SANDIP KAR

408-***-**** ac8fau@r.postjobfree.com

Newark, CA 94560 linkedin.com/in/sandip-kar

PRODUCT MANAGER/ Sr. PROGRAM MANAGER

I am a global IT program management leader, a scrum master, a SAFe agilist an agile coach and mentor and have led global delivery teams of size 5-40 people in cross functional and matrixed organizations and have managed budget from 2-5M annually to deliver several strategic enterprise initiatives.

Some of the past achievements have resulted in $3.2M of operational savings for Cisco Pre-owned equipment business and another in Corporate Finance has led to a savings in $6.8 million with process efficiency and critical quarter end time savings of 10-12 hrs/wk for Financial analyst and controllers.

Large scale platform migration and deployment experience with phased rollout to more than 20,000 users. Hands on experience in prioritizing MVP and experience analyzing cost/benefit of feature selection. Passionate about data science, machine learning, business intelligence and data analytics.

Competencies & Specialties:

Program Management Office (PMO) Strategic leadership

and setup Change Management Board (CMB) Business Intelligence and Platforms

Pre-owned Equipment end to end process Tool Selection (RFI/RFP)

Enterprise wide tool migration and adoption Data Architecture and Governance

Corporate Finance Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Service Management Metrics, ITIL and Quality

Technical Expertise:

• Project Management: CA Agile Central (Rally), JiRA, MS Project, Smartsheets

• Data Management: Teradata, Oracle, SQL, MongoDB, Hyperion DRM, SAS, Informatica

• Business Intelligence: IBM Cognos Suite, Tableau, Hyperion Essbase, SAP BO

• Finance Tools & WRM: Longview Khalix, Planview Enterprise, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)

• Data Integration: Hadoop/Hive, Spark

• Design & Development: Erwin, Java, Rest API and Micro-services, R/R-Studio, Python

EXPERIENCE

CISCO Capital, San Jose, CA

Senior Product Manager / Program Manager, 2014 - Present

• Manage key cross-functional initiatives Supply Chain Integration, Cisco Commerce Integration for Cisco Pre-owned equipment. The tasks include marketing requirements, prioritizing and managing budget and timelines for the program deliverables and managing stakeholder communication as part of the large Agile release train. CI/CD process leveraged delivering incremental capabilities and features for the product.

• Lead cross-functional team of engineers, business operations, global support and product owners to deliver multiple programs and products across the portfolio.

• Cisco Supply Chain integration- Managed the integration of Cisco Pre-owned business with Cisco's own forward supply chain. Replacing 3rd party vendor resulted a yearly operational savings of $3.2M.

• Cisco Commerce Integration- Led the end to end integration of the ordering capability of Cisco Pre-owned products ($210M business) into the Cisco's $45B ordering platform.

• Connected Platform - Exemplified involvement to budget, schedule, requirement gathering, build, test and deliver the single next generation platform. Planning and adoption for limited availability and general availability of product features.

• Primary driver for setting up the reporting platform for Cisco Pre-owned business and invigorating data science insights for Pricing Strategy for Sales and Build to Max for the business process managers (BPM).

• Acknowledged by Cisco Capital management with Cisco Innovator award and Cisco Catalyst award

CISCO Systems Inc, San Jose, CA

Program Manager for Core Financials Initiatives and Mobility Agility, 2011 - 2014

Enable smooth collection of financial data and provide automated timely alerts to key stakeholders to perform their part of the Cisco’s single consolidation process.

Manage program schedule, budget, resources, delivery, status and communications with key project stakeholders.

Established all compliance and reporting needs for one day Close Consolidation process.

Program manage with x-flow teams to deliver Cisco Paid time off application and notification mobility application for individual contributors and Cisco Managers.

Enabled successful roll-out strategy for MyExpenses and MyNotifications, a mobility platform for 65,000 Cisco employees and the later for more than 5000+ management users.

CISCO Systems Inc, San Jose, CA

IT Project Manager -Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis application & systems, 2005 - 2011

Worked with x-flow stakeholders to consolidate >40 finance business applications from Oracle data warehouse reporting different versions of Bookings, Revenue and Cogs under one single Teradata platform. Work with Cisco subsidiaries to integrate the Finance data onto single Cisco platform. Selection of a long range planning tool. Establish Finance program transformation office.

Collective role to champion project management and architecture for Finance Data Integration (FDI) with newly acquired Cisco subsidiaries from Scientific Atlanta, Webex, Linksys and Ironport.

Managed development of Fin BI suite of applications and rollout to 1500 Finance users for critical month end and quarter end internal and external reporting.

Tool selection and implementation through RFI/RFP process and implementation with Planview's strategic and long range planning software for managing Cisco's $12B investment portfolio.

Establish setup & execution of release management organization for decision support and capability transformation (DCT) for Finance organization.

CISCO Systems Inc, San Jose, CA

BI Architect & Solutions - Enterprise Data Warehouse, 2003 - 2005

ERBI program was initiated to help the CISCO business community to report common financial measures like Bookings, Revenue, Cogs & Expenses externally in a more consistent, unambiguous and uniformly across all the reporting application both internal and external to CISCO. Collect all the design requirements and solution the single source of truth for Revenue and Expense track.

Provide Onsite solution architecture and performed a project manager for the two tracks for the global Enterprise Reporting and Business Intelligence (ERBI) for the Enterprise Data Solutions Group (EDSG) which was executed with an offshore heavy delivery model.

Provide status to key stakeholders and share QA metrics on a weekly basis.

GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) Medical Systems, Greater Milwaukee Area, WI

Solutions Architect 2002 – 2003

Ensured validation of data sources and design a physical data model that is scalable to bring in additional volume of data as and when required.

Ensured the reporting needs from Excel and SQL/Crystal reporting is translated into Cognos Reporting platform that will meet the needs of Deal specialist, Sales engineers and Risk managers.

Revamp the Service Productivity Analysis Tool (SPAT) to analyze the different expense incurred in a systems lifecycle attributed to cost categories like Installation, In-Warranty and Out of Warranty Design For Reliability (DFR) to understand failure rates.

GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) AVIATION, Evendale, OH

Enterprise Data Modeler and Database Design Specialist 2000 – 2003

Managed design of database for RIS and DRM and to bring Record Information Systems (RIS) to provide details of status of all components of GE Engines from disparate data sources for all GE customers.

Maintain and enhance Digital Risk Manager(DRM)/CMM(common maintenance cost model) to simulate a forecasting model to predict the service requirements for GE engines to maintenance Cost Engineers, Deal Analysts and Risk Managers

Education & Certifications

Master of Science (MS), Physics

Presidency College, University of Kolkata

Post Graduate in Applied Computer Science (PGDACS) CMC Kolkata

Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project management Institute

Certified SCRUM master from Scrum Alliance (CSM)

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)

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