SUMMARY:

• Working with clients to determine project definition, business requirements and budget allocations
• Created project charter, business case and ROI (using IRR and NPV) and obtained project funding approval working with senior management, CIOs and business function heads.
• Providing overall people leadership - Managing a mix of functional and technical resources on SAP projects. Managing client and stakeholder relationships.
• Setting up an appropriate project organization and project governance.
• Engaged cross functional teams (SAP, GTM, Supply Chain, Infrastructure and Compute) for defining and delivery of the solution.
• Used MS project and PPM tools for planning and scheduling and performed resource management, risk management, change management and management of procurement contracts and SOW.
• Performed integrated project management - Tracked and reported schedule variance, cost variance and forecasts. Communicated weekly status updates to project stakeholders and monthly reports to PMO.
• Provided proposal write-ups, effort estimates and delivery strategy on pre sales and solutioning assignments while working in consulting roles. Supported RFP replies for Collex, Confidential, TUAS power, United India Insurance Company, JCB, Timberland, National Environment Agency of Singapore, Ministry of of Singapore, Cadbury Schweppes, and Severn Trent water. Collex, Confidential and TUAS power were successfully converted into project engagements with sizable SAP component.
• Mentored and coached PI, EP and Webdynpro consultants as part of the competency development function of the Netweaver CoE. Facilitated their SAP, SAP and deployment to customer projects-AWS, AIG, JAG, GE NBCU, RA, SAP Labs, Confidential, Merck.
• Was responsible for conceptualizing, technical design and development of the IP/reusable components on Netweaver platform - HALDAX XI adapter and MigrateX methodology. This is a Java adapter developed using JCA architecture.
• Contributed actively to community events, whitepapers, articles, s and project ramp ups as the community lead for the Netweaver Communities of Practice. Contributed to various organisation activities for the GRC CoE like XI interviews, ESOA showcase for Confidential and Powered By NetWeaver for RSA security.
• Worked as the compliance auditor for Powered By NetWeaver of HCL’s distributor portal and Identity and Access management solutions.
• Participated in planning activities like demand management, technical effort estimation and project plan preparation.
• Coordinated with business users, functional and technical teams to identify technical scope for interfaces.
• As the AMEA App Dev lead, executed 2 major projects to upgrade SAP from version 7.1 to version 7.31 for Pepsico East AMEA and West AMEA sectors.
• As part of the Pepsico GTST data center migration, executed 2 major projects to migrate SAP servers from the incumbent provider (HP) to Linux VM based data centers (HCL). Recognised with Pepsico Best of BIS 2014 for the SAP upgrade and data center migration projects.
• Executed HANA database upgrade for Pepsico AMEA sector in 2015 as a test co-ordinator and was responsible for creating regression test plan, getting business signoff on test scripts, transport syncs, system refresh for testing, go-live technical validation, business validation and issue resolution via SAP Active Global Support and SAP Max attention.
• Prepared the business and technical mapping documentation as per the solution requirements.
• Understood the solution requirements and the system landscape for PI and proposed SAP PI based interface design and created PI development processes, PI naming conventions, documentation and coding standards.
• Developed PI ESR and configuration objects, i.e. Data Types, Message Types, Service interface, Message mappings, Operation mapping, collaboration profiles, collaboration agreements and logical routing. Also worked on SLD setup, CTS+ and complex graphical and Java mappings (using NWDS, UDF, global containers, adapter specific attributes, JDBC and SOAP lookups, customized alerts, etc). Recognised with Pepsico Best of BIS 2012 Thailand SAP PIRT implementation project.
• Resolved highly complex performance issues related to IDOCs, JDBC, dialog process by implementing OSS Notes, optimizing SQL statements, reindexing, optimizing ECC and PI parameters, etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP: SAP HANA, SAP Netweaver PI/XI v7.31 including v PO 7.4 and SAP B2B add-on, ABAP, Archiving Information System and PBS, DaRT, Enterprise Portal (using PDK.net and SAP.net connector), SAP Logistics - SD, MM, WM and SAP IS Utilities-UCES

LANGUAGES: ABAP, Java, HiveQL, C#, ASP.net, .net framework 1.1, VB, ATL COM, Win32 API

RDBMS: Hbase, SQL Server 7.0/2000, Oracle 10g, Sybase 6.2 and 9, MS Access

WEB TECHNOLOGIES: SAP Netweaver PDK.net, ASP, ASP.net, SOAP, REST, OData

APPLICATION SERVER: SAP Web Application Server and Microsoft IIS

SCRIPTING: HTML5, XML, XSL, Java Script, VB Script, DHTML, VBA

MIDDLEWARE: SAP PI/XI, Hana Cloud Integration, Hadoop, Microsoft Biz talk sever 2004, COM/DCOM, MTS, MSMQ

TOOLS: SAP NW Developer Studio, SAP Hana developer studio, SAP Rapid data migration, ERWin, Microsoft Visio, Rational Rose, UML, VSS, PVCS, Rational Clear Quest, Crystal Reports and MS Project

DESIGN PATTERNS: MVC, Fa ade, Command, Abstract Factory, Observer, Singleton

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago IL

SAP App dev team lead(PI and ABAP) and technical architect

Responsibilities:

• Participated in business blueprint workshop with Wonderware and Dematic application teams. Provided effort estimates.
• Recommended PI design patterns, naming conventions, usage of PI adapters.
• Designed the usage of PI SOAP, IDOC, JDBC, proxy adapters and defined data structures for interfaces between SAP, Wonderware and Dematic applications.
• Created SLD objects, PI ESR and configuration objects including complex graphical mapping and Java module processor, technical specifications and unit test cases.
• Implemented AFW based alerts for informing business users and support team for AE connection errors and IE mapping errors.
• Performed technical review of offshore PI developers working on the project.
• Reported weekly progress of ABAP and PI development and issues to the PMO.
• Worked with the warehouse team and business users in the Adelaide plant for technical cutover and go-live.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP App dev team lead (PI and ABAP) and technical architect

Responsibilities:

• Participated in business blueprint workshop and provided scope and effort estimates for SAP interfaces, reports, enhancements and forms (PI and ABAP)
• Collaborated with the business and functional team for business blueprint creation and signoff. Created integration specification document.
• Created project plan and task assignments using Microsoft Project
• Recommended PI design patterns and performed technical analysis for reusing the existing PI interfaces for gTMS project. Reusing existing objects brought down the development cost and time by 60%
• Defined integration architecture between SAP and gTMS (project uses IDOC, proxy and JMS adapters), defined PI development framework and created templates for design specs, technical specs and development specs.
• Implemented SLD changes, created PI design and configuration objects in ESR and ID and created complex graphical mappings and Java UDF.
• Performed QA review of PI and ABAP developers working on the project.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP testing manager and Technical architect

Responsibilities:

• Created regression and UAT test plan for SAP PI upgrade and mobilized technical and business testers for testing interfaces.
• Managed transport syncs and planned system refreshes for landscape availabily for testing.
• Performed mock upgrade activities in dev and qa environments. This includes post PI refresh activities, BDLS, partner profile setup, SLD setup and interface reconfiguration for 3rd party systems.
• Performed pre upgrade validation, go-live technical validation and business validation
• Responsible for production TR sync and TR repackaging since Pepsico has a dual track SAP landscape and sustain track transports are synched to the project track for regression testing.
• Implemented critical bug fixes and SAP OSS Notes during and after the upgrade related to strict XSD validation, JDBC thread pool, Queue Parallelism working with SAP Active Global support.
• Recognised with Pepsico Best of BIS 2014 for the SAP upgrade project.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Technical architect SAP HANA

Responsibilities:

• Implementation and administration of ETL based replication for Oracle and HANA Direct Extractor connection for BW
• Used SAP HANA studio modeler for modeling and managing HANA data for mobile field sales generated by Oracle based S&D application.
• Created SQL Scripts, SQL stored procedures, function Calls. Designed tables, data loads and created HANA Views (Attribute, Analytical & Calclated Views) in SAP Lumira for Ipads.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP App dev lead (PI, EDI, EP and ABAP) and technical architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for support and maintenance, hypercare and stabilization of SAP PI for Pepsico East AMEA markets (Australia, New Zealand, China, APAC FOBO) and West AMEA markets (Egypt, Jordan, KSA and Dubai)
• Recommended technical resolution for high priority Severity 1 tickets using OSS notes, configuration and development changes, master data maintenance and parameter tuning in ECC and PI.
• Debugged PI objects and ABAP code while working on break-fix tickets.
• Worked on PI enhancements and PI change requests.
• Ensured SLA adherance for incidents, problems and change requests. Performed release and configuration management.
• Also acted as the CIM (Critical Incident Manager) for critical incidents.
• Communicated SLA and governance metrics to stakeholders and business.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP App dev lead (PI, EDI, EP and ABAP) and technical architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for SAP PIRT global template rollout for Australia, China foods and Thailand as PI architect
• Participated in business blueprint workshop and provided scope and effort estimates for SAP PI objects. 110 PI interfaces were designed, developed and deployed as part of this project.
• Worked on BIS financial AOP plan, created forecast for App dev resources and performed technical review of offshore resources working on the project.
• As PI/EDI lead responsible for RICEF delivery of all PI objects for the project. Performed hand on development of ESR and ID objects, created technical specification and unit test cases, setup of partner profile, ports, RFC destination and SLD changes.
• Handled critical PI CRs, OSS notes, database query optimization and regression testing scenarios
• Worked with SAP global COE and AMEA sector functional teams for complex techno functional issues related to global SAP objects.
• Recognised with Pepsico Best of BIS 2012 for Thailand SAP PIRT implementation project.

Confidential

SAP technical lead (ISU-UCES and Java)

Responsibilities:

• UCES setup and configuration using XCM, IS-U customization
• Responsible for enhancements, implementing break fixes, support and maintenance of UCES.
• Involved in effort estimation, RCA and cross functional support.

Confidential

SAP technical project lead (PI and ABAP)

Responsibilities:

• SAP Technical team lead and service delivery management.
• Implemented PI ESR and configuration objects, complex mappings, UDF, web services, etc. Ensuring that development standards are followed and implemented by the team through code reviews and walkthroughs.
• End to end testing and validation. Responsible for coordinating activities of the offshore team with the onsite team for interface design, effort estimation, build, UAT and signoff.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

SAP technical project lead (PI and ABAP) and technical architect

Responsibilities:

• Confidential runs a vast array of applications over a variety of platforms like mainframes, EDI, Web applications (J2ee and non-J2ee based) and multiple ERP systems (SAP, Peoplesoft and IFS) with the business processes spanning over multiple applications tiers and platforms. Since SAP was not the single system of record due to the heterogeneous IT landscape, the interesting challenge here was to maintain and support XI interfaces running business processes like Order to Cash, Hire to Retire and Procure to Pay over the large and heterogeneous IT landscape.
• Conceptualized and led implementation of the XI interface monitoring solution. The automated interface monitoring solution uses CCMS and Alert Framework and has been extended with customized reports for tracking and reporting errors.
• Carried overall responsible for steady state production support and break fix maintenance for XI interfaces for release 3a, 3b and 4 of the project.
• Provided 24x7 XI production support, monitoring of EDI and XI interfaces, batch jobs, etc

Confidential

SAP App dev lead (PI and ABAP) and technical architect

Responsibilities:

• Defined solution architecture for Extricity to XI migration. Defined the development framework and templates for design specs, technical specs and development specs.
• Creation of XI design specs and development specs. Collaborating with the functional team for technical specs and Confidential ’s business users for UAT signoff.
• Implementing XI design and configuration objects, including complex mappings (using UDF, global containers, adapter specific attributes, JDBC and SOAP lookups, application alerts, etc), multi mapping, XI collaboration profiles, collaboration agreements and logical routing. Designed and developed a J2EE module processor for customizing the JDBC adapter

Confidential

SAP XI senior consultant

Responsibilities:

• Business Case development for PP-PI and requirement gathering and analysis.
• Creation of XI design specs and SOW.
• Research on B2MML and ISA-95 standard for process industries and mapping to the PP-PI-PCS interface.
• Creating the XI technical mapping documentation.
• Mapping the B2MML - PCS interface using SAP XI message mapping.
• Configuring the XI collaboration profiles, collaboration agreements and logical routing as part of the integration scenario development.
• Testing the B2MML - PCS XI business content.

Confidential

SAP XI consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creating the XI integration model and solution design.
• Creating the XI technical mapping documentation.
• Creating the XI development objects for mappings using message mapping.
• Configuring the XI collaboration profiles and logical routing as part of the integration scenario for vendor creation.
• Installing and administrating the JDBC drivers for SQL adapter in XI Server.
• Providing support to the Basis team for upgrading of XI landscape from SP 9 to SP 13.

Confidential

SAP XI consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creating the XI technical mapping documentation.
• Configuring RFC adapter in XI to transport Order data to and from SAP R/3.
• Creating the XI development objects for mappings using message mapping and XSLT for http request.
• Configuring the XI integration scenario and the Integration directory objects.

Confidential

Microsoft Biztalk and .net Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualizing of the solution for the SAP Netweaver platform.
• Involved in requirement definition, analysis, design and delivery of the solution.
• Database design and creation of Z-tables in SAP.
• Implemented custom RFCs for CrUD functionality using ABAP.
• Implemented the agent web (esurance) using PDK.net, SAP .net connector 2.0 and ASP.net
• Demonstration and showcasing of the solution.
• Mentoring and hand holding of team members.

Confidential

Microsoft Biztalk and .net Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis, solution design and development of the DIPS application.
• Requirement analysis, solution design and development of the data download/upload modules.
• Creation and deployment of the Microsoft BizTalk server 2004 orchestrations.
• Implemented the database optimization and indexing policies for the Activeplaces database.
• Designed a reusable application framework for medium/large dot net applications and submitted it to the CMM asset library of the organization. The Data exchange platform and Data download/upload modules were developed using this application framework.
• Additionally, was nominated as an SQA for the Confidential project to ensure compliance with CMM L5 processes.

Confidential

Development lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement analysis, design and implementation of the quoting engine and the claims module.
• Maintenance and debugging of the other modules (policies, quotes, etc) in coordination with the Brit QA team.
• Created use cases, sequence diagram and documentation of business rules and test cases.

Confidential

Development lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design and development of the CRM and telephony modules. Tools used - Visual Studio.net, C#, ADO.net, web services, VB 6.0 for ActiveX control development, TAPI 2.0, VRS API and SQL Server 2000.
• Indexing and other optimization techniques implemented, archival module and maintenance schedules for transactional data setup and external reporting on billing, performance for the client undertaken. Used SQL profiler for performance analysis of stored procedures and other SQL modules.
• Served as a point of contact for the development team on requirement analysis, change management and implementation.
• Mentoring of team members and code reviews.
• Involved in coding, unit level testing and integration testing.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Migration of application to Oracle RDBMS.
• Development of reports using Crystal Reports 8.0

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coding, implementation and delivery of ISS for Confidential - Confidential across multiple Confidential locations and development of the ‘settlement and accounting package’ for ISS using VB 6.0, MS Access and MSMQ.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Development and maintenance of the Discover cards agent Hit Screen and the DMS application
• Development and maintenance of the BT Collections and Dell Parts Dispatch applications.
• Development of Data layer/SQL stored procedures for the CapitalOne agent Hit Screen and the C1MS application
• Setting up Concerto dialer application, initializing campaigns and general maintenance of the dialer system and it’s databases.
• System documentation, Preparation of bug reports, issue logs, etc.
• Imparting to the users and the support team.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Development of the SDR application and the business logic implementation. Tools used are - Visual basic 6.0, SQLSombrero32 Direct DB-Library, Sybase and SQL Server 7.0.
• Development of the UniConsole, GDM and GCM applications. Tools used - Visual basic 6.0, DAPI SDK and SQL Server 7.0.
• Design and development of the Web Console. Tools used - ASP, SQL Server 7.0, MTS
• Maintenance and enhancements to the workgroup monitor application. Visual basic 6.0, DAPI SDK, SQL Server 7.0.
• Data upload modules for CDR and ECHI applications developed using VB 6.0, Winet API and SQL server. Plus, reporting module for the CDR application.
• Preparation of test cases and white box testing for the entire application suite. Preparation of bug reports, issue logs and implementation of ISO:9001 quality guidelines.
• Imparting to the support team for implementation and troubleshooting and giving demos to the end users. s attended: Definity CMS user, ISO:9001 quality practices.