NAME

Walter Barr

SENIOR ABAP CONSULTANT

PROFILE

A SAP ABAP/4 certified systems developer with over 25 years development experience is seeking work using SAP ABAP. Experience includes over 12 years SAP ABAP programming in the areas of Interfaces, Data Conversions (LSMW & BDC’s), SAP Script, Smart Forms, Adobe Interactive Forms, Enhancements, User Exits, Interactive Reporting (ALV), Object Oriented Programming, Dialog Programming, ALE, IDOC, BAPI, BADI, SAP Transport Control, Unix Scripts, Microsoft Access and Excel. Experience also includes technical expertise with the SAP FI (GL, AR, AP & TR), CO, HR, SD, CRM, MM, PP/PI, PS, Flexible RE and QM modules, as well as PA, Classification, SIS and LIS. I have experience with SAP Versions …4.6C/D, 4.7, 5.0, & 6.0. I have experience with implementing partners including SAP Canada (2004/5), Cap Gemini (2004), Accenture (2001/2) Deloitte Consulting / ICS (1996-1999).

PROFESSIONAL SAP EXPERIENCE

WSB Computing Services Ltd.

December 2009 to Current SAP ABAP Consultant

Stewardship Ontario Industry Funding Organization

· Responsible data migration using LSMW for loads of Customer, Material, Vendor, Sales Contracts, CRM Prospects. Included merge of Customers from two disparate systems

November 2009 SAP ABAP Consultant

Progistics Logistics Company

· HR extract for third party Benefits provider

· Adobe Forms modifications to Delivery Document(SD)

October 2008 to August 2009 SAP ABAP Consultant

TDL Group Ltd. (Tim Horton’s) Real Estate Implementation

· Responsible for Conversion loads of Material Master and Open Purchase Orders

· Form Development: Purchase Order (Sap Script), Price Changes PDF (Smart Forms)

· Develop ABAP Objects to: Interface Statistical FI Documents, Enhancements to: Auto. Goods Receipt, create G/L Document to Revalue Account Balances

· Used Enhancement Framework changes to hide cost in Sales Document Flow

June 2005 to October 2008 SAP ABAP Consultant

Unilever Consumer Products

· Responsible for Conversion: loads of Material Master, Customer Master, Bill of Materials, Production Version, Routings, EDI Partners, Open: Inventory, General Ledger, Profit and Loss, GL Statistical, A/R, A/P. All using LSMW.

· Support New GL Migration, including BADI’s, OSS Notes, Loads (FI)

· Create Object to send Instant Internet E-mail

· Create Object to display (in ALV Heading) or print: Parameters and Selection Options

· Develop inbound EDI 944 (Stock Transfer) and EDI 945 (Shipping Advice) to SAP

· Support outbound EDI 940 (Shipping Order) and EDI 943 (Stock Transfer Receipt Advice) from SAP

June 2007 to September 2007 SAP ABAP Consultant

Bayer Canada Pharmaceutical

· Developed Inventory Sub-Ledger extract by Trading Partner (MM)

November 2005 to December 2005 SAP ABAP Consultant

MI Group Service Industry

· Developed 20 CRM Quote, Sales Order & Claim Reports using ALV & ABAP Query

February 2005 to May 2005 SAP ABAP Consultant

Nova Scotia School Board (through SAP Canada) Government

· Requirements definition for School Board HR system (HR)

· Interface to load Excel spread sheets directly into CATS via BAPI

· Test and correct over 40 HR programs from PA, PY, OM, TM and BN

November 2004 to January 2005 SAP ABAP Consultant

Nova Scotia Farm Loan Board (through SAP Canada) Government

· Develop report to determine Life Insurance Premium for Loan Partners (TR)

· BDC interface to Post Life Insurance Premiums to Treasure Sub-Ledger (TR)

· Function Module to Calculate Interest on Arrears (TR)

June 2004 to September 2004 SAP ABAP Consultant

Tyco Electronics Manufacturer

· Responsible extracting AR, AP, GL Open Items (FI), All Open Sales Order information (SD), Info. Record and Source List Extract (MM) for 4.7 conversions.

December 2003 to May 2004 SAP ABAP Consultant

Visteon Corporation (through Cap Gemini) Auto Component Manufacturer

· Responsible for Material Master conversion including: Datamart extracts of legacy data, developing SAP ABAP conversion programs and database (including Dialog screens) and BAPI interface to load Material Master

· Responsible for creating LSMW load processes and loading all Customer Master data

· Interfaces developed: Inbound BAPI from Monex (Exchange Rate) and outbound G/L information extract to People Soft (including Unix Script to FTP files to mainframe)

September 2003 to November 2003 SAP ABAP Consultant

Brookfield LePage Johnson Controls (BLJC) Software Company

· Developed interfaces to BLJC’s third party Real Estate Management software using ALE, IDOC, and BAPI

· Interfaces developed for Customer, Vendor, AR Invoice, AP Invoice Receipt, Actual Costs (CO) and Cash Applied (AR)

January 2003 to April 2003 SAP ABAP Consultant

ATI Manufacturing Company

· Developed HR Employee Movement reports using ALV (SAP List Viewer) (these reports included New Hires, Terminations, Position Changes, Salary Changes, and Leave of Absence)

June 2002 to December 2002 SAP ABAP/4 Consultant

St Lawrence Cement Manufacturing Company

· Responsible for Quick Viewer extracts for Material Master, Pricing, BOM’s, Inventory, Classification

· Developed MS Access conversion database used to convert Material Master data (MM)

· Responsible for creating LSMW load processes and loading all Material Master data

· SAP Script and Smart Forms enhancements for Account Statements, Purchase Order, Service Acceptance Agreements, RFQ’s

September 2001 to May 2002 SAP ABAP/4 Consultant

DuPont (through Accenture) Chemical Company

· Inter-company Invoice Interface between legacy systems & SAP using BAPI & IDOC

· Handling Units Interface between Shop Floor Systems and SAP for transaction VLMOVE using BDC and IDOCs (PP)

· Requirements definition for interfaces between Shop Floor systems and SAP using RFC

May 2001 to August 2001 SAP ABAP/4 Consultant

Kinectrics (formerly Ontario Hydro) Utility Company

· Bank Credit Card Interface (FI, PS) between a third party internet application (Procard’s PATHWAY system) and SAP

· Interfaces included BDC’s for FB01: Document Entry (Invoice’s and Journal), F-04: Posting Outgoing Payments (Vendor to Vendor), F110: Block Proposed Payment Items, KO02: Lock and Unlock Internal Orders

· Encrypt Credit Card information in SAP tables

February 2001 to April 2001 SAP ABAP/4 Consultant

Perrigo Company (USA) Pharmaceutical

· Support 3.1H to 4.6C upgrade

· Inventory Turnover Report (MM)

January 2000 to January 2001 (extended 3 times) SAP ABAP/4 Consultant

Holland Hitch (USA) Manufacturing Company

· Wage Information extract (CDN and US) for 4.6C Conversion (PY)

· US / CDN Wage Information Extract / Report for selected Wage Types from the Payroll Cluster (PY)

· 4.6C Object Oriented program to list and edit SAP ABAP program's

March 1999 to December 1999 (extended twice) SAP ABAP/4 Consultant

Perrigo Company (USA) Pharmaceutical

· New program to calculate Daily Average Inventory (DAI) for all products sold.( LIS)

· Wrote an interactive report program to combine the Future Sales (including Pricing Extract), Variable and Fixed Costs, Average Inventory Cost, Accounts Receivable Cost and many other costs. The end result was a net profit report by Business Area and Customer Hierarchy. (COPA)

· Wrote Customer Service Shipment Report to list by Sold to, Ship to and Order the: Order, Issued, Delivered and Remaining Delivery quantities. (SD)

· Wrote program to create BDC interface to transfer SIS information to COPA (SD/ CO)

January 1999 to February 1999 SAP HR ABAP/4 Consultant

Toyota Canada Auto Manufacturer

· Wrote User Exit to calculate the Benefit Eligibility Date for Contract Employee's (HR)

· Wrote program to print Individual Salary Increase Information using SAP Script (HR)

· Wrote program to print Flex Bonus Letter using SAP Script and Info Type 0015(HR)

· Developed a new program to produce a list of employees whose Benefits had changed in a specified period. Information retrieved from 0167, 0168 and 0171(BN)

Deloitte Consulting / ICS

May 1998 to January 1999 SAP Implementation: Lead ABAP/4 Consultant

Pasteur Merieux Connaught Pharmaceutical Company

· Developed Dialog Program to allow entry, update, display, authorization of Expiry Dates (QM) and printing of Expiry Date Authorization form via Sap Script

· Wrote several ad hoc programs to do mass BDC update’s of the Material Master including: extending Storage View’s, change Goods Receipt Processing Time, modifying Batch Status, etc. (MM)

· Design ALE interface for Goods Receipt, Invoice, Customer, Material interface

· Taught Data Interface & Data Dictionary course to internal programming staff

· Verify estimates for technical development of project

· Develop load’s for Vendor, Inventory, Batch Master, Account Number, Cost Centre

· Creation of Intermediate Data Base’s in MS Access to balance SAP/legacy information

April 1998 SAP Implementation: ABAP/4 Consultant

Astra Pharma Pharmaceutical Company

· ABAP program changes for Bill of Lading (SD) and Cheques (FI)

· ABAP and SAP Script for Customer Statements (SD)

· Developed ABAP program to create BDC Interface for Invoices (FI)

March 1998 SAP Enhancement: ABAP/4 Consultant

Ontario Hydro Technologies Utility Company

· Modify PS / SD Link to create Credit Notes and Sales Orders (via BDC) up to the Quotation’s value and create Blocked Sales Orders for values above Quotation

January 1998 - February 1998 SAP Implementation: ABAP/4 Consultant

Nissan Auto Manufacturer

· Develop custom Customer Account Statements to print or disk (SD)

· Develop extract for Cheque Bank Transfer (FI)

· Develop Sap Script’s to print Cheque’s with MICR Fonts and signatures (FI)

· Develop program to extract Actual Invoice Payment Dates (FI)

August 1997 – December 1997 SAP Implementation: ABAP/4 Consultant

Ontario Hydro (RAPPS) Utility Company

· Develop Custom reports (over 15) in the Accounts Payable area (FI)

· Automate SAP Accounts Payable functionality using BDC's and batch jobs(FI)

· Develop interfaces for the Cheques, Open Invoices & Cheque Reconciliation (FI)

June 1997 - July 1997 SAP Implementation: ABAP/4 Consultant

Janssen Ortho Pharmaceutical Company

· SAP Script’s to print Purchase Order, Invoice, Cheque, Packing Slip and Labels

· SAP Script to print and FAX AFT and EFT notification (FI)

November 1996 - May 1997 SAP Implementation: ABAP/4 Consultant

Bombardier (Ski Doo / Sea Doo) Manufacturing Company (Quebec)

· Develop programs to create BDC’s that updated Bill of Material (BOM) Classification Information and replicated a BOM to other warehouses. (MM)

· Created SAP Script’s for Vehicle Commercial Invoice, P/C Commercial Invoice, and Shop Floor Papers (including Bar Coding) (PP)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

System Dynamic’s Corp. (SDC)

April 1995- December 1995 Developer 2000 Independent Contractor

Eaton’s of Canada

July 1993 to January 1995 Corporate Technical Planner

April 1991 to July 1993 Data Resource Management (DRM) Manager

February 1988 to April 1991 Systems and Programming Manager (up to 10 programmers and analysts)

December 1985 to Jan. 1988 Programming Manager (up to 15 programmers)

May 1984 to December 1985 Technical Consultant

November 1980 to May 1984 Senior Programmer / Analyst

Insurance Bureau of Canada

May 1979 to November 1980 Senior Programmer

June 1976 to May 1979 Programmer

SAP TRAINING

R/3 Courses Taken:
BC010	SAP Architecture*	BC170	Introduction to ABAP/4 Programming*
BC020	R/3 Architecture*	BC180	ABAP/4 Data Interface*
BC030	SAP R/3 Data Dictionary*	BC190	Dialog - Oriented Report Programming*
BC110	R/3 Correction and Transport*	BC220	Introduction to On-line Programming*
CA010	SAP Authorization Concept*	BC230	Advanced Techniques of On-line Processing*
WT520	ABAP/4 Performance Tuning	CA910	ALE – Application Link and Enabling
BIT600	WorkFlow- Concepts, Inboxes, Reporting & Template Usage	BIT610	WorkFlow – Build and Use
TBW10	BW - Data Warehousing	TBW20	BW – Reporting and Analysis
TBW30	BW-Data Staging/Extraction	TBW40	BW – Modeling and Authorization
BC480	PDF Based Print forms by Adobe	BD481	SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe
NET310	Web Dynpro for ABAP

EDUCATION

SAP, Toronto, Canada September 1996

ABAP/4 Certification Course (Detailed Courses listed above*)

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada January - March 1995

Oracle Developer 2000

Seneca College, Toronto, Canada, September 1974 – May 1976

Diploma in Computer Programming and Analysis (completed 3-year program in 2 years)

Technical Environments

Windows NT, UNIX, AS400, IBM MVS - TSO/ISPF