SUMMARY:

• About twenty years of experience in various phases of SAP/SuccessFactors HCM implementation including project management, assessment/ pre sales, analysis, configuration, testing and support.
• Served several clients across various industries including Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, Utilities, Consumer Products & Goods, Public Sector (Federal, State and Local) and Higher Education.
• Experienced working with and leading globally distributed teams across multiple geographies including India, Malaysia, Germany and Brazil for large global Fortune 500 companies.
• Experience is a blend of delivery, project management and hands on configuration experience within various SAP HCM/SuccesFactors modules including Employee Central (EC), Time Off and Time Sheet, OM/PA/Payroll/CATS/Time Management along with extensive experience in proven project delivery methodology.
• Experienced in HR/Payroll process design and developing Center of Excellence for service delivery for large global organizations.
• Managed sucessfully large teams to deliver projects on time and within budget. Focus area is large and global SAP/SuccessFactors HR/payroll implementations.
• Has both a Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by PMI and certification from SAP as Application Professional in SuccessFactors Employee Central module.
• Led the Time Management area under Payroll Center of Excellence. Responsible for developing POV’s and also plan, design and coordinate the delivery of internal training in SAP SuccessFactors.
• Led a team in implementing SuccessFactors Time Off/Time Sheet in pre - configured client for North America and LATAM countries in the demo instance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Testing Lead

Responsibilities:

• One of the largest airlines in the World undergoing merger and integrating and harmonizing Human Resources functions under SAP/SuccessFactors platform.
• SuccessFactors Employee Central module being the system of record and was integrated to SAP Payroll.
• Led the testing for Employee Central roll out along with testing of replication interface from EC to SAP Payroll.
• Involved international roll out with more than 135,000 employees across multiples countries and collective bargaining agreements

Confidential

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• One of the largest Confidential in North America with operations in 40 States in US.
• Led the design and implementation for Confidential solution and its integration with SAP Time Management.
• The design included integration with AccessEdge Confidential applications rolled out on mobile devices

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• A large multinational Energy utilities company with operations in Europe and USA.
• Post implementation production support and stabilization of an ECC 6.0 SAP HCM implementation.
• Lead an assessment effort to assess solutions and vendors around mobility.
• Propose a solution to reduce reliance on paper timesheets and manual time entry
• Develop a weighted scoring matrix with a scale for vendor assessment for mobility

Confidential

SME/PMO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led the team in post implementation production support and stabilization of ECC 6.0 SAP HCM implementation. The total initiative was in the range of USD 6 million plus annually. I was managing a work stream involved in stabilizing the HCM/Payroll systems. We helped the client in stabilizing payroll operations. Payroll process was optimized and the processing time was reduced to 5 hours from 2 days.
• Worked in setting up an SAP center of excellence for the client and developed the HR technology road map. Managed the HCM PMO. Was involved in managing the entire life cycle of the project from design, build, testing, cutover and Go live. Managed multiple teams involved in testing and cutover. Ensured two waves of successful Go-Live
• Worked on developing the proposal for merging two utility (Power Generation) companies, onto a common SAP HCM platform. The acquiring company was on Oracle ERP and the acquired company was on SAP. The acquiring company’s HR and payroll systems was to be moved to SAP HCM platform and integrated into acquired company’s SAP HCM/Payroll systems.

Confidential

Solution Architect/Project Mgr.

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 11 resources onsite and six resources offsite.
• There were several initiatives and had to manage annual budget of USD 3 million.
• Worked predominantly in a Project Manager/Solution Architect role across multiple SAP HCM modules.
• Led the design and implementation for Confidential solution and its integration with SAP Time Management.
• Design involved collecting biometrics time punch from external Confidential system (TimeLink) and process it in SAP. Implementation was spread across multiple unions and sites.
• Came up with creative solutions to process OT and other union pay rules and their integration with SAP payroll
• The company had grown by mergers and acquisitions.
• This had resulted in multiple flavors of pay policies and business practices across the enterprise.
• We studied pay/HR policies across different business units and Unions and then came up with harmonized pay practices and policies.
• These policies had to adhere to the local and state laws and also meet the Company’s uniformed standards for North America.
• These Harmonized pay practices were then built into SAP HCM modules. The policies were rolled out in phased manner for Union sites and non Union sites.
• Date driven controls were set in Time and Payroll schemas to consider SAP’s retroactivity functionality.
• The project team had to work under the global template rolled out by German parent.
• The challenge was to manage the diverse requirements across multiple unions and state mandated HR practices with one Personnel sub area grouping allowed for US as per global template for 50 countries
• Post implementation work was leading the effort to integrate the two newly acquired companies into parent company’s SAP landscape.
• The team was responsible for leading the gap analysis and to understand the gap between the parent company and the acquired companies.
• Had to identify the areas that needed configuration change and identify new items for development.

Confidential

Principal Consultant/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• A leading provider of professional, technology, and management services to oil and energy industry.
• New SAP rollout. Modules implemented included: HCM and Employee Portal Functionality, FI/CO modules and Logistics modules.
• Project Manager responsible for entire implementation. Led a team of 16 consultants onshore and an offshore development team of 10 consultants.
• Project scope included HR Master Data, Organization Management, Gross to Net Payroll processing, Managers Self Service and Employee Self Service. Other Modules included FI/CO, Sales and Distribution, Materials Management and inventory control, Plant Maintenance and Rental and lease management.
• Was responsible for delivery of project milestones in all project life cycle phases including system design, requirements, prototyping, configuration, interfaces, reports, conversions, testing, system parallel, training, and integration with SAP financials and logistics systems.

Confidential

SAP Time Management Lead

Responsibilities:

• Client had major issues before go-live had to make quick design changes to help the City in going live. Helped the team on some of the key design initiatives to meet Texas State requirements for public sector, particularly in design of evalaution of public holidays and Overtime in Time and Payroll modules.
• Came up with unique solutions to meet the requirements of city’s unionized fire and police personnel.
• Led the design and implementation for Confidential solution and its integration with SAP Time Management.

Confidential

Principal Consultant/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• A new SAP implementation covering OM/PA, Time Management, Benefits and Payroll. Project involved developing pay rules for multiple unions and non-union employees.
• Responsible for project management activities across the entire life cycle of the project from Business case prep, through Design, Build, Test and Deploy.
• Managed a team of six through the design phase, including requirements gathering, business process design, and fit/gap analysis
• The project involved implementation of SAP HCM, FI/CO, Grants Management, Materials management and Project Systems. The SAP HCM implementation scope included requirements for implementing California pay practices and rules in a multi union environment.
• Worked as HCM module team lead for HCM/Payroll implementation
• Leading the team in requirements gathering, confIguration and end-user training including assisting the change management team in developing training strategy and materials.

Confidential

Senior Consultant - SAP HCM

Responsibilities:

• Implementation was for a large public University in Texas, was rresponsible for complete solutioning of Time Management including Time Accruals for absences, generation of time wage types and integration with payroll
• The client was a Beta client for SAP to rollout ‘Concurrent Employment’ functionality. The challenge was to implement the requirements in a Concurrent Employment scenario where multiple assignments must be processed together in some scenarios and in others, they needed to be separate.