SUMMARY

• High impact IT management professional with expertise in leading business critical strategic initiatives for fortune 500 organizations in technology, finance, government, pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries. Offers 15+ years of senior level experience in leading Oracle, SAP, and Business Intelligence.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Transition Management.
• Cutover Plans Data Migrations
• Change Management
• Risk Management
• BI and Analytics
• Agile Project/Program Management
• Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
• Communication Management
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Global SAPBI implementations

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell, HTML, Java, Python

Operating Systems: UNIX, MS - DOS, Windows, LINUX

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, HANA

Software: SAP R/3 ECC6.0/5.0, SAP NetWeaver BW/BI(7.0, 3.5), BEx(Analyzer, Query & Report Designers, and WAD), SAP BPC 5.1/7.5, Business Objects 3.x/4.x, SAP Solution Manager, Mercury tools, Oracle Developer/Designer tools, Informatica, Visio, MS Project, Oracle, TOAD, Data Modeling ERWIN, Power Designer and Oracle Designer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the Project Plans for Confidential Data warehouse, Big Data and Data Science Analytics Platform.
• Conducted daily Scrum meetings, coached the team, and facilitated the delivery. Used Agile/SDLC.
• Performed the Scrum ceremonies - Sprint planning/review/retrospective and Backlog grooming.
• Migrated Confidential applications to Amazon Web Services(AWS) cloud environment using S3, EC2, VPC.
• Prepared transition plans to handover the production support activities
• Worked in Pharma Supply Chain and Manufacturing Business domain with AI and Machine Learning space.
• Conducted the Requirements gathering workshops.
• Estimated the Efforts for implementation development artifacts.
• Interacted with all the stake holders and agreed on the milestone deliverables.
• Prepared the risk register and risk mitigation plans. Performed KPI reporting
• Conducted quality assurance meetings.
• Managed the Change Control for Confidential Data warehouse and data migration projects in SAP BI, Oracle and Informatica platforms.
• Effectively managed the on-site/offshore resources.
• Followed the Confidential ’s Global Risk and Compliance(GRC) procedures and Good Manufacturing Processes ( GMP) and used Documentum for all documents during life cycle of project.
• Delivered the quality software within time and budget using Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Technical Hands on Data warehouse and BI technologies including Business Objects SAP BW BI HANA.
• Used ServiceNow JIRA, Microsoft Project, TFS, HP-ALM.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the Project Plans for Business Intelligence and data migration projects
• Worked as transition manager on support activities.
• Estimated the Efforts for implementation development artifacts.
• Interacted with all the stake holders and agreed on the milestone deliverables.
• Prepared the risk register and risk mitigation plans.
• Conducted quality assurance meetings.
• Worked in cross-divisional and cross-functional environment.
• Effectively communicated the progress on the project to internal and external customers.
• Captured the key metrics for the project.
• Understanding the requirements, technology landscape and road map for products.
• Understanding the conflicts and Problem Solving under pressure.
• Good People Management skills. Handled teams of size 30+.
• Handled onsite-offshore model
• Good Negotiation skills.
• Understanding the business functionalities with effective user communication

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Global SAP Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed BI project plans and key deliverables, managed scope; achieved milestones; collects and analyzes project/program metrics to manage the initiatives and drive accountability for work stream in the successful delivery of overall business solutions.
• Defined and executes strategy, design, build, test and deployment of global SAP BI rollout in Finance planning and forecasting areas.
• Collaborated with global/regional process owners and IT partners on a regular basis to ensure BI project scope and objectives remain on track and ensures timely resolution of issues.
• Instituted global ECC/BI stewardship of governance, standard operating procedures.
• Developed BI and data warehouse architecture and assures a successful integration of all components within the BI solution as well as interfaces. Project budgets to $10M including infrastructure, resource planning and project rollout scheduling.
• Guided change enablement team; provides training including curriculum, and end user training.
• Worked closely with deployment team in cutover planning activities to ensure timely deployment of the BI solutions.

Confidential, Columbia, MD

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Championed 2K+ user Business Intelligence a reporting platform to significantly improve profit margins by 25%
• Prepared User Acceptance Test Plans and helped users during UAT.
• Leveraged effective management of onshore/offshore resource mix; achieved 60% time to deliver and 50% savings.
• Managed all initiatives to defined metrics and within budget. Demonstrated and satisfied commitment to meeting all SLAs.
• Provided technology roadmap - enterprise data warehouse and BI initiative; Acted as liaison between project teams and business. Directed highly skilled team of 20+ BI professionals.
• Project lead for enterprise-wide data warehousing and BI initiative using SAP Net weaver BW and SAP IP. Lead the development team of BW developers, data analysts and business analysts. Managed all initiatives to defined metrics. Demonstrated and satisfied commitment to meeting all SLAs. Good experience in handling Issue and Risk management.
• Reporting lead for BW analytical reporting using BEx tools and BPC 5.x 7.5 tools Championed enterprise portal (EP) integration and single sign-on with role-based security. Championed Business objects development using BW data. Created multiple universes as per the requirements.
• Instituted global reporting strategy; BI governance process for Finance, Retail, International and other business units.
• Championed KPIs, data migration, operational/analytical reporting, dashboards & scorecards to enable performance management.
• Implemented BPC for Financial Consolidations (Legal and Managerial) and Financial Planning (Annual Budget and rolling forward Forecast) for Income Statement and Balance Sheet. Developed Plan/Forecast models and reports.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant / Lead

Responsibilities:

• Directed highly skilled team of 30+ IT professionals in the US/India; attained unprecedented employee retention rates.
• Led Data warehousing and BI strategic planning, development of product roadmaps and technical/architectural project reviews. Coordinated quality assurance and release for new product rollouts and multiple maintenance releases.
• Led the administration and configuration teams of SAP BW, Informatica and portal including role based user security.
• Led BI team and implemented SAP BW Full-Life Cycle for Marketing and Sales business units and Broker and Correspondent Channels.
• Championed User Requirements Gathering workshops and interacted with the Management and Business Users to identify Business Requirements. Involved in all the phases of Life cycle development from requirements gathering to putting the project into production.
• Enhanced the business content Info cubes SD, FI-CO for extraction transformation and loading (ETL).Developed many Info Sets from Master Data objects and ODS objects. Involved in the coding of start routines in the update rules.
• Championed BW statistics for optimization of data loads and report performance during BW production support. Involved extensively in Reporting using BEx Analyzer, BEx Web Reports, BEx Map, creating Web Templates. Provided Documentation on Best Practices for Support and Maintain after GO-LIVE.
• Responsible for Sizing and Performance Optimization of the System. Implemented BW web reporting portal using WAD.
• Designed Generic Extractors and Data Sources for providing Data to Info cubes, Multi-cubes, ODS and Aggregates.
• Extensively involved in the design of extended star schema. Involved in all the phases of Life cycle development from requirements gathering to putting the project into production. Enhanced the business content Info cubes SD, FI-CO for extraction transformation and loading (ETL).
• Led the requirements analysis, data warehouse and data mart design, dimensional data modeling, Infrastructure and database sizing, design and code reviews. Provided end state road maps to Correspondent and Servicing data marts.
• Instituted end-to-end technical guidance for the Corporate Enterprise Data warehouse initiative that included requirement analysis, feasibility study, vendor evaluation, infrastructure and resource requirements, ROI calculations and technical guidance to the development teams.
• Championed dimensional modeling and ETL processes, database design and code reviews. Achieved 80% performance gains by reducing CPU utilization by 50% and $2M annual cost saving to the business.