Project management Professional & Consultant

An Accomplished Leader in a Career Spanning 17 Years

PMP certified project Manager with a strong and proven record of accomplishment in managing large and multiple projects with all project stages including project initiation, planning, design, build, test, deployment and post implementation support.

Program/Project Management

Waterfall/Agile project Methodologies

SAP Functional Projects

BI/BO (Dashboard)Projects

Data Management (EDW)

SAP SD/CRM Functional

Delivery Management

ECM (Open Text)/SharePoint

Software Development projects

Vendor Management

OCM (Change Management)

Infrastructure Projects

ROLES

Project Manager

Led multiple SAP (BI, BOBJ, BW, FICO, SD & CRM), ECM, SharePoint & Non SAP reporting projects, including dashboards and Infrastructure projects

Built and maintained strong relationships with the business partners/stakeholders to keep their active engagement in the projects

Developed project schedule along with project plans and worked with team leads to create a robust work breakdown structure (WBS) to manage delivery of the solution.

Managed PMO status reporting, weekly status reporting, Daily scrums with project teams and monthly one on one reporting to IT CIO

Expert handling PMO methodologies and stage gate requirements

Expert in gathering, analyzing and documenting business requirements and developing Business Requirement Documents and Functional Requirement Specifications

Led global teams (Technical and functional) successfully for complex and high visible programs and projects and also managed multiple vendors involved at program level

Expert handling each phase of the project starting from initiation, project planning, financial management, staffing, communication and scope management

Expert creating development strategy and defining governance model

Led projects to ensure that deliverables are met within schedule, budget, & quality

Performed extensive work with project proposals, oral presentations, timeline determination, budget estimation and staffing plans

Multiple engagement experience with global delivery model including offshore functional and development support

Performed multiple roles like Project Manager, Business Analyst, Testing Manager, Integration Manager, Transition Manager, OCM Lead and Technical Delivery Manager

Managed project/program financials in SAP PS, also expert using MS project and Microsoft project server (2013).

Expert handling troubled (recovery) and high visible projects

SAP SD/CRM

Consultant

Expert knowledge in all areas of Sales and Distribution (SD) / Order-to Cash (OTC) functionality, including extensive custom development work with availability checking (ATP), complex pricing, variant configuration, transportation, order processing, billing, output development, account determination, user exits and reporting

Hands-on industry and consulting experience with best practice supply chain processes in repetitive manufacturing and high volume sales environments. Knowledge of chemical, automotive, nuclear, aerospace, telecommunication and Oil and Gas industries

EXPERIENCE

Alberta Energy Regulator (Feb 2016-March 2016)

ECM Project Manager /Technical Delivery Manager

Projects

ECM Pilot Project: Objective of this project was to transfer and build the EPMO content into the ECM solution such that: a) Content is logical, accessible, reliable and protected. B) Current business processes are improved as seen fit and approved by the business. C) Rules and information best practices are implemented in the solution. D) Users can be trained and be the autonomous in the use of the system after implementation.

Team size Up to 6 people, $500 Budget

Results Achieved

Successfully managed IS technical team and provided technical guidance to the project team

Managed external testing team to perform testing tasks as per the testing plan and strategy

Revised the overestimated project schedule and delivered before time

Delivered Business case for SharePoint 2013 (Pilot Project) as an additional responsibility

Helped management to create Support model for ECM

Canadian Pacific Railways (Feb 2012-Jul 2013) (Mar 2014-Oct 2015)

ECM and BI Project Manager

(Jan 2015-Oct 2015)

Projects/

Programme

Enterprise Content Management: There were three main Objectives of this program.

Decommission two major applications (Meridio and Konfig) used by HR and engineering departments and migrate the entire data to OpenText

To Migrate Projects and team sites from SharePoint 2007 to 2013

To Migrate Document Management sites to ECM Open Text

Train super Users

Team size Up to 10 people, $1.5M Budget (combined)

Results Achieved

Interviewed the stakeholders and prepared the overall business requirement document for the entire program including AS IS and TO-BE analysis and prepared the entire roadmap of transition from old system to new application

Successfully migrated millions of labour relations and Interline agreement documents, from both applications (Meridio and Konfig) to OpenText, using Migration tools

Implemented overall organisational Migration and decommission approach

Successfully reduced over estimated timelines and created a realistic plan to deliver the desired results/standards in short span.

Migrated all Team sites and project sites from 2007 to 2013 SharePoint and decommissioned MOSS 2007

Delivered the entire ECM program successfully and managed multiple vendors

Facilitated entire end user training at multiple locations including US (Minneapolis) and successfully completed UAT with highly satisfied rating from business. Also handled change management responsibilities successfully and completed Change management documentation

Proactively managed people risks to the success of business transformation

Assisted Quality Assurance team for overall testing plan and strategy for Decommission and migration projects at Organisation level

(March 2014-December 2014)

Projects

O700 Automation: This project was the most complex, troubled and high visible project in CP where the project objective was to automate O700 executive (BI) report and eliminate current manual process to generate this report using different data sources.

Team Size Up to 10 people, $1.8M Budget

Results Achieved

Successfully recovered the project and delivered on time and on budget. Achieved recognition from top management

Improved and updated the inherited plan using mix of waterfall and agile project methodology and recovered the project successfully

Developed and ramped up the deployment strategy and successfully implemented two releases

Planned the entire Data Warehouse consolidation initiative from requirements gathering, analysis, design, identifying and analyzing the source systems, to data quality, to ETL, and to the end user data

Projects

Multiple Upgrades projects: While working on O700 project I have also handled multiple small upgrades projects

Informatica upgrade from 9.1 to 9.6.1, BOBJ Upgrade from 3.1 to 4.1

Results Achieved

Successfully upgraded both applications on time and on budget

Projects

CPR.CA Rebranding and Replacement Project: Objective of this project was to improve the design of the current CPR.CA website and bring it in-line with the new CP brand and to improve the functionality and usability of the website with a responsive design with multiple device availability 24/7 where the design should adjust/changes according to the device screen for various users.

Team size: 9, Budget: $1.3 Million (Including Holiday train website creation)

Results Achieved

Successfully built and updated the CPR.CA website with new look and feel as per the business requirements and delivered the project before time.

Received highly satisfied customer feedback for this project

Successfully managed the outsourced team from Habanero and internal resources to deliver this high profile project

(Jan 2013-July 2013)

Projects

Data Quality: Scope of the project was to provide a robust data quality design to improve and enhance customer data using Informatica tool. This project was pending from 7 years in CP because of design and resource related issues. Up to 6 People, $850K Budget

Established and maintained engagements with the business partners regarding on boarding of the data ensuring the integrity of the data.

Defined the scope, approach, and the Critical Success Factors (CSFs)

Created cross-functional collaboration

Established and enforced a standard format for the delivery of the data to the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)

Managed overall data quality plan and Quality assurance team for testing the entire incoming data using Informatica and EDI technology

Results Achieved

Successfully recovered and delivered this project on time and within the assigned budget and resources

Collected the data as per the business processes

Successfully managed the blend of onsite and onshore resources

Achieved business appreciations with a rating of 9 out of 10

Delivered other small projects under same program

(Feb 2012- Dec 2012)

Projects

Shipment Performance Reporting: To deliver a dashboard using industry best practice for daily, Weekly and monthly reporting to business units for effective planning, monitoring, controlling and responding to shipment compliance and expectations. 12 People, $1.5M Budget

Helped management to replace vendor and development team, gathered new business requirements, developed prototype, established KPI’s, analyzed stakeholders, assessed change readiness and impacts.

Results Achieved

Developed prototype prior to project cancellation due to change in corporate leadership and business priorities

Prepared the final Matrix document (Business Requirement document)

IBM Global Services (Aug 2003-Jan 2012)

SAP Project Manager

Client

Project

Canadian Pacific Railways (Aug 2009 – Jan 2012)

Managed and delivered multiple SAP projects. Team Size 10 - 25,

Managed onsite- offshore teams to determine requirements, identify gaps, offer mitigation strategies and deliver implementation in SAP FICO, SD, ABAP and BI reports.

Managed the planning and execution of the technical environments, process readiness, user setup, transports, configurations, dependencies, backups, training, system readiness and organizational change activities

Worked with user community to identify the user's need; delivered quality systems, solutions to business problems. Developed and evaluated staffing plans and RFP responses.

Managed BW upgrade and other technical upgrades including infrastructure projects for new EDW

Results Achieved

Successfully delivered Financial reporting and BW Upgrade projects

Completed SAP printer deployment in Canada and United sates

Onsite M&D Lead /PM

Client

Project

Suncor (Dec 2008 – July 2009)

Managed M&D (Marketing and distributions) stream incidents/enhancements

Developed and maintained staffing plans including skills matrix, staff rotation, backup plans and ensured proper utilization of available resources

Generated and released weekly dashboard as per business requirements for top management

Ensured the hours for resolution, %off shoring, %backlog and other metrics are maintained as per service level agreements for the stream

Gathered business requirements for new projects and created P140(business requirement) documents for the development teams.

Results Achieved

Successfully Managed the delivery/implementations of M&D (SD) stream enhancements

SAP Project Manager

Client

Project

General Motors (Jan 2008 – Nov 2008) – Implemented Global warranty management

Ensured smooth implementation of Global Warranty Management in 10 Asian countries

Led and facilitated the entire User Acceptance Testing for Asia group in Shanghai (onsite) and ensured successful completion and business sign off

Results Achieved

Implemented Warranty management successfully

SAP Project Manager

Client

Project

Multiple Clients (Arla Foods Denmark, Merck pharma US) (Jan 2006 – Dec 2007)

Delivered SD, CRM and FICO enhancements as per client requirements

Delivered multiple projects for multiple clients

SD Consultant

Client

Role Responsibilities

Multiple Clients (Hydro Aluminium, Novartis, F&G Bearings, British Petroleum and Saint Gobain (Aug 2003 – Jan 2006)

Senior SD Consultant. Functional responsibilities included, requirements determination, configuration, reporting, output development, master data conversions, training, go-live support and post implementation follow-up in the areas of order processing, availability checking, delivery and shipment handling, quotations, pricing, backorder rescheduling, serialization, inter-company sales, returns, credits, and billing. Go-live and post production support. Also visited the clients for multiple Knowledge transfer sessions

Provided post implementation support for all clients in the areas of backorder processing, output development, customer master management, delivery and shipment handling, interface data resolution and billing.

Dainik Bhaskar (Jan 2003-Aug 2003)

SD Consultant

Consultant Responsibilities

Implemented variant configuration as per IS media requirements

Conducted post implementation workshops to determine availability checking (ATP) best processes, configuration and reporting for a multi plant environment. Resolved day-to-day issues from business, writing report specifications, configuration changes, testing and system documentation

Lakshmi Precision Screws Limited (Dec 1997-Dec 2001)

Assistant Manager Exports

Responsibilities

Identified potential customers and developed four major accounts, which contributed to 20% of the export turnover

Streamlined Logistics for international shipments by consolidating shipment vendors from ten to two third party logistics providers resulting in noteworthy savings

Initiated and Streamlined E-marketing activities using two fastener portals in Europe and US for e-bidding, e-quotes and executing order follow up

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management Certification 2014

SAP CRM Certification in SAP CRM module 2006

SAP SD Certification in SAP R/3 SD (Sales & Distribution) 2002

Diploma in Export Management from IIEM Bangalore, India 1998

Master of Business Administration from G J University, Hissar, Haryana, India 1995-1997

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