PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE:

Pursue leading opportunities in the field of Information Technology, in a lead role in delivering consulting and professional services to high growth organizations with a diverse team of Consultants in a cross functional environment, where my prominent skills of Solution Design, Application management, Project Management, Consulting, Business Analysis, Design, and Development can be applied.

SUMMARY:

• In the 13th year of a professionally satisfying and comprehensive journey through technology, majority of which as a technical implementation consultant and Application Manager.
• Acquired Technical and functional working knowledge and hands - on experience with enterprise level applications, components, products, services, systems and their integrations.
• Worked in all the stages of project life cycle in co-ordination with multiple North American Clients with Global presence;
• Worked on Proposals/Estimation of Projects;
• More than 8 years of experience managing consulting services in the field of Supply Chain.
• Thorough hands-on skills in all phases of SDLC from requirement analysis, design, development, unit and system integration test, performance/load test to implementation and post implementation support
• Excellent verbal communication skills and cooperative personality;
• Distinguished and result-oriented team player, with ability to provide independent expert advice.
• Experience in Analysis, Design, Implementation, Maintenance and support of SAP and Non SAP based Supply Chain, Retail solutions and related interface integrations.
• Extensive experience in Application lifecycle management for multiple projects.
• Experience in Implementation of Manhattan Warehouse management system, Labor Management system with different configurations and functionalities across multiple organizations with varied complexity.
• Extensive hands on experience spanning software/hardware design and roll out, software development/design, maintenance, customization/configuration of ERP systems like SAP in multiple functional areas, integrations between ERP systems and Non ERP systems.
• Global consulting experience in diverse multicultural environments dealing with technology within sectors of Retailing (Food, Rx, Cosmetics), Distribution centers, Manufacturing.
• Excellent communication, Presentation and people management skills established through training staff and problem resolution.
• Desire to serve the customer, resolve problems and provide a complete IT solution.
• Self-starter that is well organized and capable of multitasking with numerous responsibilities while meeting required deadlines.
• Strong Consulting, Technical, Functional and Analytical skills.
• SAP certified consultant with experience in multiple SAP modules like SCM, MM and SD.
• Experienced in working with WebSphere Middleware technologies like WebSphere MQ 7.0 for seamless data integrations.
• Experience with Design and implement application architecture and Solution design blueprint.
• High Availability architecture and infrastructure knowledge.
• Experienced in working with Scripting Language like UNIX and Database Technologies like Oracle, Informix, and SQL.
• Exposure on ETL Tool Informatica and IBM Cognos.
• Experience in Project Management for Large scale Supply Chain, SOA and mission critical projects.
• Deep understanding of web, database, SDLC, hardware and infrastructure/networking technologies.
• People and Team Management skills.
• Ability to execute business transformation and change management.
• Operation Automation and Business Enabler through technology.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Interface Solution delivery SAP Item Master data to Legacy systems.
• Lead the solution design and Architecture team to define the solution architecture and solution blueprint.
• Lead and managed the Supply Chain team for Manhattan Warehouse management, Labor Management application and other initiatives.
• Managed system analysis, Architecture design development and support activities to meet user needs in a timely and cost effective manner while ensuring the right things get done as per the governance process.
• Managed and tracked the progress of multiple development projects along with Project management and administration including work plans, resource planning and control, writing status reports for the client.
• Lead the continuous improvements to significantly reduce the number of support incidents by implementing custom automated solutions.
• Managed and Delivered solutions to stabilize the Manhattan WMS application for Shopper’s Distribution centers when the Instability of WM system and other interfaces was causing heavy productivity loss, time and money. The efforts under taken not only stabilized the application at the DC but also gave confidence to Client’s Executives on the team and application.
• Lead the integration between Order/Inventory management system and Manhattan WMS.
• Lead the conversion of the legacy WMS systems to Manhattan WMS for multiple DC.
• Worked with Store Management leadership to ensure that the shipment confirmations required for stores to receive the product are sent across from Inventory Management systems.
• Lead the team to Analyze and resolve the outstanding issues and working with Manhattan team, UAT/QA testing teams for the testing, configuration and resolution of those issues in timely manner.
• Assisted the client organization in addressing business challenges by maximizing performance of the WMS functionality through systems and business processes.
• Define, build and implement enhancements and monitoring tools on different modules to improve alignment to business objectives, risk mitigation and achieve improved results.
• Vice-President and Director level interaction with client’s key stakeholders.
• Lead the Release management and Configuration Management of the WM system post implementation of the application.
• Worked with IT leads and managed several Critical situations involving multiple business impacting IT issues.
• Managed the design and delivery of custom report development using Crystal reports and SCI-Cognos.
• Saved over $ 35K to the client by delivering an alternative solution to the Business Information Data Warehousing project for the Distribution Centers inventory.
• Managed offshore-onshore deliveries to Client including development projects and on-going operational maintenance and support.
• Well recognized by the customer.

Confidential

Application Lead, SAP Design and Integration Lead

Relevant Technologies: SAP R/3, SAP PI 7, WebSphere MQ, SAP SCM(IM, PP), SAP MM, SAP SD, Manhattan WMS, EIS.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation and support of the Manhattan WM for the client, built a strong team of talented consultants, transitioned the knowledge of the applications & interfaces and Implemented and supported the application to the customer’s satisfaction.
• Managed Confidential ’s Manhattan project Services delivery and integration team constituting SAP R/3, SAP PI and Manhattan WM consultants. Led, coordinated and supervised Confidential ’s cross functional team across multiple locations.
• Designed, Developed and managed the strategic supply chain solutions within the assigned responsibility(s) for supporting the customer applications to ensure uninterrupted business flow and total customer satisfaction while ensuring cost, lead time and quality targets are met.
• Achieved the result of resolving technical, business and operational issues related with the SAP supply chain management based interfaces and transactions, SAP PI interfaces and Manhattan WMS for multiple DC across US with 24X7 operations spread across different time zones within the SLAs.
• Involved in the Go-Live Participation in testing/implementation.
• Lead the Solution Design and Integration of SAP ECC with Manhattan WMS across multiple distribution centers.
• Configuration of Manhattan WMS Mods for different warehouse functions developed specifically for Confidential at different sites during the implementation phase and reporting any challenges/issues with the client for timely resolution.
• Experience and understanding of IDOC process in SAP and pricing conditions.
• Experience with LSMW to migrate legacy Master and transactional data into SAP.
• Delivered business critical applications with design and development of SAP interfaces with Manhattan WMS for Master data, Inbound & Outbound operations in Greenville, Ohio with tight deadlines along with parallel transition and support of Manhattan WMS.
• Analysed manufacturing, production, supply chain operations, processes & development in coordination with Whirlpooll’s IT team.
• Lead the team for the Design and Integration of Interfaces for Inbound & Outbound operations in Greenville, Ohio between SAP and External applications.

Confidential

SAP R/3, SAP SRM

Responsibilities:

• Lead responsibilities included leading a multidisciplinary support team of 5 people, Data Collection, Documentation, Data cleaning and Data Management.
• Documentation Management of the supply chain solutions (SAP SRM) using SAP Workflows, applications and interfaces.
• Reverse engineering for the SRM interfaces.

Confidential

Offshore Development Lead, Onsite co-ordinator, SAP Systems Analyst

Relevant Technologies: SAP R/3, ABAP 4, SAP SCM(IM, PP), SAP MM, SAP SD, SAP HR, SAP Security, SAP PM.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with Onsite and offshore functional consultants/Client’s Business analysts and technical team in designing and developing critical supply chain solutions and manage projects carried out under maintenance and enhancement environment.
• Identified resources from pool, planning, scheduling, understanding the requirements, conversion of requirements to technical specifications, assigning tasks to team members and monitor the development activities. Coordinated with Quality team to ensure adherence of team to quality standards. Also worked as developer during this period.
• Lead the team on several supply chain SAP applications involving mixed difficulty levels and various functional areas like Supply chain, FI-CO, SD, HR and received customer appreciations.
• Developed user exits like PO outbound (ORDERS) to in corporate customer specific information on the Outbound IDOCs.
• Worked on the development of several business critical ALV reports in the SD and FI-CO functional area.
• Developed BADI in Material creation transaction in MM module to check and make the Equipment # to be mandatory for Z6 maintenance notification type.
• Worked on RFC to send the details from SAP to the People link tool (Web based People information system at BHI) to Display HR data.
• Converted the SAP script based output program to SAP Smart forms for Customer Own Equipment - Goods Receipt
• Created new Sales order acknowledgement output as per the requirements of BPC in Smart forms.
• Provide a monthly - on demand - “Purchase Book Report” to be used for Russia BHBSS office monitoring of expense items with VAT. This report is to list all expenses for documents that hit Trade A/P, or Employee A/P (Expense reports), (No I/C) by accounting Period.
• Delivered several SAP applications (All sized) exceeding customer expectations while at onsite.
• Created an Aging report program which will send the mail to the mangers with an attachment of list of users whose validity / access etc are going to be expired in a specific number of days so that appropriate action can be taken on time.
• Created a program through which we can limit the access, change license type, lock and change Valid-To date for the users by checking if they have logged into the system or changed their password in a specific number of days.
• Optimized a report program for downloading invoices and packing lists to excel sheet.
• Created a report for Global Credit, Collect and Customer Support (BHI) that presents company code receivable and revenue data by profit centre with DSO - Days Sales Outstanding.
• Created a program to extract Document Info Records for Centrilift Materials. Only active records will be taken into consideration. Extract information will be put in a text file and placed at UNIX directory.
• Create a report for Confidential Drilling Fluids to capture weekly sales information.
• Modifications in the customized SAP script form for different terms & conditions, company address data etc based on various combinations for company code and divisions.
• Experience and understanding of IDOC process in SAP and pricing conditions.
• Experience with migration of legacy Master and transactional data into SAP using automated programs and LSMW.