PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Certified PgMP (Program Management), PMP (Project Management), PMI - ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner), Scaled Agilist (SAFe) and ITIL V3 Expert professional with 8+ years in leading SAP Implementations & Rollouts, Cloud Migration and AMS (Application Maintenance and Support) engagements across Resources industries i.e., Mining, Chemical, Agri & Paper industries. Total IT experience is 16+ years.
• 8+ years of SAP PMO experience in leading SAP consulting engagements as Project or Program Manager using ASAP (Accelerated SAP) & Hybrid-Agile as Implementation methodologies.
• Specialized in managing SAP roll-out projects, SAP SoH (Suite on HANA), SAP on-prem to cloud (AWS) migration, SAP Change and Release Management, SAP AMS, SAP upgrade & Infra refresh projects.
• Skilled in meticulously creating project plans as per ASAP methodology, managing cutover and deployment, Quality Assurance & Testing, Data migration, SAP change and release management.
• Rigorously tracking as per plan using Microsoft Project, SAP Solution Manager, ChaRM, HPALM and ServiceNow suite of tools.
• 2 full cycle SAP Implementations & rollout project experience from Chemical & Agri Industry with merger & acquisitions experience, SAP SoH & cloud migration project experience from Mining Industry, SAP AMS Transition experience from Paper and Mining Industry and SAP change & release management experience from Mining Industry.
• 4+ years of experience in anchoring SAP AMS, rollouts, SoH pursuits (RFP response, solutioning, client presentation, SOW’s creation) from Resources Industries.
• Client facing and on-site experience in USA, Germany, Canada, and Brazil involving program management, defining & negotiating SLAs, transitioning SAP service support work to offshore locations.
• Configuring experience with SAP module: SAP PM.

EXPERIENCE DETAILS:

Confidential

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Transitioned business operations from legacy Non - SAP (Microsoft Dynamics) to SAP GT system including 26 Master data objects migration
• 80+ RICEFW objects deploying full solution (FICO, MM/WM/IM, PP, QM, SD on ECC 6.0 and SAP PI).
• Performed As-Is process requirements gathering, created detailed BPML, process inventory, and BRD (Business Requirement Documents).
• To-Be solution blueprinting managed using Conference Room Pilot (CRP) sessions and Iterative demo of SAP GT processes using Sandbox system to conclude fit/gap analysis.
• Prepared 3 Trial conversions for data migration - its schedule, scope, plan, and defect trackers.
• Designed, coordinated, and directed cross-functional system integration test plan, directed the production of Integration & UAT test scripts.
• Prepared Cutover strategy, and detailed hour-wise cutover plan - defined transactional data load procedures and strategy for business process during blackout window.
• Conducted SAP s to end user and Post Implementation sessions.

Confidential

Individual contributor as a Change & Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defining and managing Change & release process vision, policy, process, procedures & templates.
• Review of requests before release alignment & change impact analysis before change approval.
• Release & Deployment of SAP changes (enhancements) in different release packages.
• Prepare SAP Change & release calendar & schedule, publish release notes
• Chairing CAB (Change advisory board) & RAB (Release advisory board) meetings.

Confidential

SAP Project Manager, and SAP PM consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP roll - out using ASAP methodology for an acquisition, involved evaluating & implementing 57 BPML L3 processes across SAP FICO, MM, SD, PP, QM and PM processes.
• As a Project Manager, responsible for planning, staffing, Blueprinting, configuration, custom development, data migration, testing, Hypercare support & transition to AMS team
• Successfully implemented new logistics & maintenance plant in existing India company code & completed data migration of 38 different master data from SAP ECC 6.0 system by creating LSMWs.
• UAT responsibility involved coaching Maintenance and Reliability site team of rebadged employees on SAP PM & its master-data.
• Cutover responsibility included supporting business in stock reconciliation in SAP.

Confidential

SAP Transition Manager

Responsibilities:

• Setup TMO (Transition Management Office) for knowledge ramp-up sessions planning & tracking its execution, defining SLAs for steady state, setting up resources (infra, connectivity, Visa, & Invoicing etc.,)
• Defined & baseline Transition and Steady state SLAs, Payment & Invoicing between client .
• Responsible for end-to-end SAP AMS Service Transition from clien .
• Transition planning and support coordinate all Knowledge ramp-up and enablement of SAP AMS Operations for Confidential team to support in steady state operations.

Confidential

SAP PMO Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved from Transition phase, for multiple country phased transition from Implementation partner to support.
• Established SAP AMS Industrialized Service Delivery.
• Created SAP service catalog based delivery structure.
• Enabled & setup of SAP L1.5 support team to cater to post roll - out high volumes of How-to queries.
• User base billing in a unique Pay-per-use model.
• Successfully negotiated SLAs
• Converted SLAs to KPIs (non-penalty), reduced from 27 SLAs to 4 SLAs & 3 KPIs.
• Introduced SLA carve-out procedures for SLA exceptions.