SUMMARY:

• To obtain a position as a Business Specialist, Integration or Business Solution Architect and Project Management.
• Experienced with: SAP Confidential, UNIX systems and, Windows platforms.
• An Ariba Certified Engineer, excellent in Webmethods technology and also a certified Citrix WinFrame Administrator.
• Java, JavaScript, JavaServlet, PERL, ABAP, cXML,Oracle and SAP ABAP, EDI, ALE, BAPI, IDoc, EDI X12, ARIBA P2P, Ariba Contracts, T&E/Sourcing/Spend Vis, AML, AQL, SAP BC/WebMethods, Tibco, SQL programming.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Familiar with: COM/DCOM, ODBC, SQL, Tk/Tcl, X - window, COBOL, Assembly, SchemeSAP MM (Material Management) and SD (Sales and Distribution) Modules

Networking knowledge in: TCP/IP, NFS, PCNFS, PCTCP, and MacTCP.

Web Development Skills: J2EE, ASP, JSP, EJB, JDBC, JBOSS, JAAS,TOMCAT, ANT, STRUCT, Servlets, SQL script, PHP,VB script, Confidential WebSphere, WebLogic, and MQSeries.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Ariba SME

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Review current status of client’s procurement service and present Ariba best fit solution to client stake holders.
• Provide Functional/Technical support for both Ariba P2P and Upstream solutions for Confidential, Confidential and Confidential .
• Identify issue, implement improvement to provide a best streamline solution for business processes and approvals starting from Ariba Req - > Sourcing - > Contract - > PO generation.
• Review weekly project and deliverable status with work stream leads and clients stake holders to report and identify accomplishments, decisions, issues and risks.
• Assist in managing any IT, integration and system security needs related to Ariba cloud implementations.

Ariba SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible in design, develop and implement Confidential and SiPM solutions for clients and presenting best solutions to fit client's needs.
• Working closely with clients' stakeholders to review and demo the requirements and Ariba capabilities to accommodates clients' solutions.
• Design and implement Ariba/ Confidential integrations for master data and supplier data managements

Ariba SME

Confidential, Dallas

Responsibilities:

• Responsible in gathering requirements for implementing Confidential phase 2, and presenting best solutions to fit client's needs.
• Design and build the Ariba contract templates with authoring features and clause library for various departments.
• Perform customer testing and work with customers until deployment and production go-live.

Ariba SME

Confidential, Sclumburger, Houston

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to communicate with the client's stakeholders to gather the requirements on Ariba Sourcing
• Presenting solutions to best fit client's requirements.
• Support current procurement processes/systems related to eProcurement. eSourcing, eAuctions, Contract Databases and transaction “eProcurement” catalogue systems.

Ariba SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the business functional requirements to automate Ariba procure to pay processing system including system configuration changes prior to implementation.
• Work with clients to validate blue printing, business processes, workflows, catalog management, supplier relationship management SRM, reporting, consignment and real time integration processes.
• Lead project team to perform tasks and meet project milestone deadlines. Work to resolve client needs and conduct, participate and provide expertise in Ariba procurement management and Best Practice Solutions.
• Lead & manage all Ariba integration activities with SAP and Ariba Supplier Network and working closely with technical teams to coordinate testing, ABAP programming resolve issues to ensure a successful go live.
• Experience working with Confidential, Confidential business teams and offshore development teams..

Ariba Contract Management and Upstream Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Propose Best Fit Functional solutions to client for Ariba Upstream onDemand Solutions, which include Ariba Contract Management, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba SiPM.
• Meet with clients from each department to perform requirements gathering and review Ariba business solutions with clients
• Create business tasks, templates and present to client to fit Ariba onDemand solutions for client’s needs.
• Prepare Ariba User Training guide, test scripts and train business users to accomplish the essential Ariba user administration tasks.
• Working closely with Ariba support to enhance business requirements and apply to client’s management requirements.
• Follow Ariba methodology on business process and complete Ariba Business process Enablement workbooks.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Propose and provide functional solutions for Ariba OnDemand suites which include Ariba Invoice Professional, Production integration and Ariba Buyer/Supplier Relationship Management SRM.
• Assist in Ariba User Training sessions and participate in question and answer sessions at client site.
• Follow Ariba methodology on business process and complete Ariba Business process Enablement workbooks.
• Perform requirements gathering, reviewing client’s business process and needs to fit into Ariba onDemand solutions.

Ariba Techno Functional Lead/Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide Functional Solution Architecture for Ariba On Demand, Ariba Invoice Professional, Ariba Buyer/Supplier Network and SRM.
• Analysis solution on integrating Ariba procurement onDemand /Supplier Network with SAP MM, FI,PI and SAP Confidential
• Provide functional solutions for processing Invoices, Orders, Order Confirmation, Good Receipts, Payments and reconcile invoices between Ariba system and SAP MM and FI modules and SAP ABAP development for integrations.
• Managing the entire Procure-to-Pay processes for SAP/Ariba solutions, monitoring each functional/Technical phases to success.
• Provide functional requirement for mapping and loading SAP master data, vendor master, accounting data, users and groups and legacy data to Ariba.

Ariba Technical Architect/PM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisting with Functional Support, Configure and maintain core ARIBA modules including e-Sourcing, Analysis, Contract Workspace and custom Ariba projects such as Capital Procurement, Sales Project, Raw Material Projects, SiPM.
• I am responsible for implementing the full life cycle of e-Sourcing, SiPM and Contracts projects, beginning from gathering functional specification requirement to technical implementation of the projects.
• I am involved in providing functional and technical supports for the on-going projects.
• Provide Functional requirement for Ariba Solutions and to Confidential Business Leaders. Monitoring the Project Management for the life cycle of Source/procure to pay business solutions.
• Configure and Develop Events, Business workflows, approval flow and business rules for various tasks in Ariba Sourcing and Contracts. Configure and maintain SiPM survey KPi, Confidential templates and repositiory.
• Running Analysis data loads and trouble-shooting business reports. Monitoring integration process between SAP MM FI to Ariba Upstream modules.

Senior Ariba Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architect the Ariba system infrastructures to replace the State Department's 20-year-old logistics systems with multiservers infrastructure design stable networking, Load Balancers, VMWare technologies etc.
• Supporting Ariba integration with Confidential interface, Ariba Network, external supply chain, ERP system and reengineered other business processes to have an enterprise wide-supply chain management system.
• Maintaining the Ordering process fulfillment, processing and troubleshooting stuck orders and monitoring Ordering Methods, and maintaining Supplier/Buyer Network (SRM), Confidential Ordering and various Catalogs such as punchout catalogs, XML catalogs, CIF catalogs, etc.
• Develop Administrative/Eform modules to track system performance, system alerts, monitor admin users usages, system authentication and enhanced inspector modules.
• Implemented and maintained Ariba Buyer, Contracts and Sourcing solutions the State Department Open Network and classified Network and provide functional and technical supports
• Lead in supporting/resolving in worlds wide Ariba Buyer and Ariba Contracts issues ranging from tracking systems slow performance, trouble-shooting Ariba custom codes issues, third-party integration, and Ariba worldwide requisitioning, procurement and contracting related issues.

Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involve in developing a pre-sale presentation for Confidential and preparing a credentials deck for Confidential Corp.
• Evaluate Confidential SAP Sourcing initiative and client’s business requirements.
• Technical Architect in implementing Sterling Order Management System to Confidential Enterprise Stores and network retail links . Responsible in integrating Sterling Order Fulfillment Management with Confidential /Sam’s Club Network/Ariba system(v9r1). Analyzing system stabilization requirements and identifying weaknesses in requirements.
• Responsible to work closely with functional/technical group, propose and develop integration solutions.
• Developed system guides, configured web application servers, managed migration/version/change control procedures, instance creation, patch and release management, developed Database SQL test utilities and MQ Series.
• Managing all Sam’s Club development projects, deployment process, system integration and define architecture requirements, and system requirements.

Senior Ariba Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ariba Project Team Lead to develop the Confidential Invoice Approval module and Ariba eForms on Ariba platform.
• Responsible in Technical Design and develop the modules for Ariba Invoice Push and Pull, Requisition and Payment systems to/from SAP ERP system.
• Lead and assist developers on Ariba issues and provide solutions in resolving issues related to Ariba (v8.2)/SAP systems.
• Part of the stabilization lead team to oversee and resolve any issues arise during Confidential Invoice Approval Go-Live implementation.
• Responsible to work with functional/business groups, propose suggestions, trouble-shooting and develop codes to improve Ariba system.

Senior Ariba Lead Consultant/Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead Ariba Techinical Support Team to support Confidential -Ariba Application on all issues related to Ariba applications.
• Fixed all issue related Ariba custom codes in java, AML, business rules, tibco integration events, etc.
• Support world wide Confidential -Ariba Application and had to resolve any issue immediate to keep the system running.
• Responsible to work with and mentor other technical groups, propose suggestions and implement codes to improve Ariba system.

Senior Technical Ariba Developer/Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Part of Ariba Techinical Support Team to support Confidential -Ariba Application on all issues related to Ariba applications.
• Lead and develop Colleague Time Card eForm project to allow Confidential Colleagues to enter time against a project.
• Lead and develop Colleague Charge Rate eForm project to allow Confidential Colleagues to enter project charge rates
• Lead and develop Savings Tracking eForm project to compute complex formulas for cost savings trackings on projects.
• Become a dedicated resource to fix multiple Change Requests in Ariba Applications for Confidential Global Research Development (PGRD) divisions.

Senior Ariba Lead Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead and assist with Ariba 7.x and Ariba 8.x Confidential world wide technical production support issues.
• Lead and develop Java and AML codes to enhance features for current Ariba 7.x and 8.x instances.
• Managing and loading supplier data, catalog data, punchout data, analysis data.
• Lead the upgrade development instance from Ariba version 8.1 to Ariba 8.2.
• Integrated Ariba business/management documents such as Payment, PO, account, supplier documents with external ERP systems
• Develop Tibco Sheets to load Master Data from external systems into Ariba Object Models.
• Intergrate business documents between SAP and Ariba e-procurement 8.1 system using Tibco Message Broker.
• Writing and Deploying Java/EJB/MDB application in Confidential WebpShere to send and receive message from MQ Series.

Senior Ariba/SAP Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Integrate Confidential custom eForms into Ariba system in multi variants and multi partitions environment. Enabling multi-currencies, multi-lingual and version control on the eForms.
• Also develop custom java classes to handle NameTables, Queries, Triggers, Actions, Conditions, Approvable Hook, Submit Hook and Print Hook events. Also create custom HTML templates.
• Customize Ariba schedule task to enable different approvable eforms to have a different timeout parameters.
• Develop Ariba Business rules to add approvers on the fly.
• Work with users and discuss business requirements to suit their business needs.
• Generate multiple custom reports, create complex User Interface and create Tibco integration events (MB Sheets).
• Meet with Project Managers and users to evaluate their business requirement and solely develop a project plan to integrate Ariba e-procurement system with SAP R/3 system. Exchanging XML/EDI documents between Ariba Punchout and Ariba Supplier Network SRM in cXML format and SAP XML format using SAP Business Connector/WebMethods.
• Develop web services in SAP BC to communicate with Ariba ASN and SAP, and map business documents to XML format dynamically. Design and develop data conversions between systems.
• Also write ABAP function modules to validate Ariba buyers in Customer Master, and validate purchase goods in Material Master. Utilize standards SAP interface tools and BAPIs.
• Develop Confidential transformers to convert purchase order and invoice documents from Ariba cXML documents to SAP XML Idocs and SAP bizTalk formats.

Ariba Technical Support/Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for upgrading and Maintaining Ariba 7.0.5 and provide Ariba technical support for all Confidential users.
• Work with Catalog Manager to bring suppliers and their commodities uploaded into Ariba using punchout.
• Write Ariba Business Approval Rules, Eforms, reports, customize User Interface, and seting up Ariba Punchouts to suppliers.
• Importing commodities and suppliers data to Ariba, and integrate with Oracle Financial.
• Used Tibco Message Broker and Tibco Worksheets to pull external data into Ariba buyer.
• Responsible for implementing Ariba Travel and Expense module. Developed T&E Rules, User-Interface Form, Expense Type and Categories, integration for Ariba T&E.

Sr. Technical Developer/Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implement and integrate eCatalog solutions integrate with various backend internet, databases, Ariba and SAP systems.
• Design Javabeans and JavaServlet codes for developing J2EE B2B catalog applications, import adapters, export adapters.
• Design XML/EDI adapters for integrating and communicate with SAP and e-procurement systems and e-marketplaces.
• Configure and install catalog management system, and integrate with Ariba e-procurement, Ariba CN system and SAP R/3 system. Setting up and Using SAP EDI/Idocs interface for document interchange between SAP R/3 and Ariba ASN.
• Train technical users to maintain and administer e-Catalog system, and train general users to use e-Catalog applications effectively.

Senior Ariba Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Ariba Business Approval Rules such as delegating of authority, escalating of unapproved requests, and implementing serial and parallel approval process.
• Customized user interface by defining the Ariba Metadata such as the dXML field and group properties. Create wizard screens in Wizard Frame Definition files.
• Applied Ariba APIs in Java, created and extended Ariba object models such as adding new fields to existing Ariba classes, defined event-triggered to Ariba Validators, defaulters, and filter content choosers.
• Writing adapters to integrated external data into Ariba Buyer, created and incorporated Ariba eforms.
• Implemented Order Processing module to convert a Ariba Requisition into one or more orders in various formats.
• Implemented catalog entries, and integrated client’s website to Ariba Buyers. Integrated SAP systems with Ariba Buyers, sending and receiving business documents between SAP R/3 and Ariba ASN SRM.
• Involved in writing Business Specification and Requirement for Ariba Sourcing implementation.
• Installed BEA Weblogic and configured Ariba Applications to suite customer business requirements.
• Also involved in writing JavaScript implementing e-commerce sites using Broadvision tools for USi ASP clients.
• Have completed various Ariba Functional and Technical Fundamental courses, Ariba Certified Engineer Workshop.
• Assist SAP partners on R/3 remote access issues. Support technical inquires regarding remote access to R/3 systems.
• Duties include providing technical consulting on R/3 interface requirements. Also discuss certification procedures on R/3 interfaces to SAP partners.
• Executing R/3 interface certification processes with SAP partners.
• Also responsible for providing remote consulting to SAP partners. Explaining R/3 interfaces, SAP IDoc structures, RFC programming. Also assisting partners evaluating their IDocs and development process.
• R/3 knowledge includes setting up EDI and ALE communication, setting up partner profiles, RFC port, SAP IDoc structures, XBP External Interface for Background Processing, ABAP, BADI, BAPI and RFC programming, setting up RFC client server communication, SAP gateway communication, integrating and configuring SAP Business Connector/Webmethods. Also worked on SD and MM modules.
• Wrote and tested Java BAPI functionality to communicate with SAP R/3 system.
• Deliver in depth knowledge of SAP EDI, IDoc and R/3 Technology to customers.
• Train SAP customers for SAP R/3 EDI and IDoc Interface Technology,
• Co-teach SAP University classes such as EDI, IDoc and ABAP courses