Ash Thomas

Contact Details:

Tel: 07887 747 250

Email: ash@ashthomas.com
Url: www.ashthomas.com
Sap Abap Consultant, Contractor, Developer & Programmer Residence: Heathrow, West Drayton.
Sap Abap CV & Resume

CV Date Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Date of birth 4th January 1977 - 33 years old.
Information British Nationality, full clean drivers licence.

Education 1995 - 1998 Brunel University, Uxbridge, BSc - Computer Science

1993 - 1995 Worcester 6th Form College, (Maths, Computing, French)
Sap Modules: SD, MM, FI/Co, PP, HR, SRM, IM, WM, SRM, LIV & PS
Sap Versions: ECC6 Netweaver R/3, v5, v4.7, v3.5 v3.1

Website: www.ashthomas.com

Sap/Abap Skills:
Sap Abap Consulting & Sap Abap Contracting analysis/development, OO Abap, Sapscript,
smart forms, smartforms, Transport system, 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, IS Retail, Unicode, change documents, change pointers, handling PDF’s,
barcode printing, Zebra label printing, 2d barcodes, EDI, Abap query, Migration, infotypes,
user support, BAPI’s, BADI’s, SNOTE, change documents & pointers, search help exits,
deep transport analysis, variant handling, processing files in hex mode, upgrading, speeding
up code, RFC’s. Rev Trac, Remedy.
I started as a Sap Abap developer, then moved into Sap Abap Consulting and now do Sap
Abap Contracting.

BP, 10/2010 – 12/2010.

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. I also did general fixing to ensure their system was
working smoothly.

Ciber, 07/2010 – 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 once).

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. I edited templates to ensure the web view
looked just how the customer required. 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, automation
of stock movements, batches & expiry dates. I also developed label printing on the
zebra printers
Martin Baker, 9/2008 – 9/2009 (Total: 3 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), 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. 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. The work involved infotypes related to wage types
and delimiting each one. v4.7, v5 & ECC6

Miele, 04/2008 – 08/2008

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 (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.
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

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 (Total: 2 years, 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 which
was their only module. 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 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
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
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, 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. 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 – 11/2001

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 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)

General Skills Fast touch-typing keyboarding skills, good knowledge of French.

Interests Artwork, Karate, c#, asp.net, and running.

Website 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.
http://www.ashpeople.com

Job titles Abap Consultant & Sap Consultant, Abap Contractor & Sap Contractor,
Abap Developer & Sap Developer, Abap Programmer & Sap
Programmer.