PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over 20 years of experience with IT / Business consulting. He has worked in many industries, including a 13 year stint as Senior Manager with Confidential in Chicago, IL. Confidential has managed budgets as high as $3 - 4M and managed both on-shore (in multiple US locations) and off-shore resources (India). He has stellar communication teams and a strong ability to bring enthusiasm to his teams, keeping them focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Domain: Procurement, Supply Chain, Source 2 Pay, Logistics

Project Management Tools: MS Project, Primavera, Clarity, Mingle, Jira

Methodology: Agile, Scrum, DMAIC, Lean, ASAP, RUP, Waterfall, PMBOK

Modeling Tools: Erwin, Rational Rose (UML), VISIO

ERP: SAP, QAD, JDEdwards, Ariba, Aptus

Custom Development: VB 6.0, ASP, .NET. Java, J2EE, TCE, C++

Integration Tools & Methods: Biztalk, WebMethods, Vitria, XI PI, EDI, FTP, Web Services

Databases: RDBMS (SQL Server, ORACLE), DB2, Teradata

BI, ETL and DW Tools: IBM InfoSphere Information Server (DataStage & QualityStage), Microstrategy, Business Objects, Cognos, Tableau, Neo4j

Web Technology: Various Application Servers and Web Servers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Deerfield, IL

Senior IT Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led a global team to conduct a cloud readiness assessment and to define the road map for the migration.
• Successfully Implemented a pilot program to migrate non-critical DB’s to Oracle cloud.
• Migrate R&D’s non-GxP data and analytical engine to Amazon Web Service - led global teams to define data lakes and data streams in Data Hub.
• Migrate HR’s Learning Management system to Cloud.

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Senior Manager- Cloud Service Practice

Responsibilities:

• Lead a global team to conduct a cloud readiness assessment in North America.
• Defined future state reference architecture, road map for the migration.
• Generated business case for the transformation and developed use cases.

Confidential - Dearborn, MI

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project objective was to extend Global Product Development Test Data Management (PDTDM) to Europe and Asia Pacific regions and to update the solution architecture for enterprise compliance (Security and Non Functional Requirements - load balancing, scalability and availability).
• Turned project status from red to green within 3 weeks of joining the team.
• Coached client and vendor resources on Agile principles and tools and aligned resources to related roles and responsibilities across all areas impacted by the project (first infrastructure project delivered using Agile framework).
• Facilitated user stories elaboration, sprint grooming, sprint closure / ceremonies and release session.
• Single point of contact for all internal and external communications.

Confidential - Peoria, IL

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Helped teams to identify gaps which prevented in meeting the EDI enablement targets.
• Initiated and managed several long lead projects to accelerate EDI readiness for Transformational programs.
• Architected a web based EDI onboarding tool to prioritize and to collaborate with various stake holders.
• Architected a web based Tableau tool to provide EDI connectivity status to the GSND users.
• Architected web based Project Management Office (PMO) tool using SharePoint and Tableau to provide program / project health status to team members and stakeholders.
• Led the effort to develop methodology (S2P Playbook) to deploy Source to Pay Transformation program across enterprise
• Served as project manager for the enablement of EDI and bar code labels to improve facility’s ability to process procurement transactions accurately and receive shipments efficiently, which reduced grief and support period cost reduction and inventory optimization.(Reduced material receiving cycle time from 130 seconds to 30 seconds; Grief reduced by 50%).
• Chaired weekly review meeting to review program / projects status and prepares weekly reports to portfolio managers.
• Responsible for developing Monthly Operational Reports for GSND leadership

Confidential

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led global project and support teams for the design, develop, implement and management of direct and indirect material procurement process and systems to support Confidential Global Procurement Organization.
• Developed process (deployment methodology using Agile framework, Architecture Review Board (ARB), change control Board (CCB) and tools (checklist / templates and standard work) to reduce deployment cost and time and to improve the team’s productivity, utilization and quality of the deliverables.
• Developed metrics and KPI’s for management review and to measure the quality of the solution / systems.
• Managed a team of 20+ employees and vendor consultants, approximately 90% of SAP technical work delivered out of the offshore facility in Chennai, India.
• Led the completion 3 LEAN projects within 3 months.
• Helped to setup data analytics CoE to provide service to various business groups/solutions.
• Involved in Request for Proposal (RFP), vendor selection and statement of work (SOW) preparation for the migration of procurement process / solution from on premise to on-demand cloud platform.

Confidential - Detroit, MI

Senior Delivery Architect (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Worked in iPMO (Integrated Project Management Office) to review project architectures, ensure alignment with the enterprise architecture blueprint and approve deviations to standards
• Collaborated with various departments to define enterprise architecture principles, standards, and guidelines
• Ensured development and integration of business architecture with other architecture layers.
• Reviewed business strategic roadmap and proactively define enterprise architecture initiatives to establish capabilities to enable business processes and initiatives. .
• Ensured enterprise application integration, including defining the opportunities for integration, selecting the tools, specifying the shared data, defining the interfaces and data-flows and monitoring the success of integration.

Confidential - Detroit, MI

Delivery Manager (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple projects during tenure
• Delivery manager for strategy developments and operational improvements.
• Responsible for solution design, development, implementation, financial tracking, budgeting, resource allocation, technical direction and serving as quality liaison.