Objective

Product or Business Development Position that allows pursuing opportunities for long-term growth from customers, markets, and relationships, by delivering excellent products and services to customers.

Profile

Motivated, personable business professional with successful track record of software development industry, predominantly in SAP software development and practice.

Product expertise on SAP Apparel and Footwear solutions. Product Ownership Team personnel responsible for development and delivery of SAP Fashion Management Solutions Product Development, which is the successor to SAP AFS on HANA platform bringing in harmonization in Wholesale and Retail business processes in Fashion Logistics.

Systematic and methodological on tracking project health and progress. Demonstrated history of successful delivery of development and support projects.

Handle sensitive discussions on escalations with customers. Often Work with stakeholders i.e., customers, consultants and developers to derive sound and viable enhancements in standard products.

Demonstrated ability to cut across cultural differences within cross location development teams. Thrive in deadline-driven environment.

Experienced with Lean and Agile methodologies. Good in identifying right candidates during hire. Managing people with nil to fairly experienced in industry. Capable of mentoring seasoned software professionals and coach on good career.

Skills Summary

SAP Fashion Mgmt

SAP AFS, SAP IS-RETAIL

SRM/MM

PI / XI, BI / BW

CRM

Product Management

Project Management

Agile & Scrum Methodologies

Lean in Software

People Management

Coaching & mentorship

Professional Experience

CUSTOMER INTERACTION

SAP Fashion Management - Product Co-Innovation with Adidas, Georgio Armani, Tommy Hilfiger and Luxottica. Direct Interaction with IT and Business Users for defining requirements and demonstrating product during development.

Onsite Customer Implementation, e.g. Mahindra & Mahindra on ERP Upgrade and SRM Project

SRM implementation lead starting from Business Blueprinting to Final Go Live Phase.

oSRM Self Services Procurement & MM- SUS integration

Remote and Live Support for US customers on CRM

oGillete, Symbol Technologies, Waters Corp, Philip Morris and others.

oSamsung Korea

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT: PRODUCT OWNERSHIP

Product cum Project Manager in SAP Fashion Management Solution on HANA platform integration whole sale and retail processes for fashion vertical, successor to SAP AFS.

Product cum Project Manager in LOB Procurement. Responsible for Contract Management and Sourcing (in the past) within the product SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM).

Work among customers, solution managers, consultants in the field, listen to customer painpoints and propose product improvement ideas and validate product enhancement specifications.

Derive business cases with use cases, potential customers, revenue & marketshare potential and propose for approvals in portfolio committees.

Balancing between Long term vision of the direction of the product as well as short term continuous product enhancements.

Realise Industry specific, customer specific enhancements via add on product developments

Close cooperation with development during implementation of the product, constant team interaction, agile iterative mode of software development and produce usable software at every sprint or round of development.

PROGRAM DELIVERY

Responsible for S4HANA project on Embedded Cloud Development Quality Improvement,

Responsible for project delivery of SRM User Interface Add on for new HTML5 based Shopping Cart.

In the past had been responsible for SAP Sourcing – SAP SRM process integration.

Define program and project charter, with timelines, team and effort, prioritsed requirements, usable software delivery at every sprint

Periodically track the project status and generate reporting for all stakeholders.

Interact with Knowledge Management, Development Landscape Management, Central Testing, Quality Governance and various other stakeholders and ensure smooth development, handover to production and release.

PEOPLE AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Create new space and opportunities for every professionals to grow in the organization.

Engage professionals constantly for a high productivity while provide the most flexible working environment

Assist individals to develop own Career Development Plan and realize their full potential while always aligning company goals with individual goals.

Work Experience: in Chronological Order

SAP Labs India, Bangalore, India Nov 1998 – Present

Role: Product Expert on Program Management, S4HANA Program Aug 2015 – Present

S4HANA project on Embedded Cloud Development Quality Improvement

RFC and Other API Blacklisting and Program level interaction with Product Owners.

Role: Product Owner, New Fashion Solutions May 2013 – Aug 2015

Functional Development Project Fashion Management Solutions: harmonizing Wholesale & Retail business processes of Apparel & Footwear industry customers and other fashion customers.

Product Innovation with Fashion Customer Consortium including Giorgio Armani, Luxottica, Tommy and Adidas.

Role: Product Owner, Suite Core SRM Apps Feb 2010 – Present

Project on SRM Self Services Procurement UX Add on : Consumer-grade Shopping Cart and follow on documents using HTML5, SAP GATEWAY and TREX & Embedded Search.

SAP Sourcing (Frictionless Commerce) Process Integration with SAP SRM via SOA

SAP SRM Sourcing & Contract Lifecycle Management Business scenario including Bidding or RFX process, special bidding process like 2-envelope bidding /Tendering, Reverse Auctioning

Security (2011) and Performance Product standards in Procurement software

Role: Development cum Project Manager, Suite Core SRM Apps Jan 2008 – Jan 2010

People management: Leading senior developers and architects of the project team

Sourcing & Contract Management in SRM including integration to SAP ERP backend using ESOA and PI

Catalog in SAP MDM: migration from SAP’s own Content Management Tool to MDM based Catalog for purchasing

SRM Analytics: Strategic topics including Global Spend, Supplier Evaluation, and operational data on all Purchasing documents.

Enterprise Portal content management, Supplier Collaboration content management: enhancements and support.

Skills include

oJava / J2EE platforms SAP ABAP, Enterprise Portal, UI technologies including Webdynpro

oBusiness Objects and SAP Business Intelligence for Analytics and Reporting Applications

oProcurement catalog functionality (SRM MDM Catalog) using SAP MDM for SAP SRM application, Java/J2EE, XML, XSLT and SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI).

Role: Development cum Project Manager, Netweaver, ABAP Dec 2004 – Aug 2006

Multi Tenancy project called “multiple component one system” project, that delivers an enhanced, object oriented, access specification inclusive package concept, a new packing mechanism for ABAP repository

“ABAP Test Cockpit” a suite of developer, partner, customer test tools

Class Builder and Refactoring services on ABAP Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Role: Development cum Project Lead, Netweaver, Exchange Infrastructure Mar 2003 – Nov 2004

SAP implementation of BPEL4WS and WS-BPEL (OASIS standard) standards

Expertise in Java/Swing/XML/XSLT programming on Java / J2EE platform.

Role: Project Lead, CRM Middleware, Groupware Integration Apr 2002 – Feb 2003

Groupware IntegrationSAP CRM (Customer Relationship Management) with MS Exchange Server and Lotus Domino 5.x.

Distributed development organization across 3 locations.

Role: Technical Lead, Senior Developer & Developer CRM Middleware Apr 2001 – Mar 2002

Technologies include C/C++, C# and .net, COM and Distributed COM, MS Visual Studio, MS SQL server, Oracle DBs, MS Sourcesafe, MS Visio etc.

HCL Technologies, India Jun 1998 – Nov 1998

Role: Member Technical Staff Jun 1998 – Nov 1998

Development and Testing of Software for year 2000 issues

Automatic Test case execution

Employment History

SAP LABS INDIA PVT LTD

Developer - > Development Manager -> Product Manager, Nov 1998 to Present

HCL TECHNOLOGIES

Member Technical Staff, June 1998- Oct 1998

Education

XAVIER LABOUR RELATIONS INSTITUTE (XLRI) – Jamshedpur, INDIA

Post Graduate Certification in Business Management, 2004

(One and half year program on general business management and interaction via VSAT terminals)

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, ANNA UNIVERSITY – CHENNAI, INDIA

Master of Computer Applications, 1998 GPA: 8.1 / 10.0

(Three-year advanced degree on Computer Programming and Application Development.)

SIES COLLEGE OF ARTS SCIENCE & COMMERCE, MUMBAI UNIV. – MUMBAI, INDIA

Bachelor of Science (Physics), 1992 Score: 72%

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