Education

• Master of Science in Management Information Systems
  (Few subjects -Accounting, Operations Mgmt., Corporate info. Planning, Information Security,
  Business Corporate Strategy, Project management, Marketing, Data Mining etc.)
• Bachelors in Electronics Engineering

Professional Certifications

• Sun Certified Java Professional (SCJP)
• Microsoft Certified Professional (ASP.net & C#)
• Individual/Group Software processes
• Microsoft Office Excel 2010( Exam 77-882 MOS)*
• ITIL Foundation V3*

Experience Summary

• Masters from one of the Top 15 business schools in United States.
• Hands onexperience with enterprise applications such asSAP ECC, MDM, PI & BOBJ on multiple projects.
• Experience of engaging with C-Level, Vice presidents and Technology advisors.
• Experience of leading people and managing projects on complex and large scale business initiatives
• Able to interact with users and translate business objectives into clear functional and technical requirements.

Integration& BPM Expertise

• Good knowledge of preparing the RFIs/ RFPsand other project documents for Integration Projects.
• Hands on experience with integration solutions using ALE, IDoc, RFC, SAP Business Connector and SAP xMII.
• Skilled with designing with various SAP BPM patterns and workflows and integrating it with SAP MDM and SAP PI.
• Good understanding of SAP ESR for managing Enterprise SOA environment.

MDM Expertise

• Sound understanding of MDM architecture and vital data management processes like import, transformation, maintenance and distributionof master data.
• Hands on experience on MDM components -Import Manager, Data Manager, Console, Syndicator, CLIX, CCMS, Publisher etc.
• Experience of using SRM-MDM for catalog publishing through various APIs on SRM server and Web Application server.
• Experience of working with Java APIs, repository and server administration and configuration.
• Adept in master and referencedata configuration in all SAP systems viz. ECC, CRM, PI and SRM.
• Experience of working with MDM collaborative business scenarios like GDS and implementing GS1GPC standards.

Reporting & BI Expertise

• Proficient with building reports and dashboards with Web intelligence, Crystal and XCelcius.
• Wrote a blog on Web Intelligence that got published by SAP.
• Well versed with Universe design with SAP BOBJ XI 3.0.
• Sound experience of working with Query as a Webservice, Live Office, BOBJ Infoview, CMS etc.

Technical Skills

• Enterprise Information Mgmt.: SAP MDM 5.5/7.1, SAP BOBJ XI 3.0 (Crystal, WebI and Xcelcius), Universe design
• Enterprise Applications Integration: SAP XI 3.0/PI 7.0/PI 7.1, SAP xMII, BPM, SAP BC, WAS.
• Enterprise Resource Planning: SAP ECC, CRM, BW, ABAP/5
• Languages: Java 1.4, C++, C,C#.NET, XML, SOAP, WSDL, XSD.
• Project Systems:SAP PS, Primavera.
• Data Mining: XLMiner, SAS Enterprise Miner 5.1
• Process Historian:Aspen Tech IP 21, OSISoft PI.

Professional Experience

Confidential, Houston, TX, US Aug 2011 - till present
Sr. Analyst-MDM Architect

• Developed the enterprise data definitions and data models ofCustomer, Vendor and Material for the business transformation project by collaborating with various stakeholders for MDM.
• Coordinated with the cross-functional team to manage implementations, transports, various releases of the project.
• Led a team of 7 developers to ensure the technical delivery of Sysco business transformation project.
• Formulated the back up plans, patch upgrade strategies and other tasks like archiving and Un-Archiving of SAP MDM repositories.
• Designed and developed the cutover strategies for vendor, material and customer master data from legacy systemsto a centralized MDM repository and aligned key data across the organization.
• Collaborated with cross-functional team and to design and develop the workflows in SAP BPM for governing the master data creation and maintenance processes across the enterprise.
• Defined matching rules and strategies to identify the redundancies and maintain unique master records in MDM.
• Recommended strategies and overseenthe design for significant master data management related work, such as master data governance, master data integration, master data quality etc.
• Designed the processes for the subscription the nutrition data in MDMand publishing the nutrition information from MDM to the trading partner systems through SAP GDS.
• Managed the reference data for the master data entities across ECC, CRM and MDM systems.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX, US Feb 2010 - Aug 2011
SAP Business Analyst- Project lead

• Led a team of 3 developers and 3 SAP xMII consultants for the implementation of a Global refinery reporting project.
• Interacted with refinery Subject Matter Experts and identified the KPIs in the refining systems for the design of SAP BOBJ dashboards and reports to monitor the unit functioning
• Maintained the capital and operational expenses of the project and quarterly reported the expenses to the senior management.
• Identified refinery systems and designed the data flow to prepare the blue print and application architecture of the project.
• Led and managed the application roll-outs independently at all sites by coordinating effectively with technical team and business users
• Prepared and maintained functional specifications, project charter, test plans, status reports, issue logs and other project documentation to track the project development.
• Managed full project life cycle with end to end project plans, transition to support process definition and milestones across different landscapes as well as identifying and managing dependencies.

Confidential, College Station, TX Aug 2009-Dec 2009
Research Subject, Enterprise data management

• Took a research subject on MDM and studied the concept and related processes in detail.
• Studied roadmap and strategies of various MDM vendors in detail and documented the report as a successful thesis.
• Recommended the strategies for addressing the issues related to Data Profiling, Modeling, Integration and Data Governance

Confidential, San Antonio, TX, US May 2009 - Aug 2009
SAP BOBJ/MDM/PI Consultant

• Interacted with strategic sourcing users of refinery to design and develop dashboards and reports in SAP BOBJ toanalyze the vendor spend of organization.
• Defined strategies and validations in SAP MDM to ensure data quality and data consistency of vendor/supplier master data.
• Documented MDM data standards, validation rules, data dependencies and value mappings for Vendor data and the related processes

Confidential Aug 2008 - April 2009
C#.NET/ SQL developer

• Designed and developed the web forms for student help desk system.
• Designed and modeled the whole database for developing the back end of student help desk system.

Confidential, Mumbai, India Oct 2005 - July 2008
SAP PI/MDM consultant

• Implemented SAP PI in multiple projects to facilitate communication between disparate applications and systems based on the exchange of XML messages.
• Designed and developed interfaces between SAP and external systems utilizing File/FTP, SOAP, HTTP, RFC, JDBC, SOAP and IDoc adapters.
• Interacted with the business users for requirements gathering and designing BPM of Primavera Inspire product to synchronize project elements of SAP Project System and Primavera
• Assisted in pre-sales activities by collaborating with marketing team and preparing responses to RFPs/RFIs for integration projects.
• Implemented SAP MDM for Vendor and Material data domain by consolidating master data for company-wide analysis and accurate reporting.
• Imported the Master data and related attributes in SAP MDM and enriched the data to build a "single version of truth" for Vendor and Material and later published it to all the downstream systems.
• Participated in various MDM activities like data model design and development, planning and developing as well as executing data conversion by Import Manager.
• Defined validations, assignments, workflows and other data processing mechanisms using Data Manager for various domains.
• Implemented SRM-MDM by consolidating catalog data and later deployed intuitive interfaces for publishing Web catalogs on SRM through OCI.
• Led offshore development team to support various onsite PI and MDM projects.
• Created and maintained MDM documentation on data architecture standards, guidelines and best practices.