SUMMARY:

• Scrum certified knowledgeable and adaptive Project Manager/ Scrum Master/Delivery Manager with 17+ years of experience in an IT environment interfacing with both business and technical resources with strong knowledge of SDLC and PM methodologies: Waterfall & Agile/Scrum/Kanban
• Extensive experience in IT Industry performing various roles as Project Manager, Scrum Master, Delivery Manager, Business and Data Analyst.
• Knowledge on writing and analyzing SQL for data and report validation from reporting tools.
• Hands on experience in acting as a servant leader and trained the scrum teams with core agile principles and scrum ceremonies during transition and assessed the scrum maturity level across the organization.
• Comprehensive background includes application of Business Analysis, Requirement Analysis, Microsoft SQL Server, Databases, Software Development, Enterprise Resource Planning, Software Project Management elements at a level of appropriate to the project and environment: Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resources, Communications, Risk Management, Release Management, Procurement, and Stakeholder Management.
• As Project Manager Control and track project performance, time allocations, cost, and quality by constantly evaluating project progress and conducting regular team status meetings
• Interfaced with business users to prepare and update Business Process Requirements (BPR).
• Experience with SDLC, data migration and data integration.
• Experience in handling projects in SAP BI, Azure, SSRS, Azure Analysis Services, PowerBI and SAP Design Studio
• Prepared accurate and detailed requirement specifications documents, user interface guides, and functional specification documents.
• Proficient in creating BW reports using development, monitoring and support of SAP business warehouse and reporting solutions with Teamwork and Problem Solving
• Conceptualized and developed new service lines
• Experience in handling bigger/multiple teams located in different regions and time - zones

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: agile business intelligence Business Analysis Software Development Project Management Program Management Service Delivery Management Process Improvement Vendor Management Technical Architecture

EXPERIENCE:

SAP Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed and led overall project team activities and monitoring progress, including project health, capacity planning, developing and mentoring staff, and internal process improvement activity
• Directed cross - organizational program teams through project lifecycle from ideation to project execution, including executive approval and multiple demand management processes
• Successfully implemented industrial planning improvements project for Confidential and Confidential
• Led multiple technical and functional project teams located across the regions

Business Intelligence Project Manager

Confidential, St. Louis

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple migration, implementation projects managing teams across the regions
• Created cost - benefit analyses and ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision-making on proposed implementation projects.
• Drove impressive improvements across the business as a result of IT implementations. Equipped Confidential with solutions that accelerated physical transportation improvement projects across all the regions.
• Developed, maintained, and tracked project management plans and schedules. Socialized with program sponsors and firm leaders to ensure leadership engagement.
• Facilitated weekly client meetings to review project status, upcoming deliverables and address concerns.
• Developed and implemented improved policies, procedures and practices.
• Efficiently built Organizational Process Assets such as knowledge management repository, estimation tools, governance structure, templates.
• Developed effective client and vendor relationships which led to high client satisfaction scores.

Service Delivery Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for managing development projects of Business Analytics Tower for Confidential .
• Handled projects in technologies: SAP BW, SAP ABAP, SAP BO (Design Studio/Webi), SAP HANA, Microsoft Power BI
• Grew project revenue by 300% over 2 years by taking ownership of new service lines.
• Managed budgets of up to $ 15 million
• Led efforts in managing and completing high visibility projects using onshore/offshore model
• Initiated and Maintained Project Management Plans, issue logs and risk logs
• Conceptualized and delivered the following new service lines:
• SAP BO - Design Studio Design and Development
• Predictive Analytics
• Digital Signal Repository Design and Development
• Internal Analytics
• Data Science
• Machine Learning
• Managed and monitored results of team to ensure internal, external SLA's and quality are met.
• Successfully initiated and implemented Agile - Scrum Methodology.
• Responsible for rapid team expansion providing training and performance evaluations on a regular basis.
• Ensured proven associate growth, met Confidential needs in providing multiple onsite resources from offshore team
• One point of contact for all the Business Analytics teams of Confidential for escalations/process needs.
• Oversaw 100% compliance of meeting SLA's and KPI's in accordance.
• Reduced cost for the Confidential by initiating and implementing multiple focused improvements, also by offshoring multiple services and service lines.
• Spearheaded migration of reports from Cognos and Design Studio to Power BI.
• Designed and developed a comprehensive metrics tracking system to monitor service delivery performance.
• Conducted ongoing internal team meetings to set priorities and timely resolve outstanding issues.
• Orchestrated SAP HANA and BI/BO upgrade projects.
• Efficiently built Organizational Process Assets such as knowledge management repository, estimation tools, governance structure, templates.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Introduced structure by developing and documenting formal processes and procedures to provide consistency for audit activities and enhance corporate governance.
• Created, documented, and managed an oversight process that increased compliance and improved effectiveness of controls by eighty percent across the organization.
• Mentored and provided technical leadership to audit team members. Created training presentations for control testers and held a departmental training sessions to expand understanding of audit.

Sap Business Intelligence Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed Cognos Global Roll - out project.
• Initiated and Maintained Project Management Plans, issue logs and risk logs
• Engaged with regional managers and senior leaders to gain leadership sponsorship and buy-in for Cognos trainings across the globe. Developed training programs. Worked with HR to execute the curriculum. Tracked, measured employee adoption of Cognos platform using surveys, questionnaires and 2-way comms.
• Designed and developed tools using Cognos SDK.
• Developed end to end reporting solutions in SAP BI, BO, Cognos.
• Successfully implemented Confidential Continuous Excellence program.
• Implemented automation of data loads using TWS.
• Resolved end user reported tickets.
• Providing support for key users during testing.
• Participated in requirement gather for new changes/projects.
• Involved in SAP BI/BO Change Management.

Sap Business Warehouse Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ensured onsite - offshore co-ordination with Confidential Bangalore, Roche-BW Team.
• Successfully implemented generic & custom extractions in finance process area.
• Looked after data modeling of various FI cubes (CO-PA, AP, AR, GL, SL & AA) and ODSs.
• Developed custom reports like vendors without materials, materials without vendors, spend data by category, consolidated spend history and purchase price variance.
• Subjected the reports through a series of tests like Integration, Stress & Volume and Consolidation Testing to monitor data validation in various environments.
• Prepared flexible queries using filters & navigational attributes in Bex Analyzer to facilitate data analysis in a drill down / summarized way and give detailed levels of information.
• Generated queries using variables & structures and RRI jump queries.
• Improved aggregate suggestions using data from BW Statistics Info cube.
• Worked on loading history data files into production, consolidation, development & integration environments (> 15 Million records) as well as debugging of ABAP routine.
• Rendered support to customers application systems that identify solutions to business problems & resolve the issues.
• Engaged in job scheduling for SAP corrections & transports.
• Attended user meetings to resolve on-going implementation issues, performance & code reviews.
• Managed documentation related aspects that supported the quality aspects like CSV.
• Executed Business Content, Info Sources, Objects & Cubes, ODS Objects and Transfer / Update Rule Process Chains.

Sap Business Warehouse Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created templates in BEx for various users in BW & R/3 in Inventory Module.
• Rendered support to various users in BW in 3 different regions.
• Monitored the data loading of Inventory Module by interacting with Data Loading Teams across the globe.
• Deliver and maintain training in SAP BI/BO project documents TUT, FUT, UAT, procedures, work instructions and provide on - site user training.