Profile Summary

• SAP Certified Consultant with 10+ years of SAP onsite work experience in Germany, New Zealand, Singapore, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Bangladesh, and the United States.
• Done 10 full cycle implementation (from requirements gathering through post go-live support), 4 Enhancement & support projects, 2 Roll outs, 1 Upgrade project, 1 Global Template, 1 SAP Business All-in-One solution, and various other types of projects using ASAP methodology and Solution Manager.
• “Big Five” Consulting skills – worked on SAP, Cap Gemini, IBM, Deloitte, Accenture Projects.
• Also have seven years of professional experience in Project Management and Planning in Bahrain, Dubai, India and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Engineering, Pharma, Petrochemicals, Cement, Oil & Gas
• Have vast working knowledge in SAP Product Life cycle Management (PLM) and Supply Chain Management.
• Very good in Professionalism, Communication, Attitude, Customer facing consulting role and Team Player.

• Implemented and supported SAP PS from version 3.1H through ECC 6.0 – Done 7 projects in the US
• Strong knowledge in PLM business processes and expert in Telco, Pharma & Life Science, and Service Industry business practice. Very strong work experience in PS – Logistics and Project Accounting, IM & AM
• Configured and implemented WBS structures, Cost & Revenue Planning, Resource Planning, Budgeting, Scheduling, Versions, Confirmations, Materials, Progress Analysis, Milestone Trend Analysis, Results Analysis, Settlements, PIS, Investment Profiles and Appropriation Requests, CATS, DIP Profiles for quote and RRB
• Integration of PS with FICO, SD, MM, PM, CS, HR, AM, IM, RE, COPA. Also done projects in cProjects, xRPM, CATS and DMS. Have basic knowledge in ABAP and can do debugging.
• Expertise in broad-spectrum Controlling functionality, CO-PC (Product Costing), EC-PCA (Profit Center Accounting), CO-CCA (Cost Center Accounting) CO-CEA (Cost Element Accounting) and CO-Internal Order , FI-AA (Asset Accounting), Investment management and Funds Management
• Transactional experience with GL, AP, AR, Jounal Entries, Credit Mgmt, FI Invoicing, CO Distribution.
• Implemented SAP for various industries like Aerospace(Rolls Royce), Engineering(Siemens), Telecom(Confidential, Maxis, Aktel), Pharma & life Science(Abbott, Medimmune), Retailing(Mondial), Hi-Tech(Infineon), Publishers & Stationary(Popular), Utility(Delta Utility), Paper and Pulp(April), Automotive(Eicher Motors), FMCG (CavinKare), Petrochemical and Oil(Safety Kleen), Public sector ( CONFIDENTIAL-Colorado Department of Transportation ), Service (RSA Securities)
• Expert in Project Scope & System Study, Business Blue Print & Gap Analysis, Configuring SAP, Unit testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, designing custom solutions and interfaces with SAP, Functional spec preparation, Authorization Matrix, Data migration and end users trainings.
• Designed and Implemented various scenarios in Project Systems (PS) like Engineer to order with milestone billing, CAPEX Project with Assets, Expense project, Time and Material with RRB & Resource Planning, PMPS, Projects with Easy Cost Planning & Sales Pricing, Projects with Grants & Funds Management, Integrated Cost Planning, Project based Production process, Consulting project using cProjects, R&D Project with xRPM.

Employment Summary

Currently working as a Senior Consultant for Confidential, since September 2007

Freelance (Independent) Consultant from April 2006 to April 2007

Company - Confidential

Designation - Senior Consultant

Duration - September 2003 to April 2006

Company - Confidential

Designation - SAP Consultant

Duration - January 2002 to September 2003

Company - Confidential

Designation - SAP Consultant

Confidential Professional Services Implementation Project

Client -Confidential

Location -Boston, MA

Environment -SAP 4.7

Period -September 2009 to Till Date

Company -Confidential

Role - Principal Consultant

Confidential - the security division of EMC is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration. Confidential offers industry-leading solutions in identity assurance & access control, encryption & key management, compliance & security information management and fraud protection. Confidential’s well known product includes SecurID authentication token, BSAFE Cryptography. To manage these services done by Professional Services Group, Project system module has been implemented with Resource planning integrated with HR and CATS

Full lifecycle Implementation

• Customer Project for Services with Milestone Billing and RRB
• Maintenance Contract Projects with Time based Revenue Recognition
• Sales of Services with VSOE
• Responsible for Project systems, Sales and Distribution, HR and CATS Modules.
• Organized meetings with stake holders and Conducted white board sessions for Blueprint sessions
• Gathered requirements, designed solutions to fit Professional services group and showed Demo to the Customer
• Created various process flow diagrams in Visio depicting all the needs of the business and created blueprint doc.
• Designed and Configured DIP profile for creation of quotation from project using DP81 with sales pricing.
• Designed and Configured DIP profile for creating billing request using DP91 for Resource Related Billing(RRB)
• Designed and configured qualification catalog, Requirement profiles in HR and Workforce Planning Profile in PS
• Personnel assignments to network activities from HR work center and also from HR module.
• Splitting and allocation of resources using transaction CMP2/CMP3 and distribution of work
• Profile match up based on qualifications of persons & Requirement profile in Network and generate ranking list.
• VSOE (Vendor Specific Object Evidence) for calculating fair price of services in sales quotation
• Designed and configured Time based revenue recognition in SD for projects with maintenance contracts.
• Configured quantity based RA with POC method for calculating Revenue based on actual hours.
• Designed layout for Statistical Key figure (SKF) planning and screen variants for posting actual SKF
• Configured settlement rule strategy for automatic settlement rule creation
• Mentor Change Management team for people readiness
• Written Unit test scripts for Project system and Integration test scripts for 17 business scenarios.
• Draw out test plans and tested for all the scenarios happen in day to day business.
• Hands on Training conducted for “Train the Trainer” and walk thru with the business core team
• Organized and facilitated User Acceptance Testing.

Confidential Project

Client - Confidential

Location - Washington DC

Environment - SAP ECC 5.0

Period - May 2009 to August 2009

Company - Confidential

Role - Senior SAP Consultant

Confidential is a Pharma company which strives to provide better medicines to patients. Dedicated to advancing science and medicine to help people live better lives. The scope of the project is to implement Project system Module along with Asset Management.

Full Lifecycle Implementation

• IT Project, Capital Project, R&D Project and Government Project
• Responsible for only FRICE objects and project reports.
• Gathering information from the Gap analysis report and Blueprint reports for functional specs
• Prepared functional specs for all the Abap objects
• Written conceptual documents and functional specs for all Interfaces for SAP Inbound and Outbound
• Coordinated with ABAPers for development of interfaces and enhancements and testing of the same
• Configured integrated planning with cost center accounting so that business can plan at sender cost center level.
• Integrated PS with Cost center accounting (CO-CCA) and Profit center Accounting (CO-PCA)
• Configured statistical WBS and statistical posting to WBS and also statistical loop postings to Cost center
• Plan/actual Cost flow within projects and reconciliation with finance reports.
• Cost Element reports creation using Report painter.
• Created LSMW for fixed asset upload.

Confidential Project

Client - Confidential

Location - Plano, Texas

Environment - SAP 4.7

Period - August 2008 to March 2009

Company - Confidential

Confidential enables companies to fulfill their green initiatives by pushing beyond recycled thinking to break new ground and create an environment that\'s good for business and the planet. Safety-Kleen invented the parts washer equipment and their product range from a quart bottle of recycled oil to an industrial parts cleaner weighing hundreds of pounds. In a thousand work sites, crews and technicians perform hundreds of highly specialized environmental services and continue to refine. To manage those sites and services, Safety-Kleen implemented the Project Systems (PS) module.

Full Lifecycle Implementation

Customer Projects with Easy Cost Planning, Execution services, Sales Pricing and creation of Sales Quotation from Project.

• Responsible for PS, SD, MM, FICO and Project Management.
• Lead a team of 8 resources (client and consultants) to conclusion of project phase.
• Requirement gathering, Interpreted requirements data, maps current and future state business processes to SAP
• Developed plans to address functional gaps between SAP and the designed business processes.
• Prepared prototype & demo to business users, functional specs for ABAP development objects
• Presented information/data regarding how other companies are using SAP to improve business process.
• Configured Easy cost planning, Execution Services, Sales pricing
• Configured Requirement Class for SD-PS, DIP profile for Sales Quotation
• Configured Network profile, parameters, and types, for network, network activities and activity elements.
• Designed customer Invoices, PO & PR and coordinated with developers for creating the same using Smart forms
• Integrated projects with FI for FI postings, journal entries, Profit center accounting and COPA
• Configured for capacity planning for available capacity, capacity requirements and analysis of the capacity
• Created logistic work centers, HR work center with capacity details and assign person and position
• Configured Revenue based Results Analysis with Profit Realization, settlement profile, Auto Settlement Rule.
• Calculated WIP using Results Analysis and project settlements to COPA
• Set up internal orders in controlling to capture internal costs and expenses.
• Activated Credit management and configured credit management module for customers
• Coordinated with Business Intelligence (BI) team for BI Reporting for finance reconciliation reports and PS reports
• Managed client expectations to ensure client’s satisfaction.
• Made detailed plans for post go-live support like setting up the help desks, communication methodologies to help desk, dividing responsibilities for the junior consultants to different areas of support.

Confidential Project – Entrisphere (EEU)

Client -Confidential

Location - Plano, Texas and Santa Clara, California

Environment - SAP ECC 6.0

Period - January 2008 to July 2008

Company - Confidential

Confidential is shaping the future of Mobile and Broadband Internet communications through its continuous technology leadership. Providing innovative solutions in more than 140 countries, Confidential is helping to create the most powerful communication companies in the world. Confidential has expanded its portfolio with the acquisition of Entrisphere based in Santa Clara, California which provides fiber access technology. The project scope is to roll out Market unit solution (MUS) which is a global template developed for Confidential business and this will enable to bring Entrisphere into Confidential World.

Roll out

• Engineer to Order with Milestone Billing and RRB for Inter Company Billing.
• Sales of Services
• Products Sales with services and warranty
• Responsible for Project systems, Sales and Distribution, Materials Management and Customer Service Modules.
• Training the super users on all logistics modules, Project Incoming orders, Revenue Recognition and Settlement to COPA.
• Lead Business process selection workshops and did process mapping.
• Preparation of Roll out Kits and demand requests.
• Integration testing of the solution and conducted user acceptance testing.
• Testing of Taxware system and Global Trade Services (SAP GTS) module.
• Training the users on SAP transactions to do their day to day business activities
• Transaction experience in journal entries, AP, AR , distribution and assessment cycle process
• Implemented General Service contract, RRB Contract & Warranty Contract
• Implemented Product sales scenario where selling of the hardware with warranty and services included.
• Migration of Open PO, SO, Projects and related data to SAP from Great Plains.
• Assisted key business users in defining any change in the current way of working to and in specifying any localization required.
• Prepared cutover activities for go live and post go live support for 2 weeks.

Confidential– Public Sector

Location -Denver, Colorado

Environment - SAP 4.6C

Period - February 2008 to December 2008

Company - Confidential

Confidential is a public sector company responsible for a 9,161 mile highway system, including 3,775 bridges. CONFIDENTIAL’s vision is to provide the best multi-modal transportation system for Colorado that most effectively moves people, goods, and information.
CONFIDENTIAL\'s highway construction programattracts private contractors and the low bidder is awarded the project and in turn is responsible for construction of thatproject. This partnership between government (CONFIDENTIAL) and business works well as CONFIDENTIAL improve and expand their transportation system. Currently CONFIDENTIAL is using SAP PS module for Grants Management, Construction. The scope of the project is to support the production system and mentor PSAM support Team.

Enhancement and Support - Public Sector

Capital Investment Projects with Funds Management, Grants Management, Budgeting for Public Sector

• GeoMap – SAP Interface to map the GIS information with SAP
• Provided functional specifications for enhancements/ customizations.
• Provided 2nd level production support based on the severity of the tickets.
• Maintained knowledge database in PS and Asset area for supporting “How to” questions.
• Trouble shooting issues in Project systems module and Asset Accounting module.
• Issue Resolution in AM, FICO, MM, SD, Funds Management and Grants Management modules
• Supported various forms for project creation with project characteristics and workflows.
• Structured project based on Construction, Design, Environmental, Right of Way, Utility, 3rd Party Audit, Misc..
• Supported 13 different project types like Engineering Projects, Non-Engineering Project, MLOS Projects with maintenance budget, Property projects,
• Integration between Funds Management and Budgeting in PS.
• Created Excel Template for CJR2 and Issue resolution in Project Budgeting
• Updated Construction Project life cycle document for testing.
• Analyzed, implemented and tested sap notes and support package for production support
• Developed cost flow reports for project system with planned/commitment/actual costs and payments.
• Identifying and supporting continuous improvement of FICO, PS and AM business operations
• Continuously improve the processes and data quality through an active dialogue with support team
• Mentor CONFIDENTIAL’s PSAM support team

Confidential Project

Client - Confidential

Location - Palo Alto. California

Environment -SAP ECC 6.0, cProjects 4.0

Period - September 2007 to January 2008

Company - Confidential

Role - Senior PS/xRPM Consultant

Confidential is a real estate; investment Brokerage Company specialized in manufactured housing, net leased self storage properties. The scope of the project is to re-implement project systems in SAP ECC 6.0. Project systems module was first implemented in SAP 4.7 version without Real Estate module. To implement Flexible Real Estate module in ECC6.0 and xRPM all other modules were re-implemented instead of a technical upgrade. The Project system module is used for site acquisition, construction and lease of the properties. cProjects and xRPM are used for design projects and development projects.

Re – Implementation

Consulting and Development projects using cProjects and xRPM.

• Business process design for cProjects and xRPM
• Integration of cProjects with PS module to allow collaboration of the project.
• Configured cProjects for project types, phase types, checklist types and task types
• Created Master data and templates for cProjects and configured status profile in cProjects
• Configured cProjects for Resource planning and costs planning
• Configured Org Management, Qualification Management, and project roles
• Realization of the solution designed for cProjects and xRPM
• Structured portfolio definitions based on the org and functional point of view
• Initiatives and project services are assigned as Portfolio items to the lower level of the portfolios.
• Configured xRPM for creating cProject projects automatically when the portfolio items, link are created.
• Implemented resource management for capacity requirement and distribution of resources.
• Configure portfolio manager for monitoring dashboards and analyzing portfolio
• Questionnaires and scoring models are done for the projects using xRPM.
• Integration of xRPM with cProjects and Project system module
• Provided ongoing training and knowledge transfer to the key users to enable them to become self-sufficient in the operation of the system and expert enough to train local end users.