Independent Consultant Resume
Moorestown, NJ
SUMMARY:
- Thirteen years SAP consulting experience within the defense, oil and gas, consumer products, Aerospace and Defense and insurance industries spanning various roles. Strengths are in several modules (SD, WM, MM, FI/CO, GPD, HR, PS, PP, QM, PM, IS - OIL-PRA). Programmed in ABAP/4 with in XI, Powerbuilder, Mercator mapping software. Hardware/Software desktop support, network configuration, graphic artist.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Leveraged Packages: SAP R/3 v 3.0f, 4.0b, 4.5a, 4.6a, 4.6b, 4.6c, 4.7, 5.0, ECC 6.0
Languages: ABAP/4, SQL, Powerbuilder, Mercator, Visual Basic
Hardware: PC, Macintosh, RS 6000, AS 400
Operating Systems: MSDOS, Windows 95, 98, Windows 2000, NT 4.0 Server and Workstation
Database Management Systems: Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Access
Application Packages: Access, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Wordperfect, CorelDraw, Trading Partners PC/32
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Independent Consultant
Confidential, Moorestown, NJ
Responsibilities:
- Only SAP ABAP technical consultant on conversion team to SAP.
- Helped members of the Data Services team with how to functionally unit test their data using SAP transactions, tables and performance tuning.
- Responsible for deciding the best method of conversion into SAP whether it is an LSMW using IDOC, direct input, BAPI, BDC or using a custom program.
- LSMW for Data Conversion of Material Master, Material Characteristics, Inspection setup characteristics, equipment master, work centers, warehouse bins, transfer orders
- Loading WIP Production Orders with GPD relevancy.
- Wrote a program to load Production orders with a BDC along with Operations and Components.
- Created several custom programs to update tables.
- Created many custom tables.
- Creating custom IDOC segments and Extending IDOCS.
Independent Consultant
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Responsibilities:
- Only technical consultant for Best Practices conversion from Oracle to SAP
- LSMW for Data Conversion of Chart of Accounts, Vendor Master, Customer Master, Material Master, Open A/R, Open A/P, Open journal entries, Open Purchase Orders, Open Sales Orders
- Set up FI Configuration for printing checks
- Created program for Positive Pay
- Created Checks using SAPSCRIPT
- Debugging, Troubleshooting Conversion Issues
Independent Consultant
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Responsibilities:
- Used Adobe Forms to create a custom Purchase Order Form and complex Billing Form which included a Generic, Flat Fee, Task based, Fixed Fee and Credit Note Templates combined into one. Output varied depending on which template and summarization levels were selected.
- Worked on a Global Implementation which included outputting forms in nineteen languages as well as many currency and date formats.
- Trained employees in Smartforms, Adobe Forms and some ABAP .
- Worked on HR interface. Gathered employee information and sent it to a proxy server to update external system.
- Worked with FI substitution Rules.
- Helped the FI team with configuration like extending the coding block, adding fields to the FAGLFLEXT and FAGLFLEXA tables for General Ledger Accounting and assigning fields to ledgers.
- Created an outbound interface to send data from SAP to a Proxy server to be sent to an external system through PI.
- Helped research to see if Adobe Forms can be used with the Payment Medium Workbench.
Independent Consultant
Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK
Responsibilities:
- Complex dialog programming to create a custom screen exit for Vehicle Flow Master which consisted of adding/subtracting of entries. Depending on what was selected generated another list for users to select.
- Depending on the selection database tables were updated.
- Created a data collation report which included creating logs, updating tables and custom reporting.
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Responsibilities:
- Main job is to solve user problems with the system, improvements, program errors. This involves heavy troubleshooting. Most areas covered are Enhancements, Smartforms, Reports, Dialog Programming
- Ran many LSMW’s for Fullerton and Indianapolis conversions including Open PO’s Material Master, PIR
- Helped Junior programmers optimize and performance tune their programs and participated in code reviews.
Independent Consultant
Confidential, Fort Worth, TX
Responsibilities:
- Wrote an Interactive ALV Grid report that updates the PEG TBRKDEF table by entering data into the ALV Grid or uploaded through an Excel spreadsheet. The report also lists Breakpoints from selection criteria.
- Wrote a Report that splits stock between common work orders and creates Financial Postings and updates a custom table.
- Wrote a Report that chooses between daily, weekly or EPIC data and depending on which type is selected does edits and validations and downloads the data to the application server.
- Wrote a GPD report to retrieve all project stock replenishments and update a custom table with all labor hours and dollars by cost element.
- Wrote an ALV Grid GPD report that displays all the undistributed cost for purchase and production orders.
Independent Consultant
Confidential, Irving, TX
Responsibilities:
- All coding is object oriented.
- Created a method that created a Delivery, Post Goods issued the delivery and then created a goods movement.
- Created a method that reversed a goods issue to an account assignment, reversed a goods receipt to a Sales Order and Deleted a delivery.
Independent Consultant
Confidential, Tucson, AZ
Responsibilities:
- Main job is to solve user problems with the system, improvements, program errors. This involves heavy troubleshooting. Most areas covered are Enhancements, Smartforms, Reports, Dialog Programming
- Ran Open PO LSMW for Fullerton and Indianapolis conversions.
- Wrote Material Induction enhancement which included dialog programming, screens, custom configuration for Quality Notifications in the QM module.
- Implemented several BADI’s.
- Helped Junior programmers optimize and performance tune their programs and participated in code reviews.
- Wrote technical specs for Reports and Enhancements.
- Worked in SD, MM, WM QM modules.
Independent Consultant
Confidential, Lynchburg, VA
Responsibilities:
- Helped Junior prorammers optimize and performance tune their programs and participated in code reviews.
- Wrote technical specs for Interfaces, Conversions, Smartforms, Reports and Enhancements.
- Worked in SD, MM, FI/CO, HR modules.
- Coded interface for the HR module which received a file from the legacy system and created employees, assigned employees to work centers and updated central address management using standard BAPI’s.
- Created Inventory Labels, Goods Receipt Labels, Part and Box labels to print on the Zebra printer. Used BarOne software and Smartforms to output the labels to the printer.
- Created reports using the ALV list, ALV Hierarchy list and ALV grid.
- Used LSMW to write conversions for the Vendor Master, Profit Center, Cost Center, Activity Types, Service Master.
- Transferred Profit Center and Cost Center Hierarchies across environments and Clients.
- Used Smartforms to create a Safety Pick Slip which was used to display Delivery document header and details.
- Trouble shoot problems that occurred during testing.
Independent Consultant
Confidential, Los Angeles, CA
Responsibilities:
- Troubleshot Interface in PM module and fixed various defects. Interface included BDC’s in several transactions. IW21, IW32, IW41, IW45.
- Developed report to keep a log of work order errors. This log will delete errors upon successful completion of work order entries.
Independent Consultant
Confidential, Phoenix, AZ
Responsibilities:
- Developed several reports, interactive and ALV.
- Worked on User-Exits in SD, WM modules using CMOD, SMOD.
- Created BDC’s for MM01, MM02, IQ02. Created Tables, Data Elements, Transactions, messages.
- Troubleshot and fixed various defects.
Independent Consultant
Confidential, LA, CA
Responsibilities:
- Performed Interfaces, Conversions, Reports, BDC’s, and Bolt-on programming for a Fortune 100 company.
- Coded and tested interface using the SD/MM/FI modules to be uploaded by the FI Common Inbound Interface which also produced three separate reports.
- Created BDC to re-create line items in transaction ME32K including Pricing Conditions, Scales, Storage Locations and Validity periods.
- Performed Conversion to populate Material Movements tables.
- Wrote reports, troubleshot programs and made fixes to various programs.
- Created Functional design documents, Unit, System tested programs.
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Responsibilities:
- Member of a team that conducted a 4.6C Technical Upgrade for a consumer products co, a $1M project.
- Was involved in correcting many ABAP and configuration problems due to upgrade process. This process involved following steps.
- Comparing configuration changes between two systems.
- Making necessary configuration changes and creating transports, and transport log - SPAU/SPDD.
- Compare Functionality
- Comparing configuration as well as screen changes.
- Check the functionality, some new functionality affects the old.
- Identifying Specification in the ABAP specification against new features
- Log identified Specifications on the Specification Log when reviewing business scenarios.
- Begin to document details related to identify Specifications in the Specification Document.
- Comparing data elements, domains, indexes in the table, fields in the table and structure.
- Lock objects, match code comparison, menus and number ranges.
- Comparing OSS registered changes in the new version.
- Program changes in the new version should compile, fix errors if any.
- Screen changes, if new fields are added screen sequence in BDC programs may affect program.
- Testing both Unit testing and string test.
- Spent 1 ½ years as part of the development team for the $25M new Module Confidential & Confidential in the Oil and Gas industry for SAP.
- Primary responsibility was the Valuation/Batch team. Helped design, code and test batch programs with heavy emphasis on SQL selects, SQL explains, indexing and performance tuning.
- String and System tested the Valuation Batch process.
- Troubleshot and made modifications to problems that arose during beta testing at Confidential
- Created several functions used in Valuation Batch processing
- Created several tables and structures
- Wrote conversion programs to take data from the legacy system, run the data through edits and validations and to put the data in the correct format onto a UNIX box.
- Used Mercator Mapping software to retrieve the formatted file and to map the data to the correct layout to be uploaded into the proper MM tables using the IDOC interface for SAP.
- Created Unit test plans, Technical Design Documents and wrote programs based on Business Design Documents.
Confidential, Irving, TX
Responsibilities:
- Programmed, monitored and troubleshot a custom application in the telecommunications industry, integrating the software application with the NT operating system using Powerbuilder.
EDI Coordinator
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Responsibilities:
- Expanded and maintained an existing EDI system in the insurance industry completely automating the system from the VAN through the upload to the Mainframe. This included writing new maps to receive data using Mercator mapping software and Trading Partners PC/32 and attending DISA ANSI X12 meetings for the development of the 811 transaction set; insurance notification for lien holders. Facilitated and wrote EDI trading partner agreements with major insurance companies.
Dallas, TX
Responsibilities:
- Developed reports using PowerBuilder 5.0 to integrate into a proprietary security software package using Sybase SQL Server 11 running on a RS/6000 box as the back-end.
- Configured workstations Hardware/Software on a Novell 4.1 network and set-up token righ network configuration using Windows 3.11, Windows 95. Provided desktop support for any Hardware/Software problem.
- Assembled a 350 page Basic Design Document for Confidential Corporation using Microsoft Office. Worked directly with network engineers to put together technical diagrams.
- Designed entire proposal for major client working directly with four partners. Used heavy PowerPoint in Windows 95.
System Administrator
Confidential, Vienna, VA
Responsibilities:
- System administrator of a 25 node Windows for Workgroups/Windows 95 peer-to-peer network, troubleshooting, replacing and ordering all types of Hardware/Software, including Desktop support.
Confidential, Fairfax, VA
Responsibilities:
- Various assignments including graphic art, desktop publishing using a number of software packages.