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Project Management Sales

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San Diego, CA
Posted:
May 18, 2017

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Shiva prasad Javali PMP SAP.

San Diego, CA 858-***-****/858-***-**** ac0dsb@r.postjobfree.com

** ***** ** ** **** 13 years in SAP. Project management, Co-ordination, Implementation, Upgrades, System Integration, AMS, SAP 4.6, 4.7, ECC 5/6 EHP 6 in Manufacturing, Healthcare, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Food & Beverage, Paper & Pulp and Telecom domains.

Project Management - Drive execution of IT strategy by working closely with Business users & technical teams, gather Business requirements, defining detailed Project plans, Scope, deliverables, managing multiple Projects from initiation, planning through execution, cutover, go live and closure. Handling project issues, risks, scope changes, critical paths, managing schedules impacting delivery, track project metrics, milestones, deliverables, KPIs periodically, leveraging the processes, tools from PMO, communicate to project Sponsors/Steering committee.

Offshore Delivery - Identifying resources, manage external resources & Offshore delivery team, maintain vendor relationships, contracts, SLAs & outsourcing agreements, managing cost, budgets.

Production Support - Categorize Delivery support requests into Enhancements, break fixes, custom RICEF, Web Dynpro, ABAP enhancements, ensure on time deliverables on a daily basis, adhering to SLAs, documentation & signoff, managing stakeholder’s expectation.

5 Full cycle Implementations, Rollouts covering US, Canada, PR, Europe, release mgmt & rollback plans. Experience with business scenarios like Mergers & Acquisitions (KCR Integration, Anova Foods).

Manage SAP Upgrades with BW, APO landscapes, using Panaya SAP Upgrade tool, Co-ordinate with BASIS, on maintenance tasks, Sandbox setup, System refreshes, Emergency & Adhoc support. Experience with HANA (Winshuttle, LSMW & SAP data migration tools), Network Infrastructure, Cloud based hosting environments.

SAP SD/LE interfacing with MM, WM, FI/CO, CAS Trade Promotions, CRM, Vistex (Commissions, IP, BBs, Rebates), EDI GIS, OTC (Inquiry, Quotation, Order, Delivery, Invoice, Commissions), Pricing, Billing, Transportation planning, Master Data Management. Complex integration projects & third party system integration like CAS, Lean Logistics (for domestic freight), Cargo Smart (for Ocean freight).

EDI Implementations covering 846 (Inventory snapshot), Custom Invoice 810/880 for Canada Customs Dept for cross country stock movement reporting, 940/945 from 3PL locations and direct plants, PO & SO acknowledgements 850, 855, 856 ASN, 214s.

Basics of APO GATP, PS (WBS, CATS), VC, VMI, Sage MAS500, Vendavo, Vertex, HANA, Fiori, SuccessFactors, Qlik, SAP EAM, Open text & ECM.

Handled Cross-functional BI, BW projects & Visualization dashboards using Qlik Sense. Trained in Informatica, Cognos and Business Objects.

QA/QC, Test planning & execution, Unit/Integration/Functional/Regression testing of SAP Netweaver, Web portals based on Java, HTML, Oracle, SQL Server, ASP &.Net technologies. Healthcare Insurance/Pharmaceutical/Retail domain for Nutrisystem, leading UAT sessions for Empire BCBS for Provider, Broker, Customer Web portals, IV & V experience in Rational Robot & RTM, Win runner, MQC/HPQC, ALM, Regulatory/Non-regulatory test execution, ASC transaction sets (834/835, 837, 276/277, 997/999) for BMS.

Change Management & Defect tracking using Track IT, Configuration Management using Rational Clearcase & cccHarvest, SAP Solution Manager for ALM, ITutor for End User training.

Knowledge of SDLC, ASAP, SAP Activate, Agile/Scrum, 6 Sigma, SEI-CMM, HIPAA, SOX, CGMP/GXP, CFR 21, SharePoint, Visio, JIRA/Confluence, Primavera & MS Project.

People Skills - Strong process orientation, communication & presentation skills. Solid project management, methodologies & best practices, strive for continuous Improvement, mentoring, conflict resolution & leadership, drive towards long term business goals.

US work experience -Bumble Bee Foods, Hershey’s, NutriSystem, T-Mobile, Bristol Myers Squibb, Empire BCBS, Weyerhaeuser, and Farmers Insurance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bumble Bee Foods LLC, San Diego, CA. Dec 2008 – till date (SAP OTC/SD)

Yash Technologies/NTT Data/Boden Inc. Oct 2006 – Dec 2008 (Sr SAP Consultant)

IBM Global Services, Bangalore, India. Oct 2002 – Sept 2006 (Software Delivery).

Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India. May 2000 – Sept 2002 (Software Engineer).

Squall Systems, Bangalore, India. July 1998 – May 2000 (Software Engineer).

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Master’s in Business Administration, MBA, Mangalore University, India.

Bachelors in Electronics and Comm Engineering, Kuvempu University, India.

PMP Certification, PMI, USA.

SAP certified SD Consultant, SAP AG, Germany.

CSTE (Certified Software Test Engineer), QAI Florida, USA.

Rational Robot & Team test Automation certification, IBM-Rational Corp, USA.

TRAINING & AWARDS

Siemens Authorized SAP SD Training & Certification sponsored by IBM India, Bangalore.

IBM Corporate Training for Business Objects, Informatica, Cognos.

Bravo Award for Best performance, IBM, 2003.

Best Overall Performance Award, IBM, 2004.

Customer satisfaction Award, IBM, 2005.

Customer Delight Award, Intelligroup Inc, 2007.

PROJECT DETAILS

Bumble Bee Foods LLC, Dec 2008 – till date. Bumble Bee Foods (est 1899), headquartered in San Diego, CA is a leading Seafood manufacturer. With plants & 3PL Warehouses across US, Canada, Asia, it manufactures & sells canned seafood through brokers & direct customers. In 2008, went live with SAP ECC6. CAS (for Trade Promotion Mgmt), Vistex, BI, Cognos, Business Objects, APO and GIS (for EDI) interface with SAP.

Responsibilities –

-Work with Bumble Bee business logistics & customer service teams, understand the complex requirements, prepare business blueprint, plan, design, implement & manage IT solutions by configuration and custom enhancements.

-Categorize projects, enhancements & break fixes, setup adhere to SLAs. Handle project management tasks, issues, risks, scope changes, schedules impacting delivery, collect metrics & reporting leveraging PMO process, tools.

-Allocate & track offshore team for project deliverables & timelines, change requests raised by business users, manage day to day project activities, conflicting priorities, issue escalations.

-Develop Functional specs, Test documentation, use cases, and test cycles, test conditions, detailed documentation. Assist with the functionality testing of end-to-end scenarios to verify system configuration across modules.

-Collect metrics/weekly reports based on the CRs raised by the business users & report KPIs.

SAP EHP 7 Upgrade, SAP HANA Implementation, Jan 2017 – till date - Panaya tool used to analyze and recommendations are used to remediate code, test and resolve SAP issues. SAP S4 HANA & BW HANA implementations are being scoped, resource allocation, design planning in progress.

KCR Integration, Sept 2016 – Dec 2016 – Service Order processing, IC Stock transfer setup between KCR & Canada Domestic Sales

Cost to Serve, June 2016 – Sept 2016 – Tracking Customer Profitability beyond Gross Margin

Anova GATP Implementation, July 2014 – May 2016 – GATP Implementation interface with APO & SAP ECC for Customer order processing with SD/LE module. Batch Characteristics, Country of Origin feature were used.

SAP EHP 6 Upgrade, Sept 13 – Mar 2014 - Panaya tool used to analyze and recommendations were used to debug, test and resolve SAP issues.

BH Customs Invoice Implementation Jun 2013 – Dec 2013 – EDI 810/880 were customized for the Canada Customs Dept transmission.

Project Peach (COSI) Implementation, Jan 2012 – May 2012 – Utilization of Competitor’s plant (East coast) and letting the competitor use our plant (West coast), enable seamless transaction processing.

Saddle Creek Plant Implementation, Oct 2011 – Dec 2011 – Setup new plant and related configuration, handle inventory transactions to liquidate old plant.

TMS Implementation, July – Sept 2011 – Integrate Lean Logistics software with SAP and enable load planning, tendering, appointment scheduling and other transportation planning tasks.

Canada Divisional Reporting, Jan – Jun 2011 – Enable flexible reporting within a Company code using Business Area concept.

Blacks Harbor Spare Parts Sales Implementation, Oct – Dec 2010 – Cash Sale & Rush Order implementation for Employee sales within Blacks Harbor plant.

SAP Upgrade, Oct 2010 – Dec 2010 – Technical Upgrade covering ECC, BI & APO followed by System Refresh.

EDI 846 Implementation, Jan – Aug 2010 – EDI846 Inventory snapshot at plant level was implemented covering all the plants & 3PL warehouses with weekly inventory snapshots and custom reports for monthly auditing.

DPS Order Implementation, Jun – Dec 2009 – Direct Plant Shipment feature to provide incentive for customer who accept DPS ordering and in turn maintain inventory levels at 3PL warehouses.

SAP Upgrade, Aug - Dec 2009 – Technical Upgrade covering ECC, BI & APO followed by System refresh.

Intelligroup Inc (NTT Data), July 2007 - Aug 2008, SAP SD Consulting.

T-Mobile, Bellevue WA. SAP Technical Upgrade, May – Aug 08.

Hershey’s SAP Upgrade Assessment, Hershey PA, Mar - April 08.

STEP-UP (SAP Upgrade 4.6 to ECC 6.0) BMS Inc., Princeton NJ, Jul 2007 – Mar 2008.

-Project Coordinator for Functional, System Testing, UAT, coordinated with Accenture (Manila & India) testing teams and solved defects & performed Security testing using different roles for different markets like Mexico, Brazil and European countries. Used Mercury Quality Center to document and defect tracking activities.

-Gathered business test requirements broadly categorized as Regulatory (GxP) and Non-Regulatory in the Order to Cash Cycle & termed as Process Scenarios and Interface scenarios (for Legacy systems using EDI GIS systems).

-Developed Functional & Testing Specifications based on the business requirements and interaction with the SMEs, developers and End-users for different countries like UK, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Mexico, Brazil etc.

-Configured and tested different OTC cycles for business scenarios like Domestic orders, Export orders, Sample orders, Back order Processing, Return orders, Nota Fiscals.

-Worked on configuring different Output types for orders based on business scenarios, different Interfaces related to Delivery processing Inbound, Outbound, Distribution Interface, Material Masters, Customer Masters, Pricing Extracts.

NutriSystem Inc. Horsham PA Dec 2006 – June 07, ERP Consultant (representing Tek Systems/Boden Inc)

-Gathered business requirements to test Customer Order Management, Delivery processing (Pick, Pack and Ship), Invoicing and Cash payment Interfaces and created Functional specs for mapping the various processes relevant for interfaces. Performed Fit-Gap Analysis of existing business processes in Order fulfillment and related WM, Finance modules.

-Configured and tested the Order tracking system for the OTC cycle, from order creation in web portal, Hold for Customer Address validation, Assign Warehouse Queue, Hold for Inventory (Initiates a Cancel and Reship, for Inventory shortage), Item substitution, WH Substitution, Re-push orders, Re-ship initiation, Push to Warehouse, printing Picking, Packing Lists and Funds capture. Lead the testing and validation efforts for the production release of the existing Order Closure efforts in legacy system Sage MAS500

IBM India, Oct 2002 - Sept 2006, SAP SD Consulting

PROJECT FUSION, Hindustan Unilever India, subsidiary of UNILEVER, USA. Jan – Sept 2006.

PROJECT FUSION, Hindustan Unilever India, July – Dec 05, SAP SD Consultant – Transportation module.

Market Unit Solution (MUS), May 04 – Jun05, SAP 4.7, SD Support.

Empire BCBS, NY, Oct 2002 – Apr 2004, Business Analyst/ QA Analyst.

WIPRO Technologies, India, May 2000 - Sept 2002, QA Analyst/ Business Analyst

Weyerhaeuser Inc, Federal Way, WA, Aug 2001 – Sept 2002

OEI Automation (Order Entry and Invoicing), May – Jul 2001

S2K (System 2000) Automation, Jan – Mar 2001

IPAT (Integrated Process Automation Tool), Nov – Dec 2000

Enterprise Applications Verification and Validation, Oct 2000

CRN (Customer Restoration Network), Farmers Insurance, Simi Valley, CA, June – Sept 2000

-Worked as Business Analyst, meeting SMEs, scheduling discussions, gathering requirements, writing Test strategy, planning estimates.

-Worked as QA Analyst (Independent Validation & Verification) on manual, functional, exploratory testing activities utilizing MSI packages for stand-alone applications and work from remote locations.

-Worked as Test Engineer, establishing Proof of Concept for compatibility testing to be carried out from offshore, India, using Citrix metaframe.

-Performed Manual and Automated testing (peak load scenarios, stress & performance) using Rational and Mercury tools, responsible for Test design, Scripting, Execution, Defect Tracking and Reporting.

-Worked as Configuration Coordinator, handling production builds for check-in and check-out of code using cccHarvest tool.

Squall Systems Pvt Ltd, India, July 1998 – May 2000, Software Developer/Pre Sales & Support

-Software Developer/Pre-Sales Coordinator - www.studytimes.com, Feb - April 2000, TEXTILE MASTER, Universal Textile Mills, Bangalore, Oct 99 – Jan 2000, SARR (Soil Analysis and Recommendation Reports), Zuari Agro, Bangalore, Jun 99 – Oct 99, QUOTE MAKER, Office Automation Product, Jan 99 – May 99, SPECS (Student Performance Evaluation and Counseling Software), Jul 98 – Dec 98.



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