Project Manager

Chandra Bhuvanagiri

Ph: 732-***-****

Email: ************@*****.***

Overview

SAP Practice Director for KPIT west coast region and Service Delivery/Program manager for SAP S/4 HANA Application deployments and integration of cloud and on premise digital transformation projects and aligning technology innovations.

Over 14 plus years of total experience in ERP business applications integration and industry best practice solution implementation. Over 8 years of experience in Service Delivery, Program Management including managing full life cycle projects, and leading teams onsite/offshore and implemented and delivered mission critical applications on time and on budget.

Recent achievements have been successful delivery of the new SAP S/4 HANA business suite 1610/ 1511 on-premise and cloud implementations

Leverages a well-balanced blend of business insight, technology knowledge, people skills and analytical thinking to develop strategies and solutions for customer and company needs.

Senior leader advising and influencing clients to embrace right technology, process improvement, and information architecture to help achieve business goals and growth.

Clear-cut leadership skills, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to influence others in forming consensus.

Hands-on experience in the set up and running of Project Management Offices for complex IT organizations with off-shore development

Effectively work with Service providers, vendors determine implementation approaches and provide guidance to use SAP best practices.

Experience in SAP business /IT methodologies Ex: Activate/Agile/Scrum and ASAP/Waterfall etc. and experience in MS Project, JIRA tools.

10 + end to end implementations, migrations, integrating with other third-party systems, system technical Upgrades etc.

Hands on experience as well as managing with solution design, configuration, development, testing and deployment and support.

Architected and delivered custom mobile applications using UI 5 technology for SAP applications and SAP Mobility/Cloud offerings, integration of SaaS application with SAP.

Managing cross functional teams during full life-cycle projects and deployment of integrated Business systems (CRM, ECC, SRM, PI/PO etc.).

Good knowledge and experience in SaaS, PaaS, IaaS & cloud infrastructure applications and deployments. Includes S/4 HANA migrations, CRM & SRM technical upgrades & Cloud deployments

Trained and certified on Project management, SAP S/4 HANA, Activate methodology and Solution Manager 7.2 and business by design & cloud products.

Additional experience:

Transformed enterprise-wide business processes

Large Scale ERP implementations and S/4 migration projects/upgrades, Cloud deployments

Designed and implemented information technology solutions

Negotiating and closing sales & procurement deals

Built strong client relationships

Managed P&L

Led and developed human capital

Managed and delivered projects on schedule and on budget

Industry Experience

Information Technology

Automotive

Footwear & Apparel(AFS)

Chemicals

Mill

Project Experience

KPIT, Folsom, CA Nov’2011 – Till Date

Practice Director

Responsibilities include Pre-sales, Sales, Business Development, Client Relationships, Strategy, Planning, Growth, Revenue and successful delivery of large and mid-market client projects

Led several proposal efforts and participated on several practice initiatives including revising methodologies, Small to Mid-Size Business initiative, and business process mapping for standardized implementation tools

Generating Sales/Practice Development:

Generated increasing sales (west) year over year from $5 Million to $10 Million

Supervised all fees generated to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of projects

Develop statements of work (SOWs) for new projects

Strategy & Vision Development:

Assist in the Development of a rolling 3-5-year strategy based on the needs of the business, technology innovations and customer requirements

Worked as part of the practice leadership team to help grow the SAP practice west zone from $1 Million to $10+ Million every year.

Assisted in the development and execution of sales and market development strategy in the West Region

Developing Human capital

Actively recruited, developed and mentored staff to ensure that engagements met and exceeded customer expectations

Built strong relationships at all levels of client organizations to be a trusted business advisor

KPIT Client: Glatfelter, York, PA Oct’16 – Till date

Sr. Manager / Delivery Manager

Project: Project ONE

On time & On budget - Successfully delivered end to end SAP S/4 HANA 1610 solution implementation on premise with Activate/Agile methodology.

Responsible for the development and articulation of company strategy, business development, oversight of consulting and staffing operations and overall project execution.

Responsible for delivery excellence, managing key stakeholder relationships, managing revenue and margin, generating new opportunity within the account and provide project delivery guidance and leadership.

Managed and monitored the financial aspects of the project - budgeting and estimated to actual variance.

Actively participated in Project Planning, Scoping and in design sessions for each area.

Analyzed/identified all key risk areas, established contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action.

Escalated the early issues to project stakeholders and worked out from all what constitutes successful project closure.

Managed and delivered successful Data migration from legacy systems via SAP RDS with pre-defined templates and mapping.

Responsible for project closure with customer satisfaction.

Strategy & Vision Development:

Developed rolling 2year strategy based on the needs of the business, technology innovations and customer requirements

Business Transformation:

Increased overall company revenue 25% and on target to increase sales by 35% in future.

Developing Human Capital:

Built a team of dedicated SAP professionals to enable profitable company growth year over year

KPIT Client: Vivint, Provo, UT June 2016 – Oct 2016

Sr. Manager

Project: Orion

Managed and lead the SAP S/4 1511 on premise successful implementations with Activate methodology (Agile) and post-go-live support

Been engaged from the RFP process and Pre-Sale activities for Vivint on SAP S/4 HANA implementation.

Designed and architected the integration deployment plan with many SaaS applications to SAP

Ex: Workday, Zuora, Concur, Blackline, Coupa, Salesforce, TechGenie etc.

Vivint being the first SAP’s S/4 HANA 1511 Ramp up customer and worked with SAP very closely on issue resolution and support.

Managed the project schedule, designed the SOW with staffing plan, developed budget plan and leveraged standard KPIT project tool set to run the projects.

Conducted scoping meetings and blueprinting sessions for gathering requirements to identify all GAP's needed by the business and IT.

Identified the project risks and prepare mitigations and contingency plans

Status Tracking and reporting of project milestones and deliverables

Established and expanded the project team and project Guidelines and conducted meeting regular basis to track progress and issues resolutions and deliverables.

Cost Savings:

Renegotiated and consolidated outsourcing agreements including off-shore resources resulting in savings of $700K annually

Business Transformation:

This newly implemented SAP Supply Chain technology solution to drive roughly $2 Million in cost reductions and great user experience with Fiori.

KPIT Client: Core-Mark International, South San Francisco, CA May’2014 – May’2016

Application Development and Delivery

Project: Project GTO – SAP Financials impl & VIM.

As part of delivery, managed multiple projects on different timelines; negotiated software licensing, consulting and outsourcing agreements (including off-shore development).

Mentored and developed staff to improve the overall performance of the team.

Managed the project scope tightly during design, develop & delivery of integration components between SAP and Non-SAP systems like SAP VIM via OpenText, ICC/OCR, Custom Fiori applications, JDBC Integration with AS/400 etc.

Provided SAP best practice guidance and solutions to functional users and technical team members.

Delivered the custom developments objects identified from the Fit GAP analysis of business blueprint phase.

Worked very closely with teams and made sure quality deliverables of end to end configuration and development objects & their Unit testing.

Worked closely with client project management team and developed the GTO Project plan for functional & technical, training components and infrastructure.

Conducted project weekly status meetings and help resolved the project related conflicts.

Managed the KPIT resource planning both at onsite/offshore based on project need (ramp up/down) and project deliverables.

Responsible to build the cut-over strategy, execute Cut-over plan during Mock1/2 & guide system build activities/dependencies.

Proposed the strategy and SOW for post GO-LIVE support and managed the application support for a short period.

KPIT Client: Noble Drilling, Houston, TX Nov 2013 – Apr 2014

Integration Manager

Project: Paragon spinoff

Responsible for building the Requirement Traceability Matrix and identifying the underlying WRICEF objects & Integration touch points due to the spinoff & assess the scope of the project

Responsible for the post System build and copy activities & unit testing of all systems

Responsible to build & manage the Technical project plan, resource planning & resource assignment

Responsible and executed Cut-over plan & post system copy activities

Supervision and responsible for Offshore Delivery & Management

Provided SAP best practice guidance and solutions to functional users and technical team members.

Communicated and engaged stakeholders in key decisions and established good client relationship.

Ensure that SAP technical activities maximize the use and adoption of standard SAP solutions

SAP Netweaver 7.3 with EHP4, PI 7.3, BI7.0/BOBJ, SAP Enterprise portal, SRM /SUS, MDM

KPIT Client: Copart, Fairfield, CA Nov 2011 – Sep 2013

Integration Manager (SAP and NON-SAP system integration)

Project: AIMOS – SAP Implementation

Responsible for the integration of SAP and NON SAP systems and delivery of all identified interfaces and seamless integration with SAP & non-SAP systems on time & on budget.

Architected, Managed the Design the end-to-end integration interface plan between SAP and other SAP and non-SAP systems

Responsible for Data migration from legacy into SAP & Cut-over plan & activities

Responsible and worked with different team leaders to build the project plan, resource planning & resource assignment

Responsible for requirement traceability matrix & Business Process Mapping and Re-engineering of existing legacy business processes mapping

Offshore Delivery & Management

Worked closely and point of contact to the business and IT regarding any questions of related to SAP integration & Interface WRICEF deliverables

Worked with COPART Change management team and identified the gaps and for the appropriate disposition.

Managed the defect management and daily progress reports

Created an escalation plan for the items needs immediate attention and resolution.

ASICS America Corporation, Irvine, CA Oct 2009 – Nov 2011

Integration Manager

Project: SAP Apparel and Footwear Solution (AFS)

Lead the Integration and change/release management for the entire project team

Worked with key executives of the entire organization to implement vision and direction in technology space

Responsible for the complete delivery of Blueprint design, WRICEF development, EDI, WM integration and system support activities.

Additional responsibilities included gap analysis, requirements gathering and preparing specifications, trouble shooting, in-depth analysis and overseeing of onshore/offshore staff.

Worked with basis and infrastructure teams for SAP system setup and delivery on time for testing/cut-over activities.

Managed the third-party vendor and resources who were responsible for SAP and WM integration.

Designed, developed and delivered integrated solution for Warehouse movements from WM to SAP bi-directional.

Rapidigm/ Fujitsu Consulting Inc, Folsom, CA June 2005 – Oct 2009

Project Lead

Managed multiple implementation across US, Canada, Asia

Projects included a variety of Information Systems projects including, strategic information systems planning, and system implementations, business process redesign and process improvement.

Responsibilities included project delivery and team leadership roles.

Responsible for weekly/daily status reporting to executive management and delivery associated with the business required functionality.

Responsible for translating business requirements into a solution design, modeling transactions through the system to ensure that the business requirements are met.

Prepared specifications for system changes, updated all documentation (spec, rationale, functional documentation) to ensure they're reflected accurately upon the system, and ensure SharePoint is up to date.

Gathered functional requirements, assisted in resolving open problems and issues, and in clarifying functional solution development.

Designed and developed enhancements, interfaces via middleware and data migration activities.

Raised and resolved issues related to development of the specified scenarios/designs.

Ensured all activities/tasks completed and progressed accordingly with in-line respect to the Project Delivery Framework and methodologies.

Project Experience(Clients):

Tellabs : SAP System Implementation & Post go-live support

Nalco : SAP, CRM, APO implementation, Support

Toyota : Application Implementation (SAP)

Madden Communications : Application Implementation (SAP)

Ball Horticulture : Application Implementation (SAP), MDM, Enterprise portal

Smith & Nephew : SAP HR, T&E, Finance integration, Workflow

Nihaki Systems, Inc, Edison, NJ June 2003 – June 2005

Sr SAP System Consultant

Clients include fortune 100 – 500 companies. Please see below.

Involved from the project preparation, knowledge acquisition, blueprint - fit gap analysis, realization, testing, final preparation & go live

Responsible for new design, developing the new WRICEF objects.

Designed and developed workflow for Interface scenario's

Architect, Design and Built end-to-end integration and interfaces between SAP and other SAP and non-SAP systems (Warehouse Management) and EDI.

Responsible for the entire data migration activity of all the master data and transactions data from end to end.

Helped loading data through mock uploads and cleansing of data and getting ready for the final move during cut over.

Supported go live support & project closure in all the project management and technical deliverables

Project Experience (Clients):

Atofina chemicals : SAP implementation and Data migration

Hand Held Products : SAP Greenfield implementation

PWC : SAP Finance and EBP integration

Ryerson Tull : SAP implementation

Grainger : SAP Upgrade

Education

Masters in Computer Science

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