Ash Thomas

Sap Abap Consultant, Contractor, Developer & Programmer Sap Abap CV & Resume

Contact Details: Tel: Email: Url: 07887 747250 ashthomas5@yahoo.co.uk www.ashthomas.com

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Tuesday, 10 March 2009 4th January 1977 - 31 years old. British Nationality, full clean drivers licence. 1995 - 1998 Brunel University, Uxbridge, BSc - Computer Science 1993 - 1995 Worcester 6th Form College, (Maths, Computing, French) SD, MM, HR, FI/Co, PP, IM, WM, LIV & PS v3.5, v4.5, v4.7, v5 R/3 & ECC6 Netweaver www.ashthomas.com

Sap/Abap Skills: Sap Abap Consulting & Sap Abap Contracting analysis/development, OO Abap, Sapscript, smart forms, smartforms, LSMW data migration, batch input (BDC), user exits, ALE: IDocs (input & output), ALV grids, Screen painter, Menu painter, dictionary, Multi-threaded ABAP (Parallel Processing with Asynchronous RFC), file management, dialogue programming, Unicode, change documents, change pointers, handling PDFs, barcode printing, Zebra label printing, 2d barcodes, EDI, Abap query, Migration, infotypes, user support, BAPIs, BADIs, change documents & pointers, search help exits, deep transport analysis, variant handling, processing files in hex mode, upgrading, speeding up code, RFCs. I started as a Sap Abap developer, then moved into Sap Abap Consulting and now do Sap Abap Contracting. Martin Baker, 10/2008 02/2009 (Total: 3 years, multiple call backs & extensions) Abap Contractor. I started with Martin Baker in 2004 and always get called back there as they dont have enough work to take me on full time so they save it up and call me with new changes. At Martin Baker I handled Sapscript, LSMW data migration, batch input work, Unicode, user support and ALV grids in SD, MM & PS. Copying sap standard programs (BDC), SPAU (for upgrading), adding bespoke code to get the programs to report extra data in different ways. This was supposed to be a 2 week contract, but they kept calling me back to do more work. v4.7, v5 & ECC6 ITelligence, 08/2008 10/2008 (Total: 2 months, 3 call backs for extra work)

Abap Contractor. Here I did label & paper output and interfaces with sap, automation of stock movements, batches & expiry dates.
Miele, 04/2008 07/2008 (3 Month contract) Abap Contractor. I did bespoke WM work to calculate which pallets go into which lorries to optimise space. I also worked with Seaburger which interfaced with sap/ Sothebys, 10/2007 04/2008 (3 Month contract, extended to 6 months) Abap Contractor. I worked in the HR module, handling employee records, hex processing of text files. I did support on their bespoke system with sapscript, smartforms, search help exits. ECC5

Martin Baker, 10/2006 09/2007 (Total: 2 years, multiple call backs & extensions) Abap Contractor. Repeat contract, please see Martin Baker details above John Crane, 07/2006 09/2006 (3 Month fixed contract) Abap Contractor. I worked heavily on smartforms, even teaching them to the full time staff. I also did interactive programming and designed and wrote a translation interface. EDF Energy, 03/2006 06/2006 (3 Month fixed contract) Abap Contractor. I covered a multitude of output documents, a UNIX file requester, CSV automatic conversion routines, automatic dataset uploading (my own code which handles many problems) and hex processing of text files. v5.0 Martin Baker, 06/2005 03/2006 (Total: 2 years, multiple call backs & extensions) Abap Contractor. Repeat contract, please see Martin Baker details above Ideal Standard 05/2005 06/2005 (Total: 1 year 1 month, 12 call backs & extensions) Abap Contractor. Repeat contract (following a year with them in 2003/2004), 2nd visit. I did a further 2 months at Ideal Standard (they called me back after I worked with them for a year in 2003, SD, Fi/Co, PP and MM (details below). I was put in charge of recruiting new developers by looking at CVs, LSMW data migration, interviewing candidates (both technical and standard interviewing by myself) and allocating work in a team leader role. v4.7 Sap/BNFL, 03/2005 05/2005 (Extended twice) Abap Contractor. Working for SAP UK, I was contracted out to BNFL, I did Sapscript work on their output documents and designed a smartform from scratch. I covered LSMW data migration in depth, porting over data from their 4.5 system into their 4.7 system using both batch input (BDC) and a lot of IDocs. I worked on all aspects of LSMW gaining full experience of its processes. I also developed a full file manager with built in FTP, auto file conversion and full recycle bin capabilities. v4.7 Daimler Chrysler, 10/2004 02/2005 (Fixed 4 month contract) Abap Contractor. I worked on batch input (BDC), dialogue programming, direct input and the speeding up of many programs (all with significant run time improvements) all in FI which was their only module. v4.7 Ideal Standard, 8/2003 9/2004 (Call back & 9 extensions, see 2005) Abap Contractor. This was initially a 3 Month contract, repeatedly extended to over a year. I worked on SD user exits, sapscripts (including creating PDFs, barcode printing directly to barcode printers), user support, bapis, LSMW data migration, ALV grids (double click, toolbar buttons, icons, hotspot & drill down), LSMW, IDocs, ALE, batch & direct input programs (BDC), dialogue programming and standard abap. I worked in SD, Fi/Co, PP and MM, with the most work being done in SD and PP. I developed a transport dependency program that would warn people of dependent transports far better than the system in version 4.7. This was extensively used throughout the company and helped prevent many potential problems. I also developed a transport manager and a variant manager that allowed you to backup & restore variants automatically. I was put in charge of recruiting new developers by looking at CVs, interviewing candidates (both technical and standard interviewing by myself) and allocating work in a team leader role. v4.7 Novasoft, 6/2002 5/2003 Abap Consultant. I worked with the retail release of SAP on replen, SD, Fi/Co and MM. I learnt how to QA not only my own code, but other peoples. I was the Abap Consulting team leader for 2 people, allocating work and helping them when they got stuck. I worked with Idocs (both creating and processing using my own and sap standard function modules),

Sapscript, user support, RFCs, batch input (BDC), Layout modules and their versions, CDLs, ALE (Bapis and Idocs) and change documents and change pointers. v4.6 & v4.7 Panasonic, 2/2002 5/2002 Abap Developer. I worked in the development team during their go-live, setting up, supporting and enhancing their SAP installation. Areas: SD, MM, PP and FI/CO. I attended the IDoc & EDI training courses and worked with Sapscript, Smartforms, dialogue programming, EDI work and reports. v4.6 Mitsubishi Electric Europe, 8/1999 10/2001 Abap Developer. I worked as a part of a European development team with frequent trips to Dusseldorf for meetings and to work with colleagues. I set up, configured and used SAP Business connector both on the BC end and the Sap end. I covered batch-input programming (BDC), user exits, user support, linking SAP to Excel and SAP Script. SD, MM, PP, IM, WM and Fi/CO, general ledger, accounting documents (segments) & controlling areas. During my time there I covered data migration and been through a full version upgrade. SLI UK Limited, 4/1999 8/1999 Abap Consultant. Full time offshore experience with 3 months in Switzerland. SAP Script, program speed increases across all modules. Coats Viyella, 7/1998 4/1999 Abap Programmer. Started off as doing Abap Development speeding up code, batch input programs, Sap Script and dialogue programming (interactive reports) were covered. Sap courses General Skills Interests Website BC400 Intro to Abap (5 days), Sap intro to v4.6 (3 days), BC620 Idoc interface technology (2 days), BC621 Idoc interface development (1 day) Fast touch-typing keyboarding skills, good knowledge of French. Artwork, Karate, fitness training, playing football, and running. http://www.ashthomas.com More information about my skills can be found on the web site, as well as the latest email address should the one above fail. The latest Curriculum Vitae & Resume will also be on the site.
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