PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE:
To be associated with a growing organization that would give me
opportunities to put to practice my knowledge and further hone my skills.
To be work with a team that dynamically works towards growth of
organization and gains satisfaction thereof.
SKILLS & EXPERTISE:
Enterprise Applications (ERP, Extended ERP System) Business Intelligence
Applications Project Management Training Skills Great Team Player
Good Interpersonal Skills Implementation & Support Skills
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
* Exposure to different industry verticals in a span of 17 + years of ERP
Implementation, Support, Customization and
Project Management.
* Active Involvement in Quality Process design, implementation, and
continuous improvement.
* Design and Conduct in-house training of ERP Application and its usage.
* Excellent problem solving abilities.
* Exceptional aptitude for quick learning and implementation of new skills.
* Extensive experience in migrating MFG/Pro to higher versions.
* Extensive experience in migrating Progress to higher versions.
* Migration of Business Intelligence (Cognos) to higher versions.
* Knowledge of Java and Web technology.
* Integration of ERP Application with different applications.
* Strong experience in implementing and supporting Sales and Distribution,
Finance, Purchase, Inventory Module,
Manufacturing, Production & EDI modules.
* Strong Experience in Cognos Development and administration.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
eKSource Inc, Herndon, VA
From Apr-13 - till now
Role : Sr. ERP Manager - QAD Practice
Responsibilities:
. Working on QAD Implementation, Upgrade & Support project .
Watts Water Technologies, North Andover, MA
From Aug-12 - Mar-13
Role : QAD Consultant
Responsibilities:
. QAD EE Migration & Support.
. Development of custom browse.
. Analysis of new user requirements & documentation.
. Deployment of custom programs for user testing.
. Maintenance & administration security in mfg/pro.
InfoTargets LLC, USA. / Accenture, USA
Feb-12 - Aug-12
Role : Sr. Business Analyst @ Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL
Responsibilities:
. As a COE Sr. Business Analyst involved in day to day production support
to the users at various facilities of Caterpillar all over the globe on
various modules of Mfg/Pro and various custom as well as standard
interfaces.
. Analysis of new user requirements and documentation as per CAT
standards.
. Co-ordination & Managing with offshore Development team.
. Deployment of custom programs for user testing.
. Process Documentation.
. Managing various development as well as server migration &
implementation projects, Co-coordinating with business process owners as
well as internal mfg/pro team.
Filtration Group Inc., Joliet
June-07 to Dec-11
Role : ERP Controller / Analyst
Responsibilities:
. As ERP Controller / Analyst, I lead and manage ERP Application (Mfg/Pro)
and Business Intelligence (Cognos) techno-functionally.
. As a controller / Analyst involved in daily support to users located all
across US, Canada & Europe on various areas of Mfg/Pro as well as
Progress.4gl and interfaces like QPS, TRAXI, OPTIO, QXTND inbound and
outbound etc.
. Business Intelligence (Cognos) Development and Administration.
. Maintenance & administration of security in Mfg/Pro and Cognos.
. Report customization by using Progress 4GL and testing them before
release.
. Creation and deployment of Custom Browsers for .NET Interface of
Mfg/Pro.
. Annually Budget data loading into Cognos.
. Migration of Mfg/Pro from eB2 to 2007.1 at all sites of FGI.
. Migration of Mfg/Pro 2007.1 to 2009.1.
. Migration of Progress from 9.0 to 10B.
. Design and Conduct in-house training of Mfg/Pro's .NET Client and new
features.
. Procedural documentation.
. Dump data from Mfg/Pro by writing quick progress queries for data
analysis.
. CIM/LOAD data by using CIM tool.
. Creation of dashboards for management by using Cognos Report Studio and
Analysis Studio.
. Maintenance of BI Server periodically.
. Annually do the Dump/Load of Mfg/Pro Data.
Satyam Computer Services, USA.
Aug-06 to June-07
Role : Mfg/Pro COE Support Analyst @ Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL
Responsibilities:
. As a COE Support Analyst involved in day to day production support to
the users at various facilities of Caterpillar all across US, UK &
Europe on various modules of Mfg/Pro i.e. S&D, Purchase, Production,
EDI, Manufacturing, Finance and various custom and standard interfaces.
. Analysis of user requirements and documentation as per SOX standards.
. Co-ordination with offshore Development team on new requirements.
. Testing of custom Mfg/Pro Program in various environments.
. Deployment of custom programs developed by off-shore team after through
testing.
. SOX Documentation and review.
. Handling support tickets for various modules of Mfg/Pro.
. Involved in Linux Server migration activities & Mfg/Pro Migration.
During this server migration I was involved in various scripts
modifications, testing of various interfaces, testing of vanilla Mfg/Pro
programs and customized Mfg/Pro programs.
Ignify Inc., USA.
Apr-06 to Aug-06
Role : ERP Application Consultant @ Asurion Inc., Nashville, TN.
Responsibilities:
. Studying the Business Processes.
. Exposure to Axapta Application and Usage.
. Requirement gathering, GAP Analysis.
. Conduct CRP.
. Identify the issues and conduct issue resolution workshop.
. Finalized core customization and report customization.
. Co-ordination with offshore Development team on customization.
. Made training materials and conduct training.
. User Security Setup in the application.
. Implementation @ all sites with the help of my team and client's team.
. Post implementation Support.
Capgemini Consulting Limited, Mumbai.
Oct-05 to Apr-06
Role : Senior ERP Consultant @ Visteon Corporation.
Responsibilities:
. Being a part of a matrix organization provides me different roles and
responsibilities depending upon the need of the moment.
. As a team lead by designation I am responsible for the people management
aspects for a team of senior resources. That includes their career
paths, utilization, half yearly appraisals and other related areas.
. Involved in daily production support to the users at various sites of
Visteon located globally.
. Enhancement in existing report programs for various modules like
finance, sales, purchase.
. Development of new extraction programs for extracting finance related
data in CSV format.
. Development of trigger programmer.
. Development of Audit Trail Report for customized application into
Mfg/Pro.
. Testing of new functionality to be implemented like various interfaces
where data gets transferred from Mfg/Pro to SAP or Mfg/Pro to third
party application.
. Deployment of extraction, trigger programs written for different modules
of Mfg/Pro.
. Management of support tickets on day to day basis.
. Involved in Unix Server migration activities; during this server
migration I was involved in script modification, testing various
interfaces, testing of vanilla Mfg/Pro programs and customized Mfg/Pro
programs.
. Doing project Audits for quality purpose.
ITTI Pvt. Limited, Mumbai.
May-05 to Oct-05
Role : Senior ERP Consultant @ General Mills Limited, Mumbai.
Responsibilities:
. Involved in daily support to the user on various modules of Mfg/Pro i.e.
Sales & Distribution, Purchase, Finance and customized applications into
Mfg/Pro.
. Enhancement in existing maintenance programs of customized applications.
. Development of new report programs for customized applications of
Mfg/Pro.
. Development of extraction programs to extract sales data from Mfg/Pro
into CSV format and upload into Oracle Sales Analyzer for MIS Reports
. Developed of trigger programs to put some validations.
. Deployment of newly modified and developed programs.
. Testing of customized programs.
ITTI Pvt. Limited, Mumbai.
Apr-05 to May-05
Role : Senior ERP Consultant @ Fosters India Limited, Mumbai.
Responsibilities:
Currently centralized database in FIL is having GL calendar as per Indian
statutory requirement (April-March). FIL is required to submit the
financial statement to the parent company. Foster's Australia which
maintains GL calendar of July-June. The project is to accomplish the
submission of the financial statements to the Foster's Australia by
maintaining a separate database - Foster's Australia Database with a GL
calendar as per Foster's Australia.
. As a Team leader, was involved in system study.
. Involved in System Design for GL Calendar Migration.
. Preparation of Design Document and Requirement Document as per SOX
Documentation format.
. Creation of new empty database from mfg empty database.
. Create GL Calendar as per Australian database.
. Dump data from existing Mfg/Pro database and load into newly created
database.
. Test various financial reports.
ITTI Pvt. Limited, Mumbai.
Mar-05 to Apr-05
Role : Senior ERP Consultant @ Hindustan Lever Limited, Mumbai.
Responsibilities:
The objective of report tracker is to keep log of transactions happened in
all finance customized modules. This will help DBA to generate log report
with the data which is stored in separate table.
. As a Team leader, was involved in system study.
. Involved in System Design for Report Tracker.
. Preparation of program specification document.
. Modification of existing customized programs of customized finance
module to incorporate the logic which will keep log of transactions done
by the users in to separate table.
. Testing of all customized programs with new logic.
ITTI Pvt. Limited, Mumbai.
Jan-05 to Mar-05
Role : Senior ERP Consultant @ Hindustan Lever Limited, Mumbai.
Responsibilities:
The objective of eTDS module was to assists accounts departments at all
corporate offices to compute and track TDS payments to government. With the
help of this module, the user can file electronics TDS returns. The module
was developed with flexibility of GTM.
. As a Team leader, was involved in system study.
. Understanding user requirement and prepare User Requirement document
. Involved in System Design for eTDS Module.
. Preparation of System Requirement document
. Preparation of Design Document.
. Preparation of program specification document.
. Development of existing form 16 and form 26 programs in such a way that
when you run this report it will give output on the screen at the same
time it will extract the data into CSV format which will be later on
validated through validation software given by Govt. of India.
. Development of new report program which will give you complete data for.
. Testing of all programs.
. Training to the user.
. Deployment and handover to the user.
ITTI Pvt. Limited, Mumbai.
Jul-04 to Jan-05
Role : Senior ERP Consultant @ Hindustan Lever Limited, Mumbai.
Responsibilities:
The objective of Taxation and Income Tax Returns module was to enable HLL-
Taxation department to generate tax audit and income tax forms on behalf of
business it caters to. In total there are 43 such forms based on the
multiple specific logics given by Indian government to ascertain range of
expenses incurred by units.
. Understanding user requirement and prepare User Requirement document
. Involved in System Design for Taxation and IT Return Module.
. Preparation of System Requirement document
. Preparation of Design Document.
. Preparation of program specification document
. Development of 43 programs which are nothing but those taxation forms
which will give data in csv format which will later validated through
validation software given by Govt. of India.
. Testing of all programs.
. Training to the user.
. Deployment and handover to the user.
ITTI Pvt. Limited, Mumbai.
June-04 to Jul-04
Role : Senior ERP Consultant @ Hindustan Lever Limited, Mumbai.
Responsibilities:
The AGCE module was designed as mechanism for monthly financial reporting
which computes Brand-Category wise Total Capital Expenditure. The scope of
the project was to enable 19 Mfg/Pro units to generate AGEC report on a
monthly basis.
. Involved in System Design for AGCE.
. Preparation of System Requirement document
. Preparation of Design Document.
. Database creation, Master Upload, Menu Creation.
. Implementation of AGCE Module.
. Training to the user.
. Deployment and handover to the user.
Datapro InfoWorld Limited, Mumbai.
Oct-02 to Dec-03
Role : Business Development Executive
Jobpartners Limited, London.
Aug-00 to Aug-02
Role : Senior Systems Analyst Programmer.
Responsibilities:
Jobpartners Activerecruiter provides an end-to-end solution for recruitment
that provides the functionality and process for large corporate to recruit
successfully. Active recruiter is custom CRM Application for HR where
entire HR process has been automated. Activerecruiter is multi-lingual
application.
. Involved in System Design.
. Preparation of Design Document.
. Development of programs by using JSP, HTML & Java.
. Documentation.
. Testing of application.
. Deployment of application.
Godrej Soaps Limited, Mumbai.
Jul-98 to Aug-00
Role : Senior Information Systems Officer
Responsibilities:
. As an IS Officer involved in daily support to the user on various
modules of Mfg/Pro i.e. Sales & Distribution, Purchase, Finance and
customized applications into Mfg/Pro.
. Receiving periodic backups and restoring them to the server.
. Conduct training for users at various levels on various topics of
Mfg/Pro.
. Installation of new customized programs at various locations.
. Migration of Progress from ver. 5 to 6.
. Migration of Progress from ver. 6 to 7.
. Migration of Mfg/Pro from ver. 7.3e to 8.
. Report Customization by using Progress 4GL.
. Progress DBA Activities.
. User Security maintenance and administration in Mfg/Pro.
. Periodic Systems Audit at various locations.
. CIM/LOAD Data using progress and Mf/Pro.
. Periodically do dump/load by using Progress.
. Involve in ISO Audits.
Godrej Soaps Limited, Mumbai.
Jul-98 to Nov-98
Role : Senior Information Systems Officer
Responsibilities:
The objective of the system is to capture secondary sales carried out from
distributors to retailers taking place all over India. The module captured
primary sales, closing stocks at CFA's and calculation of Goods in Transit.
The secondary sales were derived from the data captured and extracted to be
sent to Branches. The branches extract the data and send it to HO for
consolidation.
. Study scope of the project.
. Preparation of system requirement Document.
. Preparation of Design Document.
. Database Preparation.
. Master setup, Menu Setup.
. Testing of customized application.
. Documentation as per ISO Quality Standard.
. Preparation of user guide.
. Roll out at various locations.
. Training to the users.
. Post implementation support
Godrej Soaps Limited, Mumbai.
Feb-97 to Jun-98
Role : Senior Information Systems Officer
Responsibilities:
Implementation includes understanding ERP concepts, Implementation
methodology, exposure to Mfg/pro package, studying the business processes,
mapping functionality on to the Mfg/Pro package under guidance of Author
Anderson Consultancy.
. Implementation includes understanding ERP Concepts, Implementation
methodology.
. Identify the core users from Godrej Group of companies
. Study of key business events of all groups of companies relating to the
process of distribution, conducted Conference Room piloting.
. Identified the issues & conducted an issue resolution workshop
. Map the key business events in Mfg/Pro.
. Finalized the core customization & report customization in Mfg/Pro.
. Confirmed the design with the users.
. Selected two pilot sites for the initial implementation.
. Documentation as per quality standards.
. User Training.
. Database preparation for rollouts.
. Implementation at various sites all over India.
. Conducting user sessions, for better understanding of system.
. Customization of Sales and Financial reports.
. Post implementation support on Mfg/Pro and Progress 4GL.
Datapro InfoWorld Limited, Mumbai.
May-96 to Jan-97
Role : Marketing Executive
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Languages & Java, C, C++, Ms-Office, PowerBuilder, Magic
Software
Tools/Packages
Database Progress 4GL, Oracle 8i, SQL
HTML, JavaScript, JSP, HTML, XML
Internet tools &
Technologies
Operating Windows 98/2000/2003/XP/7, Hp-Unix, Unix
Systems
Domain Mfg/Pro, Cognos 8
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:
Certification in Java Programming (2000) - Datapro InfoWorld Ltd.
Professional Diploma in Software Engineering (1997) - Datapro InfoWorld
Ltd. (Equivalent to Associate Degree)
Diploma in Industrial Electronics (1995) - University of Mumbai
(Equivalent to Bachelors Degree)
PERSONAL DETAILS:
. Date of Birth : 27th May 1976
. Gender : Male
. Marital Status : Married
. Languages Known : English, Hindi, Marathi
. Professional Hobbies : Web Research, Skill Up-gradation and
Professional Networking
REFERENCES:
1. Mr. Bhushan Lakhe - +1-630-***-****
2. Mr. Madhav Apte - +1-708-***-****