SUMMARY:

• Have over ten years of experience on Dynamics AX working with various customers in US, Europe, and India either as a direct engagement or through collaboration with local partners. As a senior project manager of Dynamics AX practice in Confidential, defined DAX offerings and engagement models for partnership with ISV partners in UK on co - development and pre-sales of solutions.
• Prior to this as a solution architect and project manager successfully delivered and implemented Dynamics AX from Analysis to Go-live for various projects across multiple geographies. Following are some of the key responsibilities performed across multiple engagements -
• Prepared implementation strategies, Project plans (with due consideration of Functional & Technical scope), budgeting, resourcing for Dynamics AX implementations
• Defined Dynamics AX offerings and engagement model with ISV partners in Europe and Asia region for implementation, vertical development and solution upgrade
• Built teams to support pre-sales activities around Dynamics AX offerings and cross selling of other MS products like CRM and SharePoint
• Implemented Dynamics AX vertical solutions in collaboration with partners in UK
• Prepared Metrics and Dashboards for management on project statuses, and financials by offerings across geographies
• Lead cross functional team for rolling out Dynamics AX in MSCIS group of IEB division in Microsoft US
• As a solution architect/ program manager - defined “as-is” work stream processes; fit-gap assessment, mapping requirements with out of box AX features; envision “to be” work stream processes; assist with execution of User Acceptance Testing
• Managed release deployment plan, documented and prioritized change requests (CRs), and data migrations
• Prepared status reports, design presentations, demos, design, prototyping and elucidating end-user feedback
• Prepared and maintained task level project resource assignments for both functional and engineering deliverables

SUMMARY:

Applications (Apps): Dynamics AX 2012, Dynamics AX 2009, Dynamics AX 4.0, Dynamics AX 3.0 - SP5, Dynamics CRM, Dynamics Management Reporter

Modules: Trade and Logistics, Finance, Project management accounting, Production, Master Planning, CRM, HRM, BI in AX 2012

Phases: Requirements gathering, Analysis, Development, Implementations, Testing, Integration, Production Support, Upgrades, Documentation

Tools: / Languages: Erwin, ER Studio (Data Architect), MS Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint(PPT), Visio, Project(MPP)

Models: Onsite, Offshore

Methodologies: Dynamics Sure Step Implementation

Industries / Verticals: Professional Services industry, Commodity Trading (Grains, Feed manufacturing), Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC Sector), Manufacturing(Mfg.) - Plastic Engineering( Metal Injection)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and mapping of end-end business process (AS-IS process) from legacy system to Dynamics AX
• Covering project creation and delivery process
• External customer billing process
• Project costing and cost recognition process
• Monthly revenue recognition process
• Month end close process
• Existing BI and reporting systems
• Gaps in existing operational reporting capabilities
• Preparation of business requirement and roadmap for new operational reporting capability for MCS in Dynamics AX
• Creation of process flows and data mapping from Dynamics AX, HeadTrax and Mercury system to JADE/ SIR reporting systems
• Coordinate with cross functional work streams on process areas to support / develop existing and new reporting/ BI capabilities on DAX platform
• Prepare impact assessment on existing reporting platforms and mitigation plans post DAX roll out across different subsidiaries within MCS
• Conduct workshops with business users to gather requirements and obtain review feedbacks
• Demonstrate out of the box AX 2012 capabilities on reporting/ BI for project management and accounting process to business users ( conducted Conference Room Pilot - I)

Confidential, San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Understanding end user reporting requirements
• Proposed multiple options for financial reporting from AX 2012
• Cube based reports - SSAS DB based SSRS reports, and KPIs
• Custom AX report - AX DB based SSRS reports
• Management Reporter
• Excel reports on SSAS DB
• Stored Procedure driven SSRS reports

Confidential, Redmond

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Designing the interface for receiving and sending expense data from AX expense to Win 8/WP 7 application and receiving action for expense report from Win 8/ WP7 apps via Azure
• Prepare Functional requirements for AX expense interfaces to support WP7 and Win 8 app
• Preparation of data mapping between Mobile expense app and AX client
• Providing AX functional and data related development clarifications to different development/ test teams of Win8, WP7 and AX Expense interface
• Change request estimations, communications and prioritization
• Bug triage and providing resolutions/ clarifications to both engineering team

Confidential, Redmond

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Improve fiscal/ monthly project forecasting, budgeting and funds release process
• Timesheet reporting via AX web client & other actual project spend details from Mercury
• Improve project cost reporting using excel pivots with real time data from AX projects
• Interfaces for HR Data integration with Feedstore and for project actual expenditure with SAP
• Import project forecast from excel
• In a team of 9, as a Program manager and solution architect was responsible for -
• Define “as-is” work stream processes and identify requirements
• Design of “to be” work stream processes and preparation of gap-fit documentation
• Develop Functional Specifications, Prototype presentations to business users, and finalize “to-be” processes
• Reporting solutions for MSCIS using AX 2012 Cubes and SSRS capability
• Prepare & maintain a task level project plan, resource assignment for offshore engineering functions
• Configured and Mapped requirements in AX 2012 Project Accounting module
• Define, document and map HR data integration from “Feedstore” application
• Providing development clarifications to Offshore development team and build release schedule preparation
• Manage release deployment plan and provide estimates for new requests
• Ensures that production defects are prioritized within release plan

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• To audit existing solution mapping vis-à-vis business process and recommend implementation strategy/ approach
• Understanding various functional business process across Confidential group
• Analyze/re-map existing functional requirement documents and design documents from the earlier implementation
• Preparation of Audit report on existing solution landscape
• Proposal development for future road map/ approach for taking forward the implementation, and also represent key findings from the exercise
• Define “as-is” work stream processes and identify requirements
• Design of “to be” work stream processes and preparation of gap-fit documentation
• Ensuring timely delivery of features
• Status tracking and updates to customer
• Coordinating with offshore development team for custom requirements

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Engagement model with Maxima for offshoring engineering deliverables
• Lead engineering team from offshore to build solution on Dynamics AX 2009
• Conducting governance meeting with project stakeholders on project statuses, issues, risks and financials
• Coordination with Maxima onshore implementation team on packaging requirements and creation of builds for engineering team
• Managed engineering process and build release from offshore for onsite implementation team
• Data migration from legacy system to AX

Confidential

Solution architect/ Offshore Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Understanding end-end business processes of commodity trading business in UK - onsite
• Solution Mapping/ design on Dynamics AX and Prototyping with development team - onsite
• Walk through the prototype with partner customer and in corporate feedback into the solution map
• Created work packets for over 200 custom features for enabling commodity trading business process on Dynamics AX 4.0 which was later upgraded to AX 2009
• Collaborated and worked along with ISV partner consultants in rolling out CommTrader (Commodity trading solution built on AX 4.0) at three customers in UK
• Envisioned and architected shipping enhancements for CommTrader to support international shipments features required for South African customers
• Lead offshore engineering team, prepared and maintained engineering plans, estimates, budgets, resource assignments, release plan and project financials
• Coordinated with engineering team in review of design documents and post development feature demonstration to end business users

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementation planning and Scheduling
• System Study and documentation
• Enterprise Design documentation
• Gap fit analysis and mapping suggestion
• Preparation of Masters
• Mapping of requirements
• SRS to Development team for custom reports and solutions
• User
• Getting Sign-Off from the Customer

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Production Process understanding and documentation
• Gap fit analysis and mapping suggestion
• Customization requirements for the production module
• Preparing Specification document for the Development team
• Implementation of Production Module and User

Confidential, Redmond

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Estimation plan and documentation of the Production Module specific Migration requirements from Scala to Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0
• Preparing Functional test case scenarios, and testing
• Testing of historical transactions in Accounts payable, Accounts Receivable and General Ledger
• Testing of current fiscal transactions in Accounts payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger and Inventory management modules
• Verification of the data is accomplished by comparing reports from Dynamics and Scala
• Testing involved both Smoke testing and Acceptance testing