Candidates About

 

      Francis Jaikumar              

Professional Summary

·         Senior SAP Technical consultant with Technical Lead expertise, Lead Developer expertise, Excellent Team player and effective communication skills.

·         Over 17 Years of experience in SAP Applications in Public Sector, Oil & Gas, AirLines, Pharmaceutical, Energy, Utility,, Beverages & Confectionery, Press and Steel Industries.

 

Specialization:

·         Excellent domain knowledge and 17 Extensive years of experience in modules such as SAP HCM, FI/CO, SD, MM and SRM, EAM, CR&B, BPC and BW modules.

·         Technical Lead experience since 2008 - Active participation in Business meetings; Requirement gathering, High-Level Technical designs, Managing Development team size and more, Resource allocation and Forecasting of tasks and day-day delivery of development Projects/Support tasks.

·         Mentoring and Technical assistance to developers; Involved in effective co-ordination with End-Users, Responsible for QA-Quality, code reviews & delivery of Development tasks.

·         Extensive Work experience on around 10-12 large implementations and numerous Support projects.

·         Hands-on Experience in SAP Upgrade projects.

·         Around 3 years effective experience as a SAP FIORI End-End Developer on FIORI Apps using Netweaver Gateway and UI5 portal development.

·         Around 3 years effective experience as a PI/PO developer.

·         Around 2+ years in Non-SAP Applications like VB, Java, JSP and Servlets

 

Software Development Skills:

                ERP:                                       ECC 6.0/5.0, SAP R/3 4.7/4.6C/4.5B/4.0B

                Project Management:   Microsoft Projects

                Language:                           ABAP, Java, C, PL/SQL, Pro *C, C++, Visual Basic

                SAP Interfaces:                 RFC, BAPI, ALE/IDOC, PI/PO

                SAP Reporting:                  ALV, Classical, Interactive Reporting

                SAP Enhancements:       BADI, User Exits, Implicit/Explicit Enhancements

                ABAP-HR:                            PA, OM, Payroll Clusters, Time Management, PD, Recruitment, Custom Infotypes,

Concurrent Employment

SAP Forms:                         Interactive Adobe/PDF Forms, Smart Forms and SAP Script

Other SAP Skills:               ABAP Objects(OOPs), Workflows, Module-Pool Programming,

SAP Apps Skills:                 UI5, HTML5, XML, JavaScript, JSON, IQUERY, ODATA, SAP FIORI Apps, ITS

              SAP Apps Tools:                  Web IDE, Eclipse, Apache Tomcat Server

                SAP Web skills:                  ABAP Web Dynpros , SAP Portals, BSP, HTML5, JSP DynPage

                SAP Web Tools:                 Netweaver Developer Studio, EP, PDK

                Web Design:                       J2EE, XML, HTML, DHTML, ASP, JavaScript, JSP Servlets, Applets, VBScript

RDBMS:                                SQL Server, Oracle

MiddleWare:                      COM/DCOM, Process Integration using PI/PO to Internal and External Systems.

Other Tools:                        Share Point Portal, SOLMAN and Quality Center Experience

 

 

 

 

 

Experience Summary

 

American Airlines, Phoenix - AZ                                                                                            Feb 2016 – Present

“American Airlines, Inc. (AA) is a major American airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. Operating an extensive international and domestic network, is the world's largest airline by fleet size and revenue. It operates its largest hub at Dallas/Fort Worth, and its other hubs at Charlotte, Chicago-O'Hare, Los Angeles, Miami, New York-JFK, New York-LaGuardia, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C.”

 

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, ABAP, Portals, Netweaver, Payroll, PI, FIORI, UI5 and Sharepoint

Role:  Technical Lead and Senior ABAP Technical consultant in HCM (OM, PA, Payroll processes and Time Management) and in FICO modules

·         HCM: AON Hewitt Inbound and Outbound, ABC Inbound and Outbound, Balance file WB to New SAP PY, Garnishment Extract, Uniforms deductions to Infotypes 14 and 15, EPASS to SAP Inbound,  YourCause to SAP Inbound and Concur to SAP Inbound.

·         FI/CO: AP CASH cleared documents, Escheat Outgoing Interface, ACH Outbound Interface.

·         SAP PI/PO: Working with SFTP/SOAP adapters, Extensive testing with Payloads, Creation of Proxy classes and triggering of test files for various HR and Payroll interfaces.

·         SAP Fiori Extensibility: Added Custom fields in UI, Fiori Approval Requests, Added additional fields in OData, Connection thro’ SAP Gateway, Setting up of Fiori Launchpad. Validations thro JQuery and JavaScript.

 

 

 

Peoples Natural Gas, Pittsburgh -PA                                                                         Aug 2012 – Jan 2016

“Peoples Natural Gas provides safe and reliable service natural gas service to approximately 700,000 homes and businesses in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky.”

 

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, ABAP, Portals, Netweaver, Payroll, PI, FIORI, UI5 and Sharepoint

Role:  Technical Lead and Developer in  SAP CR&B Modules: SAP CR&B - FICA, FICA-CAP, Bill Print, Supplier, IS-Utilities, Customer services, Customer Billing,  CRM and ECC Core moduless(HR, FI/CO, SCM, SRM, MM & EAM)

 

• CR&B Modules - FICA, Billing, DM & CS:

ü  Conversions:  Credit worthiness, Conversion of Warranty service programs, Business Partner, Authorization Group Mass Maintenance, Conversions of  Meter Reads and Connection Object, Meter Results Upload, Extend Meter Order, Meter read Upload & Download, Mass creation of MRUs.

ü  Enhancements & Reports: CAP Maintenance, Dollar over apply to Dollar Energy Fund, Dunning Lock and removal of estimated bills, Exclude WS items from Installment plans,  Annual Consumption review, Invoicing of warranty services, Stop transfer of WS Items, Write-offs of warranty Services, Auto Drop for Non-Pay WS-TWP, Business Partner/Contract Account Overview, Billing Analysis by Contract report, Unbilled Revenue Report, Gas Planning Revenue Monthly Extract, Control mismatch report, CAP Gas Usage Review, Validation of Billing Class at Installation level, MR Control Mismatch report, Meter Test and Replacement Plan Report, Consumption Report at TAP Id,

ü  Forms: CAP & Regular Bill Print, CAP Invoice, Refund Check Form, Customer Meter Reading Letter, Estimated Final Bill.

ü  Interfaces: Bank Draft Outbound, Payments Inbound, Credit Bureau Outbound Interface, Informal Complains Inbound and Outbound, Escheatment Outbound Interface, Cancel Move-out Interface, Enrollment & Enrollment response Interfaces, Daily Billing Interface,  Monthly Confirmation file, Energy Choice Customer List, Daily Activity file, Cancel Enrollment.

• HCM:  Benefits conversion, HR-Hewitt, CATS Time Approval, Flexible Spending Account Enhancements, Time Sheet Validations and ZCATS Enhancments, Hewitt to SAP Pension Inbound Data Interface, Payroll Outbound Interface to ADP, Time Inbound to SAP, Medical/ Dental Interfaces, AAP Reports, Custom Finance employee reports, Vehicle Time reports, Employee Profile and Detailed Time reports and Time management reports.
• FINANCE: Conversions of Asset MAST Data, Cost Center Master Data, Cost Center Master data and Customer Open line items; Forms of AR_AP Account Statement, AR/AP Invoice forms, AP positive pay Interface, ACH Outbound Interface, ADP Payroll Interface, Travel Management Interface, AP Remittance report, TAX Report, Power Tax Gannett and Fleming Report and Trial Balance report
• SCM-PO Order & Line Items enhacements, MAST Enhacements & Profit center Enhancements, Fix IDOCs in status M7 042, Create Outbound IDOCs, Examine WMMBXY IDOCs report.
• SRM: Purchasing, SRM Monitor Shopping cart, Approver, IT Approver, Service Entry Coordinator, Project Controls, Material Controls, Commodity code Interface, Print SRM Bid Invitation and Bid Tabulation.

·         SAP Fiori Extensibility: Extensive UI5 development, creation of Views, Controllers and Event trigerring of Controls,  Extensive creation of OData services, Fiori Launchpad for various Billing applications.

• EAM-Capital work order report, Atmospheric Corrosion and Riser Survey, Fuel Card Interface, Interface to FIMS, Inspection and Repair order, Settlement of Service Orders, Ventyx to SAP - Complete SLLS Orders, Functional Location Utility Conversion, Functional location conversions.
• SAP PI: Working with various adapters, Extensive testing with Payloads, Creation of Proxy classes and triggering of test files for various CRB interfaces.

·         SMARTForms: Standard Purchase Order Output from R/3 and Printing purchase requisition in the defined format.

 

 

 

Gerdau Ameristeel, Tampa -FL                                                                                              Dec 2008 – July 2012

“Gerdau AmeriSteel, Founded in 1937 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, manufactures and markets minimill steel,  Operates in two segments: Mini mills and Downstream Operations. It owns 14 mills, 11 in the US and 3 in Canada, and makes products like reinforcing steel bars, merchant bars, structural shapes, beams, coiled wire rod, flat-rolled sheet, railroad spikes, and others”

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0/6.0, ABAP, Sharepoint

Role:  Technical Lead and Senior ABAP Technical Consultant(HCM, FI/CO, SD and MM modules)

·         Reports: Custom program for SAP to Legacy., Print program for French Invoices, Credit Management Report for Italy, Purchase Order Information, Material Master Update for Jewelry Weights, Aging Balance Controlling Report, Canadian Vacation report, Eligibility of Insurance(EOI) customization and Validations, BCBS Report, EAM_PM_Vendor CU Report, EAMP_PM_Pipe_Service_Report.

• Interfaces: Hartford, BCBS Interface, EBDS Interface, Fidelity Demographics Loans Inbound, Fidelity Deferral Inbound split, health Fitness outbound Interface, Whitby Union CBA changes Manulife Interface.
• Enhancements: COBRA Enhancement, HRBEN0001 modification for Court Order Children, Copy ship-to customer AAG to sales document, EAM_PM_External Contractor Price In CU Design Version, EAM_PM_Transfer CU Design Data to Capital Work Order.
• Conversions: Vanguard 401K conversion to Fidelity, Upload to IT0014 and IT0015 Infotypes, Upload garnishments for chaparral, Upload of T558B, T558C and T5U8C tables; QM- Conversions of Quality Inspection, Record usage decision, PKMS  Maintain IDOC status.

·         Forms: EEO Questionnaire, HR ESS Payslip to PDF, Appraisal document using SMARTFORMS.

·         Workflow: Procurement PO Worklow, Subcontract Approval Workflow, AP Invoice Workflow, Purchase Order inbound acknowledgment workflow, Purchase requisition release Workflow.

 

 

 

Fossil, Dallas -TX                                                                                                                     July 2008 – Nov 2008

“Fossil is a global retailer of fashion products and offers including watches, sun wear, leather accessories, fashion garments and accessories”

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0/6.0, ABAP

Role:  Senior Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant involved in Implementation of HR.

·         Inbound program to load Canadian benefit deductions and Canadian savings and pension plan data.

·         Conversions of Met-life hours information sent from ADP into the SAP system.

·         Mercer Pension Outbound.

·         Hewitt Payroll Deductions Inbound.

·         Employee contribution data to the vendor for London Life Savings contribution.

 

 

 

Cadbury Schweppes & Dr. Pepper Bottling Group, Dallas -TX                                              July 2007 – June 2008

“Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages (CSAB) is a unit of Cadbury Schweppes plc that handles its parent's core United States beverage business and is one of world's largest confectionery business selling brands around the world.”

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, ABAP

Role:  Technical Lead and Senior ABAP Technical Consultant(HCM, FI/CO, SD and MM modules)

• Reports: ALV Report for Total Rewards Statement (TRS) vendor with employee and Compensation information, AP Tax Audit - Extracted Selected Fields using Logical Database - BRM1,AR Audit Detail File. Print list of 1099 Vendors. Extract program for Hyperion, GR and PO Report By Vendor, Extraction of sap accounts and matching them to digitax flat file
• Interfaces: ADP Outbound with employee medical and dependent care enrollment and contribution data, Employee Benefit deductions outbound for processing payroll deductions, O.C.Tanner Outbound, Conversions:  Fidelity Load program,

·         Conversions: Full Service Comissions Data Load.

• Forms: MRR Delivery Form, Master Agreement Output from R/3, Lease/Rental Output from R/3 using Smartforms using Smartforms.
• Workflow: AP Invoice Workflow

 

 

 

Alliance Bernstein, Dallas -TX                                                                                                Jan 2007 – June 2007

“Alliance Bernstein L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded global asset management firms in the world with approximately $618 billion in assets under management. Alliance Bernstein provides diversified, global investment management services that include growth and value equities, style blend and fixed income services to institutional, high net worth and retail clients worldwide”

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C, ECC 6.0 ABAP

Role:  Senior SAP ABAP Programmer in upgrade project(SAP 4.6C to ECC6.0) & implementation of HR

·         Upgrade project: Modified and tested RICE Object Scope list, Applied latest changes from 4.6C version in ECC6.0 for all Custom programs, modified & tested effectively,  Adopted modifications for all CoreMod Function Modules from 4.6C to ECC6.0, modified & tested effectively., Applied latest changes for custom Infotypes from 4.6C version in ECC6.0, Adopted modifications for CoreMod Infotypes from 4.6C to ECC6.0, Applied Enhancement framework  to all modified CoreMod Function modules and programs

·         Time and Labor/ Time Capture: New Labor Balance ALV report, ALV report for Labor Totals by Wage Type, Project Hours Report from CATS, Certified Payroll Report,  Custom tables for restriction of time entry, Labor Accounting  - Mass Upload for IT0015, Extraction selected CATS records for external systems.

·         E-Recruiting development: Resume parsing via Sovren, Mapping of skill sets(based on taxonomies) and education details to SAP values, Modification of BSP for Candidates Qualifications, Enhancement of resume upload process.

 

 

 

KBR Kellogg Brown & Root, Houston -TX                                                                              Sep 2005 – Dec 2006

“KBR provides a wide range of engineering, construction, operations and maintenance, logistics and project management services to three markets: upstream, downstream and government & infrastructure. The upstream sector includes oil and gas production facilities, pipelines, gas processing and liquefied natural gas production facilities and receiving terminals. Downstream includes oil refining, petrochemicals, synthetic gas and fertilizer production facilities. KBR employs more than 60,000 people in 43 countries around the world.”

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, SRM 4.0, ABAP

Role:  Sr. SAP ABAP Programmer in Modules F1/CO, MM, SD, HR and SRM

·         RICEFW: ALV Report payroll garnishments and tax levies to ensure payroll entry, ALV for analyzing net VAT / GST payables,  New Master Agreement Notification Report, Enhancements of Vendor master maintenance transactions (XK01, 02, 03). Vendor master conversions, ALV Report to show aging for GR/IR accounts, Conversion of open AP line Items at cutover date, MRR Delivery Form , Lease/Rental Output from R/3 using Smartforms,  Inbound Interface ESG 4.6 to KBR 4.7, Vendor invoice Inbound, New Prowire Interface

• HR Payroll and Integration: HSE burden, Extraction from ZPLF and loading to 4.7 payroll., Payroll data transferto external system , CATSDB extract report.
• BSPs: BSP application for SAP 4.7 Web Translation Tool, Tax Jurisdiction Look up, Project systems code lookup
• LSMW: Activity Types and upload of data from .XLS, Material Master Conversion,  Cost Center Master Data Conversion,  Inventory Management Conversion

 

 

 

Abbott Laboratories, Chicago-IL                                                                                            July 2004 – April 2005

“Abbott, a major international healthcare corporation, with 70,000 employees operating in over 130 countries, is a market leader in the fields of Diagnostics, Anaesthesia, Pain Management, Medical Nutrition, Anti-infectives and HIV therapies.”

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C, ABAP

Role:  Sr. SAP ABAP Programmer involved in Implementation of HR, F1/CO, SD and MM

·         RICEFW:  NJ Cashable Credits Extract Report,Conversion of IT0009 to standard SAP subtypes, ALV report to list Payroll Hours and Pay by Cost Center, Reports on PD and OM,Payroll Direct Deposit Register, Conversion programs for Infotypes IT0000, IT0001, IT00007, IT0008, Out of Tolerance report, Purchase price variances whenever a GR/IR is posted, Upload program for Ledger, Depts, Prime/sub Accnts into custom tables from a flat file,  PCA Balancing program, Created Windows, Paragraphs, Page Windows and Company LOGOS are copied from tiff file while using the program RSTXLDMC, Sapscript layouts to  display detailed summary of Vendors & their TIN numbers and other details, Smartforms to display PCA balanced Documents and reversed documents in the month end,  User exit to read in a vertex registry file, New search helps  for Vendors based on Tax ID, for Profit center to provide legacy values for SAP Profit center and SAP Company code and provide legacy values for SAP Prime and Sub SAP GL/Account.

·         LSMW:  Cost Element Master Data Conversion,  Internal Order Master data conversion,Vendor master conversion for procurement.

               

 

 

Deluxe Corporation Inc., Shoreview- MN                                                                              May’ 2003 – June 2004

“Deluxe Corporation Inc., Minnesota, U.S.A. is the largest provider of checks in the United States. Deluxe provides consumers, small businesses, and financial services companies with a wide range of check products and also supplies personal and business checks, business forms, labels, and self-inking stamps”

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C, ABAP, Internet Transaction Server(ITS)

Role:  Sr.SAP ABAP-HR Programmer in HR and Online ITS Project

·         ITS: - Developed Dialog Module programs and HTML Templates using ITS for dialog screens in HR sub-modules like PA, OM, Recruitment, PD, TM, ESS and MSS SAP R/3:

• ABAP HR :  New ALV reports and enhancements for international & US Payroll, Function module for extraction of current and retroactive data from payroll clusters, Outbound interface for Union health and life insurance plans.,  Benefits reports to reconcile insurance premiums & 401K deduction amounts, Reports and interfaces in Payroll, PA, Benefits, Time, Org Mgmt and Compensation.

 

 

 

eFunds Corporation Inc., Minneapolis- MN                                                                          May’ 2002 – April 2003

“Efunds provide data, data analysis tools and services provides software and industry-leading EFT processing services for electronic payment transactions and offers a variety of ATM deployment and management solutions”

Environment: SAP R/3 4.5B/4.6C, ABAP

Role:  Sr.SAP ABAP Programmer involved in Implementation of Modules F1/CO, HR and MM

·         RICEFW: New IXOS image link program (Upload and Download) , Report for Product Costing data maintenance, identification  and  validation, Listing of invoices paid, Report synchronizing Pooled tables T016, T016T, T2516 & T25B6, Inbound Interface program to post G/L entries.  

·         Upgrade of R/3 from 4.5B to 4.6C: Created test plans & performed Baseline Testing of all following AP programs/interfaces for 4.5B to 4.6C upgradation,  Failed Interfaces were tracked out , modifications done to work properly before migrating to 4.6C, Final Documentation prepared for all AP Programs/Interfaces, Created test plans & performed Baseline Testing of PA Interfaces and Payroll programs for 4.5B to 4.6C upgradation.

 

 

 

Teksoft Consultancy Services, Chennai-India                                                            Dec’1999 – March 2002

Environment: SAP R/3 4.0B/4.5B, ABAP

Role: SAP ABAP Programmer in MM, F1/CO & SD

·         RICEFW: Upload commodity codes to custom table ZMMT_COMCODES in R/3 and/or SRM systems, New Blocked Invoices Report, Analyzed the List BAPI in the FI, MM, SD, Cost & Asset Accounting PM,SM and QM. Conversions of MM and SD master data(MM01, MM02, VD01 and VD02), Vendor Master , Cost Centers (KS01), Cost Center Group (KSH2) from Legacy System to SAP R/3, Created Menus and Function exits for User Enhancement.

·         ALE/ IDOC: Configuring EDI message types, Extensions of IDoc and creation of Segments (WE30) and  Idoc Types,  Customization of IDoc(SM31 & SM30), Linking of IDoc type to message type (WE82) and checked the IDoc type,  Archiving IDoc objects for optimization of the application areas (SARA).

 

EDUCATION

Ø  Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical discipline from Madras University-> Year'1998 with a First Class.

TRAINING UNDERGONE

Ø  Certification /Training on SAP-ITS in SIEMENS, SAPIENT College, Chennai.

Ø  Certification /Training AutoCAD (2D Drafting, Prod. Tools & 3D Modeling) in CADD CENTRE, CHENNAI

Ø  Certification/Training in CAD/CAM in AU-FRG INSTITUTE, ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI

Ø  Certification/Training  CIT GXP and 21 CFR, CIT CRQS Computerized Systems QA and Validation Process in ABBOTT Laboratories, Chicago, Illinois.

Ø  Completed HR316 – E-Recruiting and Completed E-Recruiting Developer Training.