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Project Manager Sales

Location:
Charlotte, NC, 28269
Posted:
March 06, 2011

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Alex Panuganti

980-***-****

Siebel CRM Certified Core Consultant

IBM Certified IT Architect

PMI Certified Project Manager (PMP)

Summary: Alex has over twelve years of IT expertise (working for IBM, Oracle) as Business

Analyst/ Solution Architect, in the areas of leading, managing and implementation of custom

applications and packaged software’s, ERPs.

Work Experience:

Quintiles Inc Sep 09 – Feb 2011

Sr. Business Analyst/Integration Team Lead

Worked with the clients Business architects to review and establish processes for supporting

CTMS (Clinical Trials Management System) (Siebel eClinical Application).

Conducted JAR sessions to re-engineer business processes to CTMS, identify areas that need

process re-engineering work, establish gaps and list requirements for customization.

Reviewed configuration changes needed with architects and developers to implemented modified

processes.

Established data requirements from legacy applications to supposed re-engineered processes,

and worked with legacy application owners to set up and architect integration design parameters

for connectivity.

Prepared the FDD documents for client’s review and approval.

Worked with developers to ensure that all the UI requirements, data model changes are

established and detailed.

Coordinated with all the integration developers, client architects, legacy application owners to

design, develop and test all the interfaces.

Prepared the detailed project plan for implementing 18 interfaces, including batch and realtime

interfaces.

Worked on debugging defects and re-testing the adjusted configurations.

Updated and reviewed development and testing progress with the program management team

and the stake holders on a weekly basis.

AT&T Mar 09 – Sep 09

Sr. Business Analyst

Worked on implementing an integration solution for supporting customer, billing

and service applications.

Conducted review sessions with stake holders, established process parameters,

finalized data mapping between legacy and Siebel systems.

Worked on evaluating and establishing integration methodologies for batch and

real time interfaces.

Oracle Consulting June 08 – Feb 09

Client:High Tech Manufacturing Company

Business Analyst

Implementation of Oracle Siebel v8.0 and integrating CRM with legacy backend

applications to support Customer data, Order Management and fulfillment.

Gathered business requirements, supporting transaction processing.

Conducted requirements analysis using a Use Case driven approach and produced

detailed use cases for all the interfaces.

Used Rational Rose and UML to produce use case models, and sequence diagrams, as

part of the detailed design of interfaces.

Established strategic partnerships with the business units to develop a solid understanding

of the business line; including the business plan, products, and process and revenue

streams.

Functioned as a primary bridge between the business, operations, and the technical areas

throughout the project cycle.

Identified and validated high potential business opportunities for stakeholders and

developed customized business strategies that are aligned with corporate strategic

objectives

Planned and supervised stakeholder review sessions, fit gap analysis, managed change

control and project costs and budgets.

Wrote and maintained other technical documentation (including issues lists, flow charts,

risk assessments, and use cases) as required for new technologies and/or regulatory

compliance, e.g., in support of SDLC, SOX, change control, and problem management

processes.

Prepared test cases for manual testing at all stages, SIT, UAT etc

Designed interfaces to integrate CRM and legacy systems, using SOA, Web services and

messaging.

Worked on data mapping work to import legacy data in to Siebel Db, wrote SQL scripts to

extract data for analysis and extracting data.

Client:Healthcare Company

Solution Architect/Business Analyst Apr 08- June 09

Conducted the upgrade assessment work to upgrade the order management

system.

Worked with business owners and development teams to support applications that

comprise components from different vendors; develops RFI’s, RFP’s, and business cases;

monitors SLA’s and Disaster Recovery requirements / testing with vendors.

Reviewed current customizations, configurations and workflows supporting Sales

and Service functions. Reviewed all data migration jobs/ EAI interfaces and performed a

detailed study of replacing them with available new technologies and features from v8.0.

Performed detailed data mapping work to analyze data model changes.

Conducted stake holder reviews to assess requirements to support new business

functions and designed solutions to support them.

Worked with CRM solution sales to design CRM solutions for clients and prepare

responses to RFP’s. Prepared estimates, and performed detailed cost analysis.

IBM Corporation Nov 00- April 08

Client:Healthcare provider, Detroit, Michigan

Business Analyst/Architect

Negotiated deliverables from initial requirements to final implementation by leading

communication between business units and IT.

Analyzed requirements and prepared functional and technical design documents.

Worked on implementation of Siebel 7.5 Call Center application to support their sales

operations.

Implementation of Siebel CTI feature with Genesis software.

Integration of Siebel with other legacy customer databases using Integration middleware,

WBI.

Worked on Assignment Manager to assign Opportunities to team members.

Implemented the e Service module to support assignment and follow-up on service

requests across the country.

Setup the internal organization structure, access controls and visibility

Internal project

Sr. Business Analyst/Team Lead

Worked with customers across 25 countries to setup a customer facing portal to help IBM

account mangers and customer employees to collaborate and exchange information.

Portal helps customers to login, look at all the IBM assets installed at their location, SLA

details, search and place orders for products that are relevant to their organization.

Portal helps customer employees to update their content, search knowledgebase, submit

RFP’s and interact with any IBM group.

Integrated with backend IBM products, pricing and sales information supporting

applications

As the key liaison between IBM execs and customer, interacted with multiple groups,

conducted stake holder review sessions, requirements analysis, standardization,

coordinating the look and feel of the web pages, static and dynamic content, portlet

placements, and graphics.

Worked on collecting translations for all the labels and menus and coordinated with

content mgmt teams.

Tools used are Websphere portal server, application server, Netweaver and ECM

(Enterprise content mgmt systems),

Client: Major Bank, Detroit, MI

The project was about participating in the research and development of Enterprise Supporting

System to support Asset Mgmt, Risk Mgmt and Marketing team of the Tata AIG to develop new

business opportunities for their prospective customers. Automation included Special Billing,

Auditing, and Cash Value Estimates.

• Gathered business requirements, supporting transaction processing.

• Conducted requirements analysis using a Use Case driven approach and produced

detailed use cases for all the interfaces.

• Used Rational Rose and UML to produce use case models, and sequence diagrams, as

part of the detailed design of interfaces.

• Established strategic partnerships with the business units to develop a solid understanding

of the business line; including the business plan, products, and process and revenue

streams.

• Functioned as a primary bridge between the business, operations, and the technical areas

throughout the project cycle.

• Identified and validated high potential business opportunities for stakeholders and

developed customized business strategies that are aligned with corporate strategic

objectives.

• Provided analysis, understanding and business perspectives on many financial and

operational issues.

• Conducted several Requirement Gathering Sessions (RGS) for gaining detailed

requirements and finalizing Business Requirement Document (BRD).

• Used Telelogic DOORS for requirements management and saved requirements modules

of database.

• Used Rational Unified Process (RUP) for streamlining the team’s development activities.

• Translated Business requirements to functional and technical language with the help of

Use cases and UML diagrams for developers.

• Involved in preparing a simple and detailed User manual for the application, for an

intended novice user.

Client:Consumer Industry Sector

Managed a team of 22 members, worldwide, implementing Siebel v7.7 for Sales

Operations, and Service.

Coordinated long-term solution design strategies, legacy application transformation,

application upgrades, implementation of SOA and ESB’s.

Worked on Solution design, integrating Siebel with other legacy applications using Siebel

UAN, EIM and other object level interfaces for real time and batch transfer of data and

information.

Responsible for client interaction, requirements definition, mapping and project planning

Implemented Siebel (PRM) Partner Relationship Management, Partner Portal, Partner

manager modules.

Worked briefly in implementation of Siebel Analytics, including designing the star schema

data model, Siebel answers. Intelligence Dashboards, Siebel Delivers.

Client: Mortagage company, New York

• Participated in the identification, definition and documentation of impending work flows for

the purpose of migrating to a superior version of party information system.

• Facilitated (JAD) Joint Application Development sessions to identify business rules and

requirements and then documented them in a format that can be reviewed and understood

by both business people and technical people.

• Translated Business requirements to functional and technical language with the help of

Use cases and UML diagrams for developers

• Conducted requirement workshops among all project stakeholders to verify and validate

the business requirements in UI designs.

• Facilitated JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives

with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.

• Performed gathering, analysis, review and signoff of business requirements and

conducting of interviews, sessions etc

Client:Pharmaceutical Company, Chicago, IL

Team Lead

Worked towards requirement gathering, interviews with stakeholder requirement analysis,

GAP, designed and deployed required interfaces using EAI, and data loads with EIM.

Worked on implementation of Siebel call center and eService.

Worked extensively on EIM, Workflow Manager and Assignment Manager

Mergers & Acquisitions experience

IBM acquisition of Rational Software products...2004...Worked as the lead liaison to build basic

strategy of migrating business rules, data migration (batch/real-time), and user migration. Worked

on identifying solutions for daily data migration jobs. Upgrading Siebel to accommodate Rational’s

business processes and data transformation.

IBM acquisition of “Ascential Inc” worked with Ascential business owners to migrate all open and

closed Opportunities, merging of sales methodologies/cycles, data migration, one time and also

on going. Built architecture to support user interface merge and business rules incorporation in the

new release.

Accomplishments at other IBM Client engagements

Functioned as the consultant lead for the manufacturing process team in the implementation

of SAP at an automotive tier-1 supplier. Worked on all phases of the implementation and

helped integrate the PDM and Configuration management processes in the new system, in

addition to the core manufacturing processes. This was the first ERP implementation for this

client and achieved significant business process improvements as a result of the

implementation.

Planned, designed and deployed a tool to support Solution design and delivery process.

Technologies including Portal server, WebSphere application server, MQ Workflow, DB2 and

WebSphere Business Integrator.

Architected an integrated solution to help resolve customer credit rating issues from Siebel,

using xml, web services and Enterprise service bus.

Integrated multiple applications to support customer information, billing, and service using

application middleware’s, java data bean adapters, on UNIX. Oracle database.

Miracle Software Systems Inc, Detroit, MI 1999 – 2000

IT Sales Manager

Looked after sales and project implementation of ERP and Siebel software’s.

Complete lead management, qualifying opportunities, proposals, customer presentations and

contract finalization.

As an engagement manager, looked after Project Management, resources planning and client

interaction

Technical Skills

Project Domain: Business Analysis, Fit gap, JAR sessions, Requirements, Solution

Design, Application Development, Business Process Re-

Engineering, Data modeling, SQL, testing, Production support, etc

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix

Programming Languages: Java, HTML, XML, ABAP 4, eScript

Databases: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server

Applications: Siebel CRM v6.3/ v7.0/ v7.5/ v7.7 and v8.1, SAP R/3,

. Oracle EBS, MS Projects, Visio

2000, MS Office

Other: Brio, Erwin, Qwaliware, Crystal Reports, Actuate Reports,

Education & Training: Bachelor of Science, Maths - Andhra University, India

Bachelor of Engineering - Mysore University, India

Siebel CRM Certified Core Consultant

IBM Certified IT Architect

PMI Certified Project Manager (PMP)



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