Candidates About

             

             Sri G. Bodige, MBA                                                                                   

SUMMARY

Senior IT Leader offering 6+ years of success leading all phases of diverse and complex technology projects in addition to functional and technical roles. Business strategist with demonstrated experience planning, managing and implementing global SAP projects aligning business goals and objectives with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains. Acts as liaison between business users and technical team to deliver quality solutions to the end user.

 

LEADERSHIP

 

Ø  Unique ability to quickly grasp the big picture, identify key issues and articulate integration solution options to solve business challenges

Ø  Offshore and on-shore team management to support 24/7 projects

Ø  Motivating and focusing teams of up to 39 professionals on project deadlines and milestones while maintaining high quality delivery within time and budget

Ø  Passion to create enterprise value through application of practical and standard technology solutions

Ø  Full spectrum of business success-driven Integration Technology Strategy, System Analysis

Ø  Drives end-to-end solutions that verifiably create significant and measurable long term enterprise value

 

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

 

Ø  Architecture, SDLC Design & Development, POC’s, Build, Project Execution, Testing, Troubleshooting and Long-Term Operational Support in delivering SAP implementations/ integrations

Ø  Expert in Supply Chain Integration of Business Processes for Sales and Distribution, Materials Management, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables, Production Planning, Warehouse Management, Transportation and Logistics Execution and Human Resources

Ø  Effectively manages ECC and Integration System Builds, Upgrades & Major/Minor Releases – End-to-end SDLC, Project Scoping, System Integration Architecture, POC’s, translating business requirements into Technical Plus Functional Designs & Specifications, Development & Build, Unit/Integration/QA/Performance Testing, Data Migration, System Cut-Over's & Go Live's

Ø  Strong experience in System/Solution Redesigns, Performance tuning, Queue processing, Load and volume testing of SAP Business applications and interfaces

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

 

SAP: ECC SD, MM, FI/CO, PS, LE, HCM, BI, CRM, XI/PI/PO, ABAP, HANA, HCI, Success factors, ARIBA

SAP Integration: Vistex, Vertex, Taxware, B2B Integration

EDI Integration: SEEBURGER, Conversion Agent, GENTRAN, Mercator, Harbinger,

SAAS: CLOUD Integration, Workday, SAP HANA,

Project Management:  Agile, Waterfall, MS Access, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project

Operating Systems:  UNIX, Linux, HP

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

IBS Incorporated                                                                                                             2015 - Present

IT Leader

 

Part of the technology leadership team with responsibilities for providing guidance and support to every team within the organization with direct support for development teams. 

 

·         Responsible for team processes, especially around roadmap and planning, providing the team clarity around long term goals and vision while allowing the larger organization visibility on progress. 

·         Successfully bringing teams together to meet common goals aligning with company goals

·         Reorganized the Cloud Services team to allow for the creation of an internal software 
development team responsible for self-service tools and services to empower teams and avoid development bottlenecks. 

·         Strategize, Architect, Define, manage solution ad validate various projects including EDI, Cloud and interface related projects

·         Managed simultaneous projects supporting multiple deliverables, as per priorities.

·         Significantly increased customer confidence in the Cloud Services team's ability to deliver 
solutions to business challenges on schedule while exceeding their expectations. 

·         Implemented new platform automation across the entirety of the organization in order to drive a Cloud implementation. 

·         Responsible for technology evaluation and selection, capacity planning, disaster recovery 
planning, and problem resolution. 

·         Designed and deployed a globally replicated infrastructure that removed the need for disaster 
recovery infrastructure and allowed players to move effortlessly to neighboring regions without downtime as a result of regional infrastructure failure. 

·         Actively worked with all development teams within the organization to help shape both the application as well as their use of the infrastructure for optimal performance and reliability. 

·         Responsible in implementation of supply chain system with third party vendor technology

·         Built an analytics team capable of analyzing product metrics both at large scale as well as in real-time. 

·         Responsible for the management and negotiation of all infrastructure contracts, forecasts, and budgets.

 

Hewlett Packard(HP)                                                                                                                   2010 – 2015

Sr. IT Manager/Director

Global SAP Manager for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Responsible to delivery and support various SAP systems and Workday Cloud.

 

·         Managed system Delivery and support across multiple SAP system implementations including Global Enterprise, North America Enterprise, SMP Germany. 

·         Lead various A2A, B2B and B2C projects dealing with business partners

·         Managed teams dealing integrations with various third party interfaces, EDI and E-commerce

·         Extensive knowledge in EDI Architecture designing and implementing

·         Lead projects with on budget and on target meeting SLAs

·         Mentored the existing team in order to overcome new challenges and recruited new talent 
required to meet organizational needs. 

·         Broke down team "silos" allowing members of the team to be able to provide support and guidance across teams in the organization while allowing opportunities for members of the team to move into roles which best met their long-term career goals. 

·         Managed teams of 8 to 39 resources on-site in USA and offshore from multiple countries such as, Canada, Germany, India, Costa Rica, Manila, Brazil etc.

·         Managed Design, test and implementation of SAP Barcode label project for plants in North America and Brazil.

·         Lead Planning, design, test and implementation of multiple SAP Integration projects

·         Lead team of issue resolution for SAP ECC, PI/PO and 3rd party EDI system.

·         Managed, Design, test and implementation SAP Finance project for HP Separation. Worked with vendors from Germany to strategize the plan and implementation of the successful separation.

·         Provided issue resolution and training for SAP HCM and SCM Canada Health Care system. 

·         Managed system support across multiple SAP systems including Global Enterprise, North America Enterprise, Germany, Mexico and Europe. 

·         Provided service to users and resolved tickets using Remedy and other systems. 

·         Planned, tested and implemented SAP EHSM and SAP HCM upgrade project system for North America. 

·         Communicated with users across business regarding process changes, project updates, testing etc. 

·         Reviewed and approved all system change requests for multiple systems using an SAP Solution Manager based system. 

·         Managed multiple HR IT projects: HCM/Payroll integration project, and an HCM upgrade project.

·         Managed Business warehouse projects including reporting and analytics.

·         Established and led weekly Operations Meeting, Monthly Governance Board Meeting, and SAP CoE Change Control Meeting engaging technology and business partners. 

·         Partnered with business teams and offshore development team to meet cross-functional business requirements for SAP BW/Hana Data Warehouse platform. 

·         Established an Agile culture across the development, testing, and IT operations teams to improve operational performance for the project go-lives. 

·         Directed SAP Application Engineering Design Team that managed 160+ legacy system integrations, system enhancements, and data conversions for project implementations. 

·         Collaborated and partnered with a cross-functional team to manage the SAP/Ariba Procure to Pay & Source to Contract indirect sourcing for Target Stores.

·         Led post project hyper-care to run state support model by partnering with business and support teams. 

 

 

Grainger Inc., Chicago, IL                                                                                                     2003 – 2010

SAP R/3 Techno/Functional Lead

 

·         Responsible in implementation of B2B Integrations between multiple systems

·         Responsible in implementation of Vistex, Vertex and Taxware integrations with SAP

·         Lead team to implement SAP and EDI integration project to support E-Business

·         Co-ordinated teams Purchase to Pay, Order to Cash and Finance for process integration.

·         Led End-to-End implementation of SOA, webservices using process integration and Hybris.

·         Implemented Hybris (e-commerce platform) integration with PI for REST and SOAP webservices

·         Day to day interaction with Business users and partners  

·         Configuration of Sales and Distribution functions including pricing, taxware, vertex and vistex

·         Responsible to implement ABAP, JAVA and Mobile applications

·         Involved in Implementation of SAP and Tandata interface using tuxedo for label tracking

·         Responsible to implement CRM pilot project which interfaces Customer master data and Customer contacts data from SAP R/3..

·         Designed and Developed EDI transactions in Gentran

·         Manage SAP NWA traces and logs on day to day activity

·         Designed and Developed EDI transactions 810,812,814,816,820,830,850,856,864,875,880,214,944,945,946,947 and 997 etc,.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

 

Libby Owens Ford (Pilkington) Group Inc., Toledo, OH                                    Feb 2002 – Jan 2003

SAP R/3 Techno/Functional business consultant

 

·         Configuration Custom aftermarket Sales document types, Delivery type, Picking, Packing, Goods issues, Pricing Procedures, Pricing Conditions, Access Sequences, Condition Records, Output procedures, output types, and access sequences for output types.

·         Configuration of Shipping documents, shipping points, ATP, batch split availability. Creation of new material types and customers. Configuration shipping documents based on forecast and JIT.

·         Configuration of Partner profiles, ports and EDI messages.  Design and Developed EDI transactions 830,862,850,856,864 etc.  In Harbinger TLE.

·         Configuration of pricing procedures for EDI Orders and regular Sales orders.

 

Advance Transformer Inc. Chicago IL                                                                  Oct 2001 – Jan 2002

SAP R/3 Sr. Interface Consultant

 

·         Configuration of EDI partner profile and ports for the customers and vendors to effect new changes in the Intercompany billing.

·         Configuration of Partner Function, Copy control, Customer master and Material Master.

·         Developed various inbound and outbound EDI transactions using Gentran.

·         Involved in code development, code review and performance enhancement activities.

·         EDI Production Support: EDI configuration, EDI code enhancements and EDI testing.

·         Design and analyze data in IDOC segments.

·         Configuration of Partner profiles, ports and edit messages for SD, MM and FI transactions.

                                     

Visteon, Detroit, MI                                                                                                 Mar 2001 – Oct 2001

SAP R/3 SAP Interface Consultant

 

·         Integration with MM and FICO and Coordination with ABAP AND EDI technical team for resolution of day-to-day problems on both break-fix and enhancement.

·         Used ASNI.X12 Standards 3010 to 4010 for 810,820,830,850,855,856,860 and 997 maps to implement in Gentran.

·         Involved in configuration of Purchase Order (EDI Transaction 850), Inbound Sales Order (EDI Transaction 850), Order Acknowledgment (EDI Transaction 855), Advance Shipment Notice (EDI Transaction 856), Order Change (EDI Transaction 860) and Invoice (EDI Transaction 810).

                          

Shell Chemicals, Houston, TX                                                                               Nov 2000 – Mar 2001

SAP R/3 SD Consultant

 

·         Configuration and reengineering efforts in order management and pricing portions of SD. Advising in the configure-to-order development process. Availability and transfer of requirements, returns, and shipping. Assisting in all other aspects of SD and FI.

·         Assisted in purchasing, warehouse and inventory management configuration in MM. Configured Sales Organizations, Distribution channels, Divisions, Shipping points, Loading points, Plants and Purchase Organizations.

 

GATX, Chicago, IL                                                                                                 Feb 2000 – Nov 2000

SAP R/3 SAP Interface Consultant

 

·         Interface between SAP and Mileage System deals with mileage orders and yearly equalization mileage orders.

·         SAP and RMCs (Railcar Maintenance Control System), an AS/400 system which deals mainly with intercompany. This Interface communicates with service centers and creates material return orders, material ad-on orders and material issue orders in SAP.

·         SAP receives orders from mileage system and sends invoices to the customers via EDI.

·         Supported various production problems in SAP and Harbinger. Changed the existing system based on the requirements.

·         Used ASNI.X12 Standards 3010, 4010 for invoice 810), 3020 for Rail Carhire settlement (414), Customized Mileage Map (500) for application to application and 073 map.

 

Moore Business Forms, Chicago, IL.                                                                  Nov 1997 – Sep 1998

SAP R/3 Consultant

·         Provided application development, configuration, support, maintenance, enhancements and integration of EDI with SAP R/3 including Sales & Distribution, Material Management for EDI receipt of orders, order confirmation, shipment notice etc.

·         Created partner profiles, ports, Inbound/Outbound parameters and several custom Function modules, and user exits for EDI/ALE processing. Had Created workflow for inbound and outbound error notifications.

·         Configuration of Order related billing documents, delivery related billing documents, and standard invoices, collective invoices, invoice splitting etc.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Master’s in Business Administration

Masters in Computers