Sumith Vijayan, SAP Architect

Sumith Vijayan

SAP Architect

KAAR Technologies

Location
India - Bengaluru
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics & Communication
Experience
19 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 2 Months

SAP Architect at KAAR Technologies
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since December 2013
Principal Consultant at CIBER India Ltd
  • December 2011 to December 2013
SAP EP Technical Consultant at CalSTRS, CA, USA
  • July 2012 to December 2013

July '12 to Dec '13 Client CalSTRS, CA, USA
Project CARM
Role SAP EP Technical Consultant
Environment SAP-EP
Activities Administration and Development


Client Description: The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) is the largest teachers' retirement fund in the United States. CalSTRS provides retirement, disability and survivor benefits for California's prekindergarten through community college educators and their families. It is also the eighth largest public pension fund in the world

Project Description: The scope of the CARM project encompassed the reengineering and implementation of key
business processes within BusinessDirect.

Responsibilities: • Implementation and configuration of SAP Portal 7.02.
• Solutioning according to the customer requirements.
• Production support for both Corporate and Vendor portal.
• Coordinating with multiple groups - Basis, Security team etc.
Project 2

SAP EP & WebDynpro Consultant at Leprino Foods
  • United States
  • February 2012 to June 2012

Feb '12 to June 12 Client Leprino Foods, Denver, CO
Project My Leprino
Role SAP EP & WebDynpro Consultant
Environment SAP-EP
Activities Development and Enhancement


Client Description: Leprino Foods is the "world leader in premium-quality cheese production", the number one producer of lactose in the world, and a leading supplier of whey protein and sweet whey. It is the world's largest maker of mozzarella.

Project Description: Analyze and propose solutions for the ESS & MSS change requests and portal tickets. Estimate and execute a portal upgrade to newer NW 7.3 version.

Responsibilities: • Gather the Customer requirements and propose the Solution requirement and Estimates.
• Coordinating with multiple groups - Basis, Security team etc.

Project 3

SAP EP & WebDynpro Consultant at KMD A/S
  • August 2009 to December 2011
Senior Technical Consultant at Mahindra Satyam Pvt. Ltd
  • June 2007 to December 2011
Production Support at KMD A/S
  • March 2008 to March 2009
SAP EP Consultant at Tokyo Electron America, Inc
  • November 2007 to February 2008

Responsibilities: • Worked in the areas of Requirement Gathering, Blue printing, SAP EP Administration and
Developments, CRM Enhancements

Project 6

SAP EP & WebDynpro Consultant at Applied Materials, USA
  • July 2007 to September 2007

July '07 to Sept '07 Client Applied Materials, USA
Project MDM EP Integration
Role SAP EP & WebDynpro Consultant
Environment SAP-EP
Activities Development and Enhancement


Client Description: Applied Materials, Inc. is the global leader in providing innovative
equipment, services and software to enable the manufacture of advanced semiconductor, flat
panel display and solar photovoltaic products.

Project Description: Objective is to have a single monolithic system to replace legacy
systems used to maintain data which was stored in different systems. As part of the project the data has been extracted from all the legacy systems to a single MDM server and maintains it via SAP EP. The Integration for MDM with EP has been achieved using SAP business packages and the customization has been carried out using MDM JAVA APIs.

Responsibilities
• Responsible for SAP EP Administration and integration with SAP MDM.
• Created Configuration of MDM Business Package and Enhancements.
• Worked with coordination in preparing Technical Specifications.

Software Engineer at Larsen & Toubro Pvt. Ltd
  • April 2005 to June 2007

• Software Engineer
Organization: Larsen & Toubro Pvt. Ltd
Duration: April 05 to Jun 07

Project 1

SAP EP & WebDynpro Consultant at Freescale Semiconductors, USA
  • January 2007 to May 2007

Jan '07 to May '07 Client Freescale Semiconductors, USA
Project EP 6.0 - EP 7.0 Upgrade
Role SAP EP & WebDynpro Consultant
Environment SAP-EP
Activities Development and Enhancement


Client Description Freescale Semiconductors Inc, Phoenix- USA. A subsidiary of Motorola (USA), Freescale is a leading global semiconductor company focused on providing embedded processing and connectivity products to large, high-growth markets.

Project Description: The project was the upgrade of SAP Enterprise Portal from EP 6 to EP 7 which includes Business package upgrade like ESS & MSS. The project includes the customization of ESS&MSS which was already modified as per the client requirement in EP 6.0.

Responsibilities
• Analysis of the specifications provided by Freescale.
• Business packages modification and other custom application development using NWDI.
• Testing - unit testing & integration testing
• Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project.


Project 7

SAP EP Consultant at Freescale Semiconductors, USA
  • January 2007 to May 2007

Jan '07 to May '07 Client Freescale Semiconductors, USA
Project External and Internal Portal Implementation
Role SAP EP Consultant
Environment SAP-EP, WebDynpro for Java, HTMLB, Java, JSP and JavaBeans which includes the usage of JDI and ADS.
Activities Administration and Enhancement


Client Description Freescale Semiconductors Inc, Phoenix- USA. A subsidiary of Motorola (USA), Freescale is a leading global semiconductor company focused on providing embedded processing and connectivity products to large, high-growth markets.

Project Description: This project named "EP-6" is implemented for Motorola-Freescale using SAP's Enterprise Portal architecture. Enterprise Portal is Freescale's internal single access point for their employee which has been extended to extranet users as well. This internal Enterprise Portal has ~23, 000 active users. Both internal and external portal has been upgraded from EP6 SP9 to EP6 SP16 to cater to Freescale's community.

Responsibilities
• Set team initiatives and priorities based on client/organizational business goals and
Objectives based on the analysis of the specifications provided by Freescale.

• Communicate effectively with team and customers (internal or external) to facilitate workflow and affect resolution to project barriers and problems.

• Lead the team in exploring alternatives and determine what improvements can be made to work methods, processes and procedures.

• Work with team members to find solutions to problems that the team encounters and moderate discussions within the team.

• Along with it was involved as developer in HCM custom implementation (ESS/MSS) for building a generic infotype component involving R/3 interaction.
• Created custom PCRs using JSP for additional functionality as a part of HCM implementation.

Production Support: MONET (Motorola One Ticket System)


Project 8

SAP EP & WebDynpro Consultant at Freescale Semiconductors, USA
  • January 2007 to February 2007

Jan '07 to Feb '07 Client Freescale Semiconductors, USA
Project EPP MCD Supplier Portal Implementation
Role SAP EP & WebDynpro Consultant
Environment SAP-EP
Activities Administration and Development


Client Description Freescale Semiconductors Inc, Phoenix- USA. A subsidiary of Motorola (USA), Freescale is a leading global semiconductor company focused on providing embedded processing and connectivity products to large, high-growth markets.

Project Description: The client wanted to procure the chemical composition of materials from suppliers in the form of an XML file and then generate a PDF file from this data for further processing. Also as an extension to this, we developed a Java Servlet and a client Java program that generates a PDF file on the client machine from the given XML File.
Responsibilities
• SAP Enterprise Portal was implemented used to design the role based assignment for the suppliers and to develop the interface for the end users.
• A WebDynpro application was developed to accept an XML File and check the validity of the uploaded XML File. If it passed through the series of validation
checks, a PDF File is generated based on the XML File uploaded by the supplier.
• Adobe Document Services was used to generate a PDF File from an XML file and the
PDF Template available in the form of an XDP File.
Production Support: MONET (Motorola One Ticket System)

Project 9

SAP EP & WebDynpro Consultant at Larsen & Toubro InfoTech
  • India
  • August 2005 to June 2006

Aug '05 to June '06 Client Larsen & Toubro InfoTech, Mumbai.
Project Internal Portal Implementation
Role SAP EP & WebDynpro Consultant
Environment

SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP16, J2EE Server, HTMLB Control API (Java Based), Portal Runtime API (Java Based), Windows 2000 Advanced Server, HP-UNIX Server, Java, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, HTML, Oracle9i.

Activities Administration and Development

Client Description: Larsen & Toubro InfoTech, Mumbai.

Project Description: SAP Enterprise Portal is a Web application product by SAP used by companies to combine different technologies in a single Web Application. L&T wanted to implement SAP Enterprise portal for the external users and the employees in order to make all the information available for easy access.

Responsibilities
• Installing Oracle 9i and WAS 6.40
• Installing SAP NetWeaver Portal EP6 SP9, Content Management and Collaboration,
TREX 6.1 Search and Classification Engine
• Upgrading SAP NetWeaver Portal to SP16
• Authenticating portal users against LDAP
• Integrating Documents from a Windows System (File Server) into KM
• Providing connectivity from portal to SAP R/3 systems
• Creating and maintaining various Discussion Rooms
• Configuring Collaboration facilities like Email
• Installing and configuring the following packages on SAP NetWeaver Portal
- CRM Business Package 4.0
- Employee Self Service 60.2
- Manager Self Service ERP 60.1
• Installed and configured Lotus Domino Connectivity with E-Portal
• Fine-tuning Portal performance
• Creating generic portal components (PAR based) to show customized web content.
• Customization for look and feel. This involves customization of the Portal Framework page, Desktop, Theme, Portal logon page, Masthead area.
• Design and implementation of SAP applications using WebDynpro for Java, HTMLB, Java, JSP and JavaBeans.
• Developing an application for searching and updating users profile in LDAP

SAP Architect at KAAR Technologies
  • India
  • to
Principal Consultant at CIBER India Ltd
  • to

• SAP Architect
Organization: KAAR Technologies
Duration: since Dec 13 to till date

Senior Technical Consultant at Mahindra Satyam Pvt. Ltd
  • to

• SAP Architect
Organization: KAAR Technologies
Duration: since Dec 13 to till date
• Principal Consultant
Organization: CIBER India Ltd
Duration: since Dec 11 to Dec 13

Software Engineer at Larsen & Toubro Pvt. Ltd
  • to

• SAP Architect
Organization: KAAR Technologies
Duration: since Dec 13 to till date
• Principal Consultant
Organization: CIBER India Ltd
Duration: since Dec 11 to Dec 13
• Senior Technical Consultant
Organization: Mahindra Satyam Pvt. Ltd
Duration: since June 07 to Dec 2011

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics & Communication
  • at CUSAT
  • August 2004
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication
  • at Cochin University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication from Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT)

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
SAP Netweaver
SAP Portal
SAP Enterprise Portal (EP)
SECURITY

Languages

English
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