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Thiruvengadam Sudarsanam

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Profile Summary:

. 13+ years of Hands-on Functional Experience including over 5+ years of

Leadership and Management Experience with Accenture & IBM & WIPRO on

Enterprise Resource Planning

. 4+ years of Audit Domain Experience on Tax Audit, Statutory Audit &

Internal Audit

. Comprehensive knowledge of SDLC (System Development Life Cycle), Agile

Programming practices and Implementation Road Maps

. Strong understanding of Business Fundamentals including almost all

Organizational Functional Areas

. Demonstrated ability in effectively translating Business Requirements

into Input for Technical & Testing teams

. Lead requirements gathering Meetings

. Ability to work well with ambiguities calling for the need to

creatively address Business Problems and Challenges

. Demonstrated ability in managing Large Complex Projects from End-to-

End

. Good working knowledge of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)

. Knowledge of usability processes, Best Practice Adoption, Standards

Compliance and Enterprise-Wide Application Integration

. Excellent Written, Communication and Group Development Skills

. Experience interacting and driving internal product teams, the user

community, IT Operations and Executives; Experience with Functional

Teams with a Strong focus on Group dynamics

. Experience with round-trip business methods using Function-point and

Use Case estimation methods using well-defined workflow (Project and

Initiatives proposal presentation techniques)

. Possess Excellent Analytical Skills, Quick learner, coming up to speed

on Functional issues

. Extensive Testing Exposure in AT&T Project on creating Test Cases,

Test Scripts and Test Scenarios and End to End Test Execution on

Financial Modules like AP, FA, AR, OM & CM. Also Co-ordination with

the Testing Team on Implementations & Development & Support Projects

like Telenor, EMC & Marsh & McLennan Project

Areas of Expertise:

. Oracle EBS 11i & R12 Functional on AP, AR, GL, CM, OM, AR & FA,

iExpenses & iProcurement, Oracle Configurator and Install Base and

Service Contracts

. Oracle EBS Testing on Regression, Integration & System & UAT Testing

. Oracle iSetup

. Project Management / Team Lead

. Client Management

. Business Process Design / Re-design

. Project Budgeting and Planning

. Project Risk and Scope

. End User Training

. Management of Offshore & Onsite Resources

Education & Training:

. Bachelor of Commerce from University of Chennai, Chennai, India

. Master in Business Administration (Finance) from Pondicherry

University, Pondicherry, India

. Oracle Functional Training on Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables,

General Ledger, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, Order Management &

Inventory from Oracle Corporation India, Chennai

Professional Experience:

Client: WIPRO US

End Client: Aleyska Pipelines

Project Duration: Feb 2014 to Till Date

Project Location: Alaska, Anchorage

Primary role as Sr. Oracle Business Analyst end-to-end responsibilities

include the following:

. Gather Inventory of code

. Code analysis for documentation gaps

. Gather Inventory of existing requirements (BRs & FRs in DOORS, BR100,

LCRs, CRs)

. Gather Inventory of existing design (SRs, MD050, MD070)

. Map requirements, design and code

. Derive Gap (in Requirements and Design)

. Close gap in requirements and design (prepare BRs/FRs/MD050 with

details of design and pseudo logic)

. Architecture document

. Implementation plan for suggested improvements

Client: WIPRO US

End Client: EMERSON Transmission Corporation

Project Duration: Sep 2013 to Jan 2014

Project Location: Valparaiso, Indiana

Primary role as Sr. Oracle Lead end-to-end responsibilities include the

following:

. CRP 2 & SIT 2 issues related to Finance Applications like GL, FA, AP &

AR & Fixed Assets & OM and Oracle Configurator & Install Base by co-

ordination with the client IT Finance Business and on guiding through

the user in R12

. Manual Configuration & Rapid Configuration co-ordination on

Conversions

Client: Pampered Chef

Project Duration: Jan 2013 to Aug 2013

Project Location: Chicago, Illinois

. As a Lead on Development and Supporting 11.5.10 Oracle Financial

Modules on GL, FA & OM, Fixed Assets & iExpenses & OM and Oracle

Configurator & Install Base

. As a Lead on leading from Client IT Finance Business Side on

implementing the R12 Oracle Financial Modules on GL, FA & AR & AP &

Fixed Assets & iExpenses& OM and Oracle Configurator & Install Base

. Guiding the Finance Business Users on their testing in R12 on CRP2 &

CRP3 Sessions and SIT2 Conversion Phases

. Gathering new business requirement on Functional & Technical

Enhancements

. Incident Management on JIRA Tickets raised on CRP2 & CRP3 Sessions and

new enhancements both Major & Minor

Client: Marsh & McLennan Companies

Project Duration: Mar 2011 to Sep 2012

Project Location: Chicago, Illinois

Company: Accenture US LLP

. As a Lead on leading for Development and Supporting 11.5.10 Oracle

Financial Modules on GL, FA & OM, Fixed Assets & iExpenses & R12

Upgrade

. Especially Leading Fixed Assets Module on having the exposure on the

following

Fixed Asset Setup

Fixed Asset Maintenance

Fixed Asset Retirements

Depreciation

Fixed Asset Accounting

Fixed Asset System Setup

Fixed Asset Profile Option

Accounts Payable to Fixed Assets Flow

FA Roll Out for new orgs

. Setting up Application for iExpenses and defining workflow process for

the new Orgs

. Setting up Application for Purchasing and Approval, Security and

Control and Creating Requisition, Purchase Order and Receiving

. Setting up Application for Accounts Payable with Credit Card

Integration

. Interact directly with business users to assess Incident, Break Fix,

Enhancements

. Prepare Functional Design document and Estimate Development &

Migration time

. Co-ordination with Offshore Technical Team

. Feedback on Incident Review Meetings

. Client Interactions and Meetings on Status Reporting and Enhancement

Request

. Offshore Functional Team Management on Incidents, Break Fix & Change

Request

Development and Supporting Offshore Testing Team on development of

Test Scripts for Test Execution

. Meeting of business requirements on upgrade to Release 12

Client: EMC

Project Duration: July 2009 to Feb 2011

Project Location: Westborough and Bangalore

Company: Accenture US LLP

As Lead for the Oracle E-Business suite Implementation, worked on Order to

Cash (O2C) processes and Implemented Oracle Order Management,

Shipping and Inventory and also in the implementing Fixed Assets.

Major Accomplishments/Responsibilities

. Preparation of Project Plan and Sign off from Senior Management and

Client Management

. Offshore and Onshore Team Handling

. Daily reporting on the deliverables for the Senior Management and

Client Management

. Enabled Automated Defaulting of customer and item information on the

sales orders, which helped the customer to reduce manual data entry

problem and improving productivity during sales order and RMA

creation.

. Implemented Firm/ Un-firm feature to prevent sales order delivery

lines changes.

. Enabled manual and automatic Delivery creation to group multiple sales

order lines onto a single delivery.

. Enabled partial order fulfillment through Split lines feature. This

was done by splitting single Delivery into multiple lines, thereby

shipping the order partially.

. Provided a solution to Development and support shortage of items on a

delivery and complete the Trip, by un-assigning delivery from the

Trip.

. Provided a solution to fulfill the customer orders by shipping the

items from the supplier directly to the customer, through the Drop

Ship Process, eliminating the inventory management costs with no

upfront inventory and ensuring positive cash flow.

. Implemented feature based Order Configurator process that enables

order processing of CTO (Configure to Order) and ATO (Assemble to

Order) type of products including the manufacturing of the configured

products.

. Implemented Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) where the suppliers are

responsible for replenishing the stocks by monitoring the stock

levels.

. Defined pick slip grouping rules based on varied grouping criteria to

allow smooth picking process.

. Defined release sequence rules to specify the release criteria based

on order number, outstanding invoice value, scheduled date departure

date and shipment priority.

. Enabled automatic or manual attachments of documents on sales orders

and returns to capture important information.

. Increased the order fulfillment and revenue using product substitution

process at the time of order entry.

. Defined Customer items and cross references to link the customer items

with inventory organization.

. Increased the inventory accuracy by implementing Physical Count which

resulted in bridging the discrepancies between system and actual

quantity periodically. This also helped in reporting and closing the

financial statements at the month and year end.

. Provided lot and serial transaction controls for the items during all

receiving, manufacturing and shipping transactions.

Client: Telenor Telecommunications, Norway

Project Duration: February 2008 to June 2009

Project Location: Oslo and Bangalore

Company: Accenture India

As Part of the Oracle E-Business suite Implementation, worked on

Order to Cash (O2C) processes and Implemented Oracle Order Management,

Shipping, Advanced Pricing, Inventory, Work-In-Process and BOM and also

implementing Fixed Assets.

Major Accomplishments/Responsibilities

. Analyzed the business requirements and provided the fit GAP analysis

. Prepared As-Is, To-Be process flows documentation using AIM

Methodology.

. Enabled upsell / cross sell and substitute items by defining items

relationships in oracle inventory for the increase in revenue through

fast order fulfillment.

. Defined payment terms and also Implemented a solution to apply Holds

on multiple entities.

. Defined Processing constraints according to business process and

prevented certain unwanted changes by validating the changes against

the processing constraint enabled.

. Implemented Defaulting rules by defining defaulting condition

templates and defaulting rules based on sales order attributes. This

reduces the amount of information that must be entered manually on

Sales Order form.

. Implemented Retro-Billing Process which helped in changing the amounts

on already invoiced orders on customer request.

. Implemented freight cost charging to sales order during shipping

process.

. Defined shipment transit times by setting up the relationship between

organizations by specifying the Ship Method and other associated

parameters for the inter location movement of the goods.

. Enabled partial order fulfillment through split lines feature. This

was done by splitting single delivery into multiple lines, thereby

shipping the order partially.

. Implemented Shipping Process enabling Auto Create Deliveries and

Trips.

. According to Business needs, enabled Surcharges to a particular order

type which helped in defaulting surcharge price on to the sales order.

. Implemented pricing modifications based on coupon with help of

modifiers on sales orders during order processing.

. Implemented Item upgrade modifiers by defining the relationship

between items and Upgraded items in Inventory.

. Implemented multiple BOM's, component substitution, alternate

operations lead time inquiry, and BOM comparison to improve the

manufacturing process and to identify the discrepancies.

. Implemented alternate routings, copy routing and common routing for

the manufacturing process.

. Automated processes for count points, back flushing, floor stock

replenishment, over completions and resource charging.

. Used the common bills concept for the maintenance of the BOMs for the

common products across organizations.

. Enhanced the Work in Process productivity through the creation of

standard documents and attaching them to the discrete jobs which

provided as SOP for shop floor assembly operation resources

. Automated standard discrete job creation process in the organization

by auto creating discrete Jobs, based on the sales order scheduling in

a CTO environment.

. Implemented Material Work Bench to perform material transactions like

mass move, mass issue in order to issue or move the material to the

selected location.

. Effectively utilized closed loop system to define outside processing

resource requirements, automatically generate requisitions for outside

processed assembly items, receive the items back into inventory and

update the WIP job.

. Provided a solution for adding and updating material requirements to

discrete jobs with the appropriate job statuses.

. Enabled serial number tracking for standard and non-standard discrete

jobs. This enabled to assign and associate serial numbers to a job,

and track the assembly by serial number as it progresses on the shop

floor.

. Prepared MD50 and MD70 documents.

. Conducted CRP, SIT and UAT testing.

Client: British Telecom, UK

End Client: Northern Ireland Civil Services, UK

Project Duration: April 2007 to January 2008

Project Location: Belfast, UK

Company: Accenture UK

. Define Accounts Receivables related setups. Data migration from the

legacy.

. Define Functional specification for custom changes on forms and

reports and sign off with cross-functional team.

. Identify and work with development for the modifications as per the

Functional Specification.

. Drive Business Process flows for Test Cycles and Pre-Production run.

. Create and Update Project Business Process Flows and Training

Material.

. Drive Business Process flows for Test Cycles and Pre-Production run.

. Extensive 24x 7 Support during GO Live and a year's support after go-

live.

Client: British Petroleum, UK

Project Duration: November 2006 to March 2007

Project Location: London and Bangalore

Company: Accenture India

Development and Support and Maintenance activity on Oracle Financials

Applications in modules like AP, GL, FA, PA, AR and also some part of

Oracle Manufacturing modules like OM, PUR for the Global Support of British

Petroleum. Majority involved in the end-user support on their problems and

issues with Oracle Application System. Also, I have taken part in the

Business Continuity Plan.

And, also involved in the Financial Enhancement activity of Oracle

Financials modules like setup, knowledge transfer and cut over to

production.

Client: AT&T, US

Project Duration: November 2004 to September 2006

Project Location: New Jersey and Mumbai

Company: Accenture India

As an Oracle App Functional Consultant in the Fintest Project, where

Fintest Project is a functional regression-testing project for Oracle Apps

financial modules. The objective of the project is to test all the business

flows of the organization with in the scope of modules (16 applications

including custom applications) assigned in the project. The testing work

started with analyzing all the key functionality's and the root cause of

each business transactions and its flow across applications. Based on the

analysis, test cases were identified for all applications and were

correlated among the applications based on the business flow. Then test

scenarios

were prepared for the purpose of regression testing. This testing was done

for entire assigned applications before migration as well as for post

upgrade (11.5.10) of the functions in order to check the impact of the

changes in business flow. It is majority-building regression testing

capability of the client IT Team. Additionally to the above testing, the

business functionalities and business rules post-financial standardization

(i.e. merger of Telco and wireline).

Majority involved in Payment.Net, Common Services and Accounts Payable

applications on writing the Test cases and Test Scripts and Test Scenarios

and executing the same in Oracle and Custom Applications and also involved

in executing the assigned Test Scenarios which covered the functionalites

in modules like General Ledger, Fixed Assets & Project Accounting.

And involved in Business Rules validation of Oracle Applications, Where

some time leading the team on this activity.

Client: IBM Singapore Pte Ltd.

Project Duration: August 1998 to March 2002

Project Location: Singapore

Company: Apar Infotech Pte Ltd.

Based out of Singapore, on role as an ERP Consultant on implementing

AVALON ERP System for the modules GL, AP, AR and acted as Database

Administrator in Oracle & DB2 database and later on worked in Development

and support & Implementation of AVALON ERP Finance and Manufacturing module

at IBM Ltd., Singapore. Avalon is an ERP Package developed by Avalon Inc.

Tucson, USA on Oracle-7 platform. The modules of Avalon being implemented

are Finance, Production, Material, Purchasing, Material Requirement

Planning, and Bill of Material. Finance module of this ERP comprises three

sub modules GL (General Ledger), AP (Accounts Payable), AR (Accounts

Receivable). The responsibility bestowed upon me was to implement Finance

module and migrated the data from the old running system into the Avalon

system.

. Identification of the Entities and their hierarchy in the

Organization.

. Master Data Setup with interacting with the User Champs and

established the standardization of it.

. Coordination with the Finance Dept. And the Corporate for

establishing the Charts of Account and their rollups

. Written a user-friendly interface for migrating the data from old

existing system to the ERP to make it operational in accordance

with implementation plan

. Coordination of the training program for end user to get them

acquainted in new System

. Explanation of the functionality of the Finance module and it's

dependence and integration to other modules of ERP through slides

and transparency .to management

. Customization of the ERP Package and incorporating the changes in

it

Database Administration in Oracle & DB2 Database

. Involved in the System study

. Involve in Logical and Physical Design of database

. Involved in Space management, User creation, performance and

database tuning, Establishing secured backup procedure, maintaining

and ensuring the validity of various data base objects so that ERP

run smoothly and trouble free in the environment

. Involved in Performance tuning and Setup of database and Performed

database setup

. Involved in server tuning and security setup

. Performed backup, recovery and troubleshooting

. Involved in analysis and low level designing of modules

. Performed configuration management

Company: Kumbhat & Co., Chartered Accountants & Brahmaya & Co., Chartered

Accountants

Client: HDFC Bank, India Cements, Chemplast, TTC, RKKR Steels

Duration: August 1992 to June 1996

Lead the team from the front of Statutory Audit, Tax Audit & Internal

Audit on preparing the financial statements and return filling to the

Income Tax Authorities.

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