PROFILE:

• Confidential is a certified Sr. Managing Consultant and an experienced Engagement Manager and People Manager in the Confidential Application Innovation Services division.
• Along with his SAP certification in ABAP Technical Development Confidential also has extensive project management, system analysis and programming background in Information System in the areas of Manufacturing, Marketing and Finance, and Quality Assurance.
• Confidential ’s SAP technical knowledge covers the ABAP Technical Programming, the LSMW migration tool and ALE Idoc processing. Confidential ’s SAP functional knowledge includes Material Master, Purchasing and Account Payable.
• For the past 10 years Confidential has been managing up to 50 on - shore and off-shore developers and has been responsible for the successful development and deployment of RICEs and EDIs in several go-lives within various Confidential business areas and external clients.
• Confidential was the architect in several strategies for the master data management for the Confidential PC division.
• Confidential also developed many ABAP functionalities to manage the distribution of material master data using SAP Idoc approach from SAP to external non-SAP and SAP down streams.
• In the past 2 years, Confidential has been gaining practical working experience in Agile methodology and have been applying Scrum design in managing his projects at clients.
• Confidential completed several Agile and Scrum Master training designed by Confidential for PM as Confidential GBS has now chosen Agile as their go-to methodology for all of their client projects.
• The result was a successful contract with Confidential to help PMUSA to implement their SAP system in Finance and Purchasing areas.
• Confidential received several recognitions and awards from PMUSA for various accomplishments ranging from cost reduction proposals to his diversity leadership skill.

KEY SKILLS:

ASSIGNMENT HISTORY:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confidential managed an integration project plan consisting 6 consultants from Confidential and 2 other vendors that Confidential was using to implement a $5 million budget to convert their existing SQL centric based Artwork Packaging Specification (APS) and Quality Management (QM) functionality into SAP QM and Purchasing areas. developed the project plan using MS project, ensuring all timelines are integrated with Zeotis other projects to comply with a desired ‘phased’ roll out in order to minimize disruption to Confidential daily business.
• Confidential managed the Confidential consultants on all aspect of data conversion and migration (ETL) from SQL into SAP. On a weekly basis, Confidential on a weekly basis met with Steering committee (CIO and project stake holders) and report the status of the ABAP development objects (18 Artwork Workflow objects and 21 Quality Management data objects (Works Centers, Inspection plan, etc.).
• In addition to daily project managing activities, Confidential also gained valuable working knowledge in SharePoint and HPALM (formally HPQC) by managing daily defect and testing status for the conversion activities.

Confidential

Master Data Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining all master data conversion strategy from existing PeopleSoft application in for Confidential in Pittsburg and Chicago in their effort to consolidating the business process of their newly acquired company, into a single SAP ERP environment.
• Confidential led a client team of 5 people who are SME in various data objects such as materials, vendors, customers, etc.
• His responsibility included creating a master data migration strategy blueprint to be used for Realization phase and provided SAP migration technical training to the client team on SAP ABAP SQVI and various SAP functionalities in the area of MM.
• Confidential worked w/ the Confidential functional teams to secure several major conversion functional specifications on Vendor, Customer and Material objects.
• Confidential collaborated with the Confidential offshore development team to define conversion technical approach using LSMW, Idocs and custom ABAP to migrate existing PeopleSoft data objects into existing SAP system.

Confidential

Data Migration Development Lead

Responsibilities:

• In his capacity Confidential was responsible for the deliveries of 50+ RICEFs developments covering areas of: Finance (General Ledger, Cost Centers, Cost Elements: WBS, Chart of Accounts) ; Material Masters Vendors Masters and Customer Masters.
• Confidential took on the role of defect manager for the Data Team. In this role, Confidential was responsible for monitoring status of defects related to data conversion objects, providing daily HPQC defect summary report to both Confidential and Confidential PMO, coordinating w/ onshore/offshore team members on defect solutions, ensuring defect resolution in a timely manner.
• Confidential is well versed in the ETL process with his technical management of a team of 15 offshore developers in BODS and ABAP development utilizing Business Object Data Services (BODS) transformation approach, SAP Idocs generations from BODS, BAPI development to support the ETL of Confidential legacy data from PeopleSoft system into SAP ERP environment. Onsite, Confidential managed 6 data analysts who are responsible for coordinating RICEF functional specification, Change requests and testing with their Functional counterparts to ensure the quality of the transformed data are conformed to Confidential specifications and requirements.

Confidential

Material Master Data Lead

Responsibilities:

• Confidential managed a team of up to 5 onsite functional analysts and up to 20 offshore developers and responsible for designing the data migration conversion approach to bring in Material masters from 4 different external business areas, 2 of which are SAP systems.
• Using his extensive technical knowledge in ALE Idoc (a data transformation tool in SAP) experience Confidential designed migration roadmaps for material master, BOM, Classification using either standard and/or custom extended SAP idoc.

Confidential

Operation Manager and People Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed SAP test and pre-production landscape and non-SAP AIX/DB2 environments to ensure that these systems are up 24/7 to support testing efforts from 6 downstream partners. Managed both US and India Development/Operations resources to support parallel project development and testing requirements.
• Responsible for the yearly Performance evaluation of 12 senior level SAP Technical & Infrastructure consultants and act as mentor to his consultants providing project, career and personal growth advise including preparing consultants for the Confidential Consultant certification process.
• As a member of the ABAP/MM technical interviewing team for the SAP Technical Development & Infrastructure practice, Confidential also serves as Subject Matter Expert (SME) member on the review/approve panel of Confidential annual PDFA (Personal Development Framework Assessment) process since 2006 in the Consulting dimension.

Confidential

Infrastructure System manager and Engagement Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed data requests from various Confidential Business groups supporting Confidential .com Business.
• Acted as Single focal point of contact (SPOC) for all problem resolutions for material test data flowing down to Confidential .com website.
• SPOC for Executives briefings on material test data issues. SPOC for data flows to approximately 25 test SAP and DB2 systems and databases.
• Managed both on-shore and off-shore resources for Confidential with direct report of 4 off-shores and 6 on-shores Resources at peak of project Provided ABAP technical programming development to existing SAP Development group to enhance existing functionalities or new technical requirements
• Involved in 3 upgrades from 3.1F to 4.5B.
• Lead prototype upgrade from 4.5B to 4.7 R/3 Enterprise.
• Analyzed system configuration status using transaction SPDD and SPAU to provide customer with estimates for project upgrade costs.
• Participated in the implementation of many go-live releases in SAP environments.
• Lead a team of 5-7 developers to develop a front end GUI with over 100 menu options to handle various functionalities allowing end users to select and distribute and control material master data to SAP systems locating in different countries.

Confidential

Sr. SAP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with multi-nations customers and MM functional consultants to secure each country business requirements and configuration knowledge in order to achieve timely technical deliverables.
• Developed a patent-pending ALE flow process to permit an ‘on-demand’ data distribution and autonomous ALE data consistency check.
• Developed an SAP utility to allow user to perform mass material text description translation to different languages utilizing SAP dialog programming and workflow configurations.

Confidential

Computer System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing an on-line Code Translation (CTS) system on the SAP R/3 box to enable users to cross reference existing intelligent account codes from the legacy systems to the new SAP internally generated account numbers.
• Written program specifications for the CTS application. Written on-line ABAP programs utilizing screen processing via SAP dialog programming.
• Designed and implemented several SAP customer tables with foreign keys structures to maintain the cross-reference between the existing legacy codes and SAP codes.
• Written a generic function module to search and return any desired codes whether it is from Legacy or SAP system.
• This function module is a key subroutine for all ABAP inbound/outbound interfaces within the FIT project where a code conversion is required.
• Migrating the company New York Headquarters’ Purchasing and Account Payable McCormick and Dodge (M&D) application to SAP R/3 3.0C technology.

Lead IS Analyst and Lead ABAP/4 developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Researched all existing systems that interface with the D&BS system, document system interfaces in flowcharting formats and communicate all technical and business requirements back to team and customer member.
• Worked with customer management team members to produce the RFP for the project and evaluated the responses to the RFP from 3 different consulting companies.
• Worked with Confidential SAP functional consultants to create corresponding mappings and technical specifications for the interfaces between the SAP R/3 and 10 Confidential Host legacy applications including those of outside vendors.
• Designed, presented and obtained approval from all legacy systems for a one format inbound and one format outbound to simplify future support.
• Programmed the ABAP/4 BDC interface according to the technical specifications.
• These interfaces responsible for automating the purchase orders, invoicing and payment processes within the SAP R/3 system. In addition, programmed the SAP Workflow process to automatically notify appropriate customer and I.S. analysts when the BDC sessions updates are not working during the interface run time.
• SAP Client Administrator for the project team members. In this capacity, responsible for assigning client privileges and authorizations to team member based on defined roles and responsibilities.
• Also represented as the team liaison in weekly meetings with the SAP R/3 Competency Center in Germany to address business, technical and security issues concerning the project.