SUMMARY:

• Oracle ERP Functional Consultant, Consulting Project/Program Manager with 21 years of total IT experience with multiple Applications projects implementation experience in the fields of Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Retail, Consumer Products, Healthcare (Pharmaceutical), CRO, Finance and Information Technology. Professional strengths include Oracle EBS Financials, Distribution and Supply Chain Manufacturing, Project Planning, Service Delivery planning and execution, Scoping, Communications Management, Schedule Management, Risk & Issue Management, Financial Management, Staffing Management, Procurement Management and high - Performance team building.
• Hands-on, trained on various ERP modules. Recently trained on Oracle Procurement Cloud from Oracle University and currently preparing for Oracle cloud .
• Most recent projects include managing an Oracle Cloud Procurement integration and implementation for communication industry customer and a business transformation program Confidential healthcare company consist of multiple projects to implement and multi-geography rollout of Order to Cash process in on-premise Oracle R12 environment for ASC606 compliance. Leadership and management:
• Skilled in pre-sales activities that are responding RFx and leading solution presentation.
• Ability to deliver high-quality results with attention to details. Excellent Analytical skills and ability to work efficiently in a multi-tasked environment.
• Advise the executive and higher management regarding application trends, opportunities, investments, and risks; assist in gathering requirements including ROI information to evaluate projects.
• Worked on implementation of business processes such as Quote to Cash, Order to Cash, Acquire to Retire and Procure to Pay.
• Demonstrated Industry domain expertise primarily in Telecommunication, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Financial and State Government Business.
• Oracle Cloud-based and managed service environment project experience.
• End to end Oracle EBS project Cutover planning (Business and Technical)
• Expert in release management and planning that includes enterprise-wide release calendar for significant release and point releases in between

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLS: Oracle EBS R12 Modules: AP, AR, INV, OM, BOM, WIP, ASCP Oracle Fusion Modules:Oracle Procurement Cloud. Development/Productivity Tools: Oracle * SQL, Oracle * PL/SQL, Java, JDeveloper, XML Publisher and TOAD Middleware Understanding & Exposure: Oracle Fusion, Oracle AIA and SOA Frame Work Operating Systems: Solaris, UNIX and Windows XP Business Intelligence: DataMart, Data Warehouse, OBIEE and Business Objects BIG DATA Exposure: Hadoop, HDFS, PIG and Hive Infrastructure Literacy: Real Application Cluster Architecture. Data Guard, SAN, MAA (Maximum Availability), HA (High Availability) Infrastructure upgrade for Sun Solaris 10 and Oracle 10g

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Lead / Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the questionnaire for RFP inputs.
• Analysed RFP responses from vendors that include big five consulting companies
• Conduct Demos with Oracle, SAP Ariba and other vendors bidding for a cloud solution.
• Worked with sourcing manager to evaluate RFP responses and open items from solutioning sessions.
• Communicated risk, issues and another critical project status to the steering committee and stakeholders.
• Provided functional and technical inputs on solution as required as on required for decision making.
• Completed initial Cloud test instance setup and provided initial setup data from Oracle EBS to SI for common setups that includes Org hierarchy, Bus, Item Categories, Purchasing Categories, HR foundational data and Supplier master data.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Oracle EBS 12 Order to Cash Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Manage Pilot phase (Parallel to production) of the project
• Cutover planning development for business cutover and technical cutover.
• Follow Oracle AIM methodology in the agile development process.
• Over ownership of the overall O2C program for delivery, planning, and scheduling.
• Manage 2 Project managers team and make sure project is on track.
• Manage project team consists of 50 consultants + plus FTEs consist of BAs, Developers, and DBAs.
• Be a project SPOC for business stakeholders, steering committee.
• Manage and drive the other projects deliverables concerning impacting the pilot.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Oracle EBS Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manage System integrators team.
• Cutover plan development for business cutover and technical cutover.
• Follow Oracle AIM methodology in waterfall development process.
• Over ownership of the overall FIS Big Bang program for delivery, planning, and scheduling.
• Manage 2 Project managers team and make sure project is on track.
• Managed project team consist of 25 consultants + plus Confidential employees consist of BAs, Developers, and DBAs.
• Be SPOC for business stakeholders, steering committee and the CFO of Confidential .
• Manage and drive the ETL and EDW projects deliverables concerning the project

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Oracle Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Cutover plan development that includes business cutover and technical cutover.
• Followed Oracle OUM methodology in the hybrid agile development process.
• BSS project was to implement Oracle communication’s Rapid Offer Design and Order Delivery (RODOD) solution which includes Oracle applications tech stack Oracle E-business suite ERP, Oracle Communications Billing and revenue management (BRM), Application Integration Architecture (AIA), Order and Service Management (OSM) and OMC (Online/Offline Medication Controller).
• A managed project using the Oracle Fusion SOA suite to integrate BRM with Oracle Customer and Product Hub the cloud-based applications
• Successfully managed two Subprojects using Oracle’s OUM methodology
• Responsible for managing project PnL and multimillion-dollar labor plus expenses budget for team 10+ Oracle Consultants.
• Demonstrated functional and technical expertise by successful setup, initial planning and conducting WaR rooms for Dataware house UAT and multiple projects critical bill-compare cycles activities between customer’s legacy system and BRM.
• B2B Project successfully went live in mid of October 2016 followed by B2C went live in November.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Oracle EBS Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Schedule and manage project tasks assigned to vendor resources from Confidential, Tech Mahindra and Accenture on ITops.
• Plan release iterations in the hybrid agile environment. Work closely with Verizon functional managers, Solution Architects and conduct JAD/JAR sessions with IT and Business teams to review use cases collect the business requirements with respects to enhancements proposed by business for upcoming iteration.
• Also responsible for driving the critical effort to establish ITOps post-production process for post-launch in mid of April 2015. It includes facilitating meetings and resolving issues around the process gaps by working with business and ITOps personnel. It was consists of the Manual process in Oracle EBS and Oracle’s Siebel CRM as well as technology system processes.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Oracle EBS Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As overall Rochester and PD cutover manager during Oracle R12 rollout project was responsible for meeting and as required travel to GE sites with business users across functional areas such as Finance, Sourcing, Manufacturing and Commercial to facilitate building overall end to end BUSINESS cutover, make data conversion strategies and Release plan. That includes an approach for Item, BOM and routing conversion.
• Sourcing cutover including Open PO conversion, Sales Order Conversion.
• The cutover plan includes Tasks to load Open POS, Physical inventory count, and other data conversion activities.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Cloud Integration Lead

Responsibilities:

• Completed fit-gap analysis effort for multiple (54) state government agencies HCM integrations.
• Planned and drafted a cloud integration strategy for legacy systems.
• Managed HCM integration expectations across different state clients from various agencies.
• Also provided needed coaching and manage DoIT (Department of IT) Jr. The technical team on the ground for data conversion activities.
• Provided a pivotal support for all integrations questions or decisions.

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Sr. Oracle EBS Supply Chain Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed and completed project to upgrade Oracle 11i to R12 Upgrade (Financial modules tech stack).
• Successfully planned, managed and completed Infrastructure upgrade, UNIX to Linux migration, Golden Gate Implementation and Oracle 11g Database and Informatica platform upgrade effort for Confidential &T’s Order Track application.
• Successfully Managed and completed project to DSL Onboarding project enhancements to improve and automate Reverse Logistics accounting process for DSL equipment returns in Oracle R12 environment,
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage 4-5 projects concurrently with a budget ranging from 400K to just above 700K USD.
• As part of project estimation process Managed rice (Report, Interface, Customization, and Extension) identification and development for O2C, P2P and Financial tracks in a highly cross-functional team environment.
• Managed integration of customized modules and related conversions, workflow, and reports.
• Oracle fusion middleware was used to interface with applications outside of Confidential &Ts ERP blueprint that includes interfaces to POS and other external applications such as OTM (Oracle Transportation Management)

Confidential, Pleasanton CA

Oracle Retail Supply Chain Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• During my tenure with Infogain, I was successfully managed Retail program with two parallel rapid ORPOS implementations and upgrade projects with a budget in the range of 500K- USD 1 million.
• Prepared Project Scope, Solution Design and Architecture, Project Roadmap, Business Case, and High-Level Project Plan for V.P. Information Technology and Manager PMO.
• Significantly contributed in pre-sales activities to kick off new POS software distribution management projects Confidential Home Depot. Worked closely with Infogain’s Architects and CTO for finalizing the ORPOS upgrade requirements before project Kick-off.
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage multiple project teams remotely in Infogain’s Offshore Development Center.

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Oracle Supply Chain Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Confidential &T-Dobson cellular merger (M&A) integration from Day beat to post FCC approval that includes planning of integration Dobson stores with Confidential &T supply chain and converting 200million dollar worth assets into Oracle ERP.
• Actively participated in discussing an approach to come-up with detail WBS Development tasks and timelines within following ITUP milestones for overall program and also helped in establishing delivery management process.
• I carefully worked closely with IBM nearshore team based in Mexico and offshore India.
• Ensured that projects development phases (in programs) are adequately planned to ensure success and mitigate risks. Infused in the Confidential &T’s Project development Framework (ITUP) of Initiation, Planning, Execution & Control, Closure is an element of Quality (defined by the customer or sponsor and stakeholders).
• Maintained not only for updated project schedules and budget of approx. $5 MN; but also be looking for evidence that the sponsor is by running weekly status meetings, Risks are identified and mitigated, avoided, transferred or accepted.

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Oracle Supply Chain Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Concurrently manage and successfully executed multiple (Seven) medium to large size projects budget up to four million dollars.
• Acted as a liaison between Business & IT. Conducted BP080 design / JAD sessions for essential and critical business process implementation, development, and enhancements in and around Oracle E-Business Suite and Supply Chain ERP footprint.
• Worked with project business sponsors, C-level stakeholders and facilitate Project Charter development and seek approvals for formal Kickoff Project.
• Worked with various functional and development managers for RiCE identification and LOE, ROM estimations for each project.

Confidential, Cherry Hills NJ

Oracle EBS Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Oracle EBS project objective was to consolidate 11.0.3 and 11.5.8 EBS Instances and upgrade with some additional modules implementations such as Service Contracts and iStore. Here are some of the key s during this project are:

Confidential, Detroit MI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Contributed as Project manager on a project which objective was to implement Oracle EBS 11.5.10 to enable Oracle Configurator engine in support of Vehicle incentive Management system build on custom build J2EE framework. Key s:

Confidential s, San Jose CA

Cash Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Confidential s worked on project Objective was to implement large Quote to Cash Everest Release - Oracle EBS re-Implementation.

Confidential, Denver CO

Onsite Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an onsite project lead by working on a project which objective was to Oracle11i upgrade and implementation of new modules. Prasad’s key s during the project are but not limited to:

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on assignment to a multiyear Wipro’s strategic partner project contract with Confidential that includes sustainment support, enhancements and global implementation (Latin and US).
• Projects consist of Oracle Financials, Customer Rollouts from legacy to Oracle Account Receivables, Account Receivables Consolidations and Prod Support.

Project System Environment: Oracle11i Release 11.0.3, Oracle EBS 10.7and Legacy.