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Resume:
Professional work and expertise summary of Mr. Naveen Sharma PMP
Mr. Sharma is a Program and Operations Manager with international corporate and Federal expertise with core competence in managing Oracle e Business and Hyperion Planning implementations for some of the world`s most complex implementations and database upgrades. Mr. Sharma is Proficient in all aspects of Oracle e Business suite and Hyperion public sector projects planning and budgeting implementations and upgrades. Mr. Sharma is an experienced user of Earned Value Management system and has managed multimillion $ contracts and has led variable team sizes from 7 to 35 direct fulltime reports with project budgets ranging between $ 4- 25 million yearly.
In over 17 years of International Oracle PM and Implementation career Mr. Sharma`s acumen has been widely recognized in worldwide implementation`s and upgrades of Oracle e Business suite covering Oracle EBS, Federal Financials, Grants, enterprise Asset Management in multi org and multi currency global implementations.
Mr. Sharma has a sound experience with managing and contracting projects using PMI best practices in the Federal Government, State, Healthcare and Corporate sector domains and has independently managed, designed and negotiated the Statement of Work, Technical- Cost Proposals and annual contracts /bids for mid to large scale implementations. Mr. Sharma is proficient in managing resource estimations, designing the projects KPI`s and ROI calculations with effective resource planning and Program budgeting. Mr. Sharma has designed business architecture for multiple international clients with successful track record of mapping and upgrading from legacy systems to Oracle E business suite. Mr. Sharma has extensively worked on new Business intelligence tools OBIA and OBIEE and has designed the analytics and key performance indexes for senior and mid management for multiple clients across financial, budgeting, supply chain and maintenance domains.
Naveen Sharma PMP
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Résumé
17 Years of International experience in systems management, Oracle e Business, Implementations, production-support and upgrades in Government and Corporate sectors across North America, Europe and Asia.
Oracle Program, support delivery manager with extensive experience in managing multimillion $ corporate and government projects by leading Functional, technical and Test teams in implementations from a complete Software Development Lifecycle perspective.
Made the strategic project designs and delivery schedules for some of the world`s most complex programs - Oracle EBS financials, enterprise asset management, Hyperion budgeting and OBIEE implementations.
Managed Operations and post implementation support teams for Oracle EBS and OBIEE including managing the post implementation problem tickets and interfacing with Oracle on support SLA
Extensive expertise with devising the key performance indexes and experience in delivering the solutions for complex and time sensitive projects.
Designed and managed yearly project release schedules/enhancements and milestones to support contracted business deployment and achieved timely compliance using AIM methodology. Consistently attained the highest award fee per the Federal and Corporate contract`s managed.
Designed and performed the architecture of manual and automated Master Test plans and Regression test suites for complex ERP Implementations in Healthcare, Healthcare accounting, and Manufacturing domains using the latest Quality Center and Quick Test Professional tools.
Strong experience in Fixed price and Variable Contract Pricing; wrote and negotiated annual Technical,Cost Proposals and Statement of Work and designed the IMS, WBS. Managed and forecasted annual budgets using Earned Value Management System (EVMS) and reported the financial statements using the WP status and customized financial reporting using Business Intelligence tool- OBIEE.
Extensively led and mentored variable team sizes, made annual HR appraisals, Core competence assessments and the required trainings for the team members
Experienced with PMI and CMMI best IT principles. Recently led to CMMI level 3 certification for the US Government agency.
Professional Experience
Pace Suburban Bus -IL
November 2010 to Date Lead and Project Delivery Manager
Program Management –EVMS, AIM, Projects
Environment Oracle EBS R 12.1.3, GL, eAM, AP, Grants, Purchasing, AR, CM, Oracle Assets Management, OBIEE, Hyperion- PSPB Budgeting and forecasting, HRMS, Projects costing and billing.
Pace Suburban is a division of IL Dep’t. Of Mass transit authority. Pace is the premier suburban transit provider, quickly moving people to work and school safely and efficiently. The backbone of Chicago's suburbs, Pace serves tens of thousands of daily riders with more fixed bus routes, vanpools and Dial-a-Ride programs.
Managing multiple ERP implementations/ upgrades and – currently managing Hyperion (PSPB) budgeting and Oracle Assets projects.
Project cost $ 3 million
Managed, designed and implemented Oracle enterprise Asset Management and maintenance module from design to post go live support. Project cost $ 2 million.
Technically designed the dataware house Hyperion Essbase dimensions, aggregate and block data cubes structure and the corresponding Business Intelligence dashboards to report the annual budget and forecasting thereof.
Designed the technical Hyperion Essbase and corresponding OBIEE servers based upon capacity analysis and forecasting estimates
Designed the Obiee and OBIA dashboards for Finance, Purchasing and budgeting teams
Built the Statement of work, RFP and led the contract negotiations for the Hyperion, Oracle Assets, and Post Production Support and OBIEE projects.
Led the contracts negotiations and built the technical and cost proposal including designing the upgrade Implementations Statement of work for the $ 4 million Oracle E business R 12.1.2 Upgrade contract
Managing the Post implementation support teams for Oracle EBS and OBIEE including managing the post implementation problem tickets and interfacing with Oracle and support vendors on the SLA.
Performed project costing, resource estimations and implementation planning in addition to managing and designing risk and change management plans.
Managing and controlling the execution of the Upgrade projects from a complete Software Development Life Cycle perspective using PMI best practices.
Interfaced with management and super users to upgrade the Oracle E business suite from 11.5.10 to R 12.1.2 and in this process Led all phases of Oracle E business and 11g database upgrade - Requirements Definition, system architecture, Fit - Gap Analysis, Report Mapping, Application Setup Configuration, System Testing, and End User Training
Performed HR evaluations for the entire team and made the monthly assessments for the project and the team members including trainings plans to increase the fidelity of the project and core competence of the team.
Managing the post production (go-live) support issues with 24*7 Sla metrics.
Designed the KPI and Business analytics for senior management for OBIEE implementation
Managing weekly updates to the senior management on progress and projects Status and managing the timely delivery and compliance of work products and deliverables per the negotiated contract and designed complex financial reporting using Business intelligence, EVMS and WP status tools.
Managing the vendors and ensure the tasks performed is in line with the contractual obligations; designed the vendor selection RFP and budget execution in addition to the management for the outsourced production support contract.
Designed the regression test suite for the Oracle EBS suite including the automated smoke test suite for critical patches application.
Designed the Oracle Assets integration for the agency.
Undertake the annual HR appraisals of the reporting team.
Manage the vendors for the new implementations and support including but not limited to defining the contract and project scope, designiging the statement of work and managed the subsequent contract negotiations.
Managed the Post contract budget expenditure and cost tracking of the multiple projects using Earned value management system and project accounting tools.
Raceme Group Oracle Manager –USPS Project
Mar 2010 to Nov 2010
Managed the team on the US Postal Services HRMS Implementation and managed the roles and responsibilities projects.
Interfaced with senior management from the government and ensured seamless project delivery
Designed the SOW and Technical projects for the Baltimore county and DC courts projects
Designed the automated test suite for the Postal services project
Managed the project budget financials using Earned value management system
Managed the project deliverables and ensured the timely delivery.
Performed the HR appraisal of the project employees
IBM Corporation – Centers for Medicare Services- HIGLAS MD
(Jan 2007 to Mar 2010) Project Manager –Implementation and QA
HIGLAS (Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System) is the largest Oracle implementation in the world that is aimed at integrating entire 27 Medicare contractors of United States on Oracle Financials for an efficient Medicare and Medicaid payment disbursal.
Environment 11.5.10.2 R12 AP, GL, HRMS, AR, CM, OBIEE, Identity Management,HP QC 10 & QTP9.5
Interfaced with senior CMS and Government(HHS) management and performed the business functional design and performed the, GAP- Fit analysis on key Health care initiatives like HIPPA,NPI, NTDO, Oracle Business Intelligence,Identity /Security Management design and subsequently implemented the same and lead the test team to test support code, extensions and RICEL changes .
Led the contracts negotiations, built the Technical and cost proposal including designing the Testing Statement of work for the annual $ 18 million CMS test budget for HIGLAS .Managed a team of 22 Full time testers. Designed and led the projects on key Health Care initiatives ;Performed project costing and Planning from a complete SDLC managed and stat used the KPI`s & Milestones using Agile and Projects.
Led the test team and ensured that all the functional enhancements, bugs and defects get functionally and operationally tested before deployment to national Medicare Payment Production environment and in this process designed, managed & maintained all UAT Test and Configuration deployment Master test Plans from a complete SDLC perspective.
Designed the security architecture and roles and responsibilities matrix for the concurrent users using Oracle Identity Management.
Designed and maintained the overall framework for the Test and Configuration management teams based on mapping functional requirements & integrated Master Schedules(IMS), Test plans and Cases in Quality Center 10
Managed the Change management process via Change management tools Rational Clear Case and effective build deployment tool Clear Quest for effective deployment of builds and RICEL code changes to production instance after successful test.
Integrated the Requirements traceability matrix with Quality center 10 to map the new functional changes with the test scripts and performed the reverse integration with the regression test suite in order to have a complete requirements mapping and traceability as the program gained increased complexity due to enhanced functional customizations to the RICEL components.
Interfaced with Oracle and other 3rd party vendors on SR`s on the test /patches and major database and Instance upgrades and designed specific test scripts frames to test the same via Manual and automated test tools .
Ensured timely delivery and compliance of work products and deliverables per the negotiated contract and designed complex financial reporting using Business intelligence, EVMS and WP status tools.
05/2005 - 1/ 2007
I Source Inc – Project Flowserve Inc.
Netherlands (Etten Leur), Dallas (Texas) & France (Paris)
Oracle Implementations Lead
New Oracle Financials Implementation; Flowserve was a Multi Org and Multi currency Implementation with Global consolidation.
Environment: 11.5.10.2 Modules GL, AP, AR, CM, HRMS-iRecruitment, Purchasing, Order Management, QTP 9.0 Test Director
Involved in leading all phases of Financials implementation - Requirements Definition, Fit - Gap Analysis, Report Mapping, Application Setup Configuration, System Testing, and End User Training.
Modules implemented General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Fixed Assets and Cash Management.
Designed the chart of accounts for the parent and the subsidiary set of books.
Wrote the BR 100 and the MD 50 documents for Financials and recruitment modules (HRMS).
Wrote the test plans and the test cases for the conference Room pilots and successful UAT`s.
Designed the Test Plans for CRP`s and managed the automation test using QTP and Quality center
Designed the Regression Test suite using Black and white Box testing designs.
10/2003 - 05/2005 Hartz Mountain, Secaucus, NJ
Lead Oracle e Business Financials
Environment: 11.5.10.2 Modules GL, AP, AR, CM, FA, OM, QTP 9.0 Test Director
Providing day-to-day global support for Oracle Financials Release 11i GL, AR, AP, FA, I Expense, Purchasing, iprocurement, OM, Ipayment, System Administrator, Mark view, more 4apps, ADI and other client custom applications.
Acted as a liaison between the user communities, outsourced partner’s helpdesk, and oracle metal ink.
Reviewing, prioritizing and triaging production support tickets effectively by understanding customer needs and meet the service level requirements.
Provided status reports and support metrics to management
Performed daily business activities for the AP and GL modules including trouble shooting the daily problem an handling the Oracle SR for the complex issues.
Wrote the test plans and regression test suite to ensure effective patch deployment and integrity of the production environment.
08/1998 - 09/2003 ESPN Star Sports India, Delhi, India
Oracle Implementation Financials and Test Team –
New Implementation Modules –AP, CM, General Ledger and Fixed Assets
Designed the Chart of accounts for the subsidiary set of books.
Performed the setups and configurations
Wrote the RD 20,Br 100 and MD 50 documents
Functionally designed the RICEL customizations
Wrote the test scripts for regression suite and UAT.
Designed the CRP test scripts for Oracle financials –AP,GL and FA modules
Provided post implementation support.
Educational Qualification`s
PMP –PMI id 66465060
CPA (Pursuing)
Oracle University USA - Certifications on R 12 OBIEE, eAM, GL, Grants, Projects costing and billing, AP, AR, FA, Hyperion Essbase, PSPB and CM
MBA in International Business & Finance
Maastricht’s School of Business, The Netherlands, 1998
Bachelors of Commerce Honors
University of Delhi, India 1997.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Business Intelligence
Hyperion EPM, PSPB and Essbase certifications from Oracle University
ERP Packages
OracleFinancialsR12,Grants,Projects.FA,GL,AP, HRMS,I expense, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Purchasing and I procurement
Test and Configuration
HP Quality Center 10, QTP 10, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, Remedy,
Batch Processing tools
Autosys, See Beyond, Web Sphere
Operating Systems
Sun Solaris,HP Unix 11.0,AIX, Windows NT /2000
Database
Oracle 11G,SQL Server 2000
GUI/Utilities
Developer 6i,Forms 6i,Reports 6i,Workflow Builder, Toad, SQL Loader, XML Publisher, Discoveror
MS Utility
Visio, MS Projects,FP 2000,WEB ADI,Sharepoint
Project Management
MS Projects,EVMS
Business Intelligence
OBIEE,OBIA, Hyperion PSPB,ESSBASE
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Other Achievements
Winner Oracle Excellence award on Sustainability and Innovation
Written various articles in the national and international Journals on IT best practices focusing Oracle e Business Implementations on Healthcare, Healthcare automation, and Oracle Business Intelligence.
Received Star performance rating from IBM consistently.
References
Available on request
Citizenship
USA, Canadian PR
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