Kiran Fujiwara

c0uff7@r.postjobfree.com

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Enterprise Manager/Solution Architect/Project Manager/Sr. Consultant

Lean Six Sigma Certified and Certified Scrum Master

Professional Summary:

• With almost 11 years of technology including extensive agile experience and systems implementation experience for (SAP R/3), I have worked extensively in the SAP Human Capital Management arena with the combination of Business Analysis and Project Management.I have helped large organizations achieve significant savings from cost avoidance, streamlining IT operations and business process improvements. The work includes team management, process design and re-design, configuration, programming, and training. These experiences are from cross industries in both functional and technical project aspects. My understanding of implementations and project management has been displayed in my knowledge of the complete life cycles of those projects and my ability to disseminate that understanding throughout my teams has made me a successful manager. I have excelled in working as a Senior SAP Human Resource consultant, Team Lead, Manager, and Business analyst including full life cycle implementations with waterfall and agile methodologies with the combination of excellent organizational skills, communication skills, high work ethic and integrity. I am interested in a Position where I can use my mentoring skills and management expertise around large enterprise systems to help an organization gain maximum potential from their technology assets including people, processes and infrastructure. I am seasoned and well experienced in most aspects of SDLC including requirements gathering, design, analysis, development, integration, implementation, engineering, administration, enhancement, testing, production support, user interaction for IT. Program and Delivery Manager for Scrum development teams. Managed team relationships, coached the remote team’s Scrum Master, identified and resolved impediments, tracked progress, worked with Product Owner to groom the product backlog, facilitated release planning, delivered high quality tested soft-ware with Agile teams.

• Supported businesses make software selection for their business processes and Led Enterprise level process redesign for the software implementation

• Established expert in SAP Time Management, Payroll, Benefits and several other sub-modules.

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified.

Scrum Mater Certified.

Visa Status: US Citizen, and currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Professional Experience

Astrazeneca October11- December11

Role: Enterprise Program Manager/Senior Solution Architect

• Worked as Enterprise Program Manager/Senior Solution Architect.

• Responsible for the North Americas design of AstraZeneca's HR solution based on technology from NorthgateArinso and SAP

• Responsible for enterprise transformation strategies for North Americas primarily.

• Worked Globally as deemed necessary for reviewing impact of global implementation of HR oursourced services on the enterprise.

• Part of HR Implementation for 116 countries globally

Deloitte Consulting LLP: Charlotte, North Carolina April10- Oct11

Role: Senior SAP Consultant/Lead/Manager

• Worked as Program Manager/solution architect with Nestle on global rollout.

• Worked with Univar( Seatle), Southern California Edison( L.A), CMS( Michigan), Barclays( NYC),Cameron( Texas), and other internal clients.

• Delieverd various products in SAP HR.

• Worked as Cutover Manager, Team Lead and Project Manager on above assignments.Held trainings sessions for various levels in SAP HR and agile methodologies. Managed anywhere from four to 9 member teams.

• Trained team in story boarding techniques.

• Strong analysis, design, object/data modeling, and project management (agile & traditional) skills.

• Experienced working with and leading Lean Agile Teams

• Led and Managed SAP HR teams cross functionally and expert in global delivery models.

• Delivered successful solutions to various clients.

Continental Tires North America : Fort Mill. SC July 09- Jan 2010

Role: SAP HR Analyst- Team Lead Time Management

Environment: SAP R/3 6.0

• Was responsible for process improvement in place.

• Rolled out time management for the company. Interfaced TOM tool application for salary exempt and salary non exempt employees exceptional time into sap for certain locations.

• Provided End Users Trainings.Created Business proceedure documents for users newly introduced to SAP funtionality.

• Responsible for all in-house and remote testing activities.

• Managing strategic QA partnerships.

ADP, Houston TX

Role: Team Lead/Asst Program Manager Feb 09- April 09

Coordinate and successfully resolved several configuration and interface issues

Researched and Coordinated team configuration efforts with Internal Orders as ADP didn’t have FI resource.

Managed 18 resources.

Attended various meetings on UAT defects, weekly status, daily status, and daily defect meetings with BP.

Helped General Manager with Managing Mercury Quality Control (QC) for QA assessments. I had helped him update the defects status on daily basis and worked with him on assigning the resources appropriately on UAT, Parallel and Interface defects.

Co-ordinate various tasks and monitored the task progression on consistent basis.

Monitored and Analyzed defects for UAT cycle 2 and Parallel on daily basis. Managed the UAT team, Functional team, and G2 Team partially. Guided the team with unit and Integration testing on some of FI and Benefits interfaces issues

Provided defects impact analysis assessment on DIAL tool.

Analyzed the daily tasks for the entire team which were reviewed every morning so team stayed on track. Helped team on any if and as needed issues around configuration.

Was responsible for analyzing team weekly status reports.

Provided and Managed Compiled weekly status report.

Provided trouble shooting help to team on FI interfaces, BSI issues, Tax issues and other Payroll issues.

Helped ESS/MSS resource with interface testing.

Select Comfort, MN Sept 08- February 09

Role: Manager

• Big Bang SAP implementation with methodology approach.

• Demonstrated excellent hiring, coaching, and people development skills; managing on-site and offshore development and QA teams

• Provided excellent balance of technical leadership, interpersonal, and software development skills across the organization

• Responsible for all in-house and remote testing activities.

• Managed strategic QA partnerships.

• Responsible for reassessing the requirements and reconfiguring the TM module. Worked through intense Unit and Integration testing along with interfaces testing.

• Working on various time entry transfer interfaces including Kronos, IVR, portal Interfaces. Worked with KRONOS and ABAP team members in integrating KRONOS with SAP by participating in the design of the inbound interfaces to bring KRONOS time data into SAP for Time Evaluation and Payroll.

• Worked with ABAP team on customizing absences and attendances approval screen.

• Extensive Time Managers Work Place configuration/prototyping for several Time Admin profiles including configuration of Employee Lists, multiple Employee Selection IDs, Employee Data sections, Time Data and Events Tables configuration, Time Data IDs for Info types and Info type specific Details Tabs and Fields configuration among others. Worked on span of control for retail Managers in TMW based on client requirement.

• Worked with ABAP on workflows on ESS/MSS. Customized absence entry screens, PTO screens using ESS and time approval screens on MSS and made those the most user friendly.

• Assisted in conducting Workshops and provided hands-on training to Dept Managers in using TMW, ESS/MSS and assisted training team in developing BPPs for Time Manager workplace using RWD U Perform software

• Conducted time entry and time approval training sessions for Time Administrators, Payroll and supervisors.

• Working closely with ABAP on custom reports depending upon business requirements. Working on various other RICEF objects. Working closely with development team on various requirements and enhancements.

• Regress testing on interfaces and extensive trouble shooting on interfaces.

• Maintaining and updating defects or planned changes on company based customized log-Element tool.

Smart Solutions/Advansoft Solutions Jan 01-Sept 08

Team Lead/Manager/Sr. Consultant/Business Analyst

Team Lead/ Manager for multiple end client delivery for various product life cycles. End clients include Rohm and Haas, DTE energy, Verizon Wireless, Bristol Myers Squibb (NJ), Hewitt international paper (IL), Lam research Corporation (CA), Target (MN), and National City.

• Implemented SAP HR and Provide functional help and support in SAP modules with concentration on HR.

• Provided user assistance, collaborate with appropriate teams to get system fixes tested and implemented for QA processes.

• Contribute to improvement of overall system/application architecture.

• Helping in providing and configuring reports for various executive dashboards.

• Verified all the test cases for Validation, Parallel & UAT testing before transferring data to production system

• Worked as Business Analyst for Target and National City (Mortgage).

Technical Skills: General Tools-

Exposure and experience in Access, SQL, MS-Office, MS Visio, MS Project, Business Objects, Business Objects , Crystal Reports, Rational Rose, Mercury Quality Center, Lotus Notes, Win runner, Oracle applications, Load Runner, Active Directory, Token Explorer, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Word, Outlook, Power Point, Excel, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Access, Agile Methodologies, Web Trends, Web Technologies, Knowledge of Cordiant, SAP HR- SAP Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, Benefits Administration, Time Management, Payroll, ESS/MSS, SAP HR R/3 Versions – 4.0 B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

Education:-

• Graduate Degree in P.A with Specialization in Human Resources from Hamline University, St Paul, MN.

• Fluent in Japanese, Some French, Urdu, and few Indian languages.

• Certificate in Harvard Leadership Essentials with Harvard Business School e-learning, 2011

• Lean Six Sigma GB Certified

• Certified Scrum Master.

• References upon request.

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