SIDDHARTH GARG, PMO, MBA

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GLOBAL PMO TRANSFORMATION & PROGRAM PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL LEAD

Specialized in the delivery of Global Transformation/Million Dollars Program/Portfolio Management; Process/Continuous Improvement to top Pharmaceuticals, Financials, Telecommunication, Department of Education, Food & Beverages Business Organizations; highly knowledgeable and experienced in, IT-Business PMO’s standard methodologies such as PMBOK, Portfolio Analysis, Business Process techniques, Project Accounting, Earned Value, Variance Analysis, Software Capital Appropriations, US GAAP, Team Leadership & Communication; experience in business software- Microsoft Office upgrades, SAP, SharePoint 2010, Microsoft EPM technologies including Microsoft Project Portfolio Server - PPM/MOPPS/WTPS, Planisware, Planview, Clarity, Pegasus, PCGen, Ariba, Documentum, PegaSystem, Computron, Business Objects, Visio, Advance Excel Pivots, Macros; dynamic, savvy, PMP - active member; MBA -Professional with 14+ years of experience in Fortune 500 companies.

KEY COMPETENCIES GAINED THROUGH PMO/PROJECT MANAGEMENT (PMBOK) EXPERIENCE & MBA (FINANCE)

Global Portfolio Management Business- ITPMO Governance Global Transformation

Enterprise Project Management Office Forecasting/ Budgeting Management Financial Reporting

Cross Functional Team Leadership Process Continuous Improvement Vendor Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB & Co., NJ 11/11 – Present

Global Commercial IT – ES Global PMO Transformation Lead (Management Consulting Resource)

“Sid – I told VP of Finance that I believe you and I have a really good working relationship, hopefully if she talks to your boss she will pass that along. Thanks a lot.” – BMS Director – Controller group USA

Reports into GCIT organization since 2011. Work closely with Leadership Team – VP/Sr. Directors/Managers for Governance/Steering team process. Transforming the way work gets done by leading efforts to consolidate, simplify and transform services delivered across the enterprise. Work closely with BMS business on governance, business planning and management, program and project management, process management, continuous improvement, service planning and selective integration to increase performance and drive business outcomes. Manages 2016 Global Commercial IT Portfolio (BU & OPEX) $110 MM budget.

Responsibilities include:

ITPMO - Global Commercial Operations BU

Provides business planning and management for Global Commercial IT organization.

Manages GCIT Portfolio which includes New Investments, Carryover Multi-Year Projects (One time budget of $75 MM for projects like US Sales Force Expansion, ModelN -Govt. Pricing, Global Transformation Program, US Customer Master - Operational Enhancements, HCP – (Health Care Provider), Transparency & Governance, Reporting & Analytics) & OPEX (On-Going budget $35 MM for projects like Veeva – Field Force Management Licensing/Support, Navigator, Cegedim Dendrite Support, Windows 7 Application testing and remediation, CIM – (Continuous Improvement Management), Accenture Support, Resources Management).

Manages the planning and management at the portfolio level: tracking of actuals and accruals; month end reporting and variance analysis; reconciliation with Finance during budgetary and projection time; Responsible for managing approved book of work against business plans.

Interacts with International PMO Directors to straighten up the regional Cost Center after company’s re-structure.

Provides internal consulting to the IT leadership team and next tier reports with meaningful and actionable insights and analysis around both long term and short term business planning, owning the process to develop strategic roadmaps and portfolio planning (both projects and ongoing)

Support GCIT organization’s Resources – 300+ includes (Employees & Contractors); Publish Headcount reports extracted from source: SBS/WP on monthly basis at global level and do the analysis for both FTE and contractors. Also help team with Cost Centers/WBS elements rationalization.

Conduct portfolio scenario analysis to inform ES executive leaders of recommendations, potential opportunities, relevant risks, and trade-offs to optimize the portfolio book of work. Also track multi-million dollar spent of yearly Portfolio through SAP enterprise software.

In conjunction with portfolio/project owner, approve spend on all projects & responsible for managing expenses to budget and then using that data for financial analysis which is rolled up to overall portfolio reporting on monthly basis.

Own business outcomes framework including the co-development of project business cases & tracking/monitoring of project business outcomes

Participate in audits of the business function as needed. Drive the annual strategic planning and budgeting processes

Possess strong finance analytical and modeling skills to analyze complex financial data, interpret information, identify relevant variances, understand implications and proposes solutions based on sound business judgment. Makes recommendations based on data and situational analysis.

Apply innovative and creative solutions to strengthen internal controls, increase data accuracy & overall improve efficiency/effectiveness of org.

Recognizes market forces and trends, internal campaigns to provide accurate analysis and forecast, identifies issues and assesses alternatives to minimize business risk while performing analysis on an independent basis.

Performs consistent analysis of business risks and opportunities on a monthly basis to provide information to management on a timely basis.

Communicates directly with Key Accounts/Contract department and external customers to obtain accurate sales forecast for finance reporting requirements and to ensure pricing, product information and in-market contracts are updated and maintained.

Challenges current procedures and offers creative recommendations to improve efficiency.

Maintains proficiency in utilizing relevant financial software packages, databases (BI, TM1 and Excel) and (SAP) to extract accurate information.

Coordinate with Shared Services, Solution Services, and Data Architect, Compliance group about policies and procedures and financial processes.

PPM (Microsoft Project Portfolio Server) tool SME

Building PPM tool from scratch which includes – Ideation, Portfolio Planning, Concept, Execution, Value Realization & Retirement and eliminated old school process of Multiple GB memory excel spreadsheets & Tuesday/Thursday forum.

Involve in building PMO-PPM tool i.e. start-to-end Projects & Portfolio Processes using Microsoft Project Portfolio Server (Microsoft & UMT vendor).

Manages regional PMO activities in PPM for US and Outside US Markets includes EU, APAC, CANADA JAPAN, CHINA, and LATMEA.

Accomplishments:

Created a benchmark for PPM practice for IT. Improved project start-to-end cycle time and increased visibility of future demand.

Real time/ dynamic financial & resource reporting across projects within each division.

Harmonize & standardize PPM processes. Provide visibility to project & portfolio health to leadership and stakeholder.

Serve as a member of Global Commercial Leadership Team & Business Planning Management (BPM) team in the past.

MERCK & CO. /SCHERING PLOUGH, NJ 12/09 – 11/11

MMD (Merck Manufacturing Division) IT USA – ITPMO / Program Manager (Management Consulting Resource)

“Sid – I am very proud of you. You have been asked to do more than originally expected on this project. And you are coming through in a very big way. Thank you for all you have done and are doing. We are in the home stretch. Keep up the great work.” – Merck Director, PhD. – MMDIT USA

Worked in Portfolio Operations group (Budget Approx. $106 MM) and helps in managing the financials of GHS CLP initiation and implementation of SAP ERP /COMET and WERCS. Project involves overall project planning, budgeting of regulation on GHS (Globally Harmonized System) & CLP (Classification, Labeling and Packaging) of all the hazardous Pharma drugs for US and EX-US sites. Aligns existing EU legislation to the UN.

Responsibilities include:

Manage financial of projects/initiatives simultaneously in a collaborative model with the business and technology stakeholders to facilitate the project scope, financial approvals, goals, and timelines for both legacy companies i.e. Merck/SP activities. Work with over 70 plus sites globally.

Accountable for forecasting the data source and extracting regular reports from all available sources for the group.

Provided financial oversight of full CPA budgets and work with Client Partners during business case development for accuracy in the budgets

Support Business-Technology Portfolio including developing the portfolio management process to enable end-to-end oversight of all decisions.

Monitoring of all EU technology and business activity to ensure the changes are integrated into the existing portfolio effectively.

Work closely with the organization Team Members, PM and Client Partner to support Business-Technology plan.

Work on technology projects across Merck with different BU’s - segment them into innovation, growth, and sustaining categories to ensure that the mix of investments matches their strategy and enterprise architecture maturity.

Provide all aspects of project management, including detailed project requirement definition, budgeting, project planning, metrics tracking, and timely deliverables to ensure successful end to end execution of project

Work with various functional lines on numerous projects which included the development of the business case and justification, development of project charters, resource requirements, and project roadmap.

Working with vendors like IBM/HCL/Cognizant to create Development Lifecycle documentation. Created FAQs and KT sessions with all end users.

Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to ensure smooth implementation and transition of business change.

Identify project risks and issues, escalates major project risks to scope or budget or timeline to appropriate escalation points

Responsible for training the end client and providing the resources to various Merck/ SP sites based in NA, EU, APAC and LATNAM etc.

Integrated both Merck/SP systems such as Microsoft Office included EPM - Microsoft Project & Portfolio Server, SharePoint

Accomplishments:

Planned and executed smooth transition of complete portfolio to support and maintenance structures.

Good understanding of Merck/SP Business model and application integration process.

Manage the project status, financials, progress reports, review risks and solutions to a problem in a timely manner to accomplish the project.

Delivered 100% success for annual portfolio budget including new and sustain for WT as accountable for budget approvals, change request.

PFIZER INC. (NYHQ) / WYETH PHARMACEUTICALS 05/07- 12/09

Worldwide Pharmaceuticals Ops USA – Portfolio Director /PMO (Management Consulting Resource)

“Sid -Thanks for your help. Seems we can always rely on you to get us through these problems” – Pfizer Director – Financial & Business Ops -USA

Supported different Business Units in US, Canada, Latin America, Europe and Asia Technology Portfolio Management for USP, including projects, systems and applications. Oversee and coordinates the prioritization process for all budgets worth $123 MM. Delivers budgetary reports to the USP Governance Group when required. Worked directly with top Leadership Team including VP, Senior Directors, and Directors.

Responsibilities include:

WPO BT Portfolio Management

Partnered with End Users in all the groups under TM to create regular feedback loops on their performance against application portfolio management targets, to advance continuous process improvement.

Gate keeping/Stage gating role for submission of all the business cases and new ideas to Portfolio Team and managing WPO BT SharePoint site.

Drove consensus among technology and business stakeholders on system retirement and remediation decisions and timelines of the projects.

Worked with the group to maintain up-to-date lists of Technology Management operating model processes.

Coordinated resource allocation forums with leaders within the USTM group to prioritize, schedule, resource and track projects within the portfolio.

Worked on various Business cases and helped the group to document and developing the design specification and also work with Vendor Management.

Optimized US and Ex-US market’s allocation of shared infrastructure in order to reduce demand on critical enterprise data centers which resulted in a 3-tier approach to server capacity allocation utilizing a standardized quantification of applications’ disaster recovery requirements.

Planning & Operations/ IT Governance

Involved in the Wyeth Integration work for EPF (European Path Fold) initiatives for integrating applications like GEMS into Pfizer systems.

Enabled Technology Management colleagues to be compliant by providing appropriate processes, tools, and documentation.

Coordinated with different vendors like IBM, Infosys, Wipro and Accenture for collecting the data and determine the application for (GSS -SAM’s system). SAMS is the bucket of over nine hundred applications for both new and sustain projects at Pfizer.

Identified tools, techniques and capabilities for fostering innovation to be formally incorporated into Technology Management practices (e.g. facilitation tools, an effective operating model that enables more time to be spent on driving innovative thinking).

Involved in both manual and automated testing to test the system functionality as expected. Authoring test scripts for user testing to support various upgrade projects both new and sustain projects for Worldwide Technology group.

Enterprise Life Cycle IT Governance

Supported Steering TAP (Technology Advisory Planning) new BT Governance to ensure that technology projects delivery is aligned with strategy.

Managed portfolio management function within the WTPS (Worldwide Technology Portfolio Server) by building and implementing exception reporting to identify projects deviating from benchmark budgets and schedules, and facilitating resolution among client, project and financial management teams.

Present process improvement recommendations to steering team, and worked closely with operational groups to implement changes.

Involved in complete ELC process includes Planning, Analysis, Design, Implementation and Maintenance across Worldwide Technology.

Worked on different components like Resource Request, Resource On-boarding, Financial Management and Vendor Management Reporting.

CUE Program (Also called as “Closed Loop Marketing”)

Coordinated among IT groups and facilitates resource management to mark checkpoints at different phases of ELC.

Interacted with different groups such as Compliance, Architecture, Global safety,SoDe, SerDe, Global Shared Services, Continuous Improvements, CLP- Multi Channel Marketing on different work streams like Content Process, Campaign Management, Analytics, SFE and Channel Building etc.

Delivered technology standards & roadmaps and help the group in establishing project management.

As a part of SFA/SFE CLM team, demonstrated the e-Detailing process which helped the company Sales Rep to electronically store all the information of HCP’s in a very secure manner. All of this information is stored in centralized Data Warehouse to have a visibility on the offline teams

Used the Deliver Technology Standards & Roadmaps and help the group in establishing project management.

GEMS Application

Prepared the budgets using new internal software on Aggregate spending i.e. GEMS (Group Event Management System) for Meeting, Convention.

Coordinate with the meeting planners in remapping of the existing budget into new system and recommend the strategy to top level management.

Defined reporting frequency and recipients to solve issues like assigning PE to the meeting level budgets.

Validated the meeting budgets by allocation of proper codes and charges followed by preparing reports of meetings conducted with the HCP’s.

Accomplishments:

Good understanding of Pfizer business and expertise in internal tools like Portfolio Management, Financial Systems.

Created a User’s Guide to train and help all the Client Partners, Team Leader, PM and SDM etc. about the Portfolio process system functionality

Fulfilled the requirements and reorganization of system for effective and efficient work conditions.

Bridged the communication gap between meeting planners and new GEMS software system.

NEW YORK STATE - DEPT OF EDUCATION, NY 06/05 - 05/07

STEP (Science & Technology Entry Program – NY State Funded Program) – Program Lead

“Sid is a detailed person. He performed his tasks in a professional and mature manner. He was always willing to assist and give more time if needed. He was an asset to the students, the program and to me. I am confident that he will succeed in any endeavors he pursues.”- Program Director

Step is funded in partnership by the New York State Education Department. Step improve participation rate in mathematics, science, technology, health related fields, and the licensed professions. Step is about nurturing potential and creating pathways to success.

Responsibilities include:

Dedicated to the enrichment and support of students in the program, as well as advocacy on their behalf.

Provided tutoring and instruction to strengthen academic skills and enhance student performance in school courses on standardized tests like SAT.

Fostered interest in science, math, technology, and health-related disciplines in addition to building student awareness of the higher education.

Helped students added academic support, counseling, mentoring, and inspiration to help them make their college, career, and life goals a reality.

Accomplishments:

Provided quality instruction, career and academic counseling, tutoring and educational workshop.

Achievement towards society, increased access to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math careers and the Licensed Professions for students.

EDUCATION

PfMP (Portfolio Management Professional) Certification

NEW YORK UNIVERISTY SCPS (School of Continuing Professional Studies) Exam expected April 2016; Project Management Institute (PMI) active member.

Masters of Business Administration (M.B.A)

ST.JOHN’S UNIVERSITY, NY - (Honors program with concentration in International Business/Finance/Project Management – GPA 3.5/4.0)

Bachelors of Business Administration (Hons.) B.B.A – (Honors.)

G.G.S.I.P.UNIVERSITY - (Honors program with concentration in Marketing Management/Finance/Accounting – GPA 3.9/4.0)

SKILLS

Proficiency in Business tools

Currently working on PPM /Documentum & SAP Systems, Experience in CUE Program and tools like Microsoft Project Portfolio Server (PPM/MOPPS/WTPS), Planisware, Planview, Clarity Pegasus, PCGen, Ariba, Documentum, PegaSystem, Computron, SharePoint 2010, Business Objects, PPM, PMO’s standard methodologies such as PMBOK, GEMS, Microsoft office: MS Word, Advance Excel like Pivots, Macros, MS Project, Visio, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, SPSS QuickBooks, Concordance.

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