SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of extensive consulting experience in drawing up Business/System Requirements Study, Oracle Applications Solution Design, Scoping, Map - Gap Analysis, Prototype Demos, Implementation Roll-Out Plan Documents, Functional Specifications, Setups, Guiding UAT Testing, Conducting Training Workshops, Support and Migration.
• Over 5 Years of experience in Project, Team and Resource Management along with Creating and Maintaining Project Schedules, Preparing and Presenting Project Briefings to Executives.
• Successfully deployed 6 Full Life Cycle implementations and several additional short turnaround critical .
• Managed or Lead a team of number of resources (company, client and third-party resources.
• Performed in several roles including that of Financials Track Lead, Solution Architect, SME, Project Management, Project lead, Release Management Production Support Management managing teams.
• Strong hands-on-knowledge in GL, AP, AR, FA, CM and Accounting to Financial Reports(A2FR) and Fair knowledge in Order to Cash(O2C) and Procure to Pay ( P2P) in Oracle E-Business Suite (11.5.10 & R12) implementing.
• Engagement Domain expertise within the several industries
• Excellent Business and Technology problem solving skills with hands-on competencies to trouble shoot complex business, architectural, process and accounting issues that are topmost level.
• Proficient in Oracle’s AIM, OBF and OUM methodology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• R12 Upgrade, Business Process Reengineering/Redesign Workshops, Business Requirement Mapping/Transformation, Solution Architecture, Module Design & Build, Prototype Building, Requirements Management, Project Management, Client Management, Business Development, Data Conversions/Data Migrations, Interfaces, Oracle Applications configuration, System Testing and post go-live support.
• Oracle Apps e-Business suite Modules (11.5.10.2, R12.2.X)
• Oracle General Ledger (GL)
• Budget Execution (BEM)
• Financial Accounting Hub (FAH)
• Sub-ledger Accounting (SLA)
• Adv. Global Intercompany System (AGIS)
• Oracle Payables & Payments (AP)
• Oracle Receivables & Payments (AR)
• Fusion AR, Adv. Collections & Cash Mgmt.
• Oracle Fixed Assets (FA)
• Oracle Cash Management (CE)
• Oracle Time and Labor (OTL)
• Systems Administration
• Oracle AIM and OUM Methodology
• Pre-Sales & Demos
• Business Process Reengineering
• Fit/Gap Analysis
• Application Set-up
• Application Testing
• Defect Prevention & Tracking
• Project Management
• End User Training
• Data Conversion
• My Oracle Support (Metal ink)
• Data load
• Microsoft Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Management:

• Engaged in Project Lead and Functional Lead in the areas of EBS R12 implementations and upgrades in several industries
• Took the dual role of Lead and Project Manager in any given task.

Service Management:

• Involved in Application Architecture, Design, Development, Transition and Process for Oracle EBS implementations, Support, Upgrade, and other integrations

Client Relationship Management:

• Developing relationships with key decision-makers in client organizations for better understanding and analysis of requirements
• Interfacing with the clients for consulting on the most viable services & cultivating relations with them for securing repeated business
• Developing a harmonious yet professional relationship with the internal client to better manage Onsite Offshore structure of the teams, as required

Team Management:

• Coordinating with different cross functional teams for effectively achieving project and business targets
• Contributing to training, learning and development process for the employees across the organization
• Performed as a Project Manager and in leadership roles throughout

Functional Consulting:

• Involved in the requirement collation, analysis, design, configuration, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of functional aspects of Oracle finance, P2P, O2C, Real Estate, and Public sector Financials
• Designed strategic custom design documents to better adapt the product to the client requirements
• Provided application maintenance, enhancement and data separation support to the client with regard to the software application.
• Created Functional documentation during different phases of the Project Life cycle to achieve process excellence and identify re-usable components to reduce cycle time and costs for similar development in future

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dayton. OH

Oracle Finance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Assessment of complete project
• Existing Business study and evaluation
• Business process study for new locations implementation
• Business process study for UPGRADE
• Documentation of Each and every communication to identify Gaps and its fix.
• Third party integration study.
• Continuous communication with all related users
• Workshops and training planning
• Prioritizing Pre and post upgrade related documentation and applicable configurations
• Providing Opinions and observation based on communication with the existing users.
• Blue print preparation for the below

Confidential, Troy, MI

Project Lead and Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supporting Complete EBS-R/12 Financials on Daily Basis. Separating each and every issue into one of the 4 levels (Sev 1,2,3 and 4)
• Support for existing process, major changes and modifications based on issues raised by Business
• Guiding DBAs to Refresh Production into several Test Instances to reproduce issues to help Users and Oracle More effectively.
• Support of Configuration for new requirements
• Support of complete incident process
• Support of Approval Hierarchies for any new development or approved changes
• Continues Communication with Oracle to get the solution for BUGS and data corruption
• Helping Business to complete Period Close process as this is one of the crucial process of any support
• Manage client communication for any major changes

Confidential

Applications/Tools: Oracle EBS Financials (GL, AP, AR, CM, FA, Advance Collections)

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Finance Lead in Upgrade from Oracle EBS 11i to R12.2.4
• Gathered functional requirements and created Gap Analysis
• Testing of Finance Modules completely and Issue log based on the testing
• Leading complete Oracle Finance Modules
• Conducting Pre-Upgrade activities for the right Upgrade
• Conducting Post upgrade activities for the right Upgrade
• Post upgrade Performance Test and enhancement
• Contributed in the redesign/rewrite of PO Workflow approval customizations
• CEMLI Analysis to review any Custom or Other process health check
• Configuration for the missing for the requirement for the post Upgrade
• Fitment Analysis to make sure that Upgrade testing is successful
• Requirement Analysis for the purpose of new concepts introduction for any major changes
• Involved in Training of various user groups on the new functionality and process changes from 11i to R12
• Weekly status and daily status report to client on any development or other process
• Upgrade Testing of Oracle 11i to R12.2.4 completely
• Analysis of Changes between 11i and R12
• Configuration of the missing Functions based on Upgrade (Oracle Payment Process Profiles)
• Design new Oracle Payment Methods post upgrade
• Design Oracle Payments Process request templates as required
• Configured functional setups, migrated and validated data
• End user Training on Upgraded R12.2.4
• Successful Gone Live with R12 upgrade per the project plan
• Successfully Completed SIT, SIT2 and SIT 3 (UAT)

Confidential

Applications/Tools: Oracle Financials, FA, CM, and Advance Collections

Responsibilities:

• Leading of finance Modules for Implementation and CRPs until Golive
• Able to drive Project until Succesfull Golive
• Lead configuration management, Design, CRPs, UAT and Golive
• Project Plan Review with PMOs on regular basis
• Solution Architecture as per the Client Requirement
• Requirement analysis based on the discussions of the client
• Complete analysis of Client Business process and recommend improvements
• Rice analysis for the missing standard process
• Created Summary Reports by using Financial Statement Generator (FSG) to meet the needs of the Management.
• Solution Design based on the discussion with the clients for the missing and required process
• Fitment Analysis based on the client requirement
• Conduct CRPs and UAT

Confidential

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Complete Real estate implementation requirements gathering, gap analysis
• Process design and sign - off
• Support test Instance creation for CRP1 and CRP2
• Create test scripts and lead testing of complete Application
• UAT and sign off
• Go live process

Confidential

Principal Consultant, Cleveland, OH

Responsibilities:

• Complete Requirement gathering of Business process of Sherwin Williams, integrating two different entities (Hospital and University)
• Preparation of Requirement Documents and Sign off for the further process
• Followed AIM Methodology and documentation
• Solution Design and Fitment Analysis
• Conducted SIT1 and SIT2
• Delivered training on Procure-to-Pay, P-to-A, O-to-C and ATR
• UAT Support
• GO-LIVE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Finance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead CRPs during the Upgrade from 11i to R12.1.3
• Document 11i to R12 changes and lead training sessions to go over changes in R12
• Fit/gap analysis and identified ways to eliminate customizations in R12 as much as possible
• Document configuration and process changes
• Lead testing cycles
• Record existing functionality and its performance
• Testing of R12 process before upgrade to Application level
• Prepare test cases and lead testing in R12
• Conduct UAT
• Support Go live activities, support 3 month end close cycles

Confidential, Austin, TX

Project Business Analyst and Finance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead change requests, and liaison to technical team for customizations and reports
• Change History management of functional changes in the report(s)
• Provide functional requirements and translate requirements with technical team
• Documentation of MD50s and prepare test scripts, and execute testing

Confidential

Functional Consultant, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering of complete Fixed Assets implementation at Rambus Chip Technologies
• Completion of Requirement Process and sign - off
• Communicate with IT and DBAs for instance creation
• Configurations and testing of application
• Recording Issues and new requirements
• Gap Analysis and solution design
• UAT and sign off
• Go live process, support two month-end closes

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understand business requirements as documented in BR100s
• Create test cases, participate in CRPs to test all Business scenarios
• Support business to show period close process
• Other cross functional support
• Complete CRPs and other application related support