Summary:
Business Consulting, Project Management, Business Analysis, System Integration and Testing experience; extensive experience in Retail and Manufacturing verticals with a focus on Supply Chain Management solutions (Inventory Planning) in general and Oracle Retail applications in particular; strong domain expertise in retail inventory planning and merchandizing fields;

Masters in Industrial & Systems Engineering (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Current weekend MBA student at University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Core Skills

• Strong knowledge of Oracle Retail products like AIP, RMS, Allocation, RPM, RPAS
• Good understanding of Retail and Manufacturing verticals, especially in Inventory Planning, Supply chain planning and Merchandizing areas.
• Thought leadership experience in Retail solutions space. Served as Product Strategy Manager in Oracle Retail.
• High level business solution design experience
• Business Analysis and Testing lead experience, leading multiple projects
• Extensive experience in leading client engagements, mapping out business processes and performing gap analysis
• Experience working with number of retail clients like Kroger, Burlington Coat Factory, Zales, Ahold, SuperValu, Family Dollar, Best Buy, Office Depot, Coles Myers, Sainsbury’s, Argos
• Experience working with manufacturing clients like Panasonic, Honda, Yamaha.
• Experience working with Onsite/Offshore model (India, Philippines)

Client: Confidential, Oct 2012 - Present
Position: Lead Functional Consultant, Procurement track.
Assisted Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead functional consultant for Procurement track – RMS PO, RMS Deals, RMS Replenishment, Oracle Allocation
• Completed CRP sessions, Requirements gathering and design sessions
• Assisted solution architect with verifying and validating end to end solution process, especially with validating product extensions.

Client: Confidential, July 2011 – Oct 2012
Position: Functional Consultant, Oracle Retail Allocation Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Lead functional consultant for Oracle Retail implementation
• Lead requirements gathering, design and build of a number of custom forms for extended planning, allocation and supply chain management functionality.
• Facilitated testing and end user training.

Client: Confidential, April 2011- July 2011
Position: Project Manager, Oracle Retail Allocation Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Project manager on client side, managing Allocations implementation. Managing functional, integration and testing teams
• Lead CRP sessions. Provided leadership on outlining high level solutions for highly customized modifications
• Stakeholder management

Client: Confidential, Jan 2011 – March 2011
Position: Project Manager and Lead Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Manage and streamline SR process with Oracle and accelerate issue resolution process with Oracle Corporation so as to meet go-live date in March 2010.
• Provide functional support for SIT and UAT.
• Review and critique RMS, RPM and Allocation test cases.
• Help in identifying the best structure for Security settings of RMS, RPM and Allocation

Company: Confidential, Oct 2010 – Dec 2010
Client: Confidential,
Position: Project Lead/Sr. Business Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Business Consultant in Finance stream projects related to RMS implementation
• Perform functional design for gaps around Deals functionality, Cost functionality including Weighted Average Cost treatment of deals in stock ledger etc. Propose solutions for gaps like WAC treatment of deals, GL reporting of deal income.
• Lead gap review and Business Process Modeling sessions
• Estimate and plan Finance stream projects
• Deliver best practice solutions and designs to solve Merchandizing and Finance problems.

Company: Confidential, May – Sept 2010
Client: Confidential,
Position: Sr. Integration (Functional) Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Integration lead for several custom interfaces between RMS, RIM, EDW and EDI. These critical interfaces helped SuperValu scale up on their Deals business process.
• Integration lead for base plus custom integrations between RMS and Oracle Financials. Custom interface was developed from RMS to Oracle AR and to Oracle GL to pass deal account and criteria information from RMS.

Custom interface was developed between RMS and in-house ePromo solution to interface in deals information into RMS.

• Functional lead for Deals module within RMS. Customization work included creating custom processes and staging tables for integration with financial systems. Also customization was done to auto approve deals coming in through EDI.
• Documented functional requirements and created functional designs.
• Successfully lead internal (Wipro) effort to develop training materials and structure for AIP, so as to enable quick ramp up of new AIP resources.

Client: Confidential, Jan 2010 – Apr 10
Position:Solutions Architect/Lead Business Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead business consultant from Wipro US team (offshore) supporting Pao de acucar.
• Designed several key enhancements to AIP solution to meet client needs, including a customized cross docking solution from an inventory planning standpoint.

Client: Confidential, Jun 2009 – Dec 09
Position:Project Manager/Sr. Business Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed two BA/QA project teams (project duration – 6 months) – one project team for Oracle Retail Merchandizing System (RMS) application and one for Pricing and Promotion.
• Functional lead for major enhancement initiatives in RMS. RMS version 9 was enhanced to include new vendor performance management capabilities and work assignment capabilities for buyers and planners.
• Integration lead for custom interface between RMS and POS. This interface was an enhancement for passing cash back configuration settings from RMS to POS.
• Performed onsite/offshore coordination with offshore testing team, managed test design and execution process, facilitated UAT and facilitated training of client users.

Company: Confidential,Atlanta, GA

Jan 2006 – April 2009

Description: Confidential,provides retail planning and supply chain management solutions for Retail industry. Products include solutions for Category Planning, Advanced Inventory Planning, Warehouse Management, Forecasting, Point-of-sale and Pricing.

Position: Product Strategy Manager and Sr.Functional Architect

Responsibilities (Enterprise Product Manager – AIP, VCC):

• Managed Enterprise Product Management function for Oracle Retail Advanced Inventory Planning (AIP).
• Worked extensively with key clients – Best Buy, Coles Myers, Sainsbury’s and Ahold.
• Work with Strategy group to layout long term strategic vision for AIP
• Interact with PMO to lay out and manage release plans.
• Lead workshops, interviews, surveys etc with clients for strategic requirements gathering.
• Worked with Development Directors to generate release plans and resource plans
• Initiated strategic design efforts for the new Oracle Workspace product.

Responsibilities (Business Consultant, Architect):
Client: Confidential,

• Lead Functional Consultant for several critical customizations within AIP.
• Design lead for strategically critical Order and Container Scaling module within AIP. Best Buy realized excellent ROI from this customization. It helped them scale up their Asian sourcing.
• Helped Best Buy devise a strategy to bypass Data Management module within AIP and to create their own custom Data Management module.

Client: Confidential,

• Design lead for several custom RPAS workbooks and worksheets.
• Designed a key custom workbook for Office Depot which let them manage their Inventory Planning and Management KPIs at a corporate level.
• Part of team that helped implement and test replenishment module within AIP.
• Helped in due diligence for other advanced modules like replenishment.

Company: Confidential,Peachtree City, GA

May 2002 – Dec 2005

Description: Products include Head Units, DVD players, Roof Consoles, Amplifiers and Navigation Systems. Customers include Honda, GM, Toyota, Hyundai, Subaru, and Nissan.

Position: Project Manager, Process Consultant, Supply Chain Management

Responsibilities:

• Functional design lead of ‘Returns Management and Quality Tracking’ custom solution.
• Interact with external and internal customers to map returns and quality tracking business processes. Worked closely with external client – Honda.
• Lead workshops with cross functional teams to map quality root cause analysis and resolution processes.
• Design and test pull based inventory replenishment solution
• Partner with vendors to design and test Vendor Managed Inventory solution
• Design warehouse management system – receiving, put away and pick path generation

Company: Confidential,India

Sep 99- Jul 01

Description: Software development company specializing in delivering multimedia software solutions. Products include educational software for kids, animation content for large multimedia projects, computer games, software educational franchise etc.

Position: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interact regularly with customers to incorporate customer requirements into future products. Lead market research activity for designing a new computer game for kids.
• Train franchisees in educational products created by the company.

Computer Skills

Enterprise Solutions – (Oracle) AIP, RMS, RO, RDF, RPM, Allocations, RPAS, VCC, Work Space, ReIM.
Database: Oracle SQL, MySQL, MS Access

Education: M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering