including ABAP objects analysis drilling down on instances in debugger in order to understand class hierarchy and available data

Confidential

Senior ABAP Programmer - Data Rollout Lead

Responsibilities:

• Creating rollout plans for the data conversion tasks and executing data loading for high volume conversions under tight timelines and rollout schedules on a weekly basis
• Performing multiple rollouts per week in some cases ( multiple ships and bases)
• Performance tuning high volume conversions. Determining when to run, what severs to run on and how much data to run in each job as to gain maximum efficiency and keep to the project go-live date
• Conducting performance & volume testing as part of weekly rollout simulations in production clone systems
• Responding to problem fixes or changes to ABAP programs used during rollout
• Providing auditors with an audit trail report package in order to reconcile the millions of inventory transactions loaded as part of each rollout
• Designing new programs to improve the rollout process specifically related to the MM module

Confidential

Senior ABAP Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Work planning for the ABAP team for all RICEF objects. This included populating the master RICEF list for the project as part of the blueprint phase, meeting with functional team and solution management to firm up scope and requirements, providing the ABAP estimates for each RICEF, categorize each requirement as it relates to RICEF and control the scope of the RICEF work
• Designing and developing a new material master design for MPN/NSN, moving to MRP area level versus plant level MRP, implementation of PRT views on the material master, extension to plants, storage locations, sales views, accounting views, forecast views, storage types, warehouse, etc.
• Designing and developing a custom material master extension function that is used centrally at DRMIS and triggered at various points within the ERP. This design included moving away from an older BDC design to BAPI, integrating several XREF tables and parameter tables to customize the extension of the material master,
• Creating technical specifications, designing and developing ABAP data conversions, interfaces, reports, screens, user exits, implicit and explicit enhancements
• Creating the cutover plan for the data conversion tasks related to the project and fitting those tasks in with the overall project cutover plan
• Converting up to 5 million material masters over go-live weekend, monitoring and working with the BASIS team to enhance and tune performance of these high volume data load jobs
• Using Solman for documentation, problem management and change requests,
• Retrofitting transports within the 5 system landscape at Confidential
• Unit and Functional testing ABAP code. P erformance & volume testing as well as go-live simulation
• Using the ABAP debugger for all corrections and analysis including ABAP objects analysis drilling down on instances in debugger in order to understand class hierarchy and available data

Confidential

Senior ABAP Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Executing conversion of 3 million material master records in the SAP system to support new plant level views, Sales Views, PRT views, Warehouse Management Views and a new MMR design
• Designing and developing several different Material Master conversions using idocs, BAPIS & LSMW
• Creating technical specifications, designing and developing ABAP data conversions, interfaces, reports, screens, user exits, implicit and explicit enhancements
• Designing and developing new ABAP reports
• Performance tuning high volume data conversion programs
• Implementing conversions for the DFPS module. I was responsible for conversion of material masters and inventory on the first DFPS based ship at Confidential
• Using the ABAP debugger for all corrections and analysis including ABAP objects analysis drilling down on instances in debugger in order to understand class hierarchy and available data
• Executing SPDD, SPAU and SPAU ENH adjustment work related to the 603 upgrade,
• Fixing ABAP programs impacted by the upgrade to ECC 603
• Unit and Functional testing ABAP code. P erformance & volume testing as well as go-live simulation

Confidential

Senior ABAP Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Executing SPDD, SPAU and SPAU ENH adjustment / corrections
• Completing other upgrade corrections of user exits and cloned SAP code impacted by the upgrade
• Conducting analysis of Unicode conversion as part of upgrade. Use of UCCHECK and SAMT transaction to manage Unicode corrections
• Correcting ABAP Unicode errors in system to make the system Unicode compliant
• Correcting SAP cloned programs and other ‘Z’ transactions
• Implementing implicit and explicit enhancements using the switch enhancement framework
• Applying OSS notes using SNOTE to correct ECC 6.0 issues found during testing
• Implementing BADIS and adding custom implementation to methods,
• Unit and Functional Testing ABAP code
• Implemented ABAP objects corrections making use of standard SAP class framework and interfaces in order access required data
• Using the ABAP debugger for all corrections and analysis including ABAP objects analysis drilling down on instances in debugger in order to understand class hierarchy and available data

Confidential

Senior ABAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Modifying existing RFC function modules used to pass information from SAP SCEM to SAP CRM and the Web Communication Layer of SCEM (WCL)
• Creating function modules that process online transactions for SCEM triggered as part of configuration. The configuration is triggered by bar code scans coming from users on plant floor or retail outlets
• Modifying existing ABAP interfaces and reports,
• Creating new ABAP interface programs that extract event handler and event message data from SAP SCEM and send it to external applications and partners
• ABAP programming to create new SCEM information parameters and control parameters used for linking different information with event messages in SCEM
• Modifying inbound IDOC function modules to add custom code.
• Using WE19 IDOC test tool and WE20 partner profile configuration
• Modifying existing BADI implementations
• Performance tuning of existing ABAP programs
• Creating Infosets and queries using SAP Query (SQ01) in order to do data mining (use of OPEN SQL)
• Creating functional and technical design documents, unit test plans, QA test plans and testing execution
• Unit and functional testing ABAP code
• Go-live support and stabilization of managed releases

Confidential

Senior ABAP Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responding to production work requests and completing the required problem analysis and implementation of the fix (ABAP, OSS note, User Exit or Configuration)
• Programming with BAPIS, modifying current production ABAP programs, Creating transaction variants, Creating user exits (screen, function module),
• Designing and developing new ALV reports based on dynamic selections and automatic FTP to customer,
• Implementing BADIs,
• Analysis for upgrade preparation
• Unit and Functional testing ABAP code,
• Support go-live of a new plant. On-call for production fixes and changes.
• ABAP Performance tuning.

Confidential

Senior Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creating the functional architecture documents consisting of unit tasks, screen design and operations design
• Conducting requirements work sessions with user groups and systems analysis with the architecture team and development team
• Working with the development team that was divided into 3 tiers: User Interface, Business Logic and Data. I worked on the business logic and User Interface layers of the application, creating Java classes based on the functional architecture (Business Beans) and UI components using the JSF framework (jspx pages and Backing Beans). The Business logic tier was designed to accommodate a Service Oriented Architecture meaning the business logic classes are designed as web services where applicable

Confidential

ABAP Planning and Scoping lead

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of legacy systems and data and determining the interfacing and/or data conversion requirements related to implementing SAP
• Conducting work sessions with functional team and client to discuss requirements and determine ABAP development scope
• Preparing a final estimate to assist in determining the ABAP resource requirements for this project
• Preparing a final report for management detailing the scope and effort estimates.

Confidential

ABAP Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparing blueprint, estimates and work planning for all ABAP related tasks for this Finance implementation
• Working with the EAI team on data-mapping specifications that would be interfaced using Websphere
• Interviewing programmers for the team
• Managing the development effort and resources
• Reviewing and approval of all technical specifications
• Working as the data conversion lead for loading data into SAP. I worked with the users in mapping the data from the legacy systems into SAP and created several conversion programs using LSMW for Customers, Vendors, GL Account balances and AR open items
• Designing and developing SAP dialog programs and ALV reports using BAPI technology for several Finance related transactions to do things such as automatic postings
• Unit and Functional testing ABAP code
• Executing the cutover tasks for data conversions as part of the final rollout
• Supporting the go-live

Confidential

ABAP Planning and Scoping Lead

Responsibilities:

• Planning and scoping report preparation for the blueprint phase of a project for the Air Force and Army to determine the high level scope of requirements related to interfacing systems, data conversion and reporting for SAP
• Conducting business analysis sessions to define the functional and technical requirements for interfaces in/out of SAP
• Designing and developing interface and conversion programs using ALE/Idocs and LSMW
• Designing and developing ABAP reports using ALV for FI/CO, MM, PM and HR,
• Modifying custom enhancement for CATS to call customer code,
• Creating dialog programs for custom transactions related to the MM area and batch programs using BAPIs and BDC to post SAP transactions
• Creating reports using ABAP Query and SAP Query
• Using of ‘Open SQL’ in designing reports, programs and queries
• Responding to problem fixes, change requests and service requests for the newly implemented system
• Unit and Functional testing ABAP code

Confidential

Senior ABAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responding to production work requests and completing the required problem analysis and implementation of the fix
• Designing and developing new ABAP programs for interfaces, reports and exits
• Creating field exits
• Modifying current production ABAP programs
• Designing and developing reports using SAP report writer
• Unit and Functional testing ABAP code

Confidential

Senior ABAP consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responding to production requests and completing the required problem analysis and implementation,
• Designing and developing new ABAP programs for interfaces, reports and exits
• Modifying current production ABAP programs,
• Designing and developing reports using SAP report writer
• Unit and Functional Testing ABAP code

Confidential

ABAP Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading the ABAP team, as a certified SAP consultant in both FI/CO and ABAP/4, I performed a dual role on this project leading the ABAP team and assisting the FI/CO team
• Completing RICEF estimates of effort for the ABAP work required on this project,
• Interviewing and selecting candidates for the ABAP team
• Preparing requirement documents, naming conventions, test plans and implementing a client review and signoff procedure for the ABAP/4 team
• Assisting the FI/CO team on the Blueprint Phase and subsequent configuration.
• Conducting business analysis sessions to define the requirements for interfaces in/out of SAP
• Designing and developing interface and conversion programs, ABAP reports and dialog programs for custom transactions,
• Unit and Functional testing ABAP code