SAP CONSULTANT
WILLIAM DAVID CRAIG JR
Accenture Federal Services (CONTRACTOR)
Mansfield,TX
1
Certification
37
Years of experience
Accomplished SAP Enterprise Architect, SAP ABAP Technical Lead, and Senior SAP ABAP Developer with more than 32 years of SAP ABAP experience spanning 45+ SAP clients, 20 SAP implementations (including 10 full life cycle implementations), and multiple SAP releases from SAP 2.0 through SAP S/4HANA.
Extensive experience leading global development teams, designing enterprise SAP solutions, modernizing legacy systems, and delivering complex RICEFW objects across numerous industries.
Active Secret Security Clearance with deep Aerospace & Defense, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Products, and Public Sector experience. Proven leader with over 20 years of management and technical leadership overseeing global onshore/offshore development teams and mentoring SAP professionals.
Work History
EBS Enterprise Architect
1 Year 10 Months- Support DLA(EBS) Enterprise Architecture (EA) team by assessing the impact of project-driven changes on the enterprise architecture landscape.
- Conduct EA Impact Assessments for project changes and assist in preparing Courses of Action (COA) and Technical Design Documents (TDD)
- Assists with guiding project teams through architectural implications and technical planning and collaborates with functional SMEs to translate business requirements into viable technical solutions.
- Provide a level of effort estimates based on functional specifications or business requirements.
- Worked extensively in creating CDS Views for The Data Migration project.
- Performed EA Impact Analysis of over 650 RICE objects and created EA Impact Assessment documents for the Custom Code Removal projects.
- Supported the FLIS Modernization ECC to S/4 HANA migration project through its design and development phases
- Provided architectural and technical support across multiple projects and contribute extensively to Technical Design Documentation, including identification and analysis of impacted RICE objects.
- Provide ABAP development oversight, ensuring adherence to EBS development standards, ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) checks, and modern ABAP practices
Sr. SAP ABAP Developer
2 Years 5 Months- Partner with functional teams to review functional specifications and produce technical design specifications.
- Provide a level of effort estimates based on functional specifications or business requirements.
- Worked extensively in creating CDS Views for The Data Migration project.
- Design, code, unit test, debug, and implement SAP ABAP applications with functional teams.
- Resolve open development issues and make decisions about alternate technical approaches.
- Proactively provide work status.
- RAP -ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model; Exposure to FIORI
- Follow development standards and methodology.
- Ensure that documentation is properly maintained.
- Support the change control process. Conduct code reviews with peers.
- Support application upgrades.
- Work Defects:
- O Develop test plans for new or modified programs
- O Test, debug, implement, and document fixes
- O Perform issue resolution and root cause analysis
- Provide advanced problem-solving and technical support, including on-call critical support.
Sr. SAP ABAP Developer
4 Years 4 Months- As a Senior ABAP Developer and Support Engineer, answered customer questions and determined the best solutions for our products. Debugged software and documented customer issues in the support ticket system.
- Directly reported status updates to the VP of Product Management.
- Received designs from the software development queue, worked with the developer(s) to get the code completed, and performed thorough software testing and regression testing.
- Represented the Technical team during Demos and Presentations.
- Modified ABAP code of SAP Certified 3rd party tools.
- Clients: Valero Energy, Spirit Energy, EDF Energy, Spire Energy, OGE Energy Corp, Sempra Energy, OGE Energy Corp, Suncor Energy, Santos Ltd.
Sr. SAP ABAP Developer
2 Years 2 Months- Worked closely with SAP Functional Configuration Consultants and client personnel to ensure accuracy and completeness of functional requirements, technical specifications, and development of programs according to specifications.
- Responsible for managing the SAP Development team in migrating the Legacy ERP system into the SAP platform.
- This implementation spanned FICO, HR (Time), SD, MM, WM, PS, and 700 end users, supported by a team of 30+ people.
- Worked with the Development team to assist with the integration of the ECC system from one city to another.
- Performed Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP system using SAP Best Practices and LSMW.
- Responsibilities included Realization of implementation and technical specification requirements, developing code items for RICEF to match specifications, and assisting in Technical Specifications QAs and Code Reviews.
- Clients: West-Ward Pharmaceuticals, BWX Technologies
SAP Solution Architect
8 Months- Worked with Worksoft Certify, an automated Business Process Validation (BPV) platform for SAP companies worldwide to replace costly and time-consuming manual testing methods.
- Developed and presented product demonstrations to partners/potential customers and explained the value proposition of our platform, supported Proofs-Of-Concept or platform demos from a technical perspective, provided product technical support to the pre-sales team, provided support on product installation and upgrades, developed and provided initial Worksoft product training (1-to-2-hour sessions), and answered technical questions during the customer's evaluation.
Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
8 Months- Followed the standard life cycle development process and worked closely with the functional configuration consultants to ensure accuracy and completeness of functional requirements and development of ABAP programs according to specifications.
- Also responsible for technical component delivery and assumed responsibility for testing the application code from a technical perspective to verify that programs follow standards and meet technical specifications.
- Actively participated in work groups and work sessions with functional and technical consultants.
Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
2 Months- Designed and developed SAP SD/Pricing Routines, User Exits, BADI Enhancements, and SAP Custom transactions.
- Analyzed functional specifications, developed technical specifications, completed coding, performed unit testing, and supported integration testing.
Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
8 Months- As the SAP Data Migration Analyst, worked closely with the functional configuration consultants to ensure accuracy and completeness of functional requirements, created technical specifications, and developed the programs according to specifications.
- Responsible for technical component delivery and participated in full integration testing and assumed responsibility for testing the application code from a technical perspective to verify that programs follow standards and meet technical specifications.
- Actively participated in work groups and work sessions with functional and technical consultants.
Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
2 Months- Analyzed functional specifications, developed technical specifications, completed coding, performed unit testing, and supported integration testing associated with SAP modules.
Sr. SAP ABAP Developer
5 Months- Part of the Production Support Development team that included members in the U.S. and Offshore in India.
- Conducted Functional Specification Reviews and Code Reviews.
- Researched, coded, and tested defects in custom RICEF objects.
- Monitored the RICEF tickets in the Quality Center and managed defects with Quality Center.
- Reviewed and analyzed RICEF objects and gave recommendations on how to solve problems.
Sr. SAP ABAP Technical Lead
1 Year 3 Months- Led the Development team in gathering requirements, developing, and testing RICEF Objects.
- Created functional/technical specs and LSMW scripts to migrate legacy data to Asset Retirement Obligations (ARO) application.
- Assisted our client in the performance analysis of the GTM (Global Trade Mgt) solution.
- Provided client with a Performance Analysis Report including recommendations for performance optimization for the GTM solution.
- Reviewed RICEF objects and gave recommendations on how to improve run time performance.
- Documented project requirements, task assignments, and bug tracking using the StarTeam, a revision control system.
- Identified requirements, gaps, and omissions, and mapped business requirements to technology capabilities and availability.
- Provided estimated scope of work and deliverable status to the Project Manager.
- Produced Functional and Technical specifications to define necessary product extensions, interfaces, and data conversions.
- Developed objects with Tcl scripting language and mii.
- Clients: Devon Energy, Bunge North America, PepsiCo, Bell Helicopter, National Bank of Canada
SAP Technical Manager / Consultant
11 Months- Led a Global Team of 20+ ABAP Developers responsible for gathering requirements, developing, and testing over 200 RICEF Objects.
- Worked with PMO to integrate the Development and Testing Plan into the overall project plan.
- Created the complete RICEF list based on the requirement gathering and gap analysis done by the functional consultants.
- Created the Functional Specification, Technical Specification, and Unit Test Plan templates.
- Worked with Offshore (China) liaisons to manage a team of thirteen developers from Shanghai, China to migrate the RICEF objects from SAP 4.6C to ECC 6.0; Managed all the technical documents on Solution Manager and SharePoint (Document Repository).
- Performed internal review of all the technical deliverables (Technical Specification, Unit Test Plan, and Source Code Review).
Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
4 Months- Participated in peer review of functional specifications, technical specifications, and code.
- Maintained technical standards and guidelines documentation.
- Designed and developed RICEF objects within the Supply Network Collaboration (SNC) section of the Supply Chain Management (SCM) platform.
Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
3 Months- Designed and Developed OO ALV reports.
- Analyzed functional specifications, developed technical specifications, completed coding, performed unit testing, supported integration testing, and transported programs associated with SAP modules FI, CO, IM, MM, PP, SD, and PM.
- Took the lead role during status meetings in the absence of the manager.
Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
1 Year- As a member of the Lockheed Martin Enterprise Business Systems (EBS) OneAero SAP implementation, provided the design, development, and mentoring in support of the SAP systems for F-22 and JSF aircraft programs. Designed, developed, and implemented SAP RICEF objects in FI/CO, MM/PP, and SD modules and Master Data.
- Debugged and fixed defects.
- Performed comprehensive regression testing before changes were released to the production environments. Prepared comprehensive documentation required for all Portal aspects.
- Evaluated interface process risks from an operational and systems perspective, identifying control issues and providing viable control solutions.
- Attained knowledge of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and working knowledge of Quality Center (QC) and RevTrac.
- Became a liaison with other SAP Implementation Team members to maintain/apply coherent, optimized, integrated, and standardized processes.
- Prepared formal specification documentation as required, supported the entire implementation effort during all project stages, and complied with the global template approach within the organization.
SAP Principal Consultant II
3 Years 2 Months- Led a Global Team of ABAP Developers responsible for gathering requirements, developing, testing, and supporting several RICEF Objects for multi-million-dollar projects which delivered on time and within budget for a large Aerospace & Defense and a large Metals manufacturer.
- Managed and performed coding, unit testing, and custom object defect resolution during Integration Testing and Go-Live.
- Responsible for BAPI development (wrote 6 BAPIs for this project). Conversion of Master Data.
- Developed interfaces that triggered IDOCs to come from SAP to xMII to be processed by another system.
- Performed extensive ALE configuration.
- Developed SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) transactions.
- Team Lead for the Development team of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner project.
- Designed, developed, and tested custom SAP Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Extensions and Extracts (BAPIs), SAP Script (creation and modification), and SmartForms.
- Extensive EDI development for Financials.
- Participated in environment management meetings and verified that development needs were met.
- Report status to Project Management on all development-related items.
- Worked with transactions and reports in CATS.
- Clients: Vought Aircraft, Boeing, RTI International, Koppell Steel, Sony Electronics
SAP Project Manager of Development
1 Year- Led a Team of Developers (client and consultants) responsible for gathering requirements, developing, testing, and supporting several RICEF for the project which was delivered on time and within budget for a large Waste Management company.
- Manager/Lead/Owner of the custom object (RICEF) list for all SAP projects within all modules.
- Oversaw and approved the functional specification development.
- Drove discussions about Phase 2 conversion identification and discussed techniques for loading data into SAP and provided input data used for Crystal reporting.
- Identified project plan tasks and deliverables related to Development and identified and managed Development-related tasks applicable to the upgrade process.
- Modules included heavy PS, MM, PP, IM, WM, SD, EH&S, and FICO. Conversion of master data.
2 Years 2 Months
- Shell Oil: Designed, Developed, and Tested custom SAP Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Extensions and Extracts (BAPIs), and SAPScript/SmartForms for Shell’s Trident project that converted Shell’s Magellan SAP system into their Pennzoil-Quaker State (PQS) SAP system. LSMW was used to create the conversions of master data.
- Noble Oil Drilling: Designed, Developed, and tested custom SAP Reports in their Oil and Gas Data warehouse applications.
- CAT Logistics: Assisted in completing customized logistics solutions in information technology, inventory management, warehousing and operations, and transportation. The goal was to enable CAT Logistics’ clients to be more responsive to their customers while reducing their overall logistics costs. Wrote technical specifications for all SAP Technical objects for CAT Logistics customers and was available for development work and “on-call” support work when needed.
- PH & System of Higher Education: Wrote the Integration plans and developed the SAP objects for the implementation of the HR module within the State System. Worked with transactions and reports in CATS.
- Perrigo: Helped build custom SAP interface transactions and workflow objects for Perrigo’s Inventory Disposition process. Received the technical specifications and coded, tested, and documented extensively the results for the client.
- PH Glatfelter: Wrote technical designs for conversions and interfaces. This project also used LSMW - Legacy System Migration Workbench - to build the conversion. Within LSMW, the Batch Input Recording or SAP standard Batch Input programs can be used to execute the conversions and interfaces. Wrote SAP EDI/ALE technical designs and assisted junior ABAP developers with their work.
SAP Development Manager
1 Year- DuPont: Manager/Team Lead of 13 SAP ABAP Developers to produce ABAP objects through the Analysis, Design, Construction, and Testing phase. Managed development resources to leverage knowledge and made sure that the team members were charging their time correctly. Maintained communication with supervisor on updates and issues. Assigned work to the team members maintaining a level distribution of work among the team members, and tracked the progress of the team’s performance.
- Millennium Chemicals: Part of a team of 5 Accenture, 6 SAP, and client personnel that designed and installed SAP CRM conversion and interfaces for the client. Responsible for the design of the Order Entry screens that will be executed from the Internet and connected to the SAP CRM system. Had to understand the concept of the “shopping cart” technology on the Internet. Also maintained the project plan and recorded the team’s time and future estimates for each deliverable.
- Ryder: Part of a team of 2 Managers and one Consultant that researched the client’s current interface environment and recommended a specific EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) software solution for the current and future interfaces (including EDI) on the client’s systems.
- Clients: DuPont, Millennium Chemicals, Ryder
SAP Technical Lead
1 Year- Led a Global Team of ABAP Developers responsible for gathering requirements, developing, testing, and supporting several RICEF Objects for multiple projects.
SAP Technical Manager
5 Years 9 Months- Led a team of ABAP Developers responsible for gathering requirements, developing, testing, and supporting several RICEF Objects for multiple projects and conversion of master data.
- As a Manager, was the Senior Technical Designer on the Interface team.
- Wrote technical designs, performed code walk-thru, and assisted developers in coding and fine-tuning their programs.
- Assisted other developers by giving suggestions on how to fine-tune their programs.
- Mercator was used as the EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) middleware product between the Legacy and the SAP systems. Workflow was used in this project also to track errors.
- Instructed over 150 Andersen Consulting and client personnel.
- Taught 2-week and 3-week ABAP courses at the Andersen Center for Professional Education: ABAP/4 Data Dictionary, Introduction to ABAP/4, Data Interfaces, Dialog Oriented Report Programming, and Introduction to On-line Programming.
- Clients: Citgo, Arco, Maxus Energy, Texas Instruments, Motorola, Cadence Technologies, Flowers Bakery, Georgia-Pacific, FoxMeyer
Mainframe Developer
3 Years 7 Months- Part of a mainframe team responsible for gathering requirements, developing, testing, and supporting several on-line and batch TELON COBOL/DB2 programs for the Sales Marketing & Tracking and Passenger Sales systems.
- Performed analysis on projects and created system documentation.
Education
B.B.A. - Management Information Systems
Skills
Business process improvement
Business analysis
Service-oriented architecture
Subject matter expertise
Performance tuning
Software engineering
Standards development
Application development
Agile development frameworks
Standards implementation
Technical leadership
Solution architecture
Timeline
EBS Enterprise Architect
Accenture Federal Services (CONTRACTOR)
10.2024 - 08.2026Read More
Sr. SAP ABAP Developer
Raytheon
02.2022 - 07.2024Read More
Sr. SAP ABAP Developer
Magnitude Software
06.2017 - 10.2021Read More
Sr. SAP ABAP Developer
Clarkston Consulting
03.2015 - 05.2017Read More
SAP Solution Architect
Worksoft Certify
05.2014 - 01.2015Read More
Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
Army
09.2013 - 05.2014Read More
Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
Sysco Foods
06.2013 - 08.2013Read More
Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
Army
10.2012 - 06.2013Read More
Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
Lifetime Brands
08.2012 - 10.2012Read More
Sr. SAP ABAP Developer
Alcon Labs
02.2012 - 07.2012Read More
Sr. SAP ABAP Technical Lead
SAP America
10.2010 - 01.2012Read More
SAP Technical Manager / Consultant
NEC America
10.2009 - 09.2010Read More
Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
AM General
06.2009 - 10.2009Read More
Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
Alliance One International
02.2009 - 05.2009Read More
Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
Lockheed Martin
02.2008 - 02.2009Read More
SAP Principal Consultant II
Perot Systems
12.2004 - 02.2008Read More
SAP Project Manager of Development
Safety-Kleen
11.2003 - 11.2004Read More
Independent SAP ABAP Consulting
08.2001 - 10.2003Read More
SAP Development Manager
Andersen Consulting
05.2000 - 05.2001Read More
SAP Technical Lead
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
05.1999 - 05.2000Read More
SAP Technical Manager
Andersen Consulting
08.1993 - 05.1999Read More
Mainframe Developer
American Airlines
01.1990 - 08.1993Read More
University of Oklahoma
B.B.A. from Management Information Systems
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