Andrei Gaia

Developer, Logistics consultant

Andrei Gaia
Sebeş, Romania

Experience

Apr 2020 - Apr 2024
4 years 1 month
Romania

Developer, Logistics consultant

German client of Accesa Romania

Implementation of interfaces, reporting, customizing

  • Project planning and process definition
  • Implementations and adaptation of interfaces, tools, reports, forms and modifications
  • Creation of blueprints together with the client
  • Interfaces using web services and RFC
  • Taking over CRM Tools into the ERP System
  • SAP side adoption of MS Dynamics CRM
  • Idoc definition, modelling and process implementation
  • Customizing modifications
  • Enhancements and modifications
  • Ticket based support
  • Documentation

Used Tools / Methods: SAP ABAP, SD, MM, FI/CO, Webservices, RFC, XML, Forms, IDocs, Jira, Confluence, and others

Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
5 months
Switzerland

Migration Consultant

Client in Packaging Industry

Migration of an R/3 SAP system to S/4 HANA

Tasks / Activities: Guiding and implementation of MM, SD and PP migration

Used Tools / Methods: S/4 HANA Migration Cockpit, ABAP, LSMW, MM, SD, PP

Apr 2016 - Present
8 years 11 months
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Freelancer

Apr 2016 - Dec 2023
7 years 9 months
Germany

Developer and logistics consultant

DHL

Project HandelsHaus: Implementation of interfaces, reports, customizing und long-term support services

  • Project planning and process definition
  • Implementation and adaptation of interfaces, tools, reports, forms, modifications
  • BW Modellierung und Reporting
  • Blueprint creation, together with the customer and functional consultants
  • Migration Planning, Implementation, Integration Tests and Go-Live
  • Interfaces using Webservices, RFC and ftp servers
  • Idoc handling
  • Customizing
  • Trainings
  • Enhancements und modifications, controlled through a validation framework
  • Ticket-based support
  • Documentation

Used Tools / Methods: SAP ABAP, SD, MM, FI/CO, BW on HANA, Webservices, RFC, XML, Forms, LSMW, IDocs, etc.

Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
3 months
Spain

Senior ABAP Developer

1&1

Migration project of ARSYS-SIGA systems to SAP. Development of interfaces between the systems for accounting and travel expenses

  • Configuration of RFC connections
  • Strategy and scenario definition
  • Development of Classes that use RESTful data to call BAPIs that add or modify customers, billing documents and other SAP financial objects
  • Writing of technical specifications

Used Tools / Methods: SAP FI/CO, SD, ABAP, RFC Function modules, RFC, REST, SAP Webservices

Sep 2014 - Apr 2016
1 year 8 months
Germany

Senior ABAP PP developer. Core-team technical consultant.

Continental Automotive

Integration for more than 140 international plants in 7 central, region-oriented SAP system constellations. Preparation of central template systems. International Rollouts onto the template system.

  • Analysis of business needs together with process and technical Production Planning consultants in the core team
  • Finding and proposing multiple possible solutions
  • Conception of the technical specifications
  • Implementation of the solutions
  • Code optimizations and modifications
  • Documentation

Used Tools / Methods: SAP PP, IM, WM, ABAP 4 / ABAP OO, Web-Dynpro, BADI, BAPI, enhancements and modifications, Adobe interactive forms, Smartforms, screen programming, batch input, SALV, RF programming, Netweaver Business Client, Side-Panels, APO, CIF modifications, JNET, JGantt, XML

Sep 2014 - Apr 2016
1 year 8 months

Senior consultant: ABAP developer and team leader

MHP – A Porsche Company

Oct 2013 - Jul 2014
10 months
Germany

Senior ABAP developer

Volkswagen

Deactivation of Cobol systems and implementation of their applications and functionalities into an SAP ERP system. Creation of interfaces between SAP and active Cobol systems. The deactivated Systems were used for financial and project system areas.

  • Development and modification of reports, programs, function modules, migration tools, according to specifications made by developers and functional consultants
  • Development of interfaces between Cobol and SAP
  • Writing of technical concepts and specifications, together with functional domain consultants

Used Tools / Methods: SAP FI/CO, PS, ABAP, BADI, enhancements and modifications, Smartforms, screen programming, batch input, BAPI

Jun 2013 - Sep 2013
4 months
United States

Teamleader and developer

Federal Mogul

System split. migration of plants and company in a new SAP ERP system.

  • Coordination of the developer team
  • System analysis and identification of relevant modifications of the developments in the new system
  • Adaptation of the programs, reports, forms, function modules, so that these corespond to the new system and organisational units
  • Documentation of modifcations
  • Testing of the tools and reports of the two systems

Used Tools / Methods: ABAP, ABAP OO, enhancements and modifications, screen programming, Smartforms, SAPScripts

Feb 2013 - Dec 2014
11 months
France

Teamlead and developer

Continental

Development of reports, forms and WM-tools

  • Development or modification of Reports, Smartforms, SAPScripts, WM-Tools for stock bookings and cancellations
  • Coordonation of the developer team

Used Tools / Methods: ABAP, ABAP OO, enhancements and modifications, screen programming, Smartforms, SAPScript, SAP PP, SD, QM, WM, MM

Jan 2013 - Sep 2013
9 months
Germany

Teamleiter and developer

Katek

Migration of a legacy system to a new SAP system

  • Development of reports, programs, Smartforms, SAPScripts, enhancements and modifications
  • Responsible for the conception of the QM objects

Used Tools / Methods: LSMW, SAP PP, QM, MM, WM, SD, ABAP, enhancements and modifications, Smartforms, screen programming, batch-input, BAPI

Sep 2012 - Nov 2012
3 months
Germany

Teamlead and developer

Porsche

SPAU Upgrade

  • Post-SAP upgrade project for the matching of the modifications of SAP objects, that have been upgraded to a new version, such as reports, programs and texts, enhancements, screen programming, etc.
  • Coordination of the developer team

Used Tools / Methods: ABAP, BADI, enhancements and modifications, screen programming, SPAU

Apr 2012 - Aug 2012
5 months
Germany

Developer

Benecke-Kaliko

Development of printing programs and forms

  • Developer and adaptation of printing programs
  • Smartform development
  • Customizing modifications for the modified or new forms

Used Tools / Methods: ABAP, Smartforms, enhancements and modifications, BADI, SAP PP, SD, FI

Mar 2012 - Mar 2013
1 year 1 month
Germany

Migration consultant, developer

Continental

Migration of more plants coming from 3 SAP legacy-systems to an existing SAP System

  • Migration and integration of plants into an existing SAP System
  • System analysis
  • System Analysis and determination of the migration strategy of the master and movement data
  • Adaptations of MHP migration tools for precise extractions of the necessary data
  • Definition and implementation of selection and mapping rules, according to the respective business scenario
  • Function and integration tests
  • Data verifications and modifications
  • Productive migration and Go-Live support

Used Tools / Methods: SNP and MHP migration tools, LSMW, ABAP, BAPI, IDocs, SAP PP, MM, QM, PM

Dec 2011 - Jun 2012
7 months
Germany

Developer

Continental

Development of printing programs and forms

  • Adaptations in the customizing and activation of the printing functionalities
  • Development of new Smartforms, based on existing SAPScripts
  • Modifications of SAPScripts and Smartforms
  • Development of printing programs for the forms
  • XML and PDF depositing of the forms
  • Translation of the forms to English, Chinese, Spanish

Used Tools / Methods: ABAP, Smartforms, enhancements and modifications, SAPScript

Mar 2011 - Nov 2011
9 months
France

Migration consultant

Trelleborg

Migration of plants from 2 SAP systems to different SAP system

  • Development of new migration tools, that use the batch-input method, BAPIs or that transfer data directly to the database
  • Modifications of migration tools belonging to the customer in the SD module. These were only partly functioning and had to be corrected. Also, they had to work between different systems and were initially designed to only work within the same SAP system, but for the migration from one plant to another, for example
  • LSMW data transfer
  • Modifications of MHP migration tools
  • Implementation of SAPScripts and Smartforms
  • Integration tests: ensure data integration and consolidation

Used Tools / Methods: LSMW, ABAP, MHP migration tools, SAP PP, MM, FI, QM, PM

Oct 2010 - Feb 2011
5 months
Germany

Migration consultant und ABAP Developer

Continental

Migration von Werken in einem bestehenden SAP System

  • System analysis
  • Adaptation of MHP migration tools for precise data extraction
  • Definition and implementation of selection- and mapping- rules, corresponding to the information gotten from the functional module consultants
  • Function- and integration tests
  • Productive migration

Used Tools / Methods: LSMW, SNP T-Bone, SNP Conversion Engine, ABAP, PP, MM

Aug 2010 - Sep 2014
4 years 2 months
Romania

SAP ABAP developer and SAP migration consultant

EBS Romania

Aug 2010 - Oct 2010
3 months
Romania

Developer

Electrogroup

Development of reports and an interface in the FI Module

  • Development of an interface between an SAP system und a MySQL Server, to transfer financial data into the SAP System
  • Development of FI reports

Used Tools / Methods: ABAP, SQL, FI

Summary

ABAP developer, migration and logistics consultant, having almost 14 years of project based experience in IT-consultancy companies and as a freelancer, where I worked mainly for german clients. Particularly, I have aquired expertise with international enterprises through development projects in more prevalent SAP modules. My experience enfolds following technologies: object oriented and classical ABAP programming, SAP Webservices and interfaces, Web Dynpro development, implementations of Enhancements (BADI, user-exits, modifications), dialog programming, performance tuning, reporting, Forms, IDocs. Further core areas are in the domain of legacy to SAP; SAP to SAP and HANA migrations. I have experience in the conception, implementation and modification of migration tools, usage of SAP standard migration tools and of migrationstools on DB-level.

Languages

Romanian
Native
English
Advanced
German
Advanced
Spanish
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2014 - Jun 2017

Babes-Bolyai University

Business Informatics · Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Oct 2006 - Jun 2010

Technical University Cluj-Napoca

Applied Electronics and Telecommunications in English · Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Certifications & licenses

Goethe Certificate C1 Level

SNP T-Bone