SUMMARY:

• Around 2 7 Years of total experience that includes 17 years of SAP R/3 Implementations, with 5 full cycle end to end implementation projects from System Requirement Study till post deployment support in various industries viz. Automobile, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, FMCG, Banking, Mining and Utilities. I also worked on many on site projects at US, France, Australia, HongKong Thailand, Malaysia & Singapore.My managerial experience involves.
• Scope - Identification, Assessment & Locking
• Plan - Preparing SOW, Project Schedule & Pricing
• Launch - Generating Project Deliverables, Staffing Resources. Preparing Timesheets, Status Reports, Project Repository, Risk & Issue Logs, Resource Tracking, Project Logistics, Document Templates.
• Run - Handling project Chang Requests, Monitoring Project Schedule, Reporting Project Status, Managing Project Deliverables, Project Gates and Risks & Issues, Ensuring Resource Utilization.
• Close - Completing Project Deliverables, Checklists, Approvals, Risks & Issues, Timesheets, Close-out Reports.
• Support - Assessing & delivering change requests thru agreed SLAs and quality standard.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: MS DOS, SCO Unix 9.0, HP-UX 10.2/11, Windows 95,98,2000, Windows NT 3.51

Languages: C

Databases: Oracle 8, Ingres 6.4/4., Open Ingres 10.2, Unify 4.0, SQL Server 7.0, MS ACCESS 2.0

Delivery Tools: SharePoint, Remedy, OneSource

Domain Knowledge: Manufacturing, Automobile, Pharmaceutical and Travel & Airline

SAP: ABAP Tools like Reports, BDCs, LSMW, CATT, Sap-Scripts, Search Helps, ABAP-Query, Dialog programming, Function Modules, Field exits, User exits.

Worked in modules like SD, MM, FI-CO, PP-PI, CS & SCM.: Functional Training Undergone SAP-QM

Sound knowledge of: Modules like QM, SD, MM, FI-CO, PP-PI & CS

Advance Tools Known: BAPI, ALE, RFC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Defect Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage and control all defects within development & production environments.
• Own and chair daily defect calls with lead Development, Test and Operational Teams, and provide clear minutes and actions.
• Define, ownership and management of the Defect Process.
• Liaison with the Problem Management Team to ensure a clear and efficient interaction within overlapping processes, and promote this with all customers.
• Ensure all defects are entered correctly and controlled / managed as effectively as possible through their lifecycle.
• Maintain absolute integrity of the defect database and ensure a full audit trail for any changes made to defect status outside of the published defect process.
• Present the defect status to Business leads and international staff on a regular basis.

Confidential

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identify release scope with stake holders
• Prepare release schedule with release phases
• Schedule release gates for every gates and Identify their deliverables
• Estimate efforts and align resources thru delivery leads
• Finalize release scope and schedule
• Plan the release windows and cycles across portfolios
• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations
• Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates
• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews
• Produce Deployment, Run Books and Implementation Plans
• Weekly Release Reporting
• Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required
• Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities
• Work with release engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges
• Maintains the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.
• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.
• Participate in CAB meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks
• Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists

Confidential

Offshore Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• The goal of the project is to move the current SAP landscape into the IOB SAP instance and provide a common operating platform and structure that can be used for both business units.
• Profile includes assessing requirement, estimate and plan offshore deliveries aligned with project plan.
• Coordinate with onshore and offshore project team.
• Prepare and deliver Management reports. Highlight and manage risks and issues to program and IDC management.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of development lead, onshore-offshore coordinator and offshore project manager in this program.
• Profile includes assessing requirements; estimate and plan project deliverables and manage them within onshore & offshore project team.
• Coordinate & communicate between onshore & offshore program managers with project progress.
• I am also taking care of functional and technical resource requirements for the program.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Accenture implemented SAP in ‘ Confidential ’ thru ‘ Confidential ’ project and is rolling it out in ‘ Confidential ’ thru ‘ Confidential ’.
• My involvement in this project was to initiate and setup a delivery team of 15ABAPers for commercial objects.
• I also was a part of team setting up object delivery processes. I also built delivery plan, status trackers, and development standards and gathered a team of ABAPers.