# Patrick Duchesneau

Senior SAP Development & Integration Lead  
Saint-Hubert / Greater Montreal | pilotmontreal@gmail.com

## Summary
- Experienced SAP development lead with 33 years of programming, project leadership, and enterprise integration expertise.
- Strongest market fit: SAP leadership modernized with AI-assisted delivery.

## Experience
### Career Pause — —
03/2020 - 09/2020
- Professional break due to the global pandemic

### Service Delivery Manager — CGI
03/2018 - 07/2018
- Managed a team of 14 SAP SD consultants and business analysts
- Delivered consulting for SAP optimization and resource planning

### SAP Development Team Lead / Architect — Deloitte Canada
01/2021 - 01/2026
- Led and managed SAP development and integration delivery for a team of ABAP and PI/PO consultants in S/4HANA environments
- Owned SAP integration solutions (PI/PO, APIs, middleware) across multiple systems
- Technical lead and escalation point for SAP development and integration challenges
- Planning, prioritization, and coordination across multiple SAP projects; primary client contact on development and integration topics
- Mentorship, technical guidance, and architectural decisions for SAP development and integration strategy
- Maintained proactive feedback loop with project teams to anticipate technical challenges and support end users through releases

### SAP Development Manager — Domtar Inc.
06/2008 - 03/2018
- Managed SAP ABAP team and cross-functional SAP integrations
- Led development standards, delivery planning, and production support

### SAP Programmer & Team Lead (Freelance) — Various Clients
06/1995 - 06/2008
- Developed custom reports, interfaces, and ABAP conversion programs
- Delivered SAP solutions across multiple client engagements

### SAP ABAP Developer (Freelance) — IATA
07/2019 - 03/2020
- High-performance ABAP programs for large-scale SAP data migrations
- Enhanced IDOC frameworks for reliable real-time system communication
- SAP Gateway services integrated with Fiori apps; custom PO approval flows and workflow tuning
- Rebuilt internal SharePoint site structure for document access and collaboration

### Math & Science Teacher — École Marie-Laurier
09/2020 - 01/2021
- Taught Mathematics to 5th-grade students and Science to Secondary 1 & 2 students
- Developed adaptive teaching methods and curriculum-aligned lesson plans

## Projects


## Skills
SAP ABAP, SAP Gateway, Fiori, SAPUI5, IDOCs, BAPIs, ALV, SAP HANA, SAP PI/PO, SAP BI, TYK, SAP Conversational AI, GPT/OpenAI APIs, Claude, custom GPTs, AI-assisted development, Supabase, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, Docker, Bash automation, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Gitea