SUMMARY

• 15+ years professional experience involving SAP PS (Project System) Implementation, Support, Roll - Out, Enhancements using ASAP Methodology and Project Management & Business Analysis
• Design and IMG Configuration experience in all aspects of SAP PS including Project Profiles, Project Types, Investment Profiles, Settlement Profiles, Allocation Structure, Source Structure, WBS Elements, Assets under contruction, Networks, Milestones, Cost and Resource Planning, Revenue and Earnings, Result Analysis, Capacity Planning, Settlement and Period End Closings and Data Conversion using LSMW and Innowera Process Runner
• Experienced in Project Master Data, Templates, Logistics and Project Accounting in both Customer and Capital Projects, Maintained Person Responsible and Applicant Number
• Proficient in the SAP PS and expert knowledge in the integration points with IM, PP, MM, CO, FI, SD, IM, JVA and HR, Knowledge of CO integration for Result Analysis - RA (WIP) and Revenue Recognition
• Working Knowledge of FI integration for FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-GL, FI-AA and the use of iDoc
• Process experience in Time Writing using CATS and Configuration knowledge of HCM module
• Experience includes heirachical and process planning of structures, Scheduling, Cost Planning & Budgeting, Material Planning & Procurement (MPP), MRP, BOM, Sales Orders, Goods Receipts, Goods Movements, and Confirmations
• Good knowledge of business processes in Make-to-Order (MTO), Make-to-Stock (MTS), Order-to Cash (OTC), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Assembly Processing, and all of processes involved in Customer Projects, Investment projects, R&D projects.
• Experience with Oil & Gas Intangible Drilling Cost (IDC) processing, AFE Processing, Asset Processing
• Experience with IM Structures, Appropriation Requests, Investment Programs
• Knowledge of Resource Related Billing (RRB), Dynamic Item Processer (DIP) and Milestone Billing
• Involved in different phases of life cycle implementation of SAP including AS-IS Study, Fit-GAP Analysis, Blueprinting Workshops, Customization, Knowledge Transfers documentation & sessions and Production Support
• Proficient in using PS for full project-life-cycle, with extensive experience in Inquiry & Quotation processing, Order processing, Project processing, Confirmations and Period-end closing
• Part of three full life cycle implementations in ECC 6.0 and R/3 4.7, using ASAP Methodology, Roll Out and Production Support experience
• Experience on stakeholders relationship, design workshops, discussions and presentation with deployable understanding of project management processes and knowledge areas in line with PMBOK
• Project management experience involving cost, time, quality, and risk ensuring that the deliverables are achieved without overruns in cost and time. Prociency with Confidential Project in managing timelines, resources, prioritizing activities, monitoring milestones, Gantt chart analysis, and Critical factors and reworking the project plan to changing project scope, also able to use Ms Office suite including Power Point, MS Excel & Word
• Ability to work both in independent and complex team-oriented environments that are geographically dispersed with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills and good problem solving capabilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Applications: Innowera, Worksoft Certify, Sevice-Now, Confidential Project, Confidential Office, Confidential Visio, QTP, HPQCSAP ECC 6.0, SAP PS (Project Systems), CO, FI, MM, IM, SD, PP, JVA, ABAP Query, LSMW, ChaRM (Solution Mgr)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Consultant (PS Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Business owners and users to gather requirements for implementation, enhancements and roll out, documented business and functional requirements, analyzed potential alternatives and reviewed different solutions to meet business process needs, carried out mapping and prepared functional/technical specifications documents
• Configured and designed system settings for Project Profile, Project Types, Standard Projects, Standard Network Templates, master data,, Field Status, dates, materials, costs, Network profile, budgeted profile, planning profile, Allocation Structure, Settlement Profiles and custom fields development
• Configured project profiles, project types, investment profiles and created standard WBS and Network templates for different scenarios
• Managed AFE Processing, through Network/WBS Settlement, JV Cutback, AUC Settlement, Final Assets DD&A run
• Managed IDC Processing through Network/WBS Settlement, JV Cutback, AUC Settlement, Final Assets DD&A run
• Configured and managed Appropriation Requests and Investment Programs integration to projects
• Worked with SAP Custom team on issues arising from IDC Solution; Cost Distribution Program (CDP) and Asset Transfer Program (ATP), fixed period/year end issues arising from the use of the IDC Solution Programs
• Maintained custom tables to drive validations and substitutions
• Maintained class and characteristics to create a reporting basis on network header worldwide
• Worked in team to develop custom availability control program with user fields on WBS Elements and IM budgets
• Worked in a team to develop ‘Auto close’ program and ‘close undo’ program based on WBS Element resident inactivity
• Developed PS Validations and Substitutions using configuration (boolean logic) and user exists
• Developed FI, CO, JV Validations using configuration (boolean logic) and user exists
• Complete configuration for new company codes setup in Fixed Asset Module for new countries and existing countries
• Configured system for FI-AA; depreciation keys and calculation methods, Asset Classes,
• Configured system for HR-CATS, New Personnel Areas, New Personnel Sub-Areas, Setup Work Schedules, Factory Calendars, Holiday Calendars, Investigate and resolved time writing and CATS Transfer Issues
• Configured system for Payroll USA, Premium Rates, GL Account Symbolic Mapping
• Designed and configured CO versions for multiple scenario planning in SAP Project System
• Maintained Source Structure, Allocation Structure and created cost elements and cost element groups
• Configured JVA JIB/JIBE and worked on JVA Integration to Project Systems
• Assisted in various tasks of Project Management Cost, Quality, Time and Risk Management.
• Worked on configuration of the HCM Time Management, Action for CATS, and general customizing in HR module
• Created LSMW and Innowera Process Runner Scripts for data conversion
• Developed and deployed several custom reports using SAP Queries and Creating Custom T-codes for reports
• Worked with BI team for the report development
• Resolved various period end and year end close issues in Project System, Investment Management, Fixed Asset, Tax,
• Worked with ABAP team on data transfer with iDoc and to resolve issues arising after testing
• Carried out Unit, Integration & Regression testing, resolved issues identified during testing
• Worked with other teams (ABAP/Security) to resolve various issues identified during testing
• Provided Production Support, raised OSS incidents where necessary and trained end users
• Created several scripts for mass upload with Innowera Process Runner TX, DE and GUI Scripting technology
• Resolving everyday system issues as they arise in the SAP modules of PS, IM, FI-AA, HR-CATS
• Monitor service-now tickets to resolve issues and manage teams incident bucket
• Review and documentation of Fire Fighter ID usage in GRC for Risk Assessment by supervisor and auditors
• Worked with Auditors during system audit

Confidential

SAP PS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in walkthrough and verification of all business requirements with the client and functional teams, also involved in the creation of master data for testing team according to requirements to verify the functionality of the configuration
• Involved in Requirement analysis and maintained traceability between requirements and use cases.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Case scenarios and developed Test scripts for functional and Integration test scenarios.
• Cordination with offshore teams on resolution of issues arising from testing and validation cases
• Involved in Integration, System, Functional Testing and End to End Testing. Involved in coordinating with the third parties to make sure the functionalities work appropriately
• Interface with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated software anomalies.
• Caried out bug tracking and for generating defect reports.
• Prepared Test Data and loading test data into the Test environment.
• Scheduled and conducted routine meetings with the project team and provided them with status update and project documentation.
• Testing also involved Backend and Tcode testing of application to check whether data was going to right field and coming from right tables.

Confidential, WI

Sr SAP Project System Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Business owners and users to gather requirements for enhancements and roll out, defined business and functional requirements through analysis of potential alternatives and reviewed different solutions to meet business process needs, carried out mapping and prepared documents as required and responding to tickets as assigned
• Configured and designed system settings for Project Profile, WBS master data, Field Status for master data, Work centers; dates, materials, costs & workforce, Network profile, budgeted profile, planning profile and assigned tolerance limits for budget availability control
• Worked with FI team on FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-GL, FI-AA
• Worked on configation of the HCM Time Management
• Worked with other teams on Result Analysis (RA), Profitability Analysis and revenue Recognition in CO integration
• Worked on Engineer-to-order (ETO) process flow, Make-to-order, Billing Document, and worked on milestone billing, DIP Profile for RRB, from SD to integrate with PS
• Worked with the SD team on configuration Sales, Order-to-Cash (OTC), Procure-to-Pay (PTP) processes
• Assisted in various tasks of Project Management Cost, Quality, Time and Risk Management.
• Configured settings for individual projects and this include configuration of project profiles, WBS element master data, field status of master data, network profile, budget profile and planning profile, work centers and planning profile including tolerance limit setup for budget availability control
• Worked on configation of the HCM Time Management, Action for CATS, and general customizing in HR module
• Worked with Conversion team for data migration using the LSMW
• Assisted in the preparation business process procedures and worked with BI team for the enhancements requested by the business users
• Resolved issues in Activity cost planning, posting time using CATS, project confirmations, user status, batch upload of time and expenses, role assignments in projects,
• Worked with ABAP team on data transfer with iDoc and to resolve issues arissing after testing
• Assisted in Unit, Integration & Regression testing and worked with the ABAP team to resolve various issues identified during testing
• Provided Production Support and User End Trainings.

Environment: PS, SD, MM, HR, FI & CO

Confidential, TX

SAP PS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Project systems Enhancements, Testing, Training and Cutover
• Successfully mapped the clients business to SAP in capitalizing their major Assets through capturing capital expenses over WBS elements and later settling them to Fixed Asset also working with Asset Accounting
• Provided a way where the client could track their Major Maintenance costs occurred for a Rig to get it statistically posted to a WBS element and the actual going to the Rigs cost center
• Facilitated the use of WBS cost settlement to a Salvage G/L accounts for all those Rigs, which were sunk
• Worked on Assets Management,
• Facilitated the smooth flow of Network Orders in Project systems and tan settling to either an Asset or a cost center
• Was successful in showing the prototype of the client’s Capital and Operating expense budget using Project Reports, as per the client’s requirement
• Was Involved in Cost center accounting design, for controlling integration with PS
• Created various allocations and distribution rules for their present cost controlling and reporting requirements
• Successfully Implemented Project systems and its integration with Assets, Controlling, SD and Plant Maintenance as per the Business requirements signed off during the design phase
• Configured various Project profiles required with various combinations of Settlement profiles, planning profiles and Budget profiles and created coding masks as per business requirement
• Configured Availability control with a tolerance limit of about 90% and a workflow triggered to send e-mail for any of the Budget over runs to the controller
• Created settlement profiles for Plan and Actual cost settlement from Work order to WBS and tan to AUC. These costs getting capitalized to assets later when the capitalization date is reached.
• Configured the Automatic creation of AUC (assets under construction) in the background as an investment measure when the Project is released
• Created various user statuses for integrating SD with PS, so that the SD can start their manual billing process based on the user status configured
• Configured order value updating to get real time update of the costs planned in orders and for commitment management in Projects
• Maintained the Person responsible and Applicant tables, Configured the Controlling area settings for various years and activated projects
• Configured Integration planning by settling plan data from Projects to cost centers and tan to profit centers
• Successfully unit tested all the transactions in scope for Confidential ’s Business requirement in both Project systems and controlling
• Created standard project templates for new rig builds, Major maintenance work and other miscellaneous projects.
• Created Projects for major Rig modifications, Maintenance work, Re-billable type and Capital projects as per the budget
• Created various end user manuals for using the production system
• Worked with ABAP team to resolve issues arissing after
• Trained the Managers and the Project accountants on using Project Systems

Environment: PS, IM, MM, FI, CO

Confidential, FL

SAP PS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed AS-IS, TO-BE by gathering the requirements from business process teams and end users
• Prepared BBP (Business Blue Print) by coordinating with the project team members by collecting and understanding of the user requirements, filling up the business process to meet new business requirements
• Responsible for data coordinating in PS and it’s integration with FI, CO
• Created new WBS, Networks profiles, Network Activities, and Network Activity Elements.
• Project profile, budget profile, status profile, investment profile, planning profile.
• Integrated PS with SD module, to set up automatic creation of project from sales order and maintain one-one relationship between project and Sales order.
• Worked with PS-IM integration, in AUC, Investment Profiles, Investment Projects and Internal Orders,
• Set up resource related billing to the WBS using DIP profile.
• Configured PS to collect revenue through sales order and billing document.
• Worked on issues related to quotation, contract, sales order, billing document.
• Integrated PS with material management set up automatic creation of purchase order from the creation of project.
• Worked on issues related to purchase requisition, purchase order, goods receipt, invoice receipt.
• Worked closely with BW team to create custom reports like Margin analysis (MA), Home-Worksheet commission (HWC) reports required for the users.
• Worked with technical team in creating the project reports to give the project status, versions per community and division at the network activity level.
• Integrated PS with asset accounting set up costs from WBS settle to AUC and tan to the Fixed asset.
• Worked with the team in finalizing the Data archiving strategy, backup of the documents via Document Management system (DMS) by using external servers
• Prepare Test scripts and test plans for testing the system at a higher level. Perform UAT and Integration testing.
• Generated Standard and customized reports for special transactions and data migration using Report Painter.

Environment: PS, IM, FI, CO, SD, MM, DMS

Confidential

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted As-Is study interacting with the core team members and developed a To-Be process to suit the company’s objectives. Involved in Business Blueprint Phase and worked on Field Mapping to study GAP Analysis.
• Worked with Project System team in creating appropriate project profiles using WBS elements.
• Assisted in various tasks of Project regarding Funds Allocation, Resource Planning, Quality Maintenance, Dates & Deadlines and determined Risk involved for Projects.
• Designed and composed Activities and Networks for Date Planning, Cost Planning, Resource Planning, Execution and Monitoring. Created standard networks and standard work breakdown structures and used it for Assembly Processing.
• Worked with PS-IM integration, created investment Projects, programs and internal orders,
• Involved in Milestone billing and PS cash management to maximize profits and reduce costs for the project.
• Used Milestone Trend Analyses to analyze actual dates of the project with the planned dates.
• Performed Project Analyses through Planned POC and Actual POC, accumulated planned costs or overall budget costs and determined variances.
• Compared POC (percentage of completion) of WBS elements, activities & elements with planned versus actual progress completion using Progressive Analysis.
• Configured Investment Management, status components, Appropriation Requests and designed custom reports.
• Executed customer projects through Assembly Processing to TEMPeffectively exchange data between sales departments and project teams. Integrated project budgeting in Investment Management & Budgeted WBS elements.
• Worked on various period end closing activities including; revaluation of actual prices, Interest calculation, Result Analysis and Settlement.
• Created profit center master data, defined document types, assigned number range and assigned revenue elements to profit center in Profit Center Accounting.
• Trained Business Owners and End Users. Also Generated reports using Report Painter

Environment: PS, SD, FI, CO, MM

Confidential

SAP Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Configured and designed system settings for Project Profile, WBS master data, dates, materials, costs & workforce, Network profile, budgeted profile, planning profile
• Worked with Business owners and users to gather requirements for GAP Analysis.
• Defined business and functional requirements through analysis of potential alternatives and reviewed different solutions to meet business process
• Worked on Sales Order, Billing Document, account keys and condition types in SD and worked on milestone billing, revenue recognition from SD to integrate with PS.
• Worked on defined standard milestone usage, milestone groups for standard milestone and configured date categories and maintain budget profile and defined tolerance limits in the project System.
• Assisted in Unit, Integration & Regression testing and worked with the ABAP team to resolve various issues identified during testing
• Provided Production Support and User End Trainings.

Environment: PS, SD, MM

Confidential

Project Planner

Responsibilities:

• Project Management for compliance audit and maintenance for communication Infrastructure for Banks, Telecom and Oil & Gas clients
• Client interface & management progress reporting and conflict resolution on time, cost and quality issues
• Project Management for the construction & integration of multiple turnkey telecommunications cell sites concurrently (including civil works, tower installation, power works and RF installation)
• Project management of fiber optic transmission for telecommunication including; scope, cost, time and quality
• Scheduling, tracking and reporting of progress in the life span of the projects using Ms. project and office suite
• Site acquisition and deal negotiation with landlords for location of telecom infrastructure
• Coordinating Acceptance Test procedures (ATPs) from TSS, CHP, THP, RFI, PAC and FAC
• Contract negotiation, change order management, sub-contract management and procurement RFPs, RFIs

Confidential

Business Analyst/Quantity Surveyor

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering and documentation of specification for expansion and modification projects
• Cost planning and analysis of proposed designs for TEMPeffective budgeting and cost advisory proposals
• Preparation of Bills of Quantities, Tendering Supervision, Tender Analysis & Reporting
• On-site project quality checks and works valuation for milestone payments