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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

a) for ASDA, UK --> Commerce Automation interfaces & SLP-MDG process, Across solutions - S/4HANA, CIG, Commerce Automation, Suppliersb) for Knowledge and Innovation --> is responsible for exploring, deploying and verifying of new innovations and features with primary focus on SAP Ariba and SAP. Internally share the knowledge and accelerate the innovation adoption across.• Various Procurement Enablement > Setup, Configure and Test most SAP Central Procurement and Integration with SAP Ariba - at both S/4HANA Private and Public Cloud > Setup, Configure and Test most SAP Ariba IES Scope Items and Integration with SAP S/4HANA - at S/4HANA Public Cloud CE > SAP Ariba applications (P2P, Sourcing, AN, SLP) integrations with SAP S/4HANA via CIG Add-On > Solution Enablement, Tests, Gaps / Issues identification, Collaboration and Feedbacks to P&I > Enablement sessions on various Solutions / functionalities Including S/4HANA for – Senior Leadership, SAP Procurement Team, Architects, Services Delivery Team, SMEs > Knowledge content creation for Procurement Services team - Delivery recommendations, Feature Review, Best Practices, SAP S/4HANA Series > Exposure to Next Generation Solutions - SAP BTP, Product Sourcing, SAP MDI, SAP Task Center, SAP Icertis, Central Invoice Management, Buying 360, SAP CALM, SAP ISP, SAP IAS/IPS• Support for Architects, Services Delivery team and at Organizational Initiatives - > Environment Setups, Architectural review, Customer Demos, Customer Escalations, Specific scenarios / Q&A etc. > Support at GTM content, Service offerings etc• Landscape Management > Provisioning - AWS, CAL, S/4HANA OnPrem, S/4HANA CE > Managing - Operations of complex landscape, Upgrade tasks (Regular / On-demand), Regular Infrastructure Tasks

Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

for Value Prototyping, Centre of Excellence, GermanyMultiple Customers :a) Heineken, Germanyb) Internal SAP VP, Germany : SAP MDG and BP c) Shell, Netherlandsd) AkzoNobel, Netherlands• Usage of Model Company Accelerators, Customization and Setup at Source / Target systems, SLT, AiF, MDG (Including Hub), Data profiling tool. • Setting up connectivity across systems : Multiple ECC Sources -> Target CFin, via SLT and MDG• Customization and setup at source / target systems, AiF, MDG, Data profiling tool.• Initial load and Real time replication of SAP objects from multiple source to a single CFin target system• Master data replication using ALE/IDoc, Model company accelerators and internal tools. • Design of critical customer requirements like - material replication, parallel accounting and mixed ledger postings.

a) for Enel, Italy (Mar'16 - May'18)b) for Spin Master, Canada (May'18 - Sep'18)• Understanding the S/4HANA conversion processes and finding relevant solutions.• Alignment and setting up Development Procedures and Quality processes per best practices.• Providing solution recommendations, work/effort estimates, schedule/allocate and monitor the tasks.• Executing static and runtime analysis on landscape custom code as inputs for business decisions.• Unicode Conversion, SPDD, SPAU, HANA code adaptations, S/4HANA adaptations, Dual maintenance for ongoing project landscape.• Highly critical and complex performance improvement via usage of Co-innovation SAP product (Scale-out architecture), and HANA Code push down approach.• Conducting enablement sessions / discussion, enabling technical team on adaptations.• Fit-gap initiation on impacted business processes due to deprecated functionalities at S/4HANA.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Involvement at business workshops for identification of process gaps and development requirements.• Alignment and setting up Development Procedures and Quality processes per best practices• Interacting directly with business to understand “as-is” business processes and requirements, deciding on an acceptable “to-be” feasible architecture and converting them to optimal technical solutions• Providing solution recommendations, work/effort estimates, schedule/allocate and monitor the tasks.• Mentoring and guiding consultants at development, reviews and testing to ensure QC compliances.• Cutover and knowledge transition and trainings to the new vendor during ACE1 project closure.• Quality deliverables leading onto perfect CSAT score of 10.

Bangalore, India

In addition to the already listed roles :a) for Lenovo (Feb'18 - May'18) : SAP Development Lead, S/4HANA Implementationb) for Volvo AB (Jan'15 - Apr'15) : Technical Adviser, SAP HANA Adaptationc) for Zespri, New Zealand : SAP Development / QC Leadd) for SAP SE (Apr'14 - Jun'14) : Suite on HANA Performance Optimizatione) for RBS (Dec'09 - Oct'10) : Technical Consultant - Payments, Deposit Management• Working in the capacity of an advisor for the client’s technical and management team providing timely inputs for adaptation / optimization of their custom repository objects on SAP HANA.• Understanding the various h/w and s/w innovations and new paradigm shifts brought by SAP HANA in terms of various Performance Optimization options and tools like SQLM, SRTCM and SWLT.• Understanding business requirements, prototyping and proposing optimum solutions in the APO - SNP area like CIF Enhancements, Transportation Lane Automation, Planning book read.• Setting up quality processes, reviews & ensuring QC compliances as per industry best practices.• Estimation of developments and planning / allocation, with direct involvement in critical developments• Managing knowledge transition and trainings during project closure.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Interacting directly with business to understand business processes and requirements, deciding on an acceptable feasible architecture and delivering “first time right” solution.• Collaborative onsite design and delivery of critical solutions like – Separate GAAP reporting resulting from 5-4-4 calendar, Parallel valuation, Gain & Loss automation via FIDCC2 IDoc etc.• SAP Notes and EHP5/EHP6 functionalities implementation with collaboration of SAP support team.• Mentoring and guiding consultants at development, testing and reviews & ensuring quality compliance.• Involvement in closure of two critical phases of productive go-lives including cutover and planning.

Bangalore, India

a) for SAP ITb) for Pfizer-Fareva Divestiture• Devising strategies alongside business and SMEs for migrating the existing master and transactional data between the systems, majorly via ALE IDOCs, BAPIs.• Development and execution of data migration strategies, validating data and providing value mappings.• Planning and execution of multiple data load rehearsals within very tight schedules.• Guiding consultants at development, testing and reviews and ensuring quality compliances.• During the cutover and go-live at onsite, acted as bridgehead for the entire project, managing stakeholders (Int. and Ext.).

Pune Area, India

• Analyzing complex business requirements which are global in nature with impact on entire landscape.• Review technical solutions for complex projects/ developments/ changes/ issues, simplifying process. • Streamlining operations via preparation of guidelines, templates and knowledge documents.• Estimation of developments, planning and allocation, with direct involvement in the delivery of critical and complex technical solutions and quarterly system regression testing.• Liaising with the teams for the development of the deliverables and ensuring timely delivery.• Devising a standard approach for interacting with SAP via a single interface from existing applications.

London, United Kingdom

• Single point of contact at onsite for Fuels Value Chain track, interacting directly with business. • Design and various developments at the IS-Oil TSW module, Nomination & Ticketing - understanding business requirements, analyzing, prototyping and proposing optimum solutions.• Complex technical design and delivery of functionalities like: Intercompany Scenario - marketing and supply, Prices and Curves Interface, HPM - QCI, Route and Stages at Nomination.• Estimation of technical developments and planning, allocation, tracking of work. • Design analysis, coordination, quality reviews, testing to ensure deliverables meet the quality standards.• Ensuring smooth cut-over, go-live and post go live activities and transition to vendor during closure.

Bangalore, India

• Coordinating with onsite functional consultants and providing guidance to the technical team.• Understanding functional aspects of the business scenario.• Creating suitable detail design specifications, liaising with the technical coordinators.• Development as per quality guidelines, Self and peer review of the deliverables. • Unit, system and integration testing and related issue resolution.• Involvement in creating tools and knowledge documents for support processes improvements.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Successfully completed generic training comprising of Software and OS Concepts, SDLC, DBMS concepts, C++ and Java programming etc.• Successfully completed stream specific training comprising of fundamentals of ERP and SAP; and comprehensive knowledge along with hands on at SAP ABAP programming with mock project.• Involvement in shadow support of live SAP environment for global automotive giant, Germany

Post Graduate Diploma, Advanaced Computing

The aim of Advanced Computing is to develop a certified software development professional (possessing practical skills) from C-DAC, who.

Bachelors Of Engineering, Electronics