Project Manager

Faheem A Rana Email: ******.*****@*****.***

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SUMMARY:

Define price waterfall and analyze each company’s data to seek the pricing leakage. Consolidate data and build informative pricing models. Lead pricing tool implementation team to give CMO\CFO in-depth view of the business. Gather functional requirement from the business and transform into technical documents. Write test cases and test scripts to ensure applications meet user-defined objectives. Implement SAP PPM module for Automotive, Chemical companies. Identify market segments and channels that need price optimization. Assist client to manage and negotiate business-to-business deals and policies. Present future forecast to stakeholders for them to develop strategies in order to deliver improved margin. Experience Implementing vendavo product for various companies. Developed interfaces between SAP and Vendavo.

Experienced in Vendavo SAP PMM, Specialized in business to technical requirements, Expertise in implementing all Pricing Profitability modules including Deal Manager, Price Manager and Profit Analyzer. Expertise in Vendavo, SAP, SAP SD, SFDC Integration using SOAP, IDOCS messaging,DB2, Oracle suite 9i -12c, excellent leadership, interpersonal and communication skills: Project Management, documentation, reports, presentations and training.

I have Strong critical and analytical thinking including problem solving, attention to detail, ability to handle shifting priorities/deadlines and multitasking, experience in managing multiple teams on highly complex projects, delivering rapid results, and ability to adapt to new situations and processes.

Over 2 year of PROS pricing training, Over 16 years of enterprise network engineering experience. Over 4 years of cloud based experience including 2 Years of Salesforce.com training and hands-on experience, Extensive hands-on experience in supporting complex enterprise Windows NT4.0 Win2000/2003/2008, VMWare, Netware and Cisco implemented environments. Hand-on with TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, and NetBEUI working with routing protocols OSPF, IGRP, RIP, and SNMP. Hands-on with HP Openview, VISIO, HPQC, JAVA, Clarity, Tivoli, ISDN, Frame Relay. Expert in Rally, writing user stories and full admin work. Over 8 years of Log Analytic experience specifically with Dynatrace.

Extensive 9 years of experience in code repository suites including SVN, CVS and GIT.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science in Computer Network Management

Westwood College of Technology, May 2003 – May 2006

Computer Information Systems

Washtenaw Community College, Washtenaw, Michigan, April 1998 – January 99

MCSE Certification Coursework

Computer Networking Center, Southfield, Michigan, January 1999 – March 1999

Bachelor Degree Program in CS.

Jinnah Government College Karachi, Pakistan. 1991-1995

SKILLS:

Pricing Software:

SME in Vendavo suite 6.5 – 8.2 /PROSS/Salesforce.com/CRM/Oracle 9i – 12c / SAP HANA/PriceFx cloud based solution

SME Share Point

SME Agile Methodology

EMPLOYMENT:

Application Architect, October 2016 – Present

Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI

●Working on designing and integration of Planisware software using VISIO architect tool

●Manage day to day execution of Efficiency and assumptions for Ford future launch programs

●Design and execute Top down approach for Investment Efficiency with in the organization

●Pricing Consultant

●Installed, Maintained and monitor using Dynatrace Appmon into the enterprise architect.

●Currently taking training on AWS Cloud Platform.

Solution Architect, February 2016 – July 2016

PriceDelta, Dallas, TX

●Pricing SME in John Crane Pricing Transformation initiative

●Program Manager

●Price F(x) implementation expert

●Pricing Consultant

●Worked with SAP SD specifically in pricing module to work with PriceFX.

●Installed, Maintained and monitor using Dynatrace dc rum into the enterprise architect.

●Design Archtect using VISIO technology.

Solution Architect, March 2014 – January 2016

Marketing Associates(Ford Motor Company), Detroit, Michigan

Client: Ford Motor Company

●Lead and Manage Global implementation of Vendavo 8.1 for multiple regions.

●Followed SDLC process to integrate the project.

●Involved in writing RFQs, RFPs, and selling company’s product in the technology summits for 3 consecutive years.

●Help drive data design, hardware design and normalization of transaction data with VISIO.

●Help client come up with new Strategies for better pricing based on competitiveness and lifecycle.

●Mange development team.

●Design inbound and outbound data stream from application to mainframe and vice versa.

●Being SME gave me the edge to gather requirement and translate it to Functional design doc.

●As an SA I set processes around code repository, Build plans, implementation strategies, data design, software architect and Architect design.

●Created architecture design for the application.

●Develop vendavo implementation schedule.

●Coordinate the development of vendavo needs analysis with project owners.

●Supervise the porting of data from legacy systems (IBIS, MMP, FSR,) to vendavo.

●Lead internal implementation team.

●Conduct trainings for clients provided presentations.

●Develop implementation checklist.

●Oversee installation/launch of new vendavo solution.

●Help drive the implementation and design of VDI.

●Worked with Dynatrace log analytics to identify trends with dashboard and review KPIs.

●Help setup Rally, write up user stories and follow scrum (agile) methodology to deliver project on time with success.

●Helped client save 75% cost on the hierarchy rewritten project based on suggestions and strategy.

●Involve in the project from start to finish.

●Installed, Maintained and monitor using Dynatrace Appmon and dc rum into the enterprise architect.

Hosting Engagement Manager, March 2011 – March2014

Marketing Associates(Ford Motor Company), Detroit, Michigan

Client: Ford Motor Company

●Manage project for upgrade effort from vendavo 7.0 to vendavo 7.6.

●As HEM I manage Vendavo Application, change request and issues resolutions to meet Client’s requirement.

●Maintain budget, team and project delivery.

●Created architecture design for the application and data flow using VISIO.

●Develop vendavo implementation schedule.

●Coordinate the development of vendavo needs analysis with project owners.

●Lead internal implementation team.

●Installed, Maintained and monitor using Dynatrace Appmon into the enterprise architect.

Consultant, August 2008 – January 2011

Deloitte & Touche, Detroit, Michigan

Client: PolyOne

●Conduct workshop for Sales funnel process.

●Coordinate new Salesforce.com System implementation.

●Develop Salesforce.com implementation schedule.

●Coordinate the development of Salesforce.com needs analysis with project owners.

●Oversee installation/launch of new Salesforce.com solution.

●System Administration of Salesforce.com system.

●Worked on Cloud solution in Salesfoce.

Client: Lynden Transportation

●Responsible to create Demonstration scripts for SAP and Oracle Finance system.

●Manage Project and resources.

Client: NIBCO Pipe fittings

●As a Lead developer I developed and configured Vendavo Application to meet Client’s requirement.

●Build Dashboards, configure waterfall charts develop complete Profit Analyzer module.

●Build Reports.

●Setup SAP Net Weaver platform for Vendavo JAVA based application.

●Worked with SAP SD specifically in pricing module to work with vendavo.

●Leverage and design IDOCs to import and export data.

●Leverage VISIO to design Data flow.

Client: Grupo Modelo

●As a senior CE I have develop, configure Vendavo Application to meet Client’s requirement.

●Build Dashboards, configure waterfall charts develop complete Profit Analyzer module.

●Build Reports, Created Store Procedure in DB2 Database.

●Setup Web Sphere platform for Vendavo application.

Client: Ford Automotive

●As a CE I have develop, configure Vendavo Application to meet Client’s requirement.

●Build Dashboards, configure waterfall charts develop complete Profit Analyzer module.

●Supervise the porting of data from legacy systems to vendavo.

●Develop implementation checklist.

●Involve in the project from start to finish.

Sr. Systems Engineer, April 2005 – September 2008

Accenture, Southfield, Michigan

Client: Dow Chemical

●As an SME I maintained NT/ W2K server environment and layered applications for 1000+ users

●Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Focal Point for Verity (K2 Enterprise) Search, WebTrends (Enterprise) and Portfolio, Price Management (Vendavo) Credit reference (TALX) projects.

●Installed and supported Vendavo on Weblogic, Jboss and Netweaver with Oracle 9i and Oracle 10g.

●Provided technical expertise in Jboss and Apache tools to move forward in Project.

●Installed and supported delivery vehicles (DCDV – Application Services) OMDV IIS 6 and Application pool.

●Provide technical expertise leveraging VISIO in analyzing complex problems involving specific technologies (security design, Web Architecture and Development).

●Create logical and physical infrastructure design documents

●Execute security reviews to ensure compliance (network, application, other) with Dow’s security principles

●Ability to technically troubleshoot application environments while escalating and documenting the environmental issues

●As a PM role I derive the whole project, Played Key role in project implementation.

●Worked with SAP SD specifically in pricing module to work with vendavo.

●Responsible to Maintain, Manage, Install VMware.

Systems Admin, March 1998 – March 2005

Arcadia Health Care Services, Southfield, Michigan

●Worked in Healthcare Serine system

●Ability to technically troubleshoot application environments while escalating and documenting the environmental issues

●Responsible to maintain and manage company wide hardware and software.

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