Experience Summary:

A Business and Applications functional resource with 15 years of work experience and over 11 yrs of expertise in business process reengineering for Order to cash, Procure to Pay, Construction In Progress to Asset, Revenue Requisition process for Project Based Organizations. Skilled in analyzing current business processes, determining system requirements, GAP analysis, reporting needs, and configuring applications to match those needs while incorporating best business practices using previous industry experience. Has extensive experience in a global implementation/maintenance environment with Multi-Orgs and multiple currencies. Has experience in managing the onsite as well off shore teams.

ERP Expertise:

• Eleven years of experience with Oracle Applications Oracle Financials /Oracle Projects/ Grants accounting and Procure to Pay .
• Experience in Business requirements gathering, GAP Analysis, Test Plan Preparation, Unit testing, Functional Architecture, System Integration testing, UAT.
• Possess unique combination of Financials/Project Accounting/Order Management Oracle applications skills with strong knowledge of their integration.
• Training the client's super users and users on the application and conducted pilot testing, integrated testing, design validation and setups of the Financials and Project Accounting ERP applications
• Experience in Design, Development and Documentation using Software Development Life Cycle Standards. Preparing Requirement Analysis Documentation, Functional Documentation for Configurations Setups , User Training Documents and Customization Documents
• Experience in implementing Oracle Project Manufacturing to supports Engineer-To-Order and Assemble to order business models
• Exposure to preparation of high-level functional design documents of Conversion, from one Legacy system to Oracle Applications, Loading Data in to Interface Tables, Handling the Errors.
• Involvement in the preparation of high-level functional design documents for the customization of Various Applications Reports.
• Development of various commercial applications using Oracle and its related tools.

Confidential

• General Dynamics Electric Boat GDEB is a division of General Dynamics whose primary business is designing, constructing and maintaining nuclear submarines for the United States Navy.
• GDEB has been using a mix of home built mainframe based systems to perform financial accounting, labor costing, cost tracking, billing, accounts receivable and capital accounting functions. These mainframe systems are batch mode systems that interface infrequently and often require manual procedures to handle off cycle updates i.e. mid-month billing . In addition to these home built system, GDEB also utilizes a variety of SQL Server databases, Excel spreadsheets, Access databases and other Open Shop databases to supplement the functionality of the EB mainframe systems.
• For better financial management GDEB decided to use ORACLE R12 a single, integrated system based on standardized rules and processes, and a language that everyone understands.

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and document functional requirements for the Project Billing RICE objects.
• Facilitated and participated in functional design meetings with key process team resources.
• Assist in defining and reviewing the functional requirements for the application, specifically the gaps that are filled by customizations.
• Designed RICE components per the RICE inventory.
• Confirmed the completeness and consistency of the design deliverables. Resolve any inconsistencies discovered.
• Participated in quality reviews to ensure traceability of the designs to the requirements.
• Created RICE Functional Designs for Project Billing extensions and PA related conversion from legacy system.
• Provided functional guidance to the RICE technical designer for the RICE work units.

• Aerojet Rocketdyne is a world-recognized aerospace and defense leader providing propulsion and energetics to its space, missile defense, strategic systems, tactical missile and armaments customers throughout domestic and international markets. GenCorp is a leading technology-based manufacturer of aerospace and defense products and systems with a real estate segment that includes activities related to the entitlement, sale, and leasing of the company's excess real estate assets.
• Worked with various business groups to analyze their Oracle training need for various processes.
• Prepared end to end oracle training manuals for finance and program managers of various business groups of Aerojet and helped them understand the functionalities of Oracle.
• Prepared UPK training manuals for Aerojet university courses for their future training need.
• Designed and implemented custom Project billing reports for Aerojet finance.

• PVSC is the fifth largest waste processing facility in the US with 160 million revenue. PVSC processes waste for their customers sewerage companies / districts which PVSC refers to as user charges and is the source of their 80 revenue.
• PVSC does construction and project execution work and most of them are funded by their sponsors NJ State and Federal Agencies . Oracle Grants Accounting has been implemented to track/control the spending on sponsored projects. For their internal capital construction projects Oracle Project Costing has been implemented. Lawson system had been used to record all the finance transactions which is replaced with Oracle financial AP, Grants, Projects, AR and GL

Challenges:

• Cost distribution between multiple Awards funded by different sponsors i.e. even and uneven cost allocation on each award of the contraction program
• Revenue generation by customer type i.e. State, Federal, others
• Control spending on the sponsored projects through budgetary control.
• Integration between OWAM and EBS for project related cost with PTAOE and POET codes.

Achievement:

• The biggest challenge of this project was bi directional integration between OWAM and Oracle Grants EBS for project cost. Successfully implemented and tested the integration with Oracle WAM team.
• Setup funding pattern functionality of Oracle Grants as per cost shared by sponsors' on a construction project, i.e. project is 75 funded by Fed. 25 by State . At the time of create the requisitions, PO, AP invoices. The transaction would be allocated to each sponsored award based on the funding pattern of the targeted Project.
• Custom accounting rules has been setup to generate revenue by customer types.
• Encumbrance accounting and budgetary control rules have been setup to control the spending each Task of the project.
• Retired their existing financial system as successfully implemented the Oracle Financial with the combination of Oracle Projects and Grants.

Confidential

Position: Sr. Consultant Project Costing

• Project Accounting Lead for R12 implementation at Confidential . The goal is to define the business processes for implementation and maintenance of Oracle Projects, HRMS and Fixed Assets at client site. Through this ERP deployment both the clients have adopted the new features of Oracle R12 to streamline their project's process.
• To Support C S Blue Printing Phase from the Finance accounting process areas.

a Participate in the Workshop sessions and understand the C S requirements for Project Accounting, Fixed Asset Accounting and Self Insurance Accounting processes.

b Analyze Project Accounting requirements as Project accounting hasn't be a separate process in C S business and existing system.

c Demonstrated the Oracle Project costing functionality to the business users and IT Managers that how Oracle Project implementation could help them streamline and enhance their Project process.

d Document the BRD document and provide solutions for the process Gaps for Project Accounting, Fixed Asset Accounting and Self Insurance Accounting processes.

e Explained the integration points between Oracle Purchasing, Account Payable, Projects, Fixed Asset and GL.

f Provide Leadership role/SME for Project and Fixed Asset Accounting.

g Provide Leadership role/SME for Self Insurance Asset Accounting.

Confidential Position: Lead Project Costing/ Billing

Working as Project Accounting Lead for R12 implementation at Accenture's two multinational clients

Responsibilities:

• Provide functional analysis and Oracle e-Business configuration in the areas of Project Accounting, Project Costing and Project Management for Cost and Capital projects and their integration with FA.
• Design RICE components for required application extensions, integration, reports and workflows Processes.
• Provide strategic and tactical planning, organization and direction in support of client project goals.
• Designed RICE components per the Accenture's RICE inventory.
• Lead functional teams and supported technical team.
• Communicate business needs related to gaps in Oracle functionality to Oracle Technical Lead.
• Write functional specifications for data conversions from different existing systems to Oracle Projects system.
• Troubleshoot questions and problems from the user community with Oracle Application issues.
• Assist with the installation of future revisions and enhancements to existing test and production systems following the Oracle setup documents.
• Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, functional specifications, and training plans.
• Working with other IS and Corporate IT personnel to support associated applications as needed.
• Define project management and finance's reporting for OBIEE report tool.
• Train super-users on processes relevant to using Oracle applications.

Confidential Position: Lead Project Costing/ Billing, iExp,

POWER Engineers is an engineering consulting firm serving power delivery, generation, industrial and telecommunications clients worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate requirement sessions with key end users.
• Understand, analyze and document POWER Engineers SA and POWER Engineers UK business as-is process and create the future process BP.080 for iExp and Project Accounting.
• Facilitate and participate in functional design meetings with key process team resources on Project Foundation, Costing/ Billing.
• Participate in functional design meetings on SLA, EBTax, TCA, Cash Management Banking Model, SLA, Advanced Global Intercompany AGIS , Advanced Global Consolidation AGCS .
• Configured SLA rules for project accounting transactions
• Map the business process with Oracle R12 system and explain the PWR Engg management the new features of Oracle R12 and its benefits.
• Design a custom solution for bill rate by jobs grade.
• Configure Project Foundation/ Costing / Billing and iExpenses.
• Prepared functional design MD050 for AR Invoices and worked with Technical Developer to deliver the custom Invoice Print Program.

Confidential

Position: Lead Order to Cash Process

• Motorola NYSE: MOT has been at the forefront of communication inventions and innovations for more than 80 years. We have achieved extraordinary accomplishments along the way such as making the equipment that carried the first words from the moon and leading the cellular communication revolution with the development of the world's first handheld cellular phone.
• Dept info: Motorola Solutions IT - Provides global IT application support for the Motorola Solutions business at Motorola.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary liaison between IT and business users for Oracle Order to Cash functions.
• Part of business process design team as financial analyst for their major process changes.
• Develop detailed business user requirements, system documentation, workflow procedures, and data modeling.
• Learn the current Order to Cash process to understand Project costing / billing interfaces in Motorola Networks system.
• Understands the needs of the business and recommends enhancements through the application of technologies, systems, and process changes to enhance business processes.
• Identify process and systems solutions to address major systems needs
• Provide functional expertise in areas of Project Accounting and Account Receivable systems.
• Modify the project cost extract to ensure that the appropriate cost information is being sent to FSS PA.
• Develop process documentation and trains user community.
• Follow incident, escalation, and problem management processes.

Confidential

Position: Functional Lead Oracle Grants Accounting

• The 1199SEIU Funds are among the strongest and largest labor-management Public sector organization in the nation, providing a range of comprehensive benefits to 200,000 working and retired healthcare industry workers, members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East and their families. Through the Benefit and Pension, Training and Employment and Child Care Funds, 1199SEIU members enjoy complete health benefits, a defined monthly pension at retirement and training, educational, job security, and child care benefits all at little or no cost.
• As 1199SEIU receives funding from government agencies and some other sources to carry out their programs, these programs need to be explicitly tracked and reported based on the funding source and complied with terms and conditions and fiscal mandate of the funding agreement. 1199SEIU selected Oracle Grants as solution application to meet these requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate requirement sessions with key and end users.
• Understand, analyze and documented 1199SEIU business as-is process and requirements.
• Facilitated and participated in functional design meetings with key process team resources.
• Mapped the business process with Oracle Project and Grants systems.
• Configured Project Costing for internal capital projects and Grants accounting for external funded Government agencies and Local Sponsors programs.
• Implemented appropriate system setups and Award, Budget and security rules for Grants Accounting.
• Configured encumbrance accounting with combination of Award budgetary control to limit spending again Award budgets.
• Configured cost / revenue auto accounting for Grants projects.
• Configured Award Funds Allocation, apportionment and appropriations.
• Provided data conversion and interface design.
• Prepared documentation to supplement the implementation, conversion strategy and Data mapping.
• Involved in detail Grants solutions design for multiple integration with third party software.
• Successfully conducted CRP for Award and Project creation, Award budget approval and notification to Award manager, Project revenue generation, controlled purchasing again Award budget.
• Configured SLA rules for Project and Grants accounting transactions
• Guided the users through the User Acceptance Testing phase of the project
• Supported the client team through the transition to the live running of the system.

Confidential Position Functional Lead Oracle Project Costing

• Project Description: PAREXEL is a leading global bio/pharmaceutical services organization, providing a broad range of knowledge-based contract research, medical communications and consulting services to worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industry. PAREXEL operates in 103 locations throughout 46 countries around the world, and has more than 9,250 employees.
• This project is undertaken to fulfill the requirement of redesigning of Oracle Chart of Accounts in 11.5.10 and subsequent upgrade to R12, Implementation of Oracle Project Costing Billing, Purchasing iProcurement in R12 environment for PAREXEL.

Responsibilities:

• Provided solution design to address the Gaps
• Participated in data conversion and interface design work.
• Supported the technical consultants in the creation of the technical specifications on OPCB RICE components.
• Configured oracle Project Costing/Billing modules to meet the solution design.
• Configured multicurrency, multi-Org environment for Oracle project as PAREXEL has locations in 46 countries to manage global projects.
• Prepared functional design to Integrate Oracle project with galaxy of legacy systems.
• Worked closely with the Business Functional Leads, provide system and process expertise for the processes to be implemented while ensuring they are providing input from a domestic and global perspective for their respective functional areas.
• Assisted team through system assessment, design, configuration, development, data mapping, and testing.
• Provided functional guidance to the offshore functional and technical team members.
• Conducted pilot testing and integration testing with other financial modules.

Confidential

Position: Functional Lead Oracle Project Suite

Modules Responsibility: Project Costing/Billing, Project Manufacturing and Project Management, Project intelligence.

GE Environmental Services group has a comprehensive portfolio of technology offerings and services, focused towards optimization of performance and profitability of businesses to achieve environmental targets with minimum costs and maximum business advantages The project comprises of full life cycle global implementation cum rollouts of the distribution, manufacturing and financial modules of oracle applications 11.5.10 version with custom interfaces to multiple shared systems.

Responsibilities:

• Implanted Project manufacturing to integrate Oracle Project costing with EAM, SCM OM, ASCP, Procurement, Cost Management, Flow Manufacturing BOM, WIP , Shipping
• Implemented Oracle Project Manufacturing to supports GE Environmental's Engineer-To-Order business model. GE wanted to plan, track, procure, and cost based on Project.
• Design the process to capture the total cost of service contract in Oracle Project Customization
• Design the integration process between Order Management and Project Billing to generate Invoice on Product's final shipment.
• Participated in GE Revenue requisition process reengineering and customize the Oracle application accordingly.
• Demonstrated Oracle Project Management and Project intelligence's key functions to GE PMs multiple times as GE PMs wanted to analyze the performance of their projects in multiple dimensions like by Project, by depts., by products etc.
• Integrated projects' scheduling, budgeting and forecasting with Ms Project.
• Provided Solution Design for custom JSP page and using extensions within Oracle Project Management based on OA Framework Login.
• Configured Oracle Project Management and Project intelligence for Project deliverable's schedule and tracking, progress management, Issue tracking, Change management and Project Status reporting.
• Configured Multi-Org environment to cater project related Intra-company B L transactions as GE has multiple Sites in US.
• Designed and developed Implementation and Functional design documentation for Oracle Projects 11i based on GE Documentum Implementation Methodology.
• Created functional design and implemented appropriate system setups and security rules.
• Prepared documentation to supplement the implementation.
• Inform the RICE team lead of any issues that may affect other areas of the project.
• Provide functional guidance to the offshore technical and functional team members.

Confidential Position: Oracle Functional Designer 11i

• DEAMS is a financial management initiative designed to transform business and financial management processes and systems to provide accurate, reliable, and timely business information to support effective business decision making for U.S. Transportation Command, Defense Finance and Accounting Service DFAS , the Confidential Force and eventually, other agencies within the Department of Defense.
• DEAMS have been using 150 separate systems for financial management systems and processes that are either manual or automated, or a combination of both for last 50 years. For better financial management DEAMS decided to use ORACLE 11i a single, integrated system based on standardized rules and processes, and a language that everyone understands.

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and document functional requirements for the Project Billing and OTL RICE objects.
• Facilitated and participated in Order to cash functional design meetings with key process team resources.
• Assist in defining and reviewing the functional requirements for the application, specifically the gaps that are filled by customizations.
• Designed RICE components per the RICE inventory.
• Confirmed the completeness and consistency of the design deliverables. Resolve any inconsistencies discovered.
• Participated in quality reviews to ensure traceability of the designs to the requirements.
• Created RICE Functional Designs for Project Billing extensions and PA related HRMS, OTL conversion from legacy system.
• Provided functional guidance to the RICE technical designer for the RICE work units.

Confidential Position Lead Functional Consultant 11i

eLoyalty is a leading management consulting, systems integration, and managed Services Confidential on optimizing customer interactions. eLoyalty is focused on growing and developing its business through two primary Service Lines: Behavioral Analytics and Converged Internet Protocol Contact Center Solutions. eLoyalty implemented Oracle application Version 11.0.3 in 2000 and upgraded to version 11.5.7 in 2003. They wanted to upgrade their Financials from 11.5.7 to 11.5.10.2

Responsibilities:

• Assessment of eLoyalty's business processes to analyze the Oracle Projects Suite of applications for the suitability and applicability.
• Worked with various business groups to test all the functionality and customization of various processes.
• Presented the new features of Oracle Project Family Pack 'M' to the client and helped them understand the improved functionalities of new release.
• Successfully upgraded the systems from 11.5.7 to 11.5.10 worked with Oracle SR's to resolve any issues identified including SEV1 with 24x7 resolutions.
• Prepared multiple business test scenarios, test Case for ERP Up-grade testing at different level of project.
• Trained, tested and supported during the user testing.
• Resolved pre/post upgrade issues related to Project Costing/Billing and documented them for future reference.

Confidential

Position: Functional Consultant

Flowserve Corporation is the world leader in Design, Manufacture Supply of Pumps, Valves, Seals automation and services to the Power, Oil, Gas, Chemical and other industries. It has revenues over 3 Confidential . It has operations in 56 Countries and 15000 Employees. Flowserve wanted to do Pilot implementation for 'Project based Manufacturing' for their Holland Unit and then roll it out to other locations.

Responsibilities:

• Understand business process, gather requirement, identify gaps, define and map the business process and identify resolution.
• Prepared documentation to supplement the implementation of Project Costing/Billing, PJT, PJM.
• Designed and developed workplan and related documentation for Oracle Projects 11i based on Oracle's proprietary Application Implementation Methodology AIM .
• Designed the process plane to create 'Event' against shipment of project product. Customization
• Design and built Interfaces between Oracle Project Costing/billing and 3rdparty products.

Confidential Position Tech/Functional Consultant, Project Costing CIP Projects , Fixed Asset

Project Description: OLCC, the world's largest single-site timeshare resort is a venture of Holiday Inn hotel Group of Co. They wanted to capture the total Construction in progress CIP cost of their time share resort using Oracle Project Costing module and its integration with other financial modules. It was a Pilot implementation for their Kissimmee, FL location and then OLCC management wanted to roll it out to other locations.

Responsibilities:

• Studied business process, gathered requirement, defined and mapped the business process and identified resolution.
• Designed and developed workplan and related documentation for Oracle Projects Costing, Fixed Asset.
• Documents Created: BR.030, RD.050, TE.040, BR.1OO for Application Setup, BP.080 for Future process model using AIM Methodology.
• Created functional design and implemented appropriate system setups and security rules, Trained business owners and business end-users on Capital Projects Costing as part of User Training Strategy.
• Conducted pilot testing, integration with other financial modules testing.
• Confidential Position Tech/Functional Consultant
• Decision Quest has successfully implemented the first phase of Oracle Financials and Oracle Project Costing. This project involved Implementation of OTL and iExpense and Post Production Support of Oracle Project Costing Implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Key member in OTL Oracle Time and labor and OIE Oracle Internet Expenses strategy and implementation team.
• Configured workflow and security for OTL and iExpenses, including defining menus and responsibilities.
• Configured Microsoft Excel template so that it matched the current Internet Expenses implementation.
• Setup Recurring periods, Approval styles, Schedule Workflow Background Process, Change and late audit rules, Alternate names.
• Defined Approval Periods/Styles.
• Setup Preferences to define rules about how individual workers or groups of workers accessibility of the application.
• Defined Timekeeper to enter and maintain timecard information for multiple workers in a single session.
• Involved in pre and post-production troubleshooting which entailed quick resolutions from past-experience, research and SRs.

Confidential Position: Functional Consultant

ISE Corporations wanted the assessment of Oracle Project Costing/Billing implementation. In a phased manner, ISE Corporations wanted to track the cost incurred due to time and expenses of employees on their internal Projects.

Responsibilities

• Understand business process, gathered high level requirement, defined and mapped the business process and identified resolution.
• Advised Management team on the implementation strategy.
• Provided the Information regarding the Features, Mapped the business requirements with Oracle Projects features, Integration with other modules of Oracle E-business suite applicable at ISE Corporations and Software Licensing requirements.
• Prepared documentation to assess the implementation
• Prepared Flow Diagrams showing the details of Payables, Purchasing, Receivables, Inventory and Time Expenses Modules Integration with Oracle Projects.
• Provided the detailed proposal for Implementation.

Confidential Position - Assistance Finance Manager