Work Experience:

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ October 2002 - Present
Provider of broad based management of IS, Applications Integrations and Configuration, and Finance services. Managed multiple teams of developers to develop new applications and enhance existing ones. More than 15 years of experience managing application development projects in finance, operations and supply chain.
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Project Manager/Consultant

• Analyze client's initiatives, perform feasibility analysis, and recommend new strategies for implementations using ITIL as the framework for excellent service delivery.
• Develop and implement value added cost analysis and forecasting to support Operations team
• Develop models for management reporting: Financials - Actual vs Budget, trends analysis, project analysis etc.
• Collaborate with clients to implement new back-office systems to accommodate disaster recovery initiatives and develop Credit Management and Evaluation system to support Back-end applications
• Extensive Vendor and Client relationship management
• Expert in Change management
• Perpetuated a culture of Process and workflow enforcement to ensure that processes were system controlled to reduce people dependency.
• SAP - FICO configuration for all finance modules including Asset Management and Taxation.
• Sound SAP financial knowledge and configuration with excellent expertise of SAP R/3 FICO versions from 4.6 to ECC 6.0
• Expertise includes configuring FI-GL, New GL, AP, AR, CO-PA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, Product costing (CO-PC) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PC)
• Thorough understanding of integration between FI-SD, FI-MM and over all business process such as Order to Cash and Procure to Pay
• Experience in different phases of life cycle SAP FI/CO implementations involving Business process re-engineering, using ASAP methodology System Design, Feasibility Analysis, Configuration, Analysis and Testing
• Versatile team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills, self-motivated, innovative and accustomed to work on aggressive schedules
• MASS 90 and 200 systems configuration and use
• Directed five Project Teams totaling over 50 professionals to integrate Collabra's IT infrastructures (multiple cultures via acquisition) into a single Global Research and Development team by leveraging PMBOK's five process groups in a highly regulated environment where compliancy is a critical factor.
• Challenged to redesign and implement a poorly designed Document Management system. Merged home based applications include HR module with global regulatory compliant management systems (HRM), Consultant profiles, and skills tracking into projecting accounting modules integrated into Financial Systems. The teams of developers were both onshore and offshore.
• Program Manager for End User Services work stream to deploy a managed desktop and consolidate helpdesks globally, saving $3.1 million under Collabera's new issue tracking and feedback survey systems. ITIL service strategy was used as a framework here again to ensure continuous service delivery.
• Managed multi cultural, multi functional teams to enhance quality and effectiveness and effectively bridged the gap between Indian and American culture. Also managed and worked as team member in South America and the Caribbean.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ Jul. 2001 - Sept. 2002
Implementation Manager
Responsible for project planning, management, coordination, control, and timely delivery, which includes working closely with the team leaders in creating development plans, maintain integrated cross functional project timeliness, prepare internal team documents, and monthly reports tracking actual cost to budget. Ensuring optimal execution against the plan and consistency with the ERP system processes. This was an ASP system. Our Service Delivery process embraced the ITIL as a framework to ensure that the Client/End User/customer to enhance business value.

• Maintained all project timeliness and was held responsible for communicating changes to the approved plan
• Managed cross-functional, multi country teams by coordinating the efforts of the Development team, Hosting Engineers, Training and Customer Support to ensure effective implementation in Asia, Europe and US.
• Functioned as overall point person for all questions regarding system implementation
• Provided Process and Work Flow analysis to ensure scalability of infrastructure for growth and CFR compliancy met
• Maintained roadmap of the information architecture to support Client design needs and determine application inadequacies and/or enhancement requirements. Strong focus on Quality Assurance; testing functionality and integration of application sub sets to ensure quality customer satisfaction.

Confidential, Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey Sept. 1989- June. 2001
Provider of customized system software for Fuel Oil companies Local Governments.
Director of Information Systems

Managed a team 35 professionals of highly technical background that architected and implemented customized systems software Fuel Oil Distribution Management, Asset & Fleet Maintenance Management , Supply Chain Management (includes integrated materials procurement and usage management), Equipment Service Management. Formulated business strategies for investments in R & D in emerging IS technologies aligned with the company's product-market vision

Adjunct Professor
Teaching both graduate and Undergraduate courses since 1999 at various universities (Yeshiva, FDU, WPU, NJIT, Centenary College) in Finance (Money & Banking, Global Investing, International Finance & Economics, Investments & Securities), Management (Operations Management, Supply Chain Management) and IS (Systems Management, MIS)

Computer Skills:

Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, VBA, Visual Basic, RPG, RPG 400, UNIX, AIX, Linux, COBOL (CICS), M S Access, Web Based Scripting and Design. SQL and, Java, Front Page and HTML, MS Office Programming. and Net and PHP.
Database Systems: Informix, MS SQL Server 7.0, MS Access, Transact SQL, My SQL.
Services & Tools: MS SQL Server 7.0, MS Visio, MS Project, Front Page, TCP/IP, using FTP and UUCP for Remote client support. Visual Studio.Net, Linux, Great Plains, SAP, and MASS 90/200

Education:

MBA - Finance
B.SBA. - Data Processing Management
DPS - Doctorate in Professional Studies - In progress (2 years completed)
Currently pursuing studies to take the PMP certification