Shiny Thekkel

SAP ABAP/PI Lead Architect with overall 16 years of SAP experience - 13 years of ABAP and 11 Years of PI/PO. Quality-driven Technical Specialist eager to leverage many years of field experience in new position with room for advancement. Enthusiastic about improving business IT standards and optimizing resources.

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For implementing a solution to re-print missing checks, without missing bank SLA, For recovering ACG Claims system after a major system outage, For outstanding performance in ACG Home Claims Implementation Projects, For outstanding performance in SAP Application Upgrade Project, For Outstanding performance in SAP Migration Project, For assisting a team in understanding SAP configuration and tables in order to complete one of their important projects, For assisting Data Mining team in extracting claims data for their Fraud Project, For assisting FTP team with FTP Migration Project related to ACG Claims Clients

SAP 3.0, 4.6C, ECC 6.0, SAP PI 7.1, SAP PI 7.5 Dual Stack, SAP PO, SAP-PI, ABAP Programming, SAP FS-CM, FI, Oracle, SQL Server

Yazaki North America, April 2017 - Present, Technical Specialist, Develop and Manage interfaces with SAP systems in Yazaki North America and Europe Regions. Assess requirement, and assign additional tasks to offshore resources, and ensure completion of development on time., Single handedly architecture and build SAP interface system for Yazaki Europe Region (SAP PO), Single handedly support migration of SAP PI – 7.1 to 7.3 and 7.3 to 7.5 – Dual stack, dual server, Consolidate SAP PO interfaces to SAP PI and retire SAP PO from Europe landscape by retaining PO design benefits., Single handed support to migrate PI system to new service provider, Build highly efficient, Sequencing interface to “pull” XMLs from Customer’s web service – making use of sync – async bridge model for communications., Built highly efficient transport tracking interface using REST APIs (JSON format), Complex – near real time Sequencing Interfaces with Customer Plants, Integrate SAP ECC to SAP TM system, and SAP TM to Cloud LBN – by making use of Cloud Connectors., Multiple other integrations using IDOC – IDOC, IDOC – File, File – IDOC, IDOC – REST, IDOC – Web Service, Web Service – IDOC with Acknowledgement (ALEAUD), Proxy – File, Proxy – Web Service, Proxy – REST API, REST API – Proxy, Web Service – RFC, Proxy – JDBC, SFTP with Basic Authentication, SFTP with Keys, SFTP with encryption etc., Maintain PI Admin transactions (SLDAPICUST, SXMB_ADM, RFC Destinations, RZ70) in ECC systems to connect to PI system, Maintain IDOC configurations – Partner Profiles, Port, Distribution models etc., Maintain PI – NWA configurations (Maintain Destinations, inboundRA Settings etc). to enable communication from PI to ECC systems using AAE model., Custom Alert configurations based on interface requirements, Create Technical specifications and Interface architecture diagrams, Work with ECC functional resources and third-party teams on testing the interfaces., Provide updates to PM on a regular basis., Train new resources Auto Club Group, May 2011 - April 2017, Application Developer, Represent the technical team in Requirement gathering sessions. Propose technically feasible solutions and help writing the requirements. Prepare Functional Specification Documents (FS) and facilitate review sessions with business. Work with manager in setting up achievable deadlines. Make sure the availability of necessary artifacts for developers in completing the development. Involve other teams when necessary in completing a project. Help Testing team in understanding the requirements to prepare test cases. Attend and explain the FS sections as requested by the testing team. Review and Sign-off on the technical solutions proposed by the Contract members of the team. Complete assigned development ABAP and/ or PI tasks. Prepare Technical Specification and Unit test document for the assigned developments. Conduct Unit Testing. Coordinate with SAP when required. Train other developers in using Proxies and PI fundamentals. Provide support to business on existing custom interfaces and different Payment functionalities. Provide necessary guidance to on-call resources in case of a job failure. Alert customers (Bank, Third party check print office etc.) in case of an outage/ job failure. Perform necessary steps to recover the jobs in case of a major system outage. Handle all issues/developments related to interfaces., Interface between ACG’S Enterprise Content Management System (ECM) and Claims system to save claims related documents to ECM., Built Four interfaces between ACG’s Claims system and ECM which will enable the users to: Store Document in ECM, View list of documents associated with a given claim, Retrieve a document from ECM, Delete a Document. Took care of ABAP and PI Developments of the interfaces which enabled users to save documents in ECM in a real time manner., Interface between ACG Claims System and Medical Vendor. The interface will enable the ACG adjusters to systematically enter a claim in the Medical Vendor system and will allow the Medical vendor users to send the payment details back to ACG claims system., Participated in requirement gathering sections and provided necessary technical feed back in deriving optimum requirements. Completed Functional Specification document for Claim Creation and Payment Creation functionalities of the interface. Built web services for Medical vendor to send payment request and claim create responses to ACG. Provided developers with the tables and join conditions for pulling necessary data. Provided developers with list of DI (Direct Input) Function Modules to create payments in background. Conducted mapping review meetings with Medical vendor. Developed interfaces using SAP-PI to send claim creation request to Medical Vendor (Proxy – SOAP scenario) and to receive the payment details from Medical vendor (SOAP – SOAP Scenario). Built web service to process the Payment request. Prepared PI technical specification document for the interfaces. Prepared mapping documents for the interfaces. Conducted coordinated unit testing b/n SAP – PI – Medical Vendor System. Assisted business with preparing User Training Document. Developed a report for Initial vendor load to the Medical vendor system. Developed a report to periodically send updated vendor information to the Medical vendor system. Took Care of PI Interface Implementation. In charge for post-production support., Interface between ACG Glass Vendor and ACG Claims System for online registration of Glass claims and off-hour Home Claims. The interface enabled the glass vendor to register claims online with ACG, eliminating after the fact paper works., Participated in Requirement gathering and analysis. Completed Functional Specification Document. Developed web services for the vendor to communicate with ACG. Conducted Mapping Review meetings with the Vendor. Developed interfaces using SAP-PI to process Claim registration requests(SOAP – SOAP). Prepared PI technical specification document for the interface. Technical point of contact to analyze system test defects. Took Care of PI Interface Implementation. In charge for post-production support., Full cycle implementation of SAP for Home claims. Created Functional Specification Document for Claim Processing section. Created Functional Specification Document for Payment Processing for Home Claims. Enhanced Auto-Claim Processing section to accommodate Home Claim Processing. Created a new PI Interface to load Home Policies from Policy System (Mainframe) to Claims System. Performed Code review for the Payment Processing Enhancements. Handled configuration for Grouping Payments issued to the same payee on the same day on the same claim. Prepared Technical Specification and Unit test documents for the Claim Processing Changes and Policy Load Interface. Assisted Testing team in preparing test conditions for the Claim Processing Module and Payment Grouping Functionality. Developer –in- support during Smoke Testing for Home Claims Implementation project – Analyzed the defects reported and routed to the right developer for fixing. Handled PI transports to Quality and Production Systems. Assisted business in preparing business readiness document and user training materials., Resolved and unit tested many issues related to accounting & balancing. Examples: Fixed four reports which were being used by the Finance department for month-end balancing. Worked with SAP to fix some major issues in SAP 1099 reporting process. Developed a custom program to send the missing 1099 records to IRS. Fixed an interface which was wrongly sending payment data to main frame Loss tables. Handled many small incidents/ change requests related to payments module. Guided the testing team in Conducting Integration testing for my developments. Handled many issues related to Claims Processing, Policy Load and BP(Business Partner) maintenance. Took care of the requirement gathering, analysis, development and testing for different reports. Fixed many issues related to PI- interfaces. Handled different PI transports. Handled Go-Live activities for multiple projects. Haworth Inc, June 2010 - May 2011, SAP PI Analyst, Handling the development and support activities, being a part of the PI team., Collect requirements by conducting meetings with the teams who are involved in the data transfer, Analyze and choose the best possible method for designing the interface, Develop and test the interfaces in different landscapes, Few of the development activities include: Interfaces using File Adapters, JDBC Adapters, RFCs and Proxies, Interfaces using BPM, Redesigning of existing interfaces for performance improvement, Creation of User Defined Functions in JAVA during interface developments, Handle On-call Support for the PI team., Assist the ABAP team with the PRs, Assist the ABAP team with different options to approach an issue Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, December 2005 - May 2009, SAP ABAP Developer, Worked on four data migration projects for Delphi Automotives Inc., Data Migration Projects (ALE,Reports,BDC, LSMW), Worked as the technical consultant for the MM team, for FOUR Data Migration Projects, in carrying out the MM ETL process and handled both static and dynamic data loads, Maintained the ALE settings for the data transfer, Developed a module pool program to manage the inventory stock when a plant is sold., Developed a program to update vendor master data (of LFA1 & LFB1) in the target system with the client specific fields, after the vendor data is transferred using ALE., Created Extraction, Transformation and Load Programs (BDC) for POs, SAs, Contracts, and Texts., Developed the Extraction Conversion and Load programs for Inventory data (dynamic data load), Module Pool Programming, Created a Module Pool program to display and modify data from customer table using table control with validations and search help, Designed and developed customized material application using module pool, Developed a customized Vendor Application Program using Module Pool, Developed a Module pool program which enabled the user to modify the contents of a set of Z-tables using table control, Developed custom version of MB51 to add Material type, MRP Controller and Special Procurement type in the selection screen and report output., Created a custom version of MC47 to add vendor ID and external material group as selection criteria., Reports, Created a Vendor Performance Report using ALV, which lists the Vendor name, Materials supplied, Planned and Actual Delivery Times, Payment terms and prices., Created Report in Material Master using ALV, that outputs Material Vaulted Stock, grouped by Material type and plant. The output shows Material No., Storage Location, Unit of Measure and Description in addition to group totals., Other Development Activities, Modified the SAP Script forms and corresponding driver programs according to the customer specifications, Developed the LSMW for Customer Master to upload from Non-SAP data to SAP R/3 in SD Module., Configured a Distribution Model using Application Link Enabling (ALE) for MM module. This development was done to move routings that includes the component allocation and object assignment to various systems, Performed the quality assurance analysis and tests after each development and maintained the CMDs, Quality Assurance Documents and Check lists for each development/modifications done., Handled development of IDOCs