Sap Plm Cluster Lead (project Manager) Resume
SUMMARY:
Experienced SAP Project Management and Agile - Scrum professional with experience in driving complex SAP Projects in areas of Product Lifecycle Management and Project Systems using the Agile-Scrum framework to ensure on-time, cost-efficient and quality deliverables. Areas of expertise include Project management, Change management, Lean manufacturing and people management.
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:
SAP PLM 7.02, SAP Project System, SAP Document Management system, SAP Engineering Change Management, SAP cFolders.
EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
SAP PLM Cluster Lead (Project Manager)
Responsibilities:
- Analyzing the requirements and estimating the time required to deliver the project with the support of the development team.
- Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 50% within the first 15 months of Agile adoption.
- Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
- Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.
- Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among SAP module teams.
- Delivered all the 10 work packages during a span of 21 months within schedule, budget and quality.
- Collaborated with the development team, Business and the management to maintain and develop back-logs which helped in closing all the back-logs within these 21 months.
- Customer rating increased to 2.2 from 1.21 out of 5 compared to previous year.
- Coached/Mentored a cross functional team of 6 resources to deliver quality products.
SAP Project Manager and Senior SAP PLM Lead Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Advocated the principle of Lean system to convince the Line Managers to adapt to simple business processes from the existing complicated business process.
- Coached / Mentored a cross-functional team of 15 resources to deliver value to the business.
- Utilized Agile Scrum practices to develop new products for the business which led to first time right products thereby increasing customer satisfaction.
- Collaborated with the development team, business users and top management to identify back-logs and impediments and to resolve them.
- Set up an effective change management and incident management system using SAP SOLMAN to capture and address the day to day incidents raised by users.
- As a change manager, advocated the business users the value that SAP brings to the organization and hence increased the utilization of SAP ERP system 20% to 80%.
- Completed 2 major projects, Recruitment process for Nationals and Material requisition process. The projects comprised of simplifying the business process and mapping the same in SAP.
- Developed standard formats for business requirement gathering, functional specifications, technical specifications so as to improve the project delivery.
Project Lead - SAP PLM
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of 3 functional consultants to develop PLM Rapid Deployment solution for Discrete industries.
- As a SAP Project lead for SAP PLM, successfully rolled out SAP PLM solution for 4 locations (US, UK and Germany) for General Electric.
- Facilitated the final closure of project for Qatar National Cement Company based in Qatar by resolving all the impediments with the help of implementation and support team.
- Involved in developing RFPs and pilot project for prospective customers. Successful in converting 3 RFPs to projects.
- Mentored other project teams by providing valuable suggestions / solutions as a SAP PLM expert.
Assistant Consultant - SAP Project System
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Successfully delivered 3 complex change request within a span of 3 months.
- Resolved 10 major incidents within the given SLA.
- Supported team from other modules in issued related to integration between SAP PS and other SAP modules.
Senior Engineer - Information Technology
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Implemented SAP PS in Engineered Tooling Solutions of L&T. The first SBU to Go-Live in SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 4 environment.
- Implemented SAP DMS, SAP ECM and SAP cFolders in all the 6 SBU’s of L&T.
- Single handedly supported and resolved issues related to the SAP PLM solution for all the 6 SBU’s based out of 3 different locations.
Senior Engineer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Redesigned the business processes in Engineered Tooling Solutions SBU to improve the adherence to delivery schedule by 80%.
- As a product Lead, delivered the tooling requirements (10 tools) for a complete product within the defined SLA of 4 months.
- Successfully designed 8 robotic welding fixtures for a new scooter for Bajaj Automobiles within 45 days. All the fixtures designs were first time right.
- Set a new benchmark in designing the high speed lamination tool by designing it in a week which usually took 1 month.
- Standardized the commonly used components which reduced the design and manufacturing time by 30%.
- Achieved a value engineering of INR 5 million by changing the strip layout for a lamination tool.