Project Manager Management

Summary

Certified Project Management Professional with experience as a senior project manager, Business Analyst with ERP, EPM, and BI Applications.

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Delivered 11 highly visible engagements with budgets ranging from $800K - $5M.

Experience delivering complex global projects in matrix organizations, coordinating across LOBs.

Big 5 consulting experience coordinating onsite/offshore deployment teams of size 5-40.

Experience with Cloud implementations involving global deployment teams. Prior experience includes consulting at Deloitte Consulting, CGI and SAIC. Extensive experience in various industry segments including Banking, media, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, consumer products, telecom, publishing, Financial Services, Public sector, Federal, State and Local governments. Author of 3 papers on Financials Suite implementations.

Expertise in Business Intelligence using DBI, Discoverer, OBIEE.

Enterprise Planning and Forecasting integrating Hyperion Planning, Essbase.

Experience developing Organizational Process Assets including Project Charter, Stakeholder Register, Requirements documentation, Project Management Plan, Project Scope, Project Communication Plan, Risk Register, Risk Management Plan, Resource work estimates, Cost Forecasts, Project Schedule, Change Requests, Quality Metrics and Acceptance Criteria.

Skills

Project/program Management, Business Analyst, Solution Architect, Database Administration, Development

Methodologies: Oracle AIM, Project Management Institute, Deloitte Consulting FastTrack, OUM, Evolve

PPM: Primavera, Ecosys, HP – ALM, SharePoint

ERP: SAP, Oracle e-business Suite Financials Suite, CRM, SCM, Fusion Financials for Cloud

EPM: Hyperion Planning, Essbase

BI: Discoverer, OBIEE, Tableau, OFA, DBI

Professional Experience

Srindura November 2010 – Present

Professional Services firm helping clients optimize ERP, EPM and BI implementations.

Accomplishments

•Sun Trust - Reduced Enterprise Planning Cycle by 5 weeks, enabled monthly forecast cycle.

•Israel Discount Bank - Delivered a $1.75M e-business Suite R12 upgrade in 8 months, Saved 5% of budget.

•Gilt Groupe - Delivered a $3M global e-business suite R12 rollout in 9 months.

•MTI Technologies - Delivered $0.5M integration between e-business suite and CRM Cloud.

•US Air Force - Delivered 2M R12 Upgrade on budget, 3 months ahead of schedule.

•Daimler - Delivered 1800% improvement in transaction processing time for key transactions.

Clients

Israel Discount Bank, Oracle OnDemand(Cloud) July 2014 – Aug. 2015

•PM/Solution Architect – delivered 15 upgrades and enhancements to EBS R12 in 6M.

•Managed capture and documentation of requirements for application enhancements.

•Delivered management reporting from financials Suite using Discoverer, Hyperion Suite.

Thomas Built Buses (Daimler) Feb. 2015 – May 2015

Solution Architect - Evaluated enterprise application architecture consisting of custom applications and SAP.

Delivered strategy to improve performance, reliability and lower the cost of maintenance.

Enabled transaction monitoring across application silos and technology stacks using IBM Web Sphere BPM monitoring, SAP Process Monitor.

Improved performance across applications involving MS, Delphi, Oracle technologies.

Improved the transaction processing time by 1800% for critical business processes.

Sun Trust Banks, Inc. April 2014 – Sep. 2014

Senior Project Manager for Enterprise Forecasting and Planning-Indirect Cost Allocations (EFP)

•Reduced Cost Driver generation and extraction process from 6 weeks to 4 days.

•Delivered communication procedures for data hand-off between Planning, HPCM and OFSAA.

•Leveraged Primavera, Ecosys for project schedule and budget management and HP Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) for Quality Management. Applied RAD (Agile) methodology.

Marketing Technologies Group Oct. 2013 – April 2014

Project Manager– Integration of EBS with Hyperion Budgeting and Forecasting applications.

•Delivered three projects integrating EBS to Planning.

•Delivered ETL processes to extract and transform transaction and Meta data from oracle e-business suite.

Rotator Staffing (SAIC) Sep. 2012 – Sep 2013

Technical Project Manager on an Oracle e-Business Suite upgrade to Release 12.1.3 for the US Air Force.

•Delivered a $2 M, E-business Suite upgrade for US Air force RAMPOD program, on budget and ahead of schedule by 3 months.

•Documented project schedule and Cost Forecast for R12 upgrade.

•Upgraded Rampod CFO application from Oracle e-Business Suite 11.5.10.2 to R12.1.3

•Delivered management reporting from financials Suite using Discoverer, OBIEE.

Frontera Aug. 2011 – Nov. 2012

Israel Discount Bank, Oracle OnDemand(Cloud) Technical Project Manager on an EB R12.1.3 upgrade.

•Delivered $1.75M, e-business Suite upgrade on budget and on schedule in 8 months.

•Upgraded Discoverer technology stack to Discoverer11g Release 1.

•Installed Hyperion EPM Suite to integrate with Oracle E-business Suite.

•Development of interfaces to extract e-business suite data into Discoverer and Hyperion.

GILT, Oracle OnDemand(Cloud) Technical Project Manager on R12.1.3 deployment for a Global Merchandising Client.

•Delivered a $3M, multi-country e-business suite deployment in 9 months.

•Advised Oracle On Demand on resolution of Application and Database administration issues the implementation and at cut-Over.

•Directed setup of network connectivity between On Demand servers and Gilt Network.

•Liaison between client IT and Managed Services vendor, Oracle On Demand.

THE ATHENE GROUP Nov. 2010 – Aug. 2011

Technical Project Manager for integration of e-Business Suite with Oracle CRM on Demand for a global deployment.

•Delivered $1M K, integration between e-business suite 11i and CRM on-demand.

•Order Management and Financials lead, coordinating CRM and EBS On Demand teams.

•Managed the project schedule for technical tasks for EBS integration to CRM on-Demand.

•Directed Release Management of integrations and process documentation.

Zensar Technologies, Global Oracle Practice January 2005 - November 2010

Global technology consulting firm with offices in 22 countries and employing 5400.

Accomplishments

•Delivered 70 Custom Interfaces, integrations to the Financials Suite for CBS, in 20 weeks. Budget $5 M, delivered on time, to enable CBS to spin off TV and Studios as separate businesses.

•Delivered 3 Oracle Financials Accelerator implementations in 6 months. Delivered on time and on budget, enabling clients to deploy SOX compliant ERP systems on limited budgets.

•Delivered CRM implementation integrated with CTI, for the City of Atlanta in 16 months.

•Delivered 7 releases of a custom billing engine for R12, in 7 months for AT&T. Delivered a custom reporting engine in 4 months. Enabled 30% reduction in AT&T’s processing time for customer support calls. Implemented RAD (Agile) methodology.

Project Manager

•Delivered e-business suite engagements in $1-5M range and team size 8 - 30.

•Managed implementation of Oracle Applications versions 11.5.10 to R12.1 on various platforms for high profile clients, including Primavera, Columbia Broadcasting Service (CBS), Thomas Publishing, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Town Sports International, Approva, Integro Insurance, Deerfield Hedge Fund, Synchronoss, Barnes and Noble, City of Atlanta, AT&T

•Project Manager on 2 full cycle implementations of Release 12 of EBS.

•Project Manager on 2 upgrades to Release 11.5.10.2 of EBS.

•Release Manager on full cycle implementation of Release 12.1 of EBS for AT&T.

•Project Manager on Single Sign-on implementation integrating Microsoft Active Directory with Oracle Internet Directory integrated with Release 12 EBS instances.

Oracle Center Of Excellence, CGI June 2000 – January 2005

Sixth largest technology consulting firm in North America with 31000 professionals in 125 offices worldwide providing end-to-end IT and business process services.

Accomplishments

•Authored 3 position papers on customizations to the Financials Suite. Contributed $5M in E-Business Suite Financials implementations and upgrades.

•Streamlined installation routines to deploy application customizations, helping the company deliver fixed priced projects on budget and increased profit margins on projects by 15%.

•Delivered the implementation of multi-org capability for application customizations to Financials Suite implementations for New York State. Reduced deployment time for customizations to E-Business Suite, helping the company deliver fixed priced projects under budget and ahead of schedule. Increased profit margins on projects by 15%.

•Architected a custom insurance application POC using the Global Insurance Open Solution (GIOS) for the fleet insurance market. This turned into a 5M dollar engagement to create an insurance application for the US market.

•Delivered Oracle E-Business suite implementations at 4 New York State Agencies over 5 years.

Technical Project Manager

•Managed the installation, upgrade, configuration and maintenance of Oracle Applications Financials Suite versions 10.7 to 11.5.10 on Oracle Database versions 7 to 9i on various platforms for high profile clients, including NYS Department of Motor Vehicles, NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Insurance Fund, Imagistics, and NYS Department of Education.

•Global roll-out of a multi-org, multi-currency deployment of Oracle Financials Suite, Human Resources Suite, Order Management, Inventory and Purchasing.

•Managed E-business suite installations in hosted Data Centers as a managed service.

Global Oracle Practice, Deloitte Consulting November 1998 – June 2000 Technical Lead

•Lead a team of onsite and remote developers with CEMLI development for Oracle Applications Financials and SCM suite on versions 10.7 to 11 on multiple platforms, multiple currencies for high profile clients, including Eaton CCD, Acclaim Entertainment.

DTE Energy (Sirco Associates) March 1996 to November 1998

Accomplishments

•Worked with Oracle to build the data model for payment processing for Utilities. The model became part of the Oracle Software Solutions Suite for the Utility vertical.

•Led reengineering project for System Controls Area for residential utility accounts.

•Delivered Management Reports for Key Customer Accounts.

Education

MS, Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 1995

BS, Engineering, S.K. University, Anantapur, India 1992

Certifications

•Corporate Finance

•Financial Accounting

•Project Management Professional

•Oracle Architecture and Administration

Awards

•2009, 2008 and 2005 - Achieved Company Outstanding Performance Awards in recognition of superior client support and technical expertise in managing Financials, CRM and SCM implementations.

•2004 - Awarded a project bonus in recognition of delivering a fixed priced project on time and on budget for a Financials Suite implementation.

•2002 - Achieved Company Outstanding Performance Award in recognition of delivering fixed priced project on time and on budget for a Financials Suite implementation.

•1999 - Big Biller Award in recognition of revenue generated on project engagements.

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