SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished and dynamic professional with US top 10 MBA; experienced in project management and consulting roles with strong background in Manufacturing and IT industry.
• Demonstrated Success in developing relationship with Senior Executives and providing solutions to their business problems.
• Program manager with 8 years of experience in Project management, SQL, SAP (Materials Management, Warehouse Management, ABAP, Sales & Distribution, SOLMAN)
• Successfully implemented large scale SAP projects, inventory optimization and supplier negotiations while working with cross functional teams.
• Experience in on boarding and ramping up of new resources into the team to maximize level of productivity
• Understands complex business processes quickly and revamped process at global level
• Adept at managing diverse, multi - cultural teams spread across geographies; Demonstrated success in leading and mentoring cross-functional teams in multi-facility environment
• Managed development of initiation, scope, requirements documents,functional specifications, test documents, user and system documentation, processworkflows, and implementation plans, Business Process Reengineering
• Good understanding of Waterfall and Agile software development methodology
• Develop Business Cases, Appropriation Requests, Cost-Benefit Analyses and ScopeChange Requests associated with different projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLS: Visio ASPE MS Excel MS Project MS PowerPoint Share point SAP SQL ABAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supported the medium term (8-36 months) capacity planning for Confidential ’s Datacenters worldwide
• Improved the process for data transfer between upstream and downstream teams through development of automatic tools and interfaces
• Created reports in excel (pivot tables & v-lookups) from data mined through SQL queries for Senior leadership to take strategic decisions for long term growth
• Developed optimization plan for Datacenters through Space, Power, Network & Cooling constraints; assisted cross functional interactions for server & rack deployment
• Managed the timeline and budget of technical team for new developments and enhancements
• Organize meetings and prepare presentations for Cycle Over Cycle Changes(COC) for executives

Confidential, Marshall, MI

Program manager

Responsibilities:

• Led process improvement initiative for new products launch; Standardized and created global process flow map resulted in accelerating time to market by 34%
• Initiated 3 Kaizen events in USA, Germany and India to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in engineering process and achieved annual savings of $1.72M
• Devised project planning and scheduling tool to avoid resource and time constraints
• Created and standardized new global process flow maps for Applications engineering team to adhere to APQP automotive product quality planning standards by Coordinating engineers across 5 countries (USA, Germany, China, India, Brazil)
• Developed metrics dashboard with 7 leading and 2 lagging KPIs to better plan and execute projects in scheduled time; received exceptional performance ($2500) from CEO
• Prepared plan for change leaders to achieve smoother transition into new process
• Resolved inventory discrepancies and improved parts availability to reduce cycle time for product launch

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Business Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conceived and designed anti-counterfeit program using Point of Sale (POS) information that recovered 8% of lost sales; Recognized by Confidential SPOT (< 1% employees receive)
• Supported SAP Materials Management module for an agro-chemical client ( Confidential ) resolved system issues in Procure To Pay (PTP)
• Redefined negotiation of work unit estimates process with clients through standardization thus removed redundancies and improved customer satisfaction
• Modified the process involved in requirements gathering phase through early involvement of technical teams to reduce interaction wait times
• Resolved issues for clients in the areas of purchase requisitions, inter-company purchase order, goods receipt, invoice processing, invoice verification and settlement, sub-contracting process, inventory management and warehouse management
• Analyzed functional gaps and provide tailor made solution to map supply chain process to SAP
• Created business requirement specifications for client (Harley Davidson) to integrate procurement tool (ARIBA) with SAP and streamlined procurement, Goods movement, logistics and other supply chain functions process
• Standardized onboarding process for new joiners in SAP consulting team with creation of effective plan and mentorship
• Managed Creation of Project proposals(RFP), SOW, Project Charter, Budgeting, Resource Onboarding, Metrics derivation, Project Margin, Project Mid Term Health Check report, Project Closure Presentation and Exit Summary reports.

Confidential

Project manager - SAP

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated cross-functional interactions among 8 teams from 15 countries to maintain proper functioning of website; Received Band A (Top 5% performer )
• Managed vendors for indirect procurement and reduced spending by 40% through vendor collaboration and contract negotiation
• Trained purchasing team for efficient control of material flows and stock keeping
• Configured procurement, MRP, inventory management, Stock Transfer Order STO in SAP
• Persuaded employees to volunteer for disaster management and safety by conducting campaigns & road shows, resulting in addition of 80 new volunteers
• Conducted knowledge transfers and end user for Business; Mentored 3 new joiners

Confidential

Associate Consultant - SAP

Responsibilities:

• Execution of data migration plan using LSMW for Confidential to accurately transfer of data from legacy systems into SAP
• Provided end to end implementation support through creation of Workflows, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms (WRICEF)
• Extended Level 2 & 3 support through configuration, unit testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing (UAT) on projects and change requests (ChaRM)
• Managed system requirements, deadlines and priorities by acting as direct liaison between business and other SAP teams; Developed project scope documents and blueprints

Confidential

Student Consultant/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the possibilities of combining ABC and VED Classifications resulting in 65% of total expenditure controlled through 25% of items; established EOQ for new model
• Designed logistics network for freight forwarding of complete knock down CKD units and achieved savings through consolidation, container optimization and network planning