Candidates About

Mahyar ‘Mike’ Ganjani

Business Technology Leader with extensive experience and successes with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs in large, global, highly regulated industries. Significant experience delivering effective business-driven computer systems and global logistics support services. Proven ability to contribute to the over all business success through development and leadership of cutting-edge, cost effective, service-oriented IT organizations.

Business / IT Strategist:

Key Senior management member committed to aligning E-Commerce and Internet expertise with strong business knowledge to promote innovative solutions that positively impacts the organization. Manage P&L to profitable bottom line.

Leadership:

Hands-on leader and recognized change agent skilled in team and consensus building with a proven record in turnaround situations. Unique ability to understand business challenges and present solution and updates to both senior executives and technical staff.

Technology Expertise:

Highly Adapted in delivering superior integrated systems, which achieve business process improvements, high user acceptance and on-budget performance. Experienced ERP project manager with decade of SAP experience with multiple successful Global Roll-Outs, and Years of experience in Oracle, NetSuite, Acumatica Cloud Based solutions.

Breadth of Experience:

Career progression includes international and multi-division expansion on 4 continents, rapid acquisition integration. Highly skilled negotiator with extensive outsourcing experience. Specializing in SAP ERP (APO, HCM, BW, CRM, SCM, MES, ARIBA and SuccessFactors), NetWeaver, Hana, NetSuite, Manufacturing, Cloud Based solutions and 3^rd parties, and E-commerce (shopify, Magento, Ariba, SCA). 20 years experience with architecture, hardware and software design, matrix organizations, Manufacturing and distribution, Pharmaceutical, and Automotive with extensive knowledge in validated environment.

Public and PE owned companies.  Transformative thinker hired to set direction for BT/IT and most recently led creation of BT/IT framework of a cloud-based ERP system managing all business functions on a single global instance. Leader that manages from hardware to Software across organization.

Summary:

• 17 years of deep SAP delivery and support of Basis, Security, Applications and Development
• Business-focused Senior IT Leader that drives transformational change with world-class SAP solutions.
• Define, document and managed scope, expectations, implementations approach, deliverables and acceptance testing criteria.
• Develop and manage an effective risk mitigation strategy for projects.
• Develop and managed all critical business KPIs are met on behalf of the business (e.g. performance, uptime, ticket processing, RTO, RPO, and other SLAs).
• Managed SAP COE Basis operations and ABAP Development for multiple instances of SAP ECC, BW, BI, SCM, APO and Portal environment using onsite/offshore development model.
• 20+ years of Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical and Automotive industry experience
• Established demand management process using ITIL framework.
• Partnership with SAP AG (12+ presentations at global SAP events) & co-innovation.
• Led Multiple ERP solutions successfully, SAP, NetSuite/Oracle, Acumatica, Magento, SCA.
• Extensive knowledge both in Applications and Infrastructure across multiple platforms.
• Led Large and small Cloud based ERP solutions across the globe.
• Managed DBA, EDI, Development, Security, and legacy apps including AS400 for Multiple Organizations globally.
• Developed Follow-the-Sun strategy across various organizations.
• Managed Large migration to different platform, from legacy apps to ERP solution both hosted solution and large SAS solutions.
• Managed 3^rd party providers and integration for global companies in various industries.
• Managed middleware in various platforms such as SAP PI, and Dell Boomi.
• Partner with sap to develop the CU/UC (Combined Upgrade and Unicode) Worldwide.
• Completed 10 Global ERP Implementations successfully.

§  Led the design, deployment and ongoing maintenance of IT strategies, architecture, policies and procedures for multiple companies in various industries.

§  Experienced with JIRA, Service Now, and Remedy tools.

Professional Experience:

IT Director

Respond to RFPs, evaluate Solutions, Lead requirements gathering for ERP solutions using software such as SAP, NetSuite for various industries.

Lead Project team to plan, develop, organize, monitor, and deliver services and solutions.

Lead, manage and plan all aspect of projects for clients, including budget, resource planning. Responsible for escalation, risk mitigation, executive reporting for overall Global ERP. Support client on vendor selection, contract negotiation, selecting technology and plan for POC and over all roll outs of ERP globally. Lead the execution of change management on key business initiatives including multiple successful M&A.  Provide direction to clients on Change Control, Release management, OCM, Post Go-live Company wide.

·         Provide expert counsel and guidance to senior Leadership on information systems and its impact across the full range of business strategy, programs, products and services, and operational issues.

·         Support Customers to establish IT and data governance practices, policies, and procedures, including Leading of an IT steering group.

·         Design, develop and maintain the information systems roadmap, along with strategy for the architecture across the span of enterprise applications and platforms to ensure business goals are met in the most efficient manner-cost, time and resources.

·         Support Clients to develop short- and long-term plans in alignment with and support for the Company’s strategies and goals, business plans.

·         Negotiate contracts and select implementation partners.

Performance Health                                                                                                      March 2016 – Feb 2018

IT Director - Global ERP Applications

Recruited to create business technology organization post spin-off from Patterson Medical.  Reporting to both CEO and CIO, architected strategy for a complete cloud-based, global solution to run finance, AR/AP, order to cash, supply chain, warehouse and manufacturing, HR, sales/marketing and reporting.  Responsible for solution selection, contract negotiation for all applications and infra Globally. Managed direct team of 6, and 15 FTE plus 40 consultants. Positioned organization for easy sale by PE firm.

• Created an IT organization from scratch and set IT strategy that aligned with Private Equity vision.
• Completed separation from parent company on time and on budget.
• Managed complete rollout of Cloud-Based Oracle NetSuite Global template for 5 North America locations and 3 EU locations.
• Responsible for all 3rd party and off shore contract negotiation resulting in $5M savings.

§  Successful completion of Transitional Service Agreement (TSA) on time and on budget.

§  Completed acquisition of company of equal size, due diligence and leading integration.

§  Saved $5M over 3 years by eliminating 50 legacy applications over 6 global regions.

§  Vendor management, including RFI, RFP, contract negotiation for all Software licenses and subscriptions Company wide.

§  Design, developed, and led the creation of managed services for ERP and co-sourced with offshore Near-shore and Onshore to mange all Applications with high availability.

§  Successfully EDI transformation from parent company to new entity.

§  Successfully EDI transformation from parent company to new entity.

§  Responsible for all IT Licenses along with annual True-Up of licenses resulting in reduction in cost.

SAP America                                                                                                                         Jan 2016 – Mar 2016

Delivery Executive (Project)

• Delivery oversight and responsibility to complete a Program Roadmap, Validation/Blueprint and Implementation for Release 1 of customer’s Transformation program.

Hospira, a Pfizer Company                                                                                                  Mar 2004 – Jan 2016

Director – Enterprise Software                                                                                                                            

• Planned IT/SAP Strategy for the next five years.
• Managed an extensive group of employees, contractors and a multi-million dollar budget,
• Established standards and best practices for SAP design and development per SDLC methodology.
• Vendor Management and negotiations for SAP development, implementation and support.
• IT Services  Vendor Management – RFP creation, Contract negotiations, SLA development
• Project Management, Lead, Design, Develop and Implement applications in the SAP environment.
• Managed Zero Downtime availability for entire SAP platform exceeding 3 ½ years.
• Negotiated a 5 year outsourcing contract for SAP applications.
• Reduced the maintenance costs of enterprise applications by $3M with an expected increase in quality
• Managed SAP America relationship, contract negotiations, and all SAP Licenses.
• Project Management of SAP Upgrades, implementation of SAP TDMS and SAP DMS,
• Developed the Disaster Recovery Strategy for the SAP environment.
• Managed and Owned all IT Licenses Globally with annual audit of licenses company wide to lower the cost across the organization.

Senior Manager – SAP Center of Excellence                                                                                                       

• Managed SAP Basis Technical Support for production, development, QA and training environments.
• Managed the onsite/ offshore SAP Development team. Created the IT demand process for SAP development activities using Remedy. Developed KPIs and reporting mechanism in ITIL framework.
• Established offshore production support structure to provide 24X7 monitoring of SAP systems
• Budget management and people management for the SAP CoE.
• Hospira SAP Landscape Leader for SAP Development and Basis Administration across ECC, IS Retail, HR, WM, BW, APO, Portals, CRM, e-recruitment and Solution Manager.
• Formulated the Project Management and resource management process at Hospira.
• Enterprise hardware sizing of servers, storage and networks for SAP environments.
• Managed a successful roll out of SAP HR, ECC 5.0, BW, SCM, CRM, Solman, AII, AIF, TAO, ARIS, Mii,
• Time and budget accountability for projects and production support in the SAP landscape.
• Managed vendor negotiations for outsourcing relationships as well as contingent labor for SAP support and implementation projects
• Establishing standards and best practices for SAP design and development per SDLC methodology.
• Published on SAP Insider magazine for the work done on SAP Upgrade and Unicode.
• Responsible for all SAP and Oracle licenses at Hospira globally.
• SAP architecture design, sizing, implementation and deployment. Setup the architecture in a new location.
• Led the Datacenter migration. Upgraded SAP portal to NW 7.0 used across organization.
• Achieved Certification for SAP Customer Center of Expertise from SAP Enterprise Support - 8 years
• Project planning and budget management for the CoE including $3 million in Opex and about $5 million in Capex for new projects and enhancements to the SAP systems.
• Release strategy and Patching for SAP environment, Archive enable the SAP environment

§  Implementation of SOX Compliance and PCI compliance

• • Role remediation and implementation of crypto library and PCI compliance.
  • Vendor evaluation for SOD tool for OMX environment and tool for Identity Access Management.
  • Established the process for role remediation of SAP environment including AOD access.

Senior Manager – SAP Technical Senior Manager                                                                                               

• SAP Basis Technical manager for full life cycle SAP manufacturing implementation projects.
• Security Design and Implementation for R/3 & BW.
• R/3 installations and version upgrades. Migrations from V 3.0F to 3.1H, 4.5B to 4.6C to 4.7 Enterprise to 4.7 Extension set 2.0.
• Design and implementation of BW infrastructure, and version upgrades. Migrated BW v. 2, to v. 3.1C
• Assessed and managed risk in all aspects of the technology implementation for global SAP rollouts.
• Proposal building and providing Sales support.
• Subject Matter Expert.

Komatsu AMERICA LTD.                                                                                                     Jan 1999 – Mar 2004

Senior Manager – SAP Basis / Security Manager

§  SAP Basis and Security Manager for the full life cycle design and deployment of SAP within the Komatsu manufacturing environment

§  Enterprise hardware sizing of servers, storage and networks for SAP environment.

§  Security design and implementation for R/3 & BW.

• Designed a 4 tier SAP security/authorization scheme.

§  Design and implementation of R/3 infrastructure, R/3 installations and version upgrades.

§  Migrated SAP V 3.0F to 3.1H, to 4.5B to 4.6C to 4.7 Enterprise to 4.7 Extension set 2.0

§  Design and implementation of BW infrastructure with version upgrades

§  Migrated from BW version 2, to version 3.1 C.

• Prepared SAP system landscape design - laying out client and transport strategies.
• Coached functional teams on the strategies for mutual understanding of the policies and procedures.
• Configured Advanced STMS for better control over transport and client strategy procedures.
• Drafted Basis maintenance procedures (operator run books, help desk procedures etc.).

Motorola                                                                                                                               Sep 1994 – Jan 1999

Manufacturing and Process Engineer II

Education:

• Bachelor of Science – Computer Science                    Roosevelt University, Chicago IL