Candidates About

Shareen Hegde Kukkehalli 

         

SAP PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT

 

Highly qualified SAP Techno-functional Professional and technology leader with 17 years of hands-on experience architecting and developing robust SAP solutions. Experience in all aspects of an SAP Project from inception to deployment. In-depth knowledge of SAP ERP components, architecture, configuration and integration with other systems. Detail-oriented and skilled in maximizing resources, value, and efficiency. Certified Engagement Manager with proven track record in managing and executing complex global SAP projects with geographically distributed teams, while being a successful leader and mentor. Innovative thinker with a keen ability to build productive and profitable relationships.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Clarkston Consulting – Principal, SAP Practice (2016-Present)

Projects:

 

Role: SAP S4H Technical Manager (Hand’s On) at Furst McNess, Freeport, IL                    Jan 2018-Present

 

·         Industry: Animal Food; SAP Ver: S/4 HANA 1709 Module:  FI (BTC), MFG, PTP, OTC, IM

·         Leading a technical development team of 4 onshore resources (ABAP, Fiori, Data, Security) to design and develop around 54 WRICEF objects for a green field S4H 1709 Implementation with Best Practices and Activate Methodology.

·         Hands-on design and development of complex RICEFW objects.

·         Designed development strategy, Data migration strategy, Development Standards, templates, application development process, change/scope management for RICEFW.

·         Design and deployment of Fiori apps/customizations in an Embedded Landscape with SAP Gateway and S4 Core in the backend.

·         Developed Business Roles in the Frontend and OData services and Roles in the Backend for the Fiori apps.

·         Aided the functional team during the blueprint (explore) to come up with a list of RICEFWs and rationalization of these objects with Business, planning the development and managing the resources.

·         Mentoring and educating team members, junior resources and client counterparts with respect new technologies, Best Practices, Rapid Deployment and SAP S4 HANA in general.

 

Role: Technical Manager/Architect (Hand’s On) at Benjamin Moore, Montvale, NJ          June 2016-Jan 2018

 

·         Industry: Chemical; Sector: Process Industry SAP Ver: ECC 6.0 on HANA: Module: MFG, PTP, PP-PI, QM, WM

·         Leading a technical development team of 12 onshore developers (ABAP, Fiori & PI) to design and develop around 84 WRICEF objects for a SAP implementation with ECC 6.0 on HANA.

·         Hands-on design and development of complex RICEFW objects.

·         Designed development strategy, specifying conventions documents, FSD templates, TSD & TUT templates, application development process, and change request process for RICEFW.

·         Mentoring boot-campers and junior stewards & developers.

·         Built a new team of developers to develop Fiori apps and POCs on S/4 HANA and helping the client with their S/4 HANA Roadmap and strategies.

·         Part of S/4 HANA pursuits that have converted into wins for Clarkston.

 

 

Cap Gemini - SAP MANAGER (2013-2016)

Projects:

Role : SAP Technical Manager at Chesapeake Energy, Oklahoma City, OK                                   2014-2016

 

·         Industry: Oil & Gas ; Sector: Upstream SAP Ver: ECC 6.0; IS-OIL Modules: RTR,HTR,PTP,EAM,OTC

·         Successfully led a technical development team of 57 offshore developers and 12 onshore developers to design and develop around 625 WRICEF objects for a $70M Greenfield SAP implementation with ECC 6.0 on HANA with SAP Ariba, Success Factors, Concur, AMSOG and various third-party add-ons.

·         Designed development strategy, specifying conventions documents, FSD templates, TSD & TUT templates, application development process, and change request process for RICEFW.

·         Developed numerous PoCs for Enterprise Integration Hub and Prototypes for Fiori on S/4 HANA using SAP Splash & Build.

·         Produced and provided solutions for SAP enhancements, interfaces, conversions, forms & workflows.

·         Developed a L3 plan for the blueprint phase and realization (build) phase.

·         Secured a CAST TQVI score of 4.0/4.0 and effective coordination of development activities with a massive offshore team; helped in resource management and planning, estimation, costing and status reporting to stakeholders.

 

Sr. SAP Techno-functional Lead at Kwik Trip, La Crosse, WI                                                    2014

 

·         Industry: Retail; Sector: Convenience Stores SAP Ver: ECC 6.0; IS-Retail 6.0 Modules: FTM, PTP

·         Managed technical development team of 7 ABAP & BW developers to design and develop around 40 WRICEF objects for a new SAP FTM/PTP implementation.

·         Designed and provide custom solutions for SAP enhancements, high-level designs for workflows; created programming guidelines and development standards for the development team.

·         Developed RICEF tracker, coordinated development effort with the onshore and offshore teams, reviewed functional specs, designed & reviewed technical specs, and development guides.

·         Supported team during testing and helped defect tracking and resolution during integration test cycles; enforced strict CAST compliance for code quality.

 

Sr. SAP Technical Lead at Loves, Oklahoma City, OK                                                                      2014

 

·         Industry: Retail Sector: Convenience Stores SAP Ver: ECC 6.0; IS-Retail 6.0 Modules: FTM

·         Lead a development team consisting 16 developers to design and develop around 140 RICEF objects for a new SAP FTM implementation.

·         Reviewed functional specs, design & reviewed technical specs, development guides, technical unit test documents, and code review documents.

·         Supported functional team during testing; helped defect tracking/resolution during integration testing.

 

Sr. SAP Development/BW Lead at Fossil, Richardson, TX                                                                        2013

 

·         Industry: Retail; Sector: Fashion & Apparel SAP Ver: ECC 6.0; IS-Retail 6.0,AFS

·         Lead the technical team comprising ABAP & BW developers to design and develop a custom forecasting and replenishment solution for the APAC region, where currently the forecasting and replenishment for the concession stores was done on a third party system called Navision and numerous BW reports for Sub-warehouse and CCV stores..

·         Designed Idoc interfaces to bring Inventory & Sales information from Navision to SAP IS-Retail box and Article master information from SAP AFS to SAP Retail.

·         Enhanced numerous forecasting user exits/BADIs for custom forecasting solution.

 

Sr. SAP Development Lead at Philips, Andover, MA                                                                 2012-2013

 

·         Industry: Life Sciences ; Sector : Medical Devices ; SAP Ver: ECC 6.0; Modules : MM,FICO,SD

·         Part of the technical team responsible for the design and development of a custom harmonized solution to realize a new Medical Devices Excise Tax imposed on the client as a part of President Obama’s new healthcare reform policy across all commercial and factory kernels (SAP instances) of the client using Agile/SCRUM, OOPs methodologies.

·         Responsibilities included Design & Development, Unit Testing, guiding the 2 junior developers on the team, documentation, Sprint Planning during Phase 1 and help the Capgemini project executive team with the bid response, proposal, planning for the Phase 2 of MDET implementation.

 

 

Jones Apparel Group/Boston Apparel                                     

Apparel & Footwear, Sr. SAP Technical Lead Consultant                                                                2012

 

·         SAP Version: ECC 6.0 Modules: MM, FI, CO, SD/AFS: designed and developed custom programs to forward purchase requisition workflow items to designated approvers.

·         Enhanced standard purchase requisition screen to accommodate a custom logic to populate approvers; implemented a workflow approval process for all manual journal entries.

·         Developed a report to list all POs with pricing info for the audit team; developed numerous LSMW's to update sales pricing condition records.

·         Designed and developed programs to migrate data from SAP to a Third Party Cloud-based sourcing and procurement ERP system called Ecometry.

·         Developed an extract program to move all the sales pricing information from R/3 to Ecometry; designed numerous reports in FI, SD, WM and extracted data for greater visibility.

 

Church & Dwight

Manufacturing, Sr. SAP Technical Consultant                                                                                 2011

 

·         SAP Version: R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 Modules: MM, FICO, SD, PP Project: Upgrade to ECC 6.0. Part of the upgrade team helping in the design and development of interfaces.

·         Designed and developed a custom program to do mass pricing update on Info records and scheduling agreements, display of explosion process at component level for profitability analysis.

·         Enhanced various SD pricing user exits and pricing and output routines in VOFM; developed extract programs to help in data migration.

 

Unilever

Manufacturing, Sr. SAP Techno-Functional Lead Consultant                                                    2010-2011

 

·         SAP Version: ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0 Modules: MM, SD, WM, PP, FI, CO, PS Projects: Production Support, SAP-MDM Integration.

·         Supported of all R/3 applications across all the landscapes under the umbrella of the NA region.

·         Trained users of the SAP application, addressed concerns and provided resolutions; supported the integrity of numerous third party interfaces with SAP and 3rd party add-ons sitting on SAP core.

·         Designed technical and functional specifications, trained and led other offshore developers, and shared expertise with the offshore team.

 

Church & Dwight

Manufacturing, Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant                                                                                  2008-2010

 

·         SAP Version: R/3 4.7 Modules: MM, SD, WM, PP, PLM Projects: PNet E-Procurement Project, Swisslog Warehouse Management Project, LEO - Load Optimization Project, SPD Customer Profitability, Production Support, PLM - EH&S WWI Reports.

·         Designed interfaces from SAP to 3rd party systems like PNet, Swisslog Warehouse Management System, etc.; developed custom ABAP programs in SAP BW to extract COPA data from ODS/Cubes.

·         Enhanced a standard purchasing contract release workflow to provide a custom email notification.

 

Easton Bell Sports

Apparel & Footwear, Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant                                                                       2007-2008

 

·         SAP Version: ECC 5.0 Modules: MM, PP, SD, and WM. Project: Merger and Re-implementation.

·         Developed several RFCs that can be called from the Netweaver portal to access PO components - add, modify, delete; displayed PO details, sales order holds, and inventories at certain satellite locations.

·         Developed a SAP script to display loose parts on Production Order along with the components; modified existing SAP scripts for production order to have receipt locations printed.

·         Developed a custom dialog program to update re-order points and replenishment quantities in MRP view of Material Master using IDOCs.

 

Unilever

Manufacturing, Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant                                                                                 2006-2007

 

·         SAP Version: R/3 4.6c, 4.7 to ECC 6.0 Modules: MM, WM, PP, SD Project: 'Vital' - a merger of 2 core business units of the client and also upgrade of SAP Landscape from 4.6c and 4.7 to ECC 6.0.

·         Part of the data migration team: developed extract programs for Vendors, Source Lists, Purchasing Contracts, Outline Schedule Agreements and P.O.s.

·         Developed an LSMW to modify and load purchasing contracts and POs, product hierarchy; developed interfaces to send materials to Interspecs.

 

Valero Energy Corporation

Oil & Gas, Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant                                                                                                  2006

 

·         SAP Version: R/3 version 4.6c (TSW Core Downgraded from mySAP 2005) Modules: IS-OIL, SD, MM Project: New TSW (Traders & Scheduler's Workbench) Implementation.  

·         Part of the TSW implementation team: Developed an interactive application for capturing Advisor Daily Volumes to enable Yield Accountants and capture refinery shipments and receipts.

 

Hershey's

Manufacturing, SAP ABAP Consultant                                                                                      2004-2005

 

·         Industry/Sector: Food SAP Version: R/3 version 4.7 Project: New SAP R/3 implementation Modules: SD, MM, PP and FI/CO.

·         Part of the implementation team during the entire life cycle of the project: developed new reports using OOPs methodologies, SAP scripts for sales order confirmation, packing list, smart forms for production order; designed and developed dialog programs for batch conversion.

 

McCormik & Company

Manufacturing, ABAP Programmer                                                                                          2003-2004

 

·         Industry/Sector: Food SAP Version: R/3 version 4.6c Modules: SD, MM and FI/CO Part of numerous full life-cycle projects each spanning 3 to 4 months.

·         Developed numerous consolidated reports for Sales, Deliveries, Backlog Orders, Purchase Orders, Inventory Movements and Open Orders, Return Orders and Open Orders; developed BDC programs to loaded transactional data.

 

Clients:  Dayco/Hero Honda, AstraZeneca

Manufacturing/Automotive/Pharma

ABAP Consultant                                                                                                                      2001-2003

 

·         SAP Version: R/3 version 4.6b, 4.6c: Modules: SD, MM , PP, FI/CO, QM

·         Part of development team for numerous small projects involved in developing custom reports in SD & MM areas, data loads using LSMWs; designing and configured new ALE/EDI/IDOC interfaces, SAP Scripts, User Exits, Custom Module Pool programs

·         Part of an optimization project to clean up and optimize existing legacy reports.

·         Developed new reports using modularizations techniques like forms, function modules to enhance performance and function.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

M.S in Engineering

Wright State University, OH 

                                                

B.S in Engineering

Bangalore University, India

 

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & CERTIFICATIONS

 

Certified Engagement Manager with strong exposure to Enterprise Resource Planning, Business Process Re-engineering, Development and Implementation of customized packages pertaining to SAP functional modules like IS-OIL, Sales and Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), Finance & Controlling (FICO), Plant maintenance (PM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), LEO (Logistics Execution Optimizer), AFS (Apparel & Footwear Solutions) modules; Extensively worked on Report Programming, ABAP Workbench, Data Dictionary, Dialog Programming, Batch Data Communications, Job Scheduling, LSMW, CATT, SAP Scripts, Workflow, Smart forms, Function Modules, User Exits, BADIs, BAPIs, RFC, ALE/ EDI, IDOC, OSS; Experience with  SQL Trace, Debugging, Runtime Analysis/Performance Tuning; ASAP, Waterfall, Agile/Scrum methodologies.

 

ERP Package: SAP R/3 4.6B/ 4.6C/ 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, SAP S/4 HANA with Simple Finance, S4 HANA 1709

Operating Systems: Windows NT, Sun Solaris, UNIX

Languages: ABAP/4, SQL, HTML, Shell Programming, C, C ++, JavaScript, SAPUI5.

Platform: Visual Basic 6.0, SAP FIORI, SAP Mobility

Databases: Oracle 8.x/9.x, MS SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, HANA DB

Tools: LSMW, SmartForms, ABAP Query, CATT, HPQC, HP ALM, HANA Configuration Guide,HANA Cloud Platform, SAP Gateway,HANA Development Studio, Solution Manager/ChaRM ,Web IDE,S4 Data Migration Cockpit and Modeller.

 

SAP Expertise:

 

Design and Development Methodology for ABAP/4 Programming; Development of Technical Specifications, Unit Test Scripts, Unit Test Plans and Documentation; Configuration(IMG) experience in SD(OTC),LE,MM(PTP),WM,FICO; Classical, Interactive reports and ALV Grid reports using ABAP Objects; Dialog Programming using screen painter & menu painter; SAP Webdynpro; Custom function Modules, Z-Tables & custom search helps; SAP enhancements – Customer and User Exits, BADIs; Change Documents, Number range objects, Lock Objects; Conversion, Interfaces & Logical Data Bases (LDB); Output Determination and SD pricing; Development of SAP Layout/ SAP Script and Smart Forms; SAP Workflows; Batch Data Communication using Session, Direct Input & Call Transaction methods; Configuration of RFC, BAPI, ALE, EDI & IDOC Interfaces; SAP BW Reporting; SAP Data Migration (ETL), SAP Data Archiving; Application of OSS notes/Performance & Analysis; Migration to SAP HANA & SAP S/4 HANA. Extensive exposure to SAP BASIS authorization concepts, security role matrix, CTS, Change and Release Management; S4 HANA Implementation (1709) with Best Practices, Fiori app deployment, SAP Gateway

 

Published/Presented:

 

·         White-paper on Replenishment Work Bench for Retail Sector.

·         White-paper on AFE Process in Up Stream Oil & Gas.