PROFILE SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated and seasoned ERP implementation and Supply Chain consulting professionalwith 7.5 years of hands - on,progressive experience in implementing supply chain management solutions, package implementation and process consulting across a broad range of players mainly in the field of Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods, Logistics, Food and Beverage and 3PL providers using industry best practices.
• Extensive experience of working with clients across a broad range of industries to provide innovative business process design, systems integration and management consulting services to implement bleeding edge supply chain operation solutions and strategies that enable profitable growth.
• Considerably shown keen business acumen and coordination during involvement in scoping, requirements gathering, business process analysis, and functional testing with onsite coordinator, 3rd party vendors for many clients.
• Experience in working with Product and Service based organizations along with exposure in Agile and Waterfall methodologies of software development.
• Ability to help and build onshore/offshore team of experienced consulting teams in US and India, showing superior communication skills and team dynamics in client facing/engagement roles;
• Experience translating and conveying client business needs into tangible business solution architecture; ability to analyze and share recommendations to improve existing supply chain processes for clients.
• Possess good people management and decision makingskills. Successful track record of leading teams to deliver value-added solutions on time & budgetthrough creative thinking and consensus driven execution by providing coaching, direction and leadership support to achieve partner, business results.
• Actively involved in ERP and supply chain consulting, assisting pre-sales, new engagements and thought leadership for Retail, Consumer Products and Supply Chain practice.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: Oracle 9i/11g, SQL Server, MS Access

Development / Productivity Tools: TOAD, SQL Developer, MS Office, MS SharePoint, Microsoft Visio, TIBCO BW, IBM Clear Case

E-Com Frameworks / Web Technologies: Apache Tomcat, Oracle Weblogic, IBM Websphere, JBOSS Application Servers

Programming Languages: JAVA,JSP, Servlets, Java Script, HTML, XML Pick Basic, C, C++

Software Engineering Methodologies / IDEs / Testing Tools/Technologies: Apache Ant, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, IBM Rational Clear Quest

Operating System: Unix, Windows 2000/XP/7

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Continuous enhancements& optimizations (for peak performance and low failure rates) of the tools and infrastructure of the build and release team, which includesthousands of machines with a variety of configurations and purposes.
• Led engineering team across US, China and Indiato design process improvement dashboards, tracking critical metrics and KPIs, reducing software deployment time by 50% worldwide.
• Awarded software engineering award for coordinating 6 cross-functional teams to optimize performance of 600 servers and improve system reliability by more than 20 percentage points.

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

ERP Implementation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Study of existing implementation, interact with SMEs on a regular basis and identify already documented systems. Provide knowledge transfer, product training and shadow support to inbound SMEs in Prague.
• Analyze/re-engineer non-documented systems and prepare high-level design, detailed design and configuration documents. Compile the Service Appreciation Document to describe, install and configure the system from a holistic perspective.
• Lead the implementation efforts on all the testing and the production environments including scripting test documents to carry out smoke testing on the installed environments. Finally, perform go-live production installation at the inbound site.
• Work with supply chain SMEs at client location to identify opportunities for the implementation of improved shipment fulfillment capabilities in the ERP/supply chain system
• Redesigned existing shipment fulfillment processes and established new drop ship fulfillment processes within the ERP system reducing fulfillment cost by $ 0.5 million yearly.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

ERP Implementation Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Study of existing implementation, interact with SMEs on a regular basis and document systems. Provide knowledge transfer, support, coordinate and manage the offshore Confidential team.
• Gather requirements from client SMEs and QC team analyze the requirements and come up with design for the enhancement and performance fixes required.
• Work closely with the offshore team to provide bug fixes for three types of issues, namely J2EE product related issues, Eclipse Rich Client Platform UI issues and Jasper reports reporting issues.
• Act as the build, deployment and drop manager for each scheduled code release.
• Analyze performance and fix performance related issues in coordination with offshore team members to improve the speed of the OASIS implementation.
• Perform project management and weekly status reviews with client team members

Confidential, Sidney, NE

ERP Implementation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Implemented improved order fulfillment process based on optimizing warehouse location, inventory availability and delivery schedule to reduce inventory handling, shipping and transportation costs.
• Implemented improved inventory control and reordering processes thereby reducing backorders and improving customer service levels by more than 10%.
• End-to-end product upgrade experience in project planning, requirements gathering, gap analysis, code development, function/user acceptance testing and production rollout for Confidential ’s Sterling Commerce product upgrade project.
• Coordinated and assigned work including delivery due dates for offshore team members. Performed project management and weekly status reviews with client team members

Confidential

ERP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed various functional modules in the solution including Purchase Order and Sales Order fulfillment, Back Order (BO) management, Returns Management, Freight and Shipment Management, Settlement and Authorization.
• Performed product configuration based on the requirements specified in the design. Customized product’s J2EE framework, XSL, custom perl scripting and Database extensions for features lying outside scope of the product.
• Created configuration documents and Deployment documents
• Performed Unit Testing and System testing of the developed components

Confidential, Marion, OH

Summer Intern - Supply Chain

Responsibilities:

• Created a standardized Bill of Process (BoP) with multiple attributes to clearly measure and benchmark the performance of global manufacturing lines.
• Also created a graphical process flowchart and stakeholder survey to identify inventory list of technologies and assess weakness and strength of each manufacturing line
• Created an excel based tool that could accept process types and geography as input and publish the best-in-class process technology for the respective geography thereby enabling process standardization, centralizing decision making and reducing ad-hoc decision making by regional facilities.
• Identified 5-6 quick win opportunities for cost reduction and quality improvement. Implemented accumulated buffer system in Confidential ’s dryer manufacturing plant projected to result in savings of over $500,000 over a five-year period.

Confidential, Ann Arbor, MI

Student Consultant - Supply Chain

Responsibilities:

• Identified 4 major factors that were causing the forecast inaccuracy namely, brand, category, volume and forecast bias.
• Classified profiles exhibiting these characteristics and causing disproportionate forecast error as highly risky profiles.
• Recommended a stratified random sampling approach for improving forecast accuracy, projected to save forecast accuracy of more than 560 risky profiles by 10%.
• Recommended an approach to integrate supply chain with improved forecast accuracy projected to save more than $40 million yearly from excess manufacturing and reduced safety stock.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Consultant/Work stream Lead

Responsibilities:

• Installed data systems to track metrics and identify top problems areas and provide clear visibility into problems at the plant and equipment level. Set up workshops in association with supervisors and process leads to pinpoint the root cause of the problems.
• Enabled clarity in long term vision by formulating a clear 3 year vision and periodic 90 day action plans which acted as milestones in order to attain the vision.
• Re-balanced the rate at which the manufacturing line was running to run at the bottleneck rate thereby significantly improving the throughput while reducing problems on the line
• Established a standardized process for making sustained improvements overa long term including a Daily Direction Setting (DDS) meeting for leads to brainstorm and resolve issues, a Daily Mgmt. System (DMS), long term Defect Handling (DH) and breakdown elimination mechanism.