SUMMARY:

• A seasoned professional with 23 years of blended experience in IT & Supply Chain area, seeking an assignment as a Project/Portfolio Leader.
• 15+ years of deep and wide experience in ERP - SAP: Project management, Performance Improvement, Solution architecting & Service delivery. Expertise across several modules in SAP with a full understanding of application & its capabilities to deliver value to enterprise.
• Experience in Project Management in Business transformation/Integration Projects and managed multicultural teams. Expertise in waterfall, SAP ASAP & Agile Project methodology leveraging project tracking tools like CAPPM, JIRA & Octane.
• Worked as part of COE team in building support organization, define change management process, integrate impact assessment program for new deployment & regression testing.
• Help business to improve bottom line by converting strategic business decisions in to IT projects considering SAP road map.
• Guide & provide strategic directions to business leaders to achieve targeted KPI’s .
• Experience managing Transition and service delivery of complex IT application management environments which combine ERP and other technologies.
• Experience in full life cycle implementation that included requirement specification, configuration, Unit testing, SIT, UAT, go live, and post implementation support.
• Hands on experience in SAP MM, WM, PP, SD & fair knowledge in QM, PM, FICO & EHS.
• Solid exposure to new dimensional products like SRM, CLM, SNC, ARIBA and working on new initiatives like SAP Fiori & HANA.
• Good understanding on integration with other key SAP products APO, EWM & TM and fair working knowledge on BI & reporting tools like SAP BW, BOBJ, Tableau, Lumira etc.
• Several years of rich domain experience in various areas of Purchasing, Inventory Management, Quality assurance/auditing & MIS.

CAREER SKETCH - IT:

Confidential, MI

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Business case, SOW, Proposal, Project Plan, Execution methodologies, Quality aspects, Resource Management and Risk management plan based on project requirements.
• Managed functional projects in SAP platform, cloud related projects like ARIBA and IT audit/compliance projects like SAP GRC and SOD.
• Currently managing Master Data Management project with front end as SAP Fiori.
• Estimation and planning (both resource and time), risk assessment, contingency planning, tracking and management of progress, issues, budget, risk and resources. Accountability for project budget and time lines.
• Delivering projects on time, within budget & scope and with high quality.
• Planning and managing multiple project schedules with teams, departments, vendors, and business contacts.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Performing quality audits and ensured all observations and non-conformances found were acted upon by the team.
• Support the product owner and product team and collaborative in driving decisions.
• Monitoring and delivering Incident, Change, Problem and Configuration Management for all releases and support.
• Co-ordinating with SDLC Team and align the system refreshes, mock loads, test cycles and overall project release plan.
• Manage rotation of team members and maintain all deliverables and metrics for quality assurance.
• P/L account management and documenting metric reports and provide status reports to steering committee.
• Manage consistent day-to-day project activities with the team and stakeholder requirements.
• Improve testing process and procedures for regression, FUT, PIT & UAT utilizing HPQC tool and administer defect management.
• Continuously uncover and capitalize on opportunities to improve systems and processes, creating efficient standards, processes, and procedures.
• Optimize project performance by serving as valuable resource and mentor core project team.

Confidential, MN

COE SCM Leader

Responsibilities:

• Build Strategy around setup SAP Support organization to support Live SAP System for Global business users.
• Develop a support system encompassing onsite offshore model to provide 24X7 Support leveraging follow sun-model.
• Define Ticket creation process, severity and handling procedures.
• Identifying value-added and non-value-added processes and develop a strategy to elevate analyst to SME’s.
• Benchmarking results against initial ROI projections & develop CI initiatives.
• Developing infrastructure and enhancement standards and procedures.
• Design impact assessment programs on new deployments/smooth KT process.
• Effectively use the system tools like SOLMAN, Charm, ITSM & ALMQC and increase the operational efficiency and traceability.

Confidential

PM & SCM Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible from project kick off to deployment, involving project planning, strategy development and solution implementation as per business process design.
• Drives business meetings/workshops to gather key elements of requirements.
• Responsible for developing POC’s and co-ordinate with business for buy-in
• Requirement gathering, develop blue print document and business sign off.
• Responsible to implement process Optimization & Harmonization across BU’s.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Business case, SOW, Proposal, Project Plan, Execution methodologies, Quality aspects, Resource Management and Risk management.
• Develop support model, SLA Management, change control board & monitoring.
• Organizing and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and project meetings.
• Perform Skill Assessment & plan the needs for the team & job rotations.

Confidential, OH

Lead Consultant - MM/WM

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Gerber integration and responsible for MH Stream 3PL integration.
• Support logistics stream of Confidential business process
• Create process for inventory conversions and reconciliation requirements.
• Conversion of inventory over USD 100 Million & Sign-off.
• Support WH operations in Dist Centers & MFG plants (SAP WM & Red prairie)

Confidential, NY

Lead Consultant - MM/WM

Responsibilities:

• Involved from design phase to production go-live & support.
• Interacted with business users to map the scope of mater data.
• Identify master data, plan and strategize the conversion methodologies.
• Develop new objects by creating functional specification & work with ABAP team.
• L2 support for MM, SRM & WM with a support model of “Follow Sun”.