SUMMARY:

• 21+ years (18+ years in SAP Techno Function stream) of experience in IT which includes 7+ years of experience in Program / Project Management,
• Experience in working with Fortune 500 clients as SAP Program Manager, SAP Project Manager, SAP Change Control Manager, SAP Transition Manager, SAP IT Project Manager & SAP Release Manager
• Expertise with all the processes groups and knowledge area of PMI’s PMBOK 5 edition “Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & controlling and Closing”.
• Expertise in Managing SAP projects including Implementation, Support and Rollouts,
• Experience in Infrastructure support activities, System outage maintenance activities and Infrastructure upgrade projects
• SAP HANA experience in working in SAP HANA STUDIO, SAP LUMIRA, integrating SAP HANA with HADOOP.
• Deep expertise in delivery of all the RICEFW components of SAP ABAP,
• Experience in working with clients across the Geographical locations - US, Singapore, UK, Canada, Germany, Latin America, Italy, Poland, Belgium along with some domestic projects as developer, Technical lead, Offshore Lead, Onsite coordinator for fortune 500 Companies.
• Worked on SAP implementation Project as Onshore Project manager for SAP Development and Data Migrations Project for a customer in China in SAP SD Order to Cash, SAP MM SRM Purchase to Pay and FICO (Record to Report) Implementation.
• Experienced in the following Modules of SAP as a technical consultant PS, SD, PP, PM, RE-FX, MM, FICO, HR, S&A (security and assurance), SAP AFS, SAP APO and SAP SCM.
• Experience in working with SAP ChaRM, SAP Solman, and HPQC,
• Experienced with quality process of Lean Principle, Multiple projects in Six Sigma and Kaizen.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• I am currently working on SAP IT system that includes SAP ECC, SAP SPP, SAP PI and other systems and my specific responsibilities include Managing and coordinating.
• Upgrade of SAP PI 7.0 to SAP PI 7.3
• Implementation of over 106+ interfaces connecting over 25+ Applications and systems with SAP ECC. Have handled all types of interface including file to File, IDOC, SFTP, Web services, Proxy based, eSOA and SOAP based interfaces.

Confidential, Houston, TX

• Delivery Management - Manage and schedule the delivery for Mega projects
• Demand Management - Demand Fulfillment and on boarding resources
• Release Management - Manage release for both month on month / Bi yearly Changes
• Transition Management - Played key role in transition of Changes from Dev to Production support teams,
• Change Control Management: Lead the team as Change control manager in managing the scope, timeline and controlling of project scope.
• Time Management - Efficient time Management of Offshore and Onshore team
• Quality Management: Automate code reviewed tools, Quality inspector and periodic reviews
• Innovation/Value Adds: Pioneered the Innovation team by adding value to the customer
• Metrics/KPI: Prepared and streamlined the process for Metrics Reporting process.

Confidential, Jackson, MI

• I handled roles such as SAP Program Manager at Consumer Energy SAP team, Development lead in SAP APO and also the Business Analyst role in Planning Transformations project.
• As Program Manager I was responsible for project planning estimation, scheduling and delivery of every item in scope. I was also in charge of resource planning, resource rotation, financial budgeting and other commercial terms of the project. I was also responsible to prepare the quarter on quarter revenue recognition and order booking for the Management.
• As a Technical lead I had also handled project from SD Module Enhancements, Planning Transformation PT VR 1 and VR 2 in SAP APO. I had also handled the project of conversion of BAPI based Interface links to IDOC based link. We had also created a custom IDOC error handler report to handle the erred out IDOC’s.
• I was responsible for setting up the definition of Standard GAP/Link. I had also worked extensively on deriving the SAP ABAP Estimation tool or methodology. I have also helped in preparing the defect metrics and other CR metrics for SAP engineering team.

Confidential

SAP Change/Release Manager / SAP Development Lead

Responsibilities:

• I have handled dual role of ABAP Technical Manager and also the Change/Release Manager for the entire BAT TEAM account. Responsible for the complete delivery of ABAP development and support activities of entire TEAM which include Zone 1, Zone 2, Zone 3, HR LACAR and HR ROW.
• Also, as a Change manager I am responsible for all the CR including ABAP and Non-ABAP (BI / APO).
• The responsibilities included in participating in CAB meeting, responsible for tracking the entire CR from start to finish and publishing the KPI for the CR for across the region.
• I was also managing the Infrastructure team on upgrades, support activities, tracking and implementation of security and audit requirements and System outage maintenance activities.

SAP Project Manager / SAP Development Lead

Confidential, Miami, FI

• I have handled the entire technical team management and delivery from start to end. I was involved from the Project Preparation, Knowledge Acquisition, Blueprint - Fit Gap Analysis, Realization & Testing, Final Preparation & Go Live to Go Live Support & Project Closure in all the project management and technical deliverable point of view. I have been involved in project planning and updating the same from time to time.
• I was also responsible for the entire data migration activity of all the Master data and transactions data from end to end. We had several Mock Uploads Mock 1-4, this helped in cleansing of data and getting ready for the final move during cut over.

SAP Project Manager / SAP Development Lead

Confidential, Houston, TX

• Resource planning, project rotation and staffing,
• New Joiner Inductions
• Knowledge transfer and Introductions to LyondellBase environments
• Training on the ABAP development process and LyondellBase naming conventions.
• Also, responsible for entire delivery of RICEFW’s.

SAP Project Lead

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

• Represented successfully of the winning RFP for SAP ABAP at the client location for orals.
• Leading the Interlock team for Lockheed Martin and had taking a leading role of the initiation of the new services.
• Implemented the automated tool for Code Review (Quality Inspector and the Code review tools for SAP ABAP).
• Designed the new Lockheed Martin specific Calibrated estimator for SAP ABAP RICEFW components
• Upgraded the Lockheed Martin Calibrated estimator for including the Upgrade projects (Version upgrade)
• Redefined the ABAP process for the Global Rollout Landscape
• Created the Golden Rule book (a reference document or ready reckoner) as part of the process re-defining.
• Managing the Infrastructure team on upgrades, support activities, tracking and implementation of security and audit requirements and System outage maintenance activities.

SAP Senior Technical Consultant

Confidential

• IT Project Planning, Estimating and Resource Tracking (PERT) is designed for project managers (PMs) who will build, track, and manage IT projects. The PM TASK would also include: planning projects, tracking committed and actual costs, purchasing consulting services, reporting time, and invoicing customers.
• Development and support: Lots of new RICEF, Bug fixing, optimizing/performance monitoring of RICE related to PERT Systems. Involved code review of offshore team, quality checks and SAPCAP creation and movements to production, Creation of SOX folder for the movements to Production.

Confidential

SAP R/3 Support and Development .

• Majority of the work was on the Interface. I have done extensively research and support for the Price Change Letters which gives the daily quotes of the prices to the Confidential Customer.
• There are lot many interface in this process, all these together are called as Quotes.
• Lots of report related to FI SD & PM Modules related works.