SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated and established IT Executive, has been working with all workstreams (multi cultured and multi continental) to rollout SAP globally and successfully on - time and budget
• SAP COE establishment and TCO management
• Management of SAP licenses and audits for ERP, EWM and BI on Hana, usage of SLT
• Build projected plans for S4 Hana and Central finance
• 35 years of proven ability of translating business strategy, objectives, future state capabilities into IT roadmaps and requirements, that followed by deployment of advanced and industry oriented complex ERP / systems to meet corporate objects and goals
• More than 23 years of experience of successful global SAP implementations of 20 companies that have presence in different countries - US, Canada, Europe, Mexico, China and Brazil.
• Hands on SAP architect aligned with SAP and industry best practices, manage all aspects of solution, including building of global teams and deployment.
• Partnering with business executives to exceed corporate goals
• Extensive functional knowledge of accounting, supply chain, manufacturing, retail and banking
• Managed full suite of banking information systems of an INDIAN BANK
• Proven track of completing difficult and ambiguous projects in budget and time.
• Worked with Primavera, Enterproj, MS projects

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Strategy Management - Global vision oriented roadmap Strategy
• Process reengineering to reduce operational costs by 50% to meet CIO’s objective
• Usage of margin analysis to close loosing brands - 2 million dollars saving
• Global Interface platform creation - Usage of PI/PO platform implementation
• Management BI on Hana and reduction of BI enterprise edition SAP licensing
• Uniform reporting platform -implementation of SAP among 20 plants
• 24/7 IT support to business - Enablement of outsourced on/offshore teams
• Indian bank MIS and EIS system automation
• Revenue generation - Met revenue generation targets
• Defined Long and short-range IT plans/ budgets
• Identified IT solution drivers with value additions
• Established metrics on SAP usage and performance to identify areas of improvement
• Monitoring SAP licenses and meeting SAP audit requirements
• Established development, testing and release standards to provide a stable environment to business
• Vendor management to obtain better SLAs (both business and IT oriented)
• Establish archiving standards to decrease TCO of the application
• Project/program/organizational management - Responsible for ERP projects and deliverables
• Management of PMO(Project management office)/project managers
• Budget and change management of a program/ projects
• Risk analysis and mitigation of risks for different projects /programs
• Implementations, cutovers, conversions delivery, support and SLA management
• User, leverage satisfaction ratings to adopt corrective measures to improve program adoptability and usability

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Hardware: HP 9000, A17, A10, Micro A, B28, B25, PC, IRIS 80, PDP-11

Operating systems: UNIX, AIX,Windows, MSDOS, MCP, COMS, BTOS.

Languages: ABAP/4, (12,13,14,15), ORACLE, DBASE, FoxBASE, ACCESS, FOCUS, CODEBASIC, Q&E, COBOL, ALGOL, DMALGOL, LDK, LINCLITE, VISUAL BASIC, Crystal Reports, C++, SQL,CrossWorlds, Java.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

ERP Senior Solution Delivery Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Build and Manage SAP center of excellence
• Upgrade of ECC, EWM to latest Confidential / Versions. Migration of new retail / service companies into SAP/ Manhattan.
• Implementation of SAP Finance module/ Asset management and product costing for the acquired Pepboys company
• Management of 10 - 15 million dollar IT yearly budget. Evaluate and report on IT department expenditures
• Establish SAP performance metrices based on business service definitions, monitor and meet SLAS
• SOX compliance management - role planning, derivations and user allocation; usage of security tools for periodically
• Management of offshore and onshore models, selection of vendors for different projects, the contracts
• Maintain and manage SAP contracts
• PMO management
• Build a projected plan for S4 Hana and Central finance. Fully aware of central finance functions. Aware of 1709 and 1809 augmentations.

SAP Senior functional Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Build and manage SAP center of excellence
• IT strategy and Roadmap
• Managed SAP implementations of 30 plants of Brazil, Mexico,China and Europe countries
• China process alignment with SAP best practices before upgrading to latest Confidential .
• Outsource vendor selection, evaluation and management
• Management of offshore and onshore teams.

SAP Solution Architect/Program manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential implementations Confidential 4- 5 - All modules - Technical- classical Gl, New GLs
• Cash managment, AR improveents
• Consolidation of 4 company codes into one - includes GL, Pricing conditions, agerncy commissions, warrenty, service, order fullfilment, prociurement with 7 levels - worflow approvals, Sequencing, new intiatives, new business, revenue recognition,
• Management of SAP implemenation partners/fixed bid vendors,
• Standardization of pricing ( the project brought down 10,000 pricing conditions to 1,000 pricing conditions and adopted global template for pricing)
• Credit purchases, credit controls, AR cash improvement/ reconciliation projects
• SAP with Ariba and sales force ; Paymetric
• Service order, notifications, sales order and service order links - delivery management, Sales boms, configurable materials, sequencing projects
• Management of SAP implementation / augmentation projects for - Navistar,Continental, Superior, Harman.Avaya,Syncreon and many other small firms
• Solution provider - Strategy manager
• Project preparation, SOW generations and approvals
• Archiving strategy and implementation

SAP Program/Strategy Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Management of SAP COE team - Processes globalization, ERP roadmap creation and implementation
• SAP strategic project manager - Submitted IT strategy to food industry to adopt SAP best practices in FICO and Supply chain, forecasting savings of 2 million dollars in operational costs per year.
• SAP conversion project manager for ACH and Panorama projects
• VRAP Archiving project manager - 4.6c.
• PM for SAP Environment Capacity issues
• PM of SAP upgrade project to upgrade to ECC-Landscape design and optimization
• Project Manager of SAP upgrade project to upgrade VRAP system from 4.6C to 4.7
• SAP Solution Architect - After Market environment
• Project Manager for
• Mexican Trading company project
• Tax Compliance project - Finance oriented project
• VDSO Split by product group using PCA to obtain VDSO profitability of Mexican plants.
• Costing project - Reporting of Costing discrepancy with Casual codes.
• Vendor consignment
• HONDA development.
• Consumption reporting (Joint venture) - Broadcast and Sequence JIT
• MIG JV project - Sales and Distribution oriented project
• Establishment of Barcelona (Spain) development center

Program Manager (SAP Solution Architect)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Program Manager of SAP plant implementations - ASAP methodology
• Initiation, Blueprinting, realization, implementation, supporting - Business process mapping and Gaps identification,
• Sizing ; budget, resource and stakeholders management; Executive briefing and project tracking,
• Cost of ownership, High availability, Disaster requirement
• Change management/control - Scope finalization, Requirement gathering, Gap analysis and meeting the gaps through enhancements, Risk analysis, Schedules, Governance of Global templates, Design review boards, requirements
• Archiving strategy project manager
• Managed BI projects and resolved many BI loading problems

SAP Solution Architect/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported SAP implementation at 5 manufacturing facilities.
• Compared and analyzed different SAP installations and suggested improvements
• Procurement process improvements
• Project manager of SCRAP reporting. Addition of scrap functionality to SAP .
• Project manager for Variance analysis

Systems Analyst / Program Manager

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Balance sheet reporting by individual offices treeing into business groups
• Report- writer reports, report-painter reports used for margin analysis

System Analyst (Project Manager)

Confidential, Detroit

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, and implemented customer support application with a PC client using Visual Basic, Oracle, Access, Code Basic, Q&E, Dbase, Crystal Reports.
• This application interfaced to Confidential “A” series mainframe server application based on Confidential and Confidential relational database product DMSII server. Strategized and implemented data archiving.