PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS:

• A dynamic IT professional with extensive experience in managing engagements related to data migrations, Integration, operations and Service transition of complex applications.
• Managing application development and operations as SPOC (Single point of contact) for on - site, offshore and Shared Services delivery models.
• Expertise in managing SAP HANA BO, BI Application environments within shared services delivery structure. Managed the pre and post migration efforts such as preparing test plans, communication and escalation procedures, facilitating meeting with core infrastructure teams in performing RAC( root cause analysis ) of the issues.
• Expertise in Implementing SAP HANA, SQL SSIS, SSRS for OLAP and OLTP environments.
• Expertise in planning the hyper-care and steady state operations of SAP HANA, BI reporting application environments
• Ability to collaborate with management in planning, execution and delivering business initiatives and translating them to technical solutions.
• Managed offshore vendor negotiations, governance and define roles and responsibilities for outsourced projects.
• Expertise in defining Service Transition deliverables such as Support Model, Communication & Escalation plan, Monitoring plan, Service Level Agreement and Hyper care plan.
• Expertise in planning Knowledge transfer sessions between offshore and onsite development, operations, network and database teams for complex applications.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, periodic presentations of delivery status to key stakeholders.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Principal Consultant (S/4 HANA Data Migration)

• Designed Data migration from SAP ECC to S4 HANA using SAP SLT and Data Services
• Collaborated with Functional SME’s to generate requirements and data ETL procedures
• Played a technical liaison role with functional and business users to generate data mapping and data Validation technical documents.
• Leading the effort of optimizing the loading process of large financials ( SAP AR, AP, GL and Recurring ) data sets including both transparent and clustered tables from legacy ECC to S/4 HANA.
• Designed and implemented Customer Master Data mapping and reference data implementations in SLT using ABAP include programs.
• Implemented performance filters, source side filtering for migrating large data sets.
• Designed and configured SLT Replication (Real time and Batch) from SAP ECC sources using HANA Data provisioning and BODS.
• Expertise in CMC configuration and administration of SAP Data services repositories.

Confidential

Principal Consultant (Solutions/Service Manager)

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include: technical liaison between UK based software vendor, Confidential ’s architects and Infrastructure groups in shared services delivery model.
• Lead POC effort in implementing SAP HANA solution using tools such as BODS 4.2 for Data migration.
• Lead and Architected the SAP HANA Implementation and Integration road map with BO and Reporting using BI.
• Designed and configured SLT Replication (Real time and Batch) from SAP ECC sources using HANA Data provisioning.
• Designed Attribute, Analytic and Calculation views in SAP HANA for Data modelling and Reporting needs
• Importing Data from different Data sources SQL Server, Oracle and Flat files
• Responsible for Administration of SAP HANA environment, such as security, Backup, Recovery, Life cycle management, Creating SAP HANA SDLC environments and assigning Roles for different user groups such as Developers, Analysts and Business Users.
• Manage and co-ordinate POC efforts for implementing Mosaic sample management system with integration of existing Confidential ’s ordering system in multiple Confidential locations using Remedy Change Management.
• Manage setup of SDLC environment in remote data centers in West point, Boston and Rahway adhering to FDA approved Confidential ’s SOP’s, for Systems implemented in Clinical Trials.
• Managed and defined Application environment migration activities and deliverables, defining Hyper-care phase and Steady state. Migration activities included Server Validations with all dependencies, network changes, database setup, establishing links to other servers, co-ordinate with business teams for application validation pre and post migration, Integration testing and finally conducting UAT adhering to FDA and CFR 21 part 11 guidelines.
• Manage technical resources in shared services delivery model and was responsible for all development and integration tasks
• Lead Service Transition, designed support, communication/Escalation and monitoring plans.
• Lead knowledge transfer sessions between onsite and offshore application maintenance teams.
• Managed and coordinated Hyper Care Activities with offshore Application maintenance teams after project go live.
• Responsible for all technical documentation related to the Project adhering to the SDLC and conducting successful knowledge transfer sessions.
• Familiar with 21 CFR Guidance, FDA general principles of software validation, FDA guidance of computerized systems used in clinical trials and GMP.

Technologies: Visual Studio 2008 and 2010, SAP HANA 1.0, BODS 4.2, BW 7.4, Windows 2003/2008 servers, Oracle 11, Motorola PDA’s and Titian Mosaic Sample Management System.

Confidential, NY

Delivery Lead - Retail Information Systems

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included: project management and liaison between clients, Technical Managers, Business Analysts and Infrastructure group.
• Responsible for delivery status reporting, client communication & coordinating with the project management team for timely completion and quality maintenance of projects.
• Assessed client needs and expectations and ensured project delivery within time and under budget.
• Managed development of SharePoint portal site for automating meeting requests application.
• Managed mobile development effort throughout SDLC with offshore and external vendors.
• Planning and forecasting resource needs.

Confidential, NJ

Lead/ Technical Project Manager - Front Office Program

Responsibilities:

• Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for Confidential ’s Front office department projects with offshore and US vendors.
• Collaborated with IT senior management and business steering committee in planning for front office department initiatives and aligning them with corporate priorities.
• Collaborated with Procurement team in defining RFP for outsourcing Confidential ’s Front office department projects.
• Involved in extended vendor negotiations, requirements definition, technical evaluations and communications with executive management.
• Responsible for incident management that included driving incidents to resolution, ensuring root-cause analysis is completed, maintaining incident DB and publishing reports to incident stakeholders.
• Managed the effort of migrating all the Front office Applications from NJ to Centralized Data Center in charlotte.
• Designed step by step Application environment migration plan that included application owners, Resources, communications, escalations, rollback procedures, Integration testing and User acceptance testing and sign off. Designed hyper-care period, prioritized post migration issues, facilitated meetings with core infrastructure teams to identify root cause and published knowledge base articles.
• Facilitated weekly infrastructure team meeting to review systems, applications and database performance specifications, ensuring strategic alignment with SLA for accessibility and operability.
• Identified the projects and tasks that are well-defined and with less or no dependencies for offshore vendors.
• Defined, monitored and measured the Service level agreements for development, support and maintenance projects with offshore and US vendors.
• Approver of high level and low level design documents for offshore development.
• Executed and managed the processes of application development within front office department, offshore and US vendors.
• Defined SLA’s for issue management
• Introduced and coordinated short term and long term projects that helped in reducing costs of front office department and by maximizing resource utilization.
• Proven ability to work within a team environment, manage multiple projects and adapt to frequent change.
• Adopted and streamlined status reporting process by publishing a weekly/monthly status report.
• Designed KPI (key performance indicator) reports for management in SSRS and ad-hoc canned reports using SQL procedures.
• Successfully implemented Agile and waterfall methodologies.

Technologies: Visual Studio 6.0, 2005 and 2008, .NET 2.0, 3.5 VB 6.0, ASP/ASP.Net, ADO/ADO.Net, Ajax toolkit, VB script, Java Script, COM+, SQL Server 2000/2005 cluster, Windows 2000/2003 web farm, VSS and Team foundation Server, Share point, Red dot and MS projects

Confidential

Lead Programmer Analyst

• Trade Confirms, web based reporting application used by clients for generating trade confirmation reports which helped Confidential in reducing client confirms manual mailings by 38% and saving over $2M in expenses.
• The concepts and innovations developed with Trade Confirms were leveraged across different teams in Confidential and internally initiated projects such as Automation of Trade entry (Interface to import trade data in various formats), Intra Day Holdings and Trade Summary status web solutions for clients throughout US and Europe.