SUMMARY:

Results - focused, detail-oriented, quality-driven professional with extensive experience in managing people, process and technology; demonstrating consistent achievement of objectives; strong quality and service skills, and dedication to organizational goals. Advanced presentation and relationship development abilities with a track record of getting the job done with passion and commitment to excellence.

CORE KNOWLEDGE & SKILL AREAS:

• Team leadership
• SDLC
• Software Development
• Process Redesign/Streamlining eProcurement
• Accounting/Finance
• Applications Development
• Customer Relationships
• Auditing
• Project Management
• Root Cause Analysis
• Risk Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively with SAP/Ariba in doing Knowledge transfer on onPremise Application.
• Contributed to requirements definition and process improvements for future state.
• Designed solution for around 40+ interfaces for Masterdata and transactional data.
• Designed solution for Supplier Information management SIM .
• Worked with external application teams in resolving design/development issues.
• Worked closely with Project manager and Leadership in providing status and escalating issues in a timely manner.
• Coordinated with testing team/reviewed test plan and test cases.
• Successfully deployed Master data interfaces to production.

Team Lead/Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed requirements and design phases of P2P/Ariba cloud project.
• Designed a solution and implemented Concur Solution for Travel Expense submission process; worked closely with Strategic Procurement, Accounts payable and IT groups to provide solution on time.
• Guided/part of IT team in design, development and deployment phases of IT Allocation Project; this solution is used for better tracking of IT spend.
• Delivered Procure to pay solution for multiple business groups.
• Managed Production support group and provided solution to end users within SLA. Resolved multiple P1 issues by coordinating with IT and business resources.
• Consolidated, prioritized and streamlined overwhelming Business Support Requests and delivered solution as per the business expectation.
• Managed the centralization and consolidation for the Confidential technology purchasing functions enabling visibility, streamlined processes and more effective cost controls.
• Collaborated with IT partners UNIX, Oracle, and Security to make procurement application compliant with all security patches.
• Collaborated with Business partners to come up with a road map for Procurement IT team by aligning the business goals and priorities.
• Managed responsibility for 3 FTEs and 4 contractors; conducted performance reviews, counseled employees, provided coaching and individual development guidance.

Team Lead/Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the implementation of Phase 1 of SKU level accounting project, using SAP ERP Solution ECC, PO, and BW .
• Worked extensively with Vendor partners in coming up with Project timelines, deliverable and their resource planning.
• Aligned internal resources to each functional area and made them accountable for validation, functional testing and delivery which helped in successful completion of the project.
• Managed all Cutover Activities and acted as a Cutover Manager; worked extensively with Business and IT partners to come with cutover tasks and aligning resources to tasks and dependencies. Successfully deployed the project along with three dry runs.
• Implemented strong controls to manage master data elements as team had to load millions of items in the system.
• Managed post go live activities; implemented process to handle issues/bugs, 24/7 support structure, change control management, system outage windows, knowledge transfer sessions for the team.
• Contributed to planning of training sessions for development team and end users.
• Managed multiple employees and contractors.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the implementation of Upgrade of Ariba solution to v.9r1 and delivered it ontime.
• Managed and delivered a solution for integrating Caremark in Retail procurement area.
• Lead the efforts of Invoice 3 way match project.
• Lead the efforts of Infrastructure upgrades and service packs.
• Worked with internal & external Auditors and Risk Management teams to make sure Ariba is in compliance with SOX requirements.
• Generated Audit reports PAR review from Ariba application and sent to Application Managers.
• Provided Audit logs reports to managements.
• Locked Ariba Inspector tool and build controls around accessing Inspector tool as part of SOX.
• Generated periodic review reports out of Inspector tool.
• Managed production support team and queues.
• Conducted knowledge transition sessions as part of offshore support.
• Automated multiple manual processes
• Involved in defining the business requirements.
• Designed the complete CVS & CMX eProcurement Integration solution.
• Upgraded hardware and software as part of Integration Project.

Environment: Ariba Buyer 8.X, Contracts, Travel& Expenses, Invoicing, TIBCO, HTML, XML, Java Script, Oracle 9i, NT, UNIX, Web logic.

Confidential, CA

ESourcing & ACM Team lead

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead of ACM & ACW teams, onsite/offshore structure.
• Responsible for delivering projects and enhancement requests.
• Extensively worked on Design and development phases with onsite and offshore teams.
• Configured/Enabled the Contract workbench Templates, Projects.
• Installation, configuration, migrations, patching of ACM and Sourcing Modules.
• Developed custom Java routines that interface with Oracle database.
• Designed & developed Scorecards & Survey templates. Migrated Scorecards, Surveys, RFX designs, Libraries between instances.
• Integration of Ariba Buyer 8.2 with Ariba Sourcing 4.3, Analysis 3.1 and ACM 2.0.
• Provided solution for data transfer and mapping between applications.
• Developed Data validation scripts.
• Customizations to SingleSignOn Scripts.

Environment: Ariba Buyer 8.X, Ariba Sourcing 4.3, Ariba Analysis 3.1, ACM 2.x, Contracts, TIBCO, HTML, XML, Java Script, Oracle 9i, NT, UNIX, Web logic.