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RAJAT K. DAWAR

Livingston, NJ

ace0v0@r.postjobfree.com

973-***-****

SUMMARY

Seasoned IT professional with 9 years Software experience -

SAP SD Certified by SAP Germany

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9+ years Requirements Analysis experience for custom software

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3+ years SAP SD (implementation and support) experience

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Secret security clearance for Gov’t of USA

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o Obtained: 2008

o Last used: 2011

Citizen of USA

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CONSULTING / IN-HOUSE EXPERIENCE

PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kolkata, India

Sr. SAP Consultant Dec 2012 – Feb

2014

PwC is the biggest of the Big 4 players in the Auditing domain, with additional lines of

service such as Advisory, which in turn includes Business Consulting and Technology

Consulting. They have an SAP practice within Technology Consulting.

Worked as Sales & Distribution (SD) module expert in all phases of an SAP ERP

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Implementation including As-Is, Requirements Gathering, To-Be (Business

Blueprinting), Realization (configuration), testing, cut-over, documentation and

training

Provided Support to over 10 SAP clients for the AMS Practice

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Lanxess India Private Limited, Mumbai, India

SAP Consultant May 2011 – Dec

2012

Lanxess is a German MNC in the specialty chemical manufacturing business. They

have 14 business units, all of which have a presence in India.

Worked to troubleshoot user tickets in the SD function, which touched upon aspects

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such as Inquiries, Quotations, Orders, Shipping, Billing, Pricing, Copy Control,

Transportation

Integration with other modules such as MM, FI, VC, LE

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Government of U.S.A.

U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC

Sr. Requirements Analyst Dec 2010 – March

2011

The Executive Secretariat is tasked with fulfilling the information needs of the

Secretary, whether in the air or in any country around the world. The Project Manager /

Requirements Analyst is responsible for ensuring products are built to specification or

to an independent vision when no specification is made available. Such independent

direction must be substantiated with appropriate business value.

Form cohort groups among stakeholders to provide input for product direction

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Roll out software to manage the workflow needs of the Department

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Graduate the software development house through CMMi-Dev levels 2 and 3

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Reverse-engineer requirements for all applications currently in development or

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production

Provide functional expertise to help direct product development

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Select Requirements Management Tool in accordance with CMMi principles

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Environmental Protection Agency, Arlington, Virginia

Software Requirements Manager June 2010 –

Nov 2010

The SEMS project is designed to integrate the successful performance areas of

OSWER’s primary Superfund data collection, reporting and tracking systems into a

single system that will meet immediate and strategic Superfund needs

Design a meta-model to accommodate the various types of requirements artifacts,

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attributes, and domain values through the requirement lifecycle

Participated in cross-functional duties such as business process modeling, use case

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modeling, and logical data modeling

Manage the Requirements Management Tool and information it supports

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Developed and instituted a Requirements Change Management process

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Worked with Requirements Analysts to understand and respond to their changing

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needs

Army Research Laboratories, Adelphi, Maryland

Requirements Analyst Nov 2009 –

June 2010

Collected and modeled requirements for automation of Director’s Research Initiative

project; and participated in quality assurance of resulting case management workflow

application.

Presented prototype to various business stakeholders and Critical Design Review

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team

Designed and architected application to meet needs of all key stakeholders

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National Financial Partners, New York, New York

ERP Functional, and Business Systems Analyst April 2005 – Nov

2009

Analyzed documentation to extract business processes surrounding financial systems;

mapped the General Ledgers, trained and transitioned the individual firms to Cash

Management, and set up the chart of accounts.

Defined and implemented changes to address risk and control gaps.

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Supported ongoing evaluation, documentation and improvement for the data flow

within all the interfaces of the system.

Developed and analyzed reports that access the quality of data and

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highlighted data deficiencies and data gaps. Facilitated the management through

creation of ad hoc reports and queries.

Documented and developed test strategies, test plan, test cases and tracked

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all the test scenarios and issues for the application.

Responsible to communicate with different interfaces for their business

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requirements and also validated data and file structure as per the interface

requirements for successful load of the files.

Built specifications for new report requests and enhancements to existing

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reports from end-users and supplied to developers

Designed Shared Services Center processes by creating process flow

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documents for all detailed functions

Prepare all end user training documentation and tools

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Citigroup Private Bank, New York, New York

Business Systems Analyst June 2001 –

April 2005

Provided Cost Transparency and Containment to Infrastructure and Technology

charges, described the allocation methodology used on the products being billed, and

made recommendations as to how charges could be kept to a minimum.

Directed requirements development for the Cost Transparency and Containment

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project. Facilitated and led group discussions to elicit requirements in Joint

Application Development (JAD) sessions by communicating with various

backgrounds and skills, documented Scope Definition, Functional Specifications,

Software Requirements Specification (SRS) and created User Interface

Mockups/Prototypes for the pre-screening, screening and consent forms.

Provided Capital Planning services to the CTO in the form of Business Intelligence,

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thereby reducing the Infrastructure Budget from $31 million down to $24 million via

reversal of incorrect allocations

Led the development effort and managed a team to successfully implement the

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system which included a robust reporting module. The reporting tools enabled

executive management to reduce costs and leverage cost containment

methodologies and was instrumental in a reduction of 7 million dollars in intra-

company allocations.

TRAINING EXPERIENCE

Requirements Inc., McLean, Virginia, USA

Business Analysis Trainer Dec 2008 – Jan

2011

Requirements Inc. is a private, full-cycle Business Analysis weekend training school

which offers 5-week long courses to those interested in the IT Business Analysis field.

The course focuses on arriving at system requirements via Unified Modeling Language

(UML), and touches on all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

Trained 15+ batches of in-person and online students of average class size 6

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Provided out-of-classroom support on assignments via email and phone during

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weekdays

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP SAP ECC 6, EhP 4, Lawson, Dynamics AX

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Project Management MS Project

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Business Modeling UML 2, BPMN, MS Visio

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Business Reporting MicroStrategy, Crystal 10

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Requirements Management Blueprint, Jama Contour, Requisite Pro

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Quality Control / Assurance HP Quality Center

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Workflow SharePoint 2007

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Data Modeling ERwin

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Databases SQL Server 2005, MS Access 2007

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EDUCATION

SAP ERP Certification, 2012

SAP AG Germany

Masters in Computer Science, 2000-02

Pace University,

New York, New York

Bachelors in Economics, 1994-98

Grinnell College,

Grinnell, Iowa

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