EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• IT professional with extensive experience implementing, leading and supporting Oracle Applications projects - EBusiness Suite and Oracle Fusion Middleware.
• Implemented and lead 10 end-to-end Oracle EBusiness Suite (Finance, HRMS and Procurement) projects.
• Lead Operations and maintenance of 3 Oracle E-Business suite projects.
• Implemented and lead 3 end-to-end Oracle Fusion Middleware (SOA) based development projects.
• Lead 3 Operations and maintenance projects.
• His key experiences include project management, client management, and technical leadership.
• He has extensive technical development background. He is proficient in working with peers, management, team members, vendors and contractors alike.
• Experience in managing complex projects on time and within budget adhering to scope, quality and procedure guidelines.
• He has been responsible for analysis, project planning and execution, streamlining delivery, managing stakeholder, risks, change and reporting. Has managed Budgeting, Forecasting, Revenue and P&L of the accounts.
• Extensive experience in technical design and development of interfaces, conversions and extensions in Oracle EBusiness Suite.
• Involved in large SDLC projects in Public Sector State & Local, Federal (DOD and Civilian-HealthCare), Higher Education, Manufacturing and Utility/Energy space.
• Conversant with project management methodologies including Waterfall and Agile as well as quality processes like CMMI and ISO.
• Extensive experience in practice building / business development activities including pre-sales, proposal development, RFP responses, solution building, alliance building and competency building.
• Experience with building frameworks, processes and knowledge base.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Oracle Applications Suite: Oracle EBusiness Suite Release 12, 11i, 11.x, Oracle Public Sector Financials, HCM, Procurement, Modules: General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Purchasing, Procurement, Accounts Receivables, Oracle Projects, Grants Management, Human Resources

Oracle Fusion Middleware: Oracle SOA Middleware Stack 11g/12c

Oracle Apps and other development environment: Oracle Developer tool set, Discoverer, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, Stored Procedures, Triggers, Standard APIs, Oracle Workflow Builder, C and Pro*C, TOAD, SQL*Navigator, SQL*Loader, Unix Scripts

Databases: Oracle 12c/11g/10g

Project Management, Migration, Configurations and Testing Tools: MS-Projects, Kintana, RCS, SVN, WinRunner, Mercury Quality Center (Test Director), SharePoint, MS-Office, MS-Visio

Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As technical project manager, Vipul led development of operations tasks (issues, bugs, problems, change requests, enhancements) through multiple releases. He performed forecasting, planning and lead a team of 15 for problems analysis and development of change requests through project life cycles.
• The project life cycles included analysis, design, build, test and deploy of change requests and enhancement. Led root cause analysis (RCA) of problems/incidents.
• Vipul managed planning and execution of three project streams in parallel. Executed the project in Agile-Hybrid model along with running Scrum/Daily Stand-up calls.
• Vipul’s responsibilities included analysis of the requirements, level of effort estimation, planning of tasks across multiple releases, scope, change and risk management and manage cross-functional teams. Key responsibilities included tasks co-ordination across team members, phases of the project as well as with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Vipul ensured delivery of tasks in adherence to project framework, ITIL processes and compliance with requirements related with tools like Service Now.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead Oracle Middleware based development, operations and support, Oracle WL Administration, Oracle Database Administration and infrastructure support projects in OnSite - OffShore delivery model.
• Lead end-to-end implementation of new development projects as well as post-production issues and bug-fixes. The Middleware components used were BPEL, Mediator, OSB, WL Server, OEM.
• Lead support of over 55 applications integrations developed using Oracle SOA middleware. He was responsible for 24x7 operations and maintenance support of client’s Integration Solutions, production systems and applications. He led support activities that include production issue diagnostics along with timely resolution of all incidents/major issues. Ensured all SLAs are adhered to and KPIs are met.
• Provided strategic leadership to ensure client satisfaction and ensure adherence process, knowledge and communication aspects for successful delivery.
• Introduced multiple streamlining plans and processes for steering projects from status of instability to smooth execution.
• Responsible for monthly matrices reports that give detail analysis of tasks/activities performed and provide trends analysis. Weekly status reports and future ‘plan of action’ were also generated.
• Lead steering committee meetings to discuss status, risks and improvements on the projects.
• He was also driving the adherence of CMMI processes for his projects.
• Vipul has devised frameworks (processes and templates) and defined delivery maturity models to provide proven and cost-effective delivery to clients. He has been responsible for building collaterals and knowledge base along with capacity and competency building.

Confidential

Oracle Practice Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead the practice with focus on Oracle databases, middleware and mobility services.
• Responsible for defining the portfolio of Oracle services.
• Responsible for budgeting, forecasting and P&L of the practice.
• Identifying market trend driven solutions, building new revenue stream, creating state-of the-art COE and making it delivery capable. Responsible for conceptualizing, developing and promoting innovative service and solution offerings.
• Vipul has devised frameworks (processes and templates) and defined delivery maturity models to provide proven and cost-effective delivery to clients. He has been responsible for building practice collaterals and knowledge base along with capacity and competency building. He has successfully built Oracle lab for solution building and POCs.
• He was responsible for global enablement of sales, inside sales, marketing and delivery teams. Leading the pre-sales, RFP responses and SOW activities.
• He has driven all the marketing agendas including campaign planning, events, collaterals and budget. He has driven and partnered marketing events like webinars and roadshows in collaboration with Oracle.
• Responsible for the Capacity building for the practice (Involves hire to deploy process).

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead development, migrations, upgrade and support projects across multiple divisions of client under onsite-offshore delivery model.
• Lead development and implementation of four Oracle SOA 11g based integration solution. Oracle middleware components used were Oracle BPEL/Mediator, Oracle B2B, OWSM, Oracle ADF, Oracle Database and Oracle Web Logic server.
• Was responsible for project planning, overseeing project execution, deployment and migrations.
• He also lead 24/7 support of Oracle based integrations. He was responsible for execution operations and support program through standardized processes and guidelines.
• Generated matrices and reports to demonstrate project analytics and performance improvements.
• Provided roadmap for implementation of Oracle SOA middleware based integration solution with Oracle eBusiness Suite and other products.
• Responsible for managing the key parameters like SLAs, KPIs, operating margins, quality index and customer satisfaction. Vipul lead steering meetings with the client and successfully managed client relationship.
• He achieved exponential account growth after taking over the program, through successful program execution, onsite-offshore coordination and managing key stakeholders.
• Collaborated with global on-site sales team to strategize and present new solutions with support from off-shore pre-sales teams.

Confidential, MD

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation of Oracle Applications including Oracle EBS R12, Oracle SOA 10g. The Oracle Financial modules included GL, AP, AR, PO, FA, Projects and Grants.
• Performed end-to-end planning of project implementation and extensive client management.
• Devised strategies and standards for System Integration, conversions, reporting, instance management, extensions, testing, overall implementation architecture and development.
• Provided strategic direction to the client on architecture and implementation of Applications from technology perspective.
• Performed effort estimation and negotiated cost with the client. Resourced the team and performed project management duties including planning, tasking resources, resource leveling, management reporting, and scope, risk and change management.
• Architected end-to-end solution for interfaces between Oracle Apps and external system, both batch and real-time, using EBS, SOA products like SOA Server, BPEL and ESB.
• Lead multiple development teams and DBAs and effectively delivered the tasks within time and budget. Prepared testing strategy and managed end-to-end testing for all the development tasks. Prepared technical cut-over/deployment plan.
• Responsible for instance management and planning and leading the DBA team to effectively meet the backup and instance related requirements of the project.
• Initially as principal consultant and then as practice manager with the organization, Vipul helped with developing alliance with product firms, initiate on-site/off-shore model for delivery execution; advised on collaborative implementation of integration technology and built practice team.

Confidential

Data Migration Strategy Specialist - Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Strategized USAF-ECSS Enterprise Data Management plan to address the ECSS data related requirement by providing the client with strategic assessment and guidance around the critical tasks of data cleansing, validation, creation and conversion for the Oracle Applications Release 12 implementation.
• Understand “Level of Effort” required for acquiring and cleaning the data. Develop scalable pricing model for budget and scope flexibility for data cleansing, creation, validation and conversion activities. Established cost estimates of the migration effort using established pricing model.

Confidential, MD

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead various technical efforts on the implementation of Unified Financial Management System (UFMS) for the agencies of the departments CDC, FDA, PSC and IHS to replace the existing financial systems and integrate it with external systems.
• As the technical lead on project, prepared the technical project plans, managed the development cycle, tracked progress of the tasks and delivered key documents. Managed the integration, UAT and system test phases for the development efforts.
• Key point of contact for file transfer procedures and standards for interfaces between external systems and Oracle Applications.
• Designed the integration of external systems processing federal grants (GATES, eRA) with Oracle Application Suite and Payment Management System (PMS) to replace the legacy interfaces. Coordinated technical development of the solution that include Grants module - data entry screens, reports, inbound interfaces from legacy and outbound interfaces. Wrote the technical specifications for the solution that included interface transactions: Commitments, Obligations, disbursements, expenditures and vendors.
• Architected the solution and led the technical implementation of iPAC (AR), Learning Management System-LMS (PO) and Lyceum (AP) interfaces between legacy systems and Oracle Applications.
• Lead the data conversion effort for the Indian Health Services (IHS) project. Streamlined data conversion processes for mock cycles and the cutover. This included conversion designs, file format standards, data cleanup strategies, code version control, performance tuning, file transfer procedures and database instance management.
• Established the overall approach and defined the framework for analyzing data, selecting appropriate conversion strategies and devising processes for producing results that confirm to a consistent approach.
• Performed upgrade analysis for upgrade of Oracle Applications from 11.5.9 to 11.5.10.
• Managed scope of work and risk on the project. Enforced quality control and change request procedures.
• As part of Oracle practice at Confidential, extensively involved in business development activities including responses to RFPs, business proposal generation, presentations and demos.
• Extensively involved in pre-sales activities; architecting proposed solutions, preparing SOA/BPEL based prototypes and demos for the prospective clients .
• Conducted presentations on Service Oriented Architecture, Oracle Fusion Middleware stack and Oracle BPEL Process Manager to practice team and clients. Conducted workshops on SOA and Oracle BPEL Process Manager.
• Coordinated the activities of solutions lab and technical communities of interest. Helped with capacity and competency building.