SUMMARY

An accomplished and results-driven information technology manager and SAP consultant, with extensive experience in implementation, data migration, system development and architecture, project management, interface programs, customer interaction, and code optimization. Leverages exceptional organizational and follow-through skills and an emphasis on details to introduce dynamic technical solutions to operational issues. An innovative performer, who builds solid teams that deliver top-level projects within time and budgetary constraints. Collaborates with internal and external parties to ensure the cohesion of goals, secure corporate visions, and propel global technology interactions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Modules: Finance (FI), Controlling (CO), Treasury (TR), Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), Sales and Distribution (SD), Service Management (SM), Plant Maintenance (PM), Quality Management (QM), Collections and Disbursement (FS-CD), DIMP (Metals ECC 6.0)

Development: SAP R/3, ABAP/4, Workbench, BDC, LSMW, User Exits, ALE, IDOC, RFC, BAPI, ALV, SAP Script, Smart Forms, Jet Forms, Screen Painter, Report Writer, SAP CRM, LAM, Object-Oriented ABAP, CRM Classes and Methods, Web Services, Work Flow

EXPERIENCE

Confidential,

Information Technology Analyst and Senior Developer 2007-2012

• Worked on various ongoing projects, cycles of improvements, and enhancements, using various ABAP technologies such as SAP Scripts, Smartforms, Work Flow, Web Services BDC, Reports, and Note Implementation to achieve business objectives.
• Leveraged domain knowledge covering FI/CO, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, and Service Management modules.
• Assisted the support team with knowledge transfer of all project development.
• Analyzed global business processes and procedures.
• Collected business requirements and translated requirements into technical specifications.
• Tested SAP technology processes, troubleshooting software or business problems.
• Participated in SAP project rollouts and enhancements as technical lead.
• Used SAP development technologies to perform custom code reviews, analyzing the impact of proposed technical solutions.
• Led all phases of systems development, from analysis through implementation, production support, and project planning.

Solutions Consulting (for Companies Listed Below) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2002 -2007

Confidential,

Senior Analyst for Techno-Functional and Senior ABAP/4 Developer 2007

• Oversaw a new implementation of the SAP metals solution.
• Maintained involvement in data conversion from a legacy BAI system to SAP for material master, bills of material, inventory, routings, customer master, and vendor master.
• Worked on interface for porting employee payroll particulars from ADP into an SAP general ledger document.
• Designed and developed shop-floor documents, including order confirmation, delivery note, picking ticket, quote, invoice, purchase order, check, customer statement, goods receipt, and goods issue slips, using Smartform technology.
• Confidential,

Baltimore, Maryland

Techno-Functional Senior Analyst and Senior ABAP/4 Developer 2006-2007

• Streamlined supply chain activities in distribution centers for inventory and sales activities.
• Developed inbound interface for creating purchase orders in SAP.
• Enhanced vendor master for a BADI screen to update the custom table.
• Worked on Smartform for printing purchase orders.
• Created a report to verify customers’ sales orders for minimum order requirements and automatically create or release a delivery “block for sales” order.

Confidential,

Techno-Functional Senior Analyst and Senior ABAP/4 Developer 2004-2006

• Incorporated a transport management module in SAP as a subset to sales and distribution activities.
• Formulated new routed SNF transportation zones.
• Completed a custom transaction to handle variants, enabling the pickup of deliveries for the shipment route.
• Configured batch jobs to run and pick open orders for the assignment of routes, delivery schedules, and transportation details.
• Used LSMW for the data conversion for ship-to customers. Utilized user-exit for order processing to handle listings and exclusions for order types dealing with consignments.
• Developed an order status report in ALV format and configured new output types in IMG to handle client-specific requirements.
• Created and configured legal forms related to bills of lading, delivery, order confirmation, and purchase order in IMG.
• Activated inbound IDOCs for schedule agreements and sales orders of IDOC delineations and orders, respectively.
• Applied OSS notes to correct problems occurring during the transaction run of FB08.

Confidential,

Techno-Functional Senior Analyst and Senior ABAP/4 Developer 2002-2006

• Led a team of four to effectively migrate and integrate the acquisition of Novametrix and Children\'s Ventures.
• Handled data migration, using LSMW for material master and sales order transactions.
• Created a Web interface for ITS involving portal Web order creation. Developed quality management reports for listing out service orders with notifications and details of materials.
• Implemented a project to convert existing layouts and print programs of all Jet Forms into the Smartforms and Sleeplab database, allowing Internet access by the sales force across the country.
• Completed an upgrade project to SAP R/3 4.7 (enterprise version) from 4.6C and analyzed layout designs and accompanying logic available in Jet Forms, SAP Scripts, and print programs.
• Converted numerous programs, including invoice, credit memo, debit memo, rental invoice, delivery note and packing slip, commercial invoice, picking list, quotation, manifest, order confirmation, and e-commerce receipt.
• Integrated internet access via ColdFusion for the Sleeplab database project and generated reports.
• Managed go-live issues, tuning performance in sales order creation and making report changes and enhancement changes related to inbound or outbound IDOC processing from the GENTRAN EDI subsystem at the client’s place.
• Worked on IDOCs for sales order receipt and confirmation. Developed interface in order to enter the sales order from WEB to SAP through BAPI in VB 5.0.
• Completed a data-migration project to integrate an acquisition into the existing SAP system for finance, costing, materials, inventory, service management, production planning, and sales and distribution.
• Designed BDC call transaction programs to load data into SAP for material, purchase order, inventory, equipment, and pricing data. Collaborated with an off-shore team of four during data migration for program testing and final delivery.
• Modified sniper programs to correct data issues and change fields on SAP transaction screens. Provided “alternate unit of measure” user exit and related development in SAP.
• Created a data migration reconciliation report, extract programs, cross-reference programs, and tables. Assisted in a dry-run, an actual cutover process, and a reconciliation process.
• Generated reports for automatic reconciliation of all cash and general ledger accounts for profit centers, extracting data from general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivables, fixed-asset management, and funds management modules.
• Supplied on-site SAP production support for two months after go-live, creating and changing reports and correcting SAP copy programs for new functionalities.
• Worked on service management tasks to fix a serial-number issue and generated reports to list out related service orders.

Confidential,

Techno-Functional Senior Analyst and Senior ABAP/4 Developer 2005

• Worked on insurance industry-specific implementation for integrating disparate systems into an SAP collections and disbursements solution.
• Maintained involvement in the project from the design stage to the go-live date.
• Handled the creation of first-party and third-party business partner payment plan procedures, running a payment program for printing disbursement checks for insurance claims.
• Coded a new “payment program” to handle specific requirements of company check printing, including business bi-fold, tri-fold, and duplex printing.

Confidential,

Senior Analyst and Senior ABAP/4 Developer 2004

• Transferred data from SAP to external systems through interface programs developed in SAP.
• Worked with interfaces and conversions on a new SAP implementation for sales and distribution, materials management, and finance modules.
• Performed segments mapping and conversion, and defined partner profiles and EDI output types on materials management.
• Used LSMW technology of SAP for data-conversion objects in open sales orders, bank master, vendor master, asset master, and material master, creating condition records for pricing. Worked on ALE, IDOC, and BAPI technologies for interfaces.
• Set up an environment, including a connection to the source system, ALE, and IDOC settings in BW and the source system, with distribution model and partner profiles.
• Troubleshot problems in materials management and sales and distribution functional modules.
• Activated self-billing process through an inbound IDOC available in SAP IS-AUTO, modifying an inbound function module to meet the business requirements of the client.
• Created partner profiles and port definitions to handle communication between the WBI layer and SAP for single-item creation.
• Managed error handling, error notification, and administration of IDOC status.

Confidential,

Analyst and Leasing Specialist 2002-2003

• Implemented product development under SAP CRM for a leasing and asset-management solution.
• Worked extensively on development objects related to end-of-lease activities.
• Constructed report to capture errors for corrective actions during the creation of contracts and offers.
• Used object-oriented ABAP and CRM function modules to create the report.
• Interfaced the program to download all contracts and offers data, including asset, pricing, vendor, customer, invoice, and payment from the CRM system to DB/2.
• Utilized CRM classes and methods to write programs.
• Developed requests for comments to communicate between systems.
• Created customer-specific data elements, domains, and structures to handle screen and report transactions.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

GATX Technology Services, Tampa, Florida, Senior ABAP/4 Developer, 2000-2002. Implemented SAP R/3 modules and supported Terminations-2 project to optimize the process for a 100% match of lease-returned terminated assets with established criterion. Led a team of four in data migration, reporting, and acquisition integration. Produced reports for contract balance, active and continuing leases, lease origination cost, and fast asset and equipment mass transactions. Created a report for the quality department to validate material for the inspection lot. Executed a full-blown, dry-run rollout plan and migrated the system while maintaining 100% uptime. Wrote an equipment fast-load program, using BAPI to increase data load performance by ten times.
Confidential,
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Senior Programmer and Analyst, 2000. Led SAP implementation and developed product-costing report on profitability analysis and customer accounts and reconciliation statements.
TISCO Iron & Steel, Calcutta, India, Programmer and Analyst, 1999-2000. Rolled-out SAP R/3 finance, materials management, and sales and distribution modules. Developed a debit note program and modified voucher printing.
Reliance Cybertech Private Limited, Hyderabad, India, ABAP/4 Developer and Systems Analyst, 1998-1999. Modified SAP standard layout sets and prints programs. Developed reports for Country India Version per legal requirements. Interfaced program for transferring general ledger account numbers from a legacy system to SAP. Extracted document types to a flat file to provide consolidated reports. Used SAP Script to modify system-defined layout sets, reports, and letter generation.
Confidential,
Systems Analyst and ABAP/4 Developer, 1998.
Confidential,
India, Systems Analyst and ABAP/4 Developer, 1997-1998. Created a new transaction for the automatic clearing of invoice verification. Created a new transaction for the form with issue, print, display, and summary report functionalities. Modified the layout set, reports, and dialog programs and related documentation. Conducted master data migration from legacy to SAP. Developed a new transaction for processing billing documents.

EDUCATION

Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Monroeville, Pennsylvania, M.B.A., 2009

Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, B.S., Engineering, 1989

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SAP Web Service Applications, 2008
SAP Work Flow, 2007
SAP Customer Interaction Center, 2005
SAP Smartforms, 2004