SUMMARY

• I bring on - board my knowledge and experience of delivering successful SAP implementation / migration programs to enable clients take on the present day digital initiatives
• Seasoned SAP leader, with over 20 years of experience, who has a passion for driving solution and efficiencies to client / its business.
• Senior SAP HANA Program Director with Global, Business-Functional and IT experience in the areas of SAP R3/ECC/HANA.
• Successfully implemented standard/custom solutions that significantly enabled business value and increased team productivity all within defined scope on an accelerated schedule and lean budget.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Customer/Stakeholder Management
• Effective Communicator
• Strategic Vision and Tactical Execution
• Team Player
• Business Transformation and Change Management
• Well Organized
• Business Process Improvement
• Problem Solver
• Turnaround and Benchmarking
• High level of Integrity
• Budget Management
• Effective Mentor
• Multi-Vendor and Cross Functional team management
• Social
• SDLC, SAP ASAP, ACTIVATE, Agile and Scrum Methodology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Director - SAP Programs

Confidential, Atlanta

Responsibilities:

• SAP HANA Program Director for Hi-Tech manufacturing client
• Worked closely with SAP and the hosting partner Virtustream / HP to offer solutions for the client.
• Instrumental in rolling out SAP testing as a service (Service based, Scalable, Pay per drink model) solution for the client
• Program Manager - Two End to End SAP rollout program for Client’s M&A businesses in US and South Africa
• Value realization assessment and APR exercise for migration of legacy systems to S4HANA move for a Life Science Client

Director - SAP Programs

Confidential, Atlanta

Responsibilities:

• Hands on Program Management in the areas of SAP implementations for several clients.
• Key experiences / achievements include end to end program management activities for various projects at clients like Stanley Black and Decker, Confidential, Rexam, Amcor, Confidential, Bumblebee, NCL, REI, Carhartt, Joy Mining, Tellabs, Office Max, Dart Containers, Tarmac, Siemens to name a few.

Project/Program Manager

Confidential, Portland

Responsibilities:

• Managed 4 end to end projects in SAP Supply Chain implementation initiatives and rollouts.
• Part of the technical team for implementation of SAP R/3 in manufacturing plants across the globe.
• Hands on configuration experience in SAP APO - DP, GATP and SNP modules

SAP Techno Functional Consultant

Confidential, Chicago IL

Responsibilities:

• Conceive and implement effective program initiatives that help clients succeed over their competition
• Be an effective change leader; Adapt the change and direct / motivate the teams accordingly
• Weave the thread across different projects / teams to accomplish common program goal.
• Prepare and maintain project documents in accordance with project management methodologies, including: project charters, cost plans, capacity management plans, risk management plans, communications plans, governance plans, schedules, change management plans, knowledge management plans and quality assurance plans.
• Formulate, commit and lead the necessary resources planned for the program
• Lead all project plan development activities, including identification of phases, activities, tasks, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, schedules and assignment of resources
• Manage/report financial/budget along with strategic guidance to Steering Committee (executives and business)
• Manage the stakeholders effectively by using appropriate techniques to push back, prioritize, analyze the changes to achieve a fine balance between the following:
• Program goals - Business Value to be achieved / Program Budget
• Implementation timelines
• Business requirements
• Approve / Authorize program plans, program expenditure, and agreed program changes
• Facilitate regular program and project status reviews to ensure program/project progress and deliverable materials meet the business objectives and are in line with defined requirements
• Implement an effective risk mitigation process is in place and focus on resolution of high probability / high impact issues
• Own the Program implementation and cutover plan including Technical / Business implementation and rollout strategy.
• Work collaboratively with current well versed with and practitioner of various implementation methodologies like SAP’s ASAP, Activate, SDLC and Oracle’s AIM.
• Be accountable for Service Level Agreements and continuous improvement programs for different accounts.
• Develop program and project plans, testing, training, data management plans.
• Play a role of Integration, Cutover and Change Manager in various projects.
• Liaison between Business users and the SAP implementation teams
• Provide the leadership and direction for various SAP programs (internal and external)
• Provide leadership and management cover to develop various delivery managers and project teams to ensure that common methodologies are followed as well as escalations are handled in a swift manner
• Responsible for hiring and mentoring resources per the program needs.
• Be a mentor and advisor to many fellow team members to ensure that their organizational goals are managed and expectations are set properly.
• Experienced in working with varied teams to create a mutually beneficial and growth environment.
• Liaise with SAP at various levels in terms of strategically developing plans for co-innovation
• Provide leadership in ecosystem development working hand in hand with partners / alliances and group companies understanding individual unique strengths.
• Participate in annual budget creation and tracking that throughout the year
• Conduct professional briefings for executive management and customers in steering committee and review meetings
• Constant engagement with the C-Level executives and the client business to strategically plan out the IT programs.
• Manage different project teams comprised of upwards of 250 consultants to deliver SAP programs for several clients.
• Facilitate design workshops and guide client teams (IT/Business) to think through and adhere with the transformation levers
• Provide consulting advice in the area of supply chain to fill in solution gaps and navigate the business through the change that accompanies implementation

Program Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Help CIO draw up a solution that is in line with their short and long-term transformation goals for data migration from SAP to Data Lake in Hadoop
• Implemented a Suite on HANA implementation project for the packaging division.
• Worked closely with SAP and the hosting partner Virtustream / HP to offer solutions for the client.
• Instrumental in delivering a testing as a service solution in the SAP space. Highlight - This service was completely new to the clients and thus had to manage the change throughout the organization and roll it in phases to smoothen and course correct the services.
• Managed two SAP rollout programs to different M&A businesses of Jabil for their US and South Africa business. Highlight - Guide the team to take over the specifications and the business to stay with the cookbook type implementation and working closely with business to ensure that we deviate from cookbook only for items that are of competitive advantage in market.
• Managed the Global Trade Services project to implement services to identify sanctioned parties.
• Led the value realization assessment and APR exercise for migration of legacy systems to S4HANA move for a Life Science Client.

Program Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Was program manager for end to end SAP implementation project for three plants in US, Malaysia and Philippines Systems Manufacturing group. Highlight - Was responsible for ramping up a team and doing a full-scale implementation and rollout for three countries. This included working closely with the business counterpart to negotiate the scope and ensuring that the program objectives are met.
• Program manager for a B2B Solution with Confidential Subcontractors for Inventory management and Forecasting transactions. Highlight - Worked extensively with contract manufacturers to coordinate the changes in their systems on their end and align the testing and go live activities with Confidential ’s timelines.
• Managed global supplier capacity collaboration and constrained planning project for Multi-Factory supply chain optimization capability. Worked with multiple suppliers to plan the changes on their end and test the solution from end to end.
• Managed Multi-Factory supply chain optimization using SAP APO SNP as the backbone and utilizing an external optimizer. Was responsible to bring various groups together and manage the project from end to end. Highlight - Working with an external Optimizer to further optimize the supply plan. Had to work closely with the business to make this seismic shift in their outlook.
• Part of a Data governance project to formulate consistent system of record and reference definitions, understanding the access constraints and SOX compliance requirements, developing creation / maintenance / modifications / archiving strategies for data elements.
• SAP Business Intelligence implementation in the materials and customer service organization at Confidential which also involved in interfaces to the Enterprise Data Warehouse Solution in Teradata.