Vivek Sinha, PMP

Summary

A certified, PMP professional, highly organized and attentive to details, effective team leader and team builder with strong leadership qualities and ability to relate to people at various levels of business and management. Vivek is result oriented IT leader specialized in IT enabled business transformations with over twenty years of experience in Management & Information Technology with expertise in Thought Leadership, Strategy, Management Reporting, SAP Implementation, Technology and Support.

Vivek has helped fortune 500 corporations for last 20 years to define IT strategy/ Program Management to fulfill corporate vision towards sustainable future. Managing data and implementing BI can be challenging. It takes the right person with focus and tenacity, with the ability to drive a vision across an organization to help the company realize the benefit of good data practices and consolidated reporting across key functions. I was commended on numerous occasions for my ability to achieve these results.

Specialist

Business Intelligence - Vision/Strategy/Roadmap Creation & Execution

Improve Business Process/ Performance and Effectiveness Using Analytics

Enterprise Master Data

Data Migration

Data Governance

Business & IT

Executive Partnership

IT Program &

Project Management

Data & IT

Solution Architecture

Pre-Sales/ Add on Sales

Infrastructure and Mobility

IT Strategy

Skills

Industry

Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Equipment, Utility, Chemical, Oil,

Electronics, Food, Software

Technology

SAP Net Weaver, HANA, BPC, BOBJ, CRM, APO, LUMIRA, FIORI

Amazon Cloud, Microsoft Azure Cloud

IBM Cognos

Database: Oracle, Teradata, DB2, HANA

Manhattan – Distributed Order Management

Teradata - DCM ( Allocation and Forecasting application )

Output Management System - LRS

IBP Rational Performance Tool (RPT)/ U Perform

Unix/ Portal/ Web Sphere

ATG / Red Prairie/ Blue Martini/ Sharepoint

Leadership

Dale Carnegie : Effective Communications and Human Relations

Management Trainee for 20/20 Leadership Program at PSEG

Recipient of Golden Hub Award at AT&T

Recipient of PRIDE Award - PSEG

Project Management Course at PSEG (8 weeks)

How to Listen – Workshop at Capgemini

Managed Onsite/ Offshore model to reduce budget

Lead large team to implement Enterprise Reporting Strategy / Implementation

Thought leadership to diffuse conflict

Bringing Man into Management - Started a New approach to management

Process

Project Management

Order to Cash

Finance ( AP, AR, GL, COPA)

Plan to Product

Procure to Pay

Hire to Retire

Master Data

Global Governance Models

Policy and Procedures

Integration between heterogeneous systems

Medical Devices – (Ortho Clinical Diagnostics) – Project Manager/ Solution Architect

Ortho: Oct 2014 – Sep 2015 & Dec 2015 – Current

Under the TSA agreement of Carlyle group and J&J, A worldwide program is setup to migrate 250+ applications from J&J network to OCD network. I worked as Global Reporting Lead and Technology Lead to understand/migrate existing reporting platform for all regions including Americas, EMEA, ASPAC & LATAM. As a Technology lead I provided technical expertise and project management with hands on expertise for OCD Technology service for SAP and ancillary systems implementation to migrate OCD related applications from J&J infrastructure. In this journey I worked on multiple roles utilizing my experience in IT and Business process and technology.

Work with multiple Client Business Partners / Systems Integrators such as IBM, HCL, CBTS, Symmetry, J&J, SAP, SAP SLO, SAP Max Attention etc. as directed by America’s IT Leader and the Global Technology Leader.

Some of the activities are listed below:

Global Reporting Lead (SAP BPC/ BOBJ, Information Anywhere & Cognos Reporting Solutions)

oGlobal Leader Enterprise Reporting Strategy/ Roadmap for SAP and Non-SAP Supply Chain/ Finance/ Customer Service

oEvaluate and propose global financial consolidation of Day1, Day 1.5 and Day 2 countries.

oDefine strategy and roadmap which enables short term goal of coming out of TSA agreement with parent company and at the same time prepare the foundation for future growth.

oProvide thought leadership and technical oversight to implement BW/BPC Global consolidation and Global Reporting and Analytics

oInternal/ External reporting from BPC Management and Consol Model

Technology Lead

oDesigned & implemented Landscape/Client/Transport Strategies

oWork with SAP SLO team & JnJ for data carve activity

oProvide functional/ technical leadership to resolve data issue in bringing data in Ortho landscape

Analytics/ Master Data / BPC Reporting

oWork with Business and Finance to streamline process and data issue

oGlobal Finance Master Data governance and maintenance

oNorth America Supply Chain to Finance Data and process governance

oIntegral part of Month end/ Quarter End/ Year End Closing process

oAligned and streamlined data load process with Finance business process and resolve issue for reconciliation which ended up providing trust in BPC data along with Data warehouse data for business community’s daily use.

oDesigned and implemented Lumira dashboard on Laptop/ desktop for senior leadership to have the pulse of daily/ weekly / Monthly sales by Sales territory and profit center

oSAP Fiori App PoC for GL Balance/ GL Line Item Detail/ Financial Statement (FSV)

Technology: SAP HANA (S/4 HANA Suite, BW, BPC, CRM, Business Object), Lumira, Fiori, APO,

Manhattan, Oracle, Cognos, LRS OMS, Avalanche RF-GUNS, IBM- Rational tool

Fashion Retail - (Ann Taylor, J Crew) – Project Manager/ Solution Architect

Ann Taylor: May 2011 – Sep 2014;

J Crew: Aug 2007 – Apr 2011 & Oct 2000 to Jun 2001

I have more than 8 years of experience in fashion retail industry as Solution Architect and Program / Project Manager to facilitate various initiatives to implement IT and Business Strategy to achieve corporate goals. I have helped in creating enterprise reporting strategy, implementing and managing solution across organization to bridge the gap in the process and help business provide accurate and granular visibility of data for informed management decisions. I have been integral part of PMO team to provide weekly status to the larger team. Successfully manage budget and time to keep projects on track.

Omni channel/ Multichannel reporting solution to actualize corporate vision “If she wants and we have it, she gets it”.

Store Dashboard/ Return Management and Financial Management Reporting for Senior Management

Designed and implemented Dashboard/ Ad-hoc reports for Business users to utilize data quickly to make business decisions

Enable 1000+ Stores to get access to Store Ovation report on BI portal to monitor daily/weekly/Quarterly/Yearly Actual Vs Goal metrics.

Enabled automatic printing on back office printer Daily Sales Vs Goal KPIS

Integrate Level & Alpha with Sales and inventory and Eligibility for better planning and allocation

Design & implemented reports such as

oQuality of Distribution, Allocation Scorecard, Forecast Accuracy, Service Level, Stock to Sales ( Top 40 Styles)

Integration of e-comm and POS data to provide single view Sales/Inventory and margin KPIs’

Dynamic HR Organizational security for VP/DM/Sales Lead/ Co Sales Lead for 3500 users

Worked with Change management team to help create end user training

Worked with Planning and Allocation team to improve assortment allocation

Help Store Ops to provide zip code based report

As is and GAP analysis of reporting technology inventory and consolidation to reduce overall IT expense enabling use of budget dollars for future enhancement

Enabling WMS team by providing replenishment and available to promise accurate information

Enhance customer experience by providing Single Shopping Cart Solution

Designed and implemented inventory snapshot process to reduce the BWA utilization by 90% and data load time by 70%

Technology: SAP ECC, ATG, Blue Martini, Red Prairie, Teradata, Manhattan, SAP BOBJ, SAP BW, POS,

Oracle, Cognos, AJB, BWA

Utility: (PSEG & Washington Gas Light) – BI/ Data Solution Architect

Washington Gas & Light: Oct 2015 – Dec 2015

PSEG: May 2004 – Sep 2005

PSEG and Washington Gas & Utility companies sells and delivers natural gas to retail customers in accordance with tariffs approved by regulatory commissions in New Jersey, the District of Columbia and adjoining areas in Maryland, Virginia, and several cities and towns in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Responsibilities

Define Enterprise Reporting Strategy, Blueprint, As-is and To-Be Analysis

Consolidate large number of report inventory to more meaningful and manageable report inventory

Provide functional and technical leadership to utilize SAP HANA, HANA Live, BW on HANA with SAP Business Object suits of tools to provide real time information with high efficiency for enterprise reporting solution

Provide thought leadership and technology expertise for cloud technology use with SAP HANA for added cost benefit and high availability

SAP HANA Live views for Utility and Utility CRM

Integration between HANA and SAP BOBJ

Technology: SAP HANA (ECC, BOBJ, BPC, BW), Microsoft Azure Cloud

CLIENTS/ EMPLOYERS SERVED OVER THE PERIOD OF 20+ YEARS:

Clients

Employers

Ann Taylor

J Crew

Capgemini

BASF

Nabisco

HCL

CA

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics

Nabisco

Chevron-Philips

Panasonic

PSEG

Ciba-Vision

PSEG

VXD Systems

Degussa

Washington Gas & Light

Equiva

Welch Allyn

QUALIFICATION: MS (STATISTICS)

REFERENCES

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