SUMMARY

• Highly dependable, articulate and diversified professional with over 30 years of IT experience.
• An IT professional capable of thinking out of the box and applying his in - depth knowledge to come up with feasible solutions to business problems of varying complexity.
• Played a vital role on numerous domestic and global SAP implementations.
• Worked on numerous projects of various magnitudes and complexity as a freelance Solutions Architect implementing innovative Analytical, Reporting, and SAP Workflow solutions across SAP systems and landscapes ranging from SAP 4.0, to SAP S/4 HANA, and SAP Cloud Platform.
• Acted as a subject matter expert in SAP Workflow and ABAP, provided guidance to upper management and various workstreams mitigating risk to ensure overall project success and implementation in a timely manner. Implemented complex workflow agent routing and document handling.
• Was an integral part of Center of Excellence teams leading the technical efforts to successfully implement SAP and provide post go-live support.
• Worked on multiple projects that required complicated workflow solutions to address MM master data creation for material and vendor master records. Two solutions were rolled out globally in phases to EMEA/APJ where workflow text translation and legal issues needed to be addressed from country to country.
• Worked closely with global and local legal teams to address complex security needs as it pertained to various attachments to documents & workflows in SAP
• Travelled globally and organized remote webinars as needed to lead requirements gathering and design sessions and then returned to the various sites for integration testing, KT sessions with business teams across EMEA/APJ regions. Also travelled to plant sites during go-live and post go-live hyper care needs.
• Responsible for Proof of Concept projects for potential clients conducting discovery sessions, gathering requirements, mapping business processes in AS-IS and TO-BE states and doing rapid development/configuration to get buy-in from client and upper management prior to implementing the complete solution.
• Developed and delivered both sales and technical presentations to different audiences in efforts to win projects of various magnitudes and complexity.
• Architected custom SAP solutions and data warehouses to meet the reporting and separation of duties needs various types of audits ranging from Financial to Security audits conducted both internally and externally. Integrated SAP with 3rd party solutions to address various gaps across client IT landscapes.
• Mentored internal junior team members on various projects and responsible for various change management and enablement activities like training client personnel and dissemination of timely communications to ensure project success and streamline transition from legacy systems to SAP.
• Worked on many RICEF objects, custom mini-applications within SAP, and implemented over 100 custom WF templates leveraging the SAP Workflow Inbox, UWL, CRM Cockpit, SRM Enterprise Inbox, and My Inbox 2.0 in SAP Fiori Launchpad.
• Performed SAP Basis administration duties such as hardware sizing, managed SAP users, authorizations and profiles, applied OSS notes, performed SAP system performance tuning and monitoring tasks. Participated in planning, testing, and implementation of SAP upgrades and patches.
• Performed resource planning and budgeting for many projects, managing the development/functional resources working on the deliverables on and off shore.
• Leveraged SAP Best Practices throughout implementations using Waterfall and Agile methodologies for go-live / post go-live maintenance/support initiatives.
• Acted as a liaison between on/off-shore resources, managed numerous deliverables across various work streams, communicating with key team members to analyze, design and implement solutions that achieve desired business initiatives.
• Assisted in technical risk assessments throughout large implementations and met weekly with the steering committee, worked with key stake holders to make the necessary decisions in efforts to ensure a successful project go-live and adoption of the new system.
• Was part of an implementation team consolidating 8 legacy systems into one as part of a major system requiring data cleansing, de-duping and wrangling to prepare the data for upload into target systems as well as developing parts of a new reporting system and new data base landscape with referential integrity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Skills: S/4 HANA & ECC Workflow, Cloud Platform Workflow, Analytics Cloud, HANA Modeling, Fiori, ByDesign, CRM, SRM, BW

Programming Skills: ABAP, OOP ABAP, SQL, COBOL II, JCL, CICS

Database: SAP S/4 HANA, Oracle, Sybase, DB2

Miscellaneous: SAP Roles and Authorizations , BRF+, ASAP, SAP Activate, Waterfall and Agile Methodology, JIRA, HP QC, MS Office Suite Tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Solutions Architect and SAP Workflow

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing numerous workflows on the S/4 HANA.
• Worked with various stakeholders from the Procurement, Quality and Sales teams to gather requirements for desired workflows.
• Conducted discovery sessions to demonstrate the capabilities and limitations of the requested workflow functionality on S/4 HANA.
• Configured and tested PO and PR Release/Approval, Quality Notification tasks, Quote Approval, 3 rd Party Goods Movement and Free Goods Approval workflows.
• Enabled workflow in the My Inbox 2.0 app via the SAP Fiori Launch pad.
• Developed workflow related ABAP report using assigned custom security roles and users involved in UAT and prepared all objects for a phased roll-out.

Sr. Solutions Architect and SAP Workflow and ABAP

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Solutions Architect, responsible for implementing SAP Business Workflow solutions for SAP Material Master Data Governance.
• Worked closely with the various business teams and design engineers responsible for new product development and enhancements to streamline the current material master creation process integrated with an external PLM system.
• Worked with the Center of Excellence and Finance/Accounting departments to identify deficiencies and gaps in the current business processes impacting their bottom line. Worked with the Procurement team to configure and develop a custom Purchase Requisition Approval workflow integrating it with the PO Approval process.
• Worked with and managed off-shore ABAP resources to develop reports needed by various business teams in order to gain visibility to KPIs and assist management in their decision making.

Sr. Solutions Architect and SAP Workflow/ABAP SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing custom SAP Master Data Governance Workflow solutions for material and vendor master on a global scale. Responsible for end-to-end project lifecycle of a workflow project involving over 50 plants worldwide using phased rollout approach.
• Performed in-depth process analysis, design, development and configuration of material master and vendor master creation workflows, which were designed to be strategically routed to collect data from various agents with different authorizations and data entry capabilities.
• Worked extensively with the Global Trade compliance team to design a solution within the material master creation process to meet their global legal requirements. Conducted knowledge transfer and training session during each phased rollout with teams working on and off shore.