Candidates About

 

Prasad Deshpande

Oracle Cloud Consultant Sr. Project Manager

SUMMARY:

·         Consulting Sr. Project/Program Manager with 20 years of multiple Applications projects experience in the fields of Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Retail, Consumer Products, Health care (Pharmaceutical), CRO, Finance and Information Technology. Professional strengths include Oracle EBS Financials and Supply Chain Manufacturing, Project Planning, Scoping, Communications Management, Schedule Management, Risk & Issue Management, Financial Management, Staffing Management, Procurement Management and high Performance team building.

 

·         Trained on Oracle Procurement Cloud from Oracle University and currently preparing for Oracle cloud certification in PRC.

 

·         Most recent projects includes current Oracle Cloud Procurement implementation and business transformation program consist of 6 projects to implement and multi geography rollout of Order to Cash process in on- premise Oracle R12 environment.

 

Leadership and management:   

·         Managed Projects with proven PM Methodology’s (PMBOK, OUM,AIM, Agile and Six Sigma methodologies)

·         Managed Program with portfolio of consisting of 6 Oracle Projects.   

·         Experienced in performing all or part of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) ranging from analysis and design to construction, implementation and maintenance.

·         Expert in analyzing business processes, process re-engineering, and recommending solutions and implementing necessary solutions to insure automated functionality.

·         Manage vendor relationships with key information systems and applications suppliers and contractors.

·         Ability to deliver high quality results with attention to details. Excellent Analytical skills and ability to work efficiently in a multi-tasked environment.

·         Advise the executive and higher management regarding application trends, opportunities, investments, and risks; assist in gathering requirements including ROI information to evaluate projects.

·         Worked on implementation of business processes such as Quote to Cash, Order to Cash, Acquire to Retire and Procure to Pay.

·         Demonstrated Industry domain expertise primarily in in Telecommunication, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Financial and State Government Business.  

·         Oracle Cloud based and managed service environment project experience.

·         End to end Oracle EBS project Cutover planning (Business and Technical) 

·         Expert in release management and planning that includes enterprise wide release calendar for major release and point releases in between

 

 

TECHNICAL (SOFTWARE & PACKAGES)

Oracle EBS Modules                                                                        :               AP, AR, INV, OM, BOM, WIP, ASCP

Oracle Fusion Modules                                                   :               Oracle Procurement Cloud.                         

Relational Databases                                                      :               Oracle 12c

Development/Productivity Tools                              :               Oracle * SQL, Oracle * PL/SQL, Java,

JDeveloper, XML Publisher and TOAD

Middleware Understanding & Exposure                :               Oracle Fusion, Oracle AIA and SOA Frame

Work

Operating Systems                                                          :               Solaris, UNIX and Windows XP

Business Intelligence                                                     :               DataMart, Data Warehouse, OBIEE and

Business Objects

BIG DATA Exposure                                                        :               Hadoop, HDFS, PIG and Hive

Infrastructure Literacy                                                  :               Real Application Cluster Architecture. Data

Guard, SAN, MAA (Maximum Availability), HA (High Availability) Infrastructure upgrade for Sun Solaris 10 and Oracle 10g

 

CERTIFICATION:

·         Currently pursuing Project management institute (PMI) certification.    

·         Oracle Unified Methodology training by Oracle consulting

 

EXPERIENCE:

 

Communication Company, Atlanta GA                                                                                     Jan’18 to present

Oracle Fusion/Cloud Consultant/Technical Project Manager

 

Currently working on vendor selection project to select vendors to provide cloud based solution. My responsibilities includes

 

• Analyse RFP responses.
• Responsible to manage design, building and deploying technical components 
• Conduct Demos with Oracle, SAP Ariba and other vendors bidding for cloud solution.
• Work with sourcing manager for RFP responses and open items.
• Communicate risk, issues and other critical project status to steering committee and stakeholders.
• Provide functional and technical inputs as on required for decision making.

 

 

Parexel, Boston, MA                                                                                                             Jul’17 to Jan’18

Oracle EBS 12 Order to Cash Sr. Project / Program Manager  

Budget- 14 Million USD, Peak Time Team size- 100+ (Includes SI team)                

                                               

Successfully managed the business transformation tail end of the program consists of 6 projects to implement and multi geography Order to Cash rollout of on premise Oracle R12 environment.  This is ASC606 complaint project.

 

Responsibilities includes but not limited to:

·         Manage Pilot phase (Parallel to production) of the project

·         Cutover planning development for business cutover and technical cutover.

·         Follow Oracle AIM methodology in agile development process.

·         Over ownership of the overall O2C program for delivery, planning and scheduling.

·         Manage 2 Project managers team and make sure project is on track.

·         Manage project team consist of 50 consultants + plus FTEs consist of BAs, Developers and DBAs.

·         Be a project SPOC for business stakeholders, steering committee.

·         Manage and drive the other projects deliverables with respect to impacting the pilot.

 

Project System Environment:  Oracle E-business suite ERP. 12.2.5.

 

 

INCOMM, Atlanta, GA                                                                                                                           Jan’17 to Jul’17

Oracle EBS Project Lead

Budget- 2 Million USD, Team size- 25 (Includes SI team)                 

                                               

Currently managing the business transformation program consists of 3 projects to implement and multi geography rollout of on premise Oracle Order to Cash (Financials) for 3 InComm. Companies 

 

Responsibilities includes but not limited to:

·         Manage System integrators team.

·         Cutover plan development for business cutover and technical cutover.

·         Followed Oracle AIM methodology in waterfall development process.

·         Over ownership of the overall FIS Big Bang program for delivery, planning and scheduling.

·         Manage 2 Project managers team and make sure project is on track.

·         Managed project team consist of 25 consultants + plus Incomm employees consist of BAs, Developers and DBAs.

·         Be SPOC for business stakeholders, steering committee and the CFO of Incomm.

·         Manage and drive the  ETL and EDW projects deliverables with respect to project

 

Project System Environment:  Oracle E-business suite ERP. 12.2.5.

 

Oracle Consulting, Atlanta, GA  

Equifax                                                                                                                                                     Nov’15 to Dec’16

Oracle Program Manager                                                                          

Budget- 19 Million USD, Team size- 20+               

 

As an Oracle Sr. Project Manager completed two CPQ and BSS (Business Support System) implementation projects

·         Managed Cutover plan development that includes business cutover and technical cutover.

·         Followed Oracle OUM methodology in hybrid agile development process.

·         BSS project was to implement Oracle communication’s Rapid Offer Design and Order Delivery (RODOD) solution which includes Oracle applications tech stack Oracle E-business suite ERP, Oracle Communications Billing and revenue management (BRM), Application Integration Architecture (AIA), Order and Service Management (OSM) and OMC (Online/Offline Medication Controller).

·         Managed project using the Oracle Fusion SoA suite to integrate BRM with Oracle Customer and Product Hub the cloud based applications

·         Successfully managed two Sub projects using Oracle’s OUM methodology

·         Responsible for managing project PnL and multimillion dollar labor plus expenses budget for team 10+ Oracle Consultants.

·         Demonstrated functional and technical expertise by successfully setup, initial planning and conducting WaR rooms for Dataware house UAT and multiple project critical bill-compare cycles activities between customer’s legacy system and BRM.

·         B2B Project successfully went live in mid of October 2016 followed by B2C went live in November. 

 

Project System Environment:  Oracle BRM, Oracle AIA, Oracle OSM, CPQ, Oracle OMC, Oracle E-business suite ERP. 12.2.1 and SFDC.

 

Verizon Telematics, Atlanta, GA                                                                                                     Mar’15 to Nov’15

Sr. Oracle EBS Project Manager                                                           

Budget- 1.5 Million, Team size- 10               

 

Successfully completed project to launch a telematics aftermarket product launch in mid of Aug 2015. Project technology stack primarily includes Oracle Communications RODOD applications, Siebel CRM and Oracle EBS Applications. Purpose of my inception to this project was primarily to help customer to speed-up the already kicked off large development effort. During this project my responsibilities includes but no limited to.

 

Work with Functional and development managers to build the integrated program schedule consisting of multiple projects and multiple external vendors.

·         Schedule and manage project tasks assigned with vendor resources from Oracle Corporation, Tech Mahindra and Accenture on ITops.

·         Plan release iterations in hybrid agile environment. Work closely with Verizon functional managers, Solution Architects and conduct JAD/JAR sessions with IT and Business teams to review use cases collect the business requirements with respects to enhancements proposed by business for upcoming iteration.

·         Also responsible to drive the critical effort to establish ITOps post production process for post launch in mid of April 2015. This includes facilitating meetings and resolving issues around the process gaps by working with business and ITops personnel. This includes the Manual process in Oracle EBS and Oracle’s Siebel CRM as well as technology system processes.

 

Project System Environment:  Oracle Seibel, Oracle E-business suite ERP. 12.2.1, Oracle BRM, Oracle AIA, Oracle OSM and custom e-commerce web application layer.

 

GE Digital Energy, Atlanta, GA                                                                                                       May’14 to Mar’15

Sr. Oracle EBS Project Manager                                               

Budget- 1 Million, Team size- 10+               

 

Successfully managed R12 upgrade project in mid of Aug 2014 and also completed Oracle EBS R12 global rollout for GE Digital Energy Power delivery in Oct 2014. Responsible to lead and deliver end to end business and system process maps for all manufacturing sites in GE digital energy, additionally also responsible to manage 50+ enhancements requests related to supply chain manufacturing area.

·         As overall Rochester and PD cutover manager during Oracle R12 rollout project was responsible to meet and as required travel to GE sites with business users across functional areas such as Finance, Sourcing, Manufacturing and Commercial to facilitate building overall end to end BUSINESS cutover, build data conversion strategies and Release plan. That includes strategies for Item, BOM and routing conversion.

·         Sourcing cutover including Open PO conversion, Sales Order Conversion etc.

·         Cutover plan includes Tasks to load Open POS, Physical inventory count and other data conversion activities. 

 

Project System Environment:  Oracle EBS Rel. 12.2.1, Informatica, WMS, Web Methods, Oracle Endeca and GE Digital Energy Legacy systems.

 

State Government of Maryland, Baltimore, MD                                                                      Mar’14 to May’14

Cloud Integration Lead                                                                                 

 

This SPS project effort was to perform a due-diligence between Oracle HCM Cloud vs Workday HCM Cloud integration feasibility study under taken by DoIT. During project my accomplishment includes not limited to:

·         Successfully completed fit-gap analysis effort for multiple (54) state government agencies HCM integrations.

·         Planned and drafted a cloud integration strategy for legacy systems.

·         Managed HCM integration expectations across different state clients from different agencies.

·         Provided needed coaching and manage DoIT (Department of IT) Jr. Technical team on the ground for data conversion activities.

·         Provided a pivotal support for all integrations questions or decisions.

 

Project System Environment:  Workday HCM and State Of Maryland’s legacy systems.

 

AT&T, Atlanta GA                                                                                                                                 Feb’11 to May’14

Sr. Oracle EBS Supply Chain Project Manager

Budget- 2.5 Million USD, Team size- 10+               

 

During this 3 year contract assignment, successfully completed multiple retail supply chain projects involving Oracle EBS blue print environment. Some key Accomplishments but not limited to:

·         Successfully managed and completed project to upgrade Oracle 11i to R12 Upgrade (Financial modules tech stack).

·         Successfully planned, managed and completed Infrastructure upgrade, UNIX to Linux migration, Golden Gate Implementation and Oracle 11g Database and Informatica platform upgrade effort for AT&T’s Order Track application.

·         Successfully Managed and completed project to DSL Onboarding project enhancements to improve and automate Reverse Logistics accounting process for DSL  equipment returns in Oracle R12 environment,

·         Demonstrated ability to successfully manage 4-5 projects concurrently with budget ranging from 400K to just above 700K USD.

·         As part of project estimation process Managed rice (Report, Interface, Customization and Extension) identification and development for O2C, P2P and Financial tracks in highly cross functional team environment.

·         Managed integration of customized modules and related conversions, workflow and reports.

·         Oracle fusion middleware was used to interface with applications outside of AT&Ts ERP blue print that includes interfaces to POS and other external applications such OTM (Oracle Transportation management) 

 

Project System Environment:  Oracle EBS Rel. 12, Oracle Fusion, Informatica, JDA, WMS Red Prairie, Point of Sale, Legacy

 

Kaiser Permanente, Pleasanton CA                                                                                               Jul’10 to Feb’11

Oracle Retail Supply Chain Project Manager                                                                                                                                   

Budget- 1 Million USD, Team size- 12               

 

Key Accomplishments:

·         During my tenure with Infogain I was successfully managed Retail program with two concurrent rapid ORPOS implementations and upgrade projects with budget in the range of 500K- USD 1 million.

·         Prepared Project Scope, Solution Design and Architecture, Project Roadmap, Business Case, and High Level Project Plan for V.P. Information Technology and Manager PMO.

·         Significantly contributed in pre-sales activities to kick off new POS software distribution management projects at Home Depot. Worked closely with Infogain’s Architects and CTO for finalizing the ORPOS upgrade requirements prior to project Kickoff.

·         Demonstrated ability to build and manage multiple project teams remotely in Infogain’s offshore Development Center.

 

Project System Environment:  Oracle Point of Sale System.

 

AT&T, Atlanta GA                                                                                                                                   Apr’09 to Jul’10

Oracle Supply Chain Project Manager                                       

Budget- 2.5 million, Team size- 12              

 

As a Sr. Project/Program Manager was responsible to lead proprietary Project Portfolio management system enhancements projects and technical delivery of multiyear part of $14 million dollar “One funding model Program” in partnership with IBM.

 

Key Accomplishments:

·         Managed AT&T-Dobson cellular merger (M&A) integration from Day beat to post FCC approval ,that includes planning of integration Dobson stores with AT&T supply chain and converting 200million dollar worth assets in to Oracle ERP.

·         Actively participated in discussing approach to come-up with detail WBS Development tasks and timelines within following ITUP milestones for overall program and also helped in establishing delivery management process.

·         Worked closely with IBM near shore team based in Mexico and offshore India. 

·         Ensured that projects development phases (in programs) are planned properly to ensure success and mitigate risks. Infused in the AT&T’s Project development Framework (ITUP) of Initiation, Planning, Execution & Control, Closure is an element of Quality (defined by the customer or sponsor and stakeholders).

·         Maintained not only for updated project schedules and budget of  approx. $5 MN; but also be looking for evidence that the sponsor is still engaged by running weekly status meetings, Risks are being actively identified and mitigated, avoided, transferred or accepted.

 

Project System Environment:  J2EE, IBM Web Sphere, Informatica and Oracle.

 

AT&T, Atlanta GA                                                                                                                                 Nov’06 to Feb’09

Oracle Supply Chain Project Manager                                        

Budget- 500K USD, Team size- 6              

 

IT program where the business objective of the post SWIM initiatives at AT&T Mobility was to implement additional modules, enhance and stabilize complex implementation of Oracle Retail Supply Chain and Distribution modules including Order Management, Pricing, and Shipping, Oracle Inventory, Oracle Receivables, Oracle Payables, Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Purchasing, Oracle iProcurment , Oracle iStore , Oracle Order Configurator and Oracle ASCP. These modules were integrated with external systems such as Retail Point of Sale, Billing, Warehouse Management System (Red Prairie) and Demand Planning System (Manugistics now JDA). 

 

Key Accomplishments:

·         Concurrently manage and successfully executed multiple (Seven) medium to large size projects budget up to four million dollars.

·         Acted as a liaison between Business & IT. Conducted BP080 design / JAD sessions for major and critical business process implementation, development and enhancements in and around Oracle E-Business Suite and Supply Chain ERP foot print.

·         Worked with project business sponsors, C-level stakeholders and facilitate Project Charter development and seek approvals for formal Kickoff Project.

·         Worked with various functional and development managers for RiCE identification and LOE, ROM estimations for each project.

 

Project System Environment:  Oracle EBS 11.5.10.2, Informatica, Manugistics, WMS RedPrairie, AT&T Point of Sale (OPUS), Legacy and J2EE.

 

Subaru of America, Cherry Hills NJ                                                                                                Jun’06 to Nov’06