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SUMMARY:

Accomplished professional with over 9 years of consulting experience in technology and software corporations.
Familiar with SAP and Oracle based ERP solutions as well as in - depth knowledge of Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management. Oracle Certified Primavera P6 Implementation Specialist.
Excellent experience in translating business requirements into Oracle Primavera standalone and ERP integrated solutions.
Excellent Primavera hands-on experience with Schedule and resource management
Excellent problem solving skills. Offers rich experience in full software lifecycle implementations and integrations while designing and delivering workable solutions in complex multi-functional/software business and technical environments.
Expertise in requirement management, driving solution/process designs/improvements, client collaboration and, and leading teams in complex cross-functional business and technical environments.
In-Depth understanding of change, risk and quality management.
Excellent leadership, organizational and communication skills.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago

Consultant

Responsibilities:

Led a team that designed & implemented an advanced Enterprise Project Management solution aimed to improve financial, schedule, resource and contractor management for a Government Financial Entity.
Conducted successful blue print workshops to understand business requirements. Created detailed process maps and solution design for Primavera-PeopleSoft integrated system. Defined Primavera system configurations /workflows/reports/Dashboards. Helped technical (onshore and offshore) teams to develop customized integrations for Primavera.
Managed Requirement Traceability Metrics, created/managed test plans and supported UAT, and helped to define post go live sustenance model for Primavera. Designed user documents and trained the trainers.
Involved in pre-sales activities - solution definition and estimations for prospective engagements.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

Recognized as a Subject Matter Expert for Primavera and Integrated Project Management solutions.
Engaged in different progressive capacities (Functional Consultant/Team Lead) on multiple projects across industries designing client specific Primavera EPPM solutions.
Consulted on PMO Methodologies, Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Performance Analytics
Participated in multiple successful pre-sales engagements.
Actively involved in practice initiatives like recruitment, and mentoring.
Created content for internal .
Worked as anchor for the group

Confidential

Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

Part of team involved in setting up of a new Primavera Practice at Confidential .
Involved in devising strategy and roadmap for launching product services by analyzing industry trends and scope.
Created knowledge repositories of POVs, presentations, content, templates related to Primavera and Project Management to assist the new practice.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant-EPM

Responsibilities:

Worked on end-to-end design & implementation of an advanced Project Management System based on Primavera for one of the world’s large Steel makers undergoing a huge capacity expansion across multiple plants.
Conducted successful blue print workshops to understand legacy systems and future requirements.
Consulted on defining detailed enterprise project governance framework including roles and responsibilities, project management processes and workflows.
Worked to define Primavera system configurations including comprehensive WBS and project schedules/structures, resource/schedule/cost structures.
Created Executive and Operational reporting/dashboards.
Prepared client specific material and case-studies, and conducted sessions aimed to enable a smooth business/technology adoption of the new system.

Confidential

Member of Project Management Office

Responsibilities:

Owned tracking and analysis of project KPIs and created reports for senior leadership. Responsible for document management.
Received Excellence from CEO of the company for design and development of an in- house project monitoring tool for the client PMO group.
This tool resulted in better and easy monitoring of project progress, savings substantial effort and time.