SUMMARY:

• An established senior SAP consulting professional (PMP - 2005), 13+ years of proven SAP consulting experience in SAP PM/ EAM, QM, IM MM modules, driving performance improvement across the complete project lifecycle.
• Leverage a diverse background and high level of hands-on experience (including configuration) to deliver success across multiple industries and market sectors, including increasing efficiency, maximizing cost performance and boosting functionality and performance.
• Highly effective senior consulting experience in Big-4 consulting firms; having proven credentials of value-add in SAP PM/ EAM, QM, MM.
• I have good know - how of Maintenance Inventory (SAP IM-MM) as well as Project system (SAP PS) modules. (Also I have Exposure to WM & SD to some extent).

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• SAP PM/EAM, QM, IM MM (& related area like PS and others)
• Integrating Technology & Business
• Hands on configuration
• SAP Implementation / Upgrades
• Complete Project Lifecycle Management
• Global Team Leadership
• Maximizing Project Efficiency
• Driving Performance Improvement / ROI
• Multi-Stakeholder Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Product Functional lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Utopia existing & its potential client needs for Utility, Traveler transport, Energy, Oil and Gas verticals …etc along with the future product plan of using it in AIN. Understanding the product development will have various aspects of using development tool like API, BaDI, Web DynPro, Access class, Role Based Workflow, BRF+… etc.
• Meeting with Key people like CTO & R&D Vice president for understating their long term goals, features and clients need along with Key sales people for Existing product limitation and future products features requirements.
• Periodical updates with R&D Vice president for making sure about key decisions based on EAM/ Plant maint. Module needs for MDG.
• Periodical meeting guiding the technical team along with technical architect and detailing the functional needs for team members for Development and Workflow.
• Key role in designing proper project plans based on plant maintenance / EAM module know-how and 20+ yrs of my user community experience in different vertical for product needs including cross module aspects.
• Developing the functional specs for the EAM MDG Work-Bench. Also testing the products to make sure that functionality, usage, ease of use per is better as well as it fulfills the needs of the product long-term goals.
• Periodical demo (once in 3 weeks) to review the product development as well as re-confirming direction with key stake holder like CTO / Vice president R&D along with reconfirming the key decisions with them as Senior management.

Sr. SAP PM, MM, QM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the issues in projects as joined the project. Conducted big and later small meetings with different stake-holders to get broad and minute picture of the issues and then analyzed the root cause of issues and came up with potential issues solution.
• Analyzed existing validation tools, suggested improvements for those tools. Helped client for real validation of the Load object and analyzed their validation process. Conceptualization of “industrialization of Validation automation” done by me, was greatly appreciated by client. Used Offshore model for developing LSMW tools hence getting things covered with low cost.
• Coordinated for manufacturing module with offshore resource for improving validation tools.
• Made strategy for providing better testing using improved data, as this was one of the key pain point for client in earlier testing cycles (before we joined the project). Through cross modules meetings provided improved data for better smooth testing, removing major bottleneck for client project for testing and go-live.
• Guided new team members (from other modules) of project for better results.
• During cutover & go live, set up teams for helping client for Data-readiness-cutover- go live activities.
• Set up Hyper-care system for Master Data Governance. Coordinated training for Offshore as well as onsite teams.

Confidential

Solution architect lead

Responsibilities:

• Created Project plan with project activities.
• Facilitated business blue printing workshops.
• Provided Solution architecture in role of “Solution-Architect”
• Coordinated teams for design workshops including various IT teams.
• Planned testing strategy for configuration and Development including interfaces. integration and regression testing.
• Demo the Prototype for IT dept. and Business stake holder for this Sales and FICO solution.
• Planned Data strategy and Go-live.

Confidential

Sr. Consulting role

Responsibilities:

• Lead meetings of business blueprint workshops, suggesting best SAP practices developing “global best business practices template”. Mapped the clubbed “multi legacy systems requirements” into specific ‘unique best business process’. Excellent ‘steering-committee’, ‘Global Change review board’ & ‘Project-partner’ feedback for the areas I lead.
• Developed functional designs & coordinated technical team offshore for development & saved cost.
• Lead for defect free design, had smooth Process walk through for Key users from 15 different sites representing various business product lines of whole North America client business. Smooth to the extent that users didn’t realized that they worked on “newly developed” system in the area I lead. Got commendation from Key stake holders for same.
• Adopted client project methodology & tools for Pharma e.g. ARIS, HPQC, share-point for project management.
• Created project plan as realistic considering the sites using SAP vs. sites in USA not using SAP & efforts involved based on realistic practicality.
• Lead requirements collection workshops. Created “Global Business blue print”, keeping uniform processes across globe for better process and system perspective. Area I lead as implementer, became first to get client sign off.
• Suggested better design: Maximizing benefits with minimal changes per project goal (still getting the different countries & different product-lines requirements fulfilled). Explained / demo improvised “Global SAP processes”.
• Transferred know-how to team having Europe work authorization. (Client decided to rollout USA SAP later where sites don't have SAP at all, vs. Europe first where sites have SAP).
• The initial planned project by client was just for (BBP) Business blue print phase & hold project to decide: should organization go ahead for next project phases? Vendor had not finalized, to continue next phase or not. As in past client cancelled project twice after Business Blue print phase with different vendors. Once I joined, along with the few others, shown client value-add in their processes with my past SAP experience & best practices expertise. Client awarded the next phases of project.
• Coordinated 5 onsite-5 offshore members team. (Client team of 10 business-technical members). Provided very good model for offshore onsite working, where onsite person transfer know-how of Functional design & offshore develop the document, saving cost. Every team member appreciated provided working-model.
• Lead workshops for requirement collection and designed solution including configuration for system. Provided value add by Business process re-engineering & ‘SAP best business practices’.
• Helped data team for their “Data strategy” with Data & Cutover team lead.
• Along with technical expert shown business, ‘New SAP tools strengths’: like SAP Syclo. Explained client business team and technical team benefits of new SAP product Syclo (work manager) vs. other options considered by client. Based on business goals created benefits opportunity for client and my company-work-for (implementer).
• Worked as integration manager to make sure of proper Solution Architecture per client needs.

Confidential, Green River, WY

SAP Lead PM, QM / EAM/ IM MM

Responsibilities:

• Directed SAP PM in SAP project successfully for Preconfigured package solution implementation.
• Showing Metal client, the value-add with additional functionalities of SAP QM, won new business of 5 Million-Dollars, for the implementer company I represented (in earlier ‘fix bid project’). So within 2 weeks of joining I took lead to show client’s senior management “value-add” in the earlier system design, my suggestions got approved and converted into extra business benefits. Got appreciation from Big-4 consulting partner.
• Based on my expertise of business process re-engineering & SAP expertise, provide business value-adding design. Got letter of appreciation from client side implementation partner.
• Played instrumental role for putting ‘off going project’, back ‘on track’; with my SAP design expertise for the Energy based client’s SAP project (implementation was having issues before I joined the project). Hence saved the project with my extra efforts to guide design in proper direction to achieve the client’s business goal.
• Guided Chemical & Mining projects implementation for SAP implementation & provided “value-add” using my expert business process re-engineering methods and SAP best practices.
• The activities I lead include Project phases of Kick off, Business blue printing, design (configuration/ customization), testing, Data Architecture & data load, Cutover, Go Live & support.

Confidential, HOUSTON

SAP Global application owner

Responsibilities:

• Directed the SAP project successfully merging subdivisions into two sister company projects.
• Lead project for Global application development for the SAP portal using QM/PM functionalities, as well as application improvement securing recognition from senior executives.
• Supported business process reengineering for meeting company goals and visions across Latin America, North America and Europe.
• Lead Project for SAP rollout in Europe & South America.
• Coordinated development of NetWeaver based web portal based application by 3rd party vendor for SAP QM component as continue improvement. Make sure that 3rd party deliver, business functionality needed & their products developed become defect free before it is roll out to our organization (multiple companies). Earlier organization was thinking to throw off the product; but I played crucial role in getting the new version of product that is serving business functionalities, better usage & is user friendly. Played crucial role in smooth implementation of new release of the product. Got appreciation letter from senior management.
• Support implemented SAP solutions for various Global areas. (various continents) using Track IT
• The E2E implementation activities include GATE methodology as well as phases of SAP Project kick off, Business blue printing, design (configuration/ customization), testing, Data Architecture & data load, Cutover, Go Live & support.

Confidential, Tulsa, OK & San Diego, CA

Principal SAP PM, QM, (IM-MM)/ EAM

Responsibilities:

• Achieved on time delivery for 20+ sites single day go live.
• Achieved Quality “defect free product”, using proper testing strategy & leading proper varied testing activities. Lead Global validation session, satisfying Rhodia's Global need.
• Client was trying to rollout SAP QM for last many years but unable to take business buying in earlier. Once joined project, convinced the business senior management that project & product rolled will be smooth to take care of business needs for all levels namely End users, middle management & Senior management.
• Developed E2E SAP implementation Project plan including various phases and activities showing business senior management how my project plan will take care of all aspects they are concerned for. This covered proper switch over approach, training, cutover, dry run dress rehearsal.
• Designed special strategy for cutover & go live. For various user level various reports & work instructions were developed & used during cutover period. The strategy helped in smooth system switchover & interruption-free delivery from QM department.

Confidential

Expert Lead SAP - EAM

Responsibilities:

• Developed a solution to remove legacy applications and independently facilitate discussions to resolve complicated cross-functional team issues.
• Independently tracked process on team activities and executed plans for corrective action in the event that tasks fell behind schedule.
• Gained an expert understanding of the client's existing enterprise structure and designed a new enterprise structure for Logistics, along with FI/CO, for optimal benefits.
• Utilized a centralized planning plant concept to avert inter-company transactions in a MM module, creating ease of use to material Management and Plant Maintenance personnel.

Confidential, MO

Lead SAP PM, QM

Responsibilities:

• Gained expert understanding of existing business processes and facilitated a project plan that improved functionality, efficiency and performance.
• Identified and resolved upgrade issues related to customization and screen settings for the PM/QM module, including coordinating with ABAP experts to resolve screen dumps and technical issue.
• Provided ongoing training for uses across all plants on the newly upgrade mySAP ECC 5.0 system.