SUMMARY

• SAP professional with 12+ years of experience on SAP Solutions consulting, pre - sales, product development, systems integration, customer engagement, people and project management.
• His last role was at Gavdi, where headed the Customer Innovations and SAP HANA consulting in UAE, leading a team of Technical Architects, Developers and Administrators working on HANA Cloud, HANA, SAP ERP, Mobility and Integration. He was also Product owner at Gavdi Labs.
• In his current role, he is part of the in-house SAP Team that is implementing SAP HANA and other latest SAP technology products(cloud/on prem) UAE
• He has been constantly delivering in high quality and in time to a global clientele including medium to large scale organizations in the Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Textiles, Beverages and FMCG Industries, spread over US, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
• Vimal has implemented SAP SuccessFactors EC/PM/GM/RCM and SAP HCM PA/OM/ESS/MSS/Time and Payroll. He has also supported other areas such as FI/SD/MM/PM/QM.
• He exhibits T echno-Functional Capabilities on SAP HCM and cross module Integrations, which had led him to take on the role of a very successful pre-sales consultant while at Gavdi.
• His expertise also extends to new and emerging SAP Technologies including SAP HANA, HCP, HCI, Dell Boomi, ABAP for HANA, FIORI, SAP UI5, SAP NW Gateway, ODATA and mobility solutions.
• SAP Projects that he has executed include 6 E2E implementations, 4 Support projects and multiple global roll-outs.
• Vimal has a strong work ethic, customer focus, attention to detail, excellent analytical skills and the ability to work with individuals at all levels in an organization.
• Vimal is a Result Oriented, team player and a motivator. At the same time, he also excels as an Independent Contributor.
• He has proven capabilities in leading/managing small to large size SAP implementation/support teams in single/multi-vendor environments.
• He has been engaged in various roles of Project Management, sales, pre-sales, quality assurance and solution architecture
• He has good command on ASAP methodology and Agile Development.
• He is a Six Sigma Green belt.

SKILLS

• Sales, Pre-sales
• SAP Consulting on SAP HCM, Successfactors.
• Development on SAP ABAP, SAP HANA, Webdynpro ABAP, FIORI, Workflow, Systems Integration using ALE/IDOCs, Webservices and BAPIs, XML, SAP Gateway, etc.
• SAP HANA Modelling - Analytic views, Calculation views, River IDE, HANA Spatial/Predictive Analytics, SDI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of in-house team implementing SAP HANA and other latest SAP Technology products at Confidential and other group companies.
• SAP HCM consultant supporting HR Activities for the group companies.
• Drive innovation at AKS and group companies leveraging the power of SAP solutions.
• Process improvements and Automation of Supply chain processes including production, dispatch, etc.
• Systems Integration
• SAP HANA Modelling, Reporting

Confidential

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Heading the Technology and Managed Services wing of Gavdi’s Center of Excellence and Dubai Delivery center.
• Resourcing and design/costing/delivery of solutions on billable engagements.
• Engage with SAP on partner programs and various partner activities.
• Business Process Simplification/Transformation.
• Solution/Delivery Quality assessment.
• Sales/Pre-sales activities for MEA Region - Focus on SAP HANA, HR LOB RDS solutions, HR Renewal, Fiori, HCP and Integration.
• People responsibilities, managing 10 direct reports and over 20 in-directly.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Headed the Technology Department - a team of Solution Architects, HANA Engineers, Product engineers, Basis Consultants and Integration experts.
• Design/delivery of solutions on billable engagements.
• Sales/Pre-sales activities for MEA Region - Focus on HR LOB RDS solutions, HCP and Integration.
• People responsibilities, managing 6 direct reports.

Confidential

SAP Lead Consultant / Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design, costing and delivery of solutions on billable engagements.
• To provide specialist direction, control and guidance to the SAP Projects team in the region in order to meet project deliverables.
• To develop and maintain effective relationships with client organizations to facilitate the undertaking of assignments.
• To investigate product and service offerings to provide information and direction to the Business Services business strategy to generate new opportunities.
• Specify and deliver solutions for Business Services proposals and accounts in order to meet client business requirements.
• Project delivery planning, costing review and reporting, people management.
• As Techno-Functional Consultant, implemented/supported SAP PM, PM-WCM - including screen configurations and cross module integration scenarios - like PM-FI, PM-HR, PM-MM etc.; Also did the e-recruitment, PD, LSO and travel management implementation.
• Prepared strategy, scoped/collected business requirements, analyzed the process to be modeled, performed business content checks, Conducted workshop for defining Report requirements using prototypes.
• Lead an offshore team of 20 SAP Consultants and onsite team of 5 (for various projects).
• Identified scope for improving deliverables and generated BVA for clients.
• Developed tools to aid TMS/project management/delivery activities.
• Enabled junior resources through training/up-skilling and Mentored Rookies.
• Was involved with Confidential ’s CoE on emerging SAP Technologies like HANA, SUP/Gateway, etc.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer / Sub-Team Lead

Achievements:

• Multiple customer appreciations for in-time issue resolution
• Optimized the packing and pallet determination logic for beverages logistics.
• Won multiple Confidential CELEBRATING PERFORMANCE Awards
• Up-skilled teammates on SAP Workflow and ALE-IDOC Skills
• I was a part of the team that received the “Best team/project” awards.

Confidential

System Engineer

• In his capacity as a Systems Engineer with Confidential, Vimal was involved in designing/developing SAP ABAP Solutions and Code Quality checks/review of peers. He also served as an Onsite Developer in a client facing role in UK.