Candidates About

 

Ramki Siri                                                                   

   Summary

§    18 years of SAP Management and Development experience in Insurance, AFS, Life Science, Media, Aerospace and Software Industries.

§    10 years of SAP Management, 2 years of SAP Cutover lead and 6 years in techno/functional lead roles.  Versatile Management, People and SAP skills.

 

§    Expert in Crisis Management, Advance Team Productivity, Improve Communication Roadblocks and Technical Leadership

 

§    Experience in Managing End to End Implementation, Upgrades and Production Support.

 

§    Recent projects as Manager includes, SAP PI Lead, S/4 HANA Enterprise Management Cloud Roll Out, End to End Implementation, SAP Billing, SUP deployment, BPC and SAP ITS implementation.

 

§    Worked on All Major SAP Modules, IS-Retail and IS-Auto systems. Strong SD/MM techno functional skills.

 

§    8 SAP Rollouts, includes 4 full Life cycle Global SAP end to end implementations and 4 Upgrades.  Hands on experience in ECC 6.0, 4.7, 4.6C, 4.0B, and 3.1I environments. 

 

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer science.

Professional Experience

Independent Consultant:

Client – Marchon ( Insurance, AFS)                                                              01/15 - Current                       

 

·         SAP Cutover, PI and Development Management for SD, FI, PI and MM,QMS for the Billing project roll out on SAP NetWeaver 7.4.

·         Designed and Implemented SAP Interfaces with Mainframe, Java and Sql Systems.

·         Implemented PI proxy architecture for the multi-level interfaces.

·         Implemented S/4HANA based development for all the SAP Cutover, Interface and SD Billing objects.

·         Managed the Cutover Process.

·         Lead the development team on implementing Customers, Pricing, Contracts, and Invoice, cutover and interface objects.

·         Lead the technical team in updating all the SD billing programs with S/4HANA database programming and also have exposure to Fiori and UI5 as the client was implementing SAP apps prototypes. 

·         Implemented S/4Hana Database recommendations to all the existing VSP programs that are billing related.  Lead the team in implementing all optimizations of user exits using HANA database recommended queries.

·         Analyzed trace and SQL monitor reports for code optimizations with S/4HANA queries.

·         Used UPL BW queries to analyze programming logs.

·         Exposure to Fiori Launch Pad and UI5 apps.

 

 

Principal Consultant

Sparta Consulting Inc                                                                                                     09/2012-12/2014

 

 

Client – ESI ( Semi-Conductor)                                                                     08/14 – 12/14                       

 

·     SAP Project Manager on ESI sap upgrade. Planning, analysis, and documentation of SAP Upgrade Solution.  Analyze and apply SAP Notes and lead the onsite/offshore SAP  team.

 

 

Client - Kyocera (Manufacturing)                                                                    02/14 – 08/14                       

 

·     SAP Implementation lead in Kyocera’s multiple entity merger. Lead the team of SAP MM, SD and FI interface developers on developing SAP Forms , Reports and Conversion Objects. Development Objects include Master Data Conversions, Order, Delivery, Invoice Forms and ALV Reports in SAP and interfacing objects with RFC.

 

Client - VSP (Insurance)                                                                                     08/13-02/14__

 

·     Technical Team Member on SAP Billing Project.  Deliverables for the team includes SAP Forms, Enhancements, BTE, Web services and Reports on SAP AR, AP, Dispute Management, Contracts and related SD&FI objects.  Development Objects include Programs for Dispute Creation, Consumer Dunning, Credit Card Expiry Notice and Open Contract Web service.

 

 

Client – Epson America (Electronics)                                                             09/12-08/13__

 

·     SAP Development Manager on the Global SAP implementation. Designed Technical Process, Documentation Structures, Reporting Tools, Communication process, resource allocation and coordination/tracking of technical deliverables.

      Team members include BPC, BOBJ, BI, ABAP, PI, SCM and SAP Functional Consultants on an Global Onsite/Offshore Model.  

·     Extensively worked on SAP cutover activities.  Co-ordinated the efforts with End Users, Legacy and SAP. 

 

SAP Project Manager

Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, Santa Monica(Media)                          01/07-09/12_

 

       

 ·  Project Manager, on the company’s Major Breakthrough Project - Achieved Significant Cost Saving replacing Old Legacy systems with SAP Tools.  Replaced the Legacy systems for Material Master, Title Master, Forecast, Budget, A/R Invoice, Marketing, Promotions, Contracts and Royalties with appropriate SAP Tools such as R/3, Portal and IPM.  Designed and implemented the old processes in SAP.  Lead a team of SAP Functional, Technical and Web designers in implementing the project across the company. 

·     Implemented Blackberry interfacing with SAP for PR/PO approval and media specific reporting on mobile devices via SAP ITS. 

·     Project Manager on Sales & Distribution implementation. Involved in Database design, Technical design, resource allocation and development on SD objects SO, Cancellation, Delivery and PGI.  

·     Provide round the clock production support for all SAP systems and interfaces.

·     Reports directly to the IT Director on day to day Project updates. 

·     Lead a team of Basis, Web, ABAP and IOS Programmers on the SAP Mobility Implementation project.  Involved in SUP deployment, design and Implementation on Hybrid Web Container and Device Native Code.

 ·    Project Manager on the SAP 4.7 to  ECC 6.0 upgrade.  Co-ordinated the SPAU/SPAD resolution, resource allocation, status tracking and technical support.

·     Managed the technical team on the Major Data Migration Projects across SAP, BW, BPC, CRM and Web Portal on various acquisitions.

·     Lead a team of BPC developers on SAP interfacing.

·     Lead SAP CRM abap team using badi and crm fn module design interfacing with ABAP ECC and BPC.

 

 

Technical Specialist Lead

File Net Corporation – An IBM company, USA (Software Industry)           4/06-01/07

 

·     Project Lead in FI (Banks, Fixed Assets, AR, AP, and GL), SD, PM,PSand MM areas. 

·     Provide technical expertise as the tech lead involving ABAP development.  Involved in blue print phase of SAP 4.6 to  ECC 6.0 upgrade, provided technical expertise on the areas of replacing bdc’s with BAPI’s and identification of new badi’s.

·     ABAP lead in Treasury implementation project using Electronic bank statements. Changed standard programs for uploading/posting and created new reports for cash position. Created custom programs for Commission Calculation to interface with internal Commissions system.  Developed a time sheet entry programs in PS module. Day to day production support for SD, MM, FI, PS modules.

 

 

 

Sr Systems Analyst

Satyam Computer Services, Ltd.                                                                             07/01-04/06

 

Client: Applied Bio Systems, USA (Life Science Industry)                                       09/03-04/06

·     As an Onsite Coordinator, lead a team of offshore consultants involved in SAP development/production support for SD, SM, SRM, MM, FI, SCM and GTS modules.  Worked extensively on technical specifications, estimation review, code review and audit documents. Developed new validation/reporting logics in standard SAP user exits for Sarbanes Oxley.  Reports triggered for Price change reasons and partner changes. Extensively worked on printing outputs on dot-matrix, zebra and label printers.   Worked on Label printouts (e.g., material labels, QA acceptance labels.) 

·     Managed the change requests remedy system queue, supporting the global production support team in North America, Australia and Japan.  Effectively supported and managed the complete production support team in absence of the 4 member client team supporting their SAP Upgrade.

·     Technical Team Member on SAP implementation for Brazil with dot-matrix printers. Created new print programs Nota Fiscal layout and invoice. 

·     Designed and developed SAP programs for SAP GTS implementation.  Key technical team member on the onsite/offshore model SAP Upgrade from 3.1I to 4.7.  Co-coordinated and involved in the effort of replacing hard coding in programs using field symbols and user exits.

 

Client: Fujitsu, Japan (Consulting Client)                                                               06/03–09/03

·     Development team member on SAP implementation on version 4.6.  Modules include MM and SD for a Fujitsu client. Developed reports, module pool programs and sap-scripts

 

Client: OTE, Muscat, Oman (Retail Automobile Industry)                                      10/02- 06/03

The end to end implementation covered the following modules - FI, CO, MM, WM, SD, SM, and HR. The other components in this engagement were BW, IS-AUTO and Enterprise Portal.

 

·     Extensively worked on Sap scripts, Module Pool and Interactive reporting as the Key programmer on MM, WM and SD modules.

·     Developed inbound delivery creation program for OTE specific process. Vital program in WM process of the company, prior to stock receipt the complete distribution and validation of the stock is carried out, which eases the process of MM/WM in allocating the stock in various BIN locations.

·     Part of day to day short dumps review team, Apply sap oss notes as required part of post implementation support.

·     Developed print programs and sap scripts for Goods Receipts, Transfer order, Material Transfer Note, Vehicle receiving note, Vehicle Transfer note for MM/WM and Vehicle sales modules.   Involved in user exits, data conversions, badi’s for IS-AUTO.

·     Created custom screens using module pool programming for handheld device in Warehouse Management for RF programming. Worked on all label printing deliverables.

·     Involved in the multi-dimensional data modeling of the BW systems for SD, MM, FI/CO. Worked on development of Sales Order Info Cubes involving Customers, Vendors and Shipping, Data extraction for initial stock in MM from SAP tables to BW info cubes and also the corresponding reports in Bex analyzer.

 

Client: TRW, USA (Aerospace Industry)                                                                   10/01–09/02

·     SAP Development on Vehicle configuration system which involves in flexible planning module of PP. Involved in creating and maintaining custom tables for transactional data, and process them on custom screens.   Developed user interface for automotive receipt and forecast, the execution of the program automatically sends the vendor due quantities through email and fax.   Extensively involved in DATA DICTIONARY modifications, module pool programs and custom SAP table creation/maintenance in PP and APO modules.  Hands on Development in MM and PM integration.

 

Client: Mitsubishi Electric Information systems -Sysmex, JAPAN                       07/01–09/01

·     Had an active abap programming role in SAP upgrade of 3.0D system to 4.6C system.  The upgrade involves Reports, BDC’S, Sap Scripts, and Module Pools.   Identify standard program changes via SPAU and update the necessary changes in new version.  Optimized custom programs before upload to new version.

 

Web Programmer

PPP InfoTech Pvt, Ltd                                                                                          09/00 - 07/01

 

·     Active role in Web Programming, Database Designing and Testing.  Developed on XML, WAP, JAVA and EJB applications.

SAP ABAP Developer

Grasim Cements, Ltd.                                                                                            05/99 - 08/00

 

       ·            Developed SAP Programs on SD, MM and FICO modules.  Worked on projects       involving new reports, user exits and code optimization. Extensively worked on SD user exits, idocs, sap scripts and reports.