EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – CONSULTANT OVERVIEW
SAP Data Migration Project Lead and ABAP Development Manager with twenty-three years of SAP implementation experience and an active secret-level DoD security clearance. I am a hands-on leader with excellent communication skills that will drive your project to a successful go-live by providing committed ownership, management and issue resolution.
LinkedIn Profile and References: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-biddle-5308b7
SAP R/3 and ECC and S/4HANA EXPERIENCE
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AR and AP data |
Purchase Inforecord data |
ABAP, ALV and OO development |
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Material Master |
Production Order |
LSMW, BDC, DI and IDOC loads |
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Vendor, Customer Master, BP |
Inventory, PO and Prod Order |
BAPI and BADI implementation |
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Recipe, Routing, PV and BOM |
Logistics Invoice Verification |
Legacy interface design |
In addition, he has also worked with SAPScript, Smartforms, Cransoft (BackOffice data migration), MS Project, MS Access, AS/400, Oracle and MS SQL Server 2008. Broad functional and technical skill set to identify data requirements, design processes, translate into technical specifications, and complete full development cycle as required. High familiarity with most data load objects and LSMW standard and extended functionalities, cleansing and rationalization of master data prior to conversion using SQL, post go-live maintenance and production support activities.
HISTORY OF SAP CLIENT PROJECTS AND ENGAGEMENTS *concurrent project engagements
DATE CLIENT ROLE
12/2019 – 09/2021 Titan America, LLC SAP ABAP Conversion Lead
02/2019 – 11/2019 Altenloh, Brinck & Co. SAP ECC Data Migration Manager
01/2018 – 01/2019 Saputo Inc. SAP Migration Business Data Lead
03/2017 – 01/2018 Agrofresh S/4HANA Data Migration Specialist
10/2016 – 02/2017 REV Group S/4HANA Data Migration Specialist
10/2010 – 05/2016 Dow Chemical PP Migration Lead Architecture Specialist
08/2007 – 10/2010 ACH Food Development and Conversion Manager
09/2006 – 07/2007 Rohm & Haas Company Project Office Conversion Manager
11/2005 – 09/2006* Allen Family Foods Development and Conversion Manager
03/2005 – 06/2006*
11/2004 – 02/2005* Rohm & Haas Company FI MMP development lead
05/2004 – 11/2004 Tasty Baking Company Development and Conversion Manager
03/2002 – 08/2004 Rohm & Haas Chemicals Senior data load Analyst and Developer
11/2001 – 03/2002 Anheuser-Busch LIV Senior Developer/Upgrade Analyst
05/2000 – 10/2001 FMC Chemicals ITS Lead Developer/Web integration
06/2001 – 07/2001* Millenium Chemicals CRM and ITS short-term fixit Developer
07/1998 – 05/2000 PriceWaterhouseCoopers ABAP/4 Senior Developer
RELEVANT PROJECTS AND ENGAGEMENTS
Client: Titan America, LLC December
2019 – September 2021
Industry: Building Products
Project Scope: Implementation of S/4HANA
Specific Role: SAP ABAP Conversion Lead
Results: Developed data extraction and translation
ABAP programs to support the ECC upgrade to S/4HANA, and validation routines to
confirm the data conversion results.
Client: Altenloh, Brinck & Co. February
2019 – November 2019
Industry: Building Products
Project Scope: Implementation of SAP ECC
Specific Role: Data Lead and Conversion developer
Results: Designed, developed and executed master and
transactional conversion dataloads for every data object in this
implementation. Performed mapping and data construction exercises with the
business owners, provided guidance on data migration best practices, and
established communication protocols for conversion error management and
resolution.
Client: Saputo Inc. Dairy Products and Cheese January
2018 – January 2019
Industry: Food & Beverage
Project Scope: Implementation of SAP ECC
Specific Role: Data Lead
Results: Led Subject Matter Experts through legacy
extracted data construction for target SAP system. Guided architects to ensure
data build met design strategy and the logical business data model. Provided oversight
of the governance objectives, policies, and procedures, while also reporting
progress to PMO leadership.
Client: Agrofresh March 2017 – January 2018
Industry: Horticultural Technologies
Project Scope: Implementation of SAP S/4HANA, 1610
Specific Role: Data conversion specialist
Results: Designed, developed and executed master and
transactional conversion dataloads and provided post go-live support. Including
AR, AP, Purchase Orders, Inventory, BOMs, Business Partner (Customer and Vendor
Master Data)
Client: REV Group, Inc. October 2016 – February 2017
Industry: Vehicle Manufacturers – Specialty Vehicles
Project Scope: Implementation of SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511
Specific Role: Data conversion specialist
Results: Designed, developed and executed master and transactional conversion dataloads and provided post go-live support. Converting AR, AP, Purchase Orders, GRIR, Inventory, all PP including Production Orders and Routings, PIRs, Business Partner (Customer and Vendor Master Data)
Client: DOW Chemicals October 2010 – May 2016
Industry: Chemicals
Project Scope: Multi-phase global rollout of SAP ECC conversion from R/2 and R/3 legacy systems.
Specific Role: Production Operations Management migration development consultant for BackOffice and global conversion SME/Migration Lead Architecture Specialist for the Dow Chemical team.
Results: Designed, developed and executed all POM conversion dataloads. Managed full cycle technical conversion effort for the PP team. LSMW development of conversions and ABAP development of FRICE. BackOffice SQL development within the DSW tool. Dow Chemical production support and break-fix.
Client: ACH Food August 2007 – October 2010
Industry: Food & Beverage
Project Scope: Phase1 and Phase2 from Legacy to SAP ECC 6.0 and production post go-live support
Specific Role: Development and Conversion Manager
Results: Full scope SAP R/3 – ECC 6.0 implementation. Development and Conversion manager as a subcontractor for Deloitte. Designed, developed and performed most conversion dataloads. Cutover team lead and conversion coordinator for all phases of dataload cleansing, de-dupping/rationalization, and postload validation testing. LSMW development of conversions and ABAP development of FRICE and user-exit enhancements. Production support and break-fix. Subsequent interim projects and second phase includes additional modules QM RM CM PC EP, etc.
Client: Rohm & Haas Chemicals September
2006 – July 2007
Industry: Chemicals
Project Scope: European Reorganization
Specific Role: Data Conversion Manager and IT PMO
Results: SAP R/3 - 4.6c. A two phase implementation of a new business model forming a European headquarters in Switzerland in a current productive environment. Requirement to convert all data objects into the newly organized European structure with changes to plants, sales organizations and company codes encompassing 140 conversion activities of master, dependent and transactional data. Owned and implemented the methodology for data conversion and delta process. Also developed several high risk conversion objects including inventory, recipes, bill of materials, production versions and pricing.
Client: Allen Family Foods November
2005 – August 2006
Industry: Food & Beverage
Project Scope: Initial Installation from Legacy to SAP ECC 5.0
Specific Role: Development and Conversion Manager
Results: Full scope HR and SAP R/3 – ECC 5.0
implementation. Development and Conversion manager (subcontractor to Deloitte)
using SAP Solution Manager. Designed, developed and performed all conversion
dataloads and 90% of the development for all SAP R/3 FRICE. Managed the HR
development and remaining 10% of the R/3 development through offshore resources
in Tulsa and Hyderabad, India.
Client: Carolina Turkeys March 2005 – June 2006
Industry: Food & Beverage
Project Scope: Initial Installation from Legacy to SAP ECC 5.0
Specific Role: Development and Conversion Manager
Results: Full scope HR and SAP R/3 – ECC 5.0
implementation. Development and Conversion manager subcontracted by Deloitte,
using SAP Solution Manager. FRICE full life cycle management of the offshore
remote Deloitte Hyderabad ABAP development team from blueprint through build
and integration test. Designed, developed and performed all conversion dataloads.
Client: Tasty Baking Company May 2004 – November 2004
Industry: Consumer Package Goods
Project Scope: Initial Installation from Legacy to SAP 4.7
Specific Role: Development and Conversion Manager
Results: Full
scope SAP R/3 - 4.7 implementation. Development
and Conversion manager. FRICE full life cycle management of the offshore remote
Deloitte Hyderabad ABAP development team. Trained onsite team through
conversion extractions and dataloads processes.
Client: Rohm & Haas Chemicals March 2002 – August 2004
Industry: Chemicals
Project Scope: Global Rollouts from Legacy to SAP 4.6c
Specific Role: Senior data load Analyst and Developer
Results: SAP R/3
- 4.6c ABAP data migration analyst and
senior developer at Rohm & Haas for BOM and Recipe, AR Open Balance, PIR
and Source List data, and inventory loads; intermediate database cleansing
using Oracle, Access, and MS SQL Server7. Direct input data loads, LSMW and
custom BDC development. ABAP List Viewer (ALV) and excel upload/download report
development in
Client: Anheuser-Busch November 2001 to March 2002
Industry: Consumer Package Goods
Project Scope: Logistics Invoice Verification Upgrade
Project
Specific Role: LIV Senior Developer/Upgrade Analyst
Results: ABAP
developer for Anheuser-Busch, Logistics Invoice Verification upgrade project.
Dialog programming modifications and user-exit development from a Conventional
Invoice Verification system to the new Logistics Invoice Verification module
(MM/FI accounts payable) on a 4.6C SAP environment. ABAP dialog and report
development for IXOS imaging and document archiving integration with workflow.
Client: FMC Chemicals May 2000 to October 2001
Industry: Chemicals
Specific Role: ITS Web-Integration Lead Developer
Results: Lead developer for the BioPolymer and Lithium FMC ITS projects, modifying the CPG division's ITS Ordercenter into a configurable development environment for a cross-system transport to the Biopolymer and Lithium divisions. Experience heavily weighted toward the web-integration development environment: ABAP, SAPScript, BAPI, WebRFC and ITS, JavaScript, VBScript.
Client: Millenium Chemicals June 2001 to July 2001
Industry: Chemicals
Specific Role: CRM and ITS short-term fixit Developer
Results: Short term contract request for an ITS and CRM developer on a joint SAP and Accenture web integration project for Millennium Chemicals. Part-time remote as well as onsite development was performed to create webRFC’s for a conversion from SAPScript to PDF output.
Client: PriceWaterhouseCoopers July 1998 to
May 2000
Industry: Management
Consulting Services
Specific Role: Project Team Leader / FI-CO Team Leader
Results: Developed objects of varying SAP modules including PP, FI, SD, MM and WM, for several Fortune 500 clients. Accomplished in several stages of the implementation life cycle including analysis and functional design of Order to Cash and Warehouse Management SAPScript objects, ABAP development, and post go-live ABAP and SAPScript support. Functional and tech spec development, as well as the creation and execution of unit test scripts for all objects.
· Technical development roles for Gillette, IFF, General Motors Europe, BOSE, and FMC.
· PricewaterhouseCoopers SAPScript trainer for the SDC and Senior Developer of the Solution Delivery Centre.
· Successfully completed the MCS Information Technology Individual Study (MITIS) program. Training included the PricewaterhouseCoopers System Development Life Cycle Methodology and System Management Methodology (SMM)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Company: Biddle Consulting Inc. October 2000 - Present
An Independent Consultant – specializing in SAP implementations
Company: Intellex Inc. May
2000 – October 2000
An Independent Consultant – ABAP/4 Senior Developer and Technical Analyst
Company: PriceWaterhouseCoopers July 1998 – May 2000
Management Consulting Services, Solution Delivery Centre – SAP Consultant Level 2 – ABAP/4 Senior Developer.
EDUCATION
University of South Carolina, M.B.A. – 1998 Operations Strategy
Pennsylvania State University, B.S. – 1990 Aerospace Engineering
CERTIFICATIONS
Certified SAP R/3 Consultant in ABAP/4
Certified TopTier EIP (Enterprise Information Portal) Consultant