SUMMARY

• Confidential seasoned, driven, and results oriented Project Manager and Re - Engineering Consultant with over 15 plus years of experience across the entire Software Development Life Cycle, Requirement gathering, Business Process Modeling and Re-Engineering, and Organizational Change Management.
• His industry experience includes work done with Manufacturing and Distribution, Investments, healthcare Retail, Services, Telecom and Pharma. His projects have focused on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Total Quality Management (TQM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and, and Human Resource Management solutions.Key competencies:
• High level implementation plans, data and process models, cost estimating, cost benefits analysis, return on investments and risk assessments.Business Analysis
• Experienced in SAP Ariba Contract, Supply chain Collaboration, On-Demand P2P Solutions, Business Requirement gathering, Business Process Flow/Management, IT Security, Audit Compliance, Business Re-Engineering and Business Modeling.
• Proficient in ERP (SAP (SAP (ECC, S4/HANA, TM, SolMan Knowledge Management, Fiori, FICO, MM, LE, PP, FSCM, SD, QM, PM, HR/HCM, CO-POA, GRC Security) and CRM-Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, Salesforce, Ecommerce and Mobile Platforms.
• In-depth knowledge of Configuration Management, Software Development Life Cycle, Release Management, Requirement Traceability Matrix and Development Methodologies by creating activity, logical, Sequence and Robustness to extract business process flows and workflows, thereby helping development and quality assurance in understanding the requirements.
• Experienced in Data Modelling and Analysis for OBIEE, SSRS, SAS, Tableau, Cognos reporting tools and dashboards.
• Proficient in RUP, Waterfall, Agile, Spiral, and Evolutionary Methodologies.
• Facilitating Workshops, RAD, JAD and DRP Sessions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Management Tools: HP ALM, Test Manager, Jira.

Configuration Management tools: Clear case, SharePoint, Microsoft TFS, Confluence

SDLC Methodology: Agile, Waterfall, Spiral, SAP(Activate)

ERP: SAP(ECC), SAP S4/HANA, Oracle (EBS)

Prototyping: Rallydev, ALM, Balsamiq, IRise.

ETL and BI tools: Abintio, Informatica, SSIS, SSRS, Erwin, Talend, Cognos, SAP-Bo, OBIEE, Obiee, Tableau.

Databases: Sql Server, Oracle 11g, DB2.

CRM: Salesforce, Siebel.

Requirement Management Tools: Rational Requisite pro, MS project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager Integration

Confidential, IL

Responsibilities:

• Involved in budgeting, Resource management, Risk analysis for Integrations of Contingent Management systems for (SAP Fieldglass), OKTA, SNOW(ServiceNow) OIM (Oracle Identity manger), Workday and Allergan downstream applications.
• Extensively Involved in facilitating design, Configuration change (Locations/custom fields/Functions) requests required by business to MSP’S for M&A (mergers and acquisitions- Allergan and Confidential ).
• Involved in coordinating Functional/System/UAT testing phases for Allergan Fieldglass to downstream applications and ABBV Wkdy (Benefits, Time, and Absence).
• Facilitated Mappings, Middleware integration, TIBCO, OpenText, MOVEIT to downstream applications.
• Extensively Involved in Defining Roles and Responsibilities, Cutover activities for MSP’S.
• Facilitated design change for contingent management reports to be generated from Allergan Fieldglass to business users for North America operations.
• Involved in Design changes for AbbVie Wkdy reports(employees) based on Allergan Fieldglass reports.
• Assisted project management, resource management and cutover tasks for Allergan field glass implementation.

Project Manager

Confidential, IL

Responsibilities:

• Established communication cadence which involved standing and actionable steerco meetings, leads meetings, team meetings and project progress reports/dashboards for Senior Tate& Lyle Leadership
• Guided stakeholders to clearly define scope of various projects and memorialized the same in Project Charters.
• Involved in Demand Statistical forecasting, Consensus planning and Demand sensing for Grains and Sugars.
• Extensively Involved in Response and Supply with respective to Allocations and deployment planning
• Created WBS for all projects and leveraged PERT for task estimation.
• Managed projects to setup SAPFG (FieldGlass (Contingent/SOW, ARIBA, GRC (SAP Access Control/Risk Management) projects across 30 Countries and 400 Plants.
• Managed project resource acquisition, availability and allocation across the Business and the Vendors.
• Extensively Involved in SAP Security, GRC for 150 users across multiple countries for User Roles.
• Executed and Managed TMS Transformation Project with a team comprised of Tate &Lyle Employees, Outside Contractors and Deloitte, Wipro, Cognizant Consultants with the following deliverables - Current State and Assessment, Future State, Use Cases, Benefits Cost, Business Case, Change Impact Assessment, RFP and Demos.
• Involved in Integration with FG/ARIBA/ECC/GRC with Asapio and Dell Boomi.
• Managed and groomed effective stakeholder representation and engagement from the following areas for the TM Transformation initiative-- Fleet Management, Freight Settlement / Accounting and Claims, IT (Apps, Architecture, Security), Shipment Order Management, Modeling, Analytics & Reporting, Execution, Management, Planning and Procurement.
• Managed and created an RFI for Network and Fleet Optimization.
• Conduct workshops to create Sourcing templates for full and quick projects in SAP Ariba Sourcing and documented business scenarios for sourcing requests.
• Led design sessions for Sourcing project phases and equivalent tasks, document tasks, To-Do tasks, Approval and negotiation tasks for Contract workspaces.
• Manage Ariba Sourcing library configuration to ensure proper documentation/content relevant to each purchasing organization is stored.
• Conduct workflow design and configuration sessions in Ariba for Sourcing events (RFx) team grading, event bidding rules, response management, Contract Approval workflows, Clause library management, Contract Terms and conditions management, Contract commitment management, contract amendments and E-signatures.
• Conduct configuration workshops and Perform configuration steps in SAP Ariba solution for Sourcing and Contracting projects (header attributes, Custom/flex fields) tasks and associated documents, Sourcing and contract templates modifications and Leading Sourcing templates design workshops per purchasing organization.
• Complete SAP Ariba Enablement Workbook for data collection for review with Stakeholders and Ariba shared services lead.
• Conducted configuration workshops for the Requisition to Receive process flow in SAP Ariba Buying (Budget check, requisition approval, purchase orders, Catalog and Non-catalog items and Spot buys)
• Define product & integration test scenarios and perform product & integration test execution.
• Identify and train key users for Go-Live support and transition knowledge to operations team

SAP S4/HANA Project Manager

Confidential, GA

Responsibilities:

• Managed the $121MM OneSAP (S4/HANA) Program involving three rollouts across 26 existing plants and a new Acquisition (2 plants).
• Reported to Global CIO, VP of Business Services and Transformation and Senior Director of Application Services.
• Authored the Confidential Asset Integration Playbook on Project Implementations for Small, Mid-Sized and Complex Projects and ran Project Startup workshops.
• Worked with Implementation Partner to establish “three-in-a-box” cross functional teams for key Business Areas involving client Business Tower Lead, Functional SAP Delivery Lead, and Solution Architect.
• Controlled and provided actionable reporting of the Deliverables/WRICEF List, Risk Registrar and Issues Log items.
• Mitigated major Risk associated with Big Bang launch and late introduction of a new acquisition by driving acceptance of three separate rollouts (waves) that built on each other.
• Re-baselined Project and revised Financial projection to account for phased rollouts.
• Ran project phases from Blueprinting and Future State mapping (requirements phase) through final Deployment and Post Go Live Support (Hypercare).
• Engaged Organizational Change Lead to build Communication Plan and drive change adoption and training across the enterprise.
• Simplified and automated Project Administration and Communication to reduce administrative overhead.
• Facilitated daily stand-ups to uncover impediments and identify owners of resolution/mitigation tasks.
• Implemented new BEST (Business End to End Simulation Testing) cycle to complement UAT (User Acceptance Testing) to drive adoption and confidence in the application.
• Established Business Readiness and Cutover Plan and monitored adherence.
• Built Data Governance and Conversion Plans (Extract, Pre and Post Validation) with Master Data Team.
• Managed new Warehouse Management Systems integration, implementation and upgrades (ROC, ADC, Labelling and Alvey), Partner EDI (3PL, Customer, Suppliers) and Inventory Management efforts (SAP IBP, Vendor Managed Inventor
• Facilitated Tier/Bracket Pricing Tool Transition from Vistex to Blacksmith
• Created a Hypercare Approach, setup meeting cadence and built a SharePoint Incident Tracker with PowerBI Reporting for Go Live.
• Developed PowerBI reports for the Program Management Office to track overall Program (Book of Work) status, individual Projects, Spending and Time Reporting.
• Organized Knowledge Transfer and smooth transition to the Operations Run Team.
• Redesigned the advertising paid search strategy providing an average increase of 30% in overall client performance.
• Created the internal product team training program to improve and better align working relationships between cross-functional teams.
• Restructured the client onboarding process to improve turn-around times and ensure launch accuracy using customizable search campaign templates.
• Supported discussions involving operations, business unit, and risk management resources.
• Implemented change control procedures for Case Management and Claims processing Systems.
• Assisted with product evaluation, product customization and system integration

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Low level and High-Level Design documents.
• Supported discussions involving operations, business unit, and risk management resources.
• Implemented change control procedures.
• Written SQL overrides in Source Qualifier and Lookups according to business requirements.
• Implemented the business logic into coding and unit testing.
• Involved in Generating Reports using Cognos impromptu for cases used by Nurses.
• Extensively Involved in Claims processing System.
• Extensively used ETL to load data from XML source feed from vendor and Flat Files to Staging area using Informatica (8.1)

QA Analyst

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Manually performed Back-End testing and Data Validation database in sql server 2005 by writing SQL queries.
• Validated the signal files and data files via the IBM- Mainframes and executed the batch jobs which using the JCL.
• Reported defects using Clear quest Bug tracking tool to the developer and performed Regression testing after fixing the bugs by going through all test case scenarios.
• Developed UNIX Shell Scripts to populate Data from Database systems.
• Involved in data validation and verification using Ab Initio for different file formats.
• Designed and Conducted validation on Financial Report Extraction which includes 144A, 401K, Fixed Income Holdings, Securities on Loan etc.
• Designed and created the Test Plans and Test Cases for the application by gathering system resource usage, database objects, information from project management team and other sources.