PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• A dynamic IT professional with over 15 years of rich experience in Strategic Planning, IT Project Management and Business Process Reengineering
• Extensive experience in Project planning including defining scope, developing work breakdown structure, schedule development, network diagram, cost estimation and budgeting, risk planning, etc.
• Experienced in communicating to all levels of the business community including business users and senior management
• Adept in Client Relations and Negotiations, communications, employee training and development and general management, etc.
• Highly skilled business analyst with proven skills in requirements gathering from business team, understanding key drivers, suggesting industry best practices to achieve business objectives and converting business requirements to functional and technical design documents.
• Experienced in pre-sales with skills for problem definition, solution identification, scope definition, project estimation as well as presenting solution and proof of concept to customer
• Adept at managing complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for both development and implementation projects with onsite and offshore teams; experienced in managing multiple concurrent projects
• In depth knowledge in Financial Accounting, Sales Order Management, Sales Accounting and Management, Production Planning, Purchasing, Inventory, Shares Issue and Management, Telecom Billing & OSS, Government, etc. domains.
• Highly experienced in PMI project management framework and Oracle AIM processes; Experienced in Six Sigma and CMM processes.
• Holds Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from Project Management Institute (PMI)
• An Oracle EBS Project Manager with many success stories of implementing and/or upgrading Oracle ERP
• Project Management of Oracle Apps Sales and Distribution, Supply Chain and Financial modules, upgrading Oracle Apps from previous versions to Oracle EBS 11i.
• Highly experienced in defining entity structures and entity interactions; defining chart of accounts; inter-company accounting; define and setup GL, AR, AP, etc
• Experienced in Oracle Order Management including Assessment of Business Requirements, Customer Management, Order Management, Pricing, Scheduling, ATO/CTO, Pick Release, Shipping, RMA, Drop Shipment, etc; Accounts Receivable including Credit Management, Invoicing, Auto-invoice, Prepayments, Collections Management, Cash Applications, etc; Purchasing including Supplier Master, POs, Blanket PO, Requisitions, Approval Hierarchies, Receiving Process, Internal Requisition, Internal Sales Order, iProcurement, etc; Inventory including Item Master, Serial and Batch Control, Inventory Transactions, ATP, Scheduling, Intercompany processing, etc
• Management of Customer Care, Billing, OSS and Data Migration projects of the Customer Care Billing and Mediation System for one of the largest Telecom operator of the Middle East.
• Managing Development, rollout and data migration project of an integrated business system for one of the leading Housing Mortgage Bank.
• Managing custom development of many small to large software applications including Sample Management System, Statistical System, Fishing License and Information System, HR Payroll system, Taxpayers’ Registration, Billing, Share Accounting, Shares Issue Management, Production Scheduling, HR & Payroll, Inventory, Purchasing, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Title: Confidential,Oracle EBS Integration
Client: Confidential,San Jose, CA, USA
Role: Lead Consultant
Duration Apr’09 Onwards

Confidential, is a Governance, Risk and Compliance System being developed by NForcePro, a startup organization.

George’s primary responsibility is to design and manage Oracle EBS integration with NForcePro. Designed and completed the integration of Oracle EBS Financial and SCM modules to NForcePro. Also the responsibilities include onsite – offshore team coordination and managing functional testing.

Project Title: Oracle Order Management Implementation
Client: Confidential,San Jose, CA, USA
Role: Project Manager
Team Size 9 Onsite, 6 Offshore
Duration Feb’08 – Feb’09

The project consisted of global implementation of Order to Cash and Quote to Cash solutions for all type of sales orders including direct, partner and consignment orders, etc using Oracle ERP 11i Order Management, Pricing, Inter-Company Accounting, Accounts Receivable and Advanced Collection modules; design and development of interfaces to integrate Oracle ERP to third party legacy systems like i1 Planning, WebRMA, Prochannel, Ingres, Kewill (Export Compliance), Sabrix (Tax), Data Warehouse, etc; data migration of quotes and sales orders from legacy system to Oracle ERP. The project followed Oracle AIM methodology.

Another major part of the project was implementation of financial modules (GL, AR, AP, CM, etc) for new entities.

Primary responsibilities included defining scope, developing work breakdown (WBS), schedule development, risk management, etc and executing and controlling the project to meet all objectives including scope, time and cost; project communication across all levels of the business community including senior managers; identification of gap and suggesting solutions based on best practices; onsite and offshore team management and assignment of work to team members; review of requirements, design and test documents; review of functional and technical design documents of customization; planning and managing CRP; planning, executing and managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT); production support including bug identification and resolution; etc

Secondary responsibilities included Program management for OM, PLM, WMS, Sabrix and Kewill implementations as well as managing internal developments handled by the client IT team.

Project Title: Implementation of Oracle Apps Financials and SCM
Details: Client: Confidential,Duration: Apr’06-Oct’07; Team Size: 5
Role: Project Manager and Functional Lead

This was a fresh implementation of Oracle ERP 11i to migrate the client from legacy systems to Oracle EBS. The system addressed financials (GL, AR, AP, CM), Order to Cash and Quote to Cash (OM, Pricing, WSH, AR), Procure to Pay (PO, Receiving, AP), Inventory (INV and Costing) and Advance Collections. Achieving a full data migration from legacy system to Oracle ERP was one of the major success factors of the project. The project methodology adopted was Oracle AIM.

Primary responsibilities included project plan development including scope definition, generate WBS, Schedule development, Risk planning, team management, communicating to project team as well as business community including management, etc; lead business consulting; identification of gaps and suggesting solutions; directing and controlling the project to ensure adherence to project plan; review and approval of requirements and design documents (RD50, MD50, MD70 and TA documents); planning and managing CRP; planning, conducting and managing UAT; bugs management and resolution; managing production support; reporting project progress to client management and the weekly review meeting; Lead consulting; etc.

Project Title: Implementation of Oracle Apps Sales and Distribution Modules
Details: Client: Confidential,Duration: Mar’05-Mar’06; Team Size: 4
Role: Project Manager and Lead Consultant

The projects involved upgrading of existing Oracle ERP from 11.0.3 to 11.5.10 (11i); study business requirements; design and implement the best solution for ‘Order to Cash’ and ‘Procure to Pay’ business requirements of the client. The modules implemented were Oracle OM, Pricing, WSH (Shipping), AR, PO, Receiving, INV, Costing, Advance Collection, etc. The project also included data migration of orders, inventory and purchasing data from legacy system to Oracle ERP. Custom add-on to address client mobile supply chain requirement was achieved using third party solution providers.

Primary responsibilities included lead consulting; scope, time and cost planning; risk management including risk planning and risk identification; project team management including third party solution providers; planning and managing CRP and UAT; bugs management; planning and implementing cutover; managing production support; etc.

Project Title: Oracle ERP Reengineering
Details: Client: Confidential,Duration: Jul’04-Feb’05; Team Size: 3
Role Lead Consultant & Project Manager

Confidential,is a joint venture between Sultanate of Oman and India. The client had been using Oracle EBS for some time. The project consisted of reengineering the implementation to meet best practices as well as to address changed business scenario. The modules involved were Oracle GL, AR, AP, CM, OM, Pricing, Shipping, PO, Receiving, INV, Costing, etc.

Primary responsibilities included business consulting; review of existing implementation; identification of reengineering requirements; scoping and estimation of the project; project planning; team management; lead consulting; solution presentation; CRP; UAT; managing production support; etc

SKILL SET
Applications: Oracle Apps, Oracle RDBMS, Oracle D2K, PL/SQL, Designer 2K, Sybase, S-Designer, PowerBuilder, Toad, Arbor/BP, Arbor/OM, Victory/OSS, Doc1, etc
Packages: MS Projects, MS EPM, MS Office, MS Visio, etc

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Bachelor of Science (BSc)

Professional Enhancements (Programs / Certifications)

• Certificate in Programming from Thiagarajar College of Engineering
• Certificate in ‘C’ from Computer Society of India
• Java Programming from Kashyap Radiant Systems
• ISO 900 Lead Assessor from QAI
• PMI Certificate Preparation from QMI