EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• SAP Senior Solution Architect with TWELVE Years of Experience in SAP.
• Complete FLC experience in projects and involved in Requirement gathering, Blue print development, Design - phase, data mapping, Build-phase - Configuration and Functional / technical specs, Functional Unit testing, Integration testing, UAT, Defect management, Training and Go-Live, Hyper-care support, Production support / AMS.
• Team Lead managing a team of over 25+ core technical/functional consultants in an on-site / off-shore model, several stakeholders from client including SMEs, process owners, IT counterpart- multi-location, multi-culture environments.
• PS Experience - Solution Architecting, process consulting and application development - Project structuring, Planning, Budgeting, Scheduling, Execution, Progress monitoring by milestone trend, earned value analysis, WIP - Result analysis, Asset under construction, periodic settlement - cost center, profitability segment, Investment management.
• PM Experience - Business Consulting - configuration/ support - Notifications, maintenance orders, maintenance plan, equipment calibration, procurement of external service, work clearance management, permits, measuring points, MRO, EAM.
• CS-SM Experience - Service notifications/ orders- for service, installation, warranty, order settlement, Warranty management, Resource related billing configuration, external service procurement.
• FICO - Internal orders, CO-PA, settlement, Cost center accounting, Activity types, SKF,RA, GL, Bank accounting, AP.
• Good understanding - Order to cash cycle, Procure to pay cycle, Plan to deliver, Record to report.
• Domains worked - Automotive, Engineering, Hi-Tech, Oil &Gas, Consumer Products / functions - Design and Product-Tool development in cross-functional team, Project engineering, Production-maintenance, Quality Control.
• Worked on various tools - SAP Solution manager for implementation and issue tracking, HPQC for requirement management in end to end implementation, MS Visio for Process Solution map and flow diagram in implementation and Business re-engineering, Test Director for regression testing, Panaya for SAP Upgrade project, SAP Tutor for training, Remedy for AMS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/7

ERP: SAP R/3, ECC, 4.6c, 4.7 / IS-Utilities

Tools: LSMW, Report painter

MS Office: MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Visio, MS Projects

Modules: PS, CS, PM and FICO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, KY

Solution Architect and Onsite SAP Applications Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project involves Discovery, Transition and Migration, Steady state phases.
• Resource planning, preparing project plans in MSP for knowledge transfer, presenting and discussing plans with client senior management to get their buy-in.
• Co-coordinating meetings with client SMEs for knowledge transfer, handling additional responsibility of lead consultant for FICO/PS, PM, QM, modules.
• Strategy planning and details for Migration of landscape, applications, prioritizing criticality
• Planning Test strategy and prepare testing plan with client Test lead,
• Managing offshore team for knowledge transfer, team preparations -questions, knowledge capture documentation.
• Identify gaps in the available documentation of business process procedures and work with team to address it.
• Weekly project plan update for Discovery, Transition and Migrations plans, identify project risk and build mitigation plans.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, NC

Team Lead (PM, PS, PP, QM, WM)

Responsibilities:

• Participate in roll-out planning resource and other activities - data extraction, validation, role preparation and testing.
• Co-ordinate with team for preparing test scripts preparation, testing, tracking defects in HPQC10.
• Managing the process to assess gaps and develop action plans to address these gaps.
• Develop robust project risk management plans to ensure timely delivery, testing.
• Facilitate data migration workshop preparations, upload strategy, data validation check lists.
• Managing development activities for the gaps - identify requirements, co-ordinate with functional / technical teams to develop requirements, facilitate testing, defect resolution.

Environment: ECC 6.0.

Confidential

Solution Architect (PS-CS-PM-CO)

Responsibilities:

• Pre upgrade assessment. Upgrade from 4.6 C to ECC 6.0. This involves various modules -SD, PP, HR PS, PM, CS, FICO.
• Developing the test strategy - script coverage, recording the test results, creating - tracking defects, issue resolution in Panaya tool.
• Worked on MRO, Warranty management, PM-SM orders and settlement, CO-PA, Internal order, Project accounting - WIP, settlement, project reports.
• Organize workshops for test script preparation; gather valid data from business team, test execution and defect tracking.
• Coordinating the offshore work for Upgrade (15 plus functional and technical consultants) and managing multi-country PWC business teams - Canada, USA, UK, Singapore.
• AMS - Resolving production issues- billing, COPA, performance analysis - improvement.
• Setting up a new company code and GL upload.

Environment: SAP 4.6, ECC 6.0.

Confidential, Houston TX

Project Lead - PM, MM, FICO

Responsibilities:

• Preparing project plan with deliverables /milestone using MS Project.
• Planning the As-Is workshops and preparing the PM Questionnaire for these workshops specific to Oil Industry domain, get it reviewed from client.
• Conducting the As-Is workshops and documentation - key findings - Gaps and Opportunities, process flow diagrams.
• Participating in the To-Be workshops with Business process owners.
• Guiding the team for the To-Be documentation, Work with team for the detailed Blue print, identify the RICEF objects referring the Gaps, Working with Blueprint Design Track lead for BBP review, Participating in walkthrough for BBP.
• Getting the BBP sign-off from business process owners.
• Planning and conducting the CRP - Conference Room Pilot for different functionalities / processes, driving the offshore team to in corporate the inputs.
• PM configuration - Notifications with catalogues for Inspection, environment monitoring, breakdown, preventive, PM orders, WCM - Lockout/tag out, confirmation, external service procurement, FMEA of equipments, MTBF/MTTR analysis.

Environment: ECC 6.0.

Confidential

Lead Consultant (PS/PM-CS-FICO)

Responsibilities:

• Creation of Master Data for SAP PM for Functional and Technical Objects/Task lists/Maintenance plan, Service Notifications.
• Created various types of Orders, like Planned Order, Service Order, Break down Maintenance Order, Refurbishment Order, Schedule Maintenance Order, maintenance plan, measuring points for test equipments etc.
• Creating service material, installation order from sales order, RRB.
• Project profile configuration, cost planning, external service for projects.
• CO Configuration - General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element groups, cost centers.
• Managing Scenario Testing, UAT sessions and sign-off.
• Design cut-over strategy and data migration - guidance in master data cleansing, upload and validation.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0.

Confidential

Lead Consultant (PS/FICO/CS)

Responsibilities:

• In Internal Orders setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost. Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution.
• Data extraction, validation, test uploads.
• Running test scripts, Security role testing, defect resolution and tracking.
• Conduct training at client locations - Australia, Malaysia and India.
• Provide post-go live support.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0.

Confidential

Senior CS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering, preparing solution document.
• Preparing FS details, co-ordinate development with technical team.
• Writing test scenarios, co-ordinate with users about end user testing and approval.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Solution Architect (PS/PM/CS)

Responsibilities:

• Business process analysis and solution for Service function - Equipment installation planning, Equipment hierarchy, equipment BOM, Install base, warranty cost tracking using Maintenance projects, profitability analysis.
• Team management - managing issues, defects and approvals in Unit testing, Integration testing, tracking development of conversion programs.
• Configuration - project profile, user status, RA, Settlement rule, CO-PA, Service Management, RRB.
• Validations - start and end date mandatory for wbs element - monitoring equipment validity, user fields.
• Substitutions - Result analysis keys, functional location, equipment, profit center.
• Workflow design for triggering notifications based on user statuses.
• Writing FS for - Service order creation program, auto-release of project plans, auto-teco of service order.
• Legacy data conversion - large size data of more than 10000 projects were migrated to SAP through upload programs - develop conversion programs- uploading networks, uploading project definition, prepare validation check list.
• Maintain Solution manager for configuration and related documentation.
• Unit / Integration testing - perform unit testing, resolve defects in HPQC, UAT - maintain UAT scripts, Hyper care support.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP Project Manager and Senior PS/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Case monitoring and resolution - review with client manager, weekly SLA presentation to client manager and business, managing team meeting for case progress, drive improvements.
• Issues - Business critical cases, Time sheet and CATS related issues, RA, COPA issues.
• Enhancements on Project confirmations, Result analysis, configuration - cost center groups/hierarchy.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6c.

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Application Development - Custom developed application which integrates SRM and PS.
• Investment planning and asset specification-design through IM.
• Asset procurement and construction, installation through PS.
• Asset supplier selection, bidding and contract management through SRM.
• Capturing related cost - material, labor through confirmations and periodic settlement using AUC.
• HR-CATS - Changes in holiday calendar for regular and contract employees and resetting work schedules, Changes in output of Time in excess of standard report.
• Ticket monitoring, team co-ordination, resource management.
• Preparing weekly Remedy reports and present it to client management.

Environment: S AP R/3, 4.6c.

Confidential

Senior PS/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining Investment management programs, assign measures - projects to it.
• Project planning and budgeting with budget availability control, budget distribution.
• Maintaining project structure with 3-levels of WBS structure, validations for maintaining project data, Periodic settlement to Asset under construction.
• Time sheet entry application support - employee self service through enterprise portal.

Environment: SAP R/3, 4.6c.

Confidential

Module Lead - PS/DMS/CO

Responsibilities:

• Conducting change management workshops MS-Project 2002 users, demonstrating best practices and solution.
• Type of projects - Customer projects - Fixed Price-with reward/penalty, Capital projects.
• Project structuring, user exit used for entering project information like line of business, geography, project objectives.
• Project Planning - Date planning and cost planning - network costing, Revenue planning.
• Maintaining billing plan, milestone billing, notifications triggering based on milestone completion.
• Enhancement - Skill based resource planning and allocation - through selecting a skilled resource with search criteria skill, competency level defined in HR and availability from PS tables.
• Project reports - Cash flow report based on revenue related milestone, etc.
• Result analysis - profit based method.
• Calculating profitability analysis based on sales order, region, LOB etc.
• Capital projects used for new offices or facilities created - cost planning, budget with availability control, creating AUC, monthly settlement, creating an asset.
• Creating document types for sales order, material purchase, project documentation etc.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6c.