Ann Jose

  • SAP ABAP Technical Team Lead/Mobility Consultant
  • San Jose, CA
  • Member Since Mar 12, 2023

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Ann Jose

 

Summary

·      SAP Technical Team Lead/Mobility Consultant

·      8 years of experience in SAP ABAP and SAP Mobility

·      Pre-Sales consultant for SAP Implementation/Mobility Projects

·      Empaneled interviewer with Accenture

·      Multiple full cycle implementation projects

·      SAP Experience working in different industries like Apparel, Consumer Goods, Energy, Retail, Healthcare, etc.

·      Deep expertise in ABAP (all RICEF and Workflow)  including OOPS ABAP

·      ABAP development experience across FI, CO, SD, MM, PP, PM, QM, HR

·      Expertise in analyzing and debugging ABAP, SAP Scripts,  User-exits, BAPI's, BADI's

·      Experience in IDoc customization

·      Proficient in adapting business requirements and mapping to SAP processes

·      Analysis, Design, Effort Estimation, Configuration, Build, Testing, Documentation, Implementation and User training

·      Team player with good interpersonal skills and the ability to work in and lead a team

·      Proven record in go-live and post go-live production support, issue resolution, root cause analysis

·      Ability to understand business requirements and translate to technical requirements

·      Experience in SAP  NW Gateway, Fiori,SAPUI5, Screen Personas, Duet Enterprise

·      Multi-topic & Multi-national experience as an SAP trainer

Management/ 
Leadership

·      Led a team of developers to build multiple objects in SAP ABAP/Fiori

·      Managed a group of ABAP developers and R/3 functional consultants to build an interface between SAP and MS SharePoint using Duet Enterprise

·      Managed all technical aspects of R/3 BASIS upgrade

·      Acted as a SAP ABAP technical advisor to Client and Project Manager(s)

·      Speaker at TechEd on SAP Duet Enterprise and Screen Personas

·      Was part of the in-house Accenture recruitment team

Technical Expertise

·      ERP: SAP R/3 4.6c/ECC 6.0

·      ABAP expertise in Design, reporting, interfaces (Idoc, ALE), conversions, SAPScript , Smartforms , AdobeForms, Workflows (RICEFW)

·      SAP Mobility (Fiori, Netweaver Gateway,SAP Web IDE)

·      Duet Enterprise and SAP Personas

Visa Status

Employment Authorization valid till Jan 2017; Authorized to work for any employer

Education

 

Jul’03 – Jun’07

Bachelor of Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Awards & Honors

·      Consistently achieved the highest performance rating for the last 5 years

·      TP Whiz Award, Accenture: 2013

·      Accenture ACE Award: Client Champion 2012

 

 

Experience

 

IBM

Latest Role

(San Jose, CA, USA) 

SAP Consultant – Fiori, Gateway, SAPUI5, ABAP, SAP Web IDE, Eclipse, IBM Bluemix

Modules involved: SD, PM

·      Developed multiple Fiori apps (SAPUI5, NW Gateway)

·      Provided technical direction and mentoring in Mobility Capability

Aruba Networks

Jul’15 – Sep’15

(Sunnyvale, CA, USA) 

SAP Consultant – ABAP

Modules involved: SD, MM and FICO

·      ABAP development/Production Support

·      Coordination with offshore team

Accenture

Nov’09 – Jul’15

(Bangalore, India/

San Jose, CA, USA)

SAP Technical Team Lead – ABAP, Gateway, Fiori, Duet Enterprise, Screen Personas

SAP Consultant – ABAP,

Modules involved: FI, CO, SD, MM, PP, PM, QM, HR

·      Led teams of developers to solve issues, coordinating with global teams

·      Conducted multiple trainings in  the Netherlands and India for new and lateral hires

·      Solution architect for response to RFP’s for SAP Implementation/Mobility Projects

·      Managed development of library of reusable SAP objects which helped $1.2 M reduction in annual costs for clients worldwide

Wipro

Dec’07 – Nov’09 

(Bangalore, India)

Project Engineer – ABAP

Modules involved: FI, CO, SD, MM and PM

·      Developed multiple RICEFW objects

·      Responsible for Peer reviews

Trainings

·         Conducted multiple trainings for new hires in the Netherlands, India

·         Conducted speaker sessions at SAP TechED 2011,2013 on Duet Enterprise and Screen Personas

·         Conducted multiple sessions on different tools, assets across Accenture

·         Conducted case study evaluations, project test evaluations on numerous occasions

·         Attended sessions/Workshops on Duet Enterprise, Syclo and Netweaver Gateway (Microsoft/SAP Labs)

·         Attended training sessions on Webdynpro

·         Participated in the Duet Enterprise Testing Workshops at SAP Labs

Project details, ROLES & rESPONSIBILITIES

IBM Fiori project                                                                                                            

·         Part of the newly formed team for SAP Mobility Capability development at IBM

·         Mentored team members and consultants and provided technical directions in building Fiori capability

·         Coordinated with the BASIS and Security Team to fix Netweaver Gateway related issues

·         Conducted multiple demos of Fiori applications built to IBM Management

·         Created multiple fiori apps (working on both SAPUI5 layer and Gateway)

·         Worked on IBM Bluemix cloud platform and SAP Web IDE

·         Proactively helped SAP Pricing Team in fixing ABAP issues

Aruba Production Support                                                                                           

·         Developed ABAP objects and provided production support for SAP modules SD, MM, FICO

·         Coordinated with the offshore team for managing and timely resolution of support tickets

·         Worked with the Marketing team to update all report templates post HP Acquisition of Aruba

Accenture Mobility Capability                                                                                              

·         Provided leadership and technical direction to team members and consultants

·         Actively participated in preparing response to RFP’s for SAP Mobility Projects on a regular basis (Vodafone, Teliasonera, Coca Cola, Chesapeake, Saudi Airlines, DPDHL etc )

·         Issue monitoring, management and reporting and management and resolution of problem tickets

·         Led a team of 7 to create configuration, development and user guides of the different fiori applications

·         Workflow analysis, design, development and maintenance

·         Responsible for process developments, configuration, enhancements, testing and support

·         Maintained master data setup in SAP systems

·         Attained expertise in Netweaver Gateway and SAP Fiori by working on  tasks & analysing new features

·         Worked on SCAN initiative and prepared process documents or the different fiori applications in place(HCM,MM,QM,PM fiori apps)

·         Implementation of fiori apps on AWS

·         Coordinated with the tech arch and UI5 team on multiple occasions to fix Netweaver Gateway issues

·         Conducted and supported multiple demos on fiori apps across several Accenture DCs

·         Technology expert/adviser role for several projects executed by the team (SCG, Trident, Kesko, SLB)

Target Canada                                                                                                                

·         Led Project team of 10 to create Netweaver Gateway services/ Firoi applications, building Fiori-like apps

·         MM workflows (Purchase order release, Purchase requisition release, Purchasing contracts release)

·         Coordinated with the functional and UI5 team on multiple occasions to fix config and data issues

·         Workflow analysis, design, development and maintenance

·         Implementation of SAP ERP Apps for initial Client Evaluation. Following Fiori Apps were implemented:

          i.        HCM Apps - My Leave Request/Approve Leave Request, My Timesheets/Approve Timesheets, My Travel Requests, My Paystubs, My Team Calendar, My Benefits

         ii.        SD & MM Apps - Track Sales Order, My Contacts, Approve Requisitions etc

DART                                                                                                                              

·         Led a team of 5 to configure, enhance, build custom Fiori applications

i.              HCM Apps - My Leave Request/Approve Leave Request, My Timesheets/Approve Timesheets, My Travel Requests, My Paystubs, My Team Calendar, My Benefits

ii.             SD & MM Apps - Track Sales Order, My Contacts, Approve Requisitions etc.

·         Configured and set up test data

·         Coordinated with the client team and provided detailed demos

·         The role also included:

          i.    Driving the System Landscape, Architecture, Security, Users Set Up

         ii.    Configuring Netweaver Gateway & Fiori Infrastructure (with support from Basis Team)

        iii.    Fiori App Configuration (SAP Gateway & ECC System)

       iv.    Work with Functional and Technical Resources in Setting up the ECC Backend

        v.    Set Up Roles, Profiles, Apply Notes & Fixes in ABAP Systems

       vi.    Roll out Apps to Business Users for Testing 

      vii.     Modify My Timesheet, Approve PR apps to Customer Scenario

AESG                                                                                                                              

·         Worked on customization and enhancement possibilities for Fiori applications (HCM, MM, PP, SD, PS)

·         Configuring Netweaver Gateway & Fiori Infrastructure (with support from Basis Team)

·         Implemented standard fiori applications

          i.    PS Apps - Confirm Network Activity, Confirm Project Milestone, Change WBS Element Status

         ii.    MM Apps - Order from requisitions, Track/Approve PO, Approve Requisitions/Contracts

        iii.     PP Apps   - Confirm Production Orders/Operations, Release Production Orders/Operations

       iv.     HCM Apps - Create/Approve Leave Request

Schlumberger                                                                                                                

·         Worked to implement standard  fiori applications 

·         Worked on functional configuration involved in different CRM, QM, PS Fiori apps

·         Worked on BADI implementations for setting up custom workflows for standard fiori approve requests 

·         Attended weekly team meetings and provided status updates to Client Management

·         Part of technical/functional design meetings to ensure requirements are clearly defined and testable

·         Created test data for the HCM Fiori applications

·         Prepared test plans for Unit Test/User Acceptance Testing and maintained UAT documentation

AAES                                                                                                                               

·         Implemented standard fiori applications

·         Worked on customization and enhancement possibilities for Fiori applications, OData offline capabilities

·         Worked on HANA system and factsheet and analytical apps

·         Responsible for the management and execution of detailed test plans to verify software functionality and adherence to business requirements

Coke Big SI                                                                                                                     

·         Led a team of 6 in this full cycle implementation for SD, MM, PP, FICO for complex business scenarios

·         Responsible for analysis, design, coding, testing and documentation

·         Experienced working with User-exits (sales order, delivery, billing), BAPI's and BADI's.

·         Validated Legacy Data and upload using LSMW/IDOC’s (Material Master, Vendor Master with classification, info records, output condition records, Indirect Material PO’s)

·         Performed SAP configurations in SAP SD area

·         Worked on RICEF Objects, designed and prepared Functional/Technical specification documents, reviewed and modified existing Functional specifications, created change requests for client approvals

·         Gathered requirements from Business

·         Design and Development for WebDynpro Based UI

·         Created defect logs and resolved defects working with the team

·         Prepared test plan for unit test and UAT, prepared test cases and was involved in integration testing

·         Ensure that all requirements gathered were documented, organized requirement gathering meetings, monitored deliverables daily

·         Go Live and Post go live support

·         Direct interaction with the client team and involved in code review, defects monitoring and tracking

SAP Screen Personas                                                                                                        

·         Led a team of 4  to develop scenarios on SAP Screen Personas

·         Developed the demo to be showcased for SAP TechEd2013

·         Conducted demo sessions in SAP Teched 2013 and CoEx sessions across DC’s in Accenture

ARTL                                                                                                                               

·         Demonstrated leadership & technical skills in supporting a big SAP dev team for ARTL

·         Instrumental in getting 100+ highly reusable assets published on ARTL

·         Made significant contribution in accelerating project efficiency and lowering costs through software artefacts package reusable for several cross industry SAP consulting projects

·         Evaluated the functional specs with process teams, translated functional specs into technical specs and prepared technical documents

·         Reviewed technical specs prepared by team members

·         Reviewed objects developed by team members and provided technical help/mentoring to the team

·         Responsible for independent validation and testing of objects developed by the team, coordination in integration testing, regression testing, system testing, user testing and volume testing

·         Managed transporting of objects to other environments

·         ABAP programming for workflow and Workflow setup for e-mail notifications

·         Analysis, design and development of workflows  to send notifications on creation/change of documents

·         BAPI, Dialog Programming (Module pool, Screen painter, Menu painter, Enhancements), Reports (ALV) and data base tables

·         Key contributor in the implementation drive for improved project adoption (12.85% reuse effort savings )

·         Worked as ABAP technical consultant and worked on FI, CO, SD, MM, PP, PM, QM, HR objects

·         Worked closely with AAES team in ADM estimator, Reduction Factor, reusability of a particular asset & also harvesting their assets and streamlining the various design and development activities with them.

·         Actively participated in preparing response to RFP’s for SAP Implementation Projects on a regular basis(Fonterra, Mettler Toledo, Costco, Alstom, Broadcom, Zoetis, Sasol Gas, Esisenmann etc)

·         Actively solved and supported projects across DC's on various technical issues

·         Collaborated with AAES(Defence/Automotive, BMW) and fixed a large no: of ABAP issues

·         Monitored and reviewed the deliverables of development team

Devon Energy                                                                                                                

·         Developed multiple scenarios on Duet Enterprise (MM, SD, PM, QM modules)

·         Produced guideline documents on Workflow maintenance activities (administration, monitoring and archiving processes)

·         Technical designing and programming of Workflow templates dealing with Purchase Order and Purchase Requisition release approvals

·         Developed workflows for Notifications : General & Quality Notifications

·         Developed Plant maintenance workflow and works order release workflows

·         Directly worked with the client; hands­on assistance to the client developer in understanding duet

·         Single point of contact for Duet Enterprise related developments

·         Made Contributions on Duet Enterprise on Knowledge repositories and reusable repositories

·         Participated in Systems Deployment/Cutover activities

Duet Enterprise Showcase                                                                                           

·         Single point of contact for Duet related developments for the Duet Showcase Project

·         Directly worked with the Product Development Owner from SAP.

·         Conducted sessions on Duet Enterprise in SAP Teched 2011

VF Corp                                                                                                                           

·         Worked to integrate the business processes across various geographies that the client was operating in

·         Worked on complex ABAP objects in various SAP modules such as MM, PP and SD

·         Conducted code reviews, mentored junior colleagues in the team

·         Responsible for project status reporting,