Project Manager Management

SATISH BHALERAO

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Summary

Chartered accountant with total fifteen years' functional experience and

about fifteen years' IT experience in Oracle Applications in various

capacities like Lead Functional Consultant, Project Manager, Program

Manager and now Vice President. Possess good knowledge of Financial, SCM

and Mfg modules of Oracle Applications across different versions (11i,

R12). Have good all round experience in handling Project and Program

management, HR, Operations, Quality, Delivery etc in various capacities as

mentioned above.

Result oriented professional with about 30 years' of extensive experience,

which consists of leading IT Projects and managing Oracle Applications,

specializing in Financials, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain Planning.

Proficiency in spearheading initiatives encompassing management of system

projects, restructuring of business processes, application support, systems

analysis, audits and solution design. A keen analyst with good negotiation

and team management skills, capable of liaising with vendors, customers,

regulatory authorities and other agencies. An effective communicator with

excellent relationship building, leadership and mentoring skills.

Achievements

1. Brought improvements in project profitability.

2. Negotiated successfully with customers for rate improvements.

3. Set up Oracle Applications practice for specific geographies.

4. Designed and Implemented Project Management processes to bring in more

transparency, customer satisfaction, quality and change management.

5. Successfully managed out of routine projects.

6. Implemented quality processes.

7. Designed and Implemented HR and Admin policies and processes for the

organization for bench management, resource utilization, appraisals

etc.

8. Streamlined recruitment function.

9. Designed and Implemented Project Management processes to bring in more

transparency, customer satisfaction, quality and change management.

10. Successfully managed out of routine projects.

11. Successfully managed Oracle tools like OBA.

Key strengths

1. Sound domain knowledge,

2. Sound Applications' knowledge across Financial, SCM and Mfg modules,

3. Sound analytical and problem solving skills,

4. Good solution design skills,

5. Reasonable PlSql and technical knowledge to manage and guide technical

teams,

6. Good communication skills,

7. Good people management,

8. Good client management,

9. Good team player.

Professional Highlights

1. Strong ( about 15years') domain experience in Finance and Accounts.

2. About 8+ years' hands on experience in Oracle Applications

(Financials, SCM and Mfg modules) as consultant, solution architect,

project / program manager.

3. About 7 + years' management experience in various capacities.

4. Practical experience of designing solutions for manufacturing

industry.

5. Good knowledge of SDLC management.

6. Familiarity with tools like Oracle OBA, Discoverer, TOAD and Oracle

SQL Developer.

IT Employment history / Professional experience

Drivedge Infosolutions Pvt.Ltd (Sep-14 till date)

Currently, I am working with Drivedge Info-solutions Pvt. Ltd in various

capacities.

Here, I am responsible for -

1. Business development

2. Customer management

3. Program and project management

4. Presales activities

5. Solution designing

6. Managing deliveries for Apps practice

7. Setting up and developing EBS (Oracle Applications) practice

8. Monitoring and improving project profitability

9. Assist in recruitment function

Briefly the role requires -

1. Generating, pursuing and closing the leads.

2. Handle presales activities. Consulting.

3. Solution design.

4. Manage quality and delivery.

5. Manage project for effective financials etc.

Cyret Technologies ( Aug-12 to Aug-14)

I was working with Cyret Technologies (I) P.Ltd as VP - Operations and

Delivery till Aug-14. This is a U.S. based IT company which has operations

in India, UAE and Philippines. The company has 4 offices in India.. The

company primarily deal in ERP consulting (Oracle Apps, JDE and SAP). Here,

I headed India operations and was responsible for delivery, practice

building and growth, HR and financial performance of the company.

As VP Operations and Delivery I was responsible for -

1. managing India operations for operational Excellence, performance and

profitability.

2. managing the delivery for JDE practice

3. process excellence (Quality and Productivity) across organization.

4. setting up and developing EBS (Oracle Applications) practice

5. setting up and developing SAP practice

6. improving company's profitability and top line

7. managing company's HR function

Briefly the role entailed:-

Financial Performance and P&L responsibility. This comprised of putting

together the Annual Operating Plans every year for the company; tracking

against the AOP on a regular basis for improving the financial performance

of the company; Financial Revenue/ Contribution forecasting, MIS and other

processes around the it, Quality and Productivity. Achieving good customer

feedbacks as well as high coverage; Overall quality of deliveries to be

ensured with delivery teams; Various Productivity and Quality Initiatives

being run regularly as well as measurement of the same; Reuse and Tools

Usage, ensuring that new bids have the right minimum baseline contribution

levels, etc; ultimately ensuring financial health of the company especially

from margin perspective.

HR : People Management of/ for the company. Improving people connect by

creating various forums for the people to interact effortlessly with

Business HR team; Performance Appraisal process management, Span of Control

and People Pyramid Management, Succession Planning etc.

Resourcing: Resource Forecasting and Planning; Drive Internal Rotations;

Bench and Utilisation management per targets; Keeping check on budgeted vs

actual Non Billable Headcount, etc.

Recruitment: Talent hunt and on-boarding; Revenue maximization by ensuring

minimum leakage due to non availability of resources; Forecasting for new

ramp ups/ resource requirements; Tracking against recruitment budget, SLAs

and other defined parameters

KPITCummins Infosystems (Oct-99 to Aug-12)

I joined KPITCummins as consultant in 1999. During my tenure with

KPITCummins, I got to handle varied assignments like implementations,

upgrades, system audits, support and data migration projects etc. As a

consultant I gained good experience in Financials, Supply Chain and

Manufacturing modules. Along with functional expertise in product modules I

gained good knowledge of underlying APPS tables, data migration

requirements, and mapping requirements for interfacing with external

applications.

From 2007 onwards, as program manager, I was actively involved in setting

up the Apps practice for Indian operations. During this period I was

handling all the responsibilities for setting up the practice which

included solution building, resource recruitment /management, utilization,

contribution management, project management to certain extent, helping

presales and sales teams, capability building etc along with program

management.

As Program Manager I -

1. managed the program with respect to -

a. contribution,

b. quality,

c. resource utilization, allocation,

d. client / account management for client satisfaction and account

mining.

2. managed a team of project managers,

3. set up the PMO / CoE and monitor their activities

4. managed resource metrics,

5. helped setting up processes,

6. done capability building by arranging in-house / external trainings,

informal knowledge sharing sessions etc,

7. helped recruitment process.

8. handled pre-sales activities by participating in proposal process,

presentations etc.

9. helped sales activities by managing initial client interactions,

presentations etc,

10. participated in / encouraged the team to participate in organizational

activities.

As Project Manager I -

1. managed the project team for Implementations, support, upgrades, IT

audits etc.

2. managed the client interaction for smooth delivery and avoiding

escalations,

3. managed the projects with respect to -

a. project contribution

b. resource utilization,

c. customer satisfaction,

d. project deliverables and timelines,

e. change management etc.

As a consultant I -

1. handled support / implementation of financial / SCM and Mfg modules,

2. handled training for junior / technical resources,

3. handled specific issue resolutions like account reconciliations,

4. managed technical team for PLM and data migration projects,

5. managed technical team for bolt on developments,

6. handled system audits for Companies like Pepsi / ICC etc,

7. participated in presales activities, recruitment activities etc.

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