Project Manager

SUDHIR KAUSHIK

SAP Release Manager

SAP Experience Summary

. ITIL Foundation certified Release Manager with 2 + years of SAP

Release Management experience delivering successfully and timely small

to multi-million dollar projects. Experienced in deploying and

managing multiple projects/deployment ensuring consistency and

technical/functional integrity of the deployed systems.

. Over 6 + years SAP experience in different project stages including

gap analysis, development, testing, cut-over planning, go-live

assistance and post implementation support.

. Experienced in managing implementations across different modules of

SAP - R/3 4.6c, ECC 6.0, SRM, BW, GTS and CFM.

. Release Management experience in complex SAP implementations: SAP

upgrade, System Migration and complex Functional projects.

. Diverse exposure of working with offshore and third party vendors.

Delivery-focused and able to motivate teams.

. Highly organized, detail oriented, capable of multi-tasking and

capable of coordinating/aligning resources during implementation

releases and cut-over.

. Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to

work with senior leadership across organizations in supporting release

and cut-over processes.

Core Competencies:

. Project Management

. Release Management

. Change Management

. Software Development Life Cycle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Southern California Edison, Irwindale, CA

September 2012 - Present

SAP Project Coordinator (Release, Deployment, Configuration)

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Perform Coordination between Business teams, Functional teams, Technical

teams to understand business requirements and propose/ develop high end

solutions. Responsible for staffing, resource planning and managing global

teams at both offshore and onshore. Work with project team, functional

teams to make sure testing is completed and changes are moved to production

without issues.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Tampa, FL

February 2010 - September 2012

SAP Release Manager

SAP Release Manager for GFS (Global Financial System) arm of PwC.

Responsible for strategy, planning, governance, coordination, scheduling,

and execution of all releases and cut-over to SAP environments, ensuring

high quality SAP solution delivery, continued system reliability,

availability, and continuity. This includes application changes that were

part of the software development life cycle (Quarterly Release Changes) as

well as infrastructure related modifications (patches/version

upgrade/Support Pack/ Enhancement Pack etc.) Implemented the release

management process across all instances of SAP and ensured that high

quality changes were moved to production after successful testing and

appropriate change control procedures were followed. Worked with Test Lead

to ensure that adequate testing is completed before changes were moved to

production.

Production Support Implementations

o Co-ordinated with internal/external stakeholders on systems

management, landscape strategy, planning and communications. Ensured

that all activities were tracked and communicated in consistent and

efficient manner during releases.

o Defined and Published Release Plans and coordinated Production support

releases, systems refresh and monthly outages of production systems

for Upgrade/Patching/ Support Pack/ Enhancement Pack. Worked with

Basis team and process team to ensure that correct sequencing of

transports.

o Facilitated change management review meetings and CAB meetings. Worked

with CAB members to ensure that implemented changes have met their

objectives. Also, performed quality control check to ensure that all

standards and procedures were followed.

o Ensured the overall integrity of the SAP Landscape including Sandbox,

Development, QA, Pre-Production, and Production environments through

the implementation and management of processes and procedures for the

movement of transports through the SAP landscape.

o Acted as liaison between project teams and support team to make sure

proposed changes to the production environment were fully evaluated

and assessed for risk prior to approval and implementation. Also,

implemented process for smooth transitioning of knowledge from Project

teams to Support team.

o Managed dual landscape SAP systems environment and cross-projects

impacts on production support and worked tactically with responsible

teams to plan mitigation of conflicts due to various projects on

production support landscape.

Projects Implementations: (SAP Upgrade / SAP Migrations / Functional

Projects)

o Managed Quarterly Project releases within the SAP systems. This

included define, plan, track and manage complex releases / cut-over

plans and communication to stakeholders within client or with vendors.

o Acted as liaison between project teams and support team and ensured

smooth transitioning of projects to support team for day to day

support.

o Ensured proposed changes for Projects were fully evaluated and

assessed for risk prior to approval and implementations.

o Ensured that all change control procedures were effectively followed

during each project stage and provide necessary approval from Change

Control Team.

o Communicated with the business, project teams and external parties

regarding processes and change control issues. Coordinated the

implementation of corrective actions when required.

o Monitored projects during entire life cycle to ensure that projects

were on schedule with no major obstacles. Also, ensured proper and

timely escalation and resolution of critical issues.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Mangalore, India

December 2009 - February 2010

Team Leader

Led a team of technical/ functional consultants in successful completion of

RA Phase, work included analysis of legacy functionalities/ scope design.

BP plc, London, United Kingdom November

2007 - November 2009

SAP Consultant/Team Leader

Worked as a SAP consultant/team lead for BP Process Fitness Program project

from London, UK. Responsible for detailed analysis of business requirements

to develop optimized solutions, prepare high level design and project plan.

Leveraging on the Global Delivery Model (GDM), managing the development and

testing of Invoice application, PROS application. Functioned as the

business liaison between various global teams to procure business

requirements and coordinated knowledge management resulting in better

utilization of project resources.

BP plc, Mangalore, India January

2006 - October 2007

SAP ABAP Consultant

Developed SAP technical solution for SAP SRM/P2P application. Performed

unit testing and worked with onsite to make sure issues encountered during

testing phase were resolved on time.

A complete life-cycle SAP implementation experience from development till

post go-live support/ hyper care.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering

Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India

CERTIFICATION

ITIL Foundation Certification

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