Geerthi Balaji D

  • : SAP Persona / ABAP Development Lead
  • Schaumburg, IL
  • Member Since Mar 12, 2023

Candidates About

 

Geerthi Balaji D

 

·   About 8 years and 3 months of IT industry experience in software development, design and support in SAP ABAP, SAP Module Pool Programming, SAP Persona 3.0, SAP Fiori, SAP ODATA and SAP Basic Object Oriented ABAP.

·   Have Good experience as SAP FS-CD Techno-Functional and worked on Customer Enhancements and customizations.

·   Have Good working experience on SAP Insurance Module and the customization of the FS-CD module as per the customer requirements.

·   Good development experience on SAP-FSCD, ABAP WebDynPro, Module Pool Programming and SAP-FICO modules, good knowledge &understanding of SAP HCM, SAP ODATA and SAP UI5.

·   Have Good knowledge about Agile Projects approaches and completed Agile courses.

·   Good conceptual knowledge and hands on experience in resource estimation.

·   Good process knowledge, experience in Requirements Gathering, Gap analysis, Technical Specs, UTP and coding.

·   Have good experience in SAP Production Support, Maintenance projects. 

·   Self starter with very good logical skills suitable for process design, development, implementation and production support.

·   Excellent communication and presentation skills and Customer Oriented attitude.

 

 

SAP EXPERTISE

 

·   Have Great experience in SAP FS-CD Module and Enhancements, SAP ABAP and Object Oriented ABAP.

·   Have Good Knowledge and working experience in SAP Persona 3.0 and scripting.

·   Have Good knowledge in SAP ABAP WebDynPro, SAP UI5, SAP Fiori and SAP ODATA.

·   Have worked on the ABAP Report Programs for various modules, SAP Module Pool Programming, SAP LSMW, SAP IDOC’s, BAPI’s, Smart Forms, SAP Scripts, RFC and other Interface techniques.

·   Involved in Development, production support and maintenance projects.

·   Have good exposure in various clients of modules like FSCD, FICO and HCM. Handled middleware integration with SAP and Non SAP systems.

·   Have worked in IBM Websphere Transformation Extender V8.3.

·   Have good experience in MS Excel VB Macros design and MS Visio Flow chart designs.

·   Have Great Experience in FTP, SFTP and Windows Commands.

 

 

IT EXPERIENCE

 

·   Wipro Limited, USA

·   Wipro Technologies, India

·   Cambridge Solutions Ltd, India

 

 

 

Achievements:

·   Completed Agile Courses and working in Agile Based Project Framework.

·   Achieved the “Feather in my cap” award for the excellent contribution on SAP ABAP Enhancements and middleware development

·   Received Bronze award from the customer for the excellent contribution towards the SAP FS-CD module and SAP Upgrade Testing/ Validations.

PROJECT DETAILS

Client: Pitney Bowes Software Systems, USA                                                           Dec 2016 to till Date

Company: Wipro Limited.

Role: SAP Techno Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, SAP Persona 3.0

Project: SAP Persona / ABAP Development Lead

 

Responsibilities:

·         Handling all the ABAP developments and Custom Screens modifications using Module Pool Programming and Object Oriented ABAP.

·         Working in SAP Persona 3.0 to create the Web GUI for the standard transactions screen and for the custom transaction screens.

·         Have created the Screen Persona scripts to navigate between the screens and capture the user input actions for the specific output.

·         Have worked on the SAP Persona implementations and Flavors Creation/Management/Transport.

·         Have worked on the Performance issues fix of the SAP ABAP objects.

 

PROJECT DETAILS

Client: Zurich North America Insurance Co, USA                                                Jan 2013 to Dec 2016

Company: Wipro Limited.

Role: SAP Techno Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

Project: FS-CD Base Support

 

Responsibilities:

·         Handled entire FS-CD activities; FS-CD upgrade and Maintenance & Support to existing system in ECC 6.0.

·         Worked as Onsite FS-CD Techno Functional and Resolving all the FS-CD related incidents and Service Requests that include the US and Canada Transactions.

·         Have worked on the modification of Disbursements process for the Canada Transactions that have both the USD and CAD currencies.

·         Have worked on the Authorizations objects for the Reports and Transactions that were delivered to the Canada and US Account Representative Groups.

·         Have developed many Financial Reports to deliver the Transactions to the users on Monthly basis for the reconciliation purpose that include both the US and Canada Transactions based on their respective local currencies.

·         SPOC for all the month end close, transfer to G/L Accounts and reconciliation activities of both the US and Canada Transactions posted in the system every month.

·         Handled all the daily activities/ Ad-hoc requests such as Manual Disbursements, Write-Off’s, Manual Clearing and Transactions data load to the system.

·         Prepared the Test plan and validating the FS-CD processes and activities with the new implementation of Support Stack 14 in ECC 6.0.

·         Have prepared a comprehensive upgrade test plan which has been used across all systems on every patches implementations or system modifications.

·         Have trained the team in carrying out the testing activities as per the plan in dev and sandbox systems.

·         Have been co ordinating between the onshore Client Technical team and the offshore Team.

·         Have developed Report Program for the Audit Purpose that could provide the Yearly posted, Deferred and Cash items that is useful for the Financial Management in the format they require.

·         Reviewed all the Development objects/ enhancements performed by the Offshore Technical team.

·         Worked on Customer Enhancements that are required in SAP Insurance Module and Developing new programs per the Business Requirements.

·         Made changes to month end schedule such that all the crucial jobs will complete within available resources without affecting the users from various geographic locations.

·         Have monitored the system for the large transactions or other postings that are affecting the system performance and help the users to get those activities completed without affecting the other users in the same/ other transactions.

·         Worked in the Testing phase of the Upgraded Environment from ERP 4.7 to ECC 6.0 and validated all the FS-CD activities before delivered to the Business Users and made sure the system is stable for all the customized objects that include the main processes such as Disbursements, Write-Off’s and Incoming/ Outgoing Payments.

 

 

Client: Zurich in North America, Chennai-India                                                Feb 2012 to Dec 2012

Company: Wipro Ltd.

Role: SAP Technical Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 V4.7

Project: Malbec implementation

 

Responsibilities:

·         Worked as Offshore Technical Lead and developed many new objects such as Reports, Programs to accommodate the new Agency Billing activities in the system.

·         Made changes to the existing objects to handle the new design for the Agency Bill data that include Incoming Payments, Special Collections, Open Items Reporting and Account status reporting activities and the Financial Reports that are being used by the Accounting Team for Auditing.

·         SPOC for all the technical issues from offshore location and resolved them on time which helped in the successful delivery of the Project on time.

·         Made changes to the Batch Job schedules to accommodate the new jobs that were developed for the Agency Billing and provided the optimal schedule window for all the batch jobs without affecting the existing jobs in place for the Non-Agency Bill data.

·         Created new custom mass activity to pull open items in FS-CD and implemented Exits in FQEVENTS to generate the Open Item Report.

·         Have worked on optimizing Financial Reports to run quicker and the run time of the several reports were brought down to less than 10 mins from hours of execution.

·         Had a Regular interactions with the Clients and Onshore teams to provide the regular updates and managed the Offshore Technical team to deliver the objects per the business requirements on time.

 

Client: Zurich in North America, Chennai-India                                                Oct 2011 to Feb 2012

Company: Wipro Ltd.

Role: SAP Technical Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 V4.7

Project: SAP FS-CD Base Support

 

Responsibilities:

·         Worked in the Server Migrations Project between Virtual DNS servers and validated for the SAP FS-CD Critical Processes and the IBM WTX Middleware connectivity which was mounted in a Virtual DNS server.

·         Worked as Offshore Technical Lead and developed many new objects such as Reports, Programs to accommodate the new Agency Billing activities in the system.

·         Developed classical, ALV and interactive Reports based on Client’s requirements.

·         Prepared Technical specifications as per the requirements.

·         Responsible for batch support on daily basis in FSCD module.

·         Worked extensively on FS-CD module.

·         Handled many FS-CD tickets in major areas like dunning, invoicing, correspondences, write offs, disbursements etc.

 

Client: DHL United Kingdom, Bangalore -India                                                Feb 2011 to Aug 2011

Company: XChanging Ltd.

Role: Middleware Technical Consultant

Environment: IBM Websphere Transformation Extender V8.2.

Project: ESI Development

 

Responsibilities:

·         Worked in development and support IBM Websphere Transformation Extender Middleware for the DHL Supply chain management based in UK.

·         Developed a Tool in Websphere Transformation Extender that would convert the various file formats without affecting the data. This WTX Map was used as the conversion tool for most of the E-mail triggers and File Attachment processes.

·         Worked in Oracle Database environment that has the WTX setup and with the Unix OS.

·         Have developed a Tool for the FTP files between external servers without affecting the performance and it was used for the quick processing during the critical files delayed from the external servers.

 

 

 

Client: Zurich in North America, Chennai-India                                                Jul 2009 to Feb 2011

Company: Wipro Ltd.

Role: SAP Technical Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 V4.7

Project: SAP FiCo/ FS-CD Base Support

 

Responsibilities:

·         Worked on various code changes in ABAP Report Programs for FS-CD and FiCo modules.

·         Worked in Implementation of Websphere Transformation Extender V8.3 – Upgrade from Mercator 6.7, Middleware used to convert the files between SAP and Bank secured directory.

·         Have developed a WTX Map to trigger the map and send the notification to the Finance and Technical team upon empty files/ feed received from SAP.

·         Have supported the FS-CD Batch Jobs and FiCo Scheduled Jobs monitoring for the timely processes and completion to avoid the business impacts.

·         Have developed a Report for the FI module that can provide the Deferred Policy acquisition cost that is a key tool for the Financial Audit Management.

·         Single Point of Contact for the Middleware Support and Enhancements.

 

Client: Convergys (J&J), USA, Hyderabad-India                                          Jan 2009 to Jul 2009

Company: Wipro Ltd.

Role: SAP ABAP Technical Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0.

Project: Johnson & Johnson Wave B

 

Responsibilities:

·         Worked in HR module of ABAP and worked in the Migration Project to SAP. The HR Module and the Master data from the Flat File format to SAP using the LSMW.

·         Have developed SMARTFORMS for the various applications of HR module (Ex: Leaves, Benefits and Separations etc.)

·         Have developed many reusable LSMW scripts to handle the large data of the Non-SAP feed.

·         Have created the Test plan and documents for the Smarforms and delivered to the clients.

EDUCATION

·   Master of Business Administration (Human Resource Management) from University of Madras, Chennai, India

·   Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in Automobile Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.

 

TRAININGS ATTENDED

·   Have attended ABAP WebDynPro training.

·   Have attended in-house training in SAP ABAP and SAP HCM

·   Cleared Agile, Veloci-Q, SCM, Review and Testing Course

·   Certified in Code of Business Conduct and Ethics