SUMMARY:

• A round 13 years of total experience including 10 years in SAP as a Project Systems & Plant Maintenance Consultant.
• Highly accomplished Business Analyst / Team Leader with a verifiable track record of managing complex IT projects. Practiced in clarifying business requirements, performing gap analysis between goals and existing procedures.
• Implementation, Support & Rollout experience in SAP Project Systems, Plant Maintenance, Document Management System, Funds Management, cProjects, xRPM & Investment Management modules along with a working knowledge MM, CO & SD modules.
• Successfully completed Three full implementation life cycles
• Domain Expertise in Supply Chain Management Leading Procurement, Planning and Logistics management functions of CAPEX, HVAC, Mechanical Ventilation.
• Expertise in Order - To-Cash, Engineering to Order & Make to Order through Projects with Valuated and Non-Valuated Stocks and integration to other SAP modules (MM, FI/CO, IM) in all business scenarios
• Experience in designing and implementing various delivery models for global and local engagements, rollouts, deployment, cutover & data migration, project management.
• Extensive experience Employee Relationship Management & Partner Management systems for financial services firms. Recognized project management skills, consistently deliver complex, large-scale projects on time within budget. Additional areas of expertise include:
• Process Analysis & Redesign
• Management of Cross-Functional Teams.
• System Solution Architectures
• Change Control Management
• Planning
• Cost & Resource Estimates
• Project Risk & Scope
• Created, coordinated & presented customized demos and presentations at the Client locations.
• Conducted trainings in PLM Project System with SAP academy at Siemens Information System Limited.
• Japanese Language (Level 3) certified by JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test)
• M.B.A, Marketing from Madras University, 2003, Chennai, INDIA.
• Good experience with Project Cost Planning, Scheduling, Budgets, Revenues, Period-End Closing.
• Experienced in CO-PS, SD-PS, IM-PS integration and implemented several configuration points with CO & SD.
• Good Experience with CO Cost-Sheet, Costing Variant, Overhead Cost, Cost Center planning Cost Object Controlling, Product-Costing, and Result Analysis.
• Experienced in Assembly Processing, Integrations with SD, MM and PP
• Worked on Project billing- Resource Related Billing(RRB) and Milestone Billing
• Good experience with WIP, Result Analysis, Progress Analysis, Project Settlement Rules.
• Experience in Project Logistics (MRP/Network Procurement/PO External Service Mgmt.), Capacities Planning, Workforce Planning and Project Scheduling
• Good Understanding and Experience of AS-IS, TO-BE, Gap Analysis
• Good SAP cross module knowledge: FI, CO,SD, MM,PP,HR/CATS
• E xperience in Managing all stages of Data Migration from Data analysis to Pre Golive validations, User Acceptance testing, User Sign-off, Cut-over Plans, Migrating to Dev/QA/ Prod. Landscape and Post Go-live Validations
• Maintenance of number ranges for maintenance plan, maintenance items, task lists for general maintenance, equipment and functional location.
• Worked on measuring points, permits, Codes, Code groups and authorization group. Preparation of User Manuals, Training of CTMs, requirements Gathering and Preparation of GAP Document.
• Worked on User Statuses, Transaction Variants & Upload Programs.
• Created complete Maintenance manual for all types of Machines to carry out the Schedule maintenance.
• Also mapped, calibration of instrumentation process. External service procurement through maintenance order.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP ETO Lead PS/ PM

• Design and Implementation of Global Process Transformation Rollout template for Multiple releases - 12 countries.
• Organized workshops with Business Relationship Managers and Functional Release Managers for Requirement gathering for SAP ETO, ITO Scenarios.
• Preparing As-IS workshops and Preparing ETO Process related and PLM modules related questionnaire.
• Defined Rollout Scope. Identify- Mitigate risk. Change Analytics, test script scope and developed Test Scenarios, Data Validation, Design Testing strategy and guide team for script and scenario development, Manage Test Cycles and test results capturing in HPQC.
• Identifying Gaps and opportunities guiding team for the To-be documentation, work with team for detailed Blue print, Identify the RICEF objects, fit gap analysis, working with Global design track lead for BBP review.
• Part of Cut-over activities planning team and responsible for triggering and performing the Activities at different phases of the project.
• Tracking defects and defects and resolutions, approvals sign-offs during Hyper care for earlier releases.
• Outokumpu is the global leader in stainless steel and high performance alloys employs more than 15,000 professionals in more than 40 countries, with headquarters in Espoo, Finland. Outokumpu has an integrated stainless steel mill in Calvert, Alabama which melts and rolls coil. In addition, there are three other sites in the US: New Castle in Indiana produces hot rolled plate, Wildwood in Florida produces pipe and tube and Richburg in South Carolina manufactures bar products.

Confidential

SAP ETO Lead- PS/ PM

• Optimizing & redesigning the refurbishment material handling and Order Processing.
• Support Major Customizations/Enhancements in Plant Maintenance, Project Systems & Document Management Systems Modules was being done to suit complex requirements
• Checking the settlement receiver PSG/WBS and checking the settlement rules based on the WBS Levels in the Project and checking the RA keys for the project.
• Key Functionalities: Client: Outokumpu Steels From: Mar 2014- Mar 2016 Role: SAP PS/ PM Lead Project Scope: Enhancement Project Key Functionalities: Prepared template structures for migration of PS data from various non-sap integrated tools.
• Support Roll outs, Major Customizations/Enhancements in Project Systems Module was being done to suit complex requirements.
• Worked on Defects with various RICEFs related to Logistics, Materials apart from PS & PM
• Designed Z tables and Z-Constants where the Cost Centers, Allocation structures, Secondary Cost elements with Category 21 & 43 will be automatically picked based on the WBS Number and Profiles.
• Worked on Validations for Project Definition numbering based in Project profile and Profit Center.

Confidential

SAP PS Lead

• Participated in blueprint workshops and gathered requirements from the client.
• Prepared Template Structures for Migration of PS data from various non- SAP
• Designed a complex interface- C3PO integrating the Client’s Sales System with SAP where the Sales orders, Projects, WBS, Settlement rules, Statuses and Cost Planning will be created automatically with the data transferred from interfaces with the help of WSDLs to SAP Function Modules.
• Prepared template structures for Migration of PS data from Various Legacy integrated tools.
• Initially designed for USA & Canada. Confidential planned to rollout to Germany Austria and Switzerland
• Designed the data transformation templates for Mandatory and Input fields for interfaces.
• Worked on Validations for Project Definition numbering based in Project profile and Profit Center.
• Support Roll outs, Major Customizations/Enhancements in Project Systems Module was being done to suit complex requirements.
• Ran the cutover tasks in the production environment before Go-Live.
• Varian Medical Systems focuses energy on saving lives. Varian develops leading solutions for advancing cancer treatment, radiosurgery, X-ray imaging, and security. Varian is the world's leading supplier of radiotherapy products for treating cancer, providing the medical community with advanced technologies.
• Synchronizing of Project and Sales order according to the business needs and fixing the bug (Assembly processing) and checking the Variant Configuration like missing models and Characteristic values for the item or for the product configuration.
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Cost Element Groups, Cost Element Attributes.
• Involved in functional support. Resolved the problems during execution of project in areas like project definition, WBS, Cost Planning, Revenue Planning, and Budgeting
• Worked on defects with various RICEFs
• Comparing the SO and Project and the std. NWAs and fixing the bug accordingly.
• Highly integrated with SD module- Milestones, Revenue recognition,
• Assembly processing with sale order BOM/WBS Classification system,

Confidential

Integration Lead (xRPM, cProjects and SAP PS)

• Configuring Item types, portfolio types, Capacity Views, Categories and Groups.
• Mapping Item types to cProject Templates
• Configuring Portfolio item categories, sub categories, priorities, Area, Locations and Item status
• Configuring decision points to Item types
• Mapping xRPM Locations to Personnel Areas
• Configuring Projects structures
• Configuring Project priorities
• Configuring Role types, role functions
• Configuring Connections to SAP PS

Confidential

SAP PLM PPM Lead

• Wal-Mart, Inc. is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large, discount department stores. The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, it is the world's largest public corporation by revenue, with fiscal year 2009 sales of $405 billion, and Walmart employs more than 2.1 million associates worldwide.

Confidential

Project systems and Funds Management Consultant.

• Performed business blueprint analysis, design based on business processes.
• Configured various profiles like Project, Network, budget, Settlement.
• Configured Claim Management for managing the changes of the project.
• Configured period end closing by Settlement to WBS & Result Analysis for projects based on the duration of the project.
• Coordinated integration testing with key business representatives familiar with: Projects, Claims, ordering, Controlling & Finance.