SUMMARY

• PMP certified project manager with over 15 years of experience in project management with successful track record in leading complex, multi - million dollar SAP and ERP projects to on time and under budget completion.
• Led successful large global teams with the focus on project planning,scope management, financial management, staffing and communication. Delivery-focused and able to motivate teams.
• Successfully executed more than 4 full life cycle SAP implementations and proficient in ASAP implementation methodologies involving all phases of implementation Lifecycle from initial Project Planning and scoping through Data Collection, Gap Analysis, Business Blueprinting, Legacy System Conversion (LSMW), Realization, Testing, Final Preparation, Go-Live Support, Training and Documentation.
• Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills. Managed large teams of up to 200 including clients and system Integrators. Ability to work across organizations and levels, from executives to functional teams and IT.
• Strength in Project management. Experience with project Initiation, planning, execution,monitoring & control and Closing processes. Experience with global template design and project roll outs.
• Performed extensive work with project proposals, oral presentations, time line determination, budget estimation and staffing plans. Multiple engagement experience with global delivery model including offshore functional and development support.
• Experience with several business processes such as procurement, inventory management, manufacturing, customer service, capital projects and product life cycle management across many industries enabling to lead implementation of best practices and technology solutions.
• Strong and hands on SAP Functional and Technical expertise in SAP R/3 areas such as MM,WM,SD,FICO,PP,PM,QM,CRM,BI, Variant Configuration and technology (ABAP, CATT, ALE, Security, Basis).
• Excellent Working experience in using Microsoft Project 2007 & 2010 and Project Sever in all the projects and extensive experience gathering information and updating status reports and dashboards using MS project dashboard.
• Hands-on industry and consulting experience with best practice supply chain processes in repetitive manufacturing and high volume warehouse environments. Working knowledge in Healthcare, Aviation,Manufacturing, Automated warehouses, Logistics, Shipping, Banking, Government, and Retail sectors.
• Knowledge in implementation, maintenance and support of various software programs and tools.
• Posses excellent oral and written Communication,Presentation, Training and Negotiating skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: AIX, LINUX, SCO UNIX and Win /NT/2003/2008

Programming Languages: C, C/C++, Proc, VB, Java/J2EE, JavaScript, UNIX scripts, Assembler, and IBM Webspeare MQ Series and PL/SQL

Databases: MSSQL, Oracle 10g, MYSQL and MS Access

Reporting Tools: Crystal Report 7.x, 9.0 and 11

Web Technologies: ASP.NET, CSS, XHTML, XML, SOAP, WEB Frameworks, AJAX, IIS Administration. Joomla.6 and Iron Speed

ERP package: SAP R/3 versions 3.x, 4.0B, 4.6C, and 4.7, and ECC 6.0.

Project Management: MS Project 2007and 2010, Project Server,Share Point and Visio

PLC: Alan Bradley, Omron, Fujitsu and Siemens.

HMI/SCADA Configuration: RSView32, AB Panels, Wonder ware and RSVIEW.

PLC Programming: SLC 500, AB PLC, Micrologix, Controllogix Siemens and SoftLogix.

Industrial Networks and Communications: Ethernet TCP/IP, Control net, RS232, Device net, OPC Standard and Wireless.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr.SAP Project Manager

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Responsibilities:

• Budget: S$ 12.5 Million .Duration: 24 months. Status: successfully completed and some projects are on going.
• Leading an on site and offshore team of SAP professionals in the end to end SAP implementations which include Blueprint, Build, Test and Deploy phases.
• Developed the pre-project work products required for project planning, budget estimation and statement of work.
• Managed the SD, MM, FICO, PP, PM and QM modules and activities including requirements gathering, fit gap analysis against the existing solution and suitable solution presentation.
• Managed a team of 10 consultants to conduct Inventory, MRP, Purchasing, Quality, Production and Logistics process improvement workshops, document technical requirements, establish data governance organization, cleanse data and develop the implementation plan for BI.
• Conducted Audits to analyze whether client’s end users are adhering to the defined processes and methods, therefore adding value to for the client.
• Created and reviewed Functional Specifications and test plans.
• Effective and Precise Reporting of progress, status & issues of all on going SAP projects to the Management.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (MM, WM, SD,FICO, BI),Microsoft Project 2007 and MS Office and Visio

SAP Project Manger

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Budget: S$ 9 Million .Duration: 24 months. Status: successfully completed.
• Involved in the requirement gathering, Project Planning, Scope preparation,Business Blueprinting, Project effort and cost Estimation, Application Architecture Design and in the execution.
• Participated in System Landscape Authorization and Transport Strategies. Responsible for the preparation of high-level design,test plan and end user training strategies.
• Involved in the implementation of SAP BI solution for Patient and bed Management, Hospital Management, Clinical Services, Finance, Material Management and Pharmacy.
• Acquired, developed & managed project teams with emphasis on resource leveling, performance appraisal of the project team.
• Implementation of modules such as HR, FI and MM of standard ECC 6.0 along with Healthcare Industry Vertical.
• Implemented the Clinical services modules on Care Doc, Nursing Activities, Orders & Results, Surgery, Radiology and Epidemiology .implemented pharmacy module with Drug master and Prescriptions.
• Integrated the SAP Core Modules with Medical designated facilities system with specific Billing, and remote clinical processing. Involved in development of Healthcare Dashboard for SAMSO (HCBI - Healthcare Business Intelligence).
• Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization.
• Report status on a weekly basis and distribute to team members in a timely manner.
• Responsible for controlling cost, staffing, performance of component projects, and ultimate success and project approval.
• Trained, motivated and directed the technical and functional team.
• Performed risk management planning, identification, analysis, management, responses, monitoring and control of the above project.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (MM,WM, SD,SAP IS H,BI),Microsoft Project 2007 and MS Office and Visio

SAP MM / WM Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Budget: S$ 8.5 Million .Duration: 23 months. Status: successfully completed.
• Implemented new functionality by reviewing the current functionalities & processes and recommended process and system improvement especially in the areas of MM,WM and SD.
• Responsible for implementing SAP MM,WM and SD modules and interfaced to the third Party Ware house with ASRS Systems.
• MM module customization: (Material master records, Vendor master records, Customer master records, PR’s, PO’s, Scheduling agreement, Source list, Quota arrangement, Pricing conditions, Invoice posting).
• WM module customization (Material master, Inbound / Outbound logistics, Inventory Management).
• Material master (Goods Issue parameters, Delivery Order parameters, Material Requirement Planning, Stock placement/removal, Different types of material, Rounding Value, Packing Size, etc).
• Inbound process (Goods Receipt, Palletizing - put-away process, IDOC monitoring GERP/WMS).
• Inventory (Physical inventory, Storage location, section, bin management; Movement types control; Cycle count, bin counting; inspection/unrestricted or block/unblock processes, posting change process).
• Outbound process (Replenishment, Picking, Kitting, Goods Issue, Subcontracting process, Picking and Packing lists, Delivery Notes, Stock Transfer Invoice, Vendor Management, and related processes).
• Monitoring Inbound and Outbound interfaces / IDOCS from SAP to SWMS, and other issues.
• SD module support (Customer master, Material info records, Sales Orders, Scheduling agreement, Schedule lines, Maintain pricing using condition types, Delivery, Billing, PO, Export sales).
• Provided functional support by handling issues related to Vendor Master, Info record, pricing errors and purchasing cycle.
• Involved in knowledge transfer process and preparation of user training manuals as and when required.
• Developed the background processes in the AIX UNIX server to handle the automated warehouse operations such as communicating with SAP WH module and IBM MQ series, automatic creation and printing of pick lists, message transfer between SWMS and MHC server.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (MM,WM,SD),MS Office, Visio, MS SQL Server 2005, MS Visual Studio 2010,IBM AIX 5.3, XLC 8.0,MQ Series 6.0 and ORACLE 10G R2.0,win XP,SCO UNIX,MDD crane controllers, Allen Bradley PLCs, Stacker cranes.

SAP MM / WM Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Budget: S$ 5.5 Million .Duration: 14 months. Status: successfully completed.
• Responsible for implementing SAP MM, WM and SD modules and interfaced to the third Party Ware house with ASRS Systems .
• Created the framework for organizational structure and Business Processes that have to be integrated with SAP system.
• Creating Purchase Organization and Storage locations; assigning Purchase Organization to Company Code, Plant; assigning Plants to Company Code.
• Configuring Material Master Record: Maintaining choice of field for data screens, defining attributes for material types, output format of material numbers, material groups; configuring standard material types as per the client’s requirement.
• Configuring Vendor Master Record: Maintaining vendor account groups, creating number ranges for vendor accounts, defining account groups with screen layouts for vendors, defining Partner Functions, updating payment and contact information of vendors.Pricing procedure, conditions, schema access sequence.
• Implementing advanced shipping notification and delivery tracking for Logistics.
• Setting up vendor consignment process: defining and assigning consignment info records in source list and creating consignment contracts.
• Working on batch management, release procedure, source lists.
• Implementing Outline agreements for raw materials and operating supplies: scheduling agreements, contracts - value/quantity based.
• Defining message output types for purchasing documents, testing print layout and setting up e-mail and fax communication mediums.
• Configuring settings for Goods Issues, Goods Receipt, Movement types and other relevant objects in Inventory Management as required by business logistics.
• Creating functional specs for custom modifications and working with ABAP resource for user exits.
• Testing out all the configurations for any errors, making necessary corrections at each stage, and documenting the results.
• Supporting post go live phase and providing training to business users.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (MM,WM, SD), MS Office, Visio, MS SQL Server 2005, MS Visual Studio 2010,IBM AIX 4.3, XLC 7.0,MQ Series 5.0 and ORACLE 9i,win XP,SCO UNIX,MDD crane controllers, Allen Bradley PLCs, Stacker cranes.

SAP MM / WM Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Budget: S$ 6.0 Million .Duration: 12 months. Status: successfully completed.
• Understanding the business processes, mapping and preparation in MM for the SAP implementation.
• Participating in the activities related to upgrading the system from ECC 4.6C to ECC 5.0.
• Creating Purchase requisition, RFQ and Purchase orders using Source lists and purchase info records and using Release Procedures based on predefined Release Groups, Codes, Indicators and Strategies.
• Defining conditions in purchasing process and implementing suitable condition type for the same to determine the pricing procedure.
• Adding Contracts, Quota Arrangement and Scheduling Agreements to assist in source determination in the long run.
• Setting up screen layouts for purchasing documents like Purchase Requisitions, Request for Quotations, Quotations, and Purchase Orders.
• Defining message types and access sequences to output control; printing message outputs for the relevant purchasing documents.
• Taking care of Management of Stocks and Goods movement for implementing Goods receipts, Goods issue and Transfer posting.
• Configuring Logistics Invoice Verification for procure to pay process and testing the integration with FI.
• Maintaining Goods Receipt for a number of Purchase Orders and Goods Issue for various production orders and plant maintenance.
• Processing Stock Transfers between Storage Locations and Plants using suitable procedure and movement type.
• Configuring the Valuation of the Material for different material types; working on Debit & Credit Posting keys for Automatic Postings to G/L Accounts.
• Creating specs for custom modifications and working with development team on user exits.
• Testing the integration and compliance between MM and FI modules during customization.
• Developed the background processes in the AIX UNIX server to handle the automated warehouse operations such as communicating with SAP WH module and IBM MQ series, automatic creation and printing of pick lists, message transfer between SWMS and MHC server.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 5.0 (MM,WM, SD), MS Office, Visio, MS SQL Server 2005, MS Visual Studio 2010,RS6000 Unix Server, AIX 4.3, XLC Ver. 6.0, SCO UNIX 5.0,PROC, MQ Series 5.0,Oracle 9i, PDA, SDS Industrial PC, Profi-Bus, Think and Do PLC software, VB and Crystal reports

IT Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Budget: S$ 1.2 Million. Duration: 6 months. Status: successfully completed.
• Identified and Validated Project Scope by conducting needs analysis and identified project priorities
• Created Project Plan and Schedule by estimating the work required; validated tasks and duration for the project
• Defined delivery process, roles & responsibilities, and operational norms; ensure team compliance
• Identified risks and create mitigation plans
• Responsible for the Design and Implementation of the Automated Document Storage and Retrieval system interfaced with crane PLCs and shuttle car,
• Coordinated in the crane traffic control program with anti coalition algorithm for 4 cranes and also Interface with RSSQL document storage database.

Environment: Visual C++, Win 2000,Win XP, Crane Laptop computers, MS SQL 2000 database, RSSQL, RFGEN, Intermec scanners, PLCs, Industrial PC for shuttle car interface and Cranes.

IT System Analyst/ IT service

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Budget: S$ 3.5 Million .Duration: 18 months. Status: successfully completed.
• Responsible for the design and development of integrated ERP application for the enterprise .
• ERP package covering the module for engineering, general supplies, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, Marketing, and Material scheduling & supply, Production planning, Purchasing and Quality assurance departments

Environment: IBM P series Unix Servers, Win 2000 servers, Win XP, Visual Basic, ASP.NET, and Oracle 9i database, IIS web server, Crystal reports 9.0.

IT System Analyst/ IT service

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Budget: S$ 2 Million .Duration: 18 months. Status: successfully completed.
• Managed to design and develop the SWMS for the central warehouse of the Confidential Singapore for the storage and retrieval of the old and new repository for the central holding of books and magazines for the whole of Singapore.
• Accomplished and implemented SWMS front end application to handle the warehouse functions like Binning, Storing, Picking and dispatching to various library branches.

Environment: Intel P4 Servers Win 2000; Win XP, Industrial PC for conveyor control, MSSQL 2000 database, PDU, VB, Crystal Report 7.0.

Application Consultant / Business Application

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development of ASP.NET based solutions in the areas of sales, CRM, HR and Shipping operations and e-enable the above operations in a multiple sites for their branches.

Environment: Intel systems Win 2000; Win XP, ASP.NET, MS SQL database, IIS Web Server and Crystal report 9.0.