SUMMARY

 

·         Padmakar is a Software Engineer with overall IT experience of 7.5 years. He has working experience on SAP projects for the past 4 years.  Currently, he is working as a Project Manager on an upgrade project for client Whirlpool Corporation.

·         Padmakar is known for his - hard work, personal responsibility towards his tasks, excellent communication skills, proactive interaction with the client, documentation of processes and taking up of lead initiative in completely new, challenging and time intensive assignments.

·         Padmakar has experience in development and maintenance on SAP – Project Systems (PS), Materials Management (MM), Sales & Distribution (SD) and Finance modules (FI/CO). He has been consulted by his clients for advice on technical issues.

·         He has good experience in EDI & DWH technologies as well.

·         He is aware of Quality Standards & Maturity models such as ISO, SEI-CMM, P-CCM and CMMi. He has been a part-time SQA to a couple of projects.

 

SKILLS

 

ERP Systems                                  SAP R/3, SAP R/2.

Languages & Tools                       ABAP/4, SQL, C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, HTML

Databases                                        Oracle, Sybase, FoxPro

Operating Systems                        HP-UX, AIX, Sun Solaris, MS Windows, Novell NetWare

Other Packages & Scripting         EDISWITCH package, UNIX shell scripting and JavaScript

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Rapidigm (India) Ltd.                           5^th January 2004 – Present Day

Patni Computer Services                   13^th December 1999 – 2^nd January 2004

Cable Corporation of India Ltd.           1^st August 1996 – 4^th December 1999

 

 

PROJECTS

 

Project                                                Whirlpool Upgrade from 3.1I to 4.7 (Offshore).

Platform                                             SAP R/3 3.1I on DB2 5.1 on AIX,

                                                            SAP R/3 Enterprise on DB2 7.1 on AIX

Duration                                             February 2^nd, 2004 – Till Date

Client                                                  Whirlpool Corporation, USA

 

Whirlpool Corporation - the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances – has been using SAP R/3 Release 3.1I for running business. It now wants to upgrade its SAP system to version 4.7 i.e. Enterprise.

Rapidigm is giving LOH (Lab-On-Hire) support for this upgrade. The first task in this engagement is to analyse a list of 55 BDCs for compatibility with Enterprise version and fix them, if necessary.

 

As a Project Manager, Padmakar’s responsibilities include Project Management Activities such as Environment Setup, Project Kick-Off & Initiation, Project Planning, Co-ordination & Management in addition to SDLC activities.

 

Project                                                Various Issue-Based Projects (Offshore).

Platform                                             SAP R/3 4.x

Duration                                             January 2004 – Feb 2004

Client                                                  Dofasco Inc, Carton Service Inc.

 

Dofasco Inc. is one of North America's most progressive and profitable steelmakers and Carton Service is US based packaging services company. Both these enterprises use SAP to manage their ERP activitites.

 

Padmakar was involved in modifying a Customised Transaction ZFINISH used by Dofasco that processes a production order. He also modified a Production Order SAPScript for Carton Service Inc.

 

Project                                                Bose Maintenance (Offshore).

Platform                                             SAP R/3 4.6c on Oracle 8i, HP-UX system

Duration                                             April 2003 – December 2003

Client                                                  Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA, USA

 

This was an offshore project for Bose Corp. dedicated to handling change and development requests to maintain existing system. Various related modules are SD, MM, FI/CO, QM, SM and PS.

 

During the course of the project, Padmakar was involved in various technical areas of development like Dialog Transactions, Interactive Reports, ALV, LSMW, BDC (Transactions MB0A, MB1A, MB1C, XD02, VL02N), SAP Query, SAPScripts (Invoice Document for Mexico) & Smart Forms.

 

As Analyst/Programmer, his responsibilities include carrying out SDLC Activities such as Estimation, Analysis and Design of tasks received, writing Test Cases, developing/maintaining ABAPs, Unit Testing and Quality Control (QC) of developed code.

 

Project                                                Aries (Onsite).

Platform                                             SAP R/3 4.6c on Oracle 8i, HP-UX system

Duration                                             February 2003  - April 2003

Client                                                  Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA, USA

 

Project Aries involved transition from various smaller system distributed around and having interfaces with SAP to core modules of SAP. One part of this project was migrating existing Projects data from Manman into PS Module of SAP. The data had interface with SAP Business Warehouse as well.

 

Padmakar handled data extraction from PS Module of SAP to Business warehouse.

 

Project                                                GEL-CRC (Onsite/Offshore).

Platform                                             SAP R/2 on IBM Mainframe 3090

Duration                                             June 2002 – Jan 2003

Client                                                  General Electric (GE) Lighting, Europe

 

This was an Onsite-Offshore, Fixed Price, Development project for Customer Response Center of GE Lighting, Europe. It involved integrating SAP R/2 system - where SD activities take place - with CRM Package Siebel hat would handlee customer disputes. The interface was Perl Scripts using metadata and UNIX Scripts using CPI-C communication.

 

Padmakar was the Module Leader for SAP side Development.  The functional areas involved were RV (Sales & Distribution) and RF (Finance). The technical side comprised mainly of extracts from SAP to upload data into Siebel and posting Credit/Debit Memos from Siebel into SAP System.

 

Requirement Analysis and Design was carried out Onsite during first three months and the Implementation and Testing was done offshore for the later duration.

Padmakar's work involved mainly:

·        Understanding Customer Requirements, Analysis, Functional and Technical Design, Designing the interface

·        Facilitating Implementation, Unit & Integration Testing.

·        User Acceptance Testing.

 

 

Project                                                GEL-SAP (Onsite).

Platform                                             SAP R/2 on IBM Mainframe 3090

Duration                                             December 2000 – April 2002

Client                                                  General Electric (GE) Lighting, Europe

 

This was an Onsite project for GE Lighting involved in providing software solutions and fulfilling requests to maintain the existing SAP system. Padmakar’s responsibilities included development, enhancement and maintenance in functional areas such as EDI, RV and RF.

 

Padmakar's work involved mainly:

·        Transactions, Reports, SBDC on SAP Sales & Distribution – RV and Finance - RF modules.

·        EDI sales order and remittance processing & posting into the RV & RF modules and Extraction of Order Acknowledgements, Delivery Notes, Pre-Invoices, Shipment Notes, Goods Issues, Invoices and Price Lists from the SAP system via CPI-C communication to a UNIX server having VAN mailboxes installed.

·        Sales order posting from the GE Lighting extranet site and tracking various details of order, checking availability of products and prices.

 

EDI:

• He has done data mapping to and from EDI standards – TRADACOM, EDIFACT, METEL.

 

• He has handled several times intensive enhancements on the ABAP that takes Sales orders mapped from these standards and Excel Sheets and posts them to Sales Order Entry transaction in the SAP RV module. Apart from this, he has handled processing of other inbound documents like Proof of Delivery and Sales Info Records as well.

 

• He has worked on ABAPs that extract outbound documents like Order Responses and  confirmations , Dispatch Advices, Price lists, Delivery Notes and Invoices and map them to the EDI standards to be communicated via VAN.

 

Customer Service - RV module

• Padmakar has excellent techno-functional knowledge of Sales Document Cycle and flow control in the RV module.
• He was presented with a Peer Award for his timely and effective fix to the Italian Invoice Printing ABAP in less time than expected.
• He has been involved in extensive analysis, coding and testing for,

§         Order Management System

§         Automatic Order Acknowledgement and Proactive Notification by Fax.

§         Early Shipments.

§         Automated Re-ATP

• Apart from these he has worked on several time intensive, small but high priority production fixes.

 

Customer Web Center:

• GE Lighting Europe has an extranet site called GeLightNet.com enabling the customers to place orders. Once the customer enters the data, it is communicated to SAP using CPI-C communication via a UNIX server. Padmakar has worked extensively on the SAP side development of this application to post the orders into the system.  He has developed and enhanced the wrapper ABAP that calls the SAP Supplied Order Entry Transaction.  He handled various functionalities on this site such as,

§         Order Entry

§         Order Tracking

§         Check Availability

§         Check Prices

§         Order List

 

 

 

Project                                                GEL-SAP (offshore).

Platform                                             IBM Mainframe, SAP/R2

Duration                                             May 2000 to November 2000

Client                                                  General Electric (GE) Lighting, UK.

 

This is an offshore project for GE Lighting dedicated to meet change and development requests to maintain existing system. During the course of the project, Padmakar has been involved in the following areas:

 

Data Warehousing:

Development And Enhancement of Transportation Lead Time, In-Transit time Extract for SPAN project.

 

Utility ABAP:

Development of ABAP to extract the Header Texts like Short Texts in all languages, Sales Text, Purchasing Text, Internal Memo Text etc. associated with a list of materials.

 

EDI:

·         Development of EDI Message Extraction for Outgoing Dispatch Advice as per the New METEL Standard (EDIFACT 96A)

·         Development of EDI-like Message Extraction of Invoices Posted during the day for Mainframe to Mainframe Transfer from GE-Lighting UK to Blue Mainframe Machine in USA.

 

As Analyst/Programmer, his responsibilities include analyzing tasks received, estimation, developing/maintaining ABAPs and Quality Control (QC) of developed code. 

 

Project                                                ALE Configuration

Platform                                             SAP v4.6C, Windows NT

Duration                                             Mar 2000 – April 2000

Client                                                  Patni Computer Systems, LTD

 

As an initiative by PCS to build expertise in the latest technologies, Padmakar was  one of the team members of ALE/IDOC initiative with a team of 3 people.

 

As a part of this initiative, he successfully implemented the transfer of IDOCs between two separate SAP systems through ALE concept in the following areas:

·Change control mechanism

·Message control mechanism

 

He was involved in studying and understanding this concept in the areas of configuration, implementation and customization of ALE. He then had to impart my expertise and allocate the various tasks appropriately to his team members.

 

Project                                                Commercial Management System (DW Integration)

Platform                                             SAP R/2 v6.0G, C, UNIX machine

Duration                                             1 month, Feb. 2000 – Mar. 2000

Client                                                  General Electric Lighting, UK

 

CMS is a tool for measuring and analyzing sales performance. It provides evaluation of current performance as compared with past sales objectives and targets. Apart from measurement, the tool also helps in defining clauses for differing level of performance.

 

The information for the system was extracted from SAP R/2 system and was loaded onto Sales Data Warehouse (DW) for Sales and Marketing Analysis and reporting Tool (SMART) .  This was done through batch process written in Perl/PL-SQL Procedures. In addition, GE-Lighting also maintained a SMART European DW for other reporting. The integrated DW module aimed at merging the two DWs to reduce the maintenance cost.

 

Padmakar’s role as a Team Member included:

·         Estimating and making changes, enhancements & integration in the data extraction ABAPs involved in the Customer Dimension as a part of Dimension Integration module.

·         Identification of the data fields of Customer Dimensions of SMART Sales DW to be merged into the Integrated DW.

·         Analysis of Oracle Scripts of SMART Sales Data Warehouse to merge their business logic into Integrated DW ABAP extracts.

·         Quality Control of all the ABAPs for Product and Customer data extraction.

·         Unit and Integration Testing of the ABAPs changed.

 

Project                                                Various Modules developed in-house for MIS

Platform                                             FoxPro 2.0 for LAN and Novell NetWare 3.11

Client                                                  Cable Corporation of India Ltd., Mumbai

 

This was in-house project for the internal customers of Cable Corporation of India Ltd. Mumbai. All the systems were developed in-house and were integrated to form a mini ERP system.

 

Padmakar had mainly worked on the Materials Management and Sourcing Modules as well as various other modules and projects such as,

 

Module/Project Name	Duration	Period
Cables Design System	6 months	May. 1999 – Nov. 1999
Y2K	6 months	Oct. 1998 – Apr. 1999
Scrap Invoicing	1 months	Sept. 1998 – Oct. 1998
Bank Guaranty	1 months	Aug. 1998 – Sept. 1998
Vendor Rating	3 months	Apr. 1998 – July. 1998
Stock Replenishment Cards	1 month	Mar. 1998 – Apr. 1998
Lot Tracking	6 month	Sept. 1997 – Mar. 1998
Payment Journal Voucher	1 month	Aug. 1997 – Sept. 1997
Material Approval System	1 month	Jun. 1997 – July. 1997
Duty Drawback (DBK)	4 months	Jan. 1997 – May. 1997

 

As a team member, Padmakar was responsible for Program Analysis, Coding, Unit testing and User Training. As the project leader later, Padmakar was responsible for System Analysis & design of various add-on modules and Unit & Integrity testing.

 

EDUCATION

 

Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Branch) 1996, University of Bombay, India with 1^st Hons.

Post-Graduate Diploma in Software Technology, NCST Bombay, 1998.