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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Certified SAP SCM Manufacturing Consultant, hands on in SAP PP module,

having nearly 20 years of SCM Manufacturing experience which includes

13+ years into SAP hands on consulting with 5 years into SAP Project

Management and Program Management.

Current Employer TriQuint and past worked with IBM, Deloitte

Consulting, Accenture, Yash Technologies and GAIL. SAP Implementation

Industries: Automotive, Life Sciences, Oil &Gas, Chemicals and Hi-Tech

Industries SAP Product Development accounts: Automotive & Industrial

Equipment, Pharmaceutical, Chemical Industry, and CPG and IS Oil & Gas

Upstream & Downstream.

SAP Application Maintenance sectors: Automotive and Pharmaceutical

Industries.

Clients served: Medtronic, Thomson Reuters, Caterpillar, Johnson &

Johnson, John Deere, Checkpoint, Cephlan, AGCO, TriQuint and SAP AG.

Key Skills: SAP Project Management, SAP PP, PP-PI, Secondary: SAP PM, QM,

MM and Product Costing.

Qualifications and Certifications:

B. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from JNTU Govt. College of Engineering,

India

MBA (Operations Management), India

Managerial Essentials and Leadership Essentials from Harvard Business

Publications, US

Certified SAP SCM Manufacturing Consultant from SAP AG, Woldorf,

Germany

PG Diploma in Industrial Pollution Management from National Institute

of Environment, India

Executive Business Management program from IIM Calcutta (non-

certification), India

Attended 35 hours PMI workshop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Managerial tasks

Preparation of project plans and Budget/resource/estimates planning

for the project

Taking interviews for the building team and arrange necessary

trainings for team

Assign work to team based on project plan & Maintain daily tasks

People Management, Communication, Quality, Risk, Procurement and

Integration management

Technical tasks

Conducting RFP workshops and presenting proposals

Conducting Business Blue Print workshops, Gap analysis and preparing

To-be Blueprints

Configure system according to client requirement

Developing Reports, Forms, Interfaces, Conversions and Enhancements

Testing cut over and Go-Live and Application Maintenance Support

Methodologies:

ASAP, ASCENDANT, EVD (ASAP+add on) and ADM for SAP implementation

Projects.

RUN SAP for Application Maintenance Support Projects.

Tools used for Implementation projects:

. Project Management: SAP Solution Management, Project Estimator,

Scoping checklist.

. Document Management: eRooms, SharePoint and Solution Manager.

. Business Process Model Content: ARIS Repository

. Business Process Modeling Tool: ARIS, Industry Print

. System Admin&Landscape Management: Solution Manager

. Configuration& Development: Solution Manager, BC sets

. Change Request: SAP Solution Manager, iHeat

. Data Conversion: Informatica

. Testing: HP Quality Center, eRoom assets

. Role Management: Role Manager.

. Training: RWD Uperform.

Tools used for AMS Support Projects:

. CA ticketing tool, GRS, Solution Manager for ticketing and iHeat

for change request.

Dec 2013 to Till Date TriQuint Semiconductors

Role : SAP Functional Team lead, Onsite Coordinator for PP

module

Team Size : 10

Work Location : Portland OR USA

Nature of Project : SAP AMS, Merger and Development

Role and responsibilities:

. SAP PP Business Systems Analyst, Onsite Coordinator and SCM modules

Team lead

. Project Management and People Management activities for resource,

scope, Budget, time, risk, communication and quality

Managing Following activities:

. Onsite Coordination & support to SAP PP, QM, SAP - MES interface,

Rapid Response

. Helping Merger activities

. Completing Projects on time.

. Conducting requirement gathering workshops, prototype, design,

develop, test and prepare SAP PP, SA-MES interface user documents.

. Working with Technical Team and MII Development team to resolve High

Priority issues

. Configuration., Customization, modify RICEF development objects as per

client requirement

. Meet business process owners and understand their current business

process and capture their requirements and expectations from the new

SAP system to be implemented.

. Analytically review their current business processes and map them to

the global standard process designed to manage the supply chain

transactions and the related activities within the Production Planning

function of the organization.

November 2011 to Dec 2013 IBM, US

Project# 4 Medtronic

(July 2013 to Till to date)

Role : SAP Functional Team lead, Onsite Coordinator for PP

module

Team Size : 40

Work Location : Minneapolis MN USA

Nature of Project : SAP AMS and Development

Role and responsibilities:

. SAP PP Onsite Coordinator and SCM modules Team lead

. Project Management and People Management activities for resource,

scope, Budget, time, risk, communication and quality

Managing Following activities:

. Onsite Coordination & support to SAP PP, PM, QM, MII and Product

Costing

. Working with Technical Team and MII Development team to resolve High

Priority issues

. Configuration., Customization, modify RICEF development objects as per

client requirement

. Meet client's business process owners and understand their current

business process and capture their requirements and expectations from

the new SAP system to be implemented.

. Analytically review their current business processes and map them to

the global standard process designed to manage the supply chain

transactions and the related activities within the Production Planning

function of the organization.

. Handling Integration issues with other modules coordinators.

Project# 3 Thomson Reuters

(May 2013 July 2013)

Project stage : Proposal stage

Role : SAP Project Manager (Delivery Manager)

Team Size : 120 (ramp up stage)

Work Location : St Paul, MN USA

Environment : SAP

Role and responsibilities:

. Preparing SAP AMS Transition Strategy for prospective client.

. Preparing Staffing plan and analyzing it with past history of client

data.

. Interviewing resources and staffing in the project.

. Preparing Project plan

. Coordinating with Sr. Management and other project management team to

. Reviewing Solution

. Service Transition

. application list - rebase lining - scope

. transition plan validation

. network connectivity - Engage network team

Project# 2 Caterpillar

(Apr 2012 to May 2013)

Role : SAP SCM Team lead, SME for PP module

Team Size : 20

Work Location : Peoria IL USA

Nature of Project : SAP implementation

Role and responsibilities:

. SAP PP SME and SCM modules Team lead for 3 sites

. Project Management and People Management activities for resource,

scope, Budget, time, risk, communication and quality

. Managing Following activities:

. Conducting Requirement Gathering workshops

. Documentation of Business process maps & Functional Specification

document for customization in system.

. Configuration and Customization of SAP system.

. Assist technical team in development activities by translating

business requirements.

. Perform extensive and end to end testing of the all business

processes and development objects in the new system prior to GO-

Live using appropriate tools and process and ensuring they meet the

business requirements.

. Meet client's business process owners and understand their current

business process and capture their requirements and expectations

from the new SAP system to be implemented .

. Analytically review their current business processes and map them

to the global standard process designed to manage the supply chain

transactions and the related activities within the Production

Planning function of the organization.

. Find and design appropriate solutions for the processes that do not

fit into the global design and prepare business process document

for them.

. Carry out configuration of the SAP system, as per the business

process design document, for the processes that do not fit with the

global standard processes but which are required either due to

regulatory requirement or other business necessity.

. Write functional specification documents for development objects

which may include interface with different SAP and non - SAP

systems, reports and legacy data uploads, etc.

. Assist technical team in development activities by translating

business requirements into appropriate terms and language that they

understand the best.

. Perform extensive and end to end testing of all the business

processes and development objects in the new system prior to GO

Live using appropriate tools and ensuring they meet the client's

business requirements, prepare Strategy for Cutover and Data Upload

related to Production

Project# 1 Johnson and Johnson Crossroads

(Nov 2011 to Apr 2012)

Role : SAP PP SME

Team Size : PP 20 (10 in USA and 10 in in India)

Work Location : Piscataway NJ & Rochester NY USA

Nature of Project : SAP implementation

Role and responsibilities:

. Conducting Business Blueprint workshops

. Identifying gaps and proposing solutions

. Preparing Functional Specification Documents to developing RICEF

objects

. Configuring SAP system as per Detailed Processes Design documents

. Testing the system, Change management

. Cutover activities

Sep 2010 to Nov 2011

Yash Technologies

Project : John Deere (US, Brazil and India)

Job role : Project Manager

Duration : Sept 2010 to Nov 2011

Project size : 124 (15 in USA and 10 in Brazil rest in India)

Nature of Project: AMS, rollouts and Implementations. John Deere is

considered to be the largest SAP landscape in the world with 150 million

transaction per month and 25000 SAP users.

Job role involves

. Managed John Deere Global AMS projects, Development Projects and

Rollouts.

. Managed 3 individual projects for Agricultural Automotive, Forest

Equipment and Water Divisions along with ongoing implementations at

various places.

. Planning for project development activities with individual project

managers for respective projects.

. People, cost and Project Management

. Identifying various activities for different phases of project and

assigning tasks to resources and monitoring them.

. Daily, Weekly and months review calls with client.

October 2008 to Sept 2010

Deloitte Consulting, US

Designation: Manager - Enterprise Applications

Worked as Project Manager for APO development project & ARIS deployment

project and Team Lead & SME for SAP PP and APO modules.

Project #3

Project : Checkpoint

Job Role : SCM Team Lead & SAP PP SME

Duration : 1 year

Team size : 5, overall 25

Nature of Project: SAP implementation

Job role involves:

. Worked as Team Lead

. Successfully conducted Business Blueprint workshops for PP, APO,

MM, SD modules.

. Developing Prototypes and presenting to client.

. Responsible for team deliverables and people management.

. Configuring system

. RICEF objects development.

. RFP preparations, Proposals, client presentations for further

business with Checkpoint

Project #2

Project : APO DP Industrialization Solution

Job Role : Project Manager

Duration : 13 months.

Project size : 15 (7 from India and 8 from US)

Nature of Project: Asset Development for CPG industry.

Job role involves

. Identifying gaps in business processes and scenarios and developing

them in asset

. Integration with CRM, BI with SCM Demand Planning

. System landscape, eRoom setup

. Planning for project development activities

. Budget planning

. People and Project Management

. Identifying various activities for different phases of project and

assigning tasks to resources and monitoring them.

Project #1

Project : Johnson and Johnson Crossroads.

Job Role : PP SME and Master Data Team

Duration : 10 months.

Team size : 10.

Nature of Project: Implementation (System Integration)

Job role involved

. Conduction Baseline, Cluster1&2 workshops

. Understanding requirements from Business.

. Creating Business Process Design.

. Preparing Process flows.

. Preparing customization rationale.

. Customizing development and testing servers according to

Customization rationale

. Preparing Functional Designs for Conversions, Forms and Interfaces.

. Testing of the processes and development objects.

March 2006 to Sept 2008

Accenture

Designation: Team Lead (Systems Analyst)

Project #3:

Project : Cephalon, US

Job Role : SAP PP SME, Team Lead for 2 PP, 1 Basis and 1 FI/CO

consultant at US onsite

Delivery Lead at offshore for 3 months

Duration : 9 months

PP team size : 3; overall 12

Nature of Project: Application Maintenance.

Job role involves:

. Acting project delivery lead and On-site Coordinator for

Development of Enhancements, Reports, Forms and Interface objects.

. KT from Implementation partner, Parallel Support and Support

takeover

. Supervised a team consisting of 2 PP, 1 Basis and 1 FI/CO

consultants

. Customized SAP Business Process as per client requirement

. Solving Tickets for smooth running of SAP PP-PI module.

. Change Management for SAP development objects.

. Responsible for overall delivery Onsite and Off-shore for Technical

and Functional

Project #2

Project : AGCO Globe

Duration : 7 Months.

PP team size : 5

Nature of Project: Implementation (System Integration)

AGCO is world's 3rd largest Agricultural Automotive and Equipment

Manufacturer

Job role involved:

. Understanding requirements from Business.

. Creating Detailed Process Designs for Manufacturing Processes (R/3

PP and APO).

. Preparing Process flows.

. Preparing customization rationale.

. Customizing development and testing servers according to

Customization rationale

. Preparing Functional Designs for Conversions.

. Preparing Functional Designs for Forms.

. Testing of the processes and development objects.

Project #1

Project : Accenture Global Manufacturing Business Solution

(Mission Critical System)

Job Role : SAP PP SME, SAP PM and Project Lead

Duration : 9 Months

Project Team Size: 50 (40 from India and 10 from Spain)

Nature of Project: Asset Development for Automotive & Industrial

Equipment.

Job Role involves

. Project Lead for AGMBS project for resource and budget planning.

. Planning for AGMBS PP module development activities with Accenture,

Spain Counterpart

. Core Technical area in AGMBS are MTO, MTS, MRP, MPS, variant

configuration, skid packing, nest planning, Discrete, REM and

Engineering Change Management etc.

. Show case AGMBS systems to many prospective clients and won 5

projects in 2008.

. Participated in Proposals and presales presentations.

. Promoted AGMBS as accelerator and repository for implementation

projects

June 2005 to March 2006

Yash Technologies

Designation: Functional Consultant.

Project #1

Title : ChemOne - Product Development

Client : Internal - Asset development for

Chemical Industries

Team Size : Total: 8 Module (PP-PI): 1

Understanding the growth potential in the SMB sector, SAP had identified

channel partners who would handle implementations/developments of

preconfigured solution offerings. ChemOne is a product that is developed by

Yash Technologies to cater to the Chemical Industry.

Responsibilities:

. Conducting RFP workshops and demo presentations in Proposals to

clients.

. Preparing high-level Plan for Chemical Industry.

. Business Blueprint design.

. Developing new business process procedures for All In One packages.

. Understand the business requirements of Chemical Industry, mapping

the industrial requirement in ChemOne product.

. Identifying Business gaps and gap analysis.

Project #2

Title : Chemical Best Practices Testing Project

Client : SAP AG, US

Team Size : Total: 7 Module (PP-PI): 2

Project involves testing of Best Practices for Chemical Industry and

Pharaceutical developed by SAP AG. Tested the preconfigured scenarios for

all the modules in SAP ECC 5.0 version.

Responsibilities:

. Tested PP-PI, PM, Recipe Management and EH&S.

. Installed the Best Practices Building Blocks configured through

eCATTs.

. Involved in manual testing of BP scenarios.

. Sent many OSS messages for gaps, later SAP AG has developed OSS

notes based on messages.

. Developing new business process procedures for All In One packages.

. Identified gaps and recommended the necessary changes.

Aug 1998 - May 2005

Gas Authority of India Ltd.

Designation: Deputy Manager

Implementation of PP module SAP Oil and Gas:

. Represented Production Department for implementation of SAP PP

module in GAIL.

. PP module has been implemented for mapping the requirements of IS

oil & Gas Upstream, Natural Gas, Petrochemicals and LPG and liquid

hydrocarbon businesses of GAIL.

. As a core team member, made presentations to GAIL Production

Department for explaining the benefits of SAP implementation and

importance of business requirements and participated in workshops

. On regular basis, interacted with executives of these departments

across the company for collection of business requirements.

. Prepared business blue print document.

. Participated in baseline configuration and testing.

. Created master data.

. Conducted unit, integration and UAT tests for PP and PM modules.

. Participated in User training for PP and PM modules.

FUNCTIONAL & IT EXPERIENCE

Deputy Manager (Aug 1998 - Dec 2000) Gas Authority of India Ltd, India

Responsibilities:

. Worked as shift-in-charge in Oil & Gas Upstream, HDPE and LLDPE

Polymer Integrated Off sites Plant & Storage and Nitrogen Plants.

. Handled Hydrocarbons including raw materials, intermediate products

and finished products for the whole petrochemical complex.

. Worked in pre-commissioning and commissioning of the plant and

stabilization of Gas Upstream and Downstream plants.

. Participated in Exploration and Oil & Gas Upstream Production

project preparations & planning meetings with Board and Petroleum

Ministry. Prepared required presentations and feasibility studies.

. Plant operation includes plant start-ups, shut downs; emergency

shut downs and trouble-shooting.

. Process calculations, polymer reaction start-ups, field

coordination and DCS (Distributed Control System) operation etc.

. Main Chemical Operations: Gas Processing and Cracking in Oil & Gas

Upstream and Polymerization, Separation and Drying, extrusion,

distillation, refrigeration and bagging in Oil & Gas Downstream.

Control Systems: DCS System: Centem XL, PLC: AllenBradly and TataHoneywell

and PLC System: Siemens

Equipments: Gas Cracker units, refrigeration units, towers for different

gas constituents, Continues stirred tank reactors, centrifuge,

distillation columns, rotary drier, extruder, heat exchangers, compressors,

pumps, blowers, bagging machines etc.

Nov'1996 - May'1998 VBC

Industries Ltd, India

Junior Manager (Operations)

VBV Industries Ltd.,'s main products is a Fertilizer plant.

Responsibilities includes

. Worked as Shift-in-charge for Fertilizer plant.

. Responsible for smooth running of plant includes maintaining

parameters, start-ups, shut downs, emergency shut downs, trouble

shooting, operating equipment.

. Inventory management, dispatch, process calculations, maintaining

documents including report preparations etc.

PLC System: TataHoneywell.

Equipment handled: Pipe reactor, falling film evaporator, heat exchangers,

refrigeration system, ejectors, compressors, scrubbers, prilling tower,

rotary driers, bagging units.

Feb'1995 - Oct'1996:

Stilbene Chem Ltd, India

Shift Production Engineer

My job duty includes;

. Worked as shift-in-charge for DASDA (dye intermediate) plant.

. Worked in erection and commissioning of DASDA and florescent

brightening plants and commissioning of Effluent Treatment Plant.

. Responsible for smooth running of plant, batch calculations,

process calculations, producing batches and trouble shooting etc.

preparing daily and monthly progress reports.

. Equipment handled: Reactors, pumps, reverse osmosis unit, double

drum drier, spin flash drier, blenders, various types of filters

etc.

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