Summary of experience

• SAP Program and Delivery Manager with more than 17 years of experience, including 10 years of experience working with U.S. clients
• Top tier and results-driven Program manager with demonstrated success in leading client engagements, and C-level relationship building around large, complex, global SAP programs
• Experience spans roles including functional consultant, integration manager, project manager, program manager, steering committee member
• Advised Senior Management on SAP package selection, SOWs, scope management, project estimates, business cases, staffing and program budget formulation and control, change control, program governance, business migration, org change management, solution and architecture design , roadmaps and proposals
• Delivered, on time and within budget, 8 SAP global and regional implementations with teams of up to 120 consultants, including offshore development and Big 5 vendors
• 20 years of prior management experience in Production, Procurement and Quality management environments in the industrial manufacturing sector.

Summary of key projects

• Working for NTT Data, a multi-year engagement with T-Mobile USA as a program management and delivery principal, overseeing a 150 team delivering over multiple technology projects
• Working for IBM Global Services a Senior Project Manager, multiple projects in the SAP/SRM domain for customers such as Nissan, BMW, Pepsi Co and Colgate
• Working for L T InfoTech, turnkey project delivery for multiple projects including those for L T, John Deere India and GE USA

Project Management /Senior Project Manager

• SAP Expertise: SAP Program / Delivery management, SRM Expertise along with CRM, QM, MM modules SAP / R3 -Implementation, upgrade, and Production support experience
• Industry Expertise: Industrial and Manufacturing Products FMCG, Telecom, Electronics, Automotive, Engineering construction Industry
• Other Expertise: Good knowledge of project management for Open system in Java, .NET, Business Process Reengineering, Business Process Analysis, System Design, software development life cycle in QMS- SEI
• Positions Held: Delivery Manager, Program manager, Project manager, Engagement Manager, Senior Consultant and Quality Assurance manager in manufacturing Industries

Detailed experience

Confidential

SAP Program Manager / Delivery Manager

Confidential is the 4th largest wireless service provider in the USA with a variety of internal IT tools and processes, of which a major portion is on SAP technology

• Project highlights
• Transition the control of insurance order processing from many third party providers to T-mobile and transition Fulfillment and repairs of cellphone's to warehouses
• CRM Upgrade Project : Highly customized version of CRM 4.0 Version Upgraded to CRM 7.0 Version This was extremely challenging project due to high level of customization, Unicode migration, and hardware migration with multiple overlapping pieces
• HCM Managed Benefits Outsourcing Project Customer planned to outsource Health welfare benefits to Ion Hewitt
• Client had many companies and team working on various SAP and related technologies
• Coordinated and managed the project requirements and deliverables with multi-location teams.
• Responsible for resource management and project delivery, especially in the SAP domain. This includes overseeing a 150 team spread between the US and India.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Position: SAP Functional Manager

• Project highlights
• Client planned to consolidate the order to cash systems of the Germany ATLAS and the International system I BOX .
• Provided functional consulting expertise using IBMs consolidation toolkit to provide an analysis of the customization required

Position: SAP Functional Manager along with SRM lead responsibilities for the project

• SAP Instance Consolidation Project involving merging two SAP R/3 4.6C instances as a prerequisite for an upgrade to ECC 6
• Project highlights
• The client had purchasing on an SAP R/3 Instance finance on separate R/3 Instance - many interfaces connect with the EBP, BW, Main Frame applications
• IBM Next Gen Tool for Consolidation were used to survey/compare the systems -
• IBM Workbench used to migrate settings from source system to target system
• Done for North America, Japan and Europe to follow
• Managed onsite and a large offshore team in the throughout the execution of the project.

Confidential

• Project highlights
• The Rockwell Automation Global Process Transformation Project was a multi-phase, enterprise-wide business transformation and ERP implementation project
• Client has implemented state of the art MM processes like Automatic PO creation linked with MRP, consignment stocks, confirmation management etc. SRM module was implemented for non-production item procurement
• Worked with the SAP process excellence team at client site as the Project manager and MM team lead

Confidential

Position: SAP SRM manager

• Project highlights
• SAP SRM project at world leader in beverage industry, for implementing ECC 6.0 along with SRM 5.0 CCM
• Responsible for
• Development of SRM concept based on a successful template from the customers implementation in another country
• SRM concept and prototype development
• SRM knowledge sharing with the ECC 6.0 / Global template development / Procurement transformation teams

Confidential

Position: SAP Project manager

• Project highlights
• SAP SRM P2P transformation project at world leader in FMCG in New Jersey, USA
• SAP EBP 4.0/5.0, including Requisite 4.0
• Catalog Management Internal and External Catalogs
• Contract Management Local Contracts in EBP
• Requisition Management
• Responsible for
• Integration tests coordination, including test scenarios and scripts, integration test defects resolution and control.
• Co-ordination within the functional teams of SRM procurement, AP and tech teams across Development / ABAP / Basis

Confidential

Position: SAP Program manager

• Project highlights : A variety of SAP/IT sub-projects involving SAP technical and functional upgrade for a large division of a electrical switchgear manufacturing company

Responsibilities:

• Managed IT support for the entire division
• Completed functional comparison of existing procurement solution with SRM 5.0 version for auctioning process.

Position: SAP Project manager

• Project highlights
• Global roll out development project for GE Energy Optimization Services
• GE decided to rollout their existing SAP R/3 implementation to 36 worldwide locations using one of its existing implementations as a base.
• Responsibilities included providing project management leadership and functional consulting

Confidential

Position: SAP Project manager

• Project manager for a multi-year multi-technology project involving SAP upgrades along with line of business applications upgrades

Confidential

Position: SAP Project manager

• Project manager and QM / MM lead for a leading manufacturing company
• Responsible for finalization of scope for various modules, project charter, business drivers, business measurements, project mission, and reporting the progress in the fortnightly steering committee meetings

Senior QA Manager

Highlights

• Management Team member, QM consultant for Siemens Ltd.
• Participated in the first SAP implementation in Siemens, from January 1995. QM lead for the subsequent phase of SAP implementation