Professional Experience Summary:Accomplished executive with a successful 13-year career evaluating, recommending, designing and driving the on-time and within budget delivery of value-driven innovative solutions to enable continued growth across highly competitive global markets. Exceptional analytical, project management, communication and leadership skills developed over experience across the Retail, Manufacturing, Chemical, High-tech, and Oil and Gas industries. Capabilities in the areas of identifying growth opportunities through use of new technology and successfully managing teams and work streams on strategy, assessment, business case development, process improvements,solution design and evaluation, project delivery and execution. Key Clients include: Scotts Miracle Gro, Limited Brands,Conoco Phillips, Nissan, Novellus, Nextel, Cisco Systems, Motorola and Chef Solutions (Lufthansa). Diverse experience in over 6 full life cycle SAP implementations with a very good understanding of latest SAP solution offerings their feasibility and adaptability at potential clients. Various Project Management andlead roles in the areas of Materials Management,Supplier Relationship Management, Portals, Master data, testing and offshore coordination.

Independent Contractor Experience at Confidential

Confidential 03/2008 to Present
Catalyst 2 is a global initiative that involves a portfolio of projects for business enablement

Project Manager for Global Sales Force Automation initiative.
Project Scope included deployment of SAP CRM solution in Netherlands, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, USA, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The scope of work included spending significant time in Netherlands at the professional business headquarters working with the Regional Sales Leads to gain alignment and design a solution that helps drive sales by generating marketing insights and targeted customer campaigns. Responsibilities included:

• Lead strategic initiative to help with global sales force automation for the professional business group
• Develop business case and get leadership alignment
• Work with business to understand current state and develop strategies for growth
• Develop and execute plan to implementgrowth strategy
• Partner with key business leads to design processes for Opportunities management, Campaign Management, Lead development and Territory management
• Layout and manage project framework in terms of timeline, business case and resource planning.
• Architect future state solution based on existing systems landscape and functionality required
• Manage scope and delivery of solution using ASAP methodology
• Coordinate global blue print workshops
• Develop and Execute Data Migration and conversion strategy
• Develop and execute change management Strategy
• Liaise with System Integration team and Business to finalize design
• Ensure business case realization

Project Manager and Solution Architect for effort to evaluate SAP ECC 6.0 Retailfor the Smith and Hawken business unit. Responsibilities included:

• Lead workshops on SAP Retail and MDM
• Develop detailed business case and get alignment from key stakeholders
• Facilitatevendor discussions in the areas of SAP CRM, SAP MDM, SAP Retail and POS
• Facilitate software selection phase of the project for the Retail business unit
• Lead evaluation ofSAP CRM application for Multi channel sales execution
• Lead evaluation ofSAP MDM for master data governance
• Facilitate sizing and IT landscape finalization discussions

Project Manager and Solution Architect for Retail Execution and Sales Force Efficiency:
Worked directly with the CIO , Regional Presidents and the VP of applications to develop strategies to establish a real time communication link between the back office and the field sales teams to drive increased visibility and sales.Responsibilities included:

• Lead strategic initiative to deploy smart phone based retail execution solution to bolster flow of information from the field sales team to management on a real time basis
• Develop business case and get leadership alignment
• Partner with key business leads to ensure to optimize and redesign existing processes
• Execute workshops with Regional Presidents and key stakeholders on future state processes and solution design
• Manage and Execute Vendor demo's, Customer Reference visits and software selection process for Retail Execution solution
• Responsible for design of retail execution solution for the field sales team (3000 users)
• Design solution to include merchandizing, Call planning , Planogram execution, GPS tracking , Integration of Retail execution application with SAP R/3 and BW , and POS data integration

Project Manager and Solution Architect for Demand Signal Repository Initiative
Worked directly with the CIO , Regional Presidents and the VP of applications to identify best practices in the market as it relates to DSR , POS and consumer insight analysis.Executed numerous field visits to the Lowes and Home Depot business development centers to analyze current state business model and identify opportunities to streamline processes by leveraging technology.

• Lead strategic initiative to drive more insights in the category management space to aid sales
• Develop business case and get leadership alignment
• Partner with key business leads to ensure to optimize and redesign existing processes
• Explore retailPOS analysis and demand signal repository tools in the market
• Execute workshops with Regional Presidents and key stakeholders on future state processes and solution design
• Finalize business case and get PAR sign off

Project Manager and Solution Architect for GRC initiative

• Lead strategic initiative to develop and build a custom solution for Procedure Performance and Compliance management
• Deploy custom solution using AGILE methodology.
• Architect the future state solution which would includeSAP HR,SAP Portal, Taleo and SAP DMS solutions
• Partner with SAP to explore the SAP GRC solution offering and define solution alternatives
• Develop detailed Resource Plan, Project Schedule and Cost estimates
• Finalize business case and PAR Signoff
• Managing the development of a custom, solution using SAP HR, DMS, Portal (ABAP Webdynpro) and business objects dashboards to facilitate the implementation and tracking of FIFRA related procedures

Catalyst 2 Program Management Team
Catalyst 2 was a global strategic initiative that involved a portfolio of projects for business enablement

• Develop Guidelines and methodology for Projects under the Catalyst 2 program
• Lay out framework for meeting business case objectives
• Monitor progress and mitigate risks associated with all Catalyst2 initiatives

Insight project scope included the rollout of SAP Retail in Tax efficient supply chain solution with best of breed applications for PLM, Warehousing and Demand Planning.
The project scope involved a wide system foot-print as included:

• SAP Retail - as system of record and supply chain coordination
• Manugistics IDP - supply chain planning for the distribution network (stores, DCs and vendor locations)
• SAP APO - supply chain planning for sub-contract manufacturing and external purchasing
• PkMS warehouse management systems - for WM services at all DCs
• Optiva - product lifecycle management system
• Manugistics Transportation - for transportation planning
• SAP SCEM - for supply chain event management
• SAP Enterprise Portal - for inclusion of manufacturing sub-contractors and external vendors.
• Middleware included SAP XI and Tibco
• Terradata as enterprise data warehouse and SAP BW and ancillary/intermediateDW.
• Project Management
• Make Source Lead ( MM/SD/ QM and PP) and MM lead roles
• Managed a team of 18 consutlants 2 SAP and 8 Capgemini and 8 client resources
• Responsible for staffing the entire team and managing the budget
• Spent significant time in Hong Kong to socialize design and incorporate all international pruchasing requirements in the blueprint
• Designed third party processing for both Maker to Order and Make to stock scnearios
• Managed the design of all purchasing processes to support a tax efficient global supply chain
• Designed and managed the development of a custom pricing workbench in SAP to develop detailed cost estimates of new products
• Responsible of designing the entire Purchase pricing strategy
• Lead the confguration effort for Pricing Schemas and conditions
• Designed flows for international subcontracting scenarios involving SAP GTS
• Responsible for Material Master and Vendor Master data migration strategy
• Designed CRP Testing Strategy for Purchasing Process flows
• Worked with Consignment stock , Subcontractor stock , Stock transfers between Plant , Regional Distribution centers , Branch , Sales Office
• Worked with Inbound deliveries ,Outbound deliveries( to customers and branches), Vendor Return Deliveries .Configured Item Category determination, Routing , Scheduling
• Managed the development of iViews on C-Hub for enabling suppliers accessOpen deliveries as part of Supplier Portal (SRM)
• Designed and wrote functional specs for all Purchase to Inventory interfaces and conversions
• Conoco Phillips 01/2004 to 05/2005
• ASCI America's downstream supply chain Project being implemented across 400 plants with all modules of SAP ISOIL.
• Integration Lead
• Team consisted of 8 client resources and 3 consultants
• Helped set up and manage the supplier network for Gas and Power and ASCI projects
• Led the Pilot for comparing SAP MDM and Master Minder
• Designed and implemented Integration Testing Strategy for all business scenarios
• Troubleshot Rack process contracts
• ManagedtheglobalMaterial Master and Vendor Master data migration

• Team Lead for Supplier Portals(SRM)
• Team consisted of 3 consultants and 1 client resource
• Led the ABAP team to develop backend functionality required for a supplier portal implementation
• Designed iViews to interface with BW and R3 systems
• Designed Supplier Portal Architecture

• Developed portal contents - iViews, pages,worksets, roles
• Integrated SAP MM transactions with Portal
• Trained end users/ Architects on portal usage and development
• Created iViews, pages, work sets and roles in the portal
• Prepared test plans for Mock testing
• Assisted in supplier portal roll-out - developed rollout plan, future portal roadmap, training plan etc

Confidential, 06/2002 to 09/2003
Global SAP implementation project involving over 20 facilities and all modules of SAP

• Team Lead ForMasterData across all modules
• MM team integration
• Responsibilities included: Development of conversion programs, Educating/ Training business owners on the material master, customer master, vendor master creation and maintenance, management of data extraction from legacy systems, Coordinating cleansing of all master data, Loading all master and transactional data into the various SAP clients for integration testing; product costing; and go-live, development and implementation of the data migration strategy, cutover plan and post implementation support at Plants.
• Developed Master data strategy for SD, MM, PP and FICO modules of SAP by working closely with the functional teams
• Coordinated Offshore development for all Master data development objects
• Maintained company codes for Material Management. Customized new material types and assigned number ranges. Defined Material groups, storage conditions, temperature conditions. Defined Units of measures groups and rounding profiles. Defined new account groups and assigned number ranges. Defined planning calendar, planning horizon and rescheduled planning horizon, range of coverage profile. Defined shipping instructions, purchasing value keys, payment terms and inco terms.
• Designed, developed and implemented conversion strategy for integration of master data across 6 legal entities and 14 plants.
• Coordinated and managed the IT team from Accenture for the Data extraction from Legacy systems.
• Developed Material master, customer master and Vendor master load programs using LSMW at a leading International Airline company.
• Developed and implemented cutover plan for data migration at a Leading International Airline company
• Presented the Global Data Migration strategy to the Executive steering committee of the Project at a leading International Airline company for Blue Print design and Project set up at the Chicago ASE.
• Developed numerous queries and views in SAP for Data validation and reporting
• Involved in the complete Project Life Cycle from Program setup, Blueprint design, Realization through to post implementation support.
• Assisted Production team and Plant controllers in formulation of bills of material and routings.
• Worked with R & D and Procurement to assist in the process of consolidation of common materials from different legal entities and plants.
• Trained business owners on process of master data set up and maintenance.
• Worked extensively with offshore development team for developing conversion programs for master data.
• Developed Security and authorization roles for master data set up and maintenance
• Designed and implemented the process of material consolidation for procurement and R & D at a Leading International Airline company.
• Helped resolve major issues related to units of measure for raw and packaging materials across plants at a leading International Airline company.

• MM/APO team lead
• Aided in development of a integrated solution of SAP catering to the Automobile industry using SAP's IS Auto, BW, APO and CRM solutions in a joint partnership between CGEY, SAP and Sun Micro systems.
• Gathered requirements for Reports to design specifications and develop queries.
• Built cubes and reports for inventory management and purchasing using MM module SAP standard business content.
• Developed numerous queries for Inventory, Purchasing and sales reporting
• Worked on Client strategy for BW and APO systems
• Configured and Tested SAP's standard business scenarios on integrated SAP solution.

• MM Analyst at Nissan NNA implementation
• Assisted in development and implementation of cutover strategy at Nissan.
• Designed technical specifications and functional specifications for over 30 interfaces and conversions at Nissan North America (NNA) SAP implementation project.
• Analyzed current state data in legacy systems and designed translation rules to meet the requirements of SAP. Involved in mapping of legacy fields to SAP table fields for conversions at NNA.
• Responsible for designing and developing specifications for migration of legacy data for LA region to SAP from numerous disparate systems and legacy SAP. Developed dataconversion programs for translating and moving data from legacy system to SAP system using custom BDC programs.
• Designed and developed interfaces to transfer AP invoice data from SAP to legacy systems.
• Involved in the entirecycle of design from gathering information to writing the functional, technical specifications and developing and testing the objects at NNA. Member of the cut over team for go live. Responsible for master data conversions for Product hierarchy, Profit centers, Cost centers, Group chart of accounts, Budget cost centers, Translation tables and internal orders.
• Responsible for modifying numerous existing programs in MM to meet the new requirements

• Demand Planning Team Member
• Aided in the Demand Forecasting process at a Leading Retail Distribution Company to support new business from Kmart

Prior Experience

Confidential 08/1996 to 12/1998
Sales Engineer

• SAP Sales and Distribution (business) team lead of Alstom for blueprint for project involving all modules across 3 countries.
• Initiated development of improved features for new ranges of AC Motors as a part of new product development project.
• Supply Chain Management Professional Member
• Coordinated the computerization of the various processes in the region leading to improvement in the cycle time of operations. Implemented a contract monitoring system' module.
• Designed and installed a software package in Power Builder called "Contract Monitoring System". This was completed after performing a detailed system study and analysis for several months to monitor all the activities right from the receipt of an inquiry from the customer at the regional office to the dispatch of the finished goods from the works.
• Kit-wise Issue of material was implemented to improve inventory management and as a step towards JIT (Just in Time) manufacturing

Intern Ernst and Young LLC

• Telecom ERP project involving integration of Metasolv, Portal, Cygent and Syndesis using TIBCO as middleware. The project scope involved designing and implementing a system from Order entry to provisioning of the telephone lines.
• Developed workflow design using Rational Rose on TIBCO for a project eVoX at the Dallas ADC.
• Attended TIBCO Analyst training.
• Managed costing and application sizing for the proposal of a related EAI pursuit.
• Interacted with vendors for application sizing and costing.

Confidential 07/2000 to 08/2000
Conducted a due diligence phase to assess existing business processes and design solution template

• Intern Ernst and Young LLP
• Assisted on the EAI architecture piece of the due diligence
• Technical development estimation for SAP ABAP development.
• Developed the Value Proposition for a sales pursuit pitching implementation of i2 Technology's Portfolio Planner software for Motorola to enhance their product life cycle management.

• Graduate Assistant, Office of Alumni and Recruiting OursoCollege of Business
• Led the Data Migration project at the College of Business, Where data from numerous legacy databases and Microsoft Access had to be cleansed and moved to SQL Server. The project included building new online forms using Active Server Pages and linking the old Access front end to the SQL server 7 databases.
• Worked as a Database developer and responsibilities included: Managing the Microsoft Access and SQL server databases for the College of Business Information System and designing and developing Forms, Queries, Reports and security as per the requirements of the college.
• Developed an online registration form for the Executive Education Department of the business school using ASP and HTML with a SQL Server database as the back end.

Certifications

• SAP Business Information Warehouse Certified.
• Software Engineering Level 1

Training

• PMP Training at CapGemini
• SAP MDM RKT CLASS
• SAP Retail IRT 310
• SAP retail IRT 100
• SAP Business Information Warehouse 305(SAP)
• SAP BW 2.0 Certified
• SAP Portals (CGEY)
• ABAP Programming techniques and ABAP Dictionary (SAP)
• MySAP.com workplace Academy (CGEY)
• TIBCO - Business Analyst Training at the Dallas ADC (CGEY)
• Oracle 8i and SQL server 7 - Database design and development Fundamentals
• Developer 2000 - Front end Development

Education

Master of Science, Information Systems and Decision Sciences.
Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering