SUMMARY

• A highly motivated, team oriented professional that quickly builds rapport and credibility across multicultural teams wif excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• SAP expertise in Change Management, FI/CO; SAP ABAP Certified; Interfaces, Modifications and Enhancements, Basis Administration, Security, End to End Business process Testing, and End - user training,
• Over 32 years’ experience in the IT industry. As a SAP Consultant me am responsible for delivering large-scale, complex solutions that marry processes wif technology to halp the client achieve high performance. The focus is on architecting a solution using S.A.P. to achieve a defined business solution.
• Over 10 years of SAP experience, 5 SAP projects wif 3 full cycle implementations; several upgrades
• Proven team player wif strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills
• Able to work creatively and analytically in problem-solving environment
• Capable of handling multiple projects wif changing priorities and global production support at the same time in a fast pace environment
• Evaluate project proposals and assess technical and ROI feasibility.
• Employ best practices for successful project and requirements management.
• Review project plans life cycle, develop cost benefit analysis, and evaluate risk management and resource allocation to ensure projects are on target.
• Consult wif users, management, vendors, and technicians to manage needs and requirements.
• Instantiate and dissolve virtual teams as needed to accomplish goals.
• Analyze workflow and assign or schedule work to meet priorities and goals.
• Develop performance objectives and standards to meet departmental objectives and employee growth.
• Prepares, monitors, and adjusts operational and project budgets.
• Participates in staffing decisions.
• Direct and Mentor development staff in design principles and best practices.
• Develops and interprets organizational goals, policies, and procedures.
• Prepare and review operational reports or project progress reports.
• Produce Enterprise Area Scope (ASAP Methodology) by Business process and Organizational structure.
• Operating System: BASIS (SAP on Win2000/SQL Server 2000 and ORACLE)
• Skilled in HP3000/Cobol, MPE IX OS, Allbase/SQL, SUPRTOOL, Turbo Image DB, Query, View.
• Skilled as a Techno-Functional consultant wifin SAP Basis, FI/CO, and ABAP, Basis Administration, CCMS, Data Administration and Backups, DB Administration and Period Checks, Background Processing, Software Logistics, Users and Authorizations/Profiles, Spool and printing, SAP Data Archiving, and System Monitoring. Perform base configuration of the S.A.P. FI/CO system.
• Business Experience in Aerospace, Chemical/Petroleum, Manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and Retail Industries
• Experienced wif go-live process/cut-over and data migration, post go-live support and SAP Production maintenance support.
• Responsible for timely and effective analysis, design of the ABAP code required, coding, testing and integration testing to the legacy systems and in S.A.P R/3, as well as developing appropriate levels of documentation of the SAP R/3 system. Skilled wif developing ABAP custom logic for conversion programs, interfaces, and programming reports using ABAP and ALV (ABAP List Viewer), developed customer user-exit’s and function modules. All custom ABAP programming were in FI/CO, MM, PM, PS, SD and HR Modules.
• Experienced wif programming in HR Module, familiar wif data structure in HR me.e. ‘HR Info Types’ in Payroll and HR (PA/PD)
• Skilled in building user profiles and authorization wifin FI/CO, MM, PM, PS and SD modules
• Thorough noledge in LSMW, BDC Batch Processing, Call Transaction, SAP Query, Badi’s, Bapi’s, ALE, EDI, IDOC (SAP Program interface inbound & outbound), and RFC connections.
• Skilled in development of customer tables (Data dictionary) and Dynamic Screen (Dynpros) programming (Implemented using Module pool programming techniques)
• Skilled in Performance Tuning, running SQL Traces for performance analysis and modification of ABAP logic to improve performance
• Developed, Maintained and provided error resolution for/on custom Workflow and Workflow logic
• Skilled in writing Program Documentation and Technical Specification
• Programming languages: ABAP/4, Basic, Cobol
• Use Microsoft 2000 or XP (2002) Office 2010; Office products, including MS/Project, Excel, Visio and Word on PC based computer systems.
• SAP HPQC (QC+QTP+BPT) Quality Center Solutions architect, configurator, administrator, and trainer using Version 10 (Solman TAO - Test Acceleration and Optimization)
• Experienced on SAP/R3 platforms including 4.5b, 4.6c, ECC 5.0, and ECC 6.0
• Experienced on SAP - GRC Access and Controls version 5.3 (Configurator and business solutions architect)
• Change Management, Change and impact analysis, Risk analysis
• System development and life cycle management;
• Project Management
• Business Process Management design and mapping

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr.IT Systems Analyst SAP

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for SAP Business Process design and mapping, Project Management and Resourcing (PMO)
• Primary area of responsibility is for all Change Management (QA/QC) of any modifications made to the SAP production application and systems regarding all projects and support. The ITIL foundation was the premise in developing a strategy and delivering a solution to the customer (The Business) to execute their business processes in an effective, efficient manner, using cost-effective tools such as the application developed to deliver any SAP solution to meet business requirements.
• System development and life cycle management;continuous change impact and analysis wif regards to any support or project development including the allocation of resource costs, requirements, specifications, testing, verification, consequences, and scoping.
• Project final preparation and readiness go or no go involving the responsible stakeholders
• Always has successfully passed the most stringent validations conducted by both internal and external auditors.
• Designed/Developed the Change Management control application currently being used in Confidential ; prior to this, Confidential had no structured control over change management.
• SAP HPQC (QC + QTP + BPTs) version 10, solutions architect, administrator, configurator, and trainer for all projects; Understanding and noledge to Create and use BPTs wifin the Quality Center (QC + QTP) project structure and working methodology to enable SME and Business Analyst to design quality assurance tests for an application early in the development cycle and in a scripting environment.
• SAP ABAP Development Manager and Team lead of 11 ABAP team members for all projects and support to meet business requirements.
• SAP GRC version 5.3 solutions architect, configurator, and trainer: Knowledge and usage of how SAP BusinessObjects Access Control (Risk Analysis and Remediation, Super Privilege management, Compliant User provisioning, and Enterprise Role Management) work in combination wif SAP business processes. Knowledge in how to to implement SAP BusinessObjects Access Control following best practices from SAP

Business Analysis

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• System development and life cycle management;Change Management, Change impact and analysis, Risk analysis and Project Readiness wif the key stakeholders
• Complete process of application / functional design and architecture components for Assets/
• CapEx, and Global G/L For Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, and Netherlands
• Creation and delivery of training materials for the delivered designed. Trained the end-users.
• Delivered testing scripts in “Mercury” based upon the delivered design for UT, ST, and FUT.
• Project readiness involving the key stakeholders
• Supervising application design and architecture components
• Complete process and functional design activities
• Gather functional requirements as an input to application design and identify gaps between business requirements and standard application functionality
• Developing and testing detailed functional designs for business solution components and development objects
• System development and life cycle management; Configure prototype system and final application solution
• Supervising application build, test, and deploy activities
• System development and life cycle management;; Change impact and analysis test planning and execution by gathering test conditions, preparing and executing test scripts
• Preparation, execution and documentation of functional, integration, user acceptance and performance test necessary to ensure that an application and technical environment meet business and performance requirements
• Fixing of configuration problems found during unit, functional, integration and user acceptance tests
• Preparation of training materials, execution training for key and end users of the system,
• Planning and executing data conversion activities, supervise data cleaning
• Assisting in identifying, analyzing, mitigating and responding to project and operational risks
• Assisting in utilizing efficient and effective processes and standards in order to continuously improve the quality of processes, products and services
• Managing the functional area throughout the project lifecycle and regularly status report to the project manager
• Testing and deployment of configured solution.
• Primary responsibilities include the creation of documentation used in Wave2 for the assimilation of Torrington into the existing global design that was delivered. This documentation included the questionnaires required to extract those requirement unique to Torrington business practices on ECC 5.0.
• The creation of the presentation for G/L, A/P, Credit Management, A/R, F/A - Assets accounting, and CO (Product costing). The contents of the presentations were based upon the document provide in Solution Manager during the development phase of both Wave 1 and 2.
• Worked closely wif the current FI/CO manager to develop a logical project plan to move forward in the data gathering, business processes, development, and implementation of the requirements extracted from the Fit/GAP analysis. The intent to control change management and configuration items of the rolled out global design in Wave 2.
• Coordinated offshore development of functional and technical requirements.
• implementation of all parts that are necessary for tools and environments used in development and maintenance of SAP applications
• proposal and implementation of analysis that can halp identify requirements connected to all parts of proposed solution in … people, processes and technologies
• proposal, implementation and maintenance of solutions according to identified requirements
• support at searching of potential suppliers and software applications according to required specification
• building professional relationships wif clients, management, colleagues for ensuring delivery of proposed solutions, support for development of business possibilities and for personal development
• contribution to high productivity and motivation of working team wif the use of your communication skills and cooperation; reaching and realization of project aims and outputs
• Process Designing and Documentation (Blue print phase) - Involved in conducting meetings to gather requirements - Prototyping, Gap Analysis, mapping of the current business process to SAP Business Process. Setting the expectations of the client regarding functionality of SAP. Primary responsibility was for the customization and implements of an integrated software solution for Chico’s retail services in Controlling. Design, develop, and implement a software solution that met the requirements of the business through investigating the companies processing capabilities.
• Configuration of Company Codes, Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Fiscal Year Variant. Document types, number ranges Tolerance Groups for Customers and Vendors.
• Provide support in the customization of Accounts Payable wifin FI.
• Account Determination Rules for integration of FI-SD, FI-MM and FI-PP by Valuation Class, Valuation Area and Movement Type - Inventory management, COGS and goods movement.
• Setting up House Bank, Bank Accounts. Prototyping Incoming payments for Invoice Clearing, Posting on Account. This involved setting up Customer and Vendor tolerances.
• Setting up Controlling Area, Cost Center Hierarchy, Profit Center Hierarchy, and Account based COPA. Helped Client in nomenclature for Cost Centers and Profit Centers which were setup at Material Group and Plant level
• Develop material for End User Training. Helped develop Test Scripts and Test Scenarios. Actively involved in Unit Testing and System Testing. Created documentation used for training in the business solutions and from a technical perspective for configuration. Supported the FI/CO team technical requirements
• Creation of FI substitution and validation rules.
• Assisted in conducting end user training and provided post implementation support. Full production support role, post Go-Live liaise wif business user community and technical community personnel to ensure that the system is functioning as designed and financial close activities are completed in line wif financial close calendar. Resolving SIRs (System Investigation Requests) and troubleshooting for technical errors during training and Go-Live. Post Go Live Support involving halping the end user in the day to day transactions and closely monitoring the system performance.
• Provided both customization and technical expertise as required to support the new SAP component version of ECC 6.0 for the entire financial team.
• Provided support for the Implemented of the New SAP General Ledger specifically focused around profit center accounting. (Classic versus New G/L)
• Provided shoulder to shoulder user training as required.
• To aggregate and analyze customer data to enhance differentiation.
• To increase a company's ability to respond to a rapidly changing marketplace through enhanced flexibility and speed through Business Analytics wifin the managerial accounting framework.
• To operate effectively, retailers need to has one system working across stores (sometimes across national borders) to ensure the most effective use of stock and to support optimized business processes and capture their financial details by providing a customized software solution.
• Transparency and tracking: Chico’s needed greater transparency between systems and better tracking to integrate systems from manufacturer through to consumer to obtain customer and sales information associated to finance.
• Provided financial solutions when required.

Confidential

Sr. SAP Business Analysis (FI/CO)

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility was end user support through Business Analytics.
• Develop Project Proposal using Business Systems Analysis methodology
• Responsible for training central and nation wide SAP users in FI, CO, as well as the operational system.
• Analyzed the business’ need for training, developed material accordingly and communicated information wif the business’ perspective in mind.
• Delivered instructor-lead training, one-on-one training, and distance learning through LANDesk, Net Meeting and teleconferencing.
• Developed and presented courses such as: Basic Navigation, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Cost
• Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting and all impromptu training requirements requested by the Production Support Team.
• Created training material such as PowerPoint Overview Presentations, Business Processes, Work Instructions and On-line Tutorials.
• Responsible for coordinating the staff for training including determining attendees, organizing facilities & travel, and providing materials.
• Assisted other members of the SAP implementation team wif design, configuration, testing and trouble-shooting where necessary.
• Senior SAP Systems Support Specialist
• Provided technical support for the central and nation wide business users on all implemented SAP modules - FI (GL, AP, CO) using ECC 5.0.
• Responsible for ongoing training of business users as well was creating and maintaining the training material and documentation.
• Monitored and maintained inbound and outbound interfaces between SAP, the operational system and various outside entities through ALE and IDoc’s. Also maintained all middleware mapping and translation tables.
• Coordinated all transports for the continuing implementation and production support to ensure all clients - development, quality assurance and production - were synchronized.
• Reviewed all requests from the business to ensure compliance wif Design of the SAP system.
• Ensured the system was prepared for the business to meet all corporate reporting deadlines for month-end and year-end close. Items include monitoring revaluation, preparing allocations and resolving interface issues.
• Interacted wif the business and technical communities in a professional and efficient manner.
• SAP Configuration Specialist
• Developed the framework, configuration and documentation for the SAP (ECC 5.0) implementation of the FI module (AP) in accordance Design and best business practices.
• Responsible for configuration of organizational elements in finance, master data, document entry and change in AP, and GL.
• Created SAP training curriculum and material and trained end-users on AP, GL and operational system enhancements. This training course had a several week duration, central locations and included approximately 20 staff members.

Confidential

SAP ABAP Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managing an offshore team of ten developers.Responsible for providing specialized technical and business noledge in the development,maintenance, and enhancement of business application software using SAP’s IS-A&D solution.
• Collaborate wif internal customers, staff, colleagues and other stakeholders to identify user requirements,assess available technologies, recommend and implement solution options.
• As an internal consultant, providing technical guidance or business process expertise on the most complex projects or researching strategic planning matters from a technical or business perspective.
• Prepare detailed specifications, from which programs will be written, and design, code, test, debug, and document programs.
• Provide technical expertise in the analysis, design, development and maintenance of business application software, primarily in support of the global Finance and Marketing business functions.
• Provide technical consulting support on projects or system issues.
• Perform feasibility studies, translating requirements into an appropriate design.
• Identify conflicting business practices and integration issues, suggesting alternative solutions
• Formulate and define application scope and objectives and devise/modify procedures to solve business problems.
• Monitor and report to management on the status of project efforts, anticipating/identifying issues that inhibit the attainment of project goals and implementing corrective actions.
• Lead projects and ensure business application systems are developed in a way that complies wif architectural standards and established methodologies and practices wifin budget and costs.

SAP ABAP Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included the development of ABAP programs for customer enhancement user-exit, and reports for FI, MM, and PM modules; the modification of existing reports, trouble shooting and debugging.
• Responsibities included data conversions using Data Transfer Workbench Tool, LSMW’s, BDC’s, and Call Transaction.
• Developed Interfaces to legacy systems using Badi’s, Bapi’s, RFC, ALE, EDI, and Idocs
• Created Customer Tables (Data Dictionary)
• Created Customer Screens (Dynpro’s and module pool programming)
• Developed Customer Function Modules
• Developed detailed Technical Specifications

Confidential

Sr. Applications Developer

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate project proposals and assess technical and ROI feasibility.
• Employ best practices for successful project and requirements management.
• Developed and review project plans and resource allocation to ensure projects are on target and in budget.
• Consult wif users, management, vendors, and technicians to manage needs and requirements.
• Instantiate and dissolve virtual teams as needed to accomplish goals.
• Analyze workflow and assign or schedule work to meet priorities and goals.
• Develop performance objectives and standards to meet departmental objectives and employee growth.
• Prepares, monitors, and adjusts operational and project budgets.
• Participates in staffing decisions.
• Directs, managed and provides training for a team of five SAP Application developers.
• Develops and interprets organizational goals, policies, and procedures.
• Prepare and review operational reports or project progress reports.
• Responsible for Basis Support; implantation of OSS notes, system kernels, and overall System Administration
• Define high-level business model (FI/CO).
• Analyze and produce summary of non-SAP components and interfaces to legacy systems
• Analyze and produce summary of company’s business processes
• Determine data conversion requirements and strategy
• Document detailed functional process tasks and responsibilities
• Determine and document transaction volume tracking per process
• Produce detailed functional and technical specifications for the design of enhancements and interfaces
• Produce detailed cross-application specifications (EDI, Workflow)
• Specify data conversion requirements
• Produce detailed functional and technical specifications for the design of reports / forms
• Perform base configuration of the SAP development FI/CO system; Integration wif Payroll to GL, Chart of Accounts.
• Scoped FI and Logistics integration tasks to MM and SD; integration wif CO cost and profit centers
• Produce detailed modular test strings
• Produce detailed cross modular integration test strings per business scenario
• Provided business prototyping and workshops
• Define and document authorization specifications per system task
• Created user Authorizations and Profiles; FI/CO Authorizations Manager and system security: Authorizations Methodology and Profile Generator on Version 4.6C, Internal Audit approval
• Scoped ABAP development work for User-Exits, Enhancements and Modifications, Reports and Lists, SAP Query, developed Dynamic Screen Programs (Dynpros) using Module screen programming techniques, developed ABAP standards and processes for the SAP ABAP development for code review and sign-off process
• Developed print programs and layout sets as per client’s requirement. Including Idoc’s, (Inbound & Outbound interfaces for transfer of bank details) EDI, ALE’s, BADI’s, BAPI’s, RFC, and workflow design. Provided Interface wif LIMS legacy system.
• Created BDC’s for transferring the Personnel data and Organizational data into SAP
• Involved in (FI/CO and Material Management) Data Conversion from Legacy to SAP via BDC’s for data take-on.

Confidential

Sr. Systems/Applications Developer

Responsibilities:

• Managed the computerized administrative applications on the HP3000 mini-computer (GL, FA, AP, AR, Payroll, Materials, Purchasing & Equipment and Human Resources). Provided support to all pre-mentioned systems (written in COBOL/85)
• Developed and provided a set of enhanced tools for executive management to monitor cost and controls and review waste management of funds.
• Responsible for the supervision and accountability of two full time application developers and provide training in structured programming techniques, systems analysis and design
• Developed a Human resources system using Access and Visual Basic integrated wif the HP3000 Image database using ALLBASE/SQL and IMAGE/SQL software
• Developed work plan and staffed the Development Team
• Day to day monitoring of work, work plan and managing the team
• Lead in the selection and Implementation of a 7.6 million dollar ERP project.
• Provided technical and function training to the development staff and user
• Provide production support

Confidential, Inglewood, CA

Sr. System Developer

Responsibilities:

• Provided support for a full range of financial systems including General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, Fixed Asset, Financial reporting and Order Entry / Inventory. All systems were written in COBOL85 in both native and compatibility mode and Basic.
• Redesigned Inventory system based upon the worldwide user requirements and the Order Processing System
• Met wif the end user to discuss enhancements to current systems and to provide user documentation for programming and for the system users
• Developed work plan and staffed the Development Team
• Day to day monitoring of work, work plan and managing the team
• Provided developers technical solution for required programs and interfaces to other systems
• Developed processes for the development tasks such as functional spec and technical spec approval process and remote development process. Implemented standard for the all development objects
• Reviewed technical specification and reviewed programs/codes
• Developed code for various projects and support the customers nationwide

Confidential, San Luis Obispo, CA

Technical Team Lead/Cobol Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of development resources
• Scoped development work for programs in Assets Management module
• Performed high-level and detailed systems analysis determination of customer needs and development of solutions
• Wrote technical specification based on functional requirements
• Based on analysis, recommended solution based on time frame, maintainability and cost
• Modified and updated custom codes for performance tuning and performance optimization
• Responsibilities included high level and low level technical design, trained small team of developers, tracking of developed programs, staffing the Development Team, writing technical specification based on functional requirements
• Developed programs for a complex front-end program for Invoice Verification
• Responsible for planning of data migration and the actual data conversion/migration
• During the implementation provided support during and after data migration for customers nationwide