Professional Summary

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• is a certified PMP and has around 15 years of total industry experience and out of which 12 years in IT industry. Majority of Dora s experience is in USA and on short assignments 3 to 9 months to UK, Brazil. Have over 10 years of JDEDWARDS JDE world7.3/Enterprise One 8.11 techno functional, Business Analyst and Project Management expertise in handling JDE Supply Chain, Production Support, JDE to SAP migrations, JDE legacy to SAP Mapping JDE Data Archival, building interfaces between JDE and Non-JDE systems, decommissioning of JDE dependent systems. Three years of domain expertise in Banking, Finance Insurance. Dora is a certified PMP and also certified in Global Business Leadership through U21 Global and Harvard Business School Publishing.
• Worked extensively in the areas of JDE World, Enterprise1. Been associated with US Oil Gas major Chevron for last 7.5 years in managing JDE application support, Business Analysis, Supply Chain, SLA driven metrics, handling change requests, interfaces, 3rd party partners etc.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinates with business users to identify program fixes and customized menus for JDE Sales Order entry, Distribution Manufacturing, Inventory, A/R,A/P,G/L, Inventory ..Etc.
• Reviews business process and customize application or use existing functionality to automate the process. Writing programs in CLP/RPG as and when necessary.
• Involved with knowledge management, identifying training needs and achieving operational excellence through SLA driven metrics.
• Conducts SWOT analysis to prepare Customer IT Strategic Road Map varies from 3 to 5 years to align IT in commensurate with business targets.
• Work with business to educate on latest trends in supply chain and leverage for business growth.
• Defines SLA framework to be followed by different IT groups
• Conducts monthly Manufacturing Availability review meetings to review and take necessary actions for consistently meeting/exceeding availability of systems more than 98 .
• Works on ALCM Asset Life Cycle Management framework right from training/transition, operations, and upgrade/migrations through decommissioning as per TMA Technology Management Architecture standards.
• Managing JDE other dependent systems of 88 applications across globe for Chevron Oronite .
• Working directly with customer in outsourcing IT functions to near shore/offshore based on type of support and criticality of applications.
• Proactively involved in identifying systems/applications that are of no business value either to decommission or migrate to a cost effective platform.
• Defining process and standards to decommission the system, design a process to archive and retrieve data based on company records retention guidelines and to meet legal, tax questions during archival period.
• Design evergreen process to review archived data periodically based on business critical data.
• Responsible to meet Information Protection IP and SOX compliances.
• Define SLA,OLA and track them for compliance with L1,L2,L3 support model with JDE and dependent systems.
• Define process for Tape Management, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan.
• Creates and implements complex project definitions, schedules, budgets, and objectives for a large sized or multiple projects of high complexity. Determines need for and impact of changes in scope of project and makes and implements recommendations based on determinations. Gains concurrence, approval, and consensus from stakeholders regarding the various project aspects, adjusts accordingly.
• Identifies appropriate resources and staffs projects. Organizes project team s members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments and objectives. Acts as the point of contact to client's project management.
• Manages costs, schedules and quality by overseeing project deliverables. Ensures schedule and budget are met. Identifies need for change, determines course of action and revises as appropriate. May act outside of established policies as necessary.
• Oversees the ongoing review of project s status identifies risks. Develops, recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions and implements as appropriate.
• Works in conjunctions with team members and stakeholders to anticipate and manage changes to projects, such as but not limited to, technical requirements, business requirements and schedule. Determines when additional resources are needed and implements same. Identifies or gathers information regarding possible solutions that may create additional, different or unique project objectives or results.
• Manages client project management, company management and project team expectations for agreed upon project performance by obtaining and providing project metrics.
• Prepares and recommends operating and personnel budgets for approval. Monitors spending for adherence to budget, recommends variances as necessary.
• Involved as a business analyst in rationalization of applications/servers as part of Chevron Organizational goal of removing redundant systems and savings costs related to data center, licensing, support and maintenance of applications/servers.
• Responsible to understand and manage Data Center, Tape Management, JDE Virtual Tape Loading VTL as part of BCP and DRP.

Key Achievements:

• Proactively identified systems/applications that are of no business value and saved to Chevron approximately 387,816.00/yr by decommissioning/rationalizing the systems.
• Helped Chevron to decommission global ERP system to save 2.2 M annual savings .
• Saved to Chevron Oronite approximately 18090.00 by providing solution with JDE 7.3 system to system migration.
• Executed JDE data migration project in scrum mode and successfully migrated under stringent timelines.
• Prepared templates to be used across JDE to SAP data mapping and migration efforts.
• Implemented process improvements in mimicking JDE production environment to test environment.
• Successfully migrated JDE-EDI interface versions with absolutely zero business down time.
• Involved in successful migration of Chevron Oronite JDE-Mercator employee payroll application to IBM websphere transformation extender without impacting business.
• Received star performer award for year 2007, 2009, 2010,2011, 2012,2013 from Mahindra Satyam.
• Received best team performer award from Keane India as part of SMS Delivery Team in year 2003.
• Received best team performer award from Keane India as part of CHL account expansion Delivery Team in year 2002.
• Received several spot awards in meeting project deliverable s under stringent timelines.
• Presented collaterals on Risk Management in line with PMI guidelines as part of organization workshop.
• Prepared and implemented project related questionnaire to groom future PLs and PMs in compliance with PMI guidelines.
• Ensured business continuity during hurricane Ike in Houston absolutely zero business down time as I was part of Chevron Disaster Recovery Management team.

Key Strengths:

• Always tries to create conducive ambience within the project to make every team member feel proud of the team.
• Very flexible to take new initiatives in starting business in new geographic regions.
• Very optimistic and positive attitude.
• Strong leadership, organizational skills, analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills for interacting with team members and clients
• Ability to manage large or multiple projects with changing priorities
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and change
• Enjoy traveling to meet business demands.