Candidates About

              Yogendra Chechi                       

Yogendra is an experienced IT Professional with 20 years of Overall Experience which includes Application Development and Maintenance Projects, Upgrade, Solution Design, Project & Program Management, Transition & Transformation, P&L Management, Bid management, Solution Architect, and Sales

 

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

 

• Twenty Years of working experience that scans through Sales, Consulting, Delivery and Presales. He has a deep business understanding, and abreast with emerging trends in Application Services and Market dynamics
• He is an experienced Solution Architect who has expertise in Solutioning-Program execution, delivery operations and financial models, IT services leadership, packaged Apps development, Project Management Professional (PMP), Business Development, Opportunity identification, contracting, portfolio assessment, ROI justification, Cost/Benefit Analysis, P&L, and Outsourcing
• Yogendra’s IT managerial duties and responsibilities have included working with project schedules, project budgets, project delivery, timelines, resources, risk assessment, issue management, stakeholders communication etc
• Positively impacted account profitability through effective resource utilisation, implementing cost reduction strategies, periodic reviews, etc. Successfully led the turnaround of engagements from negative GP% to positive.
• Experience with all project stages including Pre-Sales, Solution Design, Staffing Effort Estimates & Bids and Proposals, Budgeting and Contracting
• Excellent communication Skills, strong trouble shooting, problem solving and analytical skills
• Specialized in handling sensitive cultural issues with project teams from different countries through his experience of working across geographies in multicultural environment (France, UK, Germany), US, Middle East, APAC] on client facing assignments
• He has a bid management experience of large and complex deals
• Exposure to global delivery methodology in large multisite engagements involving extensive interaction with customers. Ability to inspire & take challenging decisions
• Pronounced track record of Managing Transition of Projects & Processes from Client Site to Offshore
• Facilitated Process Improvement Initiatives at the Client End that helped maximise business value and return on IT investments, reduced costs and augmented productivity
• Defining, measuring and reporting SLA/SLO’s, Utilisation, Call Volume trend analysis and service improvement measures through Weekly / Monthly / Quarterly Reviews
• He has Sound understanding of Quality Processes and ITIL framework. Well-versed with ITSM and ITIL guidelines. Ability to initiate, plan, and execute large SI programs. Has seamlessly executed end-to-end IT Programs; including Program Governance / PMO / Risk Management, Vendor Management, Stakeholders Management
• Instrumental in setting up ‘SAP Upgrade Factory’ in HP
• SAP Trainer in HP- Recognised for my contribution towards providing SAP trainings
• Exposure to SAP NetWeaver technology trained in SCEM, Solution Manager, eSOA, SAP CRM, FI-CA Dispute management, SAP PI and IS AUTO. ITSM Process consulting and CMMi.
• Internal auditor in HP for more than 4 years

 

 

Work EXPERIENCE

 

Capgemini America, Inc.                                                                                                                              May’2011 – date

 

Account: Sales Enablement Team                                                                                            Service: Application Services

Period: July’13 to date                                                                                                  Role: Managing Solution Architect

 

Sales Enablement team The Sales Enablement team is responsible to drive industry and market differentiating solutions across organization practices to achieve sales booking of over $1.6B/year

 

Responsibilities:

·         Responsible for target sales bookings of over $60M/year

·         Conceptualize and program manage the solution design and facilitates integration of services across Applications, Infrastructure, and Business Processes

·         Articulate deal strategy and value proposition to C-level executives

·         Develop high level financial and business case models to assess technologies and assist in prioritization of the application landscape Participating in Senior Management Reviews with Capgemini Leadership team

·         Manage the cross functional resources to develop the solution (Solution Architects) and overall end-to-end architecture of the Capgemini solution

·         Review and approve messaging for proposal responses that represent compelling value propositions to customers and differentiate Capgemini from competitors. Understanding and communicating key differentiators in an architectural solution for customer and compared to anticipated competitor solutions, and translating how technical architecture components create an overall business solution and value to the customer 

·         Maintaining a current knowledge of the technology industry and IT marketplace and determining the impact of emerging policy, infrastructure and/or applications software on new and existing solutions

·         Apply the strong solution design experience, business expertise, and commercial acumen to develop leading solutions across Regional and global clients

·         Collaborate with the Client Partner or Sales Lead to shape and sell the deal and therefore increase the buyer confidence

·         Develop and manage key internal/external relationships across sphere of influence, including collaborations where no organizational relationship existed previously

·         Establish and expands relationships at the Director/Senior Executive level

·         Performance evaluation of reportees and advise them with regards to career plan and training plans; 

·         Analyze skills requirements, verify openings and prepare for deploying resources to engagements in consultation with the engagement director

 

Achievements:

·         Developed IT operational and financial solution guidelines building on labor arbitrage levers with industrialized delivery and continuous improvement that enables productivity of 40-50% over the term of the partnership and was responsible for approving delivery and financial models in the formal sales review process

·         Responsible for developing the application management service offering introducing integrated build/run, SaaS, portfolio rationalization and other transformational offers

 

Account: Warner Bros Entertainment Inc

 

Period: Sept’11-July’13                                                                                                                 Role: Sr. Project Manager

Team Size: 14                                                                                                                                   

 

This is one of the leading media and entertainment company with over 90 years in service. The role was to support various project in the home entertainment division and provide service delivery management for the globally distributed team.

 

Responsibilities

·         Oversee distributed production support team for AP/AR and OCM home entertainment applications

·         Project Management of all deliverables as per the Project Plan, scoping, status reporting of project reports in formal briefing

·         Meeting with Key Client stakeholders to report progress and sort outstanding issues

·         Defining Test Strategy

·         Create and maintain process workflow to support business plans

·         Oversee team capacity and allocate team resources to meet project milestones

·         Actively monitor project risks and scope creep to foresee/identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions to address them in advance

·         Apply continuous improvement to promote efficiency across the teams

 

Achievements:

·         All projects completed on schedule and within budget, and showcased as model projects in WB internal publications. The projects generated an estimated business savings of over $3M/year.

·         Continuous improvement initiatives resulted in the productivity of over 30% by leveraging cost saving levers in an onshore/offshore model

 

 

Account: Gulfmark Offshore                                     

Period: May’11-Sept’11

Team Size: 24                                                                                                                                    Role: Account Manager

 

This is a leading transportation provider to upstream Oil and Gas industry. Its been in business for over 28 years with operations across three geographies. They have diverse set of applications primarily on SAP. The role was primarily for program management and account management working directly with the C level executives

 

Key responsibilities:

·         Client relationship management, building and maintaining strong client relationships, participating in client review meetings regarding performance to ensure client satisfaction

·         Financial Management, actively manage financial performance to meet financial objectives; ensuring planned profit margins are achieved

·         Identify opportunities and develop new business

·         Forecast and track account metrics

·         Manage issues escalations and client requests

·         Collaborate with sales, CoEs and practice teams to identify and grow opportunities within the sector

 

 

Account: Premier Foods                                              

Period: Dec’10-Apr’11

Team Size: 22                                                                                                                                    Role: Service Delivery Manager

 

This was an Application Management project that included services from onshore, near-shore and offshore model. The scope of services included supporting the entire IT landscape including third party applications

 

Key responsibilities:

·         Manage the entire end to end delivery of the project including SAP Application Management, SAP BASIS Support, Operations and monitoring, rollout outs and projects.

·         Team management activities for a team dispersed in multiple geographies

·         Manage SAP production and non production environment that included modules like SAP SD, MM, PP, PM, FICO, PI and also BI, CRM and SCM application

·         Participate in strategic and operational meetings with the customer

·         Support in setting up the incident, problem, change and release management processes.

·         Managed the transition of services in onshore and offshore mode.

·         Participate in the due diligence activity.

·         Conduct training sessions and mentor team members

 

Account: Central AM Solution team                                       

Period: Dec’08-Nov’10

Team Size: 8                                                                                                                                       Role: Solution Manager

 

This team was responsible to solution AM deals across the globe. My prime role was to bring thought leadership in providing innovative solution and outcome-based pricing model. I was also responsible to oversee and mentor team of solution architects

 

Key responsibilities:

·         Provide thought leadership for complex and large deals

·         Optimum utilization of resources including right mix of resources, and to ensure right skills for each solution.

·         Handle multiple teams across service line for complex deals

·         Ensuring that team regularly submit weekly Time sheets/ expenses, and timely approval of the same.

·         Ensure that OTACE is periodically done to measure client satisfaction and improvements needed in specific areas.

·         Provide induction sessions as applicable to new members to align with the organization’s way of doing things and also mentor new members to be more effective.

·         Formal/ informal contribution to the team by conducting knowledge sharing sessions.

 

 

Hewlett Packard                                                                                                                                              Apr’2003-Nov’2008

 

Period: Apr’07 to Nov’08                                                                                                              Role: SAP Solution Architect     

 

Scope: Solutioning and sales support that involved checking the functional compliance, migration strategy, hardware sizing, implementation plan, resource planning, risk/mitigation strategies and enterprise solution architecture for the large SAP deals. Setting up upgrade factory

 

Key Responsibilities:

·         Participate in SAP Upgrade assessment workshop

·         Scope study- ‘As Is’ technical environment and ‘To Be’ environment

·         Work on SAP upgrade assessment tool

·         Inventory, analysis and address custom development and modifications

·         Prepare SAP upgrade strategy and alternative solutions (CU & UC etc.)

·         Participate in orals as SAP Solution architect for the end to implementation involving SAP modules FICO, HRMS, CRM, Analytical CRM.

·         Working extensively on solutioning for mySAP CRM, FICO, Treasury, HCM for the enterprise architecture design and deployment

·         Study and proposal for the BPR lead implementation. The study involved visiting the key users and client offices across various locations in the country and to come up with the BPR strategy and solution implementation methodology.

                                                                                   

Hewlett Packard, UK (Scotland)               

 

Project: SAP Support Project -iGSO (Integrated Global Supply Operations) for Hewlett Packard, UK

Period: Mar’06 to Apr’07                                                                                                              Role: SAP Project Lead

 

Scope: This was an onsite assignment, which involved deputation to Scotland (U.K.) from Mar’06 to Aprr’07 for supporting SAP 4.6C Support Project (R/3 SD/ MM, BW/ APO Support) from onsite.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Managed smooth transition of the project by interacting closely with business users and gathered an understanding of business process.
• Working closely with the business to resolve any production related issues and creating specification of enhancements and testing
• Manage N-Reg testing and releases on an ongoing basis.
• Working with multiple teams including SAP BASIS for optimal performance of jobs in the network.
• Assist business on Reporting using the SAP query tool set that includes Quick View and ABAP query.
• Release management: Manage transports on fast-tracks for Release to Production for setting up routes and global customer master data set up.                                                              

 

 

Project: SAP Support Project -iGSO (Integrated Global Supply Operations) for Hewlett Packard, UK

Period: Apr’03 to Mar’06                                                                                                              Role: SAP Consultant

Team Size: 7                                                                                                                       Modules: SD, MM, WM, BW, APO                 

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Provided end to end support for the project.
• Set up processes and ensured compliance with ITSM standards.
• Handled Inventory reconciliation between SAP R/3 and other third party systems.
• Put forth suggestions for process improvements, which involved execution of root cause analysis to identify problems in the process.
• Engaged in the training and development of offshore team members.

 

Education

 

Masters program in Business Administration (Marketing) – 1998

Bachelor’s in Science (Bio Physics- Hons) - 1995

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES

• PMI Certified Project Management Professional
• ITIL V3 certified
• Internal Auditor’s Training
• SAP Solution Manager
• SAP Lifecycle services
• SAP EC-EM
• Leadership in Project Management
• Project Financials
• Autonomics and Machine learning
• MS Project.

 

PERSONAL DOSSIER

Current Address                                       :               Los Angeles, California