Candidates About

Sankar Krishnaswamy

Sr. SAP Program Manager/Enterprise Architect –ECC, Hybris, S4-Hana

Summary

A proven leader with deep technology and management expertise effective in problem solving, planning, and team building. Accomplished Enterprise architect with cross vertical experience implementing and managing efforts through strategy, blueprint, design development and support for large scale enterprise and customer information systems. With over 38 years in International IT consulting with the last 20+ years of consulting with an expertise in SAP solutions and ancillary technologies in both North America and global implementations.

Industry Experience                         

·         Chemicals, Mill Products, Oil and Gas, Utilities

·         Consumer Products, Life Sciences, Retail

·         Healthcare, Public Sector  

·         Automotive, High Tech, Industrial Machinery and Components

·         Banking            

·         Telecom, Transportation                                                                                                                            

Technology Experience                                                                  

·         Enterprise Architecture: Hybris, Adobe AEM, Datahub, SAP ECC, S/4HANA, MDG, CRM, BW, HANA, BPC, SCM, EAI                                                                                                            

·        Technical team oversight, quality assurance, solution redesign of complex systems, technology assessments

Key Architect and Management Experience

·         Proven SAP Architect and delivery lead with experience assessing scope, estimating implementation effort, determining resource needs and technical skill set including ground-up team building

·         Strong ability to assess and rationalize overall project scope and

·         Advised several C-level executives on SAP program establishment and technology roadmap

·         Architected the major upgrade and implementation of SAP and Non-SAP systems of $4B SAP HCM for a global CPG Company

·         Managed scope, architecture, and roadmap for large (>$1B outsourcing project)

·         Chief Test Architect of a $100M mortgage application development and MDM implementation project for the largest bank in Canada

·         Experienced in leading and coordinating both implementation, upgrade and major Digital/IT/Process/service transformation with cross-functional teams spread across multiple geographies.

·         Held both Architect and management roles for all phases of full life cycle implementations, both greenfield and and upgrades (e.g. SAP ERP/ECC, BW, HANA, SEM, BPC, S/4 HANA, SCM, HCM, Hybris, CRM and Portal implementations (SAP Hybris Rollout, SAP Hybris Upgrade and SAP Hybris custom development)

·         Specialized in Enterprise Architecture, Master Data Management, BI, Data Quality, BPM, OCM and Project Management

·         Architecture and lead experience with onshore/offshore teams, comfortable coordinating and maintaining responsibility with large teams (e.g. > 50 people)

SAP Experience Summary

• Managed Scope, Architecture, Roadmap for 2B$ outsourcing project: Architected solutions outsourcing SAP HCM projects in the world for the Big4 implementation partner, for a major multi-national pharmaceutical corporation, including HCM modules PA, OM, eRecruitment, Performance management, Mobility Solutions, Payroll, Benefits, PD, ESS, MSS, LSO, BW/BI for Analytics and integration with XI/PI to also support several legacy interfaces
• Managed as Upgrade Evangelist major SAP and Non-SAP systems, aligning with parallel track development, production support/maintenance taking into account roadmaps and following SAP’s Best Practices in upgrade and implementation and architecting single instance implementation of SAP HCM project for PepsiCo.
• Experienced in architecting complex SAP Hybris projects and providing coordination with system integrators in both Implementation and upgrades
• Played key architect role in Digital transformation including acting as liason between IT, and process teams across multiple geographies
• Responsible for business requirement analysis, process mapping, product evaluation, systems integration, configuration, custom development, implementation and support.
• Hands on Hybris consultant with extensive knowledge and experience in Hybris including Hybris development core, Hybris development for eCommerce, Hybris systems administration and tuning, Hybris landscape planning and integration of Hybris with backend SAP systems including AOM / SOM
• Have provided Leadership as an Enterprise Architect for SAP Hybris/Adobe AEM project that included Business Process definition and Solution Architecture (application architecture, data, security, governance and human capital management.
• Techno-functional consultant responsible for integration of SAP Hybris 5.x to 6.3/Adobe AEM 6.2 with backend SAP systems incl. ECC6.0 (OTC) / S4HANA using Datahub, MDG and also Hybris C4C Cloud for Customer
• Proven ability to manage full project life cycle and upgrade of SAP ERP/ECC, Hybris, BW, HANA, SEM, BPC, S/4HANA, SCM, HCM, CRM and Portal implementations (SAP/Hybris Rollout, SAP/Hybris Upgrade and SAP/Hybris Custom development). 
•  Solid experience of working with senior leadership to define scope, estimate, develop and deploy Financial, Manufacturing, Hitech, Pharma, Utilities, CPG, Retail, Oil &Gas, Healthcare and PPM resource management solutions
• Led development lifecycle implementation for Hewlett Packard worldwide customer documentation solutions using ABAP/Sap script/Archive Link, to provide Electronic Commerce Interface for channel partners providing documentation in PDF and to support display contracts/Invoices etc. in Local currency as well as in Euro
• Architected, developed and managed SAP Workflow Custom development solution for Chevron
• Accounts Payable including workflow management cockpit providing easy to understand outstanding workflow tracing all the way to the source EDI using indigenously developed BW and Business Intelligence solutions, providing total control to the management with their EDI workflow incl. Portals based Order confirmation EDI and generic function modules to assist including tax message determination.
• Consulted on Process Redesign and Change Management for several reengineering efforts. Facilitated “Vision” and Design sessions for several business process redesign projects
• Articulated SAP NetWeaver Roadmap, implementation for Micron, Tesora, Computer Associates, Aera Energy, NuSkin Pharma, with Portal, Solution manager, wily tools, SLD, NWDI)
• Performed as the Lead Test Architect/Planner for IBM to implement comprehensive test solutions for a very complex 100 Million Dollar Banking System including Master Data Management solutions for CIBC, following Cab’s Test 2000 methodology and IBM’s Full Life Cycle methodology.  Performed automated testing for SIT and UAT Lead the SIT team to develop a comprehensive package called ‘SYSTEST Query Tool’, to assist in SIT testing (automated, manual, functional and life-cycle) and final UAT testing was successfully demonstrated to CIBC
• Provided Project management, Architecture redesign and QA on Client/Server based International News and Retrieval System (INRS) for Dow Jones, multi-million-dollar implementation using Fault tolerant setup of HP 9000 I60 computers (HP/UX) using Oracle V7, located in Toronto and NJ, USA.
• Successfully managed a 27-man integrated voice network management system (Fastnet) for British Telecom, U.K for NATO. Assisted in ISO 9001 certification by following ISO 9000-3 guidelines.

Key Clients and Roles