SUMMARY:

A results - driven enterprise resource planning leader with a demonstrated track record in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), business process reengineering, executive leadership, resource management, project and program management, change management, issue and risk management, and customer relationship management under a global business model. Experienced in delivering business value from IT at an executive level, bringing the benefits of IT best practices to solve business issues, while also managing costs, risk, and resources. Skilled in strategy, planning, monitoring, and delivery of Oracle ERP projects (R12 and Financials Cloud), ranging from upgrades and Greenfield implementations to business transformations.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• ITS Architecture and Strategy Planning
• Digital Automation
• Agile Product Management
• Program and Project Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Infrastructure Integration
• ITS Audit and Compliance
• Team Leadership and Development
• Disaster Recovery

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Well-versed in all stages of ERP implementation, requirements gathering, analysis, and technical design, using AIM methodology, development, QA, UAT, production, and CRPs in O2C, P2P and R2R.
• Excels in taking proven and practical approaches to solve complex, enterprise-level issues and deliver actionable roadmaps and real business value.
• Adept at presenting strategic plans and budgets to highest levels of executive leadership.
• Served in key role on variety of projects, including full life cycle implementations and upgrades of Oracle applications with public and commercial sector clients.
• Skilled in various project management delivery methodologies, such as PMX and Chef, as well as Certified ScrumMaster and Scrum Product Owner.
• Leverages new advanced technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), and RPA in architecting automated solutions.
• Establishes collaborative and productive relationships with product management, governance, UX design, vendors, and other supporting teams.
• Fosters an environment of engineering excellence and innovation, insisting on designing to the edge.
• Operates successfully in ambiguous environments.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Carrollton, Texas

ERP R12/ Cloud Manager/ RPA Product owner

Responsibilities:

• Managed third-party vendors related to ERP platforms for optimal productivity, negotiated technology contracts that lowered the ERP Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and managed the ERP budget and resources in alignment with agreed-upon business Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Served as an RPA product owner and established a robotic Center of Excellence (CoE) to reengineer accounts payable process that involved digitizing invoice capture via OCR and BOTS. Used AI and ML technologies to capture invoice to automate various repetitive processes, obtaining maximum ROI, with increase in efficiencies and better cash forecasting.
• Responsible for carving out the roadmap of RPA AWS Cloud project from discovery to planning to execution and monitoring phase during entire SDLC lifecycle of the project.
• Liaised with IT team, business users and stakeholder to deploy AWS cloud-based solutions (IaaS and SaaS) for various custom in house systems. Evaluated compute instances (EC2), database options, (Lambda/ RDS) WAF firewall, and object storages, virtualization, microservices and REST API’s and API’s for the project.
• Aligned with product owner on large enterprise wide initiative of deploying ERP on Cloud. Actively involved in building the scope, planning,, testing and deploying the project on AWS Cloud across various integrations.
• Wrote used cases, acceptance criteria across different workstreams for the cloud project using Jira tool.
• Analyzed and developed Risk mitigation plan for the projects.
• Conducted daily scrums and managed sprint planning using Agile methodology.
• Actively involved in Change management to be compliant with the auditors.
• Oversaw budgeting and forecasting for department.
• Led team of functional and technical projects for in-house R12 upgrade from 12.1.3 to 12.2.8, which included analysis and migration of various interfaces and RICE components.

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Project Manager( PMX Certified) - IT Delivery and Consumer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained project effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting project plans for accurately implementing information technologies, anticipating and catching deviations from plan, or scheduling early and initiating corrective action.
• Regularly established project metric and report status, analyzing variances and initiating corrective action.
• Collaborated with vendors to manage EDI interfaces, infrastructure, server maintenance, patching, upgrades, and disaster recovery.
• Partnered with various stakeholders enterprise wide to define strategy, planning and defining the deliverable goal of the project.
• Recommended project strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating execution outcomes, identifying problems, evaluating trends, and anticipating requirements.
• Identified critical path, budget, change order, risk assessment, and action item log to analyze complex issues and develop resolutions for any issues related to assigned projects.
• Actively worked on integrating Agile and Lean principles into team practices and work products.
• Liaised with technical team to work on AWS cloud components integration such as compute instances, storage devices, databases, Security and creation of federated IAM users.
• Developed UAT and Production cut over plan including database migrations, infrastructure, ETL, Security ( Firewall), Reporting, Change and organizational management .
• Created Business continuity plan along with Disaster recovery plan for the whole application systems.
• Created user stories, use cases, and UX diagrams, and spearheaded sprint planning for multiple Bank’s microservices applications integration with AWS cloud.

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Global ERP Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned and implemented General Ledger configurations, including COA mapping, Confidential primary, secondary, IFRS, and reporting ledger setups in multi org /multi currency set ups. Worked on subledger accounting setups, intercompany transactions, allocations, translations, consolidations, and various customizations.
• Performed heavy lifting on configuring all P2P modules, including, but not limited to, accounts payable, cash management, purchasing, and inventory. This also included EDI and other interface customizations.
• Performed Purchasing module setups, Financial Options, Receiving Options, Purchasing Options, Document Types, Approval Assignments, Approval Groups and Profile Options in Conversion, UAT and Pre-Production Instances.
• Configured the Cash management module for GL Accounts Mapping, setting up transaction codes, BAI2 file upload, customization of out file as per the bank requirements, automatic transmission and import of bank files.
• Configured banks, bank accounts and documents for different needs like AP processing.
• Set up the complete Procure to Pay business flow starting from requisitions creation in iProcurement, using Auto create functionality to create purchase order or Sourcing Event, visibility of PO in iSupplier portal, ASN creation in iSupplier portal, Receiving in iProcurement and payment in Account Payables. Most of the items were set for Auto Sourcing.
• Developed project management proposals, presented to management, and prepared system development cost estimates, benefit analysis, and schedules.
• Identified functional and technical gaps, estimated work, architected system interfaces, designed custom solutions and programming, and led developers, scheduling and producing documentation.
• Evaluated business requirements and recommended solutions through conducting and preparing feasibility studies for new applications or revisions to existing systems.
• Partnered with senior management team to establish a clear vision and strategy for IT solutions that supported business and compliance requirements of organization.
• Interacted and collaborated with all levels of management to provide issue resolution, subject matter expert services, and process and policy improvements in regard to SOX and other audit controls.
• Oversaw global implementation of AME and iExpense modules across multiple operating units in Europe and North America.

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Applications Finance Lead/Waterfall Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Streamlined expense management with e-receipts, reconciliation, and integration with ERP.
• Served as R2R expert in not just limiting to COA mapping, ledger setups, Confidential reporting, allocations, and translation customizations in general ledger, but also designing SLA rules set ups.
• Created intercompany Transaction, Consolidation, Elimination entries setups and configuration for use .The use of ADI wizards like Budget wizard, Journal wizard, report wizard simplified work with general ledger.
• Implemented Oracle Financials R12 General Ledger, Accounting and Accounts Payable, for many APAC, EMEA and Latin American countries in a Multi-Org, Multi-Reporting, Global Accounting environment.
• Defined AR System Options, Customer Profiles, Transaction Types, Payment Terms, Tax Rules, Auto Accounting Rules, Transaction Batch Sources, Distribution Sets, Transaction Activities, Auto Cash Rule Sets, Receipt Sources, Profile Classes, and Lockboxes
• Served as cash applications configuration lead responsible for setups for accounts receivable, such as banks, receipt sources, classes, lockboxes, receivable activities, transaction types, sources, bank tolerances, approval limits, flexfields, and legal entities, in multiple organizations.
• Served as member of change control board, designing and implementing SOC 2 compliance change control procedures.
• Led miscellaneous billing project, developed strategy, and planned and implemented across 330 countries.
• Liaised with and led quality project leader responsible for upgrades and quarterly patch testing via ALM scripts execution.
• Developed high-performing teams, fostering collaboration and process efficiency across globe and implementing best practices and process improvements.

Confidential, Fort Worth, Texas

Oracle Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Acted as application lead engaged in implementation of Oracle R12 upgrade applications. Managed document process flows, configurations, interfaces, customizations, and concurrent jobs. Streamlined P2P cycle and integration with third-party vendors to customize and develop interfaces and reporting.

Confidential, Keene, New Hampshire

Senior Techno-Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed staging tables, conversion routines, and custom PL and SQL on AP, AR, and INV.
• Worked with users through all SDLC phases.
• Developed various KPI reports, such as inventory-level compliance, safety stock, WIP, and GPH changes.
• Utilized knowledge of Oracle Application Data Model to leverage data for effective reporting, using tools such as Discoverer, Oracle Reports, XML Publisher, OBIEE, and Oracle BI Answers and Dashboards.
• Designed RICE components, including customized concurrent programs, reports, and alerts, to meet business requirements for users.
• Worked collaboratively with stakeholders, business analysts, project managers, vendors, and technology teams, with common goal of delivering projects.
• Streamlined manual Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and O2C process cycle, enabling reduced costs, improved performance, regulatory compliance, and gain of real-time visibility into payables status.
• Configured Payment process profiles for Custom Check and ACH templates
• Worked on Vendor sourcing rules, Blanket Purchase Agreements and Purchase Order release methods in Oracle Purchasing.
• Configured banks, bank accounts and document for different needs like AP processing.