Ash Thomas
Sap Abap Consultant, Contractor, Developer & Programmer
CV DateThursday, Monday, 17 October 2016
Date of birth4th January 1977 - 37 years old.
InformationBritish Nationality, full clean drivers licence.
Education1995 - 1998Brunel University, Uxbridge, BSc - Computer Science
1993 - 1995Worcester 6thFormCollege, (Maths, Computing, French)
Sap Modules:SD, MM, FI/Co, PP, HR, SRM, IM, WM, SRM, TM, HCM, HR, PM, CRM, LIV & PS
Sap Versions:ECC6 Netweaver R/3, v5, v4.7, v3.5 v3.1
Sap/Abap Skills:
Sap Abap Consulting & Sap Abap Contracting analysis/development, ALE EDI/Idocs, Sapscript, smart forms, smartforms,Transport system, LSMW Data Migration, batch input (BDC), user exits, ALV grids, ECC6 Upgrade, SALV grids (object oriented),SPAU, SPDD, OO Abap, Screen painter, Menu painter, dictionary,Multi-threaded ABAP (Parallel Processing with Asynchronous RFC),Time management (TM), Human Capital Management (HCM), Personnel Management (PM), Payroll, file management, dialogue programming, IS Retail, Unicode, change documents, change pointers,handling PDF’s, barcode printing,Zebra label printing, 2d barcodes, Abap query,Migration, infotypes, user support, BAPI’s, BADI’s, SNOTE, change documents & pointers, search help exits, deep transport analysis, variant handling, Abap proxys, processing files in hex mode, upgrading, speeding up code, RFC’s. Rev Trac, Remedy.
Martin Baker, 03/2014 - 10/2016 (Total: 13 years, over 40 call backs & extensions)
Back at Martin Baker who I've worked for on and off for 10 years (see below), here I did smartforms and many bespoke programs.Recently I Changed the standard sales orders transaction to allow multiple blocks.
Edwards, 02/2014 - 04/2015
At Edwards I worked on CRM after being recruited with somone I'd worked with before at Waverley and we completed a CRM project which handled surveys done on a website, automatically reminding people, handling the result of the survey and dealing with unsubscribing requests.
Trip to Asia, 09/2014 - 01/2015
I did a planned trip to Asia: China and North Korea.
BAT, 08/2013 - 08/2014 (Extended 4 times)
At BAT I worked on an upgrade project and other abap projects as the lead developer. I worked closely with the basis manager and we went live succesfully and on time. I discovered SALV and wrote an object oriented interface so ALV & SALV grids can easily programmed with colour, icons, highlighting, totalling and more by just a few lines of code. This was widely used for all future programs. I worked with the PDF form builder and business transaction events (BTE's), and did an ECC6 Upgrade.
Miele, 12/2012 – 07/2013
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. I worked on order entry to show a calendar for delivery dates using middleware.
Martin Baker, 04/2012 – 11/2012 (Total: 10 years, over 40 call backs & extensions)
Abap Contractor. I started with Martin Baker in 2004 and always get called back there as they don’t 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, HR & PS. Copying sap standard programs (BDC), smartforms, SPAU (for upgrading), adding bespoke code to get the programs to report extra data in different ways. I worked on an HR interface to link their sap systems to a bespoke HR system, it used HR master data to both export data from the sap system and import data using BAPI’s to post the data into sap. I worked on a time management project (TCM), Human Capital Management (HCM), Personnel management and Payroll. The work involved infotypes related to wage types and delimiting each one. v4.7, v5 & ECC6
BBC Worldwide, 01/2012 – 04/2012.
I worked on a migration project for the BBC to extract data for a part of the organisation that they’d sold off. The project went live on time & worked correctly.
ITelligence, Waverley04/2011 – 12/2011.
I was called back to work for ITelligence again (I’ve worked for them many times before, see below) for another CRM project. I worked on Unicode fixes, change pointers & the migration between two systems.The work with IDocs and EDI was extensive, whole interfaces were built for their ordering (EDI) processes with interfacing via a 3rd party. Order confirmations were set up to be sent back and several Idocs exchanged with another Sap system to trigger the deliveries.
BP, 10/2010 – 02/2011.
At BP I worked on their separation project to separate off a section of the business, this involved testing all aspects of the system to find out what problems would occur when it was removed from the main sap system.
Ciber, 08/2010 – 10/2010.
At Ciber I worked on their interface system, I set up interfaces to other systems which meant extracting sap data, formatting it into the required layout and passing it to another system and also receiving data, processing it and entering it into their sap system.
Chep, 04/2010 – 07/2010 (Extended).
At Chep I did work on their SRM (v4) SAP system, using the Rev-Trac Console to handle the transports. I worked with Object oriented code, Custom BADIs, Search helps, Vendor Lists (Bespoke Ranking), Shopping Carts, Purchase Orders, Error messaging, HTML Templates, SNOTE and much more all in their SRM system. We used RevTrac and Remedy.
ITelligence, 9/2009 – 03/2010 (Total:6 months, 3 call backs)
Abap Contractor. Here I did label & paper output and interfaces with sap using smartforms and sapscript, automation of stock movements, batches expiry dates label printing on the zebra printers
Martin Baker, 9/2008 – 9/2009 (40+call backs & extensions)
Abap Contractor. Repeat contract, please see Martin Baker details above
Miele, 04/2008 – 08/2008 (Extended)
Abap Contractor. Repeat contract, please see Miele details above
Sothebys, 10/2007 – 04/2008 (Extended contract)
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.
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
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
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 (40+ 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 & 9 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 . v4.7
Ideal Standard,7/2003 – 9/2004 (12 Call backs & 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 PDF’s, 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 was put in charge of recruiting new developers by looking at CV’s, interviewing candidates (both technical and standard interviewing by myself) and allocating work in a team leader role. v4.7
Novasoft, 6/2002 – 6/2003
Abap Consultant. I worked with the retail release of SAP on replen, SD, Fi/Co and MM. I was the Abap Consulting team leader for 2 people. I worked with Idocs (both creating and processing using my own and sap standard function modules), Sapscript, user support, RFC’s, batch input (BDC), Layout modules and their versions, CDL’s, ALE (Bapi’s and Idocs) and change documents and change pointers.v4.6 & v4.7
Panasonic,12/2001 – 5/2002
Abap Developer. 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 – 11/2001
Abap Developer. SAP Business. 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 andaccounting documents (segments).
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 coursesBC400, Sap intro to v4.6 (3 days), BC620 BC621
General SkillsFast touch-typing keyboarding skills, good knowledge of French.
InterestsArtwork, Karate, c#, asp.net, and running.