SUMMARY

• An Experienced Professional with extensive Project Management experience in the area of ERP Implementations. A dedicated, hands - on manager with 10 years of demonstrated expertise completing project on time, streamlining operations and maintaining schedules to ensure maximum customer satisfaction.
• Strong expertise managing projects in both Oracle and SAP applications.
• In-Depth functional knowledge in Financials and Inventory modules- GL, AP, AR, FA, PO, CM, & OM.
• Firm understanding of the business process in requirement gathering, documenting, workflow preparations and project implementation
• Adept at overseeing all facets of project lifecycle, including initiation and planning; change, risk, and issue management; and guiding QA teams.
• Outstanding communication skills, able to successfully build strong working relationships with coworkers and clientele, while ensuring cooperation among company departments.
• Excellent multitasker; able to efficiently plan and prioritize projects.
• Strong technical and business management skills.
• Managed projects in excess of $10M
• Resource Planning
• Scheduling
• Requirement Gathering
• Process Improvements
• Skilled Negotiator
• Confident Decision Maker
• Proficient Communicator
• Collaborative leader
• Knowledge of design and development

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Custom Software Development
• System Migrations/Integrations
• Enterprise wide Implementations
• Expertise in MS Project 2010
• Waterfall, Agile Methodology/Scrum Master
• Requirement Analysis
• Project Scheduling
• Project Monitoring & Execution
• Cross-Functional Supervision
• Team Building & Mentoring
• Client Relations & Presentations
• Collaborative Leader
• Vendor Management
• Oracle Apps, SAP
• JIRA, LeanKit, Clarity, MS Project, MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

ERP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Acting as a Senior Project Manager/Program Manager leading the implementation of SAP Retail Solution for George Stores UK, that will modernize George systems and enhance business capability, as well as support and enable the growth of George.com
• As a Project Manager managed the entire lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution and deployment of the Enterprise wide solution of the Project/program.
• Successfully managed Schedule, Cost & Budget, Quality and Risks of the project by monitoring and controlling the processes to be followed to meet the expected and agreed quality on the deliverables and timelines.
• Primary Point of contact during the project for all aspects of the engagement, ensuring seamless communication about the project to the stakeholders in US and UK.
• Responsible for maintaining cross-functional development schedules and coordinating dependencies with various development teams across multiple Work streams.
• Lead daily Scrum stand up calls and meetings with Project teams across the globe, removing any roadblocks there by ensuring smooth Project delivery.
• Responsible for preparing regular status reports and conducting steering committee meetings where appropriate.

Confidential

ERP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master driving the effort for the International project of the NRC Oracle Implementation
• Enable improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
• Remove obstacles for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution.
• Facilitated teams and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among the 3 agile teams.
• Conduct daily scrum standups, facilitate Sprint planning meetings and coordinate Sprint reviews and retrospectives
• Management of a multi-skilled team of Project Leaders, business analysts and development teams on different platforms and geographical locations.
• Conflict management among multicultural teams.
• Providing leadership towards a stronger and more efficient team.
• Report and control activities to stakeholders in the US and abroad, optimize schedule plans and staffing performance.
• Providing financial, commercial and strategic support to the business.
• Administered business requirement definition and gap analysis, and defined business processes, and scenarios for Oracle Financial modules.
• Lead daily stand up calls and meetings with Project teams across the globe, removing any roadblocks there by ensuring smooth Project delivery.

Confidential

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master, responsible for Leading, Managing and supporting the entire Project and coordinating with various Confidential teams, and key stakeholders span across the globe.
• Extensively involved in leading and managing CCL Project, working on developing cross-functional assessments and business cases.
• Responsible for entire Project management from management of different teams for Requirements gathering, Mapping, Gap Analysis, Testing and Project execution.
• Day to day status track of Projects’ progress and motivating, mentoring teams in delivering of the same.
• Played key role in reviewing Business Requirements & Use Cases and creating relevant Test Scenarios & Test Scripts for Regression Testing at each stage of the Project.
• Lead the offshore testing teams in end-to end testing on applications manual and automated with QTP and Quality Center.
• Coordinated Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Radiated information and ensured that a team's progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself.
• Assisted the Product Owner with various activities including communicating updates and impediments as well as assisting with backlog and release plan maintenance.
• Facilitated creativity and empowerment for the Cross functional development team.
• Improved the team's engineering practices and tools as required. Fully facilitated productivity, and made sure teams have the tools and know-how they need to succeed.
• Created a full set use cases and test cases utilizing Requirements by Example.
• Managed 1 offshore and 2 onshore Scrum teams.
• Lead Testing Team in performing the Regression Testing for CCL DXL (Data Exchange Layer) Project.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Carried out daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings for multiple teams.
• Responsible for Leading, Managing and supporting the entire project and coordinating with Vendor Management & Payments teams, span across the globe
• Interacted with technical teams on all issues related to the ongoing needs of the Project.
• Involved in the business meetings with client/users at all stages of Project implementation.
• Managed offshore development team successfully to meet the project milestones as per project management plan including quality and schedules.
• Developing Project deliverables, work papers and other project artifacts.
• Created and documented deliverables and documents such as: requirements definitions, functional specifications, RFPs, presentations, strategy decks, gap analysis, project plans, budgets, schedules, risk assessments, storyboards and wire-frames and user manuals.
• Protect the team from distractions by removing impediments at all levels of management.
• As Scrum Master and Assistant to product owner, created a comprehensive set of non-functional and functional requirements, prioritized requirements for all Sprint Meetings, developed strategic and operational plans, budgets and managed inter-disciplinary teams.
• Identify potential areas for improving efficiency, risk mitigation and reduce manual effort in various departments.
• Develop and manage the roll out schedules, implementation plans and activities/tasks for and across all functional groups involved in the release and work across functional groups involved in the release.
• Recommended feasible solutions that are easily and aggressively implemented.
• Monitoring the project performance in Maintenance phase and take corrective actions whereever required.

Confidential

Project Manager -Support

Responsibilities:

• Create and communicate project reports to management to provide visibility for the lean initiatives.
• Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time of tickets by 20% thus increasing team's throughput.
• Responsible for translating high-level business requirements into detailed functional specifications and managing requests for changes to the specifications.
• Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Interviewing business area experts, asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Lead and provide guidance to the team of Business Analysts.
• Played major role in Project Management including deployment, technical support, documenting and implementation throughout the development lifecycle.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, Testing Methodologies and Techniques.
• Multiple years in client-facing product implementation and support service experience across USA.
• Excellent written, verbal, negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Assisting in customer implementation and acceptance testing.
• Assisted in setting project schedules, time estimates, establishing deadlines, monitoring milestone completion, and provide timely reporting of issues that impact project progress.
• Training customers and other staff members in new features as and when required.
• Engage closely with the development teams to determine the best technical implementation methods and execution schedules.
• Initiate and prioritize projects within development and track development activities till the product is delivered.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Nexus Support and Enhancement project, requires solution in their current Depot Repair module to reduce user time in creating Service Requests, Repair Orders to the complete Order execution.
• Primarily involved in the support and enhancement of Oracle Applications of Confidential 's Oil and Gas Business.
• Understand the current Depot Repair module for Vecto Gray (Parent Org) and solution design for efficient flow from Service Requests to Order Execution.
• Collecting the Business and Functional Requirements
• Analyzing the Business Requirement and prepare the Functional Requirements from the Business Requirements
• Attending sessions to freeze the business and system requirements
• Educate the developers with the Business behind the implementation
• Monitoring the progress of work
• Preparing the E2E Test Case document
• Enhancements in the areas of Inventory and Depot Repair integration, in terms of Items setup and Pricing
• Setup and Integration of Advanced Pricing to Depot Repair and Order Management.
• Solution design for various requirements approved in the Quality Center.
• Understand the various customer specific Pricing requirements and solution mapping with Advanced Pricing

Confidential

Finance Executive-Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Performed set ups for GL, AP and Purchasing modules for 11i
• Requirements gathering, document AS-IS and TO-BE process, and Interaction with Client / Users in Gibraltar, US and UK.
• Preparation of BR100s, Common Set-ups doc and SysAdmin Set-up documents.
• System configurations and Set-ups for over 50 organizations of PartyGaming group spread across the globe.
• GL Set-Up included defining the Chart of Accounts, Calendar, Currencies, Set of Books, Accounting Flexfields, and Flexfield Security Rules. Journal Entry Sources and Categories, and Cross-Validation Rules.
• Defining Flexfield combinations, Flexfield Security and Cross-validation rules
• Configured the setups for prepayment to employees and defined employee expense report.
• Defined Payment Options, Payment terms, Distribution Set, Payment format, Internal Banks in AP
• Assisting in System Administration activities such as creating users, responsibilities, menus, data groups and report security group.
• Created custom responsibilities to which were attached specific menus, forms and reports for restricted user access and set profile options.
• Developed business flow using MS Visio by inputs from clients, end users and Subject Matter Experts (SME’s)
• Preparation of training materials and End user training
• Post Implementation SupportQuery Resolution Activities:
• Resolution of queries /tickets from vendors and clients through HP Project and Portfolio Management Application.
• Create training material in order to make the knowledge transfer to key users ofOracle Payables and Oracle Purchasing modules.
• Provide training to Key Users of Oracle Payables and Purchasing.

Confidential

Research Associate

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Performed setups for General Ledger, Accounts Payables, and Purchasing modules
• Studied the user requirements and prepared Requirement Definition Document
• Analyzed legacy systems for potential implementation with release 11i.
• Involved in requirement gathering and analysis and design of the application
• Mapped business requirements, created Set Of Books, defined Cross Validation Rules, Security Rules, created Responsibilities and Application Users.
• System setup and design for its two Purchasing locations
• Defined Payment Options, Payment terms, Distribution Set, Payment format, and Internal Banks in AP
• Created end user training manuals and perform end user training.
• As an Implementation Team Member was also involved in documentation and testing

Confidential

Research Associate

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Extracting data from EDGAR, SEDAR and Global reports and processing various public and private companies profiles, regarding their primary business, products, customers, operating areas, distribution channels, strategic alliances, and other information for the investors.
• Preparation of the description of the company.
• Research and incubation of new data sets; identification and updation of company name changes and ticker changes, as well as mergers and acquisition related information.
• Synchronization of the information on various data sets, such as reverse mergers, pooling of interests, and bankruptcy filings in collaboration with colleagues in Gurgaon.
• Quality checking and quality assurance and new employees training.