ALEX TCHERNIAK

 

E-mail: ABAP@comcast.net

Rochester, Michigan 48306                                                   Cell phone: (248) 854-3882

 

            PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

 

·      Seasoned IT professional with 24 years of IT experience and 18 years of SAP experience in ABAP, BASIS, and SAP Management     ♦ SAP ABAP Workbench Certification            ♦ 16 SAP implementations and multiple SAP upgrades in diverse industries including: Public Sector, Aerospace & Defence, Automotive, Utilities, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, Software Consulting, and Logistics industries.       ♦ US citizen.          ♦ PMP Certification (expected 2015)

 

·      Held various SAP roles throughout extensive SAP career, including:  ♦ Sr. Director of SAP Technology     ♦ SAP BASIS Team Lead       ♦ Global SAP Instance Owner     ♦ SAP Technical Manager   ♦ SAP Development Lead ♦ SAP Release Manager         ♦ Sr. ABAP Consultant/Architect    ♦ SAP Technical Liaison     ♦ Global EDI Lead. 

 

·      Experience w/ Global SAP Rollouts and Implementations (China, Brazil, Hungary, UK, Germany, etc.) as well as off-shore and near-shore ABAP and BASIS team leadership / coordination.

 

·      8 years of total technical leadership experience in ABAP and BASIS; 9 years of automotive industry experience; 9 years of SAP HCM/HR;  Very broad experience and understanding of all aspects of “Running SAP as Factory” as well as doing New SAP Implementations & Upgrades.

 

·      Very diverse SAP experience with a balanced mix of hands-on as well as leadership skills. Interfaced with and is comfortable around customers/employees at various org levels including CIO’s & CFO’s; able to lead large meetings

 

·      Creative out-of-the-box thinker and go-getter with positive and attitude, excellent interpersonal, communication, leadership, and project management skills, who enjoys helping/coaching others, process improvement, questioning the status quo, collaboration, and problem solving.  ♦ Familiar with Lean Startup task/project management

 

·      Strong understanding of SAP SDLC & all aspects of SAP implementations, upgrades, and support processes such as:  IT Infrastructure Planning and Management, Vendor Selection and Management, Negotiations and RFQ Process; Candidate Interviewing, Fit-Gap Analysis, System Design, Effort Estimation, Blueprinting, Requirements Gathering; extensive ABAP development experience, ABAP code reviews, Testing (Unit, SIT, Performance, UAT), Debugging, SOx/IT/Security/compliance Audits, Security/Role Management; Transport and Release Management, SAP Landscape Design (including N+1); SAP Transaction/Document Flow

 

·      Experience with SAP Solution Manager areas such as Project Management, Documentation Management, Template Management, Impact Analysis (CDMC); Charm (Change request Management), and more.

 

·      Experience with most SAP modules: HR/HCM, SD, MM, FI/CO, PP, WM, CRM, SRM, Automotive IS, PS, CATS, ESS, Solution Manager, & SAP Warranty Module); 3 SAP CRM projects

 

·      Experience with all SAP versions including ECC 6.0 EHP5/7, Netweaver 7.0 (2004s), SAP CRM 2007 (7.0), ECC 5.0, 4.7, 4.6C, 4.6B, 4.5, 4.0, 3.x.

 

·      Hands-on experience developing custom SAP Reports, Conversions/Data Migration (LSMW, BDC/CALL TXN, BAPI’s.), ABAP Program conversions during upgrade (Unicode compliance, SPAU), Dialog Programming, Data Dictionary design, IDOC design, Interfaces, ALE, RFCs, BAPIs, User Exits, Enhancement & Switch Framework, BAdi

 

·      Excellent ABAP debugging skills; Good understanding of SAP Logistics (SD/MM) Document Flow (Sales Orders, Purchase Orders,  Deliveries, Invoicing); Deep Technical expertise (8 years) in HCM

·      Experience with various SAP environments including UNIX/Linux/Windows; Oracle DB, Cloud technologies (e.g. VMWare VSphere/ESXi 5.x)

 

        SAP EXPERIENCE / PROJECTS / POSITIONS

 

Public Sector   Detroit, MI       9/2014 – Present          (Sr. Director, SAP Technology)

·      Environment:  SAP ECC 6.0; MS SQL; Windows

·      Industry:         Government / Public Sector

·      Role:               Sr. Director, SAP Technology

 

Overseeing SAP ABAP Development and SAP BASIS System Administration for Public Sector and Utilities (Oil&Gas, Energy) companies.

 

Deeply involved in and provide guidance and best practices around technology selection with regards to SAP and its modules and technologies,  including but not limited to ABAP, BASIS, Solution Manager, Integrations, HR, SRM, CRM, HANA, UIx technologies, NWBC, Cloud,  etc.

 

Providing leadership and technical expertise for operating state of the art SAP CoE Hosting Environment built on the latest virtualization technologies (VMware VSphere 5.x).

 

Coordinating and interfacing with SAP on various topics/issues such as yearly CoE (Center of Excellence) Certification and Support / SLAs.

 

               

GE Aviation   Detroit, MI                 7/2010 – present          Various Positions (see below)

           

·      Multiple Roles/Titles:      

Ø Global SAP Landscape/Instance Owner

Ø SAP Technical Manager

Ø SAP Release Manager

Ø SAP BASIS/Security Lead

Ø SAP ABAP/BASIS Technical Architect

 

·      Environment:   SAP ECC 6.0 (EHP5); SAP Solution Manager 7.1; ServiceNow; HPQC/ HP ALM; Informatica

            PowerCenter, WebMethods; Solaris 10 OS; Oracle 11g; KNOA, iRise, BackOffice Associates

 

·      SAP Modules:  Solution Manager 7.1, FI, CO, AM, SD, CS, PS, PP, PM, HR, MM, QM, PPE, DMS

 

·      Industry:           Aerospace & Defense

 

GE is a company which now makes the world's largest and most powerful jet engines, and Aviation is a core company business with $20 billion in 2012 revenues.  GE Aviation has a single global instance and has implemented ECC 6.0 EHP5 in Europe and is currently in process of implementing SAP in Americas and Asia in a total of 8 shops around the globe to support Maintenance, Repair and Overall (MRO business).  I have been “wearing different hats” throughout my career with GE Aviation.  Below are the roles, responsibilities, and some of the many deliverables:

 

Technical SAP Manager and SAP ABAP Architect:

 

·      Driving the correct use of SAP technologies and managing off-shore ABAP resources to achieve overall improvement in ABAP code quality and RICEFW deliverables, including the following: change management, release management, transport management (program version management / dependency determination), performance tuning / tracing (ST12 analysis), Technical/Functional specification reviews, ABAP code quality reviews (extended code check, code inspector), coding and testing templates/standards (naming conventions, obsolete statements, performance standards, etc.).

 

·      Performing standard management duties including employee/contractor onboarding, SAP mentoring/coaching, Performance Reviews; providing guidance on establishing yearly goals and objectives & following up through the year

 

·      A trusted advisor and a “go-to” person for ABAP, BASIS, & other technical SAP questions

 

·      Was invited to present at SAP TechEd 2013 latest technical innovations in SAP Solution Manager implemented at GE as one of the first ramp-on customers, namely:  Solution Manager’s Cross-Database Compare (CDC) tools, which help ensuring consistency of databases across systems (SAP & non-SAP)

 

BASIS Lead / System Landscape Architect

 

·      Overseeing BASIS team as well as providing architectural guidance to the team with regards to daily activities as well as planning for the future.  Some of the activities include: 

o  Capacity planning/ performance monitoring

o  SAP GUI upgrade planning and execution

o  SAP enhancement pack upgrade planning and execution

o  Oracle 11G upgrade planning and execution

o  Cloud proof of concept and analysis for migration of SAP from physical UNIX / Solaris / SPARC platform to virtual/VMware Linux x86 platform.

·      Overall four years of leading vendor SAP BASIS Team (less hands-on and more management), while ensuring overall operational excellence and minimal downtime of 10 SAP instances. Managing a team of on-shore and off-shore BASIS/architect resources (vendor as well as FTEs) to perform BASIS tasks including system refreshes, client copies, daily monitoring tasks, transports; SAP role modifications; also coordinated vendor activities to ensure smooth ECC 6.0 EHP Upgrades

·      Proposing, and driving execution of a full redesign of SAP technical landscape for parallel delivery of Support & Project solutions (N+1 landscape)

·      Proposed, organized and facilitated several on-site SAP Solution Manager / BASIS classes and workshops (E2E100, E2E300, E2E220) delivered by SAP for large internal audiences (multiple GE businesses)

·      Vendor selection and negotiation for SAP EHP5 and EHP7 (enhancement pack) upgrade projects; active participation in the upgrade projects at all of their stages

·      SAP Charm (Change Request Management) Service Delivery management and Charm implementation planning (AS IS vs. TO BE planning/design) with SAP MaxAttention

·      Drove vendor negotiations and vendor selection for Proofs of Concept (POCs) for 3rd party tools for SAP including:  HP QC,  iRise Visualization, Morae, KNOA, and Panaya

 

SAP MaxAttention Manager: 

 

·      While serving as the primary contact for SAP MaxAttention Services, managed SAP TQM’s (Technical Quality Managers and EA’s (Engineering Architects) for over 3 years

 

·      Proposing and getting buy-in from GE Sr. management, then subsequently scheduling, hosting on-site/remote delivery, and driving to completion well-known SAP MaxAttention Enterprise services such TPO’s (Technical Performance Optimizations), BPPO, RPO’s, TIC’s), Go-Live Support Services, ABAP Code Management (CDMC and CCLM);

·      Working side-by-side with SAP TQM’s (Technical Quality Managers) and SAP Platinum consultants while helping during delivery of Services by SAP (Remote Performance Optimization, Data Volume Management, Upgrade Readiness, and many others)

·      Driving forward the use of latest standards and tools in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 including:

 

§ CDMC – Custom Development Management Cockpit

§ CDC – Cross-Database Comparison

§ HP QC to Solution Manager Adapter

§ Project and Template Management

§ CCLM – Custom Development Management Cockpit

§ Charm (SAP Change Request Management)

 

SAP Release Manager:

 

·      As a member of the SAP Change Control Board (CCB) and ABAP/BASIS Lead, performed weekly audits of ABAP code (RICEF objects), technical/functional specifications, transports, testing documents, and performance-related documents before changes (new release or code break-fixes) are moved to SAP production system. Ensuring correct release documentation is created and stored in SAP Solution Manager.  Ensure vendors adhered to the set coding, testing, and documentation standards

·      Doing periodic audits of bi-weekly of SAP enhancement/bug-fix releases & driving CAB/CCB

·      Checking SOx documentation and driving operational excellence and compliance

 

Global SAP Landscape/Instance Owner

 

As the official ITIL technical system owner of the SAP Production Instance and overall SAP landscape for GE Aviation (over 10 systems), performed a multitude of technical and leadership activities including the following:

 

·      Interfacing with various parties (vendors, GE LOB’s, legacy app owners, business users) during migration of legacy applications into SAP to insure correct technology selection and proper consideration is given to system capacity, # of users, coding and documentation standards, testing, coding performance (ST12 results and scorecards)

·      Interfaced with 3rd party (non-GE) auditors from Big 3 accounting firms for security and compliance audits.  Led a large number of periodic and ad-hoc audits

·      Responsible for ensuring compliance and establishing proper controllership for overall SAP system use

 

 

               

Forest Laboratories   Long Island, NY       9/2009 – 5/2010      (SAP Technical Manager )

·      Environment:  SAP ECC 6.0; SAP BI 7.0 and BW 3.5; SAP CRM 4.0, Siperian MDM Hub, Inforatica PowerCenter, AIX OS; Oracle 10g

·      Industry:         Pharmaceuticals

·      Role:               Sr. SAP Technical Manager / Architect - via TATA Consultancy Services

 

 

·      Lead the team of 8 technical contractor resources including CRM, ABAP, Informatica, and Siperian. 

 

·      Led workshops at all stages of the project; oversaw progress of development; plugged-in and did hands-on work in ABAP and BI when required.

 

·      Note:  Appreciation letter from Director of IT of the company is available on LinkedIn.

 

 

·      As a Technical CRM/ABAP Lead, developed and led overall master data quality (DQ) strategy, performance enhancements, ABAP Design and Development, ABAP code reviews, and data synchronization between SAP CRM and Siperian MDM.  Complex data issues had to be resolved in preparation to the upgrade from SAP CRM 4.0 to 7.0;   Performed Impact Analysis of CRM program changes on the dependent BI/BW system (extractors, PSA’s, DSO/ODS, transformations, reports) as well as made corresponding changes in CRM and BI/BW to enable correct data extraction from CRM to BI/BW

 

 

ERP Gateway, Inc.  Rochester, MI     5/2009 – 9/2009 (SAP Technical Manager/ Architect)

                (Remote & on-site  support of various clients; Prototype Development)

·      Environment:  SAP ECC 6.0; SUSE Linux 10; Netweaver 7.0;  SAP CRM 2007 (7.0); HR/HCM;  SAP BI/BW, SAP SD, MM, FI; SAP IDES;

·      Industry:         Various

·      Role:               Sr. ABAP Consultant/Architect; Light SAP BASIS administration

 

 

·      ABAP & Architecture: 

o  Supporting several ERP Gateway clients:  leading technical discussions, advising on correct use of technologies, debugging, troubleshooting, and doing performance tuning of existing ABAP programs in various SAP modules: SAP ECC 6.0; SAP CRM 2007 (7.0); HR/HCM; SAP BI/BW, SAP SD, MM, FI

 

·      SAP BASIS Administration: 

o  SAP ECC 6.0 IDES dual stack installation on Windows 2003 Server and Oracle 10g in VMWare VM; SAP Netweaver ABAP and J2EE Server administration (Config. Tool and Visual Administrator).

o  Consulting on best practices for transport and release management

o  SAP Administration:  SAP Netweaver 7.0 dual stack (ABAP + Java) installation on Linux virtual machine (VMware virtualization environment)

 

 

Tremco, Inc.  Cleveland, OH     11/2008 – 5/2009    (SAP Architect)

            (Part-time / remote SAP Development project)

·      Environment:  SAP ECC 6.0; SAP CRM 2007 (7.0); HR/HCM OM; SAP BI/BW, SAP SD, MM, FI/CO

·      Industry:        Roofing Supplies

·      Role:              Working remotely as an independent SAP Technical Architect on SAP ECC 6.0 and CRM 2007; Providing estimates on ABAP development; Interfacing with various Functional SD/CRM, Technical, BASIS consultants, Coaching junior SAP consultants; Participating in SAP/CRM System Analysis and Design, Developing CRM enhancements/user exits, BI/BW Data Sources and Extract Function Modules, Custom ABAP Object-Oriented Classes for Access Control Engine (ACE), utilized BAPI’s for loading/changing CRM data; Unit and Integration Testing SAP Technical deliverables

 

 

Leading Beauty Supply Company   Detroit, MI   7/2008 – 3/2009    (SAP Technical Lead)

·      Environment:  SAP ECC 6.0; SAP CRM 2007; SAP SD, MM, FI/CO, WM; SAP BI/BW

·      Industry:         Beauty Supplies and Services

·      Role:               Working as an independent Sr. ABAP/Technical Lead Consultant on a new SAP ECC 6.0 and CRM 2007 implementation.  Interfaced with the customer at different levels including CIO;  Participated in Requirements Gathering, Gap Analysis, System Analysis and Design, Unit Testing, User Acceptance Testing, cut-over activities, post-implementation support and bug fixing, User Training/Mentoring; From SAP Technical side developed conversions (LSMW/BDC/CALL TRANSACTION/BAPI’s), enhancements/user exits, dialog programs, Interfaces, Data Dictionary Objects, Authorization Objects, ALV reports, other custom ABAP objects.  All programming efforts were done to ensure Unicode compatibility and new ABAP syntax in ECC 6.0; 

 

·      Some minor SAP BASIS tasks: Created Users, Roles, Authorization Objects, Moved Transports to QA.

 

 

 

Volkswagen of America, Inc    Rochester, MI   1/2008 - 6/2008  (ABAP Lead/Technical Consultant)

·      Environment:   SAP ECC 6.0; SAP 4.6C; SAP MM, SD, WM, Foreign Trade Module; Volkswagen’s ET2000 SAP system; Documentum; SimpleTech IM/3 Interface tools 3.0

·      Industry:           Automotive Importer/Exporter

·      Role:                 Working as an independent SAP ABAP Lead Consultant through T-Systems North America, Inc. on VW’s new van Routan.  The new van is built by Chrysler for VW, and is sold and serviced by VW dealerships.  The concentration of the project was interfaces to Chrysler (DCX), UPS (United Parcel Service), and United States Customs (US Government).

·      Completed full cycle of the SAP implementation from inception to go-live; actively participated in design (functional and technical), project management, development, and unit/integration testing, cut-over & go-live;  Interfaced with the customer and acted as a technical liaison between Chrysler and VW

·      Helped in technical task distribution for development/programming objects; participated in mentoring and coaching of junior ABAP developers and in assignment of tasks to them, monitoring development progress

·      Performing other project management tasks including provided estimates, staging of movement of ABAP transports

·      Developed technical specifications; reviewed functional specifications; developed testing plans; code reviews

·      Designed and created inbound/outbound SAP interfaces to Chrysler and UPS by utilizing BAPI’s and other tools

 

 

DTE Energy     Detroit, MI         10/2007  - 1/2008 (Sr. SAP Technical Consultant)

·    Environment:  SAP ECC 6.0; SAP HR/HCM (OM/PM, PA, BEN, Payroll), HPQC 9.0; Peregrine; Documentum

·      Industry:            Electric Utilities

·      Role:                  Working as an independent Sr. ABAP consultant

·      Following a structured development process (Designing, Developing, Testing, Documenting) at DTE to support and modify inbound/outbound SAP HR interfaces between Fidelity and DTE Energy.

·      Participated in completing functional and technical design documents, programming/development, unit/integration testing, cut-over & go-live;

 

 

pmc America     Southfield, MI     6/2007  - 9/2007    (Lead SAP ABAP/Technical Consultant)

·      Environment:  SAP ECC 6.0 and ECC 5.0; SAP SD, WM, MM, FI/CO, ALE/EDI, Seeburger, Gentran

·      Industry:         Various Clients - Automotive, Electronics, etc.

·      Role:               Working as an independent ABAP Lead consultant through K-Force, Inc

 

·      Interfaced with customers at various levels including the president and CIO. 

·      Provided technical work estimates. 

·      Supporting Bose Inc., Bowling Green Metal Forming, Sika Inc., and other pmc America’s customers.

·      Designing, Developing, Testing, Documenting, and Supporting custom SAP EDI/ALE processes and solutions in SAP Logistics Modules (SD, MM)

·      Extensive communications with various customers: explaining functionality and testing procedure of various custom solutions developed at pmc America.  Main focus is automotive EDI processes and interfaces with SAP.

 

 

General Motors Corporation    Detroit & Pontiac, MI         10/2006 - 6/2007 (Global      EDI Team Lead Sr. SAP Technical Consultant)

·      Environment:  SAP ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, SRM 4.0, EDI, Custom GM Legacy Systems

·      Industry:         Automotive

•          Role(s):          Global EDI Team Lead;   Sr. SAP Technical Consultant

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•          Working as an Independent Sr. ABAP consultant on implementation of Global Warranty Management (GWM) project and subsequently as a Global EDI Interfaces SAP Lead for GFIMS project for General Motors in SAP ECC 5.0, SRM 4.0, and SAP IS-Automotive environment.

•          GWM project provides many benefits to GM by allowing online warranty claims entry, validation, processing, and settlement - including inventory, labor and financial transaction processes through open and integrated IT systems. This is a very high visibility project for General Motors and will enable the company to respond more rapidly to automotive warranty claims submissions from dealers throughout the world.

•          Provided estimates, helped in workload distribution for development/programming tasks; participated in assignment of tasks to ABAP developers, and performing other project management tasks (including staging of movement of ABAP transports from DEV, to QA, to Productive Systems)

 

 

Volkswagen of America/Audi/Bentley Motors/gedas USA    Auburn Hills, MI                2/2003 - 10/2006 (Lead ABAP Consultant, T-Systems USA – A Deutsche     Telecom Company)

•          Environment: SAP 4.6; SAP HR/HCM, Oracle DB, Crystal Reports, UNIX, FTP, JavaScript

·      Industry:         Automotive; Automotive Importer

•          Role:               Supporting the whole Volkswagen HR Department for 3.5 years as the single Sr. ABAP Developer, SAP Technical Analyst, and Technical Liaison

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•          Interfacing with VW Vendors and US Government for pension, retirement plans, payroll, expense reporting, and other HR-related functions

•          Providing System Design, Analysis, System Development, Work Estimates, Technical Resource Management, Task Scheduling and Timelines, Performed Technical Interviews and Provided Candidate Recommendations; Interfaced with the customer at different levels including HR Executives and Executive Team Members (including vice President of HR), Project Managers, HR Generalists, HR Functional Consultants, and SAP Developers and Testers.

•          Supporting a large number of existing SAP HR programs/interfaces and developing new custom SAP ABAP Development objects; Maintaining FI/CO-HR ALE interfaces.

•          Performing occasional light-duty BASIS tasks – transport movement, transport error resolution, SAP notes, job scheduling and monitoring

 

 

Renaissance Global Logistics      Detroit, MI      12/2002 - 2/2003  (Sr. SAP Consultant, GEDAS USA via Judge Group, Inc.)

•          Environment: SAP 4.6C; SD, FI/CO, MM, WM, Automotive IS, Label Management,  RF  and EDI

•          Industry:        Automotive Logistics

•          Role:              Independent Sr. ABAP developer; designed/developed new and modified existing SAP ABAP programs in SAP 4.6C while interfacing with the customer at different levels including Chief Information Officer (CIO), Project Managers, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), SD/MM/FI Functional Consultants, and SAP Developers, SD super-users, etc.

•          Guided the client on the correct use of SAP technologies.  Primary focus was on logistics processes and interfaces.

 

 

Delphi Automotive (Aftermarket Division)      Troy, MI     8/2002 - 12/2002   (Sr. SAP   ABAP consultant, Synergy Computer Solutions, Inc.)

•          Environment: SAP 4.6, SAP MM, FI/CO, PP, SD, and IS Auto Modules, EDI, IBM CrossWorlds, B2B Portal

•          Industry:        Automotive Supplier, Tier 1

•          Role:              As a Sr. SAP ABAP Developer, estimating, designing, developing, unit testing reports, interfaces, enhancements, personalizations (screen/transaction variants) to support SAP upgrade for several Delphi manufacturing plants (Aftermarket, etc.)

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•          This specific position concentrated on SAP logistic modules

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•          Worked closely with project managers, functional consultants, as well as the business on all aspects of SAP SDLC

•          Technical tasks included inbound/outbound ALE/IDOC interfaces via Crossworlds as well as dialog SAP programs.

 

Delphi Automotive (Delphi A - Corporate) - Troy, MI     8/2000 - 7/2002 (Sr. ABAP consultant,           Compuware Corp.)

•          Environment: SAP 4.6, SAP HR, MM, PP, FI, CO, SD

•          Industry:        Automotive Supplier, Tier 1.

•          Role:              Sr. ABAP Consultant

•          Assisting ABAP team lead in coaching of junior level ABAP programmers: performing technical/functional specification walkthroughs, code and unit testing walkthroughs, making sure that ABAP programmers follow Delphi’s ABAP development standards.

•          This specific position concentrated on SAP HR modules, with some additional work in SAP logistics modules

 

·      Was part of two new global SAP HR 4.6C implementations at Delphi Automotive - HR Salaried and HR Hourly.

·      Performed requirements determination, technical spec. development, ABAP coding of reports/conversions/batch interfaces, testing using Mercury Test Director 7.0, helping with go-live and production support;

·      SAP 4.6C MM/PP and FI/CO implementation for several Delphi plants:  Developing technical specifications (flow charts, pseudo code, mappings, etc.) and writing ABAP conversion programs in SAP MM, PP, Auto 2.0, and FI/CO: including: Planning Hierarchies, Rate Routings, LIS and SOP, JIT-Kanban, etc.

·      Developed many executive-level reports in HR

 

Cedar Group (formerly The Hunter Group)  Chicago, IL     1/2000 - 8/2000    (Sr. SAP ABAP             consultant)

•          Environment:  SAP 4.6, HR Module Components, SAP@Web Studio; SAP ITS

•          Industry:         Various

•          Role:               Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant

•          Developing technical specifications for custom ABAP development

•          Writing HR ABAP Conversion Programs, Reports

•          Developing SAP ABAP program templates and standards documents

•          As a Sr. ABAP Consultant, mentoring junior ABAP Programmers; delivering technical ABAP presentations.

•          ITS 4.6B and SAP@Web Studio installation/configuration; mySAP.com & MiniApps research

•          Performing light BASIS tasks: User ID administration, application of SAP notes, transports.

 

 

                 (Electronic Data Systems)      Southfield, MI           3/1997 - 12/1999   (ABAP Developer/Analyst)

•          Environment:  SAP R/3 4.0, 3.1; SAP ITS, Various HR Legacy Systems (Mainframe), SAP ESS, UNIX

•          Industry:         Automotive; Information Technology Consulting

•          Role:               Jr. SAP ABAP Developer/Analyst on General Motors account

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•          Went through a complete cycle of an SAP implementation at EDS – from startup to production support

•          Developing ABAP Reports, Conversions, and interfaces in HR, PS, CATS,  and FI/CO

•          Performing Y2K testing of custom ABAP programs; performed ABAP SQL performance tuning

•          Light SAP BASIS.: CTS, TMS, transports, creation of users, authorizations, background jobs, UNIX shell scripting

 

        OTHER IT WORK EXPERIENCE

EDS (General Motors Account)       Warren, MI       9/1996 - 3/1997    (Programmer/      Analyst)

·      Developing custom installation programs using 4GL programming language – WISE (by GLBS) for 3rd party applications.  Ensured that the applications are complying with COE (Consistent Office Environment)

·      Releasing and providing tech support for engineering, manufacturing, and financial systems used at GM

·      Y2K Testing of more than 30 GM apps;

EDS, Inc. (Client Server Services)   Troy, MI          1995    (Network Administrator/Help Desk)

·      Novell NetWare 3.1 system administration/client support; Software installation, troubleshooting

·      Help desk support using Vantive software;  extensive interaction with customers

B. L. Beads, Inc.        Hamtramck, Michigan            1993 - 1994     (Help Desk Analyst)

·      PC maintenance (software installation, hardware upgrades), software troubleshooting; PC database maintenance

Allied Engineering Corp.    Moscow, Russia            1990 - 1991     (Programmer/Help     Desk Analyst)

·      Assembly and C Programming,  software/hardware configuration/installation

 

 

        SOFTWARE SKILLS

Operating Systems/Environments

Programming Languages

Application Software/ Databases

•       SAP R/3 Release ECC 6.0, 5.0, 4.6, 4.0, 4.5, 3.x

•       ABAP Development

•       SimpleTech IM/3 tools

•       Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Lotus Notes, Visio, Microsoft SharePoint, OneNote

•       Windows 8, 7, XP, NT, 95,

•       "C"; HTML; XML; Matlab

•       MS Exchange/Outlook, Graphic Editors;

•       UNIX, AIX, Linux, DOS

•       Visual Basic; SQL; WISE

•       TCP/IP Apps; HP QC, EDI tools

•       Novell NetWare 3.x & 4.x

•       GWBasic; MathCad

•       Telnet, FTP, Web Servers; VPN, Hummingbird,

•       Open Windows, X-Windows; VMWare VSpehere/ESXi 5.x

•       M68xx & MIPS Assembly

•       MS Access; Oracle; Quest Software TOAD Informatica; Peregrine ServiceCenter; Clarity

 

            EDUCATION

SAP Partner Academy

Ottawa, Ontario    1997

            Certified SAP R/3 Consultant

ABAP Development Workbench Certificate ID 0000551675

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI   1992 - 1996

BS in Electrical Engineering

with a minor in Computer Engineering

Moscow State University

Moscow, Russia  1989-1991

Associate Degree in Mechanical Engineering

 

              SAP TRAINING

•       SAP Solution Manager Classes: E2E100, E2E200, etc.

•       WB915 – Accelerated SAP Roadmap (ASAP).

•       SAP Netweaver - Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI 3.0)

•       CA810 - Customer-Related Project Management.  Execution of customer-oriented projects

•       BIT600 & BIT601 – SAP Workflow courses    D40AW - ABAP Development Workbench 4.0 Delta (3.x to R/3 4.0 )

•       D346AW – ABAP Workbench 4.6 Delta (transition from R/3 3.x to R/3 4.6 )

•       BC620 - SAP IDoc Interface. Technical aspects of SAP IDocs  and extension of existing IDocs

•       CA910 - Application Link Enabling (ALE). Integrating distributed applications using ALE.

•       WC640 SAP’s Employee Self Service (ESS) Application with HAHTsite.

•       PABC40 – ABAP/4 Programming Partner Academy.   4-week course covering the following 10 SAP classes:SAP20 - Overview of the R/3 System

•       SAP50 - R/3 Basis Technology.

•       BC400 – ABAP Development Workbench

•       BC405 - ABAP Reporting.

•       BC410 - ABAP Dialog Programming

•       BC415 - ABAP Communication Interfaces.

•       BC420 - ABAP Data Interfaces.

•       BC425 - Enhancements and Modifications.

•       BC430 - ABAP Dictionary.

•       BC450 - Data Modeler.HR050 - Human Resources. Basic understanding of all aspects of the Human Resources business processes.

•       HR350 – ABAP Programming in HR.                    CA080 - Project Management. Basic functions of SAP Project System

•       WB100 - R/3 Business Process Overview Workshop. Customer order management, procurement, and manufacturing processes in SAP.  High level FI/CO reporting; reporting tools, integration points in each process

       

      PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

ASUG - Americas' SAP Users' Group; SAP Developers Network (SDN); SAPSearch.com; SAP Service Market Place (SMP)

 

      LANGUAGES

Fluent in English & Russian