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SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

Business Analysis . Business Process Integration . Business Process

Improvement Strategies . SAP

Seasoned and successful techno functional professional with 9 years of

experience in a wide variety of platforms and industries working with

Global/Fortune 500 companies and strong BIG4 consulting experience.

Adept in all facets of software development lifecycle, creating high

quality deliverables, following industry best practices and process

improvements for planning, designing, developing, testing, implementing

and delivery of large-scale enterprise solutions. Demonstrated track

record of skillfully developing business functional specifications and

technical specifications for technology projects.

Areas of expertise:

Requirements Analysis . Design Documentation . Functional and Technical

Specifications

Systems Integration . Team Building . Problem Solving . Process Improvement

. SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ACCENTURE, Houston, Texas; Murray Hill, New Jersey . 1998-2002

A Fortune 100, global management consulting, technology services and

outsourcing company with more than 176,000 people serving clients in more

than 120 countries.

Senior Consultant - BP

Designed enhancements for BP/AMOCO's portal for oil well configurations and

resource allocations to incorporate several new oil well sites. This portal

utilized HTML, JSP, JavaScript and Servlets technologies and the SAP R/3

system.

Senior Consultant - DOW CHEMICAL

Served in a lead role for Accenture-DOW Alliance SAP Implementation project

involved in integrating the newly acquired Union Carbide into the DOW SAP

system. Managed a team of 10 analysts during initial project team's setup,

developed work plans and task lists for them.

. As training coordinator, collaborated the mass training effort across

various implementation centers in different geographic locations and

oversaw 3 major training sessions in Houston.

. Lead a joint team of 3 Accenture Analysts and 6 Client Resources during

the requirements gathering phase of the implementation and prepared

Performance Reviews for 5 Accenture Analysts.

. Produced high quality deliverables for Project Planning and Estimation,

Resource Allocation and Weekly documentation of accomplishments and

issues for upper level management.

Senior Consultant - PERFORMANCE RETAIL INC.

Lead member, Portal Development Team for Performance Retail Inc., an

Accenture-Hess-Tosco partnership aimed at providing a portal solution to

the Convenience Store Industry.

. Actively participated in various portal seminars to assess various portal

vendors and helped narrow down to Top-Tier.

. Created functional and technical design templates for the portal

development work.

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Senior Consultant - HALLIBURTON

Contributed significantly as Lead Programmer and later as Technical

Designer to the very large scale SAP R/3 implementation for Halliburton

Energy Services. This involved linking all the various diverse business

units comprising 60,000 employees for HR and Payroll, 14,000 end users, 70

countries and 400+ sites and one global SAP instance.

. Provided creative solutions for the post production support teams and the

later version upgrades from R/3 3.1h to 4.0 and 4.6 as part of the

Halliburton BPM FI/CO and later MM and SD teams.

. Explored and successfully implemented innovative solutions untouched

before like User Exits instead of SAP core-mods that significantly

improved the fixed assets year end reconciliation process and using the

process flow diagrams of the SAP system to better understand and provide

superior designs.

. Defined steps for automation of Profit Center population for all 3rd

party manufacturing sales order line items that resulted in savings of

about 120,000 man-hours of work per year.

. Conducted performance measurements that benchmarked existing system and

provided alternative solutions that showed significant performance tuning

results.

. Mentored the BPM teams on utilizing Accenture's extensive Knowledgebase

by doing a detailed presentation.

Extra initiatives taken while working at Accenture, Houston :

. Enhanced significantly the Project Management Process across all of

the Outsourcing Business Process Management units of Accenture.

Defined the new process and its scope, identify and describe key

elements of the project management life cycle, defined the Metrics for

the system by setting up various new or modified procedures,

checklists and surveys. Effectively collaborated the team's effort in

creating the quick reference guide, participant guide and instructor

guide and oversaw the related training sessions in Houston.

. Founded the Communications Team for the Houston Accenture community

that comprised of various members all across the board, set standards

for the monthly community newsletter, recruited team members for the

team and promoted strong team building and knowledge sharing over

several months.

. As a lead member of the Women's Networking Group of Houston Accenture

office, helped arrange for guest speakers in many different fields

like health, nutrition, managing family and career, advice from senior

Accenture executives in the office etc. for the bimonthly meetings.

. Taught in a local elementary school as part of Accenture's Junior

Achievement work in Houston.

Consultant - Murray Hill Solution Center

Instrumental in the setup of the new Murray Hill Solution Center for

Accenture to win SAP clients. Created technical design standards for SAP

applications for this center.

McCREADE SYSTEMS LLC., New Jersey . 1997-1998

A client-centric company that has an enviable track record of consistently

delivering high quality, efficient, cost-effective, high-performance and

robust mission-critical IT solutions.

SAP Consultant

. Implemented an SAP R/3 system for an automobile parts manufacturing firm

using the R/3 business processes, the IMG and the ABAP/4 development

workbench.

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. Configured the system by creating company codes, business areas, credit

control areas and other organizational structures.

. Developed BDC programs to upload Customer Master, Vendor Master and

Material Master Tables in the SAP system. Made use of the system provided

"shdb" transaction and then modified the resulting auto generated code to

suite the business needs. This greatly speeded up the entire data load

process.

. Worked with Purchasing and Inventory Management components of the MM

module. Developed extract programs for reporting new Purchase Orders and

details of Material Movement and Current Quantities.

. Generated various Sales and Accounting Reports like printing Check

Documents on Demand using Master Data tables in SD and FI. This also

involved designing the layout screens for various reports using SAP

Script.

SYNTEL, Mitchell, South Dakota . 1997

Established provider for Global 2000 clients to operate their

businesses more efficiently through innovation, technology, and wisdom by

delivering flexible, custom Information Technology and Knowledge Process

outsourcing solutions that improve quality and reduce costs.

Consultant - AT&T

. Designed and implemented a three-tier client server billing system using

Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Active/X components.

. Also designed Com middle tier components for this system.

. Implemented system testing standards for this system and designed and

developed a Sybase Test Database using SQA testing tool.

CDI CORP., Raleigh, North Carolina . 1996-1997

Award winning leading provider of engineering and information technology

outsourcing solutions and professional staffing to Fortune 1000 clients.

Consultant - NORTEL

. Developed the "Cluster Vision" product of Nortel's Marketing Programs

Division which provided customers a CD to help them get a graphical view

of switch locations on the U.S map and they could drill down to many

levels of the map to their nearest desired telephone switch location and

get all necessary switch details.

. Developed the Cluster Vision database and the data load programs for the

database.

. Developed and maintained the Cluster Vision Order Entry System.

. Designed and developed Authorized Sales Agency database.

. Through effective participation and suggestions, promoted Nortel's

Marketing Team's book club that chose a book every month which was handed

to each club member and was discussed in monthly meetings.

HARITA FINANCE, Chennai, India . 1991-1993

Known now as TVS Finance and Services Ltd., had started off as a provider

of unmatched personalized service in the non-banking finance sector. It has

since emerged as a dominant player in retail financing, particularly two-

wheeler finance for TVS Motor vehicles.

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Systems Analyst

. Designed and developed the Motor Vehicles Leasing System, which involved

gathering of user requirements, writing system specification, designing

and developing the system.

. Developed the yearly Shares Dividend Calculation programs. To reduce

client costs and time associated with repeated application forms for the

different departments of the firm, it was decided to create a common

entry point, get one application filled and then redirect the

applications to one or more departments as needed. This was called the

Proof of Transaction System. Developed the interface, which acted as the

conduit between Proof of Transaction System and the Hire Purchase System.

. Involved as a member in transition development team which planned the

transition from UNIFY to SYBASE. Wrote Schema, Triggers and Stored

procedures for the new Sybase database.

SOFTEK LIMITED, Delhi, India . 1991

A pioneer system and application software company in India, Softek

developed customized solutions for clients in manufacturing, banking,

financial and hospitality industry. Softek has developed the parallel

Fortran for the first indigenously developed super computer in India; is

also the only company in the country to have developed a user friendly

bilingual (Devanagari-Roman) word processor AKSHAR, database and COBOL

compiler.

Assistant Engineer

. Involved in automation for a Canadian law firm which resulted in

development of several systems like Time and Billing, Accounts

Receivable, and Reporting.

. Developed several programs for the Time and Billing system.

. Also developed a report generator tool that allowed users to customize

reports according to their needs.

EDUCATION

Masters in Computer Applications (M.C.A) with Honors

Anna University, Chennai, India

Bachelor of Science (Triple Major - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics)

National College, Bangalore, India

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SAP . Ecommerce Development . Top-Tier Portal Development . Process

Excellence Business Integration Methodology . Project Management Best

Practices

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP . JAVA/JEE . HTML . VISUAL BASIC . C++

SQL . ORACLE . MICROSOFT OFFICE . MS PROJECT . VISIO

Currently working on PMP certification.

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