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Sajan Madabhushi

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Phone: 201-***-****

SUMMARY

Sajan has over 13 years of experience in information technology. He has helped leadership teams across many industries for planning, budgeting and controlling IT spend, reduce overheads by reviewing effectiveness in IT processes. Built standards for software development process and introduced new technology with proper governance following the best practice methodologies and standards that met the core business operational needs.

Enterprise Architect: Sajan has 10 years of experience in the enterprise architecture space. He has provided strategies for IT leadership in building a robust middleware strategy and adopting standards for new tool selection process in a complex landscape. He was responsible for developing Enterprise Data Management Processes Strategy. He has proven experience in handling over 2000 applications across the finance and HR domain across 170 business units.

SAP Solutions Architect: With over 12 years of experience in Solution Architecture working on different technologies including SAP, Oracle and Microsoft applications. Worked on system architecture to develop a stronger data model and data management strategy for a number of industries. Architected a robust global SAP Datawarehousing model to handle a stronger Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system.

SAP Project & Product Manager: 13 years of hands on SAP BW experience and over 6 years of SAP Project Manager experience with all project stages including business development, project estimating, requirements determination, gap analysis, business process reengineering, issue resolution, configuration, custom code specifications, testing, training, go-live assistance and post implementation support. Expert knowledge in the areas of SD, OTC functionality and Business Intelligence development.

Technology & Functional Competency: Has good understanding of business process flows in SAP ERP and their inter dependencies. His reporting solutions have spanned several functional areas like SAP SD, MM, FI (GL/AR/AP), Controlling, PS, SRM, PM/QM, and HR- CATS.SAP BW 7.x, BO 4.x, SAP HANA on BW, SD, FI-CO, COPA, Cognos, Power BI, Maconomy, Azure, IBM MQ, API Management, AB Initio

Leadership and Teamwork: Exception operational team leader with sound understanding of how to motivate, plan, track and monitor achievement of operational goals. I possess seasoned abilities with identification of operational issues and the methods to address them. Sajan also has a strong interest in the advance analytics subjects of Artificial intelligence, Big data and IOT in the business world. He enjoys the challenges of leading teams and getting the best out of individual team members for the greater good.

In his current role he has adopted TOGAF® methodology and crafted strategic platforms, strategic briefs, value propositions and messaging for various initiatives thereby reducing cost of ownership. EDUCATION

Shanmugha College of Engineering, India 1999-2003

Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering Page 2

WORK EXPERIENCE

WPP Group, NYC May 2016 - Current

ROLE: Global Enterprise Architect

WPP is the parent company of almost 170 Advertising and Media based companies. In my role as Enterprise Architect I led large analytics projects focused on accelerating finance tranformation, increasing bottom lines and workforce productivity, reducing operational costs and enhancing regulatory compliance through solutions built on SAP HANA. Responsibilities:

WPP started the IT Transformation Program in 2014 and I was leading architecture initiatives to frame the Reference Architecture and the target Operating Model for all WPP Operating Companies

Slashed hosting cost by 40% by removing all on premise hosting for close to 10 global enterprise applications

Proposed the architecture for Ent. HANA analytics – data ingestion mechanism via SLT in real time from SAP ECC, Informatica in batch mode and reporting via Analysis Office & Tableau.

Proposing the connectivity from HANA to Hadoop using SAP DLM (Data Lifecycle Manager).

Setting up an Archiving strategy for a rolling 18 months data from HANA to Hadoop

BI Pursuit manager for improving Financial reporting and it’s integration with Hadoop for cold data storage.

Identified, measured prioritized and mitigate areas of risk (financial, operational, IT, and reputation related risk) in the business through proactive risk management process

Mapping each Technology Category to relevant Elements of the OCEG GRC Capability Model

Designed an incremental, pragmatic approach to identifying improvement within an integrated GRC framework that is enabled through technology.

Managed at budget of $12 mil USD for the FY 2015 for completing projects that were in flight and were managing resources both onsite and offshore during the transformation program.

Written situational analyses, POCs and other business analyses reports that lay the foundation for application development projects.

Track and reports on effectiveness of all information systems projects and major initiatives.

Developed standards, principles and documented best practices for WPP operating companies to adopt for their IT landscape

Performed the role of a thought leader in providing a long term vision for consolidating back office applications (Finance HR and CRM applications)

Keep leadership informed of significant problems and progress attained in reaching established objectives. Provides recommendations to establish new and more effective systems.

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Ogilvy & Mather- WPP Group, NYC NOV/2012 TO May/2016 ROLE: SAP BI Enterprise Applications Lead N.A

Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) is one of the world's leading creative agency networks, providing advertising campaign development, brand development, public relations, and strategic planning services to clients. Ogilvy is one of the primary agency subsidiaries of UK-based WPP Group. Responsibilities:

Leveraged on strong functional domain and industry driven expertize to help Ogilvy build a robust foundation in their enterprise application architecture

Involved in restructuring the entire data architecture and design a new data modelling for the SAP ERP estate

Managed a $10Mil project to implement SAP HANA and SAP Project and Portfolio Management for 5 operating companies in NA

Stabilized Financial reporting with consistency, transparency and enhanced controls using BW 7.3 and BO 4.1

SME for HANA modelling/BOBJ and advised on best practices for design.

Worked on project through Design, Build, Testing, and Cutover. Led UAT testing related effort and coordinated as required for defect fixes.

Lead Program Architect in execution of SAP BI/BOBJ Project. Design, develop, and implement systems and processes to capture, integrate, and distribute information in an enterprise using SAP BW 7.3 and Business Objects data coming from FICO, SD, PPM and GL

Flattened out the BW support team that resulted in initial headcount savings of ~$3.5M/yr in 2014 and 4.3M/yr in 2015

Long term under investment in critical financial processes and systems resulted in significant reporting weaknesses, improved that by defining a single reporting platform, BO WebI for operations of financial reports and BO Explorer, Dashboards and Lumira for management dashboards

Architecting & designing the build of physical HANA models extensively via Calculation views.

Analyzing HANA Live content to find fit-gap for requirements.

Presented a case study for migrating to SAP S/4 HANA for better user experience and easy deployment.

Deloitte Consulting LLP Nov/2010 To Nov 2012

Deloitte one the world’s leading consulting firms gave me the opportunity to handle some of the best projects in North America. I had the opportunity to be part of some of the leading technology initiatives in SAP. Deloitte has also helped me in improving my presentation and selling skills. Project Contributions

At Deloitte I have worked for clients like Heinz, Sysco Corp, Cameron International and JPMC.

Managing a team of 15 resources in SAP BI both at Onsite and Offshore managing a budget ranging between $2mil - $8mil projects.

Leading a team of Sr.Consultants, Consultants and Analysts responsible for the project delivery

Managed the global roll out for Canada, Germany, Spain and currently working on the deployment of UK and Ireland

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Played an important role in working with the core business team to understand the gaps in the current reporting gaps and providing solutions to bridge the gaps

Adopted effective communication strategy for all communication between Deloitte, the core business team and Heinz project management to give visibility on progress at each phase of the project

Provided solutions that incorporated SAP best practices and well proven Methodologies

Solution architect for the SAP BI Implementation of OTC and TPM modules that includes SAP FICO, AP, AR, SD, MM, PLM

Built reports using WEBI and SAP analysis for office reporting tools. Backend was BW queries or HANA views. Worked with business to train users and complete all necessary documentation for approval.

Worked with the business to identify the key pain areas in SAP Finance (FICO) reporting and came up with well proven methodologies to improve the standard of reporting

Create a reporting strategy document to support and analyze the issues with the existing Data Warehousing model

Balancing project economics management with the occurrence of unanticipated issues.

Conducted interviews with the regional CFO’s to understand their challenge with the existing executive reports

Connecting Tableau Dashboard with HANA views and building visualization of KPIs in Tableau.

Presented an end User training program for Sysco Finance users (~500 users)

Participated in Enterprise SAP Business Intelligence Blueprint Project to migrate from Sysco’s legacy systems to SAP landscape

Developed Enterprise Data Management Processes/Strategy to support full SAP ERP

Considerable knowledge and interaction with end users to understand and document business and functional requirements for implementing complex requirements

Experienced with handling varied technical teams across full software development life cycle.

Provided leadership and support for delivery teams within Deloitte

Worked with their Data governance team to come up with a stronger data model and data management strategy

Working experience with complex report design, implementation and support, layouts, development of planning areas

Non-Technical Contributions:

Managed the IM Hot Topic initiative to help technologists get trained in the nuances of Data Warehousing and Business Objects

Develop seasoned team to deliver to additional targets

Responsible for generating $6.5 mil in annual revenue for FY 2012

Focus on growth with new clients in the finance sector and integrated Customer solutions

Contributed towards SAP HANA prototype for SAP SAPPHIRE 2012

Provide leadership and support for delivery teams in Information Management Service line within Deloitte.

Mentored 20 students between 2011 and 2012 who joined Deloitte as Technology Analysts

Participated in the New York Marathon 2011 representing Deloitte

Member of the Susan G Komen breast cancer awareness program team, helped raise

$5000 from the greater New York region in 2012

Forest Laboratories Inc., LI NY May/2008 to Nov/2010 Role: Sr. Analyst

Experienced in managing SAP cross functional teams/ projects of varying sizes Page 5

Responsible for establishing a quality standard testing document for the enhancement projects during the fy2010

Manage the daily, weekly, and monthly Status Reporting to the Assistant Director and Sr. Director of the Informatics Sales & Marketing department

Hands on Project Management experience involving timing, scope and all related deliverables for the Data Management.

Provisioned of Detail and High Level BI Architecture and Strategy roll out for SAP BO reporting migration from the existing BI Bex reports

Responsible in the migration of over 300 reports for the field level offline reporting system using Qlikview reporting tool

Directed and Managed a team of 10 + consultants during the migration to offline reporting

Manage/ lead the proposal for the SAP Data Archival, develop Data Consolidation, Data reuse strategies, and manage a team of BI Data developers for the delivering data that is accurate, consistent, and timely in addition to optimizing the reporting tools. Cognizant Technologies Solutions Oct/2005 to Feb/2008 Role: SAP BW Consultant

Contributed in SAP solution design and architecture framework in Finance, Food, Pharma and Manufacturing industries across various functional domains. Clients include Schwans Food Company, City National Bank, Air Products, Schering Plough and Marathon Oil corporation

Implemented CRM modules for tracking the Sales Opportunities and Activities and BI 7.0 for their reporting.

Handled a team of 4 resources in BW.

Designed, developed, and implemented a HR Global Data Warehouse to provide a repository and tool to allow management access to global key metrics and other actionable data in order to make decisions that optimize the human capital of the enterprise.

Created a number of custom reports pertaining to the SAP FI module and phase out the current method of data load into SAP. Used ABAP routines to create user exits and start routines in BW.

Hexaware Technologies Limited, India Mar/2005 to Sep/2005 Responsible in a SAP BW Implementation 3.1 and Post Implementation Support to create a data extract, transform, and load architecture that maximized the effectiveness of SAP R/3 applications while speeding the implementation.

RAMCO SYSTEMS LTD, India Oct/2003 To Mar/2005

Worked as a MS SQL and SAP ABAP programmer for global HR implementations. Clients include Convergys, Pharmaniaga (Malaysia) and Medical Latex Corp (Malaysia)

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