SAP technical architect enterprist architect delivery executive

VAIDY SESHADRI

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Technical/Enterprise Architect/ Delivery Executive

Extensive experience in business and IT architecture and infrastructure in several key global companies in passionate and successful leadership roles including pre-sales and sales enablement.

TOP performer awards in execution: Recipient of Multiple Top Performer Awards (Service Excellence & Winner’s Circle) from SAP America for meeting and over-achieving goals.

Successful coordination and delivery of projects with business transformation goals and on time, TCO and within budget.

Led integration & delivery execution on various technical and enterprise architecture sessions with multiple customers and business partner infrastructure, data, landscape and business application teams

Well versed in technical leadership and delivered roadmaps with several customers leading to adoption of SAP best business practices towards an optimized system wide landscape supporting local and global teams

Extensive collaboration experience with technical and business application teams in architecting solutions that supports project & customer requirements and application lifecycle management processes and tools

Helped several customers in the adoption of new SAP solutions such as Suite on HANA, BW on HANA, Accelerator.

Extensive experience in working SAP support and premium engagement customers in focusing on targeted service sessions and SAP Solution Manager adoptions Technical Pre-Sales ● Business Development ● Program Management ● Technical Architecture ● Delivery execution ● IT leadership

CAREER PROGRESSION

SAP America 1996 - 2015

Architect/Delivery Execution 2009 - 2015

Delivery execution with SAP, Oracle, HANA and other Enterprise suite of products with expertise in enterprise services architecture, landscape design and build, application architecture framework, and transport management strategy.

Delivery management and technical lead on many efforts on SAP migration tools, ERP suite, BI, SRM, CRM, netweaver, Master data management and security aspects of the tools in implementation and upgrade efforts

Worked with SAP HANA & Cloud migration and alignment strategies involving transformation and cloud computing support.

Effective team player working with delivery, product management, resolution of issues and balanced score card reporting/value engineering collaboration with CxOs in several strategic, sprint and premium engagements

Worked directly with customers and many system implementation partners and commercial firms to ensure the success of large SAP technology projects.

Supported key custom development areas as an Architect and Lead resulting in getting the developments into the vendor mainstream product development

Well versed in the concepts of BWoH, Suite on HANA, appliance models, in-memory computing and ramping up on many SAP game changers. Presented many of these ideas to customers in the field – resulting in many migration projects to SAP HANA.

Collaborated with customers in planning services, led and executed as a trusted advisor in various SAP initiatives and deployment planning.

Led numerous services including implementation, upgrade of various SAP suite of products, architecture discussions, helping ROI & TCO goals and provided value that was strategic to SAP and its vision.

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Collaborated with customers in planning services, led and executed as a trusted advisor in various SAP initiatives and deployment planning

Supported proposals involving custom development, migration and other engagement proposals resulting in SAP winning services and product sales.

Delivered several projects from the SAP consulting practice (>$50MM/year) resulting in implementation of SAP solutions and new SAP landscape solutions.

Designed, proposed and managed enterprise scale software consulting projects and engagements for SAP customers and major Aerospace and Defense manufacturers. This work resulted in implementation of strategic SAP industry solutions.

Supported many interface platforms including MQSeries, TIBCO, XI/PI and Oracle fusion technologies resulting in integration of SAP and non-SAP solutions.

Worked as a lead on ALM lifecycle management with SAP Solution Manager – including change management, Project setup using Solution Manager, Root cause analysis, Earlywatch reporting, ITSM, Monitoring,optimization aspects of SAP landscapes – this work resulted in a single dashboard view of analyzing various SAP and non-SAP solutions. Well versed in SAP applications support models – RSLF (Run SAP Like a factory), OCC and ICC.

Supported many data center migrations and consolidation of various enterprise systems.

Experienced in AMS (Application Management Service & Support) services as part of migrating to Cloud platforms – additional working experience in working on proposals related to secure, hybrid and public cloud migrations of various enterprise business systems Basis, Solution Execution & Architect 1996 - 2009

Designed and sold technology solutions for healthcare, Telecommunications, Semi- conductor, Oil & Gas, Aerospace & Defense, large military and civilian Federal government customers.

Provided enterprise architecture roadmaps, value propositions, Netweaver Roadmap planning, upgrade and infrastructure planning to many SAP customers.

Collaborated with major strategy consulting firms (IT, management consulting, services portfolio consulting) and many SAP implementation partners on various implementation & qualification of SAP technology and solutions.

Experienced in working with Unix and Windows platforms and with various DB platforms including Oracle, SQLServer and DB2

Leadership positions / Business Development in Consulting Services Defense – Richmond, VA

Upgrade to EhPack 5 ERP 6.0, MDS, Mobile, Portal, DFPS solutions Delivery Manager / Project Management Duration: 3 years Managed and worked in various aspects of deployment planning (5000+ users, $100M project roll-out involving project management, stress testing).

Consulting excellence, delivery execution and alignment to customer goals, developed upgrade planning, transformation of 50+ legacy applications to SAP landscape architecture. Banking & Earth Machinery/Farm Equipment – Washington DC, Moline Alignment to upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0, EA framework establishment Delivery Manager/Project Management Duration: 3 years Managed and worked in various aspects of upgrade, assessment and integration aspects of SAP Netweaver Portal & ESR Strategy.

Developed an Enterprise architecture framework that included integration of various SAP and non-SAP applications

Upgrade Coach – SAP 4.7 to ERP 6.0 EhPack 4 upgrade efforts

Developed a comprehensive strategy on the scalability aspects Vaidy Seshadri **************@*****.***

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Multiple N+1 landscape design, consolidation of existing SAP and non-SAP systems, parts management systems, various messaging/interface solutions consolidation

Helped in roll-out and consolidation approach of applications for the next 5 years Transportation & Utilities - Washington DC, Dallas, Oklahoma City,Northeast regions System design strategy/adoption of an EA framework to leverage ERP 6.0, EP 7.0, Solution Manager 3.1, eRecruiting 6.0 and LSO 600 applications.

Ramp-up Coach/Architect Duration: 3 years

Planned and sized an environment design strategy, helped in formulating an eSOA roadmap framework to leverage SAP framework of applications. Provided support for ERP 6.0 implementation, eRecruiting-6.0 system design and hardware consolidation.

Reduction of TCO and establishment of value engineering KPI s

Implemented an EA framework for infrastructure

Developed an optimal 4 tier system strategy for various SAP applications including ERP 6.0, E-recruit 6.0, LSO and Solution Manager

Developed an enterprise infrastructure plan for ERP 6.0 and NetWeaver suite rollout

Delivered a detailed sizing and hardware capacity assessment Shipping/Defense – Philadelphia, PA

ERP 6.0, SRM 4.0, Portal 7.0, BI 7.0

Technology Solution Architect Duration: 2 years

Advised/recommended upgrade strategy, system consolidation merger strategy, EA initiative framework, transport strategy, IS– A&D solution support strategy, SRM implementation, Portal migration planning.

Achieved an on-time and under budget upgrade to ERP 6.0

Helped in design of an optimal downtime strategy for a VLDB (very large Database – close to 8 TB) implementation

Oil and Gas/Chemical & International Package Services – Houston & Dallas, TX Global SAP Implementation – APO 3.0, Portal 6.0, R/3 4.6C, CRM 4.0 and BW 3.5 Global Support Manager & Architect Duration: 5 years System design, backup/recovery design, R/3 framework, SCM framework, BW rollout strategy, transport management strategy, performance tuning, Language implementation, integration into HCM environment global rollout, synchronized backup/recovery plan design and an archiving strategy. Worked on delivery aspects in managing rollout aspects in 17 countries.

Completed and implemented a phased rollout strategy that helped in a smooth incremental user rollout in various countries

Developed an integration plan for supporting various 3rd party tools within the SAP environment, completing an on-time, under budget go-live with excellent support

Developed a landscape consolidation model that was used for rolling out various SAP and non-SAP applications

Designed an effective cost/model for sharing system usage by various cost centers using SAP workload analysis tools

Data Center Operation and Maintenance – Plano, TX

Basis Systems Lead Duration: 2 years

Led the systems implementation and system administration aspects of BW, SEM R/3, HCM rollouts of a global implementation.

Developed plan for a phased rollout approach

Completed an assessment of system environment that helped in hardware consolidation and reduced maintenance costs

Helped in designing a DB migration plan from Informix to Oracle resulting in increased DB license costs and reduced administration costs

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Major Airlines, Dallas, TX

Passenger Yield Management

Operations Research/modeler/Systems Administrator Duration: 3 years Managed cargo reservation and logistics operations management systems for several major airlines worldwide.

Developed algorithms for various yield management systems

Developed and rolled out various custom applications in passenger reservation, Object oriented data base systems, transportation and logistics applications and TB VLDB applications

Developed reservation systems for both defense and commercial customers EDUCATION

MS – Computer Science - University of Tennessee / University of Nevada BS, MS – Technology – University of Madras, India

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified - SAP Upgrade Coach, Solution Manager Project Manager, Oracle DB, Agile/Scrum Project Management

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Citizenship: US Citizen

Mobility: Current US Passport, willing to travel internationally, fluent in English

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