SUMMARY:

• 16 + years experience on ERP (SAP, PeopleSoft), CRM (Siebel, SFDC), BI (Cognos, Hyperion) implementations
• Implementation and Evaluation Analysis experience of SAP DSIM (Demand Signal Management)
• Implemented ERP & BI Reporting solutions for clients in Retail, Banking, Hospitality across different departments (HR, Finance, Marketing etc...)
• Experience in full lifecycle implementation of Cognos and Hyperion Reporting projects
• Collaborated with different stakeholders in understanding and documenting the business requirements, metrics, Key
• Performance Indicators and translating into functional and technical specifications for the reporting solution

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Products: SAP HANA, SAP BW, SAP DSIM, PeopleSoft, Oracle EBS

CRM & Analytics: Siebel, Salesforce.com, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI

ETL & OLAP: Ab Initio, Cognos (Framework Manager, Transformer), Hyperion, Essbase, OBIEE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Thomasville, GA

SAP DSIM & Retail Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementing SAP DSIM for Confidential Trade Promotion Management Program enabling Flowers Revenue Management & Customer Insights to analyze market (retail panel data from IRI), POS & ERP Data
• Configuring SAP DSIM to import the Market research data from IRI ( Confidential Inc. ) and Retail Link market data & other data sources (Flowers SAP Data Warehouse, SAP ECC etc...)
• Working with SAP, Flowers Business & IT teams on the strategy for defining the solution which enables Flowers for collaboration with their Retail partners including Walmart, Kroger, Publix etc...
• Working on Sizing for DSIM needs, Data retention strategy, design and implementation of the complex business logic. Analyzed using Tableau & Microsoft Power BI tools

Confidential, Middlebury, CT

Retail, ERP (SAP) & BI (Cognos, Hyperion) Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Recognized by the Senior Management for winning the SAP HANA Upgrade Proposal working with SAP CoE. Evaluated SAP Demand Signal Management (DSiM) product and presented Analysis & Recommendation
• Identified and Worked with Confidential & CoE on SAP Relicensing to HCL (underutilized SAP Licenses) which resulted in significant savings of more than $ 5M for the Customer Organization
• Devised and had successfully driven the Automation initiatives (Achieved 16% of the tasks automated), Empowerment of End - Users to become Intelligent End-Users (Achieved 18% reduction in Incidents created)

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Retail, ERP (PeopleSoft) & BI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Played a key role as Retail, ERP (PeopleSoft) & BI Consultant for this 100+ year old Retailer in delivering BI (Cognos & Teradata), PeopleSoft, Point of Sale Programs & Projects.
• Worked with CIO, Business Team, Enterprise Architects in the successful and smooth integration with Kroger
• Created and presented strategic planning, expense and capital budgeting for the Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse and Digital teams by working with Customer's BI Director
• Improved the performance of BI Systems by 25% thru thorough and focused performance analysis & tuning

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Retail, ERP & BI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Contributed and Managed the Development of four cubes - Industrial Sales, Production Planning and Budgeting, Market Research and Payer Analysis
• Contributed and Managed the Implementation of Essbase in connection with financial budgeting, sales forecasting and marketing analysis to produce ad-hoc reports
• Created Dashboard reports including charts using Web Analysis studio
• Participated in data modeling sessions with EDW Architects from Enterprise Reporting perspective

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

ERP (SAP, PeopleSoft) & BI (Cognos) Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Attended SAP, PeopleSoft & Cognos Transition sessions conducted by the incumbent Vendor and established the processes for the Build & Run Business
• Demonstrated & Presented the knowledge gained on SAP &other Applications during Primary ownership
• Provided key inputs to Transition team for Planning with sufficient duration for the phases including Knowledge Transition, Reverse KT, Shadow Support & Stabilization. Part of Steering Committee & strategic meetings.

Confidential

Technical Lead - SAP

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented SAP & RedPrairie Integration for the Fully Automated mega EDC - NDC Warehouse Implementation. This integrated solution caters to Confidential & Confidential 's Online Orders & Store Delivery
• Owned the complex SAP Solution on Order Integration & Stock Management. SAP is the central hub for Master Data, Procure to Pay and Supply Chain flow from National and Regional Distribution Centers
• Managed the SAP Roll-out for the strategic National Distribution Center for M&S Foods Business

Confidential

Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully owned and delivered the Siebel CRM Marketing implementation and completed the Global rollout
• Identify, Prioritize and Define Test strategy for the Project Releases, Design all the BAU Test scenarios, Core Regression Scenarios, Release Project Specific regression scenarios, Assist in preparing test script & test data
• Successfully managed & delivered the Siebel CRM Marketing and Contact Center programs

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Techno-Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed delivery and testing of the complete enhanced Management Reporting solution
• Owned Fit-Gap Analysis, Creation of Technical & Functional Specification Documents
• Recognized by the Customer’s IT Leadership for outstanding contribution in the Successful roll-out