SUMMARY

• Strategic & solution focused IT executive with 40+ years of proven track record of managing, delivery & deployment of highly complex programs/projects/project portfolio.
• Industry: Automobile, manufacturing, FMCG, Food & Beverage, Confidential, Software, Confidential etc.
• Delivered project portfolio with wide spectrum of business transformation, multi - billion dollars Merger & Acquisitions, IT projects & programs with Global roll outs using multiple platforms & applications including SAP, Confidential etc.
• Identified program/project level risks with mitigating actions and escalation procedures, working with global teams across continents; balancing competing demands, conflicting schedules across projects & cross-functional teams.
• Developed program strategies & managed business cases bringing multi-billion-dollar business converted and migrated to SAP ECC 6.0 on Global business process template & split architecture, cut over management.
• Proven track record of delivering consolidated SAP solutions partnering with SAP MM, LE, WM, PP, SD, QM, APO, Data, FICO, SAP FSCM, SAP HANA, Solution Manager & BI, Data Analytics functions for Fortune 500 Food (FMCG), Software/IT, Auto, Manufacturing & Telecom Industry.
• Expertise in turning around impossible project situations, reducing cost of business blue printing, design, build & roll out.
• Used Waterfall and Agile methodology extensively to reduce cost of implementation.
• Proven record of of managing change.
• Standardizing data & systems, adopting center of excellence model and extensive testing during development, functional & integration testing phases.
• Reduced operational cost by designing & implementing data governance, data quality, data conversion
• Cut over management for 40+ projects

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed & delivered the following projects on time and budget, using Waterfall & Agile methodology.
• New Forward DC (Phoenix) project involving 20+ applications. (Cost $4 million)
• Additional Terms
• Brooklyn Phase I
• Brooklyn Phase II
• Bulk Trade-In for Confidential Phase I & II
• See Bass
• LAZER Shark
• PDP (Premium Device Protection) Phase I
• PDP (Premium Device Protection) Phase II
• Vertex Upgrade
• 5-6 Enhancement projects
• M&A Integration of Confidential & SPRINT - a $ 30 billion acquisition. Project Budget $ 28 million.
• Cut over management.

Confidential, El Segundo, California

Enterprise Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed & delivered the following projects on time and budget, using Waterfall & Agile methodology:
• Integration of capital planning capability & processes of M&A - Confidential & Confidential and DIRECTTV.
• Integration of tax capability & processes of M&A - Confidential & Confidential and DIRECTTV
• Integration of treasury capability & processes of M&A - Confidential & Confidential and DIRECTTV
• Integration of sales capability & processes of M&A - Confidential & Confidential and DIRECTTV
• 5. Archiving of inefficient applications of the merged company: Confidential & Confidential and DIRECTTV

Confidential, Redmond, Washington

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Design, architecture, program management, delivery & global roll out of fully automated Reverse Logistics capability for Confidential .
• Integration of forward logistics capability & processes of M&A - Confidential and Nokia
• Integration of finance & controlling capability & processes of M&A - Confidential and Nokia
• Automation of inter-company billing capability & processes of M&A - Confidential & Nokia
• New capability of selling Confidential products e.g. Surface to Federal Government using manufacturing capability of Confidential own manufacturing facility.
• Reduced the cost of implementation by designing proof of concept (POC) & prototyping synchronized with business requirement gathering & consolidation
• Accelerated the build & design extrapolating POC & prototyping work to design & build phase.
• Ensured smooth roll out by conducting rigorous system integration test involving core SAP, B2B integration & partner on boarding.
• Seamless transition of business to SAP processes by managing & conducting effective hands on for users, comprehensive user acceptance tests & sign off collaborating with key stakeholders.
• Adopted change impacts & management as part of design & implementation avoiding last minute surprises.
• Cut over management for seamless transition.

Confidential, USA Glendale, California

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Maintained full responsibility of execution & deployment of 26+ full life-cycle Global business transformation projects.
• With SAP as major ERP for supply chain and Finance.
• Implementations with integration of MM, LE, WM, PP, FICO, QM, APO, Solution Manager & data migration and conversion, cut over, product life cycle, M&A integration on ECC 6.0
• Extensively used Waterfall and AGILE implementation principles.
• Lead a team of 10 business and system analysts and contractors.
• Developed and tracked project and program metrics ensuring realization of program values.
• Developed executive level dashboards and project reporting mechanism.
• Developed & maintained integrated project plan working with cross-functional teams within USA, global business solution team in Switzerland and offshore vendors in India.
• Expedited business requirement gathering, managed FIT/GAPs for all Roll outs resulting in 5% savings.
• Expedited delivery of business blueprint design resulting in 3% savings.
• Designed and delivered SAP enterprise structure for the company leading to successful transition from legacy to SAP landscape.
• Managed designed and delivery of data standards, data conversion tools for all master & transactional data objects.
• Established data governance, migration strategy for phased roll out for Global implementation.
• Managed end-to-end data governance, conversion and cut over, data analytics for all Confidential business go lives ensuring seamless and one of the best SAP go lives in the world.
• Lead and transformed the data management team into world class cut over agent.
• Worked closely with PMO to improve policies & procedures reducing cost of project implementation by 5%.
• Identified issues, change impacts & potential risks, mitigating actions and escalation points.
• Improved seamless flow of business transactions between SAP and legacy systems by developing interfaces between SAP R/3 and legacy systems.
• Reduced cost of implementation by 5% by enhancing multitasking capability among team members, better partnership with business and stakeholders.
• Increased service level by proactive resolution of service desk tickets with zero escalation and 100 % fulfillment to service level agreement.
• Reduced cost of operation by 3% by implementing scorecard for checking data quality using integration of SAP R/3 and BI.
• Lead seamless upgrade from SAP version 4.7 to ECC 6.0 version from ensure supply and data conversion perspective.

Confidential, Troy, Michigan

Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design and delivery of business process procedures, blueprint and configuration in MM/WM.
• Functional testing on SAP upgrade from 4.0 to 4.6 B
• Reduced cost of implementation to tune of 10% by expedited business process procedure and blueprint design.
• Delivered configuration, functional & integrated testing for MM and Logistics execution
• Conducted retrofitting testing of MM and WM functionality on SAP upgrade from version 4.0 to 4.6B
• Change management.

Confidential

Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Program management leading cross-functional team of business and systems analysts.
• Established project charter ensuring strategic alignment of business goals and project milestones.
• Managed implementation of SAP projects with focus on business processes procedures, configuration & integration of FICO, MM, LE, WM, PP and SD.
• Cut down the life cycle of blue printing, development, integration testing, cut over & roll out saving 5% on implementation.
• Improved the process of identification and management of change impacts ensuring seamless business integration into SAP Processes.

Confidential

Div. General Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead successful implementation, Performance Guarantee Tests & stabilizing operations of concurrent multimillion-dollar steel plant projects for different customers like TATA, SAIL, and Kirloskar & JVSL.
• Managed multi million dollars program budget leading a large team of engineers & contractors.
• Established project charter ensuring strategic alignment of programs and projects.
• Developed program level metrics & KPIs for measuring value realization.
• Formulated policies and strategies of project management built large cross-functional team of engineers, consultants & external vendors.
• Established cost control measures & reduced cost of implementation by 10 %.
• Managed & improved logistics and supply chain for 3000 Tons of industrial equipment saving 5% in cost.
• Managed & improved multimillion-dollar project contracts with more than 100 vendors across the country; saving millions of dollars in execution.
• Established & managed project sites across the country

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned & successfully executed multiple Steel Plant projects valued Confidential $ 20 million within time & cost as a Project Engineer/Manager leading a team of 50 nos. of supervisors, technicians & skilled workers, contractors.
• Managed implementation of IT Infrastructure, Instrumentation & control, Confidential projects.
• Developed and improved project management methodologies for the organization.
• Developed dashboards, reporting systems for top executive, Chairman and board of directors.
• Developed program level metrics & KPIs for measuring value realization.
• Developed network-based project planning, monitoring and budgeting system for the company reducing cost of implementation by 10%.
• Improved project appraisal techniques reducing cost of projects by 20%.
• Did futuristic Investment Planning, appraisal and monitoring of Projects of Bokaro Steel Plant (4 Million Ton Plant) and Bhilai Steel Plant (4 Million Ton Plant); value of projects executed annually - $ 500 million.
• Appraised & processed project proposals for approval of Board of Directors, Ministry of Steel and Government of India resulting in right futuristic investment and deriving maximum productivity and benefits.