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Program Manager and Technology Leader with 17 plus years of experience collaborating with and advising leadership teams and business partners on implementation strategies for SAP solutions addressing a variety of business requirements.  Skilled in managing engagements, designing technology solutions, change, risk, management and delivering projects successfully. Expert at technology integration into business processes and designing practical solutions delivering operational and performance improvements.

PMP Certified with extensive experience creating business plans, developing RFPs, designing and managing project budgets, evaluating technologies, selecting vendors, and negotiating and managing contracts. Leading large global teams and managing off-shore and distributed teams. Demonstrated skills working across functional organizations and with all stake holders including business partners, vendors and implementation team. Manage effective communications among team members, other IS personnel, customer teams and users. Develop the vision, design the strategies, create plans, communicate the objectives, and lead customer and execution teams to technology and business success.

Design, setup and operate PMO for global SAP implementations, deployments and rollouts. Managing large programs with full scope of Core SAP, SAP HCM (HR), SAP PLM, HANA, Fiori, Netweaver and SAP Cloud implementations. Created global templates and global rollout plans and project plans for implementation, assigning resources to outlined tasks and deliverables. Provide status reports to facilitate project alignment, Execute and run Steering Committee meetings with executive leadership. Gather technical and functional requirements and manage them through clear and precise documentation. Develop strategies and solutions for outsourcing initiatives and opportunities. Effective communication to customer team, implementation team and Senior Executive Management. Data Management and Analysis. Maintain and manage project issues to resolution. IT Operations Management. Vendor and Change Management.

core competencies

Certifications        

PMI Certification, 2010 • SAP ABAP Certification, 2003

Methodologies & Standards

Accelerated SAP (ASAP) • SAP All in One • Waterfall & Agile • SAP Industry Best Business Practice •        ISO Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Compliance Guidelines

                  Project Scope

10 Full Cycle Implementations • 2 Upgrade Implementations • 2 Rollout Implementations • Multiple Management of Production Support Engagements

Customer Geographies

Japan • New Zealand • Malaysia • USA • India • UK • Canada.

Project Management

Develops & Manages Budgets • Identifies Personnel Requirements & Efficiently Utilizes Resources • Establishes Schedules & Deadlines • Assigns Tasks & Responsibilities • Assesses Risks & Design Mitigation Plans • Monitors ERP System Deployment Progress • Evaluates & Recommends Changes to Current/Future ERP System Requirements to Achieve Organizational Objectives. EHP upgrades

SAP

Solutions: Finance (FI) • Sales (SD) • Materials Management (MM) • Production Planning (PP) • Project Systems (PS) • Industry Specific (IS)-Utilities • Flexible Real Estate •PLM • Basis • Security

• Service Management • WM & EWM

NetWeaver:  Process Integration (PI) • Enterprise Portal (EP)

Technical Areas: Conventional & Object oriented ABAP • SAP Script • SmartForms • Adobe Forms • Module Pool Programming • Batch Data Communications (BDC) • Exits • Business Add Ins (BADI) • Business Data Toolsets (BDT) • Routines & Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) for Data Loads

Cross Applications

Remote Function Call (RFC) • Application Linking & Enabling (ALE) • Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) • Intermediate Document (IDOC) • Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI) • OData •FIORI

Management Tools

Tidal • Ashwin • Microsoft Project, Visio , Project Server

Professional Experience

key engagements

Program Manager & Solution Architect                   

§  Managed the implementation with a 30 member team of onsite, offshore and near shore resources. SAP SD, SM, MM, PP, FICO, QM, WM, EWM, HCM, VC, and PLM on ECC 6.0, EHP7 on SAP HANA was implemented with PI as the integration tool.

§  Planned the implementation from kickoff to go live in 3 phases to accommodate scope and client requirements.

§  Plan, coordinate and organize workshops for requirement gathering, solution design, training and testing.

§  Develop, engage and manage OCM process, quality reviews, risk assessment and mitigation

§  Architected the integration solution to integrate SAP with Customer portal, Vendor Portal and other legacy systems for maintaining and creating sales order, equipment masters, design cycles, maintenance support for compressors, save and print compressor designs.

§  Designed the SAP implementation landscape, development prerequisites, and transport process to protect production system from erroneous transports. Worked on change orders and process to approve new changes.

§  Perform Resource management, budget management, Master Data conversion planning, Regression and Systems Integration testing, issue and gaps tracking and resolution.

§  Developed the cutover plan and work with clients management partners for the implementation.

§  Organize and present in Steering committee meetings providing updates and manage the stakeholder expectations.

Project Manager                                                        

§  Implemented SAP HCM, FI and BPC implementation for a leader in fast food manufacturing and processing industry.

§  Designed the system landscape for sap and non-sap systems for business and integration requirements of the customer.

§  Conducted workshops to gather requirements, managed scope, project plan, budget and the team. Planned and conducted the solution testing workshops with Vendors and performed integration test cycles. Planned the resource management, conducted project team meetings, and reported project status biweekly to client project manager and Steering committee.

§  Designed the FI & HCM interfaces using PI and SFTP solutions with different vendors and customers. Resource planning and utilization based on the requirements.

§  Planned and conducted meetings with business to gather requirements for implementing BPC 10.1 on HANA to deliver Intercompany elimination and consolidation, foreign currency valuation and translation, revenue planning and forecasting, and HR planning reports.

§  Planned the cutover strategy and post go live support and transition.

Project Manager                                                        

§  Planned and implemented SAP in a hosted environment, managed onsite, near-shore and off-shore resources

§  Implemented SAP ECC 6.0 with SD, MM, PP, FI, CO, HCM and QM modules using Building Block Blueprint Methodology with significant FDA / Traceability requirements and aligning with latest health care initiative such as ‘Sunshine Act’.

§  Planned and organized workshops to document the customization requirements, change management and hosting requirements.

§  Performed vendor selections along with the customer to implement solutions for transportation, storage and barcoding.

§  Provide weekly Project Status reports to all key stakeholders, and facilitated project steering committee meetings

§  Conduct daily standup meetings with my team and business team to discuss the status of the deliverable and also plan for the subsequent tasks for business as well as consultants.

§  Utilized Microsoft sharepoint extensively to share project documentation, team availability, tasks, issue and defect management.

§  Performed resource selection & augmentation, budget management, Master Data conversion plan, Regression testing plan and Systems Unit & Integration test, and Change Management and Cutover planning

Project Manager                                                        

§  Managed the SAP roll outs for Canada and UK. SAP SD, MM, PP, WM, IM, FICO and Variant Configuration using a Super BOM solution was rolled out for both the countries.

§  Planned and conducted the gap analysis workshops to gather requirements and customize the sap solution for the roll outs. Planned the team structure to cater to the available budget by including onsite, offsite and offshore consultants.

§  Facilitated high-level management workshops to determine the overall project timeline, developed and aligned project plan. 

§  Managed the over-all project budget, develop forecasts, and report the status to upper management.  Steered the project deliverables ensuring a timely and successful delivery of key project milestones.

§  Responsible for the project communications concerning the business change management activities.  Developed the project phase sign off approach and implemented the project phase Go/ No Go strategy for the go live. 

§  Developed the cutover strategy to test existing solutions and requirements of both the countries functionally and technically.

§  Developed the project phase sign off approach and implemented the project phase Go/ No Go strategy for all functional and technical areas of the project.

§  Worked with the system hosting partners to plan additional hardware for the rollouts and post go live maintenance.

Technical Project Manager & Solution Architect      

§  Designed, planned, estimated, implemented, reviewed, and managed the Manufacturing All in One technical solution for integrating with external systems. Applied Waterfall and Agile implementation models.

×    Project required 6000 development hours and an 8 member team of onsite and offshore consultants.

×    Developed staff augmentation plan, Master Data conversion, and Systems Integration plans.

×    Designed SAP system landscape and advised the client on the best implementation strategies.

§  Introduced and successfully delivered 100% offshore development and delivery process for Itelligence.

Project Manager                                                        

§  Planned and implemented the SAP High Tech All in One solution for 34 global company codes. Major components were ECCS, Consolidation, Collection Management & Electronic Bank Statements.

§  Managed a 12 member implementation team and 6 core client team members.

§  Gathered requirements for systems integration of PRPC and SAP, Scoping, Resource selection and Augmentation.

§  Developed Staffing Plan, Master Data conversion, SAP and PRPC Systems Integration planning.

§  Implemented country specific finance requirements with a big bang approach.

§  Designed a scalable, viable Integration solution for the PRPC and SAP Integration using PI.

§  Managed SAP system with external hosting partners, designed the maintenance strategy for all environments pre/post go-live.

§  Presented monthly project status to the Steering Committee.

Project Manager                                                        

§  Led the requirements gathering, scoping, blue printing, Implementation, Testing, Training and quality inspection strategies for an SAP ASAP project.

×    Managed a distributed onsite, offshore and near shore team member for the implementation.

×    Developed the project blue print with team for implementing Finance & Controlling, Flexible Real Estate, Sales & Distribution, Material Management, Production Planning and technical solutions

×    Designed the Integration of SAP ECC with Compris POS system, Café online tools. Designed the Stress test, regression test plans and developed the cutover plan.

§  Conducted monthly steering committee meetings and educated Venture Capitalists management team on SAP implementation.

§  Introduced Interactive Adobe forms built on Netweaver Platform for usage in the Cafes.

Technical Project Team Lead                                    

§  Lead the technical upgrade from SAP 4.7c to ECC 5.0 for FI, FM, PM, MM, HR and IS- Utilities.

×    Implemented the upgrade with 3 developers and one basis consultant.

×    Identified changes and best solution for customer objects: Reports, Interfaces, User Exits, Sap Scripts and Dictionary objects for Unicode conversion. Understood functionality and implemented changes for the IS-Utilities.

Technical Lead   Implemented ECC 5.0 for FI, SD, MM, PP and QM modules. Designed and implemented technical solution using offshore and offsite team.

Technical & Onsite Lead: US – AAA (Maintenance), Monsanto (Maintenance), Hewlett-Packard (Implementation & Maintenance)Senior Developer: Malaysia – British American Tobacco (Maintenance), New Zealand  –  Deloitte Consulting (Maintenance) Project Lead , ABAP Consultant, QA Analyst: India  – QNI, Apple Vacations, Elpida Memories, Westinghouse Electric, Agfa, Block Drugs, Simon & Schuster for development and maintenance of various objects for Data integration and exchange, Smarforms and Sapscript, BAPI’s , Data Dictionary objects, Reports and Idocs.

Education: Masters, Computer Applications, India, 1997