IT professional with over 18 years of experience, with 8 years in leadership roles and managing Full Lifecycle SAP implementations project preparation, blueprint, realization, final preparation, go-live, and on-going support . Experience in leading large teams in complex project environments including multiple vendors, high degree custom development and onsite- offshore model. An innovator with hands-on expertise in managing multiple projects and leading global teams of Business Analysts, Project Managers, SAP BASIS, ABAP and functional experts. Work with global partners for roll-outs across, North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Managing Tate and Confidential managed services for 46 partners across 154 EDI transactions. Managing the entire project including integration partners SAP Business Network and IBM , EDI partner communication, testing, defect resolution and management reporting.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Responsible for stabilizing the EDI project at the advanced development stage for go-live risk mitigation.
• Co-ordinated with business, testing teams and integration partners and resolved over 250 high defects.
• Initiated direct partner communication for acceptance testing along with business users.
• Managed relationship with implementation partners Infosys, SAP, IBM and other vendors .

Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The company is a leading provider through Caterpillar Financial Services, Caterpillar Remanufacturing Services and Progress Rail Services.Led implementations of large SAP BW-BO project including major 40-50 custom developments. Developed and directed strategy for SAP BW-BO reporting for supply chain handling a budget of 4 million with a team size of 40 resources. Manage project risk and budget exceeding delivery milestones and reducing cost by 20 consistently. Manage blueprinting project for Customer Master Data Management MDM involving IBM and CAT employees.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Defined scope, budget and resource requirements and monitored team progress enforcing deadlines.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to draft project schedules and plans. Defined blueprint involving business and functional teams and obtained stakeholder approvals.
• Spearheaded CAT leadership team to prioritize SAP BW/BO reporting needs and defined solution that benefits company's strategic direction meeting long team reporting needs.
• Managed end-to-end implementation of BW/BO from ECC data source development and activations to building of BW objects as DSO, InfoCubes, MultiProviders, BEx queries, BO Universe and reports.
• Rolled out 381 standard supply chain extractors in a record time of 5 months along with blueprint for 42 custom reports. Saved over 20 in overall budget while delivering commitments ahead of schedule.

Confidential is the third largest provider of enterprise applications and services. Confidential Continuous Monitoring IACM solution enables companies automate control aspects of GRC and business processes.Responsibility includes advising VP-Technology and corporate executives on end-to-end SAP project execution, budgets, staffing, change control, training and managing stakeholder's expectations. Manageentire operation ofIACM product development forSAP, Lawson and Oracletowards 20 million in annual revenue. Implemented continuous process improvement projects and ensured Service Level Agreement SLA conformity to support continued growth. Advise sales directors and managers for pre-sales, business development and authoring RFPs. Oversaw leadership of a matrix organization consisting of 30 resources including Program/Project Managers, Business Analysts, ABAP, BASIS and functional teams with budgets of 10M. Other responsibilities include vendor selections, hiring/firing employees, contractors and performance reviews.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Provided strategic direction for GRC product development and SAP landscape initiatives consisting of 28 different SAP versions and 150 servers. Managed ongoing SAP implementations and upgrades saving over 25 in overall costs.
• Recognized as the key architect in automating data extraction and migration technologies that reduced maintenance costs by over 50 every year.
• Strengthened support team by providing ongoing trainings and enabling them with level 3 supports.
• Reorganized, motivated teams and creating operation plans after acquisition.
• Initiated first Mobile App development for IACM - Certification Manager on IOS platform.
• Established organization's 1st virtualized SAP farm with VMware that ensured optimal business continuity while reducing costs. Managed team in conducting yearly testing of mission-critical applications.

KEYPROJECTS:

• Installation, upgrade and legacy system migration for a range of SAP versions from SAP 3.1 thru EhP6.
• Implementation and configuration of Solution Manager 7.1 for CSA, Service Desk, CHARM and CCMS.
• Manage 4.7 Unicode to ECC 6.0 EhP5 upgrade project with huge data migration across the 2 systems. This includes vendor systems integration and creation of new interfaces for data transfer.
• Performance, scalability and sizing of entire SAP landscape, ABAP optimizations and production support.
• Managed SAP HR implementation and custom development project of SAP Roles to Position based assignments from 3rd party applications. Creation of complex audit reports to list users grouped by department who have executed SAP HR t-codes along with the change history.
• Implemented a GRC project for role definition and identification of segregation of duty SOD violations. Led a corporate Single Sign-on SSO project with Central User Administration CUA , Active Directory AD integration with SSO for corporate users.

Confidential

• Designed and developed a highly scalable dynamic hybrid data extraction engine ABAP-RFC which uses a combination of background and parallel processing for mass data transfer using industry standard XML format. This solution was used to extract user and security information from SAP Security tables USR , AGR , CDHDR, CDPOS and from SAP transactional and master data tables for analytics and business process monitoring. This supports tables with over 3 billion rows with minimal performance impact on the SAP system while reducing over 50 in implementation costs. 175 Customers and Top 4 Audit firms rely on extraction technology and IACM for compliance.
• Conceptualized and built a SAP portal using ABAP Web Dynpro to access multiple SAP servers using any internet browser. This portal is widely used by remote employees/consultants.
• Solution Manager 7.0 Implementation: Led the team for full lifecycle implementation of Sol Man across the entire landscape. Reviewed setup and usage to define business process steps and ensure documentation are properly maintained. Promoted usage of CHARM for transports.
• Managed the IT infrastructure and VMware data center for the SAP servers. The server farm grew to 90 servers with addition of 8 new SAP versions.

• As the first SAP team member, was involved in installations, development and configurations of SAP systems. Research and design of SAP Security model for SOX Compliance and 3rd party integration for analysis.
• Responsible for end-to-end SAP deliveries and maintenance of several SAP versions from ECC 5.0 to SAP 3.1H and other alphabet SOUP items CRM 4.0, SRM 4.0, BW 3.5 and EP 6.0 . Provided support for 60 SAP servers. Also responsible for offshore teams and managed 10 parallel projects.
• Implemented enterprise wide 3 major projects for Continuous Controls Monitoring CCM solution Roles to Position based securityand Real-time role verification for segregation of duties violations.
• Extended support across several SAP version in design and implementation of SAP Security.
• Led the full implementation lifecycle for SAP 4.7, BW 3.5 and WAS 6.10 landscapes DEV, QA PROD .
• Designed and implemented SAP Security including User administration, Role and profile maintenance for SOD analysis and violations.
• Solely designed and developed adynamic data extractor RFC on SAP 4.6C that can extract data from any SAP table. Developed custom join conditions and filters to extract security data from multiple tables.
• Installed and configured SAP 4.5B, 4.6C including all standard BASIS activities.