Solution Director-global Lead Resume
Northbrook, IL
SUMMARY:
- Working now at Confidential as SAP S/4 HANA Global Head for manufacturing business unit.
 - Manage a P&L Net new and existing - $120M. My team does Presales(25%), solutioning and delivery
 - Introduced a pre-demo discovery and qualification process improving the speed and efficiency of demo preparation and the impact of solution presentations
 - Monitored, troubleshot, and improved area-of-control operations to ensure alignment with company’s business direction, quality of business practices, optimum organizational performance and a highly motivated sales & presales force
 - Accomplished placing 43 SAP HANA/VORA/Hadoop consultants at Confidential .
 - Accomplished SAP ICC for Confidential Synbots Automation tool.
 - Built SAP HANA COE on AWS cloud and In-house Confidential Appliance.
 - Built ECC on HANA, BW on HANA, and HANA with Hadoop/VORA for client interactions.
 - Accomplished SAP Gold partnership for Confidential US operations.
 - Won 14 deals from (SAP AMS, Testing, Automation, & Production services) worth $71M till date.
 - Strategized with and coached teams on ways to apply consultative techniques to advance opportunities that resulted in ongoing profitable revenue growth
 - Legacy Modernization
 - Intelligent Portfolio Assessment
 - ERP License Negotiations
 - Network Upgrades and Modernization
 - Database Modernization
 - Application Modernization
 - Initiated presales activities, consulting services and products; developed projects’ scopes, SOW) and presentation
 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Solution Director-Global Lead
Responsibilities:
- Working for ISU Manufacturing Business unit as SAP S/4 HANA Global Lead.
 - Manage a P&L Net new and existing. My team does Presales(25%), solutioning and delivery
 - We provide solutions/integrations to HANA, S/4 HANA, Block Chain, Leonardo IOT and Cloud providers
 - Worked on S/4 HANA and HANA proposals which includes SAP HEC, HCP and HCI options.
 - SME around SAP Model Company, Value Assurance with SAP Solman and Activate.
 - Here are the statistics and pursuits for S/4 HANA- 1508, 1610, 1709 on Premise and Cloud versions.
 - There are other confidential activities happening at Confidential S/4 HANA COE.
 - Building RACI/Governance/SLA for MAzure/AWS/SAP HEC on S/4 HANA 1709 and Model company installations.
 - Working as Program Lead delivering S/4 HANA 1709 Implementation for a client in Charlotte.
 - Implementing Model Company for 19 countries.
 - Reporting to the Clients VP for account deliverables.
 - Negotiating the SOW and Resources for onboard project activities- Tech/Data deliverables
 - Managing a team of 24 Technical and Solution Architects Onshore/Offshore
 - Working with Infrastructure, Hardware, Network, Data, SAP Legacy teams across 6 continents.
 - Working with Client Partner, Senior Leaders in drafting a S/4 HANA 1709 phased approach.
 - Phase 0 is complete. Global design and 1 year Pilot in progress.
 - Building COEs for Client-Basis, HANA, SOLMAN and Innovation factory.
 - Project is in Day 0. Working with client on SOW and scope.
 - Currently have 9 tech leads reporting to me for deliverables. 4 onsite and 5 offshore.
 - Delivered Infrastructure readiness teams till April 2018.
 - Presented Solution Manager 7.2, SAP Model Company and Best Practice templates
 - Running workshops, seminars, info gathering sessions with all global clients and preparing teams for deliverables.
 - Creating Tech artifacts for Phase 1 and Phase 2.
 
Confidential
Senior Director- SAP Presales and HANA Delivery
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of 4 with 1 in USA and 3 in India and dealing with POCs
 - POC KPI-Merge Shipment data from SAP BW/HANA with Registration data from HADOOP in HANA Virtual tables
 - Developed 3 month roadmap with 360K planned budget
 - Implemented SAP HANA integration with HADOOP via SDA Adding SAP VORA for efficiency
 - Formulating project plan, blueprinting and the overall roadmap.
 - Working with SAP USA, IBM Cloud & Hadoop Analytics for project execution
 - Developing Dashboard for merged data in SAP Lumira
 
Confidential, Northbrook IL
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of 8 with 4 in USA and 4 in India
 - Developed a 2 year roadmap, Allstate-19 resources aligned to this initiative with $6.2M planned budget
 - Implemented SAP IA, FSPER, BODS, HANA, Lumira, on AWS Cloud
 - Phase 1 building project plan, blueprinting and the overall roadmap.
 - Partnered with SAP USA/MSG and client SME’s for overall SAP FI IA SDL, DDL layers and legacy applications
 - Worked on SAP Accounting for Insurance Contracts
 - Designed SAP Solvency Management for Insurance
 
Confidential, Portland OR
Responsibilities:
- Implemented SAP IOT solutions-manufacturing and logistics
 - Visited Germany Waldorf for SAP IOT solutions demo and negotiating the project financials.
 - Team Lead for 4. Budget approved is $1.7M. 2 resources in USA and 2 in Germany.
 - Client has 22000 trucks on road delivering goods; project demands we track cold storage, driving habits, stopovers, driver resting patterns, speed patterns and other data for iot initiatives
 - Integrated Truck data via SQL anywhere and Mobilink into SAP HANA Command center
 - Incoming Truck data is 420GB a day and growing. Operational Intelligence and Geospatial Processing is studied
 - Integrated and divided data into HANA and Hadoop. HANA is 8TB RAM appliance and Hadoop is Hortonworks 6.0
 - Integrated SQL Anywhere with MobilinK to all Trucks.
 - Delivered KPI-customer sentiment analysis, warranty analysis, storage expiration and others
 - SAP Lumira and WEBI used for reporting of IOT Data; analyzed 200 reports being daily
 
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Assessment, Infrastructure, Implementation, Testing and Production Support
 - Installation of SAP S/4HANA, Fiori 2.0, on-premise edition
 - Conducted Workshops and implemented in partnership with SAP UK
 - Accounting and Financial closes, Financial Planning and Analysis, Treasury and Financial Risk Management
 - Completed Migration of data from the old data structures to the new simplified data structures with MDM process
 - Used SAP DMO for migration cycle- Unicode, Upgrades and DB Migrations.
 - Phase 2- Go Live SAP HANA SP12 and 1511/1610 system for future releases
 - Designed blueprints for 1511 for the following.
 - Presented differences between 1511 and 1610 for senior leadership with SAP UK Office
 - The following solutions have been selected with client workshops
 - Logistics SAP SD OTC and Procurement areas are being implemented
 - Wrote SAP activate agile project plan for phased approach
 - Wrote entire E2E blueprint, Technical, functional, test and go live specs
 - Coordinated Staffing, Project financials, and deliverables in an Onshore/Offshore model
 
Confidential
SAP Technical HANA Manager
Responsibilities:
- Worked with SAP HANA COE in building client relationships and sales pursuits
 - Worked on CISCO Account in HANA Performance and tuning on:
 - CISCO UCS B440 BOX- Tuning of Production and Development box
 - Presented SAP HANA Modeling Best Practices and techniques.
 - Guided customer on SAP COE build out and presented workshops and seminars
 
Confidential
SAP Technical Solution Architect
Responsibilities:
- Worked with SAP HANA COE as Presales Architect for sales pursuits
 - Worked on Allstate Insurance, Home depot, CRL, Confidential controls account on SAP BW on HANA pursuits.
 - Deals worth $24M closed in this 3 quarters
 
Confidential
SAP Director-SAP HANA and Big Data
Responsibilities:
- Built SAP HANA, ECC, BW, and BI COE for IT strategy.
 - Presented SAP HANA Architecture for Presales, Delivery for targeted clients
 - ACH foods, IPEG, Applied Materials, Albemarle, Disney, Cardinal Health, Consumer Energy.
 - Built relationships with HP for SAP HANA hardware
 - Built SAP Professional and managed services for Advizex and Rolta
 - Maintained SAP HANA, ECC, SLT and BW in Advizex lab on HP servers
 - Building HANA models for different solutions for Client POC demos.
 - Presented SAP HANA Hardware, Professional and Managed Services at Tech Conferences.
 - Built relationships with EMC2, VMWARE, HP, and Oracle for Bigdata Products.
 - Certified Linux Associate, SAP HANA HP sizing and EMC Pivotal certified.
 - Built Intel Distribution Apache Hadoop Services in VMware for Client POC and HANA demos
 - Worked on a Presale, Delivery targets of $20 million funnel with my team.
 - Expertise on SAP HANA installation/Modeling/Administration on following:
 - HP and Cisco Hardware
 - VCE converges systems- VBlock
 - HP converges systems with HP one view
 - SAP HANA and Hadoop integration with R language.
 - Managed 24 consultants onshore and offshore for SAP HANA and Bigdata deliverables
 - Managed a portfolio of $12 million deliverables in Presale, delivery and managed services
 
Confidential
SAP HANA Manager -BW and HANA
Responsibilities:
- Worked on SAP Hybris ecommerce on SAP HANA implementation
 - Worked with a team of 14 at Client's location-Cristal Arabia
 - Focused on Hybris, HR and SHE (Safety Modules) KPI's on SAP HANA
 - Worked on SAP ECC, BW 7.3, Kernel, and Solution Manager Upgrades
 - Worked on Scalability and Installing SAP HANA-IBM Hardware at Secure 24 datacenter for Cristal Arabia
 - Presenting Dashboards and WEBI Outputs for HR and SHE KPI's
 - Organizing Client calls for Status reports, Steering committee, Partner & Employee calls
 - Worked on Phase1 and Phase 2 deliverables
 - Worked on SAP HANA Cloud platform cockpit, Used ABAP for HANA development tools
 - Ensured quality of ABAP code, Developed and deploy cloud Applications
 - SAP HANA Cloud integration with secure24 in Detroit data center
 
Confidential
SAP Technical Director and HANA Architect
Responsibilities:
- Worked in Medical PMO office for SAP Projects
 - Worked on SAP Tech Refreshes, Builds, and Archiving projects
 - Worked on SAP Service Pack SP13 upgrade for ECC, SRM, SCM, SNC, BW, PI landscapes
 - Built Project Workbook for dependencies for SAP Kernel and SAP Solution Manager 7.1 upgrades
 - Gathered Estimates from All stakeholders, partners for SP13 upgrade
 - Conducted Architecture review, scope review calls for Initial ROM
 - Provided Long term, Short term Archiving, DB Compression strategy during Design and build phase
 - Provided strategy and financial input for IBM DB2 Patch/10.1 upgrade for SAP EHP6 SP13
 - Presented SAP HANA architecture overview to Medical PMO
 - Built Proof of Concept of SAP COPA on HANA and Hybris Ecommerce on HANA DB with SAP
 - Provided SAP COPA Archiving strategy for CE1, CE2 tables for accurate estimates.
 - Presented SAP HANA Studio, ETL, BODS 4.0 architecture, Hadoop R Integration overview for a future project
 - Procured HANA, HP Hardware-512GB, 256GB, and 64GB for Prod, dev and test from AdvizeX.
 - SAP FI COPA data archived and backup complete. COPA on HANA implemented
 - Monitored SAP transports, Builds, SAP programs during project execution and deliverables
 - Provided financial reports on projects for Steering Committee, Gate Reviews after each phase
 - Maintained weekly and monthly project financials, Hardware, Software, Capital, Expense and SOW costs
 - Worked with WIPRO, HP partners for RFP, SOW fixed bidding process on SAP SP13 upgrade
 - Presented BW 7.3 upgrade plan, IBM NAS strategy and Storage assessment during PM architecture reviews
 
Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA
Responsibilities:
- Managed a team of 35 SAP Consultants from PPG, HP and CSC
 - Mergers Activities
 - Coordinated with Confidential Corporation for SAP FICO, MM, SD, PP, PI, BW and Solution Manager for PPG merger
 - Worked on DAY1 Go live of Merger- Project plans, Infrastructure, Hardware and Software procurement for the merger
 - Worked with PPG Business for Pre and Post Merger plans, Command center Setup, War Room Setup, Resource Availability, Financials and work assignments to the team
 - Worked on Architecture and Blue prints for SAP FICO, MM, SD, PP, PI, and BW
 - Coordinating Solution Manager as repository for all blue prints and for SOX compliance
 - Updated SOW and contracts with HP, EDI Architecture SOW with GSX
 
Confidential, Columbus, OH
Responsibilities:
- Wrote Project plans for all deliverables in Infra and development services.
 - Worked on Check tracker initiative gathering estimates for development and testing cycle.
 - Moved to GFT after 2 months
 
Confidential
SAP Technical Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Worked with a global team of 65 from US, Argentina, Chile, Columbia, UK, and Indian offices.
 - Duration of the project is 6 months, 75 applications in Interfaces.
 - Monitored 220 BR and 600 Technical design requirements for the project.
 - Defined global rollout approach, rollout plan, Comprehensive risk mitigation plan
 - Expertise in US Accounting, Regulations, GRC Practices for Global rollouts.
 - Coordinated Project plan, Shared Point, QC, SAP Solution Manager, PLC, SOX Audit process for the entire project.
 - Conducted Global Management Status calls, Toll Gate Audit calls, Technical Build review, and Test status calls during the entire execution of the project.
 - Monitored and Migrated Argentina PeopleSoft GL to SAP GL. Corporate and Local ledger, Dual accounting process followed.
 - Migrated Chile SUNGuard Accounting and 16 legacy apps to SAP GL
 - Monitored Corporate and Local ledger, SAP Master Data, SAP ECS Error Processing and SAP Builds
 - Worked a plan to Copy SAP GL Interface Posting Files for Argentina, Chile and Columbia
 - Planned on moving Posting Program Change for Argentina, Chile and Columbia for Regression Testing.
 - Monitored SAP GL Interface Files, SAP Manual MCA Input, SAP Corporate Outbounds, and SAP to WebRS extracts, WEBRS Balance Extract files, WEBRS Transaction Extract File.
 
Confidential
IT PMO-Lead IT Manager
Responsibilities:
- Enforced procurement activities for organization software maintenance and purchase actions.
 - Monitored all budgets for proper run rates and corrected identified variances
 - Maintained tools- knowledge appropriate for my Program and Project Management roles
 - Ensure direct reports complete yearly objectives as provided by our leadership team
 - Complete quarterly feedback sessions with direct reports - target feedback within 30 days of the end of each quarter, a focused midyear and end of year feedback session will be done for each direct report
 - Contribute to the 20% IT level component to meet CMMI Maturity Level 3
 - Built and managed a business development team. Established and build relationships with vendors in conjunction with corporate leadership
 - Promoted the company through speaking engagements at industry conferences & local business organizations
 - Pursued CTL IT Services SAP Opportunities for 12 external clients in 2011. SOW and RFP proposals have been coordinated with the teams - Pre-Sales and delivery
 
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Monitoring SAP Implementation and Merger completions on Production Landscapes.
 - Handling Tier1, Tier2 production tickets for 7 modules that went live on December 12th, 2011
 - Monitoring Production alerts via CCMS, Solution Manager and checking TMS for transports to Production during pilot mode.
 - Planning for SAP Cloud computing interfaces to Enterprise SAAS.
 - Planning for SAP SCM Supply chain Automation upgrades to SAP SCM and legacy portals.
 - Leading Offshore/Onshore IT teams for Production support, Upgrades, Patches, enhancements from SAP service marketplace
 - Involved as overall IT PMO on Oracle SCM E-Business Suite migration to SAP 8 modules- FICO, IS, SD(Cash Flow), P2P (Purchase to Procure), Projects systems, Treasury Management HR and Real Estate
 - Managed a team of 32 SAP consultants and full time employees
 - Worked closely with other SAP Teams (IS/MM/SD/HR/PP/BASIS) including the FICO, HCM (CRIS) sub modules, duties include blue printing, design, configure, and test
 - And Implement FICO objects in GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, Cost Center Accounting, Product Costing, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting, and COPA
 - Worked in SAP R/3, ECC 5.0 and 6.0 environments. Worked with multinational clients (Asia, US, Canada, Europe)
 - Prepared a Plan to configure, upgrade SAP systems to SAP ECC 6.0 and Netweaver 7.0.
 - Planned versions of Master Mapping tables to support the processes of initial balance load at Go-Live and ongoing transactions interfaced from legacy to SAP
 - Planned on Qwest’s legacy billing systems interfaces to the AP systems (Mechanized Interface Processes (MIPS) will remain operational and interface with SAP for Go-Live
 - Worked with IT, Business Process Owners BPMs and building partnerships and managing third party contractors.
 
Confidential
SAP Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Worked on 10Gige, ELA/EPL, SDP, CPE SC, BMG SFA, IPV6, VPLS, ASR FT, and BPS BVOIP products and Master Items in SAP Sales distribution and SCM Module
 - Worked as a PM Coordinator for April migrations 2008 which has 8 projects combined
 - Worked on maintaining Accuracy on LOE’s, worked on project plans
 - Worked directly with business units to assess the technical impact of SDP business requirements and to reach consensus on alternative solutions when necessary in an effort to maintain a consistent yet flexible architecture
 - Performed resource-leveling and schedule crashing to expedite project deliverables
 - Communicated effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions with project management
 - Worked with PM and Development teams to mitigate and resolve issues/risks
 
Confidential
ERP Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Worked as ERP consultant responsible for Functional developing, Integrating CRM and Oracle applications with PKMS (developed by Manhattan Associates, Atlanta)
 - Service operations and comprehensive blend of SOC sales and Siebel Call Center
 - Maintenance of Customer data routed from various departments through TPE hub (Transaction Process Engine-designed as Super System 2 by Oracle) to Siebel CRM and also PKMS (Pickticket Management System)
 - Involved with DBA’s in Reverse engineering the existing databases using ER Studio
 
Confidential
SAP Finance and Controlling Specialist
Environment: MS SQL server, Windows 95/NT, UNIX, SAP R/3 4.0B (ABAP/4, FI, CO modules)
Responsibilities:
- Worked with Communication in Foreign Trade - Export, Automatic output determination, Supplying data for the billing document view and the export billing IDOC, Transferring the data;
 - Wrote basic commands to use in SAP Control framework to load source code.
 - Used extensively ABAP editor to load and download source code for certain modules.
 - Coding of General Ledger and Configuring the Chart of Accounts, Setting Period
 - Setting up the Pricing Procedures, Setting up Transportation Credit Management, Billing
 - Analyzing the financial structure of each company internal and legal point of view.
 
Confidential
SAP Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Worked with Communications in Trade with Reddy Research Labs (RR) and subsidiaries
 - Gathered and Maintained Statistical Values about Trade Data in Sales and Distribution
 - Interfaced trade data in sales and distribution documents with FI/CO and MM modules
 - Interfaced head office and branches with sales data
 
Confidential
SAP Trainee
Responsibilities:
- Credit Master data Processing: Created corresponding master record for each account, Debit (Customer) and Credit (Vendor) Account and controlling various posting data and completing payment programs for regular and one-time customers
 - G/L Accounting-Posting and supporting Integration of data in sub-ledger and accounts payable when posted and using reconciliation account in balance sheet for the vendor
 - Setting cost elements and allocating costs to organizational areas in which cost center they are incurred
 
