OVERVIEW

• Recruited, Trained and Managed and developed effective and collaborative communication with large team members, Business Unit heads and Business Partners many members for various projects
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills, Risk mitigation, innovative and problem solving skills.
• Highly proficient in MS Office software Project, PowerPoint, Excel, outlook, Visio, Word etc.
• Strong experience in handling large teams and projects, add on jobs, change orders, conflict resolution, negotiation skills as well as customer empathy, Issue and Risk management.
• Sound Project and Program Management and Leadership Skills. Developed Project Plans using appropriate methodology and well versed with ASAP, Rapid Path methodologies and tasks in each phase including change management. End-to-end responsible .
• Strong experience in handling large teams and projects, add on jobs, change orders, conflict resolution, negotiation skills as well as customer empathy, Issue and Risk management.
• Well versed with MS Project, Macroscope and Project Portfolio Management PPM Tool , SAP PS, Rapid Path methodologies as well as software life cycles likewaterfall, iterative, Agile, etc.
• Analyzed OSS Notes determined applicability helped w/testing, managed transport management in R/3 landscape assisted with R/3 security authorization implementation.
• Managed in different projects Technical/Business Analysts, Technical Architect and DB Administrators and operators,
• Experienced in implementation of number of ERP related products including SAPBI, PORTAL, ETL and Reporting tools namely Business Objects, Xcelsius, Share Point, Oracle, SAP PI,Hyperion, OBIIE, Qlikview, Sterna, IBM Web Sphere, ESB etc.
• Experienced business analyst with strengths include collaboration with key stakeholders and Global Process Owners to ensure all requirements for decisions supports are actually captured and effective solutions designed, delivered in Onsite / Offshore model
• Solid Contract Management, Business case preparations and managing relationship at CXO level including overseeing relationships with team members, on-site consultants, partners, companies, third parties, and clients to define, develop and deploy technology solutions
• Worked directly with business leaders in business development to sell, and lead an integrated SAP strategy and influence opinions regarding applications/usage.
• Extensive knowledge in Global implementations and upgrades SAP applications as a SME in the Consumer Goods Products, Retail, Semiconductors,Pharmaceuticals, and Technology industres including Public Sectors using ASAP methodology, Rapid path , ITS methods.
• Manged a project for a full blown Total Cost Of Productivity TCO for all procurement instead of limiting to spare parts. Detailed application of SCM principles.
• Over 18 years of SAP BI application, Architect role, delivery, sales experience in ECC FI/CO/SD/MM/PP/SCM-APO/ HR, CRM, BI, BOBJ,BPC,PS modules and creation of SAP Roadmap for Global implementations.
• Total 27 years of experience in both Management and IT Consulting, Practice/ Program/Project Management, Architect Sales Delivery experience RFI and RFP evaluation , Pre-sales support in ECC, SAP R/3, Business Intelligence BI applications, DatawareHouse DW and IT Strategy, Assessment and Trasformation
• Worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Gartner Group Inc Associate Director , Deloitte Consulting , Fujitsu Consulting SAP Associate Practice Director and Public Sector enterprises.

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

• Job involves maintain clients partnership , evaluate, implement SAP, BI and BOBJ including Developing TASD Technical Architecture and Systems Design Strategy, Roadmaps, Planning, and Starting of Competency Centers to meet company objectives and Business needs. Presently handling five clients which include
• a. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand the value of key business data and define, develop, and document policies and business rules for analytics and operational reporting.
• b. Lead Business Intelligence projects by translating business questions and problems into proper Strategy, Roadmap, Architectural review, structured analysis, reports and tools.
• c. Monitor and expand Data Marts, Business Intelligence applications, and related Software systems as needed.
• d. Experience in Database, Data Architecture, Data Management, Analytics and/or Business Intelligence with progressive management experience.

Confidential

• Presently working as Director ERP systems for a fortune 100 Global Enterprise with over 18 billion revenue, 320,000 employees, presence in 91 countries and 19 SAP global instances
• Job involves ddevelopment of non-traditional approaches to problem-solving develops and recommends standards, procedures and policies recommends the system architecture and technical approach in the development, enhancement, and maintenance of current and new systems and applications analyzes user needs and develops effective solutions to complex technical deficiencies
• Some of the projects handling are ECC 6.0 upgrade, Maximo integration to SAP for facilities management and Integration of Food Operating system. Also included special ledgers implementation in addition to conventional AP/AR, PCA, CCA, and GL.
• Evaluate technologies and determines strengths and weaknesses of technology architecture, implementation and suitability implements solutions to ensure consistency with the company vision. Some projects on hand are implementation of Data Archiving, PI and also BI
• Implementing SAP ERP best practices, SAP architecture and administration in SAP ECC, HCM, FI, CO, MM, PS, BI/BW, Business Objects
• In addition overseeing relationships with team members, on-site consultants, partners, companies, third parties, and clients to define, develop and deploy technology solutions is another responsibility
• ECC 6.0 SAP BW 7.0, BOBJ, Share Point, Oracle 11.0, Arc View 10.0, Catertrac, Maximo, OBIIE, Hyperion, Brio, Ariba, Tax ware, ESB etc.

Confidential

Role Sr. SAP Program Manager PMO

Responsibilities

• Manage the PMO office and coordinate all activities of all Project Managers.
• Managed a major program using exclusively SAP PS system for state projects prioritization
• Lead multiple SAP and Non-SAP projects from start to finish. Managed the projects which included SAP BI Data Integration, CRM, HR, SAP Portal.
• New modules of SAP namely GRANTS, INSURANCE, and SAP Collection and Disbursement.
• Completed projects utilizing SAP product suite for Applications Based Solution. First unit in North America to implement Grantor Management and SAP claims management- Finance Insurance
• Manage accountability in Capacity Utilization of resources in BSIP SAP Division of NCDOT , PPM tool and SAP Project Systems .
• Oversee Steering Committee meetings and Joint Action Demo JAD sessions.
• Scrutinize all documentation needed for Project gates including Initiation, Planning and Design, Execution and Build, Implementation, Closeout phases Workflow Process for Projects
• Concurrently manage over 60 team members and multiple projects
• Review weekly/monthly reports for the steering committee, clients, business officers, and team members and review peers project reports.
• Develop staffing plans, project charters, budget benefit estimate worksheets, technical architecture system designs, risks, schedules, analysis, cost tracking, closeout, lessons learned, and other forms.
• Review/Prepare Project Plans, Communication Plans, Change Management Plans, Configuration Plans, Test Plans, Acceptance Plans, Quality Assurance Plans, Statement of Work SOW , Work Breakdown Structures WBS , Deployment/Rollout Plans, Risk Management Plans, Procurement Plans, Operation and Maintenance Plans, Business Continuity Plans, Disaster Recovery Plans
• Author of many RFPs Request for Proposal and IFBs Information for Bid .
• Ensure that the projects remained within budget, on schedule, meet target milestones, and exceeded client deliverables.
• ECC 6.0 SAP BW 7.0, BOBJ, Xecelius, Share Point, GIS, Oracle, CRM, Main Frame, Oracle 11.0, Arc View 10.0

Confidential

• At this client started as an Engagement Manager for one of their internal projects but found that the scope was very limited to give good savings. After considerable discussions with stake holders, executive committee members, sold the idea of extending the project for a full blown Total Cost Of Productivity for all procurement instead of limiting to spare parts. Sold and delivered the project as a turn key for over 3.6 million with a resulting saving of over 10 million.
• Assisted with the development and enhancement of the Business Intelligence Strategy for the company. Focused on upgrade project from BW3.5 to BI7.0, improving the quality of data and information to improve the business decisions and meet regulatory requirements. Analyzed and communicated reporting issues. Work with other members of the BI team to deliver potential solutions.
• The primary objective of this project was to create a reporting and decision support solution using SAP's Business Warehouse with data from SAP R3's and flat files from legacy systems of Total Cost of Productivity for the companies Manufactured and Purchased Finished Goods, Parts for all regions supportable and scalable in the computing environment.
• SAP BW 7.0, SAP R/3 4.7 FICO , SEM, APO 4.10 , CRM, Teradata, Main Frame and ECC5, EP6

Confidential

• Levaraged work experienced in Semiconductor unit as profit center head to identify Key Process Indicator's KPI. Then detailed of all Key Process Indicator's from strategy and operations point of view in all functional areas, produced clearly written, well-organized document for decision-making and problem solving. The project started as a pilot project and extended to regular 4 phases project of total value over 10 million.
• Aligned definitions of all Key Performance Indicators to company goals.
• Conducted high level requirement gathering interviews and workshops with senior executives and identified deficiencies in current software system.
• Designed and developed technical architectural solution for upgrade project and selected the vendor
• Managed generation of reports using Business objects universal tool, BEX, Web query development and Crystal reports from Sap BW, SAP R/3 for presentable Dash Boards, Balance score cards etc.
• SAP BW 7.0, SEM, APO 4.10 , CRM, Business objects 6.5, crystal reports and ECC5, EP6

Confidential

• Guided the team for Sizing, Process Chains and Performance Tuning tohandle 11 Terabytes data
• Managed documentation of process flows of current and proposed business functionality through Use Cases, gathered functional and technical business process and software application requirements.
• Interfaced with managers, end-users and IT professionals to gather and communicate system requirements including requirement analysis.
• Implemented upgradation of SAP including additional BW, CRM, APO Modules.
• Worked as an Integration Manager for BI team. The team consisted of 27 members from Deloitte, SAP and client Formulated BW high-level solution strategy. Provided leadership and management for a multi-disciplinary data warehouse development team on large complex projects in a matrixes environment and collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to ensure scaleable and integrated enterprise data warehouse architecture for upgrade project and total implementation.
• This was a simultaneous SAP upgrade and SAP BW reports for CRM,APO and FI/CO AP/AR, PCA . The total project was getting delayed because of SAP BW bad initial scoping. Client was unhappy with the BW project and reviewed the same as committee member. Took up the challenge as a SAP BW Integration manager and turned it into a successful project satisfying the client. Initially revised the project scope and added resources by getting approval for change order of 1.6Million. This project was presented as a success story in the last SAPHIRE convention.
• SAP BW 3.1, SAP R/3 4.7, APO, CRM, SEM and Portals. Methodology used is ASAP

Confidential

• As President of operations led a large team in support of 30 million in annual revenue and developed and managed the implementation of a scalable planning infrastructure that was instrumental in enabling the company's revenue towards 50 growth per year. Other responsibilities included overseeing industry supply chains, product and test engineering, quality assurance, and production control.
• As Vice President of IT formulated a high-level IT solution strategy. Provided leadership and management for a multi-disciplinary Application, Data Warehouse development team on large complex projects in a matrixed environment and collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to ensure scaleable and integrated enterprise data warehouse architecture and applications.
• SAP BW 3.0B, SAP R/3 4.0 B, SEM, CRM, Hyperion.and Crystal Reports.

Confidential

Assessed the IT Environment, organization, and modeled architectures for the business, thereby creating a strategy to reduce IT cost by studying feaibility of implementation of SAP and SAP BW. This included In-depth study of company's existing IT practices including evaluation of different existing and other software packages as well as hardware. The Services included help business owners and executives develop and manage a business technology strategy to achieve business goals.

OTHER PROJECTS

• Assessed the IT Environment, organization, and modeled architectures for the business, thereby creating a strategy to reduce IT cost for a Fortune 500 company. It included developing business plans, building customer and partner relationships. Actively participated in outreach activities such as conferences and professional societies.
• This included a high-level technical due diligence study on Enterprise Hospitality Solution for a large client in the West that included Architecture and Technical Infrastructure, Application Development Methodology, and an assessment of the Application Development Organization.
• Conducted a gap analysis for a large pulp and paper company by reviewing their technical capability hardware, software, networks and data centers and competencies that resulted in a technical and Ebusiness strategy. Resulted in eliminating many duplications cost reduction and prioritization of internal projects to meet business goals.

Confidential

Experience

• Reliance Cybertech P Ltd., Hyderabad.India - Manager ERP 3 years
• Vista Pharmaceuticals Limited, Hyderabad. India - Chief Executive Officer
• NCL-Pennar Papers Ltd., Hyderabad, India - Chief Executive Officer
• Sree Rayalaseema Paper Mills Ltd. Kurnool, India - General Manager Production and Process
• Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Ltd., Rajahmundry, India - Deputy Superintendent Quality Control, Technical Services, Industrial Engineering and Warehouse
• National Productivity Council of India, New Delhi, India - Dy. Director Sr Management Consultant

SKILLS COURSES:

• LO 550 - SAP R/3 MM Configuration, LO350 WM, PWC Institute - Business Workflow, Rapid Path ASAP , ABAP4, VB5.0, SAP TBW 310, BOBJ, SAP TBW 320, SAP TBW 330, CRM , SAP PS
• Principles of Supply Chain Management, Project Management, MINTRO