Curriculum Vitae

Kenneth Siesing

Consulting and development in SAP with focus on HCM KMD Netpay solution, SuccessFactors, Payroll, Programming, and Integration (CPI/PI/PO)

Last update: Aug - 2023

Personal Data

Year of birth 1970

Family status Married, 3 kids

Address Copenhagen, Denmark

Email

Internet www.siesing.net

Education/Experience

Electronics engineer, Frederiksberg Technical School, Datanom (diploma in specialised computer studies), SAP ABAP developer, HCM, PI/PO, CPI, SuccessFactors

Foreign languages

Danish (fluently), English (fluently), Swedish (well), Norwegian (well)

Branches

Health, Tele, Transport sector, Banks, Manufacturing, Post and Food Industry

Soft skills

- Very good communication skills both in writing and verbally

- Excellent team player

- Self-driving and quality conscious

SAP skills

R/3 Modules

SAP HCM, Employee Central, Successfactors, ABAP and FI/Posting

Integration

Over 9 years of A2A & B2B integration experience with expertise in SAP PI (SAP Process Integration) through full life-cycle project starting with analysis of customer needs, designing the best solution, developing it and finally implementing & maintaining it. This includes especially A2A integration.

Experience with PI/PO and CPI

• BTP, IFlows, OAuth 2.0, Security, certificate, Authentication
• ABAP, Synchronous/ asynchronous ABAP Proxies
• ALE, IDocs
• XML, XSLT, HTML
• Adapters: SOAP, File, HTTP(S), IDoc, JDBC, RFC
• Java mapping, graphical mapping
• SOA Runtime environment setup, Consumer proxies and Services, SAP Cloud Connector, SOAManager, SAP Cloud Cockpit
• Keystore, generating SSL certificates, Pretty Good Privacy (PGP keys) for encryption
• SAP Netweaver Administrator (NWA)

Experience with ABAP integration

• BAPI
• RFC
• DCom Connector
• Visual Basic (ActiveX)
• Proxies
• Idoc / ALE

Other experiences

Idoc/EDI/ALE, SAP-Workbench, Screen-Painter, Data Dictionary, ABAP List Viewer (ALV), SAP Query, SAP Workflow, LSMW, User exits and enhancements spots, Badi, Smartforms, BRF+

Special skills

Worked on integration between Visual Basic for Applications (VBA - ActiveX) and SAP. This means integration between for example Microsoft Office package such as Word, Excel or PowerPoint, ActiveX components, integration to MS Access Database or enhancement to the IE Browser using standard or custom BAPI’s or RFC Calls.

Programming Language

Very good knowledge in ABAP/4 (experience since 1998), ABAP-OO, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Java, JavaScript, ASP (Active Server Pages), HTML

SAP education

Get copy of all certificates from www.siesing.net

Human Resources

HR050 - Human Resource overview

HR350 - Programming in HR

HR305 - HR Master Data

HR307 - HR System Control & Security

HR311 - Time Evaluation without clock

HR459 - Danish Payroll

Programming

BC400 - ABAP/4 dev. Workbench

BC405 - ABAP/4 dev. Workbench reporting

BC410 - ABAP/4 dev. Workbench dialogue programming

BC325 - Workbench Organisation & Transport system

BC425 - Enhancement and Modifications

BC925 - 4.6 Prog./ BAPI'in Visual Basic

PI/PO

BIT400 - SAP Exchange Infrastructure

BIT450 - SAP Exchange Infrastructure dev

Employment History

SAP HR / Payroll / ABAP Consultant/ PI/PO/CPI integration

- SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Cloud Platform Integration using SOAP API

- Lead the security setup Cloud Integration with HTTPS, certificates, Authentication, OAuth 2.0 SAML Security setup

- SAP Cloud Integration for SuccessFactors with On-premises ECC– For companies like EKF, Flügger, Sanistål, Salling Group plus 10 more..

- KMD Payroll Cloud – Payroll solution for external customers

- Bane Denmark (HR/ESS/MSS/TIME/TMW)

- Copenhagen Municipal (Integration PO 7.5)

- Multiple integration internal project on short term basis using PI 7.3

- Deloitte, Grundfos and Orkla – PI 7.3 Integration Projects

- Successfactors – Employee Central migration project through CPI

Self-employed – (Freelance Consulting)

06/2023 - Ongoing

S/4 Integration consultant

- DSB

KMD – Solution Architect/Integration

03/2016 – 05/2023

Self-employed – (Freelance Consulting)

07/2015 – 02/2016

SAP HR / Payroll / ABAP Consultant

- NorthGateArinso

Presence of IT – Australia – (Functional HCM Consulting)

11/2011 – 06/2015

SAP Production Support, HR / Payroll Consultant

- Queensland Health

Ernst & Young – (Management Consultant)

02/1998 – 05/1999

SAP ABAP Consultant within Human Recourses (HCM)

- Hydro Agri Europe, Norway

- Scandinavian Airline System (SAS)

Zalaris HR Services Denmark – (Consulting services)

10/2009 – 10/2011

SAP HR / Payroll / ABAP Consultant

- Zalaris

Self-employed – (Freelance Consulting)

05/1999 – 10/2009

SAP ABAP and HR Time Management and Payroll, Programming, and Integration (PI 7.11)

- Vejdirektoratet

- KMD

- Post Denmark

- MAN B&W Diesel

- Egmont

- Danisco Ingredients

- Danisco Sugar

- Arla Foods

- Christian Hansen A/S

- Danish Railway (DSB)

- Real Danmark

- Copenhagen Airport (CPH)

Projects Experience

Self-employed – (Freelance Consulting)

06/2023 – Ongoing

· Setup of Travel management and build program for integration of travel results

· Migration and setup of Idoc based integration

· Facilitate Time Management solution and dual go-live dates for cutover activities

KMD (Consultancy)

KMD internal SuccessFactors – Employee Central migration project

10/2017 – 05/2023

· Security setup for SAP Cloud platform integration with Successfactors and SAP Cloud

· Developing File Integration Framework for external customers

· Integration architect for Automated Payroll Automation (APA) which allows multiple data to be generated from Trigger-points in SAP Cloud Successfactors

· Migration of employee and org. management data to Employee Central on a hybrid cloud solution through Business Integration Builder (BIB)

· Setup webservices between ECC and EC for continuously update of data

· Setup of webservices between KMD ECC and EC through SAP Cloud Platform – Integration

· Setup of SOAManager, SAP Cloud Connector, Cloud Platform Integration, SCI, Runtime environment, Gateway OData Services, IFlow for master data and Time Off in SuccessFactors

· Cloud based SAP system in Azure and making integration through and from through PI/PO System

Deloitte, Grundfos, Orkla and Rockwool (KMD Payroll Cloud)

on going

· Worked with ALE integration between Deloitte and KMD over SAP PO 7.30. Made the integration possible with all mapping between fields, certificates, initial load of employee data together with third party integration such as SKAT (Tax), NETS, DA, DS etc.

- New payroll functions created and tested

- Customizing of payroll schema

- Integration of time data from time management cluster over idoc

- Updates of quotas and absences together with Quota Deduction over idoc’s and master data flow

- Webservices with attachment with and without using base64 encoding

- SFTP file distribution

- SSL Certificates

- Workflow triggering from IDoc

- Workday integration to ECC using Idoc over SOAP/Advanced Idoc Engine

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Copenhagen Municipal (SAP Integration PO Architect)

03/2016 – 01/2017

· Worked as PO 7.5 Solution Architect at Copenhagen Municipality on their Kvantum Project. It's a financial project with integration to both internal and external Business systems - among others:

- Public Service platform (Social security number information)

- Nemkonto

- CVR data (Central Company Registration)

- Easy2print (External printing bureau)

- APOS (Organisational data information)

- Diners/Nets/Teller (Creditcard information)

- Danish Bank (Account postings)

· Further experiences are:

- Gathering of requirements from customer and third parties - Writing FSI/TSI's

- User administration,

- PO Authorizations (Both standard and custom as well as secured payload / encryption),

- Mounted File share

- Backend proxies (ABAP programming)

- Error handling (Internal in PI as well as in application log)

- Various cutover activities for moving development and configuration between environments - D,T,Q and P

· Following adapters for Communication Channels has been used: FILE, SFTP, SOAP, IDOC, JMS (AMQP/MQ) and REST

· Mapping Structure/Techniques: XSD, XSLT, XML

· Tools used: SAP PO 7.40, FileZilla, Cygwin, PuttyGen, XMLSpy

General knowledge to Network Security (IP Address), Certificates and Proxy alarms.

03/2016 – 09/2016

Bane Denmark (SAP HR / ESS/MSS, ABAP, TIME, TMW)

· Configuration of time management with rules for tidsinfolist, freedom period, Error in free time length

· Support of ESS/MSS with Managers team viewer and approval and Calendar viewer

· Planning double shift in shiftplanning (PP61) with two hours substitution (IT2003) and correct quota deduction and registration in TMW.

· Support and correction of custom made rules and validation in Cats

NorthGateArinso (Human Resources industry)

08/2015 – 01/2016

SAP Production Support, HR / Payroll Consultant, ABAP

· Developing new payroll functions in ABAP

· Setup of new rules and schemas within payroll

· Normal support work for their payroll solution

Queensland Health - Australia (Government – 85.000+ employees)

11/2011 – 06/2015

SAP Production Support, HR / Payroll Consultant

· Payroll / Time Management Support, configuration, rules, schemas and wage types configuration

· Done corrections and new developments in ABAP, such as new reports, interfaces, notes and stacks releases from SAP, Enhancements, Badi’s

· Done production support on their running HR solution for more than 85.000 employees.

· Support of ESS/MSS configuration working time on ESS along with managers approval profile and view

· Resolving Time Management and Payroll issues, including attendance/absence types and payments, leave accrual, leave loading, Month End Accruals and posting to FI/CO, cheque payments and Superannuation

· Interface support between SAP and shift planning system Workbrain

· Writing workarounds, work instructions, Blueprints, documentations

· Document and monitoring of system defects

· Preparation of test scripts and system tests

· Basic setup and changes to Central Process Scheduling (CPS) such as Job chain, job and event definitions.

· Job monitoring in CPS with error handling and correction and rescheduling or resubmitting jobs

· Reporting and reported OSS defects in standard system to SAP

· Testing of SAP support stacks and notes releases together with manual built and corrections

· Experience with configuration of Superannuation (pension), Super Guaranteed Contribution (SGC) and non-SGC as well as Defined Benefit (DB), Accumulation Plan (AP) and State Plan (SP) types of Super funds.

· Done configuration for Pay In Advance, including leave, wage types, payslip configuration

· Good knowledge to how Concurrent Employment (CE) is working, selected and registered.

· Experience with HP Quality Center 9.2 to register errors and defects

· Working on technical upgrade project from ECC5 to ECC6 including testing, documentation and released as well as defect handling and fixes. Working with business for requirements collection, Conducting and Analysis of PPRT (Parallel payroll run) defects

• Been part of PAT (Performance Assurance Test) team with using of HP Loadrunner. Worked on preparation of test data, extracts and batch jobs to prepare test client for performance test including SAP and Workbrain. Have done some of the scripting and recordings in Loadrunner for SAP.
• Good analytical skills including extended MS Excel skills
• Used LSMW for migration and test loads
• Used BRF+ for a more advanced decision tree to be used in the payroll schema
• Worked directly with Solution Architects for projects as Superannuation (Pension) redesign, Prescribed Employer and new time and payroll functions, reviewing requirements from the Business and worked on implementations, Unit test, documentation and end delivery to the users

Zalaris (Human Resources industry)

10/2009 – 10/2011

SAP HR / Payroll / ABAP Consultant

• Experience in KMD net pay calculator (Danish payroll solution)
• Setup of Travel Management including Travel Expenses, Reimbursement for Accommodations, Meals, Expense Per Diems and mileage allowance.
• Setup of ekstra pension contribution (IT0726) for every planned hours of maternity leave.
• Organisational management
• Posting Payroll Results to Accounting
• Setup of payslips
• Implementing country specific payroll rules (PCR) for the following scenarios:
• Social Allowance
• Social Insurance
• Overtime Compensation
• Vacation with or without pay
• Absence Compensation
• Travel management and mileage allowance
• New Work Schedules rules, daily and period schedules Implementing country specific Time Management rules (PCR) for the following scenarios:
• Overtime Compensation
• Weekend compensation
• Maintenance of Absence Quotas though Time Management
• IDOC interface with master data, absence, attendance, Employee Remuneration and maintenance of Cost Assignment
• New Functions and Operation programmed for use in Time Management including mail distribution to employees for missing time registrations and Development of various reports for payroll and Time Management
• Setup of approval functionality in cats for normal attendance and absence time and also for flex and time off (afspadsering) time which only was calculated in the time evaluation schema.
• MSS support of team viewer and team calendar
• Setup of change-pointer IDoc Interface between two SAP system various Infotypes amoung others IT2006 with quota update. This is out of standard but was absolute requirement from client.
• Being part of owned developed approval functionality for flex saldo using SAP business workflow
• Setup of shiftplanning for Ringnes in Norway

Vejdirektoratet (Government)

03/2009 – 05/2009

SAP HR / Time / ABAP Consultant

• Correction of Time Management schema in connection with new work schedules, wage-, attendance and absences types.
• Changing Time Management schema from daily to monthly norm-time calculations
• Ccorrections and development of various reports and technical trouble-shooting

KMD, (Previous Government owned IT Company)

01/2009 – 02/2009

SAP HR / Time Management Consultant

• Correction and creation of new rules concluded by the union in the Time Management schema that involve overtime compensation, phone calls, homework, flextime and night compensation.

Post Denmark, (Danish postal service)

03/2006 – 12/2008

Blueprint and Implementation

SAP HR / Payroll / PI Consultant

• Technical Team Leader in the blueprint phase of the HR project
• Developed synchronous proxy interface in Exchange Infrastructure (XI) with direct update in Oracle database using SQL XML
• Development of synchronous ALE/IDoc invoice interface to external printing company with generated encrypted PDF files into the contents server
• Developed asynchronous Idoc interface using Idoc Adaptor in XI for updating HR Infotypes
• Developed Microsoft Word template with integration to SAP HR though ActiveX component using Visual Basic for Application (VBA)
• Changes to the two CATS reports CATS_APPR_LITE and CATS_DA which was enhance with Attendance and Absence types though BADI's
• Various changes to TMW (Time Managers Workplace) involve enhancement via BADI and changes to Standard
• Various changes to Shift planner (PP61) including layout on planning table etc.
• Making double shift (two daily work schedules) available in one day using Infotype 2004. This is completely out of standard. This also includes breaking the collision check for absence (IT2001) and Time events (IT2011), making full and part time absence available two times a day both in PA30/PA61, TMW (Time Managers Workplace) and PP61 (shift planner).
• Developed absence system for keeping track of the employee’s absence according to both internal and public rules and regulations. This should also handle absence in double shift.
• Various reports for collecting time data from cluster (PCL2) using OO ABAP.
• Participating in parallel test project where a complete payroll run for 3 months should be compared for 27.000 employees
• Various changes in user-exits and Badi’s
• Developed various Time Management functions and operations
• Developed various Payroll functions and operations
• Migrating shift planning sequences historical absence registrations for 1 year back for 27.000 employees

MAN B&W Diesel, (Diesel engine Manufacture)

06/2005 – 02/2006

SAP MM / ABAP Consultant

• Correction of Materiel Management migration programs to handle classification history

• Migration of material data including classifications using LSMW
• Migration of Workplaces, Price Conditions, Routings, Production orders etc.
• Update of sales status for determined material via workflow event
• Various reports for material successor and predecessor chain in classifications

Egmont, (Provider of Entertainment)

06/2005 – 06/2005

SAP PS / ABAP Consultant

• Detailed specification of Project System (PS) report

Danisco Ingredients, (Producers of Ingredients for food)

10/2004 – 06/2005

HR - Global Rollout

SAP HR / ABAP Consultant

• Setup HR Master Data for employees in a global rollout - been a part of a France Payroll setup team
• Migrating and converting HR data via LSMW
• Development of functionality to move employees data
• Create infosets, usergroup and ad-hoc Queries
• Development of functionality to handle stocks and warranties according to internal Danisco rules and the Danish law
• Developed advanced new functionality through Dynamic Actions

Danisco Sugar, (Producer of sugar, enzymes and bioproducts)

10/2004 – 10/2004

SAP HR / ABAP Consultant

• Developing extra validation of registered time data within Cats

Arla Foods, (Global Dairy company)

08/2004 – 10/2004

SAP ABAP Consultant

• Cleanup assignment after failed migration
• Development of programs for correction of failed loaded data
• LSMW program for load of test data
• Setup of Time Managers Workplace (TMW)
• Maintain design files to Org. Publisher for the cross fora from SAP OM

Christian Hansen A/S  (Food and Pharmaceutical)

07/2004 – 07/2004

SAP ABAP Consultant

• Cleanup assignment after failed migration
• Development of programs for correction of failed loaded data
• LSMW program for load of test data
• Setup of Time Managers Workplace (TMW)
• Maintain design files to Org. Publisher for the cross fora from SAP OM

Danish Railway (DSB) (Railway company)

05/2001 – 06/2004

SAP ABAP Consultant

• Development of various time Management reports
• SAPScript
• Smartforms
• Migration of Master Data via Batch Input
• Development of shiftplanningsystem
• Development of requirementmatchingsystem
• Development of Visual Basic program for extension of timedata
• Development of various ALV reports in PP/PM
• Development of various ALV reports in FI
• Setting up IDoc/EDI interface
• Setting up workflow for IDoc error handling
• Development of interface to the government wage system (SLS – State gov salary system) and various interfaces to other local authorities

Real Danmark (Business Credit Institutions)

11/2000 – 04/2001

SAP ABAP Consultant

• Develop standards for documentation
• Development of various Batch Input programs
• Setting up IDoc/EDI
• Development of IDoc interface again MQ Series and MQ Series Link (IBM Product)
• Development of shiftplanningsystem

Danish Railway (DSB) (Railway company)

09/1999 – 10/2000

SAP ABAP Consultant

• Data Conversion and Interfaces
• Development of reports
• Development of extensions and modifications of additional Infotypes
• Modifications of CATT

Copenhagen Airport (CPH) (Airport)

06/1999 – 08/1999

SAP ABAP Consultant

• Development of interface between SAP HR and PDC schedule (Time Recording System)

Hydro Agri Europe, Norway (Global supplier of aluminium)

03/1999 – 05/1999

SAP ABAP Consultant

• Development of various reports

Scandinavian Airline System (SAS) (Airline)

02/1998 – 02/1999

SAP ABAP Consultant

• Development of add-on system enabling the blocking and reservation of specific personnel numbers
• Setting up authorization

References

Employment at Presence Of IT – Brisbane Australia

This letter is to confirm that Kenneth Siesing was employed by Presence of IT on a permanent full time basis from 16 November 2011 to 26 June 2015, as a Senior SAP HCM Consultant.

Kenneth was recruited in Denmark in 2011 and relocation support was provided to him and his family to move to Australia.

During his time with Presence of IT, Kenneth was engaged full-time by a large and complex health industry client with 90,000 employees. He worked as an SAP HCM Functional Expert in

both solution development and as part of their Production Support team. During this engagement he has:

- Written blueprints, functional and technical specifications and run workshops with the business for new solutions.

- Prepared documentation for test scripts, system defects, work arounds and work instructions.

- Solved system defects within payroll, time evaluation, schemas, wage types, configuration, interfaces and CPS.

- Applied specialist skills is LSMW, extended MS Excel analysis skills, Performance Assurance Test using HP Loadrunner, ABAP, SAP notes and stacks releases.

Kenneth was a valued member of the SAP Queensland Practice and is returning to Denmark for personal and family reasons. We would have no hesitation in employing him again.

Employment at Ernst & Young Management Consulting

Reference by senior manager Anders Rosenbeck on 25/05/1999

"We hereby confirm that Kenneth Siesing (Personal Code No. 310770-xxxx) has been employed as a

Management Consultant at Ernst & Young Consulting for a period February 23, 1998 until May 31, 1999

at which time he chose to leave to work for another company.

Kenneth Siesing’s primary work assignments in the above period were programming of reports and other

Development objects within SAP Human Resources.”

Partner in Gavdi (former INIT)

Reference by Managing Director Michael Koppelhus on 11/10/2003

"We hereby confirm that Kenneth Siesing Personal Code No. 310770-xxxx has been employed as SAP

Management Consultancy at INIT A/S, for the period August 1, 1999 until December 31, 2003.

In this period Kenneth Siesing has worked with one of the biggest SAP Implementation projects in Denmark.

Kenneth Siesing has been working on this project on a full time basis and has been placed at the customer

site.

Our customer has been very satisfied with Kenneth Siesing, both with the performance and the deep knowledge

Into the SAP-HR system.

We really do regret that Kenneth Siesing has chosen to leave our company, but we do also fully understand that

Kenneth Siesing now feels a need for new challengers in his professional career.

Please do not hesitate to contact med for further information regarding Kenneth Siesing.”

Accuro

Reference by Partner/Director Svend Ørum on 18/11/2005

"Kenneth Siesing has been working for Accuro ApS as a subcontractor towards MAN B&W since August 2005.

His current task is expected to end February 2006.

In this period, Kenneth Siesing has been working within the following areas:

· Correction of Material Management migration programs to handle classification history

· Migration of material data including classifications using LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench)

· Migration of Workplaces, Price Conditions, Routings and Production orders etc.

· Various reports for read of material classifications”

MB it-Consulting A/S

Reference by Managing Director Morten Bjerregaard

"Kenneth Siesing has been working for MB it-Consulting A/S as a subcontractor in the period 1.10.2004 – 30.6.2005 on full time basis and in the period 1.7.2005 – 30.9.2005 on part time basis.

In this period, Kenneth has been working as s SAP Consultant on a global SAP HR rollout project for Danisco Ingredients and primarily been customising the global and local set-up of 35 countries in SAP HR. Kenneth has also done some ABAP programming in order for us to handle global employees in SAP HR rel. 4.6C

Kenneth has in the period been working for both Ingredients and Sugar division, which are 2 different SAP platforms. For Sugar, Kenneth has primarily made programming corrections for an existing Time Management solution.

Kenneth’s contract was terminated by September 2005 at the time when the rollout was finished.

Logica

Reference by SAP Project Manager Torben Finnemann on 05/06/2008

"We hereby confirm that Kenneth Siesing has worked for Logica as a subcontractor at a large SAP HR project at Post Denmark since the 1. April 2006. His current contract is expected to end 31. December 2008. Kenneth Siesing has been working at the project on full time.

Kenneth has both as team member and as team lead delivered a good and stable effort.

Kenneth Siesing has been working within the following areas:

· Technical Team Lead in the blueprint phase of the HR project

· Designed a full product cycle B2B interface using SAP XI(3.0) utilizing XI adaptor such as JDBC, RFC, IDoc, File, HTTP and JMS

· Designed & developed interface between IBM MQ to XI to SAP using XI / JMS adaptor for inbound and outbound asynchronous messaging

· Various changes to Time Managers Workplace (TMW) and shiftplanner (PP61)

· Been active part of the double shift solution at Post Denmark

· Developed Microsoft Word template with integration to SAP HR though ActiveX component using Visual Basic for Application (VBA)

· Developed Functions and operations for Time Management and Payroll

· Various changes to user-exits and BADI’s in PA30/PA61 and Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS)

· Various Payroll and Time Management ALV reports