Summary
SAP Consultant with 8 years and 2 months experience in SAP Implementation, Data Migration, Upgrade and Support projects with expertise in ABAP, Web Dynpro for ABAP, SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP PI, and Adobe Forms across various SAP modules. Net Weaver experience includes Portal implementation, administration and support, prime expertise in Web Dynpro for ABAP development and Adobe Forms development. This is backed by a rich experience in project leadership, client and end user interaction

Certification and Awards

• SAP certified Technology Consultant SAP NetWeaver 2004s – Portal
• Rewarded with Outstanding Contribution to L&T Infotech and SAP BU in year 2011
• Rewarded Gold Medal from Chevron Corporation for excellent contribution to the project
• Received award and recognition from L&T Infotech for training over 500 consultants across all its locations on SAP Web Dynpro ABAP and SAP Enterprise Portal

Experience Summary

• Wide experience in leading project teams including Project planning and controlling, Operations Management, Progress reporting, and Project Risk Management
• Vast implementation experience on Web Dynpro for ABAP applications for SAP HCM, Plant Maintenance and Finance Travel Management modules including cross-component programming, Eventing, advanced concepts of Context Programming, Assistance classes, ALV, Service calls, Object Value selection, Portal integration, Adobe Forms Integration, Workflow Integration etc
• Excellent Knowledge & expertise on ABAP Workbench, RFC, BAPIs, BDC, LSMWs, Module pool, Interfaces, Object Oriented Programming, Security Concepts like Authorization Objects and HR-ABAP (including Standard Infotype Enhancement and Expatriation process of SAP HR)
• Extensive experience & knowledge of Portal infrastructure, administration with in-depth full life cycle implementation of EP 6.0/7.0
• Portal experience includes Portal Security (SSO) and authentication, KM, Collaboration, UWL Configuration, XML Forms, Portal Themes and personalization, Transports, ACLs, and Permissions
• Skilled at configuring and implementing SAP business packages with experience in ESS/MSS, SAP MDM business packages
• Hands-on experience on ALE/ IDOC, Business Workflow & Web Dynpro for Java
• Versed with NetWeaver technologies like SAP Interactive Adobe Forms, Composite Application Framework (CAF) and Guided Procedures (GP), Master Data Management (MDM) and Process Integration (PI/XI)
• Experience in creating case studies, RFPs, technical demos for clients as part of pre-sales activities
• Was Instrumental in developing organization wide quality processes, templates, skill evaluation sheet, development standards, guidelines and review checklists for Web Dynpro for ABAP in L&T Infotech
• Knowledge on other technologies like Java, MS Access & Macros
• Worked in United States for almost 3 years for SAP Implementation, Roll-outs and Data Migration projects in California, Oklahoma, New Jersey and Ohio
• Demonstrated high degree of initiative, analytical skills and experience in interacting with clients, management, and end-users
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills

SAP Experience

PBF Energy is one of the leading independent petroleum refiners and suppliers of unbranded transportation fuels, heating oil, petrochemical feed stocks, lubricant base oils and other petroleum based products in the United States

Project: Paulsboro and Toledo Historical Data Migration
Role: Data Migration Lead
PBF Energy has acquired the Paulsboro Refining Company from Valero and Toledo Refining Company from Sunoco as a share purchase and has implemented SAP as its core Financials, Procurement and Maintenance backbone for its acquired refineries. This project aims at converting and migrating critical business records that are frequently referenced in the course of day-to-day operations from the productive Valero SAP instance and Sunoco’s Legacy system to the appropriate PBF IT application to include such data as general ledger (encompassing AP sub-ledger, AR sub-ledger, cash/treasury records, payroll records), plant maintenance data, and procurement data.

Responsibilities:

• Assess the historical data objects required for migration and develop a data migration strategy defining the target for historical data based on PBF IT Infrastructure, Valero/Sunoco’s TSA restrictions, and the PBF Business needs
• Define the data conversion and migration approach including the extract, map, validate, load and reconcile data
• Define the Strategy for data migration tools based on data volume, data complexity and availability of standard SAP data load programs
• Work with the PBF Business to develop the source to target fit gap analysis, mapping and conversion rules for data transformation, cleansing procedures to cleanse the historical data and the data load acceptance criteria
• Lead the offshore functional & technical team for developing technical programs using BAPIs, BDCs, LSMWs to create and delete historical Work orders, Equipment document linkages, long texts, financial transactions, Asset master records, WBS elements, Project definitions, Project budget, etc. Used L&T Infotech’s EzCutover tool for migrating master and transactional data like Maintenance Notifications, Purchase Orders, Requisitions, Materials, Customers, Vendors, Info records, BoMs, etc
• Established programming standards, quality review standards, transport naming convention and standards for PBF Energy projects and support engagement
• Schedule the project kickoff, stakeholder engagement and steering committee meetings, and weekly status meetings
• Project Management activities included resource planning, Project Planning and Charter creation, project status monitoring, invoicing, quality control, issue resolution and change management
• Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Numaligarh Refinery Limited is a subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Govt. of Assam and Oil India limited with major share holding by BPCL. The present authorized capital of the company is Rs 1000 crores and paid-up capital is Rs. 735.63 crores

Project1: SAP HCM Time Management Implementation (along with ESS/MSS Business Packages)
Role: Technical Architect/Lead
The project aims at implementing the SAP HCM Time Management module along with implementing the SAP Enterprise Portal hosting the Business packages for Employee Self Service and Manager Self Service

Responsibilities:

• Gather Requirements and perform the detailed fit gap analysis of NRL Time Management Business process
• Developed the Business Blueprint and provide the SAP HCM Solution Design along with the HCM functional consultants
• Define the infrastructure strategy including the SAP Portal landscape and transport strategy. Establish the Transport naming convention and programming standards.
• Designed functional specifications for developing the custom two level approval workflows for leave request, time approval, overtime and compensatory-off approval with email notifications for requestor and approver
• Perform the end user training on SAP Enterprise Portal, ESS/MSS Business package, HCM Time Management module
• Project Planning – creating and monitoring project plan, creating project management charter, strategy documents, maintain stake holder responsibility matrix, conduct kickoff meeting
• Project Monitoring – conduct Status meetings, report weekly project status, senior management review meetings, maintain Project Action and Issue log. Identify project risks and creating Mitigation plan, conduct Customer Satisfaction Survey after each milestone, measured effort, cost and schedule variances and performed causal analysis and resolution
• Process and Quality Control – attend quality audits, generate Metric Action Plans for each month, generate Causal Analysis and Resolution for schedule, quality or cost overruns, conduct Defect Prevention meetings, ensure quality reviews for each deliverable
• Change Management – Maintain Change Request log, create and get approval for Change Request documents
• Billing and Resourcing – Maintain project Resources and their training plans, get signoff for each project phase, generate invoices for each milestone, generate project profitability reports
• Schedule demonstrations and presentation for pursuing new opportunities with the client

Project2: SAP Upgradation Project and Enterprise-wide Realignment of Business processes
Role: Project Lead and Sr. Technical Consultant
The project aims at technical upgrade of R/3 4.7 system to ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Use L&T Infotech’s proprietary ZoomUp tool to estimate the technical effort required for SAP upgrade and the objects affected by the upgrade
• Perform ABAP and Unicode remediation to custom objects before upgrade
• Perform SPAU/SPDD Adjustments to standard SAP objects after upgrade
• Resolve technical and project inter-personal issues, maintain project action log, issue log
• Conduct Defect prevention meetings, quality reviews of deliverables
• Attend Quality Audits and Senior Management review meetings
• Report project progress through weekly status reports
• Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP4, EP7 WAS 7.0

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company is amongst the largest US petrochemical firms and is jointly owned by Chevron Corporation and ConocoPhillips. It is a major producer of ethylene, propylene, polyethylene and polypropylene and has several petrochemicals joint ventures in the Middle East

Project1: SAP Travel Management Implementation
Role: Sr. ABAP, Web Dynpro and Portal Consultant
The project aims at implementing SAP Travel Management processes involved in handling trips, including Travel Request and Travel Expenses subcomponents through Employee Self Service (ESS)

Responsibilities:

• Develop complex custom Web Dynpro components and host them on SAP Enterprise Portal
• Integrate the Web Dynpro applications with custom 3 level workflows for Travel Request and Expense approval and expense report audit workflows using Portal UWL (Universal Work List)
• Modify standard UWL xml file to customize standard UWL iView
• Enhance and customize standard SAP Web Dynpro components using SAP Enhancement framework, configuration, administrative personalization, etc
• Developed user exists and BADis to include the Chevron Phillips specific validations on the Expense reports screens
• Develop and Integrate Adobe Forms with Web Dynpro ABAP application
• Develop custom ABAP Function Modules to read Trip data from the clusters. Enhance standard classes and Function modules to add validations while creating Expense Reports and Travel Requests
• Additional responsibilities include creating MAP (Metric Action Plan), CAR (Causal Analysis and Resolution), DAR (Decision Analysis and resolution) and other quality related processes part of CMMI level 5
• Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, EP7 WAS 7.0, Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0

ConocoPhillips, USA is a global integrated energy company with technological expertise in reservoir management and exploration, 3-D Seismic technology, high-grade petroleum coke upgrading and sulfur removal.

Project1: SAP-PM Data Governance – Portal based Master Data Governance Utility
Role: Technical Lead

• The scope of the project was to design and implement a Data Governance process for Plant Maintenance Master Data across all ConocoPhillips’ US and Europe refineries. This involved creating SAP Portal based Data Request-Approval process, with a set of business rules identified as per ConocoPhillips’ Refining standards.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Project planning, monitoring and control, process and product quality assurance, measurement and analysis. This includes creating and maintaining Project management plan, stakeholder responsibility matrix, status reports, issues logs, project action log, Metric Action Plan, causal analysis reports, conduct status calls, defect prevention meetings within the team, etc
• Gather Requirements, develop technical design document and user manual and training documents
• Develop complex Web Dynpro ABAP applications for requesting and approving PM data (Functional location, equipment, notifications, etc) validating business rules as per ConocoPhillips’ Refining standards and Mass Upload of Plant Maintenance Functional Location and Equipment data from excel spreadsheet into SAP
• Create Portal iViews, worksets, roles, etc and host the application on ConocoPhillips’ Downstream Refining Portal
• Integrate the Smart Plant Implementation System to SAP Interface with the Governance Portal
• Defined specifications for developing downstream KPIs in BI using Business Explorer and Visual Composer and hosting them on the ConocoPhillips’ Downstream Refining Portal

Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics