SUMMARY

• Over sixteen years of experience in the development and management of business and financial applications in the ERP and Client/Server environment.
• Over fourteen years of experience in implementation and support of SAP R/3 and ECC 6.0. Extensive experience working in IS-Retail, FI, MM, SD, HR, SRM, PP, QM and AFS modules.
• Managed large scale SAP global implementations and lead teams to successful, on-time and on-budget implementations. Experienced in project preparation activities including budget estimates, resource analysis, team assembly, project planning and SAP methodologies.
• Extensive experience in large corporations in industries such as Retail, Consumer Products, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing and Travel.
• Expertise in Interfaces, Conversions, Reports, ABAP Objects, ALE, EDI, IDOC, BAPI, BADI, SmartForms, Workflow, LSMW and Enhancements.
• Extensive experience using Process Integration(SAP PI/XI) to develop EDI and non-EDI interfaces utilizing conversion agent
• Extensive experience working in SAP BI. Worked on extractors, data modeling, administration workbench, business content, DTP and business explorer.
• Led the technical team on interface, conversion and reporting efforts on multiple SAP projects.
• Experience in Basis administration, customizing, SolMan and Enterprise Portal.

EXPERIENCE

Confidential,USA Jan 11 - Present
SAP Manager

Project: Confidential, New York, USA

• Led the error handling initiative at Ralph Lauren for SAP AFS implementation.
• Developed use case scenarios for 20 critical interfaces in PTP, OTC and RTR areas. Analyzed and improved error handling process in ECC and PI streams.
• Architected an IDOC analyzer tool to provide enhanced error handling capabilities to business users and improve operational aspects of interfaces.
• Developed baseline ALD for standard and custom SAP error handling.

Project: Confidential,PA, USA

• Pfizer is embarking on a strategic program for divesture of Animal Health business. As an ERP Project Manager, provided project management and leadership to ERP workstream.
• Managed program to convert data from SAP to Oracle/SUN/Computran systems.
• Worked with business leads to establish IBA requirements and managed the setup of relevant processes in SAP and Oracle/SUN systems to enable interim business requirements between old Pfizer entities and new Legal entities.
• Managed the alignment of SAP activities in Pfizer environment based upon new principal supply point strategy for Animal health legal entity.

Project: Confidential,New York, USA

• Led the technical team on global SAP implementation project for renowned fashion retail company, Polo Ralph Lauren. Worked as technical manager responsible for overall design, development and support of large scale global SAP environment implementing Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Record to Report, Netweaver (PI, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portal) in AFS environment.
• Responsible for selection of tools/ systems for successful execution of project. Responsible for setting up development standards and ensuring development as per established standards and test criteria. Led the global development team managing both onshore and offshore resources to ensure successful delivery of development objects as per schedule and budget.
• Worked with business units to identify goals, success criteria, assumptions, risks, and known issues with the project. Coordinated planning activities (business requirements, risk assessment, target date) and developed staffing plans and assigned tasks to staff ensuring tasks are executed as per schedule.
• Monitored budget and cost for projects, managed changes (scope, schedule, costs) to the plans and ensured adherence to established quality standards.
• Managed client expectations through frequent interaction at all levels of Polo management and through frequent and personal communication to key client stakeholders
• Responsible for tracking and escalating issues, managing delivery, documentation and support and providing technical expertise and guidance.
• Responsible for managing RICEFW list and oversight of development activities to ensure uniformity in development and increased usage of standard/global objects.
• Responsible for establishing SAP EDI architecture for design and development of 12 EDI processes.
• Responsible for developing integration architecture document depicting different integration scenarios and decision tree for selection of integration methodology. Some of the critical systems integrated with SAP are PKMS, Logility, Genpact, TrustedLink, GFE, Island Pacific, JDA etc.

Confidential,USA Aug 10 - Jan 11
SAP Manager

Project: Confidential, Morgan Hill, CA

• Led the technical team on design and development of EDI efforts as a part of SAP AFS implementation project at Foxhead. Architected the solution for EDI 850, 856, 810 and 832.
• Led the team on design and development of RICEFW objects to meet project deadlines. Led the data conversion efforts to convert data from legacy system to SAP using LSMW.
• Designed and developed the interfaces from SAP to B2B, B2C and HighJump warehouse systems using IDOCs, BAPIs and Proxies.
• Worked on gathering the requirements and writing specs for Reports, enhancements and conversions for development performed by offshore team. .

SAP ECC 6.0, SAP PI 7.1, Softshare

Confidential,Bentonville, AR May 09 - Jul 10
Technical Expert / Project Manager

• Responsible for technical leadership in setting up global COE for implementation and support of SAP projects at Wal-Mart. SAP system consists of FI-CO, AA, PS, MM and Real Estate.
• Led the technical team to optimize application development for UK and North America projects. Led the design and development of objects in deferred development list for FI and MM modules. Managed the development of ECC and PI objects for release 2.1.
• Responsible for setting up and execution of project plan for development team. Responsible for meeting project deadlines and SLAs with clients. Responsible for setting up change control processes and escalation procedures.
• Managed multiple releases for GCSC team and coordinated activities between development, configuration, QA/Test, Business and Basis teams to ensure successful releases.
• Research, identify, test, certify, and select technology products required for solution delivery.
• Led the Technical Advisory Group to establish and implement technology migration strategies and provided technical oversight across an IT portfolio.
• Synchronized efforts from SAP to Wal-Mart Infrastructure teams to resolve issues related to performance bottlenecks in SAP applications.
• Set up plan to transition support activities from implementation team to support team. Established SLA agreement with technology vendors.
• Key responsibilities included overseeing the development, design, technology integration and interacting with the business team from definition phase through implementation and rollouts.
• Worked with IS managers, business analysts, project managers, and developers to refine application requirements, design, and testing and deployment documents to ensure that projects are designed and implemented using Software Development Lifecycle best practices.
• Developed the conversion strategy for loading master data and transactional data from multiple legacy systems into ECC and MDM. Some of the conversion tools used are LSMW, IDOCs, BAPI, BDCs and direct input methods.

SAP ECC 6.0, SAP PI 7.0, SAP BI 7.0, SolMan 4.0, Clarity

Confidential,USA Sep 06 – Apr 09
SAP Manager

Project: HMSHost Corporation, Bethesda, MD

• Led the technical team on SAP Retail implementation at HMSHost starting from blueprint phase till production support. Responsible for gathering requirements, gap analysis and designing technical objects to meet business needs. Led the technical team on interface, conversion and reporting efforts.
• Responsible for devising and deploying data conversion strategy. Led the team on development of conversion programs to load legacy data into SAP for MM, FI, SD and IM areas.
• Led the development of interfaces between SAP and PeopleSoft, outside vendors and POS systems. All the interfaces were developed using SAP XI using IDOC, File and BAPI adapters. Conversion agent was used to do the mapping from ANSI X12 format to EDI XML.
• Researched and utilized SAP delivered business content. Leveraged and enhanced content when required to meet client needs using custom InfoObjects, InfoCubes, DSO objects and multi-providers in MM and FI areas.
• Led the technical team in development of Reports in ERP as well as in BW. Worked extensively on improving performance of reports and interfaces. Published BW reports and ERP custom transactions on Enterprise Portal.
• Assisted the client to manage and improve hosting activities handled by SAP America hosting center. Involved in designing strategy for user management and transport activities. Involved in designing and implementing the archiving strategy, disaster recovery plans.

SAP ECC 6.0, SAP XI 7.0, SAP BI 7.0, EP 6.0, Conversion Agent, SolMan 4.0

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering

SKILLS

• ERP: SAP R/3 3.0F to ECC 6.0
• Languages: ABAP/4, JAVA, C, PL/SQL
• Data Warehouse: SAP BW 3.1 to BI 7.0
• SAP Netweaver and EAI tools: PI 7.0, Conversion agent
• Internet Technologies: JAVA, ASP, JavaScript, and HTML
• Operating Systems: WINDOWS 95/NT, VAX/VMS, UNIX, SUN OS
• RDBMS: ORACLE 7.X, DB2

TRAINING
Project Management 101
Project Management 201
Value Driven Program Management
SAP BW 305
SAP BW 310
SAP MDM
SAP MM
Supplier Relationship Management