Career Summary:

 

8 years of SAP PI/PO and EDI experience gained over large project implementations, dozens of enhancements and support. Has prior experience in working as a support Lead and Project Lead. Employed with Infosys Technologies, and currently working as SAP PI Integration Lead for Client Sysco Foods in Houston TX for their SAP HCM-Successfactor HR integration Project (Version SAP PI/PO 7.4). Has implemented projects earlier in all three version of SAP PI namely:-

 

1)SAP PI 7.3(single stack) for client AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), Austin TX

Feb ’14 to Dec ’14- Technology Lead

2)SAP PI 7.1(Dual stack) for client Celanese Chemicals Dallas TX-

Nov ’11 to Jan ’14- Technology Lead for Projects/Support

3)       SAP PI 7.0 Client Syngenta Greensboro NC-

Feb ’11 to Sep’11-Technology Lead

4)SAP PI 7.0 Client Syngenta Mangalore Karnataka India

Nov ’07 to Feb’11- Offshore Lead/Senior Developer/Developer

 

Successfactors Experience

Ø       Worked on Scenarios involving SOAP, SFTP, SOAP(Axis),SFSF(Successfactor) and FILE adapters.

Ø       Worked on the Talent Hybrid integration for SAP HCM and Successfactors.

Ø       Implemented SAP- Successfactor integration over SAP PI for different modules of the Talent Hybrid model.

Ø       Worked on HCI integration with Successfactors during the design phase using SFSF adapter over the ODATA protocol.

Ø       As Successfactor carries PII(Personal Identity information) data, implemented restricted HR COE monitoring over Java Stack allowing all PII data like SSN to be restricted from regular PI monitoring activities.

Ø       Has worked on Eclipse Juno and used Operation modeler tool to create xsd’s and generate SFQL queries.

Ø       Sound knowledge of the integration designer, integration operations, relevance of Tenant ID, Deployment in HANA cloud, Monitoring of data for HCI etc.

Ø       Has implemented Single Sign on(SSO) for a previous project to SAP’s cloud system (SAP Crossgate) for EDI monitoring for Business users with SAP portal 7.3.

Ø       In depth knowledge of the vacant position, Recruiting and Onboarding process, SPRO set up in ECC and Basis activities in SAP PI.

Ø       Worked on all version of SAP PI 7.4,7.3, 7.1 and 7.0 and hence aware of concepts and restrictions associated while integrating with Successfactors.

Ø       Sound knowledge of Graphical and XSLT mapping techniques

 

SAP PI/ SAP XI Experience

Ø       Worked on Scenarios involving SOAP, SOAP(Axis), AS2,SFSF(Successfactor), MDM, IDOC, IDOC_AAE, JDBC, HTTP, HTTP_AAE  FILE, RFC, RNIF, Mail,SPLIT997,JMS WebSphereMQ, and XI adapters.

Ø       Currently working on SAP PI 7.4 SAP HCM to Successfactor(cloud) HR integration Project(SOAP-SOAP AXIS and SOAP to SFSF adapters).

Ø       In depth knowledge on techniques/features of SAP PI 7.4,7.3, 7.1 and 7.0

Ø       Sound knowledge of Graphical, Java and XSLT mapping techniques.

Ø       Strong technical skills in all areas of PI like Run time Workbench, Integration Directory, Enterprise Service Builder, System Landscape Directory and Net Weaver Administrator.

Ø       Involved in Design, Configuration and Support of ccBPM interfaces in PI.

Ø       Good knowledge of SAP PI Administration concepts like Archiving and Deletion, Queue Prioritization, Alerting, VMR , XI cache, monitoring and STRUST (Certificates).

Ø       Has Implemented SFDC (Salesforce: Online CRM), SWIFT(Treasury Banking),CRM ,Label Printing, Foundation, Migration project ranging over SAP modules of SD, MM and FI.

Ø       Has been instrumental in resolution of Seeburger BIS(for Customs) day to day issues.

Ø       Well aware of concepts like PGP encryption, FCC, Dynamic Configuration, Adapter Modules, Change management services (CMS), Transport, Message Prioritization and System administration techniques.

 

EDI Experience:

Ø       Implemented EDI (BIC Mapper) and Seeburger configuration for ANSI and EDIFACT transaction sets.

Ø       Worked on EDI transaction set development, support and migration for major clients for over a period of 4 years.

Ø       Worked on Seeburger, SAP Crossgate and Gentran environments for EDIFACT and ANSI X12 transactions.

Ø       Worked on ORDERS (EDI 850), ORDRSP(EDI 855), INVOIC(EDI 810), ASN(EDI 856), INVRPT(EDI 846), SLSRPT(EDI 867), SSDCLM(EDI 844) etc.

Ø       Conducted EDI data analysis and engaged in business process defining for sales Report, claims and invoice report.

Ø       Supported EDI interfaces over the Seeburger BIS suite to customs in ATLAS(Germany) and US over Seeburger BIS.

Ø       Knowledge of EDI partner onboarding in GXS and Open Text application.

Ø       Has worked on tools like Tumbleweed and RMFT used for large file transfers.

Ø       Knowledge of Java , C and C++.

 

Reason for Change:

Ø       Seeking a permanent position in US.

 

Work Authorization:

Ø       H1B visa valid till Feb 2016. Requires extension after Feb 2016.

Ø       Used duration :38 months Available duration: 32 months

 

Contact Details:

Ø       Cell: 9729796145.

Ø       Email: anpuss@gmail.com

 

Highest Education:

Ø       Bachelors: Computer Science and Engineering.

Ø       University: University of Calicut, Kerala, India.

 

 

Client References:

Ø       AMD- Mike Orlando: Michael.orlando@amd.com

Ø       SAP- Kinga Butler: Kinga.butler@sap.com

Ø       Celanese- Jennie Chen: Chen.Jennie@celanese.com

Ø       Syngenta- Harishankar Kaimal: Kaimal.Harishankar@Syngenta.com

 

Projects in Detail

 

Client- Sysco Foods                                                                                    Jan’15– Ongoing

Houston,TX

Primary company- Infosys

 

Role: SAP PI Technology Lead

 

About Project (Successfactors Integration): The HR process at Sysco foods was to fast emerge as hugely in demand due to the plan of merge with major foods company. It was also important to have a common strategy for the division across the globe to have a common and easy onboarding and staffing tool. Successfactor BIZx cloud application provided by SAP was decided to be the application to be used and with previous engagements Infosys was chosen as the technical partner(not functional partner) for the successful integration.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø      Lead the Employee Transfer, Vacant Position, Recruiting and Onboarding integration for Successfactors.

Ø      Create Custom interface mappings for the Onboarding interface using SAP PI SFTP solution.

Ø      Work with Network team on the integration activities of cloud based application with SAP systems.

Ø      Work with Basis team on the additional SFSF adapter deployment in SAP PI.

Ø      Work with Multiple specialty companies for their integration to SAP for MiniMaster set up.

Ø      Incorporate the Sysco requirements with no deviation from the standard.

Ø      Assist the functional team in the design and creation of functional specification.

Ø      Review the technical specification and developments.

Ø      Read, Identify and incorporate/deploy the service pack release from SAP to make sure the latest Successfactor solutions are available to the customer.

Ø      Lead the offshore team on the development of the SOAP to SFSF and SOAP (XI 3.0 protoocol) to SOAP AXIS interfaces.

Ø      Coordinate the network, basis, SAP and Successfactor consultants for the integration piece of the interfaces.

Ø      Actively take part in Change request management from functional team.

Ø      Participate in the release plans and assist the HCM consultant in HCM changes.

 

Client- AMD Advanced Micro Devices                                                                                    Feb’14– Dec’14

Austin,TX

Primary company- Infosys

 

Role: Technology Architect/Lead

 

About Project (Gentran to SAP Crossgate/Seeburger AS2 Migration):   With growing demand for EDI integration in AMD, AMD planned to migrate their Gentran EDI profiles to Hybrid platform involving Seeburger AS2 profile over SAP PI for high volume partners and on demand SAP crossgate solution for low volume partners .The project targeted around 18 different partners for 166 EDI profiles migration and 70 new development. The Project was critical to business financially and had to be completed adhering to tight schedules due to licensing requirements of Gentran. All the three phases were completed on time leading to customer appreciation

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø      Understand Gentran logic and convert to SAP IDOC mappings over Seeburger.

Ø      Deployment of the SDA files in SAP PI servers for Seeburger AS2 solution.

Ø      Custom development to meet migration requirements on the Seeburger Server.

Ø      New partner onboarding on the SAP PI server for EDI to IDOC communication.

Ø      Responsible for Onsite and offshore coordination, requirements gathering, coordination with SAP Crossgate team and partners and Project meeting coordination’s.

Ø      ANSI X12  and EDIFACT to SAP ii mapping logic identification for crossgate development.

Ø      As Technology Architect, sole responsible for Edifact and ANSI X12 mapping, defining Rosettanet(RNIF) mappings,migration issue resolution, Mapping, Configuration, Production Deployment/Support and End-User Training and documentation.

Ø      Worked on EDI transactions 844,846,867,849,845,810,820,855,865 etc.

Ø      Involved in Release Management & Status meetings to discuss testing status, configuration management, deadlines and all QA related aspects.

 

 

Client- Celanese Chemicals                                                                                                   Feb’13–Jan 14

Dallas,TX

Primary company- Infosys

 

Role: Technology lead

 

About Project (Support Lead/Biocide Project/EDI 204/ 990 PRJ/GTNEXUS implementation):   With Growing demand for integration in Celanese and increased tickets was called back to the account for handling daily issues/enhancements and Projects. Along with the support project, plan was to implement the Biocide/EDI 204 AND EDI 990 Project and GTNEXUS shipment project implementation. These projects were critical to business legally and financially and had to be completed adhering to tight schedules.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø      Responsible for Onsite and offshore coordination, day to day issue resolution over ticketing tool USD, Project meeting coordination’s.

Ø      As Technology Lead and sole responsible for SAP PI deliverables involved in all phases of implementation from Business Blueprinting, Solution Designing, Data Modeling, Mapping, Configuration, Production Deployment/Support and End-User Training and documentation.

Ø      Involved in development and support of interfaces involving CIDX, SOAP, HTTP, FTP, IDOC, RFC, Split 997,Mail and JDBC adapters.

Ø      Worked on EDI/Seeburger BIC mapper for development of EDI 204 Load carrier and EDI 990 Responses.

Ø      Handled Seeburger BIS issues for SAP GTS on a day to day basis.

Ø      Involved in Project Kick-off, Release Management & Status meetings to discuss testing status, configuration management, deadlines and all QA related aspects.

Ø      Responsible for the entire transport and movement to production.

Ø      Worked on both CMS and File transport.

Ø      Tickets count was reduced by half and all deliverables were timely delivered.

 

Environment:  SAP PI 7.1.

Celanese Chemicals                                                                                       Nov’11 – Aug’12

Dallas,TX

Role: Technology lead

Primary company- Infosys

 

About Project (Support Roll over/Treasury):   With Celanese choosing Infosys as the prime vendor for their IT Solutions challenge was wide open to complete the transition of interfaces in a span of 2 months and get into primary support. Along with the support project, plan was to implement the Treasury module to support Celanese integrate with 6 different banks across ASIA, EUROPE and Americas. The integration involved the Payments and Bank statements across the geographies to get rid of old point to point interfaces. Celanese landscape involved integration  with Elemica, VANS for EDI exchange, Seeburger BIS for SAP GTS, Notafiscals and Shipments to name a few.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø      Responsible for Onsite and offshore coordination, day to day issue resolution over ticketing tool USD, Project meeting coordination’s for integration with banks.

Ø      The support documents for interfaces were created within short span of time and still pave the way for day to day issue resolutions.

Ø      Creation of effort tracking, billing document for SAP PI on monthly basis, RCA documents.

Ø      Adherence to strict SLAs for self and team members.

Ø      Responsible to write Functional Document, Technical document Review in SAP PI.

Ø      Responsible for administration of SAP PI system with Queue prioritization, Deletion and archiving set up, delta sizing, Management/Regeneration/Activation of Queues.

Ø      Develop and manage EDI interfaces ranging from EDI 850, EDI 855, EDI 214 etc.

Ø      Involved in Open text issue resolution and performance tuning of interfaces while working with basis team.

Ø      Involved in Planning and scoping, D&I phase, Testing, deployment and hyper care of interfaces.

Ø      Involved in Architecture design and developed strategies for better approach for building interfaces.

Ø      Responsible for creating new Business system along with path for the production system.

Ø      Responsible for the entire transport and movement to production.

Ø      Worked on both CTS and File transport.

Ø      Handles all the transports in a sequential manner to avoid issues in production migration.

Ø      Integrated 50 odd interfaces for Treasury project for 6 different banks.

Ø      Worked on Fileact, FIN, MT940,MT942, Pain.002, MT190,Pain.008 and BAI2 files.

Ø      Lead the Finance team with the experience in previous implementation.

Ø      Worked on CIDX, EDI 997,Seeburger BIC Mapper, SOAP, JDBC, HTTP, Mail, RFC, XI adapter.

Ø      Worked on concepts of containers, User interaction steps, integration process, integration scenario, parameterized mapping, PGP encryption, Certificate installation, Alert category definition, Service registry, RFC and JDBC lookup and most new concepts of SAP PI 7.1

 

Environment:  SAP PI 7.1.

Syngenta USA, Greenboro (NC)                                                                                                  Feb’11 - Sep’11

Primary company- Infosys

Role: Technology Lead

 

Ø      About Project (GTM): With the role out of SalesForce implementation to Syngenta Switzerland client wanted the Syngenta US to implement CRM strategy. They came out with Syngenta GTM(Go to Market) Project where they would directly integrate their clients and partners over the Real time Synchronous Webservice interfaces. The integration involved Integrating the legacy CMD applications to SAP over JDBC,Agdata and TGT partners to SAP CRM system over the SOAP webservice interface, updating territory sequential data over ccBPM interfaces, customized alerting using mail adapters.Multiple vendors and applications were integrated for real time synchronous and asynchronous updates of Accounts, contacts, Hierarchies and Over rides.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø      Responsible for gathering and analyzing Business Requirement.

Ø      Ownership of interfaces, meetings and discussion with vendors and Business on requirements, coordination of offshore and onsite activities, SAP PI functional specification and mapping document preparation.

Ø      Review of the Technical specifications, Graphical mapping design reviews, development, review and deployment of Java and XSLT mappings.

Ø      Responsible for transport movement to production and hypercare issues.

Ø      Responsible for handling team of around 7 developers, delegating and reviewing task assigned.

Ø      Testing of the complex PI interfaces and supporting user acceptance testing in war rooms.

Ø      Involved in architectural and design review with SAP, timely deliverables, movement to production of interfaces.

Ø      Worked on SLD concepts, System administration and support of interfaces.

Ø      Worked on scope changes, effort utilization charts, SOX compliance updates etc.

Ø      Responsible for RMFT configuration for large files.

 

 

Syngenta Oct’10 - Jan’11

Support Lead/SalesForce implementation Lead

Primary company- Infosys

 

About Project (Syngenta Support and SFDC): With the company’s plans to transfer to Onsite was moved to an important role of leading the Syngenta Support team comprising of 10 members. The Project involved resolution of day to day issues, minor and major enhancements, reporting to customers and vendors.

Apart from these took the lead role in SFDC integration of the client. SalesForce(online CRM) application had to be integrated with the SAP application over SAP PI . There was around 14 SOAP interfaces to be developed in a period of 4 months with the time bounded contract.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø      Involved in Planning and scheduling of the work among the resources.

Ø      Leading the support team took responsibility of assigning the issues based on experience of team members and priority.

Ø      SAP PI enhancements were designed and changed in accordance with the user’s requirement and SAP developer’s compatibility.

Ø      Involved in defect fixing, meetings, scope discussion of interfaces.

Ø      Communication with source owners including client communication on a daily basis

Ø      Coordinating on Shore and Off-shore developer to clarify the requirement and ensured the timelines to complete the development.

Ø      Involved in configuration of Pre-prod and testing of fixes and issues.

Ø      Involved in design of interfaces for SalesForce integration.

Ø      Handles almost all the transport Movement using CMS.

Ø      Introduced the concept of VMR specifically to bypass BPM scenarios for SalesForce improving the performance of the system.

Ø      Responsible for Deployment and maintenance in Production environment.

 

Environment/Tools: HP AIX system, SAP PI 7.0 on UNIX operating system, HPSM ticketing tool

Syngenta                                              Jul’10 - Sep’10

Technology Analyst

Primary company- Infosys

 

About Project (SAP AII and OER):  Label printing integration with SAP AII is based on the generation of an XML file containing all of the information needed to describe an RFID label print job. This application must be configured to create the desired XML file and send it over a specified TCP\IP port. The enterprise package for AII and OER label printing was deployed in SAP PI 7.0 and whole customization was completed as per the client requirements.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø      Worked as a Technology Analyst and involved in analyzing, information gathering and functional design.

Ø      Responsible for developing & testing of the interfaces.

Ø      Analyzed the interfaces from User perspective and completed the development to integrate the SAP systems to bartender to print out the labels and barcodes in specified formats.

Ø      Responsible for Deployment and Maintenance in Test environment.

Ø      Worked on synchronous and asynchronous interfaces associated with label printing.

Ø      Responsible to delegate task and to ensure completion of all task assigned to team members on day to day basis.

 

Environment: HP AIX system, SAP PI 7.0 on UNIX operating system

 

Syngenta Switzerland      Jan’10 - July’10

Technical Analyst

Primary company- Infosys

 

About Project (Syngenta GSM): With the new banking standards coming into picture Syngenta decided to streamline their banking transactions using global standard SWIFT. Syngenta came up with the Syngenta Global system Management initiative to integrate with 3 major banks namely HSBC, Bank of America and Deutsche bank. The Project comprised of integrating to the SWIFT service Provider BBP who would process FIN and Fileact payments, MT190 and pain.002 responses and (MT940 and BAI2) bank statements .

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø      Worked as the offshore lead for GSM Project.

Ø      Responsible for interactions with banks and customer to understand the specific concepts of Treasury module of Finance.

Ø      Took lead role in establishing the FIN and Fileact payments and their responses.

Ø      Responsible for gathering and Analyzing Client Requirement.

Ø      Creating the High Level Designs based on the requirements given by the Business Users.

Ø      Responsible for Creation of RFC upload of Bank statements.

Ø      Responsible for Integration and user acceptance testing.

Ø      Took Lead role for Deployment and Maintenance in Production environment.

Ø      Establishing Connectivity with Service provider to drop in the payments and responses over the test and production environment.

Ø      Responsible to delegate task and to ensure completion of all task assigned to team members on day to day basis

Ø      Took  part in various discussions for the future enhancements possible for the system

 

Environment: HP AIX system, SAP PI 7.0 on UNIX operating system

 

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Client Name: Syngenta Switzerland             Mar’09 –Dec ‘09

Integration Lead offshore/Senior Software Engineer

Primary company- Infosys

 

About Project (Syngenta Migration): Syngenta had earlier a middleware tool called SeeBeyond for their middleware communications. With the license expiring and Seebeyond getting outdated customer had plans to migrate their integration from SeeBeyond Landscape to SAP PI landscape. With the strong and effective foundation been laid customer opened the challenge of migrating 800 odd interfaces from SeeBeyond(Java) to SAP PI in a Span of 10 months .The project was termed Syngenta Migration. With limited onsite, offshore lead was responsible for creation of functional specifications.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø      During this tenure an additional responsibility of integration lead offshore was vested upon and hence to be the responsible for all deliverables for UAT.

Ø      Worked on Requirements gathering from SeeBeyond codes written in Java.

Ø      High level, Low level designing and architecting the new flow from one middle ware to SAP PI was prime focus of being the offshore lead.

Ø      Complex interface development was taken up solely which involved ccBPM scenarios, SOAP lookup scenarios, and Banking scenarios to name a few.

Ø      Integration test documents creation and review was one of the other main activity during this period which was one of the prime deliverables of the migration project.

Ø      As the offshore lead was involved in review and integration testing of all the deliverables from offshore.

Ø      Complex Java mappings were incorporated into simple, direct graphical mappings.

Ø      Worked on Concepts of PGP Encryption, BPM, Alerts, Exception handling, Complex FCC etc.

Ø      During this tenure had worked on SOAP, RFC, AS2, Mail, JDBC, File and IDOC.

 

Environment: HP AIX system, SAP PI 7.0 on UNIX operating system

 

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Client Name:  Syngenta, SwitzerlandNov’07–March’ 09

Software Developer

Primary company- Infosys

 

 

About Project (Syngenta Foundation):  Syngenta is one of the world's leading companies with more than 27,000 employees in some 90 countries dedicated to bringing plant potential to life. The customer had planned to revamp their entire SAP landscape and was trying to come up with a strong foundation strategy. They had come up with Syngenta Foundation initiative. The customer wanted integration of several A2A applications. The system was to be designed with secure and sustainable data flow between different applications involving multiple vendors and partners. The integration involved development and deployment of 140 odd interfaces.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø      Responsible to validate the functional requirements.

Ø      High level and low level designs.

Ø      Development of interfaces.

Ø      Configuration of IDOC,HTTP,SOAP,FTP and JDBC adapters

Ø      Unit testing and integration support.

Ø      User acceptance issue resolution and coordination.

Ø      Post Production support of interfaces

 

Environment: HP AIX system, SAP PI 7.0 on UNIX operating system.