Parul Nigam

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Over 9 years of progressive IT and functional experience in the design, development & customization in the area

of Product Lifecycle Management, CAD and ERP solutions as a Business Analyst for industries including

Semiconductor, Heavy Engineering and Automotive engineering. Good experience in managing and facilitating

global and cross-functional teams, analyzing existing process and suggest process improvement using PLM

solutions. Excellent client relationship skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where

customer services and technical skills are demanded as well as the ability to communicate effectively with all

levels of management and the client community.

CIMdata certified PLM professional.

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Experience in defining end to end PLM business processes and solutions.

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Experience in leading and conducting cross-functional requirements gathering workshop.

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Experience in managing PDM User functions like document management, change & configuration

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management, workflow and process management, part and component management (classification &

retrieval).

Experience in implementation of business rules and best practices for Bill of Material (BOM) and BOM

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Views using PDM Product Structure Module.

PDM-ERP as well as PDM-MES integration experience.

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Complex data modeling and data migration experience.

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Experience in development, customization and administration for PLM software (Teamcenter).

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Experience in project management activities including project planning, tracking & control, risk management,

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contract and communication management.

Experience in providing highest level End to End leadership in Solution Architecture and overall design for

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PLM applications.

Experience in developing clear and detailed business requirements and design specifications that can be

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understood by other consultants, including global partners.

Experience in translating business requirements into design options that are cost effective, efficient, re-usable

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that comply with defined architectural principles and standards and that enhance the business process.

Experience in PLM implementation in a Datacenter environment.

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Experience in using the agile scrum method; sprint/story board/testing.

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Experience in System integration for all Master data and BOM items.

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Proven experience leading cross-functional projects.

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Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast paced environment.

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Good organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management and meeting deadlines.

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Experience in providing consultation to application owners, business partners and peer groups regarding long

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and short-range architecture solutions to meet business imperatives.

Ability to evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of policies, procedures, processes, systems and internal

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controls.

Experience with building and managing enterprise processes.

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Demonstrated a successful track record of leading teams to support successful implementation.

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DRP planning, Performance monitoring, Change Management and Release management experience.

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Excellent analytical, interpersonal and communicational skills.

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Experience in working in Agile Scrum methodology.

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Experience working with distributed teams, such as contracted and offshore development resources.

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Self-motivated, quick learner, independent, detail orientated and proactive. Ability to work in a collaborative

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environment

Technical Skills

PLM Software: Teamcenter Engineering (V9.1.3.7, 2005 SR1), Teamcenter Unified 2007, Teamcenter 2008,

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Teamcenter 10.1, PLM Autodesk PLM 360, Agile PLM

ERP - SAP, JD Edwards

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Programming languages: C, C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, DHTML ITK programing, PERL, Visual

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Basic, SQL Scripting.

CAD/CAE Tools: Auto CAD-2000, Unigraphics NX5/NX7.5, Solidworks 2009.1.0 SP05.1S, SWIM 8.2.2.

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Databases: Oracle, SQL Server.

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Operating Systems: HP-UNIX, WINDOWS.

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Source Control: PVCS, Clear Case, Perforce.

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Other Tools: Kintana, HPOV, SCOM, Goldfire, HPWM, HPALM, RQM, MS office product suite, Share

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Point, BI Reports (Tableau/QlikView).

Education & Awards

Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering from RSS University, Raipur, India.

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Graduated among top 2% students in the university.

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Applied Materials GIS Award Of Excellence in 2010, 2011 & 2012.

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Applied Materials GIS Team Excellence Award in 2010.

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CIM Data certified PLM professional.

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Professional Experience

Project Details

Intelaphase Inc. – PDM –MES-SAP Integration Project (Seb 2014 – Till Date)

Client: Philips Lumileds, San Jose, USA.

Roles – Senior PDM/PLM Business System Analyst.

Philips Lighting (Philips) is a leading provider of solutions and applications for both professional and consumer

markets addressing lighting needs in a full range of environments – indoors (homes, shops, offices, schools,

hotels, factories, and hospitals) as well as outdoors (public places, residential areas and sports arenas). Philips

also meets people’s needs on the road, by providing safe lighting in traffic (car lighting and street lighting). With

the new lighting technologies, such as LED technology, and the increasing demand for energy efficient solutions,

Philips will continue shaping the future with ground breaking new lighting applications. To this end, Information

Technology is a key enabler for Philips.

The main objective for PDM 2.5 PDM- MES –SAP integration is to support PDM (Teamcenter 8.3.3.2)

Integration with MES (Camstar) supports the PDM master data and part of MES master data, BOM and bin

master data creation in Teamcenter and MES with related attributes enrichment activities to be performed in

MES.The success of this project can be measured using the below two measurable criteria:

• Improvement or no impact to CO Cycle Time

• Item master, BOM and data is aligned between PDM and MES and SAP

Responsible for gathering and documenting the business requirement in the Functional requirement

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specification for the vendor.

Focal contact between IT, Engineering and Operations business unit process owners and platform

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stakeholders.

Collaborate with business users and technical teams to strategize business process change.

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Solicit and sharpen requirements from business users while assisting in producing business requirement

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documents (BRD’s).

Transform BRD’s into techno-functional specifications for developers.

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E2E system architect for PDM/MES/ERP/CRM/Supply Chain/R&D and the business processes to support

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these applications.

Serve as central point of contact for PDM activity to support the business. Build Relationships with key

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stakeholders at all levels of management.

Interact with various Engineering business teams to gather and analyze specific requirements.

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Negotiate conflicting requirements across system or processes with relevant stakeholder audience.

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Evaluate requirements and system functionality for engineering processes.

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Recommend business process redesign if necessary.

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Provide expert analysis and actively participate in business requirements gathering and sign-off, process

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design, solution design, and project implementation.

Work with Off-Shore Support Team to monitor and support PDM requests via ticketing system with attention

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to specified service level agreements (SLA).

Develop and provide weekly and monthly metric reports measured against established KPI; analysis on of

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cycle time for part set up in required systems.

Identify and drive business process improvements with key stakeholders in the business at all levels of

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management for End2End part creation at all 3 sites; with best practice knowledge of manufacturer content

and BOM structure.

Work with the business for testing and approval of the new functionally to ensure their requirements are met

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and are trained in the new way of working.

Develop test scripts and test new functionality.

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Coordinate testing with the business; tracking defects, working with developers for fixes, retesting with final

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approval from the business

Conducted workshop with Key business users and key cross functional group stake holders.

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Act as a liaison between the business and IT staff to improve project and service delivery

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Evaluate application system functionality, identify gaps, and measure solution impact to business operations.

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Monitors project progress by tracking activity, resolving problems, publishing progress reports, and closing

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action items.

Document PDM Training Material for training the business on the new way of working

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Worked with business/key stakeholders to identify business process improvements related to E2E part

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creation process and translated their requirement into technical language.

Worked as a Subject Matter Expert of Product Lifecycle Management (tools, systems & processes,

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architecture) and working knowledge of adjacent areas and tools and working with key business users and

PLM solution provider closely

Created Functional Requirements documents for the changes requested.

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Support Product Engineering/NPI and TPL’s for setting up parts/Chang orders/BOM in PLM system.

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Work with Master Data management group to ensure data consistency between PDM and SAP.

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Worked with business users for Mass BOM clean up and parts numbering project.

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Support the day to day business operations with respect to any issue in PLM side and assist the users for any

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issues.

Suggested PLM Best practices to solve some of the key business process issue.

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Integral part of the group which actively works for Continues process Improvements, and standardization for

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process and System stability.

Participate in weekly meetings with all the Site Change Analyst in order to help them reduce the cycle time

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for ageing CO as well as troubleshoot any technical issue if they have.

Review Functional test scripts written for different sprint by Test factory.

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Review the UAT test scripts.

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Assist in planning and arranging the UAT for key stake holders and PDM user.

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Training the users with new way of working.

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Updating the User training documentation and manual.

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Recommend technical solutions to support team and development team.

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Work with key business users on regular basis to understand their issue and problems and recommend any

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process or system improvement to help the

Assisted project core team in organizational change management, post go live support and end user adoption

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Intelaphase Inc. – PDM phase 2.5 enhancements Project (Feb 2014 – Aug 2014)

Client: Philips Lumileds, San Jose, USA.

Roles – Senior PDM/PLM Business System Analyst.

Philips Lumileds PDM 2.5 project is intended to capture additional functional requirements of the PDM Phase

2.5 solution for Philips Lumileds PDM system which were leftover enhancements from previous phases PDM.2.0

and PDM.2.1. These were captured from the feedback from the end users, to bridge the gap of any functional

requirement or to improve the user’s productivity

These improvements are implemented using agile –scrum methodology into PDM system.

Responsible for documenting the business requirement in the Functional requirement specification for the

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vendor.

Worked with business/key stakeholders to identify business process improvements related to E2E part

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creation process and translated their requirement into technical language.

Created User stories for multiple sprints.

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Suggested PLM Best practices to solve some of the key business process issue.

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Worked to uncover the OOTB feature in Teamcenter and defined how they can improve the business user’s

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productivity.

Work on the weekly LOV updates from business, right from getting the requests to getting in implemented in

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QA and finally to Production environment every week.

Created report template to provide the executive summary /KPI for CO Cycle time report for Commercial and

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CLxR Parts.

Participate in weekly meetings with Support team to identify any user issue /technical issue, monitor the PDM

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tickets checking whether they are meeting SLA or not.

Participate in weekly meetings with all the Site Change Analyst in order to help them reduce the cycle time

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for ageing CO as well as troubleshoot any technical issue if they have.

Review Functional test scripts written for different sprint by Test factory.

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Review the UAT test scripts.

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Assist in planning and arranging the UAT for key stake holders and PDM user.

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Training the users with new way of working.

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Updating the User training documentation and manual.

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Working to check and analyze the various BI tools available in market (Tableau/QlikView) to propose which

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tool best fits the business requirements.

Recommend technical solutions to support team and development team.

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Work with key business users on regular basis to understand their issue and problems and recommend any

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process or system improvement to help them.

Assisted project core team in organizational change management, post go live support and end user adoption

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Project Details

Intelaphase Inc. – PDM phase 2 .1 (Aug 2013 – Feb 2014)

Client: Philips Lumileds, San Jose, USA.

Roles – Senior PDM/PLM Business System Analyst.

Philips Lumileds PDM 2.1 project was to support the interface of PLM systems with new ERP System (which is

SAP in this case), to align the PDM data to support the SAP Project and stream line the BOM and all the attribute

level data between the two systems. Enhancing the existing workflows, improving the reporting capabilities and

cleaning of master data to align with SAP. From PDM phase 2 onwards PDM is source of the Material Master

Data, PDM needs to be aligned with SAP definition of Product Hierarchy. Also the left over enhancement from

PDM 2.0 were also completed.

Responsible for developing future state role based business process flows that are foundational across all

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departments and depicts hand-off’s between up and down stream processes.

● Responsible for conducting future state process and system design workshop.

Responsible for gathering business requirements based on end-to-end future state business process flows for

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functional and cross-functional teams

Responsible for developing functional requirement documents for PLM enhancements.

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Assisted in UAT and enterprise design sign-off.

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Responsible for development of business process procedures for end user training materials and guides.

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Assisted with the requirements trace matrix and communication of any gaps in the future state design

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Defined the solution for integrating PLM and SAP.

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Worked on defining the Integration test scenarios for Change order, parts or BOM Transfer from PLM to SAP.

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Own & Evangelize Solution Architecture for PLM Application process streams with the Deployment Teams

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and Enterprise teams.

Participated in design, technology and deployment councils throughout deployment of PLM Application

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Responsible for establishing detailed and realistic Solution Architecture for deployment waves and plug gaps

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in solution architecture as the design/build/test/deploy progresses.

Monitor projects throughout all phases to ensure compliance to Architecture standards and to ensure that the

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designed solution matches the business requirements, alerting project and IT leadership when there are

potential disconnects.

Worked on creating the Reporting tool for PLM data that gives measure of the Cycle time for part creation.

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Worked on automating the reporting functionality.

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Provided consultation to application owners, business partners and peer groups regarding long and short-

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range architecture solutions to meet business imperatives.

Recommended solutions and develop business case alternatives which anticipate the future direction of the

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business, its drivers and technology strategy. Actively facilitated complex design and technical discussions,

reconciling differing opinions and driving the decision making process.

Responsible for training documentations, for the Solution Architecture. Assist with creation / on-going review

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of Training materials to ensure accuracy of scripts.

Assisted project core team in organizational change management, post go live support and end user adoption

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Project Details

Core Technologies – PDM phase 2.0 (Nov 2012 – July 2013)

Client: Philips Lumileds, San Jose, USA.

Roles – Senior PDM/PLM Business System Analyst.

Philips Lighting is in the process of enhancing the Product Lifecycle Management platform based on Teamcenter

Unified Architecture TC 8.3.2(TcUA) with the features like integration with MES/JDE, enhancing the existing

workflows, creating a wizard for quick multiple creations of items and relating BOM structure for them in a single

click.

Responsible for developing future state role based business process flows that are foundational across all

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departments and depicts hand-off’s between up and down stream processes.

Conducted the Business user’s workshop for defining the requirements and providing the solution for the

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same.

Responsible for gathering business requirements based on end-to-end future state business process flows for

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functional and cross-functional teams

Responsible for developing functional design documents for PLM enhancements.

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Assisted in conference room pilot and enterprise design sign-off.

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Assisted with the requirements trace matrix and communication of any gaps in the future state design

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Worked on defining the functional specification document for the PDM phase 2.0 projects for Philips Lighting

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division Philips Lumileds.

Participated in design, technology and deployment councils throughout deployment of PLM Application

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Responsible for Proof of Concept for PLM Application.

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Responsible for establishing detailed and realistic Solution Architecture for deployment waves and plug gaps

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in solution architecture as the design/build/test/deploy progresses.

Recommended solutions and develop business case alternatives which anticipate the future direction of the

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business, its drivers and technology strategy. Actively facilitated complex design and technical discussions,

reconciling differing opinions and driving the decision making process.

Responsible for training documentations, for the Solution Architecture. Assist with creation / on-going review

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of Training materials to ensure accuracy of scripts.

Responsible for development of business process procedures for end user training.

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Worked on defining the functional specification document for the PDM phase II project for Philips Lighting

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division Philips Lumileds.

Defined the solution for Teamcenter to JDE data transfers scenarios, for Part, BOM and Change data transfer.

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Defined the solution for partial integration of Teamcenter with MES system.

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Worked on the gathering the Data Migration requirements and defining the approach for the same.

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Worked on defining the new Change Module for Teamcenter 8.3 for new implementation.

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Worked on defining the data model changes in Teamcenter as part of PDM Phase II.

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Worked on writing Technical design document and Detailed Design document.

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Working as the Lead and a team of 8 developers in India are reporting to me.

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Taking day to day updates and ensuring the development completes to meet the dead line.

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Worked on defining the Performance matrix post Go live.

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Assisted project core team in organizational change management, post go live support and end user adoption

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Tata Consultancy Services - Teamcenter (June 2008 – Oct -2012)

Client: Applied Materials, Santa Clara, USA.

Roles – Team Lead, Technical Lead and SPOC for clients.

Applied Materials, Inc. is the global leader in providing innovative equipment, services and software to enable the

manufacture of advanced semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic products. Applied Materials has

chosen Teamcenter Siemens PLM suite of product as a corporate standard for Product Lifecycle Management

(PLM). The TCS Teamcenter team is responsible for various development, support and maintenance activities at

Applied Materials.

Worked on defining the functional specification document for the Teamcenter SAP integration project for a

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new BU that my client was trying to integrate with the current set up.

Defined the test scenarios for end to end Teamcenter to SAP data transfers scenarios, for Part, BOM and

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Change data transfer.

Worked on the T4S set up install and mapping configuration for Teamcenter SAP integration.

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Worked on defining the new Change Module for Teamcenter 8.3 for new implementation.

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Worked on defining the data model for New Change module in Teamcenter.

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Worked on writing the Operation Extensions.

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Worked on defining the new Organization structure, Business Rules and Access Rules for BU specific values.

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Lead the Systems and Pipeline team from Santa Clara which includes an offshore team of 12 based in

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Bangalore.

Successfully worked and completed the Teamcenter 8.3 upgrade from TcUA.

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Worked on Data Model Design for new Business Units and for Teamcenter SAP Integration.

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Currently maintaining the T4S integration with Teamcenter and SAP.

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Responsible for resolution and root-cause analysis of day to day production issues related to Teamcenter

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configuration.

Worked as Team and Technical lead for Teamcenter upgrade project completed on Feb 2010 from TcE 9.1x to

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Tc2007.1UA Responsible for defining the solution for the entire data model upgrade using BMIDE, identify

issues and develop solutions, code porting, Build scripts, performance testing and implementation for the

infrastructure (App/Web/DB servers) in multi-site catering to global engineering user base. Interacting with

the client and product vendors (e.g. Siemens /Adobe) (On the product issues), providing daily status updates,

Assigning work to the teams.

Working as Change and Release manager for the entire release cycle for the point releases across all sites.

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Worked as BMIDE manager for AMAT client for taking care of the custom templates deployment and

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changes.

Ensuring the availability of the Teamcenter environment to user, 24 X 7.

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Work as SPOC for the client’s manager.

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Support current production and non-production Teamcenter instances for High Availability (24x7) and change

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management for enhancement/bug fixing. Also manage license servers, license updates and periodic reports

for license optimization for TcE and other CAD software.

Have worked in Customization development for implementing Engineering Change management process

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enhancement using various modules of TcE viz. Business Modeler, Workflow Designer, Workflow Handlers

and Methods.

Technical coordinator and customer liaison for various engineering divisions of Applied Materials.

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Tata Consultancy Services – Core Product Development (Sept. 2004 – May 2008)

Client: Siemens, Milford, USA and Hyderabad, India.

Roles: Team Lead, Offshore Lead and Team Member.

TCS Core Product Development team is responsible for software design and development activities for various

Siemens Teamcenter products.

Business Modeler IDE Phase 1 & 2

Starting with Teamcenter 2007 onwards, all extensions will be packaged in templates. Some examples

of templates are – Foundation, Automotive Edition, and GM Overlay. Foundation template contains

core functionality and is the base for all other templates. All templates must extend at a minimum the

Foundation template.

Redesign existing Property Rule implementation to support true inheritance and handle the silos or channels

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of inheritance.

Introduction of a new framework that will allow UGS and customers to define constants on a site, type, and a

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property.

Convert existing Teamcenter solutions to BMIDE templates

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Create BMIDE Template Report, Full Model Report and Comparison Report UML enhancements.

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Designed and developed the framework for BMIDE Extractor and Updater for Type Constants and Property

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Constants.

Worked with TEM team to incorporate the templates for various modules.

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