Project Management

Shikha Choudhary

Functional Consultant (Financials & Projects)

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Ph: +1-509-***-****(C)

Functional consultant specializing in Oracle Financials and Projects with more

than 7 years of industry experience. Professional engagements include various

Oracle Financials/Projects implementation projects for international clients across

the globe, multiple training classes given to internal and external clients, and

Oracle development/support projects. My stengths include robust functional

solution architecture, sound knowledge in core financials modules (AP, AR, FA,

CE and GL), and Oracle Projects (PA).

CURRENT ASSIGNMENT

I am currently working for a consulting firm with focus on R12 Oracle Financials &

Projects modules. I am a certified Project Management professional(PMP) from

PMI, USA and currently also pursuing certification in Financial Analysis from

NYU.

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE AT ORACLE CORP.

• Functional Lead, Localizations – Oracle Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan

• Functional Consultant (Trainer) – Thailand and Australia

• Functional Lead, Global Financial Services, Cap Gemini – India

• Functional Lead, Release Upgrade in Oracle Applications – Sify India

• Functional Lead, Coega Enterprise Project Management Implementation – South Africa

• Functional Consultant, SSI Enterprise Project Management Implementation – Oracle Solution

Services India

• Functional Lead, Release Upgrade for Oracle Financials – Pepsico Ireland

• Functional Consultant, Oracle Release 12 Country Localizations – Oracle EMEA and Japan

• Functional Lead, Currency Conversion – Deloitte Cyprus, Oracle Romania and Turkey

• Functional Consultant, Skanska – Sweden

• Functional Consultant, Government Of Uganda

• Good Understanding of SQL, PL/SQL, Forms and Reports

• Good understanding of the usage of AIM

EXPERIENCE

03/09 to 02/10: Functional Lead for “Localizations” project in Oracle Financials for

Russia/Ukrain/Kazakthan in Release 12(R12). Key activities in the role:

• Analyzed requirements and designed solution for localization in R12.

• Prepared and reviewed functional design documents.

• Prepared and reviewed functional test scripts.

12/08 to 02/09: Functional Trainer for Release 12 “Financials Best Practices

Implementation” Training for clients in Thailand and Australia. Modules

covered in the training were EBS R12 Financials Architecture, General Ledger,

Subledger Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and EBtax. Key

activities in the role:

• Conducted “Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Financials Best Practices Implementation”

training to educate and make Oracle Partners aware of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)

R12 Financials best practices in customer implementations or upgrades.

03/08 to 11/08: Functional Lead for “Global Financial System” Implementation for Cap

Gemini, India. Modules covered in the implementation were Project Costing

and Project Billing. Key activities in the role:

• Responsible for business process mapping, set-up, identification of gaps between the

business process and the product.

• Strategy for data migration.

• Scheduled and conducted CRP and UAT sessions for business users.

• Smooth transition to the new GFS system and Go live.

02/08 to 02/08: Functional Lead for release upgrade (from 11.0.3 to 11.5.10.2) for Oracle

Applications for Sify. Key activities in the role:

• Worked on functional support, upgrade and issue resolution for the upgrade.

12/07 to 01/08: Functional Lead for “Deloitte Currency Conversion” project for the clients

in Cyprus. Key activities in the role:

• Strategized the currency conversion plan and switch to the new currency.

• Executed pre-requisite set-ups before running the technical scripts for currency

conversion like clearing of interface tables for GL/ AR/ AP/ CE/ INV/ FA/ PO/ OM/PA,

setting up MRC set of books and transfer of opening balances, etc.

• Prepared test scripts with checks for all currency related fields in the financial modules,

executed standard reports for all modules for comparison of balances before and after

the currency switch. Transactional and system testing post currency conversion and

resolution of issues faced by the clients.

07/07 to 11/07: Functional Lead for “Enterprise Project Management (EPM)” project for

Coega Development Corporation, South Africa. Modules covered in the

implementation were: Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Resource

Management, Project Management, Project Collaboration and Project

Contracts. Key activities in the role:

• Strategized project scoping and planning.

• Responsible for business process mapping, set-up, identification of gaps between the

business process and the product.

09/06 to 06/07: Functional Lead for “Enterprise Project Management (EPM)” project for Oracle SSI.

Modules covered in the implementation were: Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Resource

Management, Project Management, Project Collaboration, Oracle Sales Online, Oracle Time & Labor. Key

activities in the role:

• Responsible for business process mapping, set-up, identification of gaps between the

business process and the product.

• Gathered requirements, solution design and testing for the customizations.

• Strategy for data migration.

• Scheduled and conducted CRP and UAT sessions for business users.

07/06 to 09/06: Functional Lead for release upgrade (from 11.5.8 to 11.5.10.2) for Oracle Financials for

Pepsico. Key activities in the role:

• Prepared, reviewed and executed test scenarios for GL, AP, AR, FA, PO and PA

modules for upgrade.

02/06 to 07/06: Functional Lead for “EMEA & Japanese Localizations” project in Release 12 for

Oracle Consulting, Japan & EMEA. Modules involved in the development were GL, AP, AR, FA and CE.

Key activities in the role:

• Analyzed requirements and designed solution for localization of R12 release.

• Prepared and reviewed functional design documents.

• Prepared and reviewed functional test scripts.

08/05 to 01/06: Functional Consultant for “Oracle Release 12” project for Oracle Development, India.

Key activities in the role:

• Reviewed the solution design documents for various country-specific standard reports in

R12 and provided information to technical consultants for preparing technical design

documents and for code development for the reports.

• Understood the new features that had been introduced in the areas of EB Tax (new

module introduced to consolidate AP & AR tax functionalities), SLA (Sub Ledger

Accounting), LA (Ledger Architecture) & iPayment (Oracle Payments) & applying the

same for development of country-specific standard reports.

02/05 to 07/05: Functional Consultant for “Currency Conversion” projects for clients in

Romania & Turkey. Key activities in the role:

• Strategized the currency conversion plan and switch to the new currency

• Executed pre-requisite set-ups before running the technical scripts for currency

conversion like clearing of interface tables for GL/ AR/ AP/ CE/ INV/ FA/ PO/ OM/PA,

setting up MRC set of books and transfer of opening balances, etc.

• Prepared test scripts with checks for all currency related fields in the financial modules,

executed standard reports for all modules for comparison of balances before and after

the currency switch. Transactional and system testing post currency conversion and

resolution of issues faced by the clients.

10/04 to 01/05: Functional Consultant for “Skanska Release (11.03 to 11.5.9) Upgrade”

project for Skanska, Sweden. Key activities in the role:

• Tested the upgraded customizations.

• Coordinated with technical consultants in debugging the issues and managed the defect

logging system through the tool Test Director.

07/04 to 09/04: Functional Consultant for “Integrated Financial Management System”

project for Government of Uganda. Key activities in the role:

• Responsible for doing a full cycle testing for various financial modules, implemented for

GoU-IFMS solution.

PREVIOUS BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

Member, E-Governance Center of Excellence, Oracle India, 01/03 to 05/04

Oracle-HP e-Governance, Center of Excellence, has been setup to help Governments in quickly

identifying appropriate strategies, methodologies and solutions required for deployment of e-

governance. As a member of the center, the following were the key activities:

• Installation & administration of various Oracle products like 9i Database, 9i Application

server, Oracle Applications (11i) on Redhat Linux Advance Server (2.1)

• Creation of prototype for implementing a State Government Treasury Solution for Indian

State Government on Oracle 11i Financials

• Handling of all technical issues for the e-Governance Centre

• Mapping and integration of government processes in order to build on optimal solution

• Creation of proposals, presentations and other related documents for various

Government solutions

Software Engineer, Win-DB Computer Solutions [P] Ltd, Delhi, 01/02 to 11/02

Software engineer with responsibilities including interaction with clients for requirement gathering,

analysis and design of data model, and software development

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• Master’s in Computer Application – Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry (Hons.) from Miranda House, Delhi University, India

TRAININGS & CERTIFICATIONS

• Currently pursuing certification in Financial Analysis from NYU.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification from PMI, USA.

• Oracle Projects (Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Resource Management, Project

Management, Project Collaboration)

• Oracle Financials (General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash

Management, Fixed Assets, Purchasing, Public Sector Budgeting, Release R12).

HARDWARE & OPERATING SYSTEMS

• Knowledge of Windows 95/98/2000/NT and Unix

SOFTWARE, TOOLS & LANGUAGES

• SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, TOAD Software

• Programming Languages: VB, Java, C, C++

METHODOLOGY

• Extensively used Application Implementation Method (AIM) and AIM for Business Flows.

REFERENCES

• Reference upon request

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