Candidates About

         Prabavathy Umapathy                                                                                                                                                                

Diligent Program Manager  offering a proven record of success, leading all phases of diverse technology projects for more than 16 years managing a team size of more than 50 and programs worth 5 MN engaging with cross-functional teams across the globe. Extremely committed individual with ‘GET THINGS DONE’ attitude.

Business strategist; Plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.

Expert in Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies. Known for ability to produce high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets. ; PMP, Certified Scrum Master & ITIL and SAP certifications on HANA and Netweaver

Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.

SAP Expert Extensive development/design experience as a technical consultant in SAP with superior working knowledge of SAP ECC modules FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, IP, AA, PS, IM & SRM. and SAP certifications on HANA and Netweaver

Domain Experience  Retail, Semiconductors, Pharma, Electronics, Consumer Goods, Medical Supplies & Devices

Program/Project Management: Full Project Lifecycle Management § Program Management § Agile Waterfall Methodology § Onsite/Offshore Management § ITIL § Vendor Management § Release Management § Trainsition Management §  Team Leadership  § Cost Analysis Client Relations  § Strategic Planning § IT Migrations

Specialization: SAP ECC implementations, SAP HANA Side car Implementation and Database Migrations, SAP Upgrades, SAP SRM Implementaiton, Operations Support & SAP Solution architecture,

Technology Portfolio : SAP ECC, SAP HANA SP12, ABAP, SAP SRM, SAP BOBJ 4.0, QLIK, C, C++

Tools & Methodology: MS PROJECT, JIRA, REVTRAC, Visio, Remedy, aDITAAS, Service-Now, Clarity, SAP Project Systems, Share point. SAP solution Manager. ITIL framework.

·         Project Management Professional(PMI)

·         Certified SCRUM Master(CSM)

·         SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP HANA

·         SAP Certified Development Consultant – SAP Netweaver Exchange Infrastructure

·         SAP BOBJ 4.0 Training

·         ITIL Training

·         ‘Eagle Award’ for Achievement, Good Leadership and Services in 2016

·         ‘Excellence Award’ for Outstanding Contribution in 2015

·         ‘The Incredibles’ award in 2012

·         'GEM’ award for ‘Going the Extra Mile’ in 2012

·         Above & Beyond’ award in 2011

·         Bachelors of Engineering, Computer Science. – Madras University – India

Organization: GSPANN Technologies– Milpitas, CA                                                                            20 JULY 2015  till date

Clientele –  Semiconductors -  Lam Research, Fremont, CA

Responsible for managing the Info Delivery Program, a multi million dollar initiative to build a Data Warehousing in SAP HANA and the responsibilities include the below

§  In the initiative to build an Enterprise Data warehouse in HANA platform, I was responsible for managing seven tracks or projects such as building infrastructure, Conforming the master data, Developing KPI dashboards from different source data across the organization, Migrating existing dashboards to source from Enterprise data warehouse, migration of applications from SQL Server to HANA, building security architecture through SQL/Analytical privileges and establish a support structure and process to handle the issue during sustanence. 

§  Developed the program strategy, the supporting business case and various high-level project plans. Built roadmaps and led the development of complex application programs.

§  Responsible for project prioritization based on the dependencies across the program and derive the delivery timelines so that the timelines falls under the stratgetic goal of the program

§  Managed a team size of around 50 onsite and offshore, multiple stake holders and vendors

§  Ensured integration of projects and adjust projects scope, timing, and budgets as needed, based on the requirements of the business. coordinated with other program/project managers to assemble overall program plan.

§  Engaged in BI Tool evaluation for specific use cases, Steering investigations on performance/technical issues with product teams such as Qlik, SAP, Datazen and other customers in order to understand the best practices & deployment options

§  As part of PMO, Sharing weekly & quarterly updates on IT initiatives, issues, risks and the mitigation plans to Managing Director, Senior Executives and Business Stakeholders

§  Engaging the team to understand the impact to applications due to technical upgrades and plan for a seemless successful upgrades for various infrastructure servers

Organization: Coganizat Technology Solutions, USA                                                                       Jan 2006  to Jun 2015

Clientele:

Consumer Goods                                    :   The Clorox Company, Kimberly Clark

Retail                                                       :   Walmart Stores Inc.,

Lifescience                                             :   APP Pharma IL, Hospira Inc IL., Respironics

As a Manager worked on multiple clients, projects with varied roles and delivered them successfully. Responsibilities include

§  Led multiple SAP ECC implementations, Technical Upgrades, SAP SRM Implementaiton, Operations Support & SAP Solution architecture.

§  Responsible for project management responsibilities including, planning, execution, controlling, developing project schedules, identifying resources / requirements and project delivery

§  Onsite & offshore Coordinations, tracked status of developments and ensured no impact to project schedules

§  As Operations manager responsible to provide status updates to project stakeholders on Incident, Problem, Change and Release Management. Drive severity issues involving necessary teams to war room for resolution

§  As SAP ABAP Technical Lead, responsible to deliver Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements & Forms

Organization: Satyam Computer Services                                                                             June 2003 to Dec 2005

Clientele:

      Manufacturing                                              : Saint Gobain Abrasives

     Semiconductors                                            : Applied Materials

§  Responsible for developing RICEF objects in SAP, Source code reviews, building technical specification, performance tuning of complex objects

§  Developed various ABAP objects involving interface programming from SAP to legacy & vice-versa

§  Created an object that performs the Pricing for SGA Materials with the help of function modules that is invoked while creating a Material or Quotation or while changing a Quotation.

§  A Custom transaction is created for Re-pricing the material and to maintain the Z-tables used in pricing the material with the help of Dialog Programming.