SUMMARY

• Visionary leader with an exemplary record of 14 plus years of experience in providing IT leadership and direction to various companies of diverse industries. Recognized for identifying complex problems and deploying effective solutions to achieve organizational goals.
• Proven ability to bring order to chaos, along with in - depth experience conducting business/project risk analysis for projects that involve stringent budgets and time constraints. Strong background in partnering with senior management on all IT/business issues. Highly skilled in building and leading IT world class teams.
• Proven leadership skills involve managing, developing and motivating members within an Agile based team environment to achieve their objectives. Good analytical, administration and problem solving skills dedicated to maintaining high quality standards.
• Process Engineering skills to establish criteria for process improvement to evolve project methodologies to meet project objectives and reduce time to market for development efforts
• Strong expertise in problem solving, decision making, and translating business requirements into business solutions utilizing process improvements in to ERP and Cloud solutions space
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self­management.
• Expert in sourcing and managing external vendors through a robust score carding process
• Strong SAP and Oracle experience with leading multiple full life cycle implementations in addition to integrating, upgrading, customizing, migrating, configuring, testing, document preparation, user training and support in SAP R/3, ECC and S/4 HANA Financials & Controlling modules, Oracle Customer Care and Billing and Customer Information Systems, Concur Travel and Expense, SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense and Cognos.
• Diversified experience in various industries including Consumer Goods, Utility, Banking, Financials, Insurance, Defense, Education, Retail, and Technology
• Expertise in implementing External Tax Systems such as Vertex, Sabrix and Taxware with Integration to SAP
• Led the training manual, Business blueprinting and functional Design (FD) phases

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Languages: RAML, UML, SQL, JAVA, C, C++, Visual Basic, HTML5, XML, WSDL
• Databases: SAP HANA, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access
• Operating Systems: Windows, Macintosh, iOS, Android
• Packages: SAP ECC and S/4 HANA Financial Controlling (SAP FICO), SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense, Cognos, Concur Expense, MuleSoft, Oracle Customer Care and Billing (CCB), Work and Asset Management (WAM), MS Office, MS Outlook, MS Project, Altera PLC, Matlab, Circuit Maker, LC - 2, Lotus Notes, Call Center, Retain, Lazaa, Daptiv, Citrix
• Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, RUP, SDLC
• Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, UML, MS Visio, Axure
• GUI: FrontPage, Adobe Photoshop
• Architecture: SOA, Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaas), PI, Web Methods, WebSphere, SOAP, SAP HANA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Solutions Architect/Project Manager/Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led a team to design, develop and implement cloud based Concur Expense for 3 of the major North American Confidential bottlers, which is currently being utilized by a workforce of ~1000 employees.
• Currently leading a team of 14 internal and external resources to implement of SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense for all North American bottlers. Prior to the kickoff; developed business case, attained consensus amongst bottlers’ steering committees, attained approvals from Architecture Review Board (ARB) and Technology Review Board (TRB), and finally led through the successful procurement .
• Managing and implementing SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense implementation for all the US bottlers and 6 cloud tenants including cloud integrations with SAP ECC for financial postings, AP re­imbursements, AP re-imbursements notification, exchange rates, cost center replication, WBS elements replication; and SAP HCM for employee master replication, reporting line unit, payroll re­imbursements, payroll re-imbursements notification (45 cloud integration points in total).
• Designed, developed and deployed check printing solutions for the entire CONA bottling system’s Accounts Payable (AP), Full Service Vending (FSV) and Customer Marketing Agreements (CMA) rebate processes by interfacing with MICR printers, Q-Direct, ACOM Software, SFTP servers .
• Architected the design and developed the Account Receivable (AR) customer statements process for all the North American bottling by integration by integration with external vendors such 360, Kubra, Cast Iron .
• Developed finance and HR integration for payroll garnishments with 3 different financial institutions and 22 states
• Architected the design and simplified and automated the W9 and 1099 processes for all CONA bottlers. This included integration to OneSource - 3 rd party provided for 1099.
• Gathered business requirements and designed Single Asset Accounting Solution for Cold Drink Equipments that are currently capitalized on a mass level that included integration to Plant and Maintenance (PM) and Equipment Management.
• Designed, developed, tested and provided Go-Live support for Intercompany solution for the Stock Transport Order (STO) that occurs between 2 plants that belong to different legal entities within the same Company Code by creating accounting documents through batch process
• Engaged and led infrastructure, BASIS, Security, Network, AppDev, PI, CBS, Web Methods and Bottlers IT teams to achieve multiple successful implementations and deployments

Confidential, Rochester, NY

Functional Lead/Sr. Solutions Architect/Presales Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 7 consultants, clients, and contractors to achieve SAP FICO and Customer Information System integration Implementation
• Designed and deployed ACH and check payment solution for Accounts Payable department with one of the newer banks
• Automated and improved the accounts receivable lockbox process (EDI823 and EDI 820) by enhancing the matching algorithms to cut down the manual effort to reconcile open invoices
• Developed and deployed Credits and Collection process including collection rules and interface to collection agencies for delinquent accounts
• Implemented interface to send CIS payments to back end SaskEnergy Oracle E-Business Suite as well SaskPower SAP FICO
• Analyzed and developed an auto bank draft solution for Customer Billing System
• Designed, configured and developed the revenue recognition custom development program to integrate with SD, mapped SD condition types to value fields to have the system automatically transfer the sales revenues and deductions to Costing based Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
• Developed the design and configured OBYC to integrate FI with MM for 5 company codes
• Served as the main point of contact and first level of escalation between Order-To-Cash and Market- Sell teams and custom development teams
• Worked on Shipping, Billing, Pricing, OTC processes, invoicing, sales orders, rebates, credit management processing, etc in integration to FI to perform end to end testing
• Worked with ERP architecture team to develop strategies and roadmap for Order to Cash and Procure to Pay Solutions
• Provided solution to integrate SAP and replace JD Edwards from the current solution environment involving interfaces to internal and external websites. Proposed design made use of the websites for order entry and credit card authorization, SAP would perform credit management functions, billing after media fulfillment in a third party system, tax calculation using Sabrix, printing of invoices, settlement of credit card transactions using Paymetric and to create credit memo requests in case of returns/refunds

Confidential

Sr. Solutions Architect/Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Led Billing, Payments, Financials, Credits and Collections modules for Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing implementation for a regulated water company.
• Worked on gathering requirements with business users and implementation partners
• Defined and documented business processes for utility CIS functional areas, such as billing, payments, rates, credit & collections, field work, meters
• Analyzed requirements, designed solution and tested 3 interfaces (Collection Agency Referral, Payments, Auto Bill Payment)
• Developed an extensive timeline to support critical consolidation project of 9 backend systems of Accounts and Product Setup for large corporate accounts.
• Drove an international team of business analysts, developers, and testers to introduce effective storyboarding and prototyping processes to cut implementation time by 25%.
• Put a robust requirement gathering process in place to translate business requirements into functional specifications.
• Developed testing strategy for all phases and streamlined reporting system to reduce issues and defects by 50%.

Confidential, Ft. Worth, TX

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and analyzed the business requirements along with architect and lead developers
• Participated in JAD sessions to gather business requirements and brain storm to come up with a better product
• Created activity diagrams and use case diagrams
• Created XSD, use cases, and test cases for this portlet.
• Developed a table component “Material detail” portlet which will provide the material detail of a part along with supplier and buyer information.
• Wrote multiple SQL queries to insert into programming logic by using TOAD
• Configured XML to create this portlet
• Developed a custom “Date Detail” portlet which will provide the milestone details about the part number.
• Completed unit testing, acceptance testing, and integration testing, and load testing along with team.
• Wrote custom JSP to create this custom portlet
• Worked on change requests by figuring out the bugs and changing it and notifying it to appropriate person

Confidential, Austin, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in identifying the scope of the project including creating a vision document.
• Analyzed the user requirements by interacting with system architect, developers and business users.
• Involved in creating Business Requirements by interacting with Stake Holders and SME’s.
• Requirements gathering through one-to-one interviews, JAD / RAD sessions.
• Developed front end pages with HTML and JSP.
• Involved in complete application Development life Cycle model.
• Involved in Gap Analysis to improve the current practices.
• Participated in Walk through Application Requirement Analysis Meetings periodically.
• Converted all requirements into use cases as the part application analysis document.
• Assisted QA teams for preparing the test plans, test cases & test scenarios.
• Actively involved in performing functionality, Configuration, unit and integration tests.