Sean Antle

senior SAP consultant

Personal Contact Information

Home Phone: (613) 823-3219

Background Summary

Mr. Antle is an Ottawa based SAP Consultant who assists his clients to implement, customize, and maintain their SAP systems. His clients benefit from his services because his 16 years of professional engineering , IT consulting, and SAP experience enables him to connect with their business to help them determine how their organization can best use SAP for their own unique business requirements.

Mr. Antle can help your organization understand the complex technical environment of your SAP R3 system, and provide you with technical and functional recommendations which allow you to achieve the full potential of your SAP system.

Mr. Antle is an enthusiastic team player, who is self-motivated with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Since receiving extensive SAP technical training 7 years ago, Mr. Antle has helped numerous clients solve complex business problems, and customize their SAP systems to accommodate their business requirements. The clients he has successfully helped include high tech firms, consumer electronics manufactures, postal organizations, and national banking organizations.

Mr. Antle has kept abreast of SAP emerging technologies such as SAP Netweaver and Exchange Infrastructure (XI) and he has a working knowledge of Business Warehouse (BW) and SAP Web Application Server (Web AS) and Business Server Pages (BSP).

He is an organized professional who has excellent analytical abilities, who is able to work independently, or as a team member.

COMPUTER SKILLS AND TOOLS

ERP Software: SAP R/3 (versions 4.5B, 4.6C, 4.7), SAP Modules :MM, SD, FI, CO, PM, HR, mySAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), SAP Enterprise Buyer (EBP), SAP Netweaver.

SAP Technology: ABAP Workbench, Data Dictionary, Legacy System Migration Workbench( LSMW ), Data Transfer Workbench (SXDA), Batch Input (BI) sessions, BDC, Call transaction, Dialog Programming, Workflow, Business Objects and OOP, Web AS, Web Application Builder (WAB), Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Exits, SAPscript, Smartforms, BAPIs, RFC, ALV, ITS, ESS, OSS notes, IDOCs, ALE, Performance tuning, SQL trace, Runtime Analyzer, ABAP debugger.

Internet Technology: XML, XSLT, SOAP, HTML.

SOFT SKILLS

Able to provide creative input when finding approaches to design solutions;
Able to proactively and continually enhance my own productivity;
Able to explain solutions and procedures to other team members and clients;
Able to collaborate with project team members;
Able to prepare appropriate documentation;
Able to communicate complex ideas and subjects accurately, clearly and concisely;
Able to cultivate positive work relationships with members of the team and other resources; and
Able to work with diverse groups and work within the team environment.

LANGUAGE

Fluent in both spoken and written English.

Canadian Security Clearance

Security clearance Number: Available upon request.

Security clearance Level: Secret

project summary

PROJECT	DESCRIPTION	COMPANY	ROLE	TIMEFRAME
Project 19	CPAA Time and Leave for Canada Post	Innovapost (through Calian)	SAP Technical ABAP Consultant	December 2006 to February 2007 (3 months)
Project 18	GOCM for Government of Canada – Task 2	IBM	SAP SRM Technical Consultant	September 2006 to November 2006 (3 months)
Project 17	SAP HR Upgrade Project	Canadian Blood Services (through Calian)	SAP HR Technical Consultant	April 2006 to August 2006 (5 months)
Project 16	GOCM for Government of Canada	IBM	SAP SRM Technical Consultant	August 2005 to February 2006 (7 months)
Project 15	SAP HR Identity Management Project at CP Ships, Tampa, Florida	CP Ships (through Computer Consultants of America)	SAP HR Technical/Functional Consultant	May 2005 to July 2005 (2 months )
Project 14	SAP HR Implementation at the Bank of Canada (HR, FI, CO modules)	Bank of Canada (through iGate Mastech)	SAP HR Technical/Functional Consultant	July 2004 to March 2005 (9 months )
Project 13	Expedited Multi-Piece Project at Canada Post (SD, MM modules )	Innovapost (through CGI)	SAP Technical Consultant	June 2004 (1 month)
Project 12	SAP HR Foundations Project at Canada Post (HR, BW modules)	Innovapost (through CGI)	SAP HR Technical Consultant	March 2004 to May 2004 (3 months)
Project 11	SAP Assured Logistics Project at Canada Post – (SD, MM modules)	Innovapost (through CGI)	SAP ABAP Technical Consultant	January 2004 to April 2004 (4 months)
Project 10	SAP Transition Project at Canada Post (numerous modules)	Innovapost (through CGI)	SAP R/3 ABAP Interface Programmer/Analyst	November 2003 to December 2003 (2 months)
Project 9	SAP BT Meters Project at Canada Post (PM, FI, CO modules and SAP Workflow)	Innovapost (through CGI)	SAP ABAP Technical Consultant	January 2003 to October 2003 (10 months)
Project 8	SAP Upgrade Study for Agriculture Canada	Agriculture Canada (through CGI)	SAP R/3 Technical Consultant	November 2002 (1 month)
Project 7	SAP HR Implementation/Study at the Bank of Canada	Bank of Canada (through CGI)	SAP R/3 Technical Consultant and System Analyst	June 2002 to October 2002 (5 months)
Project 6	SAP / PeopleSoft Study for PWGSC	PWGSC (through CGI)	SAP R/3 Technical Consultant	April 2002 to May 2002 (2 months)
Project 5	SAP Implementation at SONY USA (SD,MM,FI,CO modules)	SONY USA (through Accenture)	SAP ABAP Programmer	August 2001 to March 2002 ( 8 months)
Project 4	SAP Implementation at Nortel Networks (SD,MM,FI CO modules)	Nortel Networks (through Accenture)	SAP ABAP Programmer	May 2000 to August 2001 (16 months)
Project 3	SAP RSC-RCA Project at Canada Post (SD, MM modules)	Canada Post (through Andersen Consulting)	SAP ABAP Programmer	March 2000 to May 2000 ( 2 months)
Project 2	Financial Application Legacy System Support at Canada Post	Canada Post (through Andersen Consulting)	Mainframe Systems Analyst	August 1997 to February 2000 (31 months)
Project 1	Engineering	Cunliffe and Associates Consulting Structural Engineers	Professional Structural Engineer	September 1991to June 1997 ( 5 years 10 months)

professional experience

Project 19

CPAA Time and Leave for Canada Post

Innovapost, Ottawa, Ontario (through Calian)

SAP ABAP Consultant

December 2006 to February 2007 (3 months)

Mr. Antle provided SAP ABAP development to Innovapost for the CPAA Time and Leave project at Canada Post.

The project consisted of creating a new Timesheet application for a specific group of Canada Post employees. The following summarizes key tasks that Mr. Antle performed:

Developed 15 RFC outbound BAPI interfaces to export SAP HR data to an external custom .NET application;
Unit tested and documented new ABAP programs;
Developed a new RFC inbound ABAP interface to authenticate users in SAP;
Developed a new RFC inbound ABAP interface to import timesheet data into SAP HR from a custom .NET time sheet application;
Assisted other team members with SAP technical questions and SAP data issues; and
Participated in team meetings and provided status updates.

Project 18

GOCM (Government of Canada Marketplace) Project – Task 2

Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (through IBM Canada)

SAP Technical Consultant

September 2006 to November 2006 (3 months)

Mr. Antle provided technical SAP services to IBM Canada for the GOCM Project at the Federal Government. This project is a continuation of the work that was started in project 16.

The project included the implementation and customization of mySAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) version 5.0, and SAP Catalog Content Manager (CCM) version 2.0. The following summarizes key tasks that Mr. Antle performed:

Designed, developed, and unit tested modifications to the OCI interface from SRM to CCM;
Worked with the business team to create functional and technical designs;
Created new user defined fields in SRM documents to allow saving new attribute the CCM catalogue;
Implemented and programmed several BADIs to enhance the SRM application;
Created an inbound BAPI interface to track non registered users and allow them to log into SRM and view catalogs;
Created a custom Purchase Order form using the Smartforms tool;
Created 4 online, web enabled, transaction programs to allow users to maintain SAP data;
Developed Internet services to web enable SAP programs using HTMLB;
Researched problems, created OSS notes, and applied OSS notes to correct the problems; and
Implemented several BADIs to enhance the CCM Catalog.

Project 17

SAP HR Upgrade project

Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario (through Calian)

SAP HR Technical Consultant

April 2006 to August 2006 (5 months)

Mr. Antle provided technical SAP services to Canadian Blood Services for their SAP Upgrade project. The project was an upgrade from version 4.5B to version 4.7 Enterprise, and encompassed modules FI, CO, MM, and HR. The following summarizes key tasks that Mr. Antle performed in the OM, PA, PD, payroll and benefits areas of the HR module:

Helped compile a list of SAP Objects that require analysis and reprogramming;
Investigated problems with payroll rules, payroll operations, and user exits;
Corrected problems in numerous custom HR ABAP programs, BAPIs, and function modules because of Unicode requirements and payroll cluster changes, and tax infotype changes;
Tested and documented ABAP code changes;
Developed 3 new ALV ABAP reports to aid with the conversion of old tax infotype data to new tax infotypes;
Reapplied customer modifications to SAP objects using the SPAU and SPDD tools;
Implemented a new BADI; and
Assisted the acceptance testing team with testing the upgraded system.

Project 16

GOCM (Government of Canada Marketplace) Project

Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (through IBM Canada)

SAP Technical Consultant

August 2005 to February 2006 (7 months)

Mr. Antle provided technical SAP services to IBM Canada for the GOCM Project at the Federal Government. The purpose of this project was to provide the government with a tool to allow purchasers for the federal government to shop online and buy products and services from numerous suppliers and vendors. The project included the implementation of mySAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), and Supplier Self Service (SUS), SAP Enterprise Buyer (EBP), SAP Netweaver, SAP BW, and Requisite BugsEye. The following summarizes key tasks that Mr. Antle performed:

Designed, developed, and tested modifications to the OCI inbound interface from SRM to BugsEye;
Worked with the business team to create functional and technical designs;
Created new user defined fields in SRM documents to allow saving new attribute values in the BugsEye catalogue;
Implemented several BADIs to enhance the SRM application;
Modified several IDOCs to include new user defined fields;
Developed 2 online transaction programs to allow support personnel to maintain custom configuration tables;
Developed a Purchase Order Smart Form;
Developed Internet Services to web enable SAP programs using HTMLB;
Designed, developed, and tested an ABAP program to load financial data from a government legacy system into SAP SRM;
Created 12 BAPIs and RFC enabled function module outbound interfaces to provide additional functionality for the SAP portal;
Participated inteam meetings and provided status reports; and
Provided support to other team members as required.

Project 15

ABAP technical services - SAP HR Identity Management Project CP Ships, Tampa, FL

CP Ships, Tampa, FL (through Computer Consultants of America)

SAP HR Technical/Functional Consultant

May 2005 to July 2005 (2 months)

Mr. Antle provided technical SAP HR services for the SAP HR Identity Management Project at CP Ships. The purpose of this project was to create, or update users, on the Microsoft Active Directory using employee HR data from SAP. The following summarizes key tasks that Mr. Antle performed:

Gathered requirements from CP Ships’ business team and wrote techno/functional spec for a report and an interface;
Designed, developed, and tested a HR outbound interface to extract SAP HR data and send it to the Microsoft Active Directory via the LDAP connector located on the Web Application Server;
Configured the mapping for the LDAP connector on the Web AS using a BADI;
Created test data and test scripts, as well as user documentation, for the new programs; and
Performed a knowledge transfer to the technical support team and the functional support team.

Project 14

ABAP technical services - SAP HR Implementation at the Bank of Canada

Bank of Canada (through iGate Mastech)

SAP HR Technical/Functional Consultant

July 2004 to March 2005, 9 months

Mr. Antle provided SAP HR services for the SAP HR implementation at the Bank of Canada. The following summarizes key tasks that Mr. Antle performed:

Gathered requirements from business support personnel and wrote program specifications;
Provided guidance and support in helping key team members streamline the generation of and distribution of reports;
Assisted Bank of Canada staff with creating SAP Query reports and with validating new reports;
Applied OSS notes to SAP FI and HR Standard reports;
Copied and modified SAP supplied BAPIs to accommodate the Banks unique business requirements;
Designed and tested 20 HR ALV ABAP reports including payroll reports, pension reports, overtime reports, position management reports, work related injury reports (WRI), records management reports, data integrity reports, employee leave reports, succession planning reports, and audit reports;
Developed 10 SAP Query reports;
Performed knowledge transfer to key SAP users and to ABAP production support staff;
Created test scripts to assist Bank of Canada staff to test the new SAP HR functionality; and
Designed, created and tested a SAPscript form for employee contributions to savings bonds.

Project 13

SAP ABAP Programming - Expedited Multi-Piece Project at Canada Post

Innovapost through CGI

SAP Technical Consultant

June 2004, 1 month

Mr. Antle provided technical SAP services and ABAP programming services for the SAP Expedited Multi-Piece Project at Canada Post.

The following summarizes key tasks that Mr. Antle performed:

Gathered requirements from SAP HR users;
Wrote technical designs and documentation for reports and inbound BDC data feeds (interfaces);
Coded and tested an ALV report;
Created new custom table in the Data Dictionary containing user defined fields. Associated data elements and domains were also created;
Coded and tested a new inbound interface from a third party to import consolidated multi-piece pricing information into SAP;
Utilized BAPIs to retrieve sales order information from SD tables;
Managed development requests to ensure all objects were migrated to production in the correct sequence; and
Provided technical assistance and support to users post go-live.

Project 12

SAP HR Foundations Project at Canada Post

Innovapost (through CGI)

SAP HR Technical Consultant

March 2004 to May 2004, 3 months

Mr. Antle provided SAP HT technical services for the SAP HR Foundations Project at Canada Post. The following summarizes key tasks Mr. Antle performed:

Gathered additional functional information from end users and functional personnel and created functional specs.
Wrote technical designs and documentation for reports;
Translated technical design documentation into documentation for non specialists to aid them in creating test criteria;
Modified an existing SAPscript form and tested it;
Coded and tested 5 HR ALV drilldown reports;
Modified a data extractor program in BW to improve performance when retrieving data from SAP R/3 for loading into BW;
Created new function modules and used existing BAPIs to retrieve employee qualification information from HR Infotypes;
Documented programming changes;
Assisted and trained key users with the new reports; and
Assisted in the User Acceptance Test (UAT).

Project 11

SAP ABAP Development - SAP Assured Logistics Project at Canada Post

Innovapost (through CGI)

SAP ABAP Technical Consultant

January 2004 to April 2004, 4 months

Mr. Antle provided ABAP programming services and provided technical guidance to the functional team members on the SAP Assured Logistics Project at Canada Post.

The following summarizes key tasks Mr. Antle performed:

Communicated with functional team members to identify gaps and clarify design issues;
Wrote technical design and documentation for a data feed (interface) program which imports data into SAP SD and MM tables, and creates sales orders using a combination of BDC batch input and BAPI;
Wrote technical design and documentation for an Object Oriented (OO), interactive ALV report which lists all sales orders and deliveries that were created for mass product recalls;
Wrote technical designs for BDC programs which delete sales orders and the associated deliveries;
Developed and tested BDC programs and an interactive ALV report; and
Documented programming changes.

Project 10

SAP Technical Analysis - SAP Transition Project at Canada Post

Innovapost (through CGI)

SAP R/3 ABAP Interface Programmer

November 2003 to December 2003 (2 months)

Mr. Antle provided ABAP and EAI technical expertise related to interface connectivity issues for a large SAP system as it was moved from Ottawa to Montreal.

The following summarizes key tasks Mr. Antle performed:

Researched technical documentation and created an inventory list of interfaces and their associated technical details;
Analyzed a large number of interfaces (over 150) to determine if there would be any connectivity problems after the SAP system transition from Ottawa to Montreal. Interfaces spanned the whole spectrum of SAP interfacing technology, including BDC, Call transaction, RFC, BAPI, XML, SeeBeyond eGate EAI, IDOC/ALE, and simple flat file interfaces;
Performed system analysis and helped create a testing strategy for a sample of interfaces; and
Provided ABAP and EAI expertise during the testing of the interfaces.

Project 9

SAP R/3 ABAP Development - SAP BT Meters Project at Canada Post

Innovapost (through CGI)

SAP R/3 Technical Consultant, SAP ABAP Programmer

January 2003 to October 2003, 10 months

Mr. Antle provided ABAP and EAI programming services related to the design and development of interfaces, reports, and Customer Exits (customer functions). The following summarizes key tasks Mr. Antle performed:

Created ABAP Technical Designs for RFC enabled function modules;
Created technical designs for 3 ALV object oriented reports, custom screens, and customer exits;
Created technical designs for inbound and outbound data feeds (interfaces) including details on data selection control, data bundling, and data tracking and error controls within the interfaces;
Created eGate EAI Technical Designs for interfaces for SeeBeyond EAI middleware;
Developed and tested the ABAP code for several key components of the project. Development objects included Program Exits, 5 custom screens, 5 on-line transaction programs, interactive Object Oriented (OOP) ALV reports, custom function modules, custom data dictionary tables based on user defined fields, SAP table customizations using CI Includes and append structures, and 4 inbound interfaces using a combination of BDC and BAPI techniques;
Developed an interface using the SeeBeyond eGate middleware tool in the MONK programming language;
Participated in the User Acceptance Testing and supported the users during the UAT; and
Helped to train end users in some of the new functionality and tools that were developed.

Project 8

SAP R/3 Technical Analysis - SAP Upgrade Study for Agriculture Canada

Agriculture Canada (through CGI)

SAP R/3 Technical Consultant

November 2002, 1 month

Mr. Antle provided technical assistance with respect to ABAP issues and concerns that might be encountered during an upgrade to SAP Enterprise.

The following summarizes key tasks Mr. Antle performed:

Gathered information on the new functionality in SAP Enterprise;
Gathered information on the potential problems with Smartforms when upgrading from an older version which uses SAPscript; and
Gathered information on potential issues with older desktop computers after the upgrade.

Project 7

SAP R/3 Technical Analysis - SAP HR Implementation

Bank of Canada (through CGI)

SAP R/3 Technical Consultant and System Analyst

June 2002 to October 2002 (5 months)

Mr. Antle provided technical assistance with respect to interfaces to help create a proposal document for the Bank of Canada. The following summarizes key tasks Mr. Antle performed:

Gathered information on the existing PeopleSoft system Bank of Canada personnel;
Reviewed system documentation on the various interfaces that the Bank of Canada has with external organizations;
Analyzed requirements for data feeds (interfaces) from a new SAP system to external organizations such as benefits providers and banking institutions;
Performed system analysis and design tasks to provided work effort estimates to develop and test new interfaces with SAP;
Provided work effort estimates to develop SAP reports and SAPscript forms;
Helped work on a proof of concept with the SAP ESS (Employee Self Service) and ITS (Internet Transaction Server) products; and
Helped Bank of Canada understand the high level differences between SAP ITS and Web AS technology.

Project 6

SAP R/3 Technical Analysis - SAP / PeopleSoft Study for PWGSC

PWGSC (through CGI)

SAP R/3 Technical Consultant

June 2002 to October 2002 (5 months)

Mr. Antle participated in a study for PWGSC and helped to gather the requirements from PWGSC to determine the COTS solution best suited for PWGSC. Mr. Antle helped determine the interfacing requirements that the new COTS solution would need to satisfy for approximately 80 government departments as well as CCRA. The following summarizes key tasks Mr. Antle performed:

Gathered system information from PWGSC personnel;
Analyzed requirements for data feeds (interfaces) from a new SAP system to other government departments and to CCRA;
Provided work effort estimates to develop and test new interfaces from SAP;
Provided preliminary design and work effort estimates to develop SAP reports and SAPscript forms;
Helped write the document outlining the findings of CGI’s analysis.

Project 5

SAP ABAP Programming and Design - SONY USA SAP Implementation

SONY USA (through Accenture)

SAP ABAP Programmer

August 2001 to March 2002 (7 months)

Mr. Antle was a key member of the Knowledge Transfer team to help with the transition from a development project to a support project. Upon completion of this transition, Mr. Antle became a member of the SAP ABAP support team for Sony’s SAP production system.

The following summarizes key tasks Mr. Antle performed:

Performed system analysis and design;
Debugged existing programs and applied OSS notes as required;