SAP experience:            More than 2 years

SAP Modules:                 ABAP, I-Docs, SAP-Script

Primary Strengths:

A successful business programming consultant (since 1981). Communicative Skills with regard to understanding of purpose, presentation of plan, communication of progress, and presentation of deliverable.

Providing a complete deliverable including containment of scope, testing, user verification, documentation, training and follow up regarding enhancements.

Technical Scope:

ABAP Workbench, BDC's (CORK, CS01, CS02, KE1H, KE11, KO88, MB01, MB1A, MB1B, MM02, MR21, VL02), Data Conversions, Data Dictionary Maintenance, Debugging, Dialog Programs, Drill-Down Reporting, Function modules, Function Specification definition, Graphical Screen Painter, Logical Databases, IDoc interface (including IMG setup), Information Structures, Locking strategy, Performance Tuning, Printers Definition (SPAD), Program Testing and Documentation, Reports, SAP Modifications, Super Transactions, Technical Writing, Transport System, User Exits.  

Summary:

• 25 years of industry experience

• 6 years SAP, thru 4.6, with strong ABAP analysis, development & documentation skills

• SAP modules FI/CO, MM, PP, SD

• Excellent communicative skills with regard to understanding of purpose, presentation of plan, communication of progress and presentation of deliverable

• Providing a complete deliverable including containment of scope, testing, user verification, Technical and Operational documentation, training and knowledge transfer.

• Excellent references available upon request

Industry Solutions:

• Aerospace & Defense
• Oil & Gas

Security Clearance: Database Administrator on U.S. Government Networked Systems

Education:   University of New Haven Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Citizenship: United States

 

 

History 

August 2001 – October 2001

SAP ABAP/4 Consultant. Ballard Consulting LLC. Johnson City, TN

Client: Century Aluminum, Hawesville KY

Position:  Financial report development

Primary Modules:  FI, SD

 

·         Conversion program to change SD open orders where Profit Center is not as correct and processing status is “Not Processed “ or “Being Processed.  A BDC controlled the profit center change and an audit report displayed the results.  The audit report provided the basis to correct the BDC order process exceptions.

 

·         Control table functionality to externalize account consolidations, totaling and output formatting for the Income Statement, Cash Flow, and Balance Sheet programs.

 

·         13 Month Rolling Income Statement program with definable beginning period and output table for input to the Balance Sheet. Selectable Company code, Profit center, and Consolidated options.

 

·         12 Month YTD   Income Statement program with same options as 13 Month Rolling   

 

·         Cash Flow program with the same selectable options as the 13 Month Rolling Income Statement program

 

·         Responsible for performing transports to production.

 

 

April 2000 to July 2001

SAP ABAP/4 Consultant.  Ballard Consulting LLC. Johnson City, TN

Client: Pratt & Whitney, Hartford CT

Telecommuting environment September 2000 to July 2001

Primary Modules SD, PP & MM

Program Types:  Interfaces, Enhancements, Conversions, BDC’s and Reports

Version: 45B

Position: Technical Analyst, ABAP Developer and Design level Technical reviewer

 

Pratt has a thorough Quality Assurance program, which requires documentation and design review, a code review and extensive testing.  We worked closely with the functional analysts to ensure that all of the business requirements were satisfactorily met. I also ensured that all of my code was efficient and met all of the standards established by Pratt.

 

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  Design Level Technical Reviewer: Assessed completeness of design definition as is required to initiate functional development as the groundwork for coding, testing and implementation.

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  Developed the SD engine escalation price condition.  Pricing for new engines is determined by the price letter referenced in the contract (sometimes including a fringe factor), as well as an escalation rate based upon a formula from that price letter in combination with SIC (Standard Industry Code) labor, energy, material, and industrial commodity rates published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor.  A sample of this work, including the scope of the technical details, the pricing routing and the resulting screen output, is available upon request.

 

·         Developed the SD to FI interface for Sales and Cost of Sales System. A sample of this work including the scope of the technical details and the resulting output is available upon request.

 

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  Developed interfaces from SAP / SD to Legacy systems using UNIX TCP file transfer via sys*Admiral and IBM’s MQ Series,

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  Implemented the capture of the ‘source’ department on each planned order.  MRP needs to identify a 'source’ department for internally manufactured part numbers as part of the schedule

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  Implemented MM Interfaces to and from Legacy systems to keep both systems in-sync during early phases of the project.

 

 

 

Nov 1999 to March 2000

SAP ABAP/4 Consultant. Ballard Consulting, LLC.  Johnson City, TN

Client:  Lockheed Martin, Kennesaw, GA.    

Version: 4.5B/4.6 IS-A&D on HP UNIX

Primary Modules:  FI, MM

Position: Core Technical Analyst and ABAP Developer

 

During the first three months I was a member of a 40+-person team of technical analysts writing detailed technical specifications and testing scenarios.   I worked with the MM & FI teams developing enhancement specifications.  The subsequent time was spent as one of five developers charged with implementing these technical specifications. I was the primary analysts and developer on the following projects:

 

·         Fastener Quality Act - Dialog program and SAP enhancement to provide conformance system in accordance with the Fastener Quality Act, Public Law 105-234.

 

·         Socioeconomic Solicitation Award Code - Dialog program and SAP enhancement to link the  Small Business Subcontracting information required by the Federal Government into contracts, purchase orders, and scheduling agreements.

 

·         Retired Asset Reporting – 10 year Retired Asset Report.

 

·         Product Hierarchy Modifications – Established a 7 tier product hierarchy

 

·         Restrict Auto PO Release – Clone of ME59 specifically tailored to apply specific restrict conditions and new purchase order creation conditions.

 

·         Resource Related Billing – Preview Reports - Allowed the billing analyst to make changes to the simulations viewed.

 

 

August 1997 to June 1999 (A Full Cycle Implementation)

SAP ABAP/4 Consultant at Pilgrims Pride Corporation in Pittsburg Texas.

Client: Pilgrim's Pride is a chicken producer and prepared foods manufacturer.

Version: 3.1H

Primary Modules: CO, MM, PP and SD.

Position: ABAP Developer

 

·         Feed Ingredients Purchasing System for maintaining corporate pricing of grains - Weekly grain receipts are combined with materials on-hand at each mill in accordance with a Pilgrim's algorithm for setting a new standard price for the grains at each mill for the next week.

 

·         Integration of Pilgrim's Feed Formulation system with SAP - The existing PC feed formulation program was interfaced through a remote function call to the IDoc/EDI interface providing BOM and the material/plant production version maintenance.

 

·         Integration of Pilgrim's Feed Delivery system with SAP - The existing PC feed delivery system is interfaced through a remote function call to the IDoc/EDI interface. Processing of the IDoc maintains the goods issue to production orders and the picked quantities (delivery) for outside sales. I developed drill down functionality to examine IDoc exceptions correct and reprocess.

 

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  EDI Rail Car Grain Receipts integration with SAP - Rail Carrier 410&417 transaction sets are received via the IDoc interface. Various processing steps manage the incoming cars and scanned car inventory goods receipts.

 

Other projects including:

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  Bar-code label printing

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  Dialog programs to:

- confirm and settle orders

- live haul adjustments

- assets interest allocation

 

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  Drill down reports for feed Production and Inventory

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  Reports End-Of-Month Inventory, WIP and etc.

 

 

1981 to 1997:

Proprietor of CSI (Computer Systems Integrators). 

 

CSI, a turnkey systems provider, was a source for database design, application development, education classes, database administration, technical writing, systems design, and project management, all aspects of customer systems support. CSI provided support services in UNIX, Informix, SYMIX, MCBA and IBM MAPICS.  CSI was a BMC software Preferred Partner providing BMC Patrol software to monitor and manage system environments.  I was the Project Manager and technical lead for all of CSI’s implementations.        

 

 

Prior to 1981: 

I was employed in the following positions within IBM from 1967 to 1981.

- Product Testing Laboratory - S/360 M91 & S/370 M195 System Development

- Development Division - Future Systems

- Systems Engineer      - Memphis Branch

- Salesman                   - Memphis Branch (100% Club Member)

- IBM Systems Research Institute - Class Number 41

 

 

Industry History:       Manufacturing, Production Scheduling, Labor Statistics, Roll Goods,

Make-to-order/stock, Life Insurance, Contract Uniform Distribution,

Sales Route Accounting,

 

 

Education Classes Completed since 1996:

SAP ASAP (Accelerated SAP)

SAP ABAP Performance Tuning   (WT520)

SAP ABAP/4 - Lambton College Sarnia Ontario Canada

SAP BC Enhancements and Modifications   (BC425)

SAP Business Workflow    (BC600 and BC601)

SAP (MM) Procurement  - Lambton College

SAP R/3 System Installation and Administration on the AS/400

SAP Workflow in Procurement    (WB120)

 

AS/400 Control Language Programming Workshop

AS/400 Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning

                                    AS/400 Structure, Tailoring and Basic Tuning

                                    AS/400 System Administration & Control Workshop

                                    DB2 Administration Workshop for NT & AIX

                                    DB2 Intermediate Programming for Common Server

                                    DB2 Programming Fundamentals for Common Server

RPG IV Programming Workshop