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Eswar Boddepalli
Program Manager / Practice Lead
Function and
Specialization
Eswar is a successful
Senior SAP Program
Manager involved in
Engagement, Deployment
and Implementation
Projects of high
magnitude, with Global
delivery. His work
includes managing
maintenance of an ERP
Package, guiding the
team to adopt best
practices in Industry, and
developing functional
standards, templates and
implementation
strategies.
Education
Master’s Degree in
Computers
Contact:
Mobile: 732-***-****
Email:
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Background
Mr. Eswar Boddepalli has more than 18 Years of experience in IT and has worked with various Fortune 500 Companies. He previously worked as a Sr. Program Manager in the Business Consulting Services Group of IBM GBS.
He has a proven track record as a Sr Project manager/ Program manager and has guided project teams to achieve successful implementations in numerous client environments in various Industries, including Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Banking, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Oil & Gas, Telecommunications, Utilities and Wholesale Distribution. He is also skilled in various lines of business, including Asset Management, Finance, Human Resources, IT, Manufacturing, Procurement, Sales, Service, and Supply Chain.
In his career, he has been responsible for managing several concurrent high visibility customer facing engagements using agile methodology in a fast paced environment. He is proficient in Program Management and the Scrum Methodology. In past programs, he has project managers reporting to him in Organizations where both product development and customer projects were involved. He has managed complex dependencies between internal teams and third parties, and is adept at mentoring others who are new to Project/Program Management. Has been key member/player in the EPMO team. In Engagements like Estee Lauder, Sony Electronics, Arthrex, GM, Fiserv and Panasonic he was looked up as the key resource in the EPMO to provide direction and advisory committee candidate.
He has a wealth of technical & functional experience in blue printing, analysis, design, project planning, configuration, quality assurance, testing, go live, user training, and post-implementation report development. He has been involved with projects ranging from greenfield to technical upgrades, integrations, and migrations. Eswar believes in being a hands-on program lead/IT architect who possesses highly-developed technical skills. He is an excellent communicator who possesses a strong work ethic.
• Managed medium to very large project teams for multinational companies ranging from 40 to 100+ team members (onsite and
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offshore) across geographies with strong leadership, communication and organizational skills & Pre-sales.
• Management and Governance of Multiple Programs worth more than 20$ Million per year
• Effectively developed high performing teams on various projects and has been recognized by the management team as a great team leader.
• Engagement manager in multiple projects/programs, been a thought leader to the CIO, CTO and various VP’s in multiple projects and programs.
• Success in an individual contributor role responsible for generating pipeline volume and revenues, leading business development and driving long-term revenue growth from profitable alliance relationships, and development of profitable revenue streams within and across geographic/strategic markets
• managed effectively day to day interaction with all levels of business management which includes C-Level Executive Management, Steering Committees, Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO), Cross functional subject Matter experts and develop a long-standing client relationship.
• Thought leader providing strategic direction, point of view documents & wide range expertise in Multiple ERP’s like SAP, Oracle, as well as technology & business insights
• His extensive experience in the SAP arena helps him always be a major player in winning contracts and lead the proposal development process, pricing strategies aligned with IBM and clients.
• Built client strategy documents, Integration & development strategy for offshore-onsite program models, Global delivery, swim lanes and multiple RACI matrixes to assist the clients with internal resource interaction for corporations like Arthrex, Estee lauder.
• Extensively involved in managing and developing change management plans, risk management plans responding to quality reviews and presenting the risks in project management risk reviews
Functional / Program Management Skills:
• Create program plans and manage milestone deliverables across multiple applications and integration projects
• Create and present to management summary reports for projects
• Reporting program status, budgeting, estimations, KPIs
• Delivery of project charter and program objectives
• Resource prioritization across projects and work streams, utilization, planning and reporting
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Career History
• Develop and monitor execution of knowledge transfer plans between Project and Support teams
• Work with functional and technical resources across teams to plan work based on the scope and estimates of work items submitted by system owners
• Engage with appropriate team to improve demand
management to work items and enhancement requests
• Coordinate and track projects progress and report to managements status
• Lead and managed multiple CRM, MDM/MDG,HANA, SRM, SCM, EWM, WM, APO BI technical teams in successful project implementations, was part of blue printing, analysis and design to go-live including project planning, configuration, quality assurance, testing, post-implementation report development and user training. Good exposure to activities, involving technical upgrade projects.
• Track and verify that project and support documentation is begin completed and delivered for projects
• Defect tracking and management post project go-live
• Drive accountability of deliverables for requirement gathering from multiple teams.
• Help implement project management best practices
• Create and track project deployment plans
• Effective written and verbal presentation skills negotiation skills.
• Handled multiple projects and different teams, stakeholders.
• Work efficiently with direct, indirect sourcing and effectively collaborate with stakeholders and cross functional leads
• Efficiently work with new technologies, metrics, tools, governance to ensure successful delivery
• Proficiently handling all phases of testing
06/2014- to date Infoquest Consulting Inc, NJ
Program Manager/Technology Lead
03/2012- to 05/2014 Smartsoft International Inc, GA SAP Platinum Consultant – Project lead/manager
03/2007 – 02/2012 IBM Corp, Orlando, FL, US
Managing Consultant – Development lead/ Project / Program Manager 03/2006 - 02/2007 VedicSoft Inc, FL, US
SAP Consultant
06/2005 - 02/2006 Hewlett Packard, India
Application Consultant
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Projects/Programs
Managed
06/2004 - 05/2005 IBM Global Services India Ltd, India Application Consultant
01/2001 - 05/2004 Siemens Ltd, India
Consultant
Medtronic – Minneapolis, MN 11/2016 – Present
• Manage Integrations and EDI teams, Working as a IBM resource in managing and delivering the key Interfaces to Various SAP & Non – SAP systems
• Provisioning of status and reports to executive level
• Project planning to ensure timely delivery of tasks and objectives assigned to the resources
• Responsible for Document management, Release & Change management, risk mitigation and healthy project
implementation
• Manage SAP Logistics and Procurement projects focussed in the Integrations of various Business units.
• Successfully deploy the SUoM & Material Master data, Managed the MDM resources to do conversions & maintain the master data to create data for GTIN implementation
• Managed the Migration of data from various Legacy systems into the SAP system
• Help Convert and integrate the SAP ERP systems into SAP S4/HANA.
Arthrex Inc. – Naples, FL 07/2015 – 10/2016
Program Manager
• Integration of Companywide projects
• Responsible for providing weekly status reporting to the CIO of the company, manage multiple teams in India, Germany, USA, Resourcing, Budgeting, Reporting and Risk Mitigation & Management are primary roles
• Successfully lead projects to completion on time and within budget
• HCM Integration with Successfactors and LMS, Multiple banking and Insurance interfaces implementation
• Support and manage BI projects with integration with multiple projects, QIMS (QMS), HCM, Web portal implementations using Data warehousing and HANA support
• Lead proposals of SAP S/4 HANA implementation for sunset of the legacy BI systems and to enhance current SAP BI Applications in the Finance & Logistics areas & App development using SAP FIORI and HANA
• Creation of projects plan and manage milestone deliverables across multiple application and integration projects, Create and present to management summary reports for projects, Resource utilization planning and reporting, Develop and monitor execution of knowledge transfer plans between Project and Support teams, Work with
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functional and technical resources across teams to plan work based on the scope and estimates of work items submitted by system owners
• Concurrent project implementations with Agile, Waterfall methodologies and combination of both
• Integrations of S/4 HANA with SAP cloud based solutions like SAP Successfactors, Concur and SAP Financial services network Siemens Industry – Alpharetta, GA 07/2014 – 05/2015 Senior Applications Manager
• Responsible for successful delivery of complex development projects and Performance tuning of degraded programs available in the enterprise. Issue resolution & Design of complicated solutions in the Customer Service Process area. Design & Development of Estimation procedures for the Project Systems area, Manage the system
• Performance upgradation in multiple projects with their Customer and Supplier portal integrations
• Enhancements to
Air Products – Allentown, PA 04/2013 – 03/2014
• Technical Manager, Program manager for multiple small projects, performing design, development, analysis and testing in New GL
(Finance-New General Ledger), project systems, and Supply Chain Management
• Manage the conversion of SAP ECC applications into HANA for resource driven apps like New GL, OTC and P2P projects
• Successful deployments utilizing Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Responsible for the Migration of New GL data from SAP, Oracle and other legacy systems in Airproducts space, Constant interaction with BizTalk team, XPS Integration for Label printing and deliveries, Oracle teams for data Migration policies
• Involved in Design of systems to implement SAP HANA Finance, worked closely with BASIS resources to install HANA
• SAP HANA developments for Electronics distribution model in both Logistics and FI/CO modules
Smartsoft Mobile SAP Apps – Suwanee, GA 07/2012 – 03/2013 Project Manager
• Project focused on Mobile SAP Apps
BSI – HCM, ECC 6.0 Upgrade project 04/2012 – 07/2012 Project Manager
• Lead the technical assessment and requirement gathering for Human Capital Management configuration of the BSI Upgrade project
• Assessed the system requirements for installing Portal for HCM systems
• Managed Basis team for infrastructure upgrade, system performance and Migration into New versions of SAP
GM – Block Point 1 (Warranty & VinbyVin) 01/2012 – 02/2012 Solution Architect
• Design, development, analysis and testing in Record To Pay, Order To Cash, PP SAP modules.
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• Successful Template project deployment using Agile methodology
• Performed various cutover activities
• Deliver technical objects and coordinate with offshore functional & technical teams
Kraft Foods – Middleware Assessment 07/2011 – 10/2011 Integration Program Manager
• Assess current SAP environments (specifically the XI environment)
• As part of continuous business efforts and support to client an estimated $150 MN effort of RFP for Divestiture engagement was done.
• Laid out the architecture and planning for Integration strategy and future of Kraft systems
• Resolved the many issues due to downtimes caused by the XI and other legacy systems in Kraft, after assessing the patterns and connection procedures to create an assessment and make improvements to the middleware systems
Amgen – November Release 07/2011 –
10/2011
SAP Development Manager/ Architect (PMO)
• Responsible for successful deployment of November release and effectively maintain the quality of the developments of Amgen implementation
• Global development & maintenance rollout where in LAAM (Latin America), EU and NA
• Developing and maintaining cost estimates, resource plans and any other documentation required to control the project budget, and statements of work
• Managed a overall budget of $40 MM
• Manage both deployment and supports with effective transition management
• Resolved multiple Pricing and Billing issues on GTS (EU & Brazil & APAC) and SAP systems
• Lead the portal, WM and SRM teams in building shopping cart, Supplier registration & Self service, catalog management, Business Rule Framework (BRF) and portals for HCM environment
• Managed SAP CRM upgrade projects, worked closely with client, onsite and offshore resources.
• Implemented numerous conversions and integrations using ETL tools like SAP BODS and Informatica
• Worked on Ship Express application for Amgen business specific General Motors – GM GSFt 01/2011 –
02/2011
Sr Project Manager
• Development manager and was one of the leads of PMO,
• Integrated various SAP systems like SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6, SRM to SAP EP in the system landscape
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• Managed & worked with SAP BASIS teams to do necessary system setup to implement the Template project in various regions of GM. Implemented SRM shopping cart, using BADIS
Amerisource Bergen Corp., Chesterbrook, PA 11/2010 – 12/2010 Solution Architect Lead
• Ensure Program has a robust strategy and plan for change management.
• Ensure delivery of the strategy and plan.
• Configured and Activated SRM Workflows
• Successful delivery of the projects
Fiserv – Norcross, GA 07/2010 –
10/2010
Program Manager / Director
• Client technical Director, was one of the leads of PMO
• Help resource management leads and PMO to define and monitor project staffing and budget of $5 MM
• Managed both the Fiserv and IBM development teams
• Interacted with the client to perform requirements gathering
• Reviewed all integration points to determine optimal usage of Solution Manager
Estee Lauder – Long Island, NY 05/2009 - 12/2009
Senior Program Manager / Technology VP Counterpart Project: SMI (Strategic Modernization Initiative)
• Worked as Technology Program Manager/ PMO as an IBM counterpart to Vice President, involved in Pre-sales and worked with the stakeholders of various projects
• Finance/Budgetary Responsibilities: Manage the budget for department activities; monitor and control resources, expenses and capital costs against the budget. Approximate budget responsibility of
$60 MM
• Managed both the onsite and offshore teams
• Reported project status, managed resourcing, budgeting, estimations, etc
• Large deployment of SRM delivery with various developments, CIF’s were developed to support the SRM and APO areas, BRF used, complex BADI’s developed
• Master data interfacing between SAP & Non SAP systems, management of integrations using CSV file uploads to Ariba system for the P2P process area
• Responsible for development and key transition phases of the production environment
Amgen – Longmont, CO 03/2009 - 04/2009
Workflow SME Architect
• Workflow assessor (SME) for Amgen’s custom developed workflow - FI AP Non PO and MM LIV PO
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• Estimated and proposed standard SAP solutions for reconfiguring all the custom developments in to SAP Standard workflow
• Custom Workflows related to SAP Transportation management have been analysed and responsible for taking care of the development.
• Provided estimates to develop third party tools like Ariba etc, after interacting with Amgen clients and process teams
Panasonic - Secaucus, NJ 12/2008 - 01/2009
Technical – Functional Project Manager
Project : R25 PNA-IT
• Project focused on MM, FI, TM and other functional areas
• Created the Blueprint and developed the Functional specifications for the project
Ann Taylor 11/2008 -
12/2008
Techno-Functional Lead
• Project focused on FI and HCM
• Managed HCM Payroll implementation
Caterpillar – Peoria, IL 05/2008 - 10/2008
FI-AR Lead
Project: Mach 1
• Responsible for Finances-Accounts Receivable module, maintained the master data for AR.
• Documented the Project Requirements, and laid out the business processes
Alberto Culver 04/2008 - 05/2008
Integration Project manager
• Managed gap analysis, documented interface strategy Sony Electronics Limited 03/2008 - 04/2008
Program Manager
Project : Atlas
• This project was the first of its kind of SAP EWM implementation, Heavy usage of SCT XPS for pick pack parcel and delivery process and label printing
• Interfaced with the client improve business processes
• Provided status reports to the client, and performed functional analysis General Motors 04/2007 - 02/2008
Conversions & Interfaces Manager (VMS – Vehicle Management module) Project: GWM (Global Warranty Management)
• Responsible for all the translations of release 4 and release 5 and was the conversions and interfaces lead,
• Focal point for integration of middleware systems and SAP.
• Completed release 4 & 5 deployments successfully (comprised of various country implementations segregated as Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and other Latin American Countries, Saturn Global,
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Asia Pacific, Brazil, Mexico, North America were the major players in the implementation)
• Overcame major hurdle of configurations and country / language specific settings in the implementations.
• Cut over lead/Migrations lead for all the above mentioned implementations,
Siemens Power generation 10/2006 -
02/2007
Architect
Projects: Multiple
• SD, MM, PP and PM modules
• Helped develop the technical specifications
• Interacting with the client for the updates daily, weekly and monthly
• Extracted data using LO Cockpit
• Closely worked with the Utility companies in PP& PM areas of Siemens
• Wrote update rules, transfer rules, start routines as per client’s requirements
British Petroleum & Raytheon Aircraft Company 06/2004 - 05/2005
• Gathered requirements, created technical specifications. Requirements Analysis and identifying different source systems, Reviewed Functional Specifications. End-to-end development of custom programs
• BP & BP Amoco Acquisitions and mergers project, Development and Configurations of SAP JV module.
• SQL Trace for analyzing the SQL statements in the reports Skills:
ERP, SAP, SAP S4/HANA, Oracle, Oracle Fusion Middleware, SAP CPI, SAP PI, .Net Applications, Integrations, SAP Leonardo. Certifications:
1. Intelligent ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Dec 2018 2. Modern Data Warehousing with SAP BW/4HANA Dec 2018 3. System Conversion to SAP S/4HANA Nov 2018
4. SAP Leonardo IoT for the Intelligent Enterprise Nov 2018 5. SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Oct 2018
6. SAP Certified Development Consultant Mar 2003
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