Sampath Vuluvala

*** ******* **. – New Milford, CT 06776 - 860-***-**** – acge9d@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

Experienced Oracle Enterprise One Techno Functional Specialist

IT professional blending business experience, technology expertise, and leadership to advance streamlined customer

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focused processes resulting in cost savings and improved efficiency;

Around 15 years of Functional and Technical experience in Customization and Implementation of JD Edwards / Oracle

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Enterprise One across several markets including North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.

Experienced in Enterprise Application Integration, Business to Business Integration, Business Process Management, Real

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Time Analysis, Business requirements definition, Functional Design, Technical architecture and Framework design.

Demonstrated competency in strategic thinking and leadership with strong abilities in client relationship management.

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Work closely with the business to establish strong working partnerships in order to understand business needs and set

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priorities. Translate business requirements into a set of systems activities, including feasibility studies, analysis, prototyping,

design and implementation. Develop and provide application architecture that incorporates the needs of clients and supports

the broader goals of the business to drive business process re engineering.

Direct experience implementing, managing, and guaranteeing systems and network performance 24/7

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Experience with IT vendor selection, contract negotiation, and contract administration. Experience managing external

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software development vendors with Onsite and Offshore models.

Exceled in collaborating with Multicultural client team and 3 rd Party Consultants from Asia – Pacific, North America,

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Europe, Middle East and Latin America to meet or exceed design, quality, timeline, and budget expectations.

Work with Global and Regional IT leaders to incorporate technology standards and requirements into solutions design and

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implementation planning. Conceptualized efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems working

with Global CoEs.

Oversee complex, multiphase and high profile implementation projects. Able to address technical and functional

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constraints and design complex solutions to overcome project challenges.

Well organized, detail oriented, possess ability to multi task.

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Self motivated, disciplined, focused, work well under pressure and be able to prioritize work.

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Worked as an Onsite Coordinator by working with Business Users and Functional Analysts at the Client Location to

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understand the scope and requirements and assigning and scheduling the deliverables by working closely with the offshore

development team and client managers.

Established strong strategic partnerships with key IT contacts across different work streams with excellent Inter personal

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skills.

Possess deep technical experience including designing, installing, integrating, implementing, and supporting multiple

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versions of ERP application

Set and manage client expectations. Maintain open lines of communication with senior management to ensure

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transparency into processes and progress, as well as continued alignment with business objectives. Communicate clearly to

ensure risks and benefits are understood.

Established an Architecture Review Board and function to govern standards, best practices, and architecture decisions.

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Key responsibilities included overall planning and Resource deployment for the project ensuring team utilization and

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satisfaction.

Extensively Traveled/lived in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Poland, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Brazil,

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Colombia, Peru and Ecuador that enables me to comfortably adapt to diversity.

EXPERTISE

General Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Inventory,

Functional Modules:

Sales Order Management, Procurement/Purchasing, Manufacturing, Manufacturing

Accounting, Product Costing

OMW, Enterprise Report Writer, Form Design Aid, EDI, Table Conversions, C

Technical Tools:

Business Functions, NERs, Debugger, JDE APIs, Table Triggers, SQL, MS Project,

SharePoint, Crystal Report, Visual Basic, Data Flux, Data Services, Insight, PL/SQL

Developer, webMethods

Global ERP implementations, Trial Cutovers, Remedy Incident Management,

Other Areas:

Reviewing ESUs and Applying Paper Fixes, Batch Cycle Monitoring, JDA /

Manugistics, WMOS, Technical Project/Program Management, Generating Statement

of Works, Enterprise Architecture design and implementation, Change control

methodologies, Client Management, Contract negotiations, Meeting/Facilitation skills,

Dedication to Customer Service.

EXPERIENCE

AVON PRODUCTS INC. (www.avon.com) – [Full Time]

JDE / E1 Solutions Architect (Sr. Manager), 10/2012 to Present

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS (www.cognizant.com) [Consultant to Avon Products]

Consulting Manager – ERP (Sr. Manager), 6/2009 to 10/2012

BUTLER INTERNATIONAL (www.butler.com) [Consultant to Avon Products]

Global Coordinator (Project Lead) – 6/2005 to 6/2009

GTE SOLUTIONS (www.ensoftek.com)

Sr. JDE Developer (Sr. Software Developer) – 10/1999 to 6/2005

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strong Knowledge from Concept to implementation – Business analysis, design, configuration, development,

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conversion, EDI, customization, menu design, support, and testing.

Being part of Implementation team for both McConnell Finance Transformation program and Supply Chain

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Transformation program which has to date has been rolled out to over 22 markets in APAC, EMEA, NA and

LATAM.

• Participated in various Avon global transformation initiatives in IT, New Product Development, Supply Chain and Finance.

These initiatives involved partnering with key business leaders from various countries, including the United States, China,

Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Poland, Hungary, Brazil, Philippines, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador in

order to translate business needs into a standard technical document for system development and applications delivery.

Being the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for JDE EnterpriseOne development and deployment, developed

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Proofs of Concepts (POCs), technology standards, processes, training plans, etc to enhance organizational

capabilities.

Collaborating with business partners in gathering, defining and translating end user requirements into

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application solutions. Demonstrated experience in working with Local IT and project team members in all

phases of software development.

Implement best practice methodologies for software development, and evangelize them within the

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development team. Working in Onsite / Offshore model ensuring right standards are followed by performing

Code Reviews. Worked closely with New Vendor to transition the knowledge from prior vendor.

Assist in design and deployment of comprehensive Best Practices systems management practices to ensure the

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reliability, controllability, and security of the environments in full compliance with Sarbanes Oxley

Currently working on Global Finance Transformation Projects which involves implementing Core Financials

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(AP, AR, GL, FA) in Oracle EnterpriseOne 8.12 in multiple markets in parallel. Key responsibilities include

providing Solution Architecture consulting guidance to the Project Team that are being executed on behalf of

the Global Finance Transformation team. Worked closely with Local Business partners to design, develop and

implement E1 which meets Local Statutory Requirements.

Managing the work efforts of offshore team for the design and implementation of Oracle EnterpriseOne in

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various markets. Managing a core team of CNC Admins, E1 Configurators and E1 Developers working in an

onsite offshore model. Develop shift plans to ensure availability for 24X7 support from CNC Admins.

Manage remote and off shore resources to coordinate design and code migration to PD environment after

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testing approval.

Resource management including interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and

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directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and

resolving problems.

Worked extensively on implementing Order To Cash(OTC) and Procure To Pay(P2P) processes.

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Worked closely with CNC team to apply SARs, ESUs, ASUs, update packages and to build and deploy

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objects from DV, PY to PD environments. Researched ESUs in order to fix some issues and applied Paper

Fixes received from Oracle.

Prepared extensive documentation of system setups and business processes.

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Provided post go live support to users across multiple locations.

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Responsible for designing and implementing Functional and Technical Documentation templates, processes

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and procedures, as well as the Development Approach and Rigid Development Standards.

Responsible for troubleshooting and fixing Incidents reported through Remedy via Help Desk

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Created technical design documents for the offshore team.

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Worked with webMethods Developers to help them understand how the standard BSFNs work and develop

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custom business functions / services to be used by the wM toolset to integrate the systems.

Written SQL queries for data analysis, validation, troubleshooting data issues, and use them as in table insert

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and updates.

Developed numerous integrations that would generate Flat Files to be sent to other legacy systems or read Flat

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files sent from other legacy systems to load data into E1 using Table I/O, Master BSFNs, Custom BSFNs.

Key systems integrated include Concur, Ariba, MES, JDA / Manugistics, LIMS, WMOS, WorkDay, CitiBank,

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Hyperion, SalesForce etc.

Prepared project plans, presentation to determine project scopes, assigned resource utilization. Support key

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testing phases such as CRP, ICRP, UAT and Trial CutOvers using Quality Center

Provide pre sales, proposals, RFPs, contract negotiations and business development.

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RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Implementing E1 system at Avon as part of the McConnell Finance Transformation program, which

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supersedes the Supply Chain Transformation program that as of now has been rolled out to over 22 markets in

EMEA, NA and LATAM. The configuration is based on a set of global standard ‘core model’ processes.

Currently, implementing Core Finance (AP, AR, GL, FA) in Peru and Argentina.

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Successfully implemented Core Finance (AP, AR, GL, FA) in Russia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador,

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Greece, and Philippines.

Worked on fine tuning MRP Process to make it run faster.

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Working on E1 Design to implement Supply Chain Financing with full automation of the process.

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Canada Supply Chain Implementation: Core Implementation Team member involving implementation of

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Finance, Sourcing, and Distribution Modules.

Bank Transfers: Designed and developed a custom solution which shall encrypt employee credit card

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information using JDE APIs within a custom C business function and store it in a table. This information is

decrypted and sent it to the Bank in a PGP encrypted flat file for payments.

Sales Orders from SAP: Developed key integration that would load the Sales Orders from SAP into EDI files,

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and generate them in E1.

Brazil Supply Chain Implementation: Core Implementation Team member involving implementation of

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Finance, Sourcing, Distribution, and Manufacturing Modules.

Taxes Withholding: Key Contributor to design and development of a custom solution for Taxes withholding as

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per Brazil Legal requirements.

EOM periodic Average Cost: Designed and developed a solution as per Brazil Legal requirements. This

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solution involves reversing of PPV / IB Transactions, Calculating Average Cost based on PO Receipts /

Inventory Completions, and Revaluing the Sales, Purchases and other inventory transactions with Average

Cost.

Processing Option BSFN: Developed a Custom C BSFN that would fetch the Processing option of a custom

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application to simplify the overall user interface.

SL Detail to AA Ledgers: Customized standard GL summarization C BSFN to allow it to fetch the detail

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transactions in SL Ledger and create summarized transactions in AA Ledger.

GL Summarization: Customized standard GL summarization C BSFN to allow it to summarize credits and

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debits separately as per the legal requirement of Poland.

Product Costing: Key Team member of design and development of custom module that would calculate

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Standard Cost based a set of complex rules considering, Freight Rates, Duty Rates, Local Taxes, Overheads,

and Miscellaneous charges. This module shall also calculate the Landed Cost based on source of supply

network.

eMail UBE Output: Designed and developed an UBE that would Launch another UBE and fetch its output and

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send it to a group as an attachment.

Job Monitor: Designed and developed a UBE that would monitor the batch jobs and generate a report

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indicating the time taken to run, number of records processed, data selection & processing options used and

sending out an email to all concerned people if any job took longer than it was base lined against.

E1 8.11 to 8.12 Upgrade: Key Team member behind upgrading from 8.11 to 8.12 upgrade involving regression

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testing, retrofitting of code and over all governance.

Data Archiving: Part of ArcTools Project team that archived all the data into separate database / environment

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for read only access.

EGAIS Reports: Developed a suite of reports that are required for Alcohol usage reporting to EGAIS as per

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Russia Legal requirement.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering, SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY (Tirupati, India),

6/1999

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