Summary:
Raj is a Senior Certified SAP XI/PI consultant with over nine years of IT experience with over eight years of SAP hands-on full life cycle implementation experience. He has worked as a developer, architect, and team lead on multiple SAP implementations.

SAP Expertise
Extensive hands on experience in Designing and Configuring SAP XI 3.0 /PI 7.0/ PI 7.1/7.3 Integration Broker, Business Process Management (BPM) and Runtime Components

• Experience in SAP XI integration, Implementation, Post go-live and involved in upgrade
• Expertise in suggesting the client for various best practices for XI implementation and strategies on how to protect the investment and to reduce the TCO
• Experience in complete Life cycle Implementation of XI project i.e. from installation phase of XI to the production phase. Involved in various phases of the project development from gathering requirements to testing and real time usage in production
• Experience in design, development, test and support of an Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Experience in integrating SAP PI with third party CRM system, Sales Force (SFDC – cloud computing technology) and an E-Sourcing system, CLM (Contract Life Management system).
• Experience in integrating SAP PI with SAP SRM system and small business suppliers which uses SAP SRM SUS (Supplier Self Service) system.
• Writing of end to end technical specification included the following XI Technical Design, Mapping Documents, ABAP Technical Design and Technical Design XI
• Experience with Seeburger adapter, RNIF (RosettaNet) adapter, EDI adapters
• Implemented Seeburger adapters BIC, split997, AS2 installed on SAP PI server to replace existing legacy EDI process and Infrastructure.
• Experience in integrating business partners using Seeburger EDI adapter by developing user mappings, XML schemas and ANSI X12 in BICMD 6.3.2.
• Experience in designing and developing end to end A2A and B2B interfaces using various XI methods such as BPM, Multi-mappings, Alerts, Graphical, ABAP, java and XSLT mappings
• Experience in configuring EDI, ALE, IDOC and Workflow Interfaces
• Over Five full life cycle implementation experience including SAP XI/PI and ABAP

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelors in Computer Science
• Confidential,SAP AG PI Certified

Technical Skill Set:

SAP XI / PI: A2A, B2B scenarios, ccBPM (Patterns: Sync/Async Bridge, Async/ Sync Bridge, Multicast, Serialization), Adapters (IDOC, RFC, FILE) Mapping (XSLT, Message Mapping), Proxies (ABAP), Integration Server (IE & BPE), Adapter Engine, Adapter Framework. XI Repository: Custom Data types, Message types, Message interfaces, Message mapping, Mapping Interfaces, Graphical mapping tool, Data layout functions. XI Directory: Sender agreement, receiver agreement, communication channels for file, communication channel for RFC involving IDocs and BAPIs, receiver determination, interface determination. XI RWB: SXMB_MONI, adapter monitoring tools, SXI_CACHE XI SLD: Software components, Products, Technical system, Business system. Languages: C, C++, Java, J2EE, ABAP, Linux Shell Programming

Platform: Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows X
Professional Experience:
Confidential, Los Angeles, CA Jan 12 – Present
SAP XI/PI Technical Architect
TOMS one of the leading manufacturing of Shoes, Sunglasses and apparel known for the most inspiring company for giving a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair of shoes purchased. TOMS started implementing the LACES project to implement the ERP package, SAP to handle the day to day transactions with the customers, integrating with third party logistics (3PL) distribution and day to day financial transaction with external vendors suppliers and banking systems.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP PI 7.3, Legacy Systems.

Responsibilities

• Designed and the scoped the interfaces to exchange data from SAP ECC to third party logistics (3PL) systems for movement of goods, orders, invoices, shipping and tracking, returns and exchanges.
• Installed the PI 7.3 system with dual stack option, configured ABAP, HTTP, tRFC connection between SAP ECC and PI 7.3
• Configured the technical and system business systems and created the products and software component version in the System Landscape Directory (SLD)
• Configured the usage dependency among the software component versions to define standard data type that can be used across multiple software components.
• Configured the tRFC, HTTP and ABAP connections between PI and SAP ECC system. Configured the HTTP connection for the advanced adapter engine to improve the performance of the system by using the java stack of the PI 7.3 system.
• Designed and configured the SFTP adapter to exchange data with third party banking system using Public key encryption.
• Configured the CTS+ transport path for the strategic roll out of the PI objects from one environment to other environment.
• Installed the OSS notes on the PI server for the AXIS adapter and SFTP adapter
• Configured and Maintained the system Exchange Profile parameters
• Performed tuning of the PI using NWA and SXMB_ADMIN and setting the integration engine tuning parameters for Performance optimazation
• Developed message mappings in PI for EDI 850 (PO Create), EDI 860 (PO Change) outbound to R/3 message type ORDERS and developed mappings for EDI 997 inbound to R/3 message type STATUS.
• Insured transition and validation of Seeburger components such as user mappings, AS2 and split adapters in PI 7.3 for all vendors, 3PL systems for EDI transaction such as 810 Invoice, 850 PO, 855 PO Acknowledgement, 856 Advance Shipment Notification (ASN), 820 Payment Remittance Advice
• Designed and developed interfaces with Magento, (eCommerce) system using SOAP adapter. Developed web services for the exchange of data between SAP PI and Magento system.
• Configured the AXIS framework of the SOAP adapter to enable digest authentication to communicate with Magento system.
• Designed and developed message mappings in PI and Seeburger mapping editor for EDI 945, EDI 945 (Inventory Adjustments/Inventory Reconciliation), EDI 856 ASN, EDI 810 Invoice, EDI 820 payment advice.
• Configured business process using ccBPM and used BPM to create the Async-Sync bridge for the exchange of data between Magento and SAP ECC system and customer tracking system.
• Created New Alert Configuration to alert for the various events/errors for different alert categories

Confidential, Glendale, CA July 11 – Dec 11
SAP XI/PI Technical Architect
Nestle world’s biggest food and Beverage Company known for manufacturing various products such as baby food, coffee, ice-creams, dairy products, frozen food, energy drinks, mineral water and pet care aims to implement the SAP TM using SAP PI to send and receive Load Tender request and Load Tender response, invoice and Carrier Status messages with the external carriers.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP TM, SAP PI 7.1, Legacy Systems.

Responsibilities

• Involved in the design of the SAP TM interfaces, which are used for tendering load to both external carriers as well as Nestle private fleet, TMW.
• Designed and configured the EDI 204 RFQ (Request for Freight Quotation) create/cancel interface which is used for tendering load from SAP TM to both external carrier as well as Nestle private fleet.
• Designed and configured the EDI 990 Load tender response from both external carrier and TMW to SAP TM.
• Designed and configured the EDI 204 FO (Freight Order) change/cancel interface which is used for changing/canceling the existing from SAP TM to external carriers and TMW.
• Designed and configured the EDI 214 Carrier Shipment Status interface which sends the status from external carrier to SAP TM.
• Detailed documentation of EDI 204 RFQ Create/Cancel, EDI 990, EDI 204 FO change and EDI 214 Shipment Status.
• Created mapping document for EDI 204 RFQ Create/Cancel, EDI 990, EDI 204 FO change and EDI 214 Shipment Status.
• Involved in Unit Testing and Functional testing of the Interfaces

Confidential,CA Apr 10 – July 11
SAP XI/PI Lead Technical Consultant
BIT, Business Infrastructure Transformation is a series of project to transform the existing Dolby business model to an enterprise model using SAP as the Enterprise Resource Package (ERP). The BIT projects helps to improve the Dolby business performance by centralizing the complete business process in an ERP package and also integrating with third party system such as Sales force for creating agreement contracts between Dolby SAP CLM and VISTEX. The BIT helps in creating agreement contracts between Dolby and its customers and also connects with banks and external systems for day-to-day transactions.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, PI 7.1, Legacy Systems.

Responsibilities

• Designed the over all flow of the system to exchange messages between SAP systems and application with in the Dolby network and also to exchange messages between SAP and third party systems.
• Designed the approach to configure and resolve the firewall/network ports between Dolby SAP system hosting service and third party systems.
• Installed and administered the PI 7.11 system. Performed the sizing of the system using SAP Quick sizer.
• Performed the installation and the post installation configuration and validation
• Designed and configured the System Landscape Directory (SLD) components such as the Products, software components, technical systems and Business systems
• Configured the CTS+ transport path for the strategic roll out of the PI objects from one environment to other environment.
• Performed tuning of the PI using NWA and SXMB_ADMIN and setting the integration engine tuning parameters
• Configured the tRFC, HTTP and ABAP connections between PI and SAP ECC system. Configured the HTTP connection for the advanced adapter engine to improve the performance of the system by using the java stack of the PI 7.1 system – The new feature of PI 7.1 – Advanced Adapter Engine
• Implemented the Advanced Adapter Engine configuration, which improves the system performance by ten times than the regular integration engine configuration.
• Performed the proxy and reverse proxy web server set up with http and https protocols.
• Designed the interfaces for creating SAP SD contracts in SAP by sending the messages from an E-Sourcing system, CLM system.
• Designed and developed the interfaces between SAP HR and external third party pay roll system and employee service system.
• Designed and developed interfaces to integrate with third party system Sales Force (SFDC), a CRM system to create Contracts between Dolby and its customers using web services.
• Deployed the Dell Web server certificate using STRUST on the PI box to establish the communication between PI and the Dell Web server – public key encryption using SSL.
• Designed and developed interfaces to exchange data between SAP SRM system and external third party system DELL system using cXML.
• Designed and developed interfaces to create Dolby Agreement contracts between Contract Life management (CLM), VISTEX and SAP.
• Designed and developed interfaces to exchange data between SAP system and third party financial systems using SFTP adapter provided by Advantco using public key encryption provided by third party systems for lockbox, payment, stock option, 401k and Revenue and CashFeed interfaces.
• Designed and developed interfaces to exchange data between SAP system and external warehouse management system using proxies and IDOC communication for orders (ORDERS05), Delivery (DESADV) and Shipping Confirmation (SHPCON).
• Established secure communication between SAP PI and third party system such as Banks using FTPS using SSL/TLS for control and data connection.
• Performed Alert Configuration to alert for the various events/errors for different alert categories
• Configured setting up Partner Profiles, Ports and RFC Destinations
• Configuration and development of interfaces utilizing various adapters which include FILE, JDBC, SOAP, RFC ,IDOC ,HTTP, JMS adapters and both Java and ABAP proxies
• Worked with Basis during the PI set up and also established the transport path to migrate the objects from development system to quality and to production system.
• Involved in Preparation of Technical specs, functional specs
• Involved in Java Mapping and User defined functions.

Confidential,CA Mar 09 – Mar 10
SAP XI/PI Technical Architect
Nestle world’s biggest food and Beverage Company known for manufacturing various products such as baby food, coffee, ice-creams, dairy products, frozen food, energy drinks, mineral water and pet care aims to migrate from the existing middleware, Mercator to SAP PI. The SAP XI/PI migration project replaces the existing mercator with XI/PI interfaces for factories, warehouses and various business applications for various markets of Nestle such as Nestle USA (food and beverage), NPPC (Nestle Purina and Pet Care) and NWNA (Nestle Waters North America).

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, PI 7.0/ PI 7.1, Legacy Systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect for the XI implementation of various Nestle markets – Nestle USA, Nestle Purina Pet care, Nestle Waters North America, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru.
• Involved in the implementation of the project from gathering requirements, documenting functional requirements, documenting technical specification, creating mapping documents and production support relevant documents.
• Configured Nestle custom generic routing workbench and enhancements to XI.
• Defined the System Landscape Directory for interfacing with different SAP systems and third party vendors.
• Involved in defining transport path and strategic roll out of PI objects between different environments.
• Debugged, monitored and fixed issues during Unit Test (UT), Market Integration Test (MIT), and Market Acceptance Test (MAT) and during production cut over.
• Configured setting up Partner Profiles, Ports and RFC Destinations.
• Configuration and development of interfaces utilizing various adapters, which include FILE, JDBC, SOAP, RFC, IDOC, HTTP, JMS adapters.
• Involved in the development of various complex interfaces for Master Data Management (MDM) such as Material Master, Customer master, Sales Orders to NUSA BW, Pricing conditions, Plant master, Vendor master.
• Designed and developed complex mapping specifications and suggested the best practices for the NUSA PO (Purchase order) and Invoice processing scenarios between the SAP system and third party system using IDOC and SOAP adapters
• Designed message relevant process elements like trigger and receive, send, receiver determination , transformation (merge and split) for BPM
• Configured J2SE adapter engine which are used to send and receive messages from SAP to XI/PI and vice versa using SOAP adapters.

Confidential,Highland Park, IL Aug 08 – Mar 09
SAP XI/PI Technical Architect
Solo Cup, one of the leading manufacturers of consumer good aims to provide system interfacing with retail trade management, MEI - Consumer Trade Management. The project is based on SAP R/3 and it has to interact with MEI systems. The project aim is to provide interfaces for Pricelist, Cost of goods sold, Promotions, Actual Sales, Off Invoice, Credit Memo Confirmation, Deductions, Credit Memo Deductions, Products, Credit Memo Territory Adjustments and Customers portfolios.

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, XI 3.0, Legacy Systems, NetWeaver 2004, Oracle 11i, NWDS

Responsibilities

• Integrated SAP system with supplier network (Legacy system). The legacy system produces flat file containing vendor data. The file is picked by the file adapter, converted to XML format and then mapped to IDOC-XML format.
• Developed ABAP proxy for the PO (Purchase Order) XML data. The proxy is deployed in the SAP client and called synchronously
• Developed and configured interfaces involving custom IDOCs ZFORCAST, ZPORDS for forecast, and purchase information as outbound interfaces for forecast information from SAP to MANUGISTICS, Catalyst using IDOC to file and JDBC adapters.
• Developed Promotions interface which creates custom IDOC ZCONDA03 in SAP based on the source file and the RFC function module ZPROMOTIONS_CUSTOMER using RFC look up.
• Created java (.jar) files in NetWeaver Developer Studio for RFC lookups and imported the jar files into Integration Repository.
• The jar file calls the function module on SAP R/3 system by taking the input parameters from the source message, executes the function module on the SAP R/3 system and returns the output parameters which stored in global container using the Hash Map key which are in turn mapped to the target message.
• Developed and configured interfaces between the SAP system Master data management (MDM) and Global Data Synchronization (GDS) using SAP XI.
• Database lookup performed using User defined function during message mapping.
• Configuration and development of interfaces utilizing various adapters which include FILE, JDBC, SOAP, RFC ,IDOC ,HTTP, JMS adapters and both Java and ABAP proxies

Confidential,Andover, MA Mar 07 – Jul 08
SAP XI/PI Lead Technical Consultant
The Philips Business Application Server aims to provide a system interfacing various systems in Philips and between various customers and vendors of Philips across the world. The project is based on SAP R/3 and it has to interact with customers, service providers and other Philips systems. This is ongoing, building up specifications using SAP XI for mapping and messaging. The new developments in the existing business transactions are created in SAP XI as change request forms and the corresponding components are moved to Production.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, PI 7.0, Legacy Systems, NetWeaver 2004s, WAS 7.0

Responsibilities

• Developed and configured business process for inventory management which includes shipping notification to inventory adjustment and inventory reconciliation and PO (Purchase Order) receipts which involved complex inbound IDOC mappings to SAP R/3 system with message type such as DESADV, WMMBXY, PORDCR, SHPMNT.
• Developed and configured integration scenarios using split997 adapter for sending function acknowledgement EDI 997 transaction back to vendors.
• Insured transition and validation of Seeburger components such as user mappings, AS2 and split adapters in PI 7.0 by preparing and executing test scripts for all vendors for EDI transaction such as 810 Invoice, 850 PO, 855 PO Acknowledgement.
• Developed message mappings in XI/PI for EDI 850, EDI 860 outbound to R/3 message type ORDERS and developed mappings for EDI 997 inbound to R/3 message type STATUS.
• Developed and configured interfaces between online order management system and warehouse management system using JMS queues for shipped sales, returns and credits/debits.
• Configuration and development of interfaces utilizing various adapters which include FILE, JDBC, SOAP, RFC ,IDOC ,HTTP, JMS adapters and both Java and ABAP proxies
• Configured setting up Partner Profiles, Ports and RFC Destinations.
• Worked with Basis consultants during technical configuration of the Integration Server

Confidential,Sandpoint, ID Jun 06 – Feb 07
SAP XI/PI Lead Technical Consultant
Coldwater Creek is embarking on an ambitious effort to replace key legacy systems with new solutions – beginning with choosing SAP’s Finance (FI) and Human Resources/Human Capital Management (HCM) systems as a replacement for legacy systems such as Multiview, Ultipro and Ceridian. The SAP ECC 6.0 implementation address a number of immediate Finance and HCM needs and will also laid the foundation for future improvements to other Coldwater Creek systems.

Environment: SAP NetWeaver 2004, SAP XI 3.0, SAP R/3 ECC 5.0, WAS 6.4.

Responsibilities

• Developed and configured synchronous integration scenario between SAP HR and the third party payroll system using SOAP adapter to consume the webservice provided by the third party system.
• Developed ABAP proxy to send financial data from SAP FI to banks using SOAP adapter
• Created integration scenarios using SAP MDM and GDS and non-SAP Adapters like File, JDBC, RFC, IDOC, HTTP, Gentran, SeeBurger and SOAP.
• Used Inbound IDOC Adapter in Integration Server to send IDOCs to SAP R/3 System and RFC Adapter to enable RFC on SAP APO System.
• Developed outbound interface for GL account data from SAP to legacy system using IDoc to JDBC adapters
• Developed Abstract Message Interfaces for Synchronous/Asynchronous transfer of Messages
• Involved in upgrade XI 3.0 to PI 7.0, and Prepare the Documents.

Confidential,Dallas, TX Oct 05 – May 06
SAP XI Technical Consultant
Fossil is a Retail company; Based in Texas, Fossil is a global consumer goods company with more than a century of history and a portfolio of leading apparel essentials. Fossil group of companies is privately held and consistently dedicated to the long-term interests of the corporation\'s stakeholders, including its customers, employees and the communities within which it operates.

Environment: SAP Web AS 6.40, SAP XI 3.0 SP12, SAP R/3 ECC 5.0

Responsibilities

• Implemented integration between Retail and POS for inbound processing (POS DM) of store financial transactions, store orders
• Implemented POPE Interface, which is the key interface used by Limited Fossil. This involves integration between SAP Retail, the Polling Server and the NCR POS systems located across various stores. The process involves extension of IDOCs (WP_PLU, WP_EAN, and WPDBBY) for new, updated and deleted articles, Promotions, and Bonus buys).
• Implemented integration between Manugistics and SAP using IDOC adapter, JDBC adapter. This interface is used to transfer the data from SAP Retail to NW Fulfillment to populate the (IGP) tables of NW Fulfillment, after IDOC ARTMAS04 is triggered from SAP Retails
• Integrated with vendor systems in B2B scenarios through IDOCS, RFC and SOAP.
• Developed interface between SAP SRM and BW systems for global spend analysis scenario
• Involved in implementation of B2B Scenario’s using Business Connector, JMS HTTP, Seeburger, Gentran and Market Place adapters for SAP.

Confidential,India May 04 – Sep 05
Project: SONY USA SAP Implementation
SAP ABAP Developer
This offers both Self-help and Assisted-help, integrating these forms of help into a multi-channel, self-service and one-to-one support service request to provide a total support environment. Help Now! Provides easy access to online computing assistance – anytime, anywhere. This is a Helpdesk project for Armstrong Inc, which enables customers to receive and request services on web. Help Now! Enables customers to perform troubleshooting and problem resolution. It enables users to be more productive by providing them access to information and problem resolution services at any time of the day.

Responsibilities:

• Tested ABAP changes to interface programs that extract data from the R/3 system into flat files for use in legacy system applications.
• Performed system analysis and design;
• Performed troubleshooting activities using ABAP debugger and OSS notes to correct problems with ALV functionality;
• Changed existing production Report Writer reports
• Debugged ABAP programs using the ABAP debugger
• Performed troubleshooting on ABAP reports using OSS and applied OSS notes;
• Gathered Functional and Technical specs from the development team to pass the knowledge on to the support team. Documented the various ABAP elements to provide a convenient knowledge source for the support team.

Confidential,India Aug 03– Apr 04 Java Programmer
The primary role of the job was to Design and develop a website for a Corporate organization. The technologies that were used in this process are JAVA, JSP, Servlets and JavaScripiting, Flash and Adobe Photoshop were used to make the website more attractive and interactive.

Environment: Java, JSP, Servlets, Oracle, Linux.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing Functional Specifications, Technical Specification verification, Development and Database Design.
• During the Development phase written Programs for Processing, Extracting and Reporting.
• Did Load testing to test the Application performance with maximum possible volume.
• Involved interaction with the possible users about the kind of user interface and the querying facilities, they expect from the system.
• Documented the user requirements through Use Case diagrams and the depicted the sequence flow through State Chart diagrams in UML using Rational Rose.