SUMMARY:

• SAP EAM Solution Architect providing end to end solutions
• SAP EAM Work and Asset Management Expert managing end to end solutions
• SAP Compatible Unit Expert (CU’s) Implemented the Pilot Software - Expert advisor on product capability based on business scoping and requirements
• SAP OAA expert Phase 0, project scoping, requirement phase, design phase, testing phase - Until Go live.
• SAP OLC to OAA expert with niche integration knowledge
• SAP Integration Architect providing complex end to end integration solutions, using SAP technology as a base to integrate with non-SAP systems for Work Management and Asset Management
• Workshops & Requirement Expert, gathering Requirements from the Business and communicating multiple solution options while working with the Business and IT teams as well as communicating those options to the Stakeholders for Work Management and Asset Management and overall Enterprise Asset Management
• Plant Maintenance Expert with Business Functional and Technical Expertise
• Functional SME, providing complex end to end solutions with integration functionality
• Technical SME, leveraging technical expertise with my Functional Expertise to come up with the best integrated end to end solutions
• Gap Analysis SME, providing detailed investigation of system gaps with optional solutions upon request
• Business Analyst providing support to the business while leveraging functional and Technical skills
• 15 years of SAP implementation experience in the domain of Public Sector - Utilities, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Oil & Gas and Finance
• A trusted advisor with years of experience in system wide Implementations, Upgrades, System Enhancements, Business Process Re-engineering, Business transformation initiatives, complex system integration, and software development life cycle including design, development and testing
• SAP PM/EAM Work and Asset Management experience with corporations across North America specializing in business transformation Solution definition in Asset and Master Data Management, Preventive Maintenance, Correction and Inspection, Work Planning and Design, Work Execution and Scheduling, Forecasting and Performance Reporting, Customer Connection and Supply Chain.
• Successful completion of Work and Asset management implementations and Upgrades for major utilities - Confidential - Confidential, Pacific Gas & Electric, Confidential, Confidential - Southern California Gas, and San Diego Gas and Electric, Confidential, Enwin Utility (Ontario- Canada), Confidential (Montreal - Canada) and Confidential, Dublin, Ireland.
• Integration Expert providing Niche integration of OLC to OAA integration and migration of SAP platform to new EHP5 & EHP6 upgraded platform, for multiple clients and was often brought in as a direct vendor to provide these Niche Solutions due to my one of kind Integration expertise and know how. I assessed the business needs and provided a step-by-step, integrated solution. I tested and did troubleshooting initiatives in advance to align the solution to integrate properly. I provided the niche integration solutions that were thought out technically and functionally to align with the Business needs and supported the production team in the deployment of those solutions.
• Successfully completed SAP ERP 6.0 pilot implementations of Plant Maintenance Components - PM-WOC-CUM Compatible Unit Management, PM-WOC-OAA Operation Account Assignment (OAA) to Ehp2, Ehp5 and Ehp6
• SAP project execution experience includes Blueprinting, Facilitation of Workshops and requirements Gathering sessions, Providing estimating, forecasting and work planning assistance, Planning and managing Application Assessment and Requirements activities, Recognized as an expert (SME) on various vendor application and products, Creating complex conceptual designs, including application interfaces and interactions, Planning and managing program-wide application, Identifying and monitoring interdependencies between various application implementation activities, Author Solution Design Documents, Preparation of Documents for RFP’s, Participate in Orals, Conduct Design Sessions, Author Functional Designs, Review and Support Technical designs documents, Realization and Testing, Planning and establishing after go-live activities including support
• Project Management, Integration management and team lead experience on multiple projects
• A highly motivated team player with excellent organizational, motivational, presentation and communication skills
• Solution Architect of SAP PM/EAM framework to support work management activities of Routine maintenance and correction, Capital and O&M Work Programs, Customer Driven New business work from Long and short term work planning and design, work design estimating and pricing, pre-requisites management, scheduling and dispatch, organizing/bundling schedulable piece of work, advanced scheduling and optimization, re-scheduling (field change work orders), As-built integration with updates to back-end financial accounting and reconciliation
• Hands on Configuration of Plant Maintenance (PM) module for: Technical Objects (Non-Serialized Equipment, Functional Locations, Material Bill of Materials (BOM), Equipment BOM, Notification and Order Processing (Notifications, Notification Catalogs, Orders, Costing, Order Settlement, Capacity Planning), Preventive Maintenance (Task Lists, Maintenance Items, Maintenance Plans, Scheduling)
• Hands on Configuration of Project System (PS) module for: Project Structure, Standard Projects - Customer or Service Projects, Project Templates, WBS- Work Breakdown Structure, Networks, Cost and Resource Planning, Revenue Planning, Status Management, Execution - Actual cost posting to the project WBS, Period End - Settlement and RRB.
• Business, functional and technical in expertise integrating SAP EAM framework which includes SAP modules - PM, CUM, OLC, OAA, PP, PS, FI-CO, FI-AA, SD, SCM, SRM, EWM, Cross-Application component - CATS and Classification system
• SAP IS-U component experience includes Master Data configuration of connection objects, and premise and device location. Integration of SAP IS-U work management component with Plant Maintenance and Customer Service to create maintenance and service work order, configuration of service products for internal/external work, sales order/ quotation processing and billing, configuration of contract account in AP/AR.
• Other Technologies: Leveraged latest and greatest technology tools and methodology: Design of Expert Systems, Artificial Intelligence concepts for classical problems, Machine Learning- Supervised and Unsupervised learning, regressions, neural networks, support vector machine, clustering, anomaly detection (OCTAVE), Cloud Computing (SaaS), Advanced Database Optimization Algorithms and Techniques, Open-Source, C/C++, Cloud technology solutions and more.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Solution/Integration Architect
• EAM - Enterprise Asset Management
• SAP Solution/Integration Architect
• SAP Enterprise Asset Management
• SAP Supply Chain Management
• SAP Project Leader
• Risk Analysis & Gap Analysis
• Business & IT Requirements Workshops
• Business Planning & Stakeholder Workshops
• SAP Plant Maintenance
• SAP Functional SME
• SAP Business Analyst
• SAP ABAP
• SAP Technical SME
• SAP Finance
• SAP Customer Support
• SAP Compatible Units SME
• SAP OLC & OAA SME
• SAP Ehp5 & Ehp6 SME
• Linear Asset Management
• GIS Integration Architect
• C+
• Cloud Computing
• Machine Learning
• IOT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Orange County, California

SAP EAM Solution/Integration Architect & Functional SME

Responsibilities:

• Providing SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) expertise and advising to Utilities, Transportation and Manufacturing clients across North America and Canada by providing EAM roadmap, Blueprint, Requirement Workshops, Proof-of-Concept and end-to-end work management solutions. SAP EAM solutions based on standard SAP framework, Enhancement Pack 5 and Enhancement Pack 6 include:
• SAP Plant Maintenance and Customer Service module (PM/CS)
• SAP Project Systems (PS)
• SAP Compatible Unit Management (CU) - Enhancement & Proof-of-Concept
• SAP CUM framework for Pricing and Costing a design (Custom Solution)
• SAP Operation Account Assignment with Ehp5/6 (OAA formerly aka OLC)
• SAP OLC to OAA upgrade with Ehp5/6
• SAP Financials and Controlling (FI/CO)
• SAP MM-External Service Management (MM-SRV)
• SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• SAP Resource Related Billing (RRB)
• SAP Classifications and CATS
• Integration of SAP CUM with other technologies - (Custom Solution)
• Integration of As-built work with SAP PM/CU/OAA enabled work order (Custom
• Solution to update work order and adjust accounting)
• SAP ABAP based custom solution to package and schedule constructible portions of work order
• Integration of Compatible Unit Management (CUM) business extension with external mobile design application
• Integration of SAP work management execution with external scheduling system
• Providing independent consulting in Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) to Utilities,
• Transportation and Manufacturing clients across North America and Canada including EAM project roadmap, project start-up, Blueprint, Requirement Workshops, Proof-of- Concept and end-to-end work management solutions in SAP domain
• Innovation and cutting-edge integration platform solutions with service oriented architecture methodology (SOA). Enabling complex integration scenarios on a single universal enterprise communication foundation to empower businesses using ERP/Legacy applications (SAP), Supply Chain Management, CRM, EAM (SAP), Financial Accounting and Reporting Systems (SAP), Agriculture & Real Estate Land Management, GIS, Gas & Electric Transmission and Distribution models and its integration with Graphical Tools, Scheduling systems and Mobile Platforms
• Research and Innovation: Application of Machine Learning functionality to Big Data solutions, Linear and Logistic Regression, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, Advanced Optimization Algorithms, Anomaly Detection, Dimensionality Reduction and Clustering, Cloud Computing, Other Big Data computing models for interval meter reading for smart meters, Pipeline Safety and Leak Prediction models, Real-time streaming analytics and solution for cross-company customer communication and information sharing for industry with customers operating distinct fleet.

Confidential, Marquette, Michigan

SAP EAM/PM/CUM & GIS Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Working as business integration, functional, transitional and technical expert for a spin-off of an investor owned electric utility company in the strategic region of northern Michigan.
• Executing the responsibility, to transition and migrate from a large utility domain with 100’s of ancillary applications and positioning the future environment and functionality into SAP ERP and ESRI for spatially facilitated domain
• Provided Blueprint, Business Process Planning and Design, Conversion strategy - Mapping between systems, Integration framework and solution, Functional Specifications and overall solution design and definition for the electric utility
• Accomplishing the “To-Be” framework to be in SAP by leveraging cutting-edge and innovative model of SAP i.e. Compatible Units, Operation Account Assignments, Plant Maintenance, Sales & Distribution, Contractor Management, Financials, Fixed Assets (Finance Team), Investment Management and Project Systems, BI/BW and possibly Success Factors (An SAP Company) for HR
• Providing and on-going integration framework, methodology and solutions between 3rd Party Design Application, ESRI, interim Outage Management solution and SAP ERP software application being the leading a software application and system of all the master records and transactional activity.
• Aligning Master and transactional Asset data between SAP and GIS application to facilitate the work order life-cycle management and compliance reporting
• Transforming and Migrating extremely complex functional location hierarchical model for Distribution, Sub-Station and Generation (Hydro) Line of Business into SAP for Preventative maintenance & Work and Asset Management.
• Providing a comprehensive and very first cloud based SAP application implementation for an electric utility business in North America through cloud hosting SAP Partner vendor

Confidential

SAP EAM/EHP7/OAA Upgrade Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a strategic SAP EAM & Operation Account Assignment Upgrade advisor for migration and transformation of SAP OLC from Enhancement Pack 4 to the latest version of the SAP OAA with the Enhancement Pack 7.
• Provided OLC/OAA migration & transformations elements, reviewed the activation of appropriate business functions, transition strategy, cutover process and support until successful Go-Live
• Provided performance enhancement definition within the SAP domain to timely facilitate the financial month-end close process

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

SAP EAM/EWM Project Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Define the overall scope of the Estimating Work Management project initiative in a very short time frame where the T&D business estimating capability will be migrated from legacy and non-legacy ancillary external systems into SAP framework. The EWM program is responsible for managing the work in the vicinity of over 1.4 Billion dollars every year.
• Worked very closely with the PG&E Business Process Managers, Functional leads, Technical Leads and other cross-functional team members
• Defined the scope of the highly visible, mission critical and complex integration model of the EWM project by leveraging standard SAP components i.e. SAP Compatible Unit Management, SAP Operation Account Assignment, SAP Sales and Distribution- RRB, SAP-MM External Service Management, SAP Investment Management and SAP Project Systems to facilitate the program.

Confidential

SAP ERP/EAM Merger Impact Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Work on ERP/EAM merger analysis and merger impact report for Hawaiian Public Utility Commission
• Worked as an Energy & Utility Industry SAP ERP/EAM Expert to access and provide the merger impact report for potential merger between Confidential & Maui Electric and NextEra Energy/FPL.
• Assessed the ERP/EAM landscape of NextEra Energy/FPL which includes variety of applications
• Assessed the legacy EAM environment of Confidential which also includes many applications under its landscape
• Performed a detail research and analysis of over 200 different applications shared between NextEra Energy and Confidential and positioning SAP ERP/ECC as a leading software application for both utilities.
• Provided multiple solution options such as short-term Interim, No PUC approval and Final post PUC approval solution option to integrate NextEra Energy ERP/EAM with HECO systems. All solutions were defined with such vision that minimal throwaway work will be done and significant cost saving to rate payers can be realized.

Confidential, Texas

Trusted Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Supported pre-implementation stabilization effort activities for smooth processing of the business, assist the business with the day-to-day activities including resolving tickets and advice on mitigation steps to resolve business critical processes.
• Assisted business, member services and client teams understand their integration framework, which was implemented as part of transformation project and was not completely operational.

Confidential, Augusta, Maine

Global Migration Project Advisor (SAP)

• Assessment of current EAM implementation with emphasis on the work order life-cycle end-to-end process.
• Advise on migration approach into the Global Platform. Provided a straw-man bridge framework, which is an approach to reposition their work order processes into their Global Platform.
• Reviewed and provide comments on SAP functionality design documents, developed by system integrators and other 3rd party vendors.
• Conducted meetings, facilitated discussions and worked with SI and other vendors.
• Provided functional documents related to integration between ERP and 3rd party mobile application platform for In-Field Design/Planning of Capital and O&M work projects

Confidential

SAP EAM Solution Architect & Plant Maintenance SME

Responsibilities:

• Providing SAP EAM expertise and advising to ESB, which includes SAP EAM Upgrade project assessment, process re-design, and assessment of present SAP system.
• Inform and Educate ESB of cutting-edge SAP functionality available with Enhancement Pack 5 and 6 and other integration technologies available in the market i.e. GIS

Confidential

SAP EAM Solution/Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assist and advice Confidential in their efforts to upgrade their SAP EAM landscape from SAP EHp4 to Ehp6 environment with specific focus on OAA.
• Implementation of EHP6 by restructuring Operational Level Costing with Operation Account
• Assignment (OAA), Configuration, functional specification design and testing
• Align the OLC functionality with OAA framework which includes Data migration of OLC order costing data to OAA model
• Assist business and financial team with the financial month-end close process which includes settlements and overheads of the OAA work order operations, networks and WBS
• Maintenance of necessary Configuration, Remediation effort and financial month-end close Performance improvement
• Provide cutting-edge complex integrated solution around Compatible Unit designs, Bills of Materials and Scheduling i.e. streamlining effectively and efficiently, the constructible piece of work sent to the scheduling system from SAP

Confidential

SAP EAM Solution/Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assess Confidential current SAP EAM PM/CUM solution implemented in 2010
• Advice and inform Enwin on the SAP EAM capabilities available today with latest enhancement pack releases i.e. EHP5 and EHP6.
• Conduct design and requirements work shop with business community to understand enwin’s present solution and offer guidelines on transformation opportunities
• Provide guidelines to implement complex EAM integrated solutions using cutting-edge SAP functionality available with latest releases - PM/CUM-OAA-PS, Graphical design tool, GIS, Mobile design, planning, and estimating tool

Confidential, Orange, CT

SAP EAM Solution/Integration Gap Assessment

Responsibilities:

• Audit and Assess UIL’s approach and execution of the SAP system upgrade from Enhancement Pack 2 to Enhancement Pack 6. Provide advice on the best practices, potential gaps, trouble areas and potential ramifications.
• Assess and inform UIL of the best practices on upgrade data activities based on prior experiences from similar initiatives at major utilities across North America and Canada.
• Perform Audit/Assessment of UIL Ehp6 upgraded environment - UIL went from EHP2 OLC to EHP6 on September 27th, 2012 - UIL was facing many issues regarding costing data in the post-upgrade phase.
• Conduct interviews with UIL business, user groups and analysts to understand the business processes around Work and Asset Management, Financials, Customer focused revenue driven work, Human Resources and Supply Management.
• Identify, document and communicate to UIL, the essential activities required to align costing data from Ehp2 to Operation account assignment (OAA) in Ehp6 - OAA provides functions to effectively and accurately capture/manage construction costs for any Utility with a responsibility to build and maintain large infrastructure investments.
• Provided complex solutions for capturing and reporting estimated and actual costs on the construction work orders - Capital and O&M work.
• Advised on implementing complex cost models to establish accountability for project estimated vs. actual cost variances. This data is used to support regulatory rate fillings.
• Advice UIL; provide guidance and propose ideas to resolve critical issues in the production landscape affecting the business every day
• Produced Audit/assessment report identifying critical activities with risk factor and recommendation guidelines.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

SAP PM/EAM Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Systems Architect and advisor supporting proof-of-concept study to seek approval from stakeholders for $ 6.2 million for Transmission Pipeline Asset Management project.
• SAP EAM EHP5 SME to transition PGE SAP ERP ECC6.0 environment to Enhancement Pack 5 with specific focus on aligning and migrating; /OLC/MAIN framework to Operation Account Assignment framework.
• Designed complex integrated architecture framework via proof-of-concept, to spatially expose Assets and work history form ERP using SAP Compatible Units, SAP Operation Account Assignment, SAP PM/PS, GIS and SAP extensions
• Redesigned SAP Compatible Unit framework with OAA and integrated with External systems such as Graphical Design Tools, GIS, Billing system, SAP- BW, SAP EWM and Scheduling System
• Re-align OLC costing data model to OAA data model by executing necessary Conversion and Data Migration activities.
• Enhanced the performance of standard SAP month-end overheads and settlement process
• Worked closely with technical team by providing guidance daily, to develop data conversion migration and remediation programs
• Supported PGE closely through the implementation and release of successful enhancement Pack 5 Go Live
• Leveraged prior knowledge from PGE’s original Work and Asset Management solution from 2007, to ensure appropriate functioning of PGE’s existing work management solution, processes and integration capabilities are operational for e.g. Creation of OAA orders from IW31 and CU design builder /CUM/DESIGN, Changes and Updates to already created OLC orders, DP80/DP90 transactions, Billing documents, Material reservations, Goods issue, Purchase requisitions, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt transactions, CATS/IW41 confirmations, Journal Entries, Accounting and Controlling processes including month-end. (I played a major role in PGE’s Work and Asset Management implementation in 2007)

Confidential, Butte, Montana,

SAP PM/EAM Functional SME

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of EHP5 by restructuring Operational Level Costing with Operation Account
• Assignment, Configuration, functional specification design, testing and Go Live
• Upgrade the OLC from Ehp2 environment to OAA framework with Ehp5
• Align the OLC functionality with OAA framework which includes Data migration of OLC order costing data to OAA model
• Maintenance of necessary Configuration, Remediation effort, Performance improvement and Testing

Confidential, Augusta, Maine

SAP PM/EAM SME

Responsibilities:

• Supporting on-going Field Planning project from SAP perspective to enable Designers, Planners, Estimator to create a compatible unit based design in the field using 3rd party Geo-Field application
• SAP PM/CU - Compatible Unit framework integration with 3rd party Field Mobile Planning Application on the GIS land base
• Configuration of PM Technical Objects - Functional Location and Equipment records as reference objects on the Compatible Unit
• Configuration of Geo field initiated work order which is PM/CS/CU/OAA enabled order
• Configuration of profiles, user-statuses, work centers, Control Keys, Activity types etc.
• SAP integration to create work item in Geo field based on notification, sync of CU between SAP and Geo-field and finally create a CU design in SAP or a CU/OAA work order in SAP
• Implementation of EHP5 by restructuring Operational Level Costing with Operation Account
• Assignment, Configuration, functional specification design, testing and Go Live
• Upgrade the OLC from Ehp2 environment to OAA framework with Ehp5
• Align the OLC functionality with OAA framework which includes Data migration of OLC order costing data to OAA model
• Maintenance of necessary Configuration, Remediation effort, Performance improvement and Testing

Confidential, Anaheim, CA

SAP PM/EAM Solution Architect- Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead Architect of the SAP EAM Work Management Business Transformation solution for Sempra’s Distribution line of business which includes 2 major California utilities i.e. Southern California Gas and San Diego Gas & Electric
• Worked on the initiative titled - CPD (Construction, Planning and Design) from its inception i.e. Phase 0 to Blueprinting, Requirement gathering, identifying RICEF objects and assembling the documents for RFC and finally supported the project through design, realization and Unit test phase of the CPD project
• Worked extensively with Business to gather requirement, conducts design work shops, and communication to the stake holders (VP and Directors)
• Executed extensive and detailed design workshops and review sessions to finalize the overall work management solution
• Worked hand-in-hand with external GIS and Graphical work design tool team to define the solution architecture
• Defined and configured SAP EAM framework to support work management activities of Routine maintenance and correction, Capital and O&M Work Programs, Customer Driven New business work from Long and short term work planning and design, pre-requisites management, scheduling and dispatch, advanced scheduling and optimization, re-scheduling (e.g. after trouble work) change work orders, As-built and financial reconciliation
• Architected overall solution using deep routed utility focused EAM knowledge and SAP experience.
• Authored solution design document which describes in detail all phases of the work management processes i.e. Work Initiation, Work Planning and Design, Work Execution/ Construction and Reconciliation.
• Designed and Reviewed over 300 Functional/Technical design documents
• Aligned GWD tool to create compatible Unit design in SAP using design builder
• Designed custom cost estimating and Pricing functionality and aligned with SAP
• Enhanced SAP design cost simulation engine’s capability to provide customer pricing by applying discounts, overheads, rebates etc. within the design
• Provided Sempra with custom software solution package to bundle schedule constructible portions of work from a single CU/OAA enabled work order.
• Provided Sempra with personal custom software solution which gives a framework to manually bundle a work order by grouping operations
• Designed a custom solution to update work orders from As-built information
• Designed a solution to update design and work order based on customer requested changes or field condition related modifications
• Designed a solution to process field change orders at any stage of the execution of the work order - custom solution
• Designed a solution to process As-built based on SAP compatible units via scheduling system
• Supported project with its day-to-day activities from business meetings, usability workshops, working with development team and testing team.
• Configuration of Plant Maintenance (PM) module for: Technical Objects (Non-Serialized Equipment, Functional Locations, Material Bill of Materials (BOM), Equipment BOM, Notification and Order Processing (Notifications, Notification Catalogs, Orders, Costing, Order Settlement, Capacity Planning), Preventive Maintenance (Task Lists, Maintenance Items, Maintenance Plans, Scheduling)
• Configuration of Materials Management Module (MM): Logistics General (Plant Definitions, Material Control Data, Field Selections for Data Screens, Material Groups), Purchasing (Tax Jurisdictions, Purchasing Value Keys, Vendor Master, Info Records, Source List, Request for Quotation (RFQ), Purchase Requisition, Release Procedures, Purchase Order, Contracts / Scheduling Agreements, Account Assignments, Vendor Evaluation), Valuation and Account Assignments (Material Price Control, Split Valuation, Automatic Postings), Inventory Management (Goods Receipt, Movement Types, Storage Location), Invoice Verification (GR-Based IV, Invoice Blocking)
• Configuration of Project System (PS) module for: Project structure, Standard Projects - Customer or Service Projects, Project Templates, WBS- Work Breakdown Structure, Profiles, Coding Mask, Milestone, Networks, Internal/External Activities, Material Planning, Cost and Resource Planning, Revenue Planning, Time and Capacity Planning, Status Management, Execution - Actual cost posting to the project WBS, Period End - Settlement and RRB and Integration with Plant Maintenance Module.
• Configuration of system includes the SAP CU, OAA and PS module to align with the overall solution

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

SAP PM/EAM Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implementation and Upgrade Functional SME to support PGE ECC 6.0 environment to Enhancement Pack 2 and Enhancement Pak 3.
• Successfully Re-implemented/Upgraded SAP EAM Work Management - PM, Compatible Unit pilot release CUM200 to /CUM/MAIN standard framework
• Executed detailed and thorough analysis of existing Compatible Unit architecture in CUM200 version and standard CU data model
• Designed detailed CU re-implementation road map that aligns with Standard SAP ERP 6.0
• Conducted workshops, Training and Usability workshops with business community
• SAP Configuration of PM, CUM, OLC, PS and SD billing module via IMG
• Monitored project progress through realization effort until Go Live
• Re-designed HR CAT2/CAT9 confirmation process using enhancement framework
• Designed work flow process for technical object (Functional Location and Equipment) creation and the maintenance via maintenance plans automatically
• Resolved Operational Level Costing issues via configuration adjustment and Enhancement framework
• Worked directly with integration team, business and end-users through Unit, Client-Acceptance and integration testing

Confidential, Augusta, Maine

SAP PM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successfully Re-implemented SAP EAM Work Management - PM, Compatible Unit and Operation Level costing business extension for Confidential using SAP ASAP methodology
• Executed detailed and thorough analysis of Confidential ’s existing Compatible Unit solution
• Worked with business to identify and gather Confidential ’s business process requirements
• Worked extremely close with PM, FI-CO, SD, MM, CCS and HR teams to bridge integration gaps
• Designed detailed CU re-implementation road map that aligns with Standard SAP ERP 6.0
• Architected end-to-end integrated solution for Confidential
• Conducted workshops, Training and Usability workshops with business community
• SAP Configuration of PM, CUM, OLC, PS and SD billing module via IMG
• Monitored project progress through realization effort until Go Live
• Re-designed HR CAT2/CAT9 confirmation process using enhancement framework
• Designed Work process for Settlement rule determination on Customer Service Work order to allows costs to be managed to at the operation level
• Designed work flow process for technical object (Functional Location and Equipment) creation and the maintenance via maintenance plans
• Resolved Operational Level Costing issues via configuration adjustment and Enhancement framework
• Assisted Confidential to develop training documentation for end-user training
• Reviewed and offered input to develop detailed and precise test scripts for Compatible Unit testing

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

SAP PM Functional/Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead Functional and Technical Consultant supporting Implementation of SAP-PM/EAM Work Management Business Transformation initiative for PG&E transmission and distribution line of business.
• Supported the project and system Integrator (Accenture) by playing a significant role of SAP PM/EAM functional/technical SME through all the major phases of the engagement - Blueprint, Design, Realization, Product and System testing and successful Go Live
• Assisted with the architecture of Work Management solution by leveraging pilot software release of SAP Compatible Unit functionality (CUM) and Operation Level costing (OLC) focused business framework.
• Supported FI/CO team to establish infrastructure to support pilot release of OLC
• Designed complex Interface Architecture between Graphical design tool and SAP to create a Compatible unit based in SAP using design builder framework
• Designed extremely complex trenching functionality using SAP Compatible unit design builder by leveraging its virtual CU construct
• Configuration of Plant maintenance and Customer Service module includes setting in IMG notification types, Catalog codes, Notification Items, Profiles, Work Centers, Planning Plants, Master Data i.e. Technical objects - Functional Locations and Equipments, Order Types, number ranges, Task Lists, control keys, activity types, Costing Sheets, Settlement Profiles
• Configuration of Compatible Unit includes CU master data, primary class of the CU’s, Secondary class for CU’s, Design Types, Construction Measure, CU order types and necessary Business Add-in to support work management order life-cycle.
• Configuration of Plant Maintenance (PM) module for: Technical Objects (Non-Serialized Equipment, Functional Locations, Material Bill of Materials (BOM), Equipment BOM, Notification and Order Processing (Notifications, Notification Catalogs, Orders, Costing, Order Settlement, Capacity Planning), Preventive Maintenance (Task Lists, Maintenance Items, Maintenance Plans, Scheduling)
• Developed Functional requirements from business design meetings/discussion to determine RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms) object inventory
• Wrote and reviewed Functional/Technical specification for all custom Enhancements
• Designed and implemented As-built process to reconcile assets as per PG&E business model
• Integrated PG&E’s trenching process in CU design builder using Virtual CU construct
• Worked and supported as a effective and contributing team player of the PGE’s Business Transformation project team through its life-cycle of Blueprint, Design, Realization, System test, Performance Test, Integration Test, UAT and successful GO LIVE in Oct’ 2007

Confidential, CHICAGO, IL

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Set-up new company codes for Asset Management and Accounts Payable
• Inter-company set-up for newly created company Codes
• Assigned Number range to newly create company codes Via transaction OKB9, for each new company code added discount G/Ls account with cost center
• Enhanced payment program ZSFF1102 to include these new companies
• Configured payment block for manual payments on invoices during workflow when manual check is identified. (OB27)
• Configuration set-up on parked document posting date to change post date to system date of actual Posting date.
• Set-up validations on incoming invoice via IMG on document header, document line and document Complete for document types KR/KG.
• Set-up substitution on incoming invoices via IMG on SAP fields not provided by standard SAP
• Added entries into the GB01 Boolean class tables to allow substitution for tax jurisdiction code field
• Customized tax jurisdiction process to indicate taxable or tax-exempt entries
• Created Organizational Structure to allow workflow routings to appropriate Queues
• Created and documented the configuration control for controlling process that checks the system messages for internal orders.
• Configured vendor maintenance configuration of mandatory fields for vendor creation, purchasing and payables process control
• Set-up vendor maintenance control to check duplicate vendor and establish criteria to do so
• Ensured reconciliation account is a required field for key vendor accounts as part of GL integration.
• Set-up via IMG 3 way match - AP tolerance for item amount check.
• Set-up tolerances within the Purchasing & Payables process to control the difference between purchase orders and invoices

Confidential, LAKE FOREST, IL

SAP Functional and Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to complete technical upgrade of PM, SD, MM, FI and LES modules from 3.1I to 4.7 and meet PACTIV’s expectation by well-crafted project planning and analysis, clearly defining a comprehensive picture of current environment, proper testing and training of end users.
• Defined/Implemented Local classes and designed methods for event processing in ABAP programs
• Designed/Identified and Implemented standard Business Add-Ins in PM, FI, SD and MM replacing customer user-exits.
• Designed and Implemented Exception Handling process for all inbound/Outbound interfaces
• Conducted business/functional and technical walkthroughs of objects prior to migration from development environment to Production.
• Established benchmark of internal control settings so that continuous monitoring can be performed and compared against actual settings.
• Identified reports and monitoring capabilities available within SAP for integrity concerns with the system
• Designed risk management reporting tool within GL, AR, AP, CO and Purchasing

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successful SAP implementation of BP acquired companies to Amoco footprint
• Manage off-shore ABAP team, distribute appropriate objects to team and balance their workload
• Meet program deadline for SAP MOCK and Dry run activities
• Work on daily basis with business such as US Logistics to gather data for SAP IT implementation
• Designed functional and technical specification for SAP SCM conversion’s and Interfaces
• Implemented SAP Industrial transportation module to calculate freight
• Defined data conversion requirements for SAP transportation module
• Designed report to SQL extracts data from external SAP transportation box for freight analysis
• Responsible for writing functional and technical design for SAP conversion program such as Customer and vendor master.
• Wrote technical design for real time interfaces with legacy systems that bring data into SAP via IDOC using satellite technology
• Designed G/L Parked Document Workflow for posting Manual Journal Entries over tolerance limit to invoke workflow to designated approver for release of parked document.
• Designed instructions for Asset Master Conversion using SAP standard legacy conversion objects i.e. RAALTD01.
• Implemented flow logic for the installation and removal of equipment before the screen output.
• Configuration of Workflow via IMG, creating Workflow variant ( Transaction OBWA), assign Company Code to Workflow variant, define release approval groups and procedures (OBWE & OBWF), edit Organizational Plan ( OOOE ) and create workflow tasks using PFTC CHG and SWDD.
• Work closely with cutover command center to outline necessary steps for successful SAP GO LIVE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Completed SAP implementation for Confidential.
• Defined project and programming standards, methodology, design and test templates.
• Responsible for Integration testing, conversion testing, cutover, end-user training, regression testing, performance testing, issue resolution, Emergency Fixes and GO-LIVE.
• Communicate with BU to define legacy file requirements for data conversion.
• Designed, developed and monitored progress of vendor master, customer master, equipment master, material master, master recipe and general task list conversion programs.
• Used SAP supplied data transfer program such as RMATIND, RFBIDE00 and RFBIKR00 for data conversion.
• Worked with Legacy System Migration Tool (LSMW) to load data into SAP.
• Wrote functional design and technical design for complex mission critical, substitution and allocation program based on ATP strategy controlled by business rules and condition techniques
• Designed ATP process via Sales order in the OLTP system that triggers a ATP check, which (depending on the configuration) use inventory, production plans, deployment plans, and various sets of planning data to calculate the correct availability result.
• Wrote 40 technical designs for SAP custom interfaces, conversions, enhancements and reports for FI, SD, MM and VMS (Vehicle Management System) for dealer portal requirements.

Confidential, PARSIPPANY, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Completed full life cycle SAP implementation, post-implementation support and roll-out to Germany, Netherlands and Canada for FI, SD, MM, PS, QM and PM modules.
• Worked with conversion cutover team to supplement successful SAP implementation and GO LIVE .
• Reviewed designs, programs and test documentation to ensure quality, efficiency and compliancy with standards
• Created house bank, partner profile, port definition, message types and logical message types.
• Created FI/CO reports using report painter and report writer.
• Worked with business to define SD organizational data, sales and purchasing area and set-up customer/vendor accounts.
• Performed all major conversion such as vendor master, customer master, material master, material BOM, Inventory balances, General task list and Master recipe.
• Designed specifications for 36 customized interfaces for FI, SD, MM, and QM modules.
• Designed Forms for Invoices, Credit-Debit memo, Carrier notification and Performa invoice using SMARTFORMS
• Designed enhancements for recording outgoing characteristic result for an inspection lot by creating file that is sent to outside vendor for evaluation. ( QM )
• Designed a Custom enhancement based on the price scale rather than quantity or volume for pricing.
• Designed and developed enhancement to recognize eligible material for duty draw back.
• Instituted Interface Architecture, defined methodology, design, development and test within SAP and REDWOOD

Confidential, CHICAGO, IL

SENIOR SAP CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Senior SAP Consultant with Accenture’s Automobile & Industrial Equipment practice
• Created company codes and set up business areas for Caterpillar USA and Argentina
• Created Account groups, Reconciliation Accounts, Subsidiary ledgers for reconciliation and assign Chart Of Account (CAUS)
• Created financial statement versions to meet various reporting versions for US and Canada.
• Wrote specification for financial statement to gain access to international capital markets using Parallel Accounting method i.e. valuation methods
• Provide support to ABAP/4, configuration, Crossworld and EDI team.
• Designed and developed SAP financial mini-applications to run on MySAP workplace platform.
• Created IDOC segments via transaction SE17 to pass data in and out of SAP to Crossworld.
• Created function modules within SAP for processing of mini-application.
• Designed screens to process dealer related data using module pool, table control and screen loops.
• Create and maintain logical database via SLDB to cater dealer requirements.
• Designed and implemented SAP, Crossworld and MySAP Workplace interface architecture.
• Designed Account Receivable reports for Caterpillar dealers to facilitate Credit Management process.
• Assist team to prepare blueprint for CrossWorld/SAP Inbound Retrieve Interface Flow
• Supported Conversion effort for Material Management, Bill Of Material, Customer Master and Purchasing Information record

Confidential, CHICAGO, IL

SAP TECHNICAL ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• SAP consultant for Confidential, Management Consulting Practice in Chicago.
• Technical Analyst with implementation, enhancement and upgrade experience.
• Wrote functional and technical requirements for enhancement, reports, update and FTP programs.
• Created custom table and maintenance table via transaction SM30.
• Developed custom reports, enhancements and interfaces using ABAP/4 techniques such as dialog
• Programming, BDC Call transaction, table, view, match code objects, search helps and lock objects.
• Developed outbound interface program at company code level for financial records within the given
• Range company code.
• Identified data objects, assigned class, defined properties, create component lists, build in additional validation and defined syntax in Mercator.
• Enabled, generated and read trace file of a executable map.
• Defined input and output card for creating MAPS.
• Partitioned data using referencing lists, presentation, initiator, component rule, identifier, different component list at item and group level.
• Created functional maps for referencing MAPS using map rules.
• Created MAPS in Mercator to convert data in SAP format for customized loading process.
• Programmed customized BDC’s using Call Transaction for data migration.
• Determine what type of object should be built, such as Batch Input, Call Transactions, or DMI/DX (SAP supplied data transfer programs), should be used.
• Conduct meeting with other functional team to meet their requirements for cross-functional issues.
• Conduct workshops for ABAP developers and end-users.
• Responsible for monitoring nightly Scheduled SAP SD RELATED jobs via remote login.
• Communicate with control room and operations to correct the issue and restart the job.
• Defined forms, pages, character formats, page layouts, page attributes, symbols for SAPScript.
• Wrote functional / technical specification for enhancements for Bombardier Aerospace for service order processing of aircraft maintenance on Project system side using transaction IW31 and IW32.
• Wrote functional / technical design for enhancement to change the location of the work centers of service orders from the location where the work centers are defaulted to currently, to the location of the work centers where the work is being transferred. The enhancement kicks off a mass change of work centers for the Service Order operations and saves the orders.