SUMMARY:

• Working as Manager- Projects with 14 years of overall experience out of which 9 years of experience in the ERP Oracle PeopleSoft Suite
• Certified Project Management Professional from PMI, Confidential
• Worked as functional consultant in implementing, upgrading and supporting PeopleSoft modules such as General Ledger, PO, AP, AM, Contracts, Billing, Accounts Receivables and Cash Management.
• PeopleSoft multi -currency set up experience
• Functional expertise in Order to Cash and Procure to Pay ERP modules
• Worked in various industry sectors such as Banking, Health insurance, Health and IT services
• Experience of working in onsite/ offshore project execution model as a Project/Functional Lead
• Thorough experience on SDLC and Quality Process. Worked in various projects adhering to phases of software development life cycle, which includes system study, analysis, design, development, testing and implementation.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confid ential

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT:

• Responsible in analyzing Business and Functional requirements for implementing, Billing and AR and Cash Management Modules
• Responsible for delivering the implementation milestones such as System Design, Development, Integration, Testing and Deployment
• Responsible in completing deliverables such as High Level Design document, Fit Gap analysis, Process flow diagrams, Functional Design Specification document, Technical design documents and Use Cases
• Responsible in presenting future business process flow diagram based business requirement
• Presenting various CRP sessions to Business team on Contact and Accounts Receivable modules
• Analyze Change requests and customizations and shared the best ERP approach
• Guide the team in preparing documents such as High Level Design document, Fit Gap analysis, Process flow diagrams, Functional Design Specification document, Technical design documents and Use Cases
• Review fit gap analysis and provide best approach to manage business requirements
• Managed client expectations, interaction with client stake holders

Confidential

CLIENT DESCRIPTION:

Optum is a health services business dedicated to making the health system work better for everyone. Optum is made up of three market-leading business segments OptumHealth, OptumInsight and OptumRx which together form a leading information and technology-enabled health services business.. With a combined workforce of 30,000 people, Optum serves the entire health ecosystem, including nearly 250,000 health professionals and physician practices 6,200 hospitals and facilities more than 270 government agencies more than 2,000 health plans two of every five FORTUNE 500 employers and more than 400 global life sciences companies.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT:

• Scrutinizing resumes, scheduling interviews and hiring quality resources to ensure a strong team and delivery to client
• Evaluating Change requests and customizations and share the best ERP approach
• Involving in conducting a preliminary assessment, business requirement analysis, propose alternative solutions, describe costs and benefits and submit an assessment report with recommendations/ Work around for business requirements for Contracts and AR module
• Managing client expectations, interaction with client stake holders.
• Analyzing effort estimates on various development activities on PeopleSoft Modules Contracts and Accounts Receivables
• Responsible for delivering the implementation milestones such as System Design, Development, Integration, Testing and Deployment for Quote to Cash modules
• Responsible for presenting business process flow diagrams to client
• Analyzing Business requirements and prepare Fit/Gap analysis
• Participating consensus meetings to alignment on scope, process, deliverables and estimates
• Guiding the client business team to translate ERP methodology to Business language
• Guiding and assist the team for preparing Functional design and other related documents
• Reviewing Functional design documents and finalize them after discussing with client.
• Presenting various CRP sessions to Business team on Contact and Accounts Receivable modules
• Utilizing project-specific Cognizant management methods, including project procedures and protocols integral to overseeing Cognizant's client onsite.
• Managing risk assessment and mitigation
• Monitoring, planning and executing day to day activities of team
• Status reporting to client on weekly, bi weekly frequencies at various levels
• Following workflows, procedures, and standards, when processing information from client sites in the U.S

Confidential

CLIENT DESCRIPTION:

LexisNexis is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis and Nexis services. A member of Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with more than 15,000 employees worldwide.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT:

• Responsible in analyzing Business and Functional requirements for implementing Contracts, Billing and AR Modules
• Responsible in completing deliverables such as High Level Design document, Fit Gap analysis, Process flow diagrams, Functional Design Specification document, Technical design documents and Use Cases
• Responsible in presenting future business process flow diagram based business requirement
• Analyzed Change requests and customizations and shared the best ERP approach
• Guided team in preparing documents such as High Level Design document, Fit Gap analysis, Process flow diagrams, Functional Design Specification document, Technical design documents and Use Cases
• Review fit gap analysis and provide best approach to manage business requirements
• Managed client expectations, interaction with client stake holders
• Manage risk assessment and mitigation
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling day to day activities of offshore and onsite team
• Worked on effort estimation and resource loading
• Utilized and executed project-specific Cognizant management methods, including project procedures and protocols integral to overseeing Cognizant's client onsite.
• Hired quality resources to ensure a strong team and delivery to client
• Status reporting to client on weekly, bi weekly frequencies at various levels
• Participated in preparing lessons learnt documents

Confidential

CLIENT DESCRIPTION:

The HCR ManorCare health care family comprises centers that are leading providers of short-term post-acute services and long-term care. With 60,000 caregivers nationwide, the HCR ManorCare centers are preeminent care providers in their communities. Quality care for patients and residents is provided through a network of more than 500 skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers, assisted living facilities, outpatient rehabilitation clinics, and hospice and home health care agencies.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT:

• Analysed Change requests and customizations and shared the best ERP approach
• Responsible for conducting CRP sessions and presented new features of PeopleSoft upgraded version to the client.
• Worked as functional lead for modules such as PO,AP,AM,GL and CM
• Responsible for delivering the upgrade milestones such as Fit/Gap and Keep/Drop analysis, Development, Integration, Testing and Deployment
• Responsible for analysing existing customization and retrofitting activities
• Managed client expectations, interaction with client stake holders
• Worked on effort estimation and resource loading
• Drive consensus meetings to alignment on scope, process, deliverables and estimates
• Assisted client for preparing User Acceptance Testing
• Responsible for executing project-specific Cognizant management methods, including project procedures and protocols integral to overseeing Cognizant's client onsite.
• Supervision of Cognizant associates at client worksites.
• Responsible for Monitoring and controlling day to day activities of team
• Followed workflows, procedures, and standards, when processing information from client sites in the U.S
• Status reporting to client on weekly, bi weekly frequencies at various levels
• Responsible for Unit testing and regression testing
• Provided training to the users

Confidential

CLIENT DESCRIPTION:

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation a public traded company on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol CTSH is a leading provider of software development, maintenance and re-engineering services to Fortune 500 companies. Our expertise extends across a range of technologies encompassing e-business, data warehousing, object-oriented development as well as legacy and client server applications, including decimal conversion and Euro currency compliance

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT:

• Scrutinizing resumes, scheduling interviews and hiring quality resources to ensure a strong team and delivery to client
• Analyzed Change requests and customizations and shared the best ERP approach
• Worked as Project Lead for PeopleSoft ESA AVM Project
• Responsible in conducting a preliminary analysis, propose alternative solutions, describe costs and benefits and submit a preliminary plan with recommendations/ Work around for business requirements.
• Extensively involved in setting up Service Level Agreements on requirements for ensuring the issue resolution at right time.
• Worked very closely with Business address any issues and concerns related to the application.
• Worked very closely with Business address any issues and concerns related to the application.
• Responsible for delivering documents such as software management plan, risk management plan, BCP and other related documents as part of project
• Scheduled enhancement/customization plans, creating estimations Assigning to the team
• Reviewed Business process related documents like EBRs, CRs and UAT scenarios
• Followed the quality process on the project activities
• Followed workflows procedures and standards used by Cognizant.
• Managed the team and deployment
• Trained and evaluated employees to enhance their performance and development.
• Conducting appraisals, Recommending promotions and planning career path for the resources.
• Managed the quality audit and ensured project quality control
• Status reporting to client on weekly, bi weekly frequencies at various levels

Confidential

CLIENT DESCRIPTION:

ANZ Operation and Technology Pvt Ltd is a part of ANZ Bank, largest Australian Bank, head quartered in Sydney, Australia.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT:

• Played the role of a Team Lead as well as Functional consultant for PO, AP, AM and GL modules
• Analyzed the new business requirements of the client in connection with their business process and implementing accordingly
• Co-ordination between the business users and the development team.
• Assisted the users for Business Unit setup ,Withholding set up, chart field set up etc
• Resolved finance issues raised by the users on PO, AP, AM GL
• Provided Training /mentoring to the Users as well as colleagues
• Prepared training and other business process documents
• Status reporting to client on weekly, bi weekly frequencies at various levels
• Supervision of Team Members.

Confidential

CLIENT DESCRIPTION:

Confidential is a Major Business Outsourcing organization having many clients in sectors such as Banking and Insurance.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT:

• Worked as Team Lead for Finance Modules
• Responsible for resolving the issues raised by the users adhering the pre-defined SLAs
• Assisted the team in analyzing and replicating customer issues
• Provided functional training to the users and technical team members
• Responsible for educating the users for avoiding mistakes
• Responsible for configurations and set ups such as Business Unit, Chartfields, and distribution codes etc.
• Responsible for finding out the root cause of issues and fix permanently
• Monitor progress of escalations to ensure that they are resolved in a reasonable time
• Assist the team to debug the production issues and resolve within the time frame.
• Functional testing after customization
• Appraisal activities of team members
• Recruitment and selection activities

Confidential

• Worked as Functional Consultant for General Ledger Module
• Responsible for resolving the issues raised by the users
• Responsible for monitoring GL Batch jobs
• Responsible for coordinating with technical team for resolving process failures
• Responsible for analyzing failed journals from sub modules
• Configuration and set up activities for bank, new business unit etc
• Responsible for uploading exchange rates in PeopleSoft
• Responsible for assisting the users for period close and year end close.