SUMMARY

• IT Executive with more than 16 years IT experience who passionately enables transformations and drives data driven decision making.
• Result - driven manager excelling as a pivotal business partner in fast-paced environments and brings a wealth of experience in leading complex global IT initiatives.
• Quality-focused subject matter expert with years of achievements in project planning and execution.
• Adept team builder who successfully manages simultaneous tasks and takes up new responsibilities to achieve corporate goals.
• Innovative, adaptive, enthusiastic team player with excellent organizational and communication skills.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• IT Strategy and Governance
• IT Program Implementation
• Project Leadership & Budgeting
• ROI Analysis
• Enterprise wide Implementation
• Custom Software Development
• Value Chain Planning & Execution
• Executive Dashboards & BI
• Solution Design and Architecture
• Infrastructure Management
• Internet of Things
• Manage Delivery Services
• System Integration & Upgrades
• Business System Applications
• Business Relation Management
• Process Analysis and Improvement
• Team Building and Mentoring
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Software Asset Management
• Vendor Management
• SOX Compliance
• Change Management
• Workforce Planning

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Applications: Oracle ERP (11i & R12) - CRM, Value Chain Planning & Execution, Manufacturing and Finance Modules

Dashboarding and Reporting: OBIEE, Cognos, SSRS, Discoverer and Hyperion

Other Applications: Workday, Concur, TIBCO, Taleo, EDI, Informatica, PLM

Tools: & Languages: HP Quality Center, Kintana, PVCS, MS Projects, Toad, MS Office, PL/SQL, SQL Plus

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, California

Sr. Applications Manager

Responsibilities:

• PMO Lead for Vendor evaluation, Business Requirement, Gap Analysis and on boarding of Vendors. Architected high level process flow, improved process based on best practices. Developed Disaster Recovery strategy and managed Okta SSO implementation.
• Developed high level road map with CIO, VP Communications on implementation and Vendor engagement strategy for successful implementation.
• Guided and architected the KPI dashboard to measure performance, quality and effectiveness. Built use cases/KPI for BI Analytics. Leading the effort for evaluating new BI tool.
• As implementation manager, lead the effort to interface iCIMS with in house ERP application.

Confidential, California

Program Manager/Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• PMO Lead for application development and support teams. Administer project - Evaluation, DMZ externalization, Functional Requirement, Gap Analysis, CRP/UAT, and Training. Instrumental in on-time and in-budget Oracle Workday Integration Project and managing all aspects of the project. Implemented solution for Global (US, Asia and Europe) teams.
• Engage with Oracle, Enovia vendors for PLM evaluation and strategy roadmap. Developed high level road map with management on implementation and Vendor engagement strategy for successful implementation.
• Pioneered a culture of data driven decision making to measure performance, quality and effectiveness and improve productivity. Built use cases/KPI for BI Data Analytics to transform consumer experience and drive profits.

Confidential, California

Global IT Senior Manager, Applications

Responsibilities:

• Provide decisive leadership for 30 plus direct reports, $10 million annual budget, and high-level project management for application implementations and upgrades. Direct IT initiatives encompassing daily operations/management of all enterprise applications in support of 4,000+ users within EMEA, Asia Pacific and North American regions
• Develop business engagement cadence plan, institutionalize SDLC & migration processes, frame Infrastructure guidelines, standardize documentation, development standards, support team KPIs, resource planning, department budget, formalize training & development plans, department organization, talent management, establish global IT collaboration framework.
• Member of IT Leadership for R12 upgrade and platform migration. Supervising teams engaged in techno-functional engagements and driving end to end project planning & Drive enterprise wide initiative for a comprehensive BI strategy spanning across multi data sources to enable data driven decision making leveraging multiple platforms. Drive reporting and data governance transformations by reducing IT delivery by 40%.
• IT Champion for end to end planning solution overseeing demand-supply planning, S&OP and factory integration, Upgrade of enterprise wide Global ERP systems, Revamping the Part Numbering Schema with impacts to business & ABD factory systems and PLM applications, Rolling out Data governance initiatives leverage principles of IOT for the factory data.
• Manage cross-functional teams to lead end to end integration of Pure Digital under the $3M budget. Panasonic team member for Panasonic Consumer divesture to ensure business systems continuity.
• Work closely with the external Auditors for SOX audits and sign offs. Champion the GRC implementation for tighter SOX controls, Drive the initiative for Oracle ERP License management by leveraging tools like OIM/ OAM and establishing processes to track/ update responsibility assignments to user base.
• Establish data governance and data stewardship to define ownership and data access from identified sources. Enable business to make quality decisions by transforming the reporting landscape for faster and trustworthy data. Engage with vendors for technology evaluation and strategy roadmap.
• Groom a team which continuously exceeded SLAs to ensure mission critical business continuity. Develop effective root cause management process to minimize repeatability of issues.