SUMMARY:

High impact IT management professional with expertise in leading business critical strategic initiatives for fortune 500 organizations in technology, finance, government, pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries. Offers 10+ years of senior level experience in leading SAP and Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse projects

EXPERTISE AREA:

• SAP BW BI and HANA Implementations.
• Corporate Performance Management
• Change Management
• Risk Management
• Solution Manager
• BI Center of Excellence & team building
• Agile Project/Program Management
• Compliance & Governance
• Communication Management
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Global SAPBI implementations
• Budget Optimization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, PEAPACK, NJ

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Conducted daily SAFe SCRUM meetings, coached the team, facilitated the delivery
• Acted as the primary liaison across technology disciplines in driving day - to-day project delivery with a particular focus on high quality, efficient delivery within a large scale transformation programme
• Prepared the Project Plans for Confidential Data warehouse.
• Removed impediments/blockers to the Scrum team in order for continuous smooth development Work with the Product Owner to define the roadmap for your products, and work with the Scrum team and other areas of the business to translate this into actionable user stories and sprint-by-sprint plans.
• Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process for each sprint, helping Scrum team members to prioritise and self-organize around the work that needs to be completed against their capabilities and capacities Facilitate the regular team agile meetings such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups , Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Mentored and coached members to ensure all are focused on a common goal and working with an Agile mind-set.
• Actively participated in the Scrum Master Community, sharing and re-applying skills and knowledge
• Conducted the Requirements gathering workshops.
• Estimated the Efforts for implementation development artifacts.
• Interacted with all the stake holders and agreed on the milestone deliverables.
• Prepared the risk register and risk mitigation plans.
• Conducted quality assurance meetings.
• Managed the Change Control for Confidential Data warehouse and data migration projects in SAP Business Objects and Informatica technologies.
• Effectively managed the on-site/offshore resources.
• Followed the Confidential ’s Global Risk and Compliance(GRC) procedures and Good Manufacturing Processes ( GMP)
• Delivered the quality software within time and budget using Agile methodologies / SCRUM.
• Used TFS, JIRA, MS Project tools
• Technical Hands on Data warehouse technologies including Business Objects SAP BW BI HANA.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the Project Plans for SAP BW BI HANA and data migration projects
• Estimated the Efforts for implementation development artifacts.
• Interacted with all the stake holders and agreed on the milestone deliverables.
• Prepared the risk register and risk mitigation plans.
• Conducted Scrum meetings
• Conducted quality assurance meetings.
• Worked in cross-divisional and cross-functional environment.
• Effectively communicated the progress on the project to internal and external customers.
• Captured the key metrics for the project.
• Understanding the requirements, technology landscape and road map for products.
• Understanding the conflicts and Problem Solving under pressure.
• Good People Management skills. Handled teams of size 30+.
• Handled onsite-offshore model
• Good Negotiation skills.
• Understanding the business functionalities with effective user communication

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Global SAP Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed BI project plans and key deliverables, managed scope; achieved milestones; collects and analyzes project/program metrics to manage the initiatives and drive accountability for work stream in the successful delivery of overall business solutions.
• Defined and executes strategy, design, build, test and deployment of global SAP BI rollout in Finance planning and forecasting areas.
• Collaborated with global/regional process owners and IT partners on a regular basis to ensure BI project scope and objectives remain on track and ensures timely resolution of issues.
• Instituted global ECC/BI stewardship of governance, standard operating procedures.
• Developed BI and data warehouse architecture and assures a successful integration of all components within the BI solution as well as interfaces. Project budgets to $10M including infrastructure, resource planning and project rollout scheduling.
• Guided change enablement team; provides training including curriculum, and end user training.
• Worked closely with deployment team in cutover planning activities to ensure timely deployment of the BI solutions.

Confidential, Columbia, MD

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Business Intelligence a reporting platform to significantly improve profit margins by 25%
• Prepared User Acceptance Test Plans and helped users during UAT.
• Leveraged effective management of onshore/offshore resource mix; achieved 60% time to deliver and 50% savings.
• Managed all initiatives to defined metrics and within budget. Demonstrated and satisfied commitment to meeting all SLAs.
• Provided technology roadmap - enterprise data warehouse and BI initiative; Acted as liaison between project teams and business. Directed highly skilled team of 20+ BI professionals.
• Project lead for enterprise-wide data warehousing and BI initiative using SAP Net weaver BW and SAP IP. Lead the development team of BW developers, data analysts and business analysts. Managed all initiatives to defined metrics. Demonstrated and satisfied commitment to meeting all SLAs. Good experience in handling Issue and Risk management.
• Reporting lead for BW analytical reporting using BEx tools and BPC 5.x 7.5 tools Championed enterprise portal (EP) integration and single sign-on with role-based security. Championed Business objects development using BW data. Created multiple universes as per the requirements.
• Instituted global reporting strategy; BI governance process for Finance, Retail, International and other business units.
• Championed KPIs, data migration, operational/analytical reporting, dashboards & scorecards to enable performance management.
• Implemented BPC for Financial Consolidations (Legal and Managerial) and Financial Planning (Annual Budget and rolling forward Forecast) for Income Statement and Balance Sheet. Developed Plan/Forecast models and reports.

Confidential, St Paul, MN

Sr. Consultant / Lead

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with business and technology partners to provide high-quality technology solutions for various Confidential business entities.
• Provided technology vision, roadmaps and blue prints for enterprise data warehousing and BI systems.
• Established best practices and standards, streamline existing systems, review vendors, and recommend database and application performance tuning techniques, data models, and procedures.
• Developed, coached, and motivated staff members.
• Directed highly skilled team of 30+ IT professionals in the US/India; attained unprecedented employee retention rates.
• Led Data warehousing and BI strategic planning, development of product roadmaps and technical/architectural project reviews. Coordinated quality assurance and release for new product rollouts and multiple maintenance releases.
• Led the administration and configuration teams of SAP BW, Informatica and portal including role based user security.
• Led BI team and implemented SAP BW Full-Life Cycle for Marketing and Sales business units and Broker and Correspondent Channels.
• Championed User Requirements Gathering workshops and interacted with the Management and Business Users to identify Business Requirements. Involved in all the phases of Life cycle development from requirements gathering to putting the project into production.
• Enhanced the business content Info cubes SD, FI-CO for extraction transformation and loading (ETL).Developed many Info Sets from Master Data objects and ODS objects. Involved in the coding of start routines in the update rules.
• Championed BW statistics for optimization of data loads and report performance during BW production support. Involved extensively in Reporting using BEx Analyzer, BEx Web Reports, BEx Map, creating Web Templates. Provided Documentation on Best Practices for Support and Maintain after GO-LIVE.
• Responsible for Sizing and Performance Optimization of the System. Implemented BW web reporting portal using WAD.
• Designed Generic Extractors and Data Sources for providing Data to Info cubes, Multi-cubes, ODS and Aggregates.
• Extensively involved in the design of extended star schema. Involved in all the phases of Life cycle development from requirements gathering to putting the project into production. Enhanced the business content Info cubes SD, FI-CO for extraction transformation and loading (ETL).
• Led the requirements analysis, data warehouse and data mart design, dimensional data modeling, Infrastructure and database sizing, design and code reviews. Provided end state road maps to Correspondent and Servicing data marts.
• Instituted end-to-end technical guidance for the Corporate Enterprise Data warehouse initiative that included requirement analysis, feasibility study, vendor evaluation, infrastructure and resource requirements, ROI calculations and technical guidance to the development teams.
• Championed dimensional modeling and ETL processes, database design and code reviews. Achieved 80% performance gains by reducing CPU utilization by 50% and $2M annual cost saving to the business.