SUMMARY:

• Over 14 years of experience in SAP ABAP development including in ECC 6.0 / CRM 7.0 (over 6 years of experience in CRM and over 8 in SD/MM).
• Team lead experience managing development teams on multiple projects, prioritizing work and mentoring junior developers. Experienced in managing small sized projects (upto $150K).
• Worked on maintaining and implementing standards, code review procedures and checklists, naming conventions of technical objects.
• Well versed with and extensively used OOPS concepts and the latest ABAP development techniques including Classes, Methods, BADI / Enhancement Points, BAPI, Webdynpro (ABAP) .
• Performed variety of roles across multiple full - term implementations and spot consulting including Technical Lead, Programmer/Developer, Lead ABAP Consultant, and offshore development team liaison.
• Involved in all aspects of business/technical specification development, design, development, testing/debugging, performance/tuning and documentation of reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements and forms (RICEF).
• Experienced in the technical components of ABAP including creation and enhancement of BADI (enhancement points), BAPI, Smart-forms / Sapscript, EDI / ALE IDOCs, dialogue programming, LSMW, BDT, function modules, interactive ALV / Batch reports, data-dictionary objects and user exits.
• Experienced (as a technical consultant) in the SD, CRM, MM, FS-ICM, PP, FI & AFS modules of SAP in Retail, Manufacturing, Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and Medical Equipment manufacturing industries. Extensive experience in the Logistics modules.
• Trained in the Panaya tool to automate SAP Upgrade and Support Packs
• Experienced with multiple SAP Industry Solutions including Retail, Manufacturing, Chemical, and Medical Equipment Manufacturing industries.
• Excellent communication, leadership and interpersonal skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business requirement definition, Functional and Technical design, development and code reviews, managing transports for the projects, unit, functional and performance testing of objects, go-live cutover and post-go-live support. Involved in trouble shooting and resolving complex issues during the entire process. Also part of the production support team in CRM & SCM.
• Managed CRM technical projects (as a Project Manager, size upto 150K) from the design phase upto post-go-live support, documentation and ‘project closure’ with emphasis on scope, schedule, budget and quality.

Confidential

SAP Development and Architectural Support

Responsibilities:

• Part of the team involved in establishing coding and documenting standards for R7 development for ECC and BI. Created the BI development standards document and helped improving the previously published standard for ECC.
• Published a 'Performance Enhancement - Solution Paper' for developers to lay down the best practices that should be adopted in various aspects of ABAP development to enhance performance.
• Helped design and implement R7 Defect Quality Assurance Review process. Part of the Release7 code and design review teams.
• Helped create standards for outbound flat file interfaces using the FMS architecture, by helping develop and implement the 'FMS Utility' in ECC. Part of the cutover team in charge of helping implement the FMS utility through go-live. Also part of the cutover team for verifying IDOC (EDI/ALE) partner profile setup for R7 go-live.
• Involved in mentoring junior developers, helping create an inclusive and engaging environment - worked with junior developers on the team on helping them realign their objects as per standards, helping them resolve issues with design or code changes and helping them resolve conflicts in design.
• Involved in resolving upgrade and ‘build’ related issues for ECC and ICH systems. Currently involved in resolving an ICH upgrade related issue where I helped identify the issue and worked with the off-shore lead to resolve the said issue.
• Re-designed and developed a customized solution for the Delivery/Shipment conversion process to resolve a bottleneck during Mock3 for R7. Won the P3 ‘Bravo’ for this effort.
• Designed and developed custom process during R7 - including a process to control SCREEN attributes of custom Customer Master Screens based on ‘maintainable’ custom parameters specific to Confidential .
• Part of the development team working on providing a customized solution for the customer master for R7 requirements.
• Involved in assessing and improving performance of various custom processes and objects (for COE and R7 projects) using standard SAP tools available.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on streamlining and trouble shooting various existing processes in the CRM system, including the TPM screen and other custom developments.
• Worked on middleware (BDOC) between ECC and CRM systems related to creating rebates and sales agreements in the ECC system, and customized them to carry additional Vistex information.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed a custom utility within ICM to transport (migrate) version customized data for different project phases that are being worked on concurrently in the development environment. Helped design the development / unit test / business testing environments and helped basis define the migration paths and processes to integrate this new ‘tool’ in the existing landscape and approval processes.
• This is the first time such a ‘transport utility’ has been created for ‘versioned based customizing’ and this design is now being pitched to SAP to integrate this as a part of their standard FS-ICM product.
• Lead a team of developers coordinating with the Basis and Security teams to design, develop and test to implement this new ‘tool’ in the existing development landscape.
• Involved in the technical design and development effort to load ‘DSP relationships’ into the SAP ICM system from legacy.
• Worked on modifying the contract creation process, modifying contract screens as per custom business requirements and adding agreements to the contracts for specific requirements within the ICM module.
• Worked as a senior ABAP developer and technical (ABAP) consultant in the ICM module of SAP.

Confidential

SAP Tech Consultant / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the development of new and modification of various SD and FI related SAPScripts and Smartforms.
• Worked on switching on and coding enhancement points to derive stored custom data coming in through the sales order. These were displayed on the Smartforms being created and sent to the customer for tracking purposes.
• Worked on a module pool programs (transactional/ screen development) and various reports.

Confidential

SAP Tech Consultant / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the blueprint, design and implementation of integrating an SAP system of a newly acquired company with an existing CICS application thru EDI and flat file interfaces.
• Involved in setting up EDI IDOCs for outbound 944, 947 and inbound 940 (mapped to inbound 850), including setting up partner profile, process codes etc., and creating custom function modules for those outputs for which no standard SAP function modules existed.

Confidential

SAP Sr. ABAP Developer / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a lead CRM developer, involved in an integration effort of the TPM module in CRM with a custom SAP product ‘Vistex’ for handling bill-backs and charge-backs from and to distributors based on the business process of the client.
• Extended CRM Marketing Planner screens (for Trade Promotions only) to add custom fields.
• Used ‘Settypes’ to add a custom control to the additional data tab to the above transaction. This control consisted of multiple screens and the screen flow depended on the Contract type and template of the standard CRM ‘Trade Promotions’ contract. The entries created there were saved in custom data base tables which were later used to generate pricing conditions, using standard BADI.
• Used BADI’s to generate contract numbers for new contract, validated combination of values for fields on the spends lines, manipulated conditions being generated from the Spends data, modified conditions generated to populate custom fields for product hierarchy to be passed to ECC, validated and allowed the passage of several custom fields thru the conditions generated to ECC via middleware.
• Applied various OSS notes in both ECC and CRM systems.
• Created custom function modules to map the conditions coming in from CRM thru middleware (via BDocs) thru custom function modules. Custom configuration mapping tables were developed to drive this logic.
• Worked in post go live stabilization and production support team including answering calls from users, creating support tickets and handling production support tickets assigned to me.
• Worked as a lead coordinating the development in CRM with other developers on site and off-shore. Was involved in trouble shooting and unit testing objects developed by others in the team.

Confidential

SAP ABAP Consultant / Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as one of the two team leads coordinating the development efforts on an integration project, integrating SAP systems from 3 newly acquired companies into the current system. Work involved moving over/ modifying / creating new SAPScript forms, data load programs, modifying and creating new reports (both ALV and classical) and IDOC interfaces.
• Worked on EDI IDOC interfaces both to and from the SAP R/3 system to an external partner.
• Worked on data load programs, interfaces (using flat files), SAPScript and SmartForms.
• Worked on production support tickets to support the existing SAP system.
• Applied OSS notes to the system.

Confidential

SAP Sr. ABAP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as one of the leads coordinating off-shore development work for objects designed on-site.
• Designed and developed a custom interface for creating sales order using BAPI’s, for data coming in from the legacy system (ONEPlus) on a real time basis using a customized IDOC interface (populated by Xi).
• Created an inbound interface in CRM, to a web based emailer site.
• Worked on numerous outbound and inbound flat file interfaces (creating sales orders, debit memo request, credit memo request, rebates, etc).
• Designed and developed customized processes to handle Invoice List Summarization based on customization.
• Developed customized transactions: to hold and release sales orders from Billing Blocks for given set of conditions, to charge back customers for ‘exclusive’ materials for which the volume per billing period fell below a threshold volume.
• Created Utility to calculate value of certain discounted/free of charge items per customer, for a fixed duration of time.
• Developed numerous RFC function modules to retrieve data to and from CRM & R/3 environments.
• Worked on a reorder flat file interface on R/3 that recreated an order based on the information from the last order created for a particular end customer (held in custom tables) in R/3. The interface also had the image of the reorder form. After the reorder was created, this image was attached to the Sales Order. The information was sent to SAP in two separate files (one with order information and one with the image file). A custom application was developed in CRM to allow the ‘Sales Agents’ to view those image files for which the end customer data was erroneous or which did not have a customer order history in the system. It would also allow the agent to manually pull up the order entry screen in R/3 (after correcting the customer data) and then attach the image to the newly created order.
• Worked in numerous pricing related VOFM (Requirement & Formulae) and user exits in Sales, Billing & Pricing.
• Worked on BADIs in CRM environment, specially related to changes in BP & CRMD ORDER transactions.
• Developed and assigned search helps to fields that were added to additional data screens in the sales order transactions.
• Worked on CRM BP, CIC0 and order transactions including modifying screen, etc.
• Worked on screen exits for VA01 transaction.
• Underwent in SAP Xi version 3.0 and CRM Middleware.
• Involved with integration / regression testing for go-live preparation.

Confidential

SAP Sr. ABAP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the AFS and FI modules.
• Worked on production support issues troubleshooting existing programs including modifying and enhancing existing reports and improving their performance.
• Created and tested new Data Transfer and Copy routines (using VOFM transaction) for specific business requirements.
• Designed and created a new program to select open documents for a given G/L account (marketing account) and post these documents to certain expense accounts based on given logic.
• Extensively used performance and run time analysis tools to check and improve performance.

Confidential

SAP Sr. ABAP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a developer in the SD, MM, PP and FI modules of SAP R/3 as a part of an implementation team.
• Wrote a custom utility to validate the master data setup during integration and regression testing phase. This report also had an RFC capability to compare data between different clients.
• Designed and developed various ALV reports with drill down capability to be used during the integration testing and regression testing phase to validate / view various documents that were created, and also developed various customized reports requested by the client.
• Developed a customized multi-screen transaction to pay brokerage on shipment volumes only after invoices for shipments have cleared AR.
• Worked on SAPScripts / Smartforms, data conversion program (including using LSMW) and various flat file interfaces.
• Created a program to create / change Material Reservations from an incoming file was provided in a flat file format.
• Developed a custom program to load Condition Record data for all Rebate Agreements into a custom database table. Set up the BW Generic Extractor (using T Code: RSO2) to extract data from this table in R/3 to BW.
• Worked on various user exists especially during the creation and update of Sales Documents (Sales Orders, Delivery etc.).
• Developed screen exits to populate new fields created on Material Master and Sales Order extension Screens (MM01 and VA01 transactions).
• Served as a mentor to other developers. Presented a seminar on User-exits/Enhancements in SAP for junior developers.
• Worked on the integration testing team running test scripts. Worked with TestDirector tool to document test runs. Also involved in troubleshooting / resolving problems arising during integration testing.

Confidential

SAP ABAP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Technical specification for the various flat file outbound interfaces from SAP to Manugistics.
• Designed and developed customized IDOC interfaces where flat files were picked up from a given directory and processed to upload data.
• Worked on enhancements for various inbound EDI IDOCs.
• Coordinated development efforts with the off-shore development team by gathering requirements from the functional team and the end-users and passing on technical requirements to the off-shore team. Also responsible for trouble-shooting and act as a go between the functional team/end-users and the technical development team.

Confidential

SAP ABAP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a developer working on the SD, MM, PP and FI modules of SAP R/3 as a part of an implementation team. Created technical spec from given functional specs before coding. Also involved in the function spec creation process and discussions with the business user in defining the technical requirements for specific objects.
• Created a custom program for output determination for order confirmation for the Sales representatives and broker. This program was customized to pull out the relevant output type (EDI, Print, Fax and Email) for each ‘ZS’ partner (from the output condition record, VV12, or customer master record). The output was issued as per the output type given in the record.
• Used a user exit to populate the output structure with correct line items for an EDI output.
• Worked extensively on SAPScript and Smartforms.
• Developed a custom program to check the Bill Tos with unsatisfactory credit and hence needed to be put on hold. SAP offered credit checks at a Payer level and an unsatisfactory performance by one Bill To in that Payer group affected the whole group. This custom program was designed to overcome that problem with Sales Order belonging only to a specific Bill To being put on hold.
• Wrote various flat file interfaces and data load programs.
• Wrote conversion programs for populating various fields on the customer master screens, for various partner types, as a part of the customer master conversion project.
• Involved in configuring and testing various EDI IDOCS. Worked on numerous user-exits to create populated elements on existing segments, to populate custom segments for outbound IDocs and created custom functions for inbound IDocs.
• This implementation used ASAP methodology.

Confidential

SAP ABAP Developer/Analyst (4.5B)

Responsibilities:

• Created BAPI-wrapper to validate and populate data into a standard functional module - "Pricing" to check price of products. Used for Internet applications (E-commerce interface), the wrapper would process the data received from the external system, validate it and convert it to SAP data. Also, populated "PRICING" function module to return the price of the requested materials.
• A second BAPI wrapper was created to validate, convert and populate data into standard SAP BAPI to create sales order from XML messages coming into it.
• These BAPI wrappers were used for E-commerce sales order requests being received from the Health exchanges web-interface.
• Used user exits to modify outgoing IDOCS to the XML interface for Sales Order Confirmation messages.
• Developed a custom utility to store and display e-commerce messages (incoming & outgoing) within SAP to provide greater visibility into the data flow.

Confidential

SAP ABAP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a developer in the MM, PP, and SD modules of SAP. Created technical specs from the functional document given after discussions with business users and functional analysts.
• Worked extensively SAPScript, creating new forms and modifying existing ones.
• Worked on screen-exits in material master addition fields screen.
• Created a program to print Reservation Slips for PS, MM-IM and PM. While printing the Reservation Slips, this program also posted the goods movement.
• Created custom program to create Purchase Order from Requisitions for all non-Material Master managed materials.
• Worked on ALV reports, BDC interfaces and data load programs in the PP and MM modules, including “dwell time from Requisitions to PO's”, Diversity report for vendors, Contract based PO under process, Emergency Purchase Req. report, Shipping Schedule for AR report etc.

Confidential

SAP ABAP/4 Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on various SAPScript forms including: Transfer Order and Replenishment Transfer Order, Shipping Labels, Putaway Labels and Tags, Picking and Packing Slip.
• Worked in the MM and PP modules of SAP as an ABAP developer.
• Developed various SAPScript forms in the MM and PP modules including: Transfer Order and Replenishment Transfer Order, Shipping Labels, Putaway Labels and Tags, Picking and Packing Slip.
• Wrote various custom data upload programs for the given requirements.

Confidential

SAP Technical Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in ABAP/4 development and SAP customization.
• Extensively used Report Writer, ABAP/4 Query, Screen Painter, Menu Painter, Function library, Report Painter and other workbench organizational tools for ABAP/4 Coding.
• Designed dialogues, created menus and assessed predefined database applications.
• Worked on SQL databases creating queries and working on it using PLSQL.

Confidential

Production Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Project to optimize and increase productivity by over 30% through a more efficient assembly line and material flow.
• Worked on SQL Server maintaining databases