University of Illinois, MBA Summa Cum Laude (Finance & Marketing)
	NIIT, Advanced Diploma in Systems Management
	Bangalore University, BS Electrical Engineering, Cum Laude and Distinction

Disciplined goal-oriented and highly motivated consulting professional with over eight years of hands-on development, configuration and set-up of SAP R/3, particularly in the Sales & Distribution (SD) and Materials Management (MM) modules with a focus on global rollouts.  Over 12 years of diversified manufacturing experience including planning, process improvement, logistics and supply chain processes.  Extensive experience in SAP production planning execution, and training for manufacturing and distribution companies.  Ability to work in a team environment coordinating production, logistics, and distribution on a worldwide basis.  Demonstrated record of success in applying SAP to specific client needs to reduce costs, control inventory and effectively utilize production facilities.  Experienced with SAP R/3 versions 3.1H through ECC 6.0.  Extensive experience integrating SD, MM and FI/CO modules and EDI.  
Involved in all project life-cycle stages: blueprint, implementation, realization and stabilization. Played an active role in software evaluation, system configuration, ABAP programming, Basis Technology, system test, e-Audit, controls framework, SOX process maps, performance tuning, go-live support and post-production support on several projects teams. Performed quality assurance for high-risk SAP projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

HARDWARE:	HP-9000, IBM-RS6000, Tru64, AS/400, IBMM80/S80/H80 and ES 9000.
OPERATING SYSTEM: 	HP-UX 9.0, UNIX-SVR3.2/SVR4, IBM-AIX 3.2, Novell Netware 3.11, DOS,      
                                         	Windows 3.1, Windows NT, Sun Solaris, SCO UNIX, AIX.
LANGUAGES:	ABAP/4, COBOL (Micro-Focus), Informix (4GL), C, Natural, MVS JCL, 
	CICS, SQL, PL-SQL, Java, UNIX shell, HTML, XML, PERL, SAP Script, awk and sed.
PACKAGES:	SAP R/3 ECC 6.0,  4.7, SD, MM, XI,  CRM, Virsa compliance calibrator, Webmethods, i2 Demand Planner, i2 Optimizer, i2 Rhythmlink, i2 ADW, i2 SPP, i2 PSO, Lawson, , SAP Basis, Mercator, , Gentran, Jetform, GXS, MQ Series, SAP CRM, SAP APO, SAP BW, LSMW, MOVE, ETL, Tuxedo.
DATABASES:	Oracle, DB2 UDB, Informix (XPS/IDS), Teradata, Sybase v 10, MS-SQL Server, MS Access, Adabas.
PM/CASE TOOLS:	MS Project, Primavera, RUP and ERWIN/ERX 2.1.
TESTING TOOLS:	Winrunner, Loadrunner, Quick Test and Test Director.
ETL/GUI TOOLS:	Datastage, Informatica, PowerBuilder, ABC Flow Charter 4.0, VISIO 4.0.

EXPERIENCE
12/2006 - 	Senior Product Developer  				At: Mobile Products Company
Present		Product Design & Product Development
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Responsible for design and development of SAP components for mobility products in SAP PM, SD, MM & IM and SAP CRM.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Design and development of event handlers and workflow for objects in PP, PM and SD for mobility product data transfer.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Design and development of functional specification requirements and detailed design documents for product development teams.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Performance optimization and troubleshooting of various custom development objects.
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP CRM, ABAP/4, Workflow, Java, BAPI.

06/2006 - 	Lead Technical Architect				At: Automotive Company
11/2006		Phased Plant Rollout
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Responsible for delivery and management of data conversions and interfaces.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Mentor junior programmers and share best practices on data conversion methodology.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Analysis, design and implementation of EDI 830, 850, 856 and 862 transactions.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Responsible for data archiving strategy and implementation.
Environment: SAP Enterprise, ABAP/4, EDI, LSMW, MS-Project.

03/2006 - 	Internet Sales (ISA) Solutions Consultant			At: Insurance Company
Present		Project MOD
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Implementation and solutions consultant for mySAP ERP E-commerce.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Lead requirements gathering and blueprint analysis phase.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Design and development of functional requirements for implementing order processing and fulfillment.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Participated in analysis, research and design of user experience and web shop standards.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Evaluation of CRM Vs ECC5.0 for web shop and e-commerce functionality.
Environment: mySAP ERP 2004 (ECC 5.0), ISA 5.0, ABAP/4, Java, EDI., XCM, TREX 6.1.

01/2006 - 	CRM Training Consultant				At: Hi-tech Company
02/2006		CRM Trainer
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Trainer for SAPCRM CRM Overview.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Trainer for CR100 CRM Base Customizing.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Trainer for CR555 CRM Technology.

03/2005 - 	CRM Consultant					At: Healthcare Company
03/2006		International SAP/CRM Rollout
âïon;¿½Â¢	CONFIGURATION OF CRM MIDDLEWARE  
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Design of custom solution in middleware for custom pricing from R/3.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Design of custom risk management solution in CRM.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Enhancing standard BSP in IC Webclient.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Setup of CIC Winclient profile for Canada order entry operation
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Design of data archiving strategy for business partner and customer conversion in CRM.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Design and development of BADI for business partner, order and activity processing.
Environment: SAP R/3 4.6c, CRM 4.0, IPC, J2EE, APO 3.1, BW3.1, ABAP/4, EDI.

10/2004 - 	Data Management Architect				At: Distribution Company
03/2005		ASAP SAP 4.7 Implementation
âïon;¿½Â¢	DATA CONVERSIONS, ARCHIVING & CONTROLS
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Coordinate development of detailed data conversion scripts (approach, steps, audit reconciliation and controls/approval process).
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Analysis and development of process controls for various sub processes within ATI (Available To Inquire process) such as Opportunity management, Activity management, manage proposals and marketing campaign.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Design and development of reconciliation reports between SD, FI and PCA.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Develop strategy for data archiving and retention for objects in SD, MM & CO-PA.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Setup, configuration and development for CRM middleware.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Define the cutover strategy & coordinate development of detailed cutover plan.
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, SCM 4.0, FSCM 3.0, APO 3.1, BW3.0, ABAP/4, EDI, Netweaver, SAP XI, Workflow, LSMW.

2003 - 		Associate Editor SAPTips Journal (www.SAPTips.com)
2005		Focusing on EAI/Technical Architecture issues and articles.

01/2003 - 	SAP Business Analyst					At: CPG Company
09/2004		International SAP Rollout
âïon;¿½Â¢	CONFIGURATION & IMPLEMENTATION FOR SD, MM, FI/CO & EDI
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Responsible for complete development lifecycle using SAP ASAP Implementation process for global SAP rollout for more than 20 countries for inbound and outbound EDI transactions with SAP.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Configuration of item category, account assignment, copy control, text determination, and VOFM routines.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Configuration of customer master for additional partner functions.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Process design and configuration for third party warehouse EDI interface design and development.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Process design and configuration in shipping, transportation, delivery, invoicing
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Develop presentations for blueprint sessions and resolve gaps between process requirements and IDOC, EDI and SAP processing constraints.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Configuration for 3rd party order processing.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Design and development of IDOC interfaces for data transfer to accounting.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Develop workflow/ event trigger for inbound shipment confirmation and sales orders.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Data archiving in SD and MM (sales orders, purchase orders and billing documents).
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Developed a Universal IDOC template to capture requirements of all countries in global rollout and implement new extensions and custom segments.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Develop controls and design business processes for financial reporting and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Successfully implemented Americas, and Aspac (onsite in Japan, Argentina for the implementation).
Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C, APO 3.0, BW3.1, DB2 EEE, AIX 5.2.1, GXS, Enterprise AI, ABAP/4, EDI, Workflow, ALE and Mercury Tools.

01/2002 		Techno-Functional Consultant				At: Distribution Company
12/2002		Distribution Center Conversion Project
âïon;¿½Â¢	CONFIGURATION, DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT FOR SD, MM, WM, FI/CO.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Business Blueprint, analysis and design for transportation load building for distribution centers and warehouses.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Design and development of custom transaction for load planning. The design included eight screens including table control, drill-down reports and context-sensitive help.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Development of sales order entry to create customized fast order entry (FOE) screens.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Developed enhancements for sales order, purchase order and delivery through user-exits.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	SD, MM, WM Configuration for sales orders, load and wave planning in warehouses.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Performance tuning, development of user and field exits in SD, MM and WM.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Authorization and security profiles for custom transactions.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	SAP Data archiving for FI, CO, SD and MM modules.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Developed copy control routines for delivery, quotations and billing.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Design and development of custom EDI/IDOC interface between Web Methods.
Environment: SAP R/3 4.0B, Oracle 9, ALV, SAPScript, Mercator, Webmethods, Optum, ABAP/4, 
EDI, Workflow, Autosys, ALE, BAPI, CATT.

10/2001 - 	Solutions Architect					At: Food Mfg. Company
01/2002		SAP EDI Implementation
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Develop specifications for SAP EDI/IDOC transactions per FDA GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) requirements.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Configuration of partner profiles, output type and requirements analysis for EDI transactions.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Member of the team that conducted that conducted IT risk assessment (after migration to SAP). The assessment included IT audit and recommendations for mitigating risk.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	System design, transaction mapping and configuration of EDI 810, 820, 850 and 856.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Developed custom extensions to X12 810(invoice), X12 820 (remittance advice).
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Troubleshooting, optimization and enhancement to the above EDI transactions.
Environment: SAP R/3 4.6, APO, SAPScript, Jetform, cGMP, SAP BC, Workflow, BW, Windows NT, Oracle 8.0, Gentran, ABAP/4, EDI, and ALE.

04/2000 -	Lead Technical Architect				At: Retail Company
09/2001		i2 Demand Planning/Service Level Planning Implementation
Overall responsibility for implementing the supply chain rollout. As technical architect developed data/information architecture, involved in central coordination of tools assessment and actively participated in vendor management and SLA agreements. I was also leading the quality assurance team that was responsible for creation of functional test case documents, execution of test cases, and user acceptance of test results design.
âïon;¿½Â¢	SNP/SAFETY STOCK PLANNING & VMI DESIGN
Analysis, design and development of interfaces for i2 Demand Planner and Service Parts Planner, Factory Planner, Transportation Optimizer and Parts Storage Optimizer to enable supply network planning (SNP) and safety stock planning. Architect the prototype for managing inventory levels of key customers (VMI) within the framework of business rules.
âïon;¿½Â¢	DATA MODELING / DATA MAPPING
Creating standards, procedures, and guidelines for development, unit testing and promotion to QA. Design of use cases and implementing them in core process workflows. Identify sourcing system and develop business rules for data transformation and data cleansing.
âïon;¿½Â¢	IMPLEMENTATION PLANS & PRODUCTION SUPPORT
Develop enterprise-wide implementation plans and communicate effectively with all users, interfacing system owners about the timeline of the implementation plan and the back-out plan as well. Establish procedure for production support, failure notification and escalation.
âïon;¿½Â¢	ETL & DATA WAREHOUSE MIGRATION
Coordinated and orchestrated the hardware migration of data warehouse and ETL process using Datastage. Orchestrated another data conversion from Informix to DB2 UDB EE.
Environment: IBM M80/S80/H80, Tru64, AIX 4.3.1, RUP, XML, PVCS, EDI, Teradata, Informix XPS/IDS, 4GL, DB2 UDB, star schema, data analysis, i2 Trade Matrix Supply Chain, Datastage.

03/1998 -	Lead Analyst						At: CPG Company
03/2000		SAP Global Implementation (SD, MM, PP, FI, HR, CO & PA)
âïon;¿½Â¢	EDI846 INVENTORY ADVICE
	Designed and analyzed SAP availability screens CO09, availability overview for plant/storage location and developed a prototype for calculating ATP quantities. Enhanced logic for sending availability information to the trade partner via EDI.
âïon;¿½Â¢	USER-EXIT FOR CHANGE SHIPMENT TRANSACTION
	Developed the user exit in change shipment to allow processing either online or via IDOC
	processing for sending messages to an external entity using MQ  series.
âïon;¿½Â¢	DATA INTERFACE USING MQ
	Designed and developed interface for transfer of a trailer forecast report to be viewed on the mainframe (CICS). 
âïon;¿½Â¢	INTEGRATE i2 FACTORY PLANNER & SAP PP
	Designed and developed a daily interface between i2 Factory Planner and SAP PP. The information was used to trigger production orders in SAP.
âïon;¿½Â¢	CUTOVER, DEPLOYMENT PLANNING AND PRODUCTION SUPPORT
Actively involved in deployment planning and management.  Helped develop the cutover plan to SAP from legacy systems. Involved in two global rollouts in this role. Coordinated the cutover plan execution.
âïon;¿½Â¢	 MISCELLANEOUS TASKS
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Created Logical Databases, Match Codes, Lock Objects, Views, Structures, Tables.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Debug and tested the ABAP/4 codes and optimized the programs. 
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Prepared User Documentation of reports & transactions. 
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Tested Security and Profiles for generic user ids.
ïon;ïon;¿½Â­	Investigated and recommended application of OSS Notes for performance improvement. 
Environment: SAP R/3 3.1I & 4.6c, Oracle, AIX, ALV, Java, Vertex, i2 Factory Planner, EDI, Teklogix, 
Siebel, LSMW, SAPScript, Workflow, Maestro, Winrunner, Load runner, Test Director, MQ Series, 
Crossworlds and LSMW.
12/1996 - 	Senior Systems Analyst					At: Insurance Company
02/1998		Implementation of Recovery System	
âïon;¿½Â¢	PCRS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Developed user interface in Power Builder 5.0 accessing IMS/DB2 databases. Database access was through CICS remote stored procedures developed in COBOL/MVS.
âïon;¿½Â¢	CLAIMS DATA WAREHOUSE (CDW)
Development, maintenance and enhancements to CDW. Investigate and suggest performance optimization measures.
âïon;¿½Â¢	MISCELLANEOUS TASKS
Business area analysis, database design, user interaction, acceptance testing, specification and technical support.
	      	Environment: IBM ES9000, S/370, MS-SQL Server, Jetform, Windows 95, CICS, DB2 v 5.0.
	
1992 - 		Systems Analyst/Software Engineer				
1996		Multiple IT Consulting Assignments	          
âïon;¿½Â¢	Rewrote volume allocation batch programs from IDMS/MVS to Sybase v 10.  Project lead for a group of 6 people and later served as on-site contact.
âïon;¿½Â¢	Involved in code review, performance analysis, program abend analysis.
âïon;¿½Â¢	process for throughput and performance enhancement. Designed test cases.
âïon;¿½Â¢	Actively involved in the entire software development life cycle from requirements analysis, specifications, development and unit testing of transactions and batch processes.
	Environment: HP9000, HP-UX, Windows 95, and Sybase v 10, Windows 95, Lighstorm v 2.2, 
	3090, MVS, HP9000, HP-UX, DPS9000, CICS v2.2, and DB2 v4.0.
	
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING/CONFERENCE:
Institution	Certification	Institution	Certification
SAP	SAP XI (TBIT400)	SAP	Business Workflow (BC601/BC610)
SAP	CRM Overview (CRM50)	i2 Tech	Rhythm Service Parts Planner
SAP	Pricing Configuration (SCM620)	i2 Tech	Rhythm DP Database Administration
SAP	Internet Application Development 	i2 Tech	RhythmLink Basic/Advanced
SAP	Application Link Enabling (ALE)	Mercury Interactive	Winrunner, Loadrunner, QuickTest, TestDirector
SAP	EDI Interface (CA210)	Rational Corp	Rational User Conference 2000
SAP	ABAP/4 Performance Tuning (BASIS)	i2 Tech	Planet 2000
SAP	ABAP Workbench (BC400)	Tech Target	Search SAP Conference 2002
SAP	List Processing (BC405)	NIIT Ltd.	Advanced Diploma in Systems Management
SAP	Data Interfaces (BC410)	IEEE, India	8085 Microprocessor Arch. & Programming 
SAP	Transaction Processing (BC415)		

CERTIFICATION:
Institution	Certification
i2 Technologies	i2 TradeMatrix Link
i2 Technologies	Supply Chain Management Integration
Culture Quest Inc	Culture Insight - Japan
IOR Global Services	Culture Insight âïon;¿½â�œ Europe/Americas
IBM	IBM Certified UDB Specialist

MEMBERSHIP/AWARDS:
Institution
Member of Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society (2005)
Nancy Tuzzolino MBA Scholarship Award (2005)
Participant at Motorola/Kelloggâïon;¿½â�¢s Marketing Case Competition (2005)