Project Consultant

SAURABH CHITKARA

Mobile: +1-415-***-****, E-Mail: ********.*******@*****.***

Seeking career growth assignments as a Flex PLM Functional Consultant

Professional Digest

< Certified Flex PLM Consultant with nearly 3 years of techno functional

experience as a Process and Implementation Consultant.

< Expertise of working across Retail,Apparel and Footwear domains and

providing process consulting services to help build and adapt PLM systems

around their organizational business processes.

< Have Trained 120+ End Users on functionalities of Flex PLM.

< Experience in mapping business requirements, designing customized

solutions with strong analytical skills & ability to analyze business

practices and define optimal procedures.

< Experience in elicitation and collating Business Requirements from

clients, defining data models and writing functional design document.

< Exposure to AS-IS process study and suggesting the TO-BE process for PLM

implementations for Retail, Footwear and Apparel.

< Successful coordinator between business stakeholders and technical teams

for implementation and configuration of PLM systems.

< Aptitude in PLM technology assessment and business case development.

< Played a stellar role in executing various programs for the

Implementation, Customization and Integration of Software packages in

Product Life Cycle Management (PLM).

< Worked closely with Business leads, SME's, Super Users and the End users

at Onsite.

< An effective leader with proven abilities in leading teams at different

project phases, training / mentoring team members and enabling knowledge

sharing among the team.

Academia

< Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) from Vishwakarma Institute of

Technology, Pune in 2010.

Secured 7.4 CPI

Professional Certifications

< Certified Flex PLM Consultant by ITC Infotech Ltd.

< Completed SCJP 1.6 Certification.

Career Scan

Currently: ITC Infotech USA INC., as Process Consultant

At ITC Infotech India Ltd. as Process Consultant

07-10 - 12-12

At ITC Infotech USA Inc. as Process Consultant

01-13-Till Date

Skill Set

IT Consultancy Product Lifecycle Management

Business Analysis

Requirement Gathering Gap Analysis User

Acceptance Testing

SDLC Offshore / Onsite Management Team

Management

< Reviewing clients' existing process and systems, identifying inefficiency

in current business processes, advice if they are aligned with company's

vision and strategy and how they can be improved.

< Conducting process analysis & deriving to common "To-Be" process with

industry best practices & FlexPLM touch points.

< Gap analysis, provide solutions & recommend customizations to implement a

solution that meets all business needs.

< Translates business needs into a technical design by incorporating

appropriate feedback from client and internal technical teams

< Defining workflows, activity dependencies, calendar, role & security

matrix.

< Creating functional design document and data models.

< Conducting FlexPLM module wise micro process workshops (system demo,

discussions, Q&A) & finalize hierarchy, naming convention, attributes &

its values.

< Creating questionnaire & requirement archive based on various project

experiences in order to contribute in building PLM best practice

< Serves as a SME for the development and testing teams to clarify desired

business functionality and to fill gaps in understanding

< Leading & monitoring performance of team members to ensure efficiency &

meeting of individual & group objectives.

Technical Skills

PLM : Flex PLM, Windchill

Language : Java, Pl/SQL

Web Languages / Script : JSP, XML, HTML

Database : Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, SQL Server

Operating System : Windows

PLM Technologies : Flex 9.1, Flex 9.2, Flex 10.1

Personal Details

Date of Birth : 16th June 1988

Present Address : Archstone Apartment, 853 Commodore Dr, # 464

San Bruno, CA, USA-94066

Permanent Address : 32, Kaveri Vihar, Shamshabad Road, Agra, U.P

Annexure of key projects attached

Key Projects Executed

Title : WSI

Client : William Sonoma INC

Duration : Since Nov' 12

Overview : The client is a renowned retailer in USA with

multiple product categories. The project is to

implement a Flex PLM solution that can bring all their brands

and product categories together to follow a common

business process. As a part of their 1st release, the solution

was designed to cater their Textile and Furniture product

categories.

Role : Process Consultant

< Steering implementation of Flex PLM solution for Textile and Furniture

categories across all 5 brands.

< Conduct requirement gathering workshops in a CRP model with business

users.

< Preparing the data models and screen mockup helping the business to

visualize the output of the system implementation.

< Writing functional design documents, use cases and business requirements

< Collaborating with technical team to develop solution in flex PLM

< Ensuring quality of the system testing activities and timely completion.

< Conducting UATs with business team.

Title : Hard Goods / CPG Baseline Solution

Client : Internal

Duration : Feb' 12 - Nov' 12

Overview : The hard Goods / CPG project is an internal assignment of

implementing critical pain points of industry on flex PLM.

The solution also address the functionalities for the requirements which

flex PLM does not solve at this point in time.

Role : Process Consultant & Implementation Consultant

< Leading a team of 3 members to develop an express solution of Flex PLM

< Involved in requirement analysis and validation of the archive based on

various client requirement in order to contribute in building PLM best

practice

< Developing solutions for critical pain points of hard goods and CPG

industry on flex PLM through customization and configuration in Flex PLM.

< Presenting them to PTC and various hard goods clients for validations.

Title : LF, USA

Client : LF, USA

Duration : Apr' 12 - Jun' 12

Overview : The assignment included training over 3000 end users on

Flex PLM across the globe. The

assignment was to give the whole system overview and at

the same time provide the role based

training as well.

Role : Process Consultant

< Entrusted with onsite assignment to New York to train end-users on with

the functionalities of Flex PLM.

< Trained over 120 users in a classroom environment to help the end users

learn to use the Flex PLM system.

< Training involved role based and the overall system training.

Title : Pre-Sales System Demo

Client : Flex PLM for Stationary

Duration : Mar' 12 - Apr' 12

Overview : Stationary project was a pre-sales attempt for flex PLM.

It included the analysis of critical

requirements of Stationary industry, validating the

requirements and implementing them on flex

PLM with valid data. Later presented the system demo to

the ITC stationary division.

Role : Process Consultant and Implementation Consultant

< Requirement analysis and design validation.

< Baseline the stationary solution on Flex PLM.

< System development through configuration and customizations

< Involved in workflow configuration and Customization.

< Presented the developed system to the CEO of the stationary division.

Title : Cabela's

Client : Cabela's

Duration : Jan' 12 - Mar' 12

Overview : The project aimed at implementation of requirements

through configuration and customization of

FlexPLM for Cabela's. This includes requirement gathering

and validation for Phase 1.

Role : Process Consultant

< Delivered complete Offshore Support to the lead Consultant.

< Collaborated with technical team to develop solution in flex PLM

< Involved in requirement analysis and design validation.

< Documented:

o Data models.

o Functional design document

o Use Case and Test scenarios

o Modular and Regression UAT scripts.

Title : DSG

Client : Dicks Sporting Goods

Duration : Oct' 11 - Jan' 12

Overview : The project aimed at implementation of requirements

through configuration and customization of FlexPLM. This

includes requirement gathering & validation to UAT support

Role : Process Consultant

< Delivered complete Offshore Support to the lead Consultant.

< Involved in requirement analysis and design validation.

< Documented:

o Data models and functional design document.

o Modular and Regression UAT scripts.

< Involved in Unit/Functionality testing of the application.

Title : Andres

Client : Grupo Andreas, Mexico

Environment : Windows Server 2008

Technologies : JDK1.6, JSP

Database : SQL Server

Duration : Jun' 11 - Oct' 11

Overview : The main aim of the project was implementation of Flex PLM

through configuration and customization for Grupo

Andreas. This includes client side, server side and workflow customization.

Role : Implementation Consultant

< Involved in requirement analysis and design.

< Performed Customizations and System Configurations.

< Developed workflows through customization and configuration on multiple

objects of Flex PLM.

< Understood business functionalities to deliver high quality service to

the clients.

< Conducted Unit/Functionality Testing of the application.

< Handled Configuration and Quality Management activities.

Title : Sporting Goods Baseline Solution

Client : Internal

Environment : Windows XP

Technologies : JDK1.6, JSP

Database : Oracle 10g

Duration : May' 11 - Jun' 11

Overview : Sporting Goods solution was develop a baseline for all

Sporting Goods client with standard business practice

Role : Implementation Consultant

< Interacted with clients for understanding business functionalities to

deliver a system that implements standard business requirements.

< Designing a Flex PLM solution that involves customization and system

configurations.

< Implementing the standard workflows through customization and plugins.

Title : ASG

Client : Augusta Sportswear Group, US

Environment : Windows Server 2008

Technologies : JDK1.6, JSP

Database : SQL Server

Duration : Oct' 10 - Apr' 11

Overview : The project is aimed at customization of FlexPLM for

Augusta Sportswear Group. This includes client

and server side customization as well as creating a JAVA

API for M3 System.

Role : Developer

< Handled design & development of JAVA API for M3 System.

< Performed customization and system configurations.

< Understood business functionalities to deliver high quality service to

the clients.

< Conducted unit/functionality testing of the application.

< Managing Configuration and Quality Management activities.

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