Executive Summary:

• Senior Manager with over 15 years experience in managing technology, ERP SAP projects for Fortune 500 companies, in managerial and leading roles in 10 full-life cycle implementations/programs.The projects had budgets of 1 million to 100 million.
• A college degree holder with Specialization in Information systems and a CPA with extensive all round Finance and IT experience ranging from software applications to IT infrastructure and cloud solutions.
• Experienced leader with a record of building, developing and managing small to large, cross-functional teams, including working with large IT integrator like Accenture, NTT data, Kronos, Genpact and SAP America implementation teams, for the implementation, enhancement, rollouts, support and upgrade of complex system applications, environment management, and Release management.
• Excellent communication skills with proven experience of interaction, communication and presentation to C level and executive Steering committees. Experience in dealing with CFO, CIO and VP level position in various organizations.
• Expertise in strategic planning with extensive qualifications in managing design, development and delivery of cost-effective, business solutions to meet challenging business demands.
• Strong Finance functional experience and trained SAP FICO manager and a CPA from India, with good Knowledge and experience of SOX and compliance.
• Trusted advisor to Senior Leaders on program planning and scheduling, program risk assessment and mitigation strategies to ensure quality and on-time program delivery.
• Strong ability to translate business concepts and processes into functional and requirements that improves understanding at all levels of the organization.
• 10 years experience in change management, training needs of users for newer technologies and helping in managing change in IT environment in different organizations.
• Great team player, strong interpersonal and communication skills combined with self-motivation, initiative and the ability to think outside the box. Possess strong analytical, project planning and problem solving skills combined with the functional expertise.

Key Skills

• Experienced Project Manager for ERP SAP FI/CO, SD, MM, P2P, C2C, PP, MDM, HCM, SCM, BPC, I/C, DS, GTS, EHM, CRM, PPM, and BI/BW/BOBJ SAP Upgrade projects
• Experience with Clarity, MPP and Microsoft office suite.
• Experience with Kronos Work Force Management
• Experienced Project Manager for all cycles of SAP implementations and support
• Expert in change management, Environment planning and management, Infrastructure, Cutover planning Release management
• Experience in project planning for Implementations, Upgrades and Project Office oversight.
• Experienced with Cloud based solutions

Professional Experience

Confidential

SAP Developer

Responsibilities

• Technical Upgrade of the ERP system from 4.7 to ECC 6.0 EhP6, Unicode Conversion, - Test Management, Defect management, Remediation of custom developed ABAP objects - Unit testing of ABAP Objects Unicode syntax remediation, Security remediation and test management, Creation and Management of cutover plan, retrofitting of objects changed in the maintenance landscape, Providing Hyper Care support for the areas in scope, Knowledge transition to existing Support team
• The project comprises of the following:
• HMH is using SAP R/3, 4.7 and wanted a Technical upgrade to ECC6.0 Ehp6. It is a 'like to like' upgrade of the existing environment's functionality interfaces and integrations to ECC 6.0 environment with minimum downtime to business users and minimizing risk to business operations.
• The project is being implemented by SAP consulting team and I am the program manager managing the SAP America Team, Cap Gemini Team HMH internal team
• Role Program manager SAP Technical upgrade project.
• Client: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Boston, MA Media Jun 2014 to current
• Client: T-Mobile Bellevue, WA Oct 2013 to Jun 2014
• Role: Partner Delivery Manager
• Increased conversion rate and activations
• Better customer experience and lower walkout rate
• A fully integrated Workforce Management solution to include Forecasting, Automated Scheduling, Task Management Training, Operations , Labor Performance Management, Employee Self Service, Results Management continuous process improvement and Labor Efficiency will result in increased sales.
• Kronos Work Force Management Scope
• Retiring Evavi Portal and moving all the functionality to IDOO, Maintain data differentiation at the SKU level, Generate Sales Orders, Accounts Receivable, and update Inventory modules, Dealer Management, National Retailers Customer EDI , CRM Changes, Retiring MIDAS and moving all the functionality to SAP CRM
• It required the Integration of MPCS dealer portal, online orders and National retailers to SAP backend systems. This included changes to:
• Manage and delivers all SAP offshore and on shore development teams. The major projects/enhancements are ever going currently the team is working on the following projects:
• Reduced idle time and more efficient use of precious labor resources
• Identify Labor efficiencies Continuous process improvements and direction trend towards smaller stores.
• Automate Clarity time reporting to SAP PS capital internal labor / Purchasing service labor
• Automated accrual and reconciliation of project labor
• Service PO's for projects in SAP gaining real-time visibility to service commitments and spend
• Clarity Planned project costs assessments forecasts internal external labor / SOW / materials to SAP PS
• Project System to Clarity integration eliminate manual entries
• Project budget approval and allocation utilize SAP PS native budget controls
• Purchasing to Clarity roles services , vendors, rate cards
• HR to Clarity / SAP ECC FTE Contingent workers
• SAP Portfolio Project Management Project scope:
• Solution will allocate Labor and analyze actual spend vs. budget by applying 'Right Person, Right Time, Right Place' methodology.
• PPM set up on AWS cloud - Hosting of SAP PPM application on Amazon Cloud

Confidential

Role : SAP Program and Global SAP Support services lead

• SAP SEM Global Financial Planning Consolidation
• Global rollout of Integrity Treasury software by Sun guard
• Global rollout of Concur Travel expenses software
• SAP HR Implementation involving Personnel Administration PA , Organizational Management OM , Time and Payroll management.
• SAP EHS Implementation involving Environmental hygiene and safety, SAP-EHS Product safety component -specification management, phrase management, Occupational health, waste management and Audit management. WWI configuration and report template design ex. Incident report template design Authorization management for EHS roles through GRC. EHS Integration with other modules like MM, SRM, PP, SD, HR, FICO