SUMMARY

• A Business and Applications functional solution architect and team lead with over 16 years of Oracle (11i, R12.1.X, R12.2.X & Fusion Cloud) ERP implementation, upgrade and maintenance experience in Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Project to Profit and Record to Report business processes across industries.
• Has extensive experience in implementing Oracle Project accounting, Fusion Cloud PPM and Financials applications.
• Experienced in managing projects and team. Experienced in working with higher management executives and various departments within and out of the organization.
• Impressive ability to study requirements, conduct business workshops, gap analysis, solution design, documentation, configuring Oracle, system integration testing, systems deployment and end users training
• Comprehensive experience in implementing Oracle PPM Cloud and EBS applications including Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Management, Project Resource Management, Project Contracts, Time & Labor
• Strong experience in implementing Oracle Financials Cloud and EBS applications including Expenses, Payables, Receivables, General Ledger, Assets
• Oracle Fusion Cloud and E - Business Suite certified professional in Project Portfolio Management (PPM) and Financials areas
• Experienced in integration of Oracle PPM and Financials modules with other Oracle and non-Oracle applications
• Experienced in implementing solutions using Agile Methodology framework
• Implemented Oracle ERP across industries - Tech, Finance, Manufacturing, Energy, Utility, Transportation, Healthcare, Marketing
• Ability to provide functional specifications for customizations and developments
• Experienced in preparing documentation like RD020, BP040, BP080, BR100, MD050 and TE040
• Lead and managed small to medium sized Oracle implementation projects and Roll-outs of highly customized environments
• Extensive experience in working with business partners to plan the future roadmap and implementation strategy
• Excellent interpersonal skills to work collaboratively in large and inter departmental teams
• Regular involvement in organizations pre-sales initiatives for multiple Fusion Cloud and EBS pursuits and provide required estimates
• Regular presenter and speaker in prestigious Oracle knowledge sharing forums like OAUG, Oracle Open World and others

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Solution Architect/Project Manager

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Designed the overall architecture, implementation and rollout plan for the Fusion Cloud PPM and Financials Suites
• Implemented General Ledger, Project Financials Management (PPM), Receivables, Payables, Assets and Expenses applications in phased manner
• Designed legal entities, ledger, business unit and the overall enterprise structure
• Demonstrated approaches to replace the legacy systems with Oracle cloud fusion PPM suite.
• Participated in key decision making of Contract and Project structure design
• Designed COA structure keeping reporting requirement in consideration
• Evaluated setups and flows based on the key business drivers such as Project Contract structure, Billing Controls, Revenue Recognition, Invoicing methods and Invoice Formats
• Simplified Project work breakdown and financial breakdown structures
• Configured Rate based, Percent complete, Amount based Bill and Revenue plans for contract/project
• Developed various OTBI and BI reports
• Designed the contract invoice format in BI Publisher
• Configured the complex Sub Ledger Accounting (SLA) rules for Labor costs, Miscellaneous costs, Revenue and Billing transactions
• Suggested & implemented the conversion strategy for converting data from Legacy to Oracle Fusion Cloud
• Designed and configured the SOA BPM Fusion Workflow for AP invoice approvals
• Implemented check and ACH payment configuration for supplier payment processing
• Configured the Expenses cloud for Cash as well Credit card transactions expense reimbursement
• Conducted CRP, SIT, UAT, User Training, Cut-Over and Go-Live
• Managed the overall delivery of the project
• Highlighted key concerns, issues and risks on a weekly basis and whenever required

Oracle Financials Lead

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Receivables, Payables modules which included AR Invoicing, AP Invoicing, Pay on Receipt, Automated Cash Applications, ACH Payments, Third Party Payments, and Check Printing etc.
• Designed a custom integration between a front end UI application with Oracle EBS.
• Designed a unique customer invoicing solution in a complex billing environment where customer needs to dynamically control bill frequency by various attributes, deciding which services to exclude or include on an invoice, limiting lines on invoice per state invoicing format. The process was very manual and time intensive involving multiple homegrown applications scattered across departments. This automated solution helped client to reduce the invoicing process from days to hours.
• Designed an automated ‘Pay on Pay’ solution to control the vendor payments based on the customer payments and cash application

Oracle Financials Lead

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Created solution design document (BP080) of GL to get buy in from Management and eventually implement the processes in Oracle
• Prepared test scripts (TE040) of GL to execute test scenarios during CRP, SIT and UAT
• Created functional spec (MD050) of generating customer invoices in AR for ‘Maintenance and Repair’ (M&R) process of chassis returned by customers
• Created functional spec of creating as many credit memos automatically in AR as the previous billing periods based on the details interfaced from Service Contract or i-Receivables applications
• Created functional spec of tagging customer payment receipts in AR by each chassis owner
• Created functional spec of customer credit check and billing accuracy reports in AR
• Performed system testing of Oracle GL and Oracle AR applications

Team Lead and Solution Architect

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Discovered the significant amount of inefficient and inaccurate processes around project setup, revenue recognition, invoicing and timesheets
• Architected the project creation, revenue recognition and invoice creation processes and recommended multiple solution options
• Designed the ‘Invoice Consolidation’ custom functionality to consolidate invoices across customer agreements and projects in Oracle Project Accounting
• Simplified and designed the auto accounting engine by designing a matrix to incorporate the complex accounting rules
• Guided the business and IT team in developing the robust and effective solution