SUMMARY:

• Overall more than 16 years in IT experience with 15 years of experience as Sr PM focused on business analysis, testing, reporting, product implementations, software development, support, delivery of application software for various businesses
• Experienced in Information Technology with program management, project management, application business analysis including SOA (service oriented architecture), managing the project updates for design and development of applications in full - cycle implementations.
• Experience as leading and managing different Applications team for Co-Ordination and Development on a multiple cycles of medium/complex ERP and different project implementation. Managing workshops for BPRD's. (Business Process Requirement Docs).
• Project Delivery Expert: Delivered Azure cloud based and client server applications to leading clients across the globe in challenging work environments. Worked in a global delivery model managing teams across time zones and continents.
• SDLC and ASAP Roadmaps Management experience with all aspects of implementing different IT Applications and SAP Apps in Manufacturing, Distribution and Retail organizations. Developing a detailed Project Plan including -Scope, Schedule, Resource Management, Risk Management and Budget Planning.
• Experience in project management, use case modeling, requirements management, system architecture, Functional and Non-Functional requirements through conducting user interviews, technical writing and documentation.
• Managed Project proficiently in incorporating inter-project dependencies in the plan and managing these dependencies on an ongoing basis. Gaining stakeholder signoff on the project plan through Project Server Applications based Models for Developing Task/Activity and successfully Execution Plan. Directs systems implementation projects by planning, directing and monitoring the work of systems and programmer analysts.
• Actively participated with involvement during the analysis, design, modeling, development and implementing of SAP and Non SAP applications. Dealt with high-volume, rapid development cycles, many concurrent deadlines and changing priorities.
• Clear understanding on migration issues in various platforms. Managed all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) thoroughly ASAP Methodologies. Well experienced in design, development, support, project management, Data Modeling, Conceptual Designs, Risk Management, Bug Tracking, Testing, and management of custom and vendor application systems.
• Expertise management skills in the field of Gathering Business Requirements and translating them into robust IT Reporting solutions. Conducted Gap analysis and Impact analysis of the to-be model.
• Advising functional analysts, technical developers, and customers regarding best practices and appropriate approaches to meeting business requirements. Translating Business Strategies into IT solutions and delivery of these solutions to enable business capabilities.
• Proficient with management tools like ITIL, MS Visio, Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Power point, MS Project, Office Share Point Server 2007.
• Responsible for determining requirements, identifying gaps, offering mitigation strategies and delivering implementation options for replacement of decentralized purchasing, scheduling, warehouse, inventory and asset management legacy systems. Coordinated resources and developed project schedule, methodology, project templates and final report.
• Worked with Program Directors on a program stakeholders on end-to-end SAP program management including vendor selection, IT transformation strategy, Software package selection, program budget & estimates, work plans, staffing, change control, business migration, org change management, managing stakeholder expectations and the overall IT project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas TX

Sr IT Program /Project Manager

Role and Responsibilities:

• Developed and managed project plan and project schedules for the roll outs. Prepared planned and estimated project costs and discussed with the executive steering committee for the approval and sign off on the Budget plan. More projects delivered on time and within budget. · Better strategic alignment between business objectives and the projects initiated.
• Money spent on right things. · Greater leadership buy-in for department level projects and therefore greater chance of project succeeding and getting support when needed. · Improved enterprise wide utilization of resources. · Better communication across the organization and therefore quicker and better decision making. · Better collaboration and coordination across departments. · Better visibility of initiatives across the enterprise. · More bang for the buck.
• Greater returns of the projects implemented. · More efficient delivery of projects and therefore faster time to market · Better risk mitigation and structured risk resolution. Monitored and managed the development of project requirements, test cases and delivered project solutions to production, RICEF plan and migration testing plans. Managed the development of test cases, test plans and tracking issues for the on time testing deliverables with the business stakeholders and executive meeting.
• Successfully worked and Go live with onsite and offshore project team members. Developed and provided weekly and monthly project status reporting.
• Delivered Application Enhancements as a Senior Manager r including Program, Delivery Management, Transition & Service Delivery. Managed various technologies and platforms across multiple domains and geographies in a multi-vendor environment.
• Worked extensively in the information architecture of cloud applications in aligning them to the organization process and principles that ensures that integrated data delivers business value, and aligns business priorities and technology. Established the data environment for the cloud application and their migration. Provided project & program management over large-scale, top-priority and complex technology initiatives.
• Led large teams across diverse domains (Mobility, Finance, Banking, Manufacturing and Retail) and futuristic technologies (Cloud Computing) for top clients across the globe.
• Delivered Risky and Time bound projects through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments. Followed the best process and tools best suited to each project.
• Achieved seamless cloud migrations and integrations that were transparent to client customers, accomplished highly scalable and available applications under budget and with lesser hosting and maintenance costs.
• Set up the strategy and lead a team responsible for delivery of various improvement initiatives from problem definition to implementation completion.
• Accountable for execution of programs that require a high level of cross functional teamwork and are typically performed under time constraints. Responsible for program definition, resourcing, issue escalation, budget, risk management and delivery.
• Partnership with functional stakeholders to prioritize and validate large capital investments and build associated business case justification to gain executive level approval.
• Define, implement, and maintain program management strategies, procedures, processes, and methodologies.
• Define and evolve various operating models to manage large scale initiatives related to continuous improvement and ensure direction of the initiative remains aligned with leadership expectations. Support SAP implementation and project work streams. Foster collaboration, strategic alignment and integrated planning and execution across different functions in a matrix organization.
• Manage stakeholder expectations. Effectively control the intake mechanisms for new projects. Worked on multiple new projects and opportunities scaling them from business case to implementations. Should have Worked with Customer Governance/IT to agree ways of working, governance structures, deliverables and milestones while setting up Communication and Project Plans.
• Engage multi-disciplined teams spread across multiple Geo’s, to create an effective results oriented environment ensuring best quality delivery standards and Project Management Best practices. Help define IT Release strategy, communicate key project plans, QA plans, participate in milestone reviews, Business Go/No-Go reviews. Lead and co-ordinate Go-Live activities including execution and deployments Plans and Checklists.
• Project Planning & providing Process Improvements to existing projects, Reports for maintain accounting statements. Involved with periodic reports, Accounting Reports, Corporate Accounting Cash Flow Report and Master Data Reports, Invoice Reports. Release Management - GRC process to complete the end to end process for the deployment into production. Develops new systems, techniques and procedures for automated planning systems, reporting, issue resolution, risk management and budget tracking.
• Reviews plans and schedules of other participating functions for compliance with master schedule, resolves scheduling and inter-functional conflicts.
• Participates in daily, weekly or monthly meetings. Reviews to track and report project status, identifying deviations.Reviews project business case to ensure accurate costs and internal labor are identified. Mentors, supports and develops associates and processes within the project management area.Supports internal department training through instructional opportunities.
• Oversees the installation and client acceptance of capitalized equipment, enterprise software system, system integration project or engagement.
• Ensure customer satisfaction of information technology solutions by managing the details of overall project schedules and deliverables.
• Monitor the project from initiation through delivery. Organize the interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project/product on schedule and within budget constraints. Purchasing: Purchase Requisition, Quotation, Purchase Order (Subcontracting, Consignment, Third party, Blanket and Framework orders), Contract, Output determination, Release strategy, Approval through
• Involved in Production support for indirect procurement with T&E application. Conducted workshops with implementation and business teams to understand the current system .Develop and manages a communication plan to include content, frequency, audience and channels. Work with management staff to establish appropriate project structure, staffing plans and participates in the staffing process.
• Set goals, objectives, priorities, assigns/reviews work and resolves conflict. Provided input on performance against deliverables. Manages resource additions and deletions over the life of the projects.
• Interface with the customer deliverables. Accountable for meeting project schedules and costs. Ensure that approved methods, processes and tools are consistently used, include change, issue risk and quality management.
• Manage the client relationship and set customer expectations, Develop and manage detailed project plans, milestone schedules, project estimates and resource plans
• Compile statistics and reports to document progress, Identify risks in project schedules and communicate them to stakeholders, Set deadlines, assign responsibilities, monitor and develop detailed project schedules
• Manage parallel work streams to make sure projects stay in scope, are delivered on time and within budget and Demonstrate resourcefulness, initiative and creativity in solving unexpected issues that may arise in the course of a projects

Technologies/Platforms Used: MS Project 2010, Microsoft Windows Azure, VS Ultimate 2010, Storage Explorer, Cloudberry Explorer, .NET Framework 4.0, ASP.NET, C#, SQL AZURE, WCF, WPF and Web Services & AWS.SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0/ 6.0. SAP BW/BI 7.0, Dataservices 5.0, Informatica Power Center 5.1/6.2/7.1.2. Business Objects XIR2/R3, Crystal Reports, SAP SCM 5.0 - APO Forecasting, MS Project, Visio, MS Office, Solaris 8/9, Windows 2000, SunFire E4500, IBM RS6000., Oracle 11i and MSSQL.

Confidential, NYC,NY

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Managment: Participating in planning, analyzing, designing, data modeling, developing configuring, documenting and testing programs, writing functional specifications, process models, test strategies, test cases, system requirement specifications, documentations and flow charts according to the client demands for complex business policies and procedures in diversified SAP FICO-AR, AP GL, SD-Orders, Deliveries and Invoicing and MM P2P projects for various sub modules to meet their business needs.
• SDLC - Agile and Waterfall: Actively participated with involvement during covered the analysis, design, modeling, development and implementing of SAP applications. Worked on ABAP Workbench for Dealt with high-volume, rapid development cycles, many concurrent deadlines and changing priorities. Clear understanding on migration issues in various platforms. Managed all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) thoroughly ASAP Methodologies. Well experienced in SAP FICO/SD/MM design, development, support, project management, Data Modeling, Conceptual Designs, Testing, and management of custom and vendor application systems.
• Mentoring and Coaching - Worked as EPMO expertise in project management provides mentoring and coaching to the program managers, project managers and staff of the PMOs operating at different levels in the organization. EPMO may conduct periodic training and coordinate for industry level certifications related to project management
• Demand Management: Responsible for demand forecasting and collating the project demand generating from different business cases developed across the organization. This becomes a central office where the demand is captured and classified into strategic, tactical or operational demand.
• Centralized Tracking, Auditing and Reporting: Worked on all portfolios, programs and projects roll up to the EPMO. Based on EPMO has provided view of all the portfolios, programs and projects running across the organization. Responsible y to track the portfolios, programs and projects.Periodically also audit these portfolios, programs and projects to check for compliance for standard practices.
• Expertise skills in the field of Gathering Business Requirements and translating them into robust IT Reporting solutions. Conducted Gap analysis and Impact analysis of the to-be model. Gathered Business Requirements and tested Configured SAP SD module for US specific requirements in the areas of: Sales Order Types, Item Categories, Schedule Lines, Copying Control, Number Ranges, Scheduling Agreements and Quantity Contracts, Pricing and its interface with Accounts Receivable, Taxes and Account Determination.
• Developed and managed project plan and project schedules for the roll outs. Prepared planned and estimated project costs and discussed with the executive steering committee for the approval and sign off on the Budget plan. More projects delivered on time and within budget. · Better strategic alignment between business objectives and the projects initiated.
• Money spent on right things. · Greater leadership buy-in for department level projects and therefore greater chance of project succeeding and getting support when needed. · Improved enterprise wide utilization of resources. · Better communication across the organization and therefore quicker and better decision making. · Better collaboration and coordination across departments. · Better visibility of initiatives across the enterprise. · More bang for the buck.
• Greater returns of the projects implemented. · More efficient delivery of projects and therefore faster time to market · Better risk mitigation and structured risk resolution. Monitored and managed the development of project requirements, test cases and delivered project solutions to production, RICEF plan and migration testing plans. Managed the development of test cases, test plans and tracking issues for the on time testing deliverables with the business stakeholders and executive meeting.
• Successfully worked and Go live with onsite and offshore project team members. Developed and provided weekly and monthly project status reporting.
• Delivered Application Enhancements as a Senior Manager r including Program, Delivery Management, Transition & Service Delivery. Managed various technologies and platforms across multiple domains and geographies in a multi-vendor environment.
• Worked extensively in the information architecture of cloud applications in aligning them to the organization process and principles that ensures that integrated data delivers business value, and aligns business priorities and technology. Established the data environment for the cloud application and their migration. Provided project & program management over large-scale, top-priority and complex technology initiatives.
• Led large teams across diverse domains (Mobility, Finance, Banking, Manufacturing and Retail) and futuristic technologies (Cloud Computing) for top clients across the globe.
• Delivered Risky and Time bound projects through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments. Followed the best process and tools best suited to each project.
• Achieved seamless cloud migrations and integrations that were transparent to client customers, accomplished highly scalable and available applications under budget and with lesser hosting and maintenance costs.
• Worked on multiple new projects and opportunities scaling them from business case to implementations. Should have Worked with Customer Governance/IT to agree ways of working, governance structures, deliverables and milestones while setting up Communication and Project Plans.
• Engage multi-disciplined teams spread across multiple Geo’s, to create an effective results oriented environment ensuring best quality delivery standards and Project Management Best practices. Help define IT Release strategy, communicate key project plans, QA plans, participate in milestone reviews, Business Go/No-Go reviews. Lead and co-ordinate Go-Live activities including execution and deployments Plans and Checklists.
• Project Planning & providing Process Improvements to existing projects, Reports for maintain accounting statements. Involved with periodic reports, Accounting Reports, Corporate Accounting Cash Flow Report and Master Data Reports, Invoice Reports. Release Management - GRC process to complete the end to end process for the deployment into production. Develops new systems, techniques and procedures for automated planning systems, reporting, issue resolution, risk management and budget tracking.

Technologies/Platforms Used: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0/ 6.0. SMC 7.0, SRM 7.0 SAP BW/BI 7.0, Dataservices 5.0, Informatica Power Center 5.1/6.2/7.1.2. Business Objects XIR2/R3, Crystal Reports, SAP SCM 5.0 - APO Forecasting, MS Project, Visio, MS Office, Solaris 8/9, Windows 2000, SunFire E4500, IBM RS6000., Oracle 11i and MSSQL.

Confidential, NYC,NY

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participating in planning, analyzing, designing, data modeling, developing configuring, documenting and testing programs, writing functional specifications, process models, test strategies, test cases, system requirement specifications, documentations and flow charts according to the client demands for complex business policies and procedures in diversified SAP ECC and BI sub projects for various industries to meet their business needs. Resolved issues and improved the process to ensure a stable and accurate solution. Analyzed the existing legacy system; gathered functional requirements through user meetings, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams; produced the functional requirements document. Designing business processes and identified areas to streamline processes in multiple functional areas. The scope of the work and responsibilities involved relating to SAP - Finance (FI)) and controlling (CO) modules
• Worked with management, financial, and other IT teams to support business program execution. Worked with management to analyze and develop program proposals and program .Supported t development of overall program and project plans, budgets, schedules, and Support Agile software development methodology with weekly sprint planning sessions .
• Supported Daily stand ups with assigned development team, prioritize features and rollout plan/schedule .Worked closely with the developers to build out the product, suggest new features and prioritize enhancements/bug fixes .Supported and Draft testing and validation documentation .Monitor user feedback through helpdesk and bug tracking tools
• Conducted project-related business development activities including bid management, solution determination, team staffing and presenting deal reviews. Project Manager for the implementation and continued use of SAP's Solution Manager as the primary repository for process documentation. Responsible for 15 direct reports mapping 4,000+ scenarios, business process procedures, functional specifications and technical specification into a uniquely developed process map within SAP's Solution Manager. Helped in monitoring and resolving month end and year closing activities for Account Statements. Monitor project status to ensure progress toward completion, required procedural steps are completed fully and timely, participants are informed of progress, and project deliverables are appropriate .Modify project plan and coordinates changes with participants as necessary in response to unforeseen changes or unexpected developments .
• Migration of Loading Master Data and Transactional data from multiple source system legacies to SAP R/3 to BI.Analyzing the business process, organization structure and functional specifications after a series of requirement analysis sessions. Involved in the design of different elements that make up the initial screen of the AWB in FICO and software.
• Configured interest calculation on account balances and line items. Customized bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank Statement(EBS)
• Validated and Tested Configured and Customized Cash Management including Bank statements, Payment Programming, Payment Advises, Liquidity Forecasts, Bills of Exchanges
• Validated and Tested Configured and Customized Cash Budget Management including commitment management
• Validated and Tested Configured and customized Asset Accounting Module - Copied country specific chart of Depreciation and configured depreciation areas, defined assets classes, account determinations, screen layout key, allocate number ranges to assets classes, Down Payment configuration for Assets, and uploading of assets from Oracle Financials (Legacy) to SAP
• Develop and manage an end-to end plan that includes all work and all organizations that must participate in the project. Involved with change request board for reviewing the transport management request and impact of the change objects within the transport.

Environment: SAP 4.6c, ECC5.0 BI 3.5 -7.0 Crystal Reports and BOBJ 4.0,SAP R/3 ECC 4.7c/6.0, FICO, SD, SCM 5.0, SAP BOBJ 3.1/4.0 BODS Solaris 8/9, Windows 2000, SunFire E4500, IBM RS6000., Oracle 11i ans SCM 4.0.

Project Manager

Confidential

• Migrated extractors from Old Version into New Version. Configured process chains for data loading, delta uploading and periodical PSA deletion. Extracted and loaded data from SAP R/3 into Sales Order InfoCube using DataSources. Created Multiprovider on sales and delivery cubes to assist reporting on sales and delivery together.
• Worked on Creating Aggregates, Compressions, Indexes, Multi Cubes and parallel setups for data loading to improve performance and utilize data effectively. Extensively worked on Query Designer and Web application designer to create Queries to forecast sales, budget and delivery analysis using Restricted Key Figures, Calculated Key Figures, Variables, filters and exceptions.
• Analyzed batch jobs for Report printing and Exception reporting. Worked extensively on creating Info Objects, Info Sources and Extraction. Experienced in working with Business Explorer (BEx) and publishing the reports on web using Web Reporting Tools. Uploaded Master and Transactional data from flat files and SAP R/3.
• Stored data from R/3 tables into ODS objects through PSA to perform detailed level reporting. Worked on job schedules for loading data and monitoring Process Chains to run periodic loads and other processes.
• Created Aggregates on InfoCubes to improve Query performance. Evaluated reports for specific trends in service to minimize servicer cost.
• Developed and Remediated Solutions for the ECC6.0 Extractors in the areas of SD LO Cockpit /MM / FICO and, tested and implemented BW Objects for EVCC 6,0 Upgrade Project Pearson Inc in Media Sales and Distribution Module and MM. Responsible for migrating and creating reports to facilitate Reporting for Customer Services and Performance Reporting responsible for performance tuning; resolving loading issues /extractions Development and migrations /Query performance issues overcome through SAP Early Watch Report .

Technologies/Platforms Used: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0/ 6.0. SAP BW/BI 7.0, Dataservices 5.0, Informatica Power Center 5.1/6.2/7.1.2. Business Objects XIR2/R3, Crystal Reports, SAP SCM 5.0 - APO Forecasting, MS Project, Visio, MS Office, Solaris 8/9, Windows 2000, SunFire E4500, IBM RS6000., Oracle 11i and MSSQL.