SUMMARY

Senior Manager with 15 years of experience in leading large global Oracle financials and supply chain application implementation projects. Strong technical, system integration, data warehousing, test management, application development, people, project management, organizational and leadership skills. Led teams through all phases of SDLC at several large Oracle Apps life-cycle implementations. Demonstrated results in building, deploying and execution of projects utilizing the offshore/onshore model.
MBA in Finance & Leadership from NYU Stern School of Business and B.S. (Honors) in Computer Science.

Key Project Highlights at client site:

• Technology architect responsible for successful upgrade of 3 global Oracle R12.x projects.
• Tech PM for 3 R12.x full life cycle implementation and Technical lead responsible for system analysis, design, build and successful roll-out of 5 11i Oracle projects and Oracle Datawarehouse
• Expertise on GL, AP, FA, PA, PO, iprocurement, iexpense, isetup, SLA, FAH, FCH/PFT, AGIS, and OBIEE
• Successfully implemented and managed complex global Oracle projects involving multi-ledger/set of books, multi-currency, multi-lingual, and multi-operating units across US, Canada, Mexico, S. Korea, Japan, China, India, Singapore, Australia and Europe.
• Published white papers on allocation methodology, intercompany solution, localization, upgrade methodology, performance-tuning, application maintenance, and PI/SPI/BSI data protection and encryption methodologies
• Successfully led the POC design for several complex business processes and CEMLIs/RICEW/ETL/OLAP
• Experience with IT audits (SOX), designing and implementing security and controls
• Developed standards around build, application extension, performance testing, conceptual architecture, instance migration, archive/purge, patching and knowledge transition.
• Experience in strategic planning, process management, business re-design, communication, design of functional and technical specification and standard operating procedures (SOP)
• Experience in Oracle AIM/EMM and SMM methodologies. Familiar with Oracle OUM methodology

Key Consulting Highlights:

• Responsible for financial and revenue management
• Responsible for client relationships, issue resolutions, negotiations, and driving new revenue at existing clients
• Responsible for project tracking, status reporting, communication, mentoring, risk management & escalations
• Extensive experience in financial services, insurance, and utilities sector
• Led and assisted in client presentations, orals for several RFPs, RFQs and RFIs
• Audited proposals, SOWs and conducted technical quality reviews and assessment of other projects at IBM.
• Created best practices, harvested knowledge base at IBM. Implemented IT governance to adhere to SOX controls.
• Developed and published a thought leadership white paper on Oracle R12 upgrade internally within the practice.
• Assisted finance community to optimize their organizational design and structure to efficiently and effectively achieve a new vision for Finance; includes BPO and shared services evaluation.
• Led practice building activities including recruiting and formal mentoring/coaching.
• Responsible for asset creation and reuse, both commercialized and internal.
• Led proposal development and pursuit teams across IBM global for Oracle Applications; leading the development efforts that included project economics such as, outlining approach, deliverables, scoping, pricing using various pricing models, contracting, finalizing SOWs, resource deployment, on boarding and launching projects

Experience:

Confidential, NY
Clients Supported: Confidential
Apr’11 to-date Manager, Oracle Apps North America Practice

• Technology project manager leading a team of 50+ onshore/offshore FTEs through all phases of the implementation life cycle of a multi-ledger, multi-operating unit, multi-country complex implementation from
  R11.0.3 to R12.1.3 and database 8.0.6 to 11g
• Strategic advisor and technology lead on OBIEE implementation to decommission their legacy reporting system
• Implemented procedures and process around GOLD configuration and release management
• Developed reporting strategy, instance strategy and cutover strategy for the client
• Responsible for resolving cross-functional technical issues, conflict management, setting directions and technical priorities during project lifecycle. Implemented SOPs and cutover strategy.
• Managed FSG upgrade and upgrade of custom applications

Confidential, New York, NY
Clients Supported: Confidential
2006-Mar’11Senior Managing Consultant, Financial Services practice

• Technology project manager leading a team of 46 FTEs through all phases of the implementation life cycle.
• Improved process & operational efficiency by over 95%, reducing financial close to 6 days from 3 weeks.
• Provided guidance to senior management for service oriented architecture (SOA), business intelligence (BI), grid computing, XBRL, real application clusters (RAC), virtualization, and data encryption.
• Identified $2 million in cost saving opportunities by creating strategy for client to focus on streamlining and optimizing processes, improving efficiency and productivity, reducing errors and consolidating systems.
• Designed key functional processes for the GL user migration project; including outbound and inbound strategies.
• Led an FCH/PFT performance improvement project by simulating forward looking data for 12 months. Presented issues, lessons learned and developed a strategy to mitigate performance risks in the future.
• Strategic advisor on several brainstorming discussions on CEMLI design with client technology architects
• Effectively managed the offshore/onshore technical team promoting team building by providing guidance and motivation through professional vitality
• Led the knowledge transition plan for business process and technical CEMLI walkthrough with Oracle AMS
• Responsible for providing advise and resolution of several SEV1 Oracle SRs (Service Requests) post go-live
• Developed a white paper on partition analysis with recommendation for the FCH/PFT product. The POC resulted in a performance gain close to 70% at client site. Presented this proposal to Oracle development. Oracle is implementing this into their product for future release.
• Designed several key functional designs to resolve complex business processes, such as Journal Approval, User templates, Intercompany Dispute, RBAC, Intercompany Settlement process
• Responsible for review and sign-off on all technical deliverables
• Rapidly analyzed, identified, and corrected several complex business critical problems within the client's environment
• Design of Intercompany/FX solution, a complex customization build at client involving multiple systems and complex logic to derive the correct intercompany with bridge accounting, clearing houses, currency rates, intercompany payables/receivables derivation.

• Recognized as the go-to person at all client engagements and gained visibility at senior management level for resolving complex business issues through technical solutions.
• Designed custom Journal Approval process for GL. This also provides an ability to choose an alternate approver in addition to their default supervisor based on the business day and business group. Designed several complex validations to provide security and standards for a journal batch. Approver has the ability to reassign the batch to an authorized list of users restricted by business logic and roles/responsibilities.
• Designed complex GCS consolidation incremental process to incrementally transfer balances between books
• Designed Incremental Elimination Process to eliminate the entities using multiple hierarchies in the application
• Designed custom process to track run time of concurrent requests with different levels of threshold and completion statuses. Process would send text a beeper or send an email to the appropriate group to take action.
• Designed complex custom process to convert the DFF data captured in AP as DFFs in the GL.
• Designed custom process to convert DFF data into AFF columns between books.

2001-2003 Principal Consultant

• Technical lead for GL and PA modules.
• Responsible for system requirement analysis and study of the existing legacy system.
• Developed work plans, requirement definition and fit gap analysis.
• Designed the chart of accounts for the general ledger set of books. Defined all setups in GL that also included design of Mass Allocations, Recurring Journals, Statistical currencies and FSG' definitions for BS and IS.
• Simplified the process of creation of FSG's and the manual entries of Journals by using GLDI / ADI.
• Provided critical assistance to the client during the roll out and cut-over process, developing operating procedures and tuning processes and redesigning their code to make it more efficient.
• Served as technical expert during upgrade of Oracle application 10.7SC to 11.5.4 for application and database issues. Responsible for identifying bugs and creating TAR (Technical assistance requests) with Oracle to fix bugs in GL, PA, FA and Oracle Plant Accounting (OPA) modules. Presented workarounds to the team to resolve Oracle TARs sooner, even before getting a fix from Oracle.
• Technical advisor to the Essbase budget team in their effort to integrate Essbase with Oracle.

• Developed conversion routines for suppliers, supplier sites, bank data and to load GL historical balances and transactions
• Designed and developed a new module LAAS (Loans and Advances accounting system) in Oracle Applications for client to keep track of the timesheet expense, loans and advances given to employees. Created new DFFs, valuesets and picklists for LAAS.
• Designed and developed interfaces between the subledgers AP, AR and Payroll system (Employee Compensation Detail) and legacy system.
• Developed PL/SQL triggers, procedures, functions and packages for the various interfaces.
• Defined custom zooms and custom forms. Modified the invoice workbench form by adding custom validations in the custom.pll library

Confidential, Boston, MA
Clients Supported: Confidential
1998 - 2000 Consultant

• Designed and developed interfaces for periodic loads of journal entries from legacy system to Oracle to load actual dollars and hours, budget dollars and hours and headcount.
• Designed and developed an interface of GL with WIP to get gated & phantom gated hours and units for WIP assembly completions, rejections and scraps.
• Created Autosys jobs for daily, weekly and monthly scheduling of reports, FSG’s, mass allocations, recurring journals and journal import and post processes.

Confidential, Bombay, India
1997 - 1998 Technical Analyst

• Performed system administrator role by defining users, responsibilities, request groups, concurrent executables and programs.
• Enabled audit-trail for key setup tables such as fnd_users, fnd_logins.
• Setup printer styles and drivers for vendor mailing labels report
• Developed several developer reports for GL and AP.

Confidential, Bombay, India
1996-1997Software Engineer

• Designed, developed and maintained Help Desk Application for use in Asia-Pacific region.

Education:

Master of Business Administration
Specialization in Finance and Leadership

• Semi-Finalist in Social Venture business plan competition
• Member, Graduate Finance Association/Private Equity Club/Management Consulting Association/Emerging Markets Association/Association of Investment Management and Research.

WHARTON EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
ARESTY INSTITUTE OF EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
Partnering with the CFO, March’08
Strategic Thinking and Decision Making, March’08
Building relationships that work, March’08
C-Suite Concerns and Drivers, March’08

• Developed and presented Financial Transformation strategy to CFOs.

Bachelor of Engineering.
Specialization in Computer Science Engineering. Passed with Honors.

Certifications:

• CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor)
• CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control)