Candidates About

 

Ravi Kondapi

SUMMARY:

Ø  More than 21 years of Progressive experience in IT Application Development Management with notable success by providing broad range of Business Solutions to IT Business applications.

Ø  Over 20 years of experience in all versions of JD Edwards Enterprise Applications, Business Analysis and Business Process Improvements.

Ø  Designed and Delivered innovative comprehensive, structured, Cost effective business solutions to complex problems.

Ø  Extensive experience in Projects initiation, define Scope, Execution,

SOW, Project/Resource/Training/Communication Plans, Risk Management and GO-LIVE cutover/ Deliverables Management.

Ø  Proven record of identifying opportunities for systems enhancements, KAIZEN projects to improve applications efficiency & reduce the base line cost and improve customer satisfaction.

Ø  Significant experience in multiple business areas including manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, construction and distribution.

Ø  Director for Professional Development PMI Binghamton Chapter and Instructor for Project Management Methodologies.

 

Areas of Expertise :

Ø  SME in Manufacturing, Procure to Pay, Inventory, Advanced Pricing, OTC, Multi-currency, Vendor/Customer Performance, A/R, A/P, G/L.

Ø  Expert in Transition, Upgrade, Integration, Consolidation Projects.

Ø  In-depth knowledge and experience in SDLC, ADLC, ITIL, ITPM, Data Governance, MDM, Road Maps and four levels of application support.

Ø  Proactively collaborate and maintain effective working relationship with internal and external stake holders.

Ø  Master in JD Edwards Tools, Configuration, Security, JDE Servers architecture, Performance management, CNC, Application process, systems integrations, developments, U/S/I/U testing’s,

Ø  Major Strengths includes Execution, Analysis, Problem solving, Application Development, mentoring, negotiation, Presentation.

Ø  Expert in working with diverse work force at global locations managing dual shore delivery model (offshore and onshore) in a multi-vendor supported environment.

Ø  Strong experience in building high performance teams with a positive attitude and empowering team for successful results.

Ø  Conduct Work-shops, gather requirements, develop Functional, Technical specs for enhancements/ projects.

Ø  Quick understanding of the company’s business processes, functionalities, challenges and Identify company’s strengths and weaknesses, suggest areas of improvement in the field of IT Business solutions and Application Development divisions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professional Experience:

Michelman, Cincinnati, OH:                                                                                                                                                 Jan 2017 to Present

Role: Lead JDE Applications/Senior Business Analyst (Global Manufacturing/Supply chain).

Michelman is global developer and manufacturer of environmental friendly water based advanced materials for coatings, printing & packaging, and industrial manufacturing markets.

Ø  Successfully implemented JDE Upgrade project by phases that includes, Configuration, CRP, ICRP1 and ICRP2, UPK and User Trainings. This enhanced system performance by 25%

Ø  Designed and Implemented the executive Sales Forecast Dashboard in Cogno’s TM1 application and integrated with JD Edwards to enable Sales and Operations Planning.

Ø  Configured and enabled global manufacturing process to improve efficiency by 20% by multimode work order process, Reactor Capacity planning and automated Europe manufacturing process.

Ø  Integrated cloud/service based Salesforce CRM system with JDE and developed all documentation and provided user training.

Ø  Established IT Governance process, Business process management, Best Practices, developed required documentation & procedures and made them organization standards.

Ø  Integrated JDE, Cogno’s TM1, Salesforce into Active Directory and enabled single sign on.

 

The Raymond Corporation (Toyota Material Handling of NA) Greene, NY. Feb 2010 to Dec 2016

 Role:  Lead JDE Applications

Ø  Accountable for all JDE applications and Integration enhancements, Projects and single point of contact for maintenance and support.

Ø  Successfully configured the Corporate Procurement system in E1 that includes Purchase Order process, PO Requisitions, Voucher Matching, Advanced pricing, Vendor Management, Self-Service.

Ø  Customized Sales Order process that includes engineering design change, customization of equipment’s, Cost and Discount changes, Packing changes before SO approved.

Ø  Continuously managing and enhancing Raymond Manufacturing systems and integrating with Toyota manufacturing systems across North America that includes, MRP, Forecasting, Shop floor, Inventory Management. KITS, BOM, Scheduling and Configurator.

Ø  Upgraded Sales order process from JDE WORLD into E1 that includes, Customer set-up, Pricing/discounts, Credit/Blanket/Quote/Transfer orders, Bar Coding, Print Pick slips, Shipping, Invoicing, RMS’s, and customized several reports and applications.

Ø  Migrated Financials (AR, AP, GL, Fixed Assets), Sales and Service Orders from MAPICS to E1.

Ø  Enabled and Configured Service Order, Warranty, Field Modification functionalities in E1.

Ø  Prepare Quarterly/Yearly budget plans, software/hardware licensing, software/hardware upgrading, Capitalization of projects, Infrastructure and Database upgrade plans and support.

Ø  Consolidated Corporate Procurement business process and developed single Procurement instance and Portal for all Toyota Material Handling Companies in North America.

Ø  Designed and Developed Quality module in JDE that includes NCM, CVI, Manufacturing Quality, Shop floor, Warranty supplier returns, P.O. Delivery Performance Cost performance.

Ø  Successfully Managed Brantford Transition Project and Johnston Equipment Integration Project that includes Master Data integration and merging multiple modules with JDE applications.

Ø  Evaluated direct and indirect risks with multiple projects and developed risk mitigation plans.

Ø  Converted more than 100 databases from Access, Excel and other application to JDE.

Ø  Designed and developed Supplier Portal web application that includes PO’s, Delivery Performance, Forecast, NCM’s, Warranty Returns, Supplier Report Card and CAR’s for vendors.

Ø  Designed, Developed and supported the iWarehouse, iBattary, iTrack, iService and iParts web applications/portals to provide sophisticated service to customers.

Ø  Provided 4 levels of application support that includes, IT Helpdesk, Business leads, Functional leads and programmers of application development.

 

The Raymond Corporation (Toyota Material Handling of NA) Greene, NY.        Jan 2007 to Jan 2010

Role:  JDE Technical Manager

 

Ø  Provided technical and administrative guidance for individuals and projects within the group.

Ø  Developed departmental goals and objectives, Project plans and project Schedules.

Ø  Resolved team and schedule conflicts to mitigate risks and communicated project updates.

Ø  Performed fit gap analysis for budgeting and effectively managed the resources allocations.

Ø  Identified, Initiated and managed several efficiency enhancements methodologies including KAIZAN, VSM, LEAN Projects and 8 STEP Problem Solving to improve application operation performance.

Ø  Provided guidance to team members in JDE OMW tools, CNC and Security, Interfaces and Integrations and other systems integrated with JD Edwards.

Ø  Prepared Unit Test/ System and Integrating test scripts, Code reviews, project back out plans, UAT scripts and step by step training documentation for the users.

Ø  Designed and developed more than 1500 custom objects that includes Reports, UBE’s Interfaces, Forms, Applications, Business functions for various projects.

Ø  Successfully implemented and managed Consolidation Quality Systems, GQIS (Global Quality Information Systems across the Toyota Material Handling companies.

Ø  Led consolidation of Service Parts Management, Integration of Toyota Procurement system with Raymond.

Ø   Automated the debit/credit memos for the Raymond Corporation which eliminated manual errors.  

Ø  Redesigned database architecture to significantly improve the application performance, locks in data pulls, reduced the down-time, and automated the database back-ups and environment upgrades.

 

Ethicon Endo Surgery Inc (a Johnson & Johnson Company) Cincinnati, OH.       Jan 2006-Dec 2006 

Role: Lead Techno Functional/BA

Ø  Designed, developed and implemented several Financial Projects that includes AR, AP, GL and Fixed assets, Sales Order processing & Distribution modules with a team of 6 programmers.

Ø  Implemented module functionality, system set up, AAI’s, Company Constants and Interoperability Z files process for processing the data into database.

Ø  Enabled the Advanced Pricing module in JD Edwards ERP system to process the pricing information into J&J sites.

Ø  Enabled the Audit Trail functionality for the Master data processing and Quality System Requirements.

Ø  Prepared functional and Technical specification for Okay To Pay daily batch process.

Ø  Configured inbuilt JDE functionalities in Manufacturing Shop floor/MRP/MRO/BOM/ECR/ECC/ Scheduling processes to the business, enabled applications and reduced the customization. 

Ø  Designed and implemented Forecast Cost Bucket process for EES Finance department.

Ø  Modified the Standard Cost and the Current Cost process to the commodity managers to improve purchasing cost savings.

Ø  Worked on several SAR’s, ESU and collaborated with software vendors on impact analysis.

Ø  Guided developers in programming of Report, Applications, Interfaces, Table Conversions, Business Functions, NER, DD, BSVW, UTB, Menu’s, NN and debugging in JD Edwards ERP Systems.

Ø  Identified long term and short goals and objectives to provide best business solutions in alignment with industry technology standards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

National Cement Company of California, Los Angeles, CA.                                         Jul’05-Jan 2006

Role: Tech Team Lead     

Ø  Led the Debit and Credit Accepted Project to process the debits and Credits.

Ø  Improvised existing applications and Reports as per the user requirements.

Ø  Designed and led various financial reports to calculate Actual, Budget and Prior Year information.

Ø  Managed and Implemented ADP process for payroll transactions between JD Edward’s system and ADP system. This interface automatically transfers the employee’s payroll entries into ADP system.

Ø  Designed and directed to develop various kinds of custom modules in HR system like, Health and Safety, Accident and Incident, Labor hour distribution based on PDBA and category codes.

Ø  Customized and implemented several Financial Unit cost functionalities like Aggregate Hauling, Cement Hauling, Mixer Hauling, shop, Administration, Branch plant Reports to calculate Amounts, and Units for MTD (Month) and YTD (Year).

 

Life Scan (a Johnson & Johnson Company), Milpitas, CA                                           Oct’04 – Jun’05

Role:  Team/Tech Lead and Systems Analyst

 

March Communications & Technologies Ltd.  Kingston WI                                     Sep’03 - Oct’04

Role:  Technical Consultant (JD Edwards ERP Systems)  

     

Athene Soft Tech Pvt Limited, Chennai, India.                                                                         Mar’02-Aug’03

Role: Lead Programmer (Java, HTML, DHTML, JSP, RMI, EJB, Oracle)

                                                                                                 

Shark InfoTech Pvt. Ltd, Chennai India.                                                                                   Jun’99 - Feb’02

Role: Programmer Analyst (Oracle/Dev 2000, Java, HTML, JSP, EJB)

 

Pharma Dynamic India Limited                                                                                                  Oct’96- Jun’99

Role: Programmer/ Developer (C++, VB, Oracle, VB Script, SQL Server)

 

ACADEMIC & TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

 

        Masters in Accounts/Finance from Annamalai University India

        Bachelors in Commerce (Accounts/Finance) from Nagarjuna University, India

   Post-Graduation Diploma in Computer Applications (PGDCA)

        Diploma in Relational Data Base Management Systems (RDBMS)

        Certificate in JAVA MASTER

        Java Certified Programmer (JCP) from Brain Bench Technologies.

JDE Certified in Foundations/Report and Application Development/Manufacturing/Sales/

Procure to    pay from Oracle Corporation.