Project Manager

R AV I K P E D D U

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Project Manager

Accomplished IT executive with 14 years of SAP consulting experience and a strong

specialization in Project Management. Results-oriented, decisive leader with proven success

in managing multimillion-dollar SAP and business transformation projects, blending together

the right mix of analytical skills with technical expertise, management fortitude and common

sense. Expert at turning around failing projects, helping companies regain control over their

project when milestones are lost, missed, or otherwise ignored. Gained a keen understanding

of the significance of cultural aspects in both corporate and project environments. Excel in

dynamic, demanding environments while remaining pragmatic and focused. Gained expertise

by working for U.S. consulting leaders like Accenture/IBM/Deloitte with structured consulting

and delivery methodologies.

Core competencies:

SAP Program & Project Management SAP Practice Development

Off-Shore / Near Shore Delivery Outsourcing & AMS – SLA’s

Project Turn Around and Special Situations Global Roll-outs & Upgrades

Methodology & Tools / Deliverables Account budgeting and planning

Solution Development & RFP expertise

Staff -Development & People Management

Contract Negotiations & Partner Management

Worked for Big 4 firms like Accenture, IBM.

Strong knowledge of Software Development Life cycle and all its phases.

Expert in gathering and documenting user and business requirements and an expertise in

business process analysis.

Comprehensive knowledge of System Change Management, Risk Management and Version

Management processes.

Analytical, methodical, and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying root causes

and bringing solutions to the table to meet short and long-term business, financial, and system

requirements.

Ability to communicate with technical, functional and senior management audiences. Adept

at multitasking across several assignments.

Strong team player with ability to work in very high pressure situations.

Using project management tools like MS-Project for planning, scheduling and status reporting.

Technical Team lead experience. Experience in management of offshore projects from onsite.

Experience in System analysis, design, development, implementation and testing.

Extensive Testing expertise at various levels (program testing, process testing, Integration

testing)

Worked on New implementations, Upgrades in the latest Netweaver platform that implemented

ERP and BW/BI/BO for multiple clients.

PROJECTS:

Client: McKesson Technologies

Position: Data Migration / DataMart Manager

Duration: Jan 14 – Current

Develop Maintain and Execute plan for developing complex financial reports for

C level Management.

Extract Data from multiple sources like SAP, T1, Siebel and other sources into

BO & to Datawarehouse for Revenue reporting and future custom reporting of

Single View of Customer.

Integrate Data flow across multiple sources into one single source of Reporting.

Extract Master and Transactional Data for multiple company codes.

Client: Verizon

Position: Project Manager

Duration: Jul 13 – Jan 14

Accountable for successful Planning, Execution, Monitoring, Control and completion of complex

IT Implementation.

Develops project Plans including work breakdown structure, Project milestones, critical path

analyses, Risk management Plan, Cost/benefit analysis, Resource Planning/Resource Loading,

& budget costing.

Coordinate Production Releases with multiple departments across the nation.

Responsible for handling multiple projects at the same time.

Client: Timken

Position: SAP Successfactors Manager

Duration: Feb 13 – Jun 13

Directly responsible for account management, practice development, delivering and managing

client work and resource management.

Building and maintaining relationships with prospects, existing clients as well as with software

and solution partners.

Managed day-to-day relationships with clients and help them to build the business strategies

plan.

Work closely with C-Level client, understand their requirement and help them to build the best

practices solution for their organization.

Implement SAP Successfactors SaaS.

Responsible for Project Planning, Management.

Project team structure involves onsite functional and multiple locations of

technical development.

Multiple third party vendors including SAP are part of project and Cutover plan

was one of the deliverables.

Client: Newlook Foundation

Position: Project Manager

Duration: Oct 12 – Jan 13

Worked as Project Manager and Business Analyst for a Non-Profit’s web-based

application for After School Activities for High Schools and College going low

income students.

Involved in initiation, planning and execution of the project.

Client: Merck

Position: System Verification & Testing Manager

Duration: Mar 12 – Oct 12

Takeover an ongoing project from another implementation partner and keep it on

track.

Manage SAP implementation testing for a regulated pharmaceutical client.

Project team structure changes from heavy onsite model to high offshore

concentration with minimal distraction to client deliverables.

Responsible for delivering System Integration Testing (SIT) within one month

after project start.

Manage client teams across 3 Continents for User Acceptance Testing (AT).

Upgrade of Netweaver platform and bringing in new BO/Crystal reporting for

acquired companies.

Client: MillerCoors

Position: Master Data Integration & Conversion Manager

Duration: Jul 11 – Feb 12

Project involved integration / retirement of multiple ERP systems and Middleware

to standardize data management.

Manage Data transformation from SAP, legacy systems to Web based Ordering

system.

Work with multiple customers in project activities, change management, training

and post implementation support.

Project included automatic Bex Reports to be sent to plants.

Managed Contractors, offshore resources and client customer developers in

meeting project goals on time and on budget.

Client: Cargill

Position: Master Data & Training Manager

Duration: Nov 10 – Jun 11

Project is to train employees of the client on new implementation of SAP system.

Developed and maintained project plans, issues logs, status reports.

Utilized latest technology to reuse same data every day to train multiple sets of

users across nation on the training system.

Worked with training centers in planning, scheduling offsite training.

Executed Data build plan to accommodate multiple class room trainings at same

time.

IBM-Client: Dole Foods

Position: ERP Manager

Duration: Jul 10 – Oct 10

Analysis, Planning, Design and implementation of the ETL Master Data Conversion from JD

Edwards and SAP Implementation.

Managed and Executed various Project activities such as Stakeholder Meeting, Data Architecture

from Shared Data Center group, and QC activities from Centralized QC group.

Performed Project Quality Management, Time, Communication Management, Risk analysis.

Worked Closely with Business users in Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Process Design, Data

Design, Development, Testing and Implementation of Data transformation processes.

Coordinated various End Client issues and successfully managed the constantly emerging

changes thru proper Change Control Management Activities.

Conflict Resolution for smoother execution of the project.

Developed weekly, monthly Project status reports to the Stake holders.

Successfully collaborated with third party consulting companies and offshore teams.

Client: Barloworld

Position: Technical Manager

Duration: Mar 09 – Jun 10

Responsible to Create project Scope, Define Project Timelines & Resource Loading based on

Project Scope.

Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, monitors, and summarizes progress of projects.

Builds and maintains working relationships with business users, vendors, and other departments

involved in the project.

Responsible of clarity Scope of projects, Identify business Solutions align Consultants for Project

Execution and negotiate billing arrangements with Vendor.

Worked with Stakeholder, Project Management Team & Communication Team to understand and

create the requirement of the Project.

Involved in upgrade of existing software along with integration with vendor’s

systems. The systems included SAP ERP & BW, CRM, Web, Hand held and

Mainframe.

Organize workshops with Users in designing the project plan.

Implement Project Plan including integration points with multiple external and

third party systems.

Responsible for System testing of the application before delivering to vendors.

IBM - Client: Hanes Brands Inc

Position: Development Manager

Duration: May 07 – Oct 08

Manage the Technical Development of initial implementation SAP project for IBM

that included ERP, XI/PI, BW/BI.

Set standard procedures and templates related to development work.

Responsible for Master Data transformation from existing systems to SAP.

Gathered user and business requirements through discussions, brainstorming

sessions, role-playing, prototyping and observation of the compliance department

and work environment.

Developed Use Cases that enabled developers and other stakeholders to

understand the business process.

Documented the User requirements analyzed and prioritized them and converted

them as system requirements that must be included while developing the

software.

Defined project milestones and schedules using MS-Project

Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather the

modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the business

specifications for the product and ensured that the developers were updated.

Assign & Manage work among onsite and offshore resources.

Part of the PMO process to approve modifications & enhancements in later

stages of project

Code objects as per emergency requirements.

Resolve coding issues during testing phase

Be responsible for cutover tasks and transport movement.

Client: Cibavision

Position: Team Lead / Offshore-Onsite Coordinator

Duration: Jan 05 – Apr 07

Onsite Coordinator for an offshore development.

Interact with PMO on Project status and Development.

Review Business requirements with Client and provide input

Review Functional specifications for content and input to technical team

Approve Functional and Technical specs, Code review for QA process.

Supported testing activities and participated in User Acceptance Testing ( UAT)

Worked closely with Programmers and QA for project development.

Make changes to programs to fix bugs and develop programs from specs in SD,

MM and FI Modules.

Develop a variety of RICEFs (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements,

Forms) for multiple phases and countries.

Convert and Interface multiple Master and Transactional Data loads for multiple

countries from legacy, SAP and CRM systems.

Client: Weyerhaeuser

Position: Technical Analyst

Duration: Feb 04 - Jan 05

Developed Program specifications for Accounts Receivable in FI Module

Responsible for program testing as per client specifications

Uploaded Conversion Master Data from multiple legacy systems and CRM

and other ERP systems for SD and FI Modules.

Developed reports in BW by extracting data from SAP SD, FI and other

modules

An Intermediate interface between SAP and Legacy systems were developed

to validate the inbound invoices.

Dunning and Aging forms developed in a multi-language environment.

Developed User exits and validation rules for AR Document postings.

Developed Field exits and Missing Data report for Credit Team.

Worked on enhancements for Dispute Management Module.

Developed BW reports for Credit Management team.

Client: Enterasys

Position: Technical Analyst

Duration: July 03 – Jan 04

Developed program to upload and modify service contracts from legacy systems.

Responsible for developing Australian Check Sapscripts.

Uploaded Customer Master Data from multiple legacy systems.

Developed Sales Order Acknowledgement Sapscripts as PDF file.

Created multiple layouts of Sales Invoices on pre printed forms for different

countries with same output type.

Wrote Tax Classification program to change the tax category of customers.

Created Asset Master data in SAP for different countries and different tax

classes.

Created multiple reports in different modules for various countries.

Uploaded Vendor Master data from around 40 countries and different legacy

systems into SAP.

Loaded RMAs, Open Sales Orders and other orders into SAP.

Responsible for creating Shipping Notices, Certificates of Conformity, Credit

and Debit Memos in Sapscripts.

Client: Florida Power & Light

Position: Technical Team Lead & Analyst

Duration: Mar’02 – Apr’03

Define business and functional requirements through analysis of potential alternatives and review technology

solutions to meet business processes

Trained SAP end users on processes as creating general ledger accounts, maintain vendor master data,

posting documents and running vendor payments.

Involved in managing the development team by designing the standards, conducting regular code-

reviews, transports management and documentation checks.

Defined functional specs for duplicate vendor master check and bank validation, Mainsaver AP invoices

to SAP AP invoices, validation for duplicate invoices, and conversion of vendor payment history form legacy

system.

Extended basic Idoc PEXR2002 to pass on the Bank Code as per the requirements.

Enabled Master data transfer from SAP using ALE for Vendor, GL, CC and WBS Elements.

Configure the payment program for 150 company codes, sending and paying company codes, country

specific payment methods, payment methods for company code, ranking order, bank accounts, amounts and

value date.

Developed a Custom BDC and Call Transaction program to create Vendor Master data from Legacy

Systems.

Customize user exit for duplicate invoice check across company codes. When a duplicate invoice is

detected, workflow sends an email to corresponding manager.

Modify standard SAP Time report to include execution and sorting by Project number and display

Project definition.

Modify standard SAP program to update Vendor Master records with different addresses of HR system

for HR employees with travel privileges.

Developed an outbound Extract of SAP Payment Document Data to Documentum/E-Connector.

Developed a Custom Layout/ Sap script Form for printing of checks for multiple company codes and

multiple Bank Accounts. All the information that was printed on the check was obtained at the time of

processing with no hard coded values.

Developed a Custom Customer Invoice Statement Sapscript that lists all the line item details of an

invoice along with the Payment terms and Due date. The Customer details and Company Info are printed as

the Header Level.

Developed a Tax report to list all assets and their Book and Acquisition values along with their

Depreciation values. The report is a multi sectional report with major sorting of Depreciation Area and sub

sorting by Company Code.

Client: Nestle Foods

Position: ABAP/4 Technical Consultant

Duration: July’01 to Feb’02.

Developed a SAP Interface between EDI and SAP for inbound sales orders (850)

from customers to create sales orders in SAP.

Developed IDOC Control Reports for Inbound Sales Orders (850). The report

selection was based on IDOC create date, Sold to party, Sales order #, Idoc status etc.

Based on user selection, the interactive report would display Sales Order (VA03) or

IDOC details (WE02).

Developed an Accounts Receivable (AR) report that reports Credit Term level AR

open item totals by Payment Terms within a Sub-division for each Division. This

information, as required by Nestlé’s Credit department, to complete month-end reporting

and allocations, is not provided in standard SAP supplied reports.

Developed a FI interface to provide the COGS (cost of goods sold) module with data

from the Factory Management System (FMS1). FMS1 will provide an actual cost of

production on a monthly basis for each finished product (SKU) per factory to the COGS

module.

Created a SD Report that generates a list of Sales Orders and STO line items that got

cut due to stock situation. This Report helps in informing the customers if there are

materials that they wouldn’t receive on their order.

Created multiple Sapscripts for both Invoice and Deliveries. These include the

Customs Declaration and Sugar certificate.

Client: Andrew Corporation.

Position: SAP Technical Consultant

Duration: Apr’00 to May’01.

Developed Gentran map and coded user exit in SAP for Credit and Debit memo. This

CPR billing module creates invoice data, which is sent to SAP to generate a debit memo

request. During creation of the debit memo request, SAP calculates the taxes for the

invoiced amount and generates an invoice.

Maintained the invoice extract program, which extracts invoice information from

SAP on a daily basis for use by the legacy systems to maintain the current functionality.

The extracted data will be stored in custom SAP tables.

Created accounts receivable periodic report to verify the results of data migration from legacy.

Developed an EDI report, which displays the errors in the invoices and purchase orders when

the daily EDI transactions are performed.

Developed a number of BDC programs for initial data transfer of Material master, Vendor

master, BOM, Cost Centers etc.

Developed a report program to display the daily inventory and value at plant and material

level. It then posts the net value in the general ledger in FB01 transaction.

Developed EDI Report for reprocessing inbound EDI documents that failed initial process or

have a status that requires user attention.

Created both classical and interactive reports by using screen events and formatting options.

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